So here I am back with this lill chapter of mine...I would like to thank Becca721 and Dieinhappiness for following my story...Guys...you have no idea how grateful I'm to you...
Hope you like this as well...
Disclaimer:-I do not own Naruto but I so damn wish I did
At Sasuke's home after school 3:30 pm
"Hah! ...a girl asked me out...this is going to be easy" Sasuke said to himself flopping down on his bed.
At Sasuke's home after school 3:31 pm
Okay...Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, and breathe o-
So not helping...
"I can't believe this is happening to me."I yelled at myself pounding my hand on the pillow.
Suddenly my phone buzzed and I looked at the device with utmost disinterest. It was Naruto.
I was certainly not interested in talking to the Dobe at that particular moment but I answered the call nevertheless.
"He-"I began
"Dude... open this door...ASAP" It was Neji instead.
"Okay..."I said and opened the door only to reveal the faces of Neji and Shikamaru holding onto a struggling Blonde-haired Idiot.
All of a sudden Naruto broke loose of their grip and charged at me like a raging bull and tackled me to the floor.
"I'm soooo...happy for you Teme...you finally...asked her out."Naruto yelled like a sugar-high kid.
"Get off me..."I shouted and shoved him away.
"I did not ask her out..."I grumbled and then with a soft voice continued "She asked me out...instead...you know just to catch up with each other..."
The three looked at me with blank faces and then they all burst out laughing ...like maniacs.
My right eye twitched.
Here I am in the middle of a crisis...and THEY are laughing...GREAT!
"It's not funny..."I deadpanned
"Yes...it is..."Naruto said wiping his tears.
"Okay...now if you are done with it...GET OUT."I said smacking him on his head.
"Oh...come on...you're not supposed to be nervous."Shikamaru said lying flat on the bed...lazy as ever.
"I'm not nervous..." I lied.
"Oh...yeah right" Neji smirked sarcastically.
"Okay..I'm a tad bit nervous."I confessed half-heartedly.
"Whoa...It's easy dude..You walk to her..give her a hug and a smile ... tell her how much you missed her...turn on your charms man...it's not difficult..."Naruto said placing his arm around my neck.
"Says the guy... who fainted ...When Hinata was asked to hold your hand in the play last year."I smirked shrugging his hand off.
"It was because of weakness...I tell you...I hadn't eaten anything..." he said blushing and defending himself and failing miserably at the same time.
"I believe you..."Neji said placing his hand on his heart sarcastically.
"You ate 15 bowls of ramen that morning..."Shikamaru snapped.
"How do you know?"Naruto stated .
"I paid for it...Duh" Shikamaru said rolling his eyes.
"Guy's It's me...who's in the middle of a crisis...some attention here" I said waving my hands like a lunatic.
"Okay...step out of my way..." Neji scoffed shoving Naruto aside and standing exactly in front of me.
"Look here Sasuke...you are an Uchiha...you are the heir of the Uchiha clan...you're the prodigy...you are smart..."He said looking at me lavender eyes so sincere that I almost believed him.
"Dude you called me smart...and a prodigy" I said smirking in delight
"No...Assume it for now...And quit interrupting me..."Neji snapped.
"Hn.." I grunted...my friend's a born asshole
"She's just a girl...you are supposed to intimidate her...and not the other way round...you're born to do that...now turn on the fuckin charms of yours that go straight to her...and knock yourself out..."he said with so much flare in his voice that I got fuelled up.
Whatever he was doing...it was working..I was feeling less nervous
"Who're you..." he said...imitating Guy sensei's voice when at the beginning of every Basket-ball match to boost our confidence.
"A boy...a boy" Naruto squealed.
I shot him a 'I-KNOW-THAT-YOU'RE-AN-IDIOT-NO-NEED-TO-PROVE-IT' look
"He knows that stupid."Shikamaru said smacking him on his head ...again.
"Okay...now where were we...okay...WHO are you?"Neji said.
"An Uchiha..."I said.
