A/N: I REPOSTED the story cause I, myself was NOT satisfied with my update.
Anyways enjoy this reposted chapter, and please review.
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Naruto.
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Disheveled and frantic.
Those are the best words to describe Hyuuga Neji right now as he stand before Uchiha Sasuke's doorstep.
Sasuke was tempted to take a picture of him there and then, and sell it to ebay, but he knows better that getting on Neji's bad side isn't a very good idea. So instead of grabbing a camera, he raised one eyebrow at the uncharacteristically tousled shinobi.
"Hyuuga…" He said unceremoniously.
Taking one more shaky intake of air, Neji grabbed Sasuke's shirt and drew the Uchiha mere inches from his face. "Where is Hinata-sama?" He asked in a hard voice.
Sasuke raised a delicate eyebrow at the question yet again. "Let go." He said and Neji glared harder at him, "You know, for a guy who barges in someone else's house in the middle of the night you got a lot of nerves." Neji let go of Sasuke but still glared hatefully at him.
"You ask me about her whereabouts. Don't you guys live together in the same compound? Weird. Well, I guess she's in her bedroom, on her bed because it's the middle of the night and she has all rights to turn in for the night." Sasuke answered as he dusted his shirt of imaginary dusts.
"Don't get smart with me Uchiha. Do you think I'd go all this way and the whole of Konoha if she's in the compound?" Sasuke stared blankly at Neji and squarely answered, "I don't know. Maybe yes and maybe no…" Neji glared angrily at the Uchiha, so what if he disturbed him in the middle of the night? He's working his ass out in the cold night to find his prospective wife who seemed to runaway. "Look here Uchiha, I have no time for your haughty attitude. Especially not when I'm searching for your wife-to-be in the middle of the night who left without a single trace." And with that Neji sped-off to find his cousin.
"She's missing, eh?" With that he closed and locked his door. He then walked to his bedroom and lay on his bed.
And as he lay there on his bed thinking, images of her entered his mind. He could see her warmly smiling at him and looking at him with such tender and caring eyes. His soul ached for her to be his. From her smile that gives courage, to his gentle and caring touch down to the worry, devotion and love behind her eyes.
"Oh Kami! I didn't just think of that!" Sasuke let out an exasperated sigh and smacked his forehead.
Find her! Do everything in your will to bring her back! Something inside him screamed at him.
"But she run-away and that's something. It means she doesn't wish to wed with me." He said to himself and at same time, feeling stupid talking to himself.
Moron! That's not for you to decide and to conclude! That's for you to know! All I'm asking is for you to find her, I'm not asking you to drag her back and force her to marry a boring oaf like you!
"I didn't just say that to myself." And with that he stood up and started for his door.
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He didn't know how but he managed to find himself in a majestic waterfall with the nighttime creatures singing the symphony of the night. It's like his feet has a mind of its own and dragged him into this place. And as he stood their in awe, it wasn't just the waterfall. He stood in there captivated by the beautiful creature dancing on the surface of the waterfall as if she's a part of it…
A water goddess…
And as he was walking towards the beautiful creature, a twig snapped under his sandal, bringing the attention to him as he continued to walk towards her. And as he came face to face with her, he was surprised to find that the beautiful and captivating creature was none other than the same woman he was searching for. Hinata.
Hinata has a troubled expression on her face and it was plain to see that she had been crying. With an instinct that Sasuke didn't know he possessed, he reached to cup her cheek on his right palm. "Why?" That summed-up the entire question he has and she understood.
Why did she run-off? Why is she here? Why was she crying? Different questions with one answer.
Tears flowed freely from her eyes. "Sasuke stop. All of this, stop it…" She said as she continued to cry. "Stop what?" And she looked-up to meet his eyes and touched his hand cupping her face. "This… Caring and being nice to me. I mean, you're not nice in a normal sense but you're nice in a way you only could manage. Stop it, it's confusing me… It's making everything so hard and complicated…" He looked gently at her and asked, "Why?" And she pulled away from him.
"It's confusing, hard and complicated because I don't even know if what I'm thinking of what you're feeling towards me is right. Painful because I'm thinking that you don't feel for me the way I feel for you…" Hinata tried to express the troubling emotions inside her.
"Can you make it simpler for me? I don't know how to answer that…" Being the insensitive guy he is towards women, he's clueless and confused at the moment. With her back towards him she said, "Sasuke, what is it that you feel for me? I want to laugh with you when your happy and cry with you when your sad. Sasuke, I need to stand by your side when everyone else's leaves. Tell me what you feel! Is it enough for you to make me stay?!"
Nothing
There was silence for a long time. "Goodbye Sasuke…" She said, ready to walk out of his life…
STOP HER! IDIOT! If you let her go now, you'll never see her again! You'll lose your chance in true love and life!! MOVE IT!!
He heard her bid him goodbye and he grabbed her wrist saying, "Stay by my side Hinata…." Sasuke wants to curse at himself why he couldn't utter three simple words instead. She had a surprised look in her face and then her eyes soften and she pulled him to herself.
"Hinata, what I mean is… I--" He tried to explain as he drew her closer. "Shhhh. Enough. It's all enough for me. I'd stand by your side forever…" Sasuke was deeply moved with the devotion and caring burning behind her gentle eyes and how he wished he could say those three words to her, instead he leaned over her face and brushed his lips over hers for a chaste kiss.
