CHAPTER TEN
- When It Rains -
Mine and Sasuke's walk home was awkward, quiet, and cold. But mostly cold, I was too focussed on not shivering to pay attention to the awkward and quiet part.
"I thought it was summer!" I almost gasped eventually. Sasuke just stared straight ahead. And so we carried on walking. After about three minutes, a small, red mini with a Learner's sticker and pink haired driver zoomed past us. Sasuke's head turned sharply in the direction that the car had gone.
"Sakura…" He murmured. I twitched. Not that I had a problem with her or anything, because I didn't. She just didn't like me, and my feelings were definitely mutual. So, see? No problem. But I still twitched.
"So what's up with you two anyway?" I asked as casually as I could, since I was definitely very confused by the way he acted towards her. Uh, okay. First there was that 'incident' in our History class where he seemed to be getting very into the acting. And then there was back at Suigetsu's place with the webcam and the kissing just to piss her off. I mean, oh my god. What was that about? Sasuke glanced at me and shrugged.
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know… but you guys used to be pretty close right?"
"Right…"
"And, like, you went out…?"
"Right…"
"Were you serious?" I asked. Sasuke shrugged again, uncomfortable. "Oh my gosh, do you still like her?"
"No, I broke it off."
"Yeah, but—"
"No, I do not still like Sakura."
"Oh, okay." I grinned, "Then who do you like?"
"You, you weirdo." Oh, please. Just please, pretty boy.
"For real, Sasuke." I hummed.
"Nobody." Ouch. "What about you?"
You! You weirdo.
"Ahh, I dunno. I thought that Naruto guy was kinda cute…" I tried to fight a smirk. Hah. Take that, jerk face. But Sasuke was un-phased. Not a single emotion flickered across his face.
"He has a girlfriend."
"No shit, was it Hinata?"
"Yes."
"Aww, that's a shame." I informed him. Still nothing. I think it was Oscar Wilde who once said: A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. Or something. But the point is: My plan backfired, because some passive-aggressive little shitbag decided that today was the day that no emotion could be shown.
Fricken' emo.
So then I thought: Maybe that was his plan all along… But that was stupid. Because I'd only just met him, I'd spent two days with him; I'd already gotten into his bad books and, well, basically—
Hey, Sakura's learning to drive a car… what the hell? I wanna learn how to drive! Oh my god. Today just plain hates me. Urgh.
"Sasuke?"
"Hn?"
"Are you still mad at me?"
"No." He said slowly, as if still thinking about it.
"Was that a yes?"
"Uh-huh. Wait, what? No."
"Oh my— you're doing this on purpose." I spun around to glare at him, hand on hip.
"...What?" He looked up, a tad shocked at my tone and as to what he possibly could have done wrong because he was like the king and he was frickin' perfect.
"You're… you're intentionally trying to piss me off." I stalked off in front of him, with my hands almost thrown up into the air. Sasuke stopped walking and just stared for the longest time. I spun around again and stared right back. "There, you're doing it again!"
"…What?" And now he had that confused look on his face. This made me want to go and snatch him and keep him and eat him and aww…
"Tch. Forget it." I turned around and carried on walking. Sasuke caught up with me easily and flung an arm over my shoulder. I was getting used to the random acts of love and sort of snuggled into him.
"What's up with you?" He sighed, as if he really couldn't care less, as if the comfortable arm was all just for show. Which it was… Urgh.
"Nothing." I muttered. Except it didn't come out how I'd wanted it to since I could literally feel his minty breath on my cheek. It came out sort of weak.
"That's cool."
We walked for another five minutes before I realized that my hand was now clinging to his that was draped over my shoulder. Upon seeing this I inhaled sharply and looked at the clouds.
"It's gonna rain." I stated, clearing the thoughts of the hand holding that I had no idea was happening.
"It's gonna storm."
"Wonderful." I said sarcastically, but was cut off by a sudden hammering roar from the sky. "Oh my gosh!" I squeaked, shocked by the thunder.
"It's thunder, stop being a wuss."
"Shut up, you jumped too!"
"I did not…"
"Yeah well, whatever, you can stay at mine until the storm dies down."
"Awesome." He deadpanned, and then, the two of us completely sprinted up my drive, we'd rather look like total idiots than get wet in front of the paparazzi. How odd.
By the time we reached my door the rain was pounding down on my fathers BMW and the concrete beneath it. Sasuke and I stood on the porch for a minute, catching our breath and watched as the media people ran like ants for cover. Well, I can't exactly say that with a smug face since that was exactly what Sasuke and I had done. I leant against the door, only to tumble backwards as Keri opened it with her slime-ball boyfriend. Who I landed on.
