Chapter 2
It was break now and the corridors began to fill with students, Sasuke instinctively made his way to their cherry tree but for once, didn't really want Naruto and Sakura to join him, he needed to wallow in his own embarrassment.
Sakura made yet ANOTHER journey to the girl's toilets where she sat on the same toilet lid and thought about what had just happened with a bright pink face, she even looked down at the breast Sasuke had touched shyly and put her hand over it through her top. 'I can't believe that just happened right now...' She thought to herself, most of the other girls in the school would be swooning, bragging, spreading it around that Sasuke had 'tried a move on them' something like that but Sakura was a little different to that, after she'd collected her thoughts Sakura went to drink the fruit smoothie she always brought for lunch elsewhere in the courtyard and mingled with some other girls who were saying that was so out of order what those boys did, she barely heard them though.
An oblivious Naruto made his way to the cherry tree like usual, a chocolate bar in hand and a can of Coke as he flopped himself down beside Sasuke, after a moments silence he looked over at him with a raised eyebrow "are you doing it with Sakura?'' he came out with it bluntly then.
Sasuke was half way through eating one of the tomato rice balls his mother had put in his lunch and choked on it, his eyes popping out his skull like a cartoon character.
"Wh-what?" He stuttered, swallowing rice and glaring accusingly at Naruto, a red twinge to his cheeks. "O-of course I'm not... doing anything with Sakura... tch." He glared at him, shaking his head.
"What the hell makes you say that?" He muttered, glaring down at his bento box irritably, was that what people were saying? Just because he and Sakura were a little closer recently it meant they had to be having sex?
"Uh.. I 'dunno just everyone's been talking about it, they think you...did IT before Biology today, they don't think Sakura's a virgin!'' Naruto informed him as he chomped on his chocolate bar, lying back on the grass with an arm behind his head. "That's good though, I didn't think so! Because I want to marry Sakura someday y'know!'' he grinned at Sasuke with a little chuckle. ''I've always thought Sakura was pretty but I think she's sort of beautiful y'know, she's not like Ino or the other girls...she's..'' he thought about this with a scrunched up face before looking up at Sasuke "real..y'know?'' he smiled a bit before downing some of his coke and looking up at the sky.
Sasuke groaned a little to himself, Naruto was SO irritating... y'know y'know, that's all he ever heard, but what he said, for once, made Sasuke think, he blinked at the ball of rice in his hand, then looked up at the cherry blossoms fluttering down around them both. He took another bite of the rice ball and slowly chewed it, swallowing thoughtfully. "Y-yeah, I guess your right..." He mumbled idly, leaning back against the tree he glared sideways at Naruto. "But YOU can't do it with Sakura, one, because you annoy her, and two... it'd ruin... you know. Our... team or whatever we are." He mumbled casually, awkwardly in fact, concentrating on eating his lunch.
''Huh?'' Naruto looked up at Sasuke with a blink, mid-chew of his chocolate. "But that's what happens Sasuke...we're growing up, we're not kids anymore y'know? And the only girl... woman I'm ever 'gunna want to be with...is Sakura, I'm not very good at showing it...and I know I annoy her...'' he muttered with narrowed eyes, looking away. "But one day...she's 'gunna see... she's 'gunna see how much I love her...'' he looked back up at Sasuke."Haven't you ever thought about the girl you're going to be with? There's plenty of girls after you, are you having trouble picking?'' he asked casually. "Everyone falls in love, its part of growing up, y'know. Otherwise...you'll be pretty lonely.''
Sasuke raised an eyebrow at that and turned to face Naruto properly, thinking about that for a moment, not that he had too... he knew how he felt about that subject. "I don't have time for girls... or relationships, sex is just a distraction. I have to focus on my studying now for the next three years, then university then I need to build a career, maybe then I can settle down with a girl, get married and have kids or whatever. Or... maybe I'll just live alone with lots of cats. Or, be gay." he smirked, looking away again and picking up a dango stick from his Bento box, chewing it idly and still smirking.
Naruto snorted as he finished his chocolate, scrunching up the wrapper in his hand. "I wouldn't be surprised! There are some boys who think you are gay!'' he grinned up at Sasuke before laughing to himself. "They always say in the changing rooms...Sasuke has so many girls interested in him but he doesn't care, he must be into men then. Maybe you'd be better off with someone like...Neji then!'' he mentally cackled. Naruto looked back up at him and sat up properly "but Sasuke, you'll be lonely if Sakura and I get together, you really should find a girlfriend...or boyfriend, maybe we can go on double dates! That'd be cool, y'know?'' he grinned at him giving Sasuke's arm a playful punch. "But you're really boring, you need to lighten up a little!''
