Ice and Sugar

By: DelightfulSmiles

Author's Note: Kyah! Another chapter I really do hope you enjoy it, thank you for the reviews and readers of course (hehe I remembered to thank everyone!). Hehe well I decided to throw in a bit fluffiness for everyone's sake. And the three a's are awesome neh? Huu.

Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine.


I sat at my office desk feeling sleepy, and taking a glance over at the clock which hung from the wall showed that it was well pass eight o'clock, and I have been here since six in the morning.

I sighed softly rubbing my eyes tiredly.

The amount of paper work I had to do before I could actually start on paper work concerning Prodigy Incorporated, I had been buried underneath all the documents that concerned all the employees currently with Uchiha Incorporated; and what was their employment future looked like.

Most people were in fact being let go, for Neji and I had agreed that although we shall bring some into Prodigy we still wanted new people.

I stared down at the folder that was currently in front of me and I almost chuckled seeing who it was, it was Karin.

'Should I keep her? Despite her annoying fan girl-ing behaviour she is a good secretary' I contemplated an office without the red head and smirked to myself.

"May I ask to why exactly are you smirking so evilly?" Sakura asked from her corner of the room.

I merely shrugged in reply deciding to put Karin's folder in the 'keep' pile, which I must say was fairly smaller compared to the 'fire' pile; just because I was slightly different doesn't mean I'm turning into a softie.

I stretched my arms above my head yawning tiredly glancing over at the remaining paper still having to be sorted and sighed softly.

"Let's go I'm sick of looking at paper, not only that but I'm getting sick of the smell of paper" I said getting up from my chair.

Sakura let herself out of her own chair with the help of her wings.

"Sick of the smell of paper? Is that possible?" she asked curiously.

"Obviously" I said calmly causing her to glare at me, making me to smirk as I exited the door with her behind me.

Entering the back of my limo I tapped the glass barrier signalling to the driver that I was here and he could go.



I leaned back into the seat feeling more relaxed than I had since the beginning of the week, which was just before the interview with Kurenai and Asuma. Closing my eyes feeling sleep slowly creep up on me.

"Sasuke..." her voice started and stopped causing me to open one eye and let it glance around the spacious room looking for the pink headed angel until I finally found her sitting to the side looking at me with a calm look.

"What?" I prompted her when she still didn't continue.

"I'm going to be going away for a few days, I have to attend this thing for all Angels up there" she said rubbing the back of her head.

My other eye opened now and I straightened up looking at her properly.

"Hn" was all I said softly.

Sakura stared over at me with an unreadable expression on her face.

"Do you mind?" she posed quietly.

I shook my head simply, although I did mind; I didn't want her to leave me. Her presence seemed to have become a part of my everyday life; and now I didn't want to let her go, even if she said that she'll be back.

"You have to do it so you have to go" I said calmly looking away from her and gazing straight ahead of me, feeling my face sliding into a blank state.

The pink headed Angel frowned at her Charge's sudden change of composure.

'I wonder if he's lying to me' she wondered studying him closely.

"When do you leave?" I asked her coldly

The even more sudden coldness encouraged Sakura to think that maybe Sasuke didn't want her to go, that just maybe he had indeed become accustomed to her, and her suddenly telling him that she was going away caused his barriers to go right up again.

'And after all my work to get them down, and they weren't evenly fully down yet!' she thought with frustration.

"The day after tomorrow...so I get to annoy you for another twenty-four hours and a bit before I'm out of your hair" she said jokingly, making an attempt to lighten the mood.

Just then the car came to a stop, and I realised that we had arrived back at the mansion and the limo was entering the garage and came to a stop in its spot.

Without a single word I exited the car and walked out of the garage, leaving her there not really caring on whether or not she was following me.

'Relax Sasuke...she's an annoyance, a hindrance! You should be happy that she's going away!' I yelled to myself.

'Don't lie to yourself Sasuke...you like her here' a voice said in my head, making me flinch as I realised that I had become one of those people who had a conscience, something I thought I had gotten rid of years ago.

