Yes, my dears I am alive and now continuing this story. I shall let you enjoy this new chapter and at the end I will explain as to why it has been so long since I have last updated.

After having to wait for what felt like hours there was finally a knock on the door to the room notifying us of the arrival of the food. Sasuke got up to open the door and as soon as he did my mouth started to water. Two carts worth of food were rolled in and left by the table. I dove straight in mixing together everything I wanted while my man took care of the people who brought the food. Sasuke took a seat across from me while I was stuffing my face and just raised an eye brow at me.

"What?" I asked while still stuffing my face.

"Nothing…" He paused as if thinking how to word what he was going to say next. "Just wondering why you're mixing your oh so holy ramen with tacos and ice cream."

I swallowed the mass of food in my mouth then replied, "I was craving it all so I figured why not just mix it. It's really good you wanna try?" I shoved a spoon full of the concoction towards him.

The raven immediately leaned away and shook his head, "No, I already ate you just go ahead and enjoy. I have a full day planned for us after all."

In reply I just smiled at him and continued eating curious as to what Sasuke had to offer up for today's events.

After taking a shower and getting dressed Sasuke lead me out of the hotel and down the street at a leisurely pace. Now I was truly curious as to what he had in mind for me.

"Hey Sasu, can you give me a hint as to where we are going?" I pouted at him.

"No, just enjoy the view. Look," he said while pointing, "we could go shopping there later on for some new threads. Then we could go to the diner a few stores down for some food and finish off with a nice relaxing soak in the hot spring. But, we will have to save that for later for now we are heading to a place that will take your mind off everything."

He continued to smirk confidently for the rest of the journey making me more frustrated and wanting desperately to find a way to get the destination we were heading to out of him. I continued to try different techniques but finally gave in and just followed the raven quietly.

Upon arriving in front of a building that was made mostly of brick with a few windows that were covered with blinds that were mostly closed my raven stopped and opened the door for me. 'This place seems questionable…' was the first thought that went through my mind.

"Sasuke, what is this place? It doesn't seem right for a good day out…" I questioned not going anywhere near the door he was holding open for me.

"Well, you will have to go in to find out, now won't you?" My raven stayed holding the door open for a bit longer then stretched out his hand and pulled me into the building.

With my nerves on heightened alert, I slowly followed him to a front desk. I glanced at the pamphlets and cards that were set out only to see advertisements for a spa.

"I'm here for an appointment at 10 for two." Sasuke told the receptionist.

Upon hearing this I could only think 'this is going to be nice and relaxing if he got a full spa package… Well he did say this would take most of the day…'

Coming back to reality, I noticed the receptionist was attempting to flirt with my man while getting everything together for our spa day. 'hmmm… I will have to give her an attitude adjustment after my raven is taken care of.'

A look at her name tag told me her name is Christina. "Okay, who would like to go back first?" She asked while continuing to smile and bat her eye lashes at my raven.

As Sasuke looked ready to say something I spoke up interrupting him. "He should go first, after all he's the one who set this appointment to give me a nice surprise." I turned to my man and leaned up to give him a kiss on the cheek. "Go ahead dear, don't worry I'll be relaxing here soon myself."

With a grunt and a bit of reluctance, Sasuke walked off following the receptionist down the hall off to the left to a room. It took a bit longer than I believe it should have for Christina to reappear, but I figured it was because she was still trying to hit on my man.

'Oh boy, is she in for a surprise…' I smiled kindly at her and followed her down a different hall than where she had taken Sasuke. Once we were what I judged as a good distance away from the reception area I grabbed her arm and pinned her against the wall.

"Listen closely because I will only say this once. The man I came in with is MY man and if I catch you flirting with him again things will not be pretty. Am I understood?" I growled lowly so that if there was anyone else in the area they wouldn't hear.

I didn't get a response so I pressed her harder against the wall, "I said, am I understood?"

She finally nodded in a yes motion so I let her go. "Good, now if you don't mind, I would like to get my day of relaxation started."

