Eyes bleed Tears 17

Chapter 17: Ittekimasu ~I'm off~

The beam of the sunlight penetrates through my eyelids making me squint and bring me back to consciousness from a relatively nice dream that hadn't visited me for many years now, although once I stir awake, my memories of the dream vanish without a trace.

I try to rub my eyes, but find that they are wrapped in thick bandages which remind me of what lies ahead of me today.

"Oh yeah..." I murmur under my breath.
Then I suddenly feel some movement and realise that right before me, underneath the duvet, is a presence.

I get shock to the extreme that I try to emit a scream that never comes out, but instead, replaced by only short gasping sounds.

More rustling sounds come from under the duvet and then a thick, drowsy voice comes from the lips that still seem to disapprove the movement of it.

"'mornin..."

I try to respond but it's like my heart is stuck in my throat and I can't even manage to express how shocked I am, until my heart freezes in shock for a different reason.

"AaaaaaaaaaAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaHHHHhhhhHHHhhHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

An ear-splitting scream comes from Sasuke...


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From the quiet words spoken by Naruto, I stir awake.
Just managing to turn around in bed to face the voice heard, I peel one eye towards the currently shocked blond, making my lips curve into a small smile before splitting it to open my mouth to greet him.

My tongue still opposes to movement and I close my eyes as I try to produce a voice that comes out as a lousy greeting, but satisfy with it for the time being.

When I gather the energy to tiredly open my heavy eyelids again, I see Naruto further shocked, opening and closing his mouth like a fish, making me grin.
But the grin soon turns into a grim frown as I feel a dull migraine creeping up on me.
My heavy hand travels up to my head to clutch the side of it as if searching for the origin of the mild headache, but finding none, I try to remember what had happened last night.

Where did I bump my head last night...?

Because I know well that I hadn't drunken any alcohol last night to even have a hangover...
As I try to activate my sleeping memory cells, my migraine starts worsening.
As if it's preventing me from making me remember something.

Do I even want to remember what happened...?

Just as I think that, all the information from yesterday comes rushing back into my head like I had pulled a trigger for self destruction.

So many heavy memories after memories stack on top of each other, crushing my mind and I feel the searing pain that seems like it's going to crack open my skull in two, any moment now.

Tears start falling down one after another as I scream at the unwanted guest filling my brain that is clearly giving me a warning alert that my brain is suffering from information overload.

From somewhere far away, I think I hear Naruto's voice and I follow it, sprinting towards it as if I'm scared that if I lose the sound of that voice, I will never be able to get out of where I am right now.

"...suke, ....s-suke?"

No...No...

"...ske....ke..."

No..! Don't go away!

The sound of the voice becomes fainter and fainter, giving me a rise of sheer panic, rushing my blood throughout my body, screaming to move faster.

I need to get to him... I really need to get to him!

I keep moving my legs forward, the light betraying me and moving away with Naruto's voice.

...wait! Naruto... Naruto...!

"NARUTO!!!"



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Sasuke wakes up with a start for the second time, but this time being wide awake.

Huh!? Waking up?

He then realises that he had fallen unconscious again to be woken up, not by Naruto, but by an unknown person.

"He is not here..." the blurring vision of a nurse reflects in his eyes as she replies to his outburst, also seeing the slight disturbed touch to her facial feature when she had mentioned 'he' which refers to Naruto.

The clearer his vision becomes, the more menacing his glare becomes towards the nurse as he distinguishes the nurse as another that doesn't forgive Naruto's existence.
So much darkness consumes around him that makes the nurse back away as soon as the I.V. is set up.

Wasting this nurse's efforts, Sasuke rips the receptors that stuck into his arm and he starts staggering towards the door that leads out to the corridor.

"W-wait! Uchiha-sama!" the nurse cries in panic but the mad raven pays no attention to her.

Looking around, he figures that he's back in his room, the floor above Naruto's and he rushes down the stairs, sensing something off. As he jogs over, the activated body jogs over his memories as well and reminds him that today is the day that Naruto is operating on his eyes.

Cold blood running down his veins, Sasuke sprints down the corridor of the blond's ward and slams the door open to find who he is hoping to find... but isn't there.

No...

He then notices a white paper sitting nicely upon the cleanly made bed as if it had been waiting patiently for the raven.
He picks it up, almost making him bring a smile to his lips at the messy writing that he recognises belongs to the blond's, although he had never seen Naruto's writing before.

Good morning, Sasuke.

I hope you are okay.
I will do operation today.
Wish me luck

Naruto

Reading the small letter twice, Sasuke's brows rise.
Such plain, childish-like wordings but more than that, Sasuke feels shock to see this piece of letter as if it saying casually 'Hi, I will be back later' and nothing more.

"...Naruto?"


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I panicked when Sasuke started screaming in agony. I didn't know what to do and my eyes watered. I tried calling his name repeatedly as my hands reached out to his shoulders, but he didn't seem to register my voice or touch. I pressed onto the nurse call and just hoped the doctor was nice enough to rush over as soon as soon could ever be.

It hurt to hear Sasuke screaming in pain that resonated right down to the core of my heart. I started to hear loud clacking of footsteps rushing down the corridor towards this room.

"H-help Sasuke! He's in pain!" I screamed.




After an hour later, I heard that Sasuke was put to sleep and calmed with some sort of anaesthetics to go along with his pain that he had been holding. I don't know why he had suddenly become like that, but I assumed it was from something related to "I found out the true reason why I live here".

His scream that reached the core of my heart reminded me of when I was screaming in agony too just a few days ago.

I must've been like this, and Sasuke must've felt so scared, helpless and felt the pain too...

"Naruto. It's time for your operation," I heard doctor's words from behind me.
I turned around and asked her for a pencil and a piece of paper.

If I was Sasuke... What would I want...?

I remembered the evident panic I heard in Sasuke's tone of voice when he heard that I was going to get my eyes removed. He was, to describe exactly, horrified.

Then I will have to write a message that won't pressure on him...

Truth be told, I was terrified. The operation and all, but I didn't want to write anything like that to Sasuke who would be anxiously waiting for me to get the operation done.
I wanted to sound as if I was just out and will be back soon.
It's no big of a deal... just like going out to get a drink of coffee. I will be back soon... that kind of feeling.

I wonder if Sasuke will get my message...

I never learnt how to write properly, so I knew my wordings were childish, but all the better, because this will sound less serious, just like how I want it.

I managed to force a small smile and leave a couple of words that hang in the air, with the white paper upon my bed that Sasuke was bound to find, before following the doctor out of the room.

"Sasuke... Ittekimasu..."