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Shall we dance? – Jetzt erst recht.
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I wanna be a star – right now.
I wanna be a big star before I go.
Sakura Haruno was walking down the street, she entered a big building on the right and knocked on a metal door, with force pushing it open, she entered.
She smelled deodorant sprays and the slight smell of sweat, she was used to it, but it still disgusted her a bit.
She quickly slipped out of her tight jeans and green pullover and dressed in her usual attire.
Short black shorts and a pink tank-top, she was barefoot as she stepped into the big hall.
"You're late.", Sasuke said, coming up to her, kissing her.
"Sorry, the bus broke down on the highway.", she returned the quick kiss and walked behind the curtain to turn on the music.
"Hey do you know where the others are?", she called as she finally found the music-player.
"They said they'd come in .. um let me check .. 20 minutes.", he said, shaking his head.
"Naruto'll probably come late again.", he sighed, she only laughed and kissed him again.
"No, I'm not late! I'm early!!", a loud voice shouted through the whole gym.
Yes, there he was in his full glory. Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga, hand in hand, with a smile gracing on their lips.
"Do you want to start now or should we wait till the others arrive?", Hinata asked, in the past 4 years she gained more self-confidence, even around Naruto.
Yes, it was 4 years later after that fateful night, which brought them all closer and helped their friendships to become even more intensive.
Many things changed in the past years, Itachi and Shizune got married and had a little babygirl.
Naruto and Hinata got engaged as well as Ino and Shikamaru, Tenten waited for Neji to propose.
Sakura smiled after she watched her friends.
"Hai, we'll get started.", she said, clapping in her hands.
She smiled as Sasuke held her closer, they were now trained dance-partners and even won on the Asian-dance-dance competition with their group, now, they fought for the first place in the World Championships which would come up soon.
A soft music was played as they danced a slow waltz.
"One, two, three, one, two, three.", she hummed quietly while swaying away with the music.
She watched Hinata and Naruto, they were better than them with the slow waltz, it looked really professional as Naruto turned both of them in a half turn.
Sakura looked up to see coal black eyes, her eyes, full of concentration, softened as she saw his lips slightly upwards. She loved his smiles, his laughs, his romantic moments and the best thing was, he was hers, he loved her. She couldn't understand how something beautiful as him could be hers.
She heard the door shut with a loud bang, Tenten and Neji entered the room, he seemed bored, she was twitching.
"Tell him he's impossible.", Tenten shouted, distracting Sakura, making her trip.
"Huh?", Hinata asked her cousin who seemed to struggle against a grin.
"What happened?", Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Mr. I'm so arrogant decided to eat I repeat EAT with my senbons. They are ruined. Do you know how much I paid for the frigging set? 500 bucks! I swear.", she shouted, he only smiled and hugged her from behind.
"How many senbons do you have?", Sakura asked.
"I had THREE.", she said.
"There, you still have one left.", Hinata tried to comfort her, Neji laughed.
"Well, yes, I had, he used 2 as chopsticks and the last one as toothpick.", Sakura only laughed, Tenten waved her hands dramatically, Hinata grinned as well as Naruto and Sasuke and Neji? He ran away, behind him a furious Tenten.
"They didn't change.", Ino smiled as she walked in, Shikamaru trailing behind her.
"No, but it makes them even cuter.", Hinata said, holding Naruto's hand.
After 2 hours of training, Sasuke and Sakura returned to their apartment, they moved out of the mansion to leave place for Itachi's now growing family.
"Eh Sasuke-kun?", Sakura asked, smiling.
"What is it?", he asked, also smiling, the rare smiles, he only saved for her.
"Do you think we'll make it?"
"Yep, I do think we'll make it.", he smirked as he kissed her.
"Let go.", she said, 2 minutes after, he was hugging her tightly.
"Nope.", he smirked.
"Sasuke .. I cooked.. if it burns I'll burn you.", she said, he sighed and gave up. Sakura smirked at her boyfriend and walked in the kitchen only to be grabbed and pinned on the wall again.
"I don't care about your food.", he smirked against her lips. She only smirked back and punched him in the stomach.
"I do.", running in the kitchen and turning off the stove she reappeared with 2 plates in her hand. He got a noodle of the plate and feed her with it.
"Sasuke-kun.", she pouted as he ate another noodle himself, then, he feed her again and just put the other end inside his mound, Sakura smiled as she knew what he was doing. They were eating the noodle until their lips meet. She bit the noodle, parting it and eating her part.
"You'll visit your mother tomorrow?", he asked, she bit her lip and nodded.
"Do you want me to come too?", he asked.
She only shook her head. Her mother's condition was stabile now, they had killed the cancer cells in her intestine but the tumour in her head was still there, it was becoming smaller because of the good chemotherapy she got. But, they all knew, including her mother, she wouldn't make it. Maybe 1 or 2 years.
He hugged her, as she only clasped his t-shirt tight in her hands.
"Do you think Neji will propose to Tenten?", she switched the subject, he only laughed, picked her up and carried her, with the plates still in her hand in their bedroom.
They were laying in their room watching TV and eating dinner as she slowly drifted off to sleep.
He watched her sleeping form as he took the 2 plates and put them in the sink.
Sasuke watched her chest raise and fall before covering her with the blanket and pulling her close.
She automatically snuggled closer, it was so much work for her to be herself again.
