Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto for it belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. I don't own 13 Reasons Whyby, Jay Asher(own a copy of book). I own this remix of the book(my version). I own this Naruto Style and my way to the story.
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The Dark Truth
Chapter 1
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Sauske Uchiha
An hour after practice and my brother, Itachi, drives us home. We don't speak all the way home... nothing different for us. The radio is turned on but the volume is low enough for us to hear. For the past weeks me and Itachi don't speak to each other much. For me I have my reasons... I see her face every time I close my eyes. When I walk down the hall's I see her waiting for me and Naruto like she always did. And yet, I can't come to the fact that she's gone. I always think if I was there maybe, I could of stopped her. All I have been do is thinking what if lately.
She was just a girl. So why was I thinking about her still? She's gone... but I still think. Why? This girl is making me think to much... I wonder... do the other people who care about her, have to deal with this? I doubt Itachi does. Though he should. He was the one who was her first boyfriend...
Itachi Uchiha
Car rides are what I hate the most now and days. It's always silent. Like we're two strangers in a car together. Though it just gets boring. I enjoy quite and does he... but still you can fall asleep in this car. All the way the radio plays our favorite radio station and I watch the road. Sauske looking out the window. Things aren't the same anymore at school... and so it is with me and Sauske.
When we got home a box wrapped in tape and green paper is near the door at an angle. We live in an estate. When we get mail it's either put through the mail box or on the porch steps. When we get home me and Sauske are the only ones at the house. The estate has some kids at home and elders. The other adults are at work... hot shot family. We're not that rich but rich enough.
Sauske picked it up and shoved it to me. I raise my brow and he point to the top of the box and it read... Itachi & Sauske Uchiha. It's for us? I nodded and headed inside. I don't open it until Sauske comes back to get the letter mail. We go inside the kitchen and Sauske grabs a knife and runs it around the box. Then he opens it and bubble wrap is all at the top. I pull it out and what do you know... there is a boxes... but I spot the one with the numbers fourteen and twenty-seven. Mine and Sauske's numbers for basketball, the first and last initials of our names are at the bottom of them.
Just when I am about to open it Sauske speaks, "The side. There's a letter." He grabs it open and read it aloud...
Dear Sauske and Itachi,
Hey boys! Did you miss me? Okay so why am I writing to you? Well this isn't my suicide letter if that's what your thinking. Pst! I am not going to let you hear from me through a letter... that's so old school. I am going to make you listen to my voice. How? Simple you'll listen to seven tapes each having a story on both sides and their are thirteen stories total. Each story may have more than one person involved. Who knows?
Now how does this have to deal with you two? Simple your in maybe one or two maybe more of my stories. Each story is a reason... a reason why I am going to kill myself. Now it's not just you two who get to hear from me together. You'll be getting some guys with you. Who are they? Maybe you know them...
Naruto Uzumaki
Sasori
Haku
Deidara
Kiba Inazuka
Neji Huyga
Sabaku no Gaara
Shikamaru Nara
Sai
Kimimaro Kayuga
Zaku Abumi
Do those name's seem familiar? They better do. After all aren't they some of you two boys' friends? or something like that? Now go get them before you listen to my tapes. Before you hear my voice. Get them and find a player that will be able to play them. Fallow the maps that you all should of gotten. Listen to what I tell you in the tapes and just fallow what I say. Listen and go to the places if you 13 boys want... if not then it's okay... I understand.
After hearing the tapes send them to the next group. You might not know who they are. But there are extra letters in the package. Just look for the one with the a number 7. I just picked the number okay? On top of the letter has an address read it and put it on to the mailing address after you and the guys finish hearing me for one more time.
I am given out to much? Okay there is more in tape one about your directions and then the first story/reason begins to be told by yours truly. Maybe one of you will be the star in it... or maybe its one of the guys. Who knows? Well I do... still who else does? There is someone... but you'll figure that out in tape one. Fallow the tapes by the numbers on them. Listen to the beginning and such. Fallow the maps you got. Anything else? Um... no. I don't want to write the whole thing... so...
Have Fun,
Sakura Haruno
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"She... she actually wrote this?" I hear him mumble enough for me to take the paper from his hand. I nodded, I know her hand writing anytime. This was like a last request to us. A last thing to do for her. Only one thing to do...
