A Chance at Redemption

-:|Emotionally Dissonant|:-

Posted on: 21/04/16

A/N: This chapter is dedicated to az38389 for being an awesome ShikaTema fan. Hope you'll enjoy this chapter, girl.

Now back to the chapter---

"I am alone,
she is too.
I am merely sad
but she is broken..."
-Temari

Chapter: 3

"You couldn't find her?!"

Came an angry shout out towards a silent Juugo and a casually yawning Suigetsu. The voice itself would've been more than enough to make anyone flinch in fright. Anyone but these former missing nins who were well-acquainted with the guy's anger. They remained quiet and awaited their leader's next wave of verbal jabs. Ever since their return from their search mission, they've been hearing his anger-infused colourful words. And that too, all because they failed to find the object of their boss's interest.

It's not their fault that the girl is practically non-existent for if she were real then they would've at least got some hints about her presence. They looked around in every damn street in the village for three days but found no traces of pink hair or emerald irises as their leader had described her to be. They also asked the village locals about the rumour of a quarrel at the Yamanaka Flower Shop but no one could help them in getting any leads about the aforementioned girl. Still, just for the sake of their fondness for their leader, they went as far as to look for her around the neighbouring villages yet unfortunately, found nothing.

"Ne...why is she so important anyway?" asked a mildly amused Suigetsu.

Juugo gave him a warning glance but immediately backed-away when he saw the twitch in his master's eye. Suigetsu who had been standing inside a well-renovated house of the Uchiha Clan's leader was thrown-out merely by the sheer force of their leader's harsh thrust. He landed outside the main house, right on the streets of the newly-built Uchiha Compound. Their leader flashed his crimson irises down at the violet-eyed man, who had now turned into a puddle of water.

"Find her", was all that the blazing red-orbed man ordered to the liquefied guy.

With a signalling jerk of his head, he made Juugo leave the house and started walking to re-enter his newly-built home, leaving the puddle behind. However, just before he could take a step inside through the threshold, he heard a scoff coming from the white-haired man. He didn't turn but stopped to hear what the lean man had to say.

"Heh...know what, Sasuke? I don't give a fuck about this damned cherry blossom haired girl." Suigetsu spoke, slowly getting back on his feet.

He wiped the trail of blood that had formed below his lower lip because of the hard impact of his leader's solid punch and grinned.

"Look for her yourself because news flash: she doesn't exist!" He yelled.

"Sasuke don't listen to him. We'll find her. I promise you." Juugo spoke-up before Sasuke could land another punch at the former mist ninja's face and this time, an electrocuted one.

Sasuke's electrically charged fist deceased and he turned around to face his two former Taka members again. Angry would be an understatement, he was furious at Suigetsu's choice of words. How hard can it be to look for such a distinctively-featured girl? It's not like she disappeared into nothingness right after the war. He saw her during those gory battles between shinobi, each one of them trying to over-power the other. He also remembers how she had so rashly tried jumping into the last battle of the war- the match between him and the Kyuubi boy. Her screams of anger and sorrow were still fresh in his memories of that victory over his one and only best-friend. But if she was there at that time, alive and breathing then where did she go? She can't just vanish like that. He can't accept the fact of his old teammate's leave without a fight. She is alive. She is breathing. And she is also in the village. She is just way too clever for his subordinates to pull her out of her safe haven.