As expected, Sasuke was not satisfied on her answers and said that he will definitely learn about this new person in her life and Sakura just smiled at this as if saying 'go on, try it'.
Finally, alone, she went to her room with the intention of doing the first spell to make 'him' notice her. According to the book, she needs a clean white paper, a pen, some coconut oil and a candle. The spell was easy enough. All she needs to do is to write his name a hundred times with only the candle lighting her while reciting the spell that was also written in the book. After that, she needs to pour three drops of coconut oil in it then fold it three times before she puts it under her pillow. Right, that was easy the only problem is that she needs to repeat that process every night until her loved one makes a move on her.
After doing her first spell on that first night, she thinks about how crazy this love of her is. Is she that desperate or that bored? She cannot decide. Or maybe she was lonely. She will be nineteen next March and she still not yet experienced the joys and troubles of first relationship while Ino already forgot about her first and already now on her fifth boyfriend. That was not fair. And with those thoughts in mind, she finally fell asleep.
0
After five nights of doing that spell, nothing was happening. Not even a sign. And Sakura was getting depressed. That night, after her hospital work, she went to visit Sasuke. She brought dinner this time.
When she reached his apartment, he was not yet home so she used her key to his apartment. When Sasuke first got this apartment, she took his spare key. When he asked why she wanted it, she said that until she has a girlfriend she would be the one who has the rights to go in and out in his apartment. He does not give it much thought because he also demanded to have a key to her place.
Once she was in, she turned on the lights and his laptop resting on his coffee table before setting the dinner she bought. While waiting for him she decided to logged in the chat room where she knew most of her friends are also currently in. And after exactly ten seconds, she already got an instant message from Ino. They chatted for about another ten minutes before Sasuke came in.
Sasuke found her in his sofa with her feet up and his laptop above his throw pillow then he noticed the take out foods in his table that made him smile a bit.
"What are you doing here?" he asked her as he sits in the armrest of his sofa to look on what she was doing and he learned that she was just chatting.
"I brought dinner." she answered smiling.
"Come on let's eat." he said.
Sakura told Ino that she would eat first because Sasuke finally showed up. Ino answered back, saying that since she was always with him why doesn▓t she marry him already that made her laugh before she went to join Sasuke for dinner.
"What's funny?"
"Ino told me I should marry you since I'm always here. I'm not always here am I?"
"Not always."
Sakura took a deep breath, a sign that she was thinking about something else.
"What is it?"
"You really knew me huh? That's why I really love you." she said giving him a sly smile.
"Yeah, yeah, come on what is it?"
At this, she pouts. "It▓s been five days Sasuke-kun. Five days! And nothing's happening."
"About your stupid spell?"
"Its not stupid." and then she pouts more. "My fingers are getting numb from writing his name every night and yet nothing's happening."
"What are you actually doing?"
She took the book out from her bag and flips its pages until it opens to the spell she is currently doing and then she presented it to him.
After reading it he asked, "You're doing this every night? Are you stupid? Even Naruto will know this is pure crap."
"Don't say that. You obviously haven't been in love."
"I wouldn't do this kind of crap."
"And what will you do?"
"Simple, I will act on it, if she loves me back, great but if she doesn't its her los."
"Again, you are so full of yourself." and then she made this expression as if she wanted to cry from her depression.
Seeing this, Sasuke sighed. "Alright, maybe this is not the right spell for you. Go try the next one."
Sakura's expression lightens up. "Maybe you're right. I will try the next one." Then she took the book to study the next spell.
"Is his name that long? Enough to make your fingers numb from writing it?"
"Hmmm ... not that long, but you see I have to write it a hundred times. Every night! I guess love really hurts."
"And you're willing to do that for him. Tell me his name."
"Good try. I told you not yet. It is not as if I am in love with Naruto or Kakashi -sensei. ... On second thought, why haven't I fallen in love with Kakashi-sensei? He's smart, responsible and I really believe he's very attractive that's why he wears a mask all the time."
"Sakura can you even hear yourself?"
"What's wrong with what I said?"
"He's twice your age and he's a pervert."
"I think that will only make him an exciting love partner don't you think?"
She looked at him and when she noticed that Sasuke was serious in disagreeing in her liking their former sensei she laughed a little and said, "I was just kidding. So maybe Naruto?" she asked still teasing him.
"Sakura ..."
"Alright, alright."
By this time they were finished eating dinner and Sasuke began clearing out his table and Sakura went back to chat more with her friends.
