Chapter Five- The Unfolding
"OH MY GOD, SAKURA! YOU KNOW HOW BIG THIS IS?" Ino screamed into Sakura's ear on the phone.
"Ino, calm down, my speakers can't take that much noise, if you break them again, you're paying for them." Sakura stated.
"How can you be worrying about some stupid speakers when you've just had your first kiss with Sasuke Uchiha?" Ino shouted, a little quieter.
"You say that like I don't care!" Sakura shouted back.
"It's because you're not acting like you are!" Ino retorted.
"Well, why don't you define for me what I'm supposed to be feeling, because I really don't know what qualifies as your definition of 'I truly care.'" Sakura replied.
"You should be actively showing how happy you are! After all, according to your story, he's the one who moved on to you!"
Sakura reddened, "I-I know. I'm just in a bit of a swirl seeing as his brother of all people had to walk in on us!"
"Oh, yeah." Ino sighed. She must not have heard that part well over her screaming. "Sounds like the play."
"I know, that's what I was thinking. It's even worse when it's unintentionally done, because you sort of can't act freaked out when you really are."
"I guess that means you two will have the surprise scene down perfectly." Ino laughed.
"Shut up." Sakura muttered.
"Imagine how Karin will feel when she hears Sasuke kissed you on his own free will!" Ino trilled with joy.
"N-no!" Sakura suddenly yelled. "Karin can't learn this happened!"
"Why not? She's like, the worst of all the stupid fangirls! It'll serve her right to hear the crushing truth that Sasuke likes and kissed someone else!"
"For one, I don't really even know if he likes me."
Ino scoffed, ignoring this, Sakura continued.
"Besides, if Karin were to hear, she would either do something horrible to me, or worse, she'll try and make a big move on Sasuke like the slut she is."
"Oh, I see your point." Ino's voice dropped.
"Yeah, so Karin doesn't learn, you shut your mouth about it to anyone. This includes your stuffed animals."
"Hey, do not mock them!" Ino retorted.
"Okay, I got to go, Ino. I'll see you at school tomorrow." Sakura announced.
"Fine, bye."
"Bye."
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The next day, Sakura stood outside her locker, spacing out about things.
"Hey, Sakura, right?" A voice said very loudly by her ear.
Sakura gave an involuntary jump and whipped her head to the side. Next to her was a blond boy with a goofy grin on his face.
Sakura suddenly remembered it was Sasuke's best friend, Naruto Uzumaki.
"Y-yeah." Sakura replied.
"The Teme wants to talk to you out on the patio." Naruto grinned at her.
"Teme?" Sakura echoed.
"Sasuke."
"Oh, okay, thank you."
Shutting her locker, Sakura walked past Naruto and out in the direction of the patio.
Sakura walked outside and looked around, she didn't see anybody.
She considered for a moment that Naruto may have just played some random joke, until she was suddenly pulled to the side. Caught in a panic, Sakura lashed out with her first instinct to punch whatever it was. She succeeded in making contact with something.
"Oi, shit! Sakura, it's me!" A voice declared.
Sakura pulled back and looked at the attacker. It was Sasuke, who now held onto his stomach.
"Oh! Sasuke I'm so sorry, I didn't know it was you!" Sakura gasped.
Sasuke put his hand over her mouth. "Shhh." He whispered. "Don't want to attract too much attention, do we?"
"Sorry." Sakura replied, muffled by his hand.
Sasuke drew his hand back. "It's fine. I'm just afraid a fangirl will spot us."
"So, why'd you send Naruto to get me?" Sakura questioned.
"I wanted to talk to you." Sasuke answered.
"You couldn't wait till we were in class? I mean, we have Drama together, and English, History, and Math."
"No, it's not private enough, and I don't want to bring you by my house for a while with Itachi around to bring up yesterday's incident."
Sakura flushed a bit, remembering it very clearly.
"So, what is it then?" Sakura asked.
"Well…I was wondering if…if you maybe…" Sasuke started to turn a little red.
Seeing him struggling with his words, Sakura unconsciously grabbed his hand. Noticing this, Sasuke returned her gesture and heaved a sigh, starting over.
"Well…I don't really know how to describe this but…yesterday, when I…did what I did…I could feel something, something that made me want to feel it again. I don't know how to explain it. And last night I practically kept myself up all night thinking about it."
Sasuke grabbed her hand that was holding his by the wrist and pulled her closer to him. He gently kissed her once on the lips and pulled away.
"I wanted to know if you felt it, too, and if you maybe wanted to go out with me sometime, Sakura."
By this time, Sakura's heart was doing back flips, and her face had risen to somewhere between a cherry and a tomato.
Building her courage, she suddenly shouted out "YES!" and wrapped her arms around him.
Sasuke smirked, pulling her back a bit so her could pull her in and kiss her. Sakura returned this gesture with as much as she could, both tightening their grips on each other.
They pulled apart after a couple minutes, just in time to hear some people coming out onto the patio.
"I heard someone shout out here a couple minutes ago." A voice said.
"I don't see anything." Another replied.
Sasuke and Sakura looked at each other for a moment, and then quickly broke apart. They peeked around a corner, and once the two people weren't looking in their direction, both got out of the little alleyway and went in separate directions.
"Once again," Sakura thought, "we seem to have been interrupted. I hope it won't always be like this."
Oh, I bet you'll have plenty of times to be alone with your new boyfriend!
Sakura hid the blush coming on to her face. "Quiet, okay?"
Make me!
Sakura sighed. The bell rang, and she ran off to her next class.
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A couple hours later she was in Drama. She and Sasuke took seats that were relatively close by each other, but not close enough that people would get suspicious.
Of course, there was still Karin in the back, taking notice to how much closer they were, and how much easier their scenes together suddenly seemed to flow.
"Something's up…" She thought. "Last I checked those two were barely acquaintances. Now suddenly they're so much easier around each other."
Sasuke and Sakura took their seats once their act was over.
"Nice job you two." Kakashi complemented. "You're getting better. I'd say we should all have this down perfectly by next week Friday, the day of the final curtain call. Remember to show up everyone, we don't have the luxury of too many understudies. Class dismissed."
Karin's eyes flashed with malevolence. "Oh, I have the perfect idea! The bitch won't know what hit her, and Sasuke shall be mine!"
Ta-dah! And the evil plot unfolds! (Sorry for any of you that think the scenes went by a little fast, unless that's just me thinking it.) I don't really know what to say for right now, I don't really have any questions or random comments…um…three day weekend! (In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. which is kind of ironic because we just started studying the time he was in!) Okay…um…yeah. Hope you liked this chapter, please review! And as far as I know, the next chapter may be my last. (Is six or seven chapters like, my average or something? Oh well, not too long, not too short, at least in my view.) Bye-bye now!