Chapter 14: Avoiding Him & Feelings For him?
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Inner Sakura 'blah blah'
Xo-Chapter 14-oX
Sakura got into her car, still feeling something in the pit of her stomach. Something that wouldn't stop nagging her, she chose to just ignore it as she started the engine of her car. She drove off to school, hoping that she wouldn't encounter Sasuke or any of the others, at least not now.
In about five to ten minutes, Sakura arrived at School. She parked her car in the School's parking lot and made her way into the building of education, which is where everyone had to go to their classes. The bell was going to ring in a couple of minutes so Sakura quickly made her way to class.
Of course, bad luck still followed her though. In each of her classes, Sasuke or one of the others were there too. Sakura had no doubt that at least one of them would go up to her and ask her where she had been.
'This sucks,' thought Sakura. 'I gotta come up with some excuse! I have class with Hinata right now, she's smart she will see right through my lie!'
Sakura tried to calm down, and regain her composure, acting as if nothing was wrong. She sat at her desk, they had a substitue today since their teacher was absent. They were all allowed to do whatever they want.
Sakura saw Hinata walking towards her.
'Great, choose today to be absent you damn teacher!' thought Sakura, mentally smacking her head in frustration.
"Hello Sakura-chan," smiled Hinata as she sat in the empty seat that was next to Sakura.
"Heh, um hey Hinata-chan," said Sakura while giving her a fake smile. 'Please don't ask me where I was, please don't ask me where I was! Cuz I still haven't thought of an excuse! agh!'
"Where were you at lunch time?" Hinata asked the dreadful question. "I was worried, and no one had a clue of where you might be. Naruto-kun suggested you might be with Sai, which got Sasuke mad for some reason but, I want to know, where were you?"
'Oh gee thanks Naruto! Now Sasuke will probably find out! ugh, I honestly want to know, what the hell did I do to be cursed with so much bad luck today?!' thought Sakura getting more irritated by the second.
Hinata saw as Sakura's eyebrow's furrowed and as her face seemed to have some anger and irritation showing.
"Am I making you mad?" asked Hinata meekly. "If so, I'm deeply sorry,"
"Oh my god, no, no, no, you're not! I'm sorry Hinata-chan!" apologized Sakura quickly. "It's not you, I was just thinking about something and well uh yeah, don't worry, you did nothing wrong!"
Hinata seemed to have a look of relief on her face.
"Oh, okay" said Hinata. "Well, um where were you?"
"Oh, I was uh," Sakura paused to think for a moment. "Um at my dorm, yeah I was at my dorm,"
'Why did it take her a while to answer?' thought Hinata. 'And why does she seem nervous, what is she hiding?'
"Why were you at your dorm?" asked Hinata. "We didn't even see you stop by the lunch room to get your lunch..."
"That's because I didn't get lunch," answered Sakura. "I wasn't feeling good, so I went up to my dorm to rest."
She was able to answer that in a calm and steady tone. 'Well, I don't like lying to her but, I'm going to have to keep this up if I don't want to get in trouble by Sasuke.' thought Sakura.
"Oh, are you feeling better?" asked Hinata. She looked at Sakura with a concerned face. Sakura shrugged her shoulders.
'Wait, I have a class with Sasuke next! ugh, but, since I'm 'sick' I can be in the nurse's office instead! I can ask the nurse if I can rest in my room, and while I'm at it, I can pick up my pajamas and clothes for tomorrow since I will stay with Sai, and hopefully sleep over at Hinata's or Tenten's dorm! That way I won't have to see Sasuke at all! Perfect! This is a great plan, hopefully it all goes well, so far nothing has today!' thought Sakura.
"Only slightly, I still feel sick" answered Sakura as she frowned. "I'm feeling light-headed, and I'm forgetting small things, agh I don't know why though,"
'She's forgetting small things?' thought Hinata. 'That's probably why she was stammering and it took her a while to answer me! She must feel really sick, poor Sakura-chan.'
