Chapter 26
Chapter 26
Sasuke looked up at the ceiling with a smirk. He was laughing at how Neji had reacted. It was just hilarious to him. He lay there a while longer basking in triumph. His head turned roughly towards the door when he heard knocking.
Ehh?? Who the hell could that be…. No way Neji would actually let Hinata come back…
As he walked towards the door he frowned deeply and rolled his eyes throwing his hands in his pockets. Sakura… He could feel her stupid chakra. When he reached the door he paused right before it, and screamed "What do you want Sakura??"
What do I want? Isn't he the one who called for me?
"Umm…. Naruto said you wanted to talk to me!" Sakura said loudly and rapidly. She once again, felt stupid. It was obvious Sasuke hadn't called her. She grabbed her arm with the other and squeezed nervously. Naruto no baka…
Sasuke flinched, as if he had been hit by an arrow. He took a step back and leaned his body back… his arms crossed, a face of even more disappointment… Tcchh… Baka na… … she believed that…?
He grunted and looked down. He had to obey… There would be no good end if he kept pushing it… He held his breath in annoyance and breathed out. "Oh… yeah."
Sakura's eyes lid up at the words. So he did ask for me…
She looked up at Sasuke as he opened the door, putting himself in full view of the hallway… and Sakura. He looked at her with a bored expression and then waved, beckoning her to come in.
She went in a bit nervously, walking extremely slowly. Sasuke stood behind her, still staring at her, now with an even more annoyed expression. "Could… you walk any damn slower??" Sasuke tightened his fists around the knob and threw the door, making a loud slamming noise. Uzaiii……
He walked towards where she was standing. The living room. She was just standing face down rubbing her arm nervously. The look on her face spelled hurt…
"Suwatte… kudasai…" If he hadn't said anything… she would never sit.
Sakura sat down and faced the floor. "So… what was it… what did you call me for?"
As he sat, Sasuke grunted… his head fell backwards. The way she said it… like if he actually wanted to see her… No, no good. He moved his hand to his forehead and then rested his arms on the couch…
"Sakura… I'm gonna be honest here… nobody called you… Naruto has just been bitching to me, begging me to talk to you, to be nice to you."
Feels good…
Sakura looked up, her eyes beginning to swell. Sasuke looked down an sighed… "Sakura… I've never once been nice to you… why the hell are you being so wimpy now?"
Sakura shrugged weakly. She rubbed her eyes.
Sasuke sat quietly for a while, letting her cry. Guhhh… why do I have to be nice to her?? I have nothing nice to say about her… dammit, Naruto… He crossed his arms and let her cry some more. Until it was moderately decreased, he uncrossed his arms and leaned forward, in order to make her look at him. She was sitting right in front of him, sulking.
He rolled his eyes. "Oii! Sakura!" He snapped his fingers in front of her face to get her attention.
She looked up with a whimper. Her eyes were completely red. "Nn?" She was sniffling loudly.
He rolled his eyes… "Why… do you… like me so much?" he felt somewhat uncomfortable asking her that… but at the same time… he felt proud. He was such a ladies man. Without ever trying.
He stared at Sakura for a moment. Her head remained sunken. Then she began speaking "I… I spent so much time with you… at first… I'll admit… it was only because you were cool… cute, handsome…"
Sasuke grinned on the inside… Humor me… haha…
"You know… all that… the same thing all the other girls saw in you…" She paused and looked down.
"But I grew to love you… because I got to know you… I started to actually know you, not just admire you from a distance. You became so special to me." The end of her words broke. She brought her hands up to her mouth, covering it.
"Really? I became so special to you? Do you…really care for me that much, Sakura?" He looked at her with intensity. She wasn't gonna like this… but he didn't care… he was wayyy too annoyed to care anymore…
Sakura looked up at him and blushed. She was hoping his next words would be more… kind than the previous ones. Kinder than anything else he had ever said to her… considering the nicest thing he had said to her was… 'Thank you'… and then he knocked her out and left her there… abandoned her…
She nodded, still blushing.
"Really?"
She nodded again. What is he doing… is he just messing with me…?
"Then… stop interfering with my happiness…" Sasuke said seriously and with a frown.
Sakura's eyes widened and swelled even more. Sasuke just stared at her coldly. Then he closed his eyes… "Sakura… I've tried killing you before… I have never… ever… at all… been nice to you… please… have some dignity…" He opened his eyes and leaned forward to look at her "understand… that absolutely nothing makes you better than any of those other annoying girls that liked me… you're just like them… the only difference is that you were placed on my team… if it had been any other fangirl… it would've been exactly the same… we might have become friends… that's it…"
He had gone too far. She looked up at him in rage.
