Chapter 11: Dawn
Sasuke's POV
I woke up with my arms wrapped around a beautiful girl. I blinked a few times, waiting for the grogginess of morning to wear off and letting my eyes adjust to the light. The midday sun peered through the curtains of my bedroom, giving everything a bright glow. Suddenly all the events from the day before flooded back into my mind. Sakura calling for help. Sakura and I going for a run. Sakura and I kissing…
I took a deep breath, breathing in the sweet scent of her hair. She smelled like cherry blossoms. Trying not to wake her, I sat up carefully. I obviously failed, because she stirred and began to speak.
"Good morning, Sasuke," she said slowly, battling sleep.
"Good morning. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up. Go back to sleep, Sakura," I leaned over and kissed her forehead lightly, stroking her hair. I smiled inwardly when I heard her sigh under my touch. I leaned back to leave the bed when something warm caught my wrist. Slightly startled, I looked back to see her hand holding my hand, tugging me closer.
"Don't go," Sakura murmured. "Stay…" I gave in, laying back down next to her. She yawned once, stretching her arms above her head. Afterwards, she looked at me with her huge green eyes. I reached a hand up to stroke the side of her face, loving the feel of her smooth skin. She closed her eyes and smiled. Then she wiggled closer to me so that our heads were on the same pillow, eyes at the same level.
"You're beautiful," I whispered, twirling my finger in a lock of her hair. Her eyes widened a bit and she blushed slightly. As almost an instinct, I kissed her rosy cheeks then moved my hand to the back of her neck, tilting her head up so that our foreheads touched. I breathed her in, feeling her pulse beating in her neck. I felt her heart rate rise significantly as I brushed my lips across her eyelids, then at the tip of her nose. It rose even further when I let our lips touch.
Sakura sighed, wrapping her arms around my neck and I moved my body so that I was on top of her. We did this without disconnecting our lips even once.
"Sasuke," she sighed my name against my open mouth, and I slipped my tongue in. Feeling adventurous, I reached my hand down to the hem of her camisole, raising it up. I left it there, and ran my hand along the toned skin of her stomach. She shuddered under me and I smiled, pulling back and looking in to her eyes. Slowly, I pulled her top up and over her head, revealing a lacy black bra. I drank in the sight of a topless Sakura underneath me. Overwhelmed, I kissed her again on the lips, then made my way down her neck, then to her collarbone, then to her chest. She arched her back and I took that chance to slip my hands under her, beginning to unhook her bra. Abruptly she flattened herself against the mattress and looked up at me with wide eyes. I panicked. Was I going to fast?
Her next words eased my worry. "Not yet, Sasuke. Your shirt has to go too," She whispered seductively, pointing to my chest. Wanting to get back to what I was doing, I quickly raised my arms, bringing my shirt up and over my head then discarding it to the floor.
"There," I said, going in for another kiss. Instead, she grabbed either side of my head with her hands and wrapped her leg around me. She then lifted all her weight up, flipping me over. The next thing I knew, she was straddling me with a smirk.
"Mmm, I like being on top much better," she said, turning me on. She put her hands on my chest, running her long fingers along my abdomen. She leaned over and our lips met in a heavy kiss. I reached my hands around her back, grabbing her bra clasp and undoing the first hook. I was working on the second when my house phone rang. Sakura sat up on my stomach, eyes wide.
"Ignore it," I told her, motioning for her to kiss me again. Instead, she looked around my room.
"But what if it's important?" she thought aloud, spotting the phone on my dresser then climbed off the bed to get it. I sighed, running a hand through my hair. It better be an emergency I thought. Sakura answered my phone and I leaned back into the pillows, calming myself down from that heated make-out session that had just been so rudely interrupted.
"Naruto? What's up?" Of course it would be the Dobe that would call at such a time. Only he could pull something like that off. "Okay...Okay, we will….Okay, I'll tell him….Okay, bye," Sakura said into the phone then hung up. She climbed back over to the bed and sat cross-legged, facing me. She rested her palms on my stomach, feeling my chest rise and fall with every breath.
"What did he want?" I asked her.
"He said that he's having another party tonight. And he wants us to pick up some drinks for the open bar again," she said.
I closed my eyes and sighed once more, sitting up and getting out of the bed, giving Sakura a peck on her cheek. "I guess we have no other choice."
"…Vodka, tequila, martini mix, I think we're all good, Sasuke," Sakura said to me after looking in our cart. She smiled up at me and I returned it with a grin of my own. We continued to walk around the store and I picked up on two little girls who were following us around.
"Hey, Mei, look at the couple over there," the first girl said.
"Whoa, they look like celebrities!" the friend, Mei, replied. "Who do you think they are?"
"I don't know. Maybe we should ask for their autographs!" At that moment I turned my head around to look at them. I didn't give them any kind of look in particular, wanting to hear what they had to say. I looked down at Sakura next, and she was quietly smirking, obviously listening in on the two girls' conversation as well.