Sakura started feeling guilty all over again. 'Dammit why did it have to be her?' thought Sakura. 'I can lie to anyone without feeling bad but, Hinata is too sweet. ugh! I can't keep everything inside though, I'm going to have to tell someone about this sooner or later!'
"I'm sorry about that Sakura, the period is going to end in about half an hour, want to go to the nurse?" asked Hinata.
"I think that I will go next period," smiled Sakura.
"You sure?" asked Hinata.
"Yeah, I wanna talk to you a bit, I owe you since I wasn't there at lunch," said Sakura giving a small smile.
She knew Hinata felt awkward being alone, and Hinata didn't talk much to anyone in the class other than Sakura. So, Sakura wanted to at least do the favor of staying for the period since she had lied to Hinata.
"It wasn't your fault though, you weren't feeling good," said Hinata.
"Agh," started out Sakura. "It doesn't matter, I'm staying to talk with you, and that's that."
"Well okay, if you insist" said Hinata smiling.
Sakura smiled back and took her book bag off her desk, and onto the floor.
"So, how has the bet been?" asked Hinata curiously.
She, as well as the rest of the girls have been wondering what was going on with the bet. It had already started, since the beginning of the week, and they wanted to know how Sakura has been, she never really mentions it much to them. Sakura only told them about the first day or two, a lot must have happened already.
"A living hell!" said Sakura as some of her anger came back.
'Whoa, Sasuke must have been really hard on her,'thought Hinata looking at Sakura's now red face.
"What has he done ever since the last time that you told me about the bet?" questioned Hinata.
"Besides being a lazy bum that is a real pain in the ass?" asked Sakura. "A lot."
This caused Hinata to let out a laugh. She covered her mouth to suppress her laughter.
"Haha, like what?" asked Hinata as her laughter finally ceased.
"Too much to remember," muttered Sakura.
"He couldn't have been that horrible....." said Hinata. "....right?"
"Ha," said Sakura. "I'm guessing you don't know his demon self! Dammit, he's such an ass! Well, whatever, I guess he does have another side to him too.............it's a better side, and I hate that side even more than when he's a pain in the ass!"
Hinata looked at Sakura with complete confusion. 'It's his other side that's making me avoid him,' thought Sakura. 'It's his other side that...............attracts me to him? No, it just makes 'things' happen between us. I don't know why though, I hate it though because that's the only reason for why I'm starting to have mixed feelings for Sai, this never happened to me before. Ugh, staying away from Sasuke......is the best thing I can do in this situation!'
"Umm, how can you hate his better side more than his evil side?" asked Hinata. She was thinking about that in her head. 'Why would she hate it more?.....Am I missing something here?'
"Eh," started out Sakura surprised. She shifted her eyes away. "Nothing, you wouldn't understand, I don't know for sure myself either."
"Are you sure Sakura?" asked Hinata. "Are you hiding something from me, from everyone else?"
"No," answered Sakura. "Why would you think that?"
Sakura couldn't look Hinata in the eye, she kept looking at the ceiling, floor, wall, anything that wasn't Hinata.
'Am I hiding something from everyone else?' thought Sakura. 'I know that there's something that is causing me to have mixed feelings for Sai, and something that is causing Sasuke and I to.....kiss or whatever. But, I don't know what it could be, all I know is that Sasuke's an ass, and I don't want to know what the something could be, it's best if I just stay away from him for now....'
"Well, you seem kinda nervous," said Hinata.
"Huh?" asked Sakura. "Me? Nervous? Ha, your imagining things Hinata-chan!"
"Look me in the eye, and tell me you're not nervous," said Hinata.
Sakura turned to look at Hinata. 'Ah fuck, how the hell am I suppose to do that?! I'm fucking sweating here!'
Hinata raised her eyebrow, waiting for Sakura's response. Sakura averted her eyes to somewhere else.
"Exactly," said Hinata. "Don't worry about it though. It's okay, once you're sure on things, you can tell me....you don't have to if you don't want to though."
