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Slowly the couple parted, both needing air. Sakura’s lips were sweet and Sasuke found it hard to pull away but the need of oxygen was as large as his need for her. At least until he was forced to remember what life was like without her taste.

The two stared at each other for a moment. Both gasping. Both surprised, too surprised to speak for a moment. Slowly their heads came back from the clouds and their intertwined limbs were pulled apart. Sasuke had risen onto his knees, revealing the inches he held over her. Had she forgotten how strange his eyes were? No. That she couldn’t forget, but she hadn’t looked deeply into them for awhile now. Her eye’s searched his and for once she didn’t have to look very hard to read him. The eyes were dark with worry. “We shouldn’t have done this.” He whispered, standing. He reached out a hand to her and she took it, pulling herself up. She gripped his hand, not wanting him to pull away. She said his name once more. He shook his head; prying his hands from hers he turned on his heel…a little too quickly. He stumbled and grabbed a tree for balance, bringing a hand to his head. Sakura grabbed his hand, frowning at him. “Not a word…And don’t look at me like that. I’m not drunk. Just…buzzed.”

“It’s the same thing.”

“Just get me to my house before I pass out. My head hurts.”

“That’s what happens when you drink like that.” she murmured. He glared at her as she pulled his arm around her shoulders.

Sasuke leaned on her, one hand on his head the other gripping her shoulder. The world was spinning around him, it made his eye’s roll and his head hurt. But he didn’t mind so much. Thought processes almost stopped when he was like this, but frankly he liked it. It felt amazing. There was no thought, everything was funny and colorful. He loved being drunk, not caring about anything. He looked up and saw that while he was getting lost in himself she had gotten him to his house and was half-dragging him up the stairs to his room. Finally he plopped down on his bed. She went to find him some clothes and Sasuke pulled another bottle from beneath his bed. He put his head back and had it half-drained before Sakura ripped it from his hands. “Sasuke what are you doing!” He grabbed at the bottle but she easily eluded him. He sighed and fell backward on the bed, his arms outstretched on either side of him, looking proud of himself. Her fingers itched to smack him.

Sakura sighed and tried to calm herself down. She was in the middle of counting backwards from 10 when he spoke. “Come here, Sakura. Sit next to me. Or better yet, lay next