Holding Out

Chapter 8

"It's not much of a life you're living, it's not just something you take it's, given round and around and around and around we go." Mikky Echo and Rihanna. Stay.

"Zmmmmmmmmmmm. VVVMMMMM ZMMMM VMMMM." Her iPhone buzzed on the nightstand. She groggily reached out and snapped it up, she looked at seven missed calls, and one incoming call. Ino.

"Wha?" She asked sleepily and angrily, her hand was on her forehead while her eyes were slits from the bright light.

"Where are you! You've been gone for an two hours!" Ino asked in a bitchy tone.

"I was sleep deprived! Thanks for waking me up." Sakura said in a sarcastic voice.

"We are next time to preform! We've gotten moved back three more hours." Ino said talking loudly over the cheer girls.

"So I can sleep another hour! I'll be there don't worry." Sakura said before hanging up on a yelling Ino, she sighed and put her phone down on the bed side table she turned and faced the sleeping Sasuke.

She observed his angelic face, his pink lips, that had a little opening that he blew air out of. His dark eyebrows that seemed manly yet not fuzzy.

"It's rude to stare." He said, observing her with one open eye.

She jumped as his voice popped her out of her gaze. She laughed before speaking "...No it's rude to point, not to stare." she corrected him.

He smirked and opened both of his eyes, she rolled on her back and faced the ceiling. She sighed, he was staring at her and it was creeping her out, well not so much creeping her out but made her self conscious.

"Now your staring." She said and glanced at him from the corner of her eyes.

"Before you talk you bite down, your jaw tightens and you breath in more air if you're going to speak more, and vise versa if you're speaking less." He said as he analyzed her.

"When you sleep you unconsciously feel for the person next to you." She pointed out, then swore in her head. Great Sak now you look creepy.

"Maybe I meant to." He said as he propped himself up on his elbows. She looked at him before setting up and throwing the covers off herself, he raised an eyebrow she couldn't see. She grabbed her phone and her shoes, fixed her hair in the mirror and walked towards the door.

"Well that was... Fun. See you later!" She said cheerily, as she turned to go.

He stood in front of her, she stepped back in confusion. "Whoa how'd you do that?!"

"What?" He asked mockingly, with a sexy half smirk.

"THAT! Go from your bed... To... Nevermind." She said seeing he wouldn't answer.

"Hn." He said.

"Excuse me." She said and stepped to the right. He stepped to his left to block her. She sighed and turned around looked at his large room, she walked a few feet and picked up a photograph.

"Who's this?" She asked showing him the photo. He looked at the picture of his small family, with their grandparents, and a few closer cousins in the good photo. He sighed before taking the photo out if her hand and setting it down again.

"Your not going to Answer." She said in an annoyed tone and glanced around the room, she sighed and sat on the edge of her bed. She looked at him expectantly.

"Why are you looking at me.. Like that." He questioned as he leaned in the shadows, both of his eyes that had been closed were now open and staring right back at her.

"Because you won't let me leave, and you won't talk to me! What am I suppose to do?!"

He opened his mouth to speak when she cut him off on a mini rant "Entertain ME!" She said in a bitchy tone.

"Hn." He said and walked out of the room, she stared after him in rage and curiosity.

"Are you coming or not." His voice grew distant as did his steps.

"Coming!" She yelled and ran after him. Not being able to seeing his smirk.

"Where are we going?" She asked after a few minutes of walking, they were outside, and when her feet touched the wet ground she shivered. She ran to catch up to Sasuke, she placed her hand on him to steady herself, he impatiently tapped his foot while she put her shoes on.

She started towards the car, he got in the drivers seat, and she lowered into the passengers side. She reached for the radio, and started flipping through stations. She stopped on a random station, and started humming the lyrics.

"I remember what you wore on the first date." She sang quietly, he could barley hear her, but she had a small sweetness to her voice.

"You Came into my life and I felt High and good for something." He sang back just as quietly, almost a hum, she snapped her head towards him in surprise, she smiled and sang.

