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Chapter 14
[FLASHBACK PART4]
After being in the hospital for over a month, Sakura finally wakes up from her horrific ordeal. "Sakura" her mother said as she was never away from her side very long. Seeing his daughter open her eyes Sakura's father quickly calls for a nurse to grab Tsunade.
After Sakura slowly sits up, she blankly looks around the room studying the faces in it. "Sakura how are you feeling?" her mother asked as she placed a hand on her head pulling back some of her hair. "Sakura?" she questioned. "Who is that?" she asked next hoarsely. "What... that's your name dear." Sakura's mother answered as she gave a concerned look back to her husband.
Once Tsunade made it into the room, and noticed Sakura sitting up; she quickly took out a flash light from her pocket while she checked Sakura's pupils first while speaking to her.
"Sakura do you know who I am?" she asked her seeing she had a constant puzzled look on her face. Sakura shook her head, as she continued to look around the room. Tsunade eyes shook for a moment, before she turned to ask for her parents to come with her outside.
"What's wrong with her?" her mother asked, "It seems she's lost her memory, I don't know how permanent this is but it could last for a few days or even years." she answered honestly. Sakura's mother looked at her husband whom put a hand on her shoulder, before speaking to Tsunade."Well maybe this is for the best." she replied.
Tsunade was shocked by Sakura's mother's admittance, but considering the situation she secretly had to agree with her. "Tsunade when can Sakura leave the hospital?" her mother asked next. "Well now that she's awake, I'd like to keep a close eye on her so I say in a few days" she guessingly replied wondering why they asked. "OK we've been talking it over, and I think its best if we move " her mother said to Tsunade.
"What? Did you talk to Sasuke about this?" Tsunade replied surprised, "No why should I, I'm her parent" she sharply responded confused at why she would ask. "But he just lost his son and now you are going to take away his girlfriend, I know your concern is your daughter but don't you think he." Tsunade spoke before she was interrupted by Sakura's father.
"If it wasn't for him she wouldn't be in this mess in the first place." he angrily replied, Sakura's mother seeing her husband's heated reaction, placed a hand on his chest. "What he means is we want Sakura to start over with a different life, one were she's just a normal teenager," her mother said before pausing, "We want you to look at her, but we want her out of here as soon as can be arranged...okay" she said before going back in to check on her daughter.
After her parents went back inside, Tsunade frowned at this development, Sasuke had been a wreck already and this blow might be the thing to send him over the edge. Just as she thought that Tsunade saw Sasuke coming down the hallway.
"Sasuke!" she said while running over to him quickly. "Tsunade? how is Sakura? any improvement?" he asked while looking down. "Sasuke I need to speak with you a moment." she said as she stirred him away from her room.
"Sakura is awake now." hearing that Sasuke quickly tried to leave only for her to stop him "... but she has lost all of her memories, I don't know how permanent this is but I'm telling you this now before you find out... Sakura's parents plan to take her away from this place for her to start a new life. I'm sure that I can change their mind."
"It's OK" Sasuke stopped her in her tracks. "If she doesn't remember than its fine, I only want her to be happy. What happened to her is unforgivable and me not protecting her is my burden I'll have to live with so... it's OK "Sasuke admitted while his hair covered his eyes. Seeing a tear run down his cheek Tsunade sighed at the hard-headed boy. "Look maybe, when things calm down I can convince them to come back, with those men locked away for life there isn't anything else to worry about." she said as she reached for the door. "Would you like to see her?" Tsunade asked."No that's OK, its better this way" he said while walking out the door first to leave.
Once Sakura made it back to her home, she looked around as her father showed her around the house. Before Sakura could go upstairs,her mother however made it to her room first, in order to hide anything that would remind her of her past. Seeing a picture of team 7 out on her desk; Sakura's mother quickly hid the frame under her bed.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked seeing her mother on the floor. "Oh nothing just checking for something, so my precious daughter what would you like to eat? The sky is the limit for you that I promise" her mother said while grabbing at her face. "I don't know" Sakura replied while she sat on her bed. "OK I'll go make you something, just sit here and I'll be right back. Once you eat we can leave…" she said before rushing downstairs. After she left, Sakura sat back up to look around her old room, when she found a phone lying on her desk. Sakura carefully grabbed the object examining it, when she slowly opened it; she noticed it had a message.
