Still Suspicion Holds You Tight by Denkira

Pairings: SasuNaru (InoShika mentions)

Rating: M (no real lemon, mostly implications and language)

Summary: "Do you want me to embarrass you in front of all of them then, to make you understand?" he smiled and suddenly I was petrified, "Because I will." What exactly are Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke - friends? Enemies? Or something else? Konoha College AU.

Warning: Boyxboy relationship, some cursing and mentions of sexual situations.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of Naruto's characters.

Author's note: The last chapter of the story! Thank sooo much to all the reviewers and followers! You can't imagine how much I appreciate all of your thoughts on the story and all of your comments make me so happy. It gives me the motivation to write another story that I have planned which is going to be a little bit of a longer multi-chapter about NaruSasu and will also include more of InoShika! Please look forward to it and let me know what you think of the ending of this story :)

I was frozen in one place, my eyes wide open as I was taking in the scene before me. I wanted to move, I wanted to run away, but I couldn't. My heart was beating fast and my hands started to sweat as my fists slowly clenched and unclenched. My breathing started to quicken and a million thoughts were suddenly running through my mind. I couldn't help, but think back to a very similar feeling from three years ago, the only other time that I have ever felt like that, as if it was the beginning of a panic attack. Although if I ever thought that hearing about Sasuke kissing someone else was bad, it was nothing compared to actually seeing it with my very own eyes.

As the feeling of betrayal and hurt started sinking in, I could feel the tears beginning to form and I finally snapped out of it. I turned around and ran down the hallway as fast as I could. I ran and ran until I reached the small park that we had on campus. I stopped by one of the trees and sunk on my knees, out of breath from all the running. I turned around to sit on the ground leaning my back against the tree while still continuing to breathe heavily.

I couldn't believe it. I just wanted to close my eyes and then when I open them again to find out that it was some kind of nightmare that I was just waking up from. The deja-vu sense that I had was making me sick to my stomach and I couldn't believe that I had to relieve that feeling of betrayal again, even when I had been sure that I would never have to.

Just then, I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. It was vibrating constantly without stopping and I had a feeling about who was calling me. The last person that I wanted to talk to right now. I picked up anyway.

"Naruto, where are you? Are you coming?" Just hearing his voice made the image of him and Karin kissing come back to my mind and my hand clenched around the phone.

"No," I said in a hoarse voice.

"What, are you okay? We need to talk about something." His voice sounded so normal, as if he hadn't been betraying my trust just now. Again.

"I have nothing to say to you." I felt the tears finally falling from my eyes and spilling down my cheeks. I didn't even wait for his answer, I threw the phone on the ground next to me and buried my head between my knees.

I don't even know how long I had been sitting like that. The air around me had become cold, since it was only February and I could tell that it was fully dark already. However, I just couldn't bring myself to move. My mind was swimming from one thought to another, as if it would finally break if it stopped on one for too long.

After what felt like an eternity I heard footsteps approaching and stopping right in front of me. I didn't lift my head, but I heard again that voice that I was dreading so much.

"You saw, didn't you." As expected of the prodigy, he had already figured it out.

I remained in the exact same position, without acknowledging him at all. I felt that if I do it, everything would become real.

"It was nothing, Naruto," he said again in that calm voice that was making my blood boil. This was my breaking point and I finally lifted my head to meet his eyes with anger.

"Nothing is ever something to you, is it, Sasuke?" I stood up, unable to be close to him anymore and took off in the direction of the dorms.

I had only taken a few steps when I felt Sasuke grabbing my arm forcefully and I couldn't help, but turn around to look at him again.

"Naruto, please, let me explain, it's not what you think it is," he said with a voice filled with emotion this time and I was at least satisfied to finally get some reaction from him that had nothing to do with his usual calmness.

"She was the one who kissed me out of the blue, I was just too shocked to pull away immediately, but I did as soon as I came to my senses and I never kissed her back," he continued as if afraid that if he didn't say all he had to, I'll stop listening again.

I shook my head at him, my frustration just building up, instead of calming down.

"Why were you even in the position to allow her that?" I asked him with a piercing gaze.

"She was just trying to convince me that her story is true and to explain it all, I just-"

"You should have never even listened to that story after what I told you!" I was getting even angrier listening to his excuses.

"Come on, Naruto, I just wanted to hear if there was really another explanation," he said, the frustration starting to lace though his voice, while he was still gripping my arm.