"Sauske call some of the guys and I'll call the rest and ask Sasori to bring his player," I say. Sauske nods and gets out his cell and calls the first boy on the list.
"Hey Naruto... shut up idiot... listen do you got anything going on tonight? Ya... well..."
I left the kitchen and went upstairs to my room. I reread the letter the whole time. And yet... the only thing I felt I was reading was... A reason why I am killing myself. So it was my fault partly. Still, she still said it. It may have not been written but it was there. She was saying it in between the lines... words. It was all there. Even if she was gone, she was still there. And this letter. This package. The tapes they haven't hear from. There all there to remind them. That she was not gone. She didn't leave. She was just not breathing. She didn't do it 'cause she was crazy. She did it for a reason. A reason for all of them should be responsible for. I picked my cell phone out of my pocket and dialed Sasori's number.
"Itachi? What's up?"
"Hey you busy tonight?"
"Um... no. Why?"
"I need you over now. Bring your tape player too."
"Sure sure. I'll be there as soon as I can but why?"
"I'll explain once you get here... okay?"
"Fine. See ya later."
"Ya... bye."
Sabaku no Gaara
Uchiha called me and to get my but over here. Just when I was in the middle of something. Great timing right? Not. Though I got to thank him... at least I don't have to deal with Temari and her cooking tonight. Thank you Kami! Once I got thought the front gates of their estate, I drove my motorcycle to their house and pulled up front. The house hasn't changed much. I guess Mrs. Uchiha doesn't like to change her house every other week but she fixes stuff every other month. Ain't that fun? I see Sauske sitting on the porch steps. Waiting for me? How should I know... though he is the one that called me.
"Hey... Uchiha what was with the call?" I asked walking towards the house. Sauske was currently looking at his gray Converse. Deep in thought? Seriously... I have know idea about what the Uchiha brothers do have the time. He looks up and nods at me. He has a letter in his hand and hands it to me without a word. I opened it up and gave a puzzled look at the paper... this wasn't addressed to me. Apparently Sauske knew what I was thinking and cleared his throat.
"Just keep reading..." He mumbled. I shook my head and read on... I stopped. My name? Her hand writing? Her death? Me? A reason...? No way... this isn't right. I didn't do anything to her. I can't call her crazy 'cause she's not. So why the heck am I on this list of her's? So, this was the reason why Uchiha called me... This letter... Sakura's got it all wrong. I never did anything to hurt her. I never did anything that would put me on this list. I have some idea's about the other guys on here... but me. This is all wrong. I shouldn't even be here. I shouldn't even have come if this was why they called me. Maybe I can run out of here and get on my bike and go home... no, I can't... if she wrote this... asking for me to come and listen... I'll do it for her... even though it doesn't make sense.
"So? What are we going to do now?" I asked Sauske handing him back the letter. He nods to me and shows me to the door of the house. What does that mean? Simple: We wait for everyone else.
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Minutes later everyone gets here. Except for one. The one person that we need to get things started. The guy that was suppose to be the older version of me... which I really doubt that we even look alike. The dude didn't even have a tattoo on his forehead. For pete sakes! I told everyone over and over that me and him didn't look alike and I would never want to meet him. 'Cause let's face it I sorta hated his guts... I have my reasons... reasons only a few would know of. Yet, now I actually waiting for him and wanting him to come. At the same time I don't want to punch him in the face at all. I don't even think I hate him at this point. What are the odds?
"When is he coming?!" Naruto Uzumaki yelled. Yes the boy version of a bimbo blond. The loudmouth himself. He was here. Next to Neji Hyuga and Zaku Abumi. Both irritated by the looks of it. Ha. Naruto always did get on their last never. Mostly... because of his loudness and dumbness. No surprise there.
"Just shut up, dobe," Sauske mumbles loud enough to for said 'dobe' to hear. Here we go again... You see. Naruto and Sauske don't get along to most people's eyes. Even better they get into arguments, that turn into fights, that bring out blood, and in the end one is on the ground with the other one smirking. Usually it would be end badly. If I didn't say any better they act like an old married couple sometimes... except they're two boys that are most definitelystraighter than a line on a piece of paper. Very strange analogy I know... but it works right?
