"Blah" : Talking

'Blah': Demon speaking/ Inner Sakura

'Blah' : Naruto's Thoughts/other people's thoughts

'Blah': Harry talking to Naruto

Here we go, folks! Chapter 3! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Naruto is the property of Masashi Kishimoto,

Harry Potter is property of JK Rowling,

Chapter 3: Severed Bonds Part 2

Naruto opened the door and closed it quickly before tapping the handle with his wand and whispering, "Colloportus!"

The door clicked, signaling the guaranteed security of the room.

Naruto turned around slowly to look at the bed across the hospital room. On the bed there sat Sasuke, who was being restraint to the bed with leather braces and wore multiple bracelets and necklaces that gave a faint blue glow with several letters in kanji written on them. They were clearly chakra-restraints that prevented him from using his chakra or jutsu to escape from his bed and/or hospital room. Sasuke was fully awake, and he obviously hadn't been moved from this very spot since he got here: he hadn't been taking proper care of himself, even though the physicians were giving him their utmost care. Sasuke clearly hadn't bathed once, his usually sleek and neat black hair was greasier than before, and there were purplish bruise-like marks below his eyes. He hadn't been sleeping much since their battle at the Valley of the End. Sasuke looked at Naruto sharply, alerted by the noise of someone entering and recognized the blonde head of hair instantly. He clenched his teeth almost to the point of shattering. He seethed as his eyebrows furrowed with the most intense anger he ever felt, rivaling his hatred for Itachi.

"You!" Sasuke growled at him.

Naruto looked at his one-time friend emotionlessly, but he couldn't help but feel a ting of regret, for not preventing this and quickly refocused his face into an expressionless mask as he walked toward Sasuke.

"Yes, it's me, Sasuke." he said monotonically,

"Get the hell away from me, you energy-shooting FREAK!" he snarled at the approaching Naruto.

"Sasuke, please. I have to talk to you." Naruto said with a slight sense of alarm with the harsh tone of voice Sasuke had just thrown at him.

"What do you want?" he demanded.

Naruto stopped a foot away from Sasuke's bed and continued to stare at him without any emotion whatsoever. He glanced down to look down at his hospital pajamas and only now realizing that he was even wearing them. He looked back into Sasuke's furious pitch black eyes before adopting an intense tone in his own voice.

"Sasuke, don't tell anyone what you saw me do." he stated simply.

Sasuke blinked in response to this demand.

"What?" he questioned angrily.

"You heard me Sasuke." Naruto stated again, "I'm sure you're all too familiar with the green and red energy I used against you and the silver fox/lion hybrid I had attack you?"

Sasuke's twitched in remembrance of the pure white animal clawed at his body and sunk is teeth into the part of his neck where his curse mark was. The animal frightened him and burned the skin off his level-two curse mark form. The Patronus Charm's pure powerful light had practically blinded him and made his skin feel as if it were on fire as if tried to rip the flesh off of Sasuke body.

Sasuke reluctantly nodded his head and shivered in remembrance.

Naruto said, "Don't you dare tell anyone about those things. Do you understand?"

Sasuke starred at Naruto with that all familiar hatred etched into his face, "Why shouldn't I?"

"Do you not realize what people would do to me, if they knew I could use forbidden techniques like what you saw a few days ago? The council would have me killed or tested on like some lab rat."

Sasuke's eyed widened as he listened to Naruto, but his expression changed into a sinister smirk,"If it'll come to that, then I'm telling them everything."

Harry smacked his face, 'Wow...You have derailed.'

Naruto growled at Harry, 'Shut it. I do have one plan up my sleeve. Thank you for interpreting the lettering on the Uchiha shrine for me.'

Naruto looked at Sasuke right in the eye and he threatened with malice, "If you tell anyone, I will never let you be able to obtain your precious Mangekyo Sharingan. Seeing as you want me killed so badly."

Sasuke's eye's widened again in total surprise. Nobody could possibly know anything about the Mangekyo Sharingan apart from himself, Itachi, or anybody else who could wield at least a pair of two tomoe Sharingan eyes.

"How do you know about that?" he demanded quietly.

"I know a lot about the Sharingan, Sasuke. You can learn a lot by studying a complex mural long enough, you know." he responded smartly,

Sasuke sneered at Naruto, "You went into my clan's private shrine?"