"Who are you?"he repeated.
"An Uchiha..."I said pumping my fist in the air.
"Cool...now..give me an high-five.."He said and holding out his hand and I slapped my hand against his. My insides burning with determination...
"Okay..let's go.."Naruto said .
"Yeah..."I bellowed and headed to the door only to return seconds later.
My face white as sheet, "Hey..Uchiha what's wrong.."Shikamaru asked as I slumped onto my bean bag in utter mortification.
"Well...I don't know where she lives." I stated.
"What?" He exclaimed.
"I forgot to ask her...Damn" I said.
I Sasuke Uchiha am officially a complete and a total IDIOT...and a NUMBSKULL...and a NITWIT...
MY life is DOOMED...
At Sasuke's home after school 4:25 pm
"I've only half an hour left to find her house and maintain my dignity."I muttered.
Shikamaru was currently trying to revive an unconscious blonde-haired person who had fainted in exhilaration because he was talking to his crush for the first time on phone.
Neji was grumbling about... "Stupid oblivious person..."
And I was still freaking out.
Why...you may ask?
Because Naruto tried to call Hinata...and The Dobe...Stupid as he is blabbered some incoherent things like
Hello...H-Hina- chan...omfg...Hina-chan...I-I...Ramen..Address..H-Hin..
And he passed out...stupid Huh!
And basically Hinata passed out as well...she tends to do the stuff around Naruto.
So I ended up getting absolutely nothing about the address from Hinata.
That left Ino...well...Ino's phone was busy...for the past half an hour...so I gave up trying and the last was Tenten...
But a certain lavender eyed friend of mine refused to talk to her...Shikamaru was too lazy and had dozed off while trying to wake Naruto up.
And I could or rather would not ask her...cuz there was the HUGE male ego... was getting the better of me...
"Oh...come on...Tenten is your best friend...for god sake..."I whined.
"No I won't talk to her..."He said crossing his arms defiantly
"Okay...now you're forcing me..."I said and dialled her number.
A few second later
"Hello..."
"Hey Tenten..Neji was trying to ask you something..." I said and held the device out to my friend.
Neji looked completely mortified...
"Hello..Hello..Neji...you there...hello" Tenten said.
Neji had only two options first to run away which he couldn't or he knew he wouldn't escape my taunts from there on ...And that would hurt Tenten... something that he couldn't even dream of and the second was to be a Man and face it...a simple but effective plan.
He chose the latter.
5 minutes later
I was driving on top speed down the 5th Hokage street (a/n:- I made it...it's obvious...I didn't get a better name...XD) .
I turned around the corner and entered a small lane which connected the rich influential part Konoha to the not-so-rich part of Konoha. Finally I stopped my royal blue coloured Mercedes convertible in front of a certain apartment building.
This is it...
I made my way up the staircase to the topmost floor and knocked on the door and waited.
As soon as I did that all the previous excitement, panic, nervousness came back with a jolt. I felt weird, my stomach was flipping...I so damn wanted to puke.
A few seconds later the door opened slightly, all I could see was a dazzling green eye and it opened dramatically slowly to reveal the face a very...very pretty girl with pink hair .
My breath hitched when she casted me a small smile...
I was mesmerized...almost gaping like an idiot.
Boom...crackle...( a/n:- that did NOT sound like thunder...but it is anyway)
The sound sent a shiver down my spine and I landed back into reality with a thud.
It was going to rain...
I didn't mind getting wet but the thunder and the lightning terrified me.
"Hey Sasuke-kun...your finally here...come in.." she said pulling me inside.
The second I was inside her warm toasty house a feeling of security overcame me.I sighed and looked around.
I exaggerated it wasn't much of a house but only a one roomed apartment.
It was a bit messy with a small table next to the couch a table with a stove on it, two small cupboards and a mirror and a microwave on the same table ,a battered alarm clock next to the couch...and the rest of the room was all books of various sizes and thickness.
