May I Chapter 17: He really loves her, a naruto fanfic

[ May I ]

May I hold you

"Kisame, pass me the other plate that were left on the table please." Konan gestured the empty plate of food at the far end of the table. Kisame dragged his feet and did what Konan asked him before camping at the couch after their dinner.

"Be a man and help out the dishes." Itachi pushed Deidara out of the seat for Kisame. "Why am I always picked on yeah?" Deidara grumbled, being pushed to the kitchen by the others.

"Because you are the youngest here. You should help out more." Kakuzu mumbled. Deidara muttered some incoherent words before glancing at the woman washing the dishes silently. He gulped.

"You won't tell me? Fine." Konan put the silver band back into her pocket. "I'm going to ignore you." She narrowed her eyes, returning back to the preparation of the food.

People would have heard "Honesty is the best Policy", but if you were with Konan, people would have to go with, "Ignoring is her best policy."

'Argh, woman are just a nuisance and confusing at heart yeah. It's not like I don't want to say it, but I- Sasori would kill me!' Deidara took a few tentative steps forward.

"Hey lady, need help?"

Konan was definitely angry and frustrated to ignore help from someone when washing the dishes. But she did tell him that she would ignore him form the start. Itachi had planned this 'surprise' party because he was told by Sakura that Sasori and Deidara seemed to be having a bad term with each other, but they doesn't need a second one if it was just making peace between Deidara and Konan.

"You have bad breathe, go away." Konan muttered.

Deidara made a face. "You don't have to be like that right?" Deidara whispered. "I'm trying to help-"

"If you tell me, I'll let you wash the dishes." Konan made a fake smile.

"What kind of deal is that?"

Konan pulled Deidara into the kitchen and grabbed a knife which was conveniently placed near the sink.

"Spit it, or I'm really going to flare up."

"Ok, fine. Put down the knife yeah. It's really dangerous." Deidara protested.

Konan smiled and put down the knife like what Deidra requested.

"I can't really say everything yeah." Deidara said, glancing at Sasori once in awhile in the living room, feeling rather guilty for betraying his trust, but he had no choice. "It's this girl, Sakura. You know Sakura don't you?"

0o0

"Why don't you all go first? I think I need to go to the bathroom for a moment." Konan clutched onto her stomach tightly.

"Are you alright?" Pein looked at her worriedly.

"I think I have a stomachache, I'll be fine in a minute, why don't you got get the car and wait for me in the car?" Konan suggested while walking to the bathroom and waved everyone off. Everyone looked at each other and shrugged, including Pein. They just head out and while biding their childish 'goodbye' and walked down the long corridor to wait for the lift.

Sasori closed the door and approached to the bathroom, knocking twice.

"Konan are you alright?" He asked.

The door suddenly opened and almost scared Sasori in the broad daylight. Konan just wordlessly pushed Sasori to the living room and made him sit down on the sofa.

"Aren't you having a stomachache?" Sasori glanced suspiciously at Konan.

"No, I'm lying. But I'm not the only one, you are lying as well." The woman looked at him.

"When did I lie?" Sasori asked weirdly.

Konan leaned against the sofa and put her hand into her pocket, fishing out the shiny diamond ring in her hand.

Sasori's eyes widened slightly. He frowned and looked at Konan. "You-"

"Don't tell me you bought this ring for yourself. Don't give me anymore lame excuses." Konan shook her head when Sasori opened his mouth.

"This ring is for Sakura right?"

"Did Deidara-"

"It's not his fault. Deidara didn't tell me anything regarding about this ring. I was just testing you. So this ring indeed is for Sakura." The woman smirked.

"You like Sakura don't you?"

0o0

The lift finally reached the floor as all of them entered into the lift. Itachi suddenly stopped on his track and frowned.

"Wait. I think I left my wallet in Sasori's house." Itachi patted on his empty pocket. "You all can go without me." The others just shrugged and pressed on the button for it to close.

Itachi walked back to the corridor and reached outside Sasori's door and was about to press the bell when he heard a conversation inside.

