Behind Those Eyes
Summary: Sakura is a strong and spirited sixteen year-old college student, working as a nightclub waitress. Becoming someone's mistress wasn't what she really wanted. All she wanted was true happiness. She doesn't want to pretend and lie anymore. Love seeks her but is it true love?
Chapter Four: Believe in My Trust
"Here, some dry towels. Sorry for dragging you guys in the rain just now," Sakura apologized and handed out the towels, looking at the drenched Sasuke and Naruto. She expressed her gratitude. Who cares about my fucking attitude? They smiled at her and reached out for them. Naruto shook his head, causing the water droplets to be dispersed around the room.
"Hey!" Sakura looked at him with an amused smile. Naruto found this weird, he thought that Sakura would jump into a fit and scold him but no, she didn't. Sasuke smirked then dried his hair. Sakura sat on the bed, turned her gaze down to the floor and asked quietly, "Gaara and Itachi are connected?"
Sasuke looked at her, surprised that she would still ask. "They are part of his gang, Itachi's gang. They have a nightclub just behind ours. Damn it…" Sasuke crushed his fist. "They tried to steal our business, bribe our members, and steal our waitress," He said in a quiet tone, "Like you…" Sakura blushed profusely.
Sasuke who didn't seem to notice the pink tinge on her cheeks, continued, "Do you know why we have a feud against them or rather them against us?" Sakura shook her wet head. "Itachi… he…" He stopped halfway.
Naruto helped him continue although his voice was rather unstable, "Itachi… accidentally… I don't believe that… he intentionally…killed her… the beauty of Konoha… Sakura…… she was so beautiful… she would shine her smile when you were sad… enlightened you from your problems… and although she was a nightclub waitress… she was never ashamed of it… but she died… one year ago… many people liked her… she was never too rude to ignore it. Itachi liked her too; he discovered we liked her as well. He wanted to destroy us," the blonde swallowed hard as he clenched his fist, "You see, Sakura treated us better than how she treated him. But fuck, his jealousy took over him. In a spur of moment, when he was about to slash at us, Sakura protected us. The orphan Sakura, a nineteen year-old nightclub waitress, whose dream was to become a florist, died to protect us."
Naruto broke down and cried. Sakura gasped, she never thought she would see him cry.
Sasuke looked at the ceiling and blinked angrily, "We swore, we would win over Itachi and kill him for what he did to Sakura. And you, Haruno Sakura…" He looked at Sakura, his eyes showed a soft spot, "You and Sakura look almost alike except for your hair color. Hers was brown but she yearned for pink. Although, your attitude and personality are way different from hers, we will treasure and protect you like how we protected her…"
Sakura was stunned at his words, and felt tears pricking her eyes. In one swift motion she went over and hugged Sasuke who hugged her in return.
Naruto looked over the two and giggled, "Are we ready for some fucking time?"
Sakura turned to him and retorted, "Get your dirty corrupted mind out of my room!" Then she thought for a while and asked, "Hey… did… that Sakura lose her virginity?" She immediately blushed and almost regretted asking such a personal question.
Sasuke only grinned and answered, "We don't know… she never answered that… but I think…"
"Yes, she lost it to someone she really loved." Naruto smiled. Sakura scrunched up her face in confusion.
"We bluff you big time… no… she never lost it." Sasuke pulled a face. At his words, Sakura grinned.
"We've got to go," Naruto said unexpectedly and both he and Sasuke got up to open the door. "See you later at night," Naruto smirked as he closed the door behind them. Sakura who didn't get the chance to bid them goodbye, stared fondly at the door. She cleared the mess in her room and started doing her homework.
A few hours later…
Sakura buttoned up her schoolgirl outfit and began making her way to Zero nightclub. As she walked, she remembered what Sasuke had mentioned earlier, Itachi had a nightclub nearby and it was just behind. Sakura decided to take a little trip there. She knew she would be late but her curiosity took over her.
She stood there, studying the glamorous signboard which read, "Hero". It sounded so alike to Zero nightclub. And it had one couple kissing on it. Sakura observed the people going in. They were sloppy looking and they looked liked they just got off from work. Sakura felt a hand on her shoulder, she looked back. It was Gaara, smirking.
