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Chapter Five: Massacre and the Stranger
"Miroku can you come help me with these hand signs again. Grrr, I don't understand what I'm doing wrong this time." Sango grumbled getting frustrated Ninjutsu was really not her forte, she much preferred Taijutsu. However her desire to beat Neji, to make her late family proud and prove to herself that she could do it drove her to want to succeed.
"You see Sango the 'Ushi' [Ox] is done this way," Miroku formed the sign perfectly. "Your pinky and pointer fingers are supposed to be up and the others down. You have it so only your pointer finger is up- hai that's right now and your 'U' [Hare] is supposed to look like this, your other thumb isn't supposed to be sticking out like that."
"Okay I think I'm getting them now. So this is 'Ne' [Rat], 'Ushi' [Ox], 'Tora' [Tiger], 'U' [Hare], 'Tatsu' [Dragon], 'Mi' [Snake], 'Uma' [Horse], 'Hitsuji' [Ram]-"
"The Hitsuji is done like this," Miroku interrupted Sango and helping her correct the positioning of her fingers. "Do it again if you get it wrong."
"-Hitsuji' [Ram] 'Saru' [Monkey], 'Tori' [Rooster]-"
"Tori should look like this."
"-'Tori' [Rooster], 'Inu' [Dog], and 'I' [Boar]," Sango smiled when she finished all the hand signs, she swore by the end of the week she'd have them memorized down pat. No Hyuuga Neji was going to insult her for not knowing how to properly form any of the hand signs. "Let's go through them again Miroku."
"Hai, whatever you say Sango…" Miroku crying waterfalls choked out; he really wanted to be in the village talking to all the cute girls that were around. Instead Sango had dragged him out here to the training area that had been restored from when Kagome and Sango had been attacked by the youkai. They had told Miroku what really had happened. Like he was saying, so instead of wooing the village girls, he was stuck here, helping Sango memorize all the hand signs, which in his opinion where really one of the simplest things to learn. He really didn't get why Sango had such issues with them.
"I don't know why you never answer questions in class Miroku or hand in any homework. I'm pretty sure if you tried, you could be getting better grades than that Hyuuga, Neji," Sango admitted going through the hand signs again stumbling over a few of them but was able to correct her own mistakes. "What are you doing instead? I'll tell you what, you're failing almost all of your classes right now and everyone must think you're a baka [idiot]."
"Hmm, I can't help it if I'm distracted by few the cute girls talking to me. Since all the other ones ignore me and will tear me apart if I try and talk to them because they're apart of the 'Neji-kun fan girl club,'" Miroku defended himself with a sigh. "And as a matter of fact, I do, do all the homework in fact I do it more times than I need to."
"…Why is that?" Sango asked giving him a blank stare, completely stopping her progress in making hand signs.
"I get the girl's from the Neji-san fan club to pay me to do their work for them so they have more time to observe their target of affection. I am doing everyone a favor!"
"Doesn't the sensei notice the writing is all the same?" Kagome asked with her hands over her itchy eyes.
"He would have if I didn't copy their style of writing. After all doing all those sheets I don't want to complete mine, I figure I've already done the homework and gained the knowledge and I know this myself why should I have to prove it to someone. I believe the only person I need to prove something is to my own person."
"Bleh, I'll never understand you Miroku but I still think you could be getting better grades than Hyuuga, Neji." Sango said spitting out the name in disgust, continuing to practice the hand signs. She was even starting to pick up the speed as she completed all the hand signs almost flawlessly now.
"Neji-san is getting like a ninety six percent average. Perhaps even higher than that in every single one of his classes, I don't think anyone could get higher than that."
"Whatever," Sango said feeling defeated, how was she supposed to get better than that?! "Kagome don't rub your eyes you're going to make them turn red."
"But my eyes are itchy." Kagome complained as she rubbed her eyeballs. She was watching Miroku teaching Sango hand signs and whenever they formed a hand sign she felt something funny in her eyes so she rubbed them and Sango flying through the hand signs made them feel even funnier as she deciphered each and every single sign that was formed. She knew all of them now just by watching Miroku teaching Sango she even knew the ones Sasuke had used to create the Katon goukakyuu no jutsu.
