xxx Affairs
Chapter 4
"And exactly which rule has he broke?"
He breathed closing his eyes. Sasuke read the thick book of the contract rules, he luckily memorized every single one of them in any case he needed them. So he repeated the memorized rule. "Rule number 16, verse number 23: By accepting the contract, your partner must have trusted you with the seal of his or her purity. Once placed, the contract will well signified the partner as mates."
Tsunade's eyes widened, Rule 16, verse 23 was a number one priority rule for every student in the school to never break. And for the first time in history, the idiot broke such important thing? This was a contract for young men and women to experience in life. By accepting the contract, the two partners becomes mates—like a married couple.
"Who has he done it with?" she asked as her brows frowned in disgust.
"Hey, I'm not some kind of a shitty snitch." He sighed and resisted a blush tainting his tanned cheeks to make a confession. "But I will tell you this, Sakura's purity's kept with me."
The principal smirked then laughed out loud. "I see, well you should be happy Uchiha. You always have loved her."
Sasuke knew that the woman loving sake knew that he loved Sakura deeply. After all, Sakura was her niece. He blushed harder and faced the beige coloured wall muttering her Shut up, it's none of your fucking business you stupid woman. It made her laugh again as he hn'ed.
"Anywho, I'll need to see you both after class for a discussion about your new contract if you don't mind." He stacked her piled of documents onto her wooden desk.
He nodded.
"You're dismissed."
And so, he left the room.
Sakura waited for her childhood friend in her Literature course, tapping the tips and pads of her slim fingers onto the surface of her wooden desk while swinging a leg from over her knee, her inner thigh against the other. Class hadn't started yet luckily, the teacher was late, and she was becoming nervous to what Sasuke's got to say to her after visiting the principal, Tsunade, her aunt. And just when she snapped out of her distraction, she saw a shadow looming over her, covering her full sitting body. Her head snapped up from the floor with a widen smile on her face.
"Sakura-chan?" that voice rang to her ears.
Her loving smile dropped completely when she heard that average deep voice. She wasn't expecting to face him so soon, she wasn't ready. And when she looked up to the man in front of her, the one who owned that shadow she didn't wished to be was none other than her boyfriend—Naruto.
Her green eyes found his blue ones. She swallowed the lump on her throat as her long painted nails dug onto the wooden desk of her seat, making soft scratching sounds to fill in the silence between her and her lover. Just when she thought that everything would already be alright, her confidence was lost. She forgot the idea of standing up for herself. The memories of Naruto and Hinata playing and wrestling so innocently on their bed replayed and replayed in her mind. What was she to do now, now that her confidence was gone?
"You cut your long hair," Naruto spoke quietly as he gave her a light frown by using his thick blond brows. "How come? Your long hair was really pretty on you."
"W—well— " she looked away from his innocent eyes, resisting her nervous stuttering. She ran a hand through her cut hair. "Sasuke said that he likes it when my hair is short. And—and it wasn't because of that I asked him to cut my hair for me."
She couldn't help but becoming a nervous little girl at the moment. Her head was panicking to get far away from him as soon as possible and cry over Sasuke's shoulder. Speaking of the guy where was he?
"Where were you last night? You haven't come into our room. Did something happen?" the blond partner of hers asked worriedly.
All she could do was give a nervous laugh, thinking of an excuse. She was never the best in lying, only Sasuke. It was always him who would cover for her.
Where is Sasuke when I need him? That idiot.She screamed, panicking in her head.
"Sakura, Tsunade said she would discussion with us about the new changes after school." She heard the said man's voice coming in from afar, becoming deeper and deeper in every step he took from the entrance of the class to her way.
Well speak of the devil. He's come right on time. She let a sigh escape her lips.
"Everything's settled, all we need to do is—" When Sasuke approached Sakura's desk, he noticed a man standing in front of her. His voice wouldn't let him continue his sentence and that left his mouth open at the sight of the one man he saw. He had blond sunny combed short spiked hair and usually most blonds had blue crystal eyes, so of course this man had such colour. From behind the blond boy had very tanned skin with a far more built body than his own. And that man was his best friend, the one and only he call idiot is—Uzumaki Naruto.
Black eyes narrowed at him, unconsciously shooting daggers at his back like a bow and arrow, only without the bow itself. His black pearled orbs were filled with slight disgust but he couldn't help but ignore the feeling because he was his closest friend. He shook off the useless feeling by shrugging it away and sighed deeply. What was he going to do? He didn't want to go against him for his stupid careless and inappropriate mistake. When his eyes looked back at him, he saw the man turning around to face him. And by accident, Sasuke's greetings blurted out in habit.
"Dobe, aren't you going to yell me hello like your usual morning displeasure?" he smirked at his little compliment which was completely true, no denying.
"Ah, Sasuke!" the blond shouted laughingly with amusement and smacked his man's back. "Slept well?"
Sasuke knew that he could never stay angry at Naruto. He was so used to keeping in his hatred and anger from blowing up carelessly that later on, he finally gotten the control over it. But only because friendship was his heart's number one priority.
"Hn," he replied.
"And? Gotten any wet dreams, teme?" Naruto wiggled his brows, teasing him to blush at his question.
"Well—"The raven haired man smirked. "—I did have some fun when sometime after midnight."
The blond's mouth dropped, he really wasn't expecting that at all. Sasuke's smirk widened when his eyes spotted Sakura's dropped to the floor as well with several different shades of red. That told him that she enjoyed their morning unexpected sex. But Naruto snapped away from his thoughts quickly.
"H—hey, did you really cut Sakura-chan's hair?" his lips pouted luckily not questioning his buddy who had he slept with or who he might have thought of masturbating. "She looked really cute with long hair, ya know?"
"Hn." It was all he could say—his usual word he liked.
