By My Side
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That Morning--
"Sakura, wake up! Get up already!" Sasuke shook her vigorously then leaned over her to see if she was just pretending. She sighed and rolled over, her lips barely brushing his. It took a lot of things to make Uchiha Sasuke blush and all things pertained to a certain pink haired best friend of his. "Sa-su-ke, let me sleep!" she whined pulling up the covers.
Sakura waited for him to leave but he didn't. Instead he just crawled under the covers with her. When she turned around his back was facing her. She didn't mind though. Sasuke had been like this since Itachi had permanently moved out. So mainly you saw his back. Sakura got used to his back and enjoyed making Sasuke shiver when she delicately ran a finger along his spine. Today though she wanted to snuggle against him, if he'd allow it. At least give it a shot.
The pink haired teen buried her face into his back enjoying his warmth. He made no movement to leave. Something was on his mind and Sakura wanted to know. "Hey, Sasuke, are you okay?" she raised up to look over at him. Sasuke's expression changed from one of confusion to one of mischievousness. "Yeah, but are you? You're getting old, Ms. Haruno. Today is, as I recall, your sixteenth birthday."
Sakura became enraged by the sudden comment. She grabbed a random pink pillow and began to furiously pound the raven haired boy beside her. He joined in and after a few minutes he had her pinned. Sasuke smirked. "Okay, I won so now you have to do something for me. Say that you are an old hag or-" Sakura cut him off, "I am not! Naruto is right! You are a cold, heartless-" Sasuke stopped her. She tried to squirm free but Sasuke didn't loosen his grip.
"I'm giving you a second option!" Sasuke stated trying to keep her still. "Well, whatever it is, I accept. It has to be better than being old!" Sasuke gave a triumphant grin and dipped his head lower to the girl's face. Sakura immediately turned a few shades of red until Sasuke's nose was against hers. "Happy Birthday, Sakura." With that he raised back up and left and yelled once outside, "Get dressed and come out in ten minutes or you'll face the wrath of- ow!" Sakura ran over to the window to see Sasuke being pummeled by the bouncy blonde, Naruto. She smiled and ran over to her closet. 'Hmm. What to wear. Ugly, fancy, hot, frilly, itchy, revealing, morgue, school picture day, and perfect!' the strawberry color of her hair and pajamas was barely visible because of her clothes being piled up and scattered about. 'Ino will be jealous. Mwahahahaha!' she thought, while she tried her hardest to get to her bathroom.
Twelve Minutes Later--
Sakura used her hand to comb through her hair once more before leaving. She took her time trying to tick off her best friend. He said he'd be back up if she wasn't out in ten minutes. She smiled. He said that she'd face some kind of 'wrath'. She walked down the stairs only to be greeted by her pale blonde haired friend, Yamanaka Ino.
"About time, forehead girl!" Ino called out. Sakura stuck her tongue out at the blue eyed beauty. "It's kind of sad when all the guests have shown up and the hostess has yet to show. Poor Ten-ten. She was running out of excuses and Lee was pestering everyone. Why did you invite him?" Sakura shrugged. She just wanted a big party. So that meant that she had to invite all of her best friends and a few others.
Sakura spotted almost everyone. Most were at the pool and the rest were at tables. Ino led her green eyed friend to a table where they talked about anything, and anything to Ino involved Uchiha Sasuke.
"I don't see why he won't ask me out! I'm gorgeous. I've got a perfect body but he doesn't seem to notice," Ino complained about this all the time. "Sakura, you're close to him so why don't you help me out! Please." Sakura almost laughed. Ino was number two when it came to the puppy dog face second only to Sakura. Sakura sighed and finally gave in, "Alright. But I'm not saying he'll ever ask you out."
Ino seemed to lighten up at this. She beamed at the pink haired girl across the table and said 'good luck' before bouncing over to her childhood buddies, Shikamaru and Choji. Sakura turned to see Sasuke. He sat down beside her.
"Hey, Sakura, sorry about making Ino get you. I was busy with Lee at the moment," he smirked. Sakura gave him a blank stare and replied, "Okay. Anyways, why don't you go out with Ino. Just a harmless date sometime. Ino really likes you. So can you?" Sasuke was silent for a few minutes before answering, "No, I can't do that. I promised someone I wouldn't."
Sasuke brushed his bangs out of his eyes. He decided to avert his attention else where which usually pissed Sakura off. "You weren't out in ten minutes so now you have to face the consequences," with that said, Sasuke stood up and lifted Sakura over his shoulder.
Sakura started pounding Sasuke's back. "Put me down, Uchiha. I know what you're going to do. Put me down, dam-" she was cut off when she fell into the water. She was in the twelve feet deep section. She had an idea.