Sasuke rolled his eyes and grunted at Naruto, taking a strawberry out of his box and shoving it into Naruto's mouth; to shut him up he held it there, glaring at him with a vein throbbing in his temple. "Tch... what makes you think you're going to get with Sakura? She's not interested, can't you see that? She-... likes someone else." He smirked at him, raising his eyebrows, was Naruto REALLY that oblivious?
Sasuke knew... everyone knew... it was like, a school fact, Sakura used to be in a fan club for Sasuke until the second year when she began to grow up a little... maybe Naruto was just in denial that the only person Sakura was interested in was Sasuke.
Naruto looked at him and blinked a few times, his eyes slid to the side and narrowed. "Yeah well... no one's good enough, sometimes girls like stupid boys...and they don't realise how much better other people are for them'' he told him matter of factly. "Girl's need to be respected, they need to be taken on dates, given flowers, cuddled, told they're pretty damn beautiful, y'know? And if Sakura doesn't get that I'll continue staying by her side until she realises how strong my feelings are, I'm not 'gunna push them on Sakura like some ass but I hope she knows I'm always 'gunna be there for her, I'm never 'gunna let anyone hurt her'' he gave him a grin at that and chuckled bashfully at his own words. "Anyway...where is Sakura? She's been acting really weird today...'' he muttered in thought looking around.
Sasuke had been staring at him in surprise... he barely spent any time with Naruto alone when they weren't fighting... he didn't know he had these kinds of feelings for Sakura... they were, pretty deep, he wondered if he'd ever feel that way about anyone. He quickly shook the thought from his mind then and shrugged at the question, whipping out his phone, sending a text to Sakura saying, 'Oi... me and Naruto are bonding. Come quick before the universe implodes. P.s. sorry I touched your boob. Sasuke.' and sliding it away. "Maybe she's hanging out with girls for a change, or, maybe she's just sick of your disgusting smell." Sasuke teased, finishing off his strawberries.
Sakura was sat on a bench at the opposite side of the courtyard surrounded by gossiping chatting girls, she reached inside her messenger bag and pulled out her white phone that had a few cute phone charms hanging from it, she flipped it open and looked at the message smiling at the screen.
"Who's that texting you that making you smile so much then?'' Tenten perked up and smiled at Sakura leaning close making Sakura shut her phone, she didn't want any more rumours... despite how she used to be, she'd calmed down a lot, grown up and matured quite a bit, she was a much more sensible young girl now and she didn't want anyone starting rumours about her and Sasuke...anymore than they already had, she didn't want their friendship to ever be jeopardized. Sakura looked up at Tenten and shook her head a bit "just a friend... said something funny'' she told her."I'm going to go and find them actually, I'll see you later?'' Sakura picked up her bag and walked away from the group at girls, finding relief in being away from them... it was nothing against them but she just wasn't a gossiper anymore, she preferred the company of her two best friends.
As she walked across the courtyard she spotted Sasuke and Naruto sat beside each other chatting...not fighting, actually chatting... she admired the 'shocking view' for a moment before she went over to them.
"Hey Sakura! There you are, where've you been?'' Naruto asked cheerfully as Sakura sat down with a smile. "Oh... um, spending some time with Tenten and the girls'' she explained "because I am a girl.. believe it or not Naruto'' she reminded him.
Naruto laughed at that, finding it funny which made Sakura twitch.
Sasuke looked up at Sasuke and his eyes got just a little brighter, as if he was smiling, only his mouth remained in a straight line... he was a pretty un-expressive person.
"Hey Sakura." He greeted her, offering her the strawberry he'd left for her, it was no big deal though, they always shared each other's lunch, well, Sakura didn't eat much.
"Oh, you know whats funny, Naruto seems to think we're sleeping together." Sasuke informed her matter of factly.
"Probably just jealous, huh Naruto?" He smirked, giving him a teasing kick before moving back against the tree which he leaned idly against.
Sakura made a choking sound, similar to Sasuke's reaction. "Wh-what?-'' she gasped with an infuriated expression. "Why do people...make up stories about my sex life? I'd understand it if it were Ino... but, I'm nothing like that..'' she shook her head a little with narrowed eyes, her cheeks pinched pink at the mention of 'sex' and 'Sasuke' in the same topic, she got a sudden flashback of what it felt like as he groped her breast earlier and blushed a darker shade, she quickly shoved the strawberry in her mouth and chewed it.
