Chapter VIII- Revelation
(15 minutes later)
Sakura was staring out into the evening view of the city and was blanking out. She was so lost in thought thinking about the red-head that had began plaguing her mind for the most part of the day, she didn't notice when Sasuke walked up behind her.
"Sakura." Sakura's heart almost leapt out of her ribcage and she jumped a good foot in the air as she turned around.
"SASUKE DON'T FUCKING DO THAT TO ME." Sasuke had an uncaring look on his face as he shrugged his shoulders. However, he was bothered by the informal term that Sakura had began referring to him as. He straightened up and cleared his throat. "Sakura, what did you want to talk about?"
"Look Sasuke.. I think we need to break up. This relationship isn't really working out and I don't want to lead you on." Sakura could feel her throat getting caught as she watched Sasuke listen and understand the words that she just said. "I know that this afternoon you were talking about how you need me and stuff, but I know you don't. You're only using me" Sasuke's eyes widened as he began to think that she found out about the plan between him and his father "... and I'm only using you. I don't want this to end badly and I hope we could be friends."
Sasuke continued processing her words in his mind. "How am I suppose to tell father about this? I'm not going to become successor at this rate. I need to convince her not to do this." "Sakura.. please don't do this. I love you." His words did nothing to her cause and she stood her ground as she replied "Sasuke, we're over. I hope we can be friends." Sasuke didn't reply and Sakura just stood there awkwardly as she waited for his reaction.
Sasuke, on the inside, was pissed off and annoyed. He needed to somehow get her tied down to him, one way or another. In his mind, he shuffled through all the possibilites and suddenly thought about prom. She wouldn't have a date and he'd fit the bill. After all, everyone knows what happens after prom right? "Okay Sakura. I respect your wishes, but can I ask for one last thing?"
Sakura wasn't surprised with Sasuke's reaction to say the least. This afternoon had been too good to be true. "What is it Sasuke?" She could do her friend a favor right?
"Just be my date to Prom. I'll ask you and everything, but I want to go to Prom with you alright?" He kept his eyes on her as he assessed her reaction to his question.
Sakura was a bit surprised that he still wanted to go to Prom with her. Inner Sakura was happy with the question though. "This would fix our problem of not having a date and he'd only be our date, nothing more." "I know, but he wouldn't get the wrong idea right? I don't want to lead him on or anything." "Just agree and if anything happens, just break it off if it won't work out." "Allright Sasuke, I'll go with you to Prom. It saves me the time of having to find another date."
Sasuke smirked at her reply. "Allright, you'll know when I ask you I guess. I guess this is it." Sakura held out her hand and Sasuke put his hand in hers. They shook on it for a little before Sasuke pulled Sakura in for a hug. Sakura held her breath as he hugged her. She couldn't return the embrace. She just thought about how wrong it felt now "...it's not warm.. it's not like Gaara's.. wait why am I thinking of Gaara right now?.." Sakura's thoughts were interrupted when Sasuke leaned towards her ear and she could feel his hot breaths on her ear. "You're sure about this right?"
Sakura stood up and pulled herself out of his hold. "Yes Sasuke, I'm sure. I'll see you tomorrow at school okay?" Sakura began to walk away and she was sure of her feelings. She knew she had feelings for someone else and Sasuke wasn't that person.
Sasuke watched as she walked away gazing appreciatively at her body before pulling out his phone. He dialed out his father's number before sighing and bringing up the phone to his ear.
*ring*...*ring*...*ring*...*ri-* "Uchicha Fugaku."
"Father, there's been a change of plans. Sakura just broke up with me."
"What the fuck did you do?"
"I didn't do anything, we were perfectly fine this afternoon but I'm pretty sure she's fallen in love with the Sabaku's kid."
"The younger one, what's his name.. Gabriel?..."
"It's Gaara, father. However, she's agreed to go with me to prom."
"You better make it worth her while then. If it doesn't work out the way the plan ends, you know the consequences."
"Hn. I know."
"Good." -click-
Sasuke put the phone back in his pocket and clenched his fists at his sides. "I'm going to make that fucker pay for ruining my plans." He turned to walk towards the elevator and began planning his spectacular event for Sakura. Sasuke would not lose her and he wouldn't lose his position before he even got it.
Monday came around quicker than Sakura expected but what she didn't expect was the roses and cookies on her desk. There were flowers surrounding her first period assigned desk and hoards of letters declaring love for her. She sighed as she cleared everything off her desk and offered surrounding classmates the cookies. Sakura walked towards the trashcan in the class to dump all the roses. Sakura hadn't expected this to happen when she changed her relationship status to "Single" last night. In all honesty, she expected her desk to be mangled up instead by all the fangirls of Sasuke. Sakura turned back to walk towards back towards her desk and ran into a red-head with glasses.
Sakura sighed as she addressed the number one fangirl of Sasuke. "Sorry Karin, I didn't mean to run into you." Karin only wanted her questions answered and cared nothing about the fact that Sakura had run into her. "Is it true? Did you break up with Sasuke-kun?" Sakura decided that it was much too early to be interrogated since everyone had suddenly thought that her break up was going to be devastating to her and she glared up at the red-head who backed up a few steps. "YES. I broke up with him? Do you have a problem with that?" Sakura had the ability to put people in their place when she felt like it, she felt it was only necessary to use it around Naruto but she would make Karin the exception since she was the idiot's cousin. Everyone had kept asking her if she was okay or something along those lines. "I'M FINE, WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP BOTHERING ME ABOUT IT OUR KEEP ASKING ME IF I'M OKAY?" Karin just crossed her arms across her chest and smiled back at Sakura. "No, I don't have a problem. In fact, I'm quite happy with the fact that he has no prom date now. Thank you Sakura." Before giving a chance for Sakura to respond, Karin turned around flipping her red hair around and walked towards her desk. Sakura stopped herself from giggling at the big-footed girl who tried to look graceful on the walk back to her desk and she herself made the trip back to the desk.