"Want to come in?" He held out his hand.
Sakura pushed his hand away immediately and said, "What are you doing here?"
Gaara rolled his eyes, "What am I doing here? Duh, I work here for God's sake."
"Oh yeah, I forgot." Sakura smiled. Then she remembered how Gaara had treated her before so she decided to leave fast. She turned to leave and waved goodbye but a dark shadow overcast her before she could walk any further.
"My, my… what do we have here? A lost schoolgirl? Must be a new waitress wannabe," Itachi clicked his tongue and looked at her, his eyes entwining hers. His henchmen stood behind him, one of them was the tall masked man and Shikamaru?
Sakura made a futile attempt to flee but the agile male already had his hand on her neck and he held her onto the wall. She squirmed under his strong grasp and desperately wondered how the hell she was going to get out of this one unharmed.
"Let go of her, you fucking goddamn," A deep voice sounded and Naruto and Sasuke appeared. Itachi let go of Sakura without a care and she slid to the hard cement ground in a heap. He smirked at Naruto and Sasuke.
They were well-aware they were under armed, but they still wanted to protect her with their lives. Itachi motioned his fingers and his vigilant henchmen gathered around Naruto and Sasuke. Sakura opened her eyes and realized what was happening before her. They started beating them up mercilessly, Naruto and Sasuke trying to defend themselves. That masked man and Shikamaru were simply standing there, admiring the entertainment.
Naruto, all bruised up, had his hand around Itachi's leg. He had an I-will-never-give-up look on his face. Sakura devoid of hesitation but perfectly knowing what to do got up and kicked Naruto's hand away, hard. She didn't want either of them to be more injured than they already were.
In the harshest tone she could pull of, she said, "Don't touch Itachi with your filthy hand, you bastard."
She looked at Itachi, "Let's go, they will probably die here. Don't spoil our fun with these bastards."
Itachi smirked in satisfaction, then the henchmen stopped beating Sasuke and Naruto upon Itachi's command and they gathered behind him. Naruto and Sasuke were lying there, they couldn't put themselves to believe that Sakura had turned to the bad side. Itachi wrapped his arms around Sakura and they went into the Hero nightclub. Sakura managed to conquer her tears. She knew she had to do this to save their lives.
Once inside the nightclub, they went to the upper levels, the places where they held their secret meetings, slept and bathed. Itachi called one girl, Tayuya, to dress Sakura up. She brought the timid-looking girl to the bathroom.
Sakura was shocked and asked, "What are you trying to do?"
Tayuya answered back rudely, "You still want to walk around with your ugly Zero nightclub uniform? I'm changing you… into your nightgown."
"What?" Sakura took a step backwards.
"When you agree to come in here with Itachi, you have already agreed to bed him. There's no turning back now… woman."
Tayuya filled the tub with warm water and pushed Sakura in, removing her clothes. With a flittering glance, she whispered, "Have fun." Sakura tried to find her voice, but found none and glared angrily at Tayuya's retreating figure.
She disappeared from her line of vision, leaving Sakura alone. Sakura splashed the water out of annoyance and anger. Darn it, how could I be such a fool! She looked out of the bathroom window and hoped to catch sight of Naruto and Sasuke. Would they be alright? The door opened abruptly, the sound startling Sakura as she jumped into the tub, making herself as unnoticeable as possible. She was filled with embarrassment. Won't the people around here give me some peace and quiet?
Itachi walked in. Oh my God; Sakura dived straight into the water, holding her breath. He smirked at her display of panic.
"Sakura darling, I'm not that scary looking am I?" He removed his clothing one by one.
Sakura blushed a deep tone of crimson and then as fast as she could, she took the towel that was lying around and wrapped it loosely around her body in the pool. She jumped out clumsily, spraying water everywhere and ran out of the door, shouting, "I'm done…"
She hurriedly closed the door and tied the towel around her properly. She heaved a sigh.
Gaara who was walking by, ran his eyes over Sakura's toweled body and smiled, "Why are you out here, partially naked?"
Sakura looked at him then pushed him to an empty room. "Hey, watch where you are going, wretch!" He shouted as she slammed the door.
