I finally got it right... i'll start working on a new chapter in 2 days, in the meantime i have to study for my quemestry exam [which i know i'll fail 'cause i suck in quemestry
anyway, i hope you'll like it.
warning: this IS a SasuSaku fanfic. so don't worry with the end of the chapter, it'll come clear in a next chapter.
He left his apartment closing the door behind him. He walked calmly until he reached the hospital. After a few minutes the person he had been waiting for stopped next to him with a smile on her face.
"Kora Sai-kun!!" [kora means hey! She greeted happily. He looked at her and smirked.
"Ugly." He acknowledged. She frowned.
"Stop calling me that." She muttered. "I'm not Ugly, if I were I wouldn't have fan boys." They began walking and he chuckled at her statement.
"Ikani." [ikani means whatever he said nonchalantly.
"Mou… you're mean." She whined, he chuckled again and ruffled her hair. She stepped to the side and straightened her hair.
"Stop it." She whined and punched his shoulder. He didn't react.
"I'm used to your beating Ugly." He commented and dodged another punch from her.
"Freak." She muttered and 'humpf'ed crossing her arms in front of her. He rolled his eyes.
"So childish." He mumbled to himself.
Chapter 5 – Date and Following
"I have something for you." He said, she looked at him with big curious eyes, like a kid.
"What is it??" she inquired, now walking backwards in front of him.
"You'll see when I give it to you." He answered simply, she pouted.
"C'mon tell me." She pleaded, he ignored and walked to his apartment. She followed quietly, wondering what he would give her.
They entered his apartment and went to the 'living room'. "More like an atelier!" she thought in amusement, his living room had paintings, untouched canvas, ink vials, brushes, all the painting equipment one can think of, all organized but spread around the 'living room'.
She sat on a stool and observed him.
He walked to a cabinet and took a blue bag out, then walked to her and sat down in a stool in front of her.
"What is it??" she inquired looking at the bag, he gave it to her.
"You'll see when you open it." He stated and closed his eyes.
She opened the bag and gaped when she took the content out. She put it back in the bag carefully and thrown herself at Sai in a hug.
"Arigato, arigato, arigato, arigato." she said happily.
"Ikani." He said, happy she liked his gift. She sat back on the stool and he took the chance to talk.
"Go take a shower and dress it, we're going out after you're ready." He said calmly.
"EEEHHHH??" she almost fell from the stool when he said that.
"The clothes you left here in case you ever needed them are where you left them." She looked at him suspiciously. "I'm not a hentai like Naruto and Kakashi-san." He stated. "Besides, why would I go and rummage through your clothes Ugly?" she relaxed.
"Gladly… I don't know what I'd do if I had 3 hentai team-mates." she muttered to herself.
"Just go take a shower." She nodded and got up. She walked to his room and opened his closet.
"Even his closet has to have painting stuff." She mumbled to herself in amusement.
She opened a drawer and saw her clothes neatly arranged in the same place she had left them when she put them there. She took clean underwear and walked out of the room. She walked to the closet where he kept the towels and spotted her favourite of all of the ones he owned.
"Anousa… can I use the fluffy black towel??" she asked, she knew it was his favourite too.
"Ikani." She frowned but took the towel nonetheless.
"Stop saying whatever." She scolded, he chuckled. "Morron." She muttered to herself and entered the bathroom, closing the door behind her.
Outside
"Damn it, I never realised that climbing trees without chakra could be so damn difficult." Sasuke muttered in annoyance as he settled himself in a branch in front of one of the windows of Sai's apartment.
As he looked inside the window he almost fell from the tree and his cheeks turner pink.
"Shimatta." He muttered trying to shake his blush away.
Because you see, inside the window stood Sakura only in her underwear unhooking her bra.
"Wow, you saw her undressing, look back, I wanna see her naked." his inner mind exclaimed drooling. "Go to hell you hentai, I'm not gonna spy her." "Whatever." He climbed to another branch that had the view to another room, the living room.
Sakura finished her shower and wrapped herself in the fluffy black towel and sniffed.
"The whole bathroom smells like him." She whispered contently. "What are you doing girl??" her inner mind questioned looking at her like if she had grown an extra head. "What?? I'm just sayin-" her inner self cut her off "That you like his smell."
She blushed lightly and nodded. Her inner self broke out laughing. "What??" she yelled at her inner self. Her inner calmed down and faced her with a smirk.
"You like his smell… and now you smell like him!!" her inner exclaimed, she blushed deeper. "I guess that's true… but you have to admit, he smells really nice."
"You've been smelling him??" "NO. It's just that… ninjas have to have keen senses and when we meet and that he isn't dirty from training or missions I kinda… you know and-" her inner self burst out laughing, she pouted at her inner self's antics. When her inner calmed down she spoke.
