Fire High

Chapter 12

Previously;

My mother, she was crying. Why is she crying?

"It's my fault she's like this, I made her stay up late cleaning the house. She was too exhausted to go to school and now it's my fault she's like this." I heard her sob.

I tried to tell her it wasn't but Shisui beat me to it.

I couldn't really hear what he said but it seemed to calm her down.

Thank you Shisui, thank you.

Now;

Sakura's P.O.V

When I opened my eyes I half expected to have been blinded by light only to be surprised when everything was so dark I thought my eyes were still closed.

I waited a moment to let my eyes adjust before looking over to my alarm clock, it was two in the morning.

I sighed as I moved to use the bathroom I got hit with a wave of nausea. I stood up and got tangled in the sheets of my bed and face planted to the floor, crawling the rest of the way to the bathroom I had barley mad it to the toilet before I emptied the contents in my stomach.

I heard knocking on my door and said 'come in', thinking it was my mom only to see a head of black hair.

"Shisui." I said, shock clearly in my voice.

"Hiya kitten." He said before moving to stand behind me and hold my hair back for me before I wretched again. I felt him rub soothing circles on my back. After I've finally finished I flush the toilet and move to the sink to brush my teeth.

After brushing I turn around only to come face to chest with Shisui, man was he tall.

He placed his arms on either side of me, caging me in. I look up with a confuse expression.

"How are you feeling?" he asked after a while.

"Better, after that my stomach doesn't hurt as much." I told him as I rested my head on his chest. I don't know what possessed me to do it but I also wrapped my arms around his midsection.

I felt him hesitate and I half expected him to push me away. Just as I was about to pull away he too wrapped his arms around my shoulders.

I felt myself blush and I knew I had to find something to distract myself with. Then a thought occurred to me.

"Not that I'm complaining or anything but, what are you doing here Shisui? It's two in the morning."

I heard him sigh as he moved back to look me in the eye before smirking.

"Not that your complaining huh?" I blushed and whacked him on the chest.

"Don't change the subject."

He gave another sigh. "After I brought you here and talked to your mom a bit, I asked if it was alright that I stay here. Believe me, it was hard to convince her but she let me stay on the couch."

I looked up at him surprised. "Geez, my mom must really like you, normally if a guy asked to stay the night she would have kicked his ass all the way to the Bahamas." He grinned at me.

"I'm just that awesome." I snorted.

"Yeah right"

"C'mon, even you love me Sakura."

I clicked my tongue, "You know I do." I told him before I let go of him and walked back into my room.

I plopped down on my bed and lied down. I placed a hand on my aching tummy and groaned.

"Maybe you should try to sleep some more, might make you feel better."

I groaned again before waving him off in a 'yeah, yeah' gesture. Chuckling to himself he went back downstairs to the couch.

I cringed a bit, that piece of shit is probably uncomfortable as hell. His back will definitely be sore by morning.

I yawned as I stretched and sat up on my bed. I coughed slightly when I tried to swallow and realized I had a dry throat. I stood up while still coughing and walked to my bathroom and turned on the sink, cupping my hands under the running water I drank from it.

The water tasted terrible but I wasn't going to complain, it helped my dry throat. Walking back into my bed room I suddenly smell a delicious aroma.

I walked down the stairs as I continued to sniff the air like a dog.

"Hello Sakura, how're you feeling today?" My mother asked me when I finally reached the kitchen.

"Better actually."

"Really? You were pretty sick last night."

"I know, I think it was just one of those one night colds or something. I got them all the time last year, you remember that." I said, truly feeling better.

"Yes I remember those, anyway, I want you to stay home tonight and rest up, you can go to school tomorrow." She explained before setting down a bowl of potato soup in front of me.

"Soup? This early?" I asked a bit shocked.

"Early? Sakura, it's almost two in the afternoon."

"What?" I gaped as I pulled out my cell phone to check the time to see it was indeed, 1:47 pm.

"Dang, I slept a lot."

"Maybe that's why you feel better today, cause you slept for so long." Mom suggested.

"Yeah, I guess." I said before gobbling down my soup and going back upstairs.

I lied down on my bed as I turned on the TV and decided to watch cartoons and do absolutely nothing productive.

Hour and a Half Later…

*Bang Bang Bang!*

I jumped up with a start when I heard someone banging on the front door. Mildly irritated and slightly curious, I trudged out of bed and hobbled my way down the stairs where the banging continued.

Swinging the door open I yelled "What damn it!" only to stare at the devilishly handsome face I've grown accustomed to over the past couple of days.