"You like Sakura don't you?"

Itachi's eyes widened, looking at the door as if it was transparent. 'What?'

There was just silence, all he heard was just some movement in the house.

Then, there was a soft clink behind the doors, all Itachi could think of what could have made the sound was an object placing on Sasori's glass table.

"Sakura is an innocent and naïve girl, that must be one of the reason you've fallen for her." Konan said, looking at the ring on the table. "But like what I've said, she's naïve, you have to tell her your feelings and not kept it inside forever, find a chance, and tell her. Maybe things would turn out right."

"I would really take her away and marry her, if I know she loves me as well." Sasori joked.

Konan frowned, not thinking Sasori's joke was funny, but actually took it for serious. "You'll do it right? If Sakura loves you as well, you'll take care of her right? Like husbands and wife." Konan asked again.

Sasori gave up pretending to laugh and instead looked at Konan, who was still serious all these while. Sasori gave a faint smile and looked away, and for the first time in his life, he officially blushed in front of Konan.

"Sasori… You…" Konan was almost about to cry, it was the first time she had seen Sasori blushed so adorably. Konan couldn't imagine that the Sasori she knew would have such a cute side when he's in love.

'Sasori really loves Sakura. He really really does…' Konan smiled.

Itachi slowly put down his hand away from the doorbell and into his warm pocket.

'Sasuke… Sakura and Sasori.' The Uchiha turned and walked back to the lift, feeling even more confused then ever.

'I can't believe this.'

0o0

"Thanks Ino and Hinata." Sakura said, putting a few boxes into Ino's car. "We should be th-thanking you instead." Hinata said, looking at the things that Sakura had gave them because of the limited space she had when her parents were going to move back with her and staying at her place for a few weeks.

Ino leaned against her car and looked back at Sakura. "Our pinky girl is going to get married~" Ino said merrily. Sakura rolled her eyes, shaking her head, hardly even smiling at all.

"Sakura, you should be bu-busy these few days right? Since your parents are coming back." Hinata asked.

Sakura sighed, nodding her head. "Very busy, I didn't know wedding would be that stress, I thought it should be something… happy."

"Come one Sakura, cheer up, you looked so gloomy like you had fallen in love with the wrong person." Ino went over and pinched Sakura's cheek. "The bride should be the happiest woman in her life, even when the wedding planning would be stress." Ino continued.

"I know I know." Sakura rubbed her cheek painfully. "If you are jealous Ino, get yourself a boyfriend instead of whining all day long." Sakura said, before turning to Hinata. "You too Hinata. You might think Naruto is in his restaurant goofing around, but there are a lot of pretty girls served as waitress too." Sakura wagged her finger.

"Re-really?" Hinata blushed, looking down at her feet.

"But of course, you are the most beautiful among all of them." Sakura patted Hinata's head. Hinata blushed even further.

"Alright, we should get going then. If you need any help, just picked up your phone and I'll be flying over." Ino winked, getting into her car. "Me too, but I would be driving o-over." Hinata smiled, getting into Ino's car as well.

Sakura gave a faint smile, bending down and looked through the clear window. "Thanks guys, you are the best." Sakura said. Ino and Hinata gave a wave before driving out of Sakura's gate.

Sakura waved back, watching the car turned down to another street. She sighed, and immediately her smile fade away and her eyes turned rather dead than usual.

She walked back into her house and looked at her rather empty house once again. She trudged towards her couch and slumped onto it, staring into space.

Her wedding would be held in a week time and her parents would be coming back in a few more days from the overseas trip. She looked at the ceiling and sighed, feeling more stressed than ever.

Sakura slowly turned to the other side and her eyes laid onto the photo frames on the table. She sat up and straightened her posture, picking one of the photo frames that mostly caught her attention.

