Querencia
Chapter Six
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Throwing her pen onto the table, Sakura sighed heavily. Deciding that that was going to be the extent of her studying for the night, she grabbed her phone and jumped onto her bed, scrolling through all of the notifications she had gotten in the past couple hours. As if he knew that she was taking a break, a new message from Sasuke popped up on her phone. Smiling, she hastily opened it.
'Come outside. Bring a jacket.' Confused by his sudden command, Sakura took a glance outside her bedroom window. And lo and behold, there standing in her driveway, was none other than Sasuke himself.
She could barely contain the smile that appeared on her lips at the sight of him.
Quickly sending him a text, she dashed out of her room, not before reaching for a random hoodie laying on her floor per his request. As she passed by the kitchen, Sakura shouted to her mom, "I'm going out with Sasuke for a little bit. I'll be back soon!"
Not too concerned about her daughter's spontaneous night outing, Mebuki shouted back and laughed, "Take your time! You've been studying too long. About time that Sasuke pulled you away from those books."
Her mother's words were lost to the wind once she stepped out of the house and locked the door behind her.
As she walked up to Sasuke, he gave her a soft smirk and pointed at his watch, "2 mins and 12 seconds. Not bad."
"Oh, whatever." She replied, sticking her tongue out childishly at him. "Alright, mister, what could possibly so important for you to come here this late on a school night to tell me?"
Keeping silent, Sasuke simply twirl something around on his index finger. It was black and silver, that was about as much as Sakura got from merely glancing on it. When she gave him a weird look, inwardly saying that he was crazy, he rolled his eyes and tossed the object to her. As she opened her palm, she found a set of keys staring back at her.
Shocked, she gave Sasuke a quick look before placing all of her attention onto the sleek, black car sitting in her driveway. Mouth gaping open, she whirled around and tackled her best friend into a tight hug. "Oh my gosh, Sasuke! You did it!"
"What, you think I was going to fail?" Sasuke couldn't help but chuckle at her child like reaction. Returning her hug, he allowed her to do as she pleased and blabber non stop about the whole ordeal, making it a bigger deal than it really was.
Releasing him from her hug, she looked at him eagerly, "Alright, the moment of truth." Clapping her hands excitedly, she placed her palms in front of her like a child, "Let me see that ID."
With a the corners of his lips lifted just slightly, he reached back into his pocket and pulled out his wallet. Following her wish, he placed his freshly new ID into the palm of her waiting hands.
"Aww, look at you being all handsome and stuff." Sakura cooed. She reached out and pinched his cheeks, giggling at his uncomfortable expression as she did so.
Taking back his ID, Sasuke walked over to the passenger side and opened the door for her. "Come on, I promised you a ride."
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In comparison to the day, the night held little traffic, just the occasional late night buses making their last stops or cars driving home from a night shift. Nothing but empty streets and the cold breeze combing through their hairs.
The moment that he had started driving, Sakura took it on herself to let the roof open up and wind the windows down so that the cool, damp forest around them could come in. Unlike the other times, he had had Sakura in the car, she decided not to play with the radio station this time. It was quiet, but it was comfortable. Him driving, and her looking out at the passing scenery; eyes closed and taking in the breath of fresh air.
And that was how they drove for a while.
They didn't really have anywhere to go, or anything on their mind. So, they drove late into the night, under the stars until they lost track of time.
Sasuke had decided to take the back road that wounded around the outskirts of the cities, full of twists and turns around blind bends at seemingly high speeds that he knew Sakura loved. She loved it when they drove fast, just merely kissing the speed limit. Before the both of them could drive, Sakura was always eager when Itachi had took them home from anything because unlike their parents, Itachi would give her the thrill she craved for.
His brother was always strict on the seat belt problem but other than that, he followed every and all requests that Sakura had. He would make jerky turns with the car or step on the gas pedal and cruise at eighty down the road just to make the pink haired girl laugh and scream at the top of her lungs in joy.
Now that he could drive, Sasuke figured it was his turn to keep the lovely girl right across from him happy and blissed out on the roads. But he wanted to do more than that. That's why, instead of continuing down the winding road, he took a soft turn to the left, driving through a deeply forested area to a certain spot.
Sakura didn't even know that they had stopped driving until Sasuke closed his door and opened hers. A little confused, Sakura followed him to the front of his car, where he had already began laying a small picnic blanket onto the hood of his car. She was left flabbergasted when he gave her a nod and patted the hood.
"You're kidding right?"
Sasuke simply shrugged. "If you're worried about it being dirty, I already laid down a blanket for you."
She couldn't help but laugh at his response. Out of all things, he's worried about. He's worried about that instead of the fact that he wanted her to take a seat on his precious car. Shaking her head, she smiled widely at him, "So, let me get this straight. You're allowing me, to take a seat on the hood of your brand spanking new precious baby?"
"Hn, you're the baby." He stated as he easily lifted her up and placed her on top of the blanket without another word. Laying right next to her, he allowed her to rest her head onto his arms so that it wasn't as uncomfortable as they gazed at the unclouded stars in the night sky.
