A/N:
So much for updating monthly… oh well, two in a month chapter for
SUSH. Sorry, our internet was out for weeks!
SUSH Combo: High on Fluff
Exact Opposites II
PFFT!
"WHAT?!"
Mikoto smiled innocently as she continued eating their dinner, ignoring how the three men stared at her with wide eyes. Itachi just spat out his drink, Sasuke choked on his food and Fugaku nearly dropped the tea cup he was holding from what his wife just said. "What's wrong with it?" she asked. "I mean, you two have been together for a year now. Shouldn't you be asking her to marry you?"
Sasuke sighed exasperatedly and resisted the urge to bang his head against the table. "Now that she mentioned it… it's already been a year since Sakura became my girlfriend. But… what if she thinks I'm rushing things..?" he sighed again and stared at his now empty plate. "Still," he furrowed his eyebrows, unsure whether to do what he was planning to do for a month. "Will I be able to bear the consequences when she's no longer my girlfriend?"
Itachi observed his brother, seeing how he thought hard of something. "Don't you dare Sasuke, don't you dare hurt her."
"Damn it!" he cursed as he went down the stairs while putting on his shoes. Fugaku watched in amazement that his youngest son was able to do that, seeing as the steps were narrow and sort of steep, and going down the stairs with one foot, hopping and while putting on your shoes was a tough and risky job. "Damn you Itachi!" he cursed again once he reached the bottom of the stairs. He quickly took his things that he needed for the day, strapped his katar and was about to leave when he stopped and glared at his pet that was drinking apple juice in a slow manner.
"Oi," he called out but the poring just smiled and continued sipping the juice. A vein popped on his head as he glared and twitched at his pet. "Get. O-ver. Here. Now. Be-fore. I. Dice. You. To. Pie-ces."
He was losing his patience, and that's not a good sign. The poring sensed his annoyance and quickly finished his juice before bouncing to his master at a fast pace. Sasuke sighed and said a quick goodbye to his parents, still cursing his brother.
"Poring…" his pet said. He stopped and looked behind him, twitching when he saw his poring being surrounded by dancers. "At least we have something in common…" he thought, seeing how the poring was so annoyed. "Hey, leave him alone!" he said. He was already running late for a guild meeting, and he didn't need this at all. The girls looked at him and squealed. "He noticed us!" Sasuke was just ready to use his attack that people feared from an assassin cross.
Yes. Last time, he was an elite assassin, so he was promoted to a higher level called the assassin cross. His girlfriend also reached the level of elites, and was promoted to a High priestess. Now, she can talk and understand his pet and the smokie that he caught and gave her.
Anyway, where was he again? Ah, right, about to kill these women.
"Why must he always be late? Does he always expect me to go and fetch him?" she muttered, annoyed at how her boyfriend always missed a meeting. "Great, and his brother just took his mission, he won't be happy about this." She stopped upon hearing loud girlish squeals… of pain.
Sakura sweat dropped. "He's mad." She started to walk again when someone bumped into her. Before she fell back, she felt two arms wrap around her waist, preventing her from falling. She looked up, her eyes meeting a pair of onyx orbs as they stared at each other for a moment, before she narrowed her eyes at him and opened her mouth to speak. "Where-" she got cut off when he quickly kissed her lips and pulled away from the hug. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her to who-knows-where. She ran, trying to keep up with his speed as she observed him. "Poi-Poi's on his head." She smiled. "Cute."
"Come on Sak, hurry up, we're going to be late!"
She was snapped back from her thoughts and quickly pulled him back. "If you're talking about the meeting, then you can rest assured that you won't be late. It's over." He blinked, letting what she said sink into his brain before realizing it. "Crap." And she laughed. "Itachi-niisan took over for you." Sasuke twitched. "He's the reason why I'm late." She raised a brow at this. "Shouldn't you be responsible enough to wake up in time?"
"Geez, I went home late last night, that's why I told him to wake me up."
"Why? Where'd you go?"
"After dinner, I had to go on a mission and assassinate this rogue that has escaped jail for about thirteen times. Tsunade said that it was better off for him to be dead."
"On your own?"
"Yeah, why?"