Seconds After--
Seconds ticked away and Sakura had resurfaced. Everyone grew worried. Hinata was shaking and Ten-ten was trying to calm her down. Naruto was ready to strangle someone and the closest one to him was Neji. "Crap," Sasuke whispered silently before diving into the water. He came up dragging Sakura's motionless body to land.
"Is she breathing, Sasuke?" Ino asked sitting down next to him. "You killed her, Sasuke!" Sasuke wasn't listening to Lee's shouts. He was too busy trying to wake Sakura up. 'Wake up! Please Sakura! You're everything to me so wake up,' he kept thinking while he and Ino checked for signs of life.
"This isn't working! Somebody has to give her mouth to mouth," Ino said worried. Sasuke shoved her over and bent over his pink haired friend. He leaned his head lower to hers and was greeted by a spurt of water. He saw green eyes and the first thing she said was, "Gotcha." Sasuke glared at her and stood up. Sakura immediately stood up also, "Don't look at me like that. It was a joke." Sasuke frowned in disgust and turned away from the girl.
Hinata hated the tension and managed to stutter, "L-let's eat." Naruto's stomach agreed to this and everybody walked to the tables. Sakura and Sasuke were the only two left. "Sasuke, I'm okay. I'm glad you 'saved' me and what not but it was just payback for this morning. No need to be worried." Sasuke turned to her black eyes flashing with anger. Sakura took a step back. "I'm leaving. Bye, Haruno." Sasuke walked away from her and back to his house. She sighed and walked to Ino.
Later that Day--
Sakura stared at the small charm bracelet on her wrist. It had her name in silver letters and in between the S-A-K and the U-R-A there was a pink paper fan that had darker pink cherry blossom petals on it. Her present from Sasuke. Speaking of him, she hadn't seen Sasuke for a while so that meant he was still ticked off. She crawled across the tree and tapped on Sasuke's window. He opened it for her hesitantly. She quickly got in and closed the window.
"Sasuke, I'm sorry for earlier. I shouldn't have and I-" she was surprised when Sasuke hugged her. She soon forgot the shock and snuggled into his chest. "Don't ever do that again, Sakura. Promise me to never do that again." Sakura nodded and stayed in the embrace for what seemed like forever. Tears rolled down her cheeks and she managed to choke, "I promise, Sasuke-kun. I'm sorry."
Evening--
Sakura was now sitting on his bed flipping through a magazine. She didn't seem to realize what she had been reading until she flipped back to the cover. "Um, Sasuke?" Sasuke was sitting at his computer talking to Naruto. "What do you want?" he asked, clearly not paying that much attention to her. Sakura continued anyways, "Where'd did you get all these 'Playboy' magazines?"
Sasuke whirled around in an instant, blushing from embarrassment. Despite the blush he replied calmly, "Kakashi gave them to Itachi, but when Itachi was moving out he needed to stash them somewhere. So he picked my room." Sakura smiled at him and dug into his backpack and found what she was looking for. Two black permanent markers. He looked at her as if she was crazy then he got the idea.
"If Kakashi was here he would probably say 'why are you two marking on good pieces of literature'. Here's what I wrote." Sakura showed her work of art to Sasuke. The model on the cover had drawn on clothes and it read, 'this is not Sasuke's magazine, so if you want to get hooked up with 'Playboy' then give Hatake Kakashi a call!'. Sasuke rolled his eyes. He then continued marking and writing goofy things on all the covers. "See twenty-five pages of beautiful babes in the buff," Sakura read the topic aloud. Sasuke grinned at her. She was goofy and bubbly alright and that was what made her special. He then laid on the bed beside her and watched her draw on the models. She would always be his best friend. Forever and ever.
A/N: Okay I got the chapter done. It was all I could put without ruining the next chapter. So how'd you like? No flames just suggestions. Now I have three announcements.
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I need an editor for this story. So please if you have time to help please do help.
I have two endings planned. You can pick! One happy other sad! Both are good!
Ending 1.) Something will happen to 'maybe' break Sasuke's and Sakura's friendship. If Itachi dies, I can bring the two together because of the accident. It will probably be fluffy but not major fluff. It'll be sweet and kind of you can think of how everyone did in the future kind of deal.
Ending 2.) It starts the same with the thing that could 'maybe' tear the two 'lovebirds' apart. Only this time Sasuke will die. If it doesn't make you cry it will leave some sort of feeling. This one goes into more depth maybe because it's sadder but both are good but still need adjustments.
You can leave it in a review or you can e-mail me your pick!
I need couplings for the story other than SasuSaku. You can pick anything except for the person cannot be paired up with either Sasuke or Sakura. I'm rooting for InoShika., I don't know why I just am! Again you can leave it in a review or e-mail me! Love you all!