For the last two chapters, I forgot to disclaimer them
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!
Beta'd by: Tisha (Ashes of Stars). And Tisha said, 'I'm only doing it for my own real life ebony beauty… SOPHIE!'
Things I Never Said, Chapter 4, The Talk!
The rain poured down windows of the still houses of the Konoha villagers, apart from one that was not closed, nor open but smashed. Sakura jumped out of bed as she heard the rain drops falling to the ground out side. She ran to the kitchen and grabbed a black bin bag and some duck tape, to cover the window.
As she held the black bag to the window and stuck on the tape, she smiled for last night was the best night of her life. And it was not a dream because she dreamt of her's and Sasuke's big wedding day, last night. With Sakura blossoms everywhere, candles and people taking photos of Sakura in a white long kimono with Sasuke in a black haori (men's waist length kimono) with white hakama (sort of trousers to were with the haori), while saying they're vows to each other. It was the most beautiful thing Sakura had ever dreamt of.
When She was done , Sakura looked at her clock '06.49' as she thought about going back to bed. ' There's no point I wont be able to sleep with it on my mind, anyway, I'll only have ten minutes. I'll take a bath! ' She grabbed her things a went and took a bath. While in there she had the biggest urge to see Sasuke, to talk about there're relationship and the wedding! There were loads of plans and decisions to be made! And of course she wanted the wedding soon, she was so excited to be spending the rest of her life with Sasuke. She smiled inwardly as she closed her eyes and imagined, her and Sasuke in the park holding hands while watching their children play; they were smiling and laughing as their children played 'IT'.
Sasuke awoke to hear someone knocking on his front door. As he sat up, he rubbed his eyes before looking at his clock '08.04'. As he walked out his bedroom without bothering to put on his clothes (he was only in his boxers), the knocking came again.
With one hand on the door handle and the other running through his hair, he opened the door to a women with pink hair, walking away.
"Sakura?" He yawned out. The pink haired beauty stoped and turned around to face the sleepy Uchiha prodigy. She took a step forward before speaking.
"Oh, Sasuke-Kun, did I wake you? I wanted to talk to you about something." Her eyes widened as she looked at the almost naked Sasuke from head to toe with amazement. ' It's more beautiful than I imagined!' She was pulled out of her thoughts when he replied to her answer.
"Yeah but I was about to get up anyway." Sasuke moved to the side of the door to gesture for her to enter his home. Sakura slowly walked up and slides past him with water dripping from her nose and hair. He closed the door behind her and pointed to a door in his hall way as he walked towards the stairs "The lounge is there, take a seat".
She took her wet long coat off and hung it on the coat rack behind the door, slowly walking to the door that Sasuke had informed her was the lounge and entered. Sakura looked around at the dull room 'This room is so Sasuke, haha!' She thought as she took a seat on the sofa and was shocked at how hard it was; ridiculously hard, it was unbearable! ' This will be the first thing to go when I move in, well if he will let me, I hope so I can't stand it any longer!' She quickly stood up from the couch.
Sakura then noticed a photo frame lying face down on the coffee table in front of her, she picked it up and smiled. It was a photo of Sasuke when he was little with Itachi and his mum and dad. They were all smiling, even Itachi, but the one person that stood out the most was Sasuke, he had the biggest smile. It made her heart feel warm, she wanted to make him smile like that, a true smile.
Her heart started to grow cold as she thought about Itachi. Why did he do what he did? They looked so happy in the photo, so why? While she thought about Itachi and the massacre of the Uchiha clan she was unaware that someone was watching her.
Sasuke came down stairs and stood by the living room door dressed with a shocked face. Sakura was looking at his family photo but not only that was he shocked about, it was what she was wearing. She wore tight jeans with holes going up the legs and a purple tank top that had the words 'YOU ROCK MY WORLD' on the front in silver with a picture of a guitar. It showed of her curves perfectly. ' That's much better than her red dress, you can hardly see nothing when she wears that!' Sasuke stopped his thoughts before he started to think like Kakashi.
"Yo!" Sasuke said leaning against the door frame with his arms crossed over his chest. Sakura jumped back in surprise dropping the frame on the floor.
"Oh sorry, Sasuke-Kun!" She said sweetly picking up the photo frame and placing it up right on the table.
"Hn." Sasuke threw a towel to Sakura as he walked in. She started to dry her hair as he sat down on the sofa with a sad/gloomy expression looking at his family photo.
"How can you sit on that sofa it's so…hard?" Sakura turned to Sasuke and noticed that something was wrong. She wrapped the towel round her head and slowly sat down next to Sasuke.
"What's wrong, Sasuke-Kun?" She hesitated and held his hands in hers "Sasuke?" He pulled his hands away from hers before speaking
"Sakura…I think…" He stopped and thought about what he was doing 'I cant break up with her, it will break her heart! I couldn't do that to her and there is no denying it…
It would break mine too!' He put his head down and ran his hand through his hair.
