Know you have been waiting for this. who is the person who walked in and what will happen? It's good.
Thanks to all the reviewers. I did get a few reviews that said people were confused. so let me clear it up. Sakura did get an abortion. i did kind of subtly but that was in chapter 5. so i did go back to the last chapter and corrected a few things to make it easier to read and such. thanks for the good comments on my first lime/lemon. i wasn't sure how it would turn out. so thanks a bunch.
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Chapter 11
Overcoming
The two broke the kiss and immediately looked towards the door. It was then that Sakura realized they weren't in her room, but her mothers. She had just done it in her mother's bed. She would have relaxed if not for the fact that it was her mother staring at them from the door.
Emerald eyes darted from her mother to Sasuke and then back to her mother. This had to of looked really really bad. She was in her mother's bedroom, in her mother's bed, naked, with a guy who was also naked and they had done it. Oh crap she was so busted.
"Mom! What are you doing here?" she asked sitting upright instantly, bringing the covers closer to her chest unveiling Sasuke a little, who didn't do look to pleased with the situation or being slightly uncovered.
"What am I doing here? I live here and what a welcome surprise to come home and find my daughter in my bed and I can only assume you two had sex. Sakura what are you thinking?" her mother turned her focus solely on her.
"Mom, we, I ... I know this looks bad but-"
"Looks bad? That's an understatement." her mother mocked.
"Mom let me finish!" Sakura snapped. "How was I supposed to know you would come home. You're never here and if you are then you are usually only here for a few weeks before leaving again to go gallivant where ever you want to. We didn't mean to end up here last night it just sort happened."
"I don't need you to talk to me young lady. I'm not the one who got raped." the older Haruno said rashly and Sasuke saw Sakura pale.
It hit Sakura then why her mother had really left. She was ashamed. Not for her daughter's future marriage plans but because her innocent daughter was no longer innocent. She didn't want to be around a daughter that was a disappointment.
"Get out." Sakura hissed.
"What?" her mother asked.
"I said get out."
"Saku-"
"Get. Out!" she finally yelled at her mother. Her mother's eyes went from her to Sasuke then back to her.
"Fine then. Goodbye Sakura." turning sharply on her heel the older Haruno walked away from the doorway and both Sasuke and Sakura could hear the slam of the front door as she woman exited the house.
Without warning she suddenly broke into tears. Changing her position again she brought her knees up and tucked them up to her half-covered chest and cried. Feeling a hand on her exposed back she turned her head to see Sasuke there.
He wasn't sure exactly how to deal with these situations but he would try, he would try for her. Without warning to him she launched herself into his arms changing her position again. He welcomed her into his chest and wrapped his arms securely around her, really never wanting to let go.
She awoke several hours later to an empty bed besides herself. Propping herself she looked around the seemingly vacant room. Sitting up she stretched her arms upwards letting the covers pool around her waist only snatching them quickly when the door opened revealing a Sasuke with a tea tray.
It was kind of surprising to see Sasuke bringing her tea especially since he wasn't normally the 'take care of you' guy. But she had to give off a smile to him because he was trying and he was trying for her. She shuffled backwards a little to let her back rest against the headboard.
Sasuke took a seat on the edge of the bed after placing the tea tray on one the side table nearer to her. He just sat there and she watched him. Slowly her hand reached out to the tea and took a sip of it, eyes locked on the man's form.
Her mind swam with questions and thoughts. Moving her green eyes from the man she looked elsewhere in the room. The open door seemingly caught her attention and she thought of her mother. What she had said was true yet she knew it was hurtful to her mother.
She knew that Sasuke didn't mean to bring them into this room but with everything that happened last night it was closest room available and thinking back she didn't want to wait. Even if she had realized it had been her mother's room she probably wouldn't have taken the time to tell him to go to her room, besides, her mother would have found them anyways.
