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I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to get chapter 7 out but I changed the plot of the story and I had already had chapter 7 written out but had to re-write it because it didn't fit in with the new plot.
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Things I Never Said, Chapter 7, Choices And The Reaction
Sakura awoke the next morning in the chair to find Sasuke not in bed, she looked around the room for a clock. She saw an alarm clock on the bed side table, as she leaned forward to see the time she felt something slide down her arms, it was a blanket.
Sakura stood up from the chair and folded the blanket up. Placing it on the arm of the chair before walking down stairs to find Sasuke in the lounge, lying on the sofa drinking his morning dose of coffee while watching the news.
"Good morning, Sasuke-Kun." She said happily to him, giving him a small wave of her hand.
"Morning." Sasuke bluntly said removing his feet off the sofa, sitting up right so Sakura could sit down. She thanked him and sat down next to him, she looked at him trying to think of something to say when she noticed something. Sasuke looked like he was uncomfortable.
'Did he have enough rest yesterday? Has his wound re-opened? What's making him uncomfortable?' Sakura thought as she looked at him for a few minutes before asking "How are you feeling today, Sasuke-Kun?" Her eyes met his when he turned to look at her.
He quickly looked away, feeling more uncomfortable. 'Does she know what happened last night?' Sasuke thought as he recalled last nights little event.
Flashback
Sasuke awoke due to a dry mouth, he glanced at his alarm clock but couldn't see the time as a plate of rice balls were in the way. Sasuke switched on his bedside lamp and sat up in bed.
As he sat up he noticed Sakura fast asleep in the chair at the end of the bed. He looked at her for a few minutes before pushing the covers off his half naked body and got out of bed.
Sasuke quietly walked across the room trying not to stand on the floorboards that creaked. He made his way to the door without making a noise but when he walked in to the bathroom he had forgot that there was someone else in the house sleeping and he slammed the bathroom door shut.
"Shit" Sasuke whispered to himself hoping that she had not woken up. He did his thing in the bathroom and then flushed the toilet. After washing his hands, Sasuke walked back in his room to find that Sakura had not woken up and carefully walked over to his closet. He pulled out his old soft baby blue blanket from when he was little and placed it over Sakura.
Sasuke tucked her in, feeling the curves of her body. When he was done he looked up to find his face a few cm's away from hers. Sasuke looked at her sleeping for a minute or two before moving his face closer to hers and gently kissed her cherry lips.
Sasuke pulled his lips away from hers as she started to stir in her slumber. He slowly walked away and quietly got in to bed. "Did she notice?" He thought before turning over and going to his own slumber land.
End of Flashback.
10 minutes had past and Sakura was on the phone to her parents. Sasuke in the same position still sat on the couch watching the news while drinking his coffee. As he sat there he could hear shouts from the kitchen, Sakura was shouting down the phone to her parents.
"BUT MUM YOU DON'T KNOW HIM! PLEASE JUST MEET HIM?" Sakura cried down the phone to her mum, as she hit the kitchen table with the palm of her hand in anger.
"NO! I DON'T WANT YOU MARRYING SOMEONE WITH A BROTHER LIKE THAT!" Mrs. Haruno shouted back at her daughter.
"SASUKE IS NOTHING LIKE ITACHI, MUM! PLEASE… MUM…FOR ME?" Sakura begged in between sobs. "PLEASE FOR ME MUM?" She asked half shouting half crying.
Before her mother could reply Sakura's father took the phone out of his wife's hand, as he always did when a fight between his daughter and wife got to heated. "Now Sakura please listen to your mother, we are only concerned about your safety" He said calmly down the phone to his daughter.
"BUT SASUKE WOULDN'T HURT ME IN ANYWAY DAD, HE'S NOT LIKE THAT" Sakura still angrily cried.
Her father, a little angry that his daughter had no respect towards him by shouting, made his voice louder. "What about all those times you came home crying because he had said something nasty to you, huh?"
"HE'S NOT LIKE THAT ANYMORE, HE'S CHANGED!" Sakura screamed at her father in floods of tears.
