Moving In!

Chapter 6:

Thursday

I sighed and smiled into the mirror hanging in my bathroom. I was humming a song and staring at my forehead, which Sasuke had once touched. As I continued humming my favourite song I walked out of the bathroom in my school uniform. I skipped to my window and opened it as wide as I possibly could. I threw one leg out the window and onto the roof, and then the rest of me. I was humming the James Bond theme.

"I don't care what you say, Sasuke-kun. I'm going to school today." I muttered to myself as my humming faded and I was singing it loudly instead; "Para, Para, Parara, Para Parara!" I carefully walked to the tip of the roof and looked down. Itachi's car was parked right under me, and it was roof-less. I grinned to myself and jumped off the rooftop. I landed neatly inside the car, on the beautiful beige seats. "Yes!" I said and hopped out of the car.

I walked to the gates. 'Shoot… I don't have the key.' I thought. I ran to the stone wall and grabbed the top. I managed to pull myself up and sat on the top of it, looking towards the empty road in triumph. "Sakura-chan!" I heard someone call. I shot my head towards the house, and Sasuke was scowling at me from his car. I immediately stopped singing.

"Shit!" I yelled and jumped off the fence, onto the side walk. I ran down the road as fast as I could, but when I turned my head, I could see he had just gotten through the gates and was chasing me. "Darn it! He's fast!" I gasped as I turned onto another street.

"Baka, stop running!!" He yelled behind me. He was so close, nearly at arm's reach. I felt a small jolt of pain go through my foot as fell into a deep hole. I fell onto my knees but quickly got up again and hopped on one foot. Sasuke slammed into me and we almost fell over. He quickly got his balance back and held my arm. "Baka. I told you to stop running, there was a pothole." He huffed and looked at my ankle, which was hurting.

"Shut up." I muttered and noticed that my ankle was starting to get a little red. It didn't feel sprained, but that was probably because I has too occupied by the fact that Sasuke had cared. A sly smirk suddenly spread across my face. He noticed this and raised an eyebrow at me.

"What now?" He asked with a hint of nervousness in his voice. I merely giggled and he rolled his eyes. He let go of my arm and bent down in front of me, "Get on." He said in a regretful voice. I got onto his back and he began to walk back to the house.

"Arigatou." I said quietly.

"Hn." He said. I sighed and closed my eyes, completely enjoying the moment. I felt him flinch as I tightened my grip on him, so as not to fall off. I was humming the James Bond theme unconsciously again, and I could feel his eyes on me. "Sakura-chan?"

"Yes?" I said in a very quiet voice, but it sounded more like: "Yempfsh…?" He turned his head to the road as my humming began again, but quieter this time.

"What are you humming?" He asked. I slowly opened my eyes.

"Don't you know James Bond?" I asked.

"Oh… that's what it was. You're pitch was so off I thought it was something completely different." He teased me. I glared at him, and I knew he was smirking. I could i feel /i him smirking. I tightened my grip around his neck, pretended to want to strangle him.

"You're so mean." I whined. He turned around the corner and grabbed my arm, releasing his neck a little. I narrowed my eyes at him, but he didn't notice.

"I'm not the one who tried to run away from home." Sasuke told her. My heart skipped a beat, but I calmed down soon. When he had said 'home' it had really struck me that the Uchiha household was just that.

Home.

I snuggled closer to him and closed my eyes again. "Do you mind?" I heard him ask, before I fell asleep.

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When I woke up, I was on the living room couch. I was lying on my back, with my right arm hanging behind my head, my left arm on my stomach, my right leg lying straight, and my left leg off the couch. My body felt a little heavy, and my eyes squinted at the light shining from the ceiling. "Sasuke-kun…?" I mumbled. I heard footsteps approach me, and turned my head towards the sound.

"He's at school right now. I'll have to take care of you until the café opens up." He explained and handed me a mug of hot chocolate. I smiled and took it from him, remembering to thank him too. "Don't you want to know why I told Sasuke to bring you here?" He asked as he leaned back on a chair parallel to the couch I was lying comfortably on.

"Sure…" I said and sipped my hot drink. A smirk slid onto his cheeks and he stood up again.

"Well… You know Sasuke; always closed up, rude, never talks much?" Itachi said as he disappeared into the kitchen.

"Yeah."

"Well, I thought that Sasuke needed to find the right girl, so I began to search."

"Did you find anyone?" I asked. I heard him chuckle as he came back and stuck a straw into my hot chocolate. He sat down and paused.

"Yes, I think so." He finally answered.

