Goodbye Apathy

"Naruto!" Sakura shouted, a phone tucked in between her cheeks and shoulder while both of her hand were on the steering wheels.

"Where are you now? Answer me!" Sakura bawled through her phone as she gave a harsh turn to the left of the road.

"Sakur-"

Sakura winced as she could hear a loud crash behind her phone. She immediately screamed for his name again, but all she could hear were some muffling noise.

She bit her lips and stepped further onto her accelerator. Sakura was determined to find Naruto before he was really beaten to death. If that were to happen, she would never forgive herself.

'Damn you Naruto… why do you always have to get into gang fights and have to make me worry for you?' Sakura gritted her teeth, looking at the rear mirror once in a while.

That was when a group of guys in one of the narrow alley caught her attention. She slowly stepped onto her brakes and turned towards the gang that were bashing up someone that seemed familiar to Sakura.

"Naruto!" Sakura yelled in her car once again, throwing the phone beside her passenger's seat and started un-buckling her seat belt. There were big and tough guys standing around Naruto, and the blonde was just rolling on the floor in pain.

Sakura widened her eyes and flung open her car door. Without bothering to lock the vehicle, she stomped towards the group of guys and pushed one of the members aside, to only find her blonde friend lying, almost unconscious, on the ground.

"What the hell are you doing?" Sakura scowled, pushing the rest that were still kicking and punching Naruto in his stomach. All her friend did was to cough out blood.

Everyone turned and stared at the small and fragile girl before them. Even though all of them looked menacing and terrifying, Sakura's determination didn't waver, just like her pair of bright emerald eyes that were glaring at each and everyone.

Sakura walked steadily towards her friend as Naruto used all his might to open his bruised eyes as much as he could just to look back at his friend. Sakura ignored the commotion and picked Naruto up, grabbing his arm and placed it around her shoulder, ready to leave as nothing had happened.

"Where the fuck do you think you are going bitch? This guy still owes us an apology for kicking up a fuss in our territory." The man with a black baggy T-shirt shouted, glaring at her with his two beady eyes.

"I don't care who started this or what the hell happened between you two, but you shouldn't hurt my friend." Sakura growled back, looking as furious as everyone that were blocking her way.

"Grab her, we are not done with him. No one is going to leave until both of them die." The most tallest, muscular men stepped forward. He had the looks of a leader, and it seemed that Sakura's theory was right when she noticed everyone was afraid to defy his command that were ordered by him.

Two men grabbed hold of Naruto and pulled the blonde away from her, who was already gasping for air. Sakura was surprised for a split second but she immediatey reacted, wanting to pull him back when another two pushed her onto a wall.

"Let go of me!" Sakura glared at the two, struggling out of their grip.

Both of them just drooled at the her beautiful beautiful slim and curvy body. One even began to touch her hair while the another took her waist.

"Is this hair color natural?" He whispered seductively.

"Shut the fuck up!" Sakura narrowed her eyes, turning her head away.

The two members glanced at each other, nodding both of their head in unison. They grabbed hold of her shoulder and yanked her hair, knocking her head against the wall. Sakura bit her lips and swallowed her scream, bearing the pain on her large forehead as much as she could. A huge bruise had formed on her head and all Sakura could do was to struggle helplessly in between the two men. Instead of helping Naruto out, she knew she was actually digging her own graves, including Naruto's.

She closed her eyes in annoyance, recalling the peaceful events that happened before she ended up in a rather dark alley with a few cuts on her arm and her large forehead bruised.

Sakura was having a stroll in the park with a nice-looking guy she met in a restaurant that evening. And all of the sudden, Naruto called her and told her he was in trouble near this area, and so she rushed over.

And the irritating part was, she was hitting off pretty well and the guy was about to give his contact number to her and asked her out for a date again when this got to happen to her.

Not that she's blaming Naruto. But seriously, must all these guys really pick some random person that stepped into their area and beat them up? They weren't the government, they didn't own and freaking territory, so why were they giving so much crap about it? Bullshit.

