Unpredicted Romance

Summary: AU. Love is unforeseen. She was asked by Sasuke to pretend as if she is his girlfriend so Sakura, his arranged fiancée, would leave him alone. However, everything unexpected has happened.

Chapter 11: Truth Does Hurt

She had to apologize.

After the night in the Love Hotel, he barely talked to her. He must felt offended to what she'd done. She swore, she didn't mean to go that far. It was not her intention, really. She'd never thought that he would get hurt, nor she had never thought that he would not talk to her after that.

So, as a result, she promised to herself that when Monday came, she would apologize to him. And today was… Monday. Maybe apologizing was the best way to start the week.

Just as she thought, Sasuke didn't wait for her at the parking lot like he always did. Now, she felt really bad. She heaved a sigh and walked towards that school building, alone.

This was not really usual for her. Why did she feel really sad when he did not call last night and the other night before he went to sleep? He always did that – he had to do that. Since day one (the first time they started pretending), he'd called her every night – no matter what he was doing.

Ugh, why do I feel so weird? She asked herself as she stomped her feet. This is so not me.

Maybe she'd just gotten used to it. Maybe he was just spoiling her a little too much. Or maybe, she missed him even though it was just two days ago since they went to the festival together.

She entered the school building and looked for him right away, this feeling was killing her. She didn't remember when was the last time she had this feeling, was it because she felt guilty, or was she missing him? Maybe both, but she could care less about this feeling. She just needed to say 'sorry' as soon as possible.

She heard his voice not so far away from each other – bingo! She didn't have to look for him and waste for more energy. When she heard his voice, she headed to the direction where his voice was coming. As she'd gotten closer she heard another voice- a girl's voice. She hid behind the wall and listened intimately. As she listened closely to Sasuke and the girl's conversation, she'd recognized who owned this girl's voice.

Temari.

She was about to walk through the door to drag Sasuke away from her when she heard what was their interesting topic was about.

"Have you told Ino yet?" she heard Temari asked Sasuke. She wondered why she was in the conversation in the first place. This must be important.

What does this bitch mean? Ino asked herself as she listened closer. As long as she remembered Sasuke didn't tell her anything significant; that was why she waited for his response. However, he did not reply at all. This had to be bad.

"So you did not, huh?" said Temari to Sasuke. Ino didn't know what was going on, what were they talking about? This was wrong.

Is he keeping anything from me that I should know? She asked herself again as the bad feeling she had a little earlier had gotten a lot worse.

She heard Temari's voice again, "Why did you not tell her? Are you that scared that she'll leave you behind just like that and run to Shikamaru if you'd tell her?"

Ino bit her lips and the tears were forming in her eyes. And then she heard Sasuke's answer and this broke her heart a lot more, "That's right. I could not tell her because I… I am scared that I might lose her if I ever told her."

Ino suddenly could not hold her feeling any longer and walked in the room the two were already in. Both of them were shocked and Sasuke was afraid. He felt like that she heard everything and this would cause her heartbreak. And he would not like to see her hurt.

"Wh-Wha-What are you… you two talking about?" Ino finally found the words to spit. "S-Sasuke, w-what is it?"

"I'm selfish and I hurt you," he admitted as he bowed his head. This was the first time she saw Sasuke cry, she did not expect this. "I apologize."

"What did you do?" she inquired him, and she was very nervous to what he was about to say.

"I kept to you something that you should know," his jaw was shaking but still had managed to talk straight. "And I have no excuse."

"What is it?" she repeated her question, but now, she was much more anxious to what he'd say. "Tell me."

"When we were in Okinawa," he started as he focused his gaze on his feet, "Temari and I had a conversation…"

"W-When w-was t-that?" her heart was thumping crazily that she stammered. What would he say? Why did she feel that she'd get hurt if he ever told her this?

"When I went to the room you were supposed to share with her to get your things," he answered right away, but he still could not look her in the eyes. "We talked… and we had an agreement."

"C-Continue…" she could have sworn that her heart was beating faster and faster.

