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' Sasuke's thoughts'

'Sakura's thoughts'

'Other people thoughts'

Chapter 13: Care

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Sasuke PoV:

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This freaking day was exasperating. I searched for my damn cell phone everywhere but it was as if it would have been swallowed by the earth. I got 10 minutes to get to class so I decided to leave.

The day was hell. I couldn't get Sakura out of my mind. First she caught me staring at her and then my stupid knucklehead friend stood in the way between us blocking our stares. She still held that hurtful look but at least she seemed more calmed, and I dare to say… willing to talk to me. She watched how she tried to get near me, but someone always stood in the way. First Karin and my fangirls, then Rock Lee trying to get her on a date, the never of that bushy brows, and Ino interrupted too.

At lunch time I decided to go and search for my cell again. I didn't care about the phone much, I mean, I can buy another whenever I want but something was bugging me. Yesterday I had it with me, I am an organized person and I know it was inside my pants pocket but it was not there. I searched in every place I could have left it, but still no sign of it.

I was walking to physics class until some brown haired girl started to talk to me. She was blushing and flirting as the rest of the girls in this school, except from her.

"Uchiha-kun, Shizune sensei asked me to give you a message" she said while twisting her hair around her finger. I lifted my brow waiting for her to speak. "she told me to tell you that she needs to talk to you" why didn't she say that she needed to talk to me since the beginning? Dumb girl.

"hn."

"Uchiha-kun would you like to go-?"

"No" and I left to Shizune's office. Not the infirmary, after all she is the principal's assistant. When I got there she wasn't there.

"Are you looking for Shizune sensei?" another teacher named Genma asked me. I nodded.

"just wait for her. some girl was hit in the face with a basketball ball and it seems she broke her nose"

"Do I need to wait for her? I have a class to attend" I said in my impassive voice.

"She said she will excuse you from your class, wait for her" he took some books before leaving.

'great now I missed physics' –sigh- I thought maybe I could finally talk to Sakura at the end of the class but Shizune sensei was taking to long with the girl with broken nose.

"Sorry Sasuke I had a tough time with a girl who broke her nose" Shizune sensei said once she entered the office.

"Hn. Why do you need me?"

"oh yeah I had a phone call from your brother and he asked me to check on you"

"…why?"

"Well not check on you… just make sure that you are all right"

"Why Itachi wants to know that?"

"he said he was …worried about you… so are you feeling okay Sasuke? Have you been feeling ill? Do you have problems of any kind?".

'Yeah I am fine even when the girl I like/love is mad at me because I said the most stupid thing ever and she listened and on top of all my freaking fangirls don't stop annoying me!'

"I am fine"

"hmm okay, I'll talk to Ibiki to explain you were here"

I nodded my head and left the office. Why Itachi called Shizune to check on me? I still didn't get the reason. That was so… Itachi-ness.

"Uchiha-kun!" 'Great another fangirl "I kept walking, when she reached beside me she started to talk "someone is looking for you, he said to you will meet him in your bedroom" I throw a glance at her, she was blushing too, at least she wasn't flirting.

"Who is?"

"Your brother".

I strode to my bedroom and sooner I was there. I opened my door only to find him sitting on the couch.

"Itachi" I said with my stoic voice, but I let slip a little bit of annoyance.

"My, my Sasuke you hurt my feelings, do you have to be so … uncaring when we meet?" I went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, unfortunately the kitchen and the living room where connected so he could watch my moves.

"Cut the crap." the annoyance in my voice grew.

"that's not nice, isn't right for a brother to cheek on his lil' bro?" he said with that stupid smirk.

"Hn. Last time I checked you never had time, at all"

"Oh don't be sad otouto, I know you miss me" I turned to glare at him, Itachi and his stupid jokes.

"Look I wouldn't be here if you have answered your phone, you should know that 120 missed calls means I need to talk to you" and now he glared at me.

"When did you call?"

"I've spent all the morning trying to get you."

"And why is so important to talk that you have to come to my school?" he raised his brow confuse at me.

"You should know, you asked me to come"

"Why would I need you to come?" my eyes narrowed. 'What the f-? What is he talking about?'

"I don't know you try to tell me" he said crossing his arms in front of him.

"I don't know what you are talking about" he searched for something inside his pockets until he took his phone.

"That's why I came" he handed me the phone and I watched skeptically the screen, it was a message… from me.

From: Sasuke

Itachi come to school. Quick.

'What the fuck is this?'

"I was wondering what could be so important for you to ask me to come, so I called you… a lot…" I felt him sending glares at me but I was too busy eyeing the message. "but you never picked your damn phone. Seriously Sasuke I don't know why you need one when you don't use it…that's why I called Shizune sensei to check if there was anything wrong with you, but she took too long so I decided to come". He explained but he was rather confused as I was.

"I didn't send anything to you. In fact I lost my stupid phone since this morning… I think"

"That makes me feel so unwanted" he said acting as if he was hurt by my answer.

"Shut up Itachi"

"So who do you think it was? And why did he send me a text message to come?"

