Previously on S U P R E M E...
"Who's are they?" Ino demanded, grinning madly. "I need to know who my little flower is being naughty with. Who is it?"
"Yeah, Sakura!" Tenten quipped. "I can't believe you didn't tell us about something as big as this! We thought that you were, like, not into this stuff!"
"Tch. Tenten, what teenager wouldn't be into this stuff?"
"I thought that was Sakura!"
Sakura backed away anxiously. "A-Ano-...g-guys! I-It doesn't matter anymore, anyways! Hahahaha," She tried to explain as they continued to advance towards her. "H-He doesn't-."
"Ahh...there's my pet." A smirking voice interrupted her, while two hands grabbed her shoulders from behind.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto greeted cheerfully, waving excitedly from his spot behind the stoic Uchiha. Behind Naruto, Shikamaru comically held up a sign that read in giant red letters 'this idiot (an arrow pointing at Naruto) dragged me here.'.
Sakura stared up at her amused master with huge eyes. "N-nan- what the fuck are you doing here?" She hissed, forcefully freeing herself from the dark haired boy and glaring at him.
Sasuke ignored her and grabbed for her wrist. "Let's go." He ordered and began to lead her in the opposite direction when Ino jumped in their way with heart-filled eyes.
"Sasuke-sama!" Ino cooed, completely have forgotten about the girl's hickeys and shoved Sakura out of the boy's grip, nearly attacking him. Sakura rubbed her shoulder and couldn't help but grumble at her blond friend.
Sama? She thought, tightening her fists. Last time I checked, he was my master, not- wait. What the fuck am I saying?
"Get off of me." Sasuke demanded quietly, easily shoving the blond girl off of him. He sniffed his shirt and crinkled his nose, silently swearing all terrible perfume companies to burn in hell. Ino just as easily ignored his bad attitude towards her.
"Ne ne, Sasuke-senpai, you're here to pick me up from school aren't you?" Ino concluded, gazing dreamily up at him while batting her eyelashes. Sakura silently wanted to gag. "You naughty boy, you should've called first. You still have my number, don't you?"
Sasuke shrugged. "Lost it." I don't even remember her giving it to me. He said to himself.
For a moment Ino looked stunned. Hah. Sakura couldn't help but think. That's what you get when you- holy crap. She's my friend, what the fuck am I doing? Why am I happy?
Ino, however, quickly recovered and glomped the boy's jacket covered arm. She laughed loudly and waved her manicured hand back and forth. "You're so funny, Sasuke-senpai, of course you'd end up losing it. You're busy with eh-erm, uh...boxing? Yeah. Of course you'd lose it." She laughed again before looking up at his disgusted face with a half lidded eyes. "I guess I'll just to write it down on your bo-dy this time, eh?"
Sakura felt like the wind was just beaten out of her. Before she knew what she was doing, she had leaped in between the two hurriedly. "Hahahaha, aw this is so nice. Ha ha. Okay. Now. So, uh, Sasuke, don't you have to go to the Dojo now?" Sakura reminded him, throwing him a look that said 'please-fucking-leave.' Ino looked at her friend abashed.
I-It's not that I'm jealous of Ino liking Sasuke-kun... Sakura told herself. I just...uh, I just don't want her to know that I'm his...p-p-p-p-pet. She would definitely get pissed and call me a slut.
Sasuke smirked at her. "No." He shot back quickly. He reached for her wrist again but Sakura quickly snatched it away. She glanced at her dazed best friend and hoped she didn't see.
Before Ino could question what was going on, Tenten stepped up and peered around the boys for a few moments. "Ano…" The black haired girl pouted, looking extremely disappointed. "Where's Neji-kun, eh? I wanted to ask him why he hasn't been answering my calls…"
Shikamaru sighed solemnly and mumbled. "Ahh…this is such a drag…" He scratched the back of his head and sighed again. "Neji would like you to know that, uh…he does not have the time to tend to a girlfriend...or any girl for that matter. See, Neji is a training fucktard, and doesn't really have any interest in anything aside from sleeping, eating and doing karate, so-."
"NANI?" Tenten interjected, her face turning red as a beet as she clenched her fists. "He looked fucking interested at the karaoke bar-."
"Ahh, that's Neji-kun! He's just like that." Naruto explained, sliding his arm around the already bored Shikamaru nonchalantly. "He doesn't really have patience for girls, in fact the only reason he was there was to practice his control. Wow, Tenten, you must have really helped him with his training! He put up with you for two hours, that's a Hyuuga Family Record."
Sasuke wanted to laugh, but y'know, Uchiha's don't laugh. He wanted to laugh because he totally just caught his cute little pet Sakura get jealous over him (if he wasn't an Uchiha, he'd be break dancing in circles) and that Hyuuga was finally going to get in some deep shit. He noted Tenten's extremely pissed face and knew that Hyuuga was totally going to get an ass-whooping, much to his delight.
"'Control'?" Tenten repeated calmly, a vein pulsing her forehead as she massaged her knuckles angrily.