"She told me the truth about her relationship with Nara," he paused for a second. "I was supposed to tell you that they were never together and the incident you saw while you were still dating him was a big misunderstanding… "

"H-Huh?" she was confused, she saw her ex screwing Temari with her very own eyes. "I-I don't understand!"

"Temari wanted to tell you the truth after she talked to me," Sasuke said. "But I told her not to; I said I would do it, but I just couldn't tell you."

"I bumped to Shikamaru in a party of a friend and he was drunk," Temari said, she clenched her fists as the tears started falling down from her eyes. "He could not drive, so I drove him home… and I took advantage of him being drunk… I told him I was you."

Ino wanted to bitch-slap Temari but her whole body froze. The guy she'd always loved had been so faithful to him? How long had she cried thinking that he cheated on her?

"He loves you, Ino," Temari continued. "He never looked at me as he did to you; I am sorry."

Ino bit her lips again, and why did Sasuke not tell her about that if he knew all along? She thought they were friends! Why would he hide something so important from her?

"Why did you do that for?" Ino looked at Sasuke as soon as she recovered from the shock. "We were friends, weren't we?"

For the first time, he looked at her. Were friends? Why was it past tense? "You heard me; I didn't want to lose you."

"I could not believe that all you thought of was yourself," Ino told him, she was hurt. She couldn't believe that the guy whom she trusted hid something from her. "You didn't want me to become happy, did you?"

Ino took off the engagement ring and dropped it on the floor. "You are the worst jerk I've encountered so far."

She walked away slowly from them as she wiped her tears.

-

And after that incident, he didn't see Ino for the rest of the day. Sasuke was worried, but he still didn't have guts to look for her and face her after he'd done. He felt horrible, and the news that the wedding was off was all over the campus.

He lay on his bed and there was nothing in his mind but her. The way he saw her crying earlier made him feel worse about himself.

The door opened and it revealed his mom, "Dear, do you want to tell me what happened?"

"Just like what you heard, the wedding is off," he said, his mom could see the sadness in his eyes. His mom walked into his bed and sat on it. "But don't ask why it is off. I hurt her, mom."

"Did you try to fix it?" she asked, concerned.

"There's no way she'd forgive me," he sat up. "I hurt her way too much, I was so selfish."

"How did you know that, dear?" his mom touched his cheek, she used to do this when he was young. "Ino loves you; I know she'll be forgiving you someday."

"I don't know, mom."

"Do you love her?" she stared at his eyes, and she saw hesitation. He didn't know how he'd answer her, they'd been just pretending after all.

"I just don't want to lose her," he answered truthfully. "I really don't."

"You do love her," his mom smiled genuinely. "And you must tell her that."

-

The next day, he was looking for her, maybe his mom was right. He thought of this all night; he realized that he didn't want her to know that Shikamaru was still in love with her because he didn't want her to be with Nara – he just wanted her to be with himself and nobody else.

Ino was nowhere in sight. And then he saw Tenten passing down the hall; she and Ino were pretty close, maybe she had an idea where he could find her.

"Hey," Sasuke grabbed Tenten's arm. "Do you have an idea where Ino is?"

"Why should I tell you?" Tenten arched her brow and jerked her arm. "You hurt my friend!"

"I did," he divulged with shame. "That's why I have to go see her to tell her -"

"She's gone," Tenten cut him off; even if she didn't want to tell him, she couldn't help it when she saw how determined he was to find her. "She went somewhere far…"

"Where?!"

"You should not come after her," Tenten pointed out. "She's with Shikamaru now; and she told me the real thing between you guys – that you guys were never really together."

He was speechless. With Shikamaru? She sure did not waste any time to get back with her ex. He felt his heart throbbed and his organs inside his stomach tore up into pieces.

"Do you love her for real?" Tenten questioned, his eyes were full of sadness and even though he didn't answer, she knew that he indeed loved her.

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A/N: OMG. I updated, after a hell of a long time. Happy Easter to everyone! I could just update because it's spring break and I have time to update my story. I am so sorry if you are disappointed to me because it took me like four months to update this story. I feel bad and people were kept on messaging me to update this story. So sorry and thank you so much. Take care, everyone. Oh, and this will not become ShikaIno. And expect the unexpected.