finally,I made it through the last chapter! :) i rushed this because classes are going to start tomorrow and i cannot make fics until classes are over but i hope you'll still like it. reviews please since this will be the last :)
EDIT: i reposted the last chapter to edit some mistakes :)
"Sakura, want to have a sleepover later at naruto's?" Sasuke whispered at sakura who was sitting beside him in class. Sakura looked at sasuke's direction and nodded at him. "but why?" She asked just right in volume so sasuke's the only one who will hear her. "I don't know either. Naruto just asked me a while ago and told me to tell you. I think the others will come too since no one's gonna do something really important." He pointed naruto who was sleeping during class. It was really his habit that even when the other teachers see him, they just ignore. Sakura giggled softly at naruto. "sasuke wake him up, he's drooling" Sasuke just gave a disgusted face.
Everything seems to be back to normal. After their talk, they returned to what they were like before the event when sasuke admitted his feelings for her happened. They go out again, have fun, go to each others houses and atleast, it stopped their friends from worrying, except naruto and ino who seem to have some plans. Though unlike before, the two of them don't talk much about what happened in the past. When conversations like that starts, they will suddenly become silent and gloomy.
On sasuke's part, although he hasn't gotten his answer yet, he always thinks about what itachi told him. "If you're not ready to get hurt, you're not ready to love." Itachi's words kept ringing on his ears. Sasuke's ready for any answer, good or bad, hurtful or not, whatever it may be, he's willing to accept it whole-heartedly. He was wrong too so the least he can do is accept the consequences that will be given to him.
BETTER THIS WAY
Chapter eight- attempts
"Movie time's over!! What shall we do next?" Naruto leaped up and down. "What the heck? How come you're able to jump up and down after seeing the movie? I was too damn scared, I don't know if I can even sleep." Sakura yelled at naruto. Her grip on sasuke's arms were really tight as if she won't let go forever. Sasuke just sighed at this. "Yeah it was too scary that's why I got deaf because of your nonstop screams." He said and smirked at shikamaru who was holding his ear and flinching in pain, same reason he has.
"Sasuke, but it was really scary! I don't know how you guys can control your screams….. except for naruto who was shouting louder than his girlfriend. She laughed at naruto while Hinata just blushed at what she said. "sakura, you don't really need to elaborate on that." Naruto scratched the back of his head and laughed nervously.
"Hey guys, how about truth AND dare?" Ino winked at naruto who grinned at her in return. Ino heard Shikamaru mutter a troublesome so she smacked him on the head. The girls agreed to the idea while the other guys didn't want to join though in the end, they joined anyway. They sat in a circle with an empty bottle of soda in the middle. "Okay I'll spin first!" Tenten raised a hand and spun the empty bottle which stopped, pointing at Kiba. "Crap. this is the reason why I hate this kind of games!" Kiba cursed under his breath while tenten just grinned at him. "tell the truth, I heard awhile ago from one of our classmates that you have 3 girlfriends at once. One from the second year and two from the upper batch, is that true?" She grinned even more. The others were like 'whoah! Are you serious?' and suddenly, all eyes and attention turned to Kiba.
"I didn't know you're that… errr." Shino, Kiba's closest friend on the group, commented and gave his friend a disgusted look. Kiba just laughed at the group's reactions. "why are you all so surprised?" He asked and laughed again. "3 girls at the same time Kiba?" Chouji munched on his chips. "Okay easy guys." Kiba started and cleared his throat afterwards.
"Only two at the same time, three is too much." Kiba gave a beam at his friends. "What?" They asked. "one from our class, you know who she is and one from the third year. You cannot blame me, my looks are deadly." He said with so much confident and it made the others wanted to vomit. "anyway, what's the dare?" Tenten thought for awhile. "get me water" She smiled. "what? I'm thirsty!" She said while Kiba sighed in relief and stood up to get water for tenten. When he came back, he spun the bottle again and this time, it pointed on naruto. Instead of complaining, naruto smirked. (What are you thinking naruto?)
"okay, bring it on!" He yelled and kiba smirked at him. "Truth, are you gay? Dare, bath akamaru tomorrow." Hinata blushed at this.
