25 Days With Sakura
Chapter 6:
Day 4 – At Her House
I lifted my head eager to look for my nanny right away so that I could go home and start on the partnered project deadline tomorrow. What's wrong with the world today? Haven't teachers ever heard of projects supposedly being done in a week's span or longer than just giving the project today then having to really pass it tomorrow? I feel like I was being treated like a robot. I hated it when I was rushed. And when I am I usually start right away from school after dismissal cause' I already go straight home and start on those damn things. But today just had to be my unlucky day…
10 reasons why my day today just had to be the unluckiest in my whole entire mute life!
1, the water supply today just cut out on me and I had to go to school without taking a shower!
2, I carried out some boxes from the room my nanny would be staying in and guess what… the box opened from its bottom and just had to drop all of its HEAVY contents on my foot. I had to practice walking without effin limping!
C! Oh wait… it should be 3…
3! On my way to school a car passed by rushing like it was the owner of the street and just HAD to splash a puddle of water mixed with mud on me! What is wrong with the world! Does god really hate me that much just cause I can't talk?
4.1, I had to rush back home! To my dismay… all of my other uniforms were still being laundered so I had to iron and spray lots of perfume on a used one! Better it than the mud covered thing.
4! I was late and had my very first tardy slip! Tsunade was lecturing me on how honor students should NEVER be late and all that stuff! She would've understood though if she gave me the time to explain.
5! I just know the world hates me!
6, some popular girls who were just so full of themselves just had to pick on me by tripping me during lunch time in the cafeteria which made me fall on some other person's puke. Gross.
7, I rushed to the bathroom only to find out that the water was also cut off in school and I had to wait until the bell rang when the water started to flow once more and I haven't even eaten my lunch yet!
8! My SECOND tardy slip of the day! If only they knew that I had landed on someone's ick then maybe they'd let me off and give me free tickets to a carnival!
9, I still smelled like puke!
10, everyone was avoiding me because of my freaking smell. So I actually couldn't get a partner for this project.
But in all someone's unperfect and sometimes unlucky, but not as unlucky as mine, life… there's that one thing that makes all of those unlucky moments drift away… and that butterflies-in-my-stomach-making-me-forget-all-the-bad-things-that-happened-today came in numbers of 2.
1, Sasuke had offered me his polo which made him walk around school in his shirt that was supposed to be underneath his polo according to school uniform policy. Good thing the teachers gave HIM a chance to explain and they gave him off in being good to me. What about me?! They never gave me time to explain why I had those tardy slips! At least I was wearing Sasuke's polo.
2, the reason why I'm also excited to go home is that at school I may not have taken in a partner but after school when I was about to leave Sasuke came to me. I thought he would be taking his heavenly scented polo back but no… he asked me to be his project partner! How lucky could my unlucky life be?!
Suddenly I heard a very familiar voice calling my name. It seemed like my nanny found me instead of me finding her.
"Sakura thank god! I've been looking for you ever since I got here and I tell you that plane didn't give customer service perfectly than how we do with out visitors in the palace and I am appalled that people here could treat you like this in this… place! You're a princess for crying out loud and they should respect you if ever they had treated you the way they didn't give me my Evian water when I asked for it in the plane!"
Sigh… if only my nanny knew people treated me worse than how little her problem was in that plane. But I shouldn't make her know that since I know she'd report back to my parents and my dad would right away put that person who 'disrespected' the princess me to prison. I know that almost all girls would want my life but trust me… I may only be the girl that wants to have your life… a normal person's life and not someone who's always under pressure and being starved to death just so I could be skinny because that's what a real princess should be. The heck with all those stupid needs!
"Did you bring your car?" nanny asked.
Of course my parents gave me a car along with my apartment but I never used it. People would think a mute is showing it off but why do popular people show it off then people would think they're just being them? I nodded. This was the first time I ever let my car out and I swear if ever any of my school mates see me driving it then it would be the talk of the school. I could see it now.
-Haruno Sakura just had to buy a new car to show it off just so she'd be accepted and hoping that she'd be in with the popular kids!-
I had no intentions whatsoever to be in with those pretentious people. I don't understand how also almost 95 of the girls in my school would want to be with them. Weren't they happy with their life? Or maybe they're life just totally sucked that they really wanted to be in the popular group so badly so that people would notice them and the whole –you're still a virgin so you're not "in" with us- issue would be shaved off their backs when they try and do sex. Really! What is wrong with the world!
