Memories

12

Hinata felt the color drain from her face.
"What? Why? " hinata asked with a raspy voice.
Hiashi looked down, a defeated look crept upon his face.
He went to his daughter and rested his hands on her shoulder.
"Hinata darling...its...its complicated...but..i want you to tell him you are the one who wants to call off the wedding..." hiashi said.
"Why father why? What did sasuke do?" Hinata asked.
Scared to hear the answer.
Is he a traitor? Was he playing? Is he a cheater? After giving all herself to him!
"He didn't do anything hinata, its just..." hiashi sighed.
Shall he tell her about the mission.
He doesn't want to see his daughter's heart breaking.
Though it'll break regardless, if sasuke didn't come back.
Hiashi sighed.
He looked at hinata's eyes that were full of tears.
"Nothing...hinata..forget about it" he smiled.
"Wait father, tell me what is it all about..." hinata ran and insisted.
"Hinata darling forget it...its just a slip..." hiashi lied.
"I won't..i want to know whats going on..onigaii..." hinata pleaded.
Hiashi sighed.
"Sasuke is to be sent on a mission...with naruto...its not easy..and i..i am not sure if it will take long.....b.." hiashi couldn't continue when she interrupted.
"I'll wait...i'll wait for him..." hinata said.
Hinata turned around and opened her house door, she ran down the streets, heading to sasuke's house.

Sasuke was just finishing his shower.
He went to the kitchen and fixed something to eat, and boiled the water to drink some coffee.
He heard a knock on the door.
He turned and went there.
He thought it was hinata.
As he opened the door, he saw his best friend naruto.
He looked down a little bit.
"Naruto? Whats wrong" he asked as he opened it for naruto to enter.
Naruto made his way inside.
He sat on the couch.
"Sasuke.." naruto said.
"Naruto? Is ino alright?" Sasuke asked.
"She is...here..take this" naruto handed him a paper.
Sasuke read it slowly, his eyes kept widening.
His heart felt thumping hard.
"This this is ridiculous...my wedding is in two days!" Sasuke spat.
"Thats it...sasuke..its a command...call off the wedding" naruto said.
"I can't...i can't leave hinata!" Sasuke spat.
"Its an order sasuke..." naruto said.
"What about your newly born child? Are you going!" Sasuke said.
"We have to..." naruto looked down.
"Call the wedding off sasuke...don't break her heart" naruto said, then left.

Sasuke's body dropped on the ground.
He held the paper tightly.
Soon, the door knocked again.
Sasuke went and opened it with fury.
"H..hinata..." sasuke's eyes widened, as suddenly hinata wrapped her hands around his neck, holding him tightly.
He looked down then gently pushed her away.
"S..sasuke" she said, as sasuke turned and entered the kitchen.
Hinata followed.
"Hinata...listen..." sasuke started.
"Sasuke kun..i know..." hinata said.
sasuke's eyes widened.
"Then, you know we have to..." sasuke was interrupted by her growl.
"I will wait...i will wait..." hinata said pleading.
"Hinata..you can't, its..it'll take too long and i..." sasuke interrupted.
"I will wait as long as i can..i'll wait till the sea's dry, the land erodes, the mountains fall...i'll wait...until the wrinkles cover me...i'll wait until i am no more...for your return i'll wait...for i, know you..will come back to me sasuke...come back to me" she went and rested her forehead on his, wrapping her arms around his neck, as both sobbed quietly.
"Don't die..sasuke, i'll wait" she sobbed.
"I...its selfish..hina...it is" sasuke pleaded sobbing.
"I don't care...i don't care i'll wait...just...make sure you come back for me..." she said as she hugged him tightly, sasuke kissed her forehead assuring.
He smiled.
He has to come back to hinata.
He has to make it..for her.
Sasuke hugged her tightly.
He hugged her as if there is no tomorrow, he hugged her as if he'll never see her again.
And tonight, they made love again.

Hinata and sasuke got through with the wedding.
They made it earlier and she consented.
She had to be assured she is his and he is hers.
And it was the day for his departure.
Hinata looked at sasuke through the windows as he waved at her.
Both eyes locked.
Promising each other, promising they'd come back.
Hinata feared he won't come back, but she'll wait.
He knew about neji and she knew about itachi.
A promise that he must keep.
A promise that he will keep.

"So...did he die?" She asked.
"Well...things would have turned that time you know..life isn't always that pink and flowery..." he said.
She looked again at the picture and traced with her knuckles.
"It was the first picture they had together..." he said.
"She always said..." he continued.

"My husband is a tough one...gomenne photographer san...he doesn't mean that" she apologized to the photographer who would have taken their first picture.
He wanted hinata to look beautiful, he wanted her to stand out.
And he was dead jealous when the photographer just because he merely touched hinata, just to find a punch landed on him.

"What happened to the photographer" she asked.
"The photographer knew what she was talking about...he at first thought he was abusive, but..when he saw how he placed his hands over her shoulder...though his stoic face...will never show anything...but they'll know, if they heard his heart beats, if they saw whats truly inside...and she knew..whats inside" he said.
"Ah...thats so genuine...so...what happened next" she asked.
"The war...was horrific..."

"Sasuke...your arms..." naruto ran to sasuke as he saw his left arm lost, and he was bleeding profoundly.
"Hold on sasuke" naruto panicked as sasuke was convulsing in pain, their whole faces were covered in mud, blood, and horror.
Sasuke was bleeding.
"We need paramedics here..." naruto yelled.
"Naruto..." sasuke growled, as naruto held him up his back, and both crawled away from the battle field.
"A bomb...everyone down" someone yelled, naruto and sasuke jumped.
Sasuke looked at naruto, his right arm was bleeding profoundly.
"N..n..naruto" he groaned.
"Stay with me sasuke..stay with me..." sui said as he clapped sasuke's face.
Sasuke's eyes were rolling back.
"We are losing him...jugo, go to naruto" sui yelled as he torn a piece of his cloth and tightly closed his bleeding arm.
Sasuke placed his hands inside his pocket.
He took out hinata's picture.
"Hi..hinata..gomenne...i..can't...keep...my...prom..." sasuke said slowly.
"Sasuke...sasuke...stay with me stay with me..." but sui's voice stared to fade...fade and everything soon went black.

Hinata was sewing a pullover for sasuke.
With the uchiha crest, she knew how much he loved his family.
She was holding a cup, and sipping her hot chocolate.
She just hummed and sang for her three month child, growing inside her belly.
Yes she was pregnant and was on cloud number nine when she realized that.
Hanabi even taunted her saying sasuke's sperms are superb to impregnate her just by sleeping once.
But she yearned for sasuke's return, just to tell him he is a father.
She will wait, she know he'll be back.
Suddenly, the needle hurt her and the cup of chocolate fell.
Hinata stared down...
She held her heart tightly.
She had a bad omen...
Sasuke...