"gay? Are you serious? I have a girlfriend! Akamaru? Fine whatever." He answered continuously. "too easy." He muttered while Kiba smacked his head because he just thought that he should have given him a harder dare. "Okay! My turn!" He yelled again in his usual energetic and excited tone. He turned to Ino for awhile and spun the bottle. It stopped on Hinata but Ino secretly blew it so, luckily, it pointed to sakura. Sakura just sighed and raised a brow at Naruto. "what?" She asked at the grinning naruto. "This is a game sakura, don't get mad at me." He grinned wider and it made sasuke, instead of sakura, feel uncomfortable. "I don't like that grin!" Sasuke thought.
"I know you love sasuke more than a friend, do you? If you do, kiss him in front of us. If not, kiss Shino instead. That's the truth and the dare"
"what?" Sasuke, sakura and shino yelled at the same time while naruto just nodded at the three of them. The group silenced and everyone's attention turned to first, naruto then to sasuke and sakura. Sakura looked at sasuke for a while then to naruto then to ino then to sasuke again then at the floor. "Umm.." She started, almost like a whisper. She looked up and gave naruto a death glare but naruto didn't remove the grin on his face which she finds annoying. "umm sasuke." She looked at sasuke once more. "Ummm I-"
"what?"
The lights turned off and there was a blackout all over the town. Sakura sighed in relief, so did sasuke and Shino. Naruto and Ino muttered a "damn it."
First attempt, failed.
"kakashi-sensei please!!" Ino begged. "what is this for yamanaka?" Kakashi asked though behind his mysterious mask, he was smirking. "don't act as if you're innocent! You know what it's for sensei!! Please?" She begged again, sweetly but when Kakashi didn't answer, her once sweet voice turned to a threatening one. "If not, I'm going to show everyone your face!" She put a picture in front of kakashi's face which made him surprised.
"it's your picture, with NO mask! I'll definitely show this to everyone!" She bribed and Kakashi just sighed at this. "okay what do you want? but give me that picture first!"
"sure!"
Later on, Ino entered the classroom and after a few minutes, Kakashi entered as well. "okay class, I know you'll be happy today since we're not going to discuss about any lesson in the book.." He spoke and the class yelped in delight. "But we're going to discuss about a certain topic for today." He placed his things on his table and started walking on the aisle. The class was silent and all eyes were facing him. "We're going to discuss about relationships." He smiled a one-sided one just by seeing the reaction of most of the students. Some squealed, some got frustrated while some didn't even give a reaction.
"Let me start." He cleared his throat. "In a relationship, love for your partner is not the only ingredient which is needed. You should first love yourself before anything else." He raised a finger. "Oh yeah, before anything else, I'm not in a relationship now or something because I just figured that you would ask me. I just got this from my books." He laughed while the class muttered a gross! "If you really want to learn more about relationships, I suggest jiraiya-sama's books. He assured the class but they just yelled a 'no way!'
"anyway, if you're not ready to get hurt then you're not ready to love." He glared at sasuke who was startled at what kakashi said. "yeah before I continue, I want to ask some of you first about this relationships."
"sasuke" he called out while sasuke gave an annoyed look. "Have you ever been into a love relationship?" Kakashi asked, more of a mock. Sasuke just plainly answered a no. Next, kakashi turned to sakura. "Do you love someone more than a friend right now?" He smirked at her shocked face. "If yes, do you mind telling us?"
bell rings
"Men, I didn't notice I was 40 minutes late!"
Second attempt, failed.
"what's up with everyone?" She threw herself on the bed and covered her eyes. "it seems like they are pushing me to say something to sasuke." She sighed. "But am I sure that I'll be able to answer when time comes?"
"Sakura dear, Naruto's here!" Her mom called from downstairs. "Naruto?" She asked herself and immediately stood up and went down. When Naruto saw her, he quickly pulled her out of the house. "Naruto why? I'm still in my uniform!" She asked a bit annoyed but when she saw that Naruto was wearing a different and unusual expression on his face she quickly asked what's the problem.
"sasuke." Naruto looked down. "what happened to sasuke?" She panicked all of a sudden and kept on shaking naruto. "you have to stop him sakura!" Naruto yelled. "Why? What happened?" She was nearly crying even though she doesn't know the reason yet. "Enter the car, I'll explain everything on the way." The two of them immediately went inside a taxi.
"why are we heading towards the airport naruto?" A tear went down from her eyes. "sasuke's leaving, now." Naruto looked out of the window. "what?" She shouted at him and began to shed more tears. "that's why you have to stop him sakura, please! I know you love him that's why please stop him!" Naruto pleaded.
