Hi everyone! Here's the next chappie :D. Thank you so muchhh again for waiting (School's been alright so far, but I assure you it's going to get worse :P) *hug*. As in Lee's words: "I'm VERY grateful!" Enjoy ;D And I have a surprise in this one for everybody. Care to guess what it is? :3
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Normal POV:
It wasn't until after Sakura and Sasuke's rather dramatic surprise entrance did the Head Principal Tsunade storm into the now spotless cafeteria, gleaming in bright white from head to toe; every possible corner and angle. Goodness, even the kitchen was exceptionally sparkling. Unbeknownst to her, the tutor and the tutoree had broken the rule of the punishment - only the last three Fierce Four, Naruto, Lee and Ino were required to fulfill it, but with Sakura's ultimate guilt, her and the Uchiha had assisted them...and this was to be a fact their friends would try to conceal from Tsunade.
In truth, Sakura was the one who had spared them ears from Tsunade's scary wrath back at the office. Now they strongly felt it was their turn to give back.
Her cold honey-gold eyes scanned the line of people that had immediately materialized in front of her, although they still had yet to put away the various mops, water buckets and synthetic garbage bags scattered around. Neji, on the other hand, took up a small gap approximately between the line and led an oncoming slew of bowing. "Tsunade-sama," they said in unison, acknowledging her. The said principal nodded back, pursing her lips.
Tsunade placed a manicured hand on her hip. "Hm, I have got to admit - what an excellent job with the cleaning," she told them in amusement, her sharp gaze landing upon each clean tile. "I figure you had no trouble?"
"No, Tsunade-sama," Ino breathed, keeping her stare transfixed on the intimidating woman. Her cleaning company nodded as Shikamaru very quickly glanced at her, yet she was reluctant their thoughts weren't fused with the same worry about a certain pair. Shoot. What she doesn't know is that Sakura and Sasuke helped us! Where the hell did they go? Where did Sasuke grab her to?
The students all stood as still as idle wood logs while Tsunade swiftly circled them, her expression slightly contorted with something similar to doubt. She had also come to scold them about a matter, and this matter might just make them shake. Naruto gulped.
Kiba was just as irked as the blonde idiot was.
"Genuinely...you have all done a great job. But I'm wondering - WHY THE HELL DID YOU SIX MISS THE WHOLE THIRD BLOCK? You better give me a damn good reason for THAT!"
Tsunade's instant wave of fury blew them away, her yell echoing throughout the school. Ino's ice-blue eyes were shimmering with utmost fear...if not to say the same for Lee, Kiba, and Naruto. Whose fault was it that they lost track of the time? Hyuuga Neji's silver orbs glowed dangerously somewhere between Kiba and Naruto's general direction, his mouth suppressing a very dark grimace. They lied to us, the assholes. Do they actually think they can get away with ditching class?
Rock Lee struggled to have his body remain still and not dart away from the monster Tsunade to cower in a random corner. Ino could tell by the strange way his fists were trembling. "Tsunade-sama, we missed t-third block?" the bushy brow stammered, perspired sweat rolling down behind one ear.
With most of her anger drained away; exasperation replacing most of it, she rubbed her temple forcibly. "YES, third block Lee! Asuma was literally choking at the fact that eight of his English 11 students didn't turn up!"
Eight. Shikamaru, who had managed to keep himself together during her terrorizing presence, inwardly swore, every existent obscene word rushing through his genius head. Well then, you could say they had undeniably failed masking another fact that Haruno and Uchiha had been with them. Shit, it's a matter of time until she finds out Sasuke and Sakura are-
"Wait." The principal halted dead in her tracks, eyebrows intensely knit together. Ino and the rest didn't need a calculator as well to think the exact same horrid thing the Nara was.
"You're only six students. So th-" Her eyes blazed suddenly, terrifying realization etched in her raging expression. Naruto ground his teeth furiously, biting back a sullen whimper. Oh my god, she's like Godzilla!
"Do NOT tell me UCHIHA and HARUNO cancelled their TUTORING SESSION and HELPED!"
