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Chapter 36

Sasume closed the door and while throwing his bag on the counter, he took his shoes off. He was tired. And really, really sleepy. Probably due to the whole day out, first in the supermarket, then at school, and finally, training. He was exhausted. But there was something unusual, that he noticed. Nobody came to welcome him home with a kiss. There wasn't the usual smell of food. And there certainly wasn't any noise. With clenched teeth and narrowed eyes he let the fact, that he was now alone in the apartment, sink in. Sakura has gone out. That late. And he knew she was doing it just to make him angry.

But then again, she had promised not to. Sasuke sighed, as he put his shoes on again. He didn't close the door behind himself, because he only intended to go to the first floor of the building. He reached the third door and knocked lightly three times. A shout came from the inside. a muffled one, then there was laughter, and finally, Karin opened up. She was wearing a huge jumper, that probably belonged to Juugo, her glasses were tilted and she was smiling.

" Oi, Sasuke, sup?"

" Is Sakura here?" he rolled his eyes and tried to peek in, but he didn't have to, since his fiance showed up behind Karin's shoulder, bearing a huge smile on her delicate face. He sighed in relief mentally. At least she really hasn't been out. She looked at her more carefully. Her hair was gathered in a messy bun, she was wearing black hipster glasses. The only thing that was covering her body was one of his T-shirts, that was reaching the mid of her tight. And the thing he growled at upon seeing-the bottle in her hand.

" You're drunk..." he located his gaze on Karin, who was a bit flushed. He scowled. "...Both of you!"

" No." Karin laughed. " I am drunk. Sakura just joined me. She's as sober as a...as a...as a nun."

" Sober as a nun?" Sakura echoed, sounding confused by the phrase. Sasuke rolled his eyes to the ceiling and headed towards the room next doors, knocking three times, again. Suigetsu showed up after a while.

" Yo."

" Don't 'yo' me around and go keep your girlfriend locked up to the bed. She's getting way over excited and she decides to involve my girl..." Sasuke sounded threateningly. Suigetsu came out of his room and peeked in to only see the two girls giggling, clapping happily with their hands, acting really off character.

" Oh come on..." the white haired guy grinned at Sasuke, almost whined. " ...You can't tell me, that you don't like this...Hey, hey, Sasuke, come on, dude! they're girls! And they're drunk! Come on, really? Drunk chicks? Nothing?!"

Suigetsu pouted childishly at Sasuke's grunt. The Uchiha entered the room of Karin without permission, carefully, not gracefully, but carefully, he riipped the bottle out of Sakura's hand and then with only one hand threw her over his shoulder. He didn't listen to her objections, that were mixed with uncontrollable laugh. As he was heading out of the room, he gave the bottle to Suigetsu and with a sour, very fake, very sarcastic and insolent smile eyed Karin.

" Have fun."

With that, he slammed the door behind himself and walked up the stairs with Sakura, who was resting calmly at his back.

" Come on, Sasuke...party-pooper...you have a really sexy bum, Sasuke, i see that now."

He closed his eyes for a second, fighting the urge to throw her down the stairs. He ended up with a smile, as he was entering their apartment. He didn't let go of her, until they reached the kitchen, where he placed her on one of the chairs. He headed towards the stove and started boiling water.

" What'cha doin'?"she asked and he faced to eye her. She was looking extremely cute and innocent the way she was resting her head on her palms and the way she was smiling.

" Tea."

" I don't want tea."

" Too bad. You're drinking it, because I don't want you to accuse me later, that I haven't done anything about your dizzy head. "

" Tea doesn't help with regaining soberness, silly." Sakura giggled and Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her ironically.

" I, as a person with far greater experience, know better than that."

" Fine, Mr. Broody. " Sakura chuckled at the lame nickname she'd given him. He only sat against her and looked at her with huge interest in his onyx orbs.

" What am I going to do with you, Sakura Haruno?"

" Shit, I think we went a little overboard..." karin laughed, as she nearly fell while entering B-5.

" And by that you mean, that you and Suigetsu got drunk, you fucked and then you drank again, right?"

