Chapter Eighteen: The Accident
Once Sasuke and Keiko came back with Titaina everybody couldn't wait to see her, pet her, and hold her. The next morning after Keiko woke up, she took her new puppy outside to use the bathroom before filling both of her dishes up with food and water. After breakfast she decided that she wanted to take her for a walk in the park and Naruto agreed to go with her since Sasuke was busy training Sachi and Sakura was at the grocery store.
"So I see that Sasuke was too busy to take you to the park today." Naruto said.
"I know." Keiko began. "That's why you agreed to come with me instead." She said. "Although I do wish that Mom and big sis weren't so busy so I didn't have to be stuck with you." She added while mumbling it underneath her breath.
"You know Keiko, I'm starting to think that you don't like me very much." Naruto said.
"And Bingo was his name O!" she sung out.
"Well,.. that's not very nice." Naruto began with a scowl. "I would never dump you like your so called big brother did." He told her as Keiko suddenly stopped walking Titania and gasped feeling her eyes starting to turn red again.
"Shut up!" she hollered at him. "That is not what happened! He didn't dump me, he loves me very much, he's just busy training Sachi right now that's all." She told him.
"Exactly. He's spending time with Sachi and the more time he spends with her the more he'll start to forget about you, after all,.. you're not really a part of his family." He told her as Keiko gasped again.
"Shut up!" she snapped again. "Or I'm going to,.. I'm going to,.." she continued but at that moment she was so upset that she didn't know what else to do but to burst out into tears and run away leaving him with Titiana.
"Oh shit! Sasuke and Sakura are going to kill me! I didn't mean to hurt her feelings, I was just telling it to her for her own good!" he cried before he turned around and started running after her. "Keiko wait up!" he exclaimed while he started sending a text to Sasuke and then one to Sakura.
Meanwhile Sasuke was inside his basement trying to seal Sachi's curse mark when all of a sudden he received Naruto's text and slapped his forehead. "What's wrong Uncle Sasuke?" she asked him.
"It's Keiko." He began. "She had a fight with Naruto and now she's run away." He explained. "I'm sorry Sachi, I have to go find her before Lord Orochimaru does." He told her as she nodded silently at him letting him know that she understood. Sasuke went to his garage and took out his motorcycle.
At the same time Keiko had been running through the woods and focusing her chakra on the soles of her feet she raced up the trunk of a tree and sat down on top of one of the branches and started to sob.
"Keiko!" Naruto hollered as he continued to chase after her unaware of the fact that Sasuke was close behind him.
"Keiko!" Sasuke shouted on the top of his lungs while his heart pounded frantically against his chest. That's when suddenly he stopped his motorcycle as he heard muffled sobs coming from one of the trees. He tilted his head all of the way back and looked up. Sure enough there was Keiko on one of the branches. "Oh,.. thank God." He said to himself while breathing a sigh of relief as he hopped off of his bike and parked it next to the tree before he started to climb it and sat down next to her.
"You had me worried sick Keiko! Don't you ever do this to me again! Do you understand me!?" he scolded as her eyes remained dark blue and she sadly hung her head.
"Yes big brother." She replied. "I'm sorry." She apologized with a sniff as Sasuke took a deep breath and sighed heavily.
"It's alright. You're safe and sound now and that's all that matters." He told her. "But I am curious as to why you ran away in the first place." He said.
"I don't want to talk about it." She told him with another sniff.
"I know, but I really would like to know. Otherwise I don't know how I can help you." He said as Keiko took a deep breath.
"Naruto said that you would be spending way too much time with Sachi from now on then you'll start to forget me because we aren't actually real brother and sister." She explained as Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"I should have known that Naruto was a part of this." He said with a groan. "That idiot!" he snapped. "Keiko listen to me," he began while she turned her head around and looked at him. "there's absolutely nothing in the world that would cause me to stop loving you. Even though we're not technically brother and sister that still doesn't matter to me because I love you anyway." He told her with a warm and loving smile before he tightly embraced her.
"I love you too big brother Sasuke." She told him as he gently kissed the top of her head while the branch from underneath him slowly began to break and then without warning it snapped and he crashed down onto the ground and fell on top of his back and started to groan. Keiko gave out a rather loud gasp.
"Are you alright Sasuke-Kun!?" she cried anxiously as Sasuke continued to groan.
"I should have known. A two-hundred-pound man and a tree branch don't mix." He said before he suddenly went unconscious.
Sorry, I realize that this chapter was rather short but it's getting rather late and I was experiencing technical difficulties with my computer today which is why it's going up later.