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Final Chapter: Happily Ever… Vegas?
So, we've reached it. The final chapter. I hope the title doesn't give it all away. It mostly maintained it's original write up, added in a few things because of the last chapter. And I thought about not saying this, but there will be a bonus chapter, that isn't important, but something fun I've decided to do, it will be up soon. I hope you've enjoyed my story, I have started another fic SasuSaku, again that portrays Sasuke very darkly. Reviewers: Thank you for sticking with the story and thanks for your input. Next Bonus Chapter: Kiss your sex life goodbye! Enjoy.
Unable to figure out why Sasuke had written the previous e-mail, Sakura turned her attention to the last one on the list. She could tell it wasn't written all at once. It had two saved dates, the night they had broken up and the night after the wedding.
Dear Sakura,
I can't say I truly understand how you feel, but I'm trying. It actually comes as little shock to me that you broke it off. And even though I wish we were still together and you were lying asleep in my bed like you usually are when I wrote you, I respect your decision.
The last two years, while near the end were rocky, have been the best years of my pathetic life. If someday you forget all about me, I want you to at least remember this: I always cared about you and I always will.
You were my first love Sakura, and you'll always be the only one that this heart belongs too, no matter how ice cold it may be.
Thinking about it more and more, I'm not sure if I can let this break up remain. I love you Sakura, I want you in my bed, not just when we make love or after we make love, but when we don't, when you can't, and when we're too tired too. I want to wake up every morning and see your pink hair under my chin. I want to hear you sing in the shower, when you think I'm still asleep in bed. I hate chick flicks, but I'll go to every one ever made for the rest of my life, just so I can spend time with you. I just can't see a future without you, and I WON'T!
I don't care how long it takes, but I will win you back. I will have my beautiful flower back in my arms if it takes me the rest of my life and some of my after life.
Love,
Sasuke
Sakura had to read the e-mail over a few times before it finally sunk in.
'I can't believe he wrote that.'
It was the first and only e-mail he had ended with 'Love, Sasuke.' Her heartbeat, going crazy already, somehow managed to increase in tempo.
"What… am I suppose to do?"
She placed her head in her hands as more tears began to trickle down her face.
'I can't live without him either. He is basically asking me to move in with him in this e-mail. I can't ignore that… I need to talk to him.'
She looked at the clock on the laptop. 5:55.
'Oh my god! He'll be back in ten minutes. Wow… I've been reading e-mails for seven hours.'
She got up from the computer chair and sat at the edge of his bed. She'd wait for him there.
'Hopefully he still feels the same way.'
Sasuke was driving home after a far too hazardous day. Oddly enough, at the same time Sakura was reading the last e-mail, Sasuke was thinking about it.
'Why did I write that? I tell myself I'll win her back, but then I go about and do things to try and forget… What is wrong with me?'
"Sakura!"
"Huh?"
He looked down at the radio.
"That was Sakura's new song, Frozen Oasis!"
'Even the radio is against me.'
It didn't take long to get home from the car wash and four minutes after six he was walking towards his building. He looked up to see his Landlord standing there, waiting for him.
"Sasuke, there you are."
"I've already paid this month's rent Ernie. What do you want?"
"You know that girl you told me was coming by?"
"My ex, Sakura."
"Yeah, pink hair and a really nice butt."
He wanted to punch him so hard.
"Yeah, pink hair… What about her?"
"She never returned the key."
"What key?"
"Well, she came by this morning shortly before eleven like you told me she would. But, I was busy doing other stuff and couldn't take her to the apartment myself."
'That idiot.'
"So, I gave her the key and told her to return it to me when she was done."
"So…"
"She never came back."
"She probably just forgot. I'll get it back to you later."
"Alright, but just thought I'd let you know."
'Whatever, just go.'
He didn't wait for Ernie to leave and walked inside.
'So she did come by after all. I kinda of hoped she had forgotten.'
As the elevator dinged his floor, he stepped out and turned right towards his front door. The first thing he noticed as he stepped inside was a cardboard box on his coffee table. When he looked inside, he saw Sakura's thing neatly placed within.
'What's her stuff still doing here?'
As he threw his stuff on the couch, he walked across the living room and opened his bedroom door.
"Sakura?"
Sakura was lying on the bed, with her feet hanging over. When she heard his voice, she opened her eyes and leaned back up.
"Sakura, what are you doing?"
"I'm not entirely sure."
'What is she talking about? Wait… Why is she here?"
"Sakura… What…"
Before he could finished, Sakura jumped up, ran to him, and hugged him firmly. She buried her head into his shoulder and started crying.
"Sakura… What's wrong? Why are you crying?"
"Oh Sasuke…" Was all she could say in-between her sobbing.
Sasuke had never seen her like this before, he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't care. He just wanted to stop Sakura's crying and find out what was upsetting her so much.
He patted her head and quickly calmed her down.
"Sakura, Sakura… It's alright. Please, stop crying."
'I don't like it when you cry. Especially when I don't know why and I can't do anything to stop it.'
She stopped crying but her head never left his shoulder.
"Oh Sasuke… I'm so sorry…"
'What! Sorry for what?'
He saw something in the corner of his eye and gently moved them to see what it was. His laptop was open and the e-mail he had written to Sakura on the night they broken up was open.
'Oh… shit…'
He tried to pull away to look at her, but her hug was like a death grip and she wouldn't let go.
"You read them?"
"Yes."
"And…"
"I love you too."
A brief silence filled the space and then…
Sasuke cried. For the first time in his entire life, tears leaked out of his eyes and ran down his face. He couldn't handle this, well he could, but he hadn't been expecting it. He pulled Sakura closer, to where he almost couldn't breathe.