Sakura lost her patience and clicked her tongue annoyingly.

"Nice looking dress you have, it's a pity that it's ruined." The guy yanked her hair and pulled her forward. She stumbled onto the ground to only be pulled back onto the spot.

The pain she was suffering was all right, but she could not tolerate it when someone was mocking her expensive dress.

'It's not ruined, you assholes. It's just-' Sakura thought to herself as she observed her white spaghetti strap dress and her two pretty light blue high heels. But to her horror of her life, she realized what they had meant.

A blotch of unknown colored paint stain was stuck at the corner of her dress. And the laces were torn and tattered when she had scratched onto the rough surface on the ground.

Oh yeah, when you were in a gang fight, do not wear nice clothes.

The leader approached towards her after dealing with Naruto at one corner. The two-gang members held her still until their leader had approached them to deal with Sakura. Without any acknowledgment to the other two, he went forward and grabbed her lower jaw, forcing her to look into his dull brown eyes. "Bitch. Today is your lucky day, as long as you-"

Before he could finish his sentence, Sakura had kindly spitted her salvia on the leader's face. It was sort of Sakura's behavior, she'll never back down, she'll never stooped that low and begged for forgiveness just because of this slight torture. But sometimes, Sakura couldn't set the different situation at different times.

Yes, she could spit at a few girls who were making fun of her best friend Hinata. Yes, she could spit at anyone that tried to hurt her friend; like now.

But seriously, she's not just digging her grave using a shovel, but with a bulldozer.

The leader wiped his face disgustingly with his shirt before widening his eyes threateningly.

"Fuck you…" His tone was low and vicious, as if he was about to kill anyone in sight. But little did Sakura know, the leader actually took out a gun from his back pocket and pointed directly right at her head.

Sakura gasped. The two members that were standing beside pushed her down onto the floor before stepping back. Sakura could have taken the chance to escape, but her knees were wobbly and her nerve systems weren't acting normally.

She had never seen a gun in her life, only on television shows and books that were talking about guns.

Until now…

He put his finger around the trigger, smirking at Sakura who was trying hard not to look afraid. "After you, would be that fucking bastard."

Not allowing her to say any last words, he just goes and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

Sakura closed her eyes as tight as possible. All she knew was that her heart was thumping very fast. But the problem was, she could not feel anything; literally.

"Fuck!"

Sakura immediately flung open her eye, she looked down on her dress and everywhere on her body, but there were no signs of blood anywhere. She looked up surprisingly to find the leader unknowingly on the floor and the gun right beside the trash bin a few meters away from him.

The leader's stomach was facing the ground while his right arm was forcefully pulled back. His wrist was twisted hundred and eighty degrees back. A redhead was grabbing hold onto the gang leader's hand. One of his foot on the leader's back, pushing him further onto the ground while pulling his arm up, twisting his wrist around as Sakura could hear a horrible cracking noise of his bone.

"Fucking let go of me! You bastard!"

Sakura widened her eyes and immediately got up onto her feet. Her eyes were glued to the sudden commotion that was happening in that very spilt second when she was about to get killed.

That redhead saved her life.

"Whoa… nice looking gun here yeah."

A few gangsters were planning to grabbed hold of the gun and took this chance to escape with Sakura as a hostage, but they immediately stepped back when a weird looking blonde approached to the trash bin and picked up the gun, inspecting it before putting his finger in the trigger guard and swing it around playfully.

"Don't do that." The redhead muttered. The blonde just waved his hand at him, continuing doing what he was doing.

"Did you freaking hear me? Let go!"

The redhead turned and gave a nasty looking glare at the leader before slowly twisting his fingers one by one.

"Ow Fuck!"

"If you want me to let go, tell your dogs to put down that girl's friend." Sasori mumbled, glancing at Naruto who was still struggling unconsciously at the corner of the alley.

"Didn't you hear him? Let him go!" The leader yelled at them, glaring at the two-gang members who were confusingly wondering what should they do. But right after the leader shouted at them, they freed Naruto, only letting him to fall onto the ground, unconscious.