"How can I know?" I said frustrated. Somehow this bugging feeling was increasing minute by minute, but I can't find the reason.

"Something is not right"

"Yeah, I know" I was glaring at nothing in particular until his voice brought me back from my thoughts.

"I have to go, I need to attend to a business meal and I can't be late…I hope this is nothing to worry about" he said walking to the door but stopped when he reached the handle. "Take care Otouto" he said with a serious expression before stepping out of the room.

Something is not okay, why would someone want my phone? Why would he send a message to Itachi? And why did he tell him to come? Anyone but my fangirls would want to have my phone but I can't understand why would they want Itachi here? Damn. I was having a headache and now it was late, P.E must be over by now. I lay on the couch for a while before I decided to go to eat something, after all I skipped lunch and I was starving.

I found Naruto and the guys on their way to the cafeteria, Gai sensei made Shikamaru clean the gym for his lack of youth and the guys helped him with his task that's why they were late to lunch. At least I wouldn't be eating alone like a moron.

When we entered the cafeteria I notice the way Ino and Hinata were looking at me. ino lifted his brow and Hinata seemed to be looking for someone, definitively not Naruto, because he was beside me.

"W-where is Sakura-chan?" Hinata asked.

"Why is not she with you? Did you two finish talking?" Ino said raising her brow, her stare fixated on me. What was she talking about? Can this day get more confuse?

"What are you talking about Ino? her stare become into a glare and she stood up from her sit screaming at me.

"you were supposed to be waiting for her! Uchiha Sasuke how could you stood her up?!"

"What the hell! Would you mind explaining I don't know what you are talking about" I raised my voice too. I was mad now. I felt as if someone was trying to takeaway the role of Sasuke, my role…

"How can you act as if you don't know anything? You send her a message to meet you in the park two blocks from here after classes were over. Why did you do it if you were going to stand her up?" she said slamming her hands on the table "you are winning the award of bastard of the month, not that you had already won it before" she said mad.

I could feel everybody staring in our direction.

"What? How long since she left?" a slammed my hands on the table too. And I could see perfectly Ino's murderous glares.

"Long enough for her to know that you stood her up" I dashed out of there and I could faintly hear Ino screaming profanities at me, but I didn't give a damn. All I care about was the pink haired girl waiting in the park alone.

Now everything makes sense, someone stole my phone to send a message to Sakura, to make her believe that it was me and at the same time putting distractions in my way so I couldn't find out whatever this person was planning. This is a trap made for Sakura. That's why Itachi was called to come here, to distract me and to give this person some time, so Sakura and I couldn't cross paths and ruin whoever's plan. Fuck. I have to find her before its too late.

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Sakura's PoV

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"Finally you are here" I turned around but it wasn't the voice nor the face of the boy I was expecting. It was a boy with light dark hair and black eyes, lean and tall but his evil smirk was frightening.

"Who are you?" I asked backing away two steps.

"This is the girl Zaku? Tch. I thought it was going to be someone who looked… bitchier" said another voice behind me. His face was all bandaged and it gave me creeps.

"Ha. Maybe she doesn't look like one, but I'm sure she is one." A girl with long black hair in a low ponytail said.

"What do you want?" I asked trying to sound strong.

"We just want to have fun with you, I wouldn't want to hurt someone as pretty as you but too bad business is business" the first boy reply.

'Business?' I was so scared, these people wanted to hurt me and I was alone somewhere in the park, the girls must be thinking I am with Sasuke. This was a trap. And even though I was praying for my knight in shining armor to come and save me from my distress, I knew he will never show up.

The guy named Zaku got too near me and I kicked him in the… well, where the sun doesn't shine. I started to run, but I couldn't run as fast as I wanted to, I was still tired from P.E., and then I felt a hand gripped the back of my shirt making me fell backward.

"Where do you think you are going?" the girl said and started to pull my hair and I couldn't get free. The tears were escaping my eyes and I froze when she took out a little knife and put it in my throat, I stood motionless on the floor not moving a single bit.

"Don't you think she needs a haircut guys?" the girl told them and they just chuckled.

"Please don't" I said between sobs and then I watched how a few strands of my pink hair fell.

"There… doesn't she look better?" she said sarcasm dripping in her voice.

"You are being too nice, Kin" the boy with bandages spoke. " I guess I have to take care of you now" he said kneeling in front of me.

"No… I will" Zaku said.

"Ha whatever" she said and throw me to the floor and I tried to block the fall with my arms which felt like they were burning.

"Get up" but I couldn't move I felt too tired. "I said get up" he said in a scarier tone and I gave a yelp when I felt my body being lifted upwards by two hands.

"I don't know why you mean a menace for that girl when you are weak, but surely she is weaker than you because for some reason she is paying us" and he threw me against the floor and I hit my back and my head, my body ached and my eyes were numbing.

Someone was standing in front of me I looked up to see him with the angriest look I ever seen on his face.

"Sakura who did this to you" he came, with him here I couldn't help but feel safe no matter what. My knight in shining armor, the boy I was thinking about all the time came to my rescue.