Sakura looked at the photo in her hand, the photo that Deidara, Sasori and her took when there were barbecuing at the rooftop. She stared at the photo more than a minute, not at the delicious food that were stacked behind them at the table, not at Deidara's foolish face, and of course not at herself either. But at the redhead that was sitting on the chair, trying very hard to smile. She sighed, resting the photo on her lap.

And slowly, Sakura began drifting to a peaceful sleep.

0o0

"It's Saturday, going out with Karin today?" Itachi casually said, flipping through a random magazine. Sasuke stopped climbing up the stairs, glancing behind his shoulders. "What the shit are you talking about."

"You know what shit I'm talking about, aren't you having a sweet time sending messages to each other, planning what movies would you be watching together in an hour later?" Itachi threw the magazine on the table and looked back at Sasuke.

"You checked my phone? Who gave you the authority to take me phone?" Sasuke stomped down the stairs and stood firmly in front of his brother, looking down at him. Itachi then stood up and since Itachi was taller than Sasuke, it was his turned to look down at his younger brother.

"Why can't I take your phone? Little brother? When you actually took my phone and get Sasori's number, asking him to meet you." Itachi raised his volume and challenged back at Sasuke.

"I don't get what you meant." Sasuke glanced at the other side of the hall, refusing to look at Itachi.

"Your contact list had Sasori's number, and you called him before a few weeks ago. May I know what was that for?"

"I want to make more friends, does that matter?" Sasuke scoffed.

Itachi laughed lightly, finding the sentence the funniest line he ever heard.

"Friends, yeah, you need more friends, my foolish little brother." Itachi gave a light pat on his head. Sasuke slapped his hand away, looking at his brother in disgust. But then Itachi's face became serious again.

"Karin? She is your secretary right?" Itachi questioned.

"And so what if she is?"

"Sasuke, you are going to marry Sakura in just a week, how can you do this to her?" Itachi frowned very hard.

"Why do you care? It's none of your business, don't even try to get involve in this." Sasuke jabbed his finger at Itachi's chest.

It was Itachi's turn to slap his brother's hand away. "I don't care who she is, just fire her. Now." Itachi gritted his teeth.

"Shut the fuck up, you doesn't have the rights to care about my life." Sasuke glared at his older brother.

"I have the rights to care about how you are going to treat Sakura in the future." Itachi glared back at him. And his glare was really terrifying.

Sasuke grunted, rolling his eyes at him. "Fuck off, mind your stupid business." Sasuke turned and walked past Itachi and up the stairs.

Itachi watched his brother as he slammed his own door shut. The stoic Uchiha remained silent. He wanted to protect Sakura from any harm that his stupid brother would give to him when they were married. But how?

Out of the confusion, he picked up his phone and began calling Sasori.

0o0

"It's not like the Itachi I knew who carelessly left his wallet at my house." Sasori handed the wallet to the Uchiha who took it after giving a soft "Thanks."

"I've actually heard everything." Itachi suddenly said, putting his wallet in his back pocket. Sasori raised an eyebrow, trying to understand what he meant.

"I overheard what you and Konan were talking about." Itachi plainly said.

Sasori freeze in his position. He felt anxious inside and worried. 'Why the hell is more and more people knowing about my problem?'

"You knew?" Sasori only said, showing a not-so-surprise-face as he hid his true expression behind his mask.

Itachi glanced at the lady who was playing the piano at the corner of the café.

"In just one week time, Sakura's fate is fixed, and so is yours. If you didn't try, how would you knew the outcome, you have to do something in order to change it, you can't expect it to change on its own." Itachi began his longest speech ever in his life.

"Tell her that you love her, say your feelings. Who would knew, Sakura might be confused with her feelings just like yours."

Sasori tried to laugh, but he looks like his lips were quivering instead.

"Why are you helping me? I mean, Sasuke is the groom, and he's your brother." Sasori said.

"I'm not helping either of you, to be exact." Itachi firmly said, slightly surprising Sasori.

"I just don't want to see Sakura cry anymore."

Sasuke's phone suddenly rang, and immediately after he looked at the caller's name, he rushed to the kitchen and picked up the call secretively.