Phone Message:
Sakura I'm so sorry you saw that, it wasn't what you think. I would never do that to you, you're my most important friend.
"Important... Friend..." Sakura said quietly; seeing the message made Sakura feel confused about it. However after hearing her mother come back upstairs; Sakura deletes the message before closing her phone, placing it back on the desk. "Okay Sakura I warmed you up some soup," Sakura's mother said happily while setting the tray of food down.
Elsewhere as Tsunade looks over an image, Shizune happily walks through the door. "Tsunade here is your tea." She said while handing her the beverage. Shizune noticing Tsunade looking at a x-ray decided to say something. "Tsunade I know Sakura was only discharged today, but you still seem worried about something." she commented
[TSUNADE FLASHBACK]
"OK everything looks fine except some of my test came back with some strange results, it's nothing to worry about now but here" Tsunade said while handing Sakura's mother a notebook.
"If you notice changes or any strange symptoms write them down and contact me OK" Tsunade asked.
"Yes thank you for all your help" Sakura's mother said while hugging her.
[END FLASHBACK]
Tsunade remembering this quickly shook it off as she replied back to Shizune, "No its nothing," she paused as she put up the image. "Just being overcautious."
After Sakura's mother and father finished packing everything up, they made their way out of the house. While Sakura waited for them to finish packing up the car, she noticed a strange silhouette on the roof top of a nearby house; as she tried to get a better look, it had disappeared just as fast as it was there.
"Sakura are you ready?" her mother asked as she opened the car door. Sakura couldn't explain why she felt so hesitant, to reply but she shook the feeling away as she answered her mother. "I... I guess so."
[END FLASHBACK]
After Remembering everything, Sakura begins to cry as she see's that Sasuke had impaled himself with a kunai; to prove a point.
"Sa...su...ke?" Sakura said as her fingers gripped the fence tightly, after she witness him falling to the ground. Sakura screamed in response, as she found herself grabbing the fence while she started to climb back over.
"Sasuke please stop," Sakura yelled as she ran over to him and grabbed the kunai away from his chest, before she held him in her arms.
Sasuke still conscious looked up at her; as her eyes and facial expression had changed to something familiar.
"Sakura" he said while his hand reached for her pale skinny face.
"Sasuke...I remember everything now" Sakura said while crying into his bloody hand, "... and I'm going to fight." She reassured while she placed her hand on his wound.
Tsunade, who had been told of the events prior, finally made it to the rooftop and ran over to both Sasuke and Sakura. Tsunade seeing Sasuke with a serious wound got to work immediately on stopping the blood. After she stopped the bleeding, Sasuke had finally lost consciousness. Tsunade placing her ear to his chest listened for the rhythm of his heartbeat; once she heard him breathing normally she let out a thankful sigh.
Sakura seeing he was alright, smiled as she now knew he would be OK. Suddenly feeling her vision giving out on her, Sakura slumped over to the side."Sakura, are you OK?" Tsunade asked as she checked her.
"Get me a room stat, she's going into shock." Tsunade screamed as she scooped Sakura into her arms. One nurse in quick response ran over to Tsunade to aid in helping with Sakura, while Shizune and another nurse helped out with Sasuke.
After looking at a ceiling, Sasuke found himself suddenly fully awake. Looking around he found he was in the hospital attached to some equipment when he started to sit up he noticed Naruto and Kakashi jumping at him moving. "Sasuke you alright?" Naruto asked while wiping under his eye. Sasuke still out of it looked around before remembering the last thing he did was. As he thought that he quickly looked down at his bandaged wound; as he felt slight pain from where he had stabbed himself with the kunai.