When he came back, he took out a book he has been meaning to read for the past week before he sat next to Sakura on his huge couch with Sakura's back on his side. After some time, Sakura got tired from her position so she got some pillows and place it on Sasuke's lap. She placed her head above that pillow before she arranged the laptop on her abdomen area.
After almost an hour, Sakura turned off the computer and placed it gently where she found it earlier. Sasuke closed his book examining her. "Why don't you spend the night?" he asked.
Sakura turned to him. "Can I?"
"Sure." He stood up. "Let me get you something to change into."
"Thanks Sasuke-kun!"
0
The following morning Sakura was on her way to drop by the flower shop that Ino's family owned. She wanted to invite her to join her on some shopping because she needs to buy a gift for Sasuke's mom. The birthday dinner will be tomorrow night. When she told her she needs to do some shopping Ino volunteers to accompany her so she did not need to ask her.
After more than an hour of walking around Konoha's shopping district, the two felt they needed some rest. Sakura was having a hard time deciding on what to get her since the lady celebrating her birthday practically has everything she could ever wanted that makes the gift shopping for her really hard.
"Why don't you get her that gorgeous hair ornament? I think it▓s pretty rare." Ino suggested while they were having some iced tea at some famous fast food chain in that area.
"Ino, she has like a million of those." Sakura answered rolling her eyes at her.
"Okay, what do you think she really wants?"
"That's easy. She wanted for Itachi to marry so she can already have a grandchild and for Sasuke to have a girlfriend because she thinks his youngest son needs to have a serious relationship like right now." said Sakura in a sarcastic tone.
"Then problem solved. All you need to do is tell her that you will marry Itachi then have his child later or you can tell her that you and Sasuke are already doing the 'nasty-nasty'."
"What's a 'nasty-nasty'?"
"You really want me to explain?"
"Oh forget it. I can't do what you said, they're not even true."
"But you want it to be true?"
Sakura did not give any answer. She heard that Itachi was dating different girls for like every month. She really wonders if Kakashi taught him all about those perversions because those two are like best friends of some sort. Moreover, they are both having different girlfriends whenever she asked how their love lives are going. With that thought in mind, she considered asking Kakashi or even Itachi to influence Sasuke a bit on that area. of course not that much because she would hate to see Sasuke screwing every other female in their village.
"You know Sakura, even though you told me a million times before that you're over with Sasuke or that what you felt before for him was just a silly childhood crush, I still think you have deep feelings for him. That's why you don't have a boyfriend 'til now."
"That's not true. For your info, soon I will introduce to you my very first boyfriend."
"Don't bother, I already knew him."
"Really? I haven't told anyone about him yet."
"Sakura trust me, even if you have this other guy on your mind right now, Sasuke won't allow him near you."
"Ino, that's not true. Sasuke already knew about him and he's actually sort of supporting me on this one."
Ino laughed. "Right, because he and that 'guy' are the same person."
"I don't want to argue about that anymore. We still need to do some shopping."
0
That afternoon Itachi went to visit Sakura on her office at the hospital. He wanted to remind her about the dinner party tomorrow night, besides he was actually bored at the Anbu headquarters writing some reports of some finished missions.
"Hey Itachi, what brings you here?" Sakura greeted him.
"Can't I go visit my favorite person in the world?"
"Alright, tell what is it?"
"What? I'm serious here. You're hurting my feelings." Itachi faked a hurt expression.
Itachi went to sit on the chair near her window.
"I wanted to remind you about mom's birthday dinner tomorrow."
"Like I would forget that."
"You practically lived in our house when you were younger."
"I do not! Besides, it▓s not my fault your mom loves me too much."
Itachi chuckled at this and then he took out his phone to compose a text message.
"What, you need to report to your current girlfriend?"
"Is my Sakura jealous?"
"I swear you and Sasuke are both so full of yourself!. The world has a lot of other men you know."
"Admit it, you love us too much." Itachi stood up to face her but now very serious. "Sakura you need to choose between me and Sasuke. You can't have us waiting forever."
Sakura suddenly felt her cheeks redden and for a moment, she cannot seem to meet his eyes.
When Itachi turned to leave her mentioned about something like she should think about it and then he laughed as if really amused at the situation.
Sakura grabbed a book on her table to throw it at Itachi but he easily dodged it.
"For the last time, I'm not in love with you or your brother!" Sakura shouted at him thinking she really needs to have a boyfriend. That second spell would better be working.
0
a/n: Thanks again for reading and this chapter is for Bens▓ Wife for giving me the first review for this story. Thanks.!