"You" he says while his eyes widen, a sign that he does recognize me.
"You" I whisper back at him.
He eyes me suspiciously and I am drowning by his onyx eyes. Eyes that I remember very well and never seemed to forget.
"You? Do you two know each other?" Mikoto asks us as she raises her eyebrows.
"No, of course not mom. I was planning to say "You must be Sakura" before she interrupted me" he explains.
"Ah, right" Mikoto says while I yawn. "I think you need some rest, sweetie. It has been a long ride. Sasuke, will you show Sakura her room, please?" No, say no, please Sasuke say no.
"Hn. Just follow me." NO! My heart pounds on the way to my room. I know that the moment the door of my room closes, he will accuse me of a lot of things… And I am right.
"Did you know?" he nearly yells at me.
"No, of course not" I retort. "And would you please keep your voice down before everyone can hear us."
"I don't believe you" he says while he starts spacing in my room.
"Seriously?" I laugh bitterly. "You are accusing me? Well listen clearly, your parents never showed me a picture of you or Itachi and besides, aren't you the one who apparently changed his name into... How did you call yourself again?... Euh ah yeah Kenso" I retort at him, while putting my hands around my chest area, making me look a little bigger and braver.
"Don't act tough now, Sakura. You liked saying my name especially whe—"
"Stop" I interrupt him. "I don't want to talk about that right now."
"Well neither do I" he almost shouts at me. "This situation just is so fucked up."
"I know" I say when I sit down on my bed. "So can we just please forget about it and—"
"Oh, Sakura, I never even thought about it since that week. But now you had to pull a spell on my parents so that you're living with us now. You? The one person in the world I never thought of seeing again" he hisses at me.
"Geez, thanks. That makes me feel very welcome."
"Well don't ask me to treat you like a real sister or to pretend that I am your real brother."
"I don't want either of that" I almost shout at him. "I didn't ask for this! I like your parents, they are really nice, but if I could choose between living here or having my real mother and father alive, I would chose my real parents immediately." Tears are welling up in my eyes right before the person I swore months ago that I would never cry in front of. But I can't hold them back. Oh mother and father, I just wish you were here.
I hear him take in a deep breath after my little tirade and sigh loudly. "Just stay out of my way and I will leave you alone as well" he says before he leaves my room.
After Sasuke leaves my room, I stay in there for more than 2 hours, trying to catch some sleep but I rehear instead every word of our conversation earlier. He truly believes that I knew that he is the son of Mikoto and Fugaku. Argh what a jerk! It just makes me realize that the way people act towards you, can change dramatically. He used to be nice to me … very nice. And now he is acting like the jerk I never saw in him. I neither expected to meet him again, but hearing him say that I was the one person he never wanted to see again that freaking hurt me, as if I hadn't had enough pain to deal with in life… Tears stream down on my cheeks and onto my pillow. When is this going to stop? I thought that moving to Konoha was going to be a new start, but that isn't it at all. I cry silently as Mikoto opens my door.
"Sakura dinner is – Honey, what's wrong?!" Mikoto says when she sees the tears pouring down. "Did Sasuke say something wrong to you? You haven't been downstairs since you came to your room?" I shake my head, even though I want to tell her about his behavior but that would only lead to the revelation of what happened a few months ago. Mikoto sits down on my bed and softly brushes my hair with her fingers. How can someone nice as her have such a jerk of a son? "It's a lot to deal with huh, sweetie. Losing your parents and moving to Konoha." I nod. "I get that, sweetie. Do you want me to bring your dinner upstairs so that you can eat it here and adapt to your new home?" I nod again as she wipes my tears away with her thumbs and gives me a little peck on my cheek. "I will be right back, sweetie" she says as she leaves my room.
After I eat dinner in my room, I decide to shower quickly, put on my pajamas and go to bed. Today was a tiring and emotional day. Besides I want to forget about Sasuke and his attitude… But that man even haunts me down in my dreams.
I am sitting on a bench nearby the lake in Kusa, where the Young Generation Reunion takes place this year, when a nice and sexy voice catches my attention.
