OH MY GOSH! I'M SO SORRY IT'S 8:50PM AND I SAID I'LL UPDATE AT 8PM! I'M SO SORRY I WAS CHATTING WITH MY BEST FRIEND AND WE LIVE HALF A WORLD AWAY FROM EACH OTHER AND WE MISS EACH OTHER AND WE HAVEN'T CHATTED FOR SO LONG (AND BY FOR SO LONG I MEAN LAST WEEK) SO I GOT CARRIED AWAY AND TOTALLY FORGOT TO UPDATE 50 MINUTES EARLIER!
This chap's dedicated to Karisma for telling me this story! Hope you enjoy it! thanks a million!
FireLight Horrors
Chapter Title: A Girl That Vanished
lainey-bo-bainey
It was sometime around nine at night, when Sasuke and the rest of his friends were heading over to Sakura's house. It was, anyway, the plan, to go to Sakura's house tonight since Ino refused to go back to the woods. It was pretty long story to tell of what happened last week, and why Ino didn't want to go back. In short, let's just say that when she got home, her legs turned red out of all the mosquito bites she had that night.
The sun was merely about to set, of course, considering the fact that it was summer and it doesn't get dark until ten. At any case, it made it seem like 5:30 right now. They were still a few blocks away so at the same time as walking, most of them chatted along with one another, avoiding boredom in the process. Everyone trailed behind Sakura and Sasuke, whom both were first in line, leading the way to their location.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, "Stop grinning." He ordered Sakura, who, as a matter of fact, prolonged her grinning. "What?" he asked, pissed
"Oh c'mon admit it…" she grinned once more.
"Admit what?" he asked impassively.
"I'm a genius… I'm mischievous… and I totally outsmarted you…" and grinned even more.
"It's not a big deal…" Sasuke grunted. Gee, what the hell's wrong with him tonight, Sakura thought. He seemed grumpy, even supposing that he's is, in point of fact, always grumpy, but he's times two for tonight.
"Oh, so it's ok that we're partners for our year-end project?" Sakura joked, ignoring his… grumpiness.
"Honestly, I'd rather get stuck with an annoying you than with the white-eyed Hyuuga-freak I was supposed to be partnered with…" Sasuke stated, staring directly before him, nothing in particular really. He might be staring at the ground or at the cars…or at the air; his eyes seemed so focused yet it was focusing on nothing.
"Shut up Uchiha, I heard that…" Neji snapped back, who was presently following behind Sasuke.
He rolled his eyes, "It was meant for you to hear…" he stated, and heard a frustrated growl from the Hyuuga. He rolled his eyes once more, "Whatever, it's not that big of a deal…"
"You know, we could do part of the project in my house and another part in yours and then-…"
"We're not going to my house…" Sasuke stated. He didn't turn to look at her.
"Yes we are…" Sakura said grinning, It was a surprise, Sasuke sighed, but still manage not to turn her way.
"Is that actually the reason why you're so perky tonight?" Sakura gave a goofy smile and faintly nodded, "Any reason why you want to go to my house so badly?"
"Oh, because not everyone is a friend of the great Uchiha Sasuke… and not everyone can get into the Great Uchiha Mansion!" she replied dramatically.
"I completely doubt that that's the reason…" Sasuke stated, interrupting her act.
Sakura sighed, "I just want to know what's so special about it. Or why you're never seen inside the house, or even seen going in the house." She admitted. "That's mostly it…"
"Whoever said it was special?" Sasuke murmured.
"I have 3 sources: one, rumours; two, you don't wanna do our FireLight horrors there; three, I live two houses away from you, and I've seen the Uchiha Mansion from the outside… it's big…"
Sasuke rolled his eyes, and replied to everything she said a while ago, without looking at her, and fixed a look of impassiveness upon the sidewalk. "First of all: rumours about me being kicked out of the house is not true, neither is me being adopted, nor the one about me lying that I am an Uchiha. I go in through the backdoor; second: the only reason why I don't want to do our stories there is because one, I'm too lazy to prepare anything and two, I'm too lazy to clean up afterwards; and third, yeah, my house is pretty big, but so is yours so is Neji's and Hinata's, so is Kakashi's and so does other people's houses…"
Sakura goofily smile once again, "Fine… but I dunno, I'm just curious. I like exploring houses that seems like a maze!"
