Chapter 3: Where Curiosity Leads
Yay! Dismissal time! Certainly everyone loves.. dismissal time! Well me too, of course! I could do everything I want after school. Watch TV, surf the internet, look at Sasuke's pictures..
You know, my most favorite part of my apartment is my room. The reason is that it's full of Sasuke's posters. I could spend my whole day by just looking at his beautiful pictures.. Yup, that's how addicted I am to him.
But today I can't do that. We (my groupmates) decided to meet at the school lobby so that Sasuke could take us to his home and start working for our play.
A night at Sasuke's home.. That would be nice! My classmates envy me big time because I'm Sasuke's groupmate. Yeah, that's worth their envy.
I was sitting at a bench, waiting for Gaara. Sasuke's already there, he's so punctual. I was late for about ten minutes, thanks to Naruto, forcing me to eat ramen with him.
Doesn't he feel irritated? I mean, Sasuke. There he was, leaning on the wall, surrounded by girls asking for his autograph, have a picture with him, have a date with him, to be his girlfriend..
Oh no, sorry girls but Sasuke's MINE!
I started to feel irritated myself.. Because of the girls that were surrounding him. They're so noisy! But I could understand them.. I will have him later.
I grinned.
Finally Gaara's here, now we could leave. I kept reminding myself that everything's gonna be alright. That Sasuke will protect me in case that red- haired freak does something bad to me..
Anyway that's Sasuke's house, he can't harm me in there. Sasuke is rich so there's got to be lots of guards in there, I suppose.
I tried to act normal.. Calm in Gaara's presence. I don't want him to see that I'm afraid of him. I don't want him to see how weak I am.
Sasuke approached us, the crowd of girls as his background.
"What took you so long?" Sasuke asked him.
Gaara turned his face away from him.
"Uh.. Shouldn't we be leaving now, Sasuke?" I asked him.
Sasuke glared at me before commanding us to follow him in his limousine.
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Gaara and me just stood there, in the mansion's lobby, waiting for Sasuke while he spoke with a servant. Well I kept my distance from him, I don't want to die now.
Sasuke's house, I mean mansion, was so beautiful. It looks clean, elegant, white, shiny.. It has a big staircase in the center that's made out of marble.
I imagined myself going down that staircase, Sasuke waiting for me at the bottom. He looked lovely with his tuxedo. And some paces away from him were little Sasukes and little Sakuras. He then stretched his arms and hugged me.. Then closer.. A little bit closer, our lips would meet and--
"What are you standing there for," Sasuke said, looking at me. "girl with an over-sized forehead?"
What the?! What did he just said? How dare he!
"I have a very beautiful name Sasuke and that's Sakura.. Haruno Sakura." I told him, trying to act calm. I wouldn't want to shout at him, would I? "So stop insulting me.."
"I'm stating a fact." He retorted.
Oh, Mr. Popular is quite cunning, isn't he?
"There are good facts and bad facts, Sasuke." I said. "Bad facts are best avoided."
Again, for the 100th time this day, he glared at me. After some seconds he turned away from me.
"Hmph.. I wouldn't want to waste my time arguing with people who can't accept the fact." I heared him say then continued walking.
He's so mean yet I still like him. To tell you the truth, the more he gets mean, the more I'm liking him.
I shrugged and just followed him, Gaara behind me.
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We stayed at the mansion's living room. Well, it looks like it. It's very clean and white. With an elegant fire place, porcelain vase with a bunch of red roses in it, red carpet that looked so expensive, silk white curtains, a wooden table and chairs.. It's really beautiful. Maybe it's nice to be rich. Maybe it's nice to be Sasuke's wife..
I grinned inwardly with that thought.
We were there, writing our own ideas.. stories for our presentation. It's kind of hard in the beginning but I managed to finish mine.
I wondered how my groupmates were doing. I bet I'm the first one to finish and I believe that my story's good.