Naruto glared at Sasuke and grumbled something under his breath "I don't think you're sleeping together, I know Sakura has much better taste!" he yelled back defensively receiving a look from Sakura that made him flinch and raise his hands up.
Sasuke rolled his eyes then slid them shut, his arms behind his head as he re-opened his eyes to watch some clouds float by way above them, drowning out the noise of all the other kids in the school yard.
Sasuke looked at Sakura and Naruto then who were now talking about some TV show that had started during the holidays that they'd obviously both watched... he kept looking between them and frowned, watching Naruto's face light up as he spoke to Sakura, then turned to Sakura... she was so much more relaxed around him, at ease, always smiling genuinely... whenever he talked to her she seemed to be on edge, fiddling with her hair, blushing or fidgeting... he began to wonder if Naruto and Sakura would end up going out... they seemed pretty well suited, for some reason, that really irritated him, probably because he didn't want to be a third wheel, or be torn between them if they split up... Sasuke packed up his bag and got to his feet then. "I just remembered... I have something I need to do, see you in math." He grunted, storming off but heading nowhere in particular.
Sakura and Naruto both looked up after Sasuke and yelled 'okay' in union before looking at each other in confusion before they continued talking.
When the bell finally went they put their bags over their shoulders and headed to maths, once inside they saw Sasuke already sitting down and went to sit down beside him getting all their stuff out... Naruto groaned to himself as he pulled out his math's book, his worst ever lesson... he was failing in this class completely.
When Sakura walked passed Sasuke to get to her seat, she paused before continuing to her seat and sitting down, the class hadn't started yet and they were actually a little early for once, Sakura had a feeling Sasuke had gone straight here when he'd dismissed himself.
When the class began and they got settled into doing some work from their books, the class was chatting lightly as they got on with it so Sakura leant over to Sasuke's desk laying a note on it which read. 'Is everything alright?' with a little cherry blossom flower next to it.
Sasuke looked up from his maths book and blinked at the note, then at Sakura. He ignored it for a moment before discreetly pulling it over to him and turning it over, writing 'Yeah, why wouldn't it be. I was just giving you and Naruto some alone time.' he wrote back, drawing a little Uchiha fan in the corner, then glared at himself, he wasn't gay like Sakura but he couldn't scribble it out now, he'd look stupid. He reached over slyly and slid the note onto Sakura's desk without looking at her.
When Sakura looked at the note her eyebrows knitted together, she glanced to the side at Sasuke with a small frown before she scribbled her reply. 'Alone time? with Naruto? why would I want that? you just seem a little strange, I worry about you, that's all.' she drew a little sweat drop face and handed it back to him discreetly before pretending to be doing her work.
Sasuke quickly tore some paper out of the back of his back and wrote, 'Because Naruto likes you.. no, he loves you. I'm in the way. Don't worry about me, idiot. x' he wrote back, scrunching it into a ball this time and tossing it to Sakura's desk, looking up at the board.
The maths teacher, Ebisu looked up then and narrowed his eyes at Sakura. "Oh? A note hm Sakura? Well, whatever it is it has to say, I'm sure we'd all love to hear it... so why don't you stand up and read it out, or maybe a detention?" The nasty maths teacher attacked her and Sasuke stared at her apologetically.
Sakura looked over at Naruto who was innocently looking at her in interest, amused that his best friends were passing notes and were probably going to get into trouble, not in a horrible way though of course... that wasn't Naruto. Sakura's green eyes flickered about his tan face as he grinned at her from ear to ear, she couldn't read this out... everyone would bully and laugh at Naruto, she'd known for a while he liked her.. and chose to not say anything, she'd allow Naruto to go on and carry on feeling how he wished to, it wasn't Sakura's place to say he was wrong. But she couldn't be with Naruto... and she hoped one day he fell in love with somebody else so it wouldn't hurt him, though.. she doubted that.
Sakura took a deep breath and held the paper up in front of her ''I'm sorry sir... it says-" she scrunched up her face "I was just saying to Sasuke.. that, this class...may be better if someone with proper eye sight was teaching it..'' she mumbled and a few people started laughing.
Sasuke's eyes widened and he smirked with glee at what Sakura had said, that wasn't like her...
Ebisu was fuming, bright red in the face he stormed over to the desk and snatched the note, glaring at Sakura. "Is that so young lady! Well then, if thats the case...I better prove you wrong by reading this... Let's see." He squinted through his glasses.