"Uhm…"

"Shisui, what are you doing here?" I asked the dark haired man as he smirked down at me.

"I came to check up on you, see how you were feeling."

"Oh," I said stupidly as I opened the door to let him in. "I'm all better now."

"Yeah? You sure, you seemed pretty out of it yesterday and last night."

"Yeah haha," I said a little awkwardly as I rubbed the back of my neck sheepishly. "It was one of those one day colds, I get them all the time."

"Are you sure that's all it was? You still look a bit out of it."

Cautiously I moved my hand up to my forehead and felt that it was still a bit warmer than normal.

"Maybe you should take it easy, where's your mom?"

"She went out earlier after making me food."

"Hmm, how long do you think she'll be gone?"

"I don't know, a few hours at most? Why?"

"Just wondering really."

I shrugged my shoulders. "What were you doing?"

"Huh?" I said confusedly.

"Before I got here, what were you doing?"

"Oh, I was in my room, watching tv." I said pointing to my room.

He gestured me to go to my room walking right behind me.

"Personal bubble man, you're kind of invading it at the moment." I told him making circular motions with my hands making him hold up his hands in surrender and back up a step.

"Better." I mumbled and started walking again.

Once in my room he saw what I was watching and scoffed a bit.

"Really? Cartoons?"

"Hey! Don't hate the classics of Boomerang." I told him as the old school Scooby Doo came on. And not just any old school Scooby Doo, A Pup Named Scooby Doo.

I sat on the bed just in time to hear Shisui gasp making me smirk. I scooted over and patted the empty space next to me. He didn't waste a second and plopped down next to me.

After an hour of watching several cartoons from the nineties I heard another knock at the door.

"Ugh! Really? The Snorks just came on!"

"Haha, sucks to suck."

"Shut up Shisui." I told him as I stood up and walked back to the door and opened it only to have several people come barging in.

"Where the hell were you at today bitch?!"

"Hello Hidan please, come in."

"Don't mind if I do."

I glared at Hidan as he made himself at home and sat down on the couch. I saw him about to move his feet and no doubt put them on the coffee table.

"You put your feet on that table Hidan and you'll find my foot up you ass."

He stopped and paled considerably before moving his feet back down to the floor.

I heard several laughs behind me and I turn around to see Deidera and Kisame holing their stomachs and several other faces looking amused.

"Sakura, I believe there are some members here that you have yet to be properly introduced to." Itachi began as he pointed to a man who was half white and half black with yellow eyes and another with stitches all over. "This is Zetsu, and the man next him covered in stitches is Kakuzu." I nodded to both of them and tensed as I felt another pair of arms wrap around me from behind. "And that would be Madara." I turned my head slightly and saw a man with long spiky black hair and black eyes. He looks a lot like the Uchiha's, maybe he is one.

Unknown to me I had accidentally said "Uchiha" out loud.

"How did you know?"

"Know what?"

"That I'm an Uchiha."

"Shit, did I say that out loud?"

At there looks I can only assume I did.

"I've seen enough Uchiha's to make the connection."

"Oh? As far as I'm aware of, you've only met Sasuke and myself." Itachi said a bit curiously.

"No, she's met Shisui as well." A new voice spoke up making all heads turn in said direction.

"Konan!" I said happily a shrugged out of Madara's embrace and gave Konan a hug which she happily returned.

"What! Why does she get a hug Sakura-chan! Tobi deserves the hug because Tobi is a good boy!"

I rolled my eyes playfully before also hugging Tobi, making him squeal.

"Yay! Tobi got a hug for Sakura-chan and you guys didn't!" He said, almost giddy making mw laugh a little. But that laugh soon turned into me coughing and nearly hacking my lungs out. I coughed so hard I triggered a gag reflex making me run to the downstairs bathroom and vomit.

I could hear several voices asking me if I was okay.

"Look what you did dumb ass! You made her get sick!"

"Actually Hidan, I believe she was sick already, it's probably why she wasn't at school today."

"Shut up puppet boy, no one asked you."

"Ugh! Would you all shut up!" I yelled making them all look at me. "What do you guys want? You know why I didn't come to school now so can you all leave." I said, my voice still raised slightly making them all look at me.

"What?"

"What's got your panties in a bunch?"

"Perhaps there'ssomeone else here with you that you don't want us knowing about?" Konan said after a moment. Oh Konan, you couldn't be more right.

Just then Shisui came down stairs.

"What's with all the noise? Everything alright down here Princess?"

Oh Shisui...