"YOU'RE NOT GETTING MARRIED TO HIM AND THAT'S FINAL!" Sakura's father shouted at Sakura for the first time in his life and hung up on her. Sakura slammed the receiver down and ran up the stairs to the bathroom as fast as she could, not wanting Sasuke to see her cry slamming the door behind her.
Meanwhile, Sasuke had heard everything that had happened apart from what Sakura's parents were saying but he had got the idea of what was said by what Sakura was shouting back to them.
Sasuke got up and slowly walked to the upstairs bathroom, as he got closer he could hear her crying. When he reached the bathroom he slowly and lightly knocked on the door and waited for a reply. He could hear sniffs and the noise of Sakura pulling toilet paper off the toilet roll holder.
"Come in" Sakura called out while quickly tidying her self up a bit and looked in the mirror to see if it looked like she had been crying, and it did. Sasuke opened the door and walked in quietly shutting the door behind him.
Sakura stood up straight and gave him a weak smile. He looked at her face as another tear trickled down her cheek. "What's wrong?"
Sakura looked into his dark eyes, she couldn't lie to him. She had to tell him about her parents. She turned away from him and leaned on the sink for support as she felt her knees go weak. Sakura looked in the mirror and watched him in the reflection.
"It's my parents…" She stopped as she could feel herself about to burst out in to tears again. Sakura turned around and sat on the floor leaning her head against the sink looking up at the ceiling. And continued her sentence. " They wont let me…marry you." She shut her eyes tightly trying to stop the tears but they still fell.
Sasuke walked up to her and sat on the floor opposite her, with his head down and his eyes closed, he said "Listen to me." Sakura looked at him, wiping her tears away from her cheeks with the back of her hand. "It's up to you what you do with your life now. Your 20 years old and you moved out your parents a few years ago. Don't let them tell you what to do… if you …love me then… you will marry me but it's up to you. They shouldn't be telling you who you can love and who you can't." Sasuke found it hard to say the word 'love' as he hasn't said that word since his parents were murdered as he had no need to use it anymore.
Before he knew it Sakura had her arms around his neck whispering something in his ear. " I love you…Sasuke." Sasuke for the first time embraced her back. They hugged for a few minutes when Sasuke pulled away from her he realized that Sakura had fallen asleep in his arms, tired from the shouting and crying to her parents.
Sasuke carefully picked her up bridal style and carried her in to his bedroom, placing her on his bed like a china doll, careful not to break her from her slumber. He tucked her in under the covers neatly before going to get washed and dressed.
Sakura awoke 45 minutes later, she slowly sat up in bed wondering how and when she got in to Sasuke's bed. She looked around the room but found no one in there with her. She remembered hugging Sasuke on the bathroom floor. And there was no doubt about it, no matter what her parents said, she loved Sasuke with all her heart and she was going to marry him.
She stretched her arms and legs out with a yawn and slowly got out of bed, making her way to the bathroom. With tired eyes she swung the bathroom door open to find Sasuke fully naked in front of the mirror, brushing his teeth. Both of them were shocked with their eyes open wide staring at each other. Sasuke was the first to break the gaze "SHIT!" Sasuke said loudly as he rushed to find a towel. Before he could find one Sakura was already out of the room slamming the door behind.
"I am so sorry" Sakura apologized from behind the door. Both of them were blushing madly, Sakura had never seen a naked man right before her eyes. She may be 20 years old but she was still a virgin, waiting for her wedding night. But she wouldn't mind peeping round the door for another look, it was beautiful! Nobody had ever seen Sasuke naked apart from his parents when he was a baby. Surprisingly Sasuke was still a virgin, he never cared about girlfriends before and there was no way he was going to have sex with one of his fan girls!
"I'm so sorry." Sakura repeated. Before dashing down the stairs and running to the bathroom.
A few minutes later and Sakura came out, she needed to use the upstairs bathroom. All her cleansing products for her skin were up there. But she was still blushing madly, she was so embarrassed she didn't want to even look at Sasuke when passing him on her way to the bathroom. Sasuke quickly glanced at her when she entered the bathroom with his cheeks still pink.