"Well, he does smell nice, etou… thyme and eucalyptus!" "Blue eucalyptus!!" "And now we smell like him!!" her inner mind cheered, she blushed and sweat dropped.
She decided to drop the subject and dried herself, and then proceeded to dress her underwear.
When she was about to dress the beautiful gift Sai gave her, she noticed something.
"I forgot it in the living room." She mentally kicked herself. She wrapped the towel around her waist and opened the bathroom door.
"I'm glad Sai isn't a hentai freak." She mumbled to herself as she walked out of the bathroom, the towel covering from the waist down and only in her underwear.
She entered the living room and saw Sai sitting on the window-sill, one leg up, the other down, his sketchbook in hand.
He stopped drawing and looked at her, a smirk appeared in his face as he saw her.
"What??" she asked innocently.
"Betsuni." He said calmly and got up putting his sketchbook down on the window-sill, where he was previously sitting.
She walked to the bag and when she had it she turned to leave the living room but bumped on something. Or better someone. More specifically: someone's chest. She lost her balance and was about to fall when a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist. She looked up to see Sai smirking. She blushed.
Sai pulled her closer and leaned to her ear, his warm breath caressing her skin.
"I like what you're wearing Sakura-chan!" he whispered softly. She shivered.
He let her go and walked back to his previous seat, the window-sill. She stood there as red as a tomato for a few seconds until she came back to reality with his voice.
"Get dressed Ugly." She broke her trance and walked, more like ran, back to the bathroom, still blushing.
Sasuke was bored, seeing someone paint isn't what many can call fun.
That is, until Sakura entered the living. He gaped and felt his nose bleeding.
She only had a black towel around her waist that reached her feet and a blood red bra.
He didn't know what they were saying but his blood was starting to boil.
Sai got up from his seat at the window-sill and walked to where Sakura was, she had her back turned to him. She turned around and bumped into him.
"Why the hell did he have to put his arms around her??" he asked no one in particular angrily.
But that wasn't what annoyed him the most, what annoyed him to no end was the fact that she blushed, and her blush deepened when Sai leaned to her ear and said something.
After that Sai went back to the window-sill and she stood there, as red as a tomato.
"I'll kill that freak." He muttered darkly.
Sakura put the towel away drying and took the dress from the bag. She admired for a bit and then started dressing it.
It was beautiful. She noticed when she took the dress from the bag that there was something else in the bag.
After dressing the bag she took a little transparent blue cloth bag and took the content out, a silver necklace.
"He really knows me." She said to herself and smiled placing the necklace around her neck. She then proceeded to Sai's room. She opened his closet again and opened another drawer where some shoes were neatly placed. She scanned the shoes and in the back of the drawer she saw a pair of silver high heels. She took them out and put them on. She then proceeded to the living room, but before she entered she was apprehensive.
"What if he mocks me??" the thought hurt her.
"Stop hiding and come in Ugly." He spoke and she gulped.
"H-hai." She answered and obeyed him, she entered the living room looked anywhere except his face.
Sasuke gaped as Sakura entered the living room.
"She looks… wow." He whispered to himself.
She was wearing a black dress that reached her mid-tigh, the skirt was plain, the hem was a bit wider than the waist, the top had spaghetti straps, over the top there was a black bodice that tied in the front with blood red laces. The dress was simple, something casual, but in her it looked beautiful. Around her neck she wore a silver necklace with pendent in the shape of a dragon, its eyes were emerald green, just like hers. She wore silver high heels with silver laces that reached her mid calf, her long creamy legs showing. Her hair was let out loose.
"How do I look??" she asked shyly, suddenly finding the ground very interesting to look at.
He said nothing and walked to her. He cupped her cheek and made her face him, with her 6 cm heels she was a bit taller, (he was 1.80m and she was 1.62m, with the extra 6cm she would be around 1.68m) so their faces were really close.
"You look pretty!" he whispered and kissed her cheek gently. She, once again, became beet red. He leaned back and stepped back to look at her.
"Do you like it??" he asked out of the blue.
"Very much!!" she exclaimed happily. He smiled, a genuine smile.
"Then let's go." He said walking to the front door, she followed.
Unknown to them, Sasuke was watching them, his blood boiling in anger towards Sai.
Sai opened the door and let her get out first, he then locked the door behind him and they started to walk together.
"Where are we going?? We're stepping away from the city." Sakura remarked.
"I said we were going out. I never said anything about the city." He said quietly.
"Oh! Ok!" the walked side by side, she was so busy admiring the forest and the small animals that she didn't even noticed they were going up the mountain.
"Damn… how do the farmers that cultivate up there do to go up everyday??" Sasuke muttered, he sure was missing being able to use chakra.
"And where the hell is he taking her?? It's almost sunset for kami's sake…"
"We're here." Sai announced quietly when they reached the top of the Hokage Mountain. She looked around and gaped.