"Curiosity kills that cat." Sasuke pointed out.
"Yeah, luckily I'm not a cat."
Sasuke growled in frustration and altered his pace more rapidly, away from the pink haired girl. Sakura scowled and strode faster; it wasn't long until they were both walking side by side again.
She eyed him suspiciously, thus, her eyes made it seem like it was all a game. "Ok, time to spill. Is there any reason why you don't wanna look at me? or why you're so grumpy? No, wrong word, distant!" she pointed out pouting.
"It's nothing" he growled and closed his eyes but caught a sight of her annoying smile, "And stop grinning."
"You know if you continue to close your eyes while walking… you might bump into a pole." She warned.
"No I won't… now shush, you're sounding like Mom…"
Sakura grinned and as they were nearing a pole, he pushed him towards it, causing Sasuke to nearly collide with the pole, if not with his quick reflex, he held up his hands against it to avoid larger impact. But his body and the pole made contact anyway, and it still hurt. "What the heck, Sakura!"
"Told you you'd bump into a pole…"
"You pushed me."
"Did not!" Sakura argued childishly.
Sasuke brought their bickering to an end by staring at her. Then said nothing. He just stared, and with Sasuke's impassive façade, it tricky to see through it; Sakura had no idea what he was thinking. It seemed awkward, especially, when he simply turned and walked away, leaving the confused Haruno behind.
Shortly, they reached Sakura's house, although the girl didn't seem to notice. She kept walking on, past her house.
"We're here." Sasuke stated, pointing towards her home. Sakura, on the other hand, halted and twirled to face Sasuke.
She smiled. "Could we go to your house instead?"
"No." he stated simply.
Sakura pouted, "Oh c'mon. I wanna see your house!"
"Yeah! I do too!" exclaimed a voice from behind, turning around, they both saw Naruto running up to them. "Wow you guys walk fast!"
"So where are off to now? Sasuke's?" Shikamaru asked.
"No." Sasuke replied.
"Well, I vote Sasuke's." Ino said.
"Yup, I do too…" Ten-Ten said.
Hinata sighed, "Wherever you go, I'll go." Being part of this another debate wasn't really what she wanted.
"Ok then! Majority wins! We'll go to Sasuke's!" Sakura exclaimed, and in the process, she rudely did not wait for Neji to talk. He probably didn't care anyway. They proceeded to walk along for Sasuke's house which was only two houses away.
The Uchiha mansion was bigger than Sakura's house, but a little smaller compared to the Hyuuga's. A little glass gate that only went up to a person's waist came into the view, with stainless silver steel on its edges, avoiding it to break easily. A pathway was found across the front yard, with colourful flowers on each side, and led to a wide staircase with only 4 steps in a half-circle form, leading to the two-door entrance. It made it look like grand, especially with the gold linings embedded around the little glass window, found on the cream-painted door. Two poles stood by the door, like guardians.
Opening the door, Sasuke yelled, "Mom! Dad! I'm home!" he paused; "If you even care…" he murmured as he rolled his eyes and allowed the others to come in. They took off their shoes and left it in the shoe rack. Sasuke led them to the living room, "Make yourselves at home… or not."
"So much for your hospitality…" the pineapple-head sarcastically commented, slumping down upon the couch causing the Uchiha to smirk.
"Yeah, whatever."
"Hi honey, bye honey!" Sasuke's mother greeted as she came down from the grand-looking stairs and hastily brushed past Sasuke, kissing him quickly upon the cheeks in the process and headed towards the mirror found beside the door.
She was dressed formally, causing Sasuke to give a questioning look, "Watcha doin'? Any place you gonna head to?"
"Speak in English, dear." His mom said as she was putting on her earrings, while looked at a mirror on the wall.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, "What are you doing, mom? Are you going somewhere?" he repeated, now in a language his mom understands.
Her mom nodded as she finished with her earrings and started putting on her shoes, "Your Dad and I have a dinner party tonight. We're gonna be back tomorrow." She didn't seem to notice Sasuke's friends who were sitting at their living room, it may be because of the rush she's in.
"Tomorrow? What are you guys doing?"
"You got that right kiddo…" answered his Dad who also came down from the stairs, "The party's gonna end late so we decided to just check in a hotel. And what are we doing? What married couples do…" his Dad's winked at Sasuke, causing him to shudder at the idea.
