Song Used: Red by Taylor Swift
Hello my loyal fans,
This chap isn't as long as the others have been, but it IS longer than the prior one… Not as much SasuSaku though, some nonetheless… A little HanabixIshida and NaruHina too…
Which by the way,
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Because they do U,U"
Well, anyway
Sorry for any grammatical/spelling errors I might've made
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. . .
Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street
Faster than the wind
Passionate as sin, ended so suddenly
. . .
"Who's that?"
Konohamaru looked at the boy across him and bounced the basketball curiously, he looked across the street where they were playing and saw two figures walking towards them.
"Moegi and Hanabi" Konohamaru answered as they got closer
The two girls were walking through the streets probably on their way to visit someone.
Moegi had orange coloured thick hair that she pulled in two low pony tails, her skin colour was peach which clashed well with her large brown eyes. She wore a pink shirt with a purple cardigan and a beige loose skirt.
Next to her was Hanabi, she had long dark brown hair and pale eyes which worked weirdly well against her pale skin, making her look like either a ghost or an angel, depending on how you viewed her. She wore a dark purple shirt and denim shorts.
"Which one's which?" Ishida asked his eyes locked on Hanabi
Konohamaru suddenly took pose like a teacher and stared intently at Ishida, as if the information he was about to explain was life threatening "the ranga chick, that's Moegi… She's my friend; the chick next to her is Hanabi, the paler one… She's alright, not really that nice, which is weird cause she's Hinata's si- oh, have you met Hinata yet?"
Ishida looked at Konohamaru in hesitance "no…"
"Oh" Konohamaru waved his hand around "she's older and really pretty, plus really nice… We have to be nice to her, she's gonna marry- Uh …never mind "
Konohamaru bounced the ball nonchalantly
"How do you know who she's gonna get married to?" Ishida asked curiously
"They're engaged" Konohamaru answered "to tie the families together and stuff"
Ishida looked as if he'd been bitten by a snake "no way"
"Yeah" Konohamaru nodded "don't tell anyone I told you though, it's a secret… Hey! You wanna meet them?"
"Meet who?" Ishida caught the ball Konohamaru threw
"Them" Konohamaru motioned to Moegi and Hanabi who were talking and now passing them
"Uh-"
"OI MOEGI! HANABI!"
The girl's heads snapped towards the boy who was now waving them over.
They looked at each other with inquiring glances before walking over to them.
"Hey" Moegi waved as they got closer "who's your friend?!"
"Ishida" Konohamaru motioned to the house they were playing in front of "he just moved in"
Moegi looked at him in surprise "you're the Haruno?"
"Yeah…" Ishida nodded hesitantly glancing at Hanabi who wore a poker face
"I'm Moegi" She introduced herself with a friendly smile "and this is Hanabi"
Hanabi nodded at the boy who tried not to turn pink
"How's Hinata?" Konohamaru asked the Hyuga
"How's Naruto?"
Konohamaru grinned
Moegi glanced at the basketball Ishida threw at Konohamaru who caught it "so you guys are playing basketball?"
"Yup!"
"Where are the hoops?" Hanabi asked
"We don't need hoops" Konohamaru grinned cocky "we're that good"
"That doesn't make sense" Hanabi commented
"It doesn't have to" Konohamaru defended "right Ishida?"
Ishida was silent under his future wife (as far as he was concerned) and best friend's stare.
"You're horrible at basketball" Moegi commented "we played last week and your aim was horrible"
"My aims amazing!" Konohamaru defended
Moegi snickered
"It is!" Konohamaru got worked up "right Ishida?!"
"It-"
"See! It is too!"
"You only got in once, and that was when I was standing on the side" Moegi rolled her eyes
"Alright" Konohamaru puffed his chest out "Challenge accepted!"
"That wasn't-"
"I'LL PROVE YOU WRONG!" Konohamaru started looking around for something to aim at while clinging onto the ball
Moegi rolled her eyes again while Hanabi looked bored from the turn of events.
"THAT!"
Everyone looked to where Konohamaru was pointing, there was a tree right behind the wall separating the street and the Uchiha property. The tree hardly had any leaves on it due to Autumn arriving and looked quite smooth.