"Oh no Sakura-dono… you don't need to help me with my luggage's… you are a princess after all." My nanny heaved her second out of 4 luggage's into my back seat. I on the other hand didn't listen to her cause I rolled my eyes and helped her no matter how she rambled on telling me I really mustn't because dad would officially kill her.
Another thing why I hate it when I'm inside that prison of a palace is being called this Sakura-dono… sure it was necessary to show respect of me being in a really high position over all of them inside the palace, except for the king and queen which is my mom and dad of course. It made me feel like a guy, an old guy who wanted to be served bananas for dinner all the time!
As soon as we were done I started the engine and when my nanny got inside… I drove off right away.
"You know Sakura-dono… you really shouldn't help or make efforts into tiring yourself with people like us… like me. I understand that you like helping out other people like you helped Kamaru cooking in the kitchen's those years ago, yes I know and don't worry… I didn't tell your dad" she added as soon as she saw me look at her with utter shock "anyways as I was saying… as kind as you really are, it's just not for you to help out on people like us. Help you can but not in THIS way… you know what I mean" she trudged on as she took off her sunglasses. Now she looked more like a princess baby-sitter close friend than a nanny at all. Perhaps it was better seeing her like a friend although she was my nanny. I really didn't want to order on anybody or calling them my nanny.
A few minutes later I finally parked my car safely hidden behind the garage. The last time Sasuke took me home after our grocery shopping, he had asked what was inside… of course he followed up after that it was a stupid question since I couldn't respond. Sigh, but if I could I would've told him it was my workshop where I keep my paintings because it's what I do whenever I'm stressed. Of course that would be a lie because you can't actually fit a Mercedes Benz along with all of the painting I could do. And remember, the word I used is COULD. It means I could paint but I don't actually have real time for it. I do paint in my dreams though. Like it would change anything…
"Sakura… do you have an assignment or a project to do?" my nanny asked taking the luggage off the car again.
I nodded.
"Okay well… if you need help you can come to me and I can help you… plus if you're doing this assignment or project with a partner… just give me the usual look you give when you're annoyed cause' I'll leave you two alone to make your grades perfect okay?" my nanny said entering my apartment carrying one luggage.
Of course… if she knew that my partner for this project would be a boy then I'm sure she wouldn't let me out of her sight being alone with him. She probably thought my partner'd be a girl. I laughed in my mind. I took a luggage that was beside me and heaved it in. The second I got out from the door ready to take in another heavy bag… there he was. Standing there… looking at me. I smiled at him. I saw him wince but he smiled back and walked towards me. Nanny was preparing dinner after I convinced her that I'd be the one to take in all of her bags, which of course had to be world war 3 since she really didn't like the idea of me carrying HER luggage. It was tough but I won.
"Need help?" he asked making his sling bag jump closer and tucked to his body so that it wouldn't fall off when he lifted the bag that was beside the one I picked up. I didn't nod or give any signs that I said yes but he helped nonetheless.
As soon as we were done, I gave him water and he said thanks and sat down waiting in the living room. I on the other hand changed first, I went down and gestured that I put his polo I the laundry. He said thanks once more and we started on the project. Not long after nanny got in saying that dinner would be ready in a few.
"What I don't get is why you still can't talk-" she stopped after she noticed that Sasuke, a guy… was with me…
My nanny's name by the way is Hiyari… she's been my nanny since I was born… that of course was according to my mom and the photo albums that showed me being a little baby I was in my mother's arms and Hiyari being beside her in the picture holding my bottle for me. She really is a cool nanny, the one who knows how to keep your deepest darkest secrets type but at times she's just too much.
"Who is this?" she asked putting her hands on her hips with one hand still holding a tomato sauce covered spatula.
"Ugh… I'm Sasuke… Uchiha Sasuke… Sakura's friend" he said standing up smiling at Hiyari like he thought she was my mom.
"I'm Sakura's nanny Hiyari… so you're her friend?" she asked raising a brow.
Sakura's got a friend… her parents would be happy to hear this… Hiyari thought, a smirk forming on her face.
"Sakura's parents and your parents have a really good business relationship… I guess you know who Sakura truly is then…" Hiyari asked.
Sakura widened her eyes and bit her lower lip. She waved her arms "stop" behind Sasuke. At once Hiyari knew that Sasuke had no idea that Sakura was a princess.
"Ugh… huh?" Sasuke asked. He wondered who Sakura really is. What was her nanny talking about?