"Wow," said Sakura looking at Hinata. "At least you don't put pressure on me like everyone else!" Sakura reached out to grab Hinata in bone-crushing hug. "Thank you! Your an awesome slash amazing friend! I will tell you once I'm sure of things!"
'Well, once I'm not avoiding it.....' thought Sakura.
"Kay, can you pleas-se let-t go of me though?" asked Hinata as she tried to breathe.
"Haha, sorry!" answered Sakura as she let go of Hinata.
'Wow, Sakura is acting a little too out of character today...'thought Hinata. 'I wonder what's wrong.... Well, she will tell me once she's ready to talk about it.'
After a few more minutes of just talking and chilling, the bell rang and Sakura made her way to the Nurse's Office. She walked into the halls and made her way to the Nurse. She had to push through many other students. Suddenly, she felt someone grab her into an empty hall. She couldn't see the person, she only saw the back of his head.
'Please don't be Sasuke! I will die!' thought Sakura frightened.
She felt so much more relieved when she saw it was Sai.
"Why did you pull me over here?!" asked Sakura.
"The halls were too crowded," said Sai. "Damn, I gotta get to class now though. Um, I just wanted to hug you, and let you know that I love you, and I'm always thinking about you."
He hugged Sakura and gave her a peck on the cheek. Sakura gave him a small smile.
"Aw, I love you too!" said Sakura as she gave him a kiss too, only that hers were on the lips. They only kissed for a few seconds and then pulled apart.
"I'll see ya later babe, kay?" said Sai.
Sakura nodded her head and went on her way to the Nurse's Office.
"Hey Sakura-chan," said someone with a sly voice. Sakura froze.
'Oh shit,' thought Sakura.
She turned around to be faced with....Naruto.
'Don't tell me he saw that....'thought Sakura. 'If I'm in luck, ah never mind, since when have I had any luck today?! I'm pretty sure Sasuke told him about this part of the 'Do Everything I say' bet! Hopefully he didn't!'
"Hey Naruto, what's up?" asked Sakura calmly.
"Oh nothing, I saw that little scene with you and Sai," said Naruto.
Sakura turned stiff.
"And?" asked Sakura. "He is my boyfriend, boyfriends and girlfriends hug and kiss and what not. Well, I gotta go so um I'll talk to y-"
"Not so fast," cut off Naruto. "Last time I checked, Sasuke demanded that you weren't to be around Sai.... If he found out about this-"
"Yeah, I know I would get in big trouble. Please don't tell him though! I'm already in a bad situation because I made him have to spend time with Ami! If he finds out about this, ugh you don't know how much hell I'm going to be going through!" said Sakura.
"It's okay, calm down" said Naruto. "I wont tell him but, in exchange, you gotta tell me the whole story."
'Like I said, luck ain't on my fucking side today!' thought Sakura angrily. 'And what 'whole story' is Naruto talking about?!'
"Story?" asked Sakrua confused. She had a raised eyebrow.
"Yupp," said Naruto. "Every single thing, I guess you can start with, where you were during lunch."
"Damn, I never saw you as the blackmailing type of person," muttered Sakura. "You can't tell anyone at all about this though okay? Especially not Sasuke!.......Also, you're going to be late to class,"
"I don't care, I'm always late to my next class anyway, wait, won't you be late too?" asked Naruto.
"I'm going to the Nurse's Office, part of the Story" said Sakura. She walked over the the steps and sat on it. Naruto did the same.
"Okay, start explaining" said Naruto.
"I wasn't at lunch because I was with Sai," said Sakura.
"Why would you be with Sai?" asked Naruto. "Sasuke told you not to be anywhere near him."
Sakura looked down at the steps.
"I know what Sasuke told me to do," said Sakura. "I just didn't want to be anywhere near Sasuke..."
"Why?" asked Naruto, confusion written all over his face.
