Sex Ed
Chapter 4: Daffodil
The hotel/spa's rooms had a traditional look with its tatami floors and sliding screen doors. Sakura tightly tied the light blue yukata to her waist with a childlike grin. "The material is so soft!" Sai took her sentence as a signal that she was decent; he exited the bedroom with a green book under one arm, the cover faded, its spine was well worn. A few makeshift bookmarks made of torn paper protruded from the book. A daffodil was in his other hand. The artist was dressed in traditional light blue colored clothing as well. "That's because it's silk. You've never felt silk?" "Never." Sakura may have not have been born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but she still had an appreciation for quality items. "Your welcome."
Sai walked over to Sakura and held the flower toward her. "This is for you." "A daffodil, thank you Sai." With the flower in hand, she walked with bare feet toward the entrance to there private hot spring. She then leaned her body against the sliding door.
Sakura closed her eyes and smiled to herself; the soft sound of water pattering could be heard from outside the room.
"It's soothing. Isn't it?"
"Yes, it is. It just takes all of your frustration away." She didn't move her body toward Sai's direction whatsoever. It look almost as if she were talking to some invisible out of body being.
"So many people barely take the time to notice such beauties in nature. But the peaceful sound of water cascading isn't the only things that's unappreciated."
"Mn-hm." She smiled to herself.
"He's quite handsome, isn't he?"
Emerald eyes quickly shot open.
"Wait... What was I just thinking?" Sakura blushed furiously and hurried herself to a wooden stool near the window. She looked out of it. Her hand resting on the window pane, the other on her lap. "I just got intoxicated off of the calming sound of the water rushing. That's all." "Yeah right, you keep telling yourself that. You can't make water into wine!" Inner Sakura fumed. "Shut up! At least I can walk on water and you can't!" Sai quickly turned to her looking puzzled. "Did I just say something to upset you? I hate to disappoint you but I can walk on water also." She blushed and shook her head vigorously. "Oh, no, no, no! I was just talking to myself!" "Okay then Sakura."
She went back to looking out the window, but it was soon short lived. In front of her view of the hot spring, Sai's reflection could be seen. She could have sworn for a split second there was a slight smile on his untarnished face.
Sakura turned her head, a faint knocking sound could be heard from the other side of the sliding door. Sai closed his well worn book. "Come in."
"Dinner is ready. Is it alright if we bring in your food now?" "Yes." Two plainly uniformed women entered the room, each one pushing a sing big cart filled with fine silver trays. Sakura and Sai sat themselves directly across from each other.
The uniformed women gracefully sat down what looked to be a metal tray with a dome on top. As the women on the left lifted the top of the tray steam quickly seeped through the opening of revealed silver platter.
"Whats that?" Sakura pointed to a dish that she had never seen before. "Filet mignon, do you not like filet mignon? Because we also have steak tartare if that's what you prefer." "No thank you, this is good enough." To her, the second option sounded odder than the first.
Sakura poked the filet mignon with a silver fork. "This just looks like an unusually shaped steak to me." The width was quite small but yet the meat was definitely nowhere near thin. The clacking of silverware could be heard from Sai's end of the table. "You don't get out much, do you?" She protested. "What are you talking about? I've been on plenty of missions outside of Konoha!" Sakura took her dinner knife and cut her filet, but then again, if there had been more witnesses in the suite one might have rather used the word attack.
"What I mean is have you really seen all of the Land of Fire, and other countries at that?" "I've been to over half of the countries this world has to offer!" "For missions yes, I already knew that. But I do believe there is a metaphor for this." Sai set down his fork and knife, then he paused for a moment.
"But have you ever stopped and smelled the flowers?" "I thought it was stop and smell the roses." She stressed on the last word. "That was actually a misquote of the true quote." "Whatever, Sai." "I believe if you tried it you'd really like it." Once again Sakura's eyes landed on the dilapidated green book beside Sai.
"What are you reading?" Sai quickly put the book under the table out of her line of vision. He spoke with a lack of emotion, "It's nothing." He let a few strands of hair fall in front of his face and then resumed eating. For the first time ever she saw a look of shock on his face.
