Disclaimer: Do not own Naruto or anything about it, except this fic and some characters I made up…ehehe
Sasuke looked up also to watch the fireworks and shrugged. She would just have to let that passed, for now. She also looked up and watched the beautiful fireworks with him. 'I'll just think about that later.' She thought and just smiled in awe at the different colors appearing in the dark sky, and believe it or not with the Uchiha Sasuke.
After a while…
"Sasuke! Am I really like Yumi-chan and Yuichi-kun?! Are you saying I'm like a kid?!" she complained remembering their conversation awhile ago.
Chapter 9
"What? You'll be going already?!" the twins cried out in unison as Sakura told them that she and Sasuke will be going back home this afternoon. They stood outside their cabin, all dressed. But they're not yet going for another hour more.
Sakura sighed remorsefully and slightly ruffled their heads. "We're not yet going now, a little bit later more! We'll just visit again, okay?" she tried to cheer them up.
The two nodded unhappily looking at the grounds, frowning. Sakura sighed again with a sad smile she crouched down and hugged the two tightly. "Aw…. I'll miss you two, too!!!!" She broke away. "Go say goodbye to Sasuke." She said as she slightly pushed them.
The two rushed to Sasuke and hugged him tightly. "Sasuke-niichan!!!" they cried out.
Yuichi tugged at his pants. "You'll visit again, right? Sakura-neechan told us so." Yumi stated.
Sasuke stared at them wondering why a day spending with them already making them sad when they heard that he and Sakura will leave that afternoon. He just thought that maybe that was how kids were.
He didn't really plan on answering to them but he felt himself crouch down to them nodding dumbly, and even answering. "…sure." Wow. That was new!
The twin's amber eyes immediately lit up in hearing that and they jumped in joy. Sakura also watched them happily. And Sasuke, maybe he didn't notice but a small part of his lips curved into somewhat like a smile.
"Huh?" Sakura looked at him as she rubbed her eyes only to see his normal face, the stoic one. She shook her head. 'Maybe that was just my imagination. Nah! He couldn't be smiling!... could he?' she stared, baffled.
"Oh! I remember I have to do something! C'mon, Yumi!" Yuichi exclaimed as he dragged his sister inside their cabin.
"Huh? Wait! Where are you two going?!" Sakura asked but it seems that she just asked that to no one cause the two were already gone. "Great! And they just left us here?!" she exclaimed.
Yuichi popped his head on the door. "Don't go yet! We'll see you before you go, okay?" he quickly stated as he slid the door closed again.
"But-"
They heard Tanaka laugh and they turned to her. "Oh! Tanaka-san!" Sakura said as they bowed a show of gratitude to the old lady.
"Don't worry about those two, maybe they're just making something for the both of you before you go!" she smiled knowingly as she went to them.
"Oh! Really?!" Sakura asked eagerly.
Tanaka smiled and nodded. "Why don't you two visit the shrine first? Most people that come here visit that shrine. You can pray a wish there that you really really want to come true right now. It says there that it will come true, but I don't really know. But you can at least try it." She said.
"Sure, sounds like a good idea."
So there they were, Sakura and Sasuke, kneeling in front of a Buddha on a shrine with lighted incense in front. Both of them, eyes closed saying their wish silently. Well maybe not, Sakura was getting giddy in her place.
She peeked on one eye to look at Sasuke and saw that he was still the same. 'What? Is he really wishing or he's already asleep?! He's not even moving!' she thought incredulously as Sasuke , feeling her gaze, shot his eyes open and looked at her. She immediately looked away and pretended that nothing happenedand closes her eyes again. 'Argh! Why am I even looking at what he's doing?!'
She sighed and frowned. 'Oh that's right…' She remembered why, because she didn't know what to wish for and she decided maybe she could peek at Sasuke, to see if he's really wishing and wondered what he's wishing for. Cause she, herself couldn't think of a single thing to wish for now.
She thought deeply. 'What to wish for? What to wish for?!...' she repeated as she thought.
'Well I could wish that this was all a bad dream of hell and when I wake up in my soft bed from my still-single-sleep, everything will be back to normal, right?... Nah! I could just pinch myself so I could tell my crazy mind that this was so not a dream….' She sighed again. 'Then what should I wish for…?! Ugh!...'
She glanced again at Sasuke for a while. Then closed her eyes again and decided what to wish for.
…meanwhile let us take a look at their very good friend Naruto who put them up to this mess.
"Whew! Sakura-chan's things are so heavy!!" he exclaimed as he brought her boxes. "Kakashi-sensei! Could you stop reading for a while and help me with their things?!" he complained.
He and Kakashi volunteered to help them move Sakura and Sasuke's things to their brand new house, Sasuke's money of course, so when the two get back they can already live there and no more excuses for them to still live separately.
"Uh…no." was a muffled response from the said teacher who was drowned up in his book.
