Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Hello my lovely readers. It's Friday at last! I know some of you have been thinking what does this story have to do with the title of the story, Fairytale-sakura? -_- well, you'll find out next chapter =D in the meantime here's chapter 7 hope you guys don't think it's too boring the next one will be better. Don't forget to review! =)
"Sakura? Why are you awake so early?" Asked Kizashi, walking in the kitchen. He stopped to try and rub the sleep from his eyes.
The pink haired girl greeted her father "Take a seat, I'm making you breakfast before you go to work." She said turning off the stove.
Kizashi yawned. Yesterday he worked full shift and he had little sleep "It does smell good. Don't you have work today?" He asked taking a seat and watching as his daughter finished cooking.
"Not until tomorrow. They gave me the day off" she said placing his plate on the table and sitting next to him. She was not about to tell him that she fainted yesterday and was taken to the hospital and That's why they had given her the day off.
"I think it's great. You really needed a break from working so much dear. what do you plan on doing today then?" He asked taking a bite of his food.
"Well, I was thinking on going to Gai's dojo. I can't remember when was the last time I visited that place. I kind of miss gai's flashing smile she said chuckling. after that I'll head to the library to check out a book that i'v been trying to read for some time now."
Kizashi nodded, feeling glad that his daughter would be having fun today and not stressing herself out with work "I hope you have fun dear. just be careful and don't come home to late ok?"
"dad, i'm not a little girl anymore" she pouted while kizashi laughed, telling her he was only joking with her "hey, dad have the aka-"
"No, they haven't called since yesterday and i hope they don't call anytime soon. He faced his daughter with a stern look on his face "sakura, i want you to be very careful. Who knows what they're planning on doing. I don't want them to hurt you" he said with a serious expression.
"Don't worry dad I'll be really careful" she said putting a hand on his to reassure him she'd be OK. She knew her father was worried and she would be lieing if she said she wasn't concerned herself. She didn't want anything to happen to her father either and just the thought of it made her stomach churn in fear. But she had to stay safe for him and herself.
He nodded feeling a little more reliefed "Well then I have to go or I'll be late" he said standing up and heading towards the door.
"Bye dad. take care I love you" she waved goodbye.
"Love you to dear take care" he said before closing the door.
She sighed and picked up the plates to wash them. when she finished she got her purse and made her way to the dojo.
"Hey ino what are you going to do today?" Asked tenten putting the dishes away on the cupboard.
"Well since it's our day off I'm heading to my parents flower shop. I think it will do me some good to keep my distance from shikamaru today" she said, washing dirty dishes "what about you?"
"I'm going to the dojo with neji."
"Oh I see" said ino grinning mischievously at her.
"I hate it when you do that" said tenten pointing at her with spoons in her hand.
"Do what?" She asked innocently.
Tenten rolled her eyes "Just forget it, plus lee is going with us so don't get any romantic scenes in your head" she said, taking out her tongue at her. "What are you doing today hinata?"
"I might just g-go to the library to find a book" she said taking out clothes from the laundry.
ino turned around to look at her "But there are tons of books in sasuke's library" She said wiping her wet hands on her apron.
Hinata blushed and twiddled with her fingers feeling a little embarrassed to tell them why she was going there "I k-know but he doesn't have m-much of romantic novels."
"Can you three be quite and hurry up" said Amy with her hands on her hips.
"I don't recall you being our boss" snapped ino.
"No, but when I marry sasuke I'll make sure to fire you three or maybe just make your life's a living hell" she said with an evil smile on her face.
Ino laughed at the girls wild imagination " excuse me but did I hear you right? Sasuke probably doesn't even know you exist bit*!" Said ino holding an angry tenten back.
Amy didn't find anything funny about it. In fact she was being very serious "I'm sure he does. And sooner or later He'll ask me to marry him." She announced confidently.
"That would only happen in your dam dreams!" Said ino losing her patience.
Amy huffed and crossed her arms "you guys just wait and see. call me whatever you want now but soon you'll be calling me mistress amy" she smiled as she watched the three maids in front of her cringe in horror "Hope you guys have a...nice day" she turned around and left.
"Ahh! I can't stand her!" said tenten throwing her apron away.
"I don't even know why sasuke hired that thing, she pisses me off!" said an angry ino glaring at the spot were Amy had stood.
"Just forget about it for n-now" said hinata "we have to go. D-don't let her r-ruin you'r day."
"you'r right hinata. Let's just ignore her. Well I'll see you guys later" said ino waving at her two friends who waved as she left.
sakura stood there, looking at the entrance of the dojo. Not sure if she should enter or not. After a while of debating with herself, she finally decided to open the door and walk in. she immediately recognized Neji who was sparing with a guy who had big eyebrows and black bowl shaped hair. He wore a silly green spandex and seemed to be full of determination. She wondered if he was Gai's son, they looked identical.
