![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
solosan.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
chuunin_archiverated: R-nc 17 (for future chapters)
Pairings: TemaxShika GaaxSaku
Kakashi slid open the hospital wards door leading to Sakura and Shikamaru's chamber. The medic nins had already left them be. They had done as much as they could and now it was up to fate if they would survive or not. He expected them to be lying stock still, almost statue like, as they had been for the last couple of hours.
He first checked on Shikamaru who was closest, his breathing was stable if shallow, he moved across to the other side of the curtain that seperated Sakura and Shikamaru's beds. He stopped asthough he had walked into a wall as dead pan eyes gazed at him. Sakura's eyes which had been so full of life and hope in his memory, lay sunken above her pale cheeks. She might as well have been a puppet propped up on the bed for all the life that was left in her. His memory of her cheerful life made it all the more chilling.
Rushing out of the ward yelling, he drew the attention of every nin who heard him. But he didn't care, he needed someone, anyone, to bring back the Sakura, he once knew.
* * *
Gaara of the desert stood staring flatly at Sakura. She returned his gaze with equal studious lifelessness. It unnerved him. Especially as he knew what emotions Sakura's eyes, had once contained. It was nothing like Naruto Uzumaki's warm gaze. It was like gazing into an icy reflection of himself. The Kazekage looked away first. She had woken up and Shikamru still remained comatose. She demonstrated a hardiness he had definatly not expected. Even after she had saved his brother from poisen when Chiyo couldn't. It irked him somehow.
"Who are you?"
Gaara glanced back at her frowning. They were alone now, the bustling medic nins had already taken their leave, however Gaara had been too busy staring into doll like eyes to notice. It was another thing that made him uncomfortable around this Sakura.
"Subaku no Gaara. We met in the chunnin exams."
Sakura blinked and looked at him steadily. "Why don't you disappear? Itachi Uchiha didn't kill you yet. Will he torture you first for knowing me? Give me the semblance of fake hope and then dash it?"
Gaara was dumbfounded. What was she talking about?
"Itachi. I know you can hear me. Kill him slowly, or fast. It doesn't matter cause he's not there. You've done it before, so many, many times. Each one so much more colourfull than the one before. You can be so creative huh Itachi? But you can't hurt me anymore Itachi. I'm dead already. Dead where it counts."
Hearing her speak dispassionatly right through him, made him very, very uneasy. She might as well have been speaking about the weather, but what she said hinted at things so dark...
Gaara considered the situation. Tsunade must be informed. Turning on his heel he left, far too fast to see the single tear wind it way down Sakura's shadowed cheeks and fall off her chin, from eyes that stared at the spot where the Kazekage had just vacated.
* * *
Tsunade was arguing with Gaara. Tsunade's voice boomed through all the corridors followed immediatly by the Kazekage's cold voice.
Kankuro sighed. Gaara wanted them to return to Konoha, where they could recover in a familiar enviroment. However Tsunade didn't want them to collapse from the journey shaking them off the stability they are fleetingly grasping. A week had passed and Shikamaru Nara and Sakura Haruno were driving everyone insane. They slept most of the time and when the woke it was only to eat before sleeping again.
He knew how his brother was feeling, no one wanted to be near them. One look into their eyes and it was as if you were looking into living death. Even the hardened veterans were unnerved. Even Gaara...
"You shouldn't eveasdrop Kankuro."
Kankuro snorted at his sister, "I can't help hearing those two. I swear it's like listening an old couple quarreling. They just can't compromise, and they have to be LOUD about it."
Temari laughed. The sound startling both of them. It made them feel guilty knowing there were two people in the building who would probably never laugh again. They stared at each othe in silence for a couple of minutes. Sighing in the stillness.
"Do it again."
Both swund round on the soft voice. Shikamaru stared out of a hollowed face, eyes almost frenzied in his desperate need. He hung onto the wall almost falling but having scrambled out of bed and down the corridor towards the sound that had evoked a kind of wild hope in him.
"Onegai."
Temari and Kankuro both rushed to his side supporting him. "Please. Just do it again. Just once more." He collapsed between them his voice choking him and tears started falling. "Just once more."
Temari and Kankuro looked at each other over a sobbing wreck of a ninja. The dignified unmotivated chunnin had been starved of any emotion except despair. So much so that within minutes he had pulled his weak body down three stories just for laughter. He stared at Temari through red eyes, his whispered pleas slipping out of his sobbing body. "Please. Onegai! ONEGAI!!"
Temari wiped his tears away, just holding him close, "It's alright now Shikamaru. You're safe."
Suddenly drained, Shikamaru stared limply at the floor, "Itachi. You are cruel. I could almost beleive it this time."
Subaku no Gaara opened the door into his office. Giving them one look that gave away nothing, he strode over and past them. Sand swirled around gently lifting the limp young man and folowed the Kazekage. Tsunade walked out and gave a weak smile. "I guess I won this round."
Pairings: TemaxShika GaaxSaku
Kakashi slid open the hospital wards door leading to Sakura and Shikamaru's chamber. The medic nins had already left them be. They had done as much as they could and now it was up to fate if they would survive or not. He expected them to be lying stock still, almost statue like, as they had been for the last couple of hours.