"Because Naruto-" Ebisu was cut short then by Sasuke getting to his feet and openly yanking the paper off of him and to everyone's surprise, including his own... Sasuke shoved the scrap of paper in his mouth and chewed it, swallowing firmly and sticking his tongue out a little smugly. "Detention!" Ebisu yelled at the top of his lungs, pointing at Sasuke, then Sakura. "You too!"
Then he pointed at Naruto. "And you!" He declared trying to sound menacing and failing.
Naruto stood up and slammed his hands on the desk "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" he yelled at the teacher but was secretly amused, he looked at Sasuke and Sakura with a grin. "Anything to get out of this boring class!'' he put all his stuff away in his bag and he, Sasuke and Sakura left the class, Sakura felt a bit guilty.. she didn't want to seem mean, she wasn't bad at maths and had no problem with it really.. but she giggled a long with Naruto who hooted with laughter as they got outside. "You're hilarious Sakura! I would have never expected that from you in a million years!"
Sakura looked up at him with a smile and looked to the side "yeah well..'' she just shrugged her shoulders a little bit and carried on giggling over it. Naruto put his arms around each of their shoulders as they walked down the abandoned corridors. "Now what're we 'gunna do?''
Sasuke glanced at him and rolled his eyes. "Well... contrary to belief, getting a detention doesn't mean skipping class but-... I can't really be bothered with maths." He admitted, pulling a face as Naruto's beefy arm wrapped around his neck uncomfortably.
"Mm... how about we go and sit on the roof of the English block?" He suggested randomly.
There was a loose ceiling tile in one of the cupboards which you could climb through to get through a hatch that lead to the door to get out onto the roof, Sasuke used to go there to think sometimes and no one would find them there.
Sakura looked at him quizzically then as if to say 'how is that possible?' but before she could say anything Naruto was all for it, seeing Sasuke's 'secret base' as he called it as they walked along the corridor and outside, he found the whole thing simply 'awesome' as he kept yelling as they climbed up through the hatch, gasping like a loud kid. Sakura was helped up by Sasuke and she smiled at him gratefully. "How did you know about this place?'' she asked him as Naruto ran about the roof she was half tempted to grab him to make sure he didn't accidently fall off.
Sasuke was watching Naruto and twitching anxiously, Naruto was so thick anything could happen.
"Hm... well, my brother told me about it. He and my cousin Shisui discovered it on cleaning duty one evening... I don't know." He shrugged dismissively. "He told me about it in my first year...it's a good place to come and, clear your head." He sighed, sitting on one of the power boxes. It wasn't that high, the science block was higher, but you could see the whole school from up here, and most of the town too.
Sakura hesitantly sat down beside him keeping a gap between them, she rested her hands in her lap and stared out at the town with a content smile on her face with her cheeks a light pink, she closed her eyes a little as a breeze blew through them and all her long glossy pink hair blew to the side a little. Sakura reached into her messenger bag and pulled out the rock Sasuke gave her, a Sakura from a few years ago would have creeped Sasuke out too much to get gifts, her drastic change was quite surprising. Sakura would have worshipped it and never eaten it but now she unravelled the wrapper and licked the side of it a little, smiling with a 'mmm' it probably taster even nicer because she'd been given it by Sasuke, Sakura looked over to see Naruto giggling to himself, he was like a five year old amused by anything.. it was quite heart warming though, it's why he was so nice to be around, so easily made happy.. Naruto flopped onto the floor and put his arms behind his head as he gazed up at the clouds. Sakura looked at Sasuke then, her eyes on the side of his face thoughtfully..
Sasuke felt as if so much weight was lifted off him up here, like no one could irritate him, it lifted his mood a lot... Sasuke felt eyes on him and cast his own onyx orbs to the side, the corner of his lips twitching into a small smile. "What is it?" He asked softly, tilting his head to the side as he watched her licking the rock... it made him subconsciously lick his own lips too for some reason.
Another strong spring breeze blew over them then and blew Sasuke's bangs which usually hung and hid his face, to the side, showing his eyes more.
Sakura stared at him a little, her eyes found their way to Sasuke's as he looked at her.. she saw the glint of a chocolate brown in them, the tint of it.. they looked so much warmer when you could see them properly, up here especially.. not dark like everyone thought, she found herself smiling at him. 'You're really beautiful Sasuke... not 'sexy', 'hot', 'gorgeous'... but you're so beautiful I can barely stand it sometimes...' she thought as she stared at him, she could even feel her body going all tingly as she looked at him. "O-oh.. I um, you just look... really peaceful, right now..'' Sakura stuttered and quickly spoke, tucking her hair behind her ear. "Your eyes..are different up here, that's all'' she smiled a bit.
