{Authors' Note} so this is page 51 chapter 9 of my lengthy tale. I'm proud to say that!
DISCLAIMOR: I do not own naruto or any of its characters that I use, all are property of Masashi Kishmoto since 1999 .
Chapter 9
Taken
"But I'm not imagining him!" she yelled in desparation.
A few short hours after the "evidence" had been delivered Sasuke had found himself dealing with a choice; lovingly place his wife to a mental facility, or get her serious help and become the fool of the business world.
"Sakura, you need help, he doesn't exist you are talking to yourself no one else." He told her restraining himself from calling her flat out crazy.
"Darling-darling listen…" she paused "I have never once in my life had as spectacular an imagination as to be able to create a person with a background and a history, a face and a name, habits any of it. You know this, we both know this. So tell me how I could?" her eyes were glassy and skin a ghostly pail.
"It's my fault…" her gaze dropped as he uttered those words " I have left you for too long without wordly contact" he sighed reaching out to hold her but she pulled away.
"I know what you are doing, what you have always been trying to do." She spoke with a forked tongue. "You saw me as a threat to you didn't you? All these years, you saw me as a rival more so then a spouse. Brains, beauty, and the business and political know-how to be as large a business titan as you." She frowned at him. "And all these years I was too blinded to see it. When we were younger there was something- I know there was, you saw me as I saw you but somewhere along the way you lost it. I had always waited day in and day out never questioning what you had me sign or where you locked me up, I thought you did it because you loved me and wanted me safe. Up until a while ago I thought this, but now I see you as you are, an ego driven fool who has let their work consume them."
He starred blankly and tried to form a rebutle, to no avail.
"And now, heh, well now I have waited too long, now I want a life of my own and what do you do? You are worried I'll make you look like a fool in front of the whole village. Me make you look like a fool, well that's a joke in itself. You don't need my help, you have done it all on your own."
His face turned red and his brow furrowed, in anger his lips scrunched and he stomped to the nearest phone. His finger fumbled in dialing the number.
"Hello? Yes, yes doctor I need you over here soon, yes its my wife, she is in need of drastic mental care, an hour? Thank you yes, yes see you then." He hung up the phone and smiled triumphantly over to the women he had been married to for years. Her nose and cheeks a searing red, skin a transparent white and eyes a sparkling, stare- engulfing green.
"One way or another you are always trying to lock me up, either with that room or with an institution." She walked up to him and stared at him sweetly "I was such a fool to have ever married you."
"Well that makes two of us." He retorted and met with her hand across his face.
45 minutes later and they sat in a raging silence across from each other. No words were passed, only cruel glances. And the occaisional whispering of Sakura.
"You'll be leaving soon…" the man an arms length away muttered through a smile.
She looked at him first then to the cloak.
"Naruto, Naruto please. I need you now, I need you just as badly as when you saved me, please, please just show him your real." She said with a hopeful gaze scanning the room.
"He isn't real"
She gave Sasuke a dirty look.
"You remember, when you were drafted? And there was that bomb in the middle of the night?"
He gave her a slightly confused look "Yes"
"Well, Tamari and I that night had found a oujia board and at first it didn't work but slowly we made contact."
Unable to find the relevance of this he simply nodded.
"Who we made contact with was Naruto."
Her husbands jaw dropped.
"He too was a solder who died very young just 20 years earlier. In the middle of our conversation, he was the one that warned us of the bomb."
Her husband gave her a skeptical glare.
"He even warned us about flashlights. He even lead us to Kankuro when the lights were out."
He listened but it was obvious he didn't believe her.
"You remember when we were almost hit? Well he saved us. He manifested himself into a body and blocked us from the blast." A tear dropped.
He looked at her bewildered. "We were too far away for it to have hit us, we only felt the air rushing by nothing else." He stated in a very all knowing way.
"Then a few weeks ago on my birthday I found that same board and tried to talk to him, and it worked. That's who you thought I was cheating on you with!" she yelled.
"If that is true, then why haven't you told me of him before?" he looked at her.
"Well-I, I just never thought of a reason to tell you."
"This is all to grand of an idea, you have weaved yourself quite a web." He said as he slumped deeper into his chair.
There was a knocking at the door as Sakura looked up at the clock, her time was up and soon she would be taken away. Her eyes swelled with tears and she let them freely fall over her red cheeks.
Sasuke had gotten up called Karin to get the door. Footsteps could be heard from the doorway just down the hall.
Then he stepped in, smooth footsteps gliding across the floor, making no sound, as if he was weightless.
"Miss?" A tender voice called.
Picking up her head their eyes met, and she rose up from her slump and wiped her cheeks.
"Will you come with me? I can promise you will be happy if you do." He said lovingly.
She nodded her head and walked out with the man.
Sasuke turned to Karin "That was simpler then I thought it would be."
He walked to the dinning room and had a cup of tea and red through that evenings paper. About 15 minutes later at around 1:20 (AM) a knocking once again came to the door. Karin glanced at Sasuke.
"Expecting a visitor this late sir?" she asked.
"No, go see who it is." He said without even looking up from his paper.
A moment had past and she returned in with an older man wearing a long black coat.
"Who are you?" Sasuke demanded.
"I'm the doctor you called to pick up your wife" the man stated "Where is she?"
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It has been three years after that insident and various policemen and detectives have tried to find Ms. Sakura, though none have succeeded. If you are to ask her husband he will tell you the same story he told to the policemen, detectives, and the doctor who came to pick her up that night.: a tall man with golden yellow hair and the most amazing blue eyes walked in and took her, he never gave a name, and she put up no struggle to follow him.
{Authors' Note}
ehhhhh! That took FOREVER! Jeez, but I still really like it. So please anyone- everyone review? I would love it you would love it, a few kind words go a looooooooooooooooooooong way. I think this was by far my best, waaaaaaaaaay better then 'the crystal cherry blossom' like 20 times better I must say. Also I think i captured sasuke's essence if he were ever a husband/ businessman as I could totally see him being this abusive and nasty. So please tell me what you think? REVIEW PREASE! 3