She covered his mouth and whispered heatedly, "Don't shout so loudly, you hentai freak! I just escaped from the bathroom. No way, am I going to bathe with Itachi… it's so gross!"
Gaara blushed lightly when she removed her hand. "I'm not a pervert unless you want to make out here…" He offered and chuckled.
Sakura groaned heavily, "Why do all the people I meet are mad and obsessed with s… e… x…?"
Gaara leaned against the wall and said simply, "This is life, if you don't stand out from others, you will forever be standing in that position…"
He blinked away from her and muttered coherently, "Can you tie that towel properly? I can see your bosom…" Sakura shrieked with embarrassment and hastily turned to the other side; she was never good with knots.
She faced him again and said, "Then are you standing out from others?"
Gaara looked at her, surprised that she would ask. He shrugged his shoulders then closed his eyes, "I guess so… I mean I'm Itachi's henchman…"
Sakura mumbled, "Oh… a baddie…"
Gaara eyes blazed and questioned her angrily, "What did you just say?"
Sakura looked at her feet at once. "Nothing… why do you come to school anyway?"
"I don't know… they just sent me to school…" The red-head replied in a lazy tone with his eyes closed.
"They?"
Gaara opened one eye at Sakura. "Itachi. Probably to stalk you and maybe him.
"Who's him?"
"Sasuke…" He looked away as he said this, "Your boyfriend."
Sakura jumped up, "Are you mad? We are just friends…"
"You and him and that Naruto behave just like a couple…"
"But… they will never forgive me after what I did to them just now…" Sakura's voice softened.
Gaara looked at her again, "I suppose so… I guess you did what you could to protect them… right?"
Sakura smiled, "Yes… I will protect them…"
Gaara laughed, "Wow… so manly…"
They then heard noises outside, Itachi had finished bathing and Tayuya was in search of Sakura.
Sakura opened the door, straightened herself and muttered to the red-head, "Wish me luck!" She then leaped off to where Tayuya was standing. From a distance, Gaara was admiring her flawless back.
"Gee, you are such a pain in the ass, now quick, put on this nightgown… Itachi is waiting for you." Tayuya helped her put on a lavender see-through nightgown.
"What? I must wear this?" Sakura tried to argue and pulled at the revealing gown which was clinging much to closely to her body.
Tayuya ignored her and pushed Sakura into a dark room and before she had time to protest, Tayuya had slammed the door. Inside the room, Sakura could see perfumed candles flickering and a dim light shedding an earthly glow. She shivered a bit then Itachi hugged her from behind.
"I don't know why you were in such a hurry just now, but I hope you are excited for this."
Itachi had a manly smell and Sakura had the urge to bite into his flesh but she tried to struggle as he carried her in a bridal style to the king-sized bed. His body pressed uncomfortably against hers and he licked her cheek. Sakura didn't have the faintest idea on what to do. Should I runaway or lose it with him?
He looked into her eyes and asked, "What's wrong, darling?"
Sakura looked down, bit her bottom lip and then muttered, "Itachi… I… I… you see… I'm having… my period…"
Itachi revealed a smile, "Don't bluff me, the water in that tub did not even turn red."
Sakura was at a loss for words; she had no other excuses to bluff him.
"You don't want to have sex with me?" He asked softly.
"I… I… I know I'm being stupid and foolish but I just want to lose it to the one I really like… I'm sorry…" She expressed a sad look and lowered her head even more.
Itachi was reminded of his past and then he got up, "You remind me of her… I… can't bear to do it either…"
Sakura turned her head to his in thought and then she smiled, "Let's sleep together then but no touching."
She leaned against his warm body and then she stood up a bit and brushed her lips past his lightly. Itachi kissed back with a bit of force but as he was entering his tongue into her mouth, she bit his tongue. "Sorry… kissing is alright but no heavy kissing." She chuckled.
Itachi had his arms around her shoulders; he hugged her, devouring her smell. Then Sakura lay on the bed, face to face with Itachi. They both slept without having any sexual contact. Sakura had her hands around his shoulders and Itachi had his hand on her waist and her back, slowly caressing her.