"Shut it, teme." There you go the biggest word in Naruto's vocabulary: teme (n.) meaning: bastard in Japanese.
"Che. That's all you got to say? Loser." Can these guy's get new words to say?
"Whatever, bitch." There you go a curse word in English.
"I'm a boy idiot... why are you calling me that?" Sauske points the most obvious. What a kill joy...
"Um... well... you know... 'cause..." Naruto is stumbling. He can't even think of a come back.
"He can't even think of a come back," Kiba mumbled and laughed. Naruto only and simply glared at him. Guess what? When Naruto and Kiba get bored... I guess they have staring contest. 'Cause right now... it's happening. Is this the only entertainment we have at the moment? Seriously... were is Sasori. Five minutes later the door bell rings and Itachi goes to get it. Finally! With all his glory came my look alike only a year older than me... Sasori.
Sasori
So here is the deal. I am sitting on one of the kitchen stools and holding a letter. A letter that everyone here read. Now including me. A letter writen by a girl with pink hair. Who is now dead. What are the odds, right? And now... I know why Itachi wanted me to bring my player. I don't want anyone to hate me at the moment but I don't have it. See... a girl a year younger than me has it. You might know her. Tenten is her name. Ring any bells? Hope so... 'cause I have to tell the guys and then we have to find her.
"I got the tapes," Sai said holding the box open. All seven tapes there. Inside, just waiting for us to listen. Haku reached in and grabbed the one with the blue number 1 on it. The first tape and the first story was right in his hands...
"Well here is the tape... so were is the player Sasori?" Haku asked me. Everyone looks at me. Who likes the spot light? 'Cause right now I don't.
"Well... I don't have my player..." I mumbled.
"Uh, what do you mean you don't have your player, Sasori... uh," That's Deidara. My second best friend. He looks like a girl you see. Long blond hair and blue eyes. Has his nails done every week or so. Yes that's Deidara. Sometimes he's mistaken for Ino Yamanaka, a cheerleader that's a year younger than us.
"I lent it to Tenten," I replied. From the corner of my eye I see Neji Huyga shake his head. Huh? Does he have something to say? 'Cause if he does he can say it to my face. Whatever...
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When we got to Tenten's she's in front of her house playing basketball on her drive way. The garage door open. Her green Mustang is on the side of the curb. She's throwing shots like they're nothing but net. She's amazing at sports. She's wearing brown shorts and a pink kimoto top. Her hear up in two Chinese Buns wrapped around two silk pink ribs. Her normal style. I only know Tenten partly because of her status at school other than that I had my own reasons to why I know her. One thing I do know is that she is... I mean was best friends with Sakura Haruno.
"How many shoots have you made," I asked her as we approached. She looked at us with a questioned look on her face. Probably wondering why the guys and I are here. Together with Sauske holding his backpack. It has the tapes inside and everything.
"A few you know..." She replied throwing the ball to me. Telling me to make a shot from were I was standing. I nodded and threw the ball making it swish inside the basket. "So what brings you here... with your friends?"
I gave a glance to the house and back to her, "I need my player back. Are you done using it?" It was simple as that.
"Sure, wait here so I can get it," She told us running into the garage, inside the house. The whole time it was quite. No one had anything to say. Shikamaru sat down on the grass fallowed by Haku and Gaara. The three had their low tone conversation. To think these three were the ones who wouldn't be talking much to any of us. Hm... wonder what they did to Sakura though? I mean Shikamaru usually was quite, a smart ass who was lazy at times, and like looking at the clouds. Haku never really spoke to anyone unless he was asked to. Gaara... well he's a different story.
"HERE!" Tenten yells as she runs out to the drive way and hands me the player. She smiles and looks over my shoulder and I have a feeling I know who she's looking at.
"Thanks Tenten," I mumbled. I never say thank you's out loud. Never.
"No problem. So were you guys going now, with the player?" She asked moving her head to the side. "The park..." Zaku tells her with a crooked smile. She nods and looks at the three boys on her lawn.
"Can you guys give me the ball right there?" She asked. Haku throws the ball and she catches it and starts playing her game. That's our Cu to leave and we do... to the park like Zaku told her.
