[FINISHED] The Past Mistake (A SasuNaru FanFiction)

Chapter 004 - Uzumaki Sensei

"Good morning, Takahashi-san. How are you feeling today?" Naruto, already in a white coat, entered his patient room with a grin.

"Good morning to you too, Uzumaki-sensei. Speaking frankly, I don't really feeling good. I woke up emptying my already empty stomach first thing in the morning and still feeling weak now." Mrs. Takahashi replied in a weak tone which succeed making Naruto pout while holding the IV, checking it.

"I know it's hard, but you got to hang in there for your family." Naruto smiled sweetly, trying his best to press the sad feeling inside.

"Don't worry, Uzumaki-sensei. Please be happy because if your mood is not good, I will be affected as well." The woman reasoned.

"I'm sorry, Takahashi-san. I won't do that again." Immediately the smile turned into a grin.

Mrs. Takahashi smiled seeing that.

"Have you eaten, Takahashi-san?" Naruto asked as he scribbled something on his chart while at the same time checking the woman with his stethoscope.

"Yes..."

"How was the food?"

"Oatmeal, sensei. You judge." The woman actually giggled.

Naruto grinned. "Well then. I will shot you, okay?"

The woman sighed but nodded nonetheless. The two chit-chatted light topic, initially it was the way for Naruto to distract the woman from getting shot with a syringe.

"I will be going then." Naruto said with a smile after he was done with Mrs. Takahashi.

"Take care, sensei, and thank you so much." The woman said sincerely with a weak smile.

Naruto smiled and waved before he left.

The time he left the room, a single teardrop fell down his tanned cheek. He wiped it with his white coat, feeling like a total failure as a doctor. He couldn't save lives. All he could do was prolonged them, making them suffer even longer. He knew that Mrs. Takahashi wouldn't last a month now, because she was getting weaker as time went by.

Naruto went to the rest room to wash his face before he met his next patient. He needed to get himself together. It was useless, however. He couldn't focus after that. He started spacing out too often that day. He also felt so sleepy because he didn't get any sleep last night. He kept yawning.

Last night after Sai left, he had a nightmare and was followed by a weird dream after.

The nightmare consisted of him involving in a car crash. He was speeding up the street and all he could remember was he was seeing blurry street until another car honked him few times, he swerved the steering wheel and crashed himself on a tree and he woke up, panting. His shirt was wet, covered with sweat it stuck like a second skin on his body. His heart stung and he had no idea why, he cried silently. He should've asked Sai to stay because he felt so lonely all of a sudden. Eventually he fell asleep again after he undid his shirt, he somehow felt so tired from the nightmare. The time he fell asleep, a new dream appeared and it was a weird one.

The weird dream consisted of him standing in the middle of a dim room he didn't recognize. It was like an apartment but he couldn't quite make out of it. He was walking aimlessly, when a voice called out his name.

"Naruto?" the voice said.

Naruto knitted his eyebrows in confusion.

"Naruto... Get out of there and come here!" came that voice again.

"Who are you?"

"Naruto, hurry up!"

Naruto kept his pace and huge gates appeared. He kept walking toward the gates. The time flew and he was getting tired because it seemed that he couldn't reach them.