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Ice cold rain pelted harshly against Sasuke's body, sinking through his thin shirt before licking his skin. He trembled, and clumsily dodged a kunai that whizzed past him. He scanned his surroundings hastily, making sure everyone on his team was okay. He spotted everyone's silhouette through the piercing rain, all except Akira.
"Naruto!" He shouted, dodging another kunai attack, this one managing to graze his upper arm. He grit his teeth at the sharp sting, threw his own kunai at his attacker and hit him in the lower stomach. Not a immediate fatal hit, but he'd bleed out over time, so Sasuke decided to leave the man on the ground without killing him off.
He hurried towards the struggling blonde, who was trying to scratch a man's arms away from his thin waist. Sasuke pulled out a shuriken and tossed it at the gray-haired man's shoulder, causing him to release his hold on Naruto and stumble back with a cry of pain. Naruto, himself elbowed the man in the jaw before implanting a kunai in his chest.
"Thanks," Naruto breathed rubbing his now sore hip. Sasuke nodded curtly. "Have you seen Akira?" Naruto shook his head, tiny droplets of rain flying through the air as he did so.
"No, she vanished before the fight started," Naruto replied softly, wondering if she had been killed. Sasuke growled low in his throat. Even if the girl gave him creepy chills, he couldn't have a princess that he was told to escort, and keep alive, get killed.
Naruto parted his lips to respond, but before he could get any words out, a kunai lodged itself into his chest. A short cry escaped his lips instead of words, before he glanced disbelievingly at the shaft of the weapon. Sasuke whirled around, sharingan spinning wildly in his eyes, prepared to kill the person who threw the kunai at Naruto.
He surveyed the area furiously, but couldn't find anyone who was alive still on the ground. His eyes rose upwards towards the treetops and his eyes clashed with dark crimson. The eyes that peered through the dripping leaves glinted in satisfaction, taunting him, before the figure vanished without a sound. Not even a rustle in the leaves.
Suddenly, he heard a splash followed by a choking, gurgling like sound behind him. He dropped to his knees beside the blonde, and looked around. Sakura, Kakashi and Amaye weren't anywhere to be seen. Where were they? Why weren't they helping?!
Sasuke began to feel himself panic as he stared helplessly at the kunai that was stuck in Naruto's chest. He didn't know whether or not to pull it out, or keep it in. Before Sasuke could decide, Naruto doubled over and coughed out the blood he had been choking on. It dribbled down his chapped lips, before it was washed away with the droplets of rain that were slipping down the tan boys cheeks.
"Naruto! Hang on, Sakura will be here in a minute, she'll know what to do. You'll be okay, I promise." Naruto straightened up slightly, leaning back in Sasuke's arms once again and smiled sadly at Sasuke's fear-stricken face. He reached up a hand slowly and brushed the midnight bangs from his eyes.
"Th-that's a really bad look on you, S-sasuke," Naruto whispered softly wishing he could see Sasuke smile one last time. He didn't want this image locked inside his mind as he took his last breath. Sasuke instinctively pressed his cold cheek closer to the warm, bloody hand. He didn't like the way Naruto sounded... he sounded so weak, so much like a child.
"Sasuke, th-thank you, for loving me," Naruto mumbled, tears beginning to build up in his cerulean eyes and roll swiftly down his cheeks. Sasuke's breath caught in his throat at Naruto's words. Those sounded like something someone would say before death. But, Naruto wasn't going to die. Sakura would be here any second and Naruto would be as good as new in no time.
Before Sasuke could utter out anything, Naruto sent him one last weak love-filled smile, that trembled with the amount of effort one tiny action took, before letting his eyes droop and close as his last breath left his lungs. As Sasuke was screaming relentlessly for Naruto to wake up, he swore he heard a evil cackle not five feet away from him.
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Sasuke jolted awake with Naruto's name ripping itself from his throat. Obsidian eyes scanned the room frantically as his hands moved to his chest and clenched his damp shirt. His chest rose and fell quickly as he tried to gulp in stuffy air to calm him.
A dream, it was just a dream, Sasuke chanted in his head, trying to relax his alert body. His hands slowly fell from his chest to his lap, landing on the chilly paper of his notebook. He blinked, wiping drying sweat from his forehead forgetting how the notebook had gotten there.
He scanned a few words catching, Stupid, Sakura, hate, love, Naruto, and, move on. That's right. He was in the very tough process of moving on currently, and he was ranting to a piece of paper before he passed out from emotional and physical exhaustion. He didn't even take a shower.
He stroked a hand through his hair, deciding that it wasn't too greasy and it could wait until tonight. He had to start getting ready to head down to the lobby judging by where the sun was positioned outside his window. Kakashi had told them they were going to be heading out at eight-thirty for breakfast.
