Uh Oh I'm in trouble :3 Well...I did say updates will be slow I think
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This is cup 12 and I do not own Naruto.
ENJOY!
The cold rush of air swept beneath her toes when she burrowed herself deeper into her covers. Clouded green eyes glared menacingly through a gap when she spotted the wide open window that denied her much needed rest. She squeezed her eyes shut to block out the chill, to no avail and cursed loudly, ripping the warm material from her skin.
She stood and arched her back as she began to stretch her tired muscles, clasping a hand over her mouth when she stifled a yawn. Her hands moved from her mouth to her short ruffled locks and trudged towards the open window.
"Stupid window." She muttered tiredly, gripping the freezing cold handle.
Before she yanked the window to close a familiar voice called out to her.
"Sakura, wait!" Obito called.
Being half asleep, Sakura's intelligent response was a 'Huh?' and 'Wha..?' she popped her head out the window and looked down to see Obito grinning up at her, she mirrored his face and grinned back, though it lacked abit of enthusiasm.
A few moments passed when her soft gaze turned into a calculating stare, she voiced out her curiosity. "How do you know where I live?"
He grinned again and playfully tapped his finger lightly on his nose and winked. "I have my connections."
Her response was immediate.
"I have my connections," she mimicked childishly. "You little Yakuza!"
The joy-filled man laughed melodically and beckoned Sakura to come down from her window. "Come down for a second, I need to ask you something."
An eyebrow was raised. "O-okay." She quickly abandoned the window and looked at herself when she noticed her clothing.
Or lack of clothing.
The young woman groaned into her small hands at the simple white shirt she wore, that barely covered her thighs and revealed her smooth, un-blemished skin. Aha! She mentally cheered, spotting a pair of black sweats that were sloppily chucked underneath her bed. She bent down and grabbed the pants, hastily shoving her legs into item of clothing, fumbling and tumbling when she couldn't steady herself. When she was done, she rushed out of her room and made quick work of the stairs, nearly tripping on the last step.
Sakura made it to the front of the house and placed a hand on her chest, trying to calm her breathing. She clutched the door handle and with a tug she opened it.
"What's up?" she asked.
Sakura finally had the chance to take a good look at him, her eyebrows rose slightly at his clothes, both of them wearing complete opposites of each other. Obito looked like he was about to walk on the red carpet, while she looked like a hobo from a street corner. Her green orbs twinkled in approval at the sleek gray suit he wore, donning shiny black shoes, which screamed 'look at me', he honestly looked like a superstar. His unruly short locks swayed gently in the breeze, a small smile was on his face and Sakura had to double check if she was drooling or not.
"Well…um, this might be a little short notice, but um…would you, err…" She jokingly glared at his slow pace and snapped her delicate fingers.
"Spit it out will you?"
Obito nodded and inhaled deeply."Would you like to come to an art exhibition with me? I got invited a couple of days ago…but she forgot to tell me to bring another person."
This piqued her curiosity.
"She?" A sly smile formed across Sakura's face. "Care to tell me who this person is? A girlfriend…?"
Obito made a face at the light-hearted accusation.
"It's not like that…she's an… old friend" Sakura didn't buy it, but dropped the subject for now.
"Well, I guess it would be terrible of me to waste a perfectly good invitation…I'll go with you."
'Art exhibition? Isn't it supposed to be boring there?'
'Hell no! It's a hoot! Trust me.'
'…'
Obito interrupted her thought-tracking. "Well…let's not just stand around we need to get you ready."
"Wait, what? This art thing is today?"
"Of course."
'Talk about short notice' she inwardly grumbled."I have no formal—"
"But I do." Emiko interrupted smugly from the stairs, her blonde braids flopped cutely on one side of her shoulder, making the innocent act all the more believable. The gleam in her sibling's eye's suddenly intensified, Emiko's intention could practically be read from her mind.
"I am NOT wearing a stupid dress Emiko!" Sakura snapped aggressively.
'I can't believe I'm wearing a stupid dress.'
Sakura was mildly surprised that Emiko had something like this had been hiding in the back of a ghastly cupboard, it was a stupid dress, but she liked it. The red material stretched across her body, hugging her curves nicely, like another layer of skin. The strapless part of the dress bothered her a little, because every now and then she'd have to pull the top part of it to prevent her flashing someone. Her sister kept tugging at the zip, cursing when it wouldn't do up.
Sakura could feel herself tumbling and tried to gain balance before her face would meet the floor, she was able to steady herself in the nick of time and glared hard at her ridiculously high heels.
"Hold still!" Emiko hissed in her ear, in return she rolled her green eyes but complied anyway. The poor zip was on its last leg of life and with Emiko tugging at it ruthlessly; Sakura couldn't help but feel sorry for the little piece of metal, moments later the zip cooperated and was pulled up.
Emiko quickly zoomed out of the room.
"What is she going to do about my hair…?" Sakura mumbled to herself, un-consciously lifting her hand to ruffle her short brunette locks, she looked carefully into a body length mirror and looked to find her pink roots showing.
"Blonde or brunette?" Emiko said as she came into view, holding two pretty-looking wigs.