"Argh!" Naruto rolled his eyes. 'Okay!! For my ramen! I'll just think that this is all for my ramen and of course, for the two of them. I really hope I'm right in this, or I'll die!!!!' he thought.
"Hey! I just remembered, Kakashi-sensei! Sasuke said that they both need separate bedrooms, is that okay??" He asked out of the blue.
Kakashi, for the first time raised his head from the book. "What?! A married couple shouldn't have separate bedrooms!" he said with a grin.
Naruto grinned back. "But what if-" he was cut off as some paper placed in a sealed plastic fell from Sakura's boxes. "Huh? What's….this…?" he trailed off as he looked at it and his eyes widened.
…back to our favorite couple…
Sakura glanced again at Sasuke. They were on their way back at Tanaka's to get their bags and bid them goodbye.
"Hn. What are you looking at?" He suddenly asked not even looking at her, he knew.
Sakura was startled. "What? I-I'm not looking!" she defended, but saw that he was not believing every word she said.
She sighed. "Alright! I was just wondering what you wished for in the shrine. Ehehe so… what did you wish for…?" she asked innocently.
Sasuke pause for a sec then continued walking. "Hn. And I should tell you so….what?" He raised an eyebrow at her.
"So…" she tried to think of a reason. She put her hands on her back on walked beside him. "Uhmm…."
"…so it won't happen?" he finished.
"Hmph! Just tell me! I wanna know what Uchiha Sasuke wished for?! I'm not telling anyone! Promise!!" she exclaimed.
"Hn. You don't need to know."
"I have too! Or I'll die in thinking about it for the rest of my life!!!" She said and paused. "Okay… I guess that's a little too much…. Ehehe." she rubbed her head. "But I'll still think of it for…forever!!... I guess…"
"Hn. I don't like to tell you!"
"C'mon! I thought we're already friends now!" she continued nagging him.
"No." he avoided her.
"Yes!" she followed him.
"No."
"Yes!"
"What's yours then?" he suddenly asked and stopped walking causing her to stop too.
"Ye- huh?" She was going to answer 'yes' again but stop in mid-word and realized he said something else and not 'no'.
"What was your wish?"
"Mine?... Hmmm, I don't have to tell you." She said as she looked at him and stuck out her tongue.
"Then I don't have to tell you mine either." He started walking ahead, leaving her behind.
Sakura stood there wondering what he just did. 'Huh? How can that happen?! Did he just played a trick on my mind and return the question back at me?!' she thought incredulously.
She bit her lip. 'How did it end that I have to tell him my wish first before he tells me his?!'
'Uchiha Sasuke! You and your mind games!' she thought as she stomped her way to caught up with him. "Stubborn brat!" she muttered but made it out of his earshot.
Sasuke smirked.
"Here!" Yumi and Yuichi handed them a handmade cards. Yumi's was a pink heart while Yuichi's was an airplane, it was blue one.
"Wow!" Sakura beamed and took it. "It's for both of us?" she asks pointing at Sasuke.
The two nodded happily.
"Can we open it now?" she asked.
"No! You can open it later!" they said in unison.
"Oh… Okay then!" She smiled and heaved her two bags.
"Oh shouldn't you let Sasuke carry that?" Tanaka said thoughtfully, for Sakura's part anyway.
"Uh…what? Oh right! Right!... here." She handed her bag roughly at Sasuke, who barely caught it and immediately glared at her. She smiled sweetly and stuck out her tongue.
"Okay, we gotta go now! Thanks for everything again!!!!" She bowed and started to walk with Sasuke.
She turned around but still continued walking, backwards, to look at them. "Bye bye!!!!" she waved at them happily.
The three also waved back and beamed.
"Come back again, okay?!" the twins shouted.
Sakura nodded and turned back around.
She sniffed. "I'll surely miss them –sniff-."
"Hn. You're getting dramatic again. And remind me why I have to carry this?" he raised her bag.
She looked at him wearily. "Oh you wanna read their cards?!" she said, but obviously avoiding him giving her back her oh so heavy bag.
"Stop changing the subject. Get it back." He stated as he handed out her bag.
She looked at it and sighed. She stopped in mid-act of getting it. "Just please carry it! My shoulders are already aching!!! Please!!" she stated as she ran off ahead off him and didn't give him a chance to answer.
He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Hn. Was it my fault that she brought so many clothes?" he complained but still carried her bag, nonetheless.
Sakura slowly stirred in her sleep on the seat on their flight back. She positioned her head on the pillow more comfortably. 'Wait! A pillow? I don't remember having one a while ago…' she thought in her head but still kept her eyes closed. Her brows furrowed as she tried to open her eyes.
She tried again and rubbed them, making her fully awake. She blushed as she realized something and sat back straight at her seat and glanced at Sasuke, who was still fast asleep.