"Kagome your eyes are completely red, you should go back home and wash them out with some water then go to bed." Miroku said as Kagome squinted her eyes that were red, it looked really serious it could be some kind of eye infection.
"Fine, but I wanted to tell you guys that Sasuke invited me to his house tomorrow and to stay for dinner. I haven't played with him in a long time. He was always busy doing homework or training." Kagome said holding her hands to her eyes to keep herself from rubbing them anymore they actually felt a lot better.
"We'll see how you are tomorrow." Miroku said patting his younger companion on the shoulder.
"They feel a lot better now," Kagome said uncovering her eyes slowly opening them after she wiped the tears that had formed at the corners of her eyes, away. Low and behold they looked completely normal-and more importantly they were blue. A tad red from rubbing them but they were definitely not the red eyes they say before. Had it been their imaginations? "So can I go to Sasuke-chan's place after school and stay until dinner?"
"All right then."
"Yippie!"
"Come on Kagome better hurry up, Kaa-san's food is going to get cold!" Sasuke said running through the streets. His brown messenger bag, held two empty bento boxes, was hitting his thigh as he ran. They were racing to see who would get into the Uchiha compound first.
Straight afterschool they went back to Sasuke's house and grabbed a bento from Mikoto-san. They went to the Konoha training area and were having so much fun they didn't realize it had gotten late, even with the full moon was out, shining above them they didn't realize. It was only when their tummies started to rumble from hunger did they decide to go back. Neither of them carried or had anything that would tell them the time. Sasuke challenged Kagome to a race saying 'go' and running off laughing at her, before it she could say anything.
"It's not fair you got a head start," Kagome said pouting as she ran behind Sasuke she was just glad she was spending time with her friend. "Oomph itai, why'd you stop?"
"….I thought I saw- never mind it's not important…" Sasuke mumbled vaguely recalling the image of a hunched form perched on top of a pole, but when he looked there was nothing there.
"I don't feel so good Sasuke…" Kagome said kneeling over as the tightening in her gut intensified she had a really bad feeling about this as they stood just on the outskirts of the Uchiha compound.
"Y-you're just hungry! That's it, you're hungry come on Kagome, I'm sure Kaa-san left some food for us." Sasuke said helping Kagome off the ground.
Both of their eyes widened as they saw the lifeless bodies of some of the Uchiha clan lying mangled in the middle of the street. Looking towards each other they immediately took off running towards the Uchiha's head house. They were careful not to step on any of the bodies they leapt through the air wanting to get there as fast as they could. Sasuke tried to open the door but found that it had been locked.
'Kaa-san never locks the door…' Sasuke thought frantically searching through his bag trying to find his key. He never really used it on account that the door was usually left open. Who would dare attack the Patriarch or Matriarch of the Uchiha clan?
"I got it." Kagome whispered shakily as she pulled on the string of her necklace that had three keys dangling quickly grabbing the right one she unlocked the door. Sasuke rushed in immediately one the door was opened leaving Kagome standing there her eyes shut tightly hoping for the best she ran in after Sasuke who was yelling for his mother and father she yelled out their names also.
"KAA-SAN!?! CHICHI-UE!?!"
"MIKOTO-SAN?! FUGAKU-SAN!?"
"Kagome…Sasuke, don't come in…" Was the weak response, then it was quite.
'WHY CAN'T I MOVE?' Sasuke yelled in his head hearing two thumps on the other side of the door. 'MOVE!' His entire body was shaking like a leaf. 'MOVE!' He had to… help them! Finally he took his right hand and brought it up to open the door.
"Sasuke…I'm scared." Kagome whispered behind the taller boy who was visibly shaking. She could feel that there was something…just…evil waiting for them on the other side of the door. She received no reply. All she heard was the squeaking of the wooden door being pulled open. Her view was blocked by Sasuke's body once the door was completely open.
"KAA-SAN! CHICHI-UE!"
"Tch."