"Sakura... where is she?" he asked next, Naruto and Kakashi didn't say anything as they stared at each other. "Where is she?" he asked again as he started to pull at his bindings.
"Easy Sasuke," Kakashi said while holding him back with two fingers, "You've just been through a procedure. You need to take it easy" Kakashi informed him.
"What procedure?" he asked next. "Well Sakura needed that bone marrow transplant, and since you were unconscious they went ahead and did it; that was a few days ago" Naruto admitted to him, hoping not to rile him up to much.
"Sakura did she ..." he said not wanting to hear the wrong answer. "She survived the surgery." Naruto said happily while he placed a hand on Sasuke's shoulder. "Time will tell how her body will react but as far as the surgery went everything was alright." Kakashi continued what Naruto had started.
"When can i see her?" Sasuke asked as his eyes shook uncontrollably. "Not just yet she's still in recovery but as soon as she's out you can." Kakashi said next. While the three sat in relieved silence, they heard some soft knocks on Sasuke's door.
Once the door opened up; Kakashi placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder, "Oi Naruto lets give Sasuke some privacy." he voiced after the door revealed Sakura's mother. Once they left the two alone, Sakura's mother sat next to Sasuke as he still couldn't look her in the face.
"Look... I know you hate me for what I did to your daughter and..." he started to say before she stopped him. "Sasuke that's enough, if it wasn't for you she would be dead right now. I'm not dumb enough to not acknowledge that. Yes for sometime I did hate you, I hated that you took away my daughters childhood I hate that she worshiped you and I hate that everyday she will have to live with the fact of losing a child." She paused as she clutched the hem of her dress.
Sasuke found it hard to hear her words, mainly because they were all true. "But, I saw it in her eyes she loves you; or else she wouldn't have done any of those things, and because of you she's back... she remembers me and her friends and her old self." Sakura's mother stopped as tears hit the backside of her hands.
Sasuke hearing her cry finally looked over at her, "Thank you Sasuke, thank you " she said while she looked up to hug him tightly. Sasuke was beyond shocked at her gesture it was the last thing he thought she would do was to hug him and thank him.
After she finally let go of him, she placed a picture in his hands and a hand on his face before getting up to leave. After she left the room, Sasuke looked down at the picture, when he looked at it. It was a picture of Sakura in her hospital bed with oxygen strapped to her nose and her attached to various equipment.
Sasuke looking closer noticed she had a big smile on her face, while making a peace pose. When he turned the picture over, he noticed it had a message on the back side.
Message: Sasuke, thank you for saving me. It seems Ino brought me some flowers during the time of my surgery. They contained a letter about what really happened the night i saw you two together, I'm sorry I overreacted and put you through all of that. Please don't be angry with Ino anymore, and please don't worry about me. Though I need time to recover from this and the loss of our son, I want you to know I still Love you. - Sakura.
After reading the message and turning the picture back over, Sasuke started to chuckle a bit before his laughter turned into tears at how relieved he was to see her back to her old self again.
After a year of a long successful recovery, Sakura is finally discharged from the hospital; with her hair grown back into a cute short cut. Hugging and bowing to some of the nurses, Sakura tells them goodbye as her and her mother leave the hospital.
"Sakura are you ready?" her mother asked once they got outside. Sakura took a minute to take in the nice weather, before she looked back at her mother. "Almost do you mind if i make a few stops somewhere" she asked nicely to her.
"Huh? Where?"
Elsewhere Ino at her parent's flower shop, started to prep a flower order; as she sighed thinking about Sasuke's reaction to her sending the flowers and note to Sakura. Ino felt something on her shoulder as she turned to see Sakura behind her. "Sakura? Wait what are you doing here?" she asked while checking to see if Sasuke was around.
"It's OK Ino... I wanted to thank you for the flowers," Sakura said while looking at the flowers Ino had fixed up. Both girls where quite for a moment as it felt slightly awkward being around each other once again, "So where is Rena?" Sakura finally asked while she pulled up something to sit on.