"Kai, let go of me right this second." I growled. Kai promptly shoved me forwards into Sasuke. I swear, it was like pinball! "Asshole." I muttered stepping away from Sasuke and away from Kai. Keri smiled her sunshine smile that could have scared the clouds away… theoretically…
"Kari! Oh my gosh, and are you…" She looked Sasuke up and down. He frowned slightly and looked towards the top of the door, his face screaming 'save me from the crazy lady!' "You are! Kai, this is Kari's new boyfriend, Sasuke Uchiha."
"Sup." Kai tipped his head in his cool-guy way and then walked past both of us, intentionally shoving me again. He then put up an umbrella and waited for Keri to join him as they walked to his shitty little smashed up car that wasn't even recognizable as a car anymore. Ferserious.
"Talk about a ten-foot pole up the ass." Sasuke muttered as we walked indoors.
"I know right? Everyone seems to love him but he's just the biggest mother-fucking jerkwa— Oh, hi daddy." I smiled up at my dad who had stopped at the top of the stairs to listen to my conversation with Sasuke. That was actually really embarrassing.
"Kari, nice to see you." He stated bluntly. I twitched. Dad's like, never blunt unless he's pissed off.
"You too… this is Sasuke! We're just waiting out the storm and then he's going, okay? Buh-bye." I grinned, Sasuke nodded curtly before I dragged him through the kitchen and into the living room. I dropped onto the dark grey sofa along with Sasuke. We sat at opposite ends awkwardly for about three seconds before I jumped up and skipped back into the kitchen. "D'you want a drink? Ya know, water, coffee…?" I yelled from behind the fridge.
"Water's fine." Came the answer from the living room.
"Kay." I skipped back into the living room in a very bouncy-hyper-weird way and presented Sasuke with a bottle of chilled mineral water, and one for myself, and then dropped back down into the corner of the sofa. "So yeah, Kai's an asshole, he really shouldn't be with Keri because she's actually really nice— then again, he is only ever nice to her and my parents so, whatever."
"Heh…" Sasuke muttered from behind the water bottle.
"So anyways—" There was a silver flash of lightning and then that terrible roar of thunder. I swore before looking out the window. "Shit, it's pouring down now."
"No duh, that's what happens when there's a storm."
"Yeah, I know, I know…" I mumbled, trying to switch the TV on. Except that I couldn't. "Urgh. Electricity's out now too?"
"…Konoha hasn't got the greatest power lines."
"That's lameeee." I sighed, sitting back down and taking a sip of my water. Sasuke surveyed the room, his eyes landing on my martial arts trophies for a second before continuing to the photos from when Keri and I were younger. "Oh my gosh, don't look at them." I shrieked, standing up and blocking his view, he smirked slightly, eyes glittered. Sasuke stood up and walked around me to eye them with interest. "Okay, you've had a look, now stop."
"Um, a fairy?" He fixed his gaze on one in which Keri and I were throwing a 'tea party for the kingdom' …or something. "And… batman?" He tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. I died a little inside. Then came back to life and grabbed him around the waist, trying (and failing) to drag him away from them. "And you know, if your family walked in, this would probably look quite awkward. So quit it." He said it lightly, but he was probably getting really irritated. Or something.
"Tch. Stop perving on my baby photos." I laughed, and then released him. "They're embarrassing." Sasuke smirked.
Again, I died inside.
"So that's Naruto?" I asked. We were in my bedroom now, stalking people on Facebook. We were currently flicking over Naruto's page, because Sasuke told me to.
"Well duh, you've met him before right?"
"Not met him. I saw him fight you. Look in the background. He's got a poster of noodles on his wall."
"…Yeah." Sasuke smirked and rolled backwards, resting his head against the pillows on my bed.
"…Well that's normal." I said, clicking on his profile pictures. I went to what was the first profile picture ever and cracked up. "It's a pot of ramen!"
"It's not that funny, you know." Sasuke sat up and took the laptop from me. he stared at it for a long moment before removing his face from the screen. "Nope, it's not funny at all."
"Comments." I whispered before rolling of the bed and hugging a pillow.
"There are no comments."
"Exactly!" I collapsed into yet another fit of giggles.
"…You're so weird." Sasuke muttered and pushed himself off of the bed to grab my hands and yank me up.
"Yeah, well your hair makes you look like an evil parakeet." I giggled, somehow unable to stop laughing.
"Whatever." He smirked, flicking his bangs out of his eyes. "You're having the urge to touch it, right?"
"Yeah," I grinned, dropping down to sit by the laptop, "It looks fluffy." Sasuke's smirk faltered and his eyebrow rose slowly. I grinned. Because he was so funny.
"Right…" He said slowly, always slowly, and moved back to the computer screen, "Let's just pretend you never said that."
"But—"
"Hold up, got a call." He prodded my nose as I neared the computer for the seconds time today and answered his phone. "Yeah?... I can't get home now, can you not see the storm?... Then you're a blind moron. You can pick me up, can't you?... I can't drive yet…" Sasuke's brows furrowed and he stared at a spot on the floor, "Fine. Yeah. But just so you know, he had sex in the back of his car with another guy."