"Yeah, I don't even wanna know." Sasuke stated, preventing his Dad from going on.
"Oh well, have fun home alone Sasuke." His father said, and looked around to se his son's other friends. "Or not… hello kids!" and they all murmured a hi or hello.
Sasuke's mother looked up to see Sasuke's friends whom she didn't notice to be there earlier, "Oh hello kids, hello Sakura." She acknowledged.
"Hey Mrs. Uchiha." Sakura greeted back. Out of all of them, she probably knew Sakura the most, since, after all, Sasuke's parents knew her parents and they lived two houses away, although mostly it was them coming in Sakura's house, not the other way around.
"I haven't seen you in quite awhile! It's been so long since you came here!" she exclaimed as she came over to her and hugged her.
"I… came here?" Sakura asked. She was probably still so young that time, obviously she already forgot that she came. No wonder she didn't know what Sasuke's house looked like.
"Oh yeah, when you were about 3 or 4. You got mad at your parents and you came over here to ask us to adopt you." She explained. "But your parents gave you that ice cream you wanted so you came back to them." she smiled, amused.
Sakura slapped her forehead, "Oh yeah… that…" she said and heard Sasuke chuckle, and gave him a death glare.
"Oh dear, Sakura, what happened to your arm?" she asked worriedly as she pointed at Sakura's arm. There was a little bruise found upon her pale skin.
Sakura smiled and shook it away, "It's nothing Mrs. Uchiha." She said and looked over to Sasuke, who looked… well, it was hard to tell. He had fixed a look of impassiveness upon his face. Maybe nervousness, or frustration or… maybe even guilt. He shrugged and avoided Sakura's gaze.
"Well anyway, we're off for tonight. Make yourselves at home, ok kids?" Sasuke's mom said, as all the others murmured a 'sure' or 'ok' although Sakura's voice was what was heard the most.
"Oh we will Mrs. Uchiha." She smiled sweetly at Sasuke's mom although turned to face Sasuke and gave him a grin. He growled in frustration.
"Bye mom." Sasuke ordered, than greeted.
"Ok, bye honey." His mom said as she gave him another kiss upon the cheek and went out. His dad walked past him, ruffling Sasuke's raven hair, messing it even more in the process and head out the door.
Sasuke sighed and ran his hand through his hair, attempting to make it neater but failed to do so as it got messier.
"So… what do we do?" Sakura asked, looking around, "A tour, maybe?"
Sasuke grunted. "No."
"So what then?"
"Let's start our stories… that's what we came for." He stated and sat with them on the living room.
"Ok… Well, it's Ino's turn." Sakura said.
Ino said, "Ok, my story for tonight is titled 'Motorcycle Tragedy'"
Knock Knock Knock
"Or not." The blonde haired girl stated sarcastically as she stared at the door.
Ding!
The door bell rang, and, surprisingly, they all just stared. No one seemed to have the kindness to volunteer and open the door. But then, on the other hand, this was Sasuke's place, anyway; He should open it.
"The door's not gonna open by itself you know." Sakura informed, with somewhat directing it to Sasuke.
The raven haired Uchiha growled, "Whatever." He said standing up and heading for the door. Sakura on the other hand followed Sasuke along with Naruto who seemed to be curious as a cat. Sasuke swung open the door and his eyes grew wide.
"Oh my god, Itachi…" Sasuke said in disbelief, as the person outside said mockingly.
"Oh my god, Sasuke…"
"Oh my god, introduce us." Sakura mocked out of nowhere, and was getting tired of the stares both were giving each other.
"What are you doing here?" Sasuke glared.
"Sheesh, nice to see you too…" Itachi who was still standing outside said mordantly.
Sasuke growled, "Why the hell are you here?" Sasuke, however, did no attempt on moving aside to let his brother in.
Itachi sighed as he lightly pushed his brother out of the way to get himself in the house. "I'm visiting, anymore rude questions?"
"Does mom and dad know you're here?"
"Yeah, I called them. The dorm's boring in summer. Everyone's on vacation. So I went to visit here." He smirked, one that looked a lot like that of Sasuke's.
Sasuke raised one eyebrow at Itachi, "You got kicked out, didn't you?" he asked distrustfully.
Itachi pouted, "Don't you have faith in me?"
"No."
"Fine." Itachi said, and threw a brown envelope at him that he got out of his backpack. "In your face." And smirked while heading up stairs,
"Yo Shikamaru, Naruto, Neji" he greeted as they all nodded in acknowledgement. He turned to Ten-Ten Ino and Hinata and winked, "Hey girls."
"Hey Sakura." He greeted as he passed by the standing Sakura and walked away.
"Uh… do I know you?" she asked, causing him to stop mid way on the stairs.
Itachi faced her, "Yeah… long ago… remember? The "Adopt Me" Story?" he smirked, asSakura mentallyslapped her forehead.
"Yeah, don't talk about it." she ordered as he nodded "So how ya doin'?"
"Nothing much… Except I got into University…" he winked at Sakura and head upstairs.
"Whoa…" Sasuke said in amazement as he held a piece or laminated paper. Sakura quickly turned to Sasuke to see what he was talking about.
"What is it, Uchiha?" Neji asked, curious what made Sasuke get shocked so much.
"Itachi got one B and then all As." He stated and threw them the folder along with the laminated paper, which seemed to be his brother's report card from school.
"Wow…" Naruto said.
"Impressive." Neji said.
"They're learning Calculus? Geez, I've already started that…and I'm not even in college… gee, I'm not even a graduate yet…" Shikamaru boasted.
"Nerd." Neji murmured, and Shikamaru glared.
"Ok, let's tell our stories." Sakura said as they sat in their previous position.
"Like I said," Ino started. "My story for tonight is titled 'Motorcycle trade-…"
Loud rock music suddenly boomed within the house from the entertainment room. "What was that?" Ino asked wearily.
Sasuke growled and stood up, stomping towards the entertainment room. Reaching it, he swung the door open and yelled, "ITACHI! THE VOLUME!" with the attempt to yell his voice louder than the amplifiers, it was hard, but Itachi heard him anyway.
"What! Oh, right!" Itachi said, turning the volume up louder. Sasuke growled. He treaded heavily towards the electricity switch and turned it off, turning down all electricity at once within the entertainment room. "Shut it, will ya?" he said and headed over to his friends, "Go on…"
"Ok, My story for today is titled 'Motorcycle tra-'"
"Whazzup guys!"
Ino groaned, "What now!" she asked, clearly pissed off.
"Itachi, what the hell are you wearing?" Sasuke asked looking at his brother who was wearing baggy clothes, loose black shirt, loose white jacket, red cap worn backwards and shades, along with some golden "bling-blings".
"So you guys are havin' a little chat here huh? Prep talk huh? That's whack. Talk's whack. Sup with that, you know! C'mon, don't I look nineteen or what?"
"On a scale of one to ten, ten being the dumbest person can look, you definitely look nineteen." Sasuke replied.
Itachi glared, "Whatever."
"What are you up to, Itachi?" Sakura asked, convincing a smile. "Spill."
"Just tryin' to be cool, you know!" he said with accent.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and murmured, "He's just grieving for the end of his teen years and day dreaming to youth once again." He murmured, and soon got whacked by Itachi, using the red cap he had on,
"I heard that."
"How old are you, anyway?" Sakura inquired.
"It's not how old… it's how young are you anyway?" Itachi said, causing Sakura to sweat drop.
"He's 20." Sasuke stated, shaking his said. "Sad… I can start to see wrinkles in his forehead.
Another whack.
"You're dead." Itachi stated.
Naruto sighed, shaking his head systematically. "If you wanna be cool, come and ask the master of cool." He stated, referring and pointing towards himself.
Everyone cocked their eyebrow, except maybe Itachi who seemed interested. "Really? Who?" That was dumb, he believed it.
"ME!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Uh…"
"You know, in you're case, it's ok to grieve and be bummed about the end of your teen years and getting old… I mean, you're right, you really are getting old, anyway." Itachi twitched. "Anyway, in your case again, there's only thing that you can do to stay young." Naruto explained,
Itachi raised a brow, "Oh yeah? And what it that?"
Naruto shook his and rubbed his thumb with his index and middle finger, "You'll have to pay first…"
Itachi rolled his eyes, "Are you sure what you're gonna say will work?"
Naruto looked at him offended, "Of course it will!" he paused. "I'll take ten… no less, but you're free to give more." He grinned.
Itachi sighed and reached for his pocket for some bills. His brother stared at him.
"You're actually going to believe him?"
"Hey, you never know if what he says would really work."
I highly doubt that, Sasuke thought. He sighed once more as he saw his brother give the ten bucks to his blonde haired friend, who, of course, grinned.
"Ok then, you want a good… I mean, great and useful and a guarantee-it-will work advice of how to avoid getting old so fast? Here's the advice… sssshhh… come here…it's top secret." Naruto said and motioned Itachi to come nearer for him to whisper in his ear. Everyone watched as Itachi neared towards Naruto. Then, Naruto whispered very loud, enough for everyone to hear,
"Get. Yourself. A. Girlfriend!"
Itachi smacked him in the head. "What the hell-!"
"What? You're obviously still single!"
"What do you mean 'obviously'?" Itachi argued.
Naruto's eyes softened as he broke the news to him gently. "Well, Itachi. I know it's hard to accept. But I can see it in your eyes. You're lonely… you're a very lonely man and-…"
"Friggin' shut up." Itachi whacked him.
"But honestly though, maybe that'll work…" Shikamaru commented thoughtfully.
"You really think so?" Itachi asked. "Get a girl? That'll work?"
"Well if you're that desperate then yeah…"
"What if is doesn't?"
"Then you go to plan B": Naruto piped in, grinning.
Itachi looked at him curiously, "What's plan B?"
Naruto did the same procedure he had done a few minutes or so and motioned Itachi to come closer, and he did. "Have S-E-X.!"
Itachi whacked him. "You're sick!"
"What?" Naruto defended. "What's so sick about that? S-E-X.! Sleep, Eat, and X-ercise!"
"Oh." Itachi replied.
"Sir Kakashi told us that."
Itachi cocked his eyebrow, "Figures."
"Figures?" Sakura asked.
Itachi nodded, "Yeah, I got Kakashi as my teacher in highschool before."
"Wow, Sir Kakashi's that old!"
"Whatever, let's just tell our stories."
"Oh so this is what Sasuke was talking about!" Itachi said. "FireLight Horrors?"
"Uh… yeah…" Ino said slowly.
"Cool! I have a story!" Itachi said.
"No… I'm telling the story…" Ino informed.
"Yeah whatever." Itachi said, ignoring her, "The story's title is 'A Girl That Vanished'."
In the Story
A highway found dozens of miles outside the country was still busy, even during night-time. Many people were still traveling along it, although there was not a problem with traffic since the roads were wide. Surrounding the highway was miles of endless fields, resulting to no electricity; there wasn't a single street light along the road, causing it to be pitched black. There was another highway that intersected with the main road at some point. Considering the facts that there was no electricity to be able to stand a stop light, the fact that it was a highway and many cars were driving up fast, and the fact that they won't even have the time to read the road signs, this intersection was said to be very dangerous and had claimed many lives.
Doctor Bob was driving home from a country club dance on a late Saturday night. He slowed up as he started to approach nearer to the intersection. He couldn't see anything through the darkness and lit up his head lights brighter. To his surprise, a lovely young girl dressed in the sheerest evening gowns was standing near the intersection. She was beckoning him for a lift. He jammed on his brakes and motioned for her to climb into the back seat of his roadster.
"All cluttered up with the golf clubs and bags up here in front," he explained. "But what on earth is a youngster like you doing out here all alone at this time of the night?"
"It's too long of a story to tell you now," said the girl. Her voice was sweet to the ear, but yet somewhat shrill, as if the tinkling of sleigh bells.
The doctor sighed, "Alright young lady, but first, it's a cold night… here… wear this until you get home." He replied as he gave her his black coat. The girl gladly took it and wrapped it around her.
"Please, please take me home. I'll explain everything there… The address is --- North Charles Street." begged the girl, "I do hope it's not too far out of your destination."
The Doctor grunted, and soon set the car in motion. Poor girl, he thought, desperate to go home. He was about to go home and he lived away from this girl, but pity washed over him and decided not to state his thoughts, and instead, give this young lady a lift to her house.
He drove to the address the young lady had given him; as he was closing in the distance to her house, they drove past a cemetery.
It was dark, obviously since it was night-time; the cemetery was surrounded by white mist as the moon's light shone down upon the different graves. It was almost just like in movies.
The Doctor was about to comment on the cemetery saying 'creepy place, huh?' but had lost the chance as he looked at his rearview mirror to tell the girl, only to find her gone.
"What on earth-!" the doctor muttered to himself as he looked around but found no signs of her. She couldn't have possibly fallen out of the car while he was driving, nor could simply have vanished.
He quickly went to the house the girl had given the address of and rang the doorbell quickly; he had never been so confused in his life before.
At long last, the door opened. A grey haired, and very tired looking man peered out at him.
"I can't tell you what an amazing this has happened," began the doctor. "A young girl gave this address a while back. I drove her here and…"
"Yes… yes, I know…" said the man wearily, causing the Doctor to look at him with confusion, as the man continued, "This has been happening several other Saturday evenings in the past month."
The Doctor continued to stare at the man with confusion, and soon found the words he had to say, "Who you have any idea why? Or who this young lady is?" he inquired.
The man shook his head. "No… I have no idea why this is happening and I assure you, there is no young lady that lives in this house, not anymore." He said as he gave a disappointing and apologetic smile.
The Doctor was again, about to ask another question when the man interrupted him, "Would you like to enter and have some warm refreshments before you go on your way?" he asked. The Doctor nodded politely and entered the house.
The house was big and yet seemed to antique. It was one of those houses that was found so far from the real world, isolated in the middle of nowhere.
The man headed to the kitchen to get some refreshments and left the Doctor in the living room.
The doctor looked around the house and his gaze landed upon a small table found in the corner of the room. He walked towards it and looked closely at the pictures. He blinked a few times, not seeming to believe was he saw, or what he was seeing.
It was the young lady in the picture, with the man as they stood together laughing and smiling. It was not long until the man came back with the coffee. "Here you go…" he said.
The doctor looked up, "Mister, this was the lady, right here." He stated, pointing towards the framed image. "She was the one that asked me for a ride, or at least she looks like her."
The man smiled sadly and shook his head, "No, no young lad, that could not be her…"he sighed and went on. "That is my daughter right there, but that girl you are mentioning about is not my daughter for she had died two years ago."
The doctor asked, "Died? I'm sorry… I didn't know."
"She died on the highway intersection about a few miles away from here in a tragic car crash…" the man went on. "It had always been so lonely for me since."
They continued on their little chat and soon the Doctor decided to head home. But before exiting the door, he took one last look at the picture frame and shook his head and head out.
She couldn't possibly have been the young lady, the man's daughter had died a tragic death and he felt so sorry for her and her father.
The Doctor started up his car and drove off the direction of his home. He, again, drove past the cemetery but right now, instead of noticing how creepy-looking the scene was, something bigger had caught his eye. He slowed down as he past the cemetery but did no attempt to stop and go down. Then, he started at a certain grave, as his eyes grew wide open.
On it carved was the same name of the girl, the same year of death, which was two years ago,
And a black coat draped over the tombstone…
The same black coat he had lent the young lady…
End of Story
"Hey, that's pretty good!" Sakura commented.
"Why, thank you my pink-haired friend." Itachi said.
"Yeah, don't call me that." she ordered.
"So anyway, what do you guys do now?" Itachi asked.
"I'm gonna go get food… I need something with no oil, no fat no nothing." Ino stated and headed to the kitchen like it was her house.
"She's a bit of a slut, you know?" Itachi said.
"She's kind." Sakura said.
"No she's not." Sasuke snapped, "She told me to get gummy bears one time and whacked me in the head cuz I didn't take out the red ones."
"That's absurd!" Itachi said.
"Exactly."
"I mean, who doesn't like red gummy bears!"
Sasuke glared. "Shut up."
Then, a scream was soon heard coming from the Kitchen. Sakura sighed, "I'll go check it out. It's probably some spider." She said and headed for the Kitchen, with Naruto close behind. "Is there any particular reason why you keep following me?"
"I'm just curious."
"Right…" she noticed Shikamaru behind her too and smirked, "Worried huh?" she asked, referring about Ino.
Shikamaru grunted, "Troublesome."
Reaching the Kitchen, Sakura's eyes grew wide, "Uh… whaddya do?"
"I was trying to make s'mores and I used the microwave and… I pressed this and then I dunno… it's exploded… like BOOM!" Sakura sweat-dropped at her explanation, the corner of the Kitchen where the microwave sat was now somewhat black.
"Oooohhhh… S'mores! I love s'mores!" Naruto said dreamily.
Ino snickered, "Who doesn't?"
"I dunno… s'more haters?"
"Good point."
