title: on his feet
author: shinigami to tenshi/reviee
rating: T
prompt: #25: strangers
summary: SasuSaku. AU. Sasuke thinks that buying her a copy of American Psycho will get him her number. Maybe he's right.
a/n: this is kind of a prequel to chapter 8: fallen. I finally got inspiration to write fanfic again! Also I met Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt AND THEY ARE SO NICE AND CUTE. Omfg they're the cutest married couple ever! OK ANYWAYS, ya so idk I got inspired cause I was at Otakuthon yesterday. LOL
I walked through the aisles of books. I passed the recommendations shelf, the authors A to C and finally ended up in authors D to F. My fingers glided past the spines of the books, underlining the name of the author. I read the name silently. I was looking for Ellis.
I stopped. My heart almost leapt out of my chest. I almost ran into this guy, who I didn't see standing there. Hey, he looks pretty decent, I smiled to myself. I went back to looking for my book. I continued mouthing the author's name when I spotted Ellis. I smiled and reached for the book when my hand collided with another hand.
My hand stilled and I turned to look at the owner of the hand. Shit, he's hot. The guy I almost ran into earlier was reaching for the same copy—might I say the only copy—of American Psycho. Without a word, he reached passed my hand and took the book. Before I could yell at him for being rude and not considering that maybe I needed the book more than him, he held the book out to me.
"Do you want it?" he asked nonchalantly, stuffing his other hand into his left pocket.
I blinked. "Uh, don't you want it?"
He stayed silent for a few moments. He didn't look like he was contemplating an answer, so I just stood there staring at him. "I need it for a book report," he finally told me, "but you can have it."
"You're doing a book report on American Psycho too?" I asked incredulously. Really, what are the chances?
"Are you?" he looked at me. He's really hot. Mmm.
I nodded. "Yeah, I thought it'd be a good book to talk about in a book report. Deals with controversial topics but has some good themes."
"Have you read it?"
I shook my head and smiled sheepishly. "I watched the movie. I know, I know! The book is better, blah, blah, blah! But I thought American Psycho was just some stupid slasher film when I saw it!"
"I haven't seen the movie."
"Do you know anything about American Psycho?" I asked, raising my eyebrow.
He smirked. "I know it's a controversial book that's good for my book report."
"I see," I grinned at him. "When's yours due?"
"Next month,"
"Me too!" I exclaimed. "What day?"
"On the twelfth,"
I sighed. "Mine's due on the nineteenth. I thought one of us could read it and then pass it to the other. But it's only a week apart."
"I read fast." He took out his phone and handed it to me. I stared at it. He sighed. "Your number," he explained, "so I could pass it to you?"
I hesitantly took the phone from his hands. "Oh," I added my name and number to his contacts. After, I sent a text message to myself so that I could save his number on my phone.
"You sure you'll get it to me on time?" I asked, passing him back his phone. "I don't read very quickly,"
He nodded. "It'll be fine."
I was back at the apartment I shared with Ino and Karin. I took out my phone to ask Ino to buy some milk when I noticed the mail icon on the top of the screen. It was the guy at the bookstore's number. I was about to add him when I realized I never asked for his name.
To: American Psycho
From: Haruno Sakura
Hey, it's the girl from the bookstore. I realized I never found out your name.
I nervously pressed send. He wouldn't think I was coming onto him, right? I just wanted a name. That's perfectly normal. And if he wanted to share books, then he must not be annoyed with me. I went to the kitchen to pour myself a cup of raspberry lemonade. I heard my phone buzzing on the counter. My heart skipped a beat. Was it him?
Just then, I heard the door open. I grabbed my phone and walked over to greet whoever walked in. It was Ino. I cursed out loud.
"What's the matter with you?" She inquired, shooting me a weird look while she set her bag on the sofa.
I ran a hand through my hair. "I was supposed to text you to get milk but then I, uh, got distracted."
"By what?"
We walked over to the kitchen, where I set down my phone and took my lemonade. "Okay, so," I grinned at her. "I met this guy at a book store this afternoon. We both reached for the same copy of American Psycho and then stuff happened and he asked for my number."
"Was he hot?" Ino asked, smiling at her best friend.
I nodded furiously. "He was really hot. Insanely, insanely hot!"
My best friend, in her typical Ino fashion, squealed. "So did he say he was going to call you?"
"Well," I rubbed the back of my neck, "there was only one copy of American Psycho so he suggested we share it. We're both using it for our book reports."
Ino began to walk away. "Saks, you're really lame!"
I laughed and turned back to the counter. I saw my phone and realized that American Psycho guy had texted me back!
To: Haruno Sakura
From: American Psycho
Uchiha Sasuke. What's yours?
I laughed. He had my name programmed into his phone. It probably popped up when I texted him. Surely he was joking. I quickly pressed 'reply' and started typing away.
To: American Psycho
From: Haruno Sakura
It's programmed into your phone, silly!
I stuck the phone in my pocket and grabbed my glass of lemonade. I went to watch TV to keep my mind off of Sasuke. I tend to obsess over the time it takes hot guys to text me back. An it's not even like I'm desperate or anything. I just do.
Luckily, Sasuke seemed to be good at replying. I abhorred waiting for people to text me back.
I flipped through the channels. There was nothing really on at four in the afternoon. I sighed and just left it on the food channel. Cooking was always good to watch. Food, yum.
My phone buzzed.
To: Haruno Sakura
From: American Psycho
I'm being polite.
I smiled at his text and quickly started typing up a reply. I heard the sound of sizzling and looked up. There was a delicious looking piece of chicken being grilled on screen. My mouth watered.
"Hey Ino!" I yelled. "What are we having for dinner tonight?"
"I don't know!" she yelled back. "Knock yourself out! Karin's out with Suigetsu for the night!"
To: American Psycho
From: Haruno Sakura
Are you always such a gentleman?
When he texted me back, I realized this conversation wasn't going to end soon. When I was laying in bed and I was waiting for my phone to buzz, I was happy. I was having great conversations via text to the hottest guy I have ever laid eyes on. He was smart and nice albeit a bit unnecessarily sarcastic, but overall he was nice.
When I realized I couldn't wait to see him again, I became so glad that I decided to go get my copy of American Psycho today at three o'clock in the afternoon in that particular bookstore.
a/n: it's probably full of mistakes. also, I am totally tempted to make this into a whole series. I really like this world. LOL let me know what you guys think! and, yes I've read American Psycho and watched the movie. do not recommend for weak stomachs (the book) but it's interesting! IM NOT CRAZY!