'I don't need her! There's no reason for me to want her here' I thought rubbing my eyes tiredly.

'Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno is your Guardian Angel that's enough reason' the voice told me.

I growled softly at myself and shook my head.

Deciding to ignore myself – something I didn't think possible, but apparently was – I walked towards my bedroom greeting Kimiko as I passed her in the hallway.

Just before I entered my room I felt a hand wrap around my arm stopping me, I turned my head to see my head maid there with a frown gracing her face.

"What is the matter Sasuke?" she asked me concern entering her eyes.

"Nothing Kimiko, nothing at all" I answered as I attempted to shake her off, but failed to.

"Sasuke if you don't tell me what's wrong with you this instant I'm going to sit you down on a chair and force it out of you, just like I did when you were five years old" she threatened, causing me to cringe.

My memories of these times were very vivid, Kimiko would always sit me in one spot or another when I was troubled, sad or angry and sit there patiently waiting for me to finally crack and tell her what was wrong.

"Fine fine come on in then" I snapped at her, not missing the approving smile that crossed her face as I crossed the threshold into my room.


Sakura had watched Sasuke walk, well more like stalk, off exiting the garage in what seemed like a fit of anger or maybe it was sadness.

'Sheesh...he's such a tough cookie it's annoying' she thought darkly as she drifted out of the limo and towards the other exit of the garage, the one that led to the outside and not into the mansion.

She stood outside starring out upon the mansion's rather long drive way causing my to question why someone needed such a long drive way, wasn't it just a waste of time?

'I'll never understand rich people...especially Uchiha' the pinkette thought to herself.

Looking around the rest of the front of the mansion she couldn't help but notice the spectacular garden, which showed obvious signs that there was a great deal of care put into it. It was filled with many flower bushes; roses, lilies, countesses, and a lot more variety. There were also cherry blossom trees decorating the front.

She tiled her head to the side wondering if Sasuke ever took the time to notice such beauty, she couldn't help but think that he probably didn't and sighed once more.

"Being the Guardian Angel of Sasuke Uchiha is so...troublesome" Sakura mumbled to herself.


Day of departure

I stared over at Sakura with an expressionless facade as she prepared to leave for Heaven, although what she needed to prepare was hard to guess seeing as she didn't have any luggage to pack or anything.

Sakura in turn studied her Charge with a searching look trying to see pass all the guards that have gone up since she had told him that she was going away.

"Well I guess this is it" she said finally coughing feeling uncomfortable with the blankness of his face, there was no sign of any smirk – something she would have preferred compared to this strange vacant expressions she was being rewarded with.

I nodded, ever since my talk with Kimiko I finally realised what was going on with me and I couldn't deny that I felt scared and disturbed, this was the first time I felt anything like this. The first time I allowed myself to feel anything remotely as strong as this.

"Well I guess I'll see you later" I spoke with a slight smile.

'It's not like it can work out anyway...she's an angel I'm a human...there's no way' I reprimanded myself.

Sakura nodded her head smiling at him seeing that he was smiling at her, despite the fact it was such a tiny one, a smile none the less.

Suddenly the pink haired Angel froze in spot as her Charge's hand out stretched towards her, she felt panic shoot through her.

'What is he doing?!' she silently screamed in alarm as his hand came closer and closer.

'I wonder...' I thought as my hand came closer to her face.

Closing the distance between hand and face, expecting to feel the warmth of skin where my hand attempted to touch her cheek.

But alas I was disappointed when my hand went right through her; it was as if she wasn't there – which in reality made a lot more sense, since she was an Angel.

I felt nothing but the cool air that was circulating around us, realising that my hand wasn't touching anything I dropped it to my side and made an amused face, despite the depression that was slowly taking hold of me.

"Huh" was what I said before I turned and walked back into my house.

Sakura watched him in shock; she then raised a hand to her face, to the place where if she had been human she would have felt his on her cheek.

"What was that..." she asked the silent air before quickly taking flight not wanting to think about what had just happened.


