Chapter 15: Full-out truth
"Hey, sister," Karin stood there in my hospital doorway looking like she belonged.
Something is nagging at me so I start to think ignoring the murmurs about how Karin just called me sister.
Then it hit me before anyone could stop me I was out of my bed and she was against the wall, "How dare you do that to me you back stabbing bitch! You are part of the reason that I'm here, you and the son of a bitch of a step-father."
Everyone looked was stunned the girls had to be held back to make sure they don't kill Karin .
Sasuke just walks over to me and touches my hand for a second knowing that it'll calm me down a bit, "Sakura calm down please she breathe. So you want to accidentally kill her? Because if you don't let go this moment she'll die."
The facts added up and I let her go and look at him I know I'm crying but I can't' help it.
Even though I've been hiding my tears since I was crying, "Sasuke, she was there smiling and laughing at me. She was there and didn't make a move to help. Also soon people will know that we're related..."
Ino and Tenten did me a big favor and grabbed a hold of Karin before she could open her mouth dragging her into the hall well covering her mouth. I heard an ewww and "she licked my hand," from Ino which resolved into a hard contact punch which I'm guessing after what she did to Hinata and to what she's been doing to me since she found out she deserved it and more.
I start to feel weak. My knees feel like spaghetti noodles and my eye lids start to feel like ten ton bricks trying to pull down the levee. I know that I'm going to black out but when I start blacking out I feel someone grab a hold of my waist only to lift me up. I hear footsteps and my body move only slightly with every step. When I felt my body touch the bed and I hear Sasuke call for the nurse. When she came in she only sighed and rehooked me up and for some odd reason I felt more awake. I opened my eyes to see Sasuke hovering over me looking worried and I smile slowly at him trying to tell him that I was ok. I look up at everyone who seemed shocked and confused. Naruto was just standing there with a smile on his face. He seems to try to help others with love that he doesn't' realize that a great girl is completely in love with him and he doesn't look her way.
I smile at Sasuke and I saw him start to blush, "Thanks Sasu-kun."
He blushed full out when I speak his nickname I always called him as a kid because he hated the –uke part of his name. I always said it with as smile and let my eyes sparkle now I just say it to see his reaction. I smile even wider like I did when I was ten and his blush goes even farther lucky for him no one sees his face but Naruto knows this technique of mine I used it on Sasuke all the time to get what I want and he never fought back except close to the end of our close friendship.
Naruto gives me his face splitting grin and starts to laugh, but no one understood what's so funny.
"Sasu-kun I haven't heard that nicknames in ages and Sakura was the only one you let get away with it. How long has it been six years…?" Everyone went completely blank and I smile shyly.
I take off my glasses and undid my braid. Sasuke handed me a brush and acted like it was nothing. When I was done everyone seemed shocked and felt like they were idiots at least the boys were like that.
The girls start to laugh as their boyfriends start to understand everything and most of them blush, "I should have realized that you were the Sakura."
I start to laugh at my goofy cousin. "Garra I didn't tell you because I knew that my dear cousin was only get in trouble with my step father."
Garra nodded but he still looked hurt I smile though, "Hey when I get out of here do you guys want to come over for a movie night. I mean we all have someone to bring right."
I raised an eyebrow and used my questioning tone and they all laughed all happy about the idea. The girls hugged me and the guys just raised their eyebrows at each other I don't' think Sasuke was happy because he had to step away from me.
Sasuke seemed worried when I looked up at him and when I followed his eyes I see why. "Oh how happy this is and Sasuke why are you so close to…"
It took her awhile but she noticed I had my glasses off and hair down, meaning I got rid of my nerd bird get up.
"So she's back looking like that. Does that mean you're going to leave me for her?"
Sasuke started to get his devilish grin, "Are you thinking she is trying to steal me away?"Karin nods, "To bad because she stole me from you before we even met. When I was six she took my heart and even if she hates me she still has it."
The girls gasp and lean over, "Oh my god that's so romantic."
I roll my eyes.
"Then why go out with me?"
Sasuke looks down ashamed like a child, "I only made it seem like I liked you because my uncle wanted it and he threatened Sakura when I was younger."
Sasuke's uncle threatened me I don't' remember that.
"What do you mean?"
Oh shit Karin is going to kill me.
"What I mean Karin is that even with all this shit I've only been with you because I wanted my uncle off my back and for him to leave Sakura alone because my uncle hates her mother."
Karin is just frozen in her spot.
Naruto starts laughing or he has been I don't really know.
"Sakura and Sasuke met almost 10 or 11 years ago at the Sakura Blossom Festival at the school to be exact. He for her before he even…"
Sasuke knocked Naruto in the head making me smile, "shut up dobe or else I'm going to kill you."
Naruto starts laughing, "Oh did I embarrass you Sasu-kun."
Sasuke lunges at Naruto lucky for him he saw that and dodges it. I start to clap for them well laughing, and this was a real laugh filled with happiness.
"I'm glad Sasu-kun hasn't changed a bit since we were kids because I missed him a lot."
That made Sasuke look up from beating Naruto or at least trying to catch him without harming anyone, this you can tell that Sakura is already starting to affect him.
I smile but when I try to get up he moved fast enough to stop me, "Sakura please stay lying please your stitches may open."
God no not the puppy dog eyes, "Okay," he smiles and I smile up at him like a black and white movie villain, "only if you lay down next to me like when we were kids."