Ino let out a small scream, flinching at Tsunade's inexplicably scary aura radiating off of her. They were all frantic now, and the rope was growing thinner until it reached its' limit. "U-u-uh, baa-chan, they're-"
"DON'T talk if I didn't ask you to, UZUMAKI!" Naruto whined like a dog, sheltering behind a dumb-founded Kiba. Inuzuka's legs barely stopped to buckle beneath him, and down he went into a crumpled heap, leaving poor Naruto exposed with shaking limbs. Dammit, wake up, Kiba!
The light-haired Senju pierced them with a gaze that clearly represented: 'If-you-don't-tell-me-I-will-kill-you-with-my-bare-hands'. They shook, desperately wishing she hadn't come. Neji's eyes were closed shut now, face blank, but within his brain, an onslaught of hysterics nearly broke out of the usually stoic Hyuuga.
"Where. Are. SASUKE AND SAKURA?"
Sakura's POV:
The hallways remained as ghostly as ever while Sasuke pulled me along, for the rest of the students were currently in class the whole time. And if my ears weren't handicapped, did I just hear muffled yells two floors beneath us? Something within me vaguely hoped nothing serious had occurred. Why did he storm out of the caf with me? Did I do something? Or did they?
Yet again, life is too unpredictable - like what the Uchiha was doing to me now! "S-sasuke, where are we going?"
He didn't answer me. Sasuke's face was unreadable, yet it was like I could almost see a point tick on the side of his head, twitching. His onyx eyes held a high percentage of authority and...this kind of fierce desire my inner tried to clue me in on. I think I have a clear idea of what he wanted to do. OH-
Blushing crazily, I struggled not to hyperventilate, but my head was swimming, and I couldn't think straight. A flood of blood to the veins in my temples throbbed and thudded; was the mere thing I could hear besides wind whizzing past us as we moved...or scurried, even.
I had lost motor control over my body now, and so I let Sasuke drag me as if I was some rag doll. To my shock, we stopped short by an entire section of plain grey lockers, only three steps away from the entrance to the school library flanked by heavy black wooden doors. Thankfully for us, no one was present in there - as of current - because right now wasn't their operation hour quite yet, if I remember correctly. The very prospect of students trickling in and suddenly spotting us doing heaven knows what already gave me unpleasant writhing in my tummy.
"Sasuke-"
The wind was knocked out of me in a stride as my back made contact with the grey lockers, slamming firmly into them. I let out a squeaky yelp; blushes most likely robbed my face of my normal skin color when he did that!
Awestruck, Kami really had twisted my life around when he followed by also slamming both of his arms on either side of my face, therefore caging me in like a clueless bird: a freaking blushing bird. A slew of stuttering threatened to emerge was the complete opposite of what I wanted to do: run-
STAY CALM, Sakura, you'll see!
I-I don't-
"Sakura." I shivered again, mentally freaking out. Sasuke slowly dipped his gorgeous head to meet mine, our foreheads only centimeters apart, and the Uchiha's expression remained fierce and crazy as I heard my breathing grow into pants. Do you know the feeling when you're positive someone must have plugged your lungs shut so that your chest tightens?
Well...no mistake I was feeling it right now!
His suddenly smoldering obsidian orbs piercing my wide shocked ones made my brain blow right off the top of my head, and was probably floating in eternal paradise as my soul wandered away somewhere too - like watching both of us from a different body.
I admit it. Uchiha Sasuke had turned Haruno freaking Sakura into jiggly jelly. I felt like I was sinking into his eyes and about to lose it.
"Sasuke...w-wh-"
"Let me talk." The deep yet silky tone in his voice shut me up immediately.
I observed his eyes roam along me; penetrate every inch of skin I had on my body as bigger pricks stabbed my neck. And wasn't I supposed to feel rather GREATLY violated? Something was seriously wrong with me - or maybe it's just Sasuke...
"Don't talk to Kiba ever again, you hear me?"
"Wh-"
"'Cause I said so! You don't know what he might do to you-"
A streak of faint anger burned in my conscious. He didn't say I was some careless, lousy slut, right?
My brows furrowed, although I was still sweating uncontrollably. Sasuke hadn't lifted his forehead from my huge one, either!
"You're telling me what to do?"
