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Sakura rested her head against the cooling glass of the taxi window. It was fall and the weather outside felt brisk, but the inside of the taxi blazed with a pungent mixture of cigarette smoke and humanity. Her breath fogged up the glass blurring the hurried people outside into streaking colors of black and grey. She turned to the driver. "How much longer until we arrive?" The man driving the taxi looked at her through the rear view mirror "Ten minutes, unless we hit traffic" he paused and buried his face into the crook of his elbow letting out a rattling cough. "If we hit traffic it might be twenty" Sakura mumbled thanks and reached forward to slide the glass partition closed, cutting off yet another fit of coughing. She leaned back against the leather seat and glanced at the window again, noticing the fog that had so readily bloomed under he breath had was now the size of a penny. She pressed against it with her thumb, feeling the moisture slowly dampen her glove. Abruptly a flash of white distracted her. Removing her hand she zeroed in on a man with untamed starch white hair waiting at the crosswalk. He was dressed in a tailored blue grey suit, but what caught her attention was the navy colored bandana that covered the lower half of his face paired with an unusual scar slicing across his eye. Suddenly he turned his head and looked right at her. She flinched but didn't look away, she couldn't look away…something about him commanded her attention. They didn't break eye contact until the light turned green and the taxi pulled him out of view. Her heart began to beat rapidly and she hastily grabbed her bag and pulled out a sketchbook. She needed to preserve him, to save him so that she could figure the intriguing man out later. She fumbled for her pencils and flipped to a clean page balancing the sketchpad on her knees and began to draw the snow haired man. She drew him in every detail, and when she was finished she scribbled the cross streets she had seen him on and the date, October 8, 2010.
Sakura was going to be spending the year with some old family friends of her fathers. She needed a place to stay after her recent acceptance to Konoha High School, one of the top performing private schools in the country. She had gotten a full ride scholarship, something both her parents had been ecstatic about because money was tight in the Haruno family. The family she was staying with were the owners of an international business called the Uchiha Corporation, named after their last name. They owned the Uchiha bank, the worlds most widely known and successful banking company. Thinking about meeting them excited her.
The car slid to a halt and she tilted her head up, through the window, tall trees towered above her, they had arrived. Sakura put her hand on the car door and stepped out and around to the back. The taxi driver was already pulling her luggage out and setting it down for her. She paid him with some money her father had given her.
She rang the door bell, pushing the button extra long the third time. As much as she tried to temper it, Sakura was an extremely impatient person. A young man with blond hair and scars on his cheeks resembling cat whiskers answered the door. "Hey" His eyes were a piercing blue and he stood a good 6 inches taller than her. "Are you Sakura?" She nodded and flashed a lustrous smile. "Can I come in?" The blond boy looked dazzled for a moment before reaching forward and hastily taking the suitcase form her. "He-here let me get that for you" Sakura thanked him and stepped in after the boy. The inside of the mansion was covered in marble floors and clean white walls. The main entrance had a massive marble staircase that curved up towards a crystal chandelier. Sakura spun luxuriously staring at the painted ceiling and then turned to look at the boy. "What's your name?" he smiled "Naruto" Sakura raised an eyebrow "Naruto? Huh, I don't recall my father saying there was anybody in the Uchiha family named Naruto" He let out a bellowing laugh "You think I'm an Uchiha?" Naruto clutched his stomach and doubled over. Sakura blushed. "Aren't you?" "No, I'm just best friends with the bastard" Naruto raised his tanned arm and scratched the back of his head. "Who's the bastard?" Naruto opened his mouth to answer but was cut off by a deep silky voice. "I'm not a bastard you stupid fuck up"
Sakura jumped in surprise and snapped her head curiously in the direction of the staircase. There was boy standing at the top of the stairs with a smirk on his lips. He was tall and had dark raven colored hair, his pale skin contrasted shockingly against his dark obsidian eyes. She felt her heart rate double and was afraid that he might hear it; she had never seen a boy so handsome before. He descended the staircase at a leisurely pace. He eyed Sakura with a plain face silently evaluating her. She extended her hand mechanically, praying that it wouldn't tremble. He reached the bottom of the stair case and slid his hand coolly into hers sending a shiver down Sakura's spine. "I'm Sasuke" his hand was still in hers "Hi, I'm Sakura Haruno" he pulled his hand away and she dropped her own at her side reluctantly. "Do you want something to drink?" Sakura paused for a moment in contemplation "Um actually do you mind if I use the restroom?" Naruto jumped to action and took Sakura's arm, leading her down a hallway to the right of them "I'll show you where the bathroom is" Sakura let herself be pulled away but glanced quickly behind herself Sasuke's direction. He was looking at his phone. "So how do you like it here so far Sakura?" Naruto coaxed her attention back to him "It's colder than back home, but I like it so far" He laughed "yeah I guess you've only been here like an hour right?" Sakura nodded "yup, just got off the plane" Naruto blanched and his steps faltered "What's wrong?" Sakura squeezed the arm that was looped around hers "I hate planes" he swallowed hard. "Good thing were not on one then huh?" she smiled brilliantly at him and he seemed to regain his strength breathing deep "yeah, good thing" Naruto unlinked his arm from hers and reached across her, twisting a silver doorknob. "This is it" he smiled "oh thanks!" Sakura slipped inside shutting the door politely.