Sakura cleared her throat to announce that she was still in the house while I was practically staring at her stuff for the past five minutes.
"Umm...you can sit down I suppose."She chuckled pointing at the couch.
"Yeah...right" I nodded and flopped down on the couch.
"So...you had any problems while coming here?" she said sitting down cross-legged next to me.
"Umm... No."I lied.
"Liar..."She laughed again.
"Tenten told you...didn't she?"I said getting angry...traitor.
"No...She didn't...I guessed...cuz I realized I hadn't given you my address...totally my fault...I'm sorry." She said holding her ears.
"You're too smart for a seventeen year old..."I said. She gave me a crooked smile
"The same nerdy girl ...I'd known" I smirked.
"And you're the same ...Proud Uchiha...I'll never own up...kinda boy I'd known." she stated.
"Yups...some things never change..." I admitted and looked at her silence ensued between us the occasional thundering made me shudder lightly. I tried not to freak out in front of her but...even a stoic Uchiha like me had fears...
"Umm...there's so much to ask...and say...I do not know where to start." she suddenly said giggling.
"Okay let me begin."I offered.
"Cool." She said hugging her legs and resting her head on her knees.
She looked so adorable...
"Tell me everything from the moment you left." I said.
"You shooed me off..." she said her face darkening a bit.
She had to bring that up...damn...She had no idea how long I had tortured myself for doing that.
"I'm sorry...I mean ..."I began in my futile attempt of apologising...all that I had planned to say, the hour long speeches on how I'm a huge idiot...had all gone to waste. I couldn't bring myself to say anything ... I didn't even know if I could ever make it up to her. I felt as helpless as I had been that day. I just couldn't look at her.
"Sasuke...Sasuke..." she said shaking me.
I looked up at her expecting her to scold me and say stuff but that never came.
"You still are very bad at apologizing ..."she sighed.
"I'm so-..."I began again...trying to at least come up with a better and convincing apology but all off a sudden my mind turned blank. Sakura had hugged me...literally hugged me...
Did I ever mention that I had never ever...ever been hugged by a girl in the past 5 years?
I mean random fan girls had hugged me...obviously.
But this was different...I was caught somewhere between bliss and euphoria...I was totally numb...If I had the power I would've freezed the moment ... and would've stayed that way for the rest of my life. It felt like she was just made for my arms.
Only when I made up my mind to hug her back, she pulled away smiling.
"So...I'm forgiven." I asked like a complete dolt.
"Duh..." she said rolling her eyes.
I had never felt that light-hearted before. It was something like ...what a serial killer felt who had just been set free instead of a death-sentence.
"Okay...go on now.." I said still was inquisitive about her past 5 years.
"So after you shooed me away..My parents and I moved to Kento...which was a very awkward place..you know...people were so stuck up ...but then gradually I fit in there...but I was missing this place so much..I kept bugging them and tadaaa...I'm back..but mom and dad couldn't leave there jobs...so I had to come here alone...I came here a few days ago...so after settling in this fabulous apartment...I just tried to give it my own touch...the books and all you know...You know how I like reading..right...so I took a part-time job to support me...at the library...not that my parents know anything about it...cuz if they did... they'll call me back..."She said in one breath
"Woah...that was fast."I breathed.
Outside the thunder and lightning were doing there wonders, but it didn't seem to have any effect on me...for once.
"Cool...right...hungry..Need something...Wait a second" she said and darted to the cupboard and took out a jar and handed it to him and looked in her mini fridge for a bottle of coke or something.
Suddenly something caught my attention.
"Sakura...where do you sleep...you've got no bed."I said.
"I sleep on the couch." she answered simply without turning back.
"Oh..." I felt weird, she was sleeping on a couch where as I spent my days on a king size bed. I kind of felt bad for her.
If she could just have asked me, I would've given her my unlimited credit card without a second thought.
"I baked them yesterday..."she said, her voice bringing me back to my senses.
I opened the lid of the jar and a smell of chocolate filled the room.