Naruto growled back at him, "I only went in there back during the Chunin Exams, and it was by mistake. I stumbled upon it when I was busy looking for you and Kakashi-sensei, you prick."

Sasuke soon went back to his normal brow-furrowed face and asked, "What makes you think that you can stop me from obtaining the Mangekyo?"

"You can forget about me being your friend. How about that?" he asked.

Sasuke paused before he growled angrily yet again.

'Dammit. If he's not my best friend then I can't kill him to obtain Itachi's power...'

Sasuke growled again but then he stopped once he realized something, 'No! Wait a minute! It doesn't matter what the dobe thinks about our friendship, so long as I consider him my friend then I can still get that power when I kill him.'

He smirked, "Your full of it, dobe. I can still obtain the Mangekyo if I still think of you as my closest friend. And considering that you would be so secretive about these 'forbidden arts' of yours, then I'd consider this as a little friend to friend talk, wouldn't you?"

Naruto's expression went from surprise to defeated, having now lost his advantage. Sasuke continued with a nefarious smile stretched on his face.

"While we're on your 'forbidden arts', I'll let the entire council know of what I saw. I'll make sure to watch whatever punishment they inflict upon you. Hell! I'll even request if I can do the job for them, since I'm guaranteed a hall pass for my previous behavior. I'd be providing community service and have fun at the same time!"

Naruto clenched his fist tightly and then slammed it into the wall right next to him, cracking it as he did. But immediately after he did so, he tried his best to ignore the enormous amount of pain he felt blazing in his arm.

"YOUR AN ABSOLUTE CHILD!" he yelled at Sasuke, like a furious parent.

This unexpected raise of Naruto's voice made Sasuke feel somewhat frightened at him. Actually, the expression on Naruto's face vaguely reminded Sasuke of his mother when she was angry at him for misbehaving occasionally The feeling of Naruto's anger emphasized when the lights in the room began to flicker and a breeze flew through the room even though there wasn't a single window or door opened.

"Instead of bitching like you're still an immature Academy student threatening to play tattle tale, then... then how about I make a deal with you? So that way, you can still get a huge fraction of your fame, superiority, or whatever you want and I can have my secret safe! Got it?"

Sasuke sat still, taken aback by the blonde. He sat, still restrained to his bed, as he slowly responded with, "Alright then."

Naruto expression softened slightly, but still shared a great deal of anger and frustration laced on his face.

"Now look, I didn't just sneak out of my room and through the entire hospital just for you to insult me and have the nerve to threaten my life. I came up here for you to do me just one important favor."

Sasuke looked disgruntled, "Me do you a favor? After you stopped me from-"

"-Getting murdered by a masochistic Sannin, having your clan's secrets being stolen by the same man and prevented your clan from becoming tarnished for years and years to come?"

Sasuke immediately shut up and Naruto said, "Now, shut it and listen up, Emo-Boy!"

Sasuke obeyed after being yelled at, but scowled from being called Emo-Boy.

Naruto coughed and then cleared his throat, "...Never once have I asked for anything, Sasuke. Even though I went out of my way to save your life on several occasions. I never asked anything of you until now, so listen carefully. What I'm able to do, for example is not considerable to be registered as a run of the mill kekkei genkai. Because what I'm able to do is considered, instead, to be extremely unnatural or almost dangerous. Here's what I going to propose to you; I will not press charges against you if you have a trial about your recent acts of treason. And as a bonus, I'll tell everyone that you kicked my arse and were about to finish me off but Kakashi-sensei stopped you at the last possible minute while I cried like a girl."

Sasuke's eyes widened greatly at hearing Naruto offer so much to him. He was fully willing to subject himself to torment and humiliation if he actually decided to cooperate.

Naruto continued, "You'll still be labeled as a shinobi badass and you'll get to rip on me twenty-four-seven. And as a bonus; I'll teach you any technique that you desire that I can provide if possible. But only if you swear not to tell anyone, you got it?"

Sasuke didn't move a muscle, as he thought about what was being presented to him. He would probably be put off the hook if he was honest about what happened, since the council favored him. He could lie to Kakashi and say that he truly learned what it meant to value comrades and if he was happy enough, he could still be more than willing to continue giving him specially supervised training. Naruto would become and remain eternally overshadowed by him. It was like Christmas came early for Sasuke Uchiha.