"It turns out I am, Sakura-"
"Why?" I snarled under my breath, a pout on my lips. Oh shoot, I should never have pouted. And why was I ANGRY? He's going to say-
"You're so cute when you're angry." Fresh peppermint breath again fanned across my face, sending a network of electrons buzzing across my system. Oh god.
"I..."
Sasuke smirked, and I think I had died once again.
"Stay away from Inuzuka."
"But I wanna be his friend-" I whined. It's true!
"You won't be his anything," he shot back, and now the tips of our noses brushed seductively together. Are you kidding me? This is all a dream. A dream, I tell you!
"Sasuke - why?"
An intense low growl was his reply as he quickly snatched my perspiring hands and pinned them over my head; his lips crashed into mine. A muffled cry escaped my mouth as my eyelids, on the other hand, slid shut automatically. Okay - 'squeezed shut' was more accurate. I trembled slightly.
But he's KISSING ME! A wild fire had finally broken out of me and steamed my pores inside and out, and at the same time it was like a strong current threatening to carry me away! I pressed my mouth back to his by reflex, and he responded - GLADLY - by gently biting my top lip indicating entrance, and by reflex for the second time there went my tongue as his easily tangled with it; explored my gaping hole of a mouth after. Red spots began to dot the inside of my eyes. I was in utter disbelief.
I'd never been kissed like this before in my life! And Uchiha Sasuke of the Fierce Four was kissing Haruno Sakura!
His lips then moved across my jawline hungrily as I had lost all my previous wills. The world should have been shaken up decently by now, so the only option to wake me out of this sleepy bout of a dream was to kick me!
Then, Sasuke murmured a brief reply against the delicate skin of my neck where he had shifted to succeeding my jawline. "I'll show you why." The places where he had kissed me burned and sizzled.
And it was all so instant I was taken off-guard during this entire make-out session. My grey matter was empty and blank. I didn't know what to do except kiss him back again, and then I had a VERY clear idea of what people meant when they mentioned 'tonsil hockey'. God!
I'd lost track of the time as well, so I had no recollection at all of how long we had kissed. I was inexplicably (emphasis on that) thankful it didn't go any further - because my inner was shouting in my ear that Sasuke could actually go further any time he freaking liked - but just not here.
We broke away, and I sucked in a prolonged breath, still dazed out of my wits.
What happened just now?
Sasuke did the same but more easily, and suddenly embarrassed (don't ask me why), I looked up at him from beneath my thick curved lashes. He was actually smirking for the umpteenth time at me, and I jumped at the sharp tinny of the bell, signaling class was over and the last block of the day was ahead.
Over...
CRAP! In a nervous wreck, doors started to burst open as countless students filled up the hallway in less than 0.5 seconds as if they were ants. I gaped at Sasuke all over again, free of any words and oblivious of wandering stares curiously observing both of us together., and I was too out of it to even note hordes of girls that had materialized out of nowhere behind him, stars in their eyes and crap. I bit my lip as he talked to me. "I'll see you later then, pinkie."
I choked. Still no words poured out. What the heck am I supposed to say to him now? Should I even show my face? I'm SO embarrassed! What did he do to me?
"I...I..."
"I guess that's a yes. I'll be going, Sakura." He chuckled, and the flash of a wink he gave me nearly made my stomach drop. Shoving the fan girls out of his way (I ignored their very dark and scary death glares at me) as he whirled on his heel to reach a certain blonde haired idiot at the end of the hallway along with four more figures - and for some reason Naruto seemed disturbed to me, yet again it might just be my hazy mind - a hand from nowhere tugged me away from the giggling clumps and green monsters.
I saw it was Ino who, as of now, was currently dragging us to Kurenai-sensei's Socials block, and both of us said nothing during our trip to her classroom.
What had gone wrong in the caf, I pondered, yet my mind, however, was also still in a deep state of freaking flux, too. I felt like stirred oatmeal, for god's sake!
Inside Kurenai-sensei's classroom...
I am NOT supposed to be feeling for the School King!
Are you dense enough to not notice either, Sakura? The Uchiha, as you know, tend to be extremely overprotective when it comes to their property. They take a...big...liking to it.