"NII-SAN?! [Older brother?!]" By that time Sasuke had ran into the room yelling at Itachi who stood there fully dressed in his ANBU uniform.
Kagome stumbled into the room the feeling in her stomach had doubled, it was even worse than what she had experienced previously, when she was just outside the compound. A vase had been thrown to the ground in the struggle, blood was smeared on the floor and in the center of the room where Mikoto's and Fugaku's still bodies.
Itachi narrowed his Sharingan activated eyes at Sasuke who continued his bothersome yelling. He shut the door and went to poked Sasuke in the forehead to shut him up only to stop short of jabbing Kagome in the forehead instead. 'She moves quite fast, this little one does.'
"I won't let you hurt Sasuke-chan. Leave him alone!" Kagome yelled with her arms spread out willing to use her smaller body to protect Sasuke's. Her blue eyes where shut tight as tears flooded her eyes after getting a good look at Mikoto, the woman she had so many good times and treated everyone so kindly, now was dead. Kagome bit her lip. Fugaku also, despite his gruff attitude he had grown to like Kagome, if he was in a good mood, he would give her a small pat on the head as he passed her in the hall.
"Baka." Was the one word that Itachi let slip past his lips as he easily tossed Kagome's body against the wall as if she was nothing more than a rag doll. He watched as Sasuke's eyes immediately went to her body that gave a loud thud as it hit the wall laying still, he could see anger rising from within Sasuke.
"You're foolish otouto [little brother] hiding behind a girl? Utterly pathetic, Mangekyo Sharingan!"
"…..I DON'T WANT TO SEE… THIS... NII-SAN! WHY… ARE YOU DOING… THIS?! IIE! EERGGGGRRRRRRR….! IIE! IIE! STOP IT! WHY? IIE!"
His screams made Kagome's eyes snap back open turning over she coughed up some saliva and spat it onto the floor. The screams coming from Sasuke's mouth pierced her ears, was this really happening? Using the wall to help her stand up she clumsily ran over to Itachi, who was just standing there staring at Sasuke with eyes that looked like pinwheels. He just knocked her away again, harder this time. She hit the other wall knocking off the Uchiha banner when her body impacted with the hard surface. "Onegai [please]," She coughed out using her forearms to drag herself over to Itachi "Yamate! [Stop!]" She whispered reaching out to grab onto the prodigies blurry left foot. Only her efforts were thwarted when she was hoisted up by his cold pale hand that had wrapped itself around her delicate neck, she shut her eyes.
Itachi smirked as he slowly squeezed the life out of the girl ignoring her plea of, "Y..am..ate….on..e..gai… d.,on't…..hur….t… Sas..u..ke…." Her haunting blue eyes opened begging him; starring deep into his Sharingan eyes, she looked confused. He stopped himself from crushing her windpipes momentarily. This was the same girl that had made him laugh the first time they had met. When she rolled on the ground needing to go pee really badly, he almost felt like laughing at that memory but he stopped himself. He would not kill her; she wasn't a part of the plan anyways. Itachi cracked his fingers on his opposite hand the exact same time her head lolled forwards, passing out from lack of oxygen.
Sasuke had curled up on the ground laying there watching Itachi with semi-blank eyes as he choked Kagome drool slid out from his open mouth. He slowly regained his bearings as he watched dazed as Itachi snapped Kagome's neck. Sasuke assumed that she had a broken neck, and that was what caused her head roll forward. Sasuke's eyes followed as her body as Itachi released his grip on her neck and she was thrown across the room breaking the sliding doors before her body hit the wall and fell forwards with a thunk. "KAGOME!"
"Pathetic. It's your fault, she got in the way."
"Why Nii-san? Why did-? How could-?" Neither of those questions could be finished as Sasuke struggled to lift his head up off the ground.
"I wanted to see if I could." Was the simple response, clearly not the one his otouto was looking for.
"That's…it?! That's the reason you killed everyone, for that… just to see if you could actually do it?!"
"They were an important test." Itachi said his eyes fluttering shut. Sasuke would never understand his reason.