Neji Huyga
Here we are. All sitting on the grass or on the bench or on the hard sement. Sasori is holding the player as Sauske puts in the first tape. Kami. I shouldn't even be here. I didn't do anything to her. Jeez... I don't even deserve to be on the tapes. Not. At. All. Sauske hits play and we wait. We wait to hear her voice. To hear the story. The first reason. To hear what she has to say to us.
Hello Everyone. Sakura Haruno here. Alive and live.
I can't believe it. It's really her speaking.
No returns. No encounters. Especially no request this time.
No I really can't believe it. She did kill herself.
Hope your ready. Why? Because I am about to tell you about my life... more likely why it ended. Now as you know. If your listening to this right now. Then well... you are a reason why.
I know. I read it in your letter.
Now I am not going to say which one of you come up in these tapes. 'Cause that would surely mess up the surpise, you know? Anyways I promise. You will show up. You just don't know when... but I sure.
Why would a dead girl lie to you?
OMG! I got a joke. Why would a dead girl lie? Answer: Because she can't get up! Get it? Come on you can laugh. I know its funny.
She pauses. She really thinks we're going to laugh at that freaky joke right now?
Aw... well I thought it was funny. Then again. I do have a different personality than most of you...
Before she died, she recorded these tapes? Why the hell would she do that?
The rules are simple. One: You listen. Two: You understand what you did. Three: You pass it on. See? Is that so hard? Three rules to fallow. So can you handle it? Ha! Hope so. And Hopefully both rules... they won't be so easy to fallow.
When you boys are done listening to all thirteen sides- because there are thirteen sides to every story- rewind the tapes and put them back in the box, and pass it on to whoever I tell you too in the letter.Now lucky number 13 you have a fourth rule. You my friend. You get to decide weather or not you want to keep these tapes or send them with the rest of them. Oh! Or my favorite... take. Them. To. Hell. With. Yourself. Depends on what you believe... though.
Just in case you want to break my rules. Just remember I made a copy of each one of my tapes. So whoever decides to keep one of them behind the back of number 13. Well, the person I gave the second copy too... will release these stories to the public. They will know if a tape is missing. And they will reveal what you did to me. Does that scare? Hope it does.
This was not a spur-of-the-moment thing.
Don't. Ever. Take. Advantage. Of. Me... again...
I never did. Not that I remember. Did I? or did I not? This is crazy...
Now remeber this... you are being watched.
Pause
I hit pause. I think I am going to be sick. I don't get sick. I don't throw up. No Hyuga has... but right now. I think I might be the first. Everyone looks at me.
"Why did you pause it?" Kiba asked me. Giving me a serious look. I haven't seen him do that to me before.
"Nothing..." I shake my head and hit play again. To hear more. To hear if I started everything in the first place. I just don't want to be the number one reason...
Play
Opps! My bad... hehe... well I forgot one more thing. You all must of gotten a map right? Well if you did get it out! So we can get this party started.
We did. Sure. I got one in my locker a couple of weeks ago. I put it in my backpack. And soon I forgot about it. But guess what? We all had to walk or drive back to our house to find them. 'Cause apparentlyeveryone here doesn't like to share. And the Uchiha brothers don't really care about what we have to do, to get home and find it. I take the map out of my pocket.
When I got it in my locker it was in an envelope that said SAVE THIS YOU'LL NEED IT! with big red letters. Inside was a map of Konoha and every little thing in it. Not really but still. It was like everything was. Set up in grid paper you can say. In grade school, we used the same kind of maps to figure out north, south, east, and west. There were the letters A to H on the top and bottom in blue. With the numbers from one to fifteen on the sides in blue as well. See I never knew what the map meant when I got it. So I just kept it in my backpack and never looked at it twice again.
Until now, that is.
Within these tapes. These stories. I'll be mentioningseven spots in our wonderful, most fantastic village. I won't force you guys to go there. But if you want more of a experience of what happened to me there... fallow the stars, is all I am going to say. Or just throw the map away and you'll never know what happened there. And I won't either.
Or maybe... I will. I really don't know how this whole death and after thing works. So ya. I might be standing right next to all of you or I might be in the clouds watching you. I might be in my coffin not hear or feel or taste or touch or see anything there. Sorry... that wasn't fair was it?
