Here After

The Hidden Truth

Last night, there was a fight broke out at Kabukicho district. The involvement of the notorious Akatsuki Gang in the fight was confirmed by the police. Allegedly it happened after one of the member of the Gang harassed one of the workers from the crowdest Hostess Club in Kabukicho.

Said the news morning anchor conveying the story from last night incident. An amateur video from the scene was shown, then followed by an interview of the witnesses.

An initial report from a spokesperson said that the heir of the Uchiha hotel was also involved in the fight againts the Akatsuki Gang. However, the Tokyo police officers said it was remained unverivied until now.

She frowned upon the showned fact. Eventhough it said unverivied, but they already mentioning his profile and background. She was too absorbed to the absurdity of the news when someone was standing next to her.

"Uchiha Sasuke, wasn't it?"

Sakura stole a quick glance to the voice owner, she almost flinched. It was Akane Houra stood by folding his arms.

"He sure quite different from Itachi. You know him too, Sakura?" Akane sent her a cold stare. As though he knew something and it made him annoyed.

Sakura felt it was unnecessary to not telling the truth, "We were classmate back in Hokkaido."

Akane merely nodding his head. He then flashed a memory back when he met the rude young Uchiha. "Sasuke is such a snob. Although they're different, I don't know that he could go worse, poor Itachi."

Sakura sucked her cheeks. Says someone who loves to get famous he let the girl he had crush upon got insulted by his own parents right under his nose.

"Watching tv, huh? we've been looking for you, I thought you had an emergency call, Sakura-san."

Sakura turned to see one of her team members abruptly came at the perfect time. "C'mon, the chief and the managers already on their way," he said.

Sakura was indeed on her way to the meeting room when she side-glanced the news on the television inside the nurse station. She and her team had an important presentation and simulation all at once for her New Priority Emergency Response project, which they had been working on for almost a year.

Sakura had been dreaming to get invited to the annual meeting of the American Hearts Association, and by working day to night with her team for this project she had once again checked another point of her life's goals. Not to mention, their project was mentioned to be one of the candidate for the newest breakthrough of recucitation guidelines.

"Yeah, coming, I'm sorry for waiting," Sakura walked past Akane without a second glance.

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Washingtonw DC, 2021
Spring. A week after Orochimaru's Hostess Club Incident

A warm light touched Sasuke face from behind the grey curtain. It woken him up. The heavy eyelids flickered to open.

As Sasuke heaved a deep breath, he pushed his body up. Behind his too-long and messy hair, he glanced to the side table. It was 10.05 AM.

Sasuke is almost never oversleep it did not matter how late he went to sleep, or how drunk he was, he would always wake up before the sun got high above the head. Eventhough, right now his head was heavy and he needed to blinked few more times before he regained any clear sight.