" Come Together"

Chapter 2 " Who Did This To You"

The next mourning Sakura was again woken up by her alarm clock telling her to get up and get ready for school. She got out of bed and went up to her mirror to see if her face had looked any better than yesterday. She noticed she had a black eye on the left side of her face and her lower lip was a little swollen. She walked away from the mirror and got ready for school. Sai and Naruto tried to convince her to stay at home today but she wanted to go since it was her second day and she didn't want to be left behind already. Once they arrived to school, Sakura quickly went to her locker but students had already noticed what had happened and started talking among themselves.

" Oh Sakura."

Sakura heard her name being called out and turned around to see Karin walking up to her.

" Hi Karin."

" What happened to you? I bet you got beaten up for being too close to my Sasuke. I hope you learned your lesson from flirting with him yesterday because he is all mine." Karin yelled out.

" I don't know what your talking about. I wasn't flirting with him he is my partner that's all. I could care less if he is yours or not, he isn't property."

" Well just stay away from him for now on. I bet he won't even look at you anymore after seeing your ugly face."

Kain laughed as she walked off leaving Sakura at her locker. She couldn't understand why people were being so cruel this mourning. Instead of people being concern and asking her if anything was the matter, all she got was threats and disgusting stares from people. She couldn't help but feel sad inside as she walked to her first class. When she got there she noticed Sasuke and Ino hadn't shown up yet so she was relieved that she didn't need to tell them what had happened yet as she walked to her seat. A few minutes later more and more students came into the classroom including Sasuke and Ino. Ino went to her seat and started to get her things in order as Sasuke walked up to his seat and noticed Sakura looking out the window with her face against her hand so people couldn't see her bruises. He didn't think anything of it as he sat in his seat but then heard his name being yelled out.

" Sasuke! Good mourning!" Karin yelled out as she ran up to him and started hugging him with her arms around his neck as he tried to push her off.

" God damnit Karin. Get the fuck off of me now!" Sasuke yelled out as he finally gotten out of Karin's embrace.

" Sasuke why are you so mean to me but you are so nice to the ugly freak next to you. How could anyone be nice to someone who has pink hair and has bruises on her face."

Karin said in a low voice so only him and Sakura. Karin walked over to her seat while Sasuke wondered of what Karin meant.

' Bruises on her face?' Sasuke thought when he realized he really didn't see her face this mourning so he turned around to look at his partner but she had her back towards him while still staring at the window. Sasuke opened his mouth to say something to her but then the school bell rung and Mr. Iruka started teaching class so Sasuke didn't have a chance to speak to Sakura.

After class was over Sakura did her best to leave her seat before anyone else could notice her bruises but then she felt a hand gripping onto her wrist. She looked down at her wrist and saw that it was Sasuke's hand that was wrapped around it. She then shifted her eyes to look into his but instead of seeing no expression in them there was a concern and shock gaze to them. He couldn't believe what Karin said was true and it looked like someone had beaten her up.

" Sakura... who did this to you?" Sasuke asked in determination to find out what really happened to her.

Sakura knew she could tell anyone what really had happened to her yesterday so he tried to think of an excuse so Sasuke would leave her alone.

" I tripped...please let go Sasuke, I need to go to my next class." Sakura said as she tried to pull her hand away from his grip but he didn't bulge.

" No not until you tell me what really happened and I think your excuse is bullshit so don't give me that crap about you tripping." Sasuke demanded.

" Well what I said is true and if it wasn't it's none of your buisness so leave me alone! You are annoying!"

Sasuke was too shocked from Sakura yelling at him that he didn't even notice that his hand had opened up and she quickly took her hand and started to walk away but stopped for a moment and sighed while turning back to face Sasuke. She felt very bad about yelling at him but she didn't want to bother him about what had happened.

" Look Sasuke, I'm sorry that I yelled at you but please don't worry about me."

Sakura said then turned away and left the classroom as Sasuke slowly walked out of the classroom but realized that he should ask Naruto what had happen when he sees him at lunch.

