Chapter Twelve; The First Kiss

Hey guys, I just wanted to quickly apologize for the long delay but I've had a rather busy summer. Anyways, here's the next chapter (finally) and I really hope that you enjoy it! Oh and by the way, since it's been a much longer time since we've had this part of our roleplay my brain might be a little fuzzy on some things so just bear with me.

Later on that day Sasuke bumped into Sakura who was busy standing down in a field with some cherry blossoms. Sasuke couldn't believe how beautiful she looked while the cherry blossoms started blowing all around her in the breeze. He gulped suddenly feeling stiff and frozen and extremely anxious. As he heard footsteps behind him he quickly turned around and looked down to see Keiko standing there.

"Umm,.. weren't you two supposed to go out on a date?" she inquired as Sasuke silently nodded at her. "So, what are you so nervous about?" she wondered.

"I've never been out on a date before. I don't know what to do." He admitted as Keiko thought for a moment.

"Well, I don't think that there's an awful lot of thought that has to go into it. I think that it's just basically sitting around the table talking and eating food." She began. "Just not at once because that's impolite." She told him as Sasuke let out a chuckle.

"What on earth would I do without you?" he questioned her with a grin but she just simply shrugged.

"I don't know, but what are you standing around here for? Go ask her out!" she exclaimed excitedly as Sasuke chuckled again.

"Alright then, as a favor to you I will." He told her before he took a deep breath and slowly walked over to Sakura while Keiko smiled as she watched him. That's when suddenly Sasuke cleared his throat alerting Sakura of his presence.

That's when Sakura turned around to face him. "Oh, hello Sasuke." She began with a grin. Sasuke blushed suddenly feeling very uncomfortable. "What's wrong?" she questioned him.

"Nothing." He began. "It's just that,.. I never realized before,.. just how beautiful you are." She told him. "And I'm an idiot for not realizing that sooner. You have always stayed by my side along with Naruto and I really don't deserve you both." He admitted while heaving a deep and heavy sad sigh and closing his eyes.

"Listen to me Sasuke, everybody deserves to find love and happiness in their life. Just because you've done some bad things doesn't make you a bad person. You've just gone through a lot of hurt and pain." She told him.

"Yeah, and the worst thing of all is all the hurt and pain that I put you through." He said as he opened his eyes again. "That is one thing that I'll never be able to forgive myself for, no matter how hard I try. Sakura, I just literally got finished telling your sister that I fell in love with her, and now I think the same thing is happening towards you. In fact, I think that it's been happening ever since I left the village and now I'm just coming to realize it." He explained as Sakura gasped and widened her eyes and gaped her mouth open at him.

Did Sasuke just tell her what she thought he had. Was he really falling in love with her? Had he really had romantic feelings for her all this time? Before she could ask him those questions Sasuke simply just smiled at her and then took a few steps towards her before he gently grabbed ahold of her chin and tilted it back. He brushed her bangs out of her eyes and tucked a few strands of hair around her right ear before placing a hand to her cheek, closing his eyes, and kissing her lips. Sakura was taken aback at first since this was the first time he had kissed her.

Meanwhile Keiko giggled while she watched them from afar. If all went according to plan Sasuke really would become her older brother. She squealed with excitement and leapt up into the air and after what finally seemed like forever Sasuke and Sakura broke apart. "So, are we still on for that date?" he questioned her with a grin.

Sakura smiled shyly back at him. "Yeah, sure." She replied.

"Alright, I'll pick you up tomorrow night at seven. I'm sure that your mother will be able to watch Keiko." He began while continuing to grin at her before poking her in the forehead. "Anyways, I bet that seems like such a disappointment now." He told her before he turned around and walked back towards Keiko and then stopped and grinned down at her. "Enjoy the show?" he inquired.

"Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about." She told him as Sasuke chuckled and squatted down in front of her.

"Liar." He replied while poking her in the forehead. "I'll see you later." He told her before he slowly stood up and then turned back around and walked away as Keiko rubbed her forehead.

"Ouch! Why does he always do that?" she questioned while she turned around to look over at Sakura as she started walking over to her. Sakura giggled.

"It's his way of showing affection." She explained.

"Well it hurts!" Keiko cried as she continued rubbing her forehead.

"Well,.. love hurts." Sakura pointed out but her little sister just simply scowled at her. "Come on Keiko, Sasuke loves you and you know that he wouldn't do anything deliberately to hurt you." She told her as Keiko heaved a heavy sigh.

"I know. Well, come on big sis let's go home." She told her before she took ahold of her hand and then turned around and walked away inside the opposite direction.

As soon as Sakura got home she couldn't wait to share the news about her first kiss with all of her friends on Facebook. That night after Keiko's mother tucked her in she continued thinking about Sasuke and Sakura and how happy they seemed to be together. She had only hoped and prayed that one day she would find somebody and be as happy as them. With that she rolled over onto her side, closed her eyes, and went to sleep.