" Basically." Karin closed her eyes again, while yawning not so gracefully and rather loudly. " Oh, hey!"

sakura looked up to her with furrowed brows. Why did she shout all of a sudden? Karin smacked her forehead and quickly hurried to sit next to Sakura on the couch.

" What did you get him?"

" Huh? What did I get whom? Wait, was I supposed to buy anything?" she concentrated on the events from the last month. Nope. Nothing in mind. Karin looked at her as if she were dense, and then her mouth formed an 'O'. And then, she burst out laughing.

" He hasn't told you!"

" Who hasn't told me what?"

Sakura was staring to feel annoyed. And really, really uncomfortable. She felt like she had to know something, that Karin expected her to know, but she didn't. And that was really angering. But the redhead didn't stop laughing, until Sakura shot her a death-glare.

" Uh, sorry...wow, that was a nice laugh there..." the girl pushed the glasses up her nose and cleared her throat, trying hard not to laugh again. " So he hasn't told you anything, not even mentioned it? That bastard...that stupid, self-disregarding bastard...I should have known...It's Sasuke, after all..."

"Sasuke? What the fuck do you mean, Karin?"

The rosette looked at the redhead with curiosity in her emerald eyes. What was she talking about? Was it some kind of an appointment, or a date, something she'd forgotten about? She quickly checked what date it was. Nope, not even close to the next anniversary. The what could it be?

" He...he really hasn't told you, huh? As expected...Sasuke's birthday...It's this Saturday."

Sasuke came home earlier than he has planned on. He had to go to the company after his classes, to check on everything. He also had to talk to Shikamaru's dad, that he'd have to quit, because he really had to give more time to his company. It needed him right now and he really wouldn't have enough time if he continued on working in the local supermarket. Which was, in his opinion, totally unnecessary, since he was a millionaire He had to admit to himself, that he has only been doing it because of Sakura and because, at the beginning, he wanted to have his own money, not the money of his parents and brother. And Shikaku Nara's response wasn't something, that actually surprised Sasuke. He had shrugged with a light smile, asking him why he has taken so long.

However, he came home earlier, because he wanted to make sure, that after the previous night, Sakura wouldn't be acting that childishly again. He made sure, as he asked her about fifty times. No, begged her. And then he had a word with Karin. Actually, he was kind of yelling at her and she was, kind of, ignoring him at the fullest. Maybe he had to call Kushina and Minato.

Oh how wrong he was. Sakura wasn't home once again. This time, she has been that thoughtful, though, to leave him a message, which he saw as he turned around to open the front door of their apartment with rage. The page was blank, with only a few words written with a black sharpie in that so well known handwriting.

I'm at Hinata's.

We're having a girls' night.

Call Naruto. He wanted to talk with you.

I love you!

Sakura

He re-read the piece of paper once, twice, thrice. Once he knew the words by hear, he took his phone out with a sigh.

" Oi, naruto! What's going on here? Why isn't my fiance at home, again?!"

" What? Ah, Sasuke! Hey, we're having something like a bachelor's party like, a month before yours, so why not join us? It's fun! The girls are on their own at Hinata's place. Come and join us at my place. We were just about to take off, but you called."

" Whya re the girls gathering today?" Sasuke asked dryly.

" Because..." Naruto started in a matter-of-factly voice. " ..they are girls. They're weird. Let's leave them, alright? hinata said they needed to discuss some stuff on their own. She said they needed female-time. "

Sasuke's brain started working way too hard, thinking about every possible think they could be discussing right now...

" Hey, wait a second, which girls are we talking about?"

" Well, eeer, Hinata, Sakura-chan, Ino, Tenten, Temari and Karin. That's it."

" Fine." Sasuke sighed, unable to understand, why he hadn't been able to spend some quality time with Sakura lately. She was always somewhere. Was she doing it intentionally? Or not? " Where are you guys going? Mind if I join you?"

The sound that came from the other side of the line reminded him of a roar. A roar of at least five mature men, happy about his arrival.

" Sakura." Ino looked at her with that dangerous glare she used, when somebody hadn't applied make up in a matching color. The rosette knew she was done for. " You better get your shit together and tell everybody what to do! It's in a month! A freaking month! You should be excited! Hell, I'm excited and it isn't even my wedding!"

