Chapter five

Edited by Innelle

Day 3 - continue

One heck of a long night

Some Random restaurant

They walked to Sasuke's car, got in and drove around to find the nearest fast food joint. He drove around for five minutes and due to his irritation he was too bothered to care about costs, and so, he drove to a fancy restaurant. Sakura looked at the sign and asked, "You go here often?"

"Nope" answered the boy simply.

"Then how did you know about his place?" asked Sakura.

"My family owns it, I didn't want to go to this place since maybe this place would've been too fancy for your taste" Sasuke walked in the restaurants. Sakura followed.

"By the looks of things, your family owns everything, just how rich are you?" Asked Sakura

Sasuke answered without any enthusiasm in his voice, "I don't know"

Sakura thought to her self 'hmmm I guess a lot of people ask him that question'. As they were directed to their table, a waiter stared them impolitely, noticing that they were underage high school students. Sasuke glared at the waiter.

"Man I should really make my family close this place down, the service is appalling" Sasuke flipped through the menu.

"Just forget about it, cant you do anything yourself, you just have to drag your family into it" Sakura didn't know what else to say, although he was right about the appalling bit. However, it still didn't mean he could be so arrogant. Another waiter came by to get their order a few minutes later. While waiting, Sasuke decided to have a little conversation with Sakura.

"Aren't your parents going to get mad when you turn up home so late? You're a girl after all, don't you have a curfew? " Asked Sasuke. Like most girls, Sasuke thought that Sakura would be one to have overprotective parents.

"They wont, I live by myself, and they're too far away to know what I'm doing right now" Sakura's eyes saddened, her voice sounded bitter. Sasuke thought to himself 'Maybe I shouldn't have asked her that', he had after all, never asked a girl that kind of question. Suddenly, for no particular reason, Sasuke started to remember how Sakura stood up to him for the first time.

Flash Back

"You stupid jerk, you shouldn't have said anything at all" Sakura blamed Sasuke; she frowned at the flawless face that so many girls were so crazy about.

"You're the one who started talking to me first, it's clearly your fault, stupid forehead-girl" Sasuke raised an eyebrow.

"Don't.call.me.that" Sakura gave a scary look on her face, she always got offended when people called her forehead girl. It wasn't exactly a good thing to tease the girl about.

"Oh, so that's your weak spot, forehead girl, it suite you" Sasuke smirked.

"You're one mean bastard, you're only taking your anger out on others" Sakura muttered, the smirk on Sasuke's face was disappeared from his face.

"What do you know anyway" Sasuke's tone darkened, Sakura sure did hit his spot.

"Taking your anger out on others is a bad way to face your problems; I know more then you think" Sakura told the boy in a cold tone.

"Who said I have problems?" asked Sasuke.

"Your face tells it all, it's not easy to hide it, you're afraid of getting close to people, that's why you isolate yourself. You're jealous when you see people being happy, you wonder why you're not like them… After all no one can defeat loneliness, you're just a confused child, and it's time to grow up." Sakura ended her sentence, she told him in a pained voice, she knew that she had said too much, but it was the truth. She saw right through this person when she first saw him, the darkness in his eyes told her that, but most of the words that she told the guy were what she told herself many times, they were more alike then they thought.

"You sounded like an arrogant bitch, stop talking as though you know everything about me, what do you know about loneliness anyways, you live in that happy in little world of yours" Sasuke's face darkened he hid away his eyes with his dark hair his head turned the other way.

"You're annoying" muttered Sasuke.

At that moment Sasuke felt a large smack across his cheek; he could feel it burning in pain, Sakura had slapped him once again.

"What do you know about me anyways?"

Sasuke was speechless. The two stood outside the class room with silence, Sakura clearly won the first war through talking.

End of flashback

Sasuke wanted to apologize to Sakura, but his pride wouldn't let him. He wanted to finish off this war. He was enjoying this war after all, even though he couldn't admit it.

"I guess we are alike…" Sasuke muttered.

"What? Did you say something?" Asked Sakura. She clearly heard what Sasuke said, but she couldn't help to think that those words really came out of Sasuke.

"OH, nothing, where are your parents?" Sasuke quickly tried to change the subject.

