D I S C L A I M E R

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CHAPTER 10. NOT EVEN EMOTIONS

The restaurant was filled with customers but it wasn't too crowded and Sakura liked it very much. It was a very homely place where people chatted and got together for special occasions like celebrating.

She smiled as she looked outside in the brightly lit city. It was filled with red lights and neon signs that can never be overlooked. Sakura sighed and looked back at her friends.

A few hours before, Sakura and the girls went to the Mall and shopped their heels off while the boys cooled down by following them and stopping when they felt tired. She was happy with all the time she spent with them but she knew she misses him.

Sakura took her eyes off the brightly lit city and grabbed her bag from underneath her chair. She zipped it open and grabbed her cell phone and dialled.

Sakura place the phone on her ear and waited for an answer. 'Please answer, Sasuke-kun.'

A few minutes had passed, and she already called 7 times and still hasn't received an answer. She sighed and gave up then she felt a nudge on her elbow.

"Hey Sakura-san you okay?" asked Hinata with a worried look. Sakura gave her a smile she thought was more of a frown.

"I'm fine," she lied. She couldn't do anything but be happy right?

"All right then," said Hinata and started conversing with her.

"Hey forehead," called out her blonde friend, "do you know what happened when you were at the hospital?"

Sakura shook her head. It didn't help with her headache.

"We saw ice block drooling!" she said in a mocking voice and then started laughing. Sakura gave her a quick smile and tried her hardest to laugh with her but found it harder than expected.

Good thing they fell for it then continued back to their normal chatting.

'Ugh what am I going to do?' she thought, 'I can't keep pretending especially since they're my closest friends and they know me more than anyone.'

'Well then start coughing or pretending you're feeling a bit dizzy and get out of this place!'

'Isn't that a little mean for my part? I mean they were the ones who organised this and everything.'

'I know but they'll never let you go and you'll always see them. How about hottie? We might lose him!'

'Ugh!'

Sakura sighed and rubbed her temple which earned her worried looks from her friends. Something she wanted to gain.

"Something wrong Sak?" asked Ten Ten, nearing her friend and patting her shoulder.

"I'm feeling a bit dizzy," replied Sakura, cursing inside for the thought of lying to her friends, though she does feel a headache coming her way.

"Oh must be the hectic noises that loud blonde mule keep making," muttered Ino as she wrapped a coat around Sakura's body.

"Well, I better take you home then," said Ino as she stood up, followed by a squealing Sakura. (she squealed in her mind by the way XD)

They reached the car park after fighting a blonde and please-don't-leave-and-stay-for-the-party pleads. Sakura heaved a breath of relief as she rested her head on the head rest of Ino's car.

Her blonde best friend looked at her and placed her hand on her arm.

"You know forehead, you're so much like a child sometimes," she said with a small laugh. Sakura smiled.

"Yeah, sometimes I think of myself like that too."

Sasuke laid his head on his desk filled with papers and folders. He stayed like that for a few minutes till someone knocked on his door. He sighed and ran and hand through his jet black hair.

"Come in," he said as he muffled a yawn and waited for his assistant to come in.

The old lady smiled at him, wrinkles and all as she entered the room.

"Something wrong?" he asked with his eyes still closed.

"Not at all," she replied, "I just want to say that there's a voice message for you. It was left here a few hours ago and I didn't think it'd be good to disturb you before."

"All right," he replied, "Do you know who it is?"

"No, sir," she replied, "but her voice is as sweet as an angel."

Sasuke arched his brow then nodded at her as she left.

He looked at his black office phone and pressed a button.

"HI Sasuke-kun," said the girl. Sasuke's eyes widened. It was Sakura. The sweet angel's voice was her!

"Sakura here," she continued. Sasuke made note of her melancholic voice.

"I've been calling you in your phone for the past few minutes and you weren't answering so I thought you might be busy in work so I figured it better to just leave a voice message. It's been a few days since I've seen you and this morning, I thought it was you that I saw outside of the hospital, I was very happy knowing that you were coming but now, I thought I might just be hallucinating.

