My entire body is sore and I don't want to move from the bed, but I have to because the blonde idiots walked in on Sasuke and I. Yes, idiots. Naruto and Ino came crashing into our house while we were in the middle of round three. Sasuke was beyond irritated and went out there yelling at Naruto. My shaking legs carry me over to the dresser so I can pull on something warm. I run a hand through my hair and I know it's a mess, going into the bathroom the pink locks have curled slightly and frizzy. Sasuke really did a number on me this time, lightly purple marks are scattered on my neck and chest.
Even though I'm tired, I still want more. Fucking hormones, oh well I can heal the bites later once my chakra replenishes. Going into the living room, I see Naruto giving Sasuke a rough time and Ino is blushing while wiggling her brows at me. I'm just irritated that they just decided to come on in, I plop on the couch next to Ino and her eyes turn into saucers looking at my neck.
"Good lord Uchiha! You are a freak." Ino's loud, shrill voice causes me to lean away and cover my ears. Sasuke smirks since Ino just stroked his ego and Naruto just looks at me like I have three more arms and another head. Now I can feel my cheeks getting red and I burry my face into the pillow.
"Yeah teme, we just got back from a mission." Ino nudges me and I return to sitting but the pillow is tucked against my chest. My eyes lock onto Sasuke, who's sitting in the chair across form me, and I give him an apologetic smile. I should've tried to cover them up knowing that they were here.
"Tch. Do you want to tell me why you two just showed up?" Sasuke's acting like nothing happen, apparently this doesn't bother him. He's always been able to keep a straight face, even in difficult situations.
"Hinata is teaching a class so I got bored. I ran into Ino on the way over here and she whined about her and Sai fighting. So yeah she followed me." I knew that I was going to have to kick Sai's ass. He's even worse than Sasuke with his emotions, growing up the way he did wasn't easy. Seavering the ties to any sort of emotions is what made his life bareable, until he met Naruto and I that is.
"That doesn't mean you can just come over here." Sasuke's starting to get irritated with the boy, I don't blame him but I also feel bad. Ever since Team 7 was formed, Naruto has been more of my brother than a comrade. It's been a while since I've spent time with just him. My eyes look down to the ground and I get a pain in my stomach, I feel like I've reverted back into my genin ways. I've been too wrapped up in Sasuke that I haven't even gone to see my parents since Christmas. Neglecting the people precious to me isn't healthy.
"Why don't we just hangout around the house? I'm tired from the mission and ah…We can just put a movie on and relax." I blush as I almost mention our personal time, Ino laughs when she realizes that I almost let it slip. Naruto's eyes light up and nods like a child at the proposition, while Sasuke just looks at me annoyed. I hop up from the couch and go into the kitchen to find popcorn, as I stand on my tiptoes to reach the top shelf something touched my back roughly. My body spins around and I meet Sasuke's eyes, a fire burning in the black orbs.
"A movie?" There's a deep tone to his voice and I can feel his breath hitting my face. Is he really upset about this? Shrugging my shoulders, I turn back around and continue to look for the salty treat. My hand pulls down two packs but Sasuke doesn't move.
"Yes Sasuke, a movie. We can be normal and spend time with our friends." I say in a matter of fact tone; he's not going to change my mind on this. I push him away but once I move to the microwave his back on me.
"Sasuke stop." His hands are running up my sides and messing with the hooks of my bra. Hitting the start button, I whip back around and glare at him. His smirk vanished and a static expression washed across his face, I must've struck a nerve. A large hand comes to caress my cheek and I lean into his touch.
"I need to learn to control myself." I giggle softly and nod against his hand, after earlier I don't know how much more I could take today. But him admitting that means he's taking a step in the right direction.
"Yes you do, but that's not a bad thing. Just sit with me on the couch while we relax." His body tenses before he finally relaxes and walks away into the living room. The countertop is cold against my back and I stare at the backdoor. The snow is starting to melt, which means that another group of genin will be graduating here and then another round of Chunin exams. I wonder who out of Konoha 11 will be assigned genin squads, thank goodness for the hospital or I would be stuck with a squad for sure.
The pinging of the microwave breaks me from my thoughts and I pour the hot snack food into two large bowls. Ino comes strutting into the kitchen giving me the most devilish smirk I've ever seen. She starts to raid through the fridge and pulls out four bottles of water.
"So you want to tell about it?" The door closed and she leaned against it staring me down, if looks could kill. I know she wants to know every single detail but there's no way I'm going to let her know. Sasuke would be beyond angry if I let our personal business out.
"Not really." My hands tug at the collar of my shirt and the skin feels tender under my touch. Those will be healed tomorrow for such, if Tsunade were to see them she'd have a heart attack.
"You will one day. Are you happy Sakura?" Her expression changed from playful to concerned. She remembers how bad it was after Sasuke left, there's no doubt in my mind that she's worried even more this time. But she doesn't know that Sasuke and I are together until we die. Am I happy? For the most part yes, but I still don't know Sasuke's true feelings yet. I know that he cares for me and that makes me happy.
"Yeah Ino, I am." A sincere smile comes to my lips and I carry the bowls out into the living room. Naruto's curled up on the chair and I can see Ino's made a nest of pillows and blankets on the loveseat. Sasuke is no where to be seen but our throw blanket from the bed is sitting on the couch, along with my pillow.