Itachi looked weirdly at his brother, and quietly lowered down the volume of the television, focusing between the conversation between Sasuke and his caller. He slightly shifts his position so he could clearly see Sasuke in the kitchen.

"She had not forgiven me yet, I know. I don't know what to do yet. Of course I had not forgotten our promise." Sasuke said in the phone.

Itachi narrowed his eyes and strained his ears to hear the conversation more carefully. "What idea? Proposing? She would forgive me if I made this move? Why didn't I actually think of it before?" Sasuke said. Itachi observed that the worried expression ion Sasuke's face was immediately lifted up after listening to his caller's 'idea'

"If only she even answered my phone, then I'll make my move. I know. I only had to satisfy her and make her trust me again. Your idea is good, you girls like diamonds and all these kind of stuffs right? If I were to propose to her in front of all the people, she would definitely agree." Sasuke then smirked, leaning on the kitchen table. After a few moments of silence, he nodded a few times in the conversation and finally said something out loud, not even caring if his brother could hear his conversation or not.

"Of course I know what I'm doing. Once she agrees to marry me, I can get her family fortunes and take all the money from her, and then we can be together again."

Itachi lowered his gaze and at the table. He couldn't believe what he heard at first. Sometimes, he thought he was just hallucinating and his brother wouldn't have such kind of thoughts on Sakura.

He missed Sakura's smile. Her smile was the beautiful thing he ever seen other than his own wife. For the past 4 years Sakura and Sasuke had been together, Sakura's smile seemed to be getting lesser and lesser and lesser.

He wanted Sakura to always smile the brightest like what she did in the past.

"Is that your girlfriend?" Itachi raised an amused eyebrow, looking at his younger brother and a shy girl with pink hair standing by his side.

"Sakura, this is my brother, Itachi."

"Hello Itachi-kun." Sakura raised her head and peeked at Itachi. He gave a smile and walked towards the two of them. "Is this your natural hair colour?" Itachi joked, playing with her long, pink and silky hair.

"Stop making fun of her." Sasuke made a face at Itachi.

"I'm so sorry." Itachi made an overreacting-apologetic face. "Is that necklace your 21st birthday present?" Itachi noticed a beautiful necklace hung around Sakura's neck. She immediately went to clutch it. "How did you know?" Sakura said in surprise.

"My foolish little brother had dragged me to a jewelry shop and forces me to choose a necklace for his girlfriend's birthday present this year." Itachi said. Sakura immediately blushes and smiled.

"Hahaha, what a funny joke you had. Let's go Sakura." Sasuke grabbed hold of her hand and went up the stairs and to his room. Itachi shook his head and sat down on his couch again, continue reading his magazine.

0o0

"Sakura, is that you?" Itachi rushed down with an umbrella in his hand. He immediately bent down and looked at the girl, shivering in the cold weather. Sakura slowly lifted her head and Itachi could only see her bright emerald eyes, while the rest of her features were covered by her arms or by the hood she was wearing.

"I-I'm sorry." Sakura sniffed.

"Why are you apologizing?" Itachi said, shifting the small umbrella over Sakura's head to prevent her from getting drench any further; not even caring if the rain was actually soaking the back of his body. Sakura just shook her head, and went back crying.

"Why are you wearing a hood? It's covering your beautiful face and hair." Itachi tried to take the hood of her. Sakura immediately gasped, and tried to cover the hood back but it was too late, Itachi had seen everything.

"Who did this to you?" Itachi inspected her newly cut-short hair that was tangled up in a mess. It was obviously not the work of a hairstylist, it seemed that someone had actually forced to cut her hair when she doesn't want to.

Sakura sniffed again, hugging her knees very tightly and laid her head on her on her arms, sobbing once again. "Everyone wa-was jealous that Sas-Sasuke was da-dating me. The gi-girls went to c-cut my hair. What i-if Sasuke doesn't li-like me anymore because of my ha-hair?" Sakura cried, hiccupping in between her sentence.

