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Chapter Forty

Three chapters left! I kinda cried a bit when writing the ending, so be aware...also I love this chapter too. So  I hope you enjoy it and thanks for reading! :]

"Get the doctor, she's awake!"

The nurse left the room, leaving her in charge of the two men in the room.

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She woke up, a giddy feeling in her chest. Her arms moved around to grip onto the railing on the bed, but found herself incapable of moving. She bit back a groan before using her feet to push her body back and up against the pillow.

Instead, she found herself inwardly screaming after feeling a sensation of pain flourish throughout her leg. She used one of her arms, ignoring the pain, and peeled the thin blanket from her body.

She frowned when she saw the thin cast of bandages over her leg. She then used her other foot to push her body back against the headboard, and finally sat herself on the bed.

Now that she could see clearly, she noted that she wasn't the only one in the room. Naruto Uzumaki sat down in the chair in the middle of the room, his thumbs twiddling on his phone. Her brother sat in his own bed as well, eating a meal of pudding and bread.

The happiness in her chest vanished.

"Hey, you're awake." Naruto chided before shutting his phone off, flashing Sayuri a small smile.

She sent a small smile back before asking, "No offense though, but why are you here?"

"Oh, Sakura-chan sent me here. She was busy doing rounds at the hospital, and was banned from seeing you 'cause Tsunade was being an old hag." The way he mouthed his words at such a fast pace made it hard for her to read.

She nodded. "Well that's--"

"Why'd you hurt her, Sayuri?" Said girl's happiness was further damaged once his tone turned serious.

"I--"

"She was crying. All day, all night. She ran to us and..." Naruto sighed, and for the first time, Sayuri saw him frown. "She just cried and said your name...said that you lied to her."

Silence.

"Now, I don't know what you did to make her so sad...and angry...but...you hurt her, and I wanna know why." Naruto Uzumaki demanded.

Sayuri was frozen, and before she could sign, Kakashi cut in. "She broke Sakura's heart."

Naruto stood up from his chair, eyes confused. "Wha--"

"She broke it. Lied to her and used Sakura's affection for her as leverage. She used her to get popular, and then broke Sakura's heart--"

"Kakashi!" Sayuri shouted, enraged. This was the first time she used her voice in a while. It was hoarse and rough; the words barely made it out of her mouth. "Shut up! Naruto, it's not true!"

"Don't believe her, Naruto! It's true, she told me about it! Believe me, I'm your friend--"

"Oh please, a teacher being friends with a student?"

Naruto was left confused.

Sayuri drew out an angry breath and turned to her brother, the one sitting across from her. From one glance, anyone could tell she was livid.

Kakashi sent her an innocent look. "What? I'm just telling the tru--"

"Would you just shut up?!" Her throat was already aching.

After seeing Kakashi break out into a smile, Naruto thought this was all a joke. Sadly, he did not see the gleam in his eye or the daunting smirk laced within the smile. Unnoticeably, he let out a laugh before taking out his phone to take a video, thinking that he'd use this for blackmail. Man, even though they don't admit it, they love each other.

But being the hard-headed boy he is, he didn't get it.

"Hey, don't tell me to shut up--"

"Just shut up! Okay?! I'm sick and tired off all this. I'm...I hate all of this. All of the pain you put me through, I hate it! I'm sick of it. Why are you so focused on ruining my life, huh? Do you take pleasure from it?"

Kakashi and Naruto were taken aback, and yet the camera was still rolling. Whoops, the blonde sheepishly thought.

"Screw whatever I told you in the car, I haven't finished what I wanted to say yet," Sayuri muttered. "All I wanted was for you to accept me. For you to love me, for you to be my brother! You're my brother, for Christ's sake. I did all those things you told me to do because I thought that would make you happy. Why? Because all my life, I thought I ruined yours. I thought that with me being the way I was, it ruined your life.

"I thought I embarrassed you! I thought I humiliated you! I thought..." She wiped the tears from her cheeks and averted her gaze to the ceiling. She couldn't bare looking at her brother.

Those first few she spoke were the ones she's been holding in for years.

Meanwhile, Naruto sweat-dropped, noting the fact that the two of them certainly forgot he was in the room with them.

"God, I just...I'm just tired." She continued. "I'm tired of all of this. You know, I thought that...that if I went here, you wouldn't be here. As mean and harsh as this seems, I didn't want you to be here. Why? Because I'm just sick and tired...I hate all of this...this drama, this conflict going between us. And then you just decided to make it public, you decided to make it known...

"I lost all of my friends because of you. I lost the approval of all those teachers, and they hated me. You decided to play as the innocent brother, and everyone pitied you because they thought that I was such an embarrassment to you. And you just acted like the loving big brother, and everyone just felt so bad for you like 'Oh, look at Kakashi, a big brother, so nice, and having to sacrifice all his things for his bratty sister!' And I thought that all of this would end once I reached here, but when I stepped inside that class, I just regretted going there.

"I had friends here, I had people here! I started new here, and you just decided to ruin it all for me again. Do you know how many times I tried running away from you, just so that I could get my own happiness? I spent so much of my happiness for you to have and in the end you just threw it all away.

"And even then, I still love you, because you're my brother!" She cried. "You're my brother and you...you were there for me then, and even if you aren't there now...I still love you! And it hurts, it hurts because you don't feel the same. You don't accept me, you don't support me, you don't love me. Not even in the slightest.

"You convinced me so many times...you made me believe that I was ugly. That I was fat. That I was stupid, that I was weak. And that no one, no one would ever love me because I was...I was just a mistake. You made me feel worthless. You mad everyone believe that. You made everyone torture me, hurt me, and hate me like you did.

"You made be believe my own parents didn't love me, even in their own deaths. You made me believe that my own mother wished I wasn't born.

"And...and if my own family doesn't love me, then who will?"

She took a deep breath.

"But...even though you've done this to me in the past...even though you've hurt me countless times, beat me down so many times, discouraged me, hated me, insulted me...repeatedly..."

This time, her head veered straight at Kakashi.

"I love Sakura, and...I just hope Sakura loves me. And...I'm not going to let you ruin that. Not this one. This is my one chance at happiness and I am going to get it, no matter what."

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