I pretended that I wasn't listening as Sasuke continued to converse with whom I guessed was Itachi on the phone.
"If Konan drives, she'll try to pierce my face again. Pein will do the same. Only Konan will do it with paper… Whatever. No, no, no, not Madara. Never. Again."
I gave up, and shot him a questioning glance.
"Thank you. I'm at Kari's place… yeah… uh… Nine Kalm Avenue. It's big with a long drive." I nodded. Sasuke Hung up and let out an exasperated sigh, "Woah, what a retard." His lip twitched up slightly. "I'm getting picked up soon."
"Awesome." I was slightly disappointed. "Thanks for today, by the way."
"That's… okay." He replied slightly awkwardly as he pulled his hoodie on, his hair ruffled slightly when his head emerged.
We continued to talk and stalk and (on my part only) laugh, with the occasional sarcastic remark from Sasuke until there was a hooting from outside. I looked out of the rain splattered window to see a shiny black Porsche Cayenne, with silver and red metallic clouds spray-painted over it parked in the drive. I gasped.
"Porsche with clouds?" Sasuke asked, I nodded, "It tends to have that effect on people."
"It's so pretty!"
"Bah, he ruined it with the Clouds."
"Who?"
"My brother," Sasuke hesitated before continuing, "but he's with my uncle. Oh, I am so looking forward to this…" He flicked his bangs out of his eyes and made his way to the door.
"Who's your uncle?" I asked as we made our way downstairs.
"Madara. Oh, ick." Sasuke made a face at the name, as if it tasted like something… icky. I decided that I wouldn't keep him and waved to my dad who was examining something by the phone on the low table in the hallway. "Thanks for having me, Mr. Tenatai." Sasuke grinned a very boyish, un-Sasuke-ish grin, my dad smiled a very un-dad-like smile and raised a hand in goodbye as Sasuke straightened up, red converses now covering socked feet. There was an uncomfortable silence as I opened the door, and as Sasuke left, he placed a chaste kiss on my cheek. I felt my face heat up and mumbled a 'bye' before closing the door.
I would not allow him to see me blush.
"Who was that?" My father asked.
"Oh, you know Fugaku Uchiha?"
"Of course…" Dad stared at me. He was only in Konoha right now so that he could make a business deal with the man. And a few other people. But they didn't count right now. "Oh!" He clicked. Well done daddy...
"Yeah, that was Sasuke!" I knew that all of my dad's icy protectiveness was now gone, replaced by a very dad-like sunshiny smile.
"Yeah, he's a good kid. His brother helped me once, did you know that?"
"Nope."
"Oh. Well. He did." My dad returned to his work with a satisfied look on his weathered face. His dark blue eyes crinkling. "They're all good people, Kari, if Sasuke was raised in the same way as Itachi, he'll be a good friend to you."
"Oh, right. Yeah…" I smiled and danced into the kitchen, watching as Sasuke got into the back of car with a scowl on his face, as he said something to Itachi was in the front with someone I didn't recognise, and I wouldn't have anyways because his face was shrouded by the tinted windows.
"He'll be a good friend to you…" Haha. Oh daddy, if only you knew.
Waha, short chapter. Apologies, I thought I'd have to update sooner or later. Sorry about the first bit, I thought Kari was just picking fights with Sasuke for no reason there and decided to cut it short. But they're both strong characters who hate to loose, so I don't know... I also find confused Sasuke off the charts on the adorable scale, and so I intend to make him do the cute face as much as possible. Lawl.
Wow, thanks for the reviews, they're what pushed me to get this chapter finished tonight.
I didn't think it was too special to be honest, but, whatever. I hope you enjoyed it! The next chapter might take a while because I haven't actually slept in three nights and have been sleeping all day, and I'm trying to fix my sleeping pattern, and also my sister's started FanFiction so she will be using the laptop, and my time on it is lessened *crycrycry*. Her username is YourPandaBearx - THIS IS ONE OF MY USERNAMES! GRR. But because I'm a good sister and remind myself of Itachi and Sakura combined (LOL.) I let her keep it. So if you read any of her stories and they sound similar to mine, don't yell at her for it, I gave her permission (eventually) to use some of my ideas and I offered to edit for her too, because I'm really really nice. Of course, they won't be anything close to mine, because she writes in the English style (using words like Secondary School, and Mum instead of High school and Mom), and I write more with a more American style and accent. I'm South African, by the way, so most of my spellings and words go with the American accent anyways.
Anyway... I promise I will continue this. I've made it one of my life's priorities to finish this story.
Also, if you thought that this chapter was a little bit more… boring… please tell me. I want to liven up the moments between Sasuke and Kari. I think the music I listen to affects my writing. Dammmmnnnnnn Secondhand Serenade and their beautiful music!
Alright, don't forget to leave a review!
-YourChemicalRomancex