".........eh here comes parts where you really better keep your mouth shut," said Sakura. She sighed and began her story. "Well for the past few days that I have been here, somehow Sasuke and I always end up.......kissing. In fact, this morning we kissed too........it was different from the rest though. It has more passion, it felt more real. I like them, I like his hugs, and his kisses, in fact I love them."
'Whoa, so the teme and her actually did kiss and make out?!' thought Naruto. 'Damn! They make a cute couple too, she really should just dump Sai and go out with the bastard, I'm sure he likes her too.'
"Well, you like Sasuke, so break up with Sai and go out with Sasuke," said Naruto. "I don't see what the problem is."
Sakura's eyes went wide.
"No, you damn idiot! I don't like Sasuke!" said Sakura.
"What the hell? But, you just said you love his hugs and kisses!" said Naruto.
"Yeah his hugs and kisses, not him!" said Sakura.
"Oh I see the problem here, you're in denial!" said Naruto.
"Am not!" said Sakura angrily. "The problem here is that, I feel guilty every time I'm with Sai because I know that in a sort of way I'm cheating on him by always having little things happen between me and Sasuke! That's why I want to stay away from Sasuke so that nothing can happen! Not only that but, I always find myself comparing the two, and Sasuke always ends up being the better, and I don't like that. I never had mixed feelings for Sai as much as I do now, and it's all Sasuke's fault! But, I don't know why this is happening the way that it is! Why does Sasuke got to make my life more complicated?!"
"Whoa" said Naruto amazed. There was a moment of awkward silence. Still, no one spoke.
"Dammit Naruto!" screeched Sakura. "Say something other than whoa!"
"Umm," started Naruto. "I believe that you're avoiding Sasuke because you're avoiding the feelings that you're starting to get for him. You don't want to feel anything towards him but, you already started to and you don't want to so you're avoiding him just so that you can at least believe you don't feel anything for him. I don't see how being with Sai will help anyway, I mean when the bastard finds out he's going to be pissed off. Not only that but, avoiding Sasuke will make you want to be with him more, increasing your feelings for him either way. In other words, you already got feelings for Sasuke, and you won't be able to lose them."
'Me? Falling in love with Sasuke?!'thought Sakura. 'Ha, you wish!'
"Wow Naruto, you are really smart, like no lie, why do they all call you an idiot?" asked Sakura. "I mean the only problem with your theory is that, I'm really not falling for the damn Uchiha!"
"Believe what you want Sakura but, it's the truth!" said Naruto.
'Sasuke will finally stop being a cold heartless single guy!'thought Naruto.
"Ugh, whatever" said Sakura. "I'm still going to stay away from him, until I find out what is really the reason for why I'm starting to prefer him over Sai or whatever."
"You guys sleep in the same dorm!" said Naruto. "How are you going to avoid him?! Not only that but, when he sees you, he's going to be asking where you are, you're his 'slave' I guess, and he will be pretty mad about that! You still have a bet that you need to follow through. A deal is a deal Sakura, and you're breaking that deal by staying with Sai in order to avoid your feelings for Sasuke."
"I have no damn feelings for Sasuke!" said Sakura. "And I'm going to avoid him because I will be out for the rest of the day. I'm going to the nurse right now, my excuse to everyone else is that during lunch I was in the dorm because I didn't feel well. Right now I have a class with Sasuke so I'm going to the nurse, and lie that I feel sick so I can go to my dorm, and get my pajamas and clothes for tomorrow. Then, I will sleep over at Hinata's or Tenten's dorm.....and for the rest of the evening, I will be with Sai.....out so that Sasuke wont see me at all!"
"Hinata's roommate is kind of bitchy though," said Naruto. "She wont let anyone sleep over. As for Tenten, she wont stop asking you questions."
"Damn, I will find something out!" said Sakura. "As long as Sasuke ain't around, I will be fine. I just don't want these mixed feelings anymore. Things between me and Sai are bad enough, feeling weird around him wont make things any better than they already are."
"Yeah, that's true I guess but. Denying your feelings ain't good either. Like it or not, you do like Sasuke, and me and the other guys think he likes you too." said Naruto.