"Wow… I never knew it was so beautiful up here." she whispered to herself. He smiled.
"C'mon." he took her hand and they walked to the edge of the cliff, surprisingly, there were a few benches near the edge.
She was in awe. They sat down on a bench.
"I painted the painting you were pleading me to give to you here." He said as he watched the sun. She looked at him. The sun was setting, with the orange and pink hues his face looked…
"Cute!" She thought to herself as she listened to him.
"I thought you'd like to see the real thing." He concluded and looked at her. She was smiling. She looked to the sunset over Konoha.
After a while in silence.
"You know… you're a cold, senseless, ruthless, heartless bastard replacement." She stated, he frowned, he didn't mind people calling him names, except when they called him replacement, he had no idea why, but it hurt him inside.
She turned to him and smiled.
"That's what they say." She looked back at the sunset. "I think…you're a sweet, thoughtful, compassionate, nice baka who belongs to Team 7 as much as me and Naruto!!" his frown disappeared and was replaced by a smile.
"Thank you." He whispered. She grinned.
"I should be the one to thank you." She scolded, he raised a brow.
"You always buy me things that cost a fortune." He chuckled.
"Don't worry about it, Danzou-san is the one who pays everything, even if he doesn't really knows that." She looked at him with a frown.
"What?? He gave me a credit card and said I could spend as much as I liked, so I spend the money as I like to." They both turned back to the beautiful sunset and sat in a comfortable silence.
"Anousa?"
"Hn?"
"Why do you give me so many clothes??" she asked quietly. He glanced at her.
"I dunno. I just… feel like it." He answered simply. "I guess it's a way of thanking you." She glanced at him.
"Thanking me for what?" she asked quietly.
"For helping me with the emotions…" he paused. "…and for believing I could be able to feel." He concluded.
"You're welcome then." She whispered and leaned her head to his shoulder, he tensed a bit but then relaxed.
They sat there quietly, enjoying each others company until the sun disappeared completely.
Sai got up and took her hand.
"Where are we going now??" she asked like a little child as she let him guide her.
"Dinner." He stated simply.
They walked calmly until they reached a platform near the eyes of the sculpted face of the Yondaime Hokage. She presumed it had been used to held do the sculpture.
He let go of her hand and took a scroll out, he opened it and with a hand seal a blue blanket with a picnic basket appeared on the floor. They sat down and took the content of the basket out: onigiri, tempura, maki-zushi, temaki, some dango for desert, water to drink, and some green tea.
They ate quietly, chatting about random things.
"I'm getting hungry." Sasuke muttered while glaring at Sai. He looked at Sakura, she was smiling happily while chatting with Sai and serving 2 cups of what he assumed to be some sort of tea.
"Why does she smiles with him and ignores me??" he mumbled, his eyes narrowed as he heard her giggle.
They gathered everything and started to walk down back home.
"Anousa…" he looked at her. "You read a lot of book about emotions right??" he nodded.
"What's love??" she asked quietly.
"Why are you asking me??" he asked looking at her, she had that look he hated to see on her.
"Maybe 'cause you know the definition, and…" she trailed off and intertwined her fingers behind her back, her face up looking at the night sky.
He stayed silent for a while.
"I read somewhere that "Love is a constellation of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. The meaning of love varies relative to context. Romantic love is seen as an ineffable feeling of intense attraction shared in passionate or intimate attraction and intimate interpersonal and sexual relationships."" He paused.
"It also said "though often linked to personal relations, love is often given a wider connection, a love of humanity, of nature, with life itself, or a oneness with the universe, a universal love or karma. Love can also be construed as Platonic love, religious love, familial love, and, more casually, great affection for anything considered strongly pleasurable, desirable, or preferred, to include activities and foods." That's what the book said, one of them." He spoke softly, his eyes examining her reaction.
"…a constellation of emotions…" she whispered. She turned to him with a grin.
"Then I think I love you!" she exclaimed. He stopped dead on his tracks.
"What??"
He followed them silently, so they wouldn't notice.
He heard their conversation.
"Love… why would you ask what love is??" he mumbled to himself as he heard Sai tell her what he had read on a book about the subject.
He stopped dead on his tracks, his heart chattering on millions of pieces.
"Then I think I love you!" she exclaimed to Sai.
He looked at her one last time before breaking down and started running away, heartbroken, her words replaying on his head and breaking his broken heart even more, the thing was, he didn't knew why she had this effect on him.
He stopped when he reached the memorial of fallen heroes.
"So that's why you've been acting like that with me." He fell to his knees and, for the first time after the Uchiha massacre, he cried. Silent tears started to run down his face, he tried to stop them, he didn't even understand why he was crying in the first place, but the tears just kept falling.
I'll repeat myself, this is a SasuSaku fic.
hope you enjoyed!
Review onegai!!
Luv ya all, Kaori-chan!