"Oh. My. God. That guy is so cute. Gosh, I'd kill to be that girl. Ahh," the first girl said.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. She is so lucky, and I bet she doesn't even know it!"
Sakura tilted her head closer to me and whispered, "Oh, I know it," then gave me a wink.
"MEI, DID YOU SEE THAT? She winked at her boyfriend!" The girls squealed.
"What's going on here?" A middle-aged woman asked, and I assumed it was one of their mothers. There wasn't much noise after that, but I could feel the weight of three pairs of eyes and imagined what was going on behind our backs. The girls were probably pointing in our direction, telling the woman their speculations about Sakura and me being superstars. Then the mom must have looked over and seen all the alcohol we had in our cart because she hastily ushered the girls away from our aisle, whispering reminders to them to never, ever drink until they were of age.
"May I have your autograph, O Famous One?" Sakura asked me after the girls had left, humbly handing over her phone. Playing along, I opened up a new memo page and asked who I should sign it to.
"Hmm," she hummed as she thought, "'To the lovely girl with pink hair, you are amazing and gorgeous, and I totally wish that Naruto hadn't called this morning and interrupted us, signed, Sasuke Uchiha."
Grinning, I typed in a short message into her phone and hit Done. I handed the phone back to her. "You didn't write what I told you to, did you," Sakura mumbled, pretending to be mad.
"Nope. Don't read it until Naruto's party tonight."
She put the phone into her back pocket, confused, and asked, "Why not?"
I turned to face her. "Just promise me you won't read that message until Naruto's party."
"O-okay. I promise," she said. The checkout line had cleared up by then and we piled up our purchase onto the moving belt. While ringing up our items, the clerk gave us a strange look, eyeing us suspiciously. When she told us the total and took my credit card, she asked to see my I.D. I gladly handed it over to her, and noticed when her eyebrows shot up after verifying that I was 21. She packed the bottles into bags and Sakura and I brought them out to my car.
"Thanks for letting me stop by and change," Sakura stepped out into her living room, where I was sitting, waiting for her to put on her party clothes. She had changed into a tan leather jacket over a tight-fitting black dress that accentuated her curves. Finishing off her look were snake print pumps. I stood up, walking over to her. Even with the seven inch heels, she was still several inches shorter than me.
"Of course. And you look wonderful, by the way," I whispered in her ear. "Don't break too many hearts tonight."
She laughed and walked around me towards the door, holding my keys out to me. "Let's get going, I promised Naruto and Ino that we'd be there early."
Sakura's POV
The pounding bass rumbled through my body and I shook my hips to the rhythm. I had been dancing with Ino, Tenten, and Temari for an hour since Naruto's party started. Super Bass by Nicki Minaj blasted from the speakers.
"Sakura, wanna get another drink?" Ino shouted in my ear.
I did an inventory of my body, deciding that I would still be relatively sober even with one more drink. "Alright!" I replied, taking her hand and letting her lead me out of the crowd. We passed Naruto, who was with Neji and Kiba, and Ino leaned in for a quick kiss. I waved to my best friend and we continued to the bar.
"Two 'Skinny Girl's, please," Ino said to the bartender, leaning on the counter. She was wearing a cute top with a black miniskirt and red pumps.
"Love those shoes," I said to her. She looked down at her feet then smiled at me.
"I just got them! Aren't they adorable?"
I nodded, taking one of the two margaritas the bartender put in front of us. I took a sip and sighed, thinking about the day. I turned to Ino.
"Hey, I've got a funny story to tell ya!"
"What?" she asked.
"Well, Sasuke and I were at the supermarket before the party to stock the bar," I gestured to the bar we were currently at, "And there were these two little girls who were following us around and saying how cute we looked together and—" I dropped my sentence and my eyes grew wide, remembering something.
"What? What is it?" Ino asked, surprised by my sudden silence. I hastily placed my glass down and reached into my jacket pocket, pulling out my phone. I opened my Memos and pulled up the only one that was there.
Ino held her hand out, and I put my phone in her palm after reading the note. I watched carefully as Ino read, blue eyes growing huge. She started jumping around and squealing, returning my phone to me. "OH MY GOD! OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD SAKURA!"
Taking my phone back, I re-read the message slowly:
Meet me in Naruto's guest bedroom –S.
I looked back up at an EEEEEEing Ino, who then grabbed my shoulders and looked me right in the eyes. "Sakura. Sakura! Sakura. Are you there? SAKURA!"
"What..?" was all I could say. I was still in disbelief.
"Ok, tell me something first, does that S stand for Sasuke?" she demanded.
"Um… Yeah. He took my phone earlier and told me to read the memo during the party… I forgot all about it until just now."
"Sakura…. You know what this means?"
"No…?" My mind felt unusually groggy.
"Sakura. Let me help you. Sasuke is waiting for you in Naruto's guest bedroom right now and you're going to go meet him in there, got it?" Ino shook me a little bit.
"O-okay," I blurted. I took a sip from my margarita and the taste of alcohol snapped me out of it. Sasuke is waiting for me in a bedroom. He's in there, and he's waiting for me to come. I told myself. I started to smile.