"He'll be right back Sakura. He went to grab something." An action move is starting and I curl up into the soft couch, leaving room for Sasuke whenever he comes back. Being ninja, nothing in a movie compares to the real electric feel of battle. That feeling is something that we all crave, when we step into battle every nerve in our body ignites. A shiver runs up my spine and I look over the back of the couch to see Sasuke walking in carrying a book. Looks like he won't be paying attention.
He slowly sits down on the couch and I curl my feet away from him. As he sits, two hands move my feet into his lap. I shoot my eyes over to him and one hand is holding his book while the other rubs my leg softly. Having him touching me like this sends me over the moon, we're slowly getting in the habit of being comfortable around each other. Snuggling into my pillow, I let my eyes glue to the TV.
"That was such a cheesy movie!" Naruto exclaims as he jumps from the chair stretching. Sasuke's hand hasn't left my leg for the past two hours, switching between rubbing or just sitting there. My stomach growls and everyone's eyes look at me, Sasuke raised an eyebrow at me. A nervous giggle escapes my throat and I scratch my head.
"Alright forehead, let's go get something to eat." She pulls me from the couch and I stumble. My hands caught the couch before I fell onto the floor, earning a laugh from everyone.
"Ummm let me go grab a scarf and jacket. Sasuke?" His eyes looked at me curiously, silently inviting him with us. Ino waved her finger at me and my brows furrowed.
"Nope. No boys, girls only." Her hand flicks the blonde locks with sass and pulls me away towards my bedroom. I know Ino's going to press the topic of my sex life while we are out, she's always so nosey. Moving quickly so she can't snoop around I throw on a jacket and scarf, I try to pull her out of the room but she's stuck looking around.
"This is better than your last room. I would've never taken Sasuke as the boxer type." That's it, I snatch her by the arm and storm out of the house. I heard Naruto gulp as I slammed the door shut, probably leaving a confused Sasuke staring at the door.
"Hey what gives forehead?" I can't help but smack her on the back of the head. I mean seriously she just jokes about my husband's underwear like it was nothing. Her small hand comes up to rub the spot and her face drops slightly.
"You deserved it." My matter of fact tone clears the air as we walk down the street. I feel like everyone is staring at me, but that's just my self conscious getting to me. The scarf covers any marks that are visible so no one else will be able to hassle me. Ino moves us into the ramen stand and I can't help but roll my eyes, the normal Team 7 dining choice. Naruto would always whine until he got his way. I take my usual seat and Ayame starts our usual orders.
"You really aren't going to tell me anything Sakura?" I knew that she was going to do this. Personally I don't care if she knows but Sasuke on the other hand…
"Sasuke wouldn't like if I talked about it." My voice is soft as I drink my water, you can see Ino's wheels turning and she's trying to figure out what to say next. For once Ino's speechless, lets keep it that way.
"So what's going on with Sai?" That causes her mood to go from curious to in the dumps in less than two seconds. It must be serious by the way she's acting, Ino and Sai have never fought or argued in the years they've been together. Naruto and Hinata have gotten into more disagreements than they have, which is saying something knowing Hinata.
"He's been distant lately. Like he's hiding something from me." Oh…Seriously what else could it be? There's normally two choices, but Sai isn't the cheating type which leaves the other. Our dear Sai is planning on proposing to my loud mouth best friend.
"That doesn't sound like Sai to me." Our ramen comes into view and I feel my mouth water, I'm even more hungry than I thought. Slurping my noodles, I glance over to Ino as she picks at her food instead of eating. This was her idea after all but she needs advice not an argument. I swallow the mouthful of food and turn to look at her.
"Ino, don't think too much about it." Her blue eyes drop to look at the bowl of food, tears building up in the corners.
"I yelled at him and he couldn't even argue back. All he did was stand there and watch me." The tears fall and my heart pulls at my friend's sadness.
"Sai is emotionally stupid. Even after all this time he still doesn't know how to express them. He cared about you a lot, he has ever since we were teenagers. Just give him some time." I rest my hand on her shoulder and offer her a warm smile. At least the person she loves returns the feeling, Sasuke's feelings are still unclear to me.
"Thanks Sakura. You know how to make me feel better. Now, I just want to know a few things about dear Sasuke." Rolling my eyes, I turn back to my bowl of food. She's going to keep this up until I crack, might as well give her some information.
"Like what Ino pig?" I can feel her devilish grin and my spine shivers from the look. Help me now…
"Is it ya know, adequate?" What?! I feel my face turn fire red and I choke on the food in my mouth. She seriously wants to know if he's living up to the family name.
"Um…yeah…" I manage to choke out before taking a sip of water, the heat from my cheeks never leaving.
"I knew it! Your a lucky duck for snatching the last Uchiha. Anyways, I'm going to assume he's the dominate one considering the marks from earlier." All I can musk is a head nod, anymore talk and I'll end up in the hospital.
"All right just one more and I'm done." The expression changes on her face and molds into a serious one. The air around us shifts into something of seriousness, what could she possibly ask next?
"Has he said it yet?" This isn't happening. Not only do I have to lie to her about my marriage, I have to lie about Sasuke saying those three words. This isn't something I can fake but I have to muster up as much strength as I can. My eyes lock on my wedding band and I mange to make a real smile.
"Yes." I can feel the tears sting at my eyes and I try to make them vanish before they fall. Ino should be smart enough to figure out I'm lying but knowing her she'll believe anything I say.
"About fucking time. Let's hurry up and finish, I need to find Sai and apologize." Phew, that was a close one. Slowly I follow her lead and eat my dinner. I can't help but think that Sasuke will never say those three words.