"I'll throw the ball at the tree and it'll bounce off easily" Konohamaru grinned "right in the middle"
"And if you miss?" Hanabi questioned
"That won't be an issue" Konohamaru grinned reassuringly flashing her a smile
Hanabi looked at him unaffected by his show of determination.
He raised his arm and bent down his knees glaring at the tree, Moegi fought the urge to kick him up the bum. Finally letting go of the ball, it made its way clumsily through the air and towards the area he had been aiming. Saying he missed would be an understatement, the ball didn't even touch an outer branch on the tree, and it certainly didn't bounce back.
Konohamaru blinked paused in the pose he had been while throwing the ball.
"You moron!" Moegi burst into laughs as Hanabi covered her giggles with a hand
Even Ishida couldn't keep the grin off his face
"WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!" Konohamaru cracked it at them "I BORROWED THAT BALL FROM NARUTO!"
Hanabi stopped giggling instantly "wait you got that ball from Naruto?"
"Yeah!" Konohamaru looked at her "what about it?!"
"Naruto borrowed that ball from Neji…"
Moegi stopped laughing too while Ishida looked between them all clueless "eh? Who's Neji?"
"My cousin" Hanabi answered
Konohamaru crouched down while covering his head with both hands and staring at the ground with widened eyes "This is it… This is how I die…"
Moegi's expression changed and a look of pity crossed her face as she comforted Konohamaru "There, there… Look… we can get the ball back, how about that?"
"There's no way we can get into Sasuke's place!" Konohamaru whined
"Why don't you just open the gate or something?" Ishida suggested
"They're away! There aren't any cars! There's no way in!"
"Why don't we wait until they get back?" Moegi suggested
"HOW LONG WILL THAT BE?!" Konohamaru groaned "there's no way in!"
"Naruto gets in all the time" Hanabi pointed out
"He climbs the wall!" Konohamaru exclaimed
"Well why can't we climb the wall?!" Moegi retorted
"We're too short! You need to be like… 17 or something to be tall enough to get over that wall!"
"…"
. . .
Loving him is like trying to change your mind
Once you're already flying through the free fall
Like the colours in autumn
So bright just before they lose it all
. . .
Sakura finished drying her hair and straightening it when a loud knocking was heard on her bedroom door, she fixed up her red crop top and white tank top that was under it before taking one last admiring look to her new denim shorts before answering the door.
Her expression changed to confusion when she saw her nervous brother standing in her door way with two girls and a guy behind him.
"Uh… Ishida…" Sakura started but was interrupted
"I need a favour!" Konohamaru blurted behind him
She furrowed her eyebrows "what?"
"There's a ball that we threw and it's on the Uchiha place, we can't get in and there's no one home and if I don't get it back I'm so screwed"
"It's true" Hanabi nodded "Neji nii san doesn't like his things being mistreated"
Sakura raised a brow "Neji? You're related to Hina-"
Konohamaru continued to ramble "We can't get it cause we're too short but you're tall enough to hop over the wall!"
Sakura looked at Konohamaru in horror "what the hell?"
"We need you to climb the Uchiha's wall to get the ball" Moegi translated
Sakura was silent for a minute "you want me to break into The Uchiha's property for a ball…?"
"Yeah" They all nodded
Sakura face palmed "are you crazy?!"
The pinkette was about to close the door when Ishida stopped it with a dead serious expression "do you remember that time you were in year nine you invited friends over and the car-"
"Alright! Alright!" Sakura exclaimed with a displeased expression "you're seriously cashing that IOU in now?"
"I've waited 2 years to cash it in. You owe me" Ishida narrowed his eyes
Sakura was hesitant, but she had promised the boy…
"Fine. You're sure no one's home?"
"Pretty sure!" Konohamaru thumbed her up
. . .
Losing him was blue like I'd never known
Missing him was dark grey all alone
Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you've never met
But loving him was red
Loving him was red
. . .
It would be easy, right?
Just climb over the wall, the ball was next to the tree at the front, that's what they'd told her. She raised her head and stared up at the tall, thick, stone wall… Konohamaru explained how Naruto always got over it, but she only half listened. How on earth could any human being climb over it as easily as the younger boy explained? He must be a ninja or something.
"So are you ready?" Konohamaru asked
"Uh… Yeah" Sakura answered hesitantly
"Should we have given her a helmet?" Moegi whispered
"Nah, I don't have one" Konohamaru whispered back
Sakura decided to ignore them.
