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Five minutes later, the door opened again. Finally, he scowled as he turned his head towards this 'nurse'. "Mr. Uchiha, a gash to the head that needs some stitches. Okay then, let's get you patched up." His eyes widened, and his jaw slackened at the sight before him.
"Sakura."
Sasuke managed to pick up his jaw before she looked up from her chart with a smile. "The one and only." The irony of the words was lost on him as she merely went about her business as if everything was normal.
Well, everything wasn't normal, the fucking universe just exploded.
"What are you doing here?" He watched as she gathered the needed utensils out of the unit above the sink in the corner of the room. She gave him a quick look over her shoulder and he realized that her eyes were dancing. He had seen that look often while growing up, and it meant only one thing: she was teasing him.
"I'm here to do your stitches, Sasuke. I hope you don't mind, we are a bit understaffed at the moment," she paused as she carefully filled a newly opened syringe with anesthetic. "But I assure you, I'm fully qualified to handle your injury." His head was reeling, why was she here, she wasn't supposed to be here; she was supposed to be some hot shot doctor somewhere, not an overworked nurse in this dump.
She turned towards him and glanced at his wound before looking him right in the eye. "Hello Kitty? Every manly of you, Sasuke." He attempted a glare at her, but the pull on his face made him grunt lowly at the sharp sting. She smiled condescendingly at him, like she always would.
"I suggest you don't do that for a little while." She stepped closer and injected the needle into the wound. He clenched his teeth against the pain. Stepping back she smiled. "Okay, it should start feeling a little better. It may tingle, but that's normal." Sakura removed the needle, threw it into the hazardous bag, and threw the syringe into the garbage before turning back towards him.
He tried to make his perusal of her unnoticed, and she made no comment as she approached once more to remove the band aids. He couldn't believe that she looked exactly the same. Same hair style, same eyes, same face, hell, even her body was in shape. He glanced at her left arm. She was in better shape than high school, and her boobs…
"Hm, the wound looks clean, but just to be sure, please lie back so I can clean it." He did as he was told, and waited with his hands folded on his stomach. In a few moments, she appeared above him and set to work. At this point, he felt nothing but the need to say something, to demand why she was there, but he didn't know how exactly to phrase the question/demand without it sounding like he was interested in why her life to a turn for the worst and she returned to Shelton.
Because he wasn't interested. She was just a girl he grew up with and fucked, that was it. His stomach swirled against his mind as she began threading the sutures into his head. Hesitantly, dark eyes focused themselves from the ceiling to her face, immersed in her work.
"So what brings you to town?" Her regular question didn't put him at ease. Did she not realize that the last time they saw each other was ten years ago, and they were naked? Yet here she was going on as if everything was normal, his mouth pulled down into a slight frown. She was acting as if she didn't care, which was exactly how he should have been acting.
"Naruto's kid is getting baptized, and the idiot wants me to be the godfather." He watched her lips part into a white smile.
"That's very kind of you, Sasuke." He smirked in response, unconsciously relaxing just the tiniest bit as his eyes closed in a haughty manner.
"Well I can't exactly say no, it's my responsibility to him." Due to his closed eyes, he missed her smile fade.
"Either way, I think it's still very nice of you." He shrugged one shoulder, and after a moment she changed the subject. "So, I assume you're staying with the knucklehead then?" He grunted in affirmation of her question, and she hummed. "You haven't changed." Mentally he echoed her conclusion and peeked at her under the lashes of his right eye before closing it again and letting her mend his head in an easy silence.
"There, finished." Sakura announced after a half an hour. The gash wasn't deep, nor was it that wide. Only six stitches right before his hairline. Sasuke sat up as she gathered her supplies and tidied up the room. He watched.
"Naruto should be here any minute, so he should be able to give you a ride." He only vaguely comprehended her sentence as he was preoccupied with thoughts of how to ask her why she was there, if he should even ask, or maybe if they could go out for some drinks.
Maybe if he had a repeat with her in bed, he would finally be able to get her out of his head.
"Well, I guess I'll see you around." She smiled once more at him before turning and opening the door to leave.
"Sakura." The woman paused and looked at him over her shoulder with an expectant expression. Well, it was all or nothing now, "When did you come back?" He asked with coolness that he perfected around women early on in high school. What she said next, was almost as unexpected as when she first walked in the door.
"Oh, I never left." With another smile, she was gone.