Sakura had often nightmares about what happened. She woke up at night bathed in her own sweat and shaking. Because of that, Sasuke decided to sleep in the same bed as him. She felt comfortable and he could feel it.
After the night on the bridge, she lost 40 pounds, she was fragile and depressed. But everything changed as she actually had a talk with her mother with a psychology professor.
She was completely new and he liked it. Her soft pink hair was spread across her face as he carefully grazed them behind her ear.
He stroked her side as he allowed himself to drift off to sleep.
As he woke up, he felt that Sakura had already left and stood up, making a growling voice as he tapped over a pin. Smooth, Sasuke, smooth.
He walked into the kitchen but Sakura had already left.
Sorry,
Too much work on the hospital.
I made pancakes.
Love, Sakura.
He smiled as he ate breakfast and walked off to the Uchiha Company, which included the Uzumaki company, Hyuga Company, Nara Company.
The girls and the guys leaded together the dancing school now. The dancing school was quiet popular now, since the owner were Asian-dance-dance competition winner and the Uchiha brothers one of the richest people in the world. All in all, it couldn't go better.
"Tsunade-sama.", Sakura rushed inside, grabbed her white smock, tied it tightly around her waist, pulled her hair up in a ponytail and went to go to her old teacher, who retired from being the school's principle and returned to her old work.
Tsunade quit being a doctor as her bother and the man she loved were drove in the emergency room after a shooting. She couldn't do anything for them, they were already dead as she tried to reanimate them. It was a shock for her, but she decided, to leave her past behind her.
Sakura was an excellent student, she studied harder, better and more intensive than the other students of the university. She was able to become a doctor in the age of only 23.
She watched Sakura taking her care of a little girl which had a deep cut on her knee.
"What did you do sweety?", Sakura asked, distracting her for a moment.
"I .. sob .. I fell in glass with my bike.", she said, crying.
"The cut isn't too deep, but I need to stitch it.", she said, the girl stopped sobbing and looked at her.
"Does it hurt?", she asked. Sakura nodded.
"I don't want to.", she cried even harder.
"But it's not that bad, you'll get a cookie later.", Sakura promised, the girls face lit up.
"It will hurt a little, hold on my hand.", she said a she grabbed a little bottle with disinfection-spay.
"Ouiiiee.", she cried as Sakura tried not to hurt her too much, after that she started stitching it.
Finally, she used band-aid and the girl was already smiling again.
"Thanks.", she said.
"No problem, make sure not to fall off your bike again, we called your parents, they will be outside.", she said, smiling.
"Hai.", she walked past Tsunade, who was smiling at her.
The next day, they were all in a ungodly hour in the gym.
"I still don't get the step.", Ino complained, clinging on Shikamaru.
"You have to go down a bit, then you'll get it easier.", he said, poking her.
"Look, Hinata does is perfectly.", Shikamaru said.
"And I don't?", Ino said, pouting/glaring.
"Jeez, you're troublesome.", he said, earning another glare.
"But I like your troublesome ness.", he kissed her, twirling her slowly just for fun, she smiled.
"Hinata-chan?", Naruto asked her.
"Hm?", she looked up in his eyes.
"Why do you love me?", he asked, while twirling her around.
"Because you are the only one who makes me blush.", she said, blushing.
"Isn't that bad?", he asked, she quickly shook her head.
"I love you for who you are and you can only make me blush because I know that I only want to be with you.", she said, kissing him.
"I love you too.", he sent her a goofy grin.
"I know.", she kissed her.
"I don't want Ramen on our wedding.", he said after a while.
Scratching sound on a record.
Sakura tripped, Ino choked, Hinata fainted, Tenten destroyed her new set of Senbons. Somewhere in Germany Sakura0Chan choked on her beautiful yummy pretzel, in Australia a boy got cold. The world stops revolving, somewhere a star crashed down.
"What the heck?", Sakura, Ino, Tenten, Sakura0Chan, a boy who got cold, the world, the stars, asked. (Hinata obviously not 'cause she fainted.)
"Eh .. Hinata-chan?", he shook her, she opened her eyes, shrieked.
"Who are you and what did you do to Naruto??", she shouted.
"It's me, and I really don't want Ramen on our wedding.", Naruto said, raising his hands in defeat.
"And why?"
"Because I want to marry you .. not Ramen .. Ramen will only be my little dirty affaire.", he chuckled as Hinata twitched, but smiled anyway afterwards, who could resist his handsome, smiling face?
Tenten and Neji were currently sitting by the railing, sipping their water.
"You know that I'm still angry because you ruined my senbon set.", she said, punching him childishly.
"Hn.", he answered, looking away.
"Don't hn me.", he glared at him.
"I'll get you a new one.", Neji said, laying one hand around her waist lazily.
"But it has to be the same, but the same doesn't exist because it was made especially for me.", she whined.
"I'll get you something better.", he smirked.
"Something better doesn't exist besides you.", she pouted, he kissed her.
"You'll see.", he told her, grabbing her bridal style and carried her back to the others.
"Okay, we'll do again the slow waltz.", Shikamaru said.
"Everyone ready?", Naruto asked, they nodded.
"Okay then.", Sasuke started the music.
One, two three. One two three, they danced to the beat.
I wanna be a star – right now.
I wanna be a big star before I go.
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