Sakura massaged her temple. Well, she'd known from the beginning, that they had a reason for this get-together, but she never supposed it was something as stupid as that. To give away tasks.

" That was your job, Hinata!"she said in a weak voice, but the heiress of the Hyugas shrugged.

" They won't listen to me. They're always unhappy with my decisions. However, here's the list with the tasks. Feel free to give them away as you wish!"

"FINE!" the rosette growled and pulled the list from Hinata's hand. Her eyes ran on the words, trying to imprint them in her mind. She looked around at the girls. Temari, Karin, Tenten, Ino, Hinata. Five girls that were more than willing to help her with the organisation. " First of all, outfits for the bride and the bridesmaids...that would probably suit Ino most."

" INO?! WHY INO!?" Karin shireked and looked at Sakura amazed. " Why not me? You think this cow has a better fashion sense than me?!"

" Oi, you camel, watch where you spit while talking!" Ino retorted.

" Calm down, both of you...I chose INo, Karin, not because of fashion sense, but because she'd be able to pick something that would suit me and all of you better than anything. And you...well, I..."

" She wouldn't want to look like a stripper on her wedding." Temari said, while chewing lazily.

" Yeah, basically..." Sakura shrugged, leaving Karin with an open mouth, while Hinata and Tenten were chuckling lightly. " Second up, music...well, I guess..."

" That should totally be Tenten. She's like...she's like the music master around. She knows every song!" Temari said and Ino and Karin nodded in agreement. The said girl blushed, when Sakura bore her eyes into her. She didn't know her as well, as the other girls, but she was as sweet, as friendly, as ready to help as them, so she didn't find a proper reason to say 'no'.

" OK, it's set then, Tenten, you're in charge of the music, if it isn't a problem..."

" It would be a pleasure..."

" What's next?" Karin asked, eager.

" It's catering."

" Oh, ME! ME!" Temari's hand flew up in the air. Karin looked at her disgusted, as if that was something she'd hate to work on.

" Erm, ok, Temari, you're doing that." Sakura muttered, quite unsure. "Just tell me, why-"

" Why, you ask..." the girl from Suna laughed heartily. " Free samples, bitch! I ain't missing that one!"

The rest of the girls laughed at that confession. Even Karin. Well, that was something you'd expect from Temari. She was weird, after all.

" What's next, what's next?" Karin was almost jumping off of her seat, when Sakura looked back to the list, still with a wide smile on her face.

" It's reservation for a church, restaurant and..."

" I'll take care of that. I love looking around places." Hinata smiled, but Sakura frowned.

" But you've done so much! You took care of everything else, I can't make you do this, too!"

" But I want to!" the Hyuga smiled and looked at Sakura with a kind smile. " You know I love places like this. Give me the chance to simply go some sightseeing, OK?"

'' Fine then..." Sakura noted her name against that line and looked at Karin, who remained last. She had her eyes wide open, ready to hear her job.

At first, Sakura thought, that t would be funny to tell her that she was in charge of hiring people to clean after the mess they'd make at her wedding. Or even better, that she'd be in charge of that. But then she thought, nah, it wasn't worth having her scream and tell around, so she simply looked at the last thing in the list, that Hinata gave her. But of course! Karin would totally love that.

Sakura grinned as she face the redhead.

" You'll totally own this one..."

" What is it? What is it?"

" You like parties, right?"

" Duh..."

" Well then, the afterparty is your concern..."

" Afterparty? You mean..."

Sakura sighed. She'd so bitterly regret this later, she knew it. But that's what Sasuke and she had agreed on. They leave everything for the bridesmaids. They didn't want anything to do with the organisation of their wedding. They even decided to leave that for her. They decided that they'd want it to be a surprise.

" Yeah. That's what I mean. You get to pick the destination for my honeymoon."

The squealing of the girl was immediate. And then her actions. She hung on Sakura's neck, trying hard not to cry from happiness.

" Oh, sakura, I so knew it! I knew it that you liked me better than that cow!"

Ino snorted next to Sakura and with all her insolence, which was greater than even Sasuke's, declared.

