Water and Oil
Six
"Why did you mary him if you did not love him?"
"I never said that I didn't love him."
The empty Konoha streets were slashed with heavy rain on the stormy night. The pitch black sky was heavily lit up by silver moon, oscassionally flash of lightning. Meanwhile, in some certain place, a young boy was laying tossing and turning around, unable to sleep. He had his arm on his forehead while his eyes looked on the ceilings.
"Tell me after you know the answer, Shikamaru." Her voice rang inside his head on whole day. What answer? He already gave her the answer. He married her, okay, even they were. But still, he scratched his head lightly. Oh, give him a break. Girls are so troublesome. Sakura too.
His head turned to door when he heard a knock. "Yes, coming."
It was his dad. As he thought, he will interrogate him, like he always did after his mother threaten him. Shikamaru swung his legs over the edge bed while his father sat on the chair just across him. He rubbed the back of his neck; just like he did when his father found out he did something he shouldn't do.
"So, how's the mission?" His father asked. The lightning cast a shadow inside the room. The rain still poured down the earth and the usual bustle and hustle have been replaced by an eerie of only the rain being heard.
"It's fine." He simply replied. He knows too well how this conversation going. It started when his father asked about the mission and then the real conversation came out nowhere.
"Your mother and I were worr…" His father said but his sentence didn't finish when Shikamaru cut in.
"What's your true intentions?" His voice was cold and sharp.
His father let out a heavy sigh, "I know you have divorce with that girl. Your mother asked me to have a talk with you."
"She has a name you know. Her name is Sakura." Shikamaru said. He didn't like this. He used to dislike any discussion about him and Sakura.
"I never accept her as my daughter-in-law." His father replied angrily. He got up and walked towards the window. He turned his back on Shikamaru.
Shikamaru got up and took his cloak behind the door before said, "And that's also meant that I'm not your son."
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Peace. She was laying on the bed, watching the rain poured into her windows. The water made small dot that her hands surged forward to touch it but it stopped when she heard a bang on her front door. She got up quickly and took the dagger under her nightstand and walked slowly downwards.
"Who's there?"
No answer. She turned the knob and rushed her dagger forward only to have her waist twisted around and a kunai on her slender neck. The person who trapped her, gripped her other hand on her back, made her in disadvantages.
"It's me. Kakashi." The person whisper from behind, near her left ear.
"What do you want?" She asked. Can't he walk into someone house in the normal way. Must it done in this way?
Kakashi gripped her hands tighter when she tried to break free, "I come to talk to you but first, please settle this in good way."
"Wow, says someone that came into girl house and acted like a kidnaper." Sakura replied venomously.
Kakashi slowly loosen his grip and took his kunai inside his cloak. He returned Sakura's dagger and mouthed an apologized. He was in soaked wet with his black cloak and his gray hairs in messed. Sakura rubbed her right wrist and moved inside, Kakashi followed her.
Sakura served him a tea before sat down on the dining room. He has a white towel on his head and his cloak was hanging on the other chair. He looked miserable that Sakura almost sympathized with him but she shook that idea somewhere.
"So, what do you want to talk?" She asked.
Kakashi sipped the hot tea and placed it on the table slowly. He twirled the cup and looked his shadow that formed by the water. So he really looks like some old miserable men there.
"First, I come to apology to you."
Sakura scowled, "For what? Barged into my house? Acted like a burglar? Or killed my friends?"
Kakashi looked up at her when she said the last sentences. It's twitched his stomach. Her eyes were cold so as her voice. It's like the female version of Sasuke. Instead, Sakura is still alive. He tried to open his mouth but he didn't find his voice.
"Just, get out!" She shouted.
"Sakura. Listens to me. What happened a year ago was a memory. A horrible one. Just get over with it. Move on." He said. He looked at her sadly.
"Move on? You asked me to move on?" She said in hard tone.
"You sent me to the ten months mission….after Naruto and Sasuke-kun fought until them dead. They dead! And you asked me to move on?" She tried her best not to cry.
"You sent me there, to the unknown country. Far away from my village, after an hour Sasuke-kun and Naruto dead. Then, here you are asked me to move on?" Her tears fall down to her pale cheeks.
"You sent me…you sent me there…I didn't even go to their funeral. Yet, you said to me to move on." She cried and yelled at the same time.
"Sakura." His voice was soft and concern, just like a father tried to pursue his daughter. His hands moved forward to care her hair but it stopped in the middle when Sakura raised her head and looked at him angrily.
"You know what, I hate you. I don't even acknowledge you as my teacher…..and Hokage. Tsunade-sama was only my Hokage and teacher." She said that snapped his up.
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Shikamaru woke up when someone shook his shoulder lightly. His eyes wide opened when saw Choji beside him and seconds past when he recalled a night before. He was so pissed off with his father that he decided to stay at Choji's house. Luckily Choji didn't ask him much or he will stay on the rain.