"Oh… Does he like her?" I asked. I tried hard not to sound as jealous as I felt. Itachi shrugged.

"He's opened up a bit. But it's still too risky to guess." He said and sent me a strange smile. I looked away and sucked through my straw as a blush crept onto my cheeks. "Well," he continued, "I have to play the role of the matchmaker. So far, everything has been going as planned." He said. I thought I heard him snicker.

"That's… great." I lied, and I think he knew I did. He looked at his watch and back towards me.

"I have to go open up the shop now." He told me and got up. I jumped off my resting place and stared at him with puppy eyes.

"I want to go! Pleeeaaase!!" I sung. He narrowed his eyes in frustration, and finally made his decision.

"…Fine." He sighed. I knew it; no one could resist my perfect puppy face. I beamed and struggled against the temptation to hug him. We walked outside to the car, I had my uniform hanging on my arm, and we got in his car; a Lexus. As he revved the engine, I flung out my cell phone and dialled Gaara's phone number.

We were already on the road when someone picked up the phone. "Moshi moshi." they answered.

"Who is this…?" I asked.

"Kakashi-sensei! This is Sakura-chan, isn't it? Well, I suggest next time you don't call Gaara in class, because cell phones should be turned off during class hours. It's a rule I often have to repeat." He scolded me.

"Hey, don't blame me, blame Gaara…" I mumbled.

"By the way, you're on speaker phone."

"You evil man!"

"Ah, it's my job."

"Well everyone, I wanted to inform you that today the special at the Konoha Café is our famous cinnamon bun supreme with a side choice of chocolate milk or hot chocolate!" I said into the phone and shut it closed.

"Who were you talking to just now?" Itachi asked. I smiled.

"My classmates!" I told him happily. He turned into the reserved parking spots and parked into the first empty spot. "No one's here yet." I stated.

"That's because the café opens in an hour." He told me and got out of the car. I frowned at him as I shut the door behind me.

"Why are we here then?" I asked him. He chuckled and pressed a button on a tiny remote he was holding. The roof of the vehicle came out of the trunk and slowly covered up his precious car. He pressed another button, and two loud beeps were heard.

"I have to set everything up, buy ingredients, and other things. Don't you know anything about owning a café?" He sighed and shook his head. I ignored his comment and followed him into the café. When we got inside we started by setting up the tables and filling the cash registers. After that, Itachi gave me a list of things he needed me to buy for him. I nodded my head enthusiastically and left to the grocery store. I skipped down the street happily with my pocket full of money. I was listening to my iPod. As I did so, and I wasn't paying much attention to anything but my music. The screaming around me was muted by the loud noise erupting from my earphones.

I has suddenly hit… hard. I flew backwards and landed on my back. The loud screeching of tires was heard, and then silence. With my eyes still closed, I tried to sit up and hit my head on something a few inches over me. I fell back down ad opened my eyes. I dizzily saw that I was lying under a truck, and the truck wasn't moving. I immediately heard loud screaming and yelling, and knew that my iPod was broken.

I looked down to try and see if I was bleeding, because I sure felt a lot of pain, but it was too dark under the huge truck over me.

"Is she alive?"

"Is she okay?"

"I hope she's not hurt!!"

"Say something!" I turned my head, which was surprisingly still intact, and opened my mouth to speak.

"Help…" I said, my voice sounded more like a slur, and cracked because of the pain. I could hear sirens approaching, the loud noise nearly made my ears bleed. "I'm f-fine, move the truck!" I said half-consciously. I didn't think anyone had heard me over all the noise, but I could suddenly feel the truck moving backwards, until they could see my head.

I was pulled out from under the truck by a short and round policeman, and then began feeling many eyes, even camera eyes, on me. Someone lifted me into the air and put me on a stretcher, from what I felt. I looked down to my body and noticed that in fact, I was bleeding, but not a lot. I had scratches a little everywhere, but nothing too bad.

My left elbow felt broken, as well as my right wrist. I had tried to cover myself at the last minute and had damaged them, I knew. Though my whole body was sore, I didn't think my problems were worse than that.

"What the hell?!! Sakura-chan, I leave you for one minute and-" I heard Itachi yell furiously. A paramedic was telling at him to calm down. I looked towards him, and he looked extremely aggravated, but glad I was alive. I would have smiled if that hadn't hurt.

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"Shut up." I repeated again. Itachi wouldn't stop trying to ask what was wrong with me, if I were mentally stable and why I always hurt myself when I was alone. "My family is cursed, okay? Something always happens to me, it's like I'm being targeted by some friggin' serial killer!" I said loudly and angrily. He sighed and shook his head.