Lunchtime had finally arrived for all of the students. Ino and Hinata asked Sakura what had happened to her but she told them she had fell down some stairs which was why she had the bruises and they believed her. Sasuke wanted to find Naruto in the cafeteria before anyone else came to the table but by the time he came everyone was already there, including Sakura so he just sat in his usual seat and stayed quiet.

" So what is everyone doing this weekend? I was thinking we could hang out and go shopping or something." Ino said.

" That sounds like fun, so is everyone going?" Sakura asked.

" Yeah me and Hinata will definatly come." Naurto said.

" I'm sure everyone will be there. Well everyone except Mr. Coldness over there, he never hangs out with us outside of school in like a group ever since his parents died."

Ino explained while everyone became quiet knowing she went into a territory she shouldn't had touched. Then everyone looked up at Sasuke, who was glaring at Ino. Sakura didn't know what was going on as she looked around her surrondings. Ino on the otherhand hadn't noticed everyone staring at her so she continued to talk to Sakura.

" Yeah his parents died a few years ago in a car accident and ever since then he's been the biggest jerk ever."

Ino said then she heard a chair moved and looked to see where it was coming from and it was Sasuke's. He stood up without looking at anyone at the table and walked out of the caferteria.

" Good job Ino, now he's really fucking mad." Shikamaru said as he continued to eat his lunch.

" Well sorry I'm still pissed off about him being an ass last night." Ino explained as everyone else gave her a weird look.

" Where did he go?" Sakura asked her friends.

" He is on the school's rooftop, Sakura mabye you should talk to him and try to make him feel better."

Naruto explained then Sakura just nodded her head and stood up from the table and left the cafeteria to follow Sasuke.

" So Naruto, why did you get Sakura to go talk to him? Isn't he just going to cuss her out?" Shikamaru asked.

" Well you see Sakura and Sasuke are the only ones in our little group that don't have parents anymore so I'm hoping she can make him feel better knowing that he's not the only one anymore." Naruto said as everyone listened.

Sakura went up to the rooftop of the school opened up the door to see Sasuke sitting by himself on the ground looking up to the sky.

" Hey Sasuke, are you okay?"

Sakura asked in concern as she approached him while he continued to stare at the sky.

" Go away. You are annoying." Sasuke said in his cold tone of voice. He didn't mean to be mean to Sakura is just he was in a bad mood and needed to be alone. He had been in a horrible mood ever since he saw Sakura's face and her yelling at him. Then Ino mentioning his parents made him even more pissed off but didn't say a word to her because Sakura was there and he didn't want to scare her away. Sakura didn't listen to him and instead kept walking until she was next standing next time.

" Look Sasuke, I know how you are feeling I " Sakura tried to speak but was caught off by Sasuke.

" How the hell do you know what I'm feeling. You have no idea what it's like!" Sasuke yelled out but turned his head to look at her when he noticed instead of her running away, she choose to sit next to him.

" Well for starters when I was 12 years old, my father and my younger brother went to the grocery store one day, while they were there, a robbery was taking place and the robber ended up shooting and killing 6 people at the store, including my dad and my younger brother. It's fucked up when your younger sibling dies before you." Sakura said with sadness in her eyes while looking at the ground and Sasuke stared at her while she was talking.

" It was pretty rough for me and my mom but I got through it but right after my 14th birthday I came home from school one day. I had entered our apartment and I had found my mom in our living room. She had hung herself with a rope and the ceiling fan. I still have nightmares to this day of her body and her eyes looking at me while her lips looked like she was smiling."

Sakura couldn't help herself but started to have tears roll down her cheeks. She was surprised when she felt a hand move across her cheek to get rid of her tears and looked up to see that the hand belong to Sasuke with sorry and concern in his eyes. The eyes reminded her of earlier when Sasuke first noticed her bruises and felt like she deserved to know what had happened yesterday.

" I no longer have any family members. None. Yesterday after school, I went over to my mom's sister house to see how she was doing but instead of a warm welcome she beated me up and cut my hair up while her shouting at me that it was my fault that my mom is dead."

Sakura suddenly felt one of Sasuke's arms being wrapped around her shoulder and pulled her into an embrace. He had never done this to anyone but with Sakura it was diffrent.