The bathroom was clean and smelled of mint. She turned the sink on and splashed her face with warm water to clear her mind before looking up into the mirror. Emerald green eyes stared back at her nervously and her heart shaped lips puckered out as she ran her slender fingers through cotton candy pink hair. Meeting people was her strong suit, why did she feel like she was going jump out of her skin when she saw Sasuke? There was something about this boy that threw her off, she didn't like it. Inhaling the scent of mint soap she leaned against the counter. He blithe mood was gone and now she just felt drained and on edge from the long trip. Sakura let her head roll back thinking of her friends back home. What were they doing right now? Her lips curled into a smile, smoking out probably. God she missed them, her hand slipped into her jean pocket holding onto her phone for a moment before releasing it. Sakura exited the bathroom into the hallway. Naruto was nowhere to be seen, and she could only hear exited shouts coming form upstairs. She followed the voices quietly, tiptoeing up the stairs and down a large hallway stopping in front of a slightly ajar door. She pushed the door open to reveal a mountain of videogames scattered across the floor and a massive television screen flashing with the words GAME OVER.
"Bastard I was this close and then that fucking zombie came out of nowhere!" Naruto was standing on the plush couch, a controller in one hand and the other pointing accusingly at Sasuke. "Wow" Sakura stepped inside the room "You guys are seriously into videogames" Naruto bounced off the couch, discarding the controller among the pillows. "Sakura, do you want to play?" Sasuke snorted "She probably doesn't even now how to play Dobe" Sakura was slightly taken aback by his outright rudeness "Yeah I've never played video games before" That was a lie, her dad was a video game designer and she always played with him at home. She was a pro, but Sasuke and Naruto didn't know that. Sakura stepped precariously over the scattered games finally plopping onto the couch. "The point of the game is to kill as many zombies as possible" Naruto sat back down next to her "and don't let near you or they'll kill you first" Naruto handed her his controller and showed her what all the buttons did.
Sasuke restarted the game and Sakura immediately began to push the buttons expertly. Naruto let out a whoop "She's beating your ass Bastard!" Sakura smiled triumphantly. Sasuke's lips were pulled tight and his eyebrows were furrowed in frustration. The game extended on for hours, all three of them loosing track of time. It wasn't until Sakura handed the controller to Naruto that they realized how late it was "Do you mind showing me where my room is I'm getting really tired" both boys stared at her. "What?" she laughed. "There is no way that you've never played video games before, nobody is just that good" Sasuke sounded irritated. Sakura leaned back against the couch and told them the truth about her video game skills. "So do you mind if I unpack now?"
Sasuke walked several feet ahead of Naruto and Sakura who chattered happily. Her room was three doors down form the 'glory room' as Naruto called it. "You call the game room the glory room?" Sakura laughed at his goofy smile. Sakura liked Naruto, he was funny and his laid back personality suited her own perfectly. She felt at ease, her earlier worries forgotten.
Sakura's room was massive; it was bigger than her living room by almost double. The ceilings were 12 feet and there were two tall windows on either side of the king size bed that was against the northern wall. There were doors opposite to each other on the east and western walls, one for her closet and the other for her bathroom. There was a couch, a television, and a desk in her room as well. Everything was coordinated with the mint green walls, and marble flooring. The feet of her bed were carved metal lion feet and a gold and green canopy hung from the ceiling above Sakura's bed. The room looked like it was taken straight from a magazine. "Wow" Sakura breathed out. She turned around and smiled "Thanks so much for letting me stay here!" Sasuke looked uncomfortable and just nodded herding Naruto out of the room and closing the door. She rushed to the closet and swung the double doors open, pretending in her mind that she was a princess. The closet size was proportionate to her room. It had shoe racks, silver bars to hang her clothes, and empty drawers of all different sizes, she spotted her suitcase in the corner. She guessed that either Sasuke or Naruto had already brought it up for her.
When she finished unpacking she noticed that her clothes didn't even fill up half of the closet space despite the fact that back home people had gawked at her extensive clothing collection. Sakura didn't have much money but she was good at sewing, she made a lot of replicas from the couture runways. She picked up her makeup and toiletries bag and walked over to the other side of the room where the bathroom was. It had both a shower and a bathtub. Sakura smiled, she couldn't remember the last time she took a bath. She set her bags down on the counter and turned the gold knob holding her hand under the warm water. While Sakura started a hot bath for herself Sasuke and Naruto were downstairs eating dinner. Sasuke glanced at Naruto wrinkling his nose, the boy just inhaled his food, he barely even bothered to use chopsticks. Naruto was completely unaware of Sasuke's scrutiny, and continued on to his 3rd ramen bowl. "Dobe your gonna make yourself sick" Naruto looked up at him and raised an eyebrow "Awww bastard are you worried about me?" Sasuke just snorted and got up "No I just don't want to clean up the vomit" he walked over to the sink and deposited his bowl among the mountain of dirty dishes "I'll be right back" Naruto grunted in response, face still buried in the ramen bowl. Sasuke walked up the stairs heading toward Sakura's room. The door was closed, and he didn't bother to knock. He didn't see Sakura inside "Sakura" for a moment nobody answered "I'm in the bathroom!" she called. He walked to the other side of the room and knocked on the door "Can I come in?" Sakura sunk slightly lower in the bathtub making sure the bubbles were completely hiding her before responding with an affirmative. From behind the door stepped a very unsuspecting Sasuke "Fuck" he turned his head "Chill out" Sakura laughed "I'm covered in bubbles" He slowly turned his head in her direction and realized that yes, she was in fact, completely covered in bubbles save for her shoulders and head. "I was wondering if you wanted to eat" He still felt uncomfortable, but his slack position gave nothing away. "Sure let me just finish up and ill be right down" Sasuke nodded and closed the door behind him. Sasuke was used to being around beautiful girls, but this girl took him by surprise. It wasn't her pink hair, yes that had caught him off guard, but it was her eyes that were so unnerving. She stared at him without blinking, she didn't blush or fidget… she appeared to be completely unaffected by him. It was unnerving how she watched Sasuke because he didn't know how to respond. It was intimidating in way that Sasuke had never experienced before, but thrilling all the same.
