Mine Alone

By: Shana Anders

A/N: Hey guys!!!! Waaaaiii…… this is my last Friday for semestral break. My schedule sucks, cuz I have a night schedule for my Monday classes. Aaargh… I'll get beat up.

Anyway, moving on… I only have about less than two months til Christmas, and I don't have any money. Ugh, this is bad. I need money… quick.

What else am I supposed to say…? Oh yeah, it's weird. Anybody knows what happened to bleach? I've been constantly checking youtube on a daily basis, and there's none. Supposedly, episode 102 is on by now. What's wrong??? Waaaaah…. I want to see Hitsugaya-kun!! Shirou-chaaaaaaaannnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! T-T

All right… I'm having a divided attention at the moment, since my sister, cousin, mum and dad are all watching yuyu hakusho at the moment. They're pulling me in!! AaaaaaaghHH!!!!! Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, let's start now. Darn… What's wrong with my net? I can't connect!!! Daaarrrnnnn iiiiiitttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yosh… Let's go!

Note: Standard Disclaimer Applied.

Chapter 12: Sudden Confession

Konoha, a few days later…

"Sakura-chaaaannnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please do come with----"

"She's not here, go away!"

"You!!! This is all your fault! You seduced her into living with you!"

"I said go away!"

"NO!! We are here to protest! We demand you to give Sakura-chan back to us or---"

Sasuke growled, and performed some handseals.

"We will burn your mansion!"

"Katon! Goukyakuu no justu!!!"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

0ooooo0ooooo0

Konoha Hospital

Sakura frowned, completely ignoring Sasuke sitting in a corner as he eyed her every movement as she treats every single men he burned right in front of their mansion a few moments ago.

Seriously… What did these men do this time?

Right in front of the mansion! What are they doing at the mansion in the first place?!

I dunno… Aagh. Why does he have to burn them all?

"How long should I wait?" Sasuke finally asked, breaking his silence.

"No one told you to wait." Sakura retorted, not looking at her. Sasuke looked back at the boys who were obviously acting hurt (in his opinion) groaning painfully, moaning Sakura's name.

"They were not even hurt."

Sakura rolled her eyes at him. "Do you want me to try that out? Let me get a flame thrower for you."

Sasuke looked away from her irritably. Ever since the obeying jutsu on Sakura was removed, they became closer and much at ease and open with each other. Sakura decided to stay with Sasuke, and keeps on turning Lee down everyday (he asks Sakura to move with him everyday) until Sasuke got full of it and fried him away (yep, fried). Sakura ignored him for the next three days after that, but he have this strong feeling she's a little glad with him burning Lee because as soon as Lee was brought to the hospital, she became happier and less tensed everyday.

Lee did not come back after that.

"Hurry up." Sasuke said again.

"How could I hurry up when you burned almost half of the male population of Konoha?" Sakura stood in front of him, hands on her hips. "I could have finished sooner if you did not do this. Now as a doctor, and since this happened in front of our house, I feel responsible for what you did, and besides----"

Sakura's voice slowly disappeared as Sasuke floated to his own mind.

Our house… It has a ring on it… Feels like music to my ears.

"Sasuke-kun!!!" Sakura half yelled, pouting. "Are you even listening to me?"

Sasuke looked up at her and smirked. "Maybe."

"Mou... You're so ungrateful. Maybe when kami showered kindness to the world you were sleeping."

Sasuke chuckled at her childishness. "If you're not gonna do anything and would just stand there, I'd like to go have lunch now."

"All right… all right… You're always grumpy. Let me just finish this mess you did."

"Aa."

0ooooo0ooooo0

A little while later at Ichiraku….

Sasuke frowned, darting away from his source of irritation, arms crossed.

And I thought I got rid of them.

Sasuke glanced at Sakura, who, at present is talking to Sai happily.

Why did I leave him behind?

"Oi ugly, you're always eating at Ichiraku. Now you're not only ugly, you're fat too." Sai suddenly said, out of nowhere, and the next moment, he was seen flying twenty meters above Konoha.

"You overdid it." Naruto remarked in amusement, as he, Sasuke, and Kakashi watched Sai fly away.

"Did I?" Sakura snapped back to reality, cupping her cheek with her palm in shock.

"Wow, he probably soared higher than I did!" Naruto yelled gleefully, and turned to Sakura. "You truly are a barbaric Amazonian----"

Naruto came flying next.