"Cookies.."I said my lips quirking into a smile.
"Hmm.."she said and waited for me to taste them.
"You know..I'll end up swallowing them whole if you keep staring at me like that."I said taking one in my hand and shooting her a look.
"Fine..." she muttered and looked away.
I gave a brief chuckle at her kiddish behaviours and bit the cookie overloaded with chocolate chips...and memories flooded before my eyes again
FLASHBACK STARTS
The sky was overcast with clouds ever since the morning and I knew it would be raining soon. I was busy in my homework we had a test scheduled the next week. The door bell rang and I already knew who it was. My butler opened the door and in floated sweet sound.
"Hello...Kozuki sama...do you want a cookie?" she asked.
I was correct...It was Sakura.
"Thank you...Sakura..."My butler said.
I made my way to the front door there she was standing with a neon yellow Tiffin-box full of cookies.
Her eyes were fixed on the wrinkled face of my old butler who was chewing the cookie as if waiting for him to burst up in flame or something.
"How's it?" she asked her voice filled with uncertainty.
"Hmmm...they are very good...can I get another one." He smiled.
"Yeah...sure...sure." she smiled and held out her box eagerly and looked at me.
I nodded at her and motioned her to follow me. However before that she threw her nine year old arms around my butler's waist and gave him a tight hug "Thank you for tasting them." She murmured and followed me. I giggled at her antics, she was just too sweet for a nine year old. I sometimes felt quite jealous of her because she could win over a person within a few seconds.
A small smile and that was IT...the person was mesmerized.
"So you came over...to feed us your cookies." I smirked.
"Mmm Hmm..." she agreed nodding her head vigorously making her pink hair fall out of her hair band and fall on her forehead.
I stared at her ...she was looking so cute...
A weird feeling settled at the bottom of my stomach.
I shrugged it off as something to do with the pizza the Dobe made me eat at school.
We walked to my room she was going on about how she made the cookies, but I couldn't concentrate .Outside it had started raining with occasional thunders and lightening I quickened my pace. I wanted to get back to my room as soon as possible.
Thunders made me feel nervous.
"Wait...I need to give your mother and Itachi-san cookies." she said and knocked on the big door of my mother's study.
I went on my way that was in the end of the corridor. I sighed and cursed my luck.
It was thundering outside...and Sakura was in my house...
I had never told her that I hated thunder...Nobody knew this side of me.
I was good at hiding my weaknesses.
I looked out of my window rain came lashing down and my white curtain was bellowing in the wind. Every few minutes the sky lit up.I decided that it would be better to concentrate on my homework.
I could make out Sakura's voice raising an octave higher as the thunder grew louder.
"Hello...Itachi-san...will you have a COOOKKKIIIEEE..."she said.
Fancy giving my brother a cookie...he was actually a bit scary...he gave me chills but Sakura adored him for some unfathomable reason.
THUD...my head whipped in the direction of the noise. My table calendar had been blown down by the wind. I sighed and got off the bed to pick it up. I placed it back on the table and as soon as I turned to close the window
CRASH...
My room was plunged in total darkness. I could hear my mother's voice. "Everyone stays where they are...I don't want you all to bump into my furniture...and get hurt".
I turned to the window to close it down and basically shut out the noise.
"S-Sasuke k-kun" Sakura said coming into the room. I reached out to get hold of the shutters
Boom...crash...
There was a blinding white light and a deafening noise my heart skipped several beats and I stumbled back to the floor, I was totally freaked out. My mind went numb.
It sounded too close.
I could feel my heart beating louder and louder. I closed my eyes to escape it all.
I was scared.
"Sasuke?" came a voice.
I could hear the sounds of hurried footsteps close by and the clicking of the window being shut.
"Are you okay?" she asked again her voice a bit frantic.
"I'm...f..ine" I said however my voice cracked on the letter FINE.
Shit
BOOM
Another crash of thunder and another bolt of brilliant lightning illuminated the sky.