"So you-….Kagome didn't deserve any of that! No one did!" Sasuke growled picking himself up off the floor running at Itachi with the intent to teach his brother a lesson. Before Sasuke knew it he was leaning over Itachi's closed fist that had punched him in the chest, Sasuke crumpled to the wooden floor landing in front of the two figures that had created him. He stared at the dead bodies in front of him. That's right-they weren't his parents' anymore-just lifeless corpses. Tears leaked from his eyes as he sprung backwards and ran jumping over Kagome's body as he yelled, "Don't kill me!"
"Hn. As if. You're not even worth killing foolish otouto, hiding behind a girl. How pathetic. You're a coward," Itachi easily jumped in front of Sasuke who had run out into the streets crying. "If you want to kill me…..then hate, spite, and survive pathetically……. run,……run........ and cling desperately to life."
The saying was forever lodged deep within Sasuke's mind as he stood their panting, paralyzed with fear. He couldn't take it anymore, Sasuke collapsed forwards. Itachi shot a glare at the disgusting sight of his weak otouto and spun around calmly walking away from the gory fate that had befallen on the Uchiha clan. He was vaguely interested how Sasuke was going to turn out as well as that Kagome girl. He had let them both survive the Uchiha clan's massacring for what sick reason? For his twisted pleasure, he knew that Sasuke would seek him out for revenge. No one would soon forget what occurred on this chilling night under the full moon.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
'What is that noise?' Sasuke asked himself staring into the bright light hospital light as he lay in a hospital bed. He refused to cry, his brother's words burned deep into his brain. He closed his eyes pretending to be asleep when he heard the door rattle open.
"Come over here at once Takahito, we came here to visit Uchiha, Sasuke. He survived the Uchiha massacre and we're here to drop these flowers off as a gift from our family and then we are going to leave." A high pitched voice, belonging to a woman whispered harshly to another person who had also entered the room.
"But Kaa-san this girl is really kawaii!" Takahito's voice whined to his mother. "Can we give a flower to her?"
"Fine, hurry up and chose one flower from the bunch to give to her," The woman's annoyed voice answered "okay come on let's leave now so others can drop their gifts off." The boy sighed, the door rattled open there were some footsteps and then the door rattled closed.
As soon as they had left Sasuke turned his head opened his eyes that widened. He ignored the gifts that overflowed over the wooden surface of the nightstand beside him and covered the entire bottom part of his bed. Flowers, cards, boxes of chocolates, bags of sweets, gift baskets, stuffed animals…. and even women's underwear? Littered on the floor and surrounded the hospital bed Sasuke was occupying.
Sasuke brought up one of his hands and rubbed his eyes then opened them again. Could it be? Was it-? It really was Kagome-she was alive! He was about to rush over there and throw himself into her arms but he stopped himself. Just as he was half way out of his bed, his legs dangling over the edge of the bed. His eyes became glued to the greenish bruise that went all the way around her pale neck….it was a reminder that it was his fault that she was here. He crumpled the bed sheet up in a small clenched fist that was shaking. He couldn't even protect his friend from his Nii-san! The image of Kagome's small body being flung against the wall made Sasuke's entire body shake with furry. It had been his fault, his Nii-san was right he was a coward!
He lay back in his hospital bed fighting off the tears. Remembering all the harsh things his older brother had said to him. 'Run,……run........ and cling desperately to life.' Sasuke shut his eyes tightly 'Foolish otouto, if you want to kill me…..then hate, spite, and survive pathetically….' He let the anger flow through his body directed towards the figure he had once strived to be like, Itachi. Swallowing the lump in his throat he looked at Kagome's peaceful sleeping form. 'I'm going to get stronger. I'll prove myself. I'll kill you…Itachi.' Was the last thing Sasuke thought before falling into a nightmare that constantly repeated the horrible night over and over again until Sasuke could recall the moment everything was about to happen. He could even recite the exact words spoken from Itachi's lips. Sasuke was letting go of all the emotions he once had, expect his newfound hatred towards his Uchiha, Itachi.
