Author's Note: I'm so sorry for Sasuke's slight OOCness. I will try to avoid it as much as possible! I have been watching more Naruto episodes lately and hopefully I wouldn't make too much OOC problems. And thank you so much for the reviews and support! It's making me love writing this fanfic even more than I already did. So, here's chapter 4 for my awesome readers!
Chapter 4: Memorable Day
Sakura's POV
I got up slightly earlier than planned on Saturday morning. And no, it wasn't because I was overexcited.
Alright, I must admit I was slightly excited and perhaps a little tiny bit nervous.
I'm about to go on a date with one of the most popular young celebrities in the country. The more I thought about it, the more I find it unbelievable. I wasn't actually thinking about it until last night.
When I got back, I watched TV for a while before going to bed. That was when I saw the commercial Sasuke had just finished recently. It was a splendid work and Sasuke was beyond gorgeous. It reminded me how talented and how extremely popular he was.
And I, Sakura Haruno, was going on a date with the Sasuke Uchiha.
All this while, I had never seen Sasuke as a star. He was Sasuke, someone I had known for a long time. I had seen him as a classmate, an enemy and a friend, I guessed. Also, I believed I saw him as an eyesore more than I saw him as a celebrity.
It's amazing how I almost forgot he was someone famous.
When I saw it was almost 10 AM, I quickly get changed and head downstairs. I was wearing a light blue sundress and had my hair down. I applied light makeup and wore my favourite beige heels. It wasn't very tall so I still felt comfortable wearing them.
My parents weren't around and I wasn't sure where they went. I left them a message that I would be going out for the day before I left the house.
I picked up speed when I saw that Sasuke had already arrived. I opened the door and greeted him with the brightest smile I could pull off.
"Good morning, Sasuke-kun!"
Sasuke groaned and narrowed his eyes at the name I called him. I knew exactly how he hated it when someone called him that way. It was one of the most efficient ways to annoy him with.
He drove away without giving me a coherent reply and that just made me chuckle.
"Say, Sasuke-kun." I ignored the glare Sasuke gave me when I repeated the much hated way of having his named called. "I thought of something last night. You're a popular star and all that. Wouldn't you attract a lot of attention? I wouldn't want to get caught in a sea of fan girls."
The thought of getting squeezed by a bunch of Sasuke's senseless fan girls gave me the shivers.
"First of all, stop calling me that. And I'm going to be in disguise." Sasuke didn't turn to look at me as he spoke and fixated his sight on the road in front.
"How good could your disguise be? Don't tell me…" When my voice trailed off, Sasuke glanced over at me and gave me a confused look.
"Are you going to wear green spandex as disguise?"
There was silence in the car for what felt like an eternity. Sasuke slowly turned his head towards me and gave me one of his signature death glares.
"Sakura, I will kill you."
I burst out laughing at the look on Sasuke's face. Even I felt very disturbed imagining Sasuke in one of Gai-sensei's famous green spandex. I wondered how badly affected Sasuke was for imagining himself in it.
"I'm just going to wear sunglasses and a cap."
I rolled my eyes at Sasuke's disguise plan. That sounded both mainstream and very boring.
"You'll probably still be recognized in those. Your whole self is very attention seeking."
"I can't believe that's coming from a girl with pink hair."
Sasuke's POV
I refused to listen to Sakura's suggestion of borrowing green spandex from Lee. The thought of me in one of those hideous things was going to give me nightmares for the rest of my life.
When we reached the restaurant I decided to take Sakura to, I reached for my bag and took out my disguise. Sakura was making a fuss about how it wouldn't work but I ignored her anyway.
Nobody was going to make me wear green spandex. Never in my life.
We left the car and walked towards the Japanese restaurant after I put on my sunglasses and cap. Sakura was still glaring at me as we walked but I didn't bother trying to assure her it was going to be alright.
Getting recognized while on disguise was something common. I learned to handle it by pretending to be someone else or simply ignoring anyone who was paying attention to me.
We went inside and were shown to a seat by the window. My family liked going to this restaurant a lot. We would come here once in a while when all four of us were free. The last time I came here with my family was at least three months ago.
We didn't take a long time to decide what to order. I wanted to say the orders quickly because the waitress had been staring at me for too long. I wouldn't want to be recognized in less than fifteen minutes since I entered the restaurant.
"Sasu-kun."
I glared intently at Sakura and narrowed my eyes dangerously. I couldn't believe she came up with a worse nickname.
"Quit calling me that."
"I can't call you by your name in public. It is dangerous." Sakura had been whispering since she entered the restaurant. She was more paranoid than I thought she was.