"where is he going?"
"States. He told me to give this letter to you after he leaves but I couldn't stand it!" He handed her an envelope the moment they arrived at the airport. She crumpled the envelope and didn't even bother to read it and just went straightly inside the airport and began running. "sasuke where are you?" She cried and searched everywhere for sasuke with naruto behind her. "sasuke!" she yelled when she finally saw him with ino. "Sakura!" Sasuke called and they started running towards each other. They hugged one another tightly.
"Sakura, please don't leave me!"
"Sasuke please don't go! I-"
They both said at the same time. "what?" They parted and eyed each other confusingly. "We're dead!" Naruto and Ino spoke and started to take a step back little but little and slowly. Sasuke and Sakura both glared dangerously at them and it made them stiffen their bodies. "Sasuke, you're not going away?" Sakura glared back at sasuke, still having a confused look on her face. "Ino said you're the one who's going away!" Sasuke raised a brow. They stared at each other for a few seconds and ran after naruto.
"aaaahhh!! Ouch ouch! Aww!" Naruto screamed in pain. "This was a set-up? You embarrassed me!" Sakura shouted at naruto and pulled his hair. "aw sakura!! stop! Ouch! Sasuke!" Naruto begged. "Damn it naruto!" Sasuke curled his fists and punched naruto on the face.
"why just me?? Ino's a part of this too!! Aww!!" Ino just laugh. "I'm not done with you ino!" Sakura threatened while ino just laughed nervously. "aaahh!"
Third attempt, failed.
"I had enough!" Ino complained to naruto who has band aid's all over his face. He grinned at her. "Don't tell me you have something useless in your mind again naruto!" Ino raised a brow at him. He whispered something to her. "are you sure?" she hesitatingly asked and he just laughed crazily.
"don't you think it's too much?" Ino was unsure of naruto's idea. He gave her a thumbs up and assured her. "Trust me!"
"this is the last time I'm trusting you uzumaki naruto! If anything bad happens, it's your fault and not mine!"
"sakura told me to meet you at the back of the gym later at dismissal." Sasuke thought of what naruto told him a while ago. He continued to walk towards the back of the gym. "I shouldn't have trust him in the first place." He sighed. When he reached the back of the gym, he saw someone unexpected instead of sakura. "shiki" Sasuke spoke.
Shiki's also in the same year as them. When they were first years, aside from sai, he was one of sakura's eager lovers. He used to court her many times now but gets the same outcome all over. After awhile, he gave up and moved on. Sasuke sighed inside him. "What do you want?" Sasuke asked coolly. "Are you waiting for your little girlfriend uchiha?" Shiki spoke and soon, four men started walking towards them. Sasuke just stayed calm even though he was already sensing what's going to happen next.
"just tell me what you want." He eyed the 5 men in front of him. "You are wasting you time for a bitch like haruno, uchiha." Shiki smirked an arrogant one at sasuke. Sasuke clenched his fists. "Why, do you want to pay back because she dumped you in public?" Sasuke returned the smirk. "who said I really loved her? She's a bitch!" Shiki insulted and it got into sasuke's nerves. "Are you looking for a fight shiki mori?" His eyes turned to a cold one. "why, do you want one uchiha?" Shiki raised his head, an arrogant and an annoying enveloping his face. "Fuck you!" Sasuke charged at Shiki but the other guys who was with him grabbed sasuke and punched him on the face.
"sasuke." Sakura spoke from afar. She was watching since Shiki arrived. A while ago, Ino told Sakura to meet her at the back of the gym because she'll have something interesting to show her. Well partly, it's true since what sakura was a bit interesting though a bit violent. "he really loves me." She thought.
Sasuke punched the other men and defended himself but sooner, few men began to arrive. "sasuke, shiki stop it!!" Sakura screamed and began to run towards them. "Let's go!" Shiki told the other men and smirked at sasuke. They dusted themselves and followed shiki.
She went towards sasuke who has sitting on the ground. "What were you doing?" She scolded and he just looked away. "Aren't you supposed to be concerned?" He raised a brow at her while she just sighed and stood up. "Stand up, we're going to the clinic!" She said and dusted off her skirt. Sasuke didn't do anything. "I said stand up!" She scolded again and he just sighed at her and stood up. When he stood up, she immediately pulled him towards the school clinic. "Sakura, this is really nothing." Sasuke insisted and tried to stop her but her grip was too tight. "you don't have to pretend that you're always strong sasuke!" She said in a mad tone and continued to pull him towards the school clinic.
