A/N: Here's another update. Hope you'll like it! The story is nearing it's end...hmm maybe two or three more chapters...either way I hope you'll read and review to the end!
Afraid of heights…afraid of heights…afraid of HEIGHTS?
He find this very impossible to believe. Whatever happened to the "I'm really excited once we get to the top, I'm sure we'll be able to see the entire village by then."? Wasn't she the one who asked him to get on this ride with those hard to resist puppy-dog eyes and those pouting lips of hers?
"I-I…I just remembered…I'm afraid of heights!"
How the heck could a person forget their phobias? She was smart, he knew. So she should have known that when they got on this ride they will have to pass the top…which was high, was she expecting they would pass through the center and then luckily be on the ground before she even realizes that it's all over?
"So…since this ride is a little…slow…your turn to ask questions."
Nope, she definitely knew they were going to be on top of this all. She was normal all the way to the top. Panic struck her face when he…
"We're near the top" He announced. She quickly looks out of the window.
"I knew it, look there's my house…And Tsunade-sensei's office and and…" Sakura was all giddy again.
So was it his fault? Certainly not, she wanted to see the entire village while they were on top, she would have missed it if he hadn't told her. The one to blame was the one who was responsible for making the ride stop and making their car sway high above. Does he have to spell it out? Looking at the still trembling girl that had her arms around him, the most intimate position he ever had with the opposite gender, he knew right away what he will do after all of this was over.
'Kakashi is a dead man'
Figuring the guy won't move this ride for awhile might as well make her calm.
"Sakura, since when were you afraid of heights?" He found his voice rather skeptical, they had missions before and she never showed this phobia of hers ever. He took note of her alert face when she was falling, but who wouldn't be alert when you are about to fall off a tree…or a cliff?
"I…I-I don't even…know…if I'm really…afraid of heights" Was her answer to him. She wasn't hysteric, he was thankful of that. But didn't she just say she REMEMBERED she was afraid of heights…now she's proclaiming she doesn't know if she IS afraid of it. It's making him dizzy.
"I'm just scared…that I might…fall" That made things a little clearer; she was scared because the car they were riding had swayed when the ride stopped. He really find it hard to believe Sakura was scared of heights because from what he heard, she fell off a cliff with him and they were saved because of her. Meaning even through her panic she still had the capability of thinking clearly.
"I…saw how high up we are from the ground when the car swayed" He thought right, she probably got a glimpse of the ground when the car kind of tilted on his side. But it wasn't suppose to sway and tilt that much, unless someone played with their car and got a few screws loose. If he ever finds out that even a small thing such as that is their sensei's fault then he really has a death wish.
Speaking of which, if a screw was a little loose, that would mean if she added weight on his side, wouldn't that mean their car is tilted even more. He had a look over his shoulder and sure enough he can slightly see the ground.
So she figured it out before him and thought they really are going to fall. So to calm her down… to calm her down…uh…
"What else are you afraid of?"
"W-what?" she stopped trembling…good.
"I'm asking you a question" Now that tone definitely was skeptical, either way he got her attention. Wouldn't they be in a much worse state if she found out about what she could see behind his back?
She looked up to him thinking deeply. She fears what average girls fears…or what a child fears…she hate bugs that's definitely a girlish fear…but the other one, so childish. No one would like to humiliate themselves…at least not intentionally (remembering Naruto). So she thought of a nice way to answer him…silence.
"That was my sixth question…our 12th."
She sighed, no escape huh?
"Well…"
"I won't repeat myself" He seem to look away from her, he'd rather stare at the ground far below than be lost as her lilac-scented hair fill his sense of smell.
"I'm afraid of bugs…" He wasn't surprised, most of the girl population does. But that doesn't seem to be the end of her sentence.
Sakura thought deeply on how to continue. She hid it from them, she never protest, she never showed tension but…
"…and the dark" He held the urge to both snort and chuckle. The dark! He wasn't expecting any shinobi to be scared of the dark. Wouldn't they be hiding in their houses during the night if they were? In the end, self control won over the overflowing urge. His plan was to calm the person attached to him.
She was expecting he would laugh and taunt her, or pinpoint that it was the most pathetic thing he had ever heard a person say. But what he said totally caught her off.
"Then don't be" Did she hear him right? Did he say 'don't be?'
"Don't be because…I'm here" Woah, back up, did he mean that literally or did he really mean…
"So don't be scared kay?" Was this still Uchiha Sasuke or did she linked arms with someone else towards the ride who seemingly cares for her in a way that he wouldn't let her be consumed by fright again?
"Cause…I won't let you fall…nor leave you alone…" If she wasn't staring and gapping directly at his face, and doesn't have the capability of sensing genjutsu well, then this is no illusion.
"…or let any harm come to you" Did he mean bugs? Bugs or no bugs that was as sweet as cloud nine. Simple words from him seem so humanly impossible to explain that it is SIMPLE.
"So…let go." She almost turned to stone. Luckily, she didn't but she froze up. How could such a pure romantic lovey-dovey moment get ruined by two words? After a few 30 seconds, she withdrew her arms. And without looking at the glass window behind Sasuke, go back to her side.
The car swayed a bit from the lost of weight on one-side of the car. If something wasn't wrong with what they were riding it would seem Sakura weighs a LOT. When she felt the car tilt again she was panicking again. But she calmed down after feeling something warm envelop her hand.