I rolled my eyes at her and chose to drop the argument, which gave Sakura the chance to continue speaking.
"I think the girls sitting beside us recognize you."
I carefully glanced at the girls sitting few tables from us. There were two of them and were whispering to each other. The look in their eyes told me they were beginning to recognize who I was.
"Just ignore them. If you pay attention to them, they'll suspect it more."
Sakura listened to me and stopped looking at them.
The food came soon after. Sakura couldn't stop commenting how good the sushi was.
"How do I not know of this place?" She muttered to herself as she ate her food.
When I noticed she had a grain of rice on her face, I reached out to wipe it off without thinking much. I was going back to my food but saw a blush appearing on Sakura's cheeks.
I smirked at her burning ears and spoke, "You blush easily, don't you?"
Sakura quickly looked away and focused back to the food in front of her. I chose to stop teasing just in case she would really explode in embarrassment.
That would bring too much attention to us, after all. And attention was the last thing we needed that day.
Sakura's POV
We were back in Sasuke's car after we finished our lunch. I was pouting because he refused to tell me where he was taking me.
"Are you kidnapping me, Sasu-kun?"
The joy I felt whenever I managed to annoy Sasuke was indescribable. I felt victorious whenever I managed to snap a nerve in his head.
I groaned when Sasuke completely ignored me and I chose to just wait and see where we were going next.
I was very surprised when I saw a glimpse of where we were going.
"Are you serious?"
I couldn't believe it. We're at a carnival.
"You know, Sasuke. I would never imagine you as someone who likes carnivals. This is more surprising than you liking red velvet cakes."
"Well, I've never been to a carnival before."
"I see." I muttered to myself as I got off the car. Sasuke still had his almost useless disguise on which he refused to admit was rather pointless.
I followed Sasuke and ignored the stares from girls, just like what he was doing. I was relieved though because it seemed that they have yet to recognize who Sasuke really was.
I looked around the carnival and saw a lot of game stalls. There were a lot of dolls of various sizes and shapes as prizes. I also noticed a lot of couples being all lovey dovey.
A thought suddenly came to my mind and I wished it didn't surface in the first place.
"I wonder if people around us think Sasuke and I are a couple?"
I pinched myself to get rid of that thought and continued following Sasuke around the carnival.
"I'm wondering." I glance over at Sasuke when I heard him speaking. "Do you like dolls?"
"I guess so."
Sasuke didn't respond to my reply and just walked towards the nearest game stall. I wasn't sure what he was up to so I just walked towards the same direction.
He gave the stall tender some coins he bought in the cashier earlier. I noticed that it was a dart game and the target was quite far away from where Sasuke was. Sasuke was given five trials and I was thinking he might hit the bull's eye once or twice.
I was never so wrong.
The people around Sasuke were amazed that he managed to get all five darts to hit the bull's eye. I stood there, stunned at what I just witnessed.
"You must be joking me."
I was speechless as I watched the stall tender, who was apparently in shock too, hand over the biggest brown teddy bear to Sasuke. The doll was huge but seemed considerably easy to carry it.
Sasuke walked over to me and passed the doll into my hands. I blinked in confusion as I felt the softness of the teddy bear on my skin.
"A present." Sasuke said matter-of-factly with an expressionless face.
I stared at Sasuke as I took in the voices around me. Apparently, we had attracted more attention than we should and I just became the source of jealousy of girls around us.
"She's so lucky!"
"Oh my goodness, her boyfriend is so hot."
"That guy looks a lot like Sasuke Uchiha, don't you think?"
When I noticed that someone was starting to recognize Sasuke, I quickly grabbed his hand and walked away.
I let go of his hand when we were quite far from the earlier crowd. I glance over at Sasuke and narrowed my eyes.
"You shouldn't attract too much attention."
I refused to admit that he attracted those attentions because he looked absolutely cool earlier.
"Hn. I'll try to avoid attracting attention then."
I watched Sasuke walking over to another game stall. This time, it was a game where you throw rings to a bunch of bottles and you would win a prize if the ring fell onto one of the bottles. Sasuke gave the stall tender coins and was given ten rings. He turned to me and motioned me to go over.
"Do you want to give it a try?"
I gave Sasuke the doll and took five rings from him.
"It shouldn't be that difficult."
I muttered to myself and started throwing the rings. I felt so frustrated when none of them stayed on the bottle.
"What?!"
I turned to Sasuke and took the other five rings. I sensed my blood boiling when I failed once again.
"Want to give it a try again?" Sasuke asked and took out more coins from his pocket.
