Chapter 4: The Boyfriend Experience

Onsen

The water was warm with thick mist and it was surrounded by the bamboos and rocks. The onsen had a private onsen specifically made for their vip guests. Hak and Sakura were inside the onsen, there was a wet towel on top of her head with her face already flushed and she was leaning the the edge of the pool while Hak was still showering at the other side. Sakura was observing her lover, his strong muscular arms, his defined abdominal muscles, some scars on his skin, his raven hair, and how the water glistened on his tanned skin. He really was the definition of "hot as hell" just like how the Kouka women would describe him. The most admirable general of Kouka. Why someone as great as Hak hasn't been married to any of the Kouka lady?

"Hak, why are you still single until now?" Sakura asked the man in front of her. Hak stopped showering and gazed at Sakura with his blue eyes.

"I don't want to marry someone i don't love just for the sake of marrying," Hak went inside the warm water and joined the pink haired kunoichi. He leaned to the edge of the pool right beside her.

"You know i loved Yona but she's the queen, she had to marry someone outside the kingdom to enlarge her influence," Hak explained to the woman beside him, the green-eyed medic nin. "And i never fell in love with anyone until you came to my life," With his blue eyes gazing at hers and his arm circling her shoulder, Sakura couldn't help but to blush when he said that to her.

"Have you ever tried dating another women though?" Sakura asked the naked man beside her.

"I dated some of the ladies" Hak brushed his hair with his hand. "None of them could make me feel the way you make me feel," He said with his eyes gazing at hers, she saw that there's deep affection in his eyes. He was not trying to romance her with empty compliments because it was the truth. Something she had missed from her husband for a long time. Sakura moved to be in front of him, she traced the contour of his face, his nose, his lips, his chin and his neck, smile erupted in her face. Hak grabbed her hand for being incredibly random. "What are you doing, Sakura?" He asked her with confusion. "You're really handsome, you know," Sakura then proceeded to kiss him. The kiss turned into heated ones and they continue their love making activity in their bedroom.

The next day, Sakura had to come back working to the hospital. She was completely refreshed due to her orgasm-filled vacation at the onsen with Son fucking Hak. Her mood was incredibly good that morning and Ino who worked at the hospital too with her realized that.

Both of the ladies were at the doctor's lounge to drink coffee before going to the operation room. Sakura's skin was glossy, her cheeks were rosy and she kept on humming a happy song that morning. "Oi, Sakura, what have you done this weekend? You look incredibly happy and fresh," Ino eyed her, scrutinizing her from top to toe. The blonde woman also realized that Sakura put more makeup than usual and she painted her toe nails as well in dark red color. "Did Sasuke come home?" Ino asked Sakura. "No," Sakura replied, still with a smile from her glossed pink lips. "I had a short vacation," Sakura's smiley face was something really unusual to be seen by Ino. She used to have that kind of happy face when Sasuke was around ... around few years ago.

"Holy shit!Did you have short vacation with the General Hak?" Sakura nodded when Ino asked the question, like there was no longer guilt looming from her. "I thought you loved Sasuke ... how can you love a man and have sex with another man at the same time?" Ino remembered exactly that Sakura said that she chose Sasuke over Hak and somehow she had just had a sexy short vacation with that sexy Kouka General. "It's just sex, i'm still a Sakura Uchiha" Sakura replied Ino. Ino could not believe that a short vacation with General Hak would turn Sakura to be so ecstatic. "Sakura, it is not wise to play with fire," Ino looked at the woman's green eyes. She knew that a 16 years of marriage would have its boring point. She had that moment when she was incredibly bored with her relationship with Sai but they passed it, they took short vacation only with the two of them and it all came back to normal. But, she took that vacation with her husband, not some other sexy man from foreign country. "You should've had a short vacation with Sasuke, not General Hak," Ino sighed. "You know he can't," Sakura replied, still with a smile. "And now i don't really care honestly," Sakura said while she was putting on the surgical cap. Ino could see that there was love bites on Sakura's neck. It was the first time Ino saw love bites on her friend's skin. She quickly put out a concealer pot out of her bag and shoved it in front of Sakura's face. "Sakura, you really are an indecent woman!You have love bites on your neck!" Sakura didn't budge, she just quickly took the concealer from Ini and then she just concealed the love bite with the makeup. "That's the side effect of a very hot vacation with a very sexy man," Sakura said shamelessly with a smile in her face while handling the concealer back to Ino.