'Was I just leaning my head on Sasuke while I was sleeping?!' She shook her head. 'I was asleep! I didn't know!' she said to herself. 'He's still sleeping, right?!'
And speaking of, Sasuke stirred on his seat and slowly opened his eyes only to see a strange-faced Sakura. He looked at her questionably.
"Sasuke! You just woke up, right?" she checked nervously.
"Uh…yeah." He looked at her suspiciously and backed away. "Did you do anything to me?" he asked protectively.
A vein popped in Sakura's head as she hit him in the head with her fist. "I didn't do anything to you, jerk!"
Sasuke glared. "I was merely making sure of my safety. I woke up, and you were looking strange at me and blushing, may I say. And also you asked me a strange question if I just woke up. So I asked that to make sure." He stated.
Sakura looked at him incredulously. "Is asking someone if they just woke up such a bad thing?! And for your information, I was not blushing! Maybe it's just from the change of atmosphere or somethin'." She said looking at anything but him, anxiously.
"Hn . If you say so." He just said and decided to not argue anymore and go back to sleep.
Sakura glanced at him and sighed in relief. She touched her chest. 'Hm. Why was my heart beating faster just then? Was I nervous or could it be…' her thought trailed off as she glanced back at Sasuke, who was sleeping again. She shook her head. 'Nah! Couldn't be!' she told herself, quickly dismissing the thought as she leaned back at her seat.
'And besides, it wasn't as if I was conscious when my head traveled its way on his shoulder!! I was not a bit conscious! I was sleeping! So I should not be acting like I'm embarrassed or something! Yeah! It was an accident!' she thought in defend.
She nodded to herself. "Yeah… that was just….an accident…" she trailed off as she fell back to her own slumber.
"Wow! They sure did a good job of picking a house for us!!!" Sakura looked as they entered their house. It was not too small but not too big. It was just so perfect.
"It's so beautiful!!" she said as they entered.
"Hn."
They looked around. Everything was there: living room, kitchen, tv, dvd, refrigerator, plates, utensils …everything!
"Wow! They really prepared all! We must thank them later!" she said as she looked around in awe.
She flopped down on the sofa. "Bouncy! Is this your sofa Sasuke? Cause this isn't mine. Or is it new?!" she asked continuously.
"It's mine…"
Sakura sighed. "Ow! That was such a trip! It drained my energy!" she lied on the sofa as Sasuke went to the fridge to get something to drink. Sakura peeked at him but when he turned to look, immediately averted her eyes from him.
'Why do I always look at him these days?! I think I'm insane!!!' Sakura stood up slowly, still tired. "Uh… I think…I'll just change my clothes…" she stated.
"Hn." Sasuke nodded as he gulped down his drink.
Sakura opened a door to a room and wondered if this was her room. She looked inside it. "Huh...?"
She left it open and opened the other room to only see that there was nothing in the other room.
She went back to the first one.
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There are two persons living there and only one bed?! Then that means…..
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"WHAT?!?" she shrieked.
Sasuke heard her glass-breaking scream and cringed as he finished up his glass of water. He just rolled his eyes and decided to see what she's so surprise about. "Now what?" he asked.
"Sasuke, What is this?!"
"Uh…. A room?"
"No, baka! I though we will sleep separately!!"
"I know so what's your…" he trailed off as he looked at one king-sized bed lying on the middle of the room.
They looked at each other.
"Dobe…." Sasuke stated.
"….and Kakashi-sensei.." Sakura finished as their eyes narrowed.
"Oooh! On second thought I don't think we should thank those two! Really, those two!When will they stop?!" Sakura stomped her way out of the room and went to get her phone.
"…."
"I'll just call Naruto right now!! And gave him a piece of my mind!!!" she said when her phone suddenly rang startling her. She wearily placed it in her ear.
"…H-hello?"
"Sakura-chan?"
"Naruto! I was just about to call you! Why is there only-"
Naruto cut her off. "Uh…Sakura-chan, let's talk about that maybe later… the Hokage ordered you and Teme to go to her office right now, And uh…" he pause as if her just talked to someone there. "….she says she mean it. SO I'll just see yah later! Ehehe…" it sounded like he just forced that laugh.
Sakura looked at her phone unbelievably, why did he just sound nervous?
'What was that just now? Oh right….'
"Sasuke, Naruto just told me the Hokage ordered us to go to her office and she means it." Sakura said coolly telling to Sasuke what Naruto just told her, not really understanding what she said maybe due to her lack of energy.
"…" Sasuke stared at her.
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The messaged just registered inside Sakura's mind as she slowly step backwards and looked nervously at Sasuke, who was still staring at her dumbstruck.
She somehow got this 'OMG' face or something. "EH?!"
A loud scream was heard throughout the whole house.
Every time they go to the Hokage's office she thinks that there is always something bad that is going to take place. 'What is it now?!' She thought as she felt goosebumps ran through her.
She looked at Sasuke.
An: okay how was it??