"Let go now!" The leader shouted again.

"Not until you let both of them go off first." He added another deal.

The leader just snorted, giving a menacing glare that could kill anyone he looked at.

Sakura understood the meaning that the leader gave and rushed towards Naruto. She picked him up and placed his arm around her shoulder. Sakura just glanced at the entire group before limping out of the alley as fast as she could.

The redhead gave a sidelong glance at the two until they had finally got out of the narrow back-lane. His blonde friend just stood there, enjoying the show, still swinging the gun with his finger.

He finally released the gang leader and all the members rushed to him, picking him up and brushed away all the dirt on his shirt.

"You basta-" The leader turned around and glared at them before he widened his eyes in disbelief. When he was on the ground, it was impossible for him to see the person that was torturing him. And now when he had knew...

The two of them just crossed their arm, slowly approaching them.

"You two... Aren't you from Aka..." The leader was too stunned to continue. He turned swiftly and faced all his members, his tone shaky and nervous. "What the f-fuck are you all d-doing? Get out of here!" He shouted, giving a hesitating glance at the two who were just standing there, observing the gang as they rushed out of the alley.

0o0

Sakura opened the car door uneasily and pushed Naruto into the car before slamming it as hard as possible. Her heart was beating so fast and her shoulders were aching like no tomorrow. She leaned heavily onto the vehicle and all she could do was to take in a few deep breathes before opening the car door to start her car and head to the hospital.

At that moment, the sound of footsteps could be heard not so far away. Sakura jolted out from her thoughts and glanced at the alley that she just escaped from.

The gang were running, a few tripped but they got onto their feet in not time. The leader was already ahead, bustling away.

Sakura was in shock. What on earth did the two strangers that unknowingly saved Naruto and her life did to the group of gangsters?

Speaking of the devil, the two walked out of the narrow alley, not even hurt or scratched. The blonde probably had thrown away the gun and the redhead just put his hands in his pocket, trudging alongside with the blonde.

'That guy…'

'I still owe him a thank you…' Sakura thought. Without thinking twice, she rushed up to the two, despite her messy attire and hair.

"Wait a moment!" She shouted, glancing at the two nervously.

Sakura knew they were good guys, even though they must have held some authority around here to scare those hooligans away, but they looked much kinder and nicer that the previous gang she encountered.

"Yes?" The blonde grinned, immediately turning around to look at her while the redhead only gave a slight glance behind his shoulder.

"I j-just w-want to know… what's your name?" Sakura stuttered.

"I'm Deidara yeah." Deidara showed his clean set of teeth.

"Not yo- I mean… what about you?" Sakura looked at the redhead.

He looked at his feet, feeling a little bothered by the question. And after hesitating for a second, he turned and finally replied.

"Sasori."

"Sasori…" Sakura echoed.

"Er Saso-" But before Sakura could finish her sentence, Sasori immediately turned back and looked at Deidara.

"Let's get going. We are late." Sasori continued walking, putting his hands back into both of his pocket. Deidara rolled his eyes before following his partner. "We are still thirty minutes early yeah, I don't get why are we so early when no one is there yet." Deidara mumbled.

"Shut up and get going." Sasori scowled.

The blonde just followed and continued babbling non-stop to the redhead, who was not really listening to his conversation at all.

Sakura just watched them until they turned into another corner and disappeared from her view. She remained standing there, still in daze when a thought struck her mind.

'Damn! Naruto!'

The clumsy girl turned and rushed back to her car, opening the car door and slammed it shut behind her. She nervously slotted her car keys swiftly and drove off to the hospital as quickly as possible to save Naruto before he really bleeds to death.

And then, it was about a year after the incident. Sakura didn't remember the two Sasori and Deidara anymore, not until when her summer break was over and school started again.

"Have you heard?"

"Heard what?"

"A new guy; Sasori is going to transfer into our school!"

Author's Note:

Yosh! Done with the first chapter. Don't worry for those May I readers who are waiting for the last chapter, it would definitely be done before the end of February! :D

And of course… Reviews are definitely appreciated!