Chapter: Death scream

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It was already dark when a figure could be seen walking through the empty streets of Konoha. Despite the darkness you could see that it had to be a girl. She was quite thin and walked with her head bowed. The streets were empty and there was a dead silence. Then after a few minutes she stopped. She was now in front of a stone bench that was just outside the city and slowly lifted her head towards the sky and looked up at the moon. On her face there was pure despair but also hope. So she stopped for a few minutes.
Then she could hear footsteps in the distance. They moved towards her and her heart started beating faster. She looked now as if spellbound in the direction from which she heard the noises.
Then, after what seemed like endless seconds, the person she had been waiting for appeared.

Sasuke.

"So here I am, Sakura. Why did you want me to meet you here?" asked he.
She looked into his black soul mirror and literally sank into them. // How can you have such beautiful, deep black eyes? // Was it on her mind? As always, his face did not reflect any emotions and his fair skin literally shone in the moonlight.
A few seconds passed as Sakura raised her voice.
"I ... I wanted to tell you something important and ask you to listen to me." "Then start." she was instructed by Sasuke. "I know you hear that almost every day, but ..." Her voice failed. Slowly a tear ran down her face. She then looked Sasuke straight in the eye and told him what she had been thinking about for a long time.
"I love you!"
Silence. An unbearable silence reigned over them.
A few seconds passed in which the two looked each other in the eye when Sasuke broke eye contact, half turned and replied in a low, oppressive voice: "Do you really think I believe you? It's true. I almost hear something like that every day. Just like I realize every day that you only like me because of my appearance. You don't really know me and talk about love ?! You are just superficial. If that was what you had to say, go I now! "With these words he turned around completely and disappeared into the darkness.

//No no no! I can not believe it. Sasuke, Sasuke thinks I just want to be kidding him? I ... I'm not like the others at all. No. I do know him. And most of all ... I love him! //
Was Sakura's last thought before she was overwhelmed by a torrent of tears. She got down on her knees a lot and began to sob.
//How pathetic. Besides ... I wanted to ... oh Sasuke! What did I do wrong! //

Now Sakura sat huddled on the floor and began to tremble.And then the first raindrops came. First a few and then more and more. Sakura was now soaked and cold, but ignored it. Slowly, almost as if in slow motion, she raised her head and looked at the sky. One raindrop after another landed on her face and mixed with her tears. She trembled and wished for nothing more than that this infinite pain that continued to spread inside her would subside. But nothing happened. She didn't know how long she had been sitting there, but then got up on shaky legs and decided not to just sit around and feel sorry for herself. Sakura carefully took a few steps as her legs, which felt like pudding, gave way and Sakura would be painfully confronted with the floor if she hadn't supported herself on the bench at the last second. She got up again and took a few more steps. At first slowly and carefully, but then more and more daring. At some point she had herself under control again so that she could walk normally. She did so in the hope of getting other thoughts. Who knows. Maybe she would find a solution ?!

Sakura was now walking through the streets, her heart was empty and she didn't want her life, yes, her life anymore. She just didn't know what to do. How could she go on with the thought that Sasuke, her great love, thought she was such a superficial chick like the other girls ?! She was just at the end of her nerve. The load on her shoulders and the deep pain just didn't stop. No. It only got worse by the second. She had no goal in mind and just ran where her legs would take her.

After a while, she tripped over her own foot and found herself on the floor. What on earth had become of her? From her, the otherwise cheerful girl who always had an open ear for her friends and never let anything undermine her? // How pathetic! // she thought. And these words kept reverberating in her head. Like an echo. An echo that apparently never ended. Despite a deep wound on her knee, which Sakura had carried away from her fall, she got up again and kept walking. As if she could run away from the bad thoughts that just wouldn't stop. The next time Sakura looked up, she found herself at the train station. With her 4 best friends Ino, Hinata, Tenten and Temari, she had met here several times to go shopping in the next bigger city. She had fond memories of that time, but the thoughts of Sasuke were blown away. Again new tears welled up in her eyes and made their way down Sakura's cheeks. She was alternating between warm and cold and she felt as if someone had given her a huge punch in the pit of the stomach. She didn't even notice that it was raining the whole time.Slowly, bit by bit, she approached the rails. They were somehow attractive to Sakura. Not paying attention to the traffic light that showed red, she continued on her way undeterred.