"They're in America for business. Its sad really, my mother kept on saying that she would come back, but she always extended her business trip. It would either be a meeting or some kind of problem at the company. Although she told me that she is coming back next month, she'll probably give me another call the night before and tell me that something had happened at the company or some kind of problem occurring. I'm sick of these empty promises"… An angry look appeared in Sakura's face; she stared at the black window next to her.

"I haven't talked to mine since Christmas" Sasuke stared at the window along with the girl. His eyes moved back and forth to look at her.

"I guess your situation is pretty bad too" Sakura gave a bitter smile. She totally forgot that she was talking to an enemy, but she didn't care. For some reason, she felt a bond with Sasuke.

"Yeah…I think that we really are the same" Sasuke muttered once more. At that moment, he also realized that he was talking to one of his greatest enemies: his number one hardest target. He suddenly snapped out of his daze and then stared at Sakura, who was sitting right front of him. He then thought to himself "I've been so mixed up with this scruple that I failed to realize… what beautiful eyes she has'. He then snapped out of his daydream once more only to realize that there was a little drool dangling from his mouth. Sakura giggled.

"Hey…why am I talking to you about this, Ahh, who cares" Sakura finally realized, she then kicked herself mentally. She seemed too relaxed in front of him. Talking so openly in a friendly manner to her enemy is not something she would usually do. Then, suddenly there was a moment of silence between them for a while. The waiter came back to their table with their food. The waiter realized that Sasuke and Sakura where wondrously staring out the window. He then grabbed their attention after calling out to them repetitively. They ate in silence; it was too quiet and awkward for Sasuke's taste. He then decided to make another conversation.

"Hey can I ask you something?" Sasuke asked in a calm quite tone, no smirk, no arrogant look; just normal. Sakura looked up and nodded.

"Why do you get so angry when people called you forehead girl?" This was unexpected… Sakura stopped chewing her food and stared down at the table sadly and answered.

"It brings back bad memories" that was all that Sakura answered.

"What kind of memories?" Sasuke examined her closely. The expression on Sakura's face saddened even more.

"I don't want to talk about it, can we drop the subject?" Sakura let out a deep breath.

"You're hiding something, spill it!" Sasuke glared sharply at Sakura. A drop of sweat rolled down her pale cheek. Her head was down staring at her food; her bangs hid her face from Sasuke's stare.

"That's enough, I'm leaving" Sakura got out of her seat, her voice was almost a whisper. She went straight for the exit.

Sakura stormed down the street not caring that her shopping bags were still in Sasuke's car. She wanted to get away from it all, away from him. She knew that if she had stayed longer those bad memories would come back again. She continued to walk on and on for almost 15 minutes, memories of the past ran through her head… Memories that she tried to forget.

Sakura's POV, along with flashback

'After that incident I started taking martial arts lesson so that I won't get picked on again. I also moved to a different school. There, I made new friends and the next few years of my life were great, and I loved it. Until one day…my mother started working again, she started going to business trips; I was there by myself. And my father… my father was always away, so much that I started to think that he forgot that he had a family. They just left me there… and that's when I started living by myself. I learned how to live alone, I learned the feeling of loneliness, no, the pain of loneliness. It's not something of this world. My friends at school were nice to me, at school I was happy, but something was missing. At home, I was by myself. I started to feel envious of my friends at school, as I thought of them being with their parents… while I…I lived by myself.'

End Of Sakura's Pov

Many thoughts ran through Sakura's head. She hated it when someone mentioned the name forehead girl or asked about it. It wasn't the fact that her forehead was really big, it was because of the fact that it reminded her of the solitude that she had to endeavor. But, for some reason, it was different when it came out of Sasuke's mouth. She didn't get mad at him for calling her forehead girl, as she knew that Sasuke was also alone... in many ways she agreed with Sasuke; they were the same…

Sakura walked down the dark streets by herself, it was cold and she was shivering a lot. Her blouse was thin, so thin that it was almost see-through. Everyone would see her bare body. Her school mini skirt was also short, very short, her legs were trembling the only thing keeping it warm was her knee length high socks. Sakura wrapped her arms around herself; it was the only thing she could do to keep herself warm right now.