'Any technique I could ever want from the dobe, plus the ultimate humiliation, huh?' Sasuke thought with greed.

The treasures present before the Uchiha was more than he bargained for.

'Beside's, eventually, I might be able to use one of his techniques against him. And with luck, I can finish what I was going to accomplish at the Valley. Just you wait Naruto.' the Uchiha laughed in thought.

Naruto, feeling as if Sasuke was going to reject his generous offer, was about to exacerbate, "Sasuke, plea-"

Then Sasuke answered, "Alright, fine. We got a deal... partner."

"What? Really?" Naruto exclaimed.

Sasuke held out his hand, despite it being restraint to the bed, to make the deal totally official.

"Well? What are you waiting for, dobe? Shake my hand."

Naruto looked at it and quickly took it, when Naruto pulled Sasuke by his arm towards him slightly and stared directly into before saying with a deathly tone in his voice.

"Remember Sasuke, not a word to anybody. Do you understand?"

"Crystal, dobe." Sasuke smiled.

Naruto released himself from Sasuke's crushing hand-grip and marched towards the door. He tapped the door handle with his wand up his sleeve once more.

He then murmuring, "Alohomora."

The door lock clicked once more, unlocking the charm he placed on the lock earlier. Naruto opened the door slightly before stopping to look at Sasuke's face one more time.

The blonde nodded, "Thank you... for once."

He left with the door closed securely, and sped passed his soon to be 'un-Confunded' ANBU guards. He left Sasuke, to his self-centered thoughts and ambitions of copying all Naruto's jutsu's and still expecting personal training from Kakashi, as a cherry on top of his self-centered sundae and pie.

Kakashi entered the hospital, fully prepared to scold at Sasuke beyond belief, and successfully keeping his dormant rage hidden under his bored and lazy facial mask.

He approached the receptionists' desk and asked politely, "Excuse me, but can you tell me where patients Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha are, please?"

The receptionist flipped through several pages and said, "Uzumaki-san is in Room 345, the Common Care Unit, and Uchiha-sama is in Tower Room 466, in the Intensive Care Unit."

Kakashi nodded, and left for the stairs with a grunt of frustration.

'Sasuke only suffered from a well deserved beating, without any lasting damage, and he's put into the ICU? Well, that seems just.' he thought with sarcasm.

Kakashi climbed the stairs with ease until he got to the top floor of the south west tower room, where his 'student' was resting. Kakashi vaguely remembered going to this exact same room to protect Sasuke from a staged kidnapping/assassination attempt from Kabuto Yakushi. Now he was going back to this exact same room to, instead of protecting Sasuke from uncertain doom, was going to scold the Uchiha to the point of no return. Quite a contrast, really.

The Copy Ninja approached the end of the circular hallway where he noticed two ANBU guarding the door, and for some strange reason were humming 'That's the Way, Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh, I Like It!'. Kakashi gave a very strange look towards the two guards for a brief moment and coughed to get their attention. Soon, they both stopped, clearly embarrassed.

Kakashi saluted to both guards before asking, "May I enter Sasuke's room?"

Both ANBU nodded and stood aside to allow Kakashi entry. He grabbed the handle, and opened the door and closed it swiftly, without making it slam loudly. Though, he still made his presence known to the bandaged and noticeably dirty Uchiha clan heir.

Sasuke looked up and saw his sensei, giving him his infamous smirk. He expected Kakashi to be pissed off, but was intrigued about what he had to say. While Kakashi approached the Uchiha slowly, he noticed that Kakashi's only visible eye was shadowed by his lowered head. And then Sasuke foolishly said the wrong thing to him.

"Well Kakashi, what do you have for me today?" he asked.

Kakashi ignored what Sasuke had asked and continued to walk toward him slowly. Sasuke then grew angry that Kakashi didn't answer to him, "Hey, I asked you a question. Answer!"

Kakashi had finally stopped a foot before Sasuke's bed, and said Uchiha etched closer to the side of his bed to speak out louder.

"Are you deaf? I said answer-"

"How could you, Sasuke?" Kakashi interrupted with suppressed anger laced in his voice.

