Chapter 8 A night at the club
Sakura woke up to find Neji gone. She didn't mind though.
"KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!!!" a repeated rapping noise came from downstairs.
"Who is it?" She asked grumpily.
"Hey girl, it's Ino!!!" Ino said excitedly from outside the door. "Let me in."
Sakura reluctantly opened the door knowing if she didn't Ino would kick it down anyway.
Ino gave Sakura a huge hug and said, "Today's shopping day!!!"
"But I don't need new clothes or anything." Sakura said groggily.
"Please, I don't have anything else to do since Shikamaru is training with Neji." Ino said but immediately covered her mouth. "Oh my gosh, I'm sorry I totally forgot you probably would still be upset." Ino said. "I'm so stupid." She said walking over to the wall about to smash her head into it.
Sakura thought that Neji had probably told them so she wouldn't have to break the news to them. She silently thanked Neji, because if she had told Ino it would have been worse than it already was.
"Wait, Ino don't be sorry. I'm fine with it." Sakura said truthfully, because she really was fine with it.
"Are you sure, because if you aren't we don't have to go shopping." Ino said, but Sakura caught the hopefulness in her voice.
"No, we can go shopping. Now that I think of it I do need some more weapons and shoes, oh and a new straightener." Sakura said beginning to think this would be a good day.
"Ok, go get ready and I'll make some breakfast." Ino called as she ran into the kitchen.
Two hours later Sakura and Ino had finished half of their shopping and were sitting in the food court where they had met Hinata and Ten-ten.
Sakura saw Ten-ten move her gaze towards the weapons store where she saw Neji, Naruto, Shikamaru and Chouji buying some new weapons. Sakura watched as Ten-ten eyed Neji and realized that she liked him.
Sakura felt guilty now thinking that all the time she was with Neji, Ten-ten was waiting until they broke up.
She decided that she would do something for her. She got up and walked over to Neji.
"Hey Neji, come here I need to talk to you for a second." She called.
"Yeah," He asked. "What is it?"
"Go ask Ten-ten if she wants to get a drink with you. She's liked you for a long time and I'm sure after you get to know her, you'll like her too. This way we both get the happiness we've wanted." Sakura concluded and walked back to the table.
Ten-ten had a disappointed look on her face when Sakura came back, but that was before Neji asked her to get a drink with her.
Ten-ten and Neji were walking away and then Ten-ten turned around and mouthed "Thank you." to Sakura.
Sakura mouthed "Your welcome." back. Sakura kept staring at the corner where Neji and Ten-ten had disappeared because on the corner in the window was a dress that Sakura absolutely loved.
"Hey, Sakura what you staring at?" Hinata asked.
"What, Oh a dress I'll be right back." Sakura said.
"Wait, I'm coming." Ino said. "When fashion is involved I have to be there." Ino said happily.
"Well you guys do that I'm going to see Naruto." Hinata said waving goodbye to them.
Sakura and Ino ran over to the store where the dress hung in the window.
"Oh my gosh, that dress so suits you." Ino said amazed.
The dress was white and had thin straps. Sakura flowers and petals were circling around it from the waist down and cut off about the knees.
"I have a great idea, buy the dress and wear it clubbing tonight k."
"I don't know if I feel like going clubbing tonight?" Sakura said unsure of the idea.
"Oh come on it will be fine"
"Are you ready to go, yet?" Ino yelled impatiently, tapping her foot on the tile floor.
Sakura stood in the mirror. The dress was a perfect fit and looked good on her. She had her hair up in a bun with a few strands hanging down. Sakura added some lipgloss and mascara and gave one final look in the mirror. Satisfied she left the room to join Ino.
"Finally, how much makeup to you have to put on?"
"Not a lot I was just thinking."
"Well you did enough thinking for both of us to live twice." Ino said sarcastically.
The two girls jumped into Ino's Lamborghini and headed to the best club in Konoha, the Leaf Linger.
The club was filled with flashing lights of different colours. Lots of people were up on the dance floor dancing to the beat of the music, other people were seated in the booths.
"Two drinks please," Ino told the bartender.
"What kind?'
"Surprise us."
"What's Shika-kun doing tonight?" Sakura asked Ino once they had grabbed their drinks and a booth.
"He's meeting us here along with some of the others." Ino replied.
"Would you like to dance?" a tall man asked Sakura. He looked to be in his twenties, had brown hair with blond highlights and brown eyes.
Sakura looked towards Ino, who nodded and pointed to the door where Shikamaru was coming in. "Sure," Sakura told the man. "I'll see you later, Ino."
