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Weird.
After searching for 6 minutes and 43 seconds, "weird" was the only suitable adjective Haruno Sakura had found to describe what had happened to her in the past hours. Now in her bathtub and soaping, scrubbing, cleansing every inch of her body, she recalled the events that had occurred to her yesterday and even this morning.
Weird had been the incident at Sasuke-kun's house. (weird, yet very enjoyable.)
Weird had been Kakashi's reaction this morning before leaving for team 7's mission.
Sakura sighed and brought her knees up to her chest before hugging them. The silver-haired jounin's attitude toward her, made Sakura feel uneasy around her sensei. It seemed as thought he knew something she didn't. Something she wanted to find out. Team 7 were supposed to meet at the village's gates before heading to their destination. And even before leaving, Kakashi's odd behaviour had struck Sakura. She remembered perfectly. It did, after all, only happen this morning.
Flashback
Sakura and Naruto sighed. As usual, both were the only ones to get to the meeting spot on time because, as usual, Kakashi-sensei was late. It wasn't until 45 minutes had passed that the famous copy ninja deigned to appear in a cloud of white smoke before his students.
"You're late!" Naruto and Sakura yelled.
"Well, you see," Kakashi started, scratching the back of his head and laughing nervously, "There was a duck stuck in a tree and I had to climb and give it back to its owner…"
"Liar!" Naruto yelled when the sensei's lame excuse was heard. The blond loud-mouth then started walking. "Alright then," he yelled, "since everyone is here, let's get on to busyness!"
Sakura only smiled at her friend's childish way. She was about to follow him when a hand grabbed her shoulder. She turned around only to found herself face to face with Kakashi-sensei.
"Umm…Something wrong sensei?" Sakura asked looking into Kakashi's only visible eye. Funny how, for Kakashi, only one eye was enough to make someone feel very uncomfortable. The someone being, in this particular case, none other than Sakura...
"Oh, nothing's wrong. I was just wondering how your training with Sasuke was going." Kakashi said.
"Oh, its fine." Sakura answered.
"Really?"
"Yes, really"
"I suppose you two are getting along well?"
"Well…hmm…yes, I guess we are." Sakura answered trying with all her might not to blush when she thought of what had happened at Sasuke's house not too long ago. The young kunoichi started feeling edgy. Why was Kakashi asking all those questions all of a sudden?
"I highly recommend you not to get too close to Sasuke, Sakura."
End of Flashback
This had left Sakura astounded. What was it in Sasuke that was so dangerous? Why wouldn't she want to get close to him? Sakura got out her bathtub and wrapped herself in a towel while sighing for the second time that day. She couldn't stop herself from thinking about Sasuke. Yesterday she had been very close to kissing him. There was no hiding the fact that Sasuke was very handsome. And now, it was clear to Sakura that she was attracted to the Sharingan user. But attracted to the point of almost kissing him? Sakura didn't think that would be possible. Especially considering she was sixteen and he was in his early twenty's. Yet, Sakura couldn't bring herself to stop thinking about their proximity. Oh, how she wished to taste Sasuke's lips! How warm they would feel against hers!
As she was about to exit her bathroom in only her underwears, Sakura took hold of the first piece of cloth in her way to dress herself. She smiled ironically when her hand landed on Sasuke's shirt which was still laying on her washing machine. How the shirt managed to smell so good, Sakura couldn't find out. Young kunoichi wandered in her house a little before deciding her apartment needed some cleaning.
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Sasuke sighed for the third time before starting to walk around the tree he was leaning on twenty minutes ago. It was a first. Today, Haruno Sakura, his only student, was late. It annoyed
the hell out of him. What the heck was wrong with that girl? Did she forget she had trainning with him? Well she should know better. For no one, and that meant no one ever forgot an appointment with Uchiha Sasuke. Said Uchiha started leaving the forest with the intention of getting Sakura at her house. He stopped himself in the middle of his track. Why was it he was so annoyed? Kakashi had made him wait countles time before and he never seemed to care. He thought about it for a second. He was an Uchiha, and Uchiha never cared right? And so, after deciding he didnt care if he cared, he headed darted Sakura Harunos house.