Sakura gave him a worried look and he just gave a small smile and placed a hand on her cheek. "Hey, relax okay? Nothing bad happened. I'm fine." She placed her hand over his and leaned onto his gloved palm. "Mm." she nodded. "Well, as long as we don't have anything to do, we might as well spend the day together." Sakura tilted her head a bit. "That's odd, he never suggested that since we became together. It was always me who had to ask him out." He waved a hand at her face. "Yo, Sak, you're spacing out!"
"Oh, sorry about that; um… Where do you want to go?"
He shrugged and looked down, noticing that her pet smokie wasn't with her. "Where's..?" Sakura followed his gaze and sighed. "He didn't want to leave Amatsu." He raised a brow in question. "I always go there if I have spare time. You know, reminiscing about the day you confessed to me." She looked down, smiled and blushed. "I went there this morning and Uchi-Suke just wouldn't follow. I was going to be late for the meeting so I told him to stay put for a while."
"Aa, I see." He said. "Come on then, let's go get him."
"Okay." She opened a warp portal that would bring them to Amatsu.
"Uchi-Suke!" she yelled, causing Sasuke to wince as Sakura continued searching for her pet smokie, Uchi-Suke. "Damn it Sakura, why the hell did you name him after me?" She faced him with puppy-dog eyes and threatened to cry. "You don't like it…?" he sweat dropped and sighed. "N-no, it's just that… well…" he blushed a bit and turned his head away. "Let's just go find him." When he took a step under a cherry tree, Sakura called out again and a smokie came landing right on him, causing his face to meet the ground.
"Uchi-Suke!" Sakura said, running towards the smokie as she stepped over Sasuke in the process. "Oh I missed you!" Sasuke twitched as he stared at his girlfriend hug the smokie. "What the hell? It's like you love that thing more than me!" Sakura seemed to be oblivious to him as a vein popped at the side of his head. "Damn it. You even stepped on me. Geez… some high priestess you turned out to be." She stiffened and his Sakura senses came kicking in. "Oh hell no… she's gonna-"
"WAH! You're so mean!!" and she ran off, carrying the smokie, his pet poring following the girl at a fast pace, afterwards, opened a portal to who-knows-where. Sasuke sweat dropped. He replayed the chibi-fied Sakura run away from him and sighed exasperatedly. "I knew having a girlfriend wasn't a good idea…" he grabbed a walking acolyte nearby by the collar, causing the boy to blink and sweat drop at the assassin's glare. "Warp me to Prontera… now."
"O-Okay…" and he was warped to the said city. Sasuke then began looking down at his communicator in hopes of searching for his girlfriend. Sighing, he began to type in the words "Loc: Haruno Sakura" (Forgot if that's what you have to type to search for a character) and the result was: Xmas Land. Again, he grabbed a nearby acolyte and demanded a warp portal to where his girlfriend was after paying the acolyte a good amount of money. When he reached Xmas land, he followed the trace of where his pet poring could be in his communicator screen. "Bingo." He picked up his pace and located his pet poring wearing a Santa hat. "Why you little…" The poring heard him and ran away for his dear life. "Get back here you pink blob you!"
"Poring!" it bumped into a girl and attempted to runaway but- "Gotcha!" he grabbed it and it gave a nervous smile as beads of sweat began rolling down the monster's side. "Where is she?"
"Poi-poi! Poring!" it said. Sasuke sighed. Despite being an assassin cross, his job didn't give any monster language courses, which is why he needed to look for a high priest/priestess, pronto. "Sasuke..?" he looked up to see his mother standing there with tons of paper bags in hand. "What're you doing here? And put Poi-Poi down, you're hurting him!" he twitched. Seems like even his own mother cares about pets now compared to him. "Mom, could you ask him where Sakura is?" Mikoto blinked. "Shouldn't you be with her?"
"I was but she ran off to who knows where." He handed Poi-Poi to his mom as the high priestess knelt down and asked the pink blob of Sakura's whereabouts. The poring began explaining as Mikoto nodded a few times then gave a stern look to her son. "You should know better than to make her cry." Sasuke slapped his forehead at this. "Geez, is everybody against me today?" he sighed. "Alright, I'm going to apologize to her, but how can I if I can't find her?"
Mikoto sighed. "She's in Amatsu dear."
"…What?"
"She teleported Poi-Poi here because she knew you would look for her."
"But the locator-"
"She warped Poi-Poi here then went back to Amatsu."