Sai quickly seemed to realize his demeanor, it disappeared soon after.
Sakura took another bite of her food, and eyed the spot where the book had once been. "Sai's sure been quite articulate lately. I wonder why... He's also been acting a bit odd with me since this whole projects started. Maybe I should take a peak at that vintage green book of his. It seems rather odd of him to be reading something so out dated. But then again, knowing the last book I caught him with. That might not be such a bad thing."
"It's getting late, I think its about time I retired to my room. Goodnight Sakura, sleep well." And with that, he left the room without giving her a passing glance. Sakura finished up the remainder of her dinner by herself and then retired to her room as well.
All the while pondering about all the things he said.
Sakura groaned and tossed herself to the other side of the futon. Sai had been lurking in the back of her mind all night long. She buried her head into the pillow.
She thought about many things that had to do with Sai that night.
How soft his lips felt on her hand the first time he kissed it, his dark eyes that were so easy to get lost into, his fake smiles, and especially the ones should could have sworn were real. "Why am I thinking about him so much?"She looked at the brown clock on the wall, it read 1:13 AM.
"That's it!" Sakura quickly shot up in her bed with a smile on her face and began to whisper to herself. "Obviously why I keep thinking about Sai is that I'm wondering whats in that old book of his. I don't need another teammate who's brain is poisoned by a perverted book! I'm just concerned if hes reading proper material, just like when I took his last book from him." Of course, Sakura left out the part where she promptly threw it out that window. But not that she truly cared, the book was destined to end up as garbage anyways.
Sakura quickly got out of her futon and left her room. Her feet were bare, worried that the slippers might accidentally make an unwanted sound on the tatami floor boards. Slowly sliding back the door, she took a peak at Sai and smiled. He was fast asleep with calm expression on his face.
Using her stealth, she promptly grabbed the book and went to the living room of the hotel suite, taking a seat on the stool she sat on prior. The moonlight illuminated the room with a cool glow, giving her just the right amount of light she needed to read. The front of the book read, "The Language of Flowers". Dust could been seen in the indents of the embedded title on the cover.
She decided to go to hit the first bookmarked page. Highlighted and underlined was the word Gardenia, it was written like a definition. "Hey! Sai gave me one of these!" The book read,"Gardenia: Secret love." Sakura felt her face heat up and turned the page toward the next book mark.
Just underlined and struck through was Acacia, its definition she recalled Sai telling her. "A hidden love or beauty of withdrawal." She whispered to herself and smiled upon the memory. Turning to the next page, highlighted and underlined was the word Daffodil. The book read, "Chivalry, return my affection, and unrequited love."
Her cheeks tinted pink, Sai gave her that flower too. She was noticing a pattern here. All of the flowers highlighted or underlined had to do with not revealing ones love. And he wasn't just giving these meaningful flowers to just anyone, they were for her. "A hidden love isn't always a beautiful thing." Sai's gentle voice rang through her head.
And then it her, Sai was in love with her. Sakura quickly closed the book, not bothering to flip through any more bookmarked pages. She quietly put the book back in his room where she had found it, all the while hoping he wouldn't wake up from the sound of her thumping heart.
I know I'm a slow updater, but I want and hope to change that soon. Thank you for all of the support and reviews. They mean so much more to me than one might think. I got too give a special mention to CrackedUpAngel. She left such a great review. Wiinddance, thank you for telling me how my summary pulled you in! That's just what I was going for. I always like to listen to music after I enjoy a fan fiction. Hence, I decided to give this fan fiction a small soundtrack! Also I know of a few fan fictions that also have them as well. Here it is. I wanted to put a variety of music on here for people of various tastes. So please don't complain about a song just because you don't like it.
Dear Angel by April Sixth (Sai)
All the Things She Said by t.A.T.u. (Sakura, okay this mostly fits her. Change the she to he. XD )
Losing My Religion by R.E.M. (Sai)
Your Guardian Angel by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (Sai)
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