"What are you thinking about?" his rich voice broke her thought process and she looked at him. His elbows were now resting on his knees and his interlaced fingers were supporting his chin.
"About last night." she spoke quietly. It was the truth. " and my mother."
"Do..do you regret it?" he asked, almost pained. Hadn't they talked about this that morning before they were interrupted? No, they talked about them not what had occurred.
"No." she saw his eyes look towards her. "I don't regret it."
"Why?" he sure was full of questions this morning.
"You helped me feel wanted."
"How?"
"Sasuke, it's hard. I thought that because of what happened I would never get the chance to get my happy ending. That's also why I thought my mother left, was because now I couldn't marry anyone from a prominent clan. But you, last night, what you said, you made me feel wanted. It made me feel special and I haven't felt that special in a long time."
he turned his face towards her arms falling so they dangled off his knees now. He looked into her face, into her eyes. She was telling the truth. He had seen how she had kept herself bottled up inside herself and her home. It was why she didn't have missions for long periods of time. It explained everything.
"Don't think you aren't special Sakura, because you are, to me." he spoke softly. "You helped me, now I want to return to the favor."
"Is that was last night was then. A one night favor?" he shook his head, she was taking it the wrong way.
"No, last night was you and me. And it was real. It wasn't a one night thing because I don't do that when I want a relationship." he stated.
"Then where does it go now?" she brought the sheet tighter and more securely around herself.
"A relationship. Something that will last." he spoke with slight uncertainty in his voice.
"Like, with future considerations?"
"Aa."
"Like engagement and possibly marriage?"
"Aa."
"Sasuke, I don't know." telling him uncertainly.
"Sakura, I want there to be an engagement and a marriage in the future. I don't just don't have sex with any girl whenever. I'm not like that." he brought his arms up again and rested his chin against his interlaced fingers once again.
"Sasuke, I.... this is hard for me. I mean with what happened with...Ichiro and then getting pregnant and the abortion, I just...I just..." she wanted to say something, anything that might make him feel a little better.
"No. It's fine. You need your space and I will give it to you, just let me know when you want what I want." he stood up and turned to her leaning down and giving her a chaste kiss on the lips, lightly sucking on her lower lip before letting go and walking out of the room and then the house, leaving her staring out the door confused and disappointed.
She was so confused right now. She wanted Sasuke but at the same time she didn't. He was willing to give them a try, yet she wasn't. He had just clearly showed her how he felt about her. The night before had been better than she could have ever imagined it. It was perfect, yet the relationship wasn't.
Then there was her mother. What right did she have for just coming in and getting mad at her? It was an accident they ended up in her mother's bed. Both of them hadn't been thinking clearly so it was an honest mistake.
The other thing was that her mother just showed up and started bossing her around and telling her what was wrong and prying into her business when it wasn't her business. She would have thought her mother would have been to have had her daughter sleep with the Uchiha.
But instead her mother turned it around and used it against her. Practically proclaiming to her daughter that her daughter was a whore. Sleeping around with men, whoever they may be. She could probably assume that her mother had slept with other men on her travels.
Getting herself out of the bed she took a shower, relieving stress and soreness. The water felt soothing as it beat down upon her tight muscles. Heaving a long sigh she knew it would be a long day.
She had been relieved from hospital duty that day so she decided to be courteous to her mother and wash her sheets and remake the bed. She tidied up the house and went out for a little to only get groceries for herself and possibly for her mother as well.
She hadn't seen her again and knowing her mother's temper she had probably waltzed right out of the village again without leaving a note. So it was surprising when she was summoned to the Hokage's office to 'talk' later on that day.
Walking into the room she saw her shishou looking over a parchment of paper. Taking a seat in one of the chairs before the desk she kept quiet and waited for the older woman to speak first before she said anything.
"Do you know what this is?" the Godaime asked her waving the piece of parchment. She shook her head. "Well I'll tell you what it is. It's a letter from your mother. Apparently she has decided to leave Konoha and settle elsewhere, saying she didn't feel welcome anymore. Care to explain?" Tsunade had the piece of paper dangling between two fingers.