Sasuke blinked at her in surprise then, his perfect eyebrows knitting together just a little... Sakura really did notice the smallest strangest things? How could somebody's eyes look different? Sasuke found himself looking at Sakura's eyes then, they were green... well, that was obvious... tiny little flecks of blue to, and darker around the outside... acorn shaped, and slightly slanted, Sakura's make up was so neat around her eyes, really framing them... they kind of sparkled too... Then Sasuke noticed an eyelash in the corner of her eye he edged closer to her and wet his lips...
"You got... something in your eye." he murmured, slowly leaning in closer to Sakura, his eyes fixed on the eyelash. He was a bit oblivious... making it look like he'd used that as an excuse to kiss her or something like in a lame movie.
'What?..' Sakura's mind exploded as she stared at him, her heart beginning to pound 'why is he?...' her pink lips parted a little as her breath hitched in her throat and she breathed in sharply through her little button nose, she couldn't believe it... This was so perfect, the sun, the breeze, the view.. the atmosphere up here with Sasuke, the weather really was beautiful today and he was going to... Sakura knew Sasuke didn't like her though so she didn't really understand but she was leaning towards him, one of her hands letting go of the rock to come up and lay on Sasuke's cheek, she never touched Sasuke really, anywhere, not even his hands or arms usually so to touch his face was a pretty big thing for Sakura..
Sasuke was pretty confused by her behaviour, it was just an eyelash? He stuck out his finger and swiped it up from her eye, blinking at it on his finger before wiping it on his trousers and leaning right back again from her so her hand slid off of her face. "There we go." He said simply with a weak smirk, getting to his feet and walking away from Sakura, to the edge of the roof, looking down obliviously. He did feel a little strange though, he'd never been up-close to a girl like that... and he and Sakura had had so many close encounters today, the tempura fire, the boob, now this, why did she react in these strange ways? He knew she liked him but, he just couldn't get his head around it... probably because he'd never liked anyone.
Sakura stayed very still with her hand still a little extended in the air, her eyes begun to shake a little then and she had to quickly snap her head to the side, lowering her hand quickly and curling it into a little fist, Naruto happened to look up then and see the hurt on Sakura's face, he didn't say anything he just stared in confusion, frowning a little...He didn't understand why she looked in pain and troubled all the time lately..especially today.
Sakura scrunched her eyes so tight as well as the rock in her other hand 'grow up Sakura..' she thought to herself as her eyes burned, that is never going to happen and you really need to learn that, you're not a little girl anymore and Sasuke isn't interested. When Sakura re-opened her eyes, she was staring out of the town.. for the first time, she just wanted to go home...
Sasuke sat down on the little wall of the roof then, leaning against a pole sticking up from it, one leg hanging down beside him, his hands idly in his lap as he glanced back at Naruto who was humming to himself and Sakura who looked like someone just died. "Sakura-... whats that look on your face? Cheer up." He sighed obliviously, shaking his head a little, turning his head back to stare out at the village. This day seemed really irritating, school seemed tiring actually for once, they had P.E. next... then detention...
Sasuke couldn't help but feel like something had changed over the holidays... he assumed it might be because Naruto and Sakura got closer but that wasn't quite it.
Sakura tried to think of something to say back, something Sakura-like, something to brush off how she was feeling... but she just couldn't, she felt like the biggest idiot.. she'd actually believed for a split second that Sasuke Uchiha was going to kiss her and it had given her the happiest feeling she had ever felt... only it was just false happiness wasn't it, it didn't happen and it never would... Sakura looked towards Naruto then who'd pulled out his orange and blue skullcandies and had them around his neck, he was tapping his leg to the beat of the song he was listening to, something really up beat and hyper by the sounds of it... Sakura stared at the back of his blonde head, did Naruto feel how she felt sometimes? when she ignored his feelings? Sasuke didn't even acknowledge hers... Sakura began to feel a little bit guilty for how she'd always treated Naruto, it wasn't his fault... what if he genuinely loved her and she brushed it off as a stupid crush? Why was Naruto so different to her? Sakura suddenly felt really ashamed of herself.. Over the Easter, Naruto had text her asking if she wanted to go to the movies, the park, the fair in town, the market.. she didn't even reply to say she was busy, she'd been such a bad friend.. and truth of the matter was, maybe the only person that would ever like her was Naruto, she wasn't anything special after all.. In her eyes, her body was average, her boobs were average, her face was average.. she was average, she'd need plastic surgery for someone like Sasuke to like her.