It was lunchtime, both Hak and Jaeha were summoned inside the queen's room in the hotel. The queen stayed at the President's Suite in the best hotel in Konoha. It was huge room that looked more like an apartment instead of a room. It had its own kitchen and dining room, designed in a very luxurious way.

That day, the queen was sick that's why instead of going out to eat with the important people of fire country, the queen ate inside the private dining room.

Yona sat there with her body being covered with a blanket and she was wearing no makeup on. She had a fever and a flu, and it was pretty bad that she had to rest.

"Give me your report!" The queen commanded. Even with her high temperature she didn't neglect her duty. Jaeha handed piles of papers to the queen, she kept on looking at the statistics, reports about their chakra training of her soldiers.

"So far it's been very good for our soldiers," Hak reported. Since Yona became a queen, especially after she got married to the current king, Hak never became his usual flirty self to Yona anymore. "Hak, have you met Sakura?" Yona's eyes were still fixated to the report papers with her hands rummaging through the papers on her bed. The question brought Jaeha to the idea that Hak was still sleeping with Sakura and perhaps the queen did not know that. "Yes, i've met her at the camp," Hak answered, sternly. "Please say to Sakura-chan that i'd like to meet her once i'm less busy," Yona said softly. Hak nodded.

Once Jaeha and Hak got out of the hotel room, Jaeha nudged Hak's arm and spoke softly to him "Whew, i thought you would tell Yona-joo that you wanted to marry Sakura-chan." "Yona is queen now. I can't concern her with my personal matter," Hak's voice was cold and stern, he walked faster, leaving the green-haired man behind. Since Yona became the queen of Kouka, Hak realized how the title created such distance between him and Yona. She knew about the affair before and he told her about Sakura's husband and what he had done to her. Yona did not judge, she just listened, she didn't even give any advice to Hak. She only said she would support anything Hak would do because she believed in him.

That night, Sakura slept again with Hak inside his hotel room. It was always like that, after her shift, she'd come to his hotel to sleep with him. Hak and Sakura cuddled after making love, still panting on his bed.

"I want to take you on a date," Hak's words resonated like a song in her mind. She suddenly remembered about her date with Sasuke. A fucking two and half minutes date.

She was there, sitting on the bench with face full of makeup and cute yellow dress that complimented her skin color. They had only met and talked there, suddenly his owl came back with a message, something he considered as classified, something urgent that he had to immediately go. Then he just left her alone in that bench, looking at the sky with blushing cheeks like a dumb girl, just because Sasuke went on a date with her, even if it's only two and half minutes.

"Sakura, where do you want to go?" Hak's question caused her to smile. To think about it, she had never been on a proper date before. Then, she had a chance to experience that teenage dream of having a date with someone she liked. That tall, dark and handsome gentleman in beside her would take her on a date and Hak was not Sasuke, he would take her on a very proper date.

"I want go to see a movie and have a dinner at a nice restaurant," Sakura answered him with pink flush on her cheeks.

The couple then had a date together. It was Friday night and as usual, Sarada did not come home at Friday night, she had to finish Naruto's incredibly insane paper works therefore she had to sleep at the office or else she had to come back again during Saturday, which she never did.

Hak chose a very luxurious Japanese restaurant in Konoha. It had a VIP room, the reason for the couple not to be afraid to get caught and caused drama.

The bell in front of Uchiha residence rang and Sakura quickly opened the door. There she saw a tall, dark and handsome man standing in the middle of the cold with red nose and fog came out of his mouth.

"Are you ready, princess?"

Hak picked Sakura up in front of her house, he dressed differently, he dressed modern with a simple black trenchcoat, scarf and boots. It all seemed so new for her for a man to pick her up for a date. Their one and only date was Sasuke asking her to meet him at the cliff.

She was wearing a red top and a matching mini skirt, underneath it there was a black stocking and she combined them with a pair of wedges black boots. "Wait a minute, i'll get my coat" Sakura then put on her pink coat and a shawl on top of her outfits.

They were watching a movie first. They were sneaking inside the cinema when everyone's already inside so nobody could see them together. Sakura did not choose a popular movie, she chose a less popular horror movie to watch with Hak about a female ghost who avenged the death of her beloved child. It was the first time she actually had a movie date. It was the first time that she could hug a man whenever there's a scary scene in a horror movie. Hak's hand was on her hand all the time during the movie. Sakura felt so happy when she was walking out of the cinema. So, that's how it felt having a movie date.

