Title: Konoha Church Camp
Summary: Church camp has never been so adolescently brilliant. Mortal enemies since kinder garden, what will Sasuke and Sakura do when they go to the same church camp over the summer? M for later chapters.
Chapter 10: All This Time
Sakura's POV
Sasuke was sitting on the bottom bunk opposite of me, his head turned to the side and his eyes on the floor. I heard the thunder crack outside.
This was all too weird. Did I just hear what I thought I heard? Straight from Uchiha's mouth. The same Uchiha that threw rocks at me, pulled my hair, spit spitballs at me, and put gum in my hair. This couldn't be happening.
"..What?" Was all I could manage right now.
He looked at me like he was about to say something, but then his features became frustrated and he turned his head away.
"Maybe if you listened, you would have heard me the first time." He spat at me.
I stood, ripping the towel off of my shoulders and throwing it to the ground. I opened my mouth to yell at him, but I had no idea what to say. He didn't really do anything wrong this time. He was just being an ass.
"But-" I started, trying to find the words. Trying to find any words. "you put gum in my hair. You threw rocks at me, you-" I stopped listing all of the main things he'd done to me when he stood rather quickly. He was still looking at the floor, but he looked like he was thinking.
"I-" He sounded frustrated. "Well I tried talking to you!" He said, still sounding frustrated, and a little mad.
I looked at him. I guess he could tell I had no idea what he was talking about because he continued to raise his voice.
"Yeah. But I guess you were just so stuck up. You didn't even bring me cookies during snack time."
What the hell. You've got to be kidding me.
"Sasuke. Are you talking about kinder garden?"
"Like I said. Listen, and I-"
"How could you possibly remember that?" I asked, raising my own voice a little. There was no way.
He was about to answer me.
"Wait," I began.
It was the second week of kinder garden. A five year old Sakura Haruno was pulling out small baggies of cookies for her classmates from her book sack. They were all waiting in a circle on the floor in the corner. "Sakura sweetie." Her teacher, Miss Hutchinson called. "Could you please go get me my pen off of that table over there?" She asked, pointing to a small table where a boy was sitting. Sakura walked over to the table and wrapped her little fingers around the pen. The boy looked up from his children's book. He smiled a little. "I'm Sasuke. What's your name?" Sakura looked at Sasuke and was about to answer, when she saw something in the corner of her eyes. Some little boy was stealing her cookies. She forgot about the boy talking to her and ran to save her cookies. She examined the contents in her book sack. "You stole a bag!" She yelled to the blond boy, wearing an orange shirt.
"No I didn't." He stated, shoving something deeper into his pocket.
"I brought you cookies idiot! Naruto had stolen them because he thought I wasn't going to bring him any snacks like everyone else."
Sasuke still didn't seem to care. His stubborn expression was facing away from me.
"Then when I passed them out you were last in the circle. Besides, the teacher gave you hers anyway." I said, folding my arms across my chest and glaring at him.
"So your telling me," I began, as realization dawned on me. "That you tortured me all this time, for some cookies."
He finally faced me, a smirk forming on his face as his right hand reached up to scratch the back of his head. "Well, after that Naruto told me that if I wanted some attention, all I had to do was act out a little. So I guess I wanted your attention." He answered, smirking a little more. Just like earlier, my actions came from no where. I took a step towards him, my body screaming for warmth, but I pushed all of that out of my head as I pressed my lips against his.
I felt his hands making their way around my waist, giving me chills that had nothing to do with my current temperature. No matter how much I was enjoying the kiss, I couldn't deny the fact that I was freezing cold. I ran my hand along his upper arm and around his neck, until my fingers were entangled in his hair. I stepped even closer, as close as I could possibly get, and deepened the kiss.
We both pulled away for some air. I turned to the side and let out a sneeze, followed by a small sniffle.
"You're shaking." He announced. He sounded angry. Again.
"Um. Yeah so?" I replied, looking at him like he was an idiot. I didn't see what the big deal was. So I was a little cold. Nothing major.
"So your going to get sick, stupid."
I looked at Sasuke. Taking in his stance and his facial expression. We were still pretty close. His arms where folded over his chest. I saw a flash of light out of the corner of my eye. I didn't have any time to think of what it could possibly be before a loud crack of thunder intruded into all of my senses.
I realized I was holding Sasuke's arm a few seconds later. I saw the smirk on his face and ripped my hand away from him immediatley. I turned away from him, copying his stubborn posture.
"Well, I'll change into some warm clothes and shower and then-"
Before I knew it he was close again. His breathe warming one side of my neck. "Could I join you?"
I could feel my face getting hot. I didn't have anything to say. I didn't know what to say. I was tripping all over my words.
"Of course not. You-" I cut myself off before glaring at Sasuke and turning on my heel, making my way towards the bathroom. The door was centimeters from being shut when I heard Sasuke's unusually soft voice.
"Sakura." He started, waiting to see if I was listening. "See you tomorrow." His last words were soft. Not like all the other times he talked to me.
I shut the door the rest of the way and turned on the water to start my shower.
Sasuke's POV
"Sasuke, I thought you'd never get back." Naruto said to me when I walked in the door. "I heard you left with Sakura." He admitted, raising his eyebrows up and down at me.
"So?"
"So..?" He began, looking at me like I was the idiot. I returned the expression. "Tell me what happened stupid."
"I sort of..told her I was into her." I reluctantly admitted, keeping my eyes on the floor so I wouldn't have to see that huge ass smile I knew was going to be on his face.
It had been a long night. I needed to take a shower and get to bed so I'd be ready for tomorrow. That's the thing though. I don't know if I am ready. I don't know how the hell to act around Sakura anymore. I usually just did whatever I wanted and acted like an asshole. But that was before I found out I didn't hate her.
"So Sasuke." Naruto spoke up when I was about to fall asleep. He actually sounded serious. It was kind of creepy. I was going to act like I was sleeping but I wanted to know what he wanted.
"So what?"
"So how much do you like her?"
"What the hell does that mean?"
"I mean," He paused, hesitating. "do you love her?"
"Shit, Naruto. How the hell should I know? I've never actually even liked a girl before."
Naruto didn't say anything after that. It was true though.I didn't even know I liked Sakura this whole time. I felt a little disappointed. Sakura had been fun to mess with and now I couldn't be rivals with her anymore.
I could mess with her though. After all this week is Battle of the Sexes.
Nothing wrong with being a little competitive.
Sakura's POV
I was stepping out of the shower when I saw Karin walking in. I couldn't help the tug I felt at the edges of my mouth when I saw her. "What are you looking so happy about Haruno?"
I walked past her to my bunk and started sliding underneith the covers.
"I flirted with Sasuke tonight. I'm pretty sure our vibes were mutual."
"That's nice. I kissed Sasuke." I knew Karin had planned on rubbing her "Flirting with Sasuke" in my face. So I decided to even it out a little. kissing beat flirting any day for me.
But now that I think about it. Maybe I shouldn't have told Karin that. I shrugged it off and closed my eyes, forgetting everything else but the events from earlier.
"I, uh," He paused. "like you too."
I closed my eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.
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