"Cause everything you do and words you say, you know it all takes my breath away, and now I'm left with nothing."

"So maybe it's truuuuee that I can't live without you, and maybeee twwoo is betterrrrr than onnnneeee there's so much time to figure out the rest of my life and you already got me coming undone." She sang happily, while she looked out the window, he observed her and listened to her sweet voice.

"I'm thinking Two is better than Onnnee..." They sang together, Sakura's voice overlapped and made Sasuke's deeper voice sound better, she laughed as the song ended.

"You didn't tell me you could sing?!" She asked excitedly.

"You never asked." He deadpanned but the smirk in his face betrayed him, as well as the glint in his eyes.

"Why don't you... Sing?!"

"Not a public person, I don't let people read me." He said while flicking his turning single on.

"Same... But... You let me read you." She said quietly, her calm and cool facade slipping.

"I'm going to break every rule today!" She declared happily, while she sat on her folded legs, he glanced at her, his eyebrow raised in a question.

"My Competing Rules, they're confusing but I'm going to break them and I may end up hurt but maybe it'll be worth it?!" She half asked nervously half giggling in excitement.

He nodded slowly, before smirking, she went through the stations again, looking for a song. She took he phone out and plugged it in to the AUX plug, she looked for the song.

"Paper bags and plastic hearts all belong in some shopping carts."

"Goodbye, for we got one more night, let's get drunk and ride around, and make peace with an empty town... We can make it right. Well make the great escape!" The music screamed and she sung along, Sasuke rolled his eyes at her.

"Jjjjjkkkkeeeehehhhh." The music remixed and started another song.

"Heels over head, I'm hanging upside down, thinking you left me for dead, California bound." She sang and whipped her hair around.

"I'm the first to fall and last to know... Where'd you go?!" She sang with excitement.

He sighed and leaned toward the radio, he switched it, and plugged his phone in, he set a song all while she half pouted half glared.

"If I was you're boyfriend, I'd never let you go, I could take you places you ain't ever been before." She gasped at him, and covered her mouth, he laughed and switched it.

"You don't seriously think I listen to that." He asked in bewilderment, she ended up laughing with tears in her eyes.

"You got ...me!" She laughed and met his eyes, he noticed her eyes crinkle, her green eyes sparkle, her teeth in full view he wanted to see more of her, more of her like this, happy. Hear her laugh whole heartily.

She sighed and rested her head against the seat, her face towards him, the sun shining on her high cheek bones and relaxed jaw. She took his hand, more precisely she took his phone from his hand, he felt small tingles run up his arm, he looked at his hand and then at her, she was flicking through his music.

"You know they say you can figure out a person by the type of music they listen to." She said with a smile.

"Well what type of person am I?" He asked playfully, while he zoomed past a cop, he turned roughly and a small scream escaped her as she flew against him, he smiled a ghost of a smile.

"Whooop Whooop!" The police officer in a motorcycle was a good block behind them.

"Sasuke are you Crazy!" She asked as he sped up.

"Do you trust me?" He asked with a flash of a smile, she stared after it.

"What!?" She yelled.

"Do you trust-"

"...Yes... Yes I trust you." She said after glancing after the cop.

"Good, hold on." He said with a new playful tone in his voice, she moved forward and played the song off his YouTube.

"It feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipsters, and make fun of are exes, ahha ahhha it feels like a perfect night for breakfast at midnight, to fall inolve with strangers."

"ahhh ahhhha yeahhhh were happy freaky fused, and lonely at the same time it's miserable and magical tonight's the night we forget about the dead lines, it's time."

""I don't know about you but I'm feeling 22, everything will be alright if you keep me next to you, you don't know about me but I bet you want to."

"Everything will be alright if we keep dancing like we're 22... Like we're 22." she smiled and sung along, as he out raced the cop, he turned three different turns and went in a cave, after a minute the cop zoomed by.

