" Opening The Heart"

" Drugs"

" I'm really sorry..." Sakura said as she looked down on her lap while sitting in the car with Deidara.

" It's okay, I just wished you had told me you were a virgin but it's okay, we can still have our own fun." Deidara said as he whispered into her ear.

" But... I want to have sex with you." Sakura whined at the male and heard him chuckle.

" It's okay, you don't need to lose your virginity right now anyways. I don't want to be the one who you lose it to." Deidara said which shocked the girl.

" But why?" Sakura asked him as she watched him lean to her face, placing a kiss on her cheek.

" I don't want to be the one who hurts you."

It had been one month since Sakura and Sasuke had met up again. They would all hang out as a group on the weekends and Sakura wasn't all that surprised when Temari told her that Shikamaru told her that he wanted to get back together and she said yes. Nothing else had happened between Sakura and Sasuke since the party at Naruto's but they seemed to be getting closer and closer every time they would see each other.

It was Friday afternoon and Sakura and Temari had just gotten out of their lessons of the day. Sakura was getting the hang of her new school and loved the idea that they get to go home around lunchtime everyday. They took two courses in their school, a computer class and a study class to get them prepare to pass the tests in order to get their GEDs. The two girls walked out of the building and Temari had a smile on her face while Sakura looked very annoyed.

" Yes! I can't believe I passed the practice exam! Shikamaru told me if I passed today, he was going to take me out this weekend." Temari said then turned to look over at her pink haired friend when she didn't hear her say anything in return.

" Shit girl, you look strung out." Temari joked at the girl then stopped laughing when Sakura turned her head and glared at her friend.

" Fuck you Temari." Sakura spat out before rolling her eyes at the girl as they reached Temari's car.

" Uh oh... someone ether needs a fix or to get laid." Temari said as she unlocked her car and the two girls climbed into her car.

" Whatever. I keep trying to call Sasori this morning but he won't answer his phone and I ran out of blow last night so I didn't get to have a bump for breakfast before school." Sakura said with a frown on her face as she looked down at her phone after pulling it out of her pocket and realized she had no missed calls.

" Stupid jerk... but hey I got an idea to make you feel better." Temari said with a smirk on her face as she pulled out of her parking spot and began to drive while Sakura turned her head to glance at her friend.

" You got some at your house?" Sakura asked with excitement but the mood quickly vanished when she watched her shake her head.

" No honey, remember you had already asked me that when I picked you up from your house this morning. But anyways how about we go to Shikamaru's school and surprise the boys. You can even get close to a certain Uchiha that I know you keep dreaming about." Temari winked at Sakura while she began to feel the blush rising in her cheeks.

" I-I don't know what you are talking about..." Sakura lied then looked out the window and sighed out.

" I know you don't want to get hurt again after the hell that you went through with Deidara but not every guy is going to do what he did. I think you should give Sasuke a chance. Even Shikamaru told me that he liked you and even gave up sleeping with random chicks ever since you two had started hanging out with each other." Temari told her friend as Sakura continued to look out the window, acting like she wasn't paying any attention but really she was.

Sakura hated the fact that she had been thinking about the Uchiha so much and it started to scare her at the fact that she was starting to think more about him than Deidara. Ever since their moment in Naruto's bathroom about a month ago, they had became better friends and they would occasionally hug but other than that nothing had happened between them. Sakura was afraid that she was going to be getting hurt again because she knew Sasuke's reputation with women so she went back to doing drugs while keeping physical contact with the Uchiha to the minimal.

" Whatever." Sakura said as she knew that Temari wasn't going to change her mind but deep down inside, she was excited to visit her old school again, and to surprise Sasuke.

The school bell rang and the famous Sasuke Uchiha walked out of his class with his fan girls walking behind him but he just ignored them and kept on walking. Ever since Sasuke confronted Sakura about what was going on with her and he saw the hurt in her eyes, he didn't want to be the one to hurt her, instead he wanted to take the pain away so he backed off a little bit but was still her friend and was waiting for the day that she would tell him what had been going on with her while she was away.

" Sasuke!"

Sasuke heard his name being called out by his best friend and turned his head to the side to see Naruto and Shikamaru walking up to him. He waited until they reached his area before he continued to walk again. They walked until they reached outside of the school and sat down near a cherry blossom tree since it was a pretty nice day.

" Man, it's so nice out today! I heard from the weather channel this morning that there is a huge storm coming this way but I gues they were wrong since there is not a cloud in the sky." Naruto commented as he took a seat on the grass and looked up at the sky.

" Naruto? You watch the weather channel?" Shikamaru asked the blond as he laid down and put his hands behind his head and stared at the sky, wishing that a cloud would suddenly appear.

Naruto was about to respond back but suddenly heard a few people talking as they were walking pass their group coming from the parking lot which caught the guys's attention.

" I can't believe Sakura is back at our school! I thought she had died or something since it seemed like she disapeared out of thin air." One male said.

" I heard she went to rehab after she had overdosed at some drug dealer's house." Another male said as they walked further away from the guys that were surrounding the cherry blossom tree.

" Wait! Were you just talking about Sakura Haruno?" Naruto yelled out to the two males and everyone watched them turned around to face the person who asked the question.

