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Sakura leisurely walked to the couches where Ino had already settled down on and was already taking up a majority of the couch. Ino peered up at her above her phone screen and gave a questioning look. Sakura didn't notice it and continued on in her languid daze. Sakura sat down on the little room that Ino left for her on the couch. Ino threw her legs off to the side of the couch and exhaled loudly in an annoyed manner, causing Sakura to look in her direction.
"Alright, either you just had to deal with some annoyed parents, or you have a hangover." She pondered on her own comment. "Actually that wouldn't make sense, you were with me last night. Unless you did some morning drinking – which is something that wouldn't surprise me, you do spend a lot of time with Tsunade-sama," Ino continued on but Sakura wasn't listening.
"Ino," She finally voiced. She couldn't really say anything, she realized. It was stupid getting distressed over something so trivial. Sakura unlocked her phone and opened up her conversation with Sasuke – she couldn't even call it a conversation because the man didn't even reply. She turned her phone towards Ino and held it to her eye level. Ino gaped.
"Oh, honey," Ino gave her a sad pout and moved closer to wrap an arm around her shoulders. "It's okaaay, you're gonna be okay."
Sakura quickly dismissed her comment, "No I'm okay, I'm just butthurt I guess. I feel like he would have at least said a thank you? I don't know. I thought we were at the very least… friends?"
"Sakura, maybe he's just not tech-savvy, you know? I can't really imagine Sasuke texting anyway, like maybe it's really just not his thing," Ino tried to reason.
"No, don't make up excuses for him." Sakura breathed. "It's whatever."
"It's not whatever,"
Sakura sat up, Ino shifted on the couch trying to catch a glimpse of her friend's disheartened face. She knew Sakura wasn't okay but before she could make a comment, there was a loud noise from behind the breakroom doors.
"Sakura-chan!"
Sakura's head snapped towards the noise and her slightly widened when a blonde popped through the doors and ran to her. "Sakura-chan, Sakura-chan," Naruto hastily sputtered her name before continuing with, "Sasuke's really out to kill me today," he whined, reaching to hold up his shirt from the side, showing a small gash; it looked like it maybe have been a sword or kunai cut. Naruto groaned out of frustration and grabbed her wrist, "Please heal me before he gets here,"
"Huh?" Sakura questioned.
The door opened again and there were footsteps, then nothing. Sasuke stood there in silence, face completely bare of any emotion.
"Sasuke?" Ino was the first to break the silence.
Sakura could feel her blood begin to heat up under her skin. She wasn't mad, she was more embarrassed, she definitely didn't expect to see Sasuke any time soon. She was actually hoping to never see him for a while so the embarrassment in her head dies down so that if she were to bump into him, it wouldn't really affect her much since it would have been a while at that point. But no time has passed. It was literally last night. She pulled her wrist away from Naruto's grasp slowly. "Sure, come this way," she mumbled, but Naruto was already trucking behind her. Sure enough, Sasuke followed the two when they passed him and just like that, Ino was left alone in the breakroom, very confused, but this was something that should be a norm for the trio.
Sakura examined Naruto's minor injuries and began to heal him, Naruto explaining to her what had happened but Sakura wasn't paying much attention to him. She zoned out but continued to heal. There wasn't really much going through her head, however. Not until her eyes landed on the Uchiha that had made his way to her desk and had leaned against it, looking unbothered as always.
Before she knew it, Naruto was always looking better than before and he was basically done, the rest of the scratches he could deal with on his own. She chose this time to tune back in on whatever Naruto had been blabbering about.
"—but on the real though, Sakura-chan, I think Sasuke's just triggered because you didn't show last night." Naruto placed his index finger on his chin, seemingly putting the puzzles together in his head.
A short scoff was heard from Sasuke. Sakura turned to him to give him a questioning look before returning her gaze to Naruto.
"What?" she finally voiced out.