'Sasuke likes me?!'thought Sakura feeling a bit flattered. 'Wait, why should I care? I don't like him or anything so, whatever.'
"He doesn't, even if he did, it doesn't matter because I love Sai-kun!" said Sakura.
"Well you wont anymore, and if you really do, know that you're love for him will start to go away" said Naruto.
"Why would you say that?!" asked Sakura.
"You like Sasuke!" said Naruto. "You don't want to admit it, and that's okay, I wont tell anyone!"
"I don't like him! How can I like someone that I just met....?" asked Sakura.
"Don't ask me!" said Naruto. "You're the one who likes someone that you just met!"
"I don't!" said Sakura while glaring at Naruto. Naruto chuckled and got up from the steps.
"I'm really late to class, mind letting me take you to the nurse and ask for a late pass saying I brought you over here?" asked Naruto.
"Sure, the least I can do since you're keeping this a secret for me," said Sakura as she got up too. "Although, your fucking imagination of me liking the asshole better stop."
"Haha," laughed Naruto. "Whatever. By the way, you got to tell me everything that goes on. I will finally be the one who knows everything while everyone else takes forever to find out! Yay! They will be the slow ones from now on!"
Saura just rolled her eyes.
Sakura and Naruto walked down the empty halls to get to the Nurse's Office.
"Just tell her that I practically fainted and you caught me and well yeah," said Sakura.
"Okay," said Naruto as they walked into the Nurse's Office.
Sakura made her face look all mopey and sad as she held her head in pain, well fake pain but whatever.
"May I help you?" asked the nurse.
"This is Sakura, we were on our way to class and she told me she wasn't feeling good. Soon afternoon she practically fainted in my arms. I caught her and well we made our way over here after I made sure that she could walk on her own." lied Naruto.
"Okay, thank you for bringing here, do you need a late pass?" asked the nurse.
"Yupp," answered Naruto.
"What's your name?" asked the nurse.
"Naruto Uzumaki!" answered Naruto. The nurse scribbled something down on a piece of paper. She asked him to what class, he told her and she wrote it down, signed the paper, and handed it to Naruto.
"Thanks, and feel better Sakura-chan!" said Naruto.
After taking her temperature and everything else, the nurse allowed Sakura to go back to her dorm to rest for an hour.
Sakura quickly left the building and made her way to her dorm. She got her clothes and pajamas.
"Yay! An hour to myself, school will be over soon anyway," Sakura said to herself.
'Naruto is wrong though, I am not starting to like Sasuke! Yuck, never!'thought Sakura.
'What do you mean by yuck?! He's freaking sexy!' said Inner Sakura.
'He's a jerk!'said Sakura.
'Eh, whatever! Like Naruto said, your denying it!'said Inner Sakura.
'Grr, shut up!'said Sakura.
Sakura plopped herself on her bed and decided to rest a bit, she put an alarm on her phone so that it could wake her up in half an hour.
Xo-Time Skip: End of The Day-oX
At the end of the day, Sakura went directly to Sai's dorm, being careful not to get caught. Meanwhile, with Sasuke and everyone else......
Sasuke, the guys, and the girls were all hanging out in a huge lounge, any student could go there to just relax a bit, do homework, or just hang out.
"Where is Sakura-chan?" asked Tenten.
"Yeah, I haven't seen her all day!" said Ino. "Well, except the morning but, that's about it."
'Same here,'thought Sasuke. 'Where could she have gone off too? She better not be with Sai.'
"Oh, she doesn't feel so good" said Hinata.
"You saw her?" asked Shikamaru.
"Yeah, she was in my class after lunch" answered Hinata. While laying her head onto Naruto's chest. They were sitting on a blue comfortable couch, Naruto had his feet propped up on the small round table.
"She was also there in one of my classes..... it's one of our three last periods though" said Neji.
'She didn't appear in any of my classes......'thought Sasuke. 'Could she be avoiding me? If so, why? I never did anything, if anything the only that happened was a small argument that ended up with us kissing and hugging...'