Aright, the first step as a stone that was hanging out, just enough for her to use as a foothold, then there was another to the far left. She found it after a few seconds of searching and used it to balance her left foot and push herself up on. What next? After finding about three more footholds and almost slipping about twice she managed to grab at the top of the wall only slightly and not well enough to depend her body weight on.
Her eye twitched in irritation as the kids looked up at her as if she was a goddess.
Sakura took a risk and decided to put her body weight on her hand that gripped the top of the wall, almost slipping and falling she managed to slowly climb upon the top of the wall. It took five minutes altogether to get to the top, she sat there and exhaled deeply. Finally relieved she had managed to get to the top. Now… To get to the bottom, the girl looked down and her eyes widened in horror. Not only did she not know how to get to the other side (Konohamaru never explained that!) But she suddenly realised how tall the wall was.
Alright.
Think Sakura!
The pinkette grabbed a tree branch and tried to foot herself on the tree, but as soon as she put her feet on the tree the branch snapped and she came hurdling to the ground. Letting out a loud squeak she slammed into the ground.
"Sakura!" Ishida's familiar voice called from the other side "Did you get the ball?!"
The pinkette's eye twitched.
Just goes to show how much her family cared about her.
She sat up and clutched onto her right shoulder as a jolt of pain ran through it, it didn't feel like it was disabled, just badly bruised… Her eyes widened in horror when the sound of an angry barking dog rang through her ears, she turned to her left hesitantly standing up as an angry pit bull came into view running towards her.
They never say there was a dog!
Wait a second!
Memories of when Mikoto drove her home ran through her head.
'"You should meet our dog" Mikoto suggested "he likes anyone"'
That dog didn't look like he liked anyone!
She was frozen, wanting to yell at Ishida and the other but not wanting to risk provoking the dog. He now stood in front of her barking loudly, he didn't look happy to see her… But he only growled once or twice, surely he wasn't actually angry at her; he was just being territorial… Right? That's what she saw on the Dog Whisperer.
Surely Cesar Millan wouldn't lie!
A loud whistling was heard and the pit bull stopped barking immediately, turned around and ran off to the source obediently.
The girl froze when she saw Sasuke Uchiha's familiar body walking closer towards her with a bemused expression as the pit bull bounced around him happily, the dog tried to jump on him, putting his paws on the boys lower abdomen. Sasuke only looked down at the dog, pushed him slightly with his hand and the dog instantly fell back to simply being mildly excited around him.
It was clear who the Alpha male was.
Sakura still had her hand gripping her right shoulder when Sasuke was in front of her.
He looked her up and down with a monotone expression "How did you get in?"
"My brother lost his ball and-"
"How did you get in?" Sasuke repeated the question
The pit bull gave Sakura a low growl not being able to sense any affection between the two he assumed she was the enemy.
"I… climbed the wall" Sakura answered finally
The Uchiha raised a brow and looked her up and down, taking notice of the forming bruises on her knees and her hand gripping her shoulder "are you mentally challenged?"
Sakura didn't answer but turned bright read from embarrassment, she wanted to blurt how she owed her brother and it was really his and Konohamaru's fault for getting the ball in his yard. But the words couldn't form their way out of her mouth under his intense stare.
The Uchiha looked down at his dog that looked at the girl as if she was satins spawn. It had been a long time before he saw the pit bull not liking a human. Of course, there was only one other on the face of the earth he didn't like, Kiba. Ironically enough, Kiba kept trying to convince them it was because he already smelt like another dog and always did anything to try and get on the pit bull's good side. Still, nothing worked. It was amusing to watch. The dog then proceeded to run off, sensing he was no longer needed.
"Sorry..?" She finally managed
"Hn"
"SAKURA!" Konohamaru's familiar voice echoed "DID YOU FIND THE BASKETBALL?!"
"YOU SAID NO ONE WAS HOME YOU LITTLE TWERP!" Sakura couldn't help yelling back earning her a strange look from Sasuke
She turned back to the boy in front of her with a flushed face as he wore the expression a father would when finding their child had stolen something.
The boy was about to say something when loud barking was heard, they both turned to see the pit bull rolling a basketball around on the ground and then barking in frustration when he couldn't fit it in his mouth. The Uchiha suddenly became embarrassed with the knowledge that dog was his.
