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A/N:I would like to thank those who read and reviewed the previous chapters, I'm glad that you are liking my story so far. I know that the last chapter was short, but this one is longer! I hope you like reading this chapter as much as I liked writing it.

Summary : When her brother died, Sakura Haruno, gave up the most important thing to her, music. That was until she met him. [SasuSaku [NaruHina [NejiTen

Chapter 8 – Two Hearts Beating Together

Sakura and Hinata were still waiting for Tenten beside the classroom's door, when they saw her running towards them. When she reached them, Hinata asked,

"So, did they agree to it?"

"Well, yes and no."

"What do you mean by yes and no?"

"I mean that everybody agreed apart from one."

"Who?"

"Sasuke."

Hinata looked at Tenten incredulous, clearly not believing what Tenten was saying, and then she said,

"Why didn't Sasuke agree to it?"

"I don't know, he said he had his own reasons. Listen Sakura, I'm really sorry about this, but you still have two options, answer his questions, even though I highly doubt that you will do that, or avoid him for the rest of the school year which will be quite a difficult task since we all nearly have the same time table. Maybe he won't ask you anything at all, you never know."

Sakura started contemplating what Tenten told her. She wasn't ready yet to reveal to someone the real reasons behind her decision to suddenly interrupt her musical career, it hurt her too much.

She didn't even want to consider the other option, which was avoiding Sasuke. How could she want to avoid him since all she wanted to do that morning was getting to know him. She suddenly started blushing at the thought of meeting Sasuke, and hoped that Hinata and Tenten hadn't noticed.

She blushed just at the idea of meeting him, what would she do when she really met him? Panic. She was in panic. What was wrong with her, she didn't like Sasuke that way, what she felt was just pure admiration, or at least that was what she was trying to convince herself of. That first encounter she had with him that very morning had affected her too much.

She started looking around praying that he wasn't anywhere to be seen. She needed a place were to calm herself a bit, somewhere private, and even though the corridor was not as crowded as it before, it still wasn't private enough. Then she asked Tenten,

"Tenten, can you please tell me where the bathroom is?"

"Yeah, sure. Go down the corridor, then turn on your right, then go down that corridor too, and then turn again but this time on your left. You can't be mistaken. Take your time, most probably Kakashi-sensei won't be here for the next 20 minutes or so."

"Thank you, Tenten."

Sakura started walking slowly towards the bathroom. When she was at the other end of the corridor, and turned on her right, seeing the corridor empty and that no one was in sight, she started running towards the bathroom, but when she was about to turn on her left, something unexpected happened that made her fall on her butt.

She had knocked into someone, who apparently had more balance than she had since she was the one who fell on her butt and she could tell that the other person was still standing.

When she started looking up so that she could apologize, since she was the one who was running, she noticed that it must have been a guy, since he was wearing a pair of trousers. When she finally reached his face, she froze.

She started to feel so many different emotions at the same time, happiness, confusion, surprise, shyness, embarrassment and love. Her heart was beating so fast that she thought it would explode, but the emotion that was prevailing on the others was embarrassment.

She could feel that her face was turning different shades of red and that she wasn't breathing normally at all, she was out of breath. She had knocked into Sasuke Uchiha.

Then something she didn't predict happened, he extended his hand to help her up. When she put her hand forward, to take his hand to be helped up and their hands touched, she also felt a sense of safeness. She was sure, that if something horrible would have happened in that moment, he would have protected her.

He suddenly pulled her up to him and she found herself held in his tight embrace. She knew that if another guy would have dared to do that, she would have slapped him right away, but being held in Sasuke's arms made her feel protected, the same sense of safeness that her brother used to provide her with before he died and she didn't want this sense of safeness to end.

She knew he could hear her heart beating uncontrollably, and she could also hear his heart beating, and to her surprise it was beating as fast as hers was. He was feeling the same emotions she was and that made her happy.

Immediately another feeling hit her like a stone, guilt. She couldn't feel happy, not when her brother, the brother whom she loved more than her life, had died because of her. She abruptly pulled away from Sasuke's tight embrace and without looking into his eyes she said,

"I'm sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going."

"You shouldn't be, after all you were the one who fell, did you get hurt?"

"No, I'm fine. Anyway, my name is Sakura Haruno, I'm new here."

"Yes, I know who you are. I immediately recognized you this morning when you came into the hall."

"You did?"

"Yes, how could I not recognize the person that indirectly helped me."

"I don't undertand..."

"You will someday. My name is Sasuke Uchiha."

"Yeah, I know who you are too, Tenten told me a lot about you and your band this morning."

"So, you didn't know who I was before this morning?"

"Not exactly. I heard you sing and without knowing I ended up in the theater. Then Tenten told me that you were Eclipse. My brother had told me about you guys a few months ago but with all the events that took place in my life lately I didn't have the time to check you out on the internet."

"I see."

"Now I must go, I have to head to the bathroom before class starts and I don't want to be late."

While talking to him, she never looked at him straight in the eyes, like she used to do while talking to someone, because every time she tried to look into his eyes, the emotions she felt for him emerged in full force and took over, so she just stared at the floor.

Sakura, once again, started walking towards the bathroom, in the mean time trying to compose herself, without looking back. She felt him staring at her, and then she turned around and said,

"By the way, you guys are great."

When she said that, he smirked at her and that made her blush even more. She turned around quickly, and continued to walk towards the bathroom. She was behaving like just any other fan girl and she couldn't believe it!

She wanted to know everything there is to know about him, about Sasuke Uchiha, the guy who had made her feel so many emotions at once. He was the only person who managed to make her feel happiness after her brother's death, twice that day. Now she was sure that what she felt for Sasuke was more than just admiration.

Sasuke watched Sakura as she headed towards the bathroom. He didn't expect to meet her like this. He knew from their very first encounter that morning, that there was a connection between them, but now he was sure of it because when he held her to him he could hear her heart beating and it was beating as fast as his was.

He was shocked when she pulled away but he couldn't blame her, they didn't know each other, they were complete strangers. All he knew of her was from the media, but still when he saw her on the floor his instinct told him to hold her because she needed to be held, and that's what he did. He pulled her to him and held her tight in his embrace until she pulled away. Even though she pulled away, he knew that in some way he had given her comfort with his embrace.

He didn't question her, for now, because he didn't want to ruin that special moment that occurred between them. A moment that he wanted to remember for the rest of his life. That's when he realized that Sakura was more to him than just a person whom he admired, he wanted Sakura, because he felt things for her that he had never felt for any other girl before.

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