I lean in. I put my hand under my chin and listen closely. Who ever is first I know I will hate them. After all... this is Sakura Haruno. The girl with the most beautiful pink hair and emerald eyes. Her laugh was like no other. Her smile always brighten a room. Smartest in class. Never really listened to rumors. Great at sports. Nice to those nice to her. She was truly amazing.
Now, are you ready Mr. Uchiha?
Everyone looks up to both of the boys. Who is she talking about? Sauske? or Itachi?
Sorry... let me rephrase that. Are you ready Itachi... Uchiha?
Thank you Sakura for making that clear. Now there is only thing to do now. I turn my head to Itachi and give him a glare. I think all of the guys are doing the same. Though I don't care about that right now. Itachi doesn't even look at any of us but the tape. Like he just heard a ghost talk to him. I think so...
Cassette One: Side A
Itachi
Itachi Uchiha
Are you ready Itachi... Uchiha?
I hear it. My name. She is starting to take about me. I am reason one. Story one. Mistake one. Kami-sama... this is too much. Why couldn't she name Sauske first?! Damn it! But why me... of all people what did I do? All I did was be a good boyfriend, take her out to places she liked, give her things she loved, and everything else I could have done to make them happy. So why am I reason?
Itachi, baby. You were my first kiss. My first hand to hold. My first boyfriend. Though... you were nothing but an average guy. Amd I am not trying to be mean... but it's true baby. It's all true. Though there was just... something that made me want to be your girlfriend. Right at this moment I don't even know why I wanted to be. Was it your looks? Was it your money? Was it your personality? Was it your romantic-ness? Was it the way you were with the girls? Or was it just... nevermind. Though even though I don't know what it was... it was there and I wanted it. I wanted to be the girl you put your arm around. And guess what? I was. Keyword: was.
Shhh.... this is a secret that I am about to tell you and all the guys. When I was a nineth year and you were a tenth year, I used to fallow you around. You know how in sixth period I worked in the office and that's how I knew all of your classes. I even copied it with my hand writing on a peice of paper, which I have right next to me. And when those people who want to figure out what happened to me... they'll find the paper and think of it as only a little high school crush. But is there more to it?
For me... it is and was. I went all the way back to you to start this story. And this is were everything... begins. Where everything went down hill. Where my life started to crumble. Don't you feel lucky? I hope all of you are happy!
Her voice is angry. I don't feel lucky. I feel horrible. I feel sorry... I want to say it to her... but I can't.
When at the end of this tape, Itachi, I hope you get to know what you did to me. How you hurt me. How you started everything. Even if it seems small at first, it is big. It does matter and it's important. In the end everything is like that. And Betrayal...
its an ugly thing don't you think? Though you wouldn't know that would you...
Kami. What is she talking about?
I know you didn't mean to hurt me. I know you didn't mean to. I know if your listening- really listening- you have know idea what you did to me. But as we get farther into the story... you will.
She's right. I don't know what I did. I hope I don't... this is too much.
Our first red star is at C-4. Take your index figure on the C and drop it down to four. That's right just like a game. Whe your done with this side you can go to that place or you can just move on and listen to the next side. We only lived in that house for alittle while, in the summer before I was a nineth year, but we did live there... and that's were everything started.
Do you remeber, Itachi? I saw you and you saw me. We meet there. And it wasn't love at first site... 'cause lets be serious. What happened when I first saw you was funny. Not romatic but funny. Really, really funny. School. Two months away and Yumi was the only person who was my friend at the time and she live right across the street. She told me you were all over her last year. Not literally but just stated and accidentally bumped into her in the halls and such.
Were they really accidents, Itachi? 'Cause to me, when I heard this I thought differently.
Then Yumi told me that at the end of the school dance you did more than bump into her or stare. You went up to her and you asked her to dance. Ain't that sweet? You slowed danced and she was hoping you would kiss her. Give her, her first kiss. What an honor you got!
This is bad. This is really bad.
Why would you send a bunch of tapes and blam others, Sakura? Your not crazy. Your creepy. Your not... you had nothing wrong with you. But you send this to us. And now we're listening and we're trying not to stop it 'cause they're is no turning back. And we're going to do what you want. Listen. Understand. And pass them on to the next group. We're like all on this big long list.
"The list." Sounds cool but in the end it's not. A club... an exclusive club. And we're all in it.