Sasuke looked perplexed for a split second before grinning again as if he were challenging the older man.

"How could I what?" he provoked.

"You know damn well what you did." Kakashi said with more of his anger beginning to leek out.

"If you're talking about Naruto getting in the way of my revenge, then I don't see what I did wrong." he remarked smartly.

"You call shoving a fully-charged Chidori right into Naruto's chest acceptable?" Kakashi vocally outraged.

"Oh, and what are you going to do about it? Smile and pretend that everything's better?" Sasuke provoked him even further, "Give me your mediocre advice on how revenge is wrong? And how I should lean to forgive and forget? Leave me to absorb a stupid message while you go cry over the names of your stupid f**king friends at the Hero's Memorial? An-"

Sasuke was silenced instantly as the back of Kakashi's hand hit him ferociously, causing his head to slam against the wall behind him, snapping the restraints on his torso clean off.

Kakashi's body shook in anger and his only visible eye glared at Sasuke with the most intense hatred anyone who knew him would ever witness.

Sasuke covered his darkly bruised and now bloody cheek as he glared at Kakashi with sheer hatred of his own.

"What the HELL is your problem? How dare you harm me? I'm an Uchiha!" he yelled.

"You deserved it, you rotten traitor. And if you ask for my personal opinion; Naruto was too soft on you at the Valley of the End!" Kakashi spat.

"But you hit me! Dammit, you're going to get it for doing that!" Sasuke threatened

"There you go, Sasuke. As conceded as ever. This is what's been upsetting me since day one. You don't see the value or strength in anybody but yourself. You never treated any other ninja in this village with any form of respect. I am your comrade and your instructor, and you never once referred to me as 'sensei'. Your teammates, who went out of their ways to please or help you, never once have you appreciated them or so much as thanked them. Not once! I told you how important and precious your teammates are. They're practically your family!" Kakashi scolded fiercely.

"THEY ARE NOT MY FAMILY! NO ONE IN THIS GARBAGE DUMP VILLAGE IS!"

"They almost sacrificed their LIVES for YOU! Do you not realize how much we all, as a team have sacrificed? For you? A family makes sacrifices to help each other, and that's what we've done for you. A team is like a family. And you never once realized how fortunate you are for us? No. Instead you chose to go to Orochimaru for power and abandon the people who actually cared about you behind!"

Kakashi yelled, but soon regained control of himself and calmed down slightly, while Sasuke recoiled at Kakashi's highly intimidating fit of rage but then reasserted himself in retaliation.

"DO YOU THINK I CARE? He offered me what no one in this village could ever supply me with! He saw me and sought me out! Above all others in the village, ME!" Sasuke retorted and then set his face into his all familiar smirk,

"I don't care about what you or anyone else thinks. You hear me, Kakashi? Those 'teammates' of mine, don't matter to me anymore... But I do have plans for my friend Naruto, though."

Kakashi looked at Sasuke with still angry, disgusted eyes, "You still have plans on killing him don't you? Why?"

"He got in my way and he will pay the consequence for having me locked up like this. Once I'm free, he'll help me unlock my new eyes when he does finally pay up." he laughed.

Kakashi's eyes widened at what Sasuke had said and thought with shock, 'He isn't-!'

"Sasuke... You were planning on doing this the entire time...?" Kakashi spoke with hesitance, afraid to accept the truth of Sasuke's intentions.

"You only made Naruto your friend... just so you could murder him and obtain the Mangekyo Sharingan?" Kakashi asked with restrained rage.

Sasuke smiled devilishly, "Heh! You better believe it."

Kakashi had to stop himself from lashing out at Sasuke. The Copy Ninja usually had almost perfect control over his emotions, after being in the ANBU for several years. It was very unusual to see Kakashi straining to control himself. He struggled, but soon he relaxed as he made his decision on what to say at last.

"Well that just tears it, doesn't it...?" he began as Sasuke watched with an amused smile.

Kakashi looked into Sasuke's unforgiving eyes deeply, 'He really has made his decision. The bond between him and the rest of us has been severed by his own hand. You have chosen your fate then, Sasuke.'