"What do you mean, "what"? We called you so many times. Did you forget it was Sasuke's birthday? I didn't. We went out to eat last night, even Kakashi-sensei answered his phone and that man never does! But halfway through, we saw you at that new shop with Ino and them so we just went, I don't know, it seemed kinda harsh for you to ignore my calls like that though, we would have understood if you had plans already—"
"Naruto, what?" This was too much for Sakura to take in. "I didn't get any calls."
She had turned her phone off. Sakura wanted to rip her hair out once realization had set in. "My phone wasn't on the entire night; I didn't get any of your calls." She quickly explained.
"Oh!" Naruto grinned at Sasuke. "Well that explains that!" His phone buzzed and he typed out a short reply before placing his phone back in his pocket. He started towards the door, "I gotta go, I forgot Hinata and I were supposed to meet up after training with Sasuke. I didn't think I would have needed to be healed so now I'm late!" He waved and was out the door.
Sakura faced the door, too embarrassed to face the man behind her. She really did that to herself – missing an opportunity to celebrate Sasuke's birthday because she was dumb and turned her phone off and made with situation stupid. Is that why Sasuke never replied and only opened her message? Who knows. But Naruto's more adamant than that, he would have physically looked for her if she didn't answer her phone. Clasping her hands together behind her, Sakura finally turned to Sasuke. He didn't look like he had injuries at all, just a little dirty from his fight with Naruto. Nothing too bad.
"Do you even need anything healed?" She inquired.
Sasuke straightened up from his leaning position and tucked his hands into his pockets. "Not really." And with that, he started to make his way to the door.
Should I even try to talk to him about the text message? She mentally asked Inner Sakura. No reply. With a frustrated sigh, Sakura reached towards him without actually touching him, hoping to stop him, "Sasuke-kun, wait,"
Sasuke tilted his head towards her.
Sakura continued, "Belated happy birthday," there was silence.
"Thanks," Sasuke started to walk away and Sakura felt nothing.
Well, there's that. She got what she wanted, right? A thank you from the Uchiha. But it still didn't feel right. "Uh," Sakura took a step forward. "I'm sorry I missed your birthday dinner."
"It's fine."
Sakura searched her mind for anything to say to the man in front of her, hoping for anything just to keep him there and actually talk to her. "I'd like to make it up to you,"
What am I saying? She thought to herself.
"You don't have to." He nonchalantly replied and placed a hand on the door handle. Sakura could basically hear her own heart breaking.
"I want to," she finally chirped up. "My phone was turned off last night when I was out with Ino's team. I would have definitely gone along with you guys if I had known about it earlier."
Sasuke let go of the door handle and faced Sakura full-on. "Would you like to go out on a ride with me?"
"…" Sakura blinked. What?
Sasuke averted his gaze. "This week's going to be sunny, it wouldn't be so bad for a bike ride."
"…" Another blink. What?
Sakura raised a hand to her head, not believing her ears. "Are you serious?"
Sasuke slightly raised a brow at her.
"You're serious," Sakura stated finally. "Like bikes?"
"Naruto's been helping me out with my motorcycle," Sasuke explained.
Motorcycle?! Inner Sakura was vibrant and vivid.
"You can say no." Sasuke affirmed to her.
"No!" Sakura cleared her throat. "No, I wouldn't mind it at all." She whipped out her phone and opened up her the calendar app, tapping through the days, checking her schedule. "What does your agenda for this week look like?"
"Sakura, you know I'm free all the time."
She did know that.
"The question should be, when are you free?"
Sakura could feel herself going soft for the man in front of her. Was he really asking her to hang out with him? She couldn't believe it.
"I'm off next Thursday," She locked her phone.
"I'll see you then," Sasuke exited the room and Sakura was left there, staring at the spot where he had been at just merely seconds before.
BITCH! Inner Sakura was going wild. Are we really about to spend time with Sasuke Uchiha?!
a/n: yall pls review! i'd love it! tell me what you like and don't like pretty please :)
also yes bich sasuke has a motorcycle i'm cryin
