Stockholm Syndrome
Narubby23- Sorry, I have no idea what you are thinking about. I cannot read minds, but it would be extremely cool if I could. I am a suspenseful person! You like it, I know. :D I updated now! Sorry for the wait! Thanks for the comment!
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Aniya and Lizzia- You do? Yay! I know, so many people bash Sakura and she is one of my favorite characters so i had to make her hardcore in this one. I'm not sure yet, do y'all want a sequel? Let me know! Thanks for the comment!
I look down to see a hole in my chest with blood decorating my nice shirt. Strangely enough, it doesn't hurt, it just makes me feel cold. There is screaming, I can tell, although it's at the edge of my hearing. So soft and far away yet strong and scared. My eyes stay on the whole in wonderment, what has just happened? Why am I bleeding? Did something happen? What was that loud bang? Oh wait, that bang... it sounded like a... like a gun shot. Yes, that's it, it's a gun shot. So, who got shot?
In the daze of thought, the answer comes to me. I was shot.
That blood on my shirt... it's mine. I was shot... I'm bleeding... and... I'm dying. Oh wow. I'm dying all because the truth came out... how harsh can life be? Harsh enough to kill, I suppose.
All the while I was thinking of that, Itachi had rushed to my side, his hand covering the hole in my chest. OK, with his hand there- applying pressure, I could now feel the pain. Oh boy did it hurt. You know when people say that a paper cut is the worst kind of pain because it stings and it burns? Well, clearly they have never been shot before, because that burns and makes you bleed more than a typical paper cut. A lot more. So why am I not panicking like everyone else in the room, you ask?
I have no idea. You'd think I would be freaking out- saying that I was gonna die- but like I said before, I feel strangely calm for being someone who was just shot. Dad must be proud.
Which leaves me to a question that should make perfect sense and yet I'm so confused. Where did dad go? My eyes bee line through the crowd looking for my own father. Everyone is moving around at once it's hard for my eyes to stick on to one person for too long. Still no one comes to mind as familiar.
Finally, I give up and look to my older brother who has tears racing down his face as he stares at me. His mouth is open slightly, lower lip quivering, eyes wide and his skin is unbelievably pale.
"Anaki?" I mumble touching a piece of his bangs. "What's with that look? Are you afraid of somethin'? Don't worry, it don't hurt too much," I tell him looking down to where his bloody hand is covering my wound. His lips press together tightly.
"Sasuke..." he rasps eyes wide with pain and agony- and possibly shame?- maybe pity? "I-I shouldn't have spoken... you would be OK if I hadn't..." he bows his head onto my chest, "I'm so sorry, little brother... I'm sorry."
I touch his cheek, my hand trembling more then I would have expected- I'm kinda ashamed. Dad would be if he saw how weak I look right now. Oh man, give me a second to steady my movements.
Bang! Bang-Bang!
I jump and my nii-san flinches eyes flickering away- to my right. I crane my neck slowly to see what he was looking at. Mr. Kimbo falling to the floor with a gun in his hand, aimed at my anaki and I. Dad is kneeled in front of us, covered by the chairs, his gun poised in his hand as well as the bailiff who was hiding behind the judges desk, the judge is gone from sight- I notice.
"Father," Itachi whispers, eyes wide, "Sasuke..."
Dad turns toward us and shoves his gun into his holster on his side and runs over to us. He moves Itachi's hand and looks at the wound in my chest. "Shit! Someone call an ambulance!" he calls before looking back at my wound. My eyes trail to my older brother. His eyes were closed with water decorating his long lashes.
"Sasuke," Dad says slowly, "I need you to stay awake. Tell me what you did in school today." he presses onto my chest and on my back simotantiously.
I gasp and close my eyes, pain shooting through my spine. "I-I had homeroom with the wackiest teacher alive. He told me I was lacking the Power of Youth that morning. Then I went to some of my other classes that nothing really-," I flinch at the added pressure, but force myself to continue noticing that my dad was listening, "-happened. But in health our smoking teacher told us not to ever smoke and told us that it was bad and a nasty habit to get out of. I got a social studies test back- 100%. Then we listening to Ms. Anko curse out the projector during science because it wouldn't work. Then, I went home."
Dad stares at me like he's seeing me for the first time. "Sasuke..."
All the while I was talking, I notice that my vision is tunneled and my voice is getting sluggish. Is this what it's like to be dying?
"Dad," I whisper, "I'm sorry."
Dad frowns- I think, "For what, Sasuke?"
"For not listening to you for when you said that I needed to stay awake..." I mumble looking all feeling in my head, arms, stomach and neck. My vision turns black and everything falls silent before I could hear his response.
"...no! I told you to stop blaming yourself!"
"Fugaku, don't yell at him! Itachi, it was not your fault that Sasuke..."
"I wish I was stronger... my little brother is my responsibility. I'm suppose to..."
"Please wake up, you stuck up bastard. Sakura and I need you to..."
I-I'm so sorry Sasuke... If I had known, I wouldn't of made Itachi speak in front of..."
"Please...little brother... wake up..."
I open my eyes all these voices running through my head. Dad, mom, Itachi, Naruto, Sakura then Itachi again. It's only fragments of what they were saying, I notice. But they were talking to me nonetheless and I can open my eyes, that means that I am alive and have made it to the hospital.
I am alive.
A warm relief washes over me just like the words did. I look around slowly and in the corner is a set of 3 chairs and mom and dad are there, sleeping, it seems. My eyes continue to travel the room until I get to the left side of my bed where my brother sits in, resting his head on his arms with his eyes closed on the bed.
I lift and hand and am pleased to see it holding steady. I lay it on my brother's head and run my fingers through his hair like I used to a long time ago when I woke up from a nightmare and needed to be by his side, but not necessary waking him up.
Itachi's hair is really soft, I muse. Slowly, I drag my fingers from scalp to tips, making sure to skip over his hair tie as to see he gets a little anal when having to redo his hair so many times.
Slowly, that head rises and Itachi's night black eyes stare at me. "... Sasuke..."
I offer a light smile. "Hey, Itachi, about time you spoke."
Itachi clamps his eyes shut, his eyelashes wet again. He shakes his head. "If I had kept quiet- you wouldn't be hurt."
I touch his cheek and he slowly looks up at me. "'Tachi, I would rather be in the hospital and in extreme pain then loosing you forever. Remember what everyone used to say? We are one entire person. Each the others half. I need you, this half has been really lonely without you, nii-san."
Itachi stares at me with sad eyes then shakes his head again, a tiny smile on his face. "You are so corny."
"Hey," I laugh, "it made you smile. My mission is complete." Itachi sits up and kisses my forehead.
"I love you, Sasuke. I'll do anything to protect you."
"I love you too, Itachi. And likewise. Anaki, I'll take a bullet for you."
Itachi laughs and wraps his arms around me, I try to sit up and little and hug him back. "I missed you, Itachi. Thank you for protecting me, even when it could have coast you your life."
Itachi pulls me closer and buries his face in my hair. My face buried in his shoulder.
"Sasuke, you are my life."
"Now who's corny, nii-san?"
"We are. Remember? We are the same person."
"Yeah, we are."
A/N: Yay! Itachi and Sasuke are together again! Yesh! Don't worry it's not the end yet. Close, but not yet! Keep reading! Quick question, when I finish this, should I make a sequel? Let me know! Rate and review! Have a good day!