Sasuke twitched and clenched his fists. "Damn. It." He took a deep breathe in and sighed all his anger out. He knew Sakura too well, and after spending a year with her, he should know how to handle the girl. Sighing again, Sasuke called Poi-Poi and bid his mother a thanks and goodbye. "Yup, I know just how to handle her." And he asked a priest to warp him to Amatsu after paying the guy the right amount of zenies.
"He's so mean…" she sniffed. The smokie whined and talked to her as Sakura sniffled some more. "I know that it was wrong of me to just… step on him like that, but I was worried about you…" the smokie whimpered and tried to reason out with his master. "Yeah, maybe I was a little too sensitive, but… he shouldn't have used that kind of tone on me! He knows me well enough; he should know how sensitive and emotional I can be! He should actually have patience, understanding and-and- argh! This is what I get for having an assassin as a boyfriend!"
Sasuke flinched at her cries as he stopped walking and listened to what else she was going to say. "Knowing her, it's better to let her frustrations out while I'm not yet there…" Poi-Poi somehow understood his master, so he also remained by the assassin cross' side. "Hmph. Arrogant, annoying, know-it-all, mean, insensitive, jerk, prideful, conceited, bastard, stuck-up, always-smirking-"
"Wow, that's a lot of… adjectives…" he sweat dropped but smirked after hearing the next words she used to describe him. "-cute, good-looking, drop-dead gorgeous, hot, caring, sweet, always-worrying…" she trailed off and sighed, afterwards, gave a small smile. "Right… sure he has some bad personality in him, but… I somewhat like him that way… and he also has a lot of good sides in him." She turned to the smokie that now rested on her lap. "He's funny at times, especially when he feels like he's done something wrong and apologizes, he's also cute when he blushes, stammers and turns away from me, especially when he's asleep."
"Hn. Now may be a good time…" he walked closer to her, as silently as possible. "He's even more handsome when he smiles, and even hotter when he smirks or goes in over-protective mode during PVPs (Player vs Player or Person vs Person)… besides," she lowered her head. "I feel… safer when I'm around him… I don't feel lonely when I'm with him… and… I can't really help it… because… I just… love him too much…"
"I love you too Sak," he whispered, surprising her when he suddenly wrapped his arms around her from behind. "Sorry I made you cry again. I didn't mean it." She blinked when he showed her a white rose and leaned in to kiss the side of her head. "Forgive me?" Sakura sighed and smiled a bit before turning her head to face him. "Of course." He smiled at her and she blushed. Even after being together for one year, she still blushes whenever he smiles at her.
"So, do you mind repeating those words again?" he teased. Sakura smiled at him and leaned back into his arms. "Baka…" she murmured and closed her eyes, feeling content, unaware of how Sasuke's smile faded. "How should I… say it?"
It was already nearing Christmas, and their guild decided to have a party in Amatsu. Everyone was there, a lot of food was served and there were even games to play. It was really a great day for all, but Sakura noted how her boyfriend was acting a bit strange, and how he was always by himself whenever he gets the chance.
"Shit. What am I gonna do?" he thought, fighting the urge to bang his head on the tree's trunk. "How am I gonna tell her..?" he thought, leaning against the tree instead as he slowly slid down and sighed heavily. It's been a year, and now, he was gonna end their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend. "Am I ready for this? Will she be ready for it?" he thought, shutting his eyes. "I knew I shouldn't have asked her to be my girl…"
"Sasuke-kun..?"
He looked up and saw Sakura staring down at him with a worried look. "You've been acting weird today, is something wrong?" she asked, attempting to sit down but he stood up. "Can I… talk to you for a moment? Alone..?" she tilted her head a bit and gave a nod as he led her to where he confessed to her. "I wonder what he wants to tell me." She thought, waiting for him to say something as he kept his eyes focused on the lake, avoiding eye contact with her. "He's planning something…" she thought, instinctively placing her hands over her chest as she looked down, suddenly having a bad feeling.
