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Sasuke sighed as he felt the pills slide backwards across his tongue and down his throat. He didn’t even know why he had brought them. Today was supposed to be a good day. On good days he was supposed to go through the day content and, in a sense, happy. He wouldn’t need anything to keep him straight, nothing to make him feel normal. He wouldn’t drink or take anything. It was a good day. But it seemed that those days were becoming fewer and fewer now. Did that mean things were getting worse? Probably.
He closed his eyes. The pills were pain medication, subscribed for the mark that still seared his lower neck. He brought a hand up and ran it across the mark. The pain medication must have kicked in because there was no pain.
That mark still hurt after all this time. It hurt more than anyone could ever imagine. He felt a few indentations around the mark. He knew they were from his fingernails. He couldn’t count how many times he’d dug the skin in fits of pain. Usually at night. While he was being choked by the silence in his room. That’s when it hurt the most. He was always tossing and turning until he decided the pain wouldn’t stop no matter how many ways he turned. Then he would lie on his side, his body writhing and gripping the mark. He wasn’t even aware of the blood that slipped threw his fingers as he dug his nails into it. He remembered throwing pillows and blankets, lifting himself onto his knees and shrieking with it. He remembered releasing those primal screams, groping in the dark for something. Anything to stop the pain, whether it is alcohol, pills…a kunai.
Now a sound reached his ears and he turned his head, the bottle disappearing into his pocket. To his right, in the opening of the alley, stood six figures. They were cloaked in the blanket of darkness. “Can I help you?” Sasuke asked. One of the men came forward. “Yeah, now that you mention it, you can.”
Sasuke’s response was a raised eyebrow.
“Stay away from Sakura! She’s too good for you.” the man spat.
“How old are you? 5? 6?”
“You insolent child! I’m 23!”
“A child? Oh no. It’s been a long time…since I could be considered a child. But you guys picked the wrong night to mess with me.” Slowly Sasuke came forward. He was smirking sadistically, hands in his pockets. The pills gave him a deliciously numb feeling and he felt invincible when he took them. Not that he wasn’t close enough. The men bravely kept their ground, even when Sasuke’s eyes burned with the power of his Sharingan. He walked forward, every step deliberate as he cracked his knuckles.
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Sakura jumped from rooftop to rooftop, searching desperately for the Uchiha heir. She looked down all of the alleys and (with unease) all the gutters, hoping not to find him in one of those. She was caught by a yelp and instantly ran towards the sound. She stopped on the rooftop of a house and stared into the alley.
It was definitely Sasuke. It was obvious that he had only frightened one of the men who had fallen backwards. She called his name and jumped down beside him. She was pushed behind him the second her feet touched the ground. She gripped his shoulder and looked over it. The men were pulling up there comrade and scolding him for his cowardice. “Sasuke what’s going on here?” she hissed. He wasn’t quite so secretive with his answer. “These dips thought it’d be fun to try and take on an Uchiha. Isn’t that right, boys? Who’s an insolent child!?” Sakura looked up at him. He was grinning. Grinning. Sakura’s eyes widened in fright. The curse mark? No, there’s no abnormal chakra. And it was sealed a while ago by Kakashi-sensei. Then…did he? “Sasuke? Did you…do something? Were you drinking?”
“No. No one around here lets me drink at the bars. Minor, remember?”
“But…you don’t seem yourself. What’s wrong?”
“…nothing.” he didn’t meet her eyes.
“Don’t look away from me, Uchiha!” Her tone had risen now, forgetting the men at the end of the alley. “Did you do something? Did you…take something? Like…something bad?” she didn’t want to say the word ‘drugs’, afraid it would make the situation real. Sasuke still wouldn’t look at her; instead he kept his eyes over her shoulder. She had to grab his face to make him look at her. But even that was a mistake. Suddenly she was thrown against the wall. Sasuke’s Sharingan was blazing in front of her face. “Don’t. Touch. Me. So what if I took something? Why is that any of your business!? What I do…you would never understand the reason why. You wouldn’t know. You don’t understand! You could never understand!”
“Then teach me! Teach me what hurts! Show me.”
“I told you before…but you didn’t listen. I told you not to love me. I told you I’d make you cry. I guess…it may just be time to show you. Maybe then you’ll understand. You’ll understand that maybe…maybe this is all a mistake. That you shouldn’t love me.”