Disclaimer: I say this once and once only, so listen well. I do not own Naruto or its characters, but I do claim ownership of my own storyline and her characters.
Rainy WindowPane
Prologue
What would you do if every time you wanted someone, they were never there?
What would you do if every time you cried out for help, nobody answered?
What would you do if you fell in love with someone, and then was forced to say good-bye?
What would you do if for every moment you were truly happy, there would be ten moments of sadness?
What would you do if your best friend died tomorrow, and you never got to tell them how you felt?
What would you do if you loved someone more than anything else, and you could never have him or her?
Some people live. Some people die.
But I want to tell you that I love you…
That I will always be here for you when and if you need me…
If I died tomorrow, you would be in my heart forever.
Would I be in yours?
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The scent of blind panic, carried along the whispering wind smashed into his mind, and he knew he had found him.
He raced down the dark eerie alleyways, following the two scents that so strongly invaded his senses, one disgustingly familiar, one freshly unknown. He dashed through the gently falling rain, around a corner, and saw two dark figures masked by shadows.
He growled deep in his throat and he leisurely stopped, a mere breath from the victim.
An eerie sneer alighted his features, his fangs flashing white in the dark before disappearing altogether, body and all.
Sasuke snarled in frustration, ready to give chase when the victim caught his eye.
She had pressed herself as close to the stone wall behind her as she could get. Her clothes were in tatters, drenched in water and muck. Her hair clung to her face and neck in wet stringy clumps. Her eyes were wide in fright, and her skin was pale and clammy.
She kept staring at the place where he had been. Unblinking. Unmoving.
Sasuke began to wonder if he had gotten to her before he could arrive when her eyes suddenly snapped up to his, and Sasuke suddenly found that he couldn't move.
His heart stopped and his breath stilled, before restarting in the faintest, in time with hers.
Her thin, frail body looked like it was barely holding her together, her clothes at least two sizes too big on her petite frame.
And then in the next moment she fainted, her body's stress finally catching up with her fatigue.
Sasuke's body acted of its own accord and caught her before she hit the ground, surprise flooding through his system at not only his reaction, but at just how thin and light she actually was. Now that he was closer he observed how unnatural the slimness was.
"He must have been desperate to go after her," he muttered to himself.
Now what to do? He couldn't just leave her here, not in the condition she was in.
Sighing heavily he decided to bring her home, already anticipating and half-dreading the conversation that would spring up because of it.
Author's Footnote: I think I am certifiably insane. I am going to try and write two fanfictions at the same time. Alas, they both call out to me at the same time to continue writing them, so I am heeding their call. So a word of warning now, updates may be slower than usual, but I will try my best to keep up with them both.