chapter 2

cuz coding in java is the most annoying thing ever... for a college credit.

things i do to become a good programmer.

I woke up that morning with someone knocking on my door. It knocked for a few minutes and I heard someone answered the door and closed the door again. After a few more minutes, the door started knocking once again. I got up, wrapped a blanket around me and saw a shirtless sasuke with the door wide open with the mail man by the door with some boxes in his hands.

"good morning, sakura-san! Your mail from tsunade-sama has arrived!"

I quickly walked towards them and signed the papers.

"thank you! I've been waiting for these for days!" i enthusiastically told him while signing the paper.

when I gave him back the clipboard but he wasnt reaching for it, I saw him looking at sasuke while he was looking at him too. when I coughed, they both looked at me and the mailman took the clipboard and left. I closed the door and locked it before picking up the boxes again to move them to my study room's door and he was still there standing in the middle of the room.

"did the knocking woke you up?"

"no. I was awake and meditating."

"oh. That was a bad timing."

"hn."

Then he walked away once again back to his room and closed the door behind him. What a prick, I swear. After putting all the stuffs in my study room, someone started knocking on my door and it was naruto.

"good morning sakura-chan! I'm here for sasuke to tell him it's his monthly check up!" I step aside and let him in.

"good morning to you too. But you can just wait in the living room and I'll just call him, ok?" he nodded and asked me if he could make himself tea to wake himself up and I nodded at him.

I walked towards the room where sasuke was staying and I knocked on the door and he didn't answer. When I entered his room, he was back in bed with his back facing me. I closed the door and sat on the side of his bed and touched his back softly. I removed my hand from his back and softly put them on his head and soothe it while calling his name out.

"sasuke-kun, naruto is here to tell you about your monthly check up with him." I heard him exhaled and I pulled my hand away in the process.

"tell him I don't feel good." he scoffed. I touched his forehead and his neck and he was burning.

"ah, yes. I'll tell him."

I walked out of the room and told naruto how sasuke's having a fever and he'll go when he has recovered.

"I'll come by again then, I don't want to get sick just like last time. Later then!" he left disappointed but a in a hurry at least.

I went back to his room and made him wear a shirt and examined everything about him. the overall outcome is just that he has a high fever and just needed to rest.

I pulled up the covers up to his neck and tucked him in. I sat on the side of his bed and stoke his head lightly as I could feel him relaxing but he was still shaking from the cold temperature of the room. I started humming to him and that's when he started to fall a sleep a few minutes later.

This taking care business isn't going to work out.

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"the almighty sasuke uchiha is in your couch… napping. Why is he here again?"

I looked behind me and I didn't even realized that he was there when I opened the door for ino when she practically banged the door so hard while yelling for my name to open up.

"i didnt even know that he was there." She scoffs at me while she removed her shoes and jacket and proceeded to look at sasuke with her face inches away from him.

she looked at me and grinned. She was drawing closer to him with her lips almost touching his and when suddenly sasuke suddenly sat up with his sharingan on, ino backed away quickly and stumbled on the floor. I walked and helped ino to sit on the chair next to the couch and sat beside sasuke who was breathing heavily.

"are you ok?" he didn't answer me, he just continued staring at the wall next to the door.

While wiping his sweat, I could still see ino giving me this 'you sly fox' smile. Sasuke closed his eyes and put his head on my shoulder while trying to breathe normally. With his left hand, he took my hand and held it while I put my left hand on his head to stroke it lightly while humming and lulling him to sleep.

It took us a good few minutes for him to start to relax and to fall back asleep. I gently placed him down and led ino out of the living room to my study room and that's when she started harassing me with those stupid questions.

"talk to me. What's going on with you and that uchiha? Tell me. I thought you're dating gaara? Like come on talk, sakura! Tell me! I must know!" she screeched.

I covered her mouth and i almost strangled her. when her her excitement died down i let my hand go and gave her all the stuff that she needed for the mission she have with choji and shikamaru.

"the hokage told me to 'babysit' sasuke before he leaves again on his worldly adventure, that's it. And gaara and I are… not really in good terms right now." i whispered the last part. She squinted her eyes and telling me to go on with the details.

"he's busy, im busy, that's all." She kept telling me to go on but I just tried to avoid it.

/

It's been days since sasuke recovered from his fever. He was out on a mission with Naruto and shino while they went to accompany the kazekage to the land of stars and back here in konoha to have a meeting and the older sand siblings will get gaara here in konoha after the meeting.

But today's the day that they'll come back here and have the kage monthly meeting and that means sasuke and Naruto would be free the whole day. When I got out of the house and down the stairs, I saw sasuke already back with his head down looking at at his anbu mask on his right hand while his sword on the left.

"sasuke-kun?"

he looked up at me and stopped. He nodded at me and continued walking near me and stopped in front of me.

"working?" I nodded.

"hn. Don't stress yourself out to death."

I lightly laughed at his joke and I saw him smirked a little but changed in a split second when I saw him looking behind me. When I turned around, it was gaara.

"gaa—kazekage-sama… how can I help you?" i had to straighten myself before sasuke becomes suspicious.

he was looking at sasuke and I could feel the tension between them in the air.

"just came to check up on you. So… the uchiha stays with you?"

i turned my body towards gaara and he has my full attention since I know this wouldn't be a good conversation.

"yes. He is under my care." He laughed.

"pathetic. The great uchiha who has killed hundreds of lives is under your care. He should be under the mental and disability's responsibility."

I was about to walk near gaara but he subtly reached the bottom of my shirt and tugged me lightly to not attack him.

"I see. You're still bitter about us, aren't you?" he stopped laughing and I could tell his mood has changed.

"what about us, huh?" He came near me and was about to grab me but sasuke slapped his hand away and put me behind him.

gaara looked at sasuke and back at me and gave me this evil smile and looked back at sasuke in the eye.

"she was easy to break. So easy to use. So easy to manipulate. She's so fragile and I took advantage of her." I clenched both of my hands and concentrating my chakra on them and I was about to attack him but he continued on.

"I guess you never knew that she's the type of girl who would do those things… didn't you? You thought she's a strong emotional woman? Pathetic. Both of you are pathe-…"

in a swift move, sasuke's fist went to gaara's face and his sand didn't protect him on time as he fell on the floor with his nose all bloody and that's when Naruto came and saw gaara on the floor bleeding.

"yo teme! What the fuck did you do the the kazekage!"

he tried to help him out but gaara just pushed his hand away and stood up on his own while looking at us.

"she will be mine." Then he left.

Naruto looked at us with a confused look and no one seems to talk for a few minutes until I broke it.

"i… i… I'll be late for work if I don't start walking. I'll see you guys later."

When I walked past sasuke, he grabbed my hand with a tight grip and it made me looked at him. I noticed that his sharingan and the rinnengan are staring at me and I looked away from them.

"I'll walk you to work." He let go of my hand and started walking down the stairs. Naruto followed him and started asking him what happened and I followed behind him.

a little short, but i'll post the next one soon :)

once again, reviews are welcome!