"Hey" said a girl with two brown buns and chocolate brown eyes "my name is tenten. You must be new here because I've never seen you here before."
The pink haired smiled and introduced herself "hi, I'm sakura. And actually, I used to come here when I was younger but I had a lot of work and couldn't come anymore." Tenten gave her an understanding look.
"Sakura?! Is that you?" Asked gai looking intently at the pink haired girl "oh my youthful student! look how much you have grown!" He cried out giving her a crushing hug.
"It's nice seeing you again gai sensei but could you loosen your grip a little? I can't breathe."
Gai immediately let go of her "I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. You kids grow up so fast" he said wiping away a few tears from his eyes.
Tenten and sakura sweat dropped.
"Alright let's get started shall we? He said clapping his hands to get everyone's attention. Alright my beautiful youthful people we shall get in pairs of two and show of our youthful strength to one another and learn to defend each other from unyouthful dangerous people out there. "Are you ready?!"
"I am ready to show off my power of youth gai sensei! Shouted a very enthusiastic lee with his fist in the air "I will not let you down sir!"
"Oh lee, I'm so proud of you!"
Gai sensei!
Lee!
Gai sensei!
Lee!
Everyone sweat dropped and started picking their partners before they had to choose between those too. Great who's going to be my partner? thought sakura looking around to see if someone didn't have a partner.
"Don't worry sakura, I have found you a youthful partner you can spar with" said gai smiling widely.
"Really? Who?" She asked trying to look for said person.
He looked behind his shoulder and then pushed him in front of sakura "He will be your opponent for today."
"You!" She said surprised to see sasuke in front of her.
"Hn" he said with his stoic expression. He had seen her enter the dojo and was not pleased with her presence. He thought that he would't have to see her again after what had happened yesterday.
"Gai sensei I am not going to spar with him" she said pointing at sasuke.
"Are you scared that I'm going to win you sa-ku-ra?" He said mocking her with that stupid smirk on his face.
She huffed, feeling offended "Of course not. what makes you think you can beat me so easily uh-chi-ha?"
"Because girls like you are weak" He responded, arms crossed over his chest.
sakura felt her blood boil. she was beyond mad. He told her she was annoying, a problem and now he was calling her a weakling. He really was a jerk "Alright uchiha let me show just how weak I am" she said poking his chest, Hoping she made a hole in it.
"Hn" He removed her finger from his chest. Everyone was now interested in the spar that was about to take place.
"Who do you think is going to win neji?" Asked tenten interested to see sakura spar with sasuke.
"Sasuke of course. she doesn't stand a chance against him" responded neji watching as sasuke got in his fighting stance.
The girl with two buns rolled her eyes and focused on the spar. She wanted to avoid another fight with him.
Sakura got in her fighting stance as she waited for sasuke to make the first move.
"Go sakura!" Yelled lee "I believe in your power of youth!" He said trying to encourage her.
Sasuke took a swing and she professionally ducked, moving a few feet away from him. she was about to lay a punch but he caught her wrist and twisted her elbow,putting it behind her back. she elbowed him with her other free hand but he didn't let go, Instead he grabbed her other hand and put it behind her back. He leaned close to her ear making her shiver at the sound of his voice "give up sakura" he whispered sending chills all over her body. "Not happening" she responded kicking his knee with her foot, causing him to almost loose balance. she did an outside sweep kick causing him to fall backwards. She was about to tell him if he thought she was still weak but decided not to when she saw him holding onto his neck in pain. (I'm sorry I suck at battle scenes plz forgive me! ~_~)
Maybe she had hurt him on accident "Are you ok? did i hurt your neck?" She asked watching his pained expression.
He stood up and rubbed his neck. He was starting to feel the same pain he felt when orochimaru had cursed him. He cursed, out of all the times why right now? "You were lucky this time" he said passing by her and leaving the dojo.
Everyone was gaping even gai.
"How is that possible?" Said a dumbfounded neji, something must have happened for him to lose like that. He had a suspicion it might have something to do with that mark on his neck, but how? He had noticed it when he had been sparing with sasuke but he thought the uchiha had just gotten a tattoo. But in the match with sakura He had been gritting his teeth a lot and neji wasn't blind, he clearly saw when that thing glowed red and turned black again.
Tenten smiled at the hyuga his face sure was priceless "You see neji we girls are stronger then you think" she said grinning at the pensive guy. she stood up and walked over to sakura.