Sakura continued to walk. She was almost home. She wanted to get away from Sasuke, so that he wouldn't ask her any more questions. She didn't want to remember about her past any longer. She had no idea that she was walking into a dark alleyway instead of walking on the open road that she normally took. Suddenly, a few thugs appeared as they where dealing drugs to other tough looking characters.

"Well, what do we have here?" Sakura heard a voice coming from the dark corner of the alley way.

"If it isn't it a little cute little bunny, that's come to play with us, he he he" Sakura heard another voice. There was a sudden loud burst of laughter; Sakura could hear at least five different types of laughter. She then realized what she had just got herself into, but it was too late, she moved back bumping into something else, it was a person. Then suddenly four other thugs circled around her. Sakura moved away from the thug that she had just bumped into. Rain started to fall heavily from the sky, soaking Sakura's almost transparent blouse which was now even more transparent.

"Looks like we're lucky tonight boys, we got a toy to entertain us" one snorted, he was an ugly looking guy, he had piercing on his ears nose and eyebrows. He placed his dirty hands on Sakura's chin.

"It's a cute one too, we're going to have fun tonight boys" added the man with piercing and then laughed evilly. Sakura suddenly went mad, she was fuming. Nobody said stuff like that in front of her. Her hands clamped into a fist, and then out of nowhere smashed thug's face, breaking his nose. The thug fell down on the ground and passed out from the blood on pouring out of his nose.

"You bitch!"

"She's a feisty one"

Sakura could hear the other thugs calling out to her as they all laughed evilly. She ignored them. Sakura was NOT in a good mood. Then all of a sudden, a fist landed powerfully on her face, Sakura fell on to the floor. Although she was hit, but Sakura couldn't feel the pain at all; she got back up and kicked the person that had attacked her. She turned around to notice that another thug was holding a metal pipe, and then let out a battle cry and charged towards Sakura.

"Fools"

Her face was calm, she didn't move, she just stood there looking at them blankly. Sakura dodged the metal pipe, all she did was just move a few inches to the side, the thug's attack was easily predicted, she did an uppercut that sent him flying. The thug lay unconscious on the hard wet ground. Sakura walked over to the injured man and took his metal pipe. She held it like a katana and charged towards the other three members in the dark corner. The girl easily evaded all of their attacks and hurt them with the metal pipe that she had in her hands. It turned out to be an easy win; she was after all, a full-fledged black belt.

Sakura then turned around only to see that the another group of thugs surrounded her. They were all holding metal pipes, and despite her fighting ability she was outnumbered and outmatched. Sakura gripped her pipe tightly, waiting for them to attack…

Nothing happened; they were just staring at Sakura, surrounding her, until one of the thugs behind her screamed out holding his pipe, he swung the metal pole at Sakura, she quickly defended herself with it, the loud sound of metal contacting against each other echoed through out the empty alleyway. 'He's strong…damn it I'm out numbered' the metal pipes pushed against each other. Sakura was losing; she pushed even harder, the girl totally forgot about the other thugs behind her. She heard another loud cry. She swung her head around to see what was going on, to her horror one of the thugs swung his pipe at her also. She couldn't do anything to evade the attack. Her pipe was pushing against the other thug. She closed her eyes, waiting for the attack.

Suddenly a loud scream echoed through the empty alleyway. Sakura opened her eyes again nothing happened, she saw a flash of black and blue. Sakura blinked, it was Sasuke. He held a metal pipe in his hands similar to the way that Sakura held hers.

"W…what are you doing here?" asked Sakura.

"I'm killing time…" 'and saving your ass from getting raped' Sasuke added in his mind, he swung his metal pipe at all five thugs and took them all out with one strike.

But Sasuke's attack wasn't strong enough to keep them down on the ground.

"Persistent Bastards"

Sakura then replied "Sorry but I don't need saving" Sasuke gave Sakura a serious look. Sakura blinked, it looked as though Sasuke was going to hit her himself. While Sakura was caught in her own little daydream, out of nowhere a thug tried his luck and swung at Sakura. She snapped out of it only to see that Sasuke countered the attack.

"You were saying" Sasuke added, and then kicked another thug who was about to hit him from behind, and swung his pipe once more at the other thug.

Sasuke grew bored of dealing with these thugs, and so, he executed another move that took them all out in a matter of seconds.

