Author's Note: Wow, 22 reviews and I'm only on the 4th chapter! That's a record that beat the review number together for the first 4 chapters of my story Scars and Tears. Yay! Thank you so much for breaking a goal in my story...thing. XD Anyway...here's the next chapter. Forgive me for the delay; I was busy the last four nights with doing some volunteer work at my old high school with my brother.
Chapter 4: Confrontation
"Good morning! Welcome to Ichiraku's! How may I help you today?" Sakura asked sweetly to her new pair of customers, her notepad in hand ready to jot down an order.
Once again, another peaceful and busy morning filled up the restaurant, and the pink hair waitress was working her hardest to fill the orders of the six tables of customers she was assigned to. On the other side, she could hear Ino's loud, hyperactive voice call out the orders that were just given to her, and she only sighed through a somewhat tired smile.
The door rang again, and the new customer sat down at Sakura's table six. With a nod of acknowledgment towards her current table, she flipped a page in her book and walked over to the other table, stopping a few feet away from it as soon as she saw who was sitting there.
"Sasuke..."
"Good morning Sakura. I'm sure you already know my order."
She tried her best to keep down her anger, "Yes, I do. Hashbrowns, two pancakes, and a regular coffee."
"Ah, but you forgot joining me."
Her lips formed the sincerest, fake smile they could, "Sorry, but not today. I'm busy, if you can't tell. I'll be back soon with your order." She started to turn away, notepad now in the pocket of her apron, until she felt a hand grab tightly to her wrist and pull her back. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" she said lowly, emerald eyes now glaring with anger. "We need to talk," he replied in all seriousness, ignoring the death glare she was giving him.
"There's nothing we need to talk about, so if you could let me go so I can go back to my work, that would be--"
"There is something we need to talk about, and you freaking know it."
"The only thing we need to talk about is you letting go of my wrist. So let go."
"No. Not until we talk about you and my brother."
"It's none of your damn business what goes on between Itachi and I, so stop putting your nose in it!" she yelled, pulling away from him with as much force as she could. He stood up, walking after her as she moved her way through the aisle, grabbing her when she came into a good distance. "Stop seeing him, Sakura! You're my girl, not his!" he yelled, his grip on her arm tightening. "Excuse me!? You cheated on me with that damn whore Karin, and then you tell me that I'm yours? Are you freaking insane!? Let me go right now!" she screamed, her words a little cringed as his nails dug into her skin.
By now, most of the restaurant's attention went to the fighting pair. Ino finally took notice, the yelling now breaking her concentration on work and the music that was playing, and promptly glared and walked over. "What the hell are you doing, Sasuke!?" she yelled, pulling her friend out of Sasuke's grip. "Stay out of this, Ino. It's none of your business," Sasuke replied.
"Oh, and the things going on between Itachi and I are? Get the heck out of here!" Sakura yelled, brushing down her now messed up apron and turning around with Ino towards the kitchen.
That was, until Sasuke pulled her back, bringing her too close to him for her personal comfort. "You actually believe that I was going out with her? Trust me, I wasn't. It was all an act so she could make the guy she liked jealous," he said. Sakura glared, her fist clenching and her anger rising higher, "Oh, so the whole running off because I didn't have sex with you, then I find you making out and practically humping her was all just an act? Yeah, I believe that. Get the hell away from me, you disgusting jealous pervert!"
Sasuke raised a hand, his anger now getting in the way of his judgement, ready to slap her for her comment until someone else grabbed his wrist. He turned around to meet a man with white eyes and dark brown hair, tied back into a simple ponytail. "And what were you just thinking about doing?" he said calmly, distracting the Uchiha enough for another man with red triangles on his cheeks and his brown hair in a shaggy mess to pull Sakura out of the situation she was in.
"Neji, Kiba!"
"Hey Sakura-chan. I see that the guys are still chasing after you."
"Ugh...pervert."
"Oh, hey Ino."
"You should stay out of things that don't concern you, Hyuuga," Sasuke said with a low growl. "Anything involving pain to my friends is my concern, Uchiha. Now go and leave Sakura alone," Neji said, letting go of his wrist but his eyes still glared into the angered onyx.
"Fine. But we are still going to talk about this, Sakura."
"No, we're not, Uchiha."
With a dark glare towards the woman, then to the people surrounding her, he turned and left, not caring about almost knocking down the blonde man that just entered the place. "Wow. His service must have been bad, yeah," he said, shrugging then and taking a seat at the table the Uchiha was sitting at. The restaurant seemed to have calmed down, and Sakura let out a calm sigh of relief. "Thanks guys. I'm really grateful for that," she said. Kiba flashed her a smile while Neji nodded his head. "Of course. Now, if you excuse us, we have to check in for work," Neji said, turning and walking towards the kitchen with Kiba in tow.
Sakura turned towards Ino, pulling out her notepad, "Can you place up these for me while I take the new customer's order?" She nodded, taking the pages and turning around towards the kitchen while Sakura walked over to the table, making sure to straighten out her apron as she did.
"Hello and welcome to Ichiraku's! How may I help you?" Sakura asked, pulling out her pen. The man looked up from the menu that was on the table already, and a blonde eyebrow quirked up, "Hey, is your name Sakura, yeah?"
"Yes. How did you know?"
"So you're the girl Itachi was talking about, yeah."
"Hmm? You know Itachi?"
"Yep. He's one of my friends and co-workers, yeah," the man said with a large smile, "The name's Deidara. Pleased to meet you." Sakura smiled as she held out her hand, "Pleased to meet you as well." Deidara took her hand and shook it in their greeting. "Glad to meet the woman that has caught his attention. I always thought that he was gay, yeah," he said, almost making Sakura laugh out loud. She only chuckled, "Well I guess he proved you wrong. But anyway...can I take your order?" Deidara chuckled as well, "Decaf coffee, french toast, and eggs over easy."
"Got it. I'll bring it to you as soon as it's done."
"Look forward to it. I want to see if the food here lives up to the hype I've heard, yeah."
"Oh, and who recommend you to come here?"
"Who else? Itachi."
Yeah, Sasuke's a little jealous jackass, isn't he?
As a note, I'm not anti SasuSaku (I love that pairing just as much as I love KabuSaku!), but I like to make Sasuke seem like a jerk. It's about as much fun as constantly calling Orochimaru a boy-loving pervert!
Anyway, until the next chapter, ja ne!
