Chapter 4
"Thanks Sakura-chan. You're free to go now."
"Okay, thanks a lot."
Sakura went out from the store she was working. It's was almost past 8 and she decided to walk. She needed some cold air to clear her thoughts from what happened earlier.
I ran away
I should be ashamed of my self.
I'm so weak.
But...
I just don't want him to know he was my ex-boyfriend.
I don't want to be seen in that shameful state.
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Sakura stopped. Something interrupted her thoughts. It's as if someone was looking at her, following her every move.
She looked back.
"Sasuke…"
Sakura saw Sasuke leaning at his bike, his onyx eyes looking at her.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, looking down and avoiding his gaze.
"Can't I worry 'bout you going back?" He said, still looking at her.
"You don't have to do that." Sakura stated, walking away from him.
"What? Can't I feel a little responsible for you?." he finally said.
Sakura looked at him.
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What's this?
Suddenly you're treating me nicely.
Stop it.
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Silence engulfed the two. He just stood there and Sakura decided to cut it off.
She thought she needed to say something to him.
To clear things out..
Sakura tried to open her mouth, trying her best to gather up courage and speak.
"Uh, I… At first..."
Sasuke looked at her beneath his bangs. Sakura was holding her bag tightly, as if everything depends on it.
"At first we were friends." Sakura continued "I've always liked him so I confessed and he accepted it. Before a month was over, I found out he was seeing someone besides me. Moreover, it was his ex-girlfriend. When he knew I found about it he broke up with me."
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That's strange…
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"Later, I also heard he broke up with her. He was also seeing another one. It's stupid right? We're over yet I'm still under his control. And now I'm acting this way just because he didn't even recognize me as his former girlfriend."
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Why am I telling Sasuke these things?
I…
No way,
Didn't I hate him before?
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"So… what do you want me to do?" Sasuke suddenly said. His voice was cold and unsympathetic.
"W-what?"
"Do you want me to comfort you? Don't behave like a spoiled child."
He looked at her; his onyx eyes were cold as ice and it sent shivers to Sakura.
"While you're with me, you're talking about another guy. Do you expect me to say some kind words? Acting like a pathetic child in front of me."
Sakura looked back at him with eyes of shock and pain, she was badly hurt by the words he is giving to her.
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He's a total jerk.
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"What's with those words?!" Sakura shouted. "You're the one who was suddenly kind."
She clenched her fist and closed her eyes, trying not to let the tears to form in her eyes.
"You're such a selfish jerk who doesn't care if he hurts someone! I hate you!"
"Then why are you still with me? Don't you have your own reasons?" he said, looking stoic and cold as before.
"What?! You're the one who… urgh! I really hate you!" Sakura shouted in between suppressed tears that were happening.
"I hate you!"
She was getting tired, emotions were rushing inside her. She just stood there shouting at him and hitting his chest while he stood there like a wall ignoring how the girl continued to hit and cry before him.
"I hate you so much! You're selfishness is so similar with him. You remind me of my ex-boyfriend!"
Sakura was now crying uncontrollably, taking all her pain and sadness out as she kept on hitting Sasuke's chest. Sasuke, on the other hand, ignored everything she was doing, he just stood there and looked at her.
"I hate you!" she shouted again.
Sasuke held her shoulders.
"No, go away! I hate you!" she said, struggling to keep his hands away from her.
Just then, she stopped when she felt Sasuke's lips on her own.
Sakura's eyes widen in surprise. She was taken aback by his sudden action.
Sasuke was kissing her and surprisingly she was kissing him back.
It was wrong, and yet inside her, she wanted it.
Both of them wanted it.
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For once,
Sinking inside this feeling
Isn't bad at all
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He leaned her on a wall, deepening his kisses on her; trying to taste everything of her. Her strawberry scent was filling him up and it was driving him crazy.
They just stood there, kissing each other, as if they were lost for a moment, as if nothing had happened.
It was an incredible feeling for Sakura, she has kissed someone before yet this was different.
Her stomach was filled with butterflies and shivers went up to her spine as she kisses him.
But then, Sasuke suddenly stopped; his onyx eyes staring at her emerald ones and his hot breath tickling her blushed skin.
He leaned closely at her again, making his way at the side of her face, with his lips barely centimeters apart on her right ear.
This made Sakura blush even more, remembering the recent encounter that happened between them.
"Is this also similar to your ex-boyfriend? Have I become the boy in the rumors?" he whispered in her ear, as slowly he gazed at her eyes looking cold as before.
She looked at him with tears in her eyes. He was causing her so much pain.
He looked at her blankly.
"You're annoying…" he finally said, walking away and leaving her staring at an empty street.
That's it?
Saying I'm annoying after he kissed me.
I don't understand.
Sakura curled her legs, crying to herself.
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I really don't understand…
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"Sakura, what happened?" asked a worried Ino. "Your eyes..."
It was their lunch break and Sakura didn't even touch her food. Ino was worrying about her best friend's sudden change. And it worries her more when she found her with swollen eyes right after coming out of the girl's bathroom.
"It's nothing…" Sakura said, taking her seat.
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I didn't talk to Sasuke again.
When we meet in the classroom,
Or in the corridors,
We act like we don't see each other.
everything just went back.
Back to our normal selves.
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RIIIIINNNGGGG
"Sasuke?"
Sakura quickly picked up her phone.
"Ah, it's good you haven't changed your number."
Disappointment rushed through her eyes as soon as she heard a different voice. She was expecting someone else.
"It's me… Neji."
Sakura leaned in a nearby wall, trying to listen.
"I'm sorry about the other day, you're not that mad at me right? Well... I've only said that because I'm with my friends."
Sakura smiled upon hearing this, yet it was oblivious that the opposite feeling is happening inside her. Tears were starting to form in her eyes.
"But when I saw you, I just realized that I'm wrong for breaking up with you. So… can we meet today?"
Sakura laughed.
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I'm really stupid
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"Are you listening? Saku-"
BEEP.
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Really stupid.
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She fidgeted on her phone and deleted Neji's name from her contacts.
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Because I just realized,
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"Sasuke!" Sakura shouted when she finally saw him after roaming around the whole campus.
Onyx eyes looked at her emerald ones.
"Give me back my glasses."
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That since the beginning,
I've been looking at those eyes
Without even realizing
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"Get them yourself." He said, placing his hands on his pockets and walking away.
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That I have fallen for him
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She stopped him when she held the hem of his shirt.
He turned and looked at her with those onyx eyes.
And then, without any hesitations, she kissed him.
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Fallen for him
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He looked at her marking a smirk on his lips.
"You can do it after all."
Sakura looked at him.
His stares and his onyx eyes were drowning her.
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Those eyes can really see through everything
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"I've done it, so give it back." Sakura answered back.
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But,
I don't hate it.
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"hn…" he said smirking again at her. And once more, leaning his face close to hers.
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Because those eyes,
Have already taken me away
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He pushed away some of her pink locks, looking straight in her eyes.
"I'll give it back... after this." Sasuke said, before capturing her lips again.
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I've been defeated by them.
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end
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thank you for reading, and choosing this story as one of your favorites.
kudos to all the reviewers.
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as i have said from my profile,
this one shot was inspired before a manga i have read before.
it just so happen that i forgot the title and who wrote it.
I have no intentions on taking his work,
for he has the brilliant mind for it after all.
These honors are dedicated to him.
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the plot was from him,
but the way it was written
(i.e. the words and emotions of the characters)
were mostly made by yours truly.
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