He smiles remembering in a flash at how I use to get scared and ask for him to lay sleep his room whenever my parents left me with his family for a day or two sometimes more. He would agree right away but at first he would start a fight over it blushing like a fool but after the third time of staying over for two days. He told me when we were eight that he didn't like it when I was over and he wasn't able to see me right away in the morning.
Sasuke smiles but loses it when he looks at Karin who was still standing in place letting dust collect in her mouth, "You know we're over right. We've been over since you hurt Hinata who is my friend. Don't you dare touch my friends again?"
Karin looks at me in pure rage like the day she decided that she hated me.
~Flash back~
Me and Karin were fighting over who was going to play in the sandbox and our mothers were glaring at each other.
I over hear them talking, "You're a stupid bitch you know that taking your husband back after he did it with me and got me pregnant."
My mother was fuming, "We were not together so shut up. We were not even married yet we didn't get marries until we found out I was pregnant with Sakura and you didn't' even tell him about Karin."
Karin had heard them, "We have the same daddy and mommies are mad about it."
I nodded well looking at her, 'My mommy says your mommy is a whore. Also you shouldn't have been born."
Even though I was young I knew what that meant when Karin went up to our mothers she kicked her hard in the shins. I took my toy and hit her with it.
With that one hit a war had been made between us.
~End of Flashback~
When I snapped out of my flashback fast because someone was trying to choke me and I know that it was Karin. I touched her hands trying to pry them from my throat but I felt weak I know that Ino ran to get a nurse and two or three of the boys try to get her away from me but I just smile up at them.
"I'm sorry about what I did to you maybe if I was nicer you would have found you're happiness so much easier. Maybe I should have just stayed by Sasuke's side and tell him how I felt how I feel. I should have tried to save you from torture instead of letting you go through hell."
The nurse came into the room Sasuke and Naruto hold Karin back.
When Karin was dragged out of the hospital kicking and screaming the nurse looked at me and saw that my blood pressure and heart rate was higher than usual.
"Ok people time for you to leave," I look up at my nurse, Shizune, looks at me and smiles, "Sorry hun."
Too bad I looked like I was asleep but Sasuke knew I wasn't, but he knew I was going to be soon enough.
Naruto and Sasuke start to talk in hushed voices not wanting me to open my eyes.
"So when did you two get so close again?" I
know Sasuke is blushing with what he said and I hear him scratching his head, "Well when I confessed to her last night when she was 'yelling' at me."
Naruto smiled, "So you finally told her. I told you to do that when we were kids but you went emotionless and asshole on us. Also when you were going to apologize and tell her she moved. "
I hear Sasuke hit him so I slip my eyes a little bit.
I see Sasuke looking my way with such a loving gaze, "I was a wreck when you told me to do that plus my ass of an uncle told me to do something I learned to do as I was told. When she came back I knew it was her but I was afraid that she hated me. So I kept away from her. Karin reminded me of her that's why when I had an arranged marriage placed on my shoulder. Plus she seemed OK but to bad I didn't realize it was all an act."
I smile when I see his eyes look surprised when I opened my eyes all the way, "Sasu-kun stays here with me please."
Shizune smiled at me when she looked up from my chart. When he saw this I saw a small smile that I know that I could only get. Shizune set my chart down and walked out of the room pulling Naruto with her.
"I'd love to but I need permission plus I'm not a real family counting in their book."
Before I speak I hear the door open and look to see Tsunade walking in, "But Mr. Uchiha my husband Jiraiya is the administrator so it think he'll let you bend some rules. Also Sakura I talked to your mother and you will follow in her and my footsteps."
I look at her, "What do you mean?"'
"Oh sweetie you may not remember me but me and Jiraiya are your grandparents. We haven't seen you since your stepfather walked into the picture."
"You're my grandmother? The one that has been sending me presents that my mother has been sneaking to me?"
She smiles over at me, "Yes," she spoke with so much praise in her voice, "your father and mother loved having me and your grandfather over. Your mother has been sending us updates on you and we even saw a few of your papers you wrote on some health issues. I'm so proud you seem to be a Haruno by far but you are a lot like your father. You are stubborn and born to lead even if you are gentle. You are loyal and strong not just in your mind and soul but physically. I'm glad when I talked to your mother that you still wanted to help people. I'm still sad that it has been 6 years since I last saw you. You are such a prodigy I know it."
This makes me smile at how she believes in me so easily even though she hasn't' seen me in person for the last 6 years.
I start to remember something when I saw the look in her eyes as she looked at me when I was in this bed, "When I was eight and broke my arm you came to visit me every day and stayed her every night and sang my father's lullaby to makes sure I'd fall asleep because my dad couldn't see me because of a business trip. He had to rush all the way to see me. I cried like crazy because you didn't come in as often but my father said you had work and wanted me to have time with my dad is barely home."
She smiles and practically suffocated me with a hug, I'm going to talk to Jiraiya about letting Sasuke staying the night that's if he wants to."
He looks at me and breaks his Uchiha trait of being blank and bored face into a smile that was completely real. Those smiles he saved just for his mother and me.
"Yeah I'd love to get some catch up time with Sakura. Is it cool if Itachi drops off clothes for me?"
Tsunade just smiles over at us surprised she got that kind of response from me, "Of course. I'll just go tell my hus that you can stay here for the night I'll be right back."
I smile at her as she leaves and Sasuke climbs onto the bed with me when he saw me patting the spot next to me..
"I spoil you too much," he whispered this into my ear when he got close enough. He pulled me into a hug as he got to me in a gentle but protective grip.
I smile at him, "You better you owe me extra spoil rights since you haven't been talking to me for five years."
He sighs and his smile drops back into a frown, "I know that."