"My mother came home this morning. She caught me off guard and some things were said and she left. I didn't think it would be enough to make her leave permanently but that is her choice." Sakura said, wanting to leave out the details of her and Sasuke together.
"In her letter she said she saw you with someone else. Who might this other someone be?"
"I'd rather not say, to keep him anonymous."
"Fine. But you do realize that your mother won't be coming back. This letter clearly dictates that. She apparently has found a nice residence in a village that she came upon in her travels and wishes to reside there."
"It is her choice and decision and I will respect it." Sakura told the woman firmly before getting out of the chair, walking out of the room, the tower and into her own home. Her now empty home except for her.
Curling up on her couch she sat there. Looking out into nowhere. Eyes occasionally darting to try and pinpoint certain things. It wasn't until there was a knock on her door that brought her out of her reverie. She called for the person to come in and surprisingly it was Kakashi, she expected Sasuke.
"Kakashi? What are you doing here?" she asked uncurling herself slightly.
"Tsunade told me. I wanted to come check on you." he said taking a seat on the same couch just on the other end.
"Thanks Kakashi, but there's nothing you can do." she said quietly.
"What about listening?" Sakura turned an eye to him and sighed and began talking.
"Everything is just so complicated right now. First Sasuke, then my mother."
"What about Sasuke?"
"He wants to start a relationship. But I don't-"
"Don't know if you are ready?"
"Yeah. I still like him but with everything that has happened."
"Was he the other someone that your mother mentioned in her letter?"
"Hai."
"Then I'm guessing you two?"
"Hai." she flushed red. "It happened so quick."
"Did you like it?"
"Kakashi, isn't that personal?"
"In a way yes, but when you're trying to deal with everything it's good to talk about certain things."
"He made me feel special, wanted. But I just don't know if I can do it."
"Do you want it to be just a one night stand then?"
"No, but that's where it gets complicated. He practically asked me to marry him this morning, saying he doesn't do the one night stands but that he actually wants a relationship that will lead somewhere."
"Isn't that what you want?"
"Hai, but-"
"There are no buts, Sakura. He's offering you what you have always wanted and until recently thought you could never get. Why aren't you letting him help you this time around?"
"I just don't feel adequate. He could have any girl in the village. Ones that are more prominent and not 'soiled' and then there's me and I'm just the opposite."
"Sakura, you are walling yourself from him. Maybe before you decide to completely shut him out of your life you should see what happens. Maybe he is what you need after all. Besides people don't know about you, they would think it was natural for you and Sasuke to see each other in that kind of way." her head raised from its bowed position and she looked at Kakashi full.
"Arigatou." she said before going to him and hugging him tightly.
Onyx bore at the wood above him. He was contemplating everything that had happened in the last forty-eight hours. Being rejected by Sakura, then talking vehemently with Kakashi, going back to Sakura's the next night, making love to her, getting interrupted by her mother, and then talking with her again and her pushing him away, again.
Closing his eyes only brought back memories of their sweet union. She was perfect to him. She was everything he wanted in the Uchiha Matriarch and in his wife and the mother of his kids.
Opening his eyes he again looked at the wood above the bed. She had made him feel, making him look at things in a whole new perspective. He hoped that he hadn't ruined what could be a relationship when he walked out of her house that morning.
Hearing a loud knock on his door. He got up off the bed, walked down the stairs and went to open the front door. He was surprised to see Sakura standing on the doorstep. Her hands were in front of her interlaced, head slightly bowed and looking shamelessly up at him.
"Sakura?" he asked.
"I..can we talk?" she got out. He nodded and let her enter in the house. He led her into the living room where the couches were. He sat down in a single chair while she took a seat on the couch.