Hinata cautiously put a worried hand on her friend's shaking shoulder. "A-Ano…I-Ino-c-chan…?" Tenten quickly slapped it away.
"I'll. Show. Him. Fucking. Control. Nobody makes a mockery of Tenten." The fuming girl vowed, abruptly grabbing Naruto's collar and lifting him 5 inches in the air. Shikamaru let out a low-whistle as Naruto kicked his feet around in the air desperately. "Where. Is. Your. Stupid. Dojo. Boy?"
Naruto gulped and spluttered. "R-Right next to Konohagakure Park! The one with the huge sign…y-you can't miss it!"
When Tenten released him he landed straight on his butt and whimpered. The ballistic girl massaged her fists and humphed. "I thought his long hair was pretty gay, anyways." Tenten confessed, advancing towards the front doors of their high school, a menacing aura surrounding her. "I'll show him fucking control, alright. Oh, I'll show him..."
"Bye, Tenten~!"
"Later!"
"B-Bye…!"
Shikamaru let out another low whistle. "She's got fighting spirit." He noted, yawning and stretching his arms. "Looks like just the girl Hyuuga needs."
Naruto rubbed his aching ass and sobbed. "T-Teme, why are girls so scary?"
"Hn." His best friend responded, successfully grabbing Sakura's hand while she was distracted with her waving and dragged her away, making her scream. Sakura blushed as she heard Ino call out from behind them. "What the fuck! Sakura! Sasuke-kun!"
"M-Matte matte…" Sakura protested furiously, wriggling under his hold. "I-Ino-chan…!"
"That blond girl?" Sasuke inquired, as he led her up a flight of staircases calmly. He scoffed. "I don't see why you're calling for her. She doesn't seem like a good friend, she wears you like an accessory." For a second, Sakura thought he sounded a little jealous.
"N-Nan-…what do you mean?" She hissed angrily, twisting her neck to look up at him as they entered the second floor. "You don't know anything."
"I know when I don't like a person." Sasuke retorted, not looking at her.
He kicked open the door of a random classroom. Sakura gasped, fear engulfing her as he locked the door behind them and switched on the lights. H-He's not thinking h-he can do t-that again… Flashbacks from last Friday pulsed through her mind and she felt like her knees could give out any second.
"W-why did you take me here?" She demanded cautiously, blushing furiously and standing as far as possible from her kidnapper. She began to get ticked off when she noticed the amused expression on his face. "N-Nani?"
"Hn." Sasuke smirked and plopped down on the nearest seat to him. He shrugged off his book bag and took out a black plastic bag. "You just look pretty scared about eating lunch." He explained in a monotone, taking out a pair of chopsticks.
Sakura felt like fireworks were going out inside of her uncomfortably. "N-Nan…-."
"Lunch?" Sasuke interrupted as if it were the most obvious thing in all of Konohagakure. He glanced at her light tote. "If you don't have anything to eat, you can share mine."
Flashback
"Ne ne Kakashi-sensei!" An eight-year-old Naruto Uzumaki whined, clinging to the man's kimono. There were fat tears streaming down the blond's chubby face. "Why won't you let me become a black belt like Teme? How can I become the Dojo no Shoyu-Sha if I'm not even a black belt, eh, Kakashi-sensei?"
"Get off of me, Naruto." Kakashi-sensei simply replied, using one hand to try to push the boy away while reading his dirty books with the other.
From a couple of feet away, an eight-year-old Sakura Haruno and a 9-year-old Sasuke Uchiha were plopped down on the floor of the dojo watching their usually happy teammate struggle. It was their lunch break time. Sakura laughed, "Naruto is such an idiot sometimes." She said to Sasuke as he popped open the lid of his bento box. "But I think he'll be a black belt one day."
"Hn." Sasuke mumbled. He looked down at his bent box and felt a vein pulse on his forehead.
Inside was a surplus of things he actually needed, and he groaned at all the heart, star, and Itachi shaped food. Taped at the top of the box was a little note that read:
'Hello foolish little brother. Mom wasn't feeling well enough to make you lunch this morning, so I made it for her like the better son that I am. With extra love!
-Itachi'
Sasuke peeled it off and ripped it into a million pieces angrily.
Sakura, on the other hand, was playing with her fingers embarrassingly. While on her way to the dojo that day, she met a stray puppy caught in a snake trap near the Konohagakure park lake and rushed over to save it. When the puppy was free and Sakura had healed the wound on it's leg, she sacrificed her own bento to give the puppy a place to rest and things to eat.
Sakura nearly collapsed just remembering how cute the puppy was, and loved how it had licked her cheek warmly after she saved it. 'I'll check on him after dojo.' she promised to herself.
"Sakura." A voice interrupted her thoughts.
The pink haired girl snapped away from her thoughts to see the Uchiha nonchalantly eating his food. She blushed, because it was not often (at all) that Sasuke started conversation with her. "H-hai, Sasuke-kun?"