"Wake up, Shika. Breakfast already passed but I've kept some for you." Choji said brightly as Shikamaru sat up and rubbed the back of his head.
"Thanks, Choji. I will be there in sec."
Choji nodded and walked out from his room. He already used to have Shikamaru at his house since they were child and when Shikamaru suddenly showed up in front of his door, he not surprised. But the question was why he's coming over?
Half an hour later, Shikamaru already on the kitchen with Choji, eating some riceballs. Both of Choji's parents were out so Choji all by himself that day. They ate quietly until Shikamaru spoke up.
"My father didn't approve our marriage."
Choji stays silent.
"When he knows I'm already married with Sakura, he sent me out. I never see my mother that angry on my entire life. Then, Sakura and I rented some apartment and we lived there."
"But, Sakura never saw me as a husband. She was sweet and nice. She cooked for me, washed my clothes and did some chores. Like other housewives but I guess…she never loves me."
"Until the day we decided to divorce last week. It was a hard decision to make but it's better than living with someone didn't acknowledge you."
"Then after we went back from mission, few days ago, she acted weird. She used to avoid people and didn't talk much except very important thing. But she different, she talked to Kiba and Neji throughout the mission. Usually, she will kill anyone who takes her on fight but…she kept Kiba alive."
"She cried too. I don't why but it's hurt to see she's crying. She's blushing when I said she looked beautiful with her sundress. She's laughing so innocently when she played with the bluebells. In other words, she shows her emotion. That time I was thinking, is that me who kept her from this emotion when we still husband and wife?"
His voice was sorrow and hollow. His breath was slow and steady. His eyes were hidden thousands emotion, sad, happy in the same time. He hands on the table all the time. His head lifted up, looking at his companion who listens to his stories all these times.
Choji looked at him and gave him a small smiled. He knows it must be hard for Shikamaru to tell this in the one time. He knows too well his best friend. Shikamaru was a person who hates to burden others but here he was, telling him the real story of what happened in his personal life. He must be suffered too much. He too, just like others, too shocked too believes that he married with Haruno Sakura. He felt betrayed when he not even knowing the news of him and Sakura but deep down he knows that he has a reason.
"Shikamaru. You did the right things." Choji said after the small pause. "You're not what you're thinking."
"Thanks, Choji." He said, putting a genuine smile on his face.
"You love her don't you?" Choji asked.
Shikamaru chuckled, "So much that's hurt."
"Then, fight for it."
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"Ino. I don't know why but what are you doing here?" Sakura said after she opened her front door. She looked at the blond girl with cold eyes just likes she did with everyone.
"Sakura. I need talk to you." Her voice was demanded and it made Sakura wanted to punch her but remembered she used to be her close friend, she calm herself down.
"Of course, come inside." Sakura opened her door widely so she could go inside her house but Ino didn't move instead just stood there in her peach dress.
"It's only took a minutes." Sakura raised her eyebrows to her answers.
The wind made her pink hair flee around her face and covered her bright green eyes. She slowly tucked the hair behind her ears. The sunlight basked them freely now that they stood in the Nature's glory. Sakura waited for her to talk.
"It's about Shikamaru." Ino finally said.
"What abou…" Sakura said but Ino cut it down.
"I'm the one that should have marry him. Not you. Even after I tried so hard, he picked you. What so special about you? What he saw at you?" She yelled after a moment. Sakura kept her face in calm expression just like she didn't hear anything.
"You don't have any idea, how he suffered from his family. How his parents didn't even acknowledge him as a son after he married with you. Even Choji avoid him. He only has himself. He didn't have anyone that time." Ino took a deep breath.
"You! You only weep around about Sasuke's death. You are so blind that you didn't see the one that loves you. Shikamaru always backed you up when people complaint about your behavior but you, so ungrateful and divorced with him." Ino glared at her.
"You know what Sakura, you're destroyed him." Ino said.
Sakura was still silent all the time. She only watched the girl exploded to her. Her face was red from anger and her breathing rise and fall quickly.
"So, I'm really…destroyed him?" Sakura asked calmly.
Ino looked likes she wanted to boil up again but she calm herself down. Sakura looked at her with those cruel and unemotional eyes.
"Why don't you marry him? Because you're not suited for him. He saw me different from others. I know he was suffering after he married with me but neither did we complaint about it and about my behavior, I know it too well. That's why I didn't work as a head medic anymore." Sakura said slowly.
"I'm divorced with him because…I was really destroyed his life." Sakura said coldly. She saw the shocked face from Ino but she didn't say anything. Not before she almost close the door.
"Why did you marry him if you did not love him?"
"I never said that I didn't love him." Sakura replied back.
"But you never said you love him."
"Good answer. That's why Shikamaru didn't chose you. You don't understand between the answer and question." Then Sakura closed the door. Leaving the beautiful girl in cried.
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