"That's the spirit! Now go!" Ino said when she saw my lips curve up. She turned me around and pushed me lightly in the direction of the hallway. My confidence built back up with every click of my heels through Naruto's condo to the point where my head was high and a huge smile was present on my face.
I reached Naruto's guest bedroom and stood in front of the closed door. I fixed my dress and felt my hair to make sure it was behaving. Then I opened the door.
I stepped into the room, closing the door behind me. The loud music could still be heard through the walls, but was blocked enough for normal speech to be heard. "Sasuke?" I called, walking around the corner.
"Sakura, there you are. I was starting to think that you'd forgotten about the memo," Sasuke said. He was sitting on the edge of the bed, holding his phone. He put it away as he rose from his seat and walked over to me. With my heels on, I only came up to the base of his neck; damn, he was tall. And tall guys were absolutely my type.
"Hey," Sasuke said softly, raising my chin to give me a kiss. He held the front of my jacket in his hands, sliding it off my shoulders then throwing it to the side. He broke the kiss, giving me a smile. Keeping hold of my hand, he walked over to the door and pressed the lock in.
When he looked back at me, I gave him a seductive smile. "Just what did you call me in here for?" I asked.
He returned my look with a seductive smile of his own. "To finish what we started," was his reply. Sasuke began walking towards me, and I stepped backwards, letting the electricity build between us. My back hit the wall and I smirked as he put his hands on the wall, on either side of me. He pressed his body up against mine, trapping me between him and the wall. I breathed out a laugh and wrapped my arms around his neck, looking into his onyx eyes. I brought his head close to mine, letting our lips touch.
"Mmm" he hummed against my mouth. I lifted one of my legs then wrapped it around his waist, kicking off my shoe in the process. I did the same with my other leg, attaching myself to Sasuke. He pushed me farther up along the wall and kissed me more passionately. "Ahh."
He moved his mouth to the pulse in my neck, kissing it softly. My heart rate rose rapidly when he lowered his hand and ran his fingers along my thigh. With the same hand, he pushed my already-riding-up dress further up my body, exposing more skin. He tickled my side, making me laugh softly.
Sasuke grabbed my feet from behind his back and untangled them, unwrapping them from his waist. I stepped back onto the ground. I moved away from Sasuke, holding the bottom of my dress. When I was about five feet away, I lifted the little black dress over my head, tossing it to the floor. Sasuke came up to me then, wrapping his arms around my waist, feeling the skin of my back. I leaned back a little to access the buttons of his shirt. I expertly undid them with one hand while the other was in the back pocket of his jeans. After slipping his shirt off, I ran my fingers along his torso, amazed at his muscularity. My fingers trailed over his finely defined abs and he shivered, bringing his mouth back onto mine. He picked me up and brought me over to the bed, laying himself over me. I broke the kiss immediately, giving him a look. He met my eyes with a questioning look. In answer I place me hands squarely on his chest, pushing him to the side on his back, then pounced on top of him.
"I think this is where we left off," I said huskily, pulling his hands by his wrists to my back. Catching on, he set his fingers to work.
Things happened pretty quickly after that. My bra came off, his belt and jeans fell to the floor, then I wiggled out of my panties and he took off his boxers. This was probably the most pleasurable party I had ever attended.
….. When it was over I lied against Sasuke, both of us tangled in the sheets. I had my ear right above his heart and listened to his steady heartbeat over the music coming from the party that was still raging on the other side of the door. He stroked my hair and traced patterns on the skin of my back. We didn't say much, preferring to bask in each other's presence. I was content with the idea of lying there with him for the rest of my life.
"I love you, Sasuke," I said, looking at his face.
"I love you, Sakura," He replied, kissing my forehead.
"We should get up now…" I mumbled. We sat up and got out of the bed, putting our clothes back on. I was in the middle of getting my dress on when there was a sharp rap on the door and someone shouting on the other side to open up. I looked over to Sasuke, who was finishing buttoning up his shirt. He walked over to the door and opened it once I had my dress on properly.
Much to my suprise, Kakashi, Naruto's assigned KIA bodyguard, ran in, looking around the room sharply. Usually, at Naruto's parties, he would act as the bouncer and when his duties were finished would blend into the walls, keeping an eye on things. He rarely ever interacted with the guests. Even I had only spoken to him a few times, despite him being present whenever I hung out with Naruto. "Where is Naruto?" he harshly demanded more than asked.
"We don't know. What's going on?" Sasuke answered for us. I was working on putting on my second shoe when Kakashi answered.
"There is an emergency. Don't ask questions yet. Help me look for Naruto, and tell me if you find him," he said to us. I was just about to ask how we were supposed to alert him over the music when he held out his hand and revealed to us two headsets, the kind KIA agents wore. "Be discreet but quick. We don't want to start a scene."
Sasuke and I each took one, hastily thrusting them into our ears and running out the door behind the white-haired man. Please be safe, Naruto!