Chapter 11: Tourettes
"Sasuke?"
"Yes?" He punched her in the face.
"I want to see the world some day." She brought him towards her and kneed him in the stomach.
"Sakura, we've been on plenty of missions outside of Konoha, you've already seen a lot. The only world for you is right here." He doubled over but soon sprung up again.
"You're wrong. The world is big and beautiful. I'm only twelve, I have plenty of time to do with my life as I please. There is so much I can do, and I want a chance at all of it." She had smacked him on one side and kicked him on the other.
"No, you're wrong. You're going to become older, become a medic nin, marry some guy, bear his children, and spend the rest of your life raising them in Konoha. You can't do anything about it. That's your life." Sasuke pushed her into a wall.
"Sasuke?" She looked at him innocently.
"What?" He smirked and relaxed.
"You're wrong." She head-butted him.
"Shut up!" He grunted and twisted her around by her arm.
"You're a shit-filled, arrogant idiot and you know it." She muttered.
"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" He whispered this into her ear in triumph.
"No, she kisses me with a worse one." She flipped and pulled him into a choke-hold.
"Shut up and fight, or you may just skip the medic nin part and end up marrying some drunken bum and having his children." He grunted.
"You know nothing. I am sorry."
"Sorry for what?" He flipped her over his shoulder and onto the floor. She landed on her back and he crouched over her, smiling.
"Sorry you were born with shit for brains."
"You should talk."
"That's what I'm doing, dumbass. I'm sorry for you. You continue on this path, and you'll end up old and alone." She challenged, still on the floor.
"Will I?"
"No." She looked so innocent.
"Didn't you just say that was what is going to happen?"
"I did, but now you won't." So cute.
"Oh really? What changed?"
"I decided that I'm not going to let you." With that, she swung her legs up and kicked him in the face.
"Sakura?"
"Yes?"
"Go to Hell." He rubbed his cheek before tackling her.
"You don't mean that."
"I don't?" He asked, bending her in an uncomfortable position and gripping her head.
"No."
"I really think I do."
"I really know you don't."
"And what makes you so sure?"
"Because if I go to Hell, then that means I'll be around in your afterlife." She snaked her arm aound him and flipped him over, her on top.
"Shut up." He snarled, throwing her off.
"Shut what up?" She asked from where she had landed.
"What do you think?"
"I think you're an idiot who needs to be saved from himself." Damn, bruised and sweating and she was still clever.
"And you're going to save me?" Sasuke strutted towards her.
"Yes, even if it's the last thing I do." She said, backing away/
"What if I don't want you to?"
"You'll let me anyways." Her fist flew towards him.
"What if I kill you before you get the chance?" He caught it and twisted her arm behind her back.
"You've got too big a heart to do that, which is why I am going to save you." She panted, facing the floor.
"And how will you do that?" He twisted her arm tighter.
"We'll go and see the world together." She twisted around, and tackled him. She straddled him and faced him.
"That will never happen." He said, forgetting their sparring and focussing one their conversation.
"How much do you want to bet?" She challenged.
"I don't gamble." His turn to feel clever.
"You gamble your life every day, name the stakes." Oh, scratch that. Damn the female intellectual superiority.
"Your soul." He challenged.
"Deal. And if I win, I get your absolute life-long devotion." She stood up and helped him to his feet.He shook her hand before pulling her towards him. He grabbed her ass slightly, grinned, and muttered.
"Deal."
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"Wasn't I right?"
Sasuke looked at her sheepishly. "Yes, you were right. Why did you agree to that, anyways?"
"To what?" Sakura asked, gazing up at the sky as the fireworks boomed overhead at Tivoli Gardens.
"To betting your soul."
Sakura looked at him oddly. "Sasuke, you owned my soul long before we ever made that bet. It was no loss. Now you answer my question."
Sasuke snuggled up to her and buried his face into her arm. "What?"
"Why did you bet your life long devotion?"
Sasuke grinned, lifted her shirt up, and blew into her bare belly. "You had that long before we ever made that bet."
Sakura giggled and fell face first into his lap. She turned her angelic face upwards to face him. "Sasuke?"
"Yes?"
"You smell like water."
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AN: SHORT chapter. But whatever. I thought it should end there, and you know what? I was right. Go me.