I wanted to see you, Itachi, see what you looked like. So, we called you. From my house phone and told you to come over. We called at my house for one reason... so you didn't know were Yumi lived even though she was just right across the street. You told us you would come after basketball. I don't know if it was basketball or baseball or something... but you we're coming over later. And we waited.
Basketball was the game. We all played it in the summer... at school and at the park. It was the sport of Konoha. We all played it, to make JV as a freshmen or whatever. I was a tenth year and I had a spot already polished for me... waiting for me to play. So, me and my friend and Sauske and his friend we went and played basketball. To get pratice or get a spot waiting for them. And we all did. Lucky us right?
We sat in front of my window, and talked for hours and watched TV or ate. We waited for like an hour! The you showed up with one of your friends. Hi Sasori! You guys came up on my street. And Yumi squealed when she saw you guys were dressed in your basketball stuff or was it baseball? I don't remeber.
She remebers Sasori was with me? I see him blink and almost shock was on his face and he went back to all clam. Nice save Sasori. Nice save.
Two streets meet in the front of my house. It made a T, an upside down one. So when you walked in the middle of the road towards us. You stepped out of the gutter and planted one foot on lawn. My dad had the sprinklers going that oring so it was still wet and your foot slid forward, sending you into a split. Sasori was staring at the window trying to get a better look at Yumi's new friend -yours truly- and he tripped over you, landing beside you on the crub.
You pushed him off and stood up. Then he stood up, and you both looked at each other, not sure what to do. And your decision? You ran back down the street while Yumi and I laughed our asses off like crazy in the window. What I tell you? Funny? Right? .Ha.
Funny? More like embaressing. Yumi told everyone at her going away party. Not nice.
Yumi moved away right before school started again. Then, Sakura had no friends at the being of the school. Except the ones she meant at the party.
Yumi moved away before High School started, and I fell in love with the boy she left behind. And it wasn't long until that boy stated to show interest in me. Which might have been the reason why I always seemed to be around. We didn't have classes together, but we had our classrooms close to each other for second, third, and fifth period. Okay, so period five was a stretch, and sometimes I wouldn't get there until you left the last second, but period second and third were close together.
After a while, I said hello to you everyday we saw each other. And a little while later instead of nods and waves you said hi. Then, one day, I walked by you and said nothing to you. I knew you wouldn't have cared if I didn't say hey or hello or hi to you for once right? I was wrong. Why? Because it lead to our first really conversation.
"Hey!" you said. "Aren't you going to say hello?"
I smiled and took a deep breath, and turned around. "Why should I do that?"
"Because you always say hello."
I asked why you would have thought you were such an expert on me. I said you probably didn't know anything about me.
I remember that conversation. Her voice said more than a hello that time. Her voice rang like wind chimes when she laughed. It was beautiful. It was nice. She didn't even seem fake or a fan girl. She seemed more than real. She seemed like a dream that I couldn't wake up to.
Earlier, I asked my mom how to get a guys attention. She said "Play hard to get." You know what? I did. And sure enough mother is always right. You started to hang around my classes and wait for me. Walk me to ever place I went to. It wasn't scare it was sweet. 'Cause I knew you didn't do that to every girl.
It was like weeks ago until you asked for my number. But I knew you would eventually would. So I practice saying my number to my mirror. I know sad right? Hey! I was a girl in love. Give me some credit. I tried to sound clam and confident... like I didn't care. Like I did it every time. Yes, boys at my old school asked for my number and I gave them the reject number if they weren't to my standers. No. That's not true. You were the first to get my number actually.
I was? She did that? No way. Sakura Haruno, the girl every guy wanted. Didn't give her number out before? She was never asked? She's lying... then again... she's not.
Before you Itachi... I said every number right. I never stumbled and I never lied. I never was nerves. Until the last number that is. I made up the number on accident or got scared... on purpose sometimes.
I was getting way to excited watching you write them now. My number. Luckily, you were way too scared or frighten to notice. wHen I finally said the last number- the correct number!- I smiled really wide.
Mean while, you hand was shaking so badly that I thought you messed up. I wasn't allowing it okay? So you know or do you rember what I said?
"That's a seven"... That's what you said. Jeez... another emberssing moment.
I pointed at the number and said "That's a seven."
"It's a seven."