The Uchiha knew for a fact that of course Sakura looked good with long hair, he admitted it, there was no doubt about that. But she wouldn't keep it long if Naruto saw the Hyuuga through her. And that was one of the things he wouldn't let that happen in any case, to it cause his pinkette another few unworthy and unwanted broken hearts.
Yet he had yet to know that unconsciously, without having a clue to what had been doing through his mind, he was actually siding Sakura than siding them both his friends equally.
"Why are you asking me why—" Sasuke rolled his eyes causing him to think about such stupid question. It wasn't so obvious to show that he knew the answer himself. Sakura had told him before, early in the morning after their little hot session together, and he wouldn't snitch about the reason nor the rule he secretly happily gained from her. "—she was the one who wanted the haircut?"
"She said something about you liking her with short hair." Naruto trailed a bit then later huffed at his friend whining and waving his hands up around. "How dare you tempt her to cut her lovely hair!"
Sasuke opened his mouth to let out sigh so heavily from his childish act. It wasn't his fault that Sakura requested him to cut her pink locks because of Naruto himself.
"I told her that a long time ago. I'm sure she has her reasons to cutting it." he said with a slight sound of irritation.
"Yeah but—"
Suddenly, a voice appeared from behind before them. A voice sounding so soft, quiet, shy and yet sweet, a voice incomparable to his liking—Hyuuga Hinata, the heiress of her family.
"Naruto-kun, good morning." Hinata looked around to see her classmates Sakura and he himself of course. She then lightly bowed her head and gave them a bright smile. "Sasuke-kun, sakura-san."
The raven never understood the shy woman, not for who she is. But there was something about he couldn't point out, that something he couldn't figure out made him narrow his eyes.
Sasuke's midnight orbs watched Sakura kiss Hinata's cheek in a return greeting for the morning. And when Hinata faced him, he gave her back the nod politely. Later then, she returned to her conversation with his best buddy, Naruto. As Sasuke took a glance at Sakura, he noted that she was waving at him and patting her table for him to join her by sitting on her desk. And so, he walked over placing himself over the furniture as they both watch the couple feet away.
"Does that prove to you enough from the thought of me lying?" she said lowly enough for him to hear.
Sasuke sighed. How could she doubt him like that? "I never thought of you as a liar."
"Is that so?"
"It's just—that I can't believe Naruto…" he paused for a few seconds then continued. "—he promised me to keep your happiness, until you came to me pouring out your broken heart by using sex."
The pink haired woman blushed when she felt his smirk. It wasn't her fault that she knocked his door and seduced him up to fuck her. But she admitted it that it felt good, even when Sasuke's driller her insides good."I—I'm sorry about that. That was pretty much was unexpected."
He couldn't help but chuckled at her adorable red tainted face. Reminded him of the time he was taken aback when he first realized he fell madly in love with her at the age of seventeen and carefully thought about it
"I really don't care, as long as you remember I'm there for you."
Yes. He always was there for her, whether she needed him or not. He would do anything for her because he loved her deeply. And he knew, love was something he could never properly express to a woman who loved someone else, let alone his best friend.
"You're right," she smiled. "You always were there for me whether Naruto's there or not."
Unconsciously, and sadly Sakura hadn't noticed, Sasuke smiled. A smile he rarely gave publicly.
"But I really do love him, Sasuke-kun…"
The smile he made for her alone dropped when she confessed her heart again, her love for him. His bangs shadowed his eyes. He couldn't show her his feelings, not even for a bit. "… Aa."
Quickly their head snapped up to the announcement as they heard their names being called so suddenly by the principal.
"Will Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke please come into my office. Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke please coming into my office, thank you"
The childhood couple both blinked in utter confusion. Why were they called to Tsunade's office when Sasuke just left there about fifteen minutes ago? They already knew that it was about the new changes about their partnership, but wouldn't they be discussing it sometime after school or something, instead of like—now?
Haruno breathlessly spoke as her big green eyes stared at the intercom screwed to the sement wall. "I thought you said that she'll discuss the changes after school" she then looked up at the Uchiha tilting her head slightly to the side in a curious knitted brows face.
"And I repeated the same thing she told me earlier" he frowned.
The idiot laughed out loud for the whole to hear, he was surely embarrassing himself. And why had he still haven't noticed it? He pointed at the two people called out for the office crying You guys are in trouble, you guys are in trouble like the kiddy songs they commonly knew in preschool. Sasuke snorted a grunt.
"Fuck off dobe."
Sakura shrugged her shoulder and pulled her raven haired man's arms out of the class. Reaching the door of their destination along the way of the far hallway, The nineteen year old man stopped her by pulling back her arm so she would noted that he need to ask her before any up coming misunderstanding, probably.
"Are you going to stay in my room tonight as well?"
There was a blink, two blinks—three blinks, then a speechless mouth. It looked like she was going to stay with him for a long while, and maybe the rest of the year if the contract would be signed.
He shook his head dropping it hung by his neck sighing heavily. He later shoved a hand in his pockets and grabbed a little object out of it—the key of his dormitory. Handing over to her face, he spoke.
"Here, take these." His stoic face faced hers. And he continued walking away to the room "I've got spare ones in my bag"
Sakura let out a small smile behind his back, her hands gripped the key in her palm. She somehow felt… safe with Sasuke. But, that was something she hadn't realized herself. She just never thought of her feelings for him because she kept telling herself that she belonged to Naruto without thinking twice. She skipped along his steps.
"Thanks, Sasuke-kun!" she grinned as Sasuke smirked with his hands shoved in his pockets.
Slowly, Sakura was unconsciously pulling her red strings closer to the waiting open arms Sasuke.
A tiny feeling of love she felt around him.
Chapter five coming soon.