After regaining his senses, Sasuke walked out of the room, and down the hall. When he came to the nurse's desk, he was surprised to find Naruto talking lowly with Sakura, both of their expressions serious. A feeling went through him that he really wished he hadn't felt. Sakura's expressive eyes slid from Naruto to Sasuke, and he raised a brow at her. Noticing that her attention was elsewhere, the blond man before her whipped around with wide eyes, at this Sasuke clenched his jaw. It was as if they were caught doing something they weren't suppose to do, something that they wanted to keep hidden from him.
The blonde's wide-eyed expression morphed into a grin as he spread his arms in the air. "Teme!" Sasuke smirked at this as his eyes slid from the idiot to the woman behind him, causing her to fidget. So she wasn't as unaffected as he thought. Good.
His gaze returned to the blond. "Ah man, it's great to see you. So I heard you crashed within ten minutes of coming back to town," Sasuke's smirk erased itself as Naruto chuckled like a little girl. "And managed to make all the baseball moms piss their pants when he woke up, too."
The smirk replaced itself, and a grunt of amusement left him. Sakura gasped, outraged. "He did what in front of the baseball teams?" His pleased expression slid to the woman who was turning a little red in the face before he announced that he would be in the car.
There, that should make her think about him. His smugness was temporarily agitated as he passed through the lobby, empty except for one kid playing his Game Boy. A slight frown of thought marred his features as he glanced at the boy and he looked up, onyx meeting gold for just a moment before the males went on their separate business.
He waited three minutes in the Audi-Q7 before the blonde made his appearance with a grin. Sasuke returned the look with one of apathy. "Ah man, I can't believe you crashed your ride than bitched out half the PTO." Sasuke scoffed as he redirected his gaze out the front window.
"It was a scratch, and they needed to mind their own business." A chuckle met his ears in return. Christ, did this guy always laugh?
"Yeah, a scratch that took off your entire left front and those parents make me want to puke, I swear, they all have their heads shoved up their asses. In this town, what you did was nothing." Sasuke mentally agreed.
"We are going out for drinks tonight; this is a time for celebration!" Sasuke resisted the urge to flinch at the scream in his ear. "Hinata hardly ever lets me go out anymore." At this grumble, Sasuke's near flinch turned to a sly smirk as he raised his eyebrows at his friend in a silent, 'You've got to be shitting me' expression.
The blonde merely sighed wearily. "I tell you Sasuke, you had the right idea staying single." This impartment of wisdom was made as they pulled into a house at the higher end of town. Sasuke dipped his head to get a good look at the entire house through the front windshield; it seemed to be pretty new, before Naruto drew his attention once more. "But I wouldn't trade Hinata-chan for the world." He watched slightly unnerved as the blond wiggled his eyebrows suggestively before exiting the car. Sasuke rolled his eyes as he did the same.
The house was actually very nice for the area they were in. Naruto's wife was still pretty though Sasuke couldn't help but notice that she had gained a few pounds since their kid was born. She was more assertive; however, but the dark-haired man only made a note of this out of observation, he didn't really care.
What he did care about was his guest suite situated at the back of the house on the first floor, far from the other bedrooms on the second floor. The other thing that relieved him greatly was that the two-year-old girl, of whom he would be a godfather to in less than two days, did not take after Naruto
At All.
He liked the kid for that fact alone, though she was a little creepy when she kept staring at him from her highchair as he waited for Naruto to finish speaking with his wife and tried to ignore the baby's creepy gaze. Finally the blond stopped talking, and Sasuke followed him out the back door and around to the garage.
"I've got some beers in the garage fridge; Hinata doesn't want it in the house." Sasuke raised his brow as Naruto's eyes rolled in exaggeration. Soon, both were downing buds, as they conversed about the last three years apart.
"You're doing surprisingly well for yourself, I thought I'd have to stay on the floor of some shack for four days." Naruto looked positively outraged at the confession before his eyes appraised their surroundings.
"Yeah, we're a lot better off than most of the people around here thanks to that job in Maple." Sasuke nodded solemnly. He knew just how bad it could get, they both did. Naruto perked up suddenly, rising Sasuke's brows with the knucklehead's mood. "I've got another surprise." Looking stealthily around her motioned for Sasuke to follow him behind the garage where they squeezed in between the building and a wooden fence, Naruto swinging his head every which way as they went.
"It's like that woman has an extra sense or something, she comes out of fucking nowhere all the time, I swear." Sasuke just grunted impatiently, telling the guy to get a move on with whatever the hell he had. His shoulders almost touched both objects enclosing them, and dead weeds were ensnaring themselves on his jeans. He resisted the urge to shake his left leg as Naruto glanced behind him once more before reaching deep into his pocket and pulling out the most beautiful thing Sasuke had seen all day.