That night was the most daring night Sakura had ever had and with a guy too. It was also a memorable night as she lost her first kiss. She woke up as dawn sprung upon the two. Itachi's mouth was on hers, she pushed him lightly away and got up. Luckily, she was not naked. Then she smiled to herself, it felt great sleeping next to a guy. It had a sense of security.
"Why are you awake so fucking early?" He asked playfully and smiled. He wrapped his hands around her chest.
Sakura moved away and then replied, "I have school today and luckily today is Friday, I'm so tired!"
He laughed, "I'll ask Gaara to walk with you then…"
"I'll go home and take my bag… bye…" She walked out.
Gaara was already awake when Sakura arrived at his room.
He asked cheekily, "How was that night? I never heard any groans or moans…"
She whacked his head with her hand. "Dumb ass, we just slept with our clothes on… Follow me home and then go with me to school … it's an order!"
Gaara looked at her, thinking how she could be so energetic in the morning. Sakura wearing her see-through nightgown walked out of the building.
Gaara put his jacket on her and then whispered, "You don't want people to look at you, thinking that you want to sell your body."
Sakura put out her tongue, "It slipped my mind…"
They arrived at the Happiness hostel as they proceeded to her room, they passed A-15. They heard some noises from it and then the door opened. Sasuke and Naruto walked out. There were two girls inside the room but Sakura could not see who they were.
Sasuke said rudely to the nightgown-clad Sakura, "Look at this filthy dirty girl… she probably bed thousands of men last night… fancy wearing that kind of nightgown around… showing her body like she has really nice curves…"
Naruto laughed, "Waitresses from Hero nightclub are known to be really good in bed…" Then he pointed to the two girls inside A-15, "But they are better… in the way they make you moan… scream… like hell knows it."
Sakura could feel the tears stinging her emerald eyes but blinked them back hurriedly. She was not going to cry in front of them. How could they insult me like shit?
Gaara pinned Naruto to the wall then angrily tried to punch him but was stopped by Sakura holding firmly onto his raised arm.
"These kinds of people are not worthy of our attention, let them say whatever they want, let's go…" She turned around, walking to her room. Maybe lying could protect them. She knew they were lying; they could not possibly bed them in those conditions. She forced herself to believe.
After she changed into her uniform with Gaara outside waiting, she packed her bag and came out of the room. She and Gaara walked a different direction to get out of the hostel. She didn't want to meet those two again. She held back her tears. Gaara touched her shoulder, "Let it out if you want…"
Sakura stopped in her steps. She looked down and found her tears dropping, staining the floor. Gaara had her crying in his chest as he slowly swept away her hair.
He slowly mumbled in her ear, "They will understand why you are doing this one day… don't give up on yourself…"
Sakura wrapped her arms around Gaara and slowly opened her eyes as she wiped away the tears. She saw a BMW identical to Naruto and Sasuke's. Her mouth hung open, then she turned away and walked off with Gaara. She could not stop lying and pretending now. For the sake of them, she was willing to do anything.
Anything for love
Just as long I can get back the love
I'm willing to do anything
I'm willing to awake you guys from your nightmares
And show you that there's light in this darkness
I'm willing to share my whole life with you guys
I know I can depend on you guys
I'm not going to let you guys get hurt again
I'm not going to let you guys grieve your mistakes from the past
I'm not going to let you guys die in this endless battle
I'm going to change it all
You showed me life can be meaningful
But if you guys are going to end it here
What's the point of living without you guys
I'm willing to do anything
For the sake of love
If there is a right time
I shall tell you what's happening and that
I love you
I have never met a guy like you two
I don't know when I will be able to say this
But God will give me the suitable time
But now, just let me pretend and lie
I promise I will be back here with you guys once more
My promise won't be broken…
As Sakura walked with Gaara, the BMW drove past them. She looked at the car fondly. It was not their car… she looked up at the hostel. Are they in bed with the two girls? She snapped out of her thoughts and whistled a happy song. Whatever it was, she knew they would never cheat on her.
Gaara looked at her, wondering what she was thinking. "Sakura… I think… I have..." That was the current thought in his mind.