Sakura must have sat there thinking these thoughts for a LONG time because all of a sudden she heard the bell, she felt a lot of relief because she could rush off to the girl changing rooms and she had Netball today... Sasuke and Naruto had basketball, but today of all days... why did she have to get detention? Otherwise she could quickly get out of her games kit and rush to her bike at top speed to get home and crawl underneath her covers. It was typical really..
Sasuke started to stand up, as did Naruto who packed his headphones away and turned to say something to her when she quickly blurted out a 'see you later' and ran quickly to the hatch, climbing down and all but...flying to the girls changing rooms.
Naruto stared after her, then looked at Sasuke in confusion. 'I don't like this..' he thought, his eyes narrowed with worry as he climbed the hatch with Sasuke to go to P.E...
Sasuke quickly changed into his P.E kit, not listening to the irritating 'boys talk' that always took place in the boys changing rooms... same old shit, tits, action films, getting laid, Xbox... Sasuke had no interest in small talk, even Naruto joined in sometimes... but he was silent as always. The boys P.E kit was a leaf-green t-shirt with the school logo on it which was a swirly leaf symbol on the right breast, with black shorts, long black socks with a green stripe around the top. He pulled up his gym socks and switched his converse for black Nike trainers, packed his stuff up as they all filed into the gym where they'd be playing basket ball, they split into two teams and got given bibs.
Sasuke was good at all sports, he enjoyed them too... but today his mind was elsewhere, he made little effort to snatch the ball, dribble and didn't score any goals... his team were growing irritated that their best player didn't seem to be paying attention.
Suddenly Sasuke stopped in the middle of the court and frowned to himself... 'why is Sakura acting so strange? Up on the roof...' he suddenly realised then, the scene of what just happened played out in his mind like a movie... how he spoke to her, how he leant in slowly, staring right into her eyes, the breeze, the atmosphere... it looked like the scene of a first kiss and all Sasuke did was swipe an eyelash out of her eye... did Sakura think he was going to kiss her? Was THAT why she was so upset?
"Oh shit.." He murmured out loud, then THWACK the bright orange ball smacked into the side of his face, knocking him to the ground.
A few people chuckle and yelled 'come on Sasuke, get it together!' but Naruto went over a little red in the face from the game, HE'D been making effort, he liked sports more than any other subject. He reached down and took hold of Sasuke's arm pulling him up to his feet. "You alright Sasuke?'' he asked him with a frown. 'That's two of them acting weird now... what's wrong with the world today?' he thought as he looked at Sasuke who would have never have been hit by a ball like that before, he was always aware he would have smacked it away like some pro, so what was wrong with him today.
Sasuke got up and groaned, holding his hand to the side of his face, narrowing his eyes to himself... 'what kind of an idiot am I becoming?' He thought angrily to himself, shaking his head and pulling away from Naruto irritable. "Tch... yeah..." He muttered, swiping up the ball and turning to toss it at Lee who was sitting on the sub bench. "Here, Lee, you take my spot... I'm going to sit this one out." He mumbled, pulling off his red basket ball vest and tossing it at Lee.
"Oi! Sasuke, don't be such a bloody pussy!" Kiba yelled but Sasuke was already walking back into the changing rooms, so pissed off at himself... he wanted to go home... school just wasn't the same today, but they had that wretched detention...
Meanwhile Sakura was outside jolting about the netball court wearing a 'pretend skirt' as the headmaster called it.. secretly a pervert, it was disgusting green skirt with shorts attached to it underneath and a white t-shirt with a green leaf logo above her breast, she was wearing a green sweatband and her hair was tied up into a high pony tail, she was determined to forget about Sasuke before today messed up anymore... all three of them were good at sports, they often stuck together at sports days and when they did uni-sex sports as they were called like Badminton they worked together and never chose to be with anyone else, it was like instinct, second nature, Sakura loved playing badminton with Sasuke.. she'd get to see his muscular legs, watch him down half a bottle of water in one go, Sasuke was even more beautiful when he was sweaty.. 'Sakura, you're not a high school girl, stop fantasizing about Sasuke!' she scolded herself and shook her head, grabbing the ball and getting into the game..
By the time it came to an end, she was exhausted... more mentally and emotionally than anything, as the school came to an end.. she walked up to the vending machine outside her changing room in her 'pretend skirt' she couldn't be bothered to go in there right now and listen to all the girls planning nights out and outfits.. She selected a can of strawberry milkshake and watched it fall to the bottom of the machine with a clanging sound, she crouched down to get it out and cracked it open, drinking some of the cold, sweet liquid with a sigh.