The door to her house was unlocked. When he made his way inside, the first thing he did was inhale the sweet scent of cherry blossom. He looked around him. Sakura's appartment was nor too big nor too small. In the living room where he was now, there was a two-place couch, a coffe table and television. The white walls around him were adorned with pictures of the Haruno family. Mostly Sakura smiling happily with her parents. Sasuke sighed at the sight and forced himself to look away. He the heard the sound of running water. It camed from what he guessed was the kitchen. Sakura was probably washing the dishes. Instead of heading to her, Sasuke thought otherwise and walked over to the couch. Just when he was about to sit, Sakura came in the living room. At first, she didn't even see Sasuke. She had only came to close to door for she had felt a cold wind entering her house. It wasn't until her back was facing her door that she noticed Sasuke's presence.
She froze and looked in his eyes. She blinked several times at the figure before her as if wondering if was an hallucination.
"Oh. My. God." she breathed.
"Oh my GOD!" she reapeated louder. This time feeling her cheeks burning widly. "What are you doing here?" She screamed.
If he had been any other, Sasuke would have roared with laughter. However, he was Uchiha Saskue and thus tried very hard no to smirk. He failed. Sakura was just so...he didn't know if a word in his vocabulary existed to describe the girl before him. With that look of utter surprise in her eyes, the crimson red on her cheeks, her mouth opened, her wet and soaped hands, her bare feet and the little puddle of water she was making around her, she looked very funny to look at. But what hit Sasuke the most, was the fact that she was wearing his shirt. When he noticed that, his smirk grew larger. Sasuke then found the word he thought could fit her. She was cute. She was just damn cute.
Sakura looked at the man before her. Of all the people in Konoha. Of all the people in the world, why did it have to be Uchiha Sasuke to see her in such a state? She stared as Sasuke smirked. Stared when he sat down on her couch. During all that staring she was doing, she knew she was blushing madly. Who could blame her? It wasn't her fault the most handsome man on earth had sneaked into her house to see her wearing his shirt! She forced herself to take in deep breaths and calm down. She then saw Sasuke wince on her couch. He then shifted uncorfomtably. Sakura wondered what it was he was doing. Sasuke then shoved his hand in the couch and pulled out a piece of clothing. It wasn't util the last Uchiha had unfolded the thing that both he and Sakura saw, one in horror and the other in amusement, that Sasuke was holding one of Sakura's bras. A black, laced bra.
Now it was very hard for Sasuke not to laugh. He looked from the bra to Sakura and then back to the bra. What the hell was the thing doing in the couch in the first place?
Sakura blushed even more if that was possible. She ran up to Sasuke with the intention of snatching the bra out of his filthy perverted hands. Sasuke seeing her coming however, held the black clothing high above his head. Sakura being too small only cursed and got on tip-toe.
"Give that back!" She yelled at him. "Come on! Give it back!"
Sakura had her arms over Sasuke's shoulders. When he noticed that, the Sharingan user stared deeply into the pool of emerauld green in his student's eyes. Both noticed their proximity and how their bodies were slightly touching. Sakura looked into Sasuke's onyx eyes and saw the burning passion well hidden behind his usual cold glare. She forced herself to look away. She new if she were to lose herself in his gaze she would most probably end up kissing him. Taking advantage of Sasuke's inattention, she snactched her laced bra from his hand and ran back to the end of the living room.
"What are you doing here?" She asked again, looking down at the puddle of water and dish soap at her feet.
"You made me wait in the training area. I came to get you." He said simply.
Sakura blush, which had started to fade away, came back instantly.
"I..." She started. "I didn't knew we still had training..." She looked at Sasuke who was staring at her with a puzzled face. He didn't speak, but his expression clearly told Sakura to further her thoughts
"I thought today's tainning might be canceled..."
"Why?" Sasuke asked even thougth he already knew the answer.
"You know..." Sakura sighed "Because of what happened yesterday...at your house." Sakura's eyes widdened in horror as last night's event made her aware of two things.
1) She was still only in Sasuke's shirt
2) She was actually waving her bra at him while talking.
