|✔|Konoha Academy's Betrayal |Sakura x Kiba|

14.) Rain, Rain

I can hear the rain pounding on the roof as I change back into my school uniform. I mentally kick myself for not listening to my mother last night when she told me a storm was rolling in. Oh well I suppose, the rain isn't all that bad.

I pull my shoulder bag out of my gym locker and lock it back up. I feel the queasiness from this morning coming back full force as I head towards the exit, stepping out into the now cool moist air. I have to confront Sasuke, if I wait any longer I'm no better than he is.

"Sakura." I hear the oh to familiar deep voice from my right. I turn to see Sasuke leaning against the building waiting for me.

I smile at him weakly before he takes me into his arms. "Still not feeling good?" He asks quietly as his lips brush against the top of my head.

The sickening feeling I have been feeling all day washes over me as his cologne tickles my nose and Ino's words from the beginning of the year echo through my head again. "I heard that he hooked up with that second year Karin over the summer. I'm sure if you think about it you will know exactly when that was."

I take a deep breath and pull out of his embrace to look him in the eye. I'm suddenly overwhelmed with sadness and heartbreak. I can't believe that the last few months have been a complete lie.

Sasuke's brow furrows and I'm sure that he can read the pain in my eyes. "Sakura, what's wrong?" He asks going to take one of my hands in his.

For the first time today I let myself flinch and pull away. "Don't pretend you care about me." I say, my voice a little shaky.

Sasuke drops his hand and stairs at me. I know that he's not going to say anything. I know the look that's in his eye. He knows that I know and anything that we could have had is over. "How could you?" I hiss through newly forming tears. I don't want to cry in front of him, but I hurt so badly now. My whole body aches as I finally let the realization of what's happening hit me. "How long?" I manage to ask as I try to suppress my tears.

I watch as Sasuke stares back at me impassively. "Four months." He says dully.

I break my stare with his cold onyx eyes as my heart constricts painfully. I don't think that I can handle this any longer. I can feel myself coming apart and the sickening feeling creeping through me. "Were you ever going to tell me?" I mumble, not able to look at him any longer.

There is no answer from Sasuke. If I couldn't see his shoes I would have thought he had walked away. Knowing I wont receive an answer from him and not wanting to chance another look at him I turn and head off into the rain, my tears getting swept away with the rain drops.

The pain in my chest is unbearable as I wonder off the campus in the complete opposite direction of my home. I don't want to go home, not to my parents who will ask me how my day was. There was no way to answer that without melting into an even larger emotional puddle.

All I hear in my head are his final words, four months. Four months is just over a quarter of the time that we were together! I want to scream as the emptiness inside me slowly consumes me and my tears turn to great gulping sobs. You're so stupid!

I find myself in a park with a small memorial shrine in the center. I have no idea where I am as I sit on the cool stone. The rain is cold on my skin but I'm beyond numb to even care. I feel like my heart has literally been pulled from my chest. I gasp for air as my sobs keep coming.

I recall this summer and how happy we seemed to be, hanging out with all our friends at the beach. The memory of taking pictures in the photo booth at the mall brings a sharp pain searing through my chest.

I just don't understand. How could he have been so miserable to cheat that long? And I was stupid enough to not even see it coming! I try and take a deep breath but it comes in staggered gulps. I lie my cheek on the cool stone of the memorial, the rain long since soaking through my clothes and leaving my hair sopping.

It's then that the second wave of realization hits me. He looked me in the eye and lied to me for the last four months. All the kisses, all the hugs, movie nights spent snuggling on the couch meant nothing to him apparently. A new wave of heartache washes over me at the realization that I meant nothing to him, leaving me emptier than I thought possible.

It sounds like there's a wounded animal nearby, but I know that's just the faint sound of my howls of agony. The thought only makes me sob harder and soon I'm gagging on my own tears. I lean my head over the edge of the stone as the dry heaves start.

Suddenly I feel a warm hand pulling my soaked hair back from my face. Startled I bolt up to see Kiba standing over me. Humiliation sweeps through me for a second time today. Did he follow me? I turn away from him and hide my face. I don't want anyone to see me like this.

"I overheard Sasuke and you outside the gym." He mutters.

I try to laugh it off like I did this morning but a sob escapes my lips instead, releasing yet another flood gate of tears. Why did he follow me here? I hardly know him. "Why?" I manage to get out through my sobs.

"You're Hinata's best friend, and she's my best friend." He says quietly.

I uncover my face and look up at the sky letting the rain drops beat against my face like little knives. I really want the horrendous agony that I'm in to stop. I lie back on the cold stone and continue to sob. I have never felt anything like this. My whole body aches but what's worse is it feels like my soul is in just as much pain.

"If you stay out here you're going to catch a cold." Kiba scolds now.

I can tell he means well but I just want to lie here. The hollowness inside my chest is so painful that moving seems pointless and is more effort than I'm willing to exert. There is silence for a long while, only the sound of my pain can be heard through the rain.

"I called Hinata. She's on her way." Kiba says, finally breaking the silence as he sits down in front of me.

Am I really that out of it to not notice he had gotten up and left briefly? "You shouldn't have..." I sob. Why did he have to go and get her involved in my remarkable display of stupidity?

"Sakura damn it, you have to move out of the rain." Kiba pleads with me, an angry edge in his voice now. The concern on his face is apparent but I don't register it. My mind is still stuck on the loss of Sasuke and the pain that it brings.

Without warning Kiba scoops me up into his arms and stands. I feel the squish of my soaked uniform against my skin. I try to push him away feeling more exposed in his arms than I did on the cold stone but he only holds me tighter.

"Forget fighting." He grumbles as he carries me off to somewhere I don't know.

I give up, surrendering to the unbearable pain. Who cares anyway? I sob uncontrollably into Kiba's chest as he carries me God knows where. The last thing I see is a flash of lighting and I feel Kiba quicken his strides, as I drift into a comforting darkness.

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