I Got Caught In A Storm... And Now I'm Stuck In Naruto!?!?

Breathe Again

Hello, gumdrops of mine! It's been a few days since I last updated, and well... In short:

Sasuke's SCREWED.

I mean, seriously, everyone hates him now xD IT'S ALL HIS FAULT! I got about ten comments discussing how much of a jerk he is xD

But, sadly... I really had to make him leave the village. See, he needed to leave so the whole plot of Shippudden can happen correctly.

ANDDDDDDDDD-- This story is, sadly, ending. I'm probably going to cut it off when it reaches maybe Chapter 75? 76? I'm not sure yet, but it will be over very soon. Which means...

SHIPPUDDEN TIME! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER, MAN!

Ahem. Anyway... The song on the side is "A Drop In The Ocean," by Ron Pope. I first heard it on Vampire Diaries, and I am IN LOVE! I decided to put it in this chapter, since there's a MinxiexNaruto moment, for all you MinxiexNaruto fans ;D Plus, it really described their relationship, and the way Naruto feels about Minx.

Anyway... I thank you for reading my rant ^.^ Hope you enjoy the chapter! :D

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Story Start::

The next few days passed like a blur. I couldn't remember what happened in any of them. I remembered seeing faces, shapes, events... But that was all. I didn't even feel like I was living anymore. I was just that broken.

Well, not broken. Not when I was in front of my friends, at least. I was at the hospital almost every single day, being there as I watched each of the guys recover. Neji and Choji had been taken out of the danger zone, and Kiba, Lee, Shikamaru, and Naruto were well on their way to a full recovery. I was always with them; joking around and laughing with them, hoping that it somehow made up for everything Sasuke did. And for a while, that was all right. Everything was all right.

That is, until I was alone.

When I'm by myself, the pain takes over again. There's no one to distract me, to make me forget... And it hurts. Heartbreak is one of the worst pains to endure. I can't even describe it in words. I just felt terrible every single second.

But I couldn't let anyone know that. Especially not Naruto. I was always happy in front of him, making sure he suspected that nothing was wrong with me. He'd sacrificed his life to keep a promise I didn't even know he had made to me. 

I haven't been able to sleep peacefully ever since I went out on that damn mission. Every single nightmare is always about the same thing: Sasuke. Him leaving. Everything he told me. It was that scene that replayed again and again in my mind, like a broken record.

I felt like I was going into some sort of state of depression, and there was absolutely nothing I could do to stop it. Kylie, Mitchell, and Josh all tried to be there for me, to ease the pain... But nothing they did ever worked.

I didn't hang out with my friends like I usually did. I'd stay in my room, avoiding them. The only time I was out of the house was when I was training, visiting the guys in the hospital, or sitting on a random roof in Konoha. But it was all so empty. I was so empty.

I was so emotionally messed up that I couldn't even DRAW anymore. Instead of creating the pretty landscapes I usually did, all that I drew were crappy, deformed shapes on a piece of paper. I couldn't write anything, either, so there went my need for a journal.

So, instead, I just sat in my room, staring blankly out at my balcony or at my wall.

I'd never felt so broken, so lost, in my entire life. Was it possible for someone who you loved, someone you trusted with everything... How could someone like that say terrible things to you? Did I really let him have that much power over me? Was he really that much of a monster? How many times had his love blinded me?