Sasuke didn't bother to change back into his uniform since they had detention, ignoring Gai the irritating boys gym teacher as he ranted about hygiene... Sasuke didn't need to be told twice, he intended on going home and jumping straight in the shower... a cold one preferably, besides, he'd hardly worked up a sweat, standing in the middle of the basket ball court like a mong...
As Sasuke walked out of the changing rooms he got a full shot of Sakura's ass in her tiny 'skirt-short-hybrid' thing that none of the boys really understood. He blushed to himself and looked away, feeling like a pervert.
"Sakura." He said in a low tone, pulling his bag over his shoulder. "I'll... walk with you to detention." He muttered frostily, an air of awkwardness about him as he spoke.
Sakura snapped up straight and at the same time whacked her head on the vending machine in surprise, she let out a cry of surprise and reached up to grip her head.. going completely red, mostly in embarrassment. 'Way to go Sakura.. today has been the worst day, ever!' she thought to herself as she scrunched up her eyes. "O-okay..'' Sakura forced herself to say, she put her bag over her shoulder and drank her strawberry milkshake, walking quite a distance away from Sasuke down the corridor, her high ponytail bouncing a little and her green eyes averted to the opposite direction of Sasuke all together... ''I-it..really sucks we have detention, hm? I-I've never had one before'' she forced herself to say in a stutter, why was speaking to Sasuke so hard..
Sasuke glanced at her and smirked a little. "Tch... me either, well.. not for something like this anyway... usually just fighting with Naruto-.." He paused then to look over his shoulder... the three of them always went everywhere together but... he needed to apologise to Sakura at some point, and he had no intention of doing that in front of Sakura... he didn't even know how to go about it? What was he supposed to say 'oh, sorry you thought I was going to kiss you'... this was stupid, it had gone on long enough... they couldn't be friends if Sakura was going to be like this with him.
Sasuke stopped in his tracks then in the corridor, turning to face Sakura he grabbed her shoulder with one hand, looking up at her face. "Look-... Sakura, I feel... like I owe you an explanation." He muttered stiffly, narrowing his eyes at the floor.
"I-... I have no interest in dating you. It's... not your fault I just, don't want a relationship right now. You should... give it a go with Naruto..." He muttered through gritted teeth. "He... he actually deserves you and, he'd treat you well." He told her, it was probably the hardest thing he'd ever done, he got asked out ALL the time, confession notes in his locker, girls coming up to him and looking as if they were going to pass out as they shakily asked him out on a date, Sasuke usually gave them a dirty look and a 'no' before stalking off... but Sakura was probably the only girl he felt he owed it to, to speak out to... he couldn't keep letting her chase him, always living in hope that something might happen one day... it might, one day... but not now. Not in high school, Sasuke was certain of that.
Sakura stared up at him as if she looked like she was about two seconds from turning and running off, but smiled.. it took a lot of effort and she was positive it wasn't COMPLETELY real, but it was a smile none the less. "I know that, so don't worry Sasuke.. I know we'll never be together, I sort of gave up that childish thinking over a year ago now. But.. I can't be with Naruto, just like you can't be with me..'' she shook her head and looked down at her trainers, squeezing the half empty milkshake bottle in one hand. "I like Naruto.. I do, I care about him but it's because I care about him I can't ever lead him on.. I can't give him the chance because I know... I know that I'm not going to want it a hundred percent... and you should only be with someone if it's a hundred percent... otherwise it's not fair on Naruto..'' she explained glancing back up at him with a smile. "So you shouldn't say things like that Sasuke, no one SHOULD be with anyone..and if they should be, they will be..'' when Sakura was finished she downed the rest of her milkshake and tossed it skilfully in the bin, getting it in with a smile, she felt better now.. the air was clearer again, she reached over and linked her arm with Sasuke, something she usually wouldn't have done but.. she was feeling confident right now, happy as she walked with him.
Sasuke blinked at the arm linked in his own and let out a sigh. "I never said never... I just think we're too young to be worrying about that sort of stuff... its, kind of stupid." He told her sheepishly as they walked, but breathed a sigh of relief. If he'd said that to Sakura two years ago she would have broken down, cried and begged him then become even more dead set on getting his attention... but, they had found a sort of compromise now.
He just wished Sakura treated he and Naruto like equals, the slight tension between them all was too much. If Sasuke had feelings for Naruto it'd be a complete love triangle and that was never healthy.
They got to the detention room and Sasuke threw himself down in a seat at the back, glaring at the lines written on the board. 'I must not be insolent in class' to be written 100 times... how annoying. He'd prefer cleaning duties over lines.