When they arrived at the clinic, sakura insisted to the nurse that she can treat sasuke's wounds and just asked for the medicines and band aids. They went inside a room and sasuke sat down on one of the beds and waited for sakura. He doesn't why but when she entered the room, he got nervous all of a sudden, maybe because he'll be scolded again.
She put the first aid kit on the bed and sat down. She put the medicine on the cotton and started to treat his wounds on his face. "aw! Don't be too harsh sakura!" He groaned in pain. "what were you thinking back then? You know you can't beat them all even if they're telling bad things about me!" She reprimanded. "you were there?" He gave her a puzzled look. "Yes and sasuke, you didn't have to do that!" Sasuke just gave her a smile. "You know I can't allow them to say such things to you! Even if you insisted, I will still do it!" sakura didn't answer. She put the band aids on his cheeks and slapped him playfully. "Idiot!" She smiled. He doesn't know the reason but he pulled her into a hug without even thinking.
Sakura just smiled some more. When they parted, she pulled him up from the bed. "Let's go." She said and they thanked the nurse for the first aid kit and went out.
The park is a very special place for the two of them. No real reason, they just enjoy it there. The sky was already getting dark but they were still strolling around the park. "Hey sasuke." She called out. "what?" He asked in reply. "Thanks for awhile ago." She smiled at him. "yeah" Sasuke anwered.
"you know what?" She started and walked ahead of him when he stopped. "I'm sorry for not realizing this sasuke but.." Her back was facing him and he just stood there watching her back. "but I really love you, more than what you think." She said shyly with a smile and continued to walk away from him, leaving him shocked. He did not speak for a while, still registering everything on his mind. "what did you say?" He finally spoke. She stopped walking and looked back, sticking a tongue out at him. He smiled widely and ran towards her. Sakura, seeing this also ran away from him. "waaahh sasuke no!" She continued to run but he was too fast and he finally caught her. And when he did, he tickled her. "can you repeat it for me?" He smirked at her. "no. aah! Stop it sasuke." She said between her giggles. "no?" he asked and tickled her even more. She laughed non stop but she managed to catch his lips, making him stop at what he was doing.
He closed his eyes and so did she and she wrapped her arms around his neck while he wrapped his on her waist. He was surprised at first but he returned the kiss without hesitating and instead, he deepened it. "sasu-kun" he heard her mutter between his kisses and it made him smirk.
When they parted, sakura smirked at him, her hands were still wrapped around his neck. "I love my bestfriend. I love you sasuke and I'm sorry to keep you waiting." She smiled and hugged him tightly. "thank you, sakura." He muttered.
(cheers and claps from naruto and ino)
"what? Why are you here idiots?" Sakura asked blushing, realizing that they saw what she and sasuke did. "Aren't you going to thank us?" Ino asked with a really big smile on her face. "So what happened awhile ago was your plan?" Sasuke twitched his brows. He even got wounds on his handsome face because of their plan. Naruto and Ino nodded with so much pride on their faces. "Idiot!" Sasuke yelled and smacked naruto on the head. "Ouch teme! You should thank us!" Naruto groaned in pain.
Sasuke and naruto were fighting while sakura hugged her other bestfrend ino. "thank you ino" Sakura said and ino hugged her back with a smile tugged on her lips. "anything for my friend sakura." She muttered.
"teme! I think we should be like them sometimes too." Naruto suggested to sasuke but onlt received another smack on the head. "Ouch!"
Fourth attempt, success!
"It's been long.." Sakura rested her head on sasuke's shoulder. They were in a beach and they were watching the sunset. "yeah." Sasuke muttered and intertwined his fingers with her. He kissed her on the forehead and smiled at her. "Did you ever regret something that you did during the past?" He asked her and she shook her head. "I remembered, I once told ino that I have no reasons to regret everything I did and besides, whatever it was that happened, it's better this way don't you think?" She gave a warm smile.
"definitely better this way." He spoke and kissed her gently on the lips.
"Mom, dad!" Their son called and they parted. "Syusuke don't run!"
The end.
yey! another fic finished. i'm sorry if it's a bit lame since i really rushed it. anyway, thanks for those who read my story and for those who patiently waited for me to update. thanks for all the reviews and for adding this story on their favorites. till next time! :)