Authors note:

Hey guys! Sorry about the delay guys, ive been like coughing out my life :/ Sore throats are my new least favorite things :p Any who. With my updating patterns, I am immediately starting the next chapter every time I update. I have been taking a little bit longer each time, so I can expand all of my ideas better so you guys can visualize it better! Alright! Here comes chapter 5!

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Substance Therapy

V

Ghosts

Sakura's heart stopped. She was holding her breathe.

'Why the fuck is he asking me this.' Sakura could not believe this, she needs to properly think her response. Being drunk and doing so was very hard.

Sasuke noticed her struggle to form words. Tonight was the night that he got to know Haruno Sakura. He was expecting tears as they slid down her paling cheek. He had anticipated her lack of breathing. He nodded at her when their eyes met. Sakura figured it out then. Sasuke was wanting to help her cope.

Sakura took a deep breathe. She closed her eyes and felt her lashes flutter against the bags under her eyes, pure evidence of restlessness nights and unease.

"I should have saved them. It wasn't impossible." Sakura's breathe hitched in her throat, she could do this.

Sasuke grabbed her hand and ran his thumb along the smooth ridges of her knuckles. Questions dancing in Sasuke's eyes, but he would never dare ask any of them. She would come on her own time.

Sakura's deep breathing was the only sound heard in the room.

Sakura was beginning to shrink up to herself.

"Sakura," Sasuke's hand cusp her cheek. "It was not your fault." With his words, she ripped herself away from him.

"You don't know shit about me Uchiha. Do not act like you know my past. You do not know me, you know nothing." Sakura's eyes displayed a hollowness that Sasuke had shown through his eyes; her eyes a window straight to her heart. Sakura's mouth in a nasty sneer, "And you never will." Sakura grabbed her purse and things and walked out of the room slamming the door. Sakura went to the entry area and changed her shoes and opened the door.

As Sakura opened the door she meet the gaze of a thin, hardly dressed, red haired and eyed woman.

"Who the fuck are you?" The Red head gave her a ugly look.

Sakura ignored the slutty woman and pushed past her and started walking home. As she made it to the street, she pulled out her phone and deleted the contact of Uchiha Sasuke and blocked his number from her phone.

Sasuke sat there with his hands running through his hair.

He was stupid. He knew those words were no help and that she had heard it too many times. He was truly sorry, he had truly fucked up.

"Knock, knock Sasuke darling!" Karin popped her head into the room. "Ohhhh you even set the bong for me! How sweet!" Karin's coos furthered his frustrations.

"If you touch my bong, ill break your hands." Karin's pouting face popped into his view.

"Come one Sasu-kun. We haven't smoked in forever." Sasuke scoffed; he really didn't hate her, but he didn't really like her.

"Why are you even here?" Sasuke growled at her. Karin faked a look of sadness. Her hand fluttering to her forehead.

"Ouch, that really hurt," Karin's bitchy laugh filled the room. "Anyhooo, your girly left this for me," Sakura's pin laying flat in her hand as she held it out like a trophy. Sasuke quickly grab the pin and put it into his pockets. He then pulled his phone out and saw he had a missed text from Sakura. He opened it and his expression darkened.

'Sasuke,

This is Sakura. I am deleting your number and you from my life.

You do not need to communicate with me because I will not answer.

How dare you play with my heart all the while having a girlfriend.

I appreciate all that you have done for me, but no more.

-Sakura.'

Sasuke then blinked a few times. Karin? His girlfriend? Sasuke couldn't contain his laughter.

Sasuke then grabbed the bong and took a giant hit off of it and put it away. He grabbed Karin's arm and pulled her into the living room.

"Get out of my house Karin." She could tell Sasuke was in no mood for her. She would come back tomorrow with Suigetsu and Juugo. Maybe then Sasuke wouldn't be such a dick.

Sasuke grabbed his keys and a coat and locked the door to his home as he took off running.

It was pouring down rain. The streets were already flooding, puddles of water were like land mines that she could not properly avoid.

Sakura really should have thought this through better.

Sakura had used her phone to map out how far Sasuke's home was from hers and found that she was 45 minutes walking distance.

Fuck, she hated the positions that her life put her in.

She had already been walking for ten minutes now and could no longer feel her cold, wet feet. Sakura had already ditched her shoes, they made walking feel as though she was sliding around. She had taken off her shoes and wrung them out under a canopy what was probably five minutes ago. Her hair laid flat on her shoulders, forming a sopping wet cloak around her face. Sakura started to shiver, why the hell did she not grab the jacket out of her locker?

She looked at her phone again, 3:39 AM. She seriously needed to get some sleep. She could already feel her hang over from hell starting to brew.

Sakura was almost a quarter of the way there when she felt a strong grip come from behind her.

"Let go. I'll scream." She felt her skin touch her brows.

Who the hell dared to touch her?

Sasuke had ran and ran until her little, pink haired frame could be seen through the rain.

Sasuke had never seen a girl so broken, never seen a girl so beautiful.

"Let go. I'll scream." Sakura had never sounded so cold.

"Relax. It's me."His words hit her like a brick wall. She instantly tensed. He loved how she acted like he never effected her. Sasuke had come to grips with his feelings for this girl. They had known the barest minimum about each other. Everything they knew about one another was through fight and perseverance of their patience for one another. It was irritating. Sasuke felt nothing but frustration towards this woman and a feeling of joy he had only felt from one other woman before. Sasuke felt nothing but pure happiness for the first time in the very very long while. He doesn't know why things are still a mess with her. He just can't seem figure her out. All he knows is that she is loyal, so loyal to her beliefs and work. She is everything he is not. She is patient, she is kind.

He loves it, he loves her.

The only thing she guarantees is that she is a mess.

And he wouldn't want anything else.

"Sakura, listen please? If only for one moment." Sakura's eyes widened at the sound of his voice, the sound of his simple plea.

Sakura had never felt this weak before, since the day of her parents passing. She was such a whirlwind of emotions, and they were starting to spiral out of her control. "What do you want from me Sasuke? My life isn't a game for you to play! I am a person of my own will! And i will not be apart of this mess anymore! What about your girlfriend? How could you dare kiss someone who wasn-"

"Girlfriend? You're meaning Karin?" Sasuke just let out a very blatant laugh. Sakura would be god damned. Uchiha Sasuke was laughing in her face mocking her.

Sakura's distinctive glare could be seen miles away. Without a hesitant thought, Sakura turned and proceeded to continue walking. Sasuke followed after her.

"If you aren't going to listen to me. I'll just keep trying."

Sakura threw her hands at Sasuke, her fist making contact with his hand catching hers. "What is your fucking deal? Why wont you just let me go home?" Sakura's yells turned into a quiet plea. "What is it that you want from me?" Sasuke wove his fingers through hers.

"I just want to see you smile." Sakura felt tears start to prickle her eyes.

"You know nothing of me Uchiha. You couldn't possible under-"

"You never let me get close to you. How can I?" Sakura's heart dropped. That hurt. He was right in every word he spoke. Sakura came to a halt.

Sakura turned to look at Sasuke, he was already there.

Her head in his palms, those lips of his talking it's own language to her own.

She felt all of her ghosts leave her body. She felt ten pounds lighter.

Authors note:

Hey guys, sorry this one took so long and is so short. I actually just got over having bronchitis :/ But don't worry! mamma's cooking up the next one!

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~Ashley