She quickly nodded again and led down the hall a bit more to a door off to the left. Once I was in the room she shut the door and quickly walked away from the room. The room had low lights, a bed with sheets, one chair and several bottles of liquid. I guessed this room was for a massage and slowly started to get undressed leaving only my underwear on. I got on the bed and pulled the sheets over my lower half and waited for a masseuse to enter the room.

A few seconds late there was a knock on the door to which I replied "Come in."

I heard the door open and close before a low voice said "My name is Charles and I'll be the one giving you a massage today. Before I begin, are there any area you are concerned about? This could be an area where you carry the most stress or where you would like me to concentrate on in order to help you relax fully."

"I'm not really sure where I carry stress or anything. This will be my first massage."

I heard the guy shift around the room then say "Okay, we will figure that out as we go. Is there anything you are allergic to?"

"Nope." I replied as I heard him decide on a few viles and set them aside.

"Alright, let's start then shall we?" After saying this he turned on a stereo with nice relaxing music playing and started massaging me at the neck and shoulder area.

I had to be woken up after the massage was over. When a massage is so relaxing that you fall asleep its hard to get up and move afterwords. I did so anyway, wanting to see Sasuke and thank him for this experience.

As soon as I made it back to the reception area, Christina lead me to another area where there were foot baths set up in front of comfortable looking chairs and in one of those chairs was my raven with his eyes closed and his feet in the foot tub. I glanced over at Christina to see her with her head down as she turned and walked away.

With a smile, I quietly walked up next to my raven and gave him a gentle kiss on the lips. "I don't think I've seen you this relaxed since the first day you returned to the village."

He slightly opened his eyes and smiled at me. "It's only because I know that you're here with me and together nothing bad can happen."

After another kiss, I sat down in the chair next to his and stuck my feet into the warm water. As we sat there relaxing together we held hands.

I'm not sure how much time passed before I heard someone enter the room. Whoever it was tried as quietly as possible to gather things and get set up in front of us. I opened one of my eyes when I felt something brush against my leg. Upon inspection I saw a girl I hadn't seen before but when she looked at where our hands were joined and smiled softly I decided to trust her.

"I hate to interrupt your peaceful moment, but my name is Angela and I'm here to give you a pedicure. Please don't be afraid to let me know if I hurt you in any way or do something you don't like." With one last smile she got started on taking care of our feet.

After a good while, Angela was working on my ankles when she whispered, "Your ankles are so swollen. I hope there's nothing wrong with them…"

I opened my eyes and looked down at her. "What do you mean by that?" I whispered back.

"Well the only time I see ankles as swollen as yours is when a women is pregnant or if the person has done something or has a condition that makes them like this." Her face seemed a bit worried. "Don't you worry too much though, I'm going to give them a good massage and do my best to make the swelling come down."

"Thank you." I smiled at her but now I was concerned about why my ankles were swollen in the first place. 'I haven't been doing too much lately… oh that feels good… I'll worry about it later.'

When we left the spa evening was closing in. I walked leaning against Sasuke for support as I knew I wouldn't be able to stand on my own for how relaxed I felt. "Hey, Sasu, thanks. I didn't think I was that tense."

He smiled and leaned over to kiss my forehead. "Anything for you, hun."

I grinned at the pet name, but after a few more minutes my stomach grumbled. "Can we get some sushi?"

My raven just looked down at me with a quizzical look. "I thought you didn't like sushi."

I just shrugged and leaned into him more, and said "I'm just craving it for some reason."

With a slight laugh he lead me off to the right an into a food place that served exactly what I wanted. We ate in silence and gave interment touches whenever we could.

After dinner we returned to the hotel in a rush, just wanting to be alone together and have some fun.

Now, I know this one is short but I decided to put out something as soon as possible. You see, I don't write the story. The story has it's own life and lets me know where to leave off and such.

As for my long absence. At my place of work we are down two people and so I have been pulling off 40 to 50 hour work weeks on top of 14 credit hours at the college. I hope that I can get the next chapter out soon. It's maybe a third of the way done. I hope you guys enjoy the next few chapters for something tells me that this story won't be too far from the end here soon.

Congrats on graduating, to those who did, and have a good summer to those who will actually have a summer vacation. :D