The figure was close now, it could sense it. Two and a half months already went by from the time she had felt the familiar reiki. The journey here was tiresome, painful, and hard to get to Konohagakure and there it finally was, in all its glory. Relying on the use of a giant longbow to walk and for protection the hunched figure continued slowly on its way the pain continuing to be a nuisance. It was at least another two hours of nonstop traveling for the figure to get to the gates of Konoha waving around a Konoha hitai-ite the cloaked figure pointed towards one of the guards. "Ye there open this gate!"
"Gomen [sorry] but we were strictly instructed not to let in any outsiders in Konoha because of what happened two nights ago."
"Here I have a note, written by the Yondaime-sama himself. I wish to speak with him."
"T-the Yon-da-daime-sama?" One of the guards stuttered looking down at the haggard appearance of the traveler who was demanding entrance to distraught village which had just lost one of their strongest clans.
"Ay, are ye hard of hearing?"
"N-no." The same guard once again stuttered trying to make out any features of the mysterious visitor.
"Then what is the matter?"
"It's just that Konoha isn't ruled over by the Yondaime Hokage anymore."
"Then take this letter to whomever is ruling over ye village boy."
"Hold it," The older more experienced other guard ordered the other shinobi who was about to jump down to retrieve the scroll. Even if it was broad day light, this person could still be potentially dangerous. "Onegai [please] remove the hood of your cloak so we can see what you look like. This is just standard procedure."
"If that is what ye want." The figure pushed the bow deep into the ground so it could lean against it. Bringing up a single wrinkled hand, the person pulled down the hood of the cloak and closed its eye.
"Al-alright, you can put the hood of your cloak back on, Ari-gato [thanks] okay you down there and get that letter and bring it directly to the Hokage-sama." The older guard said still shocked from what he had seen beneath the hood of the cloak in all his years watching over the gate he had never seen anything like that.
"Right away, I will deliver this to the Sandaime Hokage."
There was so much to worry about right now, the Hokage's desk crowded with papers and folders everywhere. He was still filling out papers that pertained to the youkai incident that attack two children and destroyed parts of the training area. He was also busy taking in panicked requests of other small villages that were worried that youkais were going to destroy their village. He had reports back from missions piled on the floor. Then the death of the Uchiha clan who were slain by Uchiha, Itachi was just the icing on the cake. He sighed and took out his trusty pipe to hopefully help him relax and get through the rest of this day. When one of the watch guards popped in waving a scroll around he knew his day wasn't going to go the way he had hoped it would.
The Sandaime sat behind his desk letting a puff of smoke billow out from between his thin lips thoughtfully bringing the pipe back to his mouth as the cloaked figure that had been brought to his office requesting to see the Yondaime, was seated. He nodded dismissing the guard who had carried the person all the way to the Hokage tower, on account that the person walked to slowly. During that time the Sandaime's eyes read through the contents of the scroll. It brought tears to his eyes, this was indeed the Yondaime's neat writing, and there was no doubt in his mind what so ever. He remembered standing over his protégés shoulder as he allowed the eager young man to write his first ever pardon this person as the new Hokage.
"Have ye finished reading the scroll?" The familiar old haggard voice assaulted his ears.
"Hai, I have onegai remove your cloak and get comforta-" Hiruzen Sarutobi was ashamed of himself, his pipe clanked to his table when his mouth had opened from shock. The person had changed from when he saw her many years ago. Even though she was still wearing the same exact thing, baggy white top and red pants he thought she had died…even though she had started showing signs of what was actually happening from the last time he had laid eyes upon her.
"So what befell on Konoha a mere two nights ago?" Half of the woman's face was young and average looking it belonged to a brown eyed lady in their mid twenties. The hair on that side of the body was also healthy and black while the other half of her head was covered in gray straw like hair. The face also belonged to an elderly woman with an eye patch in their late fifties or early sixties.
"An entire clan was wiped out in the middle of the night, by one of its own members. For reasons unknown he left two survivors before becoming a missing shinobi," The Sandaime answered picking up his pipe and cleaning up the mess off the papers, it had made, when it was dropped. Refilling the pipe with tobacco he stuck a long match and lit the tobacco on fire. "So Priestess Kaede-san, what brings you back to Konoha?"