"I hate this place." Itachi muttered as he stared at the white hospital walls. We were walking down the hall to leave the hospital. I was told to have some rest, but otherwise I was completely fine. The truck hadn't hit me hard, because it wasn't going as fast as it might have felt. In fact, it wasn't my fault, the truck's wheel had a whole in it and it turned and nearly crashed into the grocery store. Just as I had thought, I had broken my elbow, but not my wrist. I was also given painkillers for my sore… everything.

"I've been here more times than you. Deal with it." I said bitterly. My fever had only just completely gone and now I had to go and hurt myself again. Not to mention my sprained ankle!! Itachi ignored my blabbing and we soon got back to the café, which was still closed. So much for listening to the doctors orders and resting…

Itachi had made Sasuke get the groceries for us, and everything was running as usual. I entered the shop and was ambushed by Ino and Tenten, who seemed so happy to see me. "Sakura-chan!" They chimed and hugged me. I gasped for breath as my pain worsened for just a second. They let go and stared at me expectantly.

"What?" I asked. They exchanged sly glances and both smirked. They both grabbed my arms, one on each side, and led me into the kitchen as fast as they could.

"You've got to tell us!"

"Tell you what?"

"About the… thing! Tell us about the thing!"

"What thing?!" I asked in exasperation, I was completely and utterly confused. Someone suddenly turned me around by force and my eyes met those of Karin, she looked very impatient.

"About you moving in with the Uchihas." She said coldly. I gawked at her, trying to understand. Oh, that's right! I have a home now!

"It hasn't my idea. He told me to move in with him." I stated to Karin, who began tapping her foot against the tiles.

"I don't understand you, Sakura." She said very rudely, she intentionally took out the '-chan'. "You're a big headed monster, who is as clumsy as ever, cannot be left unsupervised and has pink hair, for god's sake! What in the world would Sasuke-kun want from you?!" She seemed aggravated as she put emphasis on nearly ever word.

I didn't say anything; I didn't know why Sasuke- actually Itachi- wanted to make me move in. I guess they were lonely.

"Do you mind? Sakura-chan just came back from the hospital!" Ino said in an annoyed tone. Karin didn't usually talk to Ino or Tenten at all, but now that they were on my side, Karin considered them enemies as well.

"Do you expect me to pity her? Ha!" She laughed exaggeratedly, her fiery red hair falling down her shoulders and back.

"I expect you to give her a break. You're always on Sakura's – no, Sasuke's tail! Get. A. Life." Tenten retorted. I wished Gaara were here to scare her away.

As they continued arguing about pointless things (that includes me, I am a pointless thing to get mad over), I drifted off into my imagination. Before I could imagine much, someone's footsteps approached. "What's going on here?" Sasuke's voice suddenly came in, saving me. He immediately stared in my direction and I couldn't help but look away.

"Nothing." Karin snapped and stalked away, after sending me a death glare of course. Sasuke looked back to her for a second and then walked up to me.

"What happened to you?" He demanded as he eyed me up and down. I flinched for a second as he set his eyes on the cast over my elbow.

"I-I fell… and landed under a truck…" I muttered the last part; he didn't really need to know that. He gave me a concerned look for a second, and then shrugged, returning to his normal state. I stared as he sighed and glanced at Ino and Tenten.

"It doesn't look like you fell." He stated, pointing towards my wobbly posture.

"Stop being so nosy… I just fell, okay?" I told him a little too quickly. He kept staring at me with his unreadable expression. "Why…? Are you worried?" I asked. He snorted and looked away, I frowned at him. "You arrogant bastard." I muttered tauntingly.

"You're an awful liar, you know that?" He said. I nodded my head, and oddly, found it in me to smile. I could feel Ino and Tenten staring at us with intense curiosity. Sasuke must have noticed too, because he wouldn't stop glancing back and forth from them to me.

"Soo… What's for super tonight?" I asked, satisfied with my change of subject. He shrugged. Oh, great, way to go Sasuke!

"You guys look so cute together!!" Ino squealed. I could tell by the sound of her voice that she had wanted to say that for quite a while. I blushed and frowned at her. When I looked back to Sasuke, he was slowly walking away.

"Wow… he's even better up close…" Ino mumbled and looked behind me as he walked away.

Hah, my thoughts exactly.

Ino suddenly shook her head and smiled at me expectantly. "But, I'll let you have him. I have my eyes set on someone else, after all." She said and winked at me. I blushed once more and turned to Tenten, who was in deep thought.