"S-Sasuke, y-you came" and I felt my eyelids closing succumbing into darkness.

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When I opened my eyes I was in a white room, obviously in a hospital.

"how do you feel?" said a voice beside my bed.

"like someone just beaten up?" I said with a painful smile.

"Hn" I turned to look his serious expression, obviously he wasn't amuse at my answer. I stare at him and he stare back, his eyes held worry and care. I guess now I'm able to decode what he feels through his eyes.

"I'm sorry" I kept quiet, totally surprised by what he had said. It was the second time he apologized in two days, I guess is a record. "This is my entire fault".

'His fault?'

"Sasuke don't be fool, of course this is not you-"

"It is" he interrupted me looking straight into my eyes, he was mad. "This was all Amy's fault, she managed to steal my phone to send you that message, and she planned all of this" his bangs hiding his eyes and his hands clenched into fists.

"How did you know it was Amy?" seriously Amy? This is something that Karin would do not Amy… she doesn't has the brain to plan all of this.

"I managed to let them slip that information" a small smirk gracing his face. 'So he fought! And against three people!' My eyes widened with worry.

"Wait are you okay? Did they hurt you?" I said trying to sit right but he pushed me gently back.

"You're the one in a hospital bed and you worry about me?" his smirk grew a bit bigger with amusement.

"Sor-"

"Don't even dare to say it" he cut me off. "You're here because of me" he adverted his gaze somewhere else away from my face.

"Sasuke" and I place my hand on his. "I'm fine, I didn't broke anything, I just passed out, its okay thanks to you, and its not your fault" I said even if we knew that it was a little bit his fault, because his jealous fangirls couldn't stand me being around him.

Next thing I knew, Sasuke was hugging me gently in his arms.

"I promise I won't let anyone hurt you again" and his gesture made my eyes watery and I hugged him back. 'He really cares'

Next day we could finally return to our homes, but I wasn't so thrill to come back.

Of course I wanted to see mom, I missed her so much but the idea of not seeing my friends every day… and specially Sasuke, made me feel sad.

Amy was sent home earlier as punishment, sadly they couldn't kick her out because there was no proof that she did it.

Naruto was eagerly explaining how everyone followed Sasuke, but Sasuke being faster, they couldn't catch sooner with him.

"...And when we arrived Sasuke had already broke two arms of the guy named Zaku and when the other guys notice we were there and he wasn't alone they run away like chickens" I was choked at this part, no one mentioned Sasuke ripping apart the boy's arms.

"I never have seen Sasuke so mad in my whole life" Naruto said more to himself. "But now you know he cares about you, right Sakura-Chan?" his said wearing that grin of his and I couldn't help but smile at his words.

"Yes, he does".

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The first couple of days before Christmas I was really bored, of course I was happy to be back home again and how mom was spoiling me with my favorite food and giving me presents. But I guess I gotten used to be around my friends 24/7 and I really missed them.

I talked to the girls every day, and we even went to the mall to buy some Christmas presents, Naruto, Neji and even Shikamaru went with us, sadly Sasuke couldn't go he had some business to attend with his brother. In fact I still haven't heard anything from him, and that's what saddens me more.

Luckily my good mood was back when we start to plan our Christmas party, everyone would be at my house after spending some time with their families.

Naruto took me home that day when we finish shopping, and I thought about Sasuke, everyone knew but him.

"Hey Naruto, could you tell Sasuke to come to the party?"

"Sure, but why don't you tell him?" he said giving me a look that made me blush.

"Umm he never got his phone back and I don't have his number"

"Hand me your cell phone" I had a doubtful look on my face but I gave him my phone anyways. He started to type quickly and then flipped it close to give it back.

"This is his new number, call him, text message him whatever you want. If I'll do it he is most likely to hung up on me or delete my message" he said laughing.

I stared at Sasuke's new number on the screen but his voice brought me back from my thoughts.

"Of course if it's you he will answer you quickly." He finished grinning. "See ya!" and he left me standing in front of my house.

When I stepped inside my room I was wondering if I should call him or send him a message. I was dying to hear his voice but what was I going to say? I haven't talk to him in a while and I was sure I would start talking nonsense. So I decided for the second option.

My fingers quickly moved until I finally pressed the send button. I lay on my bed, excited for the first time in a long time about Christmas Eve until I fall asleep.

hey guys! i hope you like this chapter i change it a lot of times but i like the final result. this was suppoused to be with the last chap but it was going to be reaaally long.

And im planning a new sasusaku story. here is a little summary:

Summary:

Sasuke asked me to marry him, Me! not Karin or one of his stupid fangirls. We are really good friends but even thought I know he doesn't love me back and that the only reason was because he just want me to help him restore his clan I said yes. I still love him. but what will happen when he knows that maybe I won't be able to bear his child? probably he will leave me and I can't bear with the idea of him leaving me again. what am I suppoused to do?

this summary suck i know, but i promise the story will be so much better. i am already working on chapter one and a few chapters next, but i still want to finish this story first. but lets see what's going to happen.

review please and tell me what you think of my upcoming story :)