"What is it, Sasuke-Kun?" Sakura asked as she placed her left hand on his shoulder. He turned his head to his right shoulder and looked at her hand and imagined a ring on her wedding finger, he then looked at her eyes. The ring he had imagined, it was made with emeralds, it sparkled in the light and you couldn't help but look at it, just like her eyes.
"Sakura, do you want to go out for dinner with me tonight?" Sasuke said after thinking of something else than what he was about to say.
"Oh ok, sure! Where will be going?" Sakura asked before removing her hand from his shoulder.
"Suishou Gake Restaurant(2)." He replied looking away from her.
"Suishou Gake Restaurant?" She squealed out load. "That posh restaurant!" She yelled like one of his fan girls, making sure she was thinking of the right place. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her and nodded in response. Sakura screamed again in excitement! She then realised the way Sasuke was looking at her and decided to stop.
Silence now entered the room with Sasuke still looking at her like she was weird so, Sakura stood up "Anyway, I better go and let you do your things." She said walking to the front door and grabbing her coat.
As she stepped outside in the rain once more she asked "Are you going to pick me up? And what time?" Sasuke thought for a while before answering.
"I'll pick you up at 7.30 and then we can talk about what you came here for."
As he watched her walk away he thought of something "Sakura!" She turned around just in time to catch an umbrella that Sasuke throw at her.
She looked down at it and smiled "Thanks Sasuke-Kun!".
'How can I show her? I want to show but how? This is completely different from showing love to your family!' Sasuke drove through the town slowly on his way to Sakura's apartment when he passed a person in the street selling roses to young lovers.
Sasuke pulled up on the curb. Leaving the engine running, he got out and jogged to the old man selling roses. He watched Sasuke run over in his 200,000 yen suit.
"Ah, Young man! Have you got a date tonight?" The old man asked pushing his glasses up his nose a little.
"Yeah, can I have one red rose?" Sasuke asked bluntly, getting his wallet out his pocket.
He handed the old man the money before taking the red rose that was wrapped in clear plastic.
"Thank you young man, Good luck!" Sasuke heard the old man shout over the sound of the engine.
Cherry blossom trees lined the drive way of Suishou Gake Restaurant. When Sakura saw the two crystal water fountains with lights in side to make rainbow colours on the floor, her eyes lit up.
Sasuke pulled up in the car park and turned of the engine, when he remembered something. "Oh, Sakura here." He reached to the back seats of the car and grabbed the rose he had brought.
"Aww, that's so nice of you! Thank you Sasuke-Kun!" Sakura said, a bit surprised, and hugged Sasuke with one arm.
They both got out the car and walked to the entrance of the restaurant, as they walked in a waiter came up to them. "May I take your coat Miss?" He asked Sakura politely while she looked round the restaurant with her jaw almost hitting the floor, it was beautiful!
"Oh yes, Thank you." She replied undoing her coat and handing it to the waiter, the waiter nodded and went off to hang her coat up.
Sasuke couldn't take his eyes of her, she was gorgeous! She wore a black satin dress that finished at her ankles with a huge split up the left side, all the way up to the top of her thigh. Sasuke quickly looked away before his heart and eyes popped out.
When the waiter came back, he led them to a table for two and handed them each a menu. "My name is Kenji and I will be your waiter for tonight." He said to both of them and left.
10 minutes later he returned with a bottle of water and started to fill their glasses. "Have you decided on your order?" Kenji asked as he put down the bottle of water and got out his paper and pen out of his back pocket.
"Yes." Sasuke and Sakura both answered in unison. The waiter looked at Sakura to take her order. "I'll have the Roasted Red Pepper and Crab, Sweet Corn Cake, Sorrel Sauce for Starters please? And Saddle of Lamb Stuffed with Rosemary, Fondant Potato, Madeira Jus for Main course please?" Sakura asked making sure not to forget her manners in a place like this.
The waiter then turned to Sasuke "And you Sir?".
"I'll have the same as her." Sasuke said while he gestured with his hand at Sakura.
"Would you like any wine?"
"Sakura, you choose." Sasuke said while putting his menu down on the table.
Sakura quickly looked through the wine list and looked up to the Kenji, " The white house wine please?"
"Sure." Kenji said before taking the menu's away to the kitchen, leaving the two in silence.
"I guess it wont be hard for me to cook when we are married, we both like the same things!" Sakura smiled sweetly at Sasuke, he just smirked back.
"Sakura, I think we should keep the engagement a secret." Sasuke said looking in to her eyes. When he said that he noticed sadness in them. "'T'ill I buy a ring." He quickly added on the end of his sentence. He didn't want to make her sad, like before.