The pit bull looked up and tried to roll the ball towards Sasuke as if inviting him to play.
The Uchiha grabbed the basketball as the dog danced around him excitingly much to the boy's ignorance. He then proceeded to toss the ball over the wall; the dog mistook the action as a form of game and started barking at the wall while trying to jump over it and running back and forth around it, then jumping again.
"You'll be able to leave, the gate opens from the inside" The Uchiha stated
"Huh?"
"Get out."
Sakura was taken aback by the order and decided to mask her disappointment and hurt, but surely the hurt was due to her shoulder… Right? Besides, he had the right to be like that, she had broken into his house.
Sasuke was already leaving when Sakura's voice interrupted his pace.
"Sorry!" She called loudly yet hesitantly
"Hn"
She let out a sigh of guilt before walking towards the gate where she would soon be freed.
"Make sure you get that shoulder checked."
Sakura's eyes widened as she heard him command. Turning around the girl saw he looked the same, as if nothing happened. If it was anyone else she would be getting angry how they keep misleading her only to be polite or at least caring in the end, but considering it was him, she didn't mind.
Sakura was only grateful his father hadn't been the one to find her. Dear god, she would've shat her pants. Speaking of which, she had never actually seen his dad, only his mum… Well, he must be quite the looker to not only marry someone of Mikoto's beauty but to have a son that good looking… God… He had amazing eyes…
The pinkette started turning red and quickly shook her head to snap her out of it.
She opened the gate and snuck out of the gate, closing it she sighed and turned around.
"WHAT HAPPENED?!"
Sakura looked down in shock to see the four kids standing there all with curios expressions as Konohamaru held the ball as if it was his child.
"I got the ball back for you" Sakura answered nonchalantly "you're welcome"
"We heard the dog barking and Sasuke's voi-"
"Yeah" Sakura glared "maybe you should've told me about that dog? And I thought you said no one was home?"
"I said I was 'pretty sure' and besides, that dog loves everyone" Konohamaru rolled his eyes
"I know right" Moegi agreed "you must be really stupid to get that dog to hate you"
Sakura frowned at the little girl "I don't even know you… "
Moegi poked her tongue out
. . .
Touching him is like realizing
all you ever wanted was right there in front of you,
Memorizing him was as easy as knowing
all the words to your old favourite song
. . .
"You should ask her out"
"Hn"
The dobe rolled his eyes jumping on the Uchiha's bed after witnessing everything from a distance; he had slept over and was spending the rest of the day there before leaving.
"What are you scared?"
"Hn"
"Scardie cat~"
"First of all, I don't even feel anything for her. Second of all, you're one to give love advice Mr. I can't even ask out one girl"
"Oi!" Naruto went into defence mode "that's a whole nother thing! It's a lot more complicated, besides, I don't even know if she likes me"
The Uchiha gave the blonde an 'are you fucking kidding me' look.
That moron was the only one blind and stupid enough to not be able to see how that Hyuga girl felt about him. Although he admitted, it was complicated, he would give the dobe that.
"What's stopping you though?" Naruto asked "Cause she's a Haruno?"
"I already said I don't like her"
"I don't believe you" Naruto cooed
The Uchiha didn't reply before walked out of the room.
"Where ya going?!" Naruto called
"Toilet"
Maybe he'd been ruder to her than he had originally intended, nonetheless, it didn't matter. When he heard his dog barking continuously like that, he had assumed Kiba had decided to pay a visit, instead he found the girl bruised and injured somewhat. The sight infuriated him, what the hell was wrong with this girl? Was everything she did her just trying to injure herself? What if she had broken her fucking neck?
He quickly realised how unnatural it was to get that worked up over someone he had hardly known and only spent a few moments with, and had the ever growing suspicion there was something deep inside him trying to defend her. He wasn't the only one either, Naruto could see it too, and that was Naruto. The thought irritated the 16 year old, was it really that obvious? Better yet, what was it?
Could he… Sasuke Uchiha… have feelings … for… Sakura Haruno?
Sasuke's face instantly scrunched up as if he had sucked on a sour lemon, nonsense.
Surely, it was nonsense.