It was 11am and there was silence between the two as they sat in the lounge watching tv, both didn't dare to look at the other. Sakura sat on the opposite end of the couch to Sasuke, as she moved closer to the arm of the couch with her back straight.
Without taking her eyes of the television she asked "So…when are we telling everyone the news?" trying to make her self look at him but couldn't from the embarrassment earlier.
"Whenever you want." Sasuke replied looking at her but not looking her in the face. He wanted to look at her face as he was glad to know that she was going to marry him whatever her parents said.
She got up and started to walk to the lounge door, she stopped as soon as she got outside the door " I'll call Ino and tell her to meet us at the ramen bar at six and to get her to call up everyone else. We will tell them the news then." She said without looking at him.
Six o'clock came and Sasuke and Sakura were running late. Sakura ran out the front door leaving it open for Sasuke and jumped over the car, into her seat. When she realized that Sasuke wasn't even out of the house yet, she beeped the horn impatiently.
Sasuke slowly walked out, locking the front door behind him. He gradually made his way to the car, not looking forward to the weird looks he would get from his friends once they knew that HE, UCHIHA SASUKE, was getting married.
When they reached their destination they were the last ones to arrive, well apart from Kakashi who was always late. They both walked up to they're group of friends waiting at the ramen bar, taking deep breaths as they all turned round to meet the two, that had news to tell them.
"Hi" Sakura said nervously as she was hugged by her best friend, Ino. While Sasuke stood behind her. As Naruto got drinks for the two, everyone went silent to hear what this whole meeting was about.
"Well…" Sakura said as she took a deep breath in and sat down on a stool at the bar.
"Me and Sasuke have asked you all to come here tonight to tell you that…" She grabbed Sasuke's hand and gave it a squeeze before continuing her sentence " We're…getting married!" She squealed with delight.
Ino ran up as tears of joy started falling from her aqua blue eyes, pulling Sakura into a tight embrace. Everybody else just stood there in shock. They just couldn't believe that it would happen, they never thought that Sasuke would ever fall in love and ask for a woman's hand in marriage.
Sasuke stood there with everybody's eyes on him, he turned to Naruto that was holding two beers in his hands, with his eyes covered by a shadow as his head was low. Naruto started to shake in anger, he did something unexpected, well something that Sasuke and Sakura wouldn't expect.
Naruto moved forward with a shout as he threw the contents of the pint glasses at Sasuke's face and then punched him. Sasuke fell back, falling against the bar knocking things down as he went. Naruto turned around and stormed off leaving everyone in shock, this was just too much for them all to take in.
Sakura ran past Sasuke, leaving him to pick himself off the ground as she ran after Naruto. "N-Naruto…!" Sakura shouted as she ran after him.
"That son of a bitch, he's only marrying her to fulfil his dreams, but it's Sakura-chan's heart! And I…I still" Naruto's thoughts were cut off as he heard Sakura shouting for him. He stopped and turned round to see her running up to him, breathing heavily, she bent down to catch her breath. He stayed silent waiting for her to sort herself out and say what she wanted to say to him.
Sakura stood up straight with her breathing back to a normal pace, she looked at him in the eyes. "Naruto…Why?" She asked, referring to the scene at the ramen bar.
Naruto looked down, breaking eye contact "because Sakura-chan, I…still love you in…that way." He said finding it hard to get his words out, then looking at her expression. Sakura was shocked but put a weak smile on.
Naruto stayed silent, waiting for her to say something. "Naruto, Sasuke has changed, you may not see it as he only seems to show it when we are spending time together alone. I know that you are going to worry about me, but I will be fine." Sakura changed the subject as she didn't know what to say about it and tried to convince Naruto. She knew what he was thinking, he thought that Sasuke asked her because he wanted to restore his clan, and she had thought the same thing too at one point. He looked up at her and turned his back towards her as he saw Sasuke walking up behind her.