" I'm sorry."

Sasuke finally said it. He never appologizes to anyone even if the situation was his fault he would never used the word sorry but he felt guilty for making Sakura feel this way.

" Don't be. It's not your fault."

" I am though. I am always thinking about myself and I'm so used to everyone having loving parents and a great life I never thought that someone other than me could go through so much pain. I still have my brother while yours was killed. I have been so selfish."

Sakura looked up and saw Sasuke looking back into her eyes. She then pushed her self away from him and stood up and reached out a hand to help him up which he took.

" It's okay Sasuke. Just please stop being so cold towards everyone. You don't have to build your wall for me."

Sakura said with a smile with him smiling back at her when suddenly she closed her eyes are started to fall forward but Sasuke caught her in time so she wouldn't hit the floor.

" Sakura! What's wrong?" Sasuke said in a worried expression then he realized she had fainted so he picked her up bridal style and carried her to the clinic. When he got there, he saw a nurse sitting at her desk reading a magazine but she looked up when she heard someone coming into the room.

" What happened to her?" The nurse got up from her seat and had Sasuke follow her to one of the clinic beds to put her on.

" I don't know, one minute we were talking the next minute she fainted." Sasuke said still worrying about his friend.

" What is her name?" The nurse asked him while checking to see if she had a fever.

" Sakura Haruno."

" Haruno? Oh I know her now. Principal Jiraya told me all about her and her health condition."

" What health condition?" Sasuke demanded.

" I'm not sure exactly he just told me if she ever passes out just let her sleep but if she ever passes out and starts having blood coming out of her mouth then she would need to go to the hospital, all I know is she is a very sick girl. But anyways you should go back to class. I'm going to call her emergency contact and have them come get her. You can go see her later but right now you need to go back to class."

The nurse pushed Sasuke out of the clinic, leaving Sakura alone in the room. Sasuke just sighed and left the clinic and walked to his next class. He wanted to stay with Sakura until she woke up to make sure she was going to be okay but he knew the clinic lady and she wasn't going to let him stay with her.

' I had no idea she has a sickness. I'll have to ask Naruto about it later. Please be alright Sakura.'

About an hour later, Sakura woke up from her little nap and looked around and noticed she was in the school's clinic. She got out of bed and walked over to the nurse.

" Oh Sakura are you feeling okay?" The nurse asked.

" Yeah I'm still tired but I'm feeling a little bit better."

" That's good a mr. Sai is on his way to pick you up from school, I called him a while ago so he should be here soon."

Right as the nurse said that they both heard a knock on the door and watched as Sai walked into the room.

" How are you feeling?" Said asked Sakura.

" I'm still tired I guess we can go now but I need to stop by my locker and get my things."

Sakura said as the two left the clinic and went to her locker and got her things and walked out of the school. Sasuke had gym around this time and the gym class was out in the field which was pretty close to the entrance to the school. Sasuke happened to glance over to the entrance just in time to see Sakura leaving the school along with the guy that he saw her with the day before.

' I'm glad that she's awake now and is going home but who is that guy.' Sasuke thought as he shook his head and went back to paying attention to the class.

When school led out Naruto was walking to his car when he heard his name being called out. He turned around and Sasuke walking up to him.

" What's up Teme?" Naruto asked as they were walking to their cars. During school, the nurse called Naruto to the office to let him know that Sakura had fainted and Sai had gone to pick her up from school. He didn't get to hear much of the details but he was glad that she was alright now.

" I was wondering if I can come over and hang out today." Sasuke asked.

" Yeah come on over. I'll meet you there okay." Naruto said as he reached to his car while Sasuke kept walking to his car.

When the two got to the apartment, they walked in and saw Sakura laying on the couch watching t.v. She sat up from the couch and looked over to see the two teens that had entered the room.

" Hey Sakura are you feeling any better?" Naruto asked as he walked into the kitchen and get him some ramen while Sasuke walked over and sat beside her.

" I'm feeling a lot better thanks oh by the way Sasuke, I wanted to thank you for carrying me to the clinic. I'm sorry you had to see that." Sakura said while facing him as he looked at her.