She laughed quietly, she grabbed onto Sasuke's arm and jumped once. ""I don't know about you but I'm feeling 22, everything will be alright if you keep me next to you, you don't know about me but I bet you want to." She sang without lyrics, and pulled his arm to dance in the dark cave.

She danced around him, and grinded on him, he smirked and finally he moved with her, small hip movements that connected them, she smiled and the song switched.

Da da da De, da da da de, da da da de, da da da de, da da da de, da da da de." He knew the song all too well, it was put on the radio and advertised twenty four seven, he smirked she was looking over his shoulder at the car, he took her hand, and he waist, he moved to the lyrics and rhythm.

" All along it was a fever. A cold sweat hot headed believer, I threw my hands in the air, and said show me somedaaaay, he said if you dare come a little closer. " He led them in a circle, she smiled and let him, her pink hair would move over his hand and send tingles up his arm, but he didn't move, he was afraid to break the moment, because for him right here... It felt real.

"Round and around and around we go. Ohhh, now tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know. Not really sure how to feel about it, something in the way you move, makes me feel like I can't live without youuu it take me all the way I want you to staaaaaayy." She rested her head on his shoulder, and moved to the beat.

"It's not much of a life your living, it's not something you take it's given. Round and around and around and around we go ohhhh now tell me now tell me now tell me now you know, not really sure how to feel about it, something in the way you move makes me feel like I can't live without you it takes me all the way, and I want you to staaaay." she sighed in continent while he gently twirled her pink locks.

"Uuuuhoo The reason I hold on,uuuoooohhhh then suddenly this hold gone, funny your the broken one, when I'm the only one who needed saving, cause when you never see the light it's hard to know which one of us is caving." both their eyes met at these true words... Who was caving?

She smiled and grabbed his phone and sat beside him on the hood of his car, he tried to take it away but she caught his hand. He tried again, with a his other hand, his legs tangled with her own, she helped as fought to talk and keep the phone.

"W-W..ait Sasuke! I wasn't done reading your music! Or... Reading your personality!" She said quickly and leaned on his body to get the phone again. He laughed and pulled it out of her way.

"Sasuke!" She said angrily, and crawled over his body, straddling his hips, he didn't mind... Not at all, he gave up the phone with a smirk, and she made no move to get off.

"Okay... Your a dark, and... Possessive guy..." She started and looked up at him, he was smirking which could mean either she was right or horribly wrong. She hesitantly went on. "You... Like solitude and silence... Not much of a talker... Or a listener... When you care for people it's deeper than you let on... You've obviously never heard of pop." She said with a small laugh.

"Hn." He edged her on, she nodded, and said "You prefer girls with long hair, and... You like dark colors and things, so brunet girls are probably your goto... You like volleyball players the best..." She said and looked down on at him for approval.

"Hn... Your first description was correct, your second one was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!" He said while his brows where knitted together.

"Oh was it?! Please explain what type of girl you prefer." She joked.

"Light hair... Light eyes... I do like dark colors but two dark things don't make light... I do like girls with long hair, volleyball players are stupid, I prefer... Cheerleaders... And..." He started but stopped.

"Anddd?" She asked edging him forward, he picked her up and rolled her on her back, he sat in between her legs, for a minute before he rolled to her side and whispered.

"And Racers... maybe.. Both." He said very quietly, while avoiding her eye.

She slid her hand across the car, and lightly touched his hand, giving it a small nudge, he started to turn towards her, when he realized what she wanted. He turned his hand over and went under hers, he saw her smile from the corner of his eye, and he intertwined their fingers.

"I want to try something." She said unsurely, he nodded his eyes still closed.

She silently moved and leaned over him. He opened an eye and pure curiosity, she smiled and slid off the cars hood, she walked around the side, taking a leave out of the cave, he looked after her with curiosity as her fingers slipped out of his.

He heard her footsteps decrease and sighed, he stood up and walked out after her, he caught up with her sooner because of her smaller legs. He smirked as she walked out under the setting sky, looking up and seeing the clouded dim moon.