"Anyway, I was wondering if I could see you sometime. Because (pause) I really miss you Sasuke-kun. I know it must be hard for you since you're balancing out your job and well…me, but don't worry, I won't be a bother to you for that long anymore, Okay? Well that's all, bye!"

Sasuke looked down on his desk then immediately stood up. He glanced at the clock on the wall. "Quarter past 9, not too late,' he thought.

He grabbed his coat, his cell phone, his wallet and keys and placed them on his pockets.

On his way out, he said goodbye to his secretary who waved under her umbrella since it was already raining.

He ignored the pouring pellets of rain that soaked his being and just casually went inside his car and drove off. He looked stoic and unperturbed as he drove towards his destination. He got irritated with the silence and turned his stereo on.

After his visit this morning, all he did was to avoid silence in every way. After leaving the hospital, he turned his music to full blast that he almost cringed and people stared at him but he ignored.

His music isn't on full blast right now, but he was tempted to put it on. He shook his head and ran a hand through his hair and sighed.

'This is stupid,' he thought.

'Nothing's stupid when it's about Sakura,'

'I'm not talking about Sakura; I'm just being really stupid right now,'

'Heh, whatever,'

Sasuke gripped the wheel a little bit tighter than usual then closed his eyes for a blink of a second then opened them again to reveal that he missed the turn.

'Damn,' he cursed as he stopped and reversed. He arrived a few minutes later.

He took out his phone and started looking for her name. He 'hn'ed when he found her name then pressed the small green phone sign.

First he heard a cackling sound then a tired, lethargic voice answered.

"Hello?" Sakura answered with a yawn.

"Well, it seems that you're too tired to see me so maybe I'll just drive off," he said with a smirk and revved his engine to be a tease.

"No!" she screamed and he smirked even more when he heard something fall over.

"I'm not that tired it's just 9 o'clock and I was just feeling a little headache but it's coming around," she replied, rushed as she sighed. "When can I see you?"

"I'm right in front of your house," he answered. He took the phone out of his ears when he heard her scream.

"Sorry!" she shouted, "I'll be right there."

"Don't!" he said back, "It's raining, just open the door and I'll be waiting for you, don't go outside."

With that, he hung up and faced the rainy night. He stood on her doorway, slightly shivering and soaking wet. Sakura came down almost instantly and opened the door.

She got shocked, looking at the sexy, wet Sasuke standing right there on her doorstep.

"Well are you going to invite me in or let me stand here all night and talk out here?" he asked sarcastically, staring at the ceiling.

Sakura widened her eyes then pulled Sasuke in with tremendous force that made them topple over with Sasuke on top of her.

Sakura was blushing madly and her heart skipped a beat. Sasuke lifted his head up and looked at her. He smirked which made Sakura blush even more.

Her response didn't go by unnoticed by the Uchiha so he decided to linger on a bit. He kicked her door shut with his foot which left the place dark since Sakura didn't turn on the light with her rush to open the door.

Sakura started blushing dark pink which is really red as Sasuke neared his face to hers. Sakura somehow had a feeling that this sexy man on top of her was going to kiss her.

She squirmed. Somehow she was having second thoughts. She closed her eyes when he neared even closer, not in anticipation but fear.

A few seconds passed and all she felt was his warm lips touch her forehead. She opened her eyes as Sasuke lifted his head up. He smirked at her, visible in the dark and lifted his whole body up.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her up. Sakura clutched his broad shoulders and steadied herself with them.

"You alright?" he asked calmly with a smirk on his beautiful, pale face.

"Yeah," she replied as she brushed her clothes and moaned as she felt the wet cloth.

"I'll go upstairs and change, you should change as well," she said as she tapped her chin.

"Hn," he replied, "I'll stand in here till you come back, I don't want to soil your couch."

"Okay," she replied as she ran up the stairs.

