Chapter 1 The "Cool dude"
"Oh no I'm going to be late for work!" I quickly threw on a loose gray tee shirt and a pair of skinny jeans then ran out the door.
I ran to the bus stop, pass in hand and waited for the bus to arrive, a few minutes later it pulled up
"Whew! Thank god I made it"
I walked onto the bus and held onto a handle as the bus drove, 10 minutes later it stopped at my stop and I walked off and walked into work.
"Hey Sakura!"
I sighed "Hey Ino!"
I quickly put on my apron and went to tend to the flowers; I got out the hose to water the flowers in the back of the shop as Ino came up behind me and grabbed my shoulders as she giggled. I shuddered from the feeling
"Yes Ino?"
"How's your man so far?"
I looked at her annoyed "you ask me this every single day Ino, we are just fine!"
I scolded her and went back to my watering the plants
Ino pouted and moped away.
"Sigh, with Ino's constant interrogation I should be getting a raise!"
I gently picked a few flowers that were ready to be put into a bouquet and placed them in my basket, making my rounds around each flower bed picking the best looking ones.
I carried my basket to the front of the shop and put together a few bouquets wrapping them in paper and bow.
"Hey sakura!"
"Huh? I know that voice."
Someone had come up behind me and grabbed my waist kissing my neck as he grinded up against my ass.
"Please stop it Zen, I'm at work" I looked down embarrassed.
Zen was my boyfriend, he was always super touchy and I never liked it but I accepted it because I loved him.
I vowed to myself that I wouldn't have sex till I was married, Zen didn't like the idea and argued with me for months till finally giving in. my friends told me they had seen him walk out of love hotels all the time, but I always defended him because I didn't want to accept the truth that he would even dare cheat on me.
Deep down I knew it was true but it broke my heart coming to terms with it so I just ignored it and let him keep doing it.
"saku-chan why don't you ditch work and come to my place" he winked as he sucked on my neck
I quickly pulled away and slapped him, "I said stop, and I'm at work Zen."
"Well damn okay miss sassy ass"
"Is there something you need Zen?"
"No." He glared at Ino who was passing by ignoring his existence.
After a while Zen had finally left and Ino came straight to me
"What the hell was that?!"
"ehhhh? Whets wrong"
"He just came to your work and dry humped you without your consent!"
"I'm used to it" as I shrugged it off
"Sakura you need to break up with him before he goes further than just dry humping"
I didn't feel the need to listen for all I cared she sounded just like my mother
"If worst comes to worse, I'll do it but for now we are fine"
"Sakura! You call that fine?!"
Thank god my shift was over I thought to myself as I ignored Ino and grabbed my belongings and walked out of the store to see Zen waiting for me while he was looking down at his phone with a huge perverted smirk.
"I'm done work, I'm going home"
He didn't answer he just followed me.
"Hey are you going to say anything"
We had reached an alley way as he suddenly shoved me into the alley and trapped me against the wall
"What's your problem Zen?"
He still didn't say anything, he just kissed my neck angrily leaving bruises and he made his way with his hand up my shirt and started groping me.
"Zen!"
He didn't listen and punched me he then tore my sweater off kissing my collar bone
I screamed but no one was around so it was pointless
I felt hopeless
That's when a dark figure came into the alley
He was tall and fit he had grabbed Zen by the arm, just that made Zen flinch in pain
"Who the hell are you?!"
With a deep smoothing voice the mysterious man answered
"Is that any way you should be treating a woman?"
Zen snapped "Mind your own god damn business and walk back to your mommy's house like a good little boy!"
The man then shoved Zen into the wall and took me by the wrist
Surprisingly his grip was so soft and warm yet strong and firm, I felt so much comfort from just his hand
"Who is this man?" I thought to myself.
As we walked out into the dark night streets under a street lamp I saw him
He was good looking.
He wore a black winter coat with white fur on the hood of it with a white tee under, black ripped skinny jeans and some black high top shoes.
He had dark black eyes with dark black hair slightly spiked up in the back with a slight fringe in the front.
I couldn't help but stare.
"Are you okay miss?"
"Uh y-yes thank you so much" I looked downwards on the verge of tears out of shock with what just happened.
"Who was that man, may I ask miss?"
"He was my boyfriend apparently…but I'm ending that one."
He looked at me emotionless "that'd be wise, he didn't seem to look at you very nicely."
I nodded in agreement
"Let me give you a ride home, it's dangerous at night"
I looked at him in shock "o-okay"
He walked me to his bike; his bike was completely black with red rims.
He handed me his helmet
"What about you? Don't you need a helmet?"
"I'll be fine, where do you want to sit? Front or back?"
I looked at him a little nervous "I-ill go on the back"
I hopped on behind him and wrapped my arms around his waist holding tight, he started the bike as it roared.
It was loud, I kind of liked the sound if it, and it sounded big and beefy.
I gave him the directions to my house.
When we finally reached it I hopped off and handed his helmet
"So do I get a reward for saving you?"
Confused I looked at him "what kind of reward?"
"hn, how about we exchange numbers"
I figured it was something more complex then that so I gave him my number then waited till he left.
But he didn't leave
"Aren't you going to go?" I asked
"It's only polite to wait for the lady to go inside first; oh I forgot what's your name?"
"Oh sorry I didn't introduce myself earlier my name is Haruno sakura"
"Nice to meet you sakura, I'm Uchiha Sasuke"
"Nice meeting you, hope I'll see you again!" I waved as I walked inside and quickly ran to the window to watch him leave.
