Sakura stood shocked in the parking lot for only a second, until her anger got the best of her and she picked up a rock and threw it as hard as she could manage at the Uchiha's moving vehicle.
In all honesty she hadn't expected it to hit- she wasn't a very good aim, at least not most of the time. So when the rock flew directly into his back window and broke the glass, Sakura screamed out loud- because Oh dear God, she just busted out Sasuke's window.
He slammed on his breaks and got out of the vehicle. Sakura was thankful that she couldn't see his expression, because she would bet her soul that he was beyond angry.
She swallowed all the fear she felt and turned on her heel to walk back into the school. It wasn't her problem that his window was broken, he could deal with it.
"Get your ass over here!" He called, but Sakura only raised a hand in the air and flipped him off before continuing her descent into the school.
She was not expecting him to be waiting for her when the day was over. But there he was leaning against the railing by the stairs at the front entrance attracting attention from the girls like rotten cheese attracts maggots.
His eyes narrowed when he met her gaze, and she smiled at him and waved lightly. Still proud of herself, and still feeling confident in what she'd done. Not to mention slightly invincible for escaping unscathed.
"Hi." She said, and all the eyes of the girls turned on her.
"Sakura." He said plainly, "You owe me big."
Sakura laughed out loud at the words the raven haired boy said to her, because she of all people didn't owe him a thing. He'd ruined- well helped to ruin- her whole entire life.
"I don't owe you a damn thing." She said, "And if you think I do then you're a lunatic. I mean, I knew that people like you were crazy, but that's just beyond crazy."
The girls surrounding him had their jaws on the ground, how dare someone talk to Sasuke like that- who the hell did she think was?
"Pick your jaws up." She said, "He's just a person."
And with that she shoved through the crowd and headed to her car. Sasuke of course followed her, and she expected no less.
When she reached the small blue car she sighed and turned to face the stoic Uchiha. He had his arms crossed across his chest, wearing only a thin white t-shirt, his tattoo's were visible through the fabric.
"Why do you have so many tattoo's?" She asked absentmindedly as she fumbled around with her keys.
"I like them." Was the curt response she received, and she sighed lightly.
"That's nice." She unlocked her door and set her things on the passenger seat before heading over to the drivers side.
"Where do you think you're going?" He said, and his voice was deadly.
"Home." She said bluntly not phased by the anger radiating off of the Uchiha, "See ya."
"No." Sasuke said, and he grabbed her by the wrist so she wasn't able to leave. "You owe me for busting out my fucking window."
"Watch your language when you speak to a lady yeah?" She said trying to pry his hands off of her to no avail, "And consider the window payback for the fact that you're a heartless jerk that contributed to everything bad in my life."
Sasuke let go of her wrist and crossed his arms again. What Sakura said was true, but the Uchiha was far too stubborn to admit that he had done wrong. And far too stubborn to allow her to get away with breaking his car window.
"God would you just-" He began.
"Get over it? Let it go?" Sakura interrupted, "Sure Sasuke."
"Look about what I said-" He began again
"Save it." She said cuttingly, "Thanks for dealing with Hiashi today. Now if you'd kindly just go back to leaving me alone, that'd be peachy."
"But I've never left you alone." Sasuke said, and there was a smirk on his face and he snatched her wrist again.
"I beg your pardon." Sakura said, an eyebrow raised.
"I've taken care of you for a long time now."
"Shut up." She said, "You only made things harder! You're a BAD person."
"I know." Sasuke said, "But what I'm saying is true."
"You're full of lies. Full of tricks. You are deceitful and dangerous." She tugged her arm in yet another failed attempt to shake him loose.
"Stop trying to get away from me." He said in the usual bored tone he used. Sakura glared up at him and his face was unimpressed. "Let's go."
"Don't you try to take me anywhere!" She said loudly, "No! Let me go now."
"Calm down Sakura, I'm not going to hurt you."
"You already have. Now let me go seriously." She stomped on his foot, successfully freeing herself from his grasp.
"Dammit." Sasuke said, "What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Not half as much as what's wrong with you." She sneered.
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Ino had been suspicious the second she saw Sakura walking so closely with the boy Hiashi. Sakura had told her about the way he had acted toward the pinkette at the party they'd been to on Friday night, and aside from that he had a reputation.
When Sakura had thrown her the worried 'help me' eyes, Ino knew that her friend may be in trouble if she didn't report it. The only problem was that she didn't know what she was reporting.
So on her way to the office she ran into Naruto, and considered it the work of destiny that Sasuke was with him. He'd saved her from Hiashi once, there was no reason he wouldn't do it again-
So she'd explained the situation to Naruto was looked thoroughly pissed off about it, and she sneaked a glance at Sasuke who was wearing the same empty expression as always- for a moment she found herself lost in his beauty, but only for a moment.
Ino shook her head and told them about how panicked Sakura had been, and about the obvious lie she told to Ino. Sasuke had walked away then without a word, and though the blonde girl felt angry at the blatant uncaring attitude of the Uchiha, Naruto had a grin as wide as Texas on his face.
"He's gonna go find her." Naruto said through his grin, "He knows where they're going, and he's gonna go find her."
"Seriously?" Ino shook her head in disbelief, "He really is?"
Naruto nodded and nodded his head enthusiastically. He draped an arm around the blonde girls shoulders and drug her with him toward the office once again.
"We 'oughta tell Tsunadae." Naruto said. And Ino agreed, the principle was Sakura's aunt after all.
"Yeah, she'll take care of the situation for us."