"Did you see the worry in his eyes? It was so romantic…" She said in a weak voice, obviously daydreaming.

"Tenten, I didn't see anything romantic in that. He doesn't even ask me questions, he demands." I told her unenthusiastically. Tenten looked at me, confused.

"Sakura-chan, don't be dense. He obviously likes you!" Tenten said excitedly. I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Yeah… that's why he tortures me every waking second." I muttered and tried to find a new subject to talk about. But Tenten was pretty persistent.

"Ino and I are so going to get you two together." She said and narrowed her eyes in determination. Ino glanced at her and met her gaze, they both beamed.

"Aw geez…" I said. But I was actually hoping they'd succeed, because whoever Itachi was trying to pair up Sasuke with was my mortal enemy.

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I had finally gotten some rest, and the days of school I had missed were starting to pile up. Gaara had too much pride to show up at the Uchiha household, so Hinata had delivered my homework, and had done it all with me. If it weren't for her, I'd probably be dead by now.

I suddenly jumped out of my bed, when I realized that I had never finished the maid's job. I ran to Sasuke's room and swung the door open, he was sitting at his desk, on his laptop. I ran towards him and he turned to see me. "When did you get in here?" He asked loudly. He had earphones on. I yanked them out, and he didn't even react.

"A while ago." I lied. He raised an eyebrow at me and turned back to his computer.

"What do you want?" He asked as he clicked on something.

"Where's the maid?" I asked.

"You mean Mikoto? She quit." He told me. I gawked at him and grabbed his shoulders, turning him towards me.

"B-But why?!" I yelled. He sighed and put his chin in his palm.

"She said that she wanted 'freedom', and to try other jobs like being a… garbage lady." He told me. I frowned at him, why didn't he say so earlier?

"So are we getting another maid…?" I asked curiously, my hands still firm on his shoulders. He shrugged and I spun him back to his computer. I looked at him one last time before leaving.

That night, I anticipated the next day: Friday. I would get to go back to school, after my long week. I was dancing around my room, listening to my radio again. "Do it like you do it to me, burn it up! Do it like you do it to me, it's not enough…" I sung happily. I grabbed my radio and brought it to my window. I opened up my window and kept singing as I stretched out on the roof. My cast squeezed through just barely after the rest of me.

"Don't you know how much I love you?" I sang with my eyes closed. After a few seconds, the song changed. I waited, with my eyes still closed. A cool beat began to play and I waited patiently for the song to start. "You and me together, through the days and nights… I don't worry cause everything's gonna be alright…" I sung. I kept singing silently, and when the chorus came, I sung louder, and louder, until I was singing as if I were by myself.

"You have a beautiful voice, when you sing." I heard someone's voice say. I literally jumped up and nearly rolled off the roof. I quickly caught my footing and turned off my radio. I couldn't see who it was in the darkness, but I knew that voice. I breathed slowly and lay back down, where I was previously. I hadn't realized how close he was next to me.

"Eavesdropper." I muttered to him. He chuckled.

"You were singing so loud that I couldn't sleep. You sing very well, though." He said. I sighed, my mother was even better than I.

"Arigatou. I appreciate the complement." I said quietly and looked up to the few stars in the sky. There were about 7 stars that were visible that night.

"Why'd you stop singing?" He asked me. I sighed and continued singing the song that no longer played on my old radio. Lying beside Sasuke felt so nice, tonight he didn't seem as cold as usual- actually, ever since I moved in he didn't seem as cold as usual. I suddenly felt something warm on my hand.

Before I could react, Sasuke's other hand was right beside my head, pressed firmly on the roof, and he was leaning down towards my face. My heart felt like it would rip through my chest; it was beating so fast that I could hardly breathe. I immediately stopped singing and stared into the darkness that was Sasuke. "S-Sasuke-kun…?" I mumbled. His lips quickly met mine, and he began to kiss me softly. A small shiver went down my spine as I kissed him back.

After a few seconds he pulled away, and stared at me, though I couldn't see his face at all, I knew he was frowning, but more at himself than at me. "Sorry." He said breathlessly. I was hardly breathing as I tried to stop the voices rampaging in my mind.

"D-Don't be." I stuttered. He quickly got up and stared up to the sky; he turned around and walked to his bedroom window. "Where are you going?" I asked.

"My room." He said and walked quickly back to his bedroom window, and slid inside. The window shut closed and a few seconds later, the light was turned off. I took in a huge breath of air, filling my lungs completely, as my mind finally set itself on one single thought:

Sasuke kissed me.