I Do Not Own Naruto
Sweet Goodbyes
It was night when they made camp in the desert after having left Suna. He looked to the pinkette who was making up her sleeping bag and sitting near the fire.
"Sakura," he called out softly and she turned then, he just looked her over. She was a really beautiful woman, he had to admit he liked her form.
"Yes?"
"I received another mission," he informed her and pulled out the letter from Kakashi. She looked at her feet then, he sighed as he walked over and handed the letter in her hands.
"This is goodbye isn't it?" she mumbled as she took the letter, he smirked.
"No," he answered only to have those green eyes flick up to him as he tilted her chin up. A fast move had his lips on hers' because he found it to be addicting, reassuring, and good. It was good to kiss her, it made him feel alive and if made him feel good to know she was real and not an illusion of his own genjutsu.
"What do you mean?" she asked ludicrously as he pulled away.
"I want you Sakura," he said it bluntly and he decided to be as bluntly honest as he could be with her because it was probably going to be the only way he could convey to her that this was all an unknown to him. Girls in general were a mystery because he had spent his youth focused on revenge and not women, also there was no one he really trusted enough to talk to about girls. Kakashi, while something like an uncle to him, was like a father to Sakura and he was not question Kakashi too much about the matter. There was no way he'd talk to the dobe about it, it just wasn't happening; same with Sai.
"Do you mean it?" she whispered uncertainly.
"Yes, I just don't know anything about this stuff," he informed her flatly.
"Huh?"
"Dates, dating, wanting to be around someone; I know nothing about it, I will have absolutely no idea how to date you Sakura," he stated. "But I want you, I want you happy, and safe, I want to make you happy."
"Really?"
"Aa," he nodded and kissed her brow as he hoped to Kami she understood what he was saying and what he meant because he wasn't trying to get out of this, he was trying to get her to open her eyes and realize what he was and how he was trying. He'd still work on everything she had asked of him, he'd try to let her it, try to date her, try to be proper with her; he just had no fucking clue how to do that. A weight against his chest had him wrapping his arm around her then and his chin resting on her head.
"Alright, I'll try to help you out," she mumbled.
"Good, because I have no fucking clue what I'm doing, and if you tell the dobe that I'm denying it!" he hissed down at her. She laughed.
They made it to the village gates when he dropped her off with a poke to the brow and a see you later before he ran off for his next mission. She was walking home with a smile and the promise from the Uchiha ringing in her ears. He was going to try to date her they were going to have to figure this out. It wasn't going to be easy, she knew that, but she was willing to try with him if he was serious about trying to date her. Sasuke was one to never try anything half-assed so she didn't feel the need to worry about their dating not being something he took seriously.
All she did know for certain though was that neither one of them really knew what they were doing in the dating department.
But Sasuke had promised her real letters, and he'd try to let her in. Apparently not even Naruto was someone Sasuke opened up to, so he didn't really know how this was going to work. Sakura assured him that she'd never hurt him when he chose to let her in, he had only nodded and said he'd try. It was the reason she was grinning happily while she returned to her apartment. She and Uchiha Sasuke were officially going to try this out, she was ecstatic.
"Sakura!" she turned to see Naruto jogging up to her with a huge grin on his face.
"Hey Naruto," she smiled at him and waited a moment for him to catch up to her. "What's up?"
"Watch this! Watch this!" she was bouncing like an eager child and she watched as he clumsily wove a sign with one hand and in a puff of smoke there was another Naruto standing there.
"Wow," she nodded as she began examining the clone seriously. "Not bad, Naruto, not bad," she mused and then she looked to the grinning original who was nodding at her praise.
"I know! It only took eight months but I finally figured out how to weave signs with one hand!" Naruto was bouncing in his glee and then he spotted Iruka-sensei and was running off leaving her without his clone or him. She laughed as Naruto ran off to show off the clone and walked into her apartment then.
The air was musty after her being gone for so long, she noticed her plant was dead but didn't feel discouraged about it as she dropped her gear, kicked off her shoes and walked to her bed. With a huge sigh she fell onto it and then smiled. She was officially dating Uchiha Sasuke!
It was her dream come true as she laughed in delight and hugged herself then she sat up. This was the best news of her life! Uchiha Sasuke wanted her not just as a woman but as herself; which was a lovely first. And that reminded her, she needed to get a prescription for birth control, and to see Tsunade about having lost her virginity on the trip home. For now though she was sleeping.
The Final Chapter Will Be Posted Tomorrow!
That's all for now folks!
Enjoy Only Tears! =)
