Eyes Bleed Tears 4

He didn't need those lights that were only just going to be snuffed out sooner or later. He didn't want anymore reminders of who he was, and how he was meant to be...


Chapter 4: Burning curiosity

"...you should go," the blond murmured, melting blending the raven's red rage into the raven's calm, dark blue colour was back, although it still had a tinge of red existing within his emotions.

The raven still hesitated on moving away from the somewhat solitary blond who looked far into the distant landscape from the hospital roof top.
He probably was waiting for an 'I'll just be waiting here' or 'I won't go anywhere', after those words the blond murmured.
The silence told him he wasn't going to get anymore words from the blond's voice so the raven stared hard at him as he was the one to open his mouth.

"I'll be back, so stay here," the raven said in a steady voice, making sure it doesn't sound too eager. Curiosity was what was starting to eat up the insides of the raven who looked so calm on the outside, yet was not in any mind to ignore the existence of the blond. Especially after seeing the nurse act towards his existence.

There was no reply, as if the blond couldn't hear, and his eyes became glass, just reflecting the colour of the azure sky.
Leaving no choice, Sasuke left the blond as he is, and felt that by the looks of it, this blond wasn't about to leave anytime soon.

"Uchiha-sama," the other nurses that took care of him greeted the raven at his door, receiving a glare from the broody "patient".

"The name is Sasuke, without any suffixes," he growled wondering how many times he had actually said those lines as he strode into "his room".
He downed his breakfast as quickly as he can and walked back up the steps he had earlier this morning.
The roof top was, to his disappointment, empty. There was no sign of that scrawny small blond anywhere.
This unexpectedly irritated him until a flash of Naruto's sad, lonely facial expression flashed in his mind.

If he didn't want to really be alone... he wouldn't avoid being with me on purpose, would he? Or he has problems with his memory...

After all, he is a patient of a hospital, that wasn't something surprising, Sasuke concluded as he sighed and walked about the whole hospital, trying to find his main source of curiosity.

Where are you?

Sasuke growled at the hospital map drawn across the wall right beside the elevators indicating which floors were for which ward. Then something suddenly flicked in his mind as his eyes scanned across to the top level of where the elevator led to.
The elevator only went up to the 12th floor...
He had checked the 12th floor and the 13th floor. The 14th floor was out of bounds, and the 15th floor was his own...

If you eliminate the impossible... however improbable... must be the truth... right?

Sasuke waited for the patients on the elevator to get off before he pressed the button for the top level and backed away, crossing his arms and leaning back on the elevator wall.

"I've checked all floors... none of the rooms had your name on it..." Sasuke muttered to himself, though directing those words to his source of curiosity.

Ting! The elevator indicated that he had reached the 12th level of the hospital. He stepped out of the elevator and started walking up the steps to the 13th floor, and then to the 14th.

Sasuke reached the 14th floor.

Which means...

He ignored the 'Out of Bounds' sign, and open the main doors to the 14th floor.

...you have to be...

His eyes widened at the site.

...here.

He couldn't believe how deserted this floor was, without any electricity flowing through this section and the corridor scattered with hospital equipments.
It was exactly like a closed down hospital scene from a horror movie.

Sasuke gritted his teeth and brought the courage to move his legs forward into the horror scene.

He walked and peered into each open door, seeing –as expected- nothing and no one.
The steps on the cold floor of the corridor was kept quiet with Sasuke's caution, and those feet kept moving forward until one room was closed, unlike the others.

Placing a hand on the handle, Sasuke dared himself to open the door and push it open quietly.
He found the familiar bright blue orbs staring straight at him.

"...who?" the blond asked, and Sasuke decided that he was correct about the prediction of this blond having memory problems.

"Me, the one you crashed into twi-," Sasuke stopped in mid-sentence when something suddenly occurred to him.
The one I bumped into twice... Sasuke reworded them in his mind, but he was the one who apologised....without the slightest denial that I was the one who actually-

"Why are you here?" the blond whispered, his eyes open wide in surprise, interrupting Sasuke's thoughts.

"You weren't there," Sasuke muttered under his breath, knowing that wasn't an answer for a brain-damaged blond.

"There...?" The blond whispered, matching Sasuke's quietness in tone.
That confirmed Sasuke's prediction completely, if he hadn't enough of proof of it before.
And rolling his eyes, he put up with having to explain 'there' to him, even though he found it a useless thing to do, and should have just shook his head in answer.

"The rooftop. I asked you to wait because I was going to come back to you," Sasuke answered briskly.

"Oh..." the blond's voice deflated, "...I had breakfast, so..."
Sasuke felt dumb.
Of course this blond would have had breakfast if he himself had breakfast as well.

"...right," he mumbled, looking away, cursing himself for missing out on the obvious.

"I could have waited," the blond continued, which lifted the raven's head up, caught with something tugging his concerns, but not quite getting what it was.

"I could have waited," he repeated, "but I chose not to..."
This phrase the blond just voiced out seemed very queer and churning that made Sasuke's mind distort, feeling something very wrong with the words.
Without thinking, he asked, "why?"

"Because I didn't believe those words."

Because I didn't believe those words...
Because I didn't believe those words...
Because I didn't believe those words...

"You... didn't...believe me?" Sasuke tried to understand and voiced out the thoughts, trying to summarise them.

"No, I didn't..." he whispered.

He... remembers...