It was Sasuke's hand. She smiled in relief, partially because it made her forget about all her worries and partially relieved all he said was true. He is there to make sure she would not worry about her fears.
With a tiny sway the ride began moving again. Both sighed. Her fears forgotten.
The much preferred dead man walking with a death wish was grinning widely under his mask. Contented.
A few more minutes before reaching the ground Sakura decided to ask another question to make the awkward moment disappear.
"So my 7th question huh…um…" Sakura observed her partner which seemingly backed off to the very corner of his side.
"Please don't be mad" Sasuke stared at her for awhile, his heavy gaze boring into her. He nodded.
"What was your mother like?" His expression hardened for a bit and turned his gaze somewhere else. Sakura felt herself flinch. She knew this topic about family members always struck a nerve from him. But she always wanted to know what type of girl/woman Sasuke was used to.
He was silent but his expression softened as soon as his eyes rested upon hers.
"She was quite a caring mom. Out of my two parents, she was the closest to me. I would tell her my problems and she would listen. She always assured me of things I always wanted to hear. See, the closest family member to me was Itachi..." He paused a bit.
And he continued after sensing the huge interest Sakura was showing. He never wanted to call that man his brother again.
"Well, Itachi always plays with me…is you call training play…but I always admired him since he was so good at everything that's why at the same time I loathe him. Jealousy perhaps, but that feeling…I only felt that because my dad always acknowledges him and him alone. What I wanted from my dad was acceptance; a compliment from him was enough to make my day. My mom though, always ensured me that my dad loves me and talks about me more than Itachi. I felt love from my mom more than the two others combine." He closed his eyes figuring this wasn't what she asked for.
"My mom was good at cooking I love everything she cooks. She may be a bit loud sometimes but I love her all the same. She was beautiful, bearing the same Black long hair and Jet black eyes as any other of my family." Sasuke summarized briefly.
"So I kind of figured out where the rumor of you liking girls with longer hair came from" Was what he got from Sakura along with a giggle. He just shrugged it off.
He didn't notice that it took a lot of time since they were already at the ground. The car magically unlocked itself rather than the usual guy opening it for them. 'Lucky guy' was the thought that passed Sasuke as he got out after Sakura.
When they walked a few steps from the ride they heard the loud-mouth Naruto from behind them.
They both turned to look at the descended pair and what happened next made the pair who went out before them…Nara and Yamanaka, themselves…Uchiha and Haruno, and the newly pair that just got off the ride…Uzumaki and Hyuuga gape.
The ride collapsed to the ground.
"Oh my" "Huh?" "Hell no" "What the?" "No way!" "Impossible" the sequence was reversed.
"What about the others?" Sakura was still wide-eyes.
"I didn't saw anybody enter after us" Ino still showed her disbelief.
"I-I also saw nobody before us" Hinata muttered while she's still in shock.
"Where's the one operating this thing?" Naruto was in a daze.
"Yeah, where is he?" It came out more of a growl from Sasuke
"It will be troublesome to track down a guy who ran away when we were about to go out." Shikamaru was trying to figure out how the thing fell.
"Look over there!" Someone from the group shouted.
"Wha-?" There standing beside the collapsed Ferris Wheel was a two-story decaying house with a sign upfront that says Haunted Two Story Mansion.
"Since when was that put up?"
"Isn't it all too weird?"
"Have we entered an amusement park?"
"Can't they think of a better name?"
Smoke appeared with a loud 'poof'. The sign changed into "Haunted mansion"
"Well that's not unique" someone complained.
With another 'poof' it changed into a "Mansion that is Haunted"
"It's not that much of an improvement"
'poof' the sign now says… "Haunted Two Story Mansion"
"The guy running the place sucks huh?"
Again with the 'poof' "Place for smart-ass ninjas"
"The guy heard us?"
"Ya think?"
"I still say the name sucks"
'poof' "You think of a name!"
"Never mind just stick with the original"
'poof' the sign changed to "Haunted"
"I thought the original one was Haunted Two Story Mansion"
'poof' now the sign was all bloody "The House"
"Wasn't it a mansion?"
The sign never changed.
"I think the guy had enough Naruto"
"Let's Go" Naruto pumped his fist in the air.
"You argued and you plan to go in…why not just go in" Sakura sweat-dropped
"Well c'mon" all the guys just shrugged and headed towards the gate. While the girls were rooted in their spot.
"What ya waitin' for Hinata-chan?" Naruto went back and dragged Hinata. This time the stuff animals that Hinata was dreading to fall were really falling.
'This could be my payback' Shikamaru thought and silently went to Ino's back and…
"Shikamaru! Put me down! I'm not going in there! I said put me down" too late they entered the gate.
All that was left was Sasuke and Sakura.
'It's going to be dark in there I'm sure. Who knows what stuff I'll see there? Decapitated heads…mutilated body parts…ghost stalking me…bloody knives…horrible sounds and wailings…'
"Sakura…Let's go" Sasuke opened his hand to her.
"So don't be scared kay?"
"Cause…I won't let you fall…nor leave you alone…"
"…or let any harm come to you"
"Sure" She didn't need to fake her smile. Because she was happy and sure enough that Sasuke will stick to his words.
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