WHAT? I-I'm not his property! Who does he think he IS? Now you're pushing the limit inner, no way-
Not that kind of property, jeez, why can't you listen to me first? What I mean is: Sasuke probably...and most likely...already feels an intense attraction-an attachment-to you! Get my drift? He's beginning to not stand other guys flirting with you, touching you, doing God knows what with you, and even talking to you (in the slightest included) if it isn't him; if it isn't Uchiha Sasuke and Sasuke ALONE! Tell me you don't notice how rigid he gets when you're around somebody like Kiba and I swear I'll rip your neurons apart!
...
I was duped, speechless and drained of words to say, because, for the first time I've seen a yellow sun rise and set every school morning, my Inner was right.
She was so right! Oh my freaking god...and let me add a huge 'holy shiznits' in there for more spice.
Hah, got you there now, right? You also obviously deny the possibility I always point towards 24/7-which you stupidly miss, by the way-that you find yourself fawning over him like a love-sick puppy! Again, how could you NOT have realized that?
...I'm not you, Inner.
Admit it, Sakura.
Being in utter denial was the dead giveaway I was falling for Uchiha Sasuke, the Fierce Four's star at the top of the pyramid. Do you remember when I insisted to myself before I was in the same proximity as him (more importantly, before he was my Math tutor) that I wasn't going to let myself feel any type of gravitational pull whatsoever towards the charismatic, arrogant guy (do my resolves in not liking him as well ring a bell)?
I described Sasuke in the most despising way I can manage! It wasn't planned for Haruno Sakura, the unpopular school nerd, at all, to fall head-over-heels for the Algebra tutor I never asked for in the first damn place. In my case, I was falling...hard, for him. The mention of the basketball captain's name sent enormous, impractical masses of girls my age to drop down dead on the sidewalk, drooling and fantasizing they were in my shoes.
I just had to make more than half of the school's female population hate me like crazy. What am I, the wicked witch of the West? More like the wicked witch of Konoha. It's fitting. But leave out the 'wicked' component of that.
Now I couldn't believe I was slowly morphing, better yet, transforming, into a walking stutter-machine that blushed excessively and constantly felt like darting out of Sasuke's sight the instant he walked into the room, stood near me; when he would see me, and tutor me!
At times I felt like I would crumble - or worse, lose control - when I was with him. I mean, he KISSED ME and I KISSED HIM BACK. OH MY GOD!
Lastly, I was shamelessly confident I would succeed, unlike other females in Konohagakure Preparatory, in keeping our worlds (our two very different worlds that were also supposed to remain parallel towards each other; obstructing possible paths of encounters with the other, albeit we were attending the same high school) separate, as much as belonging in different social classes was obvious enough to realize!
Sasuke and I were supposed to clash and repel, NOT clash then friggin' mix, with each other! Weren't those the rules of this distorted society where popularity, fame, and riches mattered?
Turns out I was wrong.
I was so wrong that the butterflies already enjoying the acidic company of my stomach chyme had just multiplied by a thousand.
No, a billion!
Dazed, I dragged an oddly silent Ino behind me to our desks (which were thankfully beside each other) for the last period of the day.
My head was hazy. It was reeling like once strong, flawless clock-work now full of anomalies...not that I really did have errors to start with, either (I have a sensible head, okay? Unless a certain cute, raven-haired teenager screwed with it already!)
My eyes: blurry.
My lips were pouting; were slick with coats of my own spit and someone else's.
Me: blushing uncontrollably.
Ino's hand lashed out from the desk beside me to squeeze my fingers as she sensed my emotions, indicating I had a hopeless list of yapping and explaining to do regarding what she'd witnessed minutes ago later.
Much, much later.
I sat there idly in my seat at the front of Kurenai-sensei's socials classroom, random thoughts speeding inside my head as I cautiously and carelessly considered what I was supposed to do now, and enjoyed the relaxing feel of propping up my arm on the desk to cradle my sweaty cheek as I thought about reasonable and senseless things. Heh, I felt like Shikamaru.
I'd better go explain everything to Ino before the Fierce Four come into the classroom, along with him.
Before he comes and wiggles my pounding heart around my chest; cripples it by the major vein I keep on trying to close, to no avail. (1)
It happened too fast, in my opinion.
And Uchiha Sasuke would always wrench my artery open again, letting the flow of my boiling blood rush throughout my body so that I could see who he really was. Or is.