Itachi laughed, holding onto Sakura's arm and lifting her up, "Come on Sakura, you're still beautiful even when your hair was no longer as long as before. You are still gorgeous in everyone's eyes. Sasuke love the way you are, not how you looked like." Itachi said.

Sakura finally looked up with her two swollen eyes. "Are you sure? But… Sasuke likes girl with long and beautiful hair. He wouldn't like-"

"Sakura, I promise. If Sasuke were to hurt you in anyway, I would never side with him. Take me as your brother instead." Itachi said, before continuing.

"Why don't you tell me who did this to you. Tomorrow, you can compare with them who had shorter hair." Itachi said, slightly serious in his tone.

"Itachi-kun… Thank you…" Sakura smiled, tugging onto his arm, as they slowly began walking back to the Uchiha's estate.

Sakura had changed a lot just for Sasuke, all these while, Itachi could clearly see how much Sakura had loved Sasuke.

Even though he knew what Sasuke was doing; cheating on Sakura, trying to ruin her future and reputation. Itachi couldn't stand it, he wanted to tell Sakura, but he couldn't just say, "My brother is cheating on you and decided to take all your family fortune from you and run away with another woman." That would be ridiculous.

"I don't know how to help Sakura. You love her don't you? Like what almost everyone had told you before, you have to tell her your feelings. Run after your happiness, not sit there and wait for happiness to get you." Itachi said.

Sasori looked down under the table, thinking again by what everyone had told him again and again.

"If you don't say your feelings and thought out, they can't understand, especially Sakura." Temari said, deciding to go straight to the point. "Not everyone is that professional and able to read your mind like Tsunade and I."

Deidara closed his eyes and clutched hard onto the keys, biting his lips. "Why don't you say it out? If you kept it to yourself, no one will know what you are truly feeling and thinking! Especially when she's rather naive to do so yeah!"

Sasori kept repeating them in his mind, maybe… maybe something could change when he speak out what he had been feeling all these time.

Maybe, something unexpected could had happened…

"Sakura is just like a sister to me. You are my good friend, and Sasuke's my brother." Itachi said, resting both of his arms on the table.

"Your point?" Sasori looked at him.

"It's obvious Deidara must have convinced you a lot of times to tell Sakura your feelings. And you didn't."

Sasori just kept silent.

"Think about it, I'm not stressing you." Itachi said, slightly opposite at what he was saying. "You are my good friend, I'm trying to help out. I don't want to get anyone hurt. In this one week, you have this chance to change your happiness, including others as well." Itachi took his phone from his pocket and began dialing Sakura's number.

"I promise I won't say anything further until when you got the results." He finished punching in the correct number and waited for the other party to pick up his phone. Sasori didn't move or snatch the phone away; he just looked down at his feet.

"Hello?"

"Sakura." Itachi said through the phone. Sasori's head shot up, his attention was focused onto Itachi's conversation. But to his surprise, the Uchiha actually shoves the phone to Sasori, signaling Sasori to answer it instead.

Sasori at first shook his head quickly, but Itachi just remained still, expecting him to take the phone from his hand. The redhead sighed, admitting defeat.

"Hello? Hello? Anyone there? Itachi-kun?"

"Um, Sakura. It's me, Sasori." The redhead mumbled, looking at Itachi all the time.

"Sasori? Is there something I can do for you?" Sakura asked, wondering if Itachi was actually with Sasori.

"I-" Sasori's eyes looked worriedly at Itachi, his red eyebrows frowning and begging for Itachi's help.

Itachi pretended to picked up and fork and a knife, and started cutting up something with the utensil and put the "food" in his mouth. Sasori understood what he meant and take in a deep breath.

"I was wondering if you want to go out for dinner tonight." Sasori said quickly, almost too quickly that Sakura might have missed out a few words.

"Sure! Ino had actually recommended a restaurant to me a few days back. Maybe we should dine there." Sakura suggested.

