Chapter 16:
Someone please shoot me.
Sakura began to go down the trail she and him went down before, but decided against it. She took the long way. She didn't want "die" before she got to the worst part of it all. And she didn't want to run it Naruto just yet, she knew he meant well, but he came on to her too fast.
She walked and walked and walked. She stopped right outside the huge iron, gate that began the never ending driveway that ended at the beginning of her most unbearable torture. She just hoped he wasn't there to make it worse.
She took in a deep breath, like that would do anything, and pushed the heavy gate open. She took two steps and realized that if she were to get through this she needed to run. Run as fast as she could.
She started at a jog, then gained more speed, then she became the invisible women. She got to fast and right as she put on the breaks she flew forward. At the speed that she was going, it made her, basically, fly. She flew over the front porch stairs, and began to fall. She rolled and hit the door in a position most odd. She lay on her back and her legs straight and flat against the door. Her legs made a loud thump against it.
Crud, please don't let any one be here. She begged in her mind. She tried to get up, but she didn't do it fast enough. The door opened and her legs fell.
"Well that's one way to knock on a door." Sakura looked at the voices owner and couldn't believe who it was, Negi. She began to get up and a hand was offered to her. She ignored it.
When Sakura finally got herself together, she just walked right past him; she didn't want to deal with another idiot. She walked up the stairs and got to "her room".
She opened the door and….
"What are you doing?" She found Sasuke in there putting all her stuff in the duffel bag she had used.
"I'm just helping you." Sasuke continued what he was doing.
"Just stop. Please just stop." Sakura sounded desperate.
"Will you please just let me do something for you to make everything right again?" Sasuke was frustrated. She hadn't let him explain, or do anything at all.
"You think that if you pack my stuff will change things? You knocked out my friend, you lie to me, embarrass me on an unwanted scale, lead me on, and make me beat you to a bloody pulp, and you want to pack my stuff to solve everything? You are more of an idiot than I thought." Now sakura was the frustrated one.
"Yeah I know what I did, but I didn't lead you on. I really wanted to get to know you. And I really wanted to be with you." Sasuke began to slowly go toward her.
"I let you know more than you should, and for that I should kill you. I just don't have that will power…You saw the picture, didn't you?" Sakura's hair hung over her face.
"Yes. Can I ask why were you all beaten and bruised?"
"It's only natural. I was about 10 and a totally different person. I was weak and afraid, and I hadn't awakened yet." Sakura looked at him directly in the eye.
"Awakened?" Sasuke was puzzled.
"Yes, before I became a full vampire. The kids at my school would exclude me, laugh at me and beat me." She sighed. "One day one of the bullies there took that picture of me and sent it around the school, someone gave it to me and on the back it says: 'Why do you let this happen?' That's all and I began to ask myself the same thing, I had decided that it was time for a change. But that change didn't happen until I awakened, and killed one of them." She broke her eyes from his. Sasuke was shocked.
"Why do you still have it then if it brings back painful memories?" Sakura shot her head up in shock that he even paid attention to her expression. "Don't look so surprised."
"I keep it to remind myself of why I am a 'vegetarian' and why I am who I am. If I didn't, I probably wouldn't be such a bitch." For the first time today sakura smiled a real smile. "Now it's my turn, why was it you who had to do the bet?"
"I was the only one who had minimal interaction with you, and I volunteered." Sakura blushed. "Can I ask one last thing of you before you go?"
"Yes."
"Will you give me one last kiss?" Sasuke hoped with all his heart.
" ………" That's all she had as a response. No words would fit how much she wanted to feel his lips against her, how much she wanted to pretend like nothing at all ever happened, and how much she want to be his.
A tear ran down Sakura's face, just one. She jolted herself to his lips. She nearly knocked him down; he caught himself, and pushed back against her. He put his hand on her cheek and his free arm on the small of her back. She ran her hand through his silky, smooth hair. Her other hand on his side, both of them pushed each other together and never wanted this moment to end.
Sakura never noticed, but she began to have a stream of tears run down her face and soaking his. He pulled his lips from her, staying about a centimeter away from her and breathed out slowly.
"Don't stop." Sakura whispered so softly you had to be as close as he was. Then reality hit her, she was moving and was supposed to be mad at him.
She threw her arms around him and laid her head on his shoulder.
"I don't want this to end." Sakura admitted.
"It doesn't have to. You could stay here." Sasuke looked down at her; he stroked her bright pink hair and wrapped his arm around her waist.
"Yes, I do." Sakura sounded unhappy, but there was a tinge of hope. Hope that he would stop her.
"Why?" She looked up at him. "Why do you have to make everything complicated?" Sasuke looked away from her, but still held her in place.
"I want to stay, I really do. But what about Rina, I'm supposed to hate you, I don't know what to feel, what to do..." Sakura put her head back on his shoulder.
"I know how you feel. When you first got here, I didn't know what was going on with me. I-" Sasuke saw something that made him choke on his words.
"What are you…." Sakura looked toward his line of vision and there in the door way stood the devil himself. Only it didn't have a tail, or horns, or a big pointy staff. It had blond hair, a prissy look, and was covered in pink; can you guess who it is? That's right, Ino.
Why of all people did it have to be her? Both of them thought.
Then Negi appeared, out of breath, and looking apologetic. Sasuke and Sakura were still in a hug.
"I tried to stop her, but she kicked me with her heel." They looked at her feet and she was wearing super-high, thick, pointy heels.
"Ouch." Sakura said. "Um…can she leave now? Or will I have to through her out the window." Sasuke chuckled.
They waited for Ino to respond.
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