She was now standing on the rails and heard the train coming. // Sasuke. Death doesn't solve my problems, but it ends them! I ... I hope you will be happy one day! // Was her last thought. Then the train came. Closer, closer and closer and closer. Sakura closed her eyes and smiled. A sad smile that was only accentuated by her tears. And then they caught the headlights. She felt a great breeze and then ... nothing.
Your death scream.

~ At the same time with Sasuke ~

He just arrived at his apartment, which he lived alone, went in and sat down on his bed and thought again about the evening. // Oh Sakura. Did you really mean it? I just don't know if I can trust you. The last time I did that to someone, I was just disappointed. The mental pain I had suffered from it was terrible. The best thing to do is talk to you again tomorrow. I hope you really love me because I, I ..... //
He could not think his thoughts through to the end because suddenly there was a painful stitch in his heart. He pressed his hand to his chest and gasped painfully. And as soon as it came, the pain was gone again. "What ... what was that?" He asked himself, looking out the window. When he turned his head towards this, his gaze brushed his alarm clock. 21:46. He was looking out the window now, but couldn't see much. It was still pouring rain and then ... then suddenly he saw ... Sakura? But no! He had just imagined it ... right? "I'm already laughing! Now I've actually seen in my inner eye how Sakura smiles sadly at me, tearful and then vanishes! I should better lie down and rest!" he mumbled to himself, got ready for bed, lay back in his bed and fell into a deep sleep a short time later.

~ The next morning ~

Sasuke woke up early, got ready and was now on the way to school. Since he was riding his bike, he arrived after only five minutes. He noticed immediately that something was wrong. Right at the front where there was always a good-humored Ino who waved to him and then talked to Sakura and the rest of her friends, there was a Hinata in tears, who was comforted by Ino. But she too wept like buckets. Sasuke looked around. Almost the whole school had gathered around them and all the students looked sad and shocked. Now he noticed Tenten, Temari, Naruto, Shikamaru and Sai who were talking to Sakura's crying mother.
Wait a moment! Sakura's crying mother?Sasuke jumped off his bike as fast as he could and sprinted to his friends and wife Haruno. But what he then learned changed his whole life.

~ A week later ~

Today was the day. Sakura's funeral.
Sasuke was currently still on his bed and stared at the ceiling.
//How so? Why didn't I believe her? She had told the truth! It's all my fault! And at the same time ... I feel something for her! //
He wore black pants as well as a black top. His eyes were red as they had been since the morning he found out that Sakura had thrown herself in front of a train because of sheer lovesickness. His tears, which have been his constant companion since then, still stung his eyes. But what bothered him so much was when she died. 21:46. The time when he felt a painful stitch in his heart. Was that a sign? And then his halucination. Hadn't he imagined it after all? So many questions that he'll probably never get an answer to.

And then it was time. Sasuke got up to get to Sakura's funeral in good time. He didn't feel like riding his bike. He found it more dignified to Sakura when he walked this distance.

And then he was there. The overcoming of standing in front of Sakura's grave and then giving her the last blessing had not been easy for him. He had planted red roses himself that summer. But from all the seeds that he had planted, only one rose had emerged. And that's exactly what Sasuke just dropped onto the dark grave lid on which 'Sakura Haruno' had been scratched.

Too late he was standing in front of Sakura's grave. With tears on his face when he said ...

"I love you!"

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So I hope I succeeded in this OS to some extent and you let go! ;-) Criticism is allowed!