Sasuke swung his feet out of bed, shuddering slightly from the cold air of the room. Why were cheap inns always so cold? He reached over the bed, closed his notebook before tossing it over to where it landed on top of his bag. He would continue with that entry tonight.
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Once the elevator had hit the lobby floor and Sasuke had stepped out, four pairs of eyes were glaring at him. He smirked nervously and scratched his neck, "I overslept."
Amaye rolled her eyes while flipping her hair so it all gathered over one shoulder and scoffed out, "Clearly." Kakashi himself just shook his head and mumbled something about teenagers needing too much sleep to function. Sakura, who was the only one who didn't glare at him, skipped over to Sasuke with a grin plastered to her face. This couldn't be good.
"Sasuke-kun, good morning. I hope you got enough sleep last night," she said kindly, flashing him a white-toothed smile. Sasuke had to admit, he felt kind of bad for her. She seemed to be truly in love with him sometimes, with the small things she did to try to get him to notice her in a good light, but it just wasn't catching his attention like Naruto always did.
"It was fine, Sakura." Sasuke nodded towards the girl, in an attempt to be somewhat kind. She was annoying most of the time, but he wanted to try and get along with her. They have been on the same team for seven years now, so it was time to soften up towards her a little, without her thinking that he liked her back.
She smiled softly this time, before spinning on her heel and catching up with Naruto. That was... weird, Sasuke couldn't help but think to himself. She normally would have stayed with him and clung to his arm, so what was up with her this morning? Did Naruto finally hook her?
Sasuke glanced down at the polished tile as he started to move along behind the group heading out the doors. It wouldn't really surprise him, they were bound to get together at some point. But, they do say that even when your prepared for something to happen, you never really expect it when it does happen. Like when someone who was sick in your family passes away. A horrible event, and even though you expected it to happen at any moment, you really weren't ready for it.
Oh well, that was part of moving on. Get hurt, find someone else, and fall in love with them. Sounded simple. So, it couldn't be that hard, right? Sasuke rolled his eyes at the though. Yeah, right, like anyone could replace the hyper blonde. Besides Amaye, she would be a good rebound, but he couldn't see himself with her for life. They were good as friends just not a couple.
"Hey, Sasuke-teme! Stop thinking about whatever goes through that tiny brain of yours and get a move on!" Sasuke snapped his head up and sneered at the Uzumaki, who was grinning with his famous fox-like grin. Even though he was hopelessly in love with him, it didn't mean he didn't want to rip the blonde to shreds sometimes.
Wordlessly, Sasuke sped up his steps until he was behind Naruto and smacked him behind the head before running up to catch with Amaye. He heard Naruto cry out and sputter out an insult, but Sasuke couldn't really care less. It felt good to give Naruto a little pain. Besides, what his head felt at the moment couldn't be as bad as the pain Sasuke was feeling. The pain he didn't think would ever go away, until he had Naruto in his arms.
Sasuke shook his head. No, stop thinking things like that! It was never going to happen and all it was giving him was false hope. He needed the thread of hope he was holding onto to snap and break so he could finally crawl away from it. That was the only thing that was keeping his heart tied to Naruto, so that was the thing that would get his heart back. Or so he hoped.
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Well, breakfast was a huge success, not the sarcasm. First, the nightmare had come back to invade Sasuke's thoughts just as Akira had looked at him, making his blood run cold; as usual. That had gone on for about fifteen minutes as he fretted over the nightmare actually coming true.
Then, once his little panic attack was over, Naruto had so shamelessly pecked Sakura's forehead after Sasuke accidently said something that insulted her. It nearly made Sasuke throw up and cry at the same time. Those were the two worst feelings to have at once.
Of course, to top it all off, once the bill was being rung up, Sasuke and Naruto were able to blow into an argument. It had happened over something stupid -as usual- and in the middle Sasuke nearly admitted his feelings. That had been one of Sasuke's closest calls since he was eight.
Now, as they have been traveling outside for an hour, Naruto keeps sending him weird glances, and Amaye keeps trying to get him to spill on what he had exactly almost told Naruto. Like hell he was going to do that. The slip up was so bad, Naruto had almost figured out what he was saying before he gave up with a "Oh well, it doesn't matter". Sasuke had never been so relieved to have Naruto's special laziness and obliviousness.
To sum up Sasuke's morning in three simple words: Worst mornings ever. He could only pray he would never have a morning like this again. Though, he knew that was unlikely.
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I think that might be my worst chapter yet. Oh well, I tried. I've had a stressful week from my friend spreading screwed up rumors about me, and average school drama. You know, the usual. But on the bright side, my step-mom is getting one step closer to getting her cancer treated! Thank God for that!
Anyway, enough about my personal life that you probably care nothing about. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I'll hopefully have the next one up sometime after Monday. Love you guys!
Ja ne!