What a Night

Rated: T

This is why she didn't do blind dates. But Ino had insisted that it would be good for her. To get out there and find someone that she may or may not marry one day. It had been six months since she broke up with whats-his-face and she hadn't tried finding someone new. It wasn't that she wasn't over her last boyfriend. Honestly, she was happy she ended it, it was sucking the life out of her. She was just never good when it came to the dating scene. She would go out with someone for a couple of months and then she would get bored and that was when she left them.

How fucked up is that right?

Well anyway getting back to the matter at hand, her date was forty-five minutes late. Like why would you agree to go on a blind date with someone if you were just going to stand them up? I mean the only plus side to it is they would never know who you were so cheers.

This was a stupid idea from the very beginning as was the dress Ino made her wear. All black and skin tight. Honestly, what was she thinking?

Taking a sip from her second glass of wine, she observed the other couples on dates. They all looked so happy, smiling and laughing like everything was perfect in their lives. It won't last, she thought, All that happiness will one day shrivel up and dry out like water in the desert. Maybe it was the wine talking, making her bitter but hell nothing ever went right in her life.

Okay yeah, maybe she had graduated summa cum laude. And maybe everything had started to fall into place after that. And not to brag but she was studying under the top neurosurgeon in the world. But when it came to relationships she always struck out, maybe she needed to stop dumping people after she got bored.

She continued to cast her gaze around the place until she came across a man who appeared to be sitting alone. Well isn't he a looker, she thought. Looking closely she noticed he kept looking at his watch like he was waiting for someone. He did look a bit frustrated like he'd been waiting a while. Maybe he got stood up as well? But who would stand up this super good looking man?

It was now or never, maybe she'd give this whole dating thing one more chance. Sakura gulped down the rest of her wine and stood up with a purpose. A little off balance but she had this completely under control. She was just arriving at his table when he decided to stand up possibly to leave when she reached out for his arm. "Wait!"

"Wait!"

Grabbing onto the sleeve of his jacket she watched the handsome stranger turn his head to see what stopped him and saw his eyes widen a bit but he kept his face neutral.

"Can I help you?"

The minute he turned around Sakura was in a trance, damn did he look so much better up close. His eyes were the craziest darkest shade of black if that were possible. His hair looked so soft she wanted to run her fingers through it. And his voice, gods was his voice so- wait he just spoke to her and she'd been staring like an idiot this entire time!

"Uh- Hi…" well if that wasn't the lamest thing that ever came out of her mouth 'uh-hi' great job Sakura!

"Hi, can you let go of my jacket now please?" He was starting to look a bit uncomfortable and this caused Sakura to pull back.

"Oh. R-Right sorry." All that confidence Sakura had on her walk over here completely vanished like the water in the desert she was talking about earlier.

"Were you my intended date?"

"Huh.." Sakura was confused. Intended date? Was he on a blind date also?Does that mean he also got stood up?

Sasuke was getting a little impatient with this woman's lack of response. He just wanted to go back to his condo where he would proceed to go to sleep and forget this night ever happened. He also wanted to thank Suigetsu for setting this up for him. Note the sarcasm.

"Look if you don't need anything I'll be going now."

"No, wait!" She grabbed at the sleeve of his jacket again before quickly letting go. Sasuke stopped again and turned around to fully face her. If he was being honest with himself he would admit that she was stunning. Wide green eyes, petal pink hair smooth pale skin that looked soft to the touch.

She continued speaking and he tried to not only focus on her pretty red lips. "Look I saw that you were sitting here by yourself and I thought I would come over and I don't know talk to you, maybe have dinner?"

"You saw me sitting here and decided to come and talk to me?" Sasuke was a little confused but he would humor her for now, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

He seemed to have an inner debate with himself on whether he should take her up on her offer, probably sorting out the pros and cons.

For a second she thought that he was going to leave until he surprised her by pulling out the other chair at the table and motioning for her to sit. Apparently, the pros outweighed the cons.