" I'm glad you are okay now." Sasuke said when they both heard a door open and revealed Sai walking out of his room in only in his boxers. He walked over to the two and saw down on the couch across from them. He looked at Sasuke and gave him a nod which Sasuke nodded back then his eyes shifted to Sakura.

" Sai, this is Sasuke, he's one of me and Naruto's classmates and also the one who carried me to the clinic. Sasuke, this is Sai, he's our other roomate."

Sakura explained as the two guys nodded eachother again. Then the door opened again that led to Sai's room and walked out a female and she walked out the apartment.

" Yeah about that... Sai has many girls so whenever you see him in his boxers like this, it means he just got laid." Sakura explained to Sasuke and he just nodded.

" So ugly are you up to going out with us tonight?" Sai asked right as Naruto walked back into the room with his ramen.

" Probably not... I'm still a little bit tired and I don't want to pass out again so just to be on the safe side I will stay home." Sakura said with sadness in her eyes which Sasuke took notice.

" Aw don't worry Sakura! You can hang out with me and Sasuke tonight. Orless Sasuke were you planning on going out tonight?" Naruto asked while eating his ramen.

" Naw I can stay here with you guys." Sasuke said while looking at Sakura which made her smile.

" Thanks guys but I'm probably going to go back to bed soon so if you guys wanna go with Sai you can."

" No way I'm not leaving you here when you don't feel well." Naruto said.

" Well I'm going to go get dressed and head out. Sakura don't forget to take your pills in 30 minutes." Sai said as he got up from his seat and went to his room. A few minutes later he walked out of the apartment.

" Well I'm going to leave you two alone for a little bit. I'm going to go take a bath. Sasuke please don't get too bored with Naruto, I promise I'll be back." Sakura teased as she got up from her seat and walked into the bathroom.

" Hey I heard that Sakura!" Naruto yelled out as Sasuke was still smirking at her comment.

" Hey Naruto, I've been wanting to ask you something about Sakura. Does she usually faint a lot?"

Sasuke asked Naruto as Naruto sat his ramen bowl down and picked up the remote to turn on the t.v.

" Well I guess I can tell you but please don't tell anyone else orless Sakura says so."

Sasuke nodded and waited for Naruto to continue his explanation.

" Sakura has this sickness where she gets headaches and once in a while she will faint. She will also throw up sometimes and even spits up blood so she has to take theses pills three times a day so her immune system doesn't get any worse. Her and Sai were living in the Sand country but her doctor had to get transfered over here so they decided to move over here too."

" Oh I see... so who is Sai anyway?"

" Haha is Teme getting jealous? Well you don't have to worry about them. They have been friends for a while and when he started his band, she was behind it the whole way so they are basically brother and sister. He takes care of her like as she was his actually his sister. But I do have to tell you one thing though since I am starting to think that you like Sakura, they did have a one night stand years ago after this jerk broke Sakura's heart but I wouldn't think you would mind since you have one night stands all the time."

Naruto started laughing but then Sasuke grabbed the nearest pillow and threw it at Naruto's face.

" Shut up dobe!" Sasuke yelled out while giving him an evil glare. Just after Sasuke yelled at Naruto, they heard the bathroom door open up and Sakura quickly walked into her bedroom which was located next to the bathroom so no one could see her in just a towel.

" Just don't hurt her okay and please don't use her. She has already been through enough in her lifetime so far."

Naruto said while Sasuke just nodded. A few minutes later Sakura walked out of her room and entered the living room where Sasuke and Naruto were hanging out at. She walked over and sat next to Sasuke on the couch and began talking to the two boys.

" So is there anything you guys would like to do?" Sakura asked.

" Well this may sound boring to Naruto but since we are already are here together why don't we work on our project?" Sasuke sujested.

" Sure that's a great idea! Naruto can just watch his regular t.v shows while we work on this, it shouldn't take too long."

" Yeah don't mind me, but I could also be some help to you guys." Naruto said in excitement.

" Um... we'll see Naruto."

Sakura said while giggling as Sasuke smirked at her comment. They finished the project a few hours later as Naruto ate more ramen and watched t.v.