He sighed, "I tried to help you, Sasuke. I really tried to improve your behavior so you wouldn't make the same mistakes I made when I was your age. I know now that there's no longer any point in trying." Kakashi spoke calmly,"Sakura may not have helped much in giving you much of a reason to stay in the village, always pestering you and all, but she did risk her kunoichi career because of it. And Naruto, your best friend. Went out of his way and nearly died at your hand, trying to help you and bring you back. And what came from that effort Sasuke?"

Sasuke said nothing.

"You turned Sakura down and knocked her out without any shame in it, you lost the only kid in the village with enough guts to befriend you, and all that training you received will have gone to waste. You were granted a gift of awesome power, and I continuously advised you to only use the Chidori to protect your friends. That's the reason why I invented it in the first place. If I knew you were going to use the Chidori against Naruto in an attempt to obtain more power, I never would have bothered to be your teacher." He continued, "In order to help you prepare to defend your friends from such threats as your brother, I had to go as far as neglect Naruto and Sakura's training and even hurt them. Now I don't know what to do with Sakura's training unless she wishes to be a Genjutsu mistress like Kurenai Yuhi. And Naruto... knowing him, he will probably never want to speak to me again..." Kakashi ended with a very sad tone in his voice.

And again, Sasuke said absolutely nothing.

"But one positive thing will come out of this situation," Kakashi spoke out with a clear authoritative voice, "I, Kakashi Hatake, will never again teach you, Sasuke Uchiha, another technique, jutsu, or any way, shape, or form of any martial arts that exists, for as long as I remain on this Earth. That's my final word."

Sasuke's eyes widened at what he heard. Kakashi was actually vital to his plans to obtain more power from within Konoha. He needed him to teach him more advanced Lightning style techniques, and a way to use the Chidori more than twice a day. He needed that once assured training to balance out his quickly planned out progress.

"Y-You can't do that, you insignificant Hatake!" the raven-head roared in protest,

'Hmm...' Kakashi said in thought, 'Jeez, he acts more bratty than a six year old does without it's candy...'

"Really, Sasuke? If I'm such a 'insignificant Hatake' to you, then you wouldn't care If I left you behind. Goodbye." Kakashi said without any regret, as he turned to walk away from his soon-to-be ex-student.

"Get back here! I demand that you train me!" Sasuke demanded.

Kakashi turned back towards him and said, "Bite me."

Sasuke snarled at Kakashi and tried to rip off the remaining restraints on his bed so as to viciously attack his sensei, "You son of a whore! I'll get you for this, I swear it!"

Kakashi turned his back to Sasuke and continued, "By the way; once you are healed enough to be discharged, you will be reporting to the village Court Chamber for your disciplinary hearing. Several clan heads and jounin sensei's are placing you responsible for the near deaths of Neji Hyuga, Choji Akimichi, and Naruto respectively. And because of your rude attitude towards me, and given the fact that you yourself admitted to me that you still intend to murder Naruto... I might as well voice what you said to me a few minutes ago, and you shall receive the rightful punishment. You family title won't get you out of this one with what evidence I now have."

Sasuke's eyes widened, shocked at what Kakashi said he was going to do to him.

"No...No... NO YOU WON'T! Now you're just playing favorites! What if the dobe were to do what I did, huh? You would just defend him in court, and prove him of some false innocence!" Sasuke yelled back.

Kakashi stopped and turned, "Even if Naruto would ever do something as low as abandoning his friends, I would still have to see to it that he would be punished just like you are going to be... But I will never worry about something like that ever happening, because Naruto is nothing like you. He's too nice and loyal for his own good."

Sasuke growled at Kakashi like an animal with unprecedented rage and contempt.

"I'm leaving now, Sasuke. I'll see you in the Court Chamber when I present my case. But for now, I have to go visit Naruto and beg for his forgiveness for what happened to him and what I made him go through."

Sasuke looked down at his sheets, still shaking in rage, as Kakashi walked out of the room, Sasuke exploded in a fit of rage and started thrashing his legs and arms and roaring at the top of his lungs for a short amount of time. Kakashi quickly disappeared behind the door, and severed his connection to Sasuke forever as the room turned quiet. He walked.

Kakashi closed the door behind him, not bothering to thank the ANBU for letting him into the room in the first place.