Hiruzen found the need to ask, even though he already knew the answer. The only he had ever seen Kaede was when she came to the village in search of someone who had energy called 'reiki'. She followed her instincts and it brought her to the house in which a regular village girl resided in with her parents and younger cousin. He had been a lot younger then and didn't quite understand the whole concept of there being other forms of energy then chakra. Kaede had told him that this girl seemed promising and she would train her but in order to do so she needed to take this girl to live up in the mountains where Kaede lived. The girl's family was thrilled at the idea and eagerly let Kaede take their daughter. Kaede gave her word at the end of each month the girl would return home to spend time back in the village before journeying back into the mountains.
Except three weeks went by before he saw Kaede again, she returned the girl to her family. 'I have tried everything that I possibly could, but it's no use her powers are too weak and are in such a small quantity, it's impossible for ye child to tap into them. I cannot train her. Such is the case with most children I have found.' That's what Kaede told the family with a solemn look on her tired face. Then she returned to the Hokage tower saying that the next time they saw her was if she ever located another child with such powers residing in their village. Then she asked them if they would allow her back into the village if she ever did sense another child. The Yondaime was only too happy to write Kaede a note while Sarutobi stood over his shoulder. A strange fate had befallen on the family with the girl she had tried to train, out of the blue one night they all disappeared. The file sat in cabinet stored away under the unsolved crime category.
After that incident Hiruzen had done everything in his power to learn as much about Miko's [priestess] as he could. He found the legend of the Shikon no Tama to be particular interesting, but he found it in an old children's fairy tale book. There wasn't much about Miko's in the legend of the Shikon no Tama except there used to be one residing in every village to protect from demons that tried to attack the village. They were also said to have incredible healing powers and shot spiritual arrows used to kill the demons. There were a plethora of other strange characters in the legend also, like a talking toad that wielded a two headed staff.
"I have come to your village like many years ago in search of someone who possesses the ability to use Miko reiki Sarutobi-sama," Kaede paused slightly shifting in the seat from the pain within her body. "However I am looking for someone particular in mind."
"Huh?" Was the only response, "Who is the person you are looking for Kaede-san?"
"Her name is Higurashi, Kagome do ye know where I can find this child?"
"Higurashi, Kagome.......I've seen that name a couple of times, hold on for a moment," The Sandaime mumbled at he held onto his pipe with his teeth while he dug through the piles of reports quickly flicking through them. "Aha, here it is. Investigative report by Kotetsu and Izumo, responding to a bright light and disturbance……..Niwatori monster…..two girls……. Higurashi, Kagome and Sakimitama- wait this is this isn't the folder I was looking for."
Kaede watched with her one eye as the village leader riffled though folders on his desk muttering to himself that he 'had just been reading it' and 'where did it go?' She closed her eye waiting for him to find what he was looking for. It was the only polite thing to do.
"Here we go," He read from a folder labeled Uchiha clan it had a giant red stamp stating it was TOP SECRECT. "Two survivors, mmhmfmmgmmt and Higurashi Kagome. She is still recovering in the hospital, how about I give you a hotel room free of charge for tonight I'm sure you are tired from your journey and the you can come by tomorrow morning at ten o'clock and I'll escort you to the hospital myself." So I can get away from all this paper work… he added in his head.
"Ay that sounds fine, arigato."
"Do you still reside up in the mountains?"
"Iie. I decided to move, it was getting to be too hard on these old bones. It's still in a secluded area though, in a much better location, it's rather peaceful and quiet."
"I see. Let me write you a note for you to give to the hotel desk, and then I'll have a shinobi escort you to the hotel."
"GAI REPORTING BACK FROM YET ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL AND YOUTHFUL MISSION, Hokage-sama~"
"…Ah, Gai-san I have a task for you I need you to carry this lady and her bags to the hotel, once you are done you are dismissed and you can go home. Then tomorrow morning you are to bring her here to the tower at ten o'clock. Then you are free to do as you wish for the rest of the day."