"Oh I heard her and Toshi got into some trouble a while back over drugs, last i heard they both were incarcerated." Ino said while looking down. "Oh I'm sorry to hear that ... I really wanted to apologize to her." Sakura admitted.
"What why?" Ino asked her confused. "Because I deserved it, I hurt her and more importantly... I hurt you I'm so sorry Ino" Sakura said sincerely as she looked her in the face. "Thank you for being there for me, even when I wasn't there for myself." she replied while smiling back at her. Hearing Sakura sound like her old self-made Ino cry. "Sakura." she screamed as she grabbed her to embrace her into a hug. Sakura surprised by how tight she was holding her, quickly wrapped around Ino in response.
After leaving Ino's parents flower shop, Sakura starts to walk to a familiar house. Knocking on the door, Sakura smiled when Sasuke finally opened it. "Sakura what are you doing here?" he asked as she came in. "I thought you were staying in the hospital for another week." he continued as he tried to offer her a seat.
"It's Okay seems like I'm doing really well." she said with a grin. Sasuke unable to hold back quickly wrapped his arms around her, to hold her still skinny frame. Looking into his eyes, Sakura put down her purse as she grabbed his hand to lead him upstairs. Once they got to his bed room, Sakura pushed him down on the bed; Sasuke worried about her tried to speak. "Sakura you don't have to do this."
Hearing him start to protest, Sakura quickly hushed him as she put a finger to his lips. Sasuke anxiously sitting back on the bed, watched Sakura take a step back as she crossed her arms to grab the ends of her shirt, before she started to pull her blouse up however quickly losing her nerve after she felt the air on her bony skin; she turned her back to Sasuke, "Sorry... I really want to I'm just a little embarrassed about how skinny I am... I've lost a lot of weight." Sakura admitted while she placed a hand over her mouth to hide some of her crying.
Sasuke seeing this stood up to wrap his arms around her body, "Sakura you look beautiful" he said into her ear as he helped her slowly remove her shirt. After he removed the garment, Sasuke ran his fingers on her back caressing her skin until he slowly turned her back to face him. Sakura instinctively looked him in the eyes as he started to undue his clothes as well.
Like the first time, Sakura felt nervous as she reached for his naked chest. After Sasuke threw his shirt to the ground, he reached for her face as he gently stroked it. Sasuke and Sakura both touched their heads together, before Sasuke pulled her chin up to where he could lean in for a long overdue kiss.
Once Sasuke felt her warm lips on his; he found himself letting out a loud moan since he didn't realize how much of an affect her kiss had. Sakura enjoying the kiss slowly wrapped her arms around Sasuke's neck as the two gradually made their way back to the bed. As he lowered her on the bed, he kissed and nipped at her lips while he tried his best to be gentle with her fragile body.
After they finished and lay in bed for a while, Sasuke found himself playing with Sakura's fingers as they just enjoyed each others company. "Sasuke" Sakura said finally breaking the silence. "Will you take me there..." she asked while looking up at his eyes. Sasuke hearing her request was hesitant, "Are you ready?" he asked making sure. "Yes I want to see him." Sakura said while laying her head back down on Sasuke's chest hugging him tightly for support.
After they got dressed and headed out. Sakura and Sasuke got to a grave site as they stared at a nameless stone on the ground. Sakura took a moment before she knelt down to touch it. "He doesn't have a name on here." she said while looking at Sasuke. "I didn't know what to name him" he admitted while he knelt next to Sakura. Sakura looking at the grave held her hand out. "Can I see your kunai?" she asked as he questionably handed it to her.
Sasuke watched as she used it to etch something into the grave stone. "S ...H...O" he read out slowly, Once she finished Sakura looked at Sasuke while wiping away some tears. "From now on our son's name was Sho... In memory of the bravest little boy I know," Sasuke more than approving of the name, smiled back at Sakura as they stayed for a while at the grave.