He first checked on Shikamaru who was closest, his breathing was stable if shallow, he moved across to the other side of the curtain that seperated Sakura and Shikamaru's beds. He stopped asthough he had walked into a wall as dead pan eyes gazed at him. Sakura's eyes which had been so full of life and hope in his memory, lay sunken above her pale cheeks. She might as well have been a puppet propped up on the bed for all the life that was left in her. His memory of her cheerful life made it all the more chilling.
Rushing out of the ward yelling, he drew the attention of every nin who heard him. But he didn't care, he needed someone, anyone, to bring back the Sakura, he once knew.
* * *
Gaara of the desert stood staring flatly at Sakura. She returned his gaze with equal studious lifelessness. It unnerved him. Especially as he knew what emotions Sakura's eyes, had once contained. It was nothing like Naruto Uzumaki's warm gaze. It was like gazing into an icy reflection of himself. The Kazekage looked away first. She had woken up and Shikamru still remained comatose. She demonstrated a hardiness he had definatly not expected. Even after she had saved his brother from poisen when Chiyo couldn't. It irked him somehow.
"Who are you?"
Gaara glanced back at her frowning. They were alone now, the bustling medic nins had already taken their leave, however Gaara had been too busy staring into doll like eyes to notice. It was another thing that made him uncomfortable around this Sakura.
"Subaku no Gaara. We met in the chunnin exams."
Sakura blinked and looked at him steadily. "Why don't you disappear? Itachi Uchiha didn't kill you yet. Will he torture you first for knowing me? Give me the semblance of fake hope and then dash it?"
Gaara was dumbfounded. What was she talking about?
"Itachi. I know you can hear me. Kill him slowly, or fast. It doesn't matter cause he's not there. You've done it before, so many, many times. Each one so much more colourfull than the one before. You can be so creative huh Itachi? But you can't hurt me anymore Itachi. I'm dead already. Dead where it counts."
Hearing her speak dispassionatly right through him, made him very, very uneasy. She might as well have been speaking about the weather, but what she said hinted at things so dark...
Gaara considered the situation. Tsunade must be informed. Turning on his heel he left, far too fast to see the single tear wind it way down Sakura's shadowed cheeks and fall off her chin, from eyes that stared at the spot where the Kazekage had just vacated.
* * *
Tsunade was arguing with Gaara. Tsunade's voice boomed through all the corridors followed immediatly by the Kazekage's cold voice.
Kankuro sighed. Gaara wanted them to return to Konoha, where they could recover in a familiar enviroment. However Tsunade didn't want them to collapse from the journey shaking them off the stability they are fleetingly grasping. A week had passed and Shikamaru Nara and Sakura Haruno were driving everyone insane. They slept most of the time and when the woke it was only to eat before sleeping again.
He knew how his brother was feeling, no one wanted to be near them. One look into their eyes and it was as if you were looking into living death. Even the hardened veterans were unnerved. Even Gaara...
"You shouldn't eveasdrop Kankuro."
Kankuro snorted at his sister, "I can't help hearing those two. I swear it's like listening an old couple quarreling. They just can't compromise, and they have to be LOUD about it."
Temari laughed. The sound startling both of them. It made them feel guilty knowing there were two people in the building who would probably never laugh again. They stared at each othe in silence for a couple of minutes. Sighing in the stillness.
"Do it again."
Both swund round on the soft voice. Shikamaru stared out of a hollowed face, eyes almost frenzied in his desperate need. He hung onto the wall almost falling but having scrambled out of bed and down the corridor towards the sound that had evoked a kind of wild hope in him.
"Onegai."
Temari and Kankuro both rushed to his side supporting him. "Please. Just do it again. Just once more." He collapsed between them his voice choking him and tears started falling. "Just once more."
Temari and Kankuro looked at each other over a sobbing wreck of a ninja. The dignified unmotivated chunnin had been starved of any emotion except despair. So much so that within minutes he had pulled his weak body down three stories just for laughter. He stared at Temari through red eyes, his whispered pleas slipping out of his sobbing body. "Please. Onegai! ONEGAI!!"
Temari wiped his tears away, just holding him close, "It's alright now Shikamaru. You're safe."
Suddenly drained, Shikamaru stared limply at the floor, "Itachi. You are cruel. I could almost beleive it this time."
Subaku no Gaara opened the door into his office. Giving them one look that gave away nothing, he strode over and past them. Sand swirled around gently lifting the limp young man and folowed the Kazekage. Tsunade walked out and gave a weak smile. "I guess I won this round."
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-06-17 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-17 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-17 01:10 pm (UTC)I like this story~ Ok I cheated~ These two chapters were written I while ago~ I took it up again and am busy with chapter three.
I only gathered enough confidence to post it recently~
no subject
Date: 2007-06-17 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-17 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-17 06:56 pm (UTC)^^ (Don't worry I'm not insane. If that didn't make sense don't worry!)
no subject
Date: 2007-06-17 10:36 pm (UTC)