"Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension."-John Dos Passos
The wind invaded the room swiftly through the open window and Emiko hurried to her feet to close the window once again. As it was locked Emiko sighed, leaning against the wall before she slid down to the ground.
"You locked them out." Sasuke pointed out causing Emiko to jump as she'd seemingly forgotten he was there. Emiko leaned forward and closed her eyes, desperately wanting some silence as she listened to the soft tapping of the rain on the windowpane.
"I know…but they can both come in through doors so it's okay." Emiko muttered, ignoring the itching sensation on her nose as she yawned. Opening one eye she regarded the Uchiha with a sense of surprise. 'Weird…he's still here…'Emiko thought to herself but smiled slightly none the less.
"Why are you still here?" Emiko asked, not bothering to hide her curiosity. Sasuke blinked and Emiko watched as he smirked at her causing her to raise a brow in curiosity.
"Do you want me to leave so you can have other guys in here?" Sasuke questioned, his tone suggesting his belief that she had nothing better to do. Emiko gave him a flat glare as a response before she smirked.
"Hai. Now leave." She stood to her feet and held onto his shoulders before she attempted to turn him. It wasn't hard to turn him as she guessed from his faintly widened eyes that he was surprised by her response and he wasn't paying attention for the two seconds it took her to turn him to the door. However, moving him out seemed to become a mammoth task as she strained to shove him just an inch.
"Sasuke come on stop being difficult." Emiko turned and pressed her back to his to hopefully propel him out the door. 'Geez does he have to be so childish?' Emiko felt him shift seconds before he disappeared from behind her causing her to stumble back and crash towards the floor. Inches before she landed she felt a hand grasp around her wrist and she gently slid onto the floor, staring at Sasuke in confusion at his actions.
"You're confusing." Emiko stated as they watched each other. Neither changed, like a frozen picture they stayed, Emiko sitting on the ground her wrist held onto by Sasuke who stood in front of her.
"Hn." Sasuke replied quietly and released her wrist to lean on a wall. Emiko's former bewildered look switched quickly to one of annoyance as she studied the Uchiha now refusing to leave her room.
"Sasuke if you get caught in here not only will we get in trouble but I will die. Die." She emphasized the last work creatively while accompanying the sentence with gestures of begging. 'I don't want him to leave but he has to. Damn him and his stupid stubbornness.' Emiko had accepted that she enjoyed his company but now wasn't the time for him to invite himself to hours of friend time when they were in the middle of a competition. Silently Emiko translated the emotion in his black eyes and sighed before she explained her statement.
"Your fan girls would kill me if they heard you were in my room. And I room with Sakura so please don't make me die. I have things I want to do before I die." She jokingly pleaded for her life, motioning still from her sitting position for him to leave.
(Point of view change…or perspective change to Sasuke)
Coal black eyes burned into her head as Sasuke stood calmly and firmly in his place, silently refusing to leave the room. The idea of leaving so she could have other guys in, while it was in jest, wasn't amusing in the slightest to him and his mind was tinkering quickly on the questions reeling in his mind like a well directed horror movie.
"Sasuke, seriously." Her eyes rose to his and he quickly latched onto the gaze, staring at the eyes that contrasted so vividly. Sapphire and Chocolate. Water and earth. It was amazing to see two such different personalities co-existing inside the girl now standing before him. She was calm but easily angered. Caring but defensive and out of reach. Grounded to the earth by her thoughts and reasons while she would also sit out in the rain to stare at the sky.
He smirked, remembering how he had left her sitting in the rain, determined not to care if she caught pneumonia. Yet he'd found himself wandering the halls aimlessly before he had finally returned, grateful to see her still there, something constant in his life besides hatred. Her face had been tilted to the sky, her pale lips curved into a gentle smile as her eyes were closed in contentment while the rain gently slid over her face. For moments he had waited before finally stepping up to her, unsure exactly of what to say.
"Uchiha!" Emiko's voice cut his thoughts to ribbons, the shreds crumbling from his mind as he noticed the hand waving in front of her face. It took him a second to recall what she had said and he frowned slightly. A familiar feeling of anger and annoyance rejoined him like an old companion as her hand continued to wave in his face. Without hesitation he grabbed it. Sudden and welcomed warmth graced his hand and he held onto it, his eyes now fastened to Emiko's widened ones as she looked between the clasped hands and his face.
"Uchiha." Again the anger prickled at the formality he had thought they'd conquered back at his house when they'd first called each other by name. He remembered the sense of contentment as he was finally allowed to hear her call his name with a sense of care, something he'd heard often when she spoke to others.
"Stop calling me that." Sasuke ordered, his voice hissing out to express his dislike of the formality she had reverted to using. Immediately her mouth closed and he watched as her brow furrowed in an emotion between annoyance and confusion. Which ever it was Sasuke didn't care, it wasn't his problem to accommodate to her emotions at the moment as he was having enough troubles considering his own.
Her hand shifted and he closed his eyes to shove away the thoughts the feeling of her skin had provoked. He couldn't…Mentally he frowned at the idea, not bothering to care and notice if his face was displaying his mental turmoil. He didn't care for her…He couldn't. His eyes snapped open and he noticed Emiko had calmed to standing silently in front of him, her eyes darting over his face in apparent worry while he held her hand.
'Iie…iie…Iie!'
"Iie!" The word had slipped from his mouth, the ferocity in the simple syllable clearly shocking Emiko as she attempted to step back, her eyes wide in confusion and laced with fear. Feeling her hand slip away, her smooth skin sliding against his, he tightened his hold, refusing to release her and forcing her to stand before him.
"Tonight." Conflictions began to battle in his body, like a stranger to his thoughts he tried to force them away, trying to seek a haven from what he knew and wanted to refuse. 'This isn't…' His fingers laced between hers, feeling the brief fragility as he noticed how her slender fingers slipped amongst his like perfect spies.
"Uc-" Her voice stopped under his glower. Formalities were gone. "Sasuke, what are you going on about?" Despite the position and her unmasked worry her voice was as strong as before, whether because she wasn't afraid or because she refused to show it Sasuke didn't care to ponder the possibilities. His eyes darted over her face, chartering each line and curved before he repeated his words.
"Tonight. By the bridge. 11:52." His tone conveyed his determination that his command be obeyed. No response and he jerked on her hand, feeling her stumble forward a step closer to him.
"Not until you tell me what's going on!" Emiko's voice rose in agitation and he smirked at the fire fanning in her eyes. He hadn't expected her to take his order without question but he wasn't in a state to listen to a child's bickering over rules. Instead he squeezed her hand in his, feeling the momentary warmth he cherished before he slipped pulled away.
"Show." With that he left, ignoring the small constriction in his chest as he snapped the door shut behind him. This wasn't going to happen to him, he swore, partially infuriated at the turn of events he had never seen coming, never bothered to prepare for.
'Damn you Emiko.'
Hehe, that was fun to write. And now! For the cruel statement by me- teh next chapter will not be uploaded until I get more than one comment 25 reviews. Cruel? Yes. I hate doing this but I want to know if there are things I can improve on because there are 20 hits on my last chapter and I uploaded it like a day ago. So either Sailor Luna(love ya .) is reading this 20 times or I have other readers. I'm not trying to be evil honestly I hate bribing for reviews but I want to know what people think and what are things I can improve on.
Thank you,
-shyshi