"Oh! Well as long as you know what number it is."
"I do." you told me. But you earsed the number and wrote another messy seven. Now the rest of you better not laugh at this boy. You know why? Because it's sweet of what he did. He was sweet. Until... it happened. Now I am getting ahead of myself... where was I?
I almosted streched the cuff of my sleave to my plam and wiped the sweat on my forehead... something my mother did when she was young. But thankfully, I didn't do that. You would never ask another girl for her number again.
By the time I got home, you already called. You know how many times? Three. Awww!
My mom questioned me about you. Who were you? Why did you call? And such. I said we had a class together and you were calling about homework. And she said that's what you said.
I can't believe it still, you lied to my mother. And I did too.
Why was I happy?
Because our lies... they were the same.
My mom asked what class we had together. I said math... I lied. We both had math though! Just not together. But we had it at the same time.
"Good," she said. "That's what he told me."
So, I said okay and grabbed the paper in her hand. It had your number and I called you from my room on my house phone.
Whe you answered I said, "Itachi? It's Sakura... my mom told me you called for a math homework problem. Is it too hard?"
You were confused at first... then you remebered you were lying to my mom and like a good boy you said 'sorry.'
"So, Itachi what's the problem?" I asked and you weren't going to get off that easy.
And you didn't miss a beat. You told me train A was leaving you house at 3:45 PM. Train B was leaving my house ten minutes later. And I said Pick me, Mr. Uchiha! Pick me! I know the answer."
You replied saying, "Yes Ms. Haruno?" I threw Mom's hard-to-get rule right out the window. I told you the trains met at Left Park at the bottom of the rocket slide.
And guess what? We're here at the park right now Sakura. You should be happy.
A long pause at the end of you line. I mean a very looooooooooooooooooong pause. "So, when do the two trains meet?" you asked.
"Fifteen minutes," I told you. You said fifteen minutes was really long for two trains to meet. I know what your thinking. Sakura Haruno is a slut. Opps! Did you catch that? I said "Sakura Haruno is." I can't say it anymore.
She takes a pause.
A long one. Oh Kami-sama. Now I remeber what happened. No. No! It wasn't my fault! Sakura! No!
I didn't do it...
She speaks again this time her voice is angry.
Wrong! Your all wrong!
Fucking... wrong! Sakura Haruno will never be a slut. Isn't a slut! Never was a slut! So now you can forget about it! I was never and won't be one! So fuck off! So then begins the questions... what did you hear?
I just wanted a kiss. I was a nineth year and never been kissed. I wanted one. And sure as heck... I did. From Itachi. I liked him... he liked me and he kissed me. That's the whole story got it? Good. 'Cause that's all true. My side of the story that is. I got a boyfriend after that too. I got a promise ring too.
I told you I'd meet you there in fifteen minutes. Of couse. I only said that to make sure I got there before you. By the time you walked to the park I wanted to be iinside that rocket and all the way just like in my dreams. And that's how it happened. . . minus the dancing treas and funky feet.
From my point of view the top of the rocket, I saw you coming in the park way before you set foot. You checked you watch ever few steps and walked over to the slide, looking all around... but never up.
So I spun the wheel as hard as I could to make it rattle. You took a step back, looked up, and called my name. But don't worry, even though I wanted to live up to my dreams... I didn't except you to know every single line and tell me to stop playing with the trees and come down.
"Be right there," I said.
But you told me to stop. You'd climb up to where I was.
So I shouted, "No! Let me take the slide!"
Then you repeated those magical, dreamlike words, "I'll catch you."
I couldn't help but smile and I climbed down the top of the ladder. I sat myself on the slide with my heart not skipping a bet. That was it, though. All my friends back home had their first kiss in middle school... so I was a kiss virgin. Ya I was... and now my kiss was waiting for me at the bottom at that slide. All I did was push off and then bang.
It happened.
No it didn't happen like that. It was all slow. The push. The slide. My hair flying back. You raised your arms to get me. My raising mine so you could. So when did you decide to kiss me? Walking to the park? Or the minute you caught me?
Okay so you know what my first thought was when he kissed me? Someone has been eating... hamburgers.
She actually could taste that? Damn...
I'm sorry. It wasn't that bad... or awful. Though it was the first thing I thought of.