"Never mind…"
Sasuke instantly made a mental note to ask his parents if they knew a family with a Haruno surname once they get back by the end of this month. Too bad that was still too far away. Of course he could always ask Sakura's nanny but since Sakura didn't tell him, then maybe she or her nanny won't tell him at all.
"I'll leave you two alone then…" Hiyari said after receiving the "annoyed look" Sakura had given her.
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"Thanks for the dinner… the food was really good. Especially the tomato soup… I love tomatoes…" Sasuke said complimenting my nanny's cooking which made her, as I already really know Hiyari over the years I've been with her, like Sasuke… not as like-like but like as a person who really could be a good friend to me. I smiled at the way Hiyari looked at him. we finished the project a while ago and ate the dinner we just had late cause Sasuke and I wanted to really finish the project first rather than eating so that's exactly what happened.
"If you don't mind… I know-"
"Oh you can stay even if you are done with your project…" Hiyari said picking up plates… ready to take them to the sink.
"Arigatou…" Sasuke nudged me to follow him outside at our back garden where we had soft dew grass to sit or lie on.
He lay down on it and I sat closely beside him, tucking my legs behind my arms and resting my chin on my knees… I smiled and closed my eyes, enjoying the fresh cool breeze the night brought onto me.
Sasuke sighed. I lifted my head and looked at him to find him softly smiling looking at the sky above. I did too and smiled at the numerous stars that invaded the night sky just as it had done yesterday at the beach.
"Until now… I can't get myself to give up on her…" Sasuke breathed out. I looked at him. I knew whom he was talking about. It was me… well… at least the ME that saved him.
"I thought that if I go out with other girls I could forget about her but no… she just has to appear in my dreams every night and she's always the one I think about before I go to sleep and I'd wish… she'd be you… always beside me and making me feel at peace… no offense… not that I'm not happy with you… it's just that I wish she could be with me just like you are with me right now."
This was the first time I heard Sasuke so serious. Not just with the way he was talking but also the way he felt for the Sakura that had saved him those years ago. Of course it did hurt that he'd want her to be with him more than me right now… but he did say it wasn't an offense or anything. I know that girl is still me… but not for him.
"I didn't even know her name… don't be freaked out but I sometimes look at you and see her… but it's only like a one second glance thing…" he closed his eyes and I thought he had dozed off.
A few minutes of waiting for him to really doze of was worth it. I crept close to him and lay down beside him. I looked at him.
"S… Sas… Sas…" I tried to say his name… but I still couldn't. At least some words came out. Ever since that accident that happened those years ago… no words could come out of my mouth. No one ever heard me talk since then… since that of what happened.
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I turned to the other side of my bed which faced the window. I sighed and felt that I couldn't keep the hurt in much longer. I wanted Sasuke so badly and he wanted me too… at least if he knew I was the girl from before. Sasuke had left a while ago and he offered he'd keep the project and he gave me a smile before turning back to leave.
"Sakura?" Hiyari knocked before entering. Light painted my walls and I instantly wiped my tears with my blanket and faked a smile to her.
"Sakura even though you're showing me a smile… I've known you since you were still a baby and those eyes are clearly telling me you had just cried…"
She caught me. There's no point in hiding, so I tore the smile off my face.
"I'm sorry but… I eave's dropped on your conversation a while ago"
I sobbed on.
"Sakura… you've met him before when you were still young haven't you?" she asked.
I nodded.
"You saved him from something?"
I nodded.
"Did he ever see you again after that?"
I shook my head.
"He thinks she's gone because rumors spread before that the you before already left town?"
How'd Hiyari know that? But anyways I nodded.
"Is there anything you could do to remind him of you?"
I nodded and took the slingshot from under my pillow.
"Are you planning on showing him?"
I nodded.
"Well hunny I'm really sorry but you can't…"
I looked at her with saddened eyes.
"You already know why… you're already being arranged into marrying the prince of another country remember? Plus he's not of royal blood… you know how your parents get and you know how they got when you liked that boy you met at the public playground those years ago? Sakura… it's best not to tell him… if he knew it would only be harder for him if you already went back to the palace and it would come out in international news that you have just been wed."
Hiyari made sense.
After a silent moment she sighed and looked out of my window.
"I'm sorry Sakura… that you have to suffer this I mean. I know you love him… it's obvious. But… some things are just not meant to be opened up to someone…" with this Hiyari walked out and bid me goodnight.
Goodnight? How could I have a goodnight when I just remembered that I'm to be wed when I turn after all and that I really can't tell Sasuke it was me and if he does know by himself… what could possibly happen?
I cried on… I didn't know what else I could do…
-tbc
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