The next day
My Point of View
It was almost time for Sakura's friends to arrive! After cleaning the place up a bit, she quickly hopped in the shower and washed herself up. Her long hair draped over her shoulders while a comb gently went through the pink strands, untangling the knots. It's been a while since the "gang" has been together like this. But luckily though, everyone was off today and had nothing planned. Plus...they were curious to see who this mystery guy was that she so suddenly took in.
On the bathroom counter sat one of her favorite perfumes. Her delicate fingers wrapped around the bottle and pressed down on the spray nozzle, misting both her neck and her wrists. She inhaled deeply, enjoying the sweet scent of it. Well for three hundred dollars it better be good! The towel around her body slipped off of her body and fell down onto the ground, pooling at her feet. Sakura had a dark red dress picked out that had black lace going over the top of it, running across her breasts. With it, she picked out a pair of black high heels.
Her makeup was pretty simple. Some red lipstick and liquid eyeliner that went only on the top of her eyelids, making a wing-like shape. Nothing was done with her hair though. It was just left down to hang at her waist. Bright green eyes stared back at her reflection in the mirror. When was the last time she even got to look like this? It's definitely been a while. Probably the last date she went on.
In the next room over was Sasuke, who had been ready for quite some time now. He just wore a navy blue button-up shirt tucked into a pair of black dress pants. The materials of this clothing was thin and comfortable, making it easy for him to move around. Why did he have to meet her friends? He was perfectly fine just staying here with her while trying to look for a job. But no. She just had to bring a whole bunch of people into this as well. What was Sakura thinking? She must not have been...
"...?" Sasuke grabbed a bottle of cologne and took the cap off. He had no idea what this was, or what it did. But the liquid inside of it was a rather strange color. His finger was placed on top of the nozzle as he shook it. What he didn't realize though, was that he was putting pressure onto it while doing this. And so the next thing he knew, was that there was a shooting pain in his right eye. He quickly covered it with his hand and hissed out, going over to the door. Why was it burning so much?!
"S-Sakura...!" the Uchiha grunted. He had his hand pressed against the wall while making his way towards her bedroom. It pounded against the door as he so desperately tried to get her attention. So apparently that strange liquid was going to blind him! He just got this human body, and already he was damaging it beyond repair. Oh how clumsy he was. The door swung open to a very frustrated looking Sakura.
Her eyes narrowed at him. "Do you mind? I'm kind of busy right now!" she snapped at him.
Sasuke glared at her with his good eye, and then pointed at the other. "I think my eyeball is melting..." he stated oh so casually.
"..." Sakura grabbed his hand and ripped it from his face, taking a closer look at it. Well...it was definitely all red and irritated looking. But it definitely wasn't melting! "What did you do?" she asked through clenched teeth. Seriously, she leaves him alone for thirty minutes and this is what happens!
His eye was shut tightly as he tried his best to remain calm. "I sprayed something in my eye. Don't know what it was though..." he replied.
Without saying a single word towards him, Sakura stalked off towards his bedroom and went inside, looking around to see what bottle he was playing around with. She stopped as soon as her eyes caught a glimpse of a very familiar looking bottle. It belonged to an ex boyfriend of hers. And why did she keep it? Because it smelled very nice...
"You idiot! Why would you hold a bottle of cologne up to your eye and then spray it? Seriously...what am I going to do with you?" she sighed, shaking her head. The more important question was...why couldn't he say what it was? Did he seriously forget what certain objects were? If that's the case, then his memory loss was even worse than she expected it to be.
Sasuke furiously rubbed at his eye. This only seemed to make it much worse and even swollen now! "Gah! W-what the hell is that stuff?!" he bit out. But his hand was forcefully pulled away from his face.
"You're only making it worse! Go into the bathroom and rinse your eye out. I should have some eye drops in my medical kit..." she mumbled, before rushing off in search for it. Oh just great! And to think everyone was going to be over any moment now.
Sasuke did as he was told and practically ran into the bathroom, turning the water on and sticking his head into the sink. It was kind of hard to keep his eye open as he rinsed it with the cold water. But if it helped dull the pain, then he was willing to do it. Anything to make it stop! Never again will he hold something up to his eye like that. No...he learned his lesson.