"Hey" says a very beautiful young man. He has onyx hair that's a few inches long and messy but his piercing eyes almost make me forgot all the bad things in this world. He must have noticed that I am almost gaping at him when I see a smirk appear on his face…
"Hi" I answer him shyly.
"May I?" he asks while pointing at the bench.
"Yeah, sure" I respond him way too fast. Oh fantastic, Sakura… You are so doing well with boys.
"Thanks" he says as he sits down. "Are you alone here?"
"No. Why do you ask?"
"Because you are sitting here all alone."
"My friends are at the party."
"You don't like to party?"
"I do, but I guess it was a little too noisy and crowded over there."
"Hn."
"Are you also running away from the noise?"
"No, from my fangirls" he sighs loudly.
I laugh at his reaction, but he doesn't think it's funny at all. "After a while they only annoy the shit out of you."
"What makes you think I am not one of your fangirls?" I blurt out at him. Oh shit… He turns his head and looks me right into my eyes. "Because if you were, you would have already asked my name, my phone number or tried to kiss me."
"Right" I say and I smile at him.
"You really aren't going to ask me, huh?"
"Ask you what?"
"My name and phone number."
"Euh—" BEEP BEEP "I'm sorry my friend is calling me." I stand up and walk towards the lake while answering the call.
"Hello."
"Sakura, where are you? We are worried about you." Temari says.
"I'm at the lake. I wanted to be outside for a while."
"Uhu, are you coming back to the party?"
"Yeah, sure. I'll be there in a minute" I say and finish the call.
"Are your friends worried about you?" I hear him say from behind me.
"Yes" I say and turn around, facing him. "I'm going back to the party."
"Good" he says as he stands up and walks towards me. "I'll go with you." Go with me? Euh…
"You really don't have to" I mutter.
"I don't mind. Besides it's getting cold out here." he says as he tries to warm up his hands. "Now shall we?" The moment he puts his hand at my back, an electric shiver runs through me. What the hell? How did that happen?
When we reach the party, we weave through the crowd searching for my friends. As I see Temari standing near a group of young men, I step out of the young man's reach so that she won't notice his hand at my back. I turn around to thank the young man for guiding me, but then a guy from the group near my friends shouts out at him.
"Hey Kenso, already found some chick?" A blonde hair young man asks him. Kenso? So that is his name.
Kenso smirks at him and says to me: "Apparently, my friends are standing with your friends. What a coincidence."
"Who is that hot man you brought with you, Sakura?" Temari asks me as she walks towards us.
"Hi, I'm Kenso" Sasuke says while slightly nodding at her.
"Kenso. Sexy name for such a hot guy. I'm Sakura's friend Temari, by the way."
"Sakura, huh? So that is your name?" He asks as he stares down at me and I nod.
"So, Sakura, do you want to dance?" Dance? You can ask me a lot of things but definitely not that.
"Euh I am not good at dancing" I whisper to him, hoping that his friends won't hear me. He laughs at me and sweet mother… He isn't only hot, he hasn't only the most sexy and husky voice I have ever heard, but the man has a smile that can probably melt every girl's knees in this room.
"Don't worry" he says. "I will take the lead and you just need to follow me." I turn around and look at Temari, trying to ask for some help because I'm scared to dance with such a hot guy but she shoves me more towards him. He reaches out for me and hooks his arm around my waist. And again an electric shiver runs down over my body. I'm confused because I never had experienced such a feeling and it makes me even more nervous to act normally around him. He walks us onto the dance floor and takes both my hands and put them on his shoulders. Then he put his hands at my hips and I almost melted because of the closeness of his body with mine. When he starts to dance I try to follow him, which isn't very difficult since he leads me like a pro on the dance floor. And god, I never felt so happy in my entire life as in this moment.
"Do you want to spend some time with me this weekend, Sakura?" he murmurs in my ear while we are still dancing.
"Yes!" I respond immediately and very enthusiastic which makes him smirk.
"Good. I will see you tomorrow at 1PM here at the bar" he says and kisses my hand tenderly before leaving me speechless on the dance floor. I think I'm smitten.
Can you already guess what happened between Sasuke and Sakura during that weekend? What did you think of this chapter? Please review. Until next time!