Again, Sakura blushed and hid her bra behind her back. Which made Sasuke smirk.
"Stay here!" Sakura then ordered before starting to run to her room to get changed.
However, she forgot the puddle of water at her feet. She slid on it and fell hard on her butt. At first rubbing her aching bottom, Sakura then quickly clasped her hands on her(Sasuke's) shirt to cover her tights and panties.
"Did...did you see that?" She asked Sasuke with mixte of embarrasment, anger and desperation in her eyes.
Sasuke only smirked in response.
Sakura quicly headed to her bedroom while thinking this she had never blushed so hard and so often as in the past ten minutes.
Sasuke watched her leave. "White" He thought. "I could've guessed". He then shook his head thinking he hadn't smirk as much as in the past then minutes.
When Sakura came back fully dressed in the living room, she saw Sasuke arms crossed over his chest and eyes closed in a relaxed manner. When he felt her chakra in the room, Sasuke stood up and looked at Sakura.
"How did you find this house anyways" She asked her sensei.
Sasuke shuddered. "I asked around" He answered. He didn't want to remember how he had found Sakura's friend, the blond dobe and had asked him for simple information to which the boy replied by threatenig to kill the last Uchiha if he ever hurt his precious Sakura-chan.
"Oh." Sakura said "I thought you found it in the document Kakashi-sensei gave you."
Sasuke slapped himself mentally. The document! Why hadn't he think of that! If would've spared him so much time.
"Could you lend me a pen Sasuke-kun?" Sakura then asked. Sasuke complied, not sure what the pink-haired girl was up to. Sakura took the pen and scribbled something down on a piece of paper she had found on her coffe table. She handed the paper to Sasuke. On it was written Sakura's adress and phone number.
"That way, you won't have to ''ask around''." She said smiling before running out of the door.
On the way to the trainning area, the silence between Sasuke and Sakura was comfortable for one and unbearable for the other. Sakura's tongue was itching to says something. Yet, she did not know what. When she had given up the idea of starting a conversation with the human-ice-cube next to her, she saw a familiar figure coming up to them. She soon recognized the beautiful green beast of the hidden leaf(or so he claimed to be), Rock Lee.
"Sakura-san," He said when he had reached her "Konichiwa."
"Hello Lee-san" Sakura greeted happily.
"I see you have compagny" Lee said staring his very round eyes into Sasuke's onyx ones. Said Sasuke looked form Sakura to Lee and then back to Sakura again with annoyance written all over his handsome face. His annoyance grew with a hint of amusement as he heard Lee asking Sakura out and the young kunoichi politly refusing the offer. When Lee had left them while trying to hide the tears of defeat in his eyes, and when Sasuke and Sakura had resumed their walk to the trainning grounds, Sakura, feeling Sasuke's teasing stare on her, looked back at him.
"What?" She asked placing her hands on her hips.
Sasuke only answered by looking at her, then at Rock Lee and finally by resting his eyes on her once again.
"Leave him alone. He may be...unique..."
"Weird" Sasuke interrupted
"But he is a great friend. And a friend only." She said answering Sasuke's silent question.
"A friend" Sasuke repeated. "Sure"
They finally arrived at destination. Sasuke sat at a nearby tree while Sakura started doing her usual streching. It had become their ritual over the weeks. Each trainning session would start with Sasuke dozing off or recovering from a mssion under a tree, and Sakura stretching her every muscles before starting her work.
This time, as Sakura held both her arms as high as possible over her head, she looked over to Sasuke who was looking back. She hastily looked away and blushed before deciding it was stupid to blush only because he was looking at her. He was her sensei. Of course he would be looking at her.
"Say, Sasuke-kun?" She asked "Is it true all they say about you?"
"They say a lot of things about me." Sasuke answered.
"That you have no family?"
"Hn."
"That you reject everyone."
"Depends who."
"That you have no girlfriends?"
Sasuke smirked at that "I have more experience than you in that matter that's for sure."
"How can you say that?" Sakura asked now on the ground and streching her legs.
"Well if the the boy who aked you out earlier was your best option..."
"We're just friends!" Sakura screamed "Anyways. People also say you're a handsome jerk."