"You should realize, Sakura, that Naruto hasn't paid for his ramen yet." Kakashi then said.

Silence….

Then….

"Narutooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You baka! Come back here! I'm not paying for these you pig!"

Sasuke sighed.

Why does this always happen?

"Sasuke-kun!!!"

He frowned and sighed for the nth time that day. That voice… Please don't let it be her…. Please don't---

"Sasuke-kun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" And he was glomped by a leech…. Er… a girl.

It is her.

And there goes the president of Sasuke fans club, Ami, glomping him with all her might.

"Get off me."

"Sasuke-kun, we need to talk!!!"

"I don't want to. Now go away!" Sasuke said back harshly. But oh the joy, Ami is immune to it.

And to think I keep on calling Sakura annoying.

Sasuke glanced at Sakura, who was looking back at them. They laid eyes on each other for a moment…

And then Sakura looked away, continuing to eat her ramen. "You don't have to give me that look. You don't need my permission, I'm not your mother." She said bluntly.

Sasuke sighed. I was hoping you could help me.

'You deserve to feel your fame once in a while. Go talk to her.' was on Sakura's mind.

"Let's go Sasuke-kun, let's go!!!" Ami yelled gleefully (and noisily).

Sasuke stood up, shrugging her off and began to walk towards the woods. Ami looked at his retreating back for a moment, smiled, and ran after him.

Sakura remained sitting, her back on them, and sighed. I'm so not jealous. No I'm not.

"Aaah… And I was hoping to see some action."

Sakura looked at Kakashi. "What do you mean, sensei?"

Kakashi smiled at her. "Sakura-chan, Sasuke burned your fan boys. It might do good to fry his too."

Sakura looked down at her empty ramen bowl, thinking. Then, she frowned.

"Sensei---"

But when she looked up, Kakashi is gone. She paused for a moment, thinking. Then, she growled.

"NOBODY PAID THEIR RAMEN!!! I'M NOT PAYING FOR YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

0ooooo0ooooo0

2 hours later, back at the hospital…

Sakura frowned, looking at the clock.

Why isn't he here yet?

Oh no!! What if Ami kidnapped Sasuke-kun!!!

It's very far from happening, really.

What if he drugged Sasuke-kun and made him do something not nice?!

I don't think he's stupid enough to not realize that.

Let's go see Sasuke-kun!

Naah, let's just wait.

I wanna see Sasuke-kun! I'm beginning to be worried!!!

No, let's just stay.

"Sakura-chan."

Sakura turned around and smiled. "Tsunade-sishou…"

Tsunade came, smiling at her. "You worked hard enough for this day. Go home and have a rest."

Sakura shook her head. "Its ok. I need to do it… Somehow I felt responsible for Sasuke-kun burning those men down."

Tsunade frowned at the memory. "He should realize that he burned one-third of the ninja population. If this keeps up by the end of the month, every single male in Konoha will be burned."

Sakura smiled apologetically. "Gomene, Tsunade-sishou. I will try to talk to him about this."

Tsunade looked back at her and smiled. "It's ok. But you need to rest now."

"But---"

"I insist."

This is our chance! Were free! Now let's look for Sasuke-kun!!!

But---

Quit yapping, would you? Our time is running! The evil hag might do something to him!

All right, all right… Geez…. Everyone's grumpy these days…

"Hai. Arigatou Gozaimashita, Tsunade-sishou."

0oooo0ooooo0

Somewhere in the middle of the forest…

Sasuke frowned, as he continued, to wash his mud-soaked shirt on the lake.

Damn… It wont fall off… I'm so in for this. Sakura would be mad. He grimaced, remembering Sakura's exact words the last time they talked about the heavily stained clothes of his.

Sasuke-kun, it's very hard to remove these stains! Don't do this again, or I swear I'll burn them out!

And to think this is my favorite shirt. He frowned at the thought. He's in grave danger here. He must do something to remove the dried mud-stain, quick. And this is all Ami's fault.

What was she thinking? Forcefully asking me to go with her, and doing crazy things and accidentally pushing me on that stupid pool of mud… Since when was there a pool of mud anyway?

"Sasuke-kun…"

Sasuke looked up, and groaned.

Not again…

There goes Ami, on her two-piece blue bikini, walking sexily towards him.

"What do you think you're doing?" He demanded angrily. He's been stuck here for two hours now, and in for a big 'stain trouble' that he's pretty sure he'd be done for. On top of that he should be appearing in front of the hospital any moment now.