I sighed and pulled my arm out of his grasp. The tears behind my eyes were starting to build up again and I could feel a headache coming. I was feeling really pathetic.

Sasuke was staring at me with a lot of different emotions in his dark eyes, waiting for me to say something.

"So you actually trusted her instead of me?" I said after a while, not looking at him anymore, but rather at the ground. "Did you actually want me to see you cheating, Sasuke? Is that why you asked me to go?"

"What the fuck, Naruto!" I startled a bit, not used to him raising his voice suddenly like that. "How can you even say that? How could you think that I was cheating on you?"

Those words just snapped something in me, all of the buried feelings from three years ago surfacing in a matter of seconds.

"Seriously?" I asked in a cold stone voice, looking directly at him this time, "How could I not?"

I actually saw the hurt flashing in his eyes while he was looking at me as if he couldn't believe I would say that, before he lowered his head.

"I thought we agreed not to bring that up ever again," he said in a very quiet voice, in a full contrast with just seconds ago.

"We did," I swallowed the lump in my throat, "until you actually started doing it again. But it will be the last time, Sasuke, because this is over."

Sasuke punched the tree next to us with his fist and then he raised his head. I was petrified for a second at the look in his eyes, so full of hurt, guilt and angst at the same time. This time there was another emotion though. The desperation from before was replaced by anger now.

"This is what you have been waiting for the whole time, right, Naruto? You still cannot let yourself be fully with someone, because you're scared of the commitment, so you're looking for the easy way out."

I felt my blood boiling up again and my fists clenched while I hissed, "Don't you dare turn this around on me."

"It is on you, this time. I didn't cheat on you, I never did anything, but be by your side this time. I'm sorry that you still cannot trust me."

"Have fun with Karin, Sasuke," I said while the ache was slowly filling up my heart and I turned around heading to the dorms again. This time he didn't stop me.

If I had to hear one more whisper behind my back or feel one more look being thrown in my way from my so-called friends, I would probably just snap and start shouting at everyone. I was seriously considering not hanging out in our common room anymore and just staying in my dorm room all the time, except for classes. The problem was that Kiba could be really annoying when he wanted to, so I doubt that he would actually let me do that.

I sighed and closed my eyes making myself more comfortable on the couch. To say that it has been awkward in our group of friends since me and Sasuke broke up two weeks ago would be an understatement. It was almost a repeat of the three years before we started dating, but it was actually even worse. Before we were just two best friends who suddenly stopped talking to each other. Now we were actually ex-boyfriends who definitely didn't part on good terms. Everyone could see that from the way we stopped talking – we weren't even really throwing mean comments at each other the way we did before – we just completely ignored the other one, unless absolutely necessary to talk.

No one knew what exactly had happened though and we weren't about to tell them. The night we broke up, Kiba tried asking me what was wrong, but I just told him that I had broken up with Sasuke. I could see the shock written all over his face, but I was fast to let him know that I didn't want to talk about it and that that was final. I was actually a little surprised when he listened to me and didn't ask any further questions, so I guess I must have looked pretty bad.

Of course, Ino and Sakura tried asking me about it many times, but I was always good at changing the subject. I know for sure that they tried asking Sasuke as well, but no luck there either. I could see that Shikamaru, Neji and Hinata also wanted to know the details, but they were smarter than to ask about it. So when they finally more or less gave up on getting the full story, they started making theories between themselves.

Seriously, if Ino and Shika thought that I couldn't hear them from the other couch, they were retarded.

"I'm just saying, it's possible that one of them cheated. You never know," Ino was whispering, but unfortunately her words were reaching not only my ears, but also my heart. It was just hitting me too close to home and I had to make some effort to will the stinging in my eyes away. That bastard was not worth crying over any more than I already had.

"I really doubt that, Ino," Shikamaru said with a small sigh. "Naruto doesn't seem the type and something tells me Sasuke wouldn't make exactly that mistake."

I just couldn't help it, I snorted with my eyes still closed. You would think not. So Shikamaru knew about last time, then.

Apparently they had heard me though and it was now too late to take it back. I heard Ino punching Shika's arm lightly and when I opened my eyes, I saw Neji and Hinata exchanging a serious look. I shifted a little bit nervously on the couch when I saw that Neji was looking at me as if he was going to try his luck asking me about it.