"Oh my beautiful cherry blossom" said lee holding sakura's hands "your beauty and youthful strength has captivated my heart, please marry me!" He said with hearts in his eyes.
Sakura could only laugh nervously. She didn't want to be rude to lee but he was crazy if he though she was going to say yes. Thankfully ten ten had come to her rescue. "Lee leave her alone, she does not want to marry you" said tenten pushing aside a sulking lee.
"That was so awesome I can't believe you won sasuke."
"I didn't win she replied making ten ten look at her in confusion "He looked like he was in pain" she said more to herself then to tenten.
"He did? I didn't notice anything" said tenten trying to recall the details of the spar "Anyway I hope we can spar sometime she said smiling."
"Sure why not?" she said looking around for sasuke who was nowhere to be found.
"That was a magnificent show sakura" said gai putting his hand on her shoulder "you have impressed me with your youthfulness. I hope you come more often."
"I'll try" she said grabbing her purse. She waved goodbye to tenten and gai, exiting the dojo quickly before lee popped out of nowhere and made another love confession. She walked through the busy streets of konoha. only stopping when people she attended at the hospital greeted her or wanted to ask her something. After five minutes of walking she made it to the library. she loved being there because it was silent and there were massive amount of books to read from. But today she came for one book in particular. she made her way to the third row of the book shelves and scanned through the book titles until she finally found it. She removed it from the shelf and when she did she could see from the gape someone sitting at a table reading a stack of books and that person was none other than sasuke. What could sasuke possibly be doing at a library? when he probably had his own at his mansion.
He stood up and went to the restrooms that were close behind him. sakura walked over to the table curious as to what he was reading "curse marks?" Why would he be reading about that? She asked herself. Someone cleared there throat and she turned around quickly ,seeing sasuke in front of her. she squeaked, the book in her hands falling on sasuke's foot.
He gritted his teeth and glared at her.
"I'm sorry! But you scared me!" She whispered loudly.
He bent down and grabbed the book from the floor, reading the title "beauty and the beast?" He said raising his eyebrow "isn't that for children."
She took the book away from him blushing lightly "I like reading it" she said hugging the book "it's my favorite story."
He couldn't help but to tease her a little "you still believe in prince charmings and fairytales?" He asked holding back a smirk.
"So what if I do?" She said glaring at him. She was sure he was trying to make fun of her.
"Shhh go fix your love conflicts somewhere else" said the librarian from the front desk. The pink haired girl mouthed a sorry, looking back at sasuke who sat back down and started reading his book.
"Do you mind if I sit here" she asked as politely as she could.
Hn
"Is that a yes or a no?"
Hn
She took it as a yes and sat down "is that all you can say?"
"Aa" he responded turning the page and skimming through it.
She sighed and opened her book to read. He couldn't help but glance at her every time she giggled lightly or said something to herself. He couldn't deny that she had turned out to be an attractive woman. Her hair was still pink like the sakura trees ,her green eyes were still bright and full of life and her smile… wait why was he thinking about this? He shook his head, placing the book in front of his face to not be distracted by his stupid thoughts any longer.
Sakura finished reading her book and just sat there making circles with her finger on the book. It would be rude if she interrupted sasuke from his reading so she laid her head on the book and doze of falling asleep in the process.
Sasuke looked up from his book, seeing a sleeping sakura. she must have been waiting for him to finish reading. It was ironic because he remembered he would be the one falling asleep waiting for her to finish reading when they were younger. He stood up and started shaking her lightly she stirred a little but didn't wake up. He sighed and leaned down to her ear "sakura wake up" he whispered.
She heard someone calling her but why were they so far away? She felt someone shaking her shoulder gently and then she slowly started to remembered she was in the library and that she had fallen asleep, how embarrassing. She quickly lifted her head up and turned to the person calling her, only to be inches away from sasuke's face. There nose were touching and their lips touched for mere seconds. Sakura's face turned bright red as she suddenly forgot how to breath for a moment. Her heart felt like it was about to pump out of her chest any second.
Sasuke quickly moved away and grabbed the book to put it back on the shelf. He felt his ears heating up and tried to ignore it. Uchiha's don't blush he told himself "You fell asleep" he said trying to break the awkwardness.
"I d-idn't mean to" she responded, her heartbeat going back to its normal pace and her red face reduced to a light blush "Are you leaving already?" She asked standing up.
"Aa" he put his hands in his pocket and waited until she grabbed her stuff to leave. They walked to the front desk and sakura checked out the book she held in her hands. The woman smiled "I hope you were able to solve your problems as a couple" she said scanning the book.
Sakura blushed. she had been doing that a lot lately she noticed "we're not a couple."