"The...moon...l. Oh my god! Sasuke what time is it!" She yelled and ran back to him in a hurry, he caught her and she took his phone yet again.

"3:20." She read and smiled, with a small sigh.

"We should head back now." She said with a small smile I have forty minutes before we preform again." She said and he nodded, she still held his phone, but he didn't take it there was no need.

She ran back to the car as he calmly walked after her a small smile on his face. She was fixing her bow in the pull down mirror when he entered the car. She saw the small smile on his face and joked quietly "Careful Uchiha... Don't want to show emotion."

His small smile flashed but just as it was there it was gone the next. She sighed and before she knew it they were back at the high school. She jumped out of the cheer, all renewed and energetically.

"Thanks for the Sleep!" She said and waved as she walked away towards the large building. She entered and went to her squad.

"Hey Sak Riff off is in three days after semi finals." Tenten told her evenly.

"Okay how about tomorrow we prepare for it? My house?" She invited her five best friends.

"I'm in." Ino yelled happily.

"Competition starts in...5" A speaker boomed.

"Time to go." Tenten said with a sure smile.

The girls walked out onto the mats and hit their designated poses, Sakura was to the Right with Shawn beside her. Ino was positioned by lance, Tenten was being held by Seth and Hinata was standing beside colton, Temari was among the other girls and near Kin.

"Listen to this Track...BITCH!" The words echoed before the beat started.

Everyone hit four motions with their partner and twisted their bodies to the exotic beat.

"GIrl the way you moving got me in a trance, DJ turn me up, ladies get you're chance imma throw this money while you do it with no hands." the boys pointed to their girls while the girls dirty danced in a small circle, showing off.

"All that ASS in them jeans, long hair she don't care what she wants she gets..." Sakura and Tenten stepped up and shook their butts in a fast downward motion, boys cheered for more.

"Girlll ddrop it to the flooor uuuuughhh i love the way you're booty goes, she says look man no hands, no hands." all the girls slammed their hands to the floor, their knees following after, then the song skipped three times and remixed.

"My first kiss went a little like this.. Wch and twist wch wch and twist." The girls put one hand forward and snaked their bodies around in a sexy crawling motion.

"REMIX...NOW YOU'RE JUST SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW!... Take it take it all take all that I have... Faster than a bullet train she's like bang bang you won't even feel the pain she's like bang bang..." The music chanted as the girls went up in fast paced stunts, Sakura flipped twice and landed in a stunt, her bases propelled her up and moved away.

Shawn moved to her side and caught her arm as she flipped down, he propelled her towards Tenten, who spun her to the left and caught her hand. Both girls rolled to the side, and stood they shook their bodies and broke down movements.

After a few More beats the song hit its climax point, "YOU SPIN MY HEAD RIGHT ROUND, RIGHT ROUND, WHEN YOU GO DOWN WHEN YOU GO DOWN DOWN." The music screamed and every guy in the floor touched their head and moved it down their body, while the females in the crowd screamed in excitement.

The girls flipped their hair and hit the floor. A loud bang echoed through the building, people quieted, as another one hit, the room was silent beside the music, the girls moved slowly.

In seconds a few gun sounds hit again, the girls moved their hands as if they were shooting large guns, and they hit up the crowd, most people cheered, few laughed. The final bang hit and they all pointed their guns at their partner, and shot. A ruffled of bodies hit the floor. Besides two standing.

Both flipped away and held their hands up in a defensive position, Sakura held hers close to her face, while Shawn held his at arms length away, "I'm living in a twenty-first century... Doing something mean to it." the song power hit the girls all cheered.

"No man should have all that power." Sakura advanced and kicked her foot up, he dunked and advanced towards her, they dodged blows, and blocked a friendly spar but an entertaining one. Sakura sent a kick at his lower abdomen, he rolls backwards, and she let him get up. They moved until Ino and Tenten "broke" the fight up, the whole cheer squad moved seven motions before the all hit the floor and they ended it.