Heaven

Sakura entered through the golden gates still feeling the strange surprise that had been sparked by Sasuke's actions.

Ino seeing one of her closest friends squealed and flew over jumping onto Sakura's back happily.

"WAH!! I haven't seen you in ages Fore-head girl!" she screamed into her friend's ear.

Sakura laughed at the blonde's reaction.

"Jeez Pig-Chan relax! Now where's Hinata and Tenten?" she asked curiously.

"Well Hinata is with Naruto, obviously, and strangely enough Tenten is in the Archives" Ino replied rubbing her chin.

"Actually every time Tenten is back she's always in the Archives now" the blonde continued to say

Sakura frowned wondering why the brunette had all of a sudden taken an interest with dusty old scrolls and books, seeing as the same brunette used to scorn the archives of being a "waste of space".

"That's...odd to say the least" she told her blonde friend as they began to walk, in what Sakura thought was the direction to which Hinata would be in.

Ino shrugged her shoulders

"She's...acting odd as well, as if she's hiding something...but there's nothing like 'Ino-persuasive-skills'" the blonde said punching one fist into an open palm.

Sakura stared at her friend with wide eyes.

'Sometimes she scares me' she thought mentally sweat dropping.

"YOU'RE THE BEST HINATA!!" a voice screamed a few metres away causing the two Angels' heads to turn in that direction.

What could be seen was a very happy Naruto hugging – more like strangling – Hinata from happiness, and turning the colour of one that could've rivalled a fire truck.

"Ohm...it's o-okay Na-Naruto" the indigo haired Angel stuttered out.

"But...you really are awesome Hinata, you got me my favourite type of ramen!" the boy said gleefully.

All of a sudden Naruto was smashed against a nearby tree and an Ino with a popped vein had her clenched fist held up with a glowering look in her eyes.

"Relax Naruto! It's just ramen!" Ino snapped before inspecting Hinata who was still a fairly red colour.

Sakura shook her head in amusement as she watched as Naruto sat up and rubbed the quickly appearing bump on his head, a pained expression on his face.

"Crazy moody angel" he muttered to himself darkly, but quickly grinned stupidly as he realised that Ino had heard him and was giving him a threatening glare.

"Ugh...let's just look for Tenten" Sakura said rolling her eyes.

"You go without us Saki-Chan...Hinata doesn't look like she's going to be calming down anytime soon because of that idiot" Ino stated indicating Naruto with her head.

Sakura giggled to herself before starting to walk in the Archives' direction and just managed to hear Naruto yell "HEY! HINATA IS MY GIRLFRIEND!" before she turned the corner.


Outside of the Archives

Sakura slowly opened the door and entered, her nose wrinkling slightly as dust came floating around her.

'You would think this place would be cleaner...but no it smells like something died in here and no one's cleaned in a century or two' she thought as she walked past the Archive co-ordinator, Shizune.

The pinkette smiled in greeting and waved and the co-ordinator raised a hand in greeting.

"What are you doing in here?" she asked Sakura as she watched the younger angel walk past.

"Looking for Tenten" Sakura explained and walked towards the opened door.

Just before she pushed open the door she heard a voice call out:

"Finally! I finally found it!"

The thing was that that the voice sounded exactly like Tenten. Pushing the door open Sakura saw that her panda looking friend was covered all over with dust and her usual two buns looked quite loop sided.

"Tenten?" Sakura asked cautiously.

Tenten jumped in shock as she spun around and her eyes widened when she saw who it was.

"Oh hey Saki-Chan" the brunette said smiling as she tucked a piece of paper into a folder

"What are you doing?" Sakura asked as she came to a stop next to her friend

Tenten smiled sheepishly.

"Research" she said simply as she began to clean up

Sakura nodded her head, although she didn't quite believe that Tenten was simply spending every second of the day on just 'research'.

She decided not to say anything and began to help Tenten with fixing the scrolls and books.


Author's note: Okay I shall say this now...there was a lot more fluff than I was originally going to put in. The ball is coming closer!! Hehehe, I hope you enjoyed the chapter – sorry for any mistakes!