I was so ready and really wanted that kiss. I wanted to know what the first kiss was like... because my friends said there were so many types and it turned out to be the great and wonderful one. Thank you Itachi for that. So... that's what happened. All that happened. You didn't shove your throat down my throat or grab my butt. We held our lips together and kissed.
Wait? What! Huh? What did I just say? Don't stop. Don't rewind. There's no need to do that. You know why? Because... that... is... all... that... happened.
Why did you hear something?
A rumor?
Gossip?
Hm?
No. They did. But that was all a lie. I didn't do it. I didn't. I didn't mean it. It was only locker room talk. Sakura... I didn't know it would go out to the school...
Well your right though. Something did happen. Itachi grabbed my hand, we walked to the swings and swung. Then he kissed me after that. This time he has holding my hands. Then? Then what happened Sakura? Tell us more?
Then... we left. I went left and he went right. He said bye, we saw each other the next day and asked me to be his girlfriend. And you know what I did then? I said yes. I just didn't know what I got myself into.
You see... at the end of the month he brought me to a restaurant and gave me the most beautiful thing ever. You know what it was? 'Cause I wore it the next day to school. Do you remember, now? A promise ring. Remember what it meant Itachi? I sure do... and you broke that promise...
You said when you gave me the ring, "I promise you Sakura Haruno. That I'll love you. I'll protect you from harm. I won't hurt you. I'll hold you till the end of time. I'll live every day like it's my last with you."
You know I actually believe you then. Ha! I believe you! Wow. I can't believe I did. You know why? 'Cause on Tuesday. Four days after you gave me the ring I heard everything I need to hear. You broke the love part. You broke the harm part. You broke the hurt part. I made sure you couldn't hold me til the end of time. I certainly made sure that you couldn't live a day with me.
You know why? 'Cause everyone thought we did something so hot on our first kiss. You know... me pulling you zipper down... They wanted to hear everything that we "did." Though it was all a lie. You and me knew that. But everyone else begged to differ. I heard so many things that day. Everything... I need to hear. I pretty much to it in and waited for you to tell everyone to stop but you didn't.
So... a week or so after the incident I decided to do the best thing that need to be done. At lunch I went up to you... and all your friends were there so that was a good thing too. You remember what I did?
Oh... I remeber alright.
I went up to you. I used some colorful lanugage and your friends were 'ohhh-ing' and 'aww-ing.' Then I did it. I took off the ring from my finger and I threw it at your face. It landed at your feet and I ran out of there like my life depended on it. You know why? 'Cause one you hurt me and two no one would believe the most popular story.
The truth.
You didn't do anything to keep the truth alive either. Or even know for that matter.
So thank you, Itachi. My first kiss was great. My first boyfriend was nice and sweet. My first date was wonderful. My first hand to hold was warm. Though we lasted for only a month and some weeks, everywhere you took me the kisses were the best. You were the best.
Then you started to brag. Don't know were but I do know when. Monday.
I took it all in like I said... and the rumors they reached me. And everyone you couldn't disaprove a rumor.
I know. I know what you are thinking right now. As I was telling the story, I was only thinking of myself. I wasn't thinking about how great Itachi's reputation would go up again... ha. A kiss? Based on a rumor or two made me do this?
No. A rumor that ruined a memory that I hoped would last. A rumor based on a kiss that stared a reputation I didn't want. A reputation that let everyone think of you or see you in a way I didn't deserve. And sometimes a kiss with a rumor is like a snowball. It just keeps rolling and rolling and gets bigger and bigger.
A rumor based on a kiss, is just the begining.
Turn to side B for more.
And Itachi, baby. Thank you very very much for everything really.
Stop
It's over. The story. The side. It was locker room talk and then it ruined everything. Her first kiss. Her first relationship. Her first promise ring, promise. Everything. It's all my fault. I wasn't thinking and it's all my fault. I was reason number one, story one. . . mistake one.
The first kiss is everything
The first promise ring isn't to be broken
The first relationship is to be great
The guy...
He just not suppose to mess it up
...Yet...
He just did
Chapter 1 done! Yes! Okay. So R&R! Flamers excepted. Tell me what you think or I'll jump to conclusions. So pls! pls! pls! pls! review! haha
Bye-bye!
Ja-Ne!