He rubbed his temples soothingly, trying to pull himself out of his foul mood. Yelling at Sasuke really took a lot out of him. Not that it was hard, he had every reason to say what he said. Although he did admit to himself that backhanding a thirteen year old genin was taking it a little too far.

He tried to calm himself down, and after several minutes, he cleared his head and became fully prepared to apologize to Naruto.

He never wanted anything bad to happen to his blonde student. Naruto was one of those people Kakashi couldn't help but appreciate for their existence. He was so likable in Kakashi's eyes, he truly was. Probably because he had the same attitude and same present feeling as his did late best friend, Obito Uchiha. Hell, he couldn't help but love the boy for that! Even though he didn't know how to express how much he cared for him.

Kakashi now continued out of the ICU and into the Common Treatment Center, where Naruto's room was located. While he trekked down the hallway he saw someone he didn't expect to be back so soon from his mission: It was Jiraiya. Still as tall as ever in his usual olive colored clothes, large red vest, summoning scroll on his back, and his abnormally long, white hair.

There he was, leaning against the wall, looking at Kakashi blankly. The jounin stopped as soon as he noticed him and averted his gaze to down the hallway.

Jiraiya spoke out, "You really let that Sasuke-gaki have it, huh?"

Kakashi didn't respond as he got closer.

Jiraiya spoke again, "He might have been one of your students, but a traitor to the village is still scum. We both know that."

Kakashi still did not respond, he seemed very determined to try and ignore his superior, and get to his other student.

"Kakashi..." Jiraiya spoke out, to get the jounin to stop.

And Kakashi did just that, right in front of the tall Sannin, but still looked ahead of himself. Kakashi finally moved and looked up towards the bright fluorescent lights that blazed powerfully over him, listening to them buzz subtly.

"... I never should have split up my team..." he admitted quietly.

Jiraiya sighed, knowing all to well that a large chunk of what happened was his fault, "You might be right... Maybe I should have-"

"Let the Hokage know of the Akatsuki threat since before the Chunin Exams, let me explain to my team of what was going to happen, and what dangers were soon going to threaten them. Doing so would have prevented this entire disaster from even happening." Kakashi interrupted calmly, not wishing to get angry again, but still getting his honest opinion out. Flinching, the Sannin looked down at the ground in mild shame.

"... I'm sorry. I am responsible for a good deal of what happened." he admitted willingly.

"That's right, a part of it is your fault. But I could've prevented this all by myself. At the very least, I could've talked to my team, disregarding what you advised me to do instead. I never should have left the village for that month of the Chunin Exams as you said I should do. I simply had to talk to my squad..." Kakashi grieved.

The toad sage spoke again, "That was not a good idea on my part, I'll admit... And I overheard what Sasuke had said about his 'unseen motives' for Naruto. Having you teach him jutsu on how to do it doesn't help a team move forward."

Kakashi looked up at Jiraiya at last, a bit surprised, "You heard all that?"

Jiraiya nodded, "Yeah, I was just outside the door. Sasuke must have had the intent to one day destroy his closest friend for personal gain since the beginning. He must have been told how to obtain the Mangekyo Sharingan at some point... And my instincts are telling me that it was Itachi. He must have divulged the information to Sasuke on the night of the massacre, since Itachi was the only known Uchiha to have obtained those eyes since the generation of the village's foundation... Sasuke was probably just bidding his time to act and then he-"

"-You don't need to remind me. I know." Kakashi interrupted again, not wishing to rekindle his frustration originally caused by Sasuke.

"Well, now that we know what's what, let's cut to the chase; Are you really intending to condemn Sasuke to whatever punishment he might receive in his hearing? Are you sure you want to testify against him with the other clan heads?"

Kakashi glanced down the hall once more, staring down the direction to his other students room, "Those who break the rules are garbage, but those who abandon their comrades and friends are worse than garbage. That's my nindo, Jiraiya. Sasuke has broken the the most important laws of our village, and has attempted to abandon the people who regarded him as their friend. No matter what, Sasuke became a missing-nin, a traitor to this village and to its inhabitants from the moment he took one step out of it with those scumbags from Otogakure. He is nothing but scum that deserves to be punished fairly. That's my final decision, Jiraiya."

A void of silence between the two men was soon interrupted with the sudden boom of thunder from outside.