After letting the water run into his eye for a good few minutes, he slowly pulled his head away from the sink and looked at himself in the mirror. His fingers raked through his spiky hair, pushing it back and out of his face. It looked pretty gross. But hey...at least it helped a little bit. He could hear footsteps from behind him and whirled around, coming face-to-face with a certain pinkette. "What took you so long?" he asked.
Her hand reached out to jab him in the forehead, causing his head to tilt back a bit. "Just be lucky I'm helping you out with that attitude of yours!" she snapped, before holding the tip of the eye dropper up to his irritated eye. He didn't even get the chance to protest or question her, because with a quick simple few squeezes, it was already done and over with.
Sasuke just stood there and blinked his eyes for a few minutes. Some of the liquid dripped down his cheek. He wiped it away though and just stared at the bottle in her hand, taking it from her. This thing seemed to do wonders! "What does this do?" he asked her.
She raised a brow at him and folded her arms. "It's supposed to help take away the irritation in your eyes. Just give it some time and all the red will be gone..."
Sasuke stuffed the bottle into his pocket and brushed passed her, making his way down the stairs and into the living room. "Hn. Does this excuse me from this...unnecessary gathering?" he grumbled.
"Hmph! As if Sasuke-san. Can't you sit down and chit chat for a while?" She walked down the stairs as well, being more careful then usual since she wore high heels. No need to fall down the stairs and possibly kill herself.
The two didn't even say much to each other while they waited for their guests to arrive. It's not like they were in any hurry for them to get here. Neither one of them had anywhere to go for the time being. Sakura didn't work until tomorrow, and Sasuke didn't even have a job yet! But she already had some job applications for him to fill out. A pile of them sat on the kitchen counter, waiting to be filled out.
Sasuke brought his cup of tea up to his lips and slowly drank it. His eyes wandered about the room as he continued to find new things about it. He was still unsure of what most of this stuff was that was inside her home. But...he was learning. It's going to take him a long time to get use to the things here in this new era. So hopefully Sakura has enough patience to help him out. If not, then he is completely screwed!
Both of them jumped at the sound of someone knocking on the door. It had been so silent up until now. "Coming!" Sakura shouted. She stood up from the couch and fixed her dress and dress, before going over to the door and opening it. On the other side stood Naruto, he closest friend who was like a brother to her.
"Sakuraaaaa-chan!" the blonde grinned. He swung an arm around her shoulders and pulled her in for a hug. This however, earned him a good punch to the head.
"Careful you idiot! I haven't worn heals in a while..." she pouted at him. Wearing heels at work was just way too uncomfortable for her. Especially since she was on her feet running around all day.
She peered over him and tilted her head to the side. "Where's Hinata? I just spoke to her on the phone last night..."
Naruto rubbed at the back of his head and chuckled nervously. "About that. You see...she's not feeling well today. I walked in on her throwing up earlier and she...she snapped at me!" This was so shocking, because Hinata has never, ever, snapped at anyone. She was always so calm and relaxed.
Sakura frowned upon hearing this. Well that was definitely interesting. "O-oh. Well I hope she feels better soon. I'll just have her come over once she's feeling better. Please, come in..." She stepped aside to allow him to come in.
"..." Naruto took his shoes off and entered the house. He then shrugged out of his jacket and hung it in the nearby closet. His outfit consisted of dark blue jeans and an orange long-sleeved shirt.
Sasuke's head snapped up to look at the strange blonde. Where those...whiskers on his cheeks? He wasn't sure if those were scars that he was born with, or were purposely put there. Or if they were just simply tattoos. Either way, he felt himself staring at them longer than he should have. 'What the heck are those?' he thought.
"It's rude to stare, you bastard..." Naruto said, breaking the awkward silence. He plopped down onto the other couch and folded his leg over the other. So this was the mystery guy huh? He seemed like the quiet type. But that didn't matter to him. It wasn't hard at all to befriend someone. Sometimes it did take quite a while for certain people to warm up to him. In the end though, it was always the same.
"Hn. What a way to treat someone you just met, idiot." Sasuke shot right back at him. A smirk slowly spread on his lips.
"Don't call me an idiot, bastard!" he yelled at the raven, jabbing a finger at him.