Sasuke suddenly grabbed Sakura's hand and ran away before anymore thugs would show up. "Hey, let go of me" She yelled. Sasuke just simply ignored her. Sakura pulled the wrist out of his warm hands; Sasuke stopped and he looked back at Sakura.

"What do you want now?" asked Sasuke.

"Why are you here?" asked Sakura, she stared down at the ground. Rain poured even more.

"I told you before, I was killing time, I got bored, bumping into you was not my intention"

Sakura frowned. Sasuke just stared at her. Neither of them realized that one of the thugs had caught up with them, and then in a split second the thug pulled out a knife and charged towards Sakura.

"DON'T THINK YOU BRATS CAN GET AWAY WITH BEATING US UP LIKE THAT"

Sasuke's face changed from his usual calm look to a more alerted expression. With no time to think, Sasuke pushed Sakura out of the way. The fragile girl dropped to the ground and looked up to see the thug and his knife lodged into Sasuke's left arm. Sakura left out a scream. The blood on Sasuke's arms dripped down onto the ground, rain started to pour even more. Sasuke quickly kicked the thug and knocked him unconscious.

"Y…you're bleeding" Sakura exclaimed horrifically. She hated blood, everything about blood, an image of her past flashed into her head once again, but a voice snapped her out of the memories haunting her.

"So what"

It rained even heavier, soaking Sakura's see through blouse, the rain water also mixed with Sasuke's cut, a red color started to soak on to his shirt, blood kept bleeding out of Sasuke's arms like a fountain. Sakura quickly pulled herself up and got herself together, she got Sasuke's wrist and pulled him like she would pull on a little kid who just got in trouble, and walked as quickly as she could to her apartment.

"What are you doing?" Asked Sasuke. He followed Sakura unwillingly.

"Getting that cut of yours treated before it scars" Answered Sakura. Her pace increased. Sasuke stared at her back, her blouse was see through and all he could see was her bra. He looked the other way trying to convince himself that he was not a pervert.

'Silk…' Sasuke kicked himself mentally after realizing that that word has just came out of his brain.

They stopped in front of a large white building, Sakura walked in dragging Sasuke along.

Sakura's apartment

Sakura unlocked the door to her apartment; she switched on the light and pushed Sasuke inside. They where soaking, and the water was all over the carpet.

"Just sit on the couch, I'll get you a towel I have to dress that cut, it looks pretty bad." Sakura dropped her keys on the coffee table and ran to the kitchen. Sasuke looked around the apartment, it was warm, he should be shivering, but for some reason it felt warm to Sasuke. He sat down on the couch. His eyes explored the room. It was beautiful. Everything in the house was clean brand new, and there was a faint smell of perfume. A few minutes later Sakura came back all changed into her PJs, while holding a towel in one hand and a First Aid Kit in the other. She threw the towel at Sasuke and he caught it with his injured arm. Sakura walked over to him; she placed the first aid kit on the coffee table, and turned around to switch on the TV.

"Shall we get started?" Sakura asked with an evil smile. It was well shown on her face. Sasuke gulped and nodded, he pulled out his arm for Sakura to see.

"Okay, you better not try anything funny" Sasuke frowned at the girl.

"No why would I" Sakura's evil grin widened even more. She opened the first aid kit and pulled his arm closer to the kit. The cut on the Sasuke's arm was deep, blood flowed out of his arm, it was close to his wrist, and it was about two inches long.

"This will definitely scar" Sakura stared at Sasuke's arm, her tone was serious and so was the look on her face.

"Huh…okay then" Sasuke didn't care, its only one cut.

"Don't you care?" Asked Sakura, she took out a bottle from the first aid kit and poured some of its content into a cotton ball. She also took out another cotton ball and soaked out the water near his cut.

"Nope, it's only one a scar, no need to be all dramatic" Sasuke answered.

"Okay, this may sting a little bit" She then applied the cotton ball on Sasuke's cut. 'Arghhh, what do you mean a little bit, this KILLS' Sasuke twitched his eyebrows trying his best to keep his face calm. He also kept his mouth shut so that he wouldn't yell out in pain and clenched his teeth. His other hand tightened into a fist. The medicine stung like hell. Sakura examined Sasuke's face, 'this is so funny…hahahaha…take that jerk, the war is not over yet' Inner Sakura danced around in her flaming background.

