title: The Extravagant Challenge Anthology
scene: 01. The Composer, pt 6.
summary: Behind every singer's successful song is a composer.
notes: i'm so sorry for the late update. uni's performing the dementor's kiss atm without any sign of a patronus coming to save the day. and thank you for Oblivion-chan for reminding me to update ;)
this whole anthology is inspired from Skip Beat!
Scene 01
The Composer
Take 6!
He just had to ruin it, didn't he? She was having the best morning in ages and he just had to ruin it with his tactless mouth.
How dare he say that?
"I didn't bring you to flirt with other men."
As if she didn't know that.
Stupid, stupid, stupid guy!
What exactly did you bring me here for, Sasuke-kun?
The ending of first episode of the new TV drama she saw the week before flashes back before her eyes. Oh how that made her cry.
The protagonist, a Kyoto girl (like her) found out that the guy (a rising singer like Sasuke) she's worshipped her whole life took her Tokyo to simply use her. The similarities between her life and of that drama are just undeniable, yet all the difference cannot be overlooked either.
Fuwa Sho's got nothing on Uchiha Sasuke.
Sasuke is not like that fictional character at all... is he?
"Good morning, Sakura-chan!" Uzumaki Naruto's daily loud and cheerful greeting pulls her from her negative thoughts.
"Oh, good morning, Naruto! Here are your chocolates I promised," she hands him a box, which the boy receives enthusiastically with shining blue eyes.
"MY FIRST VALENTINE'S CHOCOLATE-ttebayo! Thank you so much, Sakura-chan!" to her surprise, Naruto sweeps her off her feet and swings her around.
"OI! Put me down!" she cries at him out of embarrassment but she's laughing every second of it.
After all it feels great to have someone (and know that they) appreciate you.
Following the Valentine's day fiasco with Sakura, Sasuke's schedule has become ridiculously packed. Endorsements after endorsements, tv show and radio guestings, fan meet ups, rehearsals, you get the idea. And after Kabuto saw him repeatedly checking his phone restlessly, the irritating man confiscated his phone.
Not that it made any difference really.
It's been quiet from Sakura's end ever since she stormed out of the kitchen that morning of Valentine's day. No texts, no voice mails, nothing. At first he just let her be, thinking she will cool down eventually, she usually does after a day or so. And Sasuke couldn't really blame her to be mad at him; it was his fault after all but after two weeks of still nothing, in his opinion, he thinks she's overreacting.
He considered calling her first, making the first move for once, to apologise but it just wasn't his style. That, and Kabuto had his phone.
But White Day is this weekend anyway and his request for day off was granted again.
If he was hesitant a month ago, this time he's nervous. The grip he has around the bouquet tightens the closer the elevator goes to the penthouse. What was I thinking buying her a bouquet? Dammit.
The bell dings when he reaches his floor. This is it.
The first thing he notices when he stepped out of the lift is how unusually quiet it is. Sakura isn't noisy but it is just too quiet. Maybe she's out. Maybe that Naruto took her out on a date in return for the chocolate she gave him during Valentine's. His heart tightened at the thought.
By the end of the day I'm still the one she goes home to... not that I'm ever around.
Even if she's out on a date, she's got curfew. Home by 7PM.
It's already past 10.
He arrives at the front of the door and his blood runs cold. The door is ajar.
One of the important rules he made with her when they first arrived in Tokyo: never leave the door open. And Sakura never did. As a matter of fact, she's paranoid and checks it at least twice, thrice before going to bed at night, and twice more before she finally sleeps. That's how paranoid she is.
He enters the apartment. Lights not lit, no lilting to greet him.
After turning all the lights, he searched every single room for her, for anything. There are two things that didn't make sense to him:
1) Her school backpack carelessly sitting on the floor – Sakura is a clean-freak
2) There are three tea cups on table in the living room
He pulls out his phone from his jacket. It's off. That stupid Kabuto. He said he'd keep an eye out for incoming calls and messages.
Three voice mails. None are from Sakura. They're all from...
"Hello, foolish little brother..."
His blood turns to ice.
tbc.
notes2: it's short, i know. but i'm trying have some sort of mystery and suspense here. and please point out (kindly) all the errors you find. thank you for reading.
and one last thing, tumblr me if you want updates and stuff or just want to talk XD