Sakura's face lit up and she smiled lovely at him "Sure!". Suddenly they heard a very familiar voice.
"OH MY GOD, SASUKE-TEME? SAKURA-CHAN?" Naruto shouted running up towards them. "What are you two doing here…ALONE?" He asked with a confused look on his face.
Sasuke stood up from the table and gave Naruto a death glare "I was about to ask you the same thing, Naruto!"
"I'm here with Hinata, Shikamaru and Ino. We're on a double date!" He answered Sasuke's question as the rest of them walked up and stood behind Naruto.
"What are you two doing here?" Ino asked them.
"Me and Sasuke are just talking about a mission that we are going on together in a few weeks time!" Sakura quickly lied before Sasuke and Naruto got in to a fight in the middle of the restaurant.
"Ohhhhh, heehee Sorry!" Naruto apologized before grabbing Hinata by the arm and running to their table.
"Well then, have a nice evening!" Ino said and pulling Shikamaru along by his tie.
After Ino's and Shikamaru's departure, they both sat down quietly. Sasuke was the first one to speak. "So Sakura, what did you come to talk to me about earlier?"
"Ah, yes!" Sakura said sitting up properly in her chair. "I came to talk to you about are relationship." Sasuke also sat up in his chair when he heard the word 'relationship'!
"What about it ?" Sasuke said coolly.
"Well, things like, when am I going to move in and plans for the wedding?" She replied happily. Sasuke looked shocked, he hadn't thought about her moving in! He just wanted to slip of his chair and hide under the table, maybe she wouldn't realise that he was gone but he did NOT want to have this conversation. He hadn't planned anything!
"Erm…Sakura, I only proposed last night! Why do we need to start making plans now! Don't you want to take this slower?" Sasuke asked her leaning over the table a bit while grabbing on to the table as tight as he could, scared of fainting and falling back off his chair.
"Well Sasuke, when you proposed last night, we weren't even going out and now you want to take it slow?" Sakura asked with a matter-of-fact tone looking at him straight in the eye. Sasuke just wanted to die at that point, she was right and he was wrong (for once in his life). There was no way he could get out of Sakura moving in, she would have to move in when they got married anyway. This was it, this was the end for Sasuke, he gave up! "Ok, you can move in." Sasuke said in a very quite voice
"REALLY? WHEN?" Sakura burst out in excitement. Sasuke just blushed with embarrassment when he saw the people in the restaurant were giving them funny looks, even Naruto. 'Naruto is going to know that this isn't about a mission if she carries on like this!' Sasuke thought.
"When ever you want." Sasuke said in a sort of bored/sad tone, looking down into his lap.
"REALLY?" Sakura screamed but stopped when Sasuke grabbed her hand over the table.
"Keep your voice down!" Sasuke whispered angrily at Sakura. She just gave a small sweet smile like a naughty school girl being told off and whispered sorry back to him.
"Ok, Here's the plan, I have a mission tomorrow that may last up till next week. So, you pack up your stuff while I'm away. When I come back you move in and I'll buy you a ring, Is that ok with you?" Sasuke said in a loud whisper because Naruto's table were watching them, Sakura saw this and only nodded in response.
"Here are your starters!" Their waiter, Kenji, chirped.
After starter and main course
In the restaurant, there was a live band playing there, they set up and started to play just after Sasuke and Sakura had finished their main course. The band started to play a cover version of 'Kissing you' by Des'ree.
Sakura stood up from the table and started pulling Sasuke by the arm. "Sakura, what are you doing?" He asked with curiosity in his voice.
"I want to dance!" Sakura shouted over the music to Sasuke and pulled him on the dance floor. She put her hand on his shoulder getting ready to do a slow dance to the music but Sasuke did not do the same, he just had his hands limp by his sides.
"What's wrong!" Sakura asked with her hand still on his shoulder. Sasuke looked at her and felt very awkward; it was the first time in his life, that he couldn't do something so simple.
"I cant dance!" Sasuke said quietly, it was a good thing that Sakura could lip read. She grabbed his hand and placed it on her waist and then held his other hand in hers. It was like watching Beauty and the Beast dance for the first time.
Over at Naruto's Table
"Sasuke is up to something!" Naruto stated, banging his fist on the table while watching Sasuke and Sakura dance "I just know it!"
Hinata (Naruto's date) tried to calm him down "M…maybe he just wants to get to know her N…Naruto-Kun?"
Ino then spoke. "I tell you what, that whole mission excuse for being here was a lie, there is no way in hell that Sasuke would dance on a meeting! I don't think that Sasuke would even dance! There has to be more than that going on?"
Notes:
() (heehee blushes madly at the thought)
(2) (Translation : Crystal Cliff Restaurant ).
I would like to thank people who review and read my story! And i would like to say a big thank you to Tisha.