"Now if you'll excuse me, Jiraiya, I have to visit Naruto. I've got to apologize to him while I still can."

With that, continued to Naruto and Jiraiya disappeared away.

10 Minutes Later...

'You've got to be kidding me...' Kakashi grieved mentally.

"What do you mean I'm not allowed to see him?" Kakashi asked in protest to Naruto's doctor. He had just refused Kakashi to go in and visit him.

The medic stated, "I'm sorry, Hatake-san, but his condition is very unstable and he needs his sleep. Not to mention that his visiting time ended twenty minutes ago. If you wish to see him, we'll let you know when you are able to. Until then, you will have to leave, and come back another day. I'm sorry, sir."

Kakashi sighed and nodded his head in understanding. He then walked away and out of the hospital, feeling more depressed than when he visited the Hero's Memorial earlier.

Sakura made her way to the hospital after a long walk, thinking of what she would say to comfort her 'Sasuke-kun'. She entered and asked the receptionists kindly where Sasuke's room was. When she heard he was in the top tower room, she was absolutely ecstatic and began to fantasize.

'This way, we'll have the daylight shine down upon us while I'm there!' she thought with glee.

She heard that the receptionist tell her that she needed an approved pass from the council in order to so much as visit Sasuke. So she began to walk away after she had flashed her Council Approval Pass she had received from her parents. She then climbed the stairs and became the third person that day to approach the two Confunded ANBU watching over Sasuke's door.

"Hello! May I go in and see Sasuke-kun, please?" she asked with a tone of honey in her voice, showing them her pass.

Both ANBU nodded and stood aside for her to enter,"Wow! First, we let in the King of Wrackspurts, then the Copy Ninja Kakashi, whose next after her?" one of them asked strangely.

Sakura entered the room, holding her get-well gifts to Sasuke and Naruto, and greeted Sasuke with a small smile on her pale face.

"Hi, Sasuke-kun! Good day, yes?"

Sasuke side-glanced towards the 'ever-annoying' Sakura, shaking in anger and annoyance. She remained oblivious to his prominent emotions as she walked towards him, placing Naruto's things aside and holding up Sasuke's daffodil along with some sliced apples. She placed the vase containing flower upon his bedside table for him to smell for whenever he desired and opened the container of apples. She put the apples on a plate she had underneath them and offered them to Sasuke, while said Uchiha looked at her with sheer hatred in his blazing Sharingan eyes. And through all of this, she continued to ramble on and on to him.

"I had to do a little shopping at the supermarket yesterday. These were the sweetest apples I could find! I'm sure you'll like 'em, Sasuke-kun."

She held out the plate for Sasuke to take one. But without any warning from Sakura's point of view, Sasuke took the entire plate of apples right out of Sakura's hands and threw it with a mighty thrust as if he were throwing a Frisbee. Alerted a little bit late, Sakura barely managed to dodge the attack. She threw her arms over her head fearfully, to defend herself and cried out in fright.

"You HAD to ask him? You HAD to beg the dobe to force me back?" he yelled at her like an abusive husband.

Sakura trembled in fright at her crush's violent behavior, "S-S-Sasuke-kun, w-what's gotten into you?" she stuttered.

"If you hadn't had Naruto go after me, I would be learning from Orochimaru by now!"

"B-but Naruto was trying t-to save you-" she attempted to reason.

"HE DID NOT SAVE ME! I'M GONNA BE EXECUTED, BECAUSE OF THE DOBE-AND YOU!" he roared.

Sakura dropped to the ground and sunk into herself at Sasuke's hateful words.

Sakura let the tears in her eyes leak out like a broken water pipe and she wept, "B-but, I l-l-love you, Sasuke-k-"

"I HATE YOU! YOU ANNOYING BITCH! GET OUT~!" He roared with every word emphasized.

Sakura jumped up to her feet and she fled away as fast as she could. The girl grabbed her belongings with her and ran down the hall with tears flowing heavily down her cheeks. She ran down the stairs, almost tripping once or twice, and refused to stop running until after three floors separated the two genin of Team 7. Once there, Sakura collapsed against a wall, sobbing at what Sasuke had said to her.

To Be Continued...

End of Chapter 3! I hope you guys enjoyed it!

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