"What is this stuff?" Sasuke's eyebrow twitched. His hand tightened even more.

"Oh, it's a type of medicine I made up" Answered Sakura, she grinned victoriously. She pressed the cotton ball even tighter into Sasuke's cut, his eyebrow twitched again.

"Are you trying to kill me?" Asked Sasuke, the cut pained him even more. Sakura rubbed the cotton ball harder.

"Hey what's that supposed to mean, my family owns a whole branch of medical clinics, and I picked up a few tricks from my father. Trust me, I know what I'm doing" Sakura defended herself proudly.

"Whatever" Sasuke averted his gaze. The pain was getting to him and he could no longer keep a straight face any longer.

"Does it hurt? You can tell me you know? It hurts yes, but it'll work wonders" Sakura grinned. Forgetting about the pain, Sasuke turned around and glared at Sakura. He pulled his arm away from her. Sakura stuck her tongue out at him.

"I'm never letting you touch my cut again" Sasuke got up, but Sakura pushed him back down.

"C'mon it wasn't that bad was it?" Sakura teased Sasuke and smiled.

"Whatever, I'm going home" Sasuke tried to get up again but the Sakura pushed him back down.

"Just let me dress the cut, and then you can go…okay?" Sakura looked at him with puppy dogs eyes. Sasuke couldn't resist and so he just nodded to show his approval. She took out a white paper like square shaped material; she applied some content of another bottle on it and put it on Sasuke's cut. The boy pulled his arm back.

"What is that?"

"Oh, it doesn't hurt; this is to reduce the chance of scaring" Sakura explained fighting back the evil expression that is trying to appeared on her face. She took out a bandage. Sasuke stared at her face for a while and nodded, Sakura quickly pulled his arms and put the square material on his cut. Sakura was right it didn't sting - it had a cool and soothing feeling applied to the cut. She quickly applied bandages neatly. Sasuke was surprised at the speed that she did it all in and it was so neat at the same time. She looked back at him and gave another grin.

"By the way, where did you park your car?" asked Sakura.

"Oh just in front of this building, I figured that you'll come back here after running away" Answered Sasuke, he walked to the door and turned around to face Sakura.

"Keep the door open, I'll be back in a second" Sasuke added. Sakura just nodded

A few minutes later the apartment was filled with all of Sakura's shopping "Here you go, I'll I guess I'll see you around… and thanks…" He let himself out. Sakura just stared and replied "Yeah… see ya…" Sasuke went straight home after. It was a long day.

'It feels so cold now' Sakura shivered, it was so warm a moment ago, she closed the door and went to sleep

Later in the night, the Uchiha Mansion, Sasuke's gigantic room

When Sasuke came home he went straight to sleep. His cut started aching, not only that it burned; the pain woke him up a couple of times. It was worse than the medicine that Sakura had used before. He tried to open the bandages but it was stuck, he pulled as hard as he could to break the bandages, but nothing that he did worked.

"That bitch" Sasuke punched his bed as hard as he could to get his anger out. The pain stopped a few hours later letting Sasuke sleep in peace. It wasn't until the medicine started reacting a few hours later. The next morning Sasuke got his butler to cut off the bandages, it was the only way. He was surprised to see that the cut disappeared leaving a very faint bruise on his clear skin.

Sakura's diary entry

Dear diary,

Today was the longest day ever. It was fun I liked it! It was my second victory already, and my life is getting better and better. Today I got the chance to show that jerk my arcade skills, too bad he's as good as me. It was the first time someone was as good at playing games as me. I have to say that he does have some potential, but I'll definitely win next time. For the first time ever since I got here, that jerk was actually nice to me. When he's like that it seems as though he's a totally different person. But who cares about him, I got to talk a lot to Naruto today, although we just became friends we already got so much in common, I love the guy (not literally), he's so funny, I think we're going to be great friends. Oh I almost got beat up today by some street thugs, but that jerk just came right on time and saved my ass, I gotta say I owe him one, maybe I should go tomorrow and thank him for saving my ass, but then he might think that I'm planning something. Also that jerk saved me from getting stabbed in the back, but he got injured instead, I got him to come over and have a taste of my medicine, lol, he should be able to feel the pain in a couple of hours.

I should go to sleep now, bye.


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