The blonde chuckled while a smirk spread across Sasuke's pale face. "I got this one for a real deal of some bum kid at the Stop-&-Go off of Market." Sasuke grabbed the joint and brought it to his lips while Naruto dug around for a lighter and assisted him.
He took a big hit, immediately feeling the wave of pleasantness cascade over him. It had been almost five years since the last time he lit up. "Man, this is great, I don't even remember the last time I had one of these. Hinata is against anything that smokes, she avoids campfires I swear." Sasuke imagined the girl shrieking away from a giant roaring flame as Naruto rolled his eyes and took a hit himself.
Sasuke helped himself to another, slowly exhaling as he redirected the conversation. "So, what's up with Sakura?" He tried to act nonchalant about the question he was itching to ask since Naruto hopped into his SUV an hour earlier. Suddenly the blond lost some of his perk as he shook his head and reached for the substance.
"She's doing okay. Of course she should be doing a lot better, I about shit a brick when I found out she was still in this dump-hole, but," Here he stopped himself and glanced quickly back at Sasuke before finally shrugging, "shit happens I guess." The anticlimactic explanation aggravated the dark-haired man, causing him to loose some of his buzz. He figured 'shit' had happened, what he wanted to know was what 'shit' it was.
Though it wasn't as if he cared, it was just he knew her, and the last time he saw her, she was leaving in three months to go to some Ivy League college with a full ride. But before he could question further, a voice rang through the air.
"Naruto!" It was almost comical to watch the bloodshot eyes before him widen to twice their size.
"Shit." The blond threw the joint down as if it would bite him, and stomped on it furiously. Sasuke watched this impassively, but quickly became annoyed when arms started waving hazardously around the space before him in a vain effort to dispel the smoke. "I'm coming honey!" Sasuke snorted, the idiot was so whipped.
"Naruto get out here right now!" Turning quickly around, the blond stumbled on some of the weeds as he struggled out from the confined space, Sasuke following coolly behind him. They were greeted by a slightly annoyed Hinata.
"What were you doing behind the shed?" Her voice was mixed with suspicion and confusion. Sasuke directed his gaze in a random direction, letting Naruto take this one, it was his crazy wife anyways.
"Well, honey, Sasuke wanted to see the fence, so" A hand came to scratch the back of his head and Sasuke mentally exhaled 'idiot', "So I had to oblige as a host you know?" The woman's unnerving gaze slid from one to the other. Sasuke pretended to ignore her as Naruto put on his best smile. Finally, her gaze settled on the blond and they narrowed.
"You weren't smoking behind the shed again, were you?" The blond had the audacity to gasp in outrage; Sasuke resisted the urge to roll his eyes.
"Of course not." He placed a hand to his heart. "Have you no faith in your husband?"
The woman's righteous look was taken down a notch. "Of course I do. Anyways, Sakura called and said she was on her way, so she should be here any minute." Sasuke snapped his head towards her, causing the little woman to jump slightly at the sudden look.
This made Naruto look back at him questioningly as the wife started to fidget. Sasuke kept his cool with a pointed look that made the man relent.
"Um, I-I'm going to go back inside." With that, Hinata scurried back towards the house were the baby was sitting by the sliding door, staring across the yard at Sasuke. He quirked a brow at it, but the child didn't move. Hell, he didn't even think it blinked.
Mentally shaking off the thought, he turned his attention back to his companion.
"Why is Sakura coming?" Naruto snapped out of his ogling of his wife and turned towards Sasuke with shifting eyes.
"She's going to be godmother." Sasuke stared at Naruto for a moment, wondering at his attitude. There was something about them he wasn't supposed to find out. He lowered his lids into a pensive expression, causing Naruto to start fidgeting as badly as his wife. Judging on this behavior alone, Sasuke would say that it was something big.
"I'm going to take a shower." With that, he stalked off towards the house, his buzz completely killed.
While dressing, Sasuke heard, who he assumed to be, Sakura arrive. For this reason, he purposely took his time, picking out the black polo to wear over a pristinely, white wife-beater. From women's reactions to his dress style, black was the color to choose if he wanted to make Sakura notice him. He paused to frown at that thought. It wasn't as if he wanted Sakura's attention, he just wanted to get that itch out of his system, and her wanting to jump him at first glance would greatly benefit him to that end.
A half an hour later he made his way out of his room and headed towards the kitchen were all the laughter was coming from, but upon entering the living room he stopped dead.
"Kaz, can you get my purse from the car please?" For the third time that day, Sasuke couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"One second mom, I'm almost done with this level!"
Onyx met gold.
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