Just then I was saved by the door of the common room opening, as Sakura, Kiba and Sasuke came in.

"Finally this day is over. I cannot believe that we have so much work to do over the weekend," Kiba said while flopping on the couch and moving my legs out of the way to make space for himself. "Move over, golden boy."

As oblivious as my roommate was, I had the feeling that the other two had noticed the tense atmosphere in the room. Sakura threw a look at Hinata as if silently asking her what was going on, but the shy girl just shook her head. I didn't fail to notice that Sasuke narrowed his eyes, before they locked with mine for a moment.

I hated that he could still stir so many emotions in me just by looking me in the eye. I also hated the fact that his eyes always seemed so expressive, as if he was still trying to convey so many things through them, since he couldn't do it through words anymore. I didn't feel entirely comfortable with the way that was making me feel, so I hastily turned my gaze away from him and back to Kiba.

"So what is the plan for tomorrow? We don't have any lab, right?" I decided to ask him. It was certainly not very often that we didn't have to work nowadays.

"Yes! Finally some freedom! We were actually planning to go somewhere all of us together, what about the new amusement park they opened nearby?"

I blinked and threw a quick glance at Sasuke again. He was fumbling with his phone, but his brows were furrowed. Kiba seemed to finally become aware of the awkwardness in the air and looked over to Shikamaru and the others for help.

"Well, as long as everyone is okay with that plan, that is," Shika cleared his throat.

There was some silence for a few moments until I decided that it was time to break the tension.

"It's okay, you guys can go ahead, but I actually plan to catch on some sleep. I haven't been sleeping very well recently, so I'll just stay here, I think."

I actually saw Sasuke's frown deepen a little at that even though he didn't lift his gaze from the phone. Sakura was looking at me with a worried gaze in her emerald eyes.

"Are you sure, Naruto?" She asked me. "It might do you good to have some fun."

Sasuke threw a glance her way at those words, the frown still present on his face and so did Ino and Shikamaru. Sensing the never ending awkward atmosphere, Ino decided to help her best friend out.

"Yeah, I definitely agree, Blondie," she had put on her cheerful voice, though it was obvious to everyone that it was lacking its usual sincerity. "You can sleep during the night, it's time to live a bit during the day!"

I didn't answer for a few seconds while pondering how to get out of having to spend the day with him. I would never admit that out loud to any of them, but if I had to be honest with myself, I didn't think that I was strong enough for that just yet. I was not even sure when I would be again.

"Let the guy breathe," Shikamaru surprisingly came to my defense, risking the wrath of his girlfriend. "If he doesn't want to come, he doesn't."

Ino threw his a nasty look, but after exchanging another glance with Sakura, she sighed and dropped the subject. Apparently the girls wanted to make it their mission to cheer me up again, which kind of made me wonder if they were actually daring to do the same with Sasuke.

I smiled a little at Shika and closed my eyes again, pretending to resume my sleep on the couch. Recently, it was just easier. Pretending to be asleep, because otherwise I had to take part in everything going on around me. And somehow he was always part of it and I just didn't know how long I would be able to continue with this.

If I had to be honest, I felt as if it was slowly killing me.

It was around noon the next day when I finally got out of bed and headed to the cafeteria for some coffee and breakfast. I had heard Kiba getting up really early in the morning and going with the others to the amusement park. I was really glad that I would actually have the day to myself without any of my friends around.

I was not lying to them when I said that I needed to catch up on sleep. Thinking about that cheating bastard had left me with a lot of sleepless hours. However, it was not like I actually had any chance of catching up on those today, since it's not like I could just turn off my mind and stop thinking about him. Most of the time when I closed my eyes, I saw him and Karin kissing in that empty training room. However, sometimes I could just see his deep black eyes, filled with that gaze that he used to give me, which might have seemed cold and collected to a lot of people, but I could read all of the emotions in it like a book. Those were the harder images, since they reminded me that I still couldn't bring myself to hate him even after everything he had put me through.

What I definitely didn't expect though was to see him at the cafeteria, standing in front of the vending machine and choosing his drink. I panicked a little wondering if I should try and run away, but to be honest I really was hungry. He didn't give me any chance to decide though, since exactly at that moment he lifted his gaze and his obsidian eyes locked with mine.

"Hey."

I frowned a little bit, "Weren't you supposed to be with the others at the amusement park?"