"I… I…"
She managed to wiggle her hand free and placed a finger to his lips.
"You don't have too say it. Not right now."
"But I want too. I need too. Sakura… I love you."
The words had barely left his mouth when she reached up and kissed him. His tears were now running down her face, but she seemed to not notice. She held him and they only parted ways when a need for breath consumed them both.
She looked into his eyes and he could have sworn he saw a sparkle. The love of his life stood before him and only one thought came to mind.
"Marry me."
"What!"
"Marry me… Tomorrow."
"Sasuke, think about what you are saying, we can't get married."
"But I thought…"
"Well, not tomorrow anyway. I'd say in two-three days. Four tops."
He laughed and pulled her into another kiss.
'How could she tease me at a time like this?'
"Vegas!"
"What?"
"We should get married in Vegas. I hear it's the marriage capital of the world."
"I don't care about the world; my world is standing before me."
"Oh Sasuke… I love this side of you!"
"Huh?"
"This 'sharing' side, where you actually tell me how you feel. It gets me so horny, you wouldn't believe!"
"Sakura, you shouldn't talk like that… with your clothes on!"
"Oh Sasuke… Behave!"
"Not when you're in that outfit I can. It screams, take my virginity!"
"But you took that two years ago."
He smirked. They were acting like they had never broken up, and while he loved it, he needed to talk to her about it.
"Sakura."
"Yes."
"We need to talk about why we broke up."
"I guess we should."
"I don't want this to happen again. I don't think I could handle losing you a second time. And this time around, you won't just be my girlfriend, you'll be my wife. So, if I start to act like I was, I want you to call me on it. I might act like a cold heartless asshole, but I don't want to be, not around you anyway."
"Alright, and you do the same, if I ever start to act like you."
"I'll run and hide if that ever happens, you're bad enough already."
He smirked when she pouted a little. He lifted her up and placed her on the bed.
"Sakura."
"Sasuke."
"I love you."
He moved over to her, but instead of kissing her, he laid his head on her chest and wrapped his arms around her. She placed her own hands on his head and smiled.
"I love you too."
'Maybe I should ask him about that second to last e-mail.'
"Sasuke."
"Hm?"
"You aren't mad at me for reading all those e-mails… are you?"
He lifted his head to look at her.
"You read all of them? Sakura… There were over three hundred there."
"I've been here since eleven."
"Loved my place that much?"
"You wish! But anyways, the e-mail before the one that's open. What's it about?"
"Which one?"
Sakura shifted a little before answering.
"The one that says, 'Can you ever forgive me?' and nothing more."
Sasuke placed his hand under his chin and started to think.
"Oh! I accidentally knocked over your tampon box and all of them spilled into the toilet. So none are left."
'That's it!'
"THAT'S IT!"
"I was going to tell you, but you always ran away when I got close. I was going to buy you another box, but I couldn't remember which kind you buy."
"You were going to buy me feminine products? Oh Sasuke, I love you!"
She hugged him before he snuggled his head back onto her chest.
"Anything for my flower."
"Copy cat!"
"Idiot, you can't call everyone who decides to get married after you a copy cat."
"Not everyone, just you. I'm barely back from my honeymoon to find that you are getting married. To your ex-girlfriend, of all people!"
"She isn't my ex anymore. She is my fiancée, and I won't be having you talk badly about her."
"I'd never talk badly about Sakura, she's like the sister I never had."
"And you're the brother I never wanted."
Naruto and Sasuke looked up to see their girls walking towards them.
"Is everyone here yet?"
"InoCho are here, but their at the food court. Kiba and Shino are checking in. Hinata is here, by my side. Oh, you look so cute in that shirt I bought you baby."
"Naruto focus!" Sakura said, glaring at him.
"Huh… whatever. Shikamaru, Neji, Tenten, and Lee you know about. So… I guess it's just Gaara, Temari, and Kankurou, who are late."
"We are three minutes early. I don't call that late."
Naruto jumped up when Gaara spoke from behind him.
"Great! Now that everyone who is going with us is here, all that's left is to board."
Everyone, minus Shikamaru, Neji, Tenten, and Lee, who took an earlier departure, were standing in the airport, getting ready to leave for Las Vegas.
"I can't believe everyone was able to come." Sakura said as she handed her ticket to the lady behind the counter.
"For my girl Sakura, they better of had. Or Chouji would have…"
She was stopped mid-sentence when Chouji placed a kiss on her.
'I love Chouji already!'
Since they got their tickets last minute, they weren't all able to set by each other. But luckily, the seating didn't bother anyone.
After she placed her bag under the seat, she looked around. She was seated next to Sasuke, of course. Three rows behind, Hinata was helping Naruto buckle in.
'She'll be such a great mom. And she gets to practice on Naruto.'
Across from them, Chouji was putting love kisses on Ino's neck. Two rows in front of them, Shino and Kiba were having a thumb war contest. Shino won each one. Further up was Gaara, by himself.
'If you don't count the girl flirting with him, and could he be… flirting back.'
Temari and Kankurou sat across from him, snickering at their little brother's attempt at female/male interaction.
She turned to look at Sasuke, who was going over their flight plan. She clenched on his arm as the plane began to take off. She pouted when he pulled away, only to smile again as he lifted up the arm rest, placed his arm around her, and pulled her close.
"Don't be scared, Sakura."
"Planes don't frighten me."
"I'm not talking about the plane. I'm talking about the rest of our life. I won't ever let go, as long as you won't either."
"Never."
She snuggled up closer to him and closed her eyes.
She had lied when she said she wasn't scared of planes.