"Sakura," she looked up when he spoke, but his eyes still stared at the lake. "It's been a year, hasn't it?" she blinked. "Our relationship." He added. Sakura gave a nod, wondering where he was getting at. "I thought about it for days, maybe even weeks, and… well…" he looked down. "Oh no, oh no… not now…" she thought, feeling her eyes starting to sting as she prevented tears to fall. "Not here… don't… break up with me here… not this place!" she shook a bit, but he seemed too preoccupied with his thoughts to even notice. "I…" he started, looking for the right words to say. "Sasuke-no-baka! You know this place is my favorite spot! You know I go here all the time! So don't break up with me here!"
"I…Tch… I don't know how to say it…" he murmured, narrowing his eyes a bit and still not looking at her. From behind them were the rest of the guild members, watching, betting on what Sasuke's going to tell her. Mikoto had her brows creased while Fugaku looked really clueless as to what his son would say. As for Itachi, well, he was trying to send a telepathic message to Sasuke. "Don't you dare break up with her…"
Sasuke turned his head to look at Sakura in the eye while she tried not to weep. "Sakura," he spoke again and took something from his pants' pocket. "I… that is…" he turned beet red and looked away again. Sakura remained silent as she waited. Without giving it too much of a thought, he knelt down and took one of her hands in his, a blush still across his cheeks as he slowly looked up at her. "I promise I'll take care of you, protect you and try to not make you cry anymore. Sakura, I'm an assassin, I'm not supposed to feel, but then, you came along and made me feel, that feeling is love, and I really do love you." He took a deep breathe in and sighed it all out as both their hearts started to beat. "Sakura, will you…" he showed her the silver ring that he bought a few weeks ago. "…Marry me?"
"Yes!" Mikoto whispered, not too loud for the couple to hear. Fugaku smirked while Itachi blinked; sweat dropping when he realized he was wrong in guessing his brother's move. The rest of the guild members waited eagerly for Sakura's answer before attempting to cheer. "Come on Sakura, say yes already! I know you've been waiting for this moment! Say it!" Tsunade thought, her grip on a tree trunk tightening. "This is the place where he confessed to you, so make this place as memorable as that day!"
"…Why?" Sakura began, her head lowered as her bangs shadowed her eyes that had tears flowing down. Sasuke tilted his head a bit, not expecting her to react like this. She was crying, again! "Sakura..?" he asked, worry evident in his voice as he stood up and grasped her shoulders, wondering what made her cry. "I… I'm sorry, was it too sudden? I knew I shouldn't have proposed to you right now. I'm sorry, Sakura, it's okay, you don't have to answer now-" he continued to rant, or apologize, which was a bit unlike him, but with Sakura, he tends to act out of character anyway.
Sakura raised her head to see her boyfriend apologizing when he didn't do anything wrong. "…Stop that." She said and he did, looking back at her. "Why are you like this? Why are you so different around me?" he stared at her, letting her finish what she has to say. "I can't… I can't believe that I would fall for you like this! You made me worried when you were acting strange! Whenever you're out on a mission, I always wonder how you're doing! When ever a war against another guild breaks out, I frantically look for you to see if you're still alive! Damn it Sasuke!" some were startled that she cursed, but he wasn't surprised at all. She was letting her emotions out, so he understood, and he stood still, letting her continue. "That's just how much I love you baka! And it makes me wonder why a guy would bother to ask a girl if she'll marry him when it's pretty damn obvious that she will!"
Sasuke smirked. "Will you just get straight to the point and say 'yes' already?" Sakura was beet red as she calmed down a bit. "Just shut up!" she said and tackled him to a hug and a kiss. That was one weird way of answering his question, but heck; they were, after all, an odd couple- the exact opposite too, yet with a bit of similarities with regards to their temper. Without having second thoughts, he returned the kiss she gave, breaking away abruptly when they heard cheers, claps and whistles come from behind them.
"It's about time!" Naruto yelled, grinning. "This is the happiest day of my life!" Mikoto said, tears falling from her eyes as she prayed to the Lord. "So, when do you think are they going to get married?" one asked. Sakura and Sasuke sweat dropped at this as they turned to face each other. "So," she said, smiling. "Want to go somewhere… private?" she hinted with a blush and a grin. Sasuke smirked and pulled her closer to him. "You're on." And she warped themselves to a place where they can be alone.
Owari
Next story: First Fall of Snow
It was the First Fall of Snow when they met; it was also the first fall of snow when they confessed, the first fall of snow when they were separated. And again, it was the first fall of snow when they were reunited.