"Where the hell did you get those?"
"Drama department at school, duh. Blonde or brunette?" She repeated again, tapping her foot impatiently.
"Brunette."
"Good choice, sis." She came towards Sakura and neatly clipped her natural hair back because it was longer than before. Emiko settled down the blonde wig and got her hands on the other one, placing it carefully onto her sister's head, her nimble fingers rearranged the hair so that it framed Sakura's face; the blonde took a step back to examine her work and grinned.
"SUCCESS!" She squealed. Sakura looked back at the mirror herself and agreed silently, fiddly the long brunette locks and the bangs that were placed correctly to fit her face.
With nothing else left to do, Emiko pushed her much loved sister towards the stairs, making Sakura frown when she stopped and made shooing gestures.
"Go! Go! Go! And stop frowning; you're going to ruin your make-up!"
In response, she sighed in exasperation and climbed the stairs to meet Obito.
His jaw slackened as he saw Sakura descend down the staircase, surprised at the utter grace she held when walking down to meet him.
"How do I look?" She smiled, twirling around to show off her cute little red cocktail dress, as she twirled the dress flared and flowed around her legs. She pressed her hands onto her mouth to suppress the giggle that escaped when he spluttered on his words. He gathered his bearings and spoke confidently.
"Sakura…you look stunning." He reached out to tuck her newly brunette locks behind her ear. She blushed and whispered a 'thank you.'
Obito removed his hands and carried on staring, making Sakura shift un-comfortably; she bit her lip and snapped her fingers infront of his face.
"Okay, Okay, can you stop acting like a blind man that's just seen the outside world for the first time, please? It's embarrassing." Her flushed cheeks proved her point.
"Ah, sorry ma'am" He stuck out his arm, grinning. "Shall we?" She giggled at his formalities and accepted his arm, linking them in a strong hold. They both jumped slightly when a loud honking noise came from the outside, Obito's eyes flickered towards me and smirked. She stilled slightly at the familiarities between Obito and Sasuke, it was a split second thought and soon enough it escaped her head.
Sakura was lead out to the porch, only for a gasp to escape her lips, they were travelling in this? An expensive sliver Aston Martin, was waiting outside the driveway, which practically glittered the pavements, she turned to face Obito, refusing to follow this 'yellow' brick road.
"You can't be serious…it's so flashy! We're not in some kind of bond movie you know?"
"Aww, c'mon Sak, it's only a car, we're going to be late otherwise." As this was said, a suit clad man, stepped out of the Aston and walked to where they stood, handing over the keys to a beaming Obito.
Sakura grumbled obscenities as soon as the engine roared alive.
Sakura's earlier assumption was correct, this place was positively, astonishingly, ludicrously...
Boring!
It was the same thing over and over again, Obito would chat animatedly to a random important person, while I'd chip in with a few 'hello's' 'I agree' , nods and laughs whenever I thought was an appropriate moment. I rolled my eyes at a start of a new conversation with—who Obito recently told me was the mayor's nephew, I couldn't care less as I already zoned out at the word, 'Hi'.
I dully scanned the room for the first time and noticed a handful of men staring at me, or more so my body. I gritted my teeth together and silently seethed at the pitiful human beings, tugging ruthlessly at my red dress, trying to cover up more of myself. It was no use so I huffed in a un-lady like matter, there was a sly elbow jabbing into my side, it was Obito.
"What's up?" He asked, worried.
"Ah, nothing really it's just these heels are killing me." This wasn't a lie, they really did hurt, but I'd rather die than admit that the real problem was some geezers ogling me like a piece of meat.
"Oh, okay, do you want me to come and sit with you over there." He pointed towards a group of comfy white leather chairs, smiling warmly.
I held my arms out in protest. "No, no, no, I'll be fine on my own, there's no need to ruin your fun and I'm sure your friend here would like to carry on this fascinating conversation, I'll be over there if you need me." Before I left, he quickly whispered 'thanks' in my ear and I smiled in return.
This chair was actually amazing, my butt has never been this comforted in a long time, I wonder if anyone would notice if this seat would oh-so-happen to go missing for awhile? I grinned at the stupid idea and kicked off my heels, not caring about the strange looks that were sent my way.
A male waiter passed me with a tray full of bubbly champagne, which seemed to have beckoned me to take a glass, so I did. Taking light sips, I looked at the paintings that dominated my view; this exhibition was mainly full of surrealistic art and I couldn't help but be mind-boggled about it. A splodge on a piece of canvas could be priced at more than my house!
Maybe I should draw a stickman and declare that art is my favourite past time.
I shifted my eyes back to Obito and noticed that he was talking to someone different, a women and a man is what I gathered. From where I sat I could only see the woman, a very familiar woman, but I couldn't put my finger on where I've seen her before, Obito looked mildly un-comfortable and I wondered what was going on.
I peeled my eyes away as they all looked towards me, my face beet red, oh how I wish I could read lips.
My keen eyes looked elsewhere, pacifically to the same group of males that were eyeing me earlier. I grabbed a large cushion and placed it infront of me so most of my face and body was covered, leaving my legs and feet bare. I chugged the rest of the champagne and demanded another, my thirst still un-quenched. Lust filled eyes bore through the cushion and made me shudder in disgust, I had enough so I chucked the cushion away from me and glared furiously at the perverts, my eyes filling with rage.