The woman looked surprised for moment "oh I'm sorry, i did't know" she said handing the book to sakura "But you two would look cute together" she said smiling.
Sasuke averted his gaze elsewhere, finding the shelves more interesting than the conversation. She smiled lightly and held the book close to her chest. She thanked the woman and they exited the library.
"So where are you heading to now?" She asked kicking a pebble with her foot.
he glanced at her "The agency."
"Oh" she said looking ahead of her. A blur of red hair came to her line of vision and she quickly hid behind sasuke hoping that the person hadn't seen her.
"Sakura is that you? came a deep voice.
So much for hiding she thought bitterly "Hello gaara" Waved sakura, standing next to sasuke who had a blank look on his face.
"You just keep getting more beautiful everyday" he complemented, holding her hand and kissing it. She really did need that hand sanitizer now "You weren't hiding from me were you?" He frowned.
She averted his gaze. The way he looked at her made her feel scared of him for some reason "Of course not…"
"Good. Have you thought about the proposal yet?" He asked his deep green eyes never leaving hers.
She felt uncomfortable being in such situation with sasuke next to her. But if gaara wanted an answer now she would just have to give it to him.
"Gaara, I'm really sorry but" she looked at the floor, not wanting to see his reaction "I can't marry someone I don't love" she hugged her book. looking back up to his green eyes "I can't accept your marriage proposal."
He knitted his eyebrows and frowned "is it just for that reason your declining? or is it because you found someone else?" He said glaring at sasuke who returned it back with one of his own death glares. "Not only do you take my spot as number one model, but now you want to take the girl I want to marry?!" He shouted angrily at the raven haired man.
"And what are you going to do about it?" Said sasuke enjoying making gaara, one of his rivals mad.
Gaara tried to grab sakura's hand but sasuke slapped his away "leave her alone. she just rejected you" He told the red haired man who cursed at him.
"I won't let you take her away from me!" He said with such anger that made sakura fear for her life. "Sakura you will marry me, I'll make sure of it" he glared at sasuke and then at sakura before leaving.
People had stopped to look at the scene and started whispering and shaking their heads.
Sakura just wanted the ground to open up and swallow her alive. She had enough problems and now this. Luckily there were no paparazzi's around, she didn't want to end up being the gossip of everyone the next day.
Sasuke turned around to look at sakura who seemed to be frozen in her spot. Since when had gaara proposed to her? When had she met him? Questions kept surging in his mind. It made him feel angry the way he had threaten her "sakura."
"I'm really sorry" she said hiding her eyes with her side bangs, shoulders slumped "I didn't mean for this to happen or to get you involved in this situation. You were right, I always cause you problems" she clutched her book tighter and then walked away as fast as she could.
He stood there, not sure of what to do. He watched as her figure became smaller and smaller, he wanted to go after her but his ego didn't allow him to. he cursed himself, he was never the type to comfort people whenever they were feeling sad. He would probably end up making things worse he told himself. He had his own problems to solve. He remembered what orochimaru had said.
FLASHBACK
"The weakest emotion can be the strongest one of all."
END OF FLASHBACK
What did he mean by that? Did he expect him to be all nice and lovable? he scoffed he couldn't change who he was and he wasn't about to either just because a snake looking guy named orochimaru told him to. He called shikamaru to pick him up.
"Who was that?" Asked temari a blonde with four spiky buns on her head and deep green eyes.
"It was sasuke, I need to take him to the agency and then back to the mansion" He said lazily.
"Well then I guess I'll text you later then?" she said letting go of his hand.
He nodded "do your brothers even know your here with me?"
"No gaara's always busy in his modeling photo sessions or getting sakura to marry him. And kankuro's always at his shop making his weird puppets to sell."
"Troublesome" he said opening the car door.
"Hey shikamaru?"
He turned round to look at her "yeah?"
She came up and gave him a peck on the cheek "come see me soon ok?"
He stood there a little shocked by her actions but then he grinned and nodded before driving off.
Sakura walked through an empty street. she was recalling how sasuke defended her from gaara, it made her feel safe and protected for some reason. Her dad always told her that you don't choose who you fall in love with because your heart does that for you and apparently her heart had chosen none other than sasuke uchiha the coldhearted, selfish, arrogant person. she couldn't help but ask herself why out of the nice guys out there? But that was a question she couldn't answer for herself. She sighed and quickened her pace, she was so lost in her thoughts that she failed to notice a cloaked figure whose eyes followed her every move.
I know what you're thinking. why sasuke! Well because he's sasuke. That was it guys I don't know if I'll update the next chapter on Friday or Sunday but get ready for drama and some fluff _~ see ya soon!