" Yeah! She was in the parking lot with some blond chick when we entered our parking space." The guy said as they turned back around and proceeded to walk towards the school.

" Blond chick? Oh they must mean Temari, how troublesome..." Shikamaru let out a sigh and closed his eyes.

" What was so troublesome?"

All three guys turned around when they heard a female voice spoke out and saw Sakura and Temari standing behind them. Both girls had their arms crossed with Sakura having a pissed off/bored expression on her face while Temari just looked pissed off.

" You both are." Shikamaru said before getting smack on the head by his girlfriend while Naruto began to laugh while Sasuke smirked and when he noticed Sakura wasn't making a sound, he looked over at her and noticed that she seemed a little more distant than usual.

" Haha you got in trouble you lazy bum!" Naruto continued to laugh.

" Shut up loser." Sasuke said while glaring at his friend.

" You shut up you emo freak!" Naruto glared back.

" Both of you shut up! You all are so annoying." Sakura mumbled out as she went over and took a seat next to the Uchiha.

" Just ignore pinky here. She is just mad because a certain someone hasn't answered her phone calls." Temari said while smirking as she took a seat next to Shikamaru while Sasuke couldn't help but wonder who Temari was talking about and turned his head and began to poke Sakura on her side, trying to get her attention.

Sakura turned to look over at him who was still poking her side with his finger and opened her mouth to say something when she felt a buzz in her pocket and took out her phone and smiled to see who was calling her. She immediately got up from the ground and answered the phone while walking away from the group, not paying any attention to the now frowning Uchiha.

" Who was that on the phone?" Shikamaru asked, knowing that his girlfriend already knew the answer.

" Sasori." Temari replied which caused Sasuke's ears to perk up.

' Sasori? That name sounds familiar...'Sasuke thought to himself.

" You guys still hang out with that jerk? Lame..." Shikamaru muttered out.

" Who's Sasori?" Naruto asked out loud but Sasuke was glad that he did and Temari was about to respond when Shikamaru interrupted.

" He is Sakura's 34 year old fuck buddy/ drug dealer who has nothing better to do than to treat girls like crap and make teens high." Shikamaru said which made Sasuke tense up and looked around and noticed Sakura was walking back to the group.

" Hey Temari, are you about ready to roll out? Sasori is at his house now with his girlfriend and said that we can stop by." Sakura said as she went over to take a seat next to Sasuke again but was a little shock that right after she had sat down, he quickly got up and moved farther away from her.

' I wonder what's up with him? One minute he was flirting with me now he is acting cold. I hope he isn't mad at me.'Sakura thought to herself while looking over at Sasuke who was ignoring her gaze.

" Sure, I guess we will see you guys later. We wanted to surprise you guys since we are out of school now but someone wants to get high." Temari giggled out as she got off of the ground while Sakura did the same.

" I'm coming with you guys." Shikamaru said as he got off from the ground.

" Are you sure smarty pants? I don't want you to get in trouble or something." Temari joked while poking him in the chest area.

" Someone has to watch over you guys." Shikamaru calmly stated as he stretched out his arms.

" Hey Sasuke?" Sakura walked over to him when she noticed that he still seemed distant towards her. Sasuke ignored her and began to walk back to the school.

" Sasuke!" Sakura yelled out as she ran after him and made him stop walking after she grabbed his wrist.

" Let go." Sasuke growled out without even looking at the girl who was holding his wrist.

" What's wrong Sasuke? If you want, you can come along too. It won't take that long and afterwards we can-" Sakura was about to suggest that they could all hang out together but was cut off by the Uchiha.

" Stop being annoying Sakura and let go of my fucking wrist!" Sasuke then roughly pryed his wrist away from the girl and continued to walk, leaving a sadden Sakura behind.

Sakura couldn't believe how cruel Sasuke was acting so she turned around and ran straight to where Temari's car was parked, not listening to anyone else as tears began to leak from her eyes. Naruto watched the girl run away and decided to do something about it.

" Hey don't leave just yet, I'll convince Sasuke to come. I'll be right back." Naruto yelled out as he began to chase after his friend.

Sasuke walked down the hallway in the school when he heard his best friend yelling for him in the background. Sasuke stopped walking and turned around so Naruto could catch up with him.

" Sasuke! What's up? You should come with us. We can skip class for the rest of the day!" Naruto said but Sasuke shook his head.

" I rather hang out with Mr. Gai and Lee than hang out with drug users." Sasuke spat out to his friend as he crossed his arms.

" It's about Itachi isn't it?"

" Hn."

" Well don't get mad at Sakura. She doesn't know about him and she was really hurt when you were being cold towards her back there. She started to cry and ran off." Naruto said as he watched Sasuke's eyes widen a little bit.

' I- I made her cry?' Sasuke thought to himself as his eyes went back to normal.

" Come on Sasuke, I know you want to." Naruto responded then turned around to walk back to the school doors, smirking to himself knowing that Sasuke was following him but was surprised when Sasuke didn't follow him and continued on to his next class.