I could see that he was a little surprised since those were probably the most words that I have spoken to him willingly since that night.

"No, I didn't feel like going," he paused a bit, as if he was wondering if he should say the next part. "It doesn't feel right without you."

"What is that supposed to mean?" I snapped at him. Why was he doing this to me? "We're nothing anymore."

Sasuke was shaking his head even before I had finished, "You know that this is not true. We can never be nothing. We have been everything possible – best friends, enemies, lovers, but we can never be nothing."

"So what are we now then?" I didn't even know why I was still standing here talking to him. My head was screaming at me to just turn around and go back to my room, but my stupid heart was beating too fast to listen.

Sasuke looked me straight in the eye and my breath hitched a bit upon seeing his expression.

"You're still the person that I'm in love with and that will always be true."

The shock was running through my body and the anger followed quickly after, winning over all of the other emotions that this statement had awoken in me. We had never said those words to each other, not even after everything and that bastard chose now to say them for the first time?!

"The only reason I'm not punching you now is because there are too many people around. Don't say things you don't mean, Sasuke."

"You know better than anyone that I never do. I love you, Naruto. I know that now, even better than before."

I snorted, "So that is it then, isn't it. You lose something, so you want it back. That's not love, no. That's just you wanting whatever you cannot have, because you have always been like that, you selfish bastard. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but it's not going to be me."

I could see the clear frustration forming in Sasuke's eyes, but I didn't care. I didn't believe him and no matter how much my heart wanted to scream back the words at him, I decided to listen to my head this time. He didn't deserve otherwise.

"I will say those words to you as much as you want, until you believe it, Naruto. I'm not going to give up on us again."

"Well, it's going to be a waste of your time. Because I'm never going to believe them."

With that I turned around and walked out of the cafeteria, before I did something stupid. I was not going to let him fool me again. Never again.

Something was off with the bastard. I hated that I noticed it, I hated that I could still tell just by looking at him and most of all I hated that I still cared. But I did. For the others it probably wasn't noticeable at all, since he didn't really show it very much.

He was still doing his part of the job for our common project. He was still talking to all of our friends, well as much as he usually talked to them anyway. He was still taking part in all of his other activities like the kendo club and such.

But his contribution to the project had gotten less and less enthusiastic, he only ever did the bare minimum that he needed to and never came up with additional comments and suggestion like he used to before. Whenever talking to Neji, Shikamaru or one of the others, he was always just answering with short words and only when asked something.

I was currently watching him discuss something with Ino about one of the tests for the project from the other side of the lab while trying to not be staring too obviously.

"He seems a little bit tired recently, doesn't he?" I jumped at Sakura's voice. I turned around and she was looking at me with a knowing look in her emerald eyes.

"What do you mean?" There was not a point really in pretending that we didn't both know who she was talking about.

"Mostly the enormous dark circles under his eyes."

I looked over again at Sasuke and frowned. She had a point. However, I didn't know what else to do but sigh.

"Naruto, I know you're avoiding talking about it, but let me ask you straight once and for all. Did he really cheat on you?"

I turned again to face Sakura, a little surprised that she actually asked me about it. My first reaction was to scream that yes, the fucking bastard had done exactly that, yet again, but something was stopping me. His accusation that I was looking for a way out, those words that he said to me a week ago at the cafeteria. I love you, Naruto. They wouldn't stop echoing in my head over and over again ever since then.

"Kinda," I finally muttered, surprising even myself.

Sakura looked at me with confusion, "How does someone 'kinda' cheat on you?"

"Well... he kissed Karin, but... well, actually she was the one to kiss him... forcefully I guess." It was the first time I was saying it out loud, but also the first time admitting to someone and probably to myself as well that he might not be at fault.

Sakura surprised me yet again with punching me in the arm and not very lightly.

"Ouch!"

"Is that what all of that stupid melodrama is about? Come on, Naruto, can't you see you're both suffering without the other?"

I was saved from answering by Neji who came to us at that moment.

"Did you guys finish your part of the test?"

"Yes, we did, it's over there on the desk," Sakura answered seeing as I was deep in thought again.

Neji threw us a curious glance, but apparently decided not to comment and he just nodded. As he started to walk off in the other direction something in me snapped though and I called out to him.

"Neji, wait!" He stopped and turned back to me. "Can I ask you something?"