The restaurant was a modernized Japanese restaurant but the VIP room was still pretty much influenced by the classic style with tatami and sliding doors and old Japanese paintings on the walls. Hak ordered everything for Sakura. "I remember you liked anko dumplings. Surprisingly, they have it, fancy version of it though," Hak chuckled. He ordered it for Sakura already. It felt really awkward for Sakura to have a date, she definitely forgot what people did in a date. "What do people do in a date? I totally forgot," Sakura muttered. "People talk about themselves, their hobbies, their lives, sometimes people also touch their partner's hands or more," Hak chuckled at Sakura's reaction. He pitied the woman. Damn! That Sasuke dude must have treated her like shit.

Hak and Sakura talked and laughed. It was the first time since Kouka mission that they focused on talking and knowing themselves instead of fucking. Sakura really enjoyed talking to Hak, he was funny. He reminded her of Naruto but a lot cooler than him.

When Sakura excused herself to the toilet, she bumped to a familiar man. He smelled like a dog. When Sakura looked at his face, her heart felt like it was going to hammer out of her chest. She did not expect to meet anyone during her secretive date with Hak. She's not ready to be caught.

"Oi! Sakura! Long time no see! How are you?" Kiba shook her hand. "I'm alright," Sakura was so anxious. She didn't expect to meet an acquaintance during her date with Son Hak. "Who are you coming here with?" His friendly question suddenly sounded like an interrogation to Sakura. Her hands were shaking under the pockets of her outfit. "I'm here with an acquaintance from Kouka," Sakura grinned, trying so hard to cover her anxiety. "Oh! Which one? I had some trainings with the Kouka people few days ago," The conversation went longer and Sakura felt dreaded in that conversation. "Just a wife of one of the soldiers," She had to lie. No way she could say "Son Hak" "What's the name of the husband?" God. This guy didn't shut up and let her do her thing. "Kiba, i need to go to toilet now, please excuse me," Sakura quickly walked passing the man and went inside the toilet. She stayed in the toilet for a pretty long time. Hoping that she could avoid Kiba and came back to VIP room.

A relationship with Sasuke was exhausting. But, an affair was something else. Affair required her to hide and lie all the time to cover it up. Even though she got all she wanted all these time, a boyfriend experience. Something she never experienced with Sasuke before. Her husband was always a straight-forward man, he didn't take her on a date, he just simply proposed her and then took her on a journey. But, it's far from the comic book or movie dates other couples usually have. She had been craving that boyfriend experience for years but not even once Sasuke gave her a proper boyfriend experience.

It's true what Ino said. She was playing with fire. But, she needed that fire, she needed that excitement and the adrenaline rush to color her mundane life. That's why she continued having an affair with Hak.

"I'll stop before Sasuke knows. I will. I promise i will," Sakura muttered to herself before going back to the VIP room to continue her date with Hak.

That day, Naruto miraculously had some time to have dinner in his own house. Hinata prepared Western foods for dinner, burger, fries and fried chicken, just like how her son wanted her to.

Hinata, Boruto and Himawari were sitting at the the dining table, eating their foods. They were talking the usual small talks, Naruto about his work, Himawari about her day at the school and Boruto was really quiet that day.

"Brother, why are you so quiet today?" The young girl with short dark hair questioned her brother. He was always the energetic boy, it was weird whenever he was being quiet during the dinner.

"I think i saw aunt Sakura and that black-haired general from Kouka at the onsen few days ago," Boruto looked really concerned, he stopped eating his burger. Hinata knew exactly what he meant when he said that.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked his son, he put his knife and fork on the plate. "Well, i am not really sure what they were doing but he was carrying aunt Sakura bridal style and they were wearing that slouchy onsen kimono ...," Boruto answered that. Naruto knew exactly what his son meant, his expression changed. "My friends told me that meant that she probably was cheating on uncle Sasuke," Boruto told them and it felt really awkward, he thought that it was supposed to make him felt relieved but it did not. "Boruto, you shouldn't accuse anyone of cheating on their partner," Naruto told his son. The news made the situation really awkward, they kept on continuing to eat in silence. Once they're done eating, Naruto eventually spoke up. "Himawari, Boruto, Hinata, would you please to keep this a secret?" Naruto softly asked his family members. Hinata immediately nodded while Himawari, with confusion in her eyes questioned her father "Why?" "It is an adult problem," Naruto replied her, not actually explaining it. While, Boruto still looked confused and sad with his head down. "Boruto?" Naruto asked him. Boruto put his head up and looked at his father, he only nodded. "Himawari, could you please leave the three of us alone?" Naruto politely asked his daughter to leave the table. Himawari nodded, she understood that what they're talking about was a mature conversation.

