Chapter 14: Sasuke

Damnit, I let my guard down for one second and this happens. What the hell? Shikamaru glares at me from the floor as I walk to front door. I leave without even saying a word.

==========Flashback==========

Sakura looked up at Sasuke, her eyes red from crying, cheeks red as tomatoes, her lips quivering, her pink hair a mess.

"Sas-uk-e" she whispered as she leaned towards the raven haired guy. Sasuke took a step backwards, causing her lips to connect with his cheek instead of his lips, which were her main target. His eyes immediately narrowed, and his hands grasped her shoulders, pushing her away from his face.

"Sakura, you know I'm dating Naruto, yet you still try to do this? Really?" he questioned her. She blushed, and tried to look at him with innocent, yet guilty, eyes.

"I forgot, im sorry," she said and started to explain, but Sasuke didn't hear her words. He had seen something bright and yellow bobbing up and down in the sea of people.

"I know that hair," he whispered to himself. Sakura turned to look for what he had seen, but she didn't see it.

"Sasuke are you okay?" she asked him. He shook his head and rubbed his face with his hands.

"I need to get some ramen," seeing the girl's disgusted look, Sasuke laughed, kind of."It's for Naruto, you know my boyfriend. Yeah I thought it would be a good I'm sorry gift. He was supposed to meet them, but they said that they didn't want to," he said as he shrugged, and started walking to the small ramen shop. He ordered Naruto's usual, the owner already knew what type of ramen Naruto liked best, talked to Sakura for a bit, hoping to stop the girl, yet again, from chasing after him.

"I mean, Sakura, I have no feelings at all for you." He said in the nicest way possible, which, for him, was just to get straight to the point, no tiptoeing around this. She looked at him with disappointed eyes, but told him that she wouldn't give up on him. He sighed as Sakura left. The owner laughed at him, handed him his ramen, and told him that ramen was defiantly the best way to console the other boy.

Sasuke looked at itachi. His brother waved at him. Sasuke just stood there, Itachi rolled his eyes.

"Stupid, I'm not going to kill you," he muttered, as he walked toward his younger brother. "Sasuke, what have you done this time?" Itachi asked, sounding so much unlike himself that Sasuke had to poke him to realize that he was indeed real.

"I'm sorry Itachi, but I have no idea what you are talking about," he replied. Itachi rolled his eyes, again.

"I'm talking about what you did outside that ramen shop in front of Naruto," Itachi said, his voice cold, colder than it had ever been. Sasuke looked at him, his eyes filled with questions. "Sasuke, Naruto called and said that he dosent want to see you anymore."

=============End of Flashback==================

Naruto. That's the only thing I think as I run to his apartment. I don't even know how I make it there, I hadn't paid any attention to the crosswalk signs, and my mind had only been filled with thoughts of him. I'm out of breath, my hair messy, and my legs trembling, when I finally arrive at the apartment. I don't even think as I start to approach the stairs, which is why that I am shoved, and manage to fall to the ground. I wince when my bottom hits the concrete, my eyes already on the prick that made me fall, and oh look it is THE prick: Sai. I pick myself up and start to head up the stairs, but am once again pushed down by Sai. I hear someone laughing when he gets into the car that is parked in front of the building. At once I know that that is the laugh that only I know, or if I don't do anything to fix the situation that I'm in, I knew. I let myself become calm for a second, and then run to the car.

He's in there, laughing, and he looks like crap.

-He looks like that because of me, I think as I get closer to his door. I reach out a hand to tap on the glass, the only thing that is separating us, when he finally lifts his head up and looks straight at me.