"What is it, Naruto?" I looked around to make sure the others were occupied and it was only me, Neji and Sakura in the conversation.

"Has Sasuke been sleeping well lately?" I could probably win an award for the lamest question ever.

Neji exchanged a quick look with Sakura, the surprise in his eyes mirroring hers perfectly, before he answered me.

"Well, um..." he cleared his throat, "Not really, actually. He keeps waking up during the night and I can hear him tossing and turning sometimes." He paused for a bit and looked me straight in the eye with a meaningful look, "I guess something has been really bothering him."

I bit my lip and looked back to Sakura, who was giving me her best I told you so look.

"Okay, I'm going to go get those tests now." And with that Neji walked away leaving me with Sakura again.

"Look, Naruto, you have to forgive him."

I sighed and looked away from her and back to my station.

"It's not that easy, Sakura."

I bit my lip again. Maybe if some more time passed all of those feelings would finally go away little by little. They just had to.

I swear that the more I was putting my effort in something these days the less it was working. For example, the latest lab test for our group project. No matter what I don't seem to be able to get it right and let's just say that Sakura and Neji have not been very happy with me about it.

And then there was Sasuke. The more I was trying to avoid the bastard, the more he seemed to appear at the same places as me. And I was really, really trying my best with the avoiding thing. So currently we were all sitting at the breakfast table in the full cafeteria of the campus. I think it must have been a really long time since all eight of us were here at the same time and on the same table.

"Isn't it so cool that we're all together for breakfast today?" Another new development, Ino seemed to be able to read my mind. She was also getting better and better at it.

"I know! It's been so long!" Sakura joined her in the excitement and I just rolled my eyes at them but a small smile graced my face nonetheless. Sasuke or no Sasuke, I still really enjoyed being with all of my friends together like this and I considered it pretty lucky that we managed to stay such a close group all the way through college.

"Yeah, yeah, it's all very nice, as long as you girls don't start talking about freaking Valentine's day. Again," commented Kiba with a pointed look in the girls' direction.

I couldn't help, but sneak a glance at Sasuke, which I quickly had to avert since it was met with his obsidian eyes staring right at me. Obsessive bastard.

"Well, Kiba, just because you don't have anyone to share the happiness with, doesn't mean that the day is stupid." Ino was grinning widely at the glaring Kiba, pretending not to notice Sakura scowling at her, since she technically didn't have anyone to share the happiness with either.

Shikamaru on the other hand just shook his head at his girlfriend, although I was ready to bet my breakfast that he was actually very happy on the inside.

"Girls are so troublesome, seriously." I cringed at that, but fortunately he was saved from Ino's wrath when one girl from the year below us approached the table. I recognized her to be one of Sasuke's kouhais from the kendo club.

"Um...Uchiha-senpai, I'm really sorry to bother you during breakfast..." she started shyly and managed to get the attention of all of our friends who also looked at her curiously. "It's actually about Valentine's day."

I heard Kiba's loud sigh next to me and his not so quiet muttering of 'There we go again.'

Sasuke just raised his eyebrow at her as if to question what that would have to do with him. I mentally snorted. Could be a message from his new girlfriend Karin, the irrationally jealous part of my brain supplied.

"Well," the girl paused for a bit, as if not sure if it's okay to ask her question, "there is an event for all the members of the kendo club and you're supposed to bring your partner if you want..."

Sasuke sighed at that, "Don't count me in..." he mumbled.

This time I couldn't help, but snore out loud and I noticed him throwing me a sharp look, presumably followed by everyone else staring in my direction as well. Oops, I guess I need to say something to justify myself now.

"I'm sorry, it was just a very funny situation to imagine. You see, Sasuke here is not really capable of loving someone, so Valentine's day doesn't really suit him well, I would say."

Even I knew that it was a little bit too harsh, but I couldn't help the bitter words coming out of my mouth. I could see Sakura shaking her head in disappointment from the corner of my eye. Sasuke on the other hand hadn't reacted at all and was just looking at me without moving an inch.

Before he could react though, the girl laughed nervously, "Haha, well, yeah, actually we assumed as well that he was not exactly the type to celebrate that holiday, but... I just had to ask everyone, I'm sorry for interrupting."

She was about to turn away and get out of the awkward situation as fast as possible, when Sasuke suddenly spoke.

"Wait," he said that towards her, but his deep eyes were locked with mine the entire time and his next words were definitely directed at me.