" I get to pick her most precious clothing, the thing she'd never forget. And you get to pick the place where they'd fuck. yeah, big deal..."

" You only say this, because you're jealous, cow!''

As both of them started nagging once again, without obvious reasons, Sakura burried her face in her palms, feeling how cold they were. She sensed a tiny hand on her shoulder and she quickly assumed it was Hinata's. She looked up to find out, that she was wrong. It was Tenten. She was smiling.

" Don't worry, Sakura. I think you made the right decisions. And judging by how happy each and every one of us is, then you shouldn't worry, either..."

The rosette shifter her gaze to Ino and Karin, who were fighting, to Temari, who was laughing her ass off and then, to Hinata, who was trying to stop the two girls from killing each other. And finally, back at tenten, who was as cheery as before.

" You're a really comforting person, Tenten, you should know that..." Sakura sighed. " But it isn't because I'm concerned about my decisions. I have a far greater fear now...Sasuke's birthday is this Saturday and I have no freaking idea what to get for him."

As if by signal, all the girls gathered around her, silent, actually concerned about her problem, waiting to hear more. She groaned silently, but knew, that for this problem she'd have to explain. Because she really didn't know what she could give to a person, that had almost anything...And then she started speaking.

Sasuke wasn't looking at Kiba and Naruto, who were having a 'Who will drink more shots before passing out?' contest. He also wasn't looking at Neji and Shikamaru, who were discussing with Suigetsu something about football. He was staring at Sai with his blank expression. The guy was rather interested in him, too.

" Why did you and Sakura break up?" he asked, but Sai shrugged, not giving him an answer. He took a sip from his whiskey and looked back at the Uchiha.

" Why are you and Sakura getting married?"

" Hn. Why did you two start dating?"

" Why did you two start dating?''

Theyw ere going nowhere with this. None of them was willing to answer to the other one about questions, that had anything to do with their relationships with the rosette. Sasuke grunted and drank the rest of the content in his glass. He slammed it on the counter, motioning the bartender to give him yet another drink.

" Fine." he said through his teeth. " We started dating, because we liked each other. We are getting married, because we love each other."

Sai nodded at something, while drinking.

" We started dating because we liked each other, too. We broke up, because we didn't love each other."

Well, that wasn't what Sasuke was expecting, but he deserved it after the way he'd told their story. Actually...he raised the glass to his lips once again. It wasn't any of his business. he didn't have to, neither he really wanted to know. Stupid curiosity. He stopped asking he boy questions, changing the subject to art. It wasn't something he cared about, but it was still better, than discussing his relationship with his cherry blossom. Even by looking at Sai, he couldn't help, but feel that growl in the inside of his stomach, the one that curled up all his inside, as if something had sucked on him. And it was painful and not nice. Definitely not nice. It was horrible. Soon, Sasuke realized, that what he was feeling could also be referred to as 'jealousy'. But he'd never ever think of admitting that he's even felt like this, because of some ex boyfriend of his fiance. Sasuke looked up to Sai, who was talking about aquarelle, as if it was something, that Sasuke cared about. He tried to make himself think, that there wasn't even anything about this guy, that Sakura could possibly like now. It wasn't like he was even handsome.

Who was he lying to. Sasuke grunted and took yet another gulp from the strong drink. That guy over there resembled him awfully much, Except for the hair and the rather blank expression. Also, he was a bit paler, but other than that, they were like brothers. Actually, if somebody didn't know who they actually were, somebody who had met them for the first time, might actually assume they were brothers.

And Sai was going on and on and on about the stupid watercolor, that didn't intrigue Sasuke at all. He understood, that the drinks already had his effect on him, because some weird thoughts started popping up in his mind. Like the idea, that Sakura probably liked him, because he resembled Sai. Maybe their relationship has been better than she'd said.

Sasuke shook his head and closed his eyes. That's right. It was because of the drink. There was no way possible. She loved Sasuke for who he was. Not for his appearances, hopefully. And yeah, he was positive. But just to make sure that the other thoughts would be out of his head...

He slammed the glass on the counter once again in a matter of two minutes. He turned to the bartender, who was looking at him with raised eyebrows.

" Let it be a strong one. A really strong one!"

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