Again, Sasuke smirked. "What do you think?"
"You're a real jerk."
"Perhaps. But you're only answering half the question. What about the 'handsome' part?"
Sakura tried with all her might not to blush before answering "I ask questions here. Is it true you're always alone?"
"..."
Sakura looked up to Sasuke when she realized his silnce. Before she had time to make a remark on Sasuke's failure to answer the question however, He cut her off.
"Today, we will have a water-walking spar..." he began as he remembered how well Sakura had water-walk in his garden. He charged at Sakura before the girl could even stand in a fighting stance. He would like it. Of course he would. He was an ANBU. He loved fighting.
He tried to throw a kick to Sakura's stomach but failed when she escaped with a cartweel. A perfect cartwheel. On water. He already knew Sakura had perfect chakra control but he was still in awe(though, of course, he didn't show it.) To shift her chakra from her hands to her feets and keeping her balance at full speed, it was plainly amazing.
He smirked when he saw his student charging back at him. He knew all to well how this trainnng would end.
When Sakura came to Sasuke, he tried to punch him. Yet the Uchiha was so fast she only managed to punch into air. Sasuke immidiately appeared behind her and startld her, causing the pink-haired girl to loose her concentration and fall into the river. It happened three more times. Her falling into the river. When it was over and she was soaked and bruised while Sasuke barely had a scratch on him, she glared at her sensei murderously.
"What?" Sasuke asked whith a cocked eyebrow when he became aware of the killing vibes she was sending him.
"I...hate...you..." Sakura managed to breathe out.
Sasuke sighed. "No you don't." He said "You're just mad because you lost."
"And because you're only using half your power!" She screamed ignoring the pain it caused in her ribs.
"How would you know?" Sasuke asked.
Sakura glared at him some more before answering. "I'm a medic-nin Sasuke! All I need is to touch you once to feel the chakra flowing through your body. To feel your heart beating. And I can tell they weren't working at full capacity!"
Sasuke was not sure now if the water running down her cheeks was the one from the river or tears of anger.
Sakura fell on the ground and looked at her fist as if they were the cause of all the sufferings in the world. She then looked back up to Sasuke.
"The first time we sparred," she asked "did you only use half of your abilities?" She found herself holding her breath in until he gave his answer
Again the young Uchiha sighed and walked up to his student.
"The first time we sparred," he said, "I used one third of my real strenght."
After her trainning, Sakura walk on Konoha's roads with a thougtful look on her face. Was it true what Sasuke had told her? That she was getting stronger? In all those trainning sessions with him, it was the first thing he had said that seemed be a compliment. A hint of blush made it's way across her cheeks.
"Wait." she thougth "So now he's making me blush even in my thoughts? Why am I even thinking about him in the firts place!"
she thougthSakura shook her head vividly but couldn't get the image of her and Sasuke out of her mind. Her and Sasuke trainning. Her and Sasuke drinking tea at his house. Her and Sasuke laughing Well she was laughing. She couldn't quite picture Sasuke laughing for some reason. It was just too odd. Unless he was laughing a mean laugh during a battle...Sasuke was hardly the joking type. But he wasn't as cold as in the rumours she heard about him. At least, not when she was around. Sasuke always looked quite relaxed when he was having a spar with her. Sometime he even seemed like he enjoyed it.
Then again, this guy was a fighting machine. He would enjoy any kind of fight.
But weren't fighters destined to be alone? Sakura remembered asking Sasuke if he was always alone earlier today. He hadn't answered. What did it mean?
She remembered her childhood. The way she could feel alone even when in a crowed of other children. Was that what Sasuke was feeling? Sakura snapped out as she looked around her. Her feet had lead her to ninja academi's old playing grounds. She walked up to a nearby swing and sat on it. Rocking herself back and forth, she closed her eyes and let her sweet memories fill her mind. If both had lived a childood of loneliness, did that mean that, deep inside, she and Sasuke were alike?
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So guys? How was it? Did any of you guess what Sakura was talking about when she said "Did you see that?" And when Sasuke thought "White"? It was...her panties! She was wearing white panties!( I loooooove perv Sasuke!)