Let Me Tell You

Naruto led me to the roof.

Lunch wouldn't be over for quite a while so I'm not worried about getting to my next class. What is it again? Oh right P.E.

What I'm worried about is Sasuke. Why would he help me get out of that situation? He would have to be stupid to believe he could just walk in there without starting something. And he just doesn't strike me as a stupid guy. So why?

A click brings my attention to the door as I see the one I'm so confused about arriving.

How the hell did he get away from that mob?

"Hey Bastard," calls out the blond that's currently sitting on the floor by the fence. "Took you long enough." He takes a swig from his soda before he goes back to eating his sandwich.

Sasuke glares at Naruto as he sits about a yard away from both the blond and me. Making a triangle out of us. "I had to lose those damn fan girls you Idiot."

"Okay," I cut in. I'm sitting across from Naruto my lunch sitting on my lap as I try to figure out how this day could have ended up so odd.

I was insulted and humiliated by two upper classmen also by the principle. Befriended two hotties, I was nearly killed by Inner and finally met my adorable spirit guide. Then reunited with my best friend from my old hospital who now only cares about what other people think. And the day's not over. What else can happen?

"Sakura-chan since the Bastard is here tell us why you didn't want to go to the nurses office when you fainted earlier?"

Right…I have to spill my past to the hotties.

Great. Just great.

I sigh then open my plastic container for my salad. "You guys want to know why my hair is pink?" I start.

They blink, obviously not thinking that was the reason why I hate the nurses office. With a grunt from Sasuke and a "yeah" from Naruto I start my story. Or well the basics.

"As hard as it is to believe it this is actually my natural hair color. Because I was born with such a strange coloring I was always an interesting patient to doctors when I was a baby. Or at least, that's what my mom says. Anyway when I was three I started coughing up blood. Apparently earlier that week I also had the flu so mom, worried about my health, takes me to the emergency room." I stop and take a bite of salad and drink my filtered water. I let the two guys steam with curiosity before continuing.

"The doctors thought I might have swallowed something so they ran an X-ray. What they found wasn't a toy but slices and scars on my lungs and heart. Curious about how I could have gotten this they kept me for observation. But the longer I stayed the more the cuts appeared inside my body. The doctor's called those attacks."

"How?" questions Sasuke. Inner rolled her eyes. Apparently his one word answers are annoying to her.

"The doctors never found a scientific explanation as to how it was happening. But they later found out that I was much more troublesome then they originally thought."

"Oh! I know your schitzo-whatchamacallit." Answers Naruto.

I grin. "Yup. They caught on that I was having visitors. But what stumped them was that I was having these episodes in sync with my attacks. That hasn't happened before to anyone's knowledge. So they kept me. After a few months I was transferred to another hospital, this one in Kiri as it was a special psychiatric children's hospital called Kiri Seven Swords Hospital for Mentally Troubled Children. But I call it Seven Swords for short."

Sasuke clenches his fist. "I know that place." He glares at the ground causing his long bangs to hide his expression.

Surprised I turn towards him. "Really?" Did he go there? I don't remember ever seeing him and I saw basically everybody there. Every humans, demon and spirit. But maybe I missed him?

He lifts his head. "My psychiatrist in middle school wanted to send me there after my brother's murder and my parent's suicides. But I ended up not going. I proved I could handle living on my own and I got my school work back up." He hides his mouth behind his hands as he glares into the distance. "I need to stay healthy, strong and smart in order to find my brothers murderer."

Whoa, whoa, whoa… Murder? Suicide?

"Whoa, whoa, whoa... He can speak a whole paragraph?" Inner wonders. Her face staring at Sasuke with amazement and wonder.

"Murderer?"

Sasuke snaps his ebony eyes at me. And it's like I'm falling into a black abyss. Forever falling and never afraid that I will ever hit the bottom. Naruto's eyes glow, like they are trying to shine his soul out through the blue. But Sasuke's eyes suck me in like a black hole. Empty, intense, frightening and freeing. Like I can float in nothing and never suffer. An eternity of peace. "I will find him. And when I do he's going to wish he was never born." With that said he sits back and continues eating his tomato.

Naruto tsks. "We already know that Sasuke. Anyway you were saying Sakura-chan!"

Oh…well. I'm surprised he was able to avoid going there. Seven Swords is actually not that bad depending on who is your doctor and psychiatrist.

"Um so with my coloring, visitors and the mystery of the attacks obviously I had become an interesting… subject. I was studied excessively on since I was three. In fact this is my first school. So since I was first taken to the hospital when I was three and I stayed there till a few months ago the fact that I'm afraid to go to the nurse is pretty valid don't you think Naruto?"

I look towards the blond and he nods.

"But why did you faint?" he asks.

I sigh. "That sometimes happens. It must have been…exhaustion." I wince. God, I'm a horrible liar. Damnit! This is what I don't want to tell them. They really will think I'm crazy, like everybody else.

"Say it." Demands Sasuke.

"Look. You have to understand first that its sometimes invoulintar-"

"Sakura."

I give an involuntary shiver.

That is the first time Sasuke said my name. Why is it affecting me?

"My attacks eventually caused me to have my heart transplanted when I was thirteen."

…

Silence. Wow, that's creepy especially when all I can hear is the wind blowing through my hair.

"Y-your heart?" Naruto stutters.

I sigh and start unbuttoning my shirt. Naruto's eyes widen and even Sasuke leans back with a slightly bewildered expression on his face. Once my shirt is done I lift my black undershirt up to just below my bra. I shiver as the cold air tickles my stomach.

Most people would have been fine with me just saying it. But I got the feeling that Sasuke and Naruto need to see the proof, otherwise when I tell them the rest they might not believe me.

They stare at my torso. I know what they are seeing, a long curved scar directly below my rib-cage and another scar over where my liver is, multiple tiny scratches and claw marks from my hands and the claws of demons that were too hasty to eat my life away.

"The long scar beneath my rib-cage is where the doctor had to tack out my heart. The long scar on my side is from my liver being replaced two years ago. If you want I can turn around and show you where my original kidneys used to be. That scar isn't that old, my kidneys were replaced several months ago. That's why I can go to school now. My most dysfunctional organs have been replaced. My lungs are scared up but not as bad as my heart was so they didn't need to be transferred."

I let them stare for another moment before I pull my shirt down and start re-buttoning.

"Basically, I get exhausted easily, especially when I'm excited. So I guess I fainted because of that." I hope the distraction of me getting dressed prevented them from hearing the lie in my voice.

The bell rang right when the final button was done.

A/N:

This is more of a set up and review chapter. I wish I could have just glazed over it but I couldn't. A part of Sasuke's past is revealed upon learning her story and that I couldn't over look. Next chapter is going to be in Inner POV as she wanders through the school away from Sakura for her last three classes P.E. Choir and History. I wan't this Arc to end soon so we can all get to the good parts!