Hey guys! Thank you so much for waiting…this chapter took longer than I suspected. I have been swamped the past few days…I just found out that I had a Social Studies Summer Assignment…school starts for me in two weeks…I wont be able to finish it haha. Well, at least none of my friends knew about it either, so we are going in blindly together! Thank you for waiting!
Song of the day- Knives and Pens by Black Veil Brides
I own nothing but the plot.
Sakura sat on the sink counter examining her silver painted fingernails and breaking away uneven edges with her other nails. The moans from the other room had subsided about ten minutes ago, but for good measure she continued to wait in the bathroom a little longer.
She had opted not to go barging out into the bedroom when she first witnessed what she did out there to save herself, and Sasuke the trouble of being embarrassed. Yes, it did end up being the youngest Uchiha who was (about to) do the horizontal tango out there…Sakura was just glad she didn't have to whiteness that when she peered out of the door crack about forty-five minutes ago.
She passed the time by, well, for one, flicking the water back on to drown out the noise, and playing Tetris on her cell phone. Ino had texted her earlier, asking where she was. Sakura swiftly lied, and stated that she was down there, and Ino just had to look harder. Swinging her, now bare feet back and forth, she sighed heavily. She had done no partying what so ever, but she was already beat, and needed sleep. "Maybe I will call Temari-chan before I go to sleep to see what's up tonight…"
Dubbing it safe now, she bent over and picked up her kicked off heels. Crossing her legs over each other, she only had to lean down a couple inches to slide her borrowed shoes on.
She was in the middle of buckling the strap of the second heel when she heard a soft creaking behind her. She turned to the door before whipping to face the other direction, wide eyed, as she felt completely uncomfortable in the situation she knew there was no way around now. "Sakura, what are you doing in here?"
"Um…nothing really…hanging out, you know, the usual!" She said, standing and scratching the back of her head. Before her stood Sasuke, wearing only a pair of dark washed jeans, held up by a black belt. In his hand was his long sleeved white button up.
"Were you…in here the entire time?" He asked watching her shuffle her feet awkwardly. She was looking down at the ground, not trusting her eyes to look at his chiseled chest. From his broad shoulders and strong biceps to his defined abs and 'V' that followed down bellow his belt, Sakura knew that he was one handsome guy, but felt rude staring, and didn't want to give him the pleasure of knowing she thought he was very attractive.
"Um…yes." She said glancing around the room, looking everywhere but his face. It was quiet for a moment as the two stood awkwardly facing each other. Sakura started towards the door into the bedroom, Sasuke following her trail.
"You didn't…you know, see anything did you?" He asked, not knowing what to do in the situation as he watched Sakura look around the disheveled room.
"Only at the beginning…neither of your clothes were really off…" Sakura breathed a sigh and then regretted it immediately as the scent of sweat and sex filled her senses. "I am guessing that you two…went all the way?" Her tone at first was as if stating a fact, and then faded slowly into that of question.
"Uh…yea." He replied awkwardly.
Sakura cleared her throat after a short silence. Sighing she turned to him, glad that in the quiet moment that was just spent between them, he used it to button his shirt on. "Okay…um…I think I am going to head on back home."
"Uh…you need a ride don't you. I can take you back." He said, turning to grab his sneakers and slip them on.
"I can just get a ride from Ino. That's okay." Sakura brushed the lose hair away from her face, and dragged her hand to scratch the nape of her neck.
"Ino doesn't have…" Sasuke didn't even need to finish, as Sakura finished for him in realization.
"A car here…yea…I could just get one from Tenten or someone, really its okay."
"You don't seem to realize this is a party, huh?" He asked in amusement, standing from the messy bed after tying his shoelaces. "Everyone's going to be drunk...surprisingly, even Hinata will let lose at parties and have a beer or two."
"Oh, and your not drunk?" Sakura retorted. She could smell the sharp scent of Vodka wafting off of him.
"Actually no." Wiped at his shirt as if brushing off some invisible dirt. "That girl spilledAbsolute and tonic on me. Since its clear it didn't leave a stain." Sakura threw him a stern look as he held up three fingers in a Girl Scout salute. "I promise, I did not drink one drop of alcohol."
She continued to give him a questioning look, before she let it up and just turned around to face the door. "Its okay, I can just walk. I mean it's only a couple of miles away. Just stay and have fun, okay?" She said, grasping the door handle and pulling it open only about a foot, before a foreign hand that rested on the door closed it.
Sasuke stood right behind her and waited for her to turn and face him before he spoke up. "Look, I was the one that dragged you here, the least I could do is bring you home." He said, but in his mind he was thinking, "I need to take her home, try and smooth it out, but damnit if I didn't have to I could have met up with that girl again…what was her name?"
"Plus, I refuse to let you walk home." He continued, "No matter how safe a neighborhood may seem, its quite different at night. So, will you let me take you home?"
Sakura chewed her bottom lip between her teeth, mulling silently in though. Sighing loudly she shrugged her shoulders and agreed. "Sure, thanks."
Sasuke mentally smirked and jogged back over to Shikamaru's nightstand to grab his wallet, keys, and watch. She followed his lead out the door and down the staircase. There were, if possible, more people crowding in the living room and first floor rooms than when Sakura first got there. Surprisingly, they didn't run into Ino or one of the others on their way out.
There were a few people hanging around out on the front lawn, trying to get some air, or to talk with friends. They continued down the road a bit, and out of the light that streamed out of the windows of the Nara residence. Walking side by side until they came into view of Sasuke's black truck, he walked to the drivers seat, pulling his keys out of his pocket.