"I'm sure Sasuke will take care of it just fine, but I want Hiashi expelled or something, he's really getting on my nerves."
Ino agreed.
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When the situation with Hiashi was cleared up, and he was indeed expelled Ino was eager to get the story from her pink haired friend. But Sakura had rushed outside to wait for Sasuke, and Ino had decided it was best to give them some space so they could get things sorted out.
Hence the reason Ino was just a bit confused when Sakura came storming into school with an annoyed expression on her face.
"What did he do?" Ino asked, immediately seeking the answers her brain was dying to know.
"He-" Sakura took a deep breath and then ran a hand down her low side pony tail, and Ino could tell she was trying to calm down. When she spoke again, her face was still gravely annoyed, but her voice was less flustered, "He's leaving."
"Oh-" Ino said, she wanted to sound shocked but she'd already known that Sasuke was planning on going to Oto. "Where?"
"I don't know." Sakura said, "I didn't care enough to ask."
"Well why is he leaving?" Ino asked her.
"Ha." The pinkette snorted and crossed her arms, "That one I can answer. His exact words to me were 'To get away from you.' So, I'm guessing, it's to get away from me."
Ino had shock all over her face. If Naruto was correct about Sasuke not knowing how to express his emotions then maybe just maybe he was leaving for Sakura's own good- or he was just an asshole. Both were high possibilities.
"What did you say Sak?"
"Tch." The emerald eyed girl gained a look of triumph in her eyes, and she smirked lightly, "I threw a rock at his car- and it busted out his back window."
Ino was dumbstruck. Sakura? Sakura who was so nice to every single living thing, the least violent person she'd ever met...Sakura...had busted someones car window?
"Hell yeah." Ino said after a minute, "Good for you!"
Sakura grinned in response and nodded her head, she was proud of what she'd done. Someone needed to put him in his place- and that's what she had done.
The blonde had a sparkle in her eye that only meant trouble but Sakura was oddly comforted by it and she snatched her best friends hands in her own and went into details like a typical high school girl.
Ino had never been more impressed with her pink haired best friend, and so she was suspicious when she saw Sasuke and Sakura talking in the parking lot after school. It wasn't like Sakura to forgive so quickly when she was being tough. And that's when Ino realized that they were fighting, so she did what any sensible girl would do, she observed from afar.
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"You might be right." Sasuke said, "Not half as much is wrong with you. But you're twice as stupid as I'll ever be."
"Excuse me!" Sakura's eyes were bright with rage, "Who the hell do you think you are talking to me like that? You've done your senior year like six times! I've got all honors! I'm walking in white at graduation, you aren't walking at all!"
"Tch. You think school is the only thing that has any weight in how smart you are? You've almost gotten yourself killed countless times in the past few days."
"All after I ran into you! Maybe you're just bad luck!"
"Doubtful."
"No, really. You're trying to have me killed, I'm sure of it now."
"I wouldn't have saved your life if I were."
Sakura shook her head and pushed her hair out of her face before looking up toward the sky and smiling lightly.
"I don't understand you Sasuke."
"You never will." He said slowly, "Not ever."
"Why are you leaving before you give me the chance to try...?" The words were barely a whisper, and the second they left the girls mouth she regretted it.
Sasuke was silent for a long time before he answered her question. And he knew that he'd stayed too long if she wanted to know him at all, and that he'd given away too much information. He couldn't risk revealing anything else to the fragile girl before him, for her sake he had to go.
"Because..." He said letting go of her wrist and stuffing his hands in his pockets. He raised his head and met her gaze, her eyes were watering just like he'd expected, but he didn't look away. "I owe you that much."
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Ino watched as her friend turned her head away from the raven haired boy that stood before her, she looked disappointed, but something in her expression was accepting- and Ino knew that Sasuke was indeed going to leave. She shook her head and sighed, not wanting to watch the person who could be good for Sakura walk away from her.
She turned around and decided she would find Naruto at football practice so they could come up with a plan once again. But right as she turned to seek him out, she bumped into none other than the blonde boy himself.
"Hey Ino! How's spying?" He said animatedly, smiling so big that his eyes were squinted and all of his teeth were showing.
"Naruto- How long have you been there?" The blonde girl asked, slightly shaken that she'd been so carelessly caught off guard.
"Umm-" He seemed to genuinely ponder for a moment, the grin leaving his face was replaced with a slight pout as he furrowed his brow in concentration. "Like a minute and 13 seconds."
Ino rolled her eyes when the grin reappeared on her friends tanned face.
"Naruto...Listen. Sasuke and Sakura...are meant to be. They just are."
The boy looked like he was the one who was now caught off guard, as his grin turned into a frown and both of his eyebrows rose to meet his hairline.
"Ino...are you on some sort of drugs?"
"No."
"Then alright. Let's get them together."
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"Have a nice life then Sasuke...I wish you the best." Sakura didn't bother trying to hide the sadness in her green eyes as she turned away from the man in front of her. She didn't want him to go, she felt like they had a bond, even though she knew the thought was crazy.
"Get out of this place as soon as you can." He said, and he smirked at her lightly before running a hand through his hair.
"We...I know that you know we have a bond Sasuke...You can feel it. We are connected, I'm not going to ask you how because I know you don't want to answer that..." She looked at the ground and smiled.
"Sakura," Sasuke said quietly, "Thank you."
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Authors notes:
This one is considerably shorter than the others. I was having major writers block. I'm sure the next chapter will come to me much easier than this one did(: