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Fitting In

Chapter 9 – Confrontations

"Ok so let me get this straight, L really is dead?" I asked, pulling my nose out of my current volume of Deathnote (Thank you Ino) and looking at Sasuke with a disbelieving expression plastered on my face.

"For the last time Sakura yes he really is dead!" Sasuke chuckled slightly, whilst stretching out on the grass and staring up into the bright blue sky above our heads.

"NO!! Oh my god that isn't right! He was like the best character!" I moaned, closing up the book and hitting myself repeatedly over the head with it.

"Argh stupid god damn authors ruining my life!" I muttered into the book, before falling back onto the cold grass myself.

We'd been sitting in the school grounds for a good hour, me reading, Sasuke casually dropping in lots of annoying and really unwanted spoilers.

"Well you should here what happens at the end …"

"NO!! LALALALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU EMO BOY!!" I yelled over him, shoving a finger in both my ears.

I heard him chuckle slightly at my antics and proceeded to punch him on the arm.

"Owe! Sakura that hurt bitch!" He moaned, before poking me in the stomach.

To be honest I never thought I would ever be sharing a scene like this with Sasuke, I mean he's a total emotionless emo kid. Hot yes, but an emo kid none the less.

And yet here I am play fighting on the school lawn with that very raven-haired teen.

It was pretty surreal to tell the truth.

But you know once you actually get to know him; he's not such a bad guy!

And it's thanks to him that I've been able to put some distance between myself and … Gaara

It has been so hard, from not seeing him anywhere I'm suddenly seeing him … everywhere.

And I mean absolutely everywhere.

Every time I turn a corridor he's standing by a locker, or talking to one of his friends.

When I queue up for lunch, he's always a few kids behind me.

I see him on the bus every morning.

And

I see him on my road every evening, sitting on the curb outside my house.

He looks up from the street and into my window.

With this face.

This face full of rejection

This face that is just so fucking hot.

And it takes every single fibre of my will power to stop me from walking outside and jumping on him.

It's creepy yes, but it's sweet at the same time.

It's so sweet that he seems to want to make things up.

NO NAHUH NO NO NO! Don't even go their Sakura you are going to get over him!!!

I can't forgive what he did! I really can't, but the thing is, he has this power over me.

He makes my heart start thinking different things to my head and I just can't think properly.

Take last week for example.

When we "bumped" into each other in a corridor.

I was taking some books out of my locker in time for my next lesson, and he just appeared.

I don't think he had meant to be there, I mean he looked so surprised.

He just sort of looked at me, and then said something to Konan, who was standing with him.

Next thing I know, Konans walked off, and it's just him and me.

Him and me … alone.

First impulse was to run off and just leave the nutter standing there, but my heart just kind of made my feet glue themselves to the ground.

And I'm not talking fucking Pritt stick; I'm talking super glue!

I just couldn't move! It was like I totally froze up!

I watched as he took a step towards me, and kind of reached out an arm for my hand.

"Sakura please …"

The warmth of another hand grasped my own.

And with that one touch my mind suddenly started working again.

"No! No you can't do this to me Gaara! Just leave me the hell alone!" I managed to whisper, as I tore my fingers out of his grasp.

"Sakura I'm sorry!" He yelled after me, as I started walking away down the corridor.

Sorry? I couldn't believe he had that much fucking nerve.

"Sorry? You think it'll take a sorry to fix this? YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!" I Screamed, before literally tearing off and away from him.

It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. It took so much willpower just to walk away!

My heart said yes, and my mind said no.

It's what it continues to keep telling me right now.

And I just don't know what to follow.

I think that if it weren't for a certain dark haired Uchiha I wouldn't have hesitated to give in to my heart.

The amazing thing with Sasuke is that he has a strange way of being able to keep my mind off of everything.

He makes me feel like I deserve to be happy.

But the fact remains …

He's not Gaara.

I don't think anyone will ever be like Gaara.

I mean I loved Gaara.

I still love Gaara

I just hope I wont always love him

I know I wont ever fall in love with him like I did that amazing red head, but at least Sasuke might be able to make me feel even slightly alive again.

And I guess that's better than nothing.

"Sakura I think we best head in, I mean lessons start in like 10 minutes and I'm freezing my ass off!"

I glanced over to the boy that was now grabbing my hand and trying to pull me up.

"Yeah your right, lemme just get my manga!" I laughed, before scooping up my book and letting him pull me into the school.

His hand entwined in mine.

And I really didn't have the heart to let go.

Maybe I should have though, cos I didn't half receive my fair share of death glares from most of the girls in our school!

x……………x…………….x

"Gaah cold, cold, ohhh very very cold!" I mumbled through my chattering teeth as I pretty much fell off the bus with Ino and a couple of other kids on tow.

"Oh calm down Sak it is not that cold! You completely over reacting!" The blonde laughed, as she prised me off the icy pavement.

Not cold? Was she brain dead as well as stupid?

You know I think mutant bubonic worms might have crawled into her ear during Maths!

"But then again, it might just be, because you're used to having a certain Uchihas arm draped over your shoulder! Ino added with a bit of a forced laugh.

"That is an exaggeration and you know it!" I laughed in return, but I saw her face.

"Ino I'm not really into Sasuke like that, I mean I am, but not as much as … well you know. I'm sorry hunny, I'm just trying to sort out my life!" I added awkwardly.

"Yeah no don't worry, just I still like him you know! I mean fuck me sideways he is hot!" She chuckled.

"Hah! Tell me about it! Ah shit I had best be going, I mean I think it's gonna rain!" I said in return, before turning my eyes to the darkening sky.

"Ah crap your right! I'll see you tomorrow biatch!" Ino laughed half heartedly, before walking in the opposite direction up the road.

I was definitely going to have to run, the rain clouds were looming pretty high overhead, and my cold was bad enough without getting caught in a bloody rainstorm!

Glancing over to my usual shortcut 9the poppy cow field as I like to refer to it) and felt my eyes widen in surprise.

What the fudge was that sign on the fields gate?

"Currently being excavated due to suspected archaeological evidence indicating the likelihood of a Saxon settlement, Potential trespassers will be prosecuted."

You what?

Saxon settlement?

Trespassers?

For the love of all things sweet and chocolaty had the entire world decided to turn against me?

Looks like I'm just going to have to run like a bloody cheater over this icy flipping road!

Man I was so going to get caught in this fucking rain cloud of doom!

x……………x…………….x

I shuddered slightly as I rounded a corner and saw only a heavy sheet of rain and what seemed to be a hint of sleet.

The slushy Ice was bearing down on my back, seeping through my jacket and school blouse, before dyeing my skin a fearful shade of blue.

Well it probably was, I couldn't really see my back, but it definitely felt damn cold!

"Oh fuck this!" I muttered through my teeth as I slowed down out of my frantic run.

I mean seriously there was no way I was ever going to get home in this! I know I'm near the park, but I don't know which sodding road to take for my house.

I'm not joking when I say that I can't see a bloody thing.

Oh wait a second, the park!

God how thick am I?

The slide in the park has this shelter thing underneath it.

I mean me and Gaara used to sit under it whenever we got caught in the rain!

Whats going to stop me from doing the same now?

Taking care not to slip on the ice beneath my feet I walked over to the gate and vaulted over into the park, before making a beeline for the slide.

Feeling a sudden lack of damp attacking my body I felt myself breath a sigh of god damn wanted relief.

AHH SWEET SALVATION!

Boo Yah! Sakura Haruno 1: Nature 0

That was like the smartest thing I have ever done! I think I deserve the Nobel Prize, whatever the hell that is!

"Oh my god Sakura?"

Oh shit dumbest idea ever.

DUMBEST IDEA EVER!!

"For fucks sake not you!" I moaned, before turning my eyes around to face him.

"Gaara I don't want to talk to you!" I said stubbornly. "Now go, because I'm cold, I'm wet and there is no way in hell that I'm going to leave this shelter!" I added before sitting down on the bench, throwing my bag down beside me and making an attempt to avert my eyes from his stunning jade ones.

"Oh for gods sake I'm not going anywhere! Look would you just listen to me! I'm sorry!" He replied.

"Sorry? Oh for fucks sake you have got to be kidding me! I mean you beat the shit out of me, You put me in a coma and broke almost all my ribs, and all you can say is SORRY? WHAT THE HELL IS WITH YOU!!" I screamed in his face.

I noticed the looks of total surprise creep onto his face as he heard my tone of voice rise far above normal.

I don't think he'd ever seen me when I was truly angry.

So angry that I had become reckless and totally forgotten what he was capable of.

It seemed to startle him in some way.

"Sakura nothing justified what I did, but I swear I didn't know it was you! I mean you had a scarf pulled over your face and your hair was totally different! I would never do anything to hurt you! Please could you believe that? I've missed hanging out with you so much! I mean I feel so terrible!" he said in reply, reaching out in an attempt to take my hand.

I looked at his amazing face, chiselled and smooth, accentuated by the black eyeliner still in place around his stunning green eyes despite the drops of rain rolling down his cheeks and collecting in his school shirt, turning it a subtle see through giving me a detailed view of his amazing muscled chest …

Oh no Sakura MENTAL SLAP!!!!

"Gaara I don't want anything to do with you, and I mean that" I muttered in reply and pulling my hand away from his.

"Sakura please forgive me! I've sat outside your house every evening and I've waited for you to come out! I've tried so hard to make this up to you! I broke your ribs and that was wrong, but I didn't know it was you for crying out loud! "

"WHAT? So if it wasn't me it would have been someone else then? You can't just do that to people! You almost killed me! I mean how many people have you done that to? And that's just the start! You did so much more than just break my fucking ribs Gaara! You broke my heart! For gods sake I loved you so much! I trusted you! And look what you did!" I yelled in reply, standing up off the bench.

No way was I sticking around.

"You ... You …"

"Yes! But I can't anymore you twat! I have Sasuke now! And yeah he's not the same but at least he doesn't hurt me!"

"What? You think that? I've seen Sasuke Uchiha with lots of girls. He breaks them all one by one and then leaves them. That twat will be the end of you for gods' sake …" Gaara yelled in reply, grabbing both my arms and shaking me slightly.

SLAP

I felt my hand spin out on its own accord and hit him squarely on the cheek, cutting off his sentence.

"Shut up you lying piece of shit! He's a decent person and don't you DARE talk badly about him!"

"Sakura wait!"

"JUST LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!" I yelled, tearing myself out of his grip and running off into the rain with gentle tears streaming down my cheeks.

Oh what a tangled web we weave.

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Oh and sorry for the large amount of swearing!