"Sasuke, I ...I don't ...." she was fumbling over her words. Taking a deep breath she collected herself before speaking. "I want to try a relationship. I know it won't be easy for me but I want to really see if we, I , can do it."
"Sakura." he said somewhat softly and she looked at him. "Arigatou."
The two continued talking for several hours trying to already work out some kinks that were already in the relationship. Sakura expressed her feelings and Sasuke put them all to rest with not so many words but they were meaningful.
When Sakura was about to leave the house Sasuke stopped her with one last question.
"What about your mother?" Sakura stopped and chewed on her bottom lip. This topic hadn't come up during the previous few hours.
"She's gone. She left a note to Tsunade-shishou telling us that she was going to live in another village. She's no longer living in Konoha."
"Was it because of this morning?"
"No, I think after my father died she never liked being around here, so what happened with me just gave her a good excuse to leave. I thought she might be happy if she found out that someone prominent was courting her daughter." Sakura let out a low chuckle. "shows you things don't aways go the way you figured they would go."
"What will you do?"
"Sell the house and move into a smaller apartment. I don't need a whole house to myself now that I know she isn't coming back except maybe to visit every once in a while."
"You could live with me." Sasuke stated and Sakura just looked at him.
"Thanks but not now. I need to live by myself for a little longer."
"Why?"
"Sasuke, I don't want to rush things with this relationship we want to start. I need a little time to adjust to everything, not that I would mind moving in later, but not right now." he nodded telling her he understood her position. She gave him a small kiss on the cheek and left the house and then the compound.
It only took a week for her to sell her house and move into a smaller apartment. It was nice and small. Having two bedrooms of good proportions and a small kitchen and a small living room that fit a small couch and two single chairs.
It was definitely a downsize, but a good downsize. Sasuke was there helping Sakura while she moved her stuff from one place to the other and Sakura found that she liked the Sasuke that was being shown to her.
Instead of him being aloof he was helping her, showing her how he felt at times, and even spoke more than a sentence at a time and Sakura figured that in time it could work for them and that made her happy because if it did then there again would be some normalcy to her life.
Once the villagers found out of her mother's 'disappearance', she felt as though she was being treated differently, almost as if they were sympathizing her because now she could be considered and orphan in the people's eye.
And besides the people looking at her like she was an orphan there was now the public fact that she was currently seeing Uchiha Sasuke, which got every woman and their cat talking about it. The one thing Sakura hated the most was when the people related the two.
She would sometimes hear people whispering about how Sasuke was only dating her because he felt sorry for her, because she was now an orphan, but he was as well so she couldn't really see the big deal of it all.
The words didn't really bother her because she knew different and if that's what the villagers wanted to talk about then they could they just didn't know the full truth and actually she was glad that they never would.
When she got back to her apartment she found Sasuke leaning against her doorframe, arms crossed, head bowed. She had told him to come over and she would make him dinner which he had willingly obliged to.
She quietly crept up on him and she stood before him after placing the bags of food on the ground. So standing in front of him she gently put her hands on his crossed arms which made him shift his head and look at her.
She gave him a smile and then a quick kiss before letting go of him, picking up the food and then unlocking the door and letting them both into the apartment.
Hope you liked the chapter. i just kind of realized this is the second to last chapter. which means 12 will be the last chapter. but it is really good and loose ends are tied up i promise. it is rather long due to the tying up of ends.
you are probably story will be and it will be "Testing the Waters". I am actually working on chapter 4 and so far it is turning really well to me. if you want to get check out the summary its on my profile page. i think me beta is going to beta it for me but she has been busy lately so i want to start posting at the end of the week which means the update for this will be later on in the week. but yeah that's what's going on next.
also i am on summer vacation so writing time is now a lot but i am getting ready to go to college at the end of august so i have to get everything ready and my brother is coming home in the next few weeks so there will be writing time and i will try and continue the one to two updates a week. i am also trying to find a job so that will also take some time out.
so please review and tell me how i did on the chapter.
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