Sakura, once out of Sasuke's line of vision and on the other side of the truck, quickly opened the passenger door and scurried up into her seat before he could see. She didn't feel like getting laughed at once more as she flopped around, attempting to get up. Sasuke entered the car himself, and fired the engine. Waiting a moment to make sure Sakura's seatbelt was on, he threw the car in reverse and slowed out onto the road, making sure to be wary of the other parked cars around him.
Once out of the chaos, the two relaxed into the light colored, leather seats. The ride was fairly silent as Sakura stared out the window, and Sasuke mentally beat himself. He was afraid that Sakura was royally pissed at him for getting caught in the act, and that made his plan of "gentlemanly seduction", not crash and burn, but deteriorate greatly.
Not wanting to seem awkward, and flip on the radio to break the quiet, Sasuke just bared the silence until they came upon Sakura's house, porch lit by a soft light. Sakura mentally hoped that Ino locked her door on the way out. Sasuke pulled up and idled next to Sakura's car for a moment before putting it in park and taking his foot of the break.
"Uh…you need help getting down?" He looked over and asked her as she shook her head in return.
"No, I think I am finally getting the hang of this." She replied grabbing her purse and opening the door. She remained in her seat a second more to ask if he was going to head back to Shikamaru's house.
"Nah, I think I am just going to head on home." He replied sighing and letting his grip go on the steering wheel.
"Well hey, you want to come inside for a while? Maybe have something to eat? I don't know about you but I am starving."
Sasuke accepted this stroke of luck full heartedly. "Yea, I can stay for a while…but aren't you mad at me?"
Sakura smirked at him and slipped out of the truck (quite gracefully, she would add). As her feet hit the ground she turned to look at him. "Look, right now, I'm not your teacher, so I have no opinion…expect hell next Friday though." She said teasingly.
Sasuke smirked and slid out of the truck to follow after her.
"Okay…favorite movie?" Sakura asked, carrying two bottled sodas into the living room and plopping onto the couch next to Sasuke. She had changed from her short dress into a pair of Sauna High tennis sweat pants and a tank top.
"Oh definitely The Departed…or maybe A Few Good Men." Sakura laughed at this and twisted off the cap of her bottle, but continued to listen as Sasuke spoke once more. "Well…don't de-masculine-ise me for this but…Naruto forced me to go see Twilight when Hinata wanted to go because he didn't want to be alone…I thoroughly enjoyed it." Sakura looked him over again and a smile broke out on her face as she belted out a laugh.
"…You…Twilight…Gay…Edward!" Her sentences were incoherent through her laughter.
"Okay, its not that funny…so what is the craziest thing that has ever happened to you?" He asked quickly, trying to take her mind off of his secret love of the movie based of those Stephanie Meyer books. (A/N- Oh Sasuke…its not a love of books…its okay to admit you are a fan girl of Edward's sparkly chest!)
She wrapped her lips around the cap and took a quick drink once she settled down. "Hmm…okay, you can't tell anyone this. Not even Ino."
"Oh, gossip, dish it out." He said jokingly.
"Okay…well, last year, on my sixteenth birthday, Ino sent me this really…revealing dress…Well she told me that she better get pictures of me wearing it at my party that she knew my friends where throwing for me. Well, the plan was that I was going to wear it for the house party part, but throw on something a little more…conservative when the other people left my party and me and my main group of friends went out to eat.
"Well my friend, Temari, thought it would be funny to get me dressed, then surprise me by taking me out to eat first so I had to wear the dress. The crazy part comes here. Since the dress didn't have any pockets, I threw whatever bills I could into my bra in case I lost my purse. Well, I was standing outside the restaurant, which, by the way, was in the really bad part of town, but has the best food. Temari was inside, seeing how long it would take. Well…the police pulled over next to me…they thought I was a prostitute.
"They brought me into the station, and had a female officer strip search me…they thought the money in my bra was "dirty money" if you know what I mean. If it weren't for my brother coming to bail me out, and then give the officers an earful for taking me, I would probably still be in that jail cell."
Sasuke was oddly quiet throughout her story, but once she finished, it was his turn to break out laughing into hysterics. "You serious?" He asked between gusts of air.
"Hey, don't judge, vampire lover!" She pouted as he just continued to laugh at her expense.
"…Okay…I'm sorry. I am just upset that I wasn't there to see that! That sounds hilarious when relating it to how you really are." He said, still in hysterics.
"Yea, I guess so." She replied with a light smile gracing her face. "So, what's your biggest pet peeve?"
"Oh, easy one! People who don't know the difference between yield and merge." They spent the rest of the night just asking questions and getting to really know each other. Around one in the morning, Sasuke decided it was a good idea to head on out. As he pulled out of the driveway, and Sakura flicked off the porch light, he thought to himself, "This is the most I have ever gotten to know a girl I am planning on screwing. She's pretty cool though…I hope when I finally win the bet, we can still be friends in the end."
Sakura closed the door behind Sasuke and watched as he pulled his big truck out of her driveway. Flicking the outside light off, she smiled to herself. "He was able to hold a civilized conversation with me. Maybe this is the start of a breakthrough."
I am completely obsessed with the new episode of True Blood (aired last night, August 30th). If you haven't seen it, go check it out, and if you haven't heard of the show…again, go check it out. It's based off of Charlaine Harris's, Southern Vampire Mysteries Series novels, which are also kick ass! Oh Alexander Skarsgard…you are possibly the hottest man on the planet (next to the character you play of course!). Anyway thanks ya'll for reading, and reviews are always appreciated. As always, flames are not, but criticism is welcomed. I will try and update soon!