He couldn't… he wouldn't…
Shaking his head the boy concluded it was all just annoyance, the sort of feeling you would feel when seeing a rabbit purposely step into an animal trap. There was no affection or love, simply annoyance at how naïve it is and a sense of obligation to pull it out.
Yes.
That was what he was feeling.
And it was certainly natural considering her naivetés.
. . .
Fighting with him was like
trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer,
Regretting him was like
wishing you never found out love could be that strong
. . .
"Sakura!" Reika called from downstairs "your friends here!"
Sakura rushed down stairs happily and through the halls finally to the doorway where Hinata stood with a shy yet excited smile. This was the first time the Hyuga girl would get to see her house and meet her parents, luckily Sakura's dad was working that night, just in case.
Sakura gladly waked the girl to her room; Ishida walked out of his room and as soon as he caught sight of Hinata scurried back to his safe zone.
"How are you?" Sakura smiled as they settled down in her room
"G-Good" Hinata smiled sitting down gently on her bed and looking around "you have a n-nice room"
Sakura noticed the Hyuga girl had been stuttering less lately.
"Thanks" Sakura smiled "you know I met your sister earlier today"
Hinata looked up at her in surprise "H-Hanabi?"
"Yeah"
Hinata gave her a strange look
"She was playing with Konohamaru, Ishida and some other chick"
"Moegi?"
"Yeah… She's really different from you" Sakura commented
Hinata nodded "Y-Yeah… I k-know"
Sakura smiled jokingly "You know, my brother and your sister got along really well…"
Hinata looked up at her with a surprised expression that quickly turned to amused
"If they get married, we could become step sisters" Sakura laughed
Hinata giggled "I would f-feel sorry for y-your brother"
Sakura grinned "I know right"
"H-Hanabi would have him w-whipped" Hinata chuckled at the thought
"Can you imagine, my brother would probably be in the kitchen wearing an apron making her sandwiches" Sakura suggested
Hinata retorted happily "While she's d-doing the taxes"
They continued to joke together about the hilarity of them as a couple for about half an hour until they moved on subjects. Hinata now sat on the floor leaning on the bed eating pringles while Sakura had her legs crossed on the other side of the room, next to her desk on the floor digging her hand in a bag of jelly beans and ranting on about how annoying the teachers were at school. The night by then had already gotten darker, and Sakura had closed the curtain to her window since she always got nervous around them being open at night, the only thing that comforted her was the fact her house was double storied and she wasn't alone.
"So" Sakura changed subjects "Hinata, do you have any crushes?"
Hinata suddenly started turning red and looked at her chips as if her life depended on them "W-W-What?"
Sakura gasped in mock surprise "You do! Oh my god, who?!"
Hinata started covering her face with the pringles jokingly "N-No o-one"
"Let me guess!" Sakura grinned "Kiba?"
Hinata looked horrified "N-No! Kiba's j-just a friend"
"Shikamaru?"
Hinata looked even more horrified "T-Temari-san would k-kill me!"
"Who's Temari?" Sakura raised a brow
"Sh-"
"You can tell me later!" Sakura rolled her eyes "Shino?"
"No." Hinata furrowed her eyebrows as if offended
"Sasuke…?" Sakura asked slowly
"N-No!"
As great as he was, Sasuke Uchiha was anything but Hinata's type.
"Naruto?" Sakura asked finally
Hinata said nothing but simple went back to digging in her pringles. The pinkette gaped at her in shock, she had noticed how awkward she got around him, but she always assumed it was because Naruto was just loud and had that effect on people like Hinata. It made sense now though, Sakura had never noticed though, she had been too busy staring at Sa- doing work. She had been busy doing work.
"Oh my god Hinata!" Sakura exclaimed in wonder "That's adorable! You're made for each other! You should ask him out! I think he likes you too!"
Hinata shook her head which now looked as red as a tomato.
Sakura grinned "Why not?!"
Hinata suddenly wore a troubled expression "I-It's not that e-easy…"
"What do you mean?" Sakura's expression changed
"W-We're engaged"
. . .
Losing him was blue like I'd never known
Missing him was dark grey all alone
Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you've never met
But loving him was red
Oh red burning red
. . .
MWAHAHAHAHA.
TAKE THAT.
CLIFFHANGER (at least that's what I consider a cliffhanger…)
Anyway
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