Sakura's POV:

It was interesting to find Sasuke in my doorstep, smoking wet from the pouring rain at nine o'clock. Nine freaking clock! I knew he received my message but I didn't mean for him to come by suddenly, not that I didn't like it or anything.

Anyway, now I'm wet and he's wet and if you noticed, we were both on the floor and I thought somehow, something's going to happen so I'm happy that he didn't do something.

3 minutes passed…

Well, I've finished dressing myself and fortunately, I found Sasuke's shirt and boxers that I borrowed from him when I stayed at his house...

Normal POV:

Sasuke was still on his standing position. By now, he already took off his wet jacket and his wet shirt, leaving him without a top, his wet abs glistening in the now lighted living room.

Sakura came down with blushing cheeks and handed him the shirt and boxers.

"Here's a towel before you put those on," she said as she threw the towel to him.

"Hn, thanks," he replied as he wiped the towel around his body.

"You can change in the bathroom or out here if you want," she said, "I'll be in the kitchen. Would you like tea?"

He gave her a nod as he placed his shirt on and walked to his left towards the bathroom.

Sakura strode to the kitchen and boiled some water. She rubbed her hands around her arms as she felt the cold wind on her skin. She leaned on the table, rubbing her temple.

She looked outside just as a thunder erupted from the clouds. The sound made her shiver in slight fright.

"You scared?" asked a manly voice from behind her. Sakura shot him a glare then looked back at the window.

"The sound's just so… magnificent it gives me chills," she replied, noticing the heat of the man who was now beside her.

"Hm, want a hug?" he asked with a tiny smile. Sakura rolled her eyes and gave him a playful punch.

"Why did you ask me to come and talk to you?" he asked, his playful mood changing to a more serious tone.

"I wanted to tell you something," she said, looking away.

"I already know," he said, looking at the ground. His chest was hurting again.

"What do you mean?" she asked rather bit confused.

"I was there at the hospital," he replied his onyx eyes flaring to meet her emerald ones. "I heard your conversation with Ino."

Sakura looked down and spoke, "So I guess you know the whole story right?"

"From America to your feelings," he replied, still staring at her.

"I'm sorry Sasuke-"

"You don't have to apologise," he said as he lifted his body up and turned around, just to stare back at her again.

"If America is where you want to go, go," he replied. "You'll be happier there."

He swiftly turned around then headed towards the living room. Sakura heard the bell ring as a sign that the hot water was ready but she ignored it.

"How would you know if I'm happier there or not?" she asked rather angrily, "you're not me!"

Sasuke turned around with the same anger flaring in his eyes.

"Exactly why I know, because I'm not you!" he replied, slightly shouting. "You told your best friend that this was your dream. Sakura, it's not just your dream but it's also an obligation. You're obliged to do this for the sake of your mother! I don't know what it feels like but to hell with it!"

He stomped off towards the front door. As he kneeled while putting his shoes on, Sakura was already there.

She couldn't hold back her tears that started falling.

"I am not obliged," she replied.

"Then why do you still have to go?" he asked angrily, putting his frustrations with tying his lace.

"Because I have no choice!" she shouted back.

"And I thought you weren't obliged!" he replied as he stood up, towering over the crying figure.

"I'm not obliged!" she shouted again, "I'm choosing to go by myself. No one told me to go, no one told me to stay and I chose! I CHOSE! No one else but me!"

Sasuke looked at her with a pained expression. Sakura thought this was just because of her crying but there was something more to it.

"So no one could stop you huh?" he said in a low voice.

"NO!" she replied with force.

"Not your emotions?"

"NOT A SINGLE ONE!" she replied as she wiped her tears off.

He nodded his head and looked at her. He wiped her tears from her face then shocked her by kissing her forehead.

She looked at him, all confused. He caressed her cheeks with her thumb then kissed her lips lightly.

"Hn," he said. "Thanks for the clothes. I'll go now and I'll give these back when I see you."

In a brief second, the door clicked shut.

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I think Sasuke's a bit OOC here. Hmm, sorry for the late update!

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