"ALRIGHT, Hokage-sama I won't let you down!" Gai replied giving a wink as he smiled giving the thumbs up.
Back at the hospital Kagome woke up to the sound of someone thrashing around. She sat up and touched the back of her head lightly. Man it had felt as if she had been thrown against a wall……three times. She was glad to have been awoken, she was having one of the strangest nightmares about Naraku he was choking her with a tentacle and yelling at her to give him something…..there was a bright blinding light……...then darkness….then an grayish black glow with talking- but she couldn't make out what was being said…....eyes that looked like what Itachi had in his eyes…….then it went back to Naraku again, she knew it was him, except he was in the body of that boy with the two dog ears on his head…….. then there was a bloody head rolling on the ground……. and Naraku breaking this girl who turned into clay, setting free white glowing orbs that floated out of the clay body……...there was also this pale white girl…......and it ended off with her feeling these pin pricks her entire body. It had a lot of really weird mini nightmares, she was sure glad it was over.
"IIE! Nii-san….mmhy…..Kaa-san! Chichi-ue! Iie…….bon't kill mrr…" Came the tormented cries from the other bed, the boy was thrashing around violently in the bed as the sun orange rays shone on him through the open window, showing that it had just started to set.
"Sasuke?" Kagome whispered accidently knocking over a cup that had a bouquet filled with a random selection of flowers. They fell to the ground soundlessly while the cup rolled around on the wooden surface spilling out some water onto the floor. She ignored these things as she dragged her bare feet on the floor making her way over to her friend. "Sasuke wake up, you're having a bad dream."
"K..gome….-" Sasuke muttered with his eyes shut tight, he was still asleep. "-bibn't….des..errbe …. any...of that. Iie Nii-san."
Her feet where getting cold from standing there on the tiled floor, so she crawled into the hospital bed with Sasuke and grabbed him by the shoulders and started shaking him as she pronounced every syllable. "Sa-su-ke wake up this ins-tance you are hav-ing a night-mare. If you don't wake up right now, I'm go-ing to cut your hair in-to a bo-wl cut." She grinned when his eyes flew open. She stopped shaking his body and wrapped her arms around his neck pulling Sasuke into a hug. Not taking any notice that Sasuke's wasn't hugging back, since his arms hung limp at his sides.
"Kagome…" Sasuke whispered very quietly, as her warm body held his close to her. He half heartedly pushed her away he really wanted to stay in the embrace, but it was his fault that she was hurt in the first place. He didn't deserve her as a friend if he couldn't protect her. That's another reason why he had to get stronger, he was going to study harder and work harder than ever before. No one was going to beat him, no one.
Maybe she had been squeezing him too tightly? She yawned laying down beside Sasuke looking him straight in the eyes. "If you want to…….you know- I want you to know it is okay. I'll be here for you no matter what, I promise," She said referring to shedding a couple of tears, because of what had occurred. "Did I make you worry Sasuke? If I did gomen [sorry]…"
He was proud of himself when he managed to suppress and fight back the light blush that threatened to color his cheeks. Her face was so closed to his; he could feel the warmth of her breath. He found himself asking, how had he not noticed how pretty Kagome was? She looked so kawaii [cute] when her eyes started to flutter close, falling asleep a small chunk of hair falling into her face as her breathing evened out. With a shaky hand he carefully reached out to brush it back, but retracted his hand immediately as if he had been burned. He clenched his hand into a fist. What was he doing? He looked at her neck, shocked to see that it barely looked bruised now but it was still a fading reminder of what happened.
"I'm the one that should be…apologizing to you Kagome... I didn't do anything to help you….I just….just ran….ran away." Sasuke whispered so quietly closing his eyes so tightly so that he wasn't able to shed any of the tears that he could feel filling up his eyes. Just as he was about to fall asleep he buried his face into her long hair and his arms reached out to wrap themselves around Kagome's warm body pulling her towards his cold shivering one.
Now that the mystery person has been revealed what do you think will happen?
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