Hey everyone again. Here's my next story, and yes I made it longer then the last two (not that, it was hard to do).I noticed there isn't really a lot of Sak/Sas fluff in this, don't know how that one happened. Anyways tell me what you think about it after you've read it. Hope you like it.
Please don't flame because you don't like the Sakura/Sasuke couple, what's the point of reading the story if you don't like this couple.
(Man does this ever get repetitive) I don't own Naruto, my plans to steal it were ruined!
PS. In this story, Sasuke never betrays Konoha, instead keeping his usual attitude and goal of becoming stronger.
Italics- thoughts
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Loves Me?
A pink flower petal fluttered softly towards the ground, then another one. Each adding to the small pile collecting at the bottom of a tree.
"He loves me." A voice whispered happily.
"He loves me not." Another petal slowly made it's way down.
Sakura Haruno sat beneath her name tree, waiting patiently for the rest of her team to arrive. Her sensei had told them to meet at the orchard for a special announcement. With her legs tucked in she leant against the tree, the remains of a once beautiful flower grasped in her hand like a life line.
With her pink hair down around her face, barely coming to her shoulders, she let her guard down for what seemed like the first time in weeks. In the last year or so a lot had changed around Konoha , the economy had thrived, alliances with Sand strong as ever. As for her friends, Ino and Shikamaru had been going steady for a couple months (Ino just wouldn't take no for a answer) and Neji and Tenten had finally gotten together after a furious Neji had caught Lee holding her hand and pronouncing his love. And Naruto well, Naruto was still as oblivious as ever when it came to the feelings of the Hyuga Heiress, no surprise there, it was Naruto after all.
Then there was herself at the age of 16, on her way to becoming stronger like her other two teammates and already recognized as a great healer, she had yet to be successful in convincing her one and only love, Sasuke Uchiha, who was still as cold as ever, to give her a chance to prove her loyalty and love. There was no doubt in her mind that he knew that she had feeling for him (hell everyone knew it), no the problem was he refused to believe it could be anything more then a simple crush, nothing more then an annoying problem, interfering with precious training time.
Although she could happily admit, their relationship had sort of changed in these last few months. Where she used to blush immediately at any sign of Sasuke, she now trained with him everyday without incident (ok...most days), now making a point to challenge his opinion whenever needed. Yet still there was something missing, sure she could now say he considered her one of his close friends without him scoffing at the idea but that was it. There were no secret glances or stolen minutes alone together, they were friends and that was it. And that was something she couldn't stand, and hoped that could be changed.
So here she sat, alone in an orchard. Thanks to her full proof plan she had gotten up even earlier then normal, hoping to arrive before even him, so when he did arrive, they (she)would have a chance to talk alone, and maybe discuss the possibility of lunch.
Inner: Hell yah! We'll have him all to ourselves. When he gets here we'll kidnap him and keep him in our closet. Whahahahaahahah...
Sakura just shook her head. Sure it probably wasn't normal to have a extra voice in your head, but a sadistically violent one?
Now a days she tended to just try and block out the tempting ...er... outrageous ideas her other half oh so generously schemed up.
"He loves me." Plucking another petal off the bud.
"Hn." A voice braking through her thoughts.
Startled Sakura jerked to her feet, the flower immediately being hid behind her back. Feeling as if she had been caught doing something wrong, her cheeks flamed.
Only feet away leaning against a tree of his own stood Sasuke Uchiha. His charcoal eyes staring straight through her, adding to her discomfort.
Giving herself a few seconds to try and hide the discomfort at being snuck up on by none other then the person she had been thinking about she let her eyes scan over his body taking in every detail. To say he had "aged well" was the understatement of all time. Now standing over 6 ft. tall, no one would consider him skinny, having a perfect body starting with a beautifully sculpted upper body leading to narrow hips (and we can only hope visible v ). Hair still as dark as night was styled in a similar fashion as when they had been younger, only now longer. His best feature, the one Sakura came back to study time and time again were his eyes. Where they had once been dark orbs, showing nothing besides the hatred and contempt that fueled him, they now showed emotion. Still as dark as always they seemed deeper, bottomless, something so easily lost in. A mixture of rich blues and black combining to give the image of an angel with the eyes of something much more wicked.
There was no doubt about it, he was gorgeous.
"Good morning Sasuke-kun." Smiling weakly, still slightly mad at herself for letting him startle her like he always had before when they were younger. It seemed to be her personal curse, no matter how many hours spent in his company, or time spent preparing to see him, she was doomed to a life of forever being weak in his presence.
Not even bothering to acknowledge the greeting, he continued to stare directly at her, his expression never wavering.
Trying to ignore the obvious way Sasuke had ignored her greeting she pushed on determined for this to work.
"So I was wondering if maybe you'd like to go to lunch with me after.."
"Sakura." He interrupted.
Stopping in mid sentence she smiled lightly, her heart thumping wildly at the sound of his voice, slightly unsure of what he was about to say.
"Stop being annoying." His voice detached.
Her thoughts shattered like glass, a blanket of pain slowly wrapping itself around her. Forcing herself not to show the pain she was feeling, she nodded numbly, a fake smile plastered on her face. A victim to the two words that would always be painful to hear.
Turning her back towards him she squeezed her eyes shut, trying not to let the tears escape.
Inner: How dare he! Who cares if he's incredibly hot what a inconsiderate hole! Lets how him how annoying we really are!
-Inner Sakura stomping her feet and the world braking into two-
Sakura couldn't keep it together, even after being rejected by the same person time and time again it still cut deep
How perfect she thought, the only one still able to make her cry, was the one she wanted for the rest of her life. Typical.
Keeping her face hidden she started towards her home.
"..I ah I just remembered ...I promised to..help...my mom with something." She finished lamely before fleeing for home, not caring if he believed her or not.
The rose hit the ground without making a sound, the last petal sailing softly after it.
He loves me not
Within 40 minutesof Sakura's hasty retreat, Naruto made his way to the meeting site, a grin in place.
I'm almost on time today, wait til Sakura see's this, she's going to be so impressed!
Skidding to a stop he grinned his foxy grin.
"Morning Sakura-chan," he yelled at the top of his lungs.
When he didn't even get a punch to the head accompanied by a "nice" reminder not to call her that his smile dimmed.
"Err...Sakura-chan?" He asked again, now realizing she was no where in sight.
Panicking in a way only he could pull off, he raced around the area. Looking down rabbit holes and checking behind every tree, he finally concluded she was no where to be found.
Hearing something to his left he rushed over expecting to find his Sakura waiting for him, ready to offer to take her to lunch. He froze instead of his beautiful Sakura stood the teme cough...emo...(gotta love em! Totally sexy!)
"Watch it dobe." A totally arrogant 'I'm better then you' smirk lifting the corner of Sasuke's mouth.
"Who are you calling dobe TEME!" Momentarily forgetting about his missing crush.
"Tsk...Dobe,"
"WHY YOU!" Naruto lunged forward ready to strike.
Poof
"Yo." The voice of their Sensei announcing his arrival.
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Well there's the first half, let me know what you think. I won't be updating for a while though, I'm headed up to my cottage (no computers...is that even legal?). Really hope I have lots of reviews and emails to read when I get home, anyways PLEASE REVIEW!