"What the hell happened!" yelled the furious Sasuke.
"The microwave went "BOOM" according to Ino. Sakura explained.
"Hmm… never knew we painted that corner black…" Itachi joked, referring to the corner of the microwave.
"Oh crap, Mom and Dad are gonna kill us!" Sasuke panicked as he spoke to Itachi.
"No they won't… they're gonna kill you." Itachi smirked.
"Why me!"
"You're the one that brought them here…" Itachi said, pointed over his brother's friends.
"Could you at least try to be helpful!" Sasuke demanded.
"Nah… I'm not part of this problem. Mom said I'm more behaved than you. I'll stick to that… I don't get into trouble." He stated as he headed away. He swung the Kitchen's door open violently, causing a trophy to fall off the shelf and crash onto the floor.
Sasuke smirking as Itachi's eyes opened wide, soon, Itachi looked at his brother and glared.
"What are you smirking about?"
"The great Itachi, grounded, for two weeks. I love it!
Itachi smirked, "Yeah… I do too…
"What?"
Itachi sighed dreamily, "2 weeks, layin' in bed, no school, playin' loud music, watching a little TV, and you bringing me pizzas… yeah, bein' grounded is baaaad."
Sasuke growled in frustration as he just simply stomped pass them and up the stairs.
"Yo, what's with him?" Itachi asked.
"No clue…" Sakura said.
"Uh… stay here…I'll go check on him… he seems… upset…" Itachi said as he headed upstairs.
"Hey, you really are a caring brother after all!" Sakura called out.
Itachi smirked and winked, "I'm sexy, too!" he called out and headed upstairs.
Sakura rolled her eyes, "And a jerk too…" she murmured.
"Yo Sasuke, what's eating you?" Itachi asked his brother, who was sitting quietly at a table in their mini library.
"Nothing." Sasuke snapped back.
Itachi continued to stare at his little brother and before long, Sasuke had enough of it, "Stare all you want but I'm not gonna spill."
"Oh… so you have something to spill?" Itachi asked suspiciously, causing Sasuke to flinch. "Spill." He ordered.
"No."
"Spill."
"I said no."
"Who cares what you say, spill."
"What do you do when you get into an argument about something really stupid?"
"I have a feeling that's not what's bothering you…" Itachi stated.
"Ok fine, then what is bothering me?" Sasuke asked.
"The person you fought with." Itachi stated simply. "Tell that you're sorry, it'll make you loose the guilt and… she'll probably forgive you in a snap."
"She? How do you know if it's a girl or a guy?"
"It's kinda obvious with the fact that Sakura has a bruise on her arm." Itachi said.
"You think I did that?" Sasuke asked, as he defended himself.
Itachi poked his brother's forehead, "Lie all you want, but your eyes never lie." He stated, "And looking at it, I can see guilt right now. You obviously won't let anyone hurt her like that. That is, except...you..."
"I didn't mean it..." Sasuke sighed, "Fine, I'll go…" he said, standing up.
"Well, little brother," Itachi started as he placed his arm around Sasuke's shoulder into a 'manly' hug sort of thing, "Good luck with Sakura. Remember, she's just a person. I mean, girls are just guys without…" he paused. "Just do good."
Sakura wandered around the house turning around every corner her instinct told her to. Soon, she found herself entering a room.
It was dark, the walls painted navy blue. The room had big window that could open up to the world and yet, it was close… away from the world. She looked around; there was a double sized bed with two glass side tables on each side. Her eyes landed on a familiar blue and black backpack that lay on top of the study table. Nearing closer to it, she saw a small picture key-chain. Its edges or main frame was pink and blue abstracted together making some parts pink and some parts blue. There was a silver keyring attached to the picture key chain. It was small for a picture frame but big enough to see the picture clearly. On its back was words carved on it saying,
Back to Back
"As friends or even as enemies, we'll go through the good and the bad times in two ways:
either side-by-side or back-to-back"
(H.S. & U.S.)
-Haruno Sakura
Sakura gave out a confused look. The frame looked familiar. She gave one similar to it Her initials were carved into this keychain. She looked at the picture inserted in the keychain and realized that it was her in the image. It was when her and Sasuke's family went to a vacation together and they went up to the top of the mountain. Sakura leaned back against Sasuke smiling proudly and bravely as Sasuke had an annoyed smile. They were leaning back against each other, back to back.
"Hello there…"
Sakura instantly stood up to face the person in shock, "Uh… hi to you too…" she paused, "Sasuke…" she murmured.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Uh… giving myself the tour I wanted earlier?" she slowly said.
"I guess you found your way to my room…"
"This is your room?" she asked.
"No… that's why the sign outside says my name on it…" he replied sarcastically.
"Sorry…"
Sasuke sighed, "Whatever…" he brushed past her and went outside to his room's balcony. He leaned against the silver railings and looked over the colourful city lights of Konoha.
"You have something to say, don't you?" Sakura asked, popping out of nowhere and leaning against the railings beside him.
Sasuke sighed, "It is so not cool to read other people's minds."
Sakura chuckled, "So you do have something to say, spill."
Sasuke sighed, he was having a similar conversation he had with his brother earlier. "Am I that predictable?"
"A little, yeah… now spill."
"What do you want me to spill?"
"Why are you so suddenly moody tonight? Like seriously, you're avoiding me. I mean you talk to me but it's only one sentence and you don't even look at me. Except when you glare."
Sasuke sighed again, "I'm sorry." He said quickly.
"What's to apologize about?" Sakura exclaimed, smiling.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, "Not about right now, about earlier this morning." He paused when as he caught a sight of Sakura frowned, "I'm sorry…"
Sakura faked a confused look, "What do mean-?"
"You know exactly what I mean…" Sasuke murmured.
Sakura smiled gently, "Well, you already said sorry earlier-"
"I can't believe you actually think I meant what I said earlier. Ms Kurenai forced me to apologize."
"Well, you did it anyway, right?" Sakura forced a smile. "Just forget about it…"
Sasuke grunted. "So that's the reason why you all-moody? Cuz you felt guilty?" Sakura asked as silence answered him. "Awww… that's so sweet!
Sasuke glared at her.
"What?"
"Could get rid of your perkiness?"
"Fine."
Sasuke sighed and looked up the sky, "That's probably the second most stupid thing I've ever done to you." He stated, "After the time when I pushed you off the stairs intentionally."
Sakura chuckled, "Yeah, I remember that…"
Sasuke faced her and studied her delicate features as it was lit up by the moon's brightness. His gaze soon landed on her bruise arm; he slowly lifted his hand and gently touched her bruise, causing her to flinch. "Are you mad?"
Sakura looked at him as if he just asked the most obvious question in the world, "You yelled at me and we argued in front of the whole class. You called me a 'worthless piece of crap' in front of all my friends, you pushed me aside so violently I hit the wall, so then I got this bruise. And guess what, we were fighting over a mathematical problem; next thing I know, you were yelling 'you don't know anything!' and I got shoved into a wall." Sakura asked, "and you're asking me if I'm mad?"
Sasuke flinched, "Something… just came up, ok? So I took it out on you when you were really getting annoying."
Sakura grinned, "Am I not always?"
"I'm serious."
"Right you are…"
"I felt guilty."
"Well then, we're about to go on a guilt trip!"
"Sakura." Sasuke warned.
"Okay, I'll be serious." Sakura said, still grinning. "You're forgiven, alright? Say alright."
"Uh… alright…?" Sasuke said slowly.
"Good! So nowcould you change into that funny sort-of cool Sasuke who always smacks me in the head every minute like before?"
Sasuke smirked and whacked her in the head, "Sure, there ya go."
Sakura chuckled, "Sooo…you kept the key chain I gave you…"
"I had to dig it up from the dumpster…" Sasuke explained.
"You threw it there…"
"I know…"
Sakura chuckled and leaned her head against his shoulder as he did the same and leaned against her head.
"Friends?" Sakura asked as she held up her pinkie.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, "Enemies… I'm still gonna get you back for giving that picture to Kakashi… the one where I bumped into a pole." He said as he interlocked his pinkie with hers.
The End!
This story is somewhat similar with the story last chapter. But it has tons of differences so I decided to put it in. This story was more of the creepy version. Last chapter was the sad one… it was sad… awww…. Anyway, so yeah, there ya go….
Hey guys, I'm thinking of putting back Itachi… as a guest in another chappy… probably three or four chapter's away. So, I'm just gonna ask, do you want me to put him in as a guest again… or…. Just not…, I dunno, tell me, thanks a lot!
R&R!
Lainey-bo-bainey