She turned around to see Sasuke, she started to walk towards him and placed her hand on Sasuke's shoulder. Sakura looked back at Naruto "By the way Naruto, Hinata really likes you." She said before looking up at Sasuke with a small smile. Then leaving the two friends to talk. When Naruto heard this he had a smile on his face but the smile didn't last long when he heard Sakura walking away leaving him and Sasuke alone.
Sasuke walked a few more steps forward before saying "Naruto, I have something to ask you?". Naruto turned around and faced Sasuke looking at him in the eyes. Knowing what Sasuke was about to ask him, he was going to warn Sasuke first.
"Wait a minute. I have something to say first." Naruto paused, looking at Sasuke very seriously. "Are you marrying Sakura-chan because you want to restore your clan or because you love her?" He asked, looking in to Sasuke's eyes trying to find emotion in them.
Sasuke looked down to the floor and then back at Naruto. Naruto saw this as Sasuke knew that he was trying to find emotion in his eyes but looked away to hide it. "Oh yeah, I forgot you find it hard to tell people your emotions since your brother…" Naruto said gloomily but trailed off, making Sasuke a little shocked at what he was saying.
"Look, Sakura-chan is like a sister to me and if you hurt her, I will kill you even if you are my best friend, that wont stop me." He said still with a serious face shooting Sasuke death glares. All the sudden Naruto's expression changed, he smiled a big smile with his eyes closed and asked, "So what did you want to ask me?" Naruto already knew what Sasuke was going to say, he just couldn't wait to actually hear those words come out of Sasuke's mouth.
Sasuke smirked at Naruto's big smile. "Will you be my best man?" He asked. This was one of those times, where they actually show that they are best friends. Even though they don't act like it, they were.
Naruto smiles an even bigger smile and pulls Sasuke in to a manly hug patting him on the back. "Only if I can plan your Stag Night?" He asked with an evil grin that Sasuke couldn't see as they were still hugging.
Sasuke pulls away from the hug "Isn't that the best man's job?" He asks with a smirk, but then sees Naruto's evil grin and loses his smirk as Naruto walks past him in the direction of the ramen bar.
By the time Sasuke and Naruto had come back to the ramen bar, everyone wasn't so shocked as they were when Naruto and Sasuke left. Now everyone was celebrating and having a laugh. Naruto put his arm around Sasuke's shoulder, trying to be cheery, "So my friend what are you having to drink?" Naruto asked as they walked up to the bar.
Naruto orders two pints of beer and 6 bowls of ramen, the ramen being for himself. As the night goes by there have been speeches from close friends about what they think about the marriage.
Sakura grabs Ino and Hinata to one side and called Tenten over by a call of her name and a gesture of her hand. Tenten ran over. "What's up?" Tenten asked with a smile on her face, and a bit of a blush as she was a little tipsy.
"Right, I've called you girls over here because I need to ask you all something" Sakura smiled at them as her heart was beating faster, but her's wasn't the only one as the other three girls knew what she was going to ask.
Sakura took a few deep breaths in before asking her three friends. " I've asked you three girls over because I want to ask if you will be my bridesmaids?" There was a short pause after she had asked, when the girls screamed in joy. This could be heard at the ramen bar as everyone turned to see what was going on.
The three girls hugged Sakura tightly. "YES!" All three girls screamed in unison. They hugged for few more moments before un-hugging Sakura, they wiped away tears of happiness.
Sakura turned to Ino as Ino was finding a tissue in her bag. " Ino, I want you to be my chief bridesmaid. If it wasn't for you I probably wouldn't be here asking you girls to be my bridesmaids to mine and Sasuke's wedding." Sakura smiled.
"Oh God, Sakura! Why did you have to ask me this when I'm running out of tissue" Ino started to sob, she hugged Sakura for about 10 minutes crying happy tears.
So what did you guys think of chapter 7? Please tell me.
Any way to the votes, you can still votes, you can vote until the last chapter of Things I Never Said. You can vote for any pairing you want, just tell me.
Here are the Votes so far :
Sasuke X Sakura : 7
Naruto X Hinata : 2
Shikamaru X Ino : 1
Neji X Tenten : 1
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