They all cowardly backed down and pretended to talk with their so-called partners. I was so angry that I failed to notice the couple that were with Obito were walking towards me, the woman tapped my shoulder, I looked up, my eyes slightly crazed.
"Hey…um…I think you dropped something." She laughed gracefully as she handed me the wounded cushion.
A sheepish smile tugged at my lips. "Uh…Thanks…"
"Kin." She replied.
"Kin." I echoed, then it finally clicked together, she was the woman who nearly had her purse stolen from Juugo and so her partner must be…!
"Sasuke." I breathed sharply.
Said man looked towards me and grunted; panicking, I shoved my hand to Kin, standing up in the process—my shoes still lay abandoned and answered his un-spoken question.
"I'm Sakura…Obito has spoken a lot about you." I hate to lie but to me, this is a do or die situation. I shook hands with Kin first, then Sasuke, where I believed my hand lingered a little longer than intended.
He snorted at my statement, running pale fingers through his ebony spikes. "I highly doubt that."
Stop being a bastard, you bustard!
It was blatantly obvious that he was done talking, so I faced an ever smiling Kin, noticing that Sasuke's eyes was on her and no one else but her. My chest ached painfully at how protective he looked, like he was about to dive infront of a car just to save her, just to make her happy tonight, I bit the inside of my cheek and apologized to Kin.
"I'm sorry, but can I have a moment please? I need to speak with Obito."
She nodded and smiled. "Go ahead." I whispered my thanks and stalked to an unsuspecting Obito, not caring that I was looking like an angry, shoe-less, midget.
I tapped harshly at his shoulder, not bothering to hide my temper. "Oh!" he jumped in surprise and turned to face me.
"Why didn't you tell me Sasuke was going to be here?!" I hissed grabbing his collar in a deathly grip.
"Hey! I'm just as surprised as you are Sak." He wrenched my fingers away from his collar as he dusted himself off. His eyes warily darted around the room and was thankful that this little incident didn't cause a scene, his easy smile found its way onto his lips and I knew I couldn't stay mad for long.
"Are you okay?" He finally said at my dazed expression.
"I need a drink." I admitted.
Obito stifled a laugh and reached out to open a fresh bottle of bubbly.
The rest of the exhibition dragged on tortuously, Obito kept his social charade up and paraded around the floor moving from conversation to conversation, and I didn't mind this as much because I needed a good excuse for me to avoid Kin and Sasuke. I know I was being a coward, but I just couldn't face them, I even hid behind a tall potted plant when Obito needed a bathroom break.
I had a fair idea that Sasuke knew something was up with me, once in a while he would glance suspiciously in my direction then he'd go back to staring at Kin, then back again. Obito caught onto this as well and reassured me many times that Sasuke didn't figure out who I am; I also refused to think that a little part of me wanted Sasuke to figure me out.
I broke my gaze from Sasuke's form, for it to land on his cousin. "You're being really paranoid." Obito whispered quickly.
My eyes automatically rolled at his statement and told myself that I was only taking pre-cautions, I searched for Sasuke again, but he was no where to be found and so was Kin, my heart started to beat rapidly and I became un-focused zoning out the warnings that Obito was yelling at me.
Wait.
Warnings?
My head went back to focus, but it was too late. I was falling head first into a gigantic water fountain, bringing an un-known Sasuke with me.
His lips covering mine as we both fell.
Oh bugger.
End of chap 12 :P that is the longest chapter I've wrote I think, so yay me :D
I know there was like no sasu/saku but I'm leaving that for the next chapter, but i'm not going to say what happens :) but it will make up for everyone who has waitied patiently for something to happen.
nasim: Ah, my loyal reviewer -showers you with love- :D haha my review box is like your diary but I don't mind it xD and I feel bad when I can't reply straight away because you haven't joined yet :P so you have to wait for my slow updates to get a reply :3 sorry for the wait! And well done and good luck on all the tests you've done and will be doing! -sniffles- I had a mock test in science which are given to college's to see how clever we are :( but I had no clue it was a mock, so for most of the test I was playing hangman with my bezzie and got a G!
I swear I nearly had an asthma attack when I saw it.
-CRIES- a big FAT G!! Moving onwards, I have no clue on what you should get your friend, knowing how slow I am, her birthday is probably long gone haha, you could always make something? I made a photo album for my best mate and she said it was the best gift ever because of all the jokes we had in the pictures :) I read the Sovereign con Artist and I must say that it's really cool :) and I've already read Masquerades phantom :D great ne? -hugs 'n' kisses-
3 MUST READ FICS! (Sasu/Saku) : Ripples By Yellow Mask. Luck of the Draw By Aurora Ciel. The Eccentric Files By Ren and Missa.
Hope that's good enough, by the way i'm sorry for making Sasuke abit of a dobe for not noticing that Sakura is a girl and yeah this is based on a Korean drama, but with my flavor all over it :D
READ AND REVIEW please :)