"I will not leave until I get something."
I refused to admit defeat and got hold of another ten rings. I took a deep breath and tried to concentrate properly, telling myself I shouldn't be hasty.
I was gritting my teeth when I was left with one more ring and I still had yet to get anything. I was glaring at the bottles in front of me as if I was trying to destroy them with my intense stare.
"Is that the best you can do?"
I snapped when I heard Sasuke said that and turned to glare at him. I narrowed my eyes at him and assured him that I would make it this time.
With another deep breath, I tried to calm myself down before throwing my last chance.
After the ring left my hand, I closed my eyes and didn't dare to look at the result. My eyes shot open after a few moments when I heard the stall tender ringing a bell.
"It's an in!"
"I did it! In your face, Sasuke!"
Sasuke smirked at me as I received my present. It was a medium sized beige colored teddy bear. It has a pink ribbon around the neck and it was simply adorable!
I held onto the teddy bear in admiration of my success. Then an idea suddenly popped up in my mind.
I had a grin on my face when I took the much bigger teddy bear from Sasuke's hands and replaced it with the one I just won.
Sasuke looked at the beige teddy bear in his hands with confusion.
"It's for you. You gave me one and I gave you too. We're even!"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow at me and I had a feeling what he was about to say.
"You're seriously giving me something so girly? It has a pink ribbon."
I laughed a little at the accuracy of my prediction. I knew he was going to say that.
"Come on, Sasu-kun. Don't be picky. Appreciate my effort! I worked so hard."
I pouted and gave him a sad puppy look. All Sasuke did was narrowing his eyes at me, which showed that he had a lot of complains in his head.
But all he did afterwards was giving off a soft sigh and started walking towards the direction of his car. He muttered softly under his breath but I heard his words clearly as we walked.
"Thanks then."
Sasuke's POV
When we were on our way back to the car, I asked Sakura to hold onto the teddy bear she gave me. It was embarrassing to be seen holding onto a teddy bear with a pink ribbon. I felt eyes on me as I walked.
Well, there were always eyes on me wherever I walked but that wasn't the point.
Sakura refused to do as I say. She said that Sasu-kun must hold onto his own present.
Why had I yet killed her for continuously calling me using that disgusting nickname? I couldn't believe my own tolerance.
It was almost 3 PM and I was wondering where we should go next. I tried coming up with as much ideas as possible last night but it was futile.
I wasn't very good at these kinds of stuffs.
I turned towards Sakura and asked for her opinion.
"Is there anywhere particular you want to go to?"
She looked thoughtful for a moment before speaking.
"There is a park nearby and I heard the cheery blossoms are really pretty right now. Why don't we go take a look? We're already here anyway."
I nodded and asked Sakura to show me the way.
I was pretty amazed as I set my eyes at the park Sakura suggested. It wasn't very crowded so the atmosphere was peaceful. There was a soft breeze in the air and it felt nice on my skin. The cherry blossoms, just like what Sakura said, were beautiful.
"Oh my goodness. People are not exaggerating when they said how pretty this place is."
Sakura ran towards a nearby cherry blossom tree and looked upwards. She had a gentle smile as she reached out towards a falling cherry blossom.
Unconsciously, I smiled as I watched Sakura getting absorbed by the beauty of the flowers around her.
I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard Sakura calling for me.
"Hey! Come over here."
I followed Sakura, who was walking much faster than usual. She was definitely getting overexcited. It wasn't a bad thing though.
Sakura led me to a bridge that has a narrow river running under it. There were cherry blossom trees at the sides of the river and the bridge was covered by pink leaves.
I watched Sakura looking at the river under us. The water was flowing slowly and there would be pink leaves getting pushed by the gentle currents once in a while. The whole place was quiet and the sounds of the water hitting the shores were apparent.
I saw pink leaves getting blown by the soft winds in the air. They would fly aimlessly before falling to the river or to nearby grounds. Everything was so serene.
None of us spoke for a while. We just stood there admiring the sight around us.
Sakura's POV
I didn't know what made me bring Sasuke to this bridge. There was a popular legend behind the very bridge I was standing on with Sasuke. Many young people nowadays believed that if a couple were to stand there together, they would be together forever.
I felt ridiculous to make Sasuke come here with me. We weren't even a couple! And I doubt we would ever be. I was too annoying in his eyes.
"I'm just showing him the great view. Yes, that is all." I told myself as I tried not to get too distracted by my own thoughts.
I saw a bench below a cherry blossom tree at the other side of the bridge and asked Sasuke if he wanted to take a seat.
"Want to sit over there?" I pointed towards the bench.