After the youngest Uzumaki had left, the oldest one opened the conversation. "Are you sure that Sakura's cheating on Sasuke with General Hak?" Naruto eyed his son. "Like i said, i don't know, what i saw was them at the onsen using slouchy onsen kimono with aunt Sakura on his arm and when i called her, she didn't reply back, instead that man who i thought was Uncle Sasuke walked away immediately from us," Boruto told his father, he had never experienced such thing before, becoming a witness of adulterous act. "Boruto, who were with you at that time?" Hinata asked her son. "Mitsuki and Sumire," Boruto answered. "Would please tell them not to tell anyone about it?" Hinata asked his son out of concern for her friends, Sasuke and Sakura. Boruto nodded to his parents. As much as he had no idea what to do about it and as much as he knew that cheating was definitely wrong, his parents insinuated that he and his friends shouldn't have any intervention about the issue, moreover that they shouldn't talk about it at all.

That night, Naruto and Hinata were lying on their bed together. The lights were already turned off and both of them were already covered with blanket. Naruto couldn't fall asleep, he was thinking about Sasuke and Sakura. He kept on looking at the ceiling, reminiscing how Sakura loved Sasuke, how Sakura would die for Sasuke, how she still loved him even after he tried to murder him, she loved him so much, like it was impossible for someone like Sakura would cheat on Sasuke, he was the love of her life. Hinata sat up on the bed, dark haired lady also couldn't sleep. "Naruto-kun, are you also still thinking about Sakura?" Hinata asked him with her soft voice. Naruto sat up, he couldn't sleep. "Yes, Hinata," He replied his wife. "What are you going to do?" Hinata asked him, her lavender eyes were staring at him. "I don't know, it seems impossible for me believing that Sakura would cheat on Sasuke," Naruto replied his wife. "People can change, Naruto," Hinata replied him. "I'm sorry but ... Sasuke hadn't been there much for his wife ... he left Sakura for years," She continued. The fact that he's barely there made Naruto felt guilty. He was the one who gave approval to the missions outside Konoha Sasuke had asked for at first and it somehow became his duty to do the outside-Konoha missions. "Is it my fault? I was the one who gave him the missions," Naruto asked his wife, Hinata could see that there was regret in his blue eyes. Hinata then hugged him. "No, it's not, Naruto-kun, Sasuke willingly went with the missions," She said to him. "Maybe i should send him back to Konoha so he could spend more time with Sakura," Naruto told his wife. "Yes, you should do that," Hinata replied with calmness in her voice. Hinata herself knew that Sakura's pretty much like herself when it came to love, when she fell in love, she fell in love hard and when she chose to have an affair with General Hak, she probably had already fallen in love hard too towards that General. But, she chose to stay quiet, there's nothing that she could do for Sasuke and Sakura aside from agreeing with her husband's idea.

It was morning and Sasuke was in the middle of the forest, alone. With bonfire in front of him and a grilled fish. He was waiting for the fish to be completely grilled. A hawk appeared in front of him, bringing him a letter with a stamp from the Hokage Office. An order to come back, to see the Hokage and stay at the village.

What does Naruto want me to do? The mission regarding the cultists who were opposing the current regime was not done yet.

Sasuke was wondering what Naruto wanted but he obeyed his order. So, he prepared to go home.

Author's Note :

Most people know the term "Seven years itch" when it comes to cold marriage but SasuSaku had always had long distance marriage and i headcanon that it would appear later in their marriage. After more than 14 years of marriage, there came the blizzard, the coldness in their marriage. Sakura became a lot less tolerant with Sasuke's straight-foward (cold) attitude. There, she found someone who was as good-looking as Sasuke, and he's like opposite Sasuke, he's warm, aggressive and flirty. He made her felt sexy again and that's why she's enjoying every second she had with Hak and felt really reluctant to get out from the affair even though she knew that having an affair's 100% wrong.