Sakura would surely be on rage tonight.

"Sasuke-kun, don't you want to be with me?"

"No." Sasuke replied back, squeezing water out of his shirt. I'll just tell her the truth… I hope she understands.

Silence… then…

"Sasuke-kun!!!!!"

"What are---oomph!"

And they both fell on the bank as Ami jumped on him, making him on top of her.

Sasuke stiffed.

That chakra.

He suddenly looked up, and came face to face with Sakura a blank expression written on her face.

"Sakura." He pulled away from Ami as cool and calm as he can, although he wanted to do that as fast as he could and remove that blank expression on Sakura's face as soon as possible. "It's not what you----"

"I'm sorry."

Sasuke looked at her. She looked back at him and smiled.

"I've expected this. But its just that… It's still shocking and all."

"It's not what you think."

"I shouldn't have been nosy, following you and all that…. But it's just…. I got a little when I saw that you weren't there at the hospital…"

Sakura glanced at Ami, and found her glaring. She bowed.

"I'm sorry for intruding."

And with that, she began to run away.

"Sakura---"

"Don't go after her!"

Sasuke stopped on his tracks. Ami was back on her feet, and looking at him. "You heard her. She wants us to be together."

"She got the wrong impression. Don't be so full of yourself." He turned to leave.

"Sasuke-kun, don't leave me! I love you with all my heart!"

That made him stop.

Those words…

"Those words…" He looked at her. "…are not yours to say. It's not yours to begin with." He was to go but was stopped, then again, by Ami, as she hugged her from his back.

"Don't go! I'm already here! What more do you want! I'm not letting you go! I wont!!!"

POOF!!!

Ami stared in shock, as the Sasuke she was hugging a while ago turned into a log.

Sasuke ran after Sakura.

"SASUKE-KUN!!!!!!!!!!!!"

0ooooo0ooooo0

Sakura jumped from tree to tree, running as far away from that place as possible.

How could… how could he… And I thought…

"Stop running."

Sakura looked up, and…

BANG!

She ran straight into Sasuke who suddenly appeared and blocked her path, making her fly a few meters back.

Tears began to flow from her eyes, because of the pain she's feeling.

"Why are you crying? You're still as weak as ever." Sasuke walked to her fallen figure. Sakura remained silent, as she slowly stood up.

"You just fell hard on the ground and you're crying already? You're really annoying… pathetic."

"You think it was just that?!" Sakura yelled all of a sudden. Sasuke stopped a few inches away from her. "Well, yeah, you're right! I'm still weak! I'm weak on everything! I'm such an annoying girl, ain't I?! I'm pathetic aint I?! I'll never change! I'm still the stupid, pathetic, weak, annoying fan girl of yours who loved you! Who always love you! And it would always be just that! And you, you would always see me as a weakling, isn't it?!---"

"But I love you too!" Sasuke yelled out suddenly, interrupting Sakura's hysterical monologue---and her loud cry in the process. It made him stop as well.

Did I just blurt that out? Maaaaan, I'm really in for it. I wonder what the dobe and that freak Sai saw up there… maybe I'll soar farther than them for this.

He frowned. "You should have known that. You're supposed to know that more than anyone else."

Sakura stared at him for a moment, and tears continued to fall. "How would I know that when you're not even telling me?" She stated accusingly.

Sasuke stared at her already wet, teary face. He gave a small smile, and wiped her tears away with his thumb. "Sorry." And then, pulled her into a hug.

Sakura hugged back… "You're so stupid."

"You are." Sasuke said back. "You honestly think I'm doing something nasty with Ami?"

Sakura nodded back. "You were in a suggestive position."

"I won't." Sasuke looked at her. Sakura smiled back.

"Sasuke-kun…"

"Hn…"

"…Let's go home."

Sasuke smiled back.

"Aa. I-ko."

And hand on hand, they went back to Uchiha mansion…

To their home.

TBC

A/N: Augh… It's too mushy… Er… is it?

I know Sasuke's very ooc. But I tried… Its ok to make Sasuke ooc once in a while. Even the series itself realizes that! Remember the one with the three having their "mission" to know what's behind Kakashi's mask? He's veeeery ooc. And I love that episode. It just proves that no matter how bishounen Sasuke-kun might be, he's still a kid. And we all love him that way.

Anyway, there we go… what do you think? Heehee… Ja!

Love lots,

Shana-chan