Sasori took in another deep breathe, repeating the location Sakura had told him over and over again until he clearly memorized it. After picking perfect time which both agreed on, Sasori hung up and placed Itachi's phone on the table.

Itachi was feeling uneasy all the while, but he didn't show it or mentioned it. He felt selfish all of the sudden. He cared for Sakura; he wanted to get Sakura away from Sasuke but he doesn't want to let Sasuke get into trouble for doing such awful things to Sakura.

But then, did he actually think for once, what if Sakura were to reject Sasori?

How could Sasori ever dare to stand up and love again?

How could he mend his broken heart when the others were celebrating the meaningless wedding held by the Sasuke and Sakura?

0o0

"Hello Sasori." Sakura walked into the restaurant after finally finding the redhead sitting in the corner alone.

"What's with the sudden treat?" Sakura smiled, sitting down on her seat.

Sasori started to panic. He felt that he couldn't do this. While the waiter approached them and gave them the menu, Sasori put his hand into his pocket and pulled out the silver band that he was keeping all along. He started playing with it while Sakura was choosing her dinner.

"Sasori, what about you?" Sakura handed the menu back to the waiter while looking at him.

"Same as yours. Anything is fine." Sasori mumbled quickly, handing back the menu too. Sakura nodded at the waiter as he stepped back and went to do his things. "Sakura." Sasori suddenly spoke.

"Yeah?" Sakura looked at Sasori, expecting him to asked her his question.

"Can I share with you, a short story that I've encountered?" Sasori mumbled.

"Of course, I would be glad to hear it." Sakura said, resting her head on her palm.

Sasori gulped, and looked at his feet. He kept fiddling the ring in his hand and took in a breath.

"There was this kid with messy red hair and nice handwriting. And 20 years ago, a uniquely pinked-haired girl saved this boy from his nightmare. At first, I found this girl rather clumsy and cute, but slowly, he realized that he had started to like her even when the interaction he had with her was less than an hour. But then, he thought he'll never see her again."

Sakura blinked, she looked at Sasori, trying to register what Sasori was talking about.

"But then, a few months ago, they coincidently met again. At first the boy wasn't aware, but his feelings slowly reappear again like last time. He tried to ignore it because the girl already liked someone else. But then, for the first time in his life, he picked up the courage and decided to step forward to tell how much he love her."

Sakura's heartbeat almost stopped, a huge lump was stuck in her throat, her cheeks turned slightly warm. For some unknown reason, her eyes began to water.

Sasori slowly looked down and under the table. He kept fiddling with the ring in his hand.

'What- What does he mean…'

"Sakura. I love you."

There was a moment of silence at first, but then Sakura began laughing. She cupped over her mouth, giggling and leaned closer to Sasori.

"This is one of hidden camera pranks right? Nice try, but I'm not falling for that." Sakura laughed lightly, looking around to see if there were any cameras shooting both of them now.

"This isn't a prank. I'm serious. I'm really in love with you." Sasori said, gripping onto the ring till his knuckles turned white

"Sasori, this joke isn't funny." Sakura stopped her laughing and turned serious, looking at Sasori with two of her bright emerald eyes.

"I'm not joking Sakura, I love you." Sasori repeated.

The three words that Sasori said was absolutely different from how Sasuke had told her last time. What Sasuke said was just dull and empty. But when Sasori said it, it actually had a total different meaning. Deep down, Sakura could just feel how much Sasori had love her all these while by just expressing those three little words.

He really loves her.

Sakura stood up, pretending to laugh once again but failed miserably. "Sasori, I'm going to get married in a week, you can't just confess your feelings to me like that." Sakura said, a huge lump in her throat, almost ready to cry anytime.

"That's why I'm telling you, if I didn't, I might really regret it." Sasori looked at her, her brown eyes wavering.

"I don't want to mess this up, we are still very good friends, only until that extend. Nothing else." Sakura tried to argue back.

"Don't you like me? Doesn't it cross your mind before?"

"I don't want to think about it."

"Sakura, I really really like you!" Sasori shouted. His voice almost turned hoarse like Sakura's.

