This chapter is short, I know, but I needed to get it out of the way. x3

Hope you like it [:

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"Is it about…" Sasuke started.

Sakura could feel her heart speed up.

"Why I knocked you out?"

"NO!" Sakura protested. "I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHY YOU SAID THANK YOU!" Sakura quickly covered her mouth after she blurted it out. She didn't mean to say it; she wanted to take it back. Sakura looked back at her lap and fidgeted her fingers even more-so. She could feel her face flush and hoped he couldn't see. But it was impossible wasn't it. Just because the blinds covering the windows were closed (except for the window in her room), the lights were on.

"Hnnn…" Sasuke stared at her. "Well…"

Just before Sakura felt that he was going to tell her the reason why, the lights went out.

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"Sakura…" Sasuke said, waving off the fact that the lights went out.

"Yes?!" Sakura yelled.

"Are you afraid of the dark?"

Sakura sat up stiffly. "No. I'm not." She stated confidently, trying to fake her way through Sasuke.

"Really now." Sasuke replied with the same confident tone.

Sakura went to look at Sasuke but didn't see him sitting on the seat next to her. "Sasuke…?" She called out. No one responded. "Sasuke… Where are you?" Sakura said cautiously. She frantically looked around the house but couldn't see anything except for the light streaming through the window in her room. She decided to go to her room to escape the black hole of a sitting room. As she got up from the couch, she walked around it and started to head to her room slowly. She felt breathing on her neck; as she turned around, no one was there. She stopped her pace and looked back at the living room. "Sasuke, this isn't funny." She stated, hoping he would understand. Sakura turned back, eyeing her room. Feeling the breathing down her neck again, she decided to ignore it this time. Starting ahead, she feels something on her shoulder and freezes.

Silence.

"…Boo."

Screaming, Sakura ran to her room covering her eyes with her hands and jumped on her bed, burying her face into the pillow. Her eyes started to water. She couldn't STAND the dark, she was always afraid of it. Whenever she walked or hung around in the dark, she would try to convince herself that nothing was going to happen. Even so, for some reason, she would always get paranoid.

"Oy, Sakura."

She heard Sasuke's voice. She didn't want to hear his voice.

That asshole.

I'm sure he didn't mean to make me upset.

Yea, right. He obviously knew we were afraid of the dark and he still scared you.

It was meant to be a joke.

So what? We're sick, he shouldn't so this when we're sick!

"You asshole." Sakura mumbled through the pillow.

"It was for fun." Sasuke said, shadowing the bed.

"It wasn't fun."

"I wouldn't say that."

Sakura sighed. "You at least shouldn't have done it when I'm sick."

"Seems like you forgot you were sick for a while now. Maybe it was my soup."

"You didn't put anything funny in it right?"

"Sakura, do you have any candles?" he said, ignoring her question.

"Sasuke, tell me why you said 'Thank you' on that day."

"What day."

"The day you left Konoha- when I tried to stop you."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Asshole.

Sakura's eyes started to water again.

Damn it all. Why do I have to be so f-cking sensitive?

Sakura stood up from her bed and looked at Sasuke. No, she glared at him. Why isn't he telling her? Why is he ignoring her? Does he think it's too much for her to handle? She can deal with it! Why can't he let her down? He's done it before.

Sakura clenched her fists and launched her arm at Sasuke, hoping to hit him. Sasuke grabbed her arm and pulled her closer. He smirked.

"You're gonna have to do better than that, Sakura."

Sakura was still incredibly pissed at Sasuke, but she couldn't help herself blush.

"I'll find them myself then." He stated. And with that, he walked out the room to look for the candles.

"That asshole."

He'll hear you.

"I don't care."

Now, you're talking to yourself… and I mean in a weird way.

Shut up. I don't care anymore.

Don't care about what?

Him.

Yea, right, like that's gonna happen.

"Found them." Sasuke called out. "Not a very good hiding place. They were in a cabinet underneath the sink."

"Who said I was hiding them?!" Sakura yelled.

"You wouldn't tell me where they were."

"UGH." Sakura stomped out of her room, ignoring the fact that every room (besides her own) was covered in darkness. She saw Sasuke putting the soup bowl and the spoon into the sink. "Well, there's one good thing he's done." She said to herself.

Sasuke put the candles on the dining room table and lit them up with his Goukakyu no Jutsu. (A/N: The fire one.)

Hot.

Literally.

I mean the way he did it, it was so controlled, it came out smooth and all…

Well, no shit sherlock, he's trained with-

I get it.

"Sakura. Sit down." Sasuke proclaimed.

"I'm going out on a walk."

"You're sick."

"I don't care."

"Then I'm coming with you, I don't want you fainting again." Sasuke said. Although it was suppose to seem caring, he said it coldly.

"Do whatever you want." Sakura replied. She started heading out the front door. "Never mind. Just don't come, it'll be a bother."

Sasuke stood up from the table and walked up to Sakura. Grabbing her hand, he saw that Sakura had tears in her eyes and her cheeks were red.

"I'll tell you once you feel better."

Sakura pulled her hand away. "I'll be sitting on that cherry tree branch. I'll be in shade." She said while pointing to the tree besides her house.

Sasuke nodded and headed back inside to do… whatever he does.

Sakura sat on the branch and looked out at… nothing really. She suddenly felt as sick as she did when she got out of bed. Her body slumped and all her life in her body disappeared. "It always seems that whenever I'm around him, I get an extra amount of energy… as if he's giving it to me." It was silent, except for the birds chirping. "I'm pathetic." Sakura declared.

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After Sakura's mental abusing, she laughed about it. She stumbled off the branch and landed, (fortunately), safely. She walks into her house and sees Sasuke just laying down on the couch, resting his head on his palms and staring at the ceiling. "Sasuke, I'm sorry for being crazy today."

Sasuke waved his hand. "Sakura, go to bed."

"That's all you say after I say sorry?! Why do I have to go to bed?"

Jerk.

Asshole.

"I told you to go to bed after you finished your soup, and you didn't. I could have knocked you out and just put you on your bed."

"But you didn't."

"I didn't care, really."

"Asshole."

"What's with the vulgar language." He replied. "Just go to bed." He stated, not letting Sakura answer his some-what of a question.

Sakura just stood there and repeated her question. "Why?"

Sasuke looked at her. "Don't you want to get better."

Sakura smiled. She couldn't see his face but she would swear to Kami-sama that he grinned.

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~R&R~

This chapter feels like one of my worst ]:
Sorry guys, I'll try to make it up for you next chapter.