"Sure."
We talked about many things as we sat down. Once in a while we would end up arguing, just like old times. Some of our arguments got out of hand and ended up sounding like absolute nonsense.
But I guessed that was what made it so fun sometimes.
We weren't even sure how long we had stayed there and only realized it was getting late when the colour of the skies starting changing.
I checked the time and was very surprised.
"Unbelievable. It's already 5 PM. That's quick."
"What do you want for dinner later on?" Sasuke asked as he stood up from his seat to stretch his arms a little.
I thought for a while. We could always go to a restaurant but I wanted to do something different. After all, it wasn't every day I could go on dates with Sasuke.
I might not be able to do it ever again. That thought caused a certain pain in my heart but I chose to pretend I didn't feel it.
"Why don't we cook instead of going to a restaurant?" The idea suddenly appeared in my head and I was rather excited about it. "It could be fun!"
"That doesn't sound so bad. We could go back to my apartment."
I stood up and felt a burst of energy.
"Let's go buy some ingredients!"
We decided to cook curry for dinner and even bought a pancake mix for desserts. After gathering all the ingredients needed for the curry, we went to choose toppings for our pancakes. We bought whip cream, chocolate sauce and some fruits.
"This is going to be so fun!"
That thought repeated itself again and again after I entered Sasuke's apartment. The two of us headed towards the kitchen and got to work immediately.
Sasuke was in charge of chopping the vegetables and I prepared the other stuffs. I would scold Sasuke for his chopping skills once in a while and he would then reply me with a glare. The whole cooking process wasn't perfect but that was what made it enjoyable.
After we finished dinner, we made our pancakes and took out the toppings we bought. I commented on Sasuke putting on too much chocolate sauce on his pancake.
"You know, Sasuke. Your love for sweets could cause you diabetes one day."
He completely ignored me and it sort of pissed me of. I used my finger to scoop up some whip cream from my own pancake and wipe it on Sasuke's cheek.
I laughed at how ridiculous he looked but Sasuke didn't share my joy.
"You look great, Sasuke."
He suddenly had a suspicious smirk on his face and it startled me a little.
"I might make you lick the cream off my, Sakura."
I felt my ears burning and I wiped more cream on Sasuke's other cheek to cover up my embarrassment.
"As if I'll do that!"
Sasuke smirked once again before wiping away the cream with a tissue.
We spent the rest of the night talking about absolutely anything. It was amazing how we never ran out of things to say. Well, I did more of the talking but Sasuke was considered quite responsive. He was Sasuke Uchiha, after all. I didn't expect him to be talkative like Ino.
If Sasuke was a blabbermouth like Ino, that would be very creepy.
After we washed the dishes, Sasuke drove me home. It was already 9 PM and it was best if I would be on my way home. We decided that we were most probably ready for midterms already so we chose to not meet up to review on Sunday.
I felt a little bit disappointed that I wouldn't be meeting Sasuke on Sunday but I shrugged the feelings off since it made me feel stupid.
When we arrived in front of my house, I hugged the teddy bear Sasuke gave me and turned towards my date.
I gave a smile that was comparable with the one in the morning in terms of cheerfulness and thanked Sasuke for such a day well spent.
"Thanks a lot, Sasu-kun!"
Of course, how could I not call him by his favourite nickname to end such a wonderful date?
It was Monday, which was the first day of midterms. I wasn't feeling very nervous about it though. I had been reviewing a lot with Sasuke and it was very helpful. I learned more with him compared to when I was studying alone.
"We should review together more often."
I giggled at that thought as I opened the door to my classroom.
Sasuke was already inside and was resting his chin on his hand. I walked over to him and greeted energetically.
"Good morning!"
"Someone's in a good mood."
"Kind of." I answered and grinned at the expressionless Uchiha.
He smirked at me and decided to make a bet with me.
"Let's have a bet. The person with the lower rank must buy a meal to the one of higher rank."
I returned an evil smirk at Sasuke and sealed the deal with a handshake.
"Deal!"
We were allowed school at 12 PM after we were done with two subjects in a day. I was walking in the hallway alone as I was on my way to my locker when I heard a girl said something that I wished I didn't.
"Did you hear the rumors? Sasuke Uchiha is dating that popular actress, Ayumi Fukuda!"
And I hated myself for letting a tear fall from my eye.
Author's Note: Oh no, what is going on?! That's for you to find out in the next chapter! I promise I will update as soon as possible so please look forward to it! As usual, please leave a review as well. Tell me what you think of this story so far and feel free to drop some suggestions too. Thank you for reading and have a nice day!