Sakura walked with the man out onto the dance floor. They started dancing and talking.
"So what's your name?" Sakura asked.
"Akio."
"Mines Saku--"
"You don't have to tell me, I know who you are."
Sasuke sat at the bar, holding a beer in his hand. He needed to get away from all the stress he was getting. Where the stress was coming from, heck with it he didn't know.
"Another one." Sasuke pushed the empty bottle towards the bartender. He let out a sigh as he waited. Sasuke turned around to see what was going on. A fight was brewing in the left corner. Ino and Shikamaru were making out in a booth and Sakura was dancing with some guy. What!!! Sakura dancing with some guy.
Sasuke felt anger boil up in him as he saw the man's hand slowly move down until it grabbed her ass. Sasuke was about to get up and go punch the guy for groping his girl, when Sakura slapped.
'That pervert,' Sakura thought as she stormed out of the club, 'and here I thought I had met a decent guy for once. He had no right to touch me like that.' Sakura steamed, she was going to take a long walk to calm down.
Sasuke followed her out making sure she was alright, but noticed she wasn't going in the direction of home.
Sakura felt a presence nearby. Recognizing it as Sasuke's she relaxed. "What would you like Sasuke?" she said stopping and turning around.
Sasuke jumped out of the trees. "I saw what the guy did to you, you all right?"
Anger boiled up inside of Sakura. She was all of a sudden having a huge mood swing. Did he think she couldn't protect herself or something. Of course he thought she couldn't protect herself. She was still just annoying and weak to her.
"Why do you even care, do you think I'm still weak and annoying. That I can't look after myself." Sakura snapped at him. "It's happened before, so it doesn't really matter, I just thought he might be nicer and I could have actually," Sakura stopped herself.
"Actually what," Sasuke asked with a harsh voice. He didn't think he wanted to hear the end of the sentence. "Actually done it with him." Sasuke finished for her.
Sakura didn't love him anymore, she wouldn't have said the sentence if she did love him. Sasuke couldn't see Sakura with anyone else but himself.
Sakura was quiet for a minute until she said, "Why do you care?"
Sasuke stared at the ground, he didn't have an answer. Well he did he just didn't want to tell her.
"Well, why do you care? Now of all times, after you pushed me away, ignored me, tortured me. Now you want to care." Sakura screamed at him. "You left to join that snake."
"What else could I do, I was blinded by revenge." Sasuke yelled back, fist clenching and unclenching.
"You could have stayed!!!" Sakura screamed, tears springing to her eyes. "But you didn't you left, but you came back just to torture me."
Sasuke's head shot up. Is that what she thought he was doing.
"I guess I just want to know why you came back. Why did you come back?" Sakura cried.
It was such an easy question, yet it puzzled him,'Why did I come back?' he thought to himself.
"I came back….I came back... because…Orochimaru wasn't helping me get stonger." Sasuke lied. He was lying through his teeth. The reason he did come back was because of her. He was too scared though. Scared of rejection.
Sakura turned around and ran, ran as fast as she could. She couldn't believe it. Sasuke had come back because he wasn't getting any stronger. He didn't come back for her. He still didn't love her.
Sasuke didn't move. Why did I do that. I should have just told her the truth. But it's for her own good. Even if I had told her the truth, what if Itachi had found out? He would have used her against me. Another thought struck him. What if she goes to another guy now, thinking that I don't love her anymore. This thought hit him straight on, not thinking about how Itachi could find out, Sakura sleeping with another guy was to terrifying too think about. Coming back to reality he raced after her.
"That selfish, ignorant, hot-headed, foolish coward. He's such a damn bastard." Sakura screamed to herself. She fell to the ground and sat crying. I shouldn't be crying. I'm a jonin and one of the best medical ninja's. These thought didn't cease her crying though. She couldn't get over the fact that Sasuke still didn't love her.
Sasuke caught up to her, he stopped masked his chakra and listened to her cry. She sat there for a while. As her crying stopped she got up and was about leave when he jumped out of the trees and stood in front of her.
The two looked at each other. Sakura was staring directly into his eyes, the look in them was unreadable. She started to turn around.
Sasuke saw her turning around. As if on instinct he ran towards and pushed her against the wall.
Sakura was staring back into his onyx eyes. She looked down and started struggling but a pair of lips covered hers.
I am so, so, so sorry. My computer crashed. I'm really really sad here sniff sniff, i'm almost crying. No i'm not crying, i have a life unlike some other people. Anyways i've decided to keep this T rated. and i hope to have the next chap up in a few days. So sorry again for the delays and keep RxR. ttyl ta ta for now.