"Do you want me to embarrass you in front of all of them then, to make you understand?" he smiled and suddenly I was petrified, "Because I will."

I was suddenly unable to move and it was as if someone else was speaking the next words, just using my mouth. "You wouldn't dare..." I whispered.

He smirked with such a confidence that I felt the chills running through my entire body.

"You see," he turned back towards the girl, but his voice was suddenly ringing all throughout the cafeteria even though he was not really shouting. I don't know how he could always draw everyone in like that. "I cannot really participate at the moment, because the person I love doesn't want to be my partner."

My body started to shake a little bit and if I was able even for a moment to take my eyes off of him I would maybe see Shikamaru's and Neji's looks of surprise or heard the gasps from the girls. But I didn't.

"He doesn't understand that I love him, but since I will never be able to love anyone else but him, I cannot really find another partner for the party," Sasuke continued in that calm voice of his that was stirring so many emotions in me. I wanted to do something, to stop this madness, but I just kept watching petrified.

He stood up and everyone that was already shocked by his speech just kept looking at him mesmerized, waiting for his next words.

"For anyone here who gives a damn, I, Uchiha Sasuke, am completely and only in love with Uzumaki Naruto."

All of a sudden, there was a lump in my throat and a big ball of so many conflicted emotions in my chest that just wanted to burst through it and it was all just too fucking much. I needed to leave. I needed to be somewhere where those eyes wouldn't be ripping my soul open.

I stood up with a loud creak of my chair and turned to the exit of the cafeteria as fast as my legs could carry me at the moment. Before I was able to get there though, a strong hand gripped my arm and spun me around forcefully.

"No, Naruto, I'm not letting you run away anymore."

"Stop it, Sasuke," I wish my voice was as steady as his and not sounding as if I was about to choke, "Stop it with the circus already, you just don't understand."

"I do," he was still gripping my arm tightly even though I was looking everywhere, but at him, "I'm the only one who understands every single thing about you, Naruto. I know how you always smile so bright, because you feel that it is your duty to make everyone around you happy, since there was no one to make you happy at one point. I know that your favorite color is actually blue, but you pretend that it is orange, because everyone already thinks it and you don't want to contradict them. I know that you drink your coffee with two spoons of sugar and one cup of milk. I know that you love sleeping in, but you wake up early every morning to study extra, because it has always been your dream to be a doctor and help people. I know you actually want to be in pediatrics, but you stay here, because you want us to be a whole group without anyone missing. I know that Shikamaru is the first guy who was not mean to you in elementary school, which is why you're so grateful to him. I know that you pretended to like Sakura because it was expected of you to like girls, before you actually admitted that you're gay. I know that you still keep the first watch I ever gave you as a present, even though it's already completely broken, because it's the first thing that someone gave you. I know that you want us all to grow old together and go work at the same hospital and live in a big house somewhere in Okinawa when we retire."

I didn't even realize when I had lifted my eyes to look at him, but he was getting closer and closer and my entire body was still trembling. Everyone's eyes were on us and no one dared to say a word, not even Kiba or Ino, which was definitely saying something.

"I know all of those things and everything else there is to know about you, Uzumaki Naruto. The only thing I don't know..." he stopped right in front of me and placed his palm on my cheek. "The only thing I don't know is why you won't let yourself be with me."

"I..." I cleared my throat, "I just don't want to be alone again. Sasuke, I'm not going to be able to lose you again."

He smiled a little, something that was so rare for him that I was always captivated by it no matter what.

"But you won't have to. I love you, Naruto. I'm not going anywhere. Get it through your thick skull already, because everyone is tired of our drama."

I let out a choked laugh at that and shook my head a little. We were already standing so close to each other, but I made one little step closer.

"I love you, too, Sasuke. Always have, always will."

He didn't waste a second more and just yanked me by the wrist which he was still holding and crashed my lips to his. I responded eagerly and the hole that has been in my chest for the past few weeks finally started filling itself. I was so content that I was almost able to ignore the shouts and cheers behind Sasuke's back. Almost.

"I'm never letting you let go of us again," he said in his stern Sasuke voice when we parted to take some breath.

"Please don't," I laughed a little and put my hand on the back of his neck to pull him back to me.

Don't get me wrong, I still hated Uchiha Sasuke for being so fucking perfect. It's just that I knew now that this didn't really stop me from loving him either.