Melody (Konoha School Of Arts)

14. Come awake

I said I'd update on Saturdays and Wednesdays but look at the day I'm updating. Oh well, nobody complaints right?

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It was closing hours at Konoha school of arts and Sasuke was on class duty with Juugo. One would wonder why there was need for mundane things such as class duty when they were in a school for the wealthiest of the wealthy but KSA not only focused on producing intellectual people but well rounded and mannered individuals as well.

He was in the middle of wiping the board clean when a call came in from his mother. That was weird, his mother never called him especially if she knew that he was still in school unless there was an emergency. What could she be calling him for?

Sasuke gasped in realisation as he swiped across the screen. "Mother?" He asked as the call connected. His mother sounded breathless from overwhelming emotions which made the boy really afraid. Did something happen to Itachi? Was Itachi...

"S-Sasuke! Itachi..."

Sasuke's hands fell limply at his sides as he took a moment to register the news. Juugo's worried call on his name did not reach his ears, neither did the complaints of the people in the hallway as he brushed past everybody in a hurry.

He found himself immensely grateful that his driver was always there on time to pick him up from school when he got to the front doors and saw the familiar car. "Take me to the hospital!" He ordered without even allowing the man to get the door for him.

Sasuke was restless throughout the ride to the hospital. Despite it being a twenty minute ride, it had felt like it took three hours to get there to Sasuke. Once the car pulled up at the hospital's parking lot, the boy didn't wait for anything before he bounded off.

He ignored the angry nurses' yells not to run in the hallway and avoided every patient he saw with panicked precision until he finally, finally, got to his brother's VIP room. All eyes turned to him when he opened the door.

Mikoto was standing just a little ways from the hospital bed while a nurse stood closer to it and seemed to be checking Itachi up. Said teen looked at Sasuke with wide yet tired eyes for a moment before carrying his gaze away. Sasuke mirrored his sentiments because he wasn't sure where to go from here.

Itachi was awake now and he needed to talk to his brother, at least to Kakashi he needed to, but what was he going to say? Itachi clearly disliked his bratty brother enough to choose such a way out.

"Sasuke." Mikoto's voice followed after the boy as he walked brusquely away from the room. Itachi had woken up, he was greatly relieved but this just meant that sooner or later his family would have to resume back to its normal routine; Itachi working hard and getting the glory while Sasuke did his best and got no form of acknowledgement, not from their father or mother or even school.

Don't get Sasuke wrong, he loved Itachi but he hated him at the same time– his presence that is. He was so bright but it was not the kind of brightness that gave other opaque objects light to shine, his brightness was of a smothering quality. His brightness singed Sasuke and it hurt.

Kakashi sure made it easy to believe that talking would be possible between the brothers when Itachi woke up. Sasuke knew first hand that talking was not as easy as it seemed in his imaginations. What would he even say? 'I hate you but I love you and I somehow wish you were still in coma so that I would keep on being the center of attention?'

What would Itachi say to him? What would be his reason for trying to escape? Was he trying to escape from Sasuke? The boy was silent throughout the ride to his house. Well he was always mostly silent but for even Sasuke, this form of silence was worrying enough to cause the driver to ask after his health.