It is about a poor girl, her poor childhood friend and a noble man. When they were still young, the girl and her childhood friend promised that they will love each other forever come what may. By destiny the two friends were separated. Years and years have already passed but they were still unable to see each other. Losing hope, the girl opens her heart again for another love to come. She then finds herself in love with this noble but simple man she saw sitting under a tree, reading. Eventually the man also falls in love with the girl and proposes to her. On their wedding day, her childhood friend comes back. He reminds her the promise they made when they were still young. The man explains why he had been away for so long and that's because he's afraid that he might hurt her feelings, that he's not good enough to love her. Then the girl realizes that she's still in love with her childhood friend and she calls off the wedding. She and her childhood friend , who eventually becomes her husband, lived happily ever after.
"You finished now?" Sasuke said. I think he's talking to me.
"Y-Yeah.. How about you, Sasuke?" I asked him in my sweetest voice.
"Yes. I finished my story about fifteen minutes ago." He replied in an as-a- matter-of-fact way.
"Oh.." I said.
I turned my head in the other direction where Gaara was sitting, writing his story, minding his own business. He was seated three chairs away from me and Sasuke. Sasuke sat across me.
I'm not so sure if I should also ask him the same question but I did anyway..
He pushed his papers toward me signaling that he's already finished.
I sighed then took his papers.
"Good. So all we have to do is read each other's story and decide which is the best. Then tomorrow we'll make the script." I said. I sounded like I was the leader of the group.
Sasuke grabbed Gaara's work.
"I don't want to read yours." He told me.
"Neither do I." I heared Gaara say. He stood up and took Sasuke's work then back to his seat. Wow, that's the first time in this day that I ever heared him speak.
Anyway, I was hoping to read Sasuke's story but Gaara took it. I don't want to mess up with him so I just let him read it.
"What the?!" Sasuke suddenly said. Then he stood up, anger visible in his raven eyes.
Gaara went near Sasuke and stood in front of him. He then threw the papers on Sasuke's face and it scattered on the carpeted floor.
"Is that your story?" Gaara told Sasuke. "That's a piece of shit!" He stepped hard on the pieces of paper that he threw on Sasuke's face, tearing it slowly.
"And what do you call yours?" Sasuke fired back. "A masterpiece? You're expecting me to act like that?!" Sasuke then tore Gaara's work into pieces.
And soon, they were arguing in front of me.
Doesn't Sasuke know Gaara? His reputation as the most feared guy at school. Doesn't he know that he shouldn't argue with him or else something bad might happen to him?
I wonder, does Gaara have a TV in his house? Doesn't he know who he was arguing with?
Before the matter gets worse, I stood in their center and stopped them.
"Get out of my way, Sakura. This is our fight it does not concern you!" Sasuke told me.
"Stop acting like children!" I said to my groupmates. "And Sasuke, it does concern me. Both of you are my friends. Instead of fighting we should work as a team!"
I can't believe I just said that.. That I consider them as my friend.. Especially Gaara..
They glared at each other before sitting back down.
Since both of them tore each other's work and they don't seem to like those, I read them my story and chose my work. They reluctantly agreed.
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"Uh.. Sasuke.. Where is the comfort room?" I asked him. I wish he could accompany me but he's writing the script with Gaara so I must go alone.
He told me the direction and after some minutes of searching I finally found it.
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Hah.. That felt good! I was making my way towards the living room when I suddenly thought of something.
Sasuke's room.
How does it look? How does it smell? Does it have his posters in it just like my room? Oh.. Just out of my curiosity..
Where in this big house could it be? I'll have a hard time looking for it since there are lots of servants in every part of this mansion.
I tried my best to be careful but alas, I was caught by a male servant.
.. And thanks to my curiosity..
"Excuse me, young miss, but Young Master Sasuke told us that you and your other companion must only stay in the living room." He politely explained to me.
"Uhm.. I-I'm on my way to the comfort room, sir.." I said.
"I'm sorry, young miss, but I believe you're lying." Came another voice. It turned out to be another male servant. "If I'm not mistaken you just came from the lavatory. I saw you."
I sighed and just gave up.
"Since you admit it, I am sorry to say, young miss, but we have to send you off. It's an order from Young Master Sasuke." Said the male servant who caught me wandering in the corridor.
"What?! But.." I tried to explain.
"Let her be. I'll take care of her.." I heared a voice, not so familiar to me, said.
"Master Itachi!"
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