"SO WHY IS HINATA BETTER THAN ME??" Sakura screamed at him, weeping loudly. "It's just not fair!! She never cared about you!! At all!! You had never even spoken!! You probably didn't even know each other existed!!"
Again her face sunk.
"Sakura… don't shout… please, it's so irritating…" He pushed a finger into one of his ears, twisted and then stuck it back out. "Anyway… you're wrong… I noticed Hinata since the day your little fanclub started… I always… appreciated her and how she never once bothered me…"
Again she looked up with anger.
"She was in love with Naruto!! Would you have loved me if I had been in love with Naruto??"
"Maybe… probably not… but I would have liked you better… if she had been in our team instead of you… heh, I would've had one more reason to stay in Konoha back then… Her… and Naruto… it might have not made a difference… who knows…"
He grinned cynically on the inside… I have… so much more crap to tell you… but… I'm already being harsh as it is…
Sakura looked up at him. "Sasuke-kun… You've no idea what it's like… to love someone for so long… and to be rejected…"
Yes I do… Hinata liked Naruto… she was only with me to help that idiot…
Sasuke looked down… "I bet Naruto does."
Sakura looked at him intensely and looked down… He's right… This is probably what Naruto feels like… all the time too…
Shut you up… He grinned and then became serious again.
"Now… the big difference is that… Naruto loves you so much… he is actually trying to make me be nice to you… he actually wanted me to give you a chance… he just wants you to be happy… On the other hand", he stood up and looked at her with no emotion, "you're too selfish to even consider his feelings… or mine…"
Large tears began to stream down Sakura's eyes heavily… He's… he's right…
She shut her eyes tightly, holding herself… Then she opened them wide… Naruto… I've been… so horrible to you… me… who knows exactly what you're going through… She cried even harder…
Sasuke stared at her… Is this it… does she get it now… Oh god… I hope so…
He yawned… Guhh… I'm tired… He looked back at Sakura, who was still, still crying. He stared at his nails for a moment and yawned again, looking at his watch.
"Sakura… get out already… I hope this helped you realize several things…" He walked up to her… still looking at his watch…
Sakura merely looked up at him with a deep frown.
He's so careless… ugh…
Sakura pulled her arm back and threw a punch at him, landing it right on his jaw, sending him flying across the living room and on to the kitchen wall.
Sasuke's body hit the wall hard, making it crack. He then fell onto the kitchen floor with a thud… He was knocked out cold. Pieces of the wall along with dust began to sprinkle across his body.
Sakura got on her feet and walked up to him. She stared at his unconscious body for a while… with hatred… It wasn't fair… her whole childhood was dedicated to loving him… she even stopped being friends with Ino for him…
"Sasuke… no baka…" she said softly and a tear fell gently from her cheek. She got on her knees and folded them, positioning herself next to him. She looked at him and picked him up, setting his head down on her lap. More tears dropped gently onto Sasuke's face. "Sasuke no baka!!" she said louder this time. She wiped her tears from her eyes roughly with her arm and then put her hands on the back of his head picking him up. Then, when she had lifted him enough she slowly inched her face down towards his, and pressed her lips to his. Baka… baka baka baka , baka…I loved you so much… baka…
Reluctantly, she pulled away from him and let him down on the floor. She got up slowly, wiping her eyes again and began walking out the door. As she walked down the hallway, she looked up and saw the former Hebi members walking out of the elevator. Her eyes widened…She looked back at the apartment… I left Sasuke knocked out… They'll know…
As soon as Karin saw her, the screaming started. "Ehh?? Haruno?? What the hell were you doing in the apartment??"
"None of your damn business, four eyes!" Sakura began to run. She'd never see the end of it if they saw Sasuke laying there completely unconscious. She ran toward the elevator and stepped in immediately. Then she pressed the close door button and waited. As it began closing, she saw Karin coming at her now furious. But she was too slow and the elevator began moving down. Yokatta…
Full of regret, Sakura began to walk home. Tears were still slowly making their way out of her eyes and down her face. She touched her lips. Sasuke-kun… gomen…
You're going to hate me when you wake up… hate me more, that is…
(A/N: haha, this chapter was so dramatic… lol sorry… sakura has problems… she'll have a nice ending tho no worries… sakura lovers. Anyway, hope you all liked it… I think this chapter is shorter than some, but… I really just wanted this chapter to be about Sasuke and Sakura's argument… lol poor sasuke… she's right… he's gonna hate her even more when he wakes up. Hahahaha well anyway, hope you all enjoyed this chapter… hope it made you dislike sakura some more… lol well bye bye, let me know what you thought in a review okay?? My lovely reviewers!! MUAH!! See you later!)