I'm paralyzed by the coldness in those beautiful eyes of his. I almost stumble backwards, away from the car, as he lifts his own hand up to the glass. My own hand has a mind of its own, reaching out to his also, seeking that warmth that it knows, and touches the window. I blink. What was the time when I cried? I can't remember it, but right now, those tears are coming out, a levee has been broken, these silent tears of mine are the same as his, when the window starts to just become warm, as we stand there, not touching, but oh how I want to hold him in my arms right now, how I could explain everything, patch things up with him, so we could go back to what we were before. I want to say it, tell him that everything that happened was a mistake, something that I never wanted to happen, that he should know me better than anyone so he should know I would never do such a thing, that not being able to talk to him, explain to him, let him know what had really happened, but my voice won't reach him.

-you're Sasuke Uchicha, I hear a voice in the back of my head whisper, you can do anything that you want. Telling him is the most important thing to you right now. You have to tell him, or else you'll lose him forever. Then the words are spilling out of my mouth so fast, I can only hope that they are the right ones.

"Naruto, please listen to me. I swear it was all just a mistake, I barely had time to get out of the way. Please Naruto, you have to understand. You know I would never cheat on you, I love you, I've loved you since I first saw you," I plead. My heart is acting crazy, my hands shaking. He looks at me with dead eyes.

And then he speaks. I can't hear him but I can still read his lips.

"Sasuke, I love you," he says, which causes my eyes to tear up again.

"Then please Naruto, please listen to me," I say, my voice hoarse. He shakes his head and smiles.

"I love you, Sasuke Uchicha," his lips are moving, but of course I can't hear a word he says, and that's what I want most out of everything. I want to hear his voice. I want to gather him into my arms and whisper sweet nothings into his ears. I want to see him smile, want to hear his laugh. "And I don't regret the time we spent together."

-how badly do you need him Sasuke?

"Naruto just listen to me. I'll give you the space you need, but don't you dare shut me out of your life," the tears are back, causing me to choke on the last words.

-how much does he mean to you?

"Sas-"

"She surprised me, dobe!" I shout. "I was going to buy you some ramen, thinking it be the nice thing to do since my parents didn't want to meet you." I'm on my knees looking at the car door. "She told me that she was having a terrible day, her boyfriend had broken up with her, a bunch of other bad stuff, and because I'm not who I was back then," I look down at my hands with a smile on my face," because of you, I tried to console her. I had let my guard down. I managed to dodge her, so she only kissed my cheek, it must of looked like she had actually kissed me or whatever, but the important thing is that she wasn't able to. Naruto if I had been anything like what I had been like, we wouldn't be here having to go through this." I don't move, and even though I am able to, I don't want to. For a second I can imagine Naruto opening his door, standing tall above me, then leaning down and wrapping his arms around me, hugging me and crying at the same time as he says that all he needs is some time to think all of this through, whispering into my ear that at the bottom of his heart, the part that his brain hadn't wanted to pay any attention to, he knew that I would never betray him like that. My eyes closed, I wrap my arms around my make believe Naruto, my hands massaging his back with small circles.

-Sasuke, time to open your eyes, your actually holding him you idiot!

And as I do open my eyes, I know that who I'm holding isn't imaginary, isn't some other person, and that I haven't gone completely insane.

"Teme, I should have listened to my heart. I was just so hurt and didn't know what had actually happened," he whispers into my ear. I push him away from me, long enough to see confusion on his face before I plant a kiss on his forehead.

"You don't hate me?" I ask my lips still against his forehead. I can sense his smile, rather than seeing it.

"Of course not, Uchicha," he laughs, though it sounds strange given the circumstances. I sigh in relief.

"I can't tell you how happy I am that you don't, Naruto," I whisper.

"Are we still going to visit your grandparents or are you going to stay in the middle of the sidewalk for the rest of the holiday?" We both look up at Sai, who is standing there; his arms folded a small smirk on his face.

Hjakjighiojndjigourdjmnvd. Merry thanksgiving, you'd better enjoy this chapter. You do not understand how hard it is write that emo bastard's part.

Sasuke: Emo?

Sai: yes she did indeed say emo, Sasuke.

Sasuke well then.

Naruto: Please leave a comment about this chapter.

Sasuke: She's planning on making a christmas special, a different story for the holidays, but she needs to know: do you want one?