Said raven just shrugged his shoulders. "I can do as I please...idiot." Oh how entertaining this was. He could get use to this.
Just then TenTen and Neji appeared in the living room as well. They were holding hands and looking as adorable as ever! On her finger sat a pretty big diamond ring. The Hyuuga's were a rich family. So of course when he proposed to her, he could only give her the best. So as if right now they're engaged and were expected to get married this winter. Only a week away from Christmas. Of course they had to do everything in order. Go to college, get engaged and then get married soon afterwards, and then get married.
And if you did any of these out of order...you were disowned and kicked out of the family.
The brunette's hair was tied back into pigtail buns that had strands of braids going down it. She even wore a simple pale pink Chinese dress with gold flowers going up the sides of it. As for her fiancés? Well...it was just in its usual loose ponytail. He just had on a plain white tee-shirt with a picture of a bird on the front of it, along with a pair of black jeans. They took a seat next to Naruto, practically cuddling with each other.
"So you're Sasuke? You must have broken so many hearts..." TenTen giggled. How could you deny the fact that this guy was seriously handsome? No wonder their friend was so quick to take him in. She didn't blame her!
His dark eyes scanned them both up and down with that blank look of his. He obviously wasn't amused at her little joke. "Hn. And who exactly are you all?" he asked.
Sakura poked her head into the living room and started pointing at everyone. "That's Naruto over there. His girlfriend is sick and couldn't make it, but her name is Hinata. And these two here are Neji and TenTen. They're engaged. Isn't that sweet?" she gushed, before disappearing again.
Four more people were pushed into the room by her, nearly knocking them over due to the force of it. One was a guy with brown hair that was pulled back into a ponytail. He wore a dark green hoodie and black jeans. Beside him was a girl with blonde hair that was put up into two ponytails. She had on a light grey dress that went down to her knees with a dark red ribbon going around her waist, tying into a bow at the back of it.
The other two were guys. One with brown spiky hair and red triangles painted on his cheeks. He had on a white jacket with fur going around the hood of it, with dark blue jeans. The other one, well...you couldn't really see his face all too well. His dark brown jacket was zipped all the way up to his face, covering his mouth. And he had the hood pulled over his head and even had sunglasses covering his eyes.
Sakura finally walked in and took a seat. "And our final guests are: Shikamaru, Temari, Kiba and Shino..." she said while gesturing towards each and every one of them. That's when she began to explain everything about them. The "pineapple" couple didn't actually go around saying that they were going out. Neither of them called each other their boyfriend or girlfriend. For now they were just keeping it low. And as for Kiba and Shino, well...they were still single.
Temari strode over to the other side of the room and got pretty close to Sasuke, staring him right in the eyes. "Hmm. I hope you're not just a pretty face..." she muttered.
Shikamaru sighed and shook his head. "How troublesome. Just give him his space..." He pulled out a pack of cigarettes and got one out, lighting it.
TenTen snatched it from his fingers and dipped it in a nearby cup of tea...unaware that it belonged to Sasuke. "You know smoking isn't allowed in here." she scolded. Plus he was the only person here who smoked cigarettes.
"..." Sasuke was twitching in his seat as he just stared at his cup of tea that was now filled with ashes. Well it looked like he couldn't drink that anymore. He glared slightly at the woman for a good few seconds and then sighed, shaking his head. No need to waste his breath. It's not like he couldn't get himself another cup of it. But still, that wasn't the point!
On the small round table in front of them sat a bunch of horderves. Fruit shish kabobs with pineapple, grapes, balls of watermelon, cantaloupe and muskmelon. Slices of bananas, strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries. And next to that were those deli pinwheels. There was also a bowl of shrimp that sat over a bed of ice with cocktail sauce, and bottles of wine. But of course the pinkette had other foods that were currently being cooked right now. That was for later on though during dinner time.
Kiba snatched one of those pinwheels and plopped the entire thing into his mouth, chewing it with his mouth open while laughing at the same time. It was pretty disgusting, and people have complained about it many times. He still refused to stop, unfortunately. "Is this dude a mute or somethin'?" he asked, pointing right at him.
"Kiba!" Temari whacked him alongside the back of his head. How could he be so rude? They all just met the guy, and already he was giving off a bad impression. She wasn't here to impress him either. But she was going to be nice towards him. Or at least try to at least...