A few hours later Sasuke was at his home, laying in bed reading a magazine. It was already dark out and kept avoiding his calls from Naruto. He couldn't help but think about the girl he hurt a few hours before but then was cut off when the electricity suddenly went out. He put his magazine down and looked around to see nothing but darkness. There was a knock on the door and heard his door opening up, seeing his mother holding a flashlight on the other side.

" Mom?" Sasuke questioned her then suddenly they began to hear a siren.

" Come on Sasuke, we must hurry to go downstairs, there might be a chance that a tornado will strike." Mikoto said as she gave his son enough light for him to crawl out of his bed and followed his mother down the stairs where he saw his father waiting for them.

" What's wrong honey?" Mikoto asked her husband.

" Well Asuma just called me and him and Sakura's mother were at a business meeting and can't return home until the storm clears up and Sakura is all alone next door." His father said while Sasuke pretended not to care.

" Oh dear, Sasuke honey? Why don't you go next door and keep her company. I bet she is pretty scared right now with the sirens going on." Mikoto said as she shoved her flashlight to her son.

" Fine." Sasuke mumbled out while taking the flashlight since he knew he his parent's wouldn't take no for an answer and rushed out of the house and towards Sakuras.

Sakura was surrounded by complete darkness in her room and was scared out of her mind. One minute she was watching a movie then the next, the power went off and the tornado siren went off, telling her to go downstairs and hide in a room with no windows but unfortunately, it was too dark for her to see anything and she was all alone in her house.

All Sakura could think to do was to crawl up in a ball and sob. She was so scared. She hated tornado's with a passion and no one was going to come save her because she didn't even know where her cell phone was. She wanted something to take the pain away. Something or someone but she knew it wasn't going to happen. After what had happened at Sasuke's school, she ended up having Temari taking her home instead of going to see Sasori and getting her drugs.

" Sakura!"

A name was called out but she just thought she was hallucinating and ignored the call. Who would be calling her name in a storm like this. She heard her name calling her again but she ignored it, thinking it was death coming to get her finally. She then lifted up her head when she heard a door opening and her eyes widen when she saw Sasuke coming into her room with a flashlight.

" S-Sasuke?" Sakura whispered out, not believing the guy who was acting like a jerk earlier was now in her bedroom.

" Idiot, we need to get downstairs now in case a tornado attacks." Sasuke said quickly as he pulled on my wrist and led me downstairs and she showed him where a closet was and the two teens got into the room and closed the door behind them.

" Sasuke? Why are you here?" Sakura asked the male when she noticed that he still had a grip on her wrist.

" Because my parents made me." Sasuke answered out which disappointed her.

" I'm sorry." Sakura mumbled out after a few minutes of silence except for the siren playing in the background as the two teens sat on the floor.

" For what?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the pink haired girl.

" I made you mad earlier. I guess I was annoying you too much." Sakura stated but Sasuke shook his head.

" It's not that, why you were on the phone, Shikamaru told me that you do drugs. I know that one time at Naruto's I saw you doing coke but I didn't think you did it all the time. I just thought it was a one time thing." Sasuke admitted while Sakura was amazed by his confession.

" I didn't go." Sakura blurted out.

" I don't know why but it hurt me so much to see you acting so cold towards me when I thought we had been getting along lately so I ended up just going home because I wanted to be alone." Sakura said.

" I'm sorry for hurting you. Did I ever tell you that I have an older brother?" Sasuke asked the girl and watched her shake her head.

" He is in jail, he was caught selling drugs and won't be released until later on this year. I hate drug users and drugs in general." Sasuke told her.

" I'm so sorry, if I had known I would had-"

" It's okay, it's your life. But I wish you wouldn't do drugs Sakura, are they the reason why you were missing for a year?"

" No, it was because I... was in a mental hospital." Sakura confessed while tears were beginning to form around her eyes.

" What? Really?" Sasuke's eyes widen.

" Yeah, I was having some personal issues and I went through a period where I was constantly trying to kill myself. The last time I tried was when I had cut my wrists and Asuma had walked in on me at my mom's apartment. He saved my life and convinced my mom to have me admitted." Sakura spoke out as she could feel Sasuke scooting closer to her until they were side by side.

" I had no idea you were going through something like that." Sasuke whispered out as he cupped her face with both of his hands, trying his best to comfort the girl.

Sakura couldn't help but lean in and wanting to kiss his lips, the ones she hadn't kissed in a while but right when they were about to kiss, the lights turned back on and the siren stopped. They parted and got up from their seating positions and got out of the closet.

" So..." Sasuke stated while staring at Sakura who seemed to have calmed down after the lights came back on.

" I guess you should go back home to you parents." Sakura said with a smile on her face.

" But I-" Sasuke was then interupted when Sakura quickly placed her lips on top of his but when he was about to kiss back, she pulled apart and smiled back at him.

" Goodnight Sasuke, I'm tired and we can talk more about our past another time." Sakura said as she took his hand and walked him over to the front door and opened it up for him.

" Hn... goodnight my blossom." Sasuke whispered out then leaned down and kissed her on her forehead before leaving, having Sakura closing the door behind her.

I hope you guys liked this chapter I thought it seemed a little bit rushed but oh well. Review time :0