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"How are you so lucky, Forehead?" Ino whined as she helped her best friend with all of the flowers that she had been gifted with. It was that time of year again where the cheerleading team had began selling flowers every so often to fundraise some money for their competitions. Ino had always envied Sakura during events like this. Sasuke would buy her everything and anything, whether she wanted it or not. Ino picked at a pink carnation from the locker and mumbled, "Why can't I have a Sasuke in my life too?"
At the sight of the blonde's fake tears, Sakura patted her on the back sympathetically. "I highly doubt that he bought all of these Ino."
"Of course he did! Look at the colors!" Ino retorted. Picking at a dark red carnation, she lectured Sakura on the meaning of it. "This means love and affection. The pink one is for gratitude. And white is for purity and luck."
Feeling a little more than flustered at all the feelings that Sasuke was indirectly sending to her, Sakura quickly retrieved the rest of the flowers, stammering, "T-they could have been from Lee too…"
"Everyone knows that Lee buys every girl he knows a flower, Forehead." Ino laughed. "Even I got one."
"Exactly," Sakura agreed suddenly. "See, I'm pretty sure ninety percent of it is from Lee."
"I said 'a flower,' Forehead. Singular. As in one flower. Not," Ino took a glance at her struggling to hold all of the carnations together in her arms, "a bouquet of them."
With her cheeks matching the hues of the carnations, Sakura mumbled quietly, "Can we just move to a different topic? Any gossip you want to relay?"
Ino couldn't help but throw her head back and laugh. She never knew her best friend could be so clueless on everything that was happening around her. Patting her on the back just as Sakura had done to her earlier, Ino said, "Girl, you're the gossip. What else is there for me to talk about when you're it."
Sakura shook her head, bumping her hip into Ino. "Now, that can't be true. I'm sure there's more gossip to talk about that doesn't revolve around me."
"Sadly, you're it." Ino replied. Placing a hand onto her forehead, Ino pretend to faint against Sakura, "You're so lucky to have Sasuke, girl. I heard he was going to take you shopping after school as his treat on your exams this past week. How romantic."
Hastily walking away from her embarrassing friend, Sakura shouted, "It's not that big of a deal, Ino."
"Oh, you know it is Forehead! Have fun on your date. Tell me the details later. I want it all!"
When Sakura looked up from the bouquet of carnations in her arms, she was surprised to see Sasuke already at his car, waiting for her. At the sight of him, she couldn't help but blush at the conversation that she just had with Ino. With hurried steps, she reached the passenger side and attempted to open the car's door without exchanging a single word with him. As if Sasuke had sensed her uneasiness, he didn't say anything and simply helped her into the car. And she was ever so thankful for that.
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"Which one should I get?" Sakura asked as she swatched another lipstick on his wrist.
Leaning against the makeup display case and his free hand stuffed into his pockets, Sasuke shrugged. He took a glance at the colors she had swatched, and said nonchalantly, "They look the same, Sakura."
"No, one is more of a pink nude and the other is a peachy nude."
He gave her a bored look and sighed. "Just get both."
Nodding in agreement with his suggestion, she happily tossed the two lip colors into her little makeup basket. And for the next two hours, that's how they spent their time in the makeup shop. Sakura would go around looking at products and then swatch them on his arm, while Sasuke occupied his time on his phone mindlessly, not really caring about the whole situation, except for making her happy.
By the time they had made it to the counter to check out, Sakura had filled the basket up quite significantly, but nothing too extreme and still in her budget. Smiling, she went to pull out her wallet when the total came up. As she handed the girl her card, she found a different, yet familiar black plastic card already in the girl's hands.
Whipping her head to the right, she punched Sasuke on the arm, gasping, "Sasuke! I was going to pay."
He took the card back from the cashier after the transaction was done, placed it back into his wallet, and shrugged, "And?"
"I was going to pay that's what!" Sakura exclaimed in the midst of accepting the shopping bag from the girl and bid her a quick goodbye before turning back to the conversation at hand. Pouting, she added, "I know you offered to take me shopping but that doesn't mean that you have to pay for it."
"Yes, I didn't have to." He nodded. "But I wanted to."
"But…,"
Reaching to carry the shopping bag in her hands, he said, "Just think of it as a treat for your exams." Then flicking her on the forehead, earning a cute squeal from the girl, Sasuke placed his palm out in front of her. "Give me your wallet."
"What? Why?" Despite not getting an answer in return, she handed him her wallet anyways. She watched as he opened it and flipped through it. Then suddenly catching on, she blurted out, "Hey, I don't have any cash to pay you back if that's what you're looking for. I only have credit cards."
"No, stupid." he replied drily as he slipped a gift card from the store that they just came from into one of the card slots. He handed it back and told her, "Use it next time you go shopping."
{A/N}: I had meant to upload this right at midnight but I was so tired. That's what 8am organic chem lectures and night shifts in the pharmacy does to you... But surprisingly, this chapter is twice as long as the last one! And sorry for any errors I missed.
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Thank you to: Multiple guest anons, LuminaJu, Shannon Rei D. Sumner, Emily da great, ILoveSxS, fanofthisfiction, and sasusakulover.