Naruto came in late as usual, he stumbled in and the detention supervisor gave him a look with a disaproving frown. The blonde held his hands up in defeat and laughed foolishly. "S-sorry sorry... Got lost'' he lied.
"Oh really? considering you've been here for four years Mr Uzumaki I find that excuse to be rather ridiculous'' the teacher said with a sigh ''sit down.''
Naruto looked over at Sasuke and Sakura with a grin and quickly rushed to his seat beside him. "This is so cool huh? Detention together how awesome is that!" he chuckled like an idiot as he got set on his lines, finding it hard to spell the words... even though they were the same thing and written on the board..he stuck his tongue out in concentration like it was the hardest thing.
'What an idiot..' Sakura thought as she glanced over at him out of the corner of her eye but smiled to herself, she pulled out one of her notebooks and ripped a smart part out the back... Sakura was really asking for it today but the teacher was flopping half asleep at a desk at the front, he seemed to just want to go home too.
Sakura wrote a quick note saying 'Naruto, do you want to do something on the weekend? I'm in town so maybe I could go shopping with you, help you buy some clothes or something ~ Sakura :3' she passed the note to him and watched as the blonde went bright red as he read it, completely taking it the wrong way... she quickly added another note to his desk reading 'it's not a date Naruto -.-' and he scratched the back of his head and sent her a quick note back saying. 'Sure! I bet I can fit you in in my busy life since you asked so nicely y'know!' he drew a little swirl and a thumbs up picture and handed it back...reading it made Sakura twitch but she decided not to react to his annoying behaviour and change her mind, which was tempting... but she needed to be nicer to him.
Sasuke glanced up at them and scribbled his lines as quickly as he could, when he got to a hundred he got up and put them on the teachers desk who didn't even look at them, screwed it up and tossed it in the bin. "You can go." He grunted.
Sasuke glanced over his shoulder at Naruto and Sakura and smirked a little. "See you guys later." He called back to them and left the two of them alone, walking briskly out of the school as he took out his iPod and selected one of the loudest heaviest songs he had. Sasuke had pretty much every genre of music on his iPod, he didn't have a particular taste. He didn't like heavy metal that much but, it was the best thing for drowning out his irritating thoughts today.
Sasuke got on his bike and began cycling home at top speed, a pissed off look on his face... he needed to shake this mood and make tomorrow a better day.
Sakura and Naruto left together, they went to the bike shed where their pink and orange bikes were locked up and Sakura stared at Sasuke's empty space... they always rode home together, complained about the day, moaned about tomorrow, about a teacher, a class, something.. her eyes saddened a little. 'Have I made him mad at me today? so much as happened since we first walked into school.. the rumours are stronger than ever... that must really piss Sasuke off..-' her thoughts were interrupted by Naruto who was giving her a shake. "Sakura, you look 'kinda sad y'know? What's wrong?''
Sakura looked up at him and stared in a spaced out manner for a moment before looking down at her feet. "I just... I just don't want anything to get ruined this year..'' she responded and closed her eyes.
''Ruined? huh? what do you mean Sakura?''
"How we are.. how Sasuke is, our group.. next year is our last year and everything might change.. so I don't want anything to go wrong right now.. I'm just fed up of people making up rumours about Sasuke and I.. it must really make him so angry at me..'' her green eyes began to shake a little and she clutched the strap of her messenger bag.
Naruto stared for a moment before he made some kind of snorting sound "I don't think it bothers Sasuke that much, he's not that type of guy y'know? you're such a girl Sakura.. I-i mean you worry too much! you're going to make yourself ill or something! If today was a bad day, you just make tomorrow a better one! and don't worry about Sasuke... he needs us just as much as we need him and each other, you ever thought about that? He doesn't make effort with anyone else but us, y'know?'' he gave her a grin and Sakura stared at him with parted lips, her eyes glinted a little and she was soon smiling. 'Oh Naruto..' she thought and reached over to lightly punch his arm. ''Hey! I was trying to help!'' the blonde yelled back with a grin as they unlocked their bikes.
As they rode through the calm town they lived in, just off of the main city Tokyo, everything was traditional and respected around here, at this time of the year was Sakura's favourite.. the town was covered in Cherry blossom tree's, petals covered the clean pavements and fluttered everywhere, it made Sakura really look forward to summer.
"I'll see you tomorrow Naruto, don't be late this time!" Sakura yelled as they reached the street where they separated to go home.
"Yeah! I'll do my best! See you later Sakura!" Naruto yelled back as they rode off down the street, standing up on his bike, clearly very happy with himself.