An involuntary shudder ran down my body.
"You're afraid of thunder storms."She simply stated.
Damn.
That was the kind of thing I was actually afraid of, getting caught so vulnerable . It was just some kind of a nightmare to me.
I could feel Something like hurt pride. Embarrassment. Humiliation.
In the time I was pondering about my current state of mind when I felt two arms wrapping around me.
Sakura was hugging me...rather consoling me GREAT.
I wanted to push her back and say something but like. Uchiha's are not weak or something. But I just couldn't make myself do that. Her head nestled in the crook of my neck.
Somehow it made me feel safe...warm...
I liked it all...a lot...
"It's okay." she murmured, pulling me closer to herself and rubbing my back.
My heartbeat was fast as it was being chased...I didn't know whether it was due to the thunder or the hug.
I had never been hugged by a girl before.
I could heat pooling under my cheeks and to make it all worse the electricity decided to show itself. Blinding light filled my room.I flinched away from her opening my eyes slowly so as to help adjust them to the emerald orbs met mine.
There I was sitting in front a girl...scared...with my weakness exposed...Blushing like crazy because the said girl had hugged me...
I Sasuke Uchiha was E.M.B.A.R.R.A.S.S.E.D.
I hastily looked at the floor.I knew what was coming , she being a girl would mock him , blackmail him , and make this incident public to the rest of the world.I sighed ready to accept my fate.
I waited and waited and waited...
"Maybe she won't tell on me..."I thought gleefully and looked at her.
She broke into a smile and began "Sasuke-kun.."
"Shit...I was wrong.."I thought and buckled myself for the next sentence.
"Do you want a cookie?" she asked holding out her box.
I sweat dropped...that was WEIRD.
"Umm...O-okay." I said taking one and taking a bite.
"You...know...chocolate comforts me when I'm scared." She said simply eating one herself.
I swallowed the rest of the cookie in my mouth without chewing.
She saw me doing it. "You should...chew it okay...what's wrong?" she asked.
"Look I'm not scared of thunder storms."I lied managing to keep a calm confident voice.
She first frowned and then she smiled and finally broke into laughter.
I was literally confused "Was I that bad at lying?" I thought.
"You're scarce that I would go about announcing this aren't you?" she said inching toward me , so close that our knees touched.
"Umm...Yes...I'm sure you will...you're a girl."I stated.
She frowned again "That's just so mean...okay...I will NEVER tell on you Sasuke-kun...You are my best friend, you know everyone one has something that they're scared of, that dosen't make you weak." She said placing her hand on my shoulders.
"Umm...Uh.."I still didn't have any idea what to say.
"Trust me..." she said eyes locked with mine.
I sighed. "Okay...now if you still have doubts...I know your secret...you deserve to know mine..I'm scared of darkness, closed rooms and spiders...and yes ants..and broccoli...yuck I hate it..It gives me nightma- " but she couldn't continue cuz I was laughing hard at her confession.
God she was adorable.
"Sasuke-kun now you want a cookie?" she said and I took the rest of her sweet treats eventually.
FLASHBACK ENDS
"So how's it?" she asked bringing me back to reality.
"It's good."I said and she smiled smugly at me. Her smile made heat rush to the back of my neck. All of a sudden I had a feeling of déjà vu.
The rain.
The thunder.
The cookie.
The smile.
That was day...I started realising my feelings for her, and I started pushing her away from me.
The memories of how I had made her cry...because I was busy wrestling with my feelings. My breath hitched in my throat, it was still in that very same position like I was 5 years back.
I lik- no I had a small crush on her...see I wasn't even sure.
I still was undecided.
I dreaded that if I was mad enough to confess about my feelings, she might not like me back.
I needed time to think, cuz I didn't want to hurt her again.
"Umm...Sakura...uh...Well I just remembered I had some work I got to go...thanks for inviting me over." I said hurriedly and waved at her and exited the place.
"B-" I couldn't even hear the end of it. I was already on my way to my car.
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