Forgotten Life

Chapter 5- Out in the Rain

Running at full speed, the two reached Sakura's home within a couple minutes. They rushed inside out of the rain and slammed the door shut behind them. Sakura told Sasuke to wait at the door while she went to get towels.

She returned within a few minutes to find Sasuke looking down at his muddy and wet clothes in disgust. She threw a towel to him, which he caught easily.

She began to dry off her own face and her hair. "I'm going to go take a shower Sasuke," she said from in front of her bedroom door.

"Um...okay," Sasuke said as he dried off his exposed skin.

When Sakura got out of the shower and got her clothes back on, she walked back into the living room to find Sasuke's borrowed clothes dropped on the floor and he wore the towel around his waist as he sat on her couch.

"Oh God! Sasuke, what are you doing?" she exclaimed, covering her eyes.

"My clothes were dirty," he said with a shrug.

Sakura looked at the pile of dirty clothes and underwear and then looked back at Sasuke. This could not be good. At least, he wasn't wearing orange pants anymore though, Sakura thought happily.

She picked up her phone to call Naruto but before she could click the Call button, Sasuke grabbed her hand and took the phone from her.

Sakura looked into his eyes and noticed an unfamiliar emotion within them. She wanted to push him away, to be angry at him for taking her phone from her, but she could not.

As she looked into his obsidian eyes, her heart melted and her legs tried to give way. Sasuke slowly set her phone down on the table to his right and then moved his hand towards Sakura's waist. The whole time, he held onto her wrist and stared into her eyes.

Sakura wondered if he even knew what he was doing to her as he placed his hand on her waist and pulled her into his half-naked body. She couldn't help but notice his muscle tone or the way his Adam's apple moved up and down as he swallowed, clearly nervous about his own actions.

So far, Sakura had been unable to stop him, to say no to his unsubtle advances. She just didn't have the strength, especially not since this was something she'd always wanted from him. Just to have him touch her...she'd only dreamed of it.

As Sasuke was pulling her in even closer to him, Sakura's phone rang as if by some miraculous turn of events. Sasuke snapped out of his daze and snatched up the phone. "It's Naruto," he said after looking at the Caller ID.

"Give it to me," Sakura said as she pulled away from Sasuke and grabbed the phone. "Hello?" she said, trying to steady her voice.

"Uh...yea, we're okay. We are at my house. We got soaked. Could you bring another set of clothes and...um, undergarments...for Sasuke. And please nothing orange," Sakura said nervous about mentioning underclothes when Sasuke was still standing near her wrapped in a towel.

"Okay, bring the clothes as soon as you can," Sakura said after a short pause. "Please..." she said in a lower and more desperate voice.

"Okay bye!" she said before hanging up the phone.

Sasuke swooped her up into his arms as soon as her phone closed and asked her, "Now why would I need those clothes so soon. I rather like being this underdressed, especially around someone as beautiful as you."

As he carried her to her bedroom, she said, "Sasuke stop this now! We can't...I mean, I don't want...please don't."

She finished her sentence just as Sasuke laid her on the bed. "Why not Sakura-chan? Naruto told me how you felt about me...what's the problem?"

"Wait, what did Naruto tell you?" Sakura said as Sasuke climbed onto the bed with her.

"He told me that you loved me and how heartbroken you were when I didn't return from my mission," Sasuke said simply as he stopped and sat down on the bed.

"Sasuke that was a long time ago and I-well, we should get to know each other again before...we get into anything," Sakura said, trying to say it lightly so as not to hurt his feelings.

"You don't love me any more, do you?" he asked, looking down. "Naruto acted as if nothing would take away that love but you obviously don't care for me any more. I'm sorry I misunderstood. Forgive me?"

Sakura hated herself at times like these. Here this new Sasuke was trying to seduce her and she turned him down, leaving him feeling hurt and sad. It was just like what the old Sasuke had always done to her.

Her conscience got the better of her as she looked at him. She scooted closer to him and wrapped her arms around him lovingly.

"I never said that I didn't love you any more. I just think that we should get to know each other as we are now. You are not the same as you were before Sasuke, and neither am I. The separation and your recent accident have changed us both. We are like two totally different people and we need to learn each other's new personality," Sakura said, trying to explain things the best way she could.

"Okay," Sasuke said simply before pulling away from Sakura's arms and walking out of her bedroom and into the guest bedroom, his head down in defeat.

Sakura sat motionless. She hoped that she hadn't totally screwed everything up. She wondered if Sasuke would even want to be her friend after what she'd said. She could tell that he was hurt.

The darker part of her said that he deserved it. He needed to feel the pain, as she had many years ago. The lighter part of her realized, however that Sasuke did not remember doing those things. In his mind, they never happened.

The question now was: Should she start over too or should she take her previous lessons as a warning to stay away from the Uchiha?

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