"I don't want to hear it!"

A few custumers were looking at them, feeling very worried for the 'couple' that were arguing in the restaurant.

"Then tell me, tell me do you-"

"Ok, fine. I don't love you. I mean- I don't even like you. To me, you're just an ordinary friend!" Sakura shouted.

That was the last thing Sasori wished to hear, and her words sure stung Sasori really painfully and badly.

"Friends?" Sasori repeated the word, finding the word like an alien to him.

"I'm sorry, Sasori. I can't do this. I love Sasuke. I can't do the same to you. It's impossible." Sakura slowly stepped back and away from the redhead, her tears started flowing as she tried to hide it by rubbing it away.

"I'm really sorry Sasori." With that she turned around and immediately run out of the entrance.

Sakura ran out, followed by a few murmurs and chatters in the restaurants. Everyone was looking at Sasori, expecting what he's reaction would be. Even the waiter that served them a while ago was afraid to approach him.

Sasori calmly took out the money and placed it on the table. It was like a daily routine for Sasori. That day when he witnessed Sasuke's proposal to Sakura, he left the money on the table for his coffee and ran out. It's the same. He was never fated to love someone. It seemed to be like a curse.

He just slowly walked out of the said restaurant and continued a different path that Sakura had ran to and down the gloomy streets.

0o0

Sakura kept running, she just continued running as fast as her legs could carry her. As she was not much of an athlete type, she started to slow down, her heartbeat kept beating very fast and unable to return back to its usual pace.

Sakura started wiping her tears that she cried in the restaurant, but no matter how many times she did it, more tears would continue to flow out. Her eyes were swollen and puffy red.

"I can't... Why, why am I even crying?" Sakura slowly sat down on a nearby bench, placing her bag next to her and hugged her knees tightly. "Why do I feel so horrible and frustrated when I said all those stuffs? Wasn't it real? Wasn't my true love only Sasuke? Wasn't Sasori just my ordinary friend?"

"I don't understand. I'm confused!" Sakura screamed out loud, messing up her pink hair. "I'm supposed to love Sasuke, but why do I felt so wrong when I said that I love him. But instead, I felt even more wrong when I said I just treat Sasori as an ordinary friend. Why is this happening to me?" Sakura shouted, more tears rolling down her cheeks.

All her emotions started pouring out from the bottom of her heart. She continued crying and crying, without even stopping.

This was the first time she cried so hard; even worst than realizing Sasuke betrayed her before. She couldn't stopped, her heart was aching more than anything else in the world

She couldn't put an end to it.

0o0

Itachi had been in his car, waiting for Sasori's news for 2 hours. Being slightly impatient, he got off his car and went to the said restaurant, but he couldn't find Sasori or Sakura there. He went around searching for the two nearby, until he finally found the redhead, sitting on a swing alone under a lamppost.

Itachi frowned and rushed forward, standing right in front of him, but both of them were silent. Itachi for once thought Sasori was too happy that Sakura had actually loved him back. But on second thought, he highly doubted it. Not that he had no confidence in Sasori, but the story line just doesn't fit at all.

Itachi was wrong; he had given Sasori so much hope, telling him that he can do it, saying that he could change his own happiness. But now all Sasori left was a useless ring that meant nothing at all.

The creaking of the swing continued for another minute, and finally Itachi got tired of the silence and stopped the swing, trying to get Sasori's attention.

"Sasori how did it…" Itachi paused his question and looked at Sasori who slowly raised his head and stared straight into Itachi's eyes.

Sometimes, words weren't necessary

To be continue

Author's Note:

Was this rush? D: I originally planned another way round, and it would probably break down into two chapters instead of one. But I guess it would be really a drag.

Someone is going to Jashin my butt if I didn't put Sasori and Sakura together in this chapter XD

Sorry that I didn't get to reply to all reviews, but seriously, all these reviews cracked me up like hell. I love you guys all the way! -Throw chocolate cookies into the air-

-Pocky