Whatever he feels for me is enough for him to make me stay. It's all enough for me…
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He stealthily walked inside her bedroom, with her sleeping on his arms or it seems because as he lay her down, she pulled on his hand. "Stay." She said with sleep in her voice.
"Why?" He asked as he stared into her droopy eyes.
"Tell me a story…"
Sasuke took a deep breath and nod his head gently. He tucked her in bed and he laid beside her, outside of her blanket but still it looked pretty much sweet… And he begin telling the story…
Once there was a beautiful maiden who guarded the mystical sea. Loved and adored by men and gods alike for her beauty and compassion were unsurpassed. She was venerated like a goddess by the villagers for they are blessed with bountiful harvest and catch.
But the harmony was disrupted…
One day, a warrior came in a quest to slay the maiden of the mystical sea but he failed, for he was captivated by her sheer beauty and he fell in love with her…
The assault for the maiden's life was over but a passing villager saw how the warrior attempted to do so. The villager then fought with the warrior but the maiden stopped them and told the villager to take his peace and leave.
The villager left but the news of the assault spread in the village like wild fire.
The days passed and the two fell deeper in love. She learned that he came to slay her due to a prophecy that his true love would die right before his eyes and there is nothing he could do unless he redeem himself from such fate by the blood of the one who guards the mystical sea. The warrior learned that the maiden tried not to fall in love due to a divination that the one she would love will suffer eternal damnation. Meanwhile, drought and plague spread all over the land. The crops dried, fishes were scarce, livestocks died and children were struck by a strange disease.
The villagers assumed that this was the punishment of the mystical sea for the unpunished sacrilege done to its guardian. With such rigid reasons, a mob attack the warrior and the maiden watched helplessly as he cut every wave of the mob that came but as skilled as he is with swords, he is a human.
Every time, he would emerge victorious but he has cuts and bruises in his person and she would clean and aid them at night with tears and gentle caress. One night, he gave her a dagger of which he said is for her to use for her protection…
The same cycle happen again and again. Alas! She could no longer bear to see such killings and blood. It was such a pain in the heart to see your beloved get hurt all because of you… The maiden wishing for it to end summoned the water dragon to take her life for as the guardian of the mythical sea, she is forbidden to take her own life…
The Dragon however, didn't kill her, for it was in love with her, instead, the dragon spirited her away…The maiden cried for her champion to save her and the warrior chased and tailed the dragon.
The warrior caught up with the dragon and the dragon placed the maiden down on the surface of the water. The dragon then morphed into its humanoid form and they battled. In the beginning, they were even but the warrior was weary from his earlier battles with the villagers and he began to lose.
As the maiden watched in horror, she came-up with an idea to stop the impending death of her beloved warrior. And as the dragon was about to deliver the deathblow, the maiden screamed at the top of her lungs and for one last time, she gave her beloved the smile he loved and said one last word.
The dazzling smile changed into a sad smile and she plunged the dagger he gave deep into her heart. The warrior sunk into his knees and gathered the fallen maiden into his arms for one last time… In the end, there was nothing he could do to protect his beloved maiden…
Soon he noticed that he was sinking into the sea and he run to the dry lands. After what seemed like forever with him mourning his maiden, he lowered her body into the sea, seeing that a watery grave is well suited for her…
And as she vanished into the mystical sea, a blinding light came from the water, and there, floating in midair is a tear shaped gem…
The sea had shed a tear for their sad fate and the tragic end of their love…A sad fate wherein two people who are very much in love can never be together…
The sea never wanting to witness another tragedy, never allowed anyone to walk on its surface ever again…
In the end the prophecy came true…
There warrior's true love died right before him…
He would continue to live with such heavy burden and memory in his heart…
And thus, the maiden's prophecy came true…
Eternal damnation…
Sasuke looked at Hinata of whom he is now embracing and it was clear that she is already asleep but he still asked her, "Hinata, what do you think did the maiden say right before she plunged that dagger? What was her last word? " Hinata showed no response but still he continued, "No, it can't be I love you, that's three words long. It was only a single word…" Sasuke smiled at her and whispered in her ears, "It was live… Hinata she said live, and with that single word the maiden's prophecy came true…"
"He'll go on and live, bearing a heavy burden in his heart…" With that he withdrew his arms from her and stood.
"Don't worry. Our story would end differently. Good night love…"
I was still conscious when Sasuke asked me but I couldn't bring myself to do anything…
I love this story although it was sad and tragic…
Unknowingly, they made the prophecies to come true…
I'm not sure if I heard Sasuke's last lines correct however.
Our story to end differently and he called me love…
With that, Hinata completely succumbed to sleep.
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A/N: THERE better! I reposted this story cause I was NOT satisfied with this chapter of mine. I felt something was incomplete. So there, Leave a review and tell me if this is more like it, okay?
NOTE: If you want to be notified of the next installation of the love chronicles of which is like a sequel to blue rose, you have to leave a review in the final chapter so I can tell you of where it could be found, clue, it's not in the SasuHina section but still it is a SasuHina, I just had my reasons and it's connected to the next installation of as to why I wouldn't place it in the SasuHina, okay?
This is NOT the final chapter. There is one more chapter then, we'll move on to "Love Chronicles: Black Rose."