"Your stomach has been growling." He told her, looking at her from the corner of his eyes coolly.
Sakura gasped, putting a hand on her starving stomach and blushed. "U-U…a-ano…mhm…uh…" Sakura wanted the floor to so badly open up and take her away. 'He must think I'm a pig now. Who likes girls that are pigs? NO. ONE. He'll never love m-'
Sasuke then pushed his bento into Sakura's lap. "Here." He told her. He blushed slightly and quickly got up. "I don't think that puppy would be happy if he knew you were starving." He began to walk towards his crying best friend while cracking his knuckles. Sakura stared at his back as he walked away, her cheeks feeling like they were melting off her face.
Flashback End
"A-A…" Sakura stuttered. "Arigat-. MATTE. MATTE, is that why you're here?"
"Eh?"
"You…" Her cheeks were burning. "You came here…just to eat…lunch with me?" Sasuke shrugged and nodded.
Sakura shook her head and took the seat next to him, still blushing furiously. "I-I…I don't have lunch, today." She confessed calmly, looking down at the lab table as Sasuke continued to munch on Itachi's face. "I never do."
Sasuke frowned. "Nande?"
Sakura sighed. "I…prefer to eat when certain other people…are not around."
"You mean boys." Sasuke concluded. When she nodded he rolled his eyes. "So you don't want guys to know that you love to eat."
Sakura frowned and blushed again. "I-I do not love to eat!" She protested.
"Yes you do." Sasuke smirked, looking up at the ceiling. If he wasn't so tall, Sakura would've thought he was actually smiling. Something she never did get to see often. "You always ate a lot."
Sakura looked away from him, ashamed. "S-So?"
"Nothing." Sasuke replied, pushing his bento box towards her familiarly. Sakura looked at it nervously. "There's nothing wrong with that."
For that day, Sakura decided, she could let herself pig out.
If it was only her first love that should see her being very un-sakura like, than she decided, that was alright.
"Sasuke." Sakura began, breaking the awkward silence while taking another star-shaped sushi roll from the boy's indigo bento. They had been eating for a good 20 minutes or so, and Sakura was a little appalled at how much food Sasuke had, and much to her surprise, Sasuke seemed just as appalled.
"Hn?"
"You know that...Ino-chan is interested in you, right?" She told him, cautiously. She focused all her attention on the food she was eating, in hopes that he wouldn't detect her rabid jealousy.
She wondered a little why she was so jealous. She did agree that Sasuke was definitely Ino's type (tall, hot, cool)...and that they looked extremely well together. Like a couple straight from the front cover of a magazine. They both looked like models, whereas Sakura doubted her forehead would even allow even herself on a page.
If she knew that those two were meant to be, why was she so jealous? Ino's her best friend for God's sake, she should be happy that she has a person she likes.
Why does she want Sasuke all to herself?
Sasuke smirked, turning to look at her which made her nearly jump out of her seat. "And...that is...?"
Sakura scoffed and stared right back at him. "Are you serious?" She spat incredulously. "Ino-chan? Yamanaka-chan? You know, the girl with blond hair who's been all over you the second she met you?"
She gasped, not meaning to add the last part about her being all over him. She definitely said it in a jealous tone and felt extremely ashamed of herself.
She's your friend. Your best friend. Sakura said to herself angrily. So what if Sasuke was your first love? That was in the past. Get over it. Get over it. Get over it.
"Oh." Sasuke said, turning back to the food with a bored expression. "Her."
Sakura breathed in deeply and calmed herself. "Yes. Her." She repeated. "She likes you."
"Hn." He responded absentmindedly, reaching for another sushi roll.
"What do you mean 'hn'?" Sakura inquired, grabbing the bento box and throwing it somewhere where he couldn't reach it so that she had his undivided attention, which he happily gave her. "This is a girl's feelings we're talking about! Don't just 'hn' it, this is something you can't 'hn', Sasuke-kun! She really likes you, no, loves you! Since the day she met you. You can't just ignore it, this is a girl's feelings, and you're really hurting her this way! Please, pay attention to them!"
Sasuke looked at her very entertainingly, but let her continue while a smirk played on his lips. He rested his cheek in his hand and waited.
"S-She fucking loves you!" Sakura went on, feeling a weird adrenaline rush through her. "She's in love with you! And she's never stopped loving you!"
Sasuke opened his mouth to speak, but thought better of it and let her continue.
"All you've done is ignore her and m-make her feel like she's not good enough. You've made her feel like total shit for years, a-and for what? For loving you? For always taking care of your wounds? For always sticking up for you whenever Itachi was being a jerk? For always spending time with you? For always-."
"Gomen Sakura." Sasuke interrupted her, surprisingly putting his hand on her shoulder. "Gomen. I didn't know I've been making you feel this way, Sakura. Gomen."
End Note: I didn't really like how I ended this chapter, but I hope you enjoyed anyways! Thank-you to all of you who've reviewed so far, and I'm looking forward to reading more reviews! Thanks!