"Yeah, I asked her where she was during lunch" said Hinata.
"Oh, where was she?" asked Ino. She was playing with her long blond hair while laying on Shikamaru's chest, just like Hinata was with Naruto.
They were sitting across from Hinata and Naruto, on the other couch.
"She told me that she was feeling good. So she went to her dorm to rest during lunch time, and then two periods after lunch, she went to the Nurse's Office. So that she could rest in the dorm since she was feeling really sick." answered Hinata.
'I guess Sakura lied to Hinata about this. Well, I can't say anything to anyone so I'm just going to have to play along' thought Naruto as he kept his arms wrapped around Hinata.
'I went to our dorm right after I finished eating my lunch, Sakura wasn't there...' thought Sasuke. 'And how is it that she chooses to go to the Nurse's Office, right at the time when we had another class together. She is avoiding me, but why? That's all I want to know. I'm going to ask her once I see her, she has a lot of explaining to do. I should go wait for her at our dorm, she can't avoid me forever, we have to sleep in the same dorm!'
"Sasuke, I know you don't talk much anyway but, why are you so quiet today?" asked Tenten. Sasuke just ignored her, got up from his seat, and walked out of the building.
"He didn't even answer my damn question! That fucking bastard! Next time I see him I'm gonna-"
"Tenten, calm down." said Neji. "Just forget about him. He is just dealing with a lot right now, he finally likes a girl but now she is already taken."
He whispered the last part so that no one could hear, no one other than himself.
"What was that?" asked Tenten.
"Nothing, I will deal with him," said Neji. "He has a lot on his mind at the moment."
"Like what?!" asked Tenten. "He can't even say anything of what he feels! Always keeping himself quiet! I swear I don't know anyone who could get any colder!
"Tenten that's enough, I already told you to forget about it! I will handle this some other time!" said Neji.
"Okay, sorry!" said Tenten. "I just can't stand assholes!"
Neji sighed and just hugged Tenten, trying to calm her down.
"I agree with Tenten, Sasuke does seem to be acting a bit different than usual, Sakura is too!" said Hinata.
"Well whatever is wrong with those two, let them handle it themselves, getting involved is way too troublesome," said Shikamaru.
"What isn't so troublesome for you?" asked Ino as she rolled her eyes.
Xo-With Sasuke-oX
Sasuke made his way to his dorm. When he opened the door, he just came into an empty and quiet room. The bathroom door was open, the lights off, and no one in there. The kitchen had the lights off as well, and just like every other room, it was empty.
Sasuke was very angry. He couldn't believe that she wasn't there, it's like she just disappeared.....he felt like he almost needed to see her but, he wouldn't admit that. He just kept going on with the thought that she was suppose to listen to everything he tells her to do and that she needed to explain to him why she was avoiding him, and where has she been.
He threw the glass bowl of fruit that was in the kitchen on the floor, because of his anger. Causing the glass to break and the a loud crash sound to go around the room.
'Where the hell could she be?!' thought Sasuke. 'I don't want her to think that I miss her or something cuz I don't but, I need to talk to her, and she needs to be here! Wait, she's my 'slave' I can simply call her to tell her to get her ass over here cuz I have a lot of homework that she needs to start working on!'
He immediately took his phone out of his pocket and dialed her number. He called her at least five times but, she did not pick up, she sent him to her voice mail.
"Dammit!" said Sasuke angrily as he threw his phone the floor because of his anger and frustration. "She's got so much shit to explain once she gets home!"
He saw his phone, the cap of the back of his phone, and his battery spread out on the floor along with the glass and fruit.
'Look what she made me do,' thought Sasuke. 'I never do this kind of shit, not just because someone wont answer my calls, not just because I haven't seen someone for about five hours. That's just not me, what is she doing to me?.....What the fuck is going on with me? And why the hell is she avoiding me?!'
Again, his anger and frustration came back, and he kicked the cabinets in the kitchen.
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