Eh, it's difficult to describe how I feel, but...I guess it's like a surreal dream! You know those romance stories you read on Fanfiction (I have my own account, mind you, but hush about that!) laying down the instances when the guy has changed due to someone...or something the girl did to him, and the girl is way too slow to have caught up on it?
I tell you, the girl sees him differently. And then the guy sees her differently. It's a male and female pseudonym: Opposites Attract?
Yep, I think so, too.
It's the law of static charge! (Yeah, I'm excelling in Biology unlike a certain crappy course, except I was positive the law of static charge didn't apply to life science. Whatever, I simply wanted to make a point here, so...)
The law states that a) like charges repel each other, b) opposite charges attract, and c) neutrally charged objects attract charged objects. I couldn't care less about options a. and c.
Option b. was the flashing neon billboard sign sticking up in the middle of my grey matter, visible for all my neurons far and wide to see.
Care if I list comparisons? The Uchiha was stoic, narcissistic, mostly conceited and rarely showed emotion unless he wanted to. He had jet-black hair, onyx eyes, a muscular body, pale skin, the usual faint-worthy; naturally photogenic looks, including the abs!
I, on the other hand, was loud,- not as loud as Naruto, thank cheese - cheerful, outgoing, encouraging, was used to being modest; basically let my emotions get the upper hand on me until it was too much.
I had natural bubble-gum pink hair, emerald-green eyes, pale skin; non-photogenic looks - including my rather skinny body (I don't consider myself photogenic, anyways.)
Oh, and he was tall so that my huge forehead aligned with his chin if you placed us side by side.
What is up with me and an honourable member of Konoha's rich class, to be exact? Ah, I would tell someone minding to ask that "Uchiha Sasuke's my Algebra tutor. He's a great one, too,"and wait - with much disdain, probably - until the person who had asked closes their dropped jaws.
Don't forget I strictly belonged to a social rank beneath the Uchiha, which meant: there was a fine line between interacting with citizens of a different class, I assume. But that was UNFAIR. What kind of ridiculous rule was that? I also personally thought no one really abided by that rule, judging with the Fierce Four not hesitating to interact with Ino, Naruto and Lee at all when we're in school.
Initially I had yet to wait for their interactions with us outside of campus, though.
As for Sasuke...he was doing more than that with me, oh god!
Are they any similarities you can spot between us?
Sorry for the random descriptions, hehe. I felt like I needed to loosen up a bit after what I've experienced today. My glassy, distant gaze never left the spot on the floor between my feet as I continued to stare, and it seemed like Ino fell quiet and buried her blonde head in her slender arms as Naruto, followed by Lee and most of our classmates, trickled inside, gliding to their desks. I wondered curiously what happened. They're not really talking as the custom. Well, it's not as if I expected them to tell me immediately, either.
All I had to do was wait.
Wait until the Fierce Four reached Yuuhi Kurenai's classroom. Kami. Simply there were four more vacant desks left as I robotically scanned the place, students exchanging gossip and whatsoever, spending the time before the fourth period bell. I heard nothing but the ominous thumps of my swelling heart within my ears.
I was shaken up, to say the least. And surprised, and fascinated: all at the same time.
About Sasuke: have I seen who he was before (if 'before' was the proper word to put in there)? Or am I already seeing who he really is? In other words: is he crawling out of his insensitive shell?
Alright you dumb-ass, now you just confused yourself!
Donee! If any of you guessed Sasuke and Sakura were finally going to kiss: you were RIGHT! XD Thank youuu so much for supporting me through this story...and believe me, I will continue this fanfic work until it ends - and may a sequel come up ^_^.
(1) Caught the 'Bleeding Love' song's reference by Leona Lewis? Gawd, I actually think it was written for SasuSaku hehe.
And oh yeh, if any of you are interested, I have a deviantart account: blossomchan96 . deviantart .com (no spaces) :D I'm planning to create some fanart of my story :P. I know, what an effort, right? Well I LOVE drawing, SasuSaku and this story, so you could assume they're gifts for all my reviewers and supporters! I'll notify you all of this in an author's note hopefully in the future, yaay!
GOD. SCHOOL. One word: DISLIKE.
xyama-chanx xoxo