My mother walked up behind me
"Where were you sakura?!"
"…sorry something came up I won't do it again"
I couldn't lie to my mother she looks right through me
"Bullshit sakura what the hell happened?!"
"…Zen tried to take advantage of me while we were walking home…"
I looked away from my mother trying not to go into much detail
"I always had a bad feeling about the disrespectful man!"
She hugged me "how did you get away from him?"
I looked up at her with a smile on my face "a cool dude came and took me away"
My mother laughed at my cliché line
"I made roast beef for dinner"
"Yum! I love roast beef let's eat"
My mother and I made our way to the table as my dad was already stuffing his face with his potatoes
"So sakura tell me about this so called cool dude"
A little nervous "he is very tall and good looking that's for sure but I don't know much, he told Zen some cool line like :You shouldn't be treating a woman like that!: or something around the lines of that, I can't remember I was a little in a panic"
My mother looked at me amused "well at least you okay eat up now"
After dinner I went to bed
The next morning I woke up and smacked my annoying alarm and got ready, throwing on a black tee shirt with some white torn jeans and put my hair up in a pony tail then made my way out the door to the bus stop.
As the bus came to a stop I saw Zen walking out of a store down the street, I rushed into the bus with hopes he didn't see me and waited anxiously for the bus to go.
When I reached work I put on my apron
"Sakura! What happened to your arm?! And your face?!"
As she got closer she even noticed the bruises on my neck
"Sakura did Zen do this?!"
I had completely forgotten about my neck but I hadn't realized what happened to my face or arm.
I went to a mirror in the back and looked at my face
There was a scratch that ran across my right cheek and my whole right eye was bruised.
"That explains why people were staring at me, hey do you got some cover up?"
Ino quickly went to her purse and dug some out
"Mind helping me out, I don't know much about makeup"
She nodded and started patting the makeup on my eye
Ino's mother had opened the store early today without us realizing and I heard a deep smooth voice say "hey sakura"
Shocked I flinched and Ino ended up putting the cover-up in my eye
"Owww! Why the hell does that crap hurt so much?"
Ino giggled a little "I'm sorry sakura you moved and I was a little shaken up by your condition
"Oh hey Sasuke, I'm surprised you remembered my name, why are you here?"
"I wanted to get some flowers for my house, apparently it's depressing."
I laughed "well Ino you deal with him while I go water the plants"
Ino quickly pulled me in and whispered in my ear "how the hell do you know this good looker?!"
"I'll tell you later for now help him"
She nodded with a determined look on her face and walked up to the front counter to talk to him
"Oh sakura want a ride after work?" Sasuke suddenly asked loud enough for me to hear in the back
I opened the curtain "sure why not?"
Right away Ino had an evil grin on her face.
I prepared some roses for Sasuke and gave them to Ino then went back to watering the plants and adding fertilizer.
Ino came in the back and asked what time I got off
"9:00pm why?"
She didn't say anything she went back to the front
"I guess Sasuke was asking"
Once Sasuke left Ino came running to me
"Explain everything, your face, the cutie"
I groaned "fine, Zen tried to have his way with me in a back alley last night and Sasuke came to the rescue then took me home"
"How did you get that bruised?"
"Zen was suddenly really rough with me"
"I told you he was bad!"
Annoyed I forced out a nice response "yeah I guess you did, now let me get back to work I don't want to remember it."
It was finally 9:00 when I heard a loud engine outside the shop.
There's only one engine I've heard that loud in town, I walked out to see Sasuke just getting off his bike "oh hey sakura was I late?"
"No you were just in time, I just got off"
Ino came out and had a perverted grin on her face as her boyfriend Kiba came to pick her up.
I hopped onto Sasuke's bike and held onto him, he had already memorized my house down apparently and just put on some music.
Surprised he has the same music taste as me.
Words as weapons by seether had played the whole way back to my place, once we reached my house my mother was waiting outside for me, I guess she was more shaken up from what happened than I thought.
When she saw Sasuke she instantly felt she needed to invite him in for dinner
"Hey you must be the cool dude sakura talks about, why not come have dinner with us as a thanks?"
Embarrassed by how my mom addressed Sasuke I yelled at her but before I could finish my sentence Sasuke politely replied
"You really don't need to thank me; it was only the right thing to do in that situation"
My mother is a persistent woman so she bugged him a little more before he finally said
"If it's okay with you I'll gladly join Miss Haruno" as he bowed in thanks.
Amazed by his manners I showed him where he could park his bike and then showed him the way inside.
Once we took our shoes off and reached the dinner table my father suddenly glared at Sasuke.
"Oh stop it Hun! Hess the politest young man you will meet in this generation!"
My mother snapped at my dad.
Embarrassed I continued to eat my Yorkshires
"So young man, what do you do for a living?" my father asked
I guess my dad was worried as well because he started asking Sasuke questions like he was my boyfriend
"I used to be a soldier but currently I'm not doing anything, I'm looking for a job"
Impressed my father nodded with improvement
"I admire you already"
Surprised I stared at Sasuke with eyes wide.
He looked at me with a calm look on his face
"So young man how old are you?"
"20 sir"
"Ah 2 years older than my daughter"
"Dad stop it! Let the guy eat will ya"
My dad chuckled as he started eating his potatoes.
My dad really likes potatoes.
Once supper was done Sasuke bowed and thanked my parents for the dinner
"Thank you for having me here, I will be going now it's a little late."
I walked Sasuke to the door and waved as he started his bike and waved good bye and took off