Sakura sat down while the handsome stranger motioned for a waiter to come take their orders.

"Good evening, what would you like to drink?"

"A bottle of your best wine please."

Sakura was taken aback, that would surely be expensive. But hey if he wanted to buy really expensive wine then so be it.

As the waiter left after bringing them their wine and taking their orders, they studied each other a bit before he finally spoke first. "So tell me..-" Sakura took this as her cue to introduce herself "Sakura, my name is Sakura Haruno. And you are?"

Sasuke took her hand in his and laid a gentle kiss on her knuckles before saying "It's a pleasure to meet you Miss Sakura, my name is Sasuke Uchiha." By the time he finished speaking Sakura's face was alight with a fierce blush, no one had ever greeted her in such a manner. He quite enjoyed the color the bloomed on her face.

He quite enjoyed the color that bloomed on her face.

She cleared her throat trying to tame the color on her face before responding "Y-Yes, it's a pleasure to meet you as well."

"So tell me, why did you want to come over and talk to me?"

"Well, you see I was here for a blind date and my date never showed up, I was going to wait a little longer but then I saw you sitting all alone and you looked so frustrated and I thought 'Hey why not go over there and introduce yourself.' I know it's pretty silly but I just thought maybe you could use some company."

Someone stood her up? Well isn't that just ridiculous? Sasuke was sure that whoever was supposed to meet up with Sakura was a complete moron. I mean surely when you go on blind dates you don't know what kind of person you're going to get but that doesn't mean that you should stand them up.

"Now who would stand up such a beautiful woman such as yourself?" Sasuke was curious and he had to know.

Sakura blushed again and stammered out "Ah well you see, my friend Ino said that this guy who works in pediatrics at the hospital I currently work at wanted to go on a date with me. I never really met him before but she works with him and said he was a nice guy." She furrowed her brows thinking and Sasuke thought she looked cute "Turns out he's not so nice since he never showed." she finished.

"Well it's his loss then don't you think?" Sasuke had a small smirk on his face.

"Yes, I suppose. What about you, why were you sitting by yourself? Surely you were not in the same predicament as me?"

It had to be impossible but what if? Sakura thought that surely no woman would want to stand up a man this beautiful. And she has also come to find him charming in the short while that she has known him.

"To be completely honest I was also supposed to be on a blind date that my idiotic friend set up. He thought I didn't have the capacity to find myself a girlfriend. Turns out that apparently, I can't even get a date to show up."

"But you're so hot!" Sakura spoke before she could stop herself. She gasped, eyes wide, and her face coloring a wonderful shade of red at what she said. Groaning she brought her hands up to cover her face hoping the ground would swallow her up. Maybe she should stop drinking wine.

When Sakura peeked out between her fingers she met the face of an amused Sasuke. Apparently, he found her funny.

He still had the smirk on his face when he spoke, "I'm glad you think so, I was starting to believe there was something wrong with my appearance."

She knew he was messing with her because a guy like him isn't oblivious to gorgeous looks.

"Now if you're done hiding, I'd very much like to see your face again."

Sakura brought her hands back down and placed them on her lap, "Sorry I think I've had enough wine for the night."

Just as Sasuke was about to respond, the waiter came back and placed their food on the table. Sakura was beyond hungry and the food looked so good, having had waited over forty-five minutes for her supposed date, she dug in and made a sound of contentment.

What an unusual girl, thought Sasuke with a bit of amusement but he had no complaints.

The rest of the evening was filled with conversation in-between their meal. Mostly they talked about their careers or aspirations for the future. The conversation was never lacking and neither of them grew bored throughout.

Sakura was honestly very proud of herself for coming over to speak to Sasuke because she was honestly having a great time. Hopefully, they would go on an official first date sometime in the near future. By the looks of it, it might just happen.

Maybe going out and meeting strangers doesn't always end on a bad note.

A/N: Idk how many times I've gone back to edit this one but this is as good as its going to get sadly.