Sakura shifted slightly in her seat and clasped her hands together. She looked around at everyone and couldn't help but smile. It really was nice having everyone together like this again. Oh how she missed this! "As I already told all of you, Sasuke-san here has lost his memory. The only thing he seems to remember about himself is his name. So he struggles with many things. I ask you to please be easy on him and be patient. Despite him being a bit hard to talk to, I'm sure he has a kind side." she winked.
Sasuke only scoffed in response to that.
"Neh Sakura...where's Sai?" Naruto spoke up. He was munching on a fruit shish kabob while sitting back against the couch.
The pinkette only shrugged her shoulders. "I heard he had to meet up with his art students today for some big exam or something like that. He can just stop by some other time. It's no big deal." Actually, she didn't want him to come over. She just knew that him and Sasuke wouldn't get along very well. It would be bad if a fight broke loose between the two.
"You really don't remember a single thing about yourself?" TenTen asked quietly. She couldn't believe it. She couldn't even imagine what it would be like to forget absolutely everything about your past. Your very childhood, family, and friends. To just have all of that wiped out would just be...awful. She felt bad for the guy to be honest. Hopefully he would get his memories back soon.
Sasuke didn't make eye contact with her. All he could do right now was lie to all of these people. It's not like they would believe the fact that he died and became Satan himself...and then became human again. They would all think that he was crazy for saying this was his second chance at life. And he didn't feel like dealing with that right now. "Hn. It's not like I can help it. I didn't choose for this to happen." he spoke calmly.
She shook her head. "I didn't say you did. I'm sure no one would ask for such a thing to happen to them. I just-..." she looked down and fidgeted with her fingers, feeling a bit nervous.
"I get it." he simply stated. No need to make this into an awkward conversation...
"Hey! You all started without me?!" There stood yet another blonde-haired female, who's hair reached down even further than Sakura's. It was pulled back into a high ponytail with her side bangs covering half of her face. She had on a black tank top with a dark purple mini skirt. She had her hands on her hips with a pout on her face.
"We didn't start anything Ino..." a bunch of them mumbled, turning their heads away from her so that they could roll their eyes. All they were doing was introducing themselves.
Ino made her way over to the couch and sat down on the arm of it, gazing at the man who was staring blankly at her. He obviously wasn't amused by her appearance. "So you're Sasuke-kun, huh?" she asked in a seductive voice.
"Oh here we go..." Another guy grumbled as he went over to sit down on the floor. He had long brown hair and was on the...chubby side. Along with the red swirls painted on his cheeks, he had on a white chef's coat since he just got off of work. He owned his very own restaurant not too far away from him. "I'm Chouji! Don't mind her. She always goes after the good looking men..." And oh how he hated it. Especially since he's been in love with her ever since they were little kids.
"Oh please! Everyone has their own tastes. So you really can't blame me..." she flipped her ponytail and smacked her bubblegum.
Shikamaru's eye twitched in annoyance to this. "...How troublesome..."
The blonde ran a finger down the Uchiha's chest and smirked, licking the bottom of her lip. "Say...how about we go out drinking after this? Just you and me..." she whispered into his ear.
"Ino!" Sakura grabbed her best friend's arm and pulled her away from him. She didn't want her all over him like that. He was still recovering after all! As if he needed to go out and get drunk with her. Now that would just end badly...very badly.
"Hmph. You're no fun, as always. To think you've even stopped going to the clubs as well. It was so awesome going with you! Now you're some big shot doctor and never have enough time for us..." Ino snapped. She folded her arms, tapping her food impatiently.
"Ino..." Sakura sighed, rubbing at her temples. "I can't just slack on my job. Do you even realize how hard I worked to get where I'm at right now? No, you don't. Because you never tried to understand."
She flicked her in the forehead. "Don't go there Sakura. I do care. Yeah I may not show it, but I do..."
Sasuke just sat there and looked between the two, listening in on their conversation. Did they always argue like this? And it's not like anyone was stepping in to stop it either. This probably happens all the time though. That's why. He stood up and stretched a bit, going back into the kitchen to make himself another thing of tea.
Tonight was going to be a long one...