The first period bell rang, indicating that class was going to begin. Sakura pulled her notebook out and her teddy bear pencil pouch to pull out something to write with. The teacher called attention to the class and asked Sakura to come up to the teacher's desk.
"Is there wrong Mrs. Anko?" Sakura got up from her chair and walked towards the desk. As soon as she reached the front, the teacher gave her a piece of paper indicating Sakura to go to the office for a counselor meeting. "You need to talk to your counselor and there's nothing new to learn today so please gather your things and head to the office." Sakura quickly walked back to her desk putting her things away and put the strap on her shoulder and left the class, smelling all the roses that were in the trash on her way out.
As Sakura walked towards the office, she saw Gaara walking down towards the hallway directly towards her. Gaara gave a small smile at her while Sakura gave her best smile to the red-head.
"Good morning Gaara-kun!" Sakura was confused at the small butterflies that she felt in her stomach all of a sudden when he stood in front of her. She gave him a quick once over and Inner Sakura gave her approval of what the tall, handsome red-head was wearing. Gaara was never one for showy clothes, but his black and red clothes were the best on emphasizing the red-head's muscular build. He had on a white button up shirt that was rolled up at the sleeves and tucked into a pair of black jeans that was being held up by a brown leather belt. He put a striped tie along with a light grey vest, fully buttoned, and covered by another that was only held with a chain linking across two buttons. "He looks yummy." Sakura's thoughts were interrupted and she looked up to see Gaara smirking at her as he noticed her stare at his body.
Gaara could see the effect that he had on her, but mainly he was focused on her emotions right now. He saw on Facebook that Sakura's relationship status was now "Single" and even though he wouldn't admit it, he was estatic about it. Gaara spent the whole day after reading that smiling to himself creeping out his own siblings who were not used to the smiling from Gaara. He looked down at her and she was fidgeting under his gaze. He knew that this girl was fine and that break-up had no effect on her; he also derived from logic of the times that the statuses went single that Sakura had broken up with Sasuke first instead of the other way.
He spoke first. "Hello Sakura. Where are you headed?" Sakura looked up into his eyes as she spoke "I'm going to the office. I think my counselor wants to talk to me about college and stuff." Gaara nodded since that would logical during the last couple of weeks of school and suddenly thought of a question for her as well. "Sakura, what college are you going to?" Sakura was one of the many people that had not publicly announced her choice of college over Facebook and he was curious to see where she would be going as well.
Sakura bit her lip as soon as her mind registered that Gaara had asked her about her choice of college. She didn't want to let anyone know, even when she was dating Sasuke she kept it from him as well. However, she trusted Gaara more than Sasuke and she couldn't figure out the reason why. "I'm going to Sannin University of Combat and Medicine. What about you, Gaara-kun?" She said it as a matter-of-factly and didn't miss a beat.
Gaara's eyes widened as he realized the distance that Sakura was going to be attending one of the most prestigious schools for medicine studies. "I'm going to Suna University of Business and Hospitality. It's only about 30 minutes from my home. Congratulations on getting accepted to such a prestigious school." He wasn't sure how he really felt about Sakura's choice of school though. It was about a 6 hour drive from Konoha and Suna which meant that she would have to dorm at the school.
Sakura wasn't surprised with Gaara's choice since his whole family basically attended that school for college and were all alumnis as well as key players in funding the school. She was happy to hear his congratulations for her and just smiled warmly at him. "Thanks Gaara. I'm really happy that I got into the school, the President of the University herself came to give me my acceptance letter and told me that I would be under her care and teaching while I attended."
Gaara was about to reply when Sakura suddenly looked at her shiny watch and gasped. "Shit, Gaara, I need to head to the counselor's office right now, I'm 10 minutes late. Where are you headed anyways?" Gaara just shrugged non-chalantly and replied "History. I went to the restroom since we were just watching clips that the teacher brought. I'll see you later okay?" He began his walk towards his class when he suddenly felt arms around his waist. Gaara looked down to see Sakura hugging him and hiding her face in his chest.
Sakura breathed in his scent of muskiness and cologne and she soon felt his arms around her as well. "Thank you Gaara-kun. You're the first person today that hasn't asked me about it." She blushed a little when she felt him leave a kiss on the top of her head and the grip he had around her tighten.
Gaara just smiled at the girl. "I know you'd be fine. You're strong and you wouldn't change for a guy." Sakura looked up and blushed when he leaned down again to kiss her cheek. Gaara smirked as he watched her blush and let go of his hold around her. "You should probably head to the counselor's office since you're late already." Sakura widened her eyes as she realized that what he said was probably true. "You're right, I got to go!" Sakura leaned up to peck him on the cheek and she let go of her hold as well to run off.
Gaara was a little stunned at her kiss but he faintly touched his cheek as he watched her walk away. He smiled to himself but felt a presence behind him. The school security guard stood behind him and Gaara just looked at him impassively.
"Are you suppose to be out in the hall right now?" Gaara just rolled his eyes at the security guard as he handed said man the pass that he had gotten and took it back when the security guard looked at it.
"Hurry back to class now, don't loiter in the hallway." Gaara turned around again and tucked his hands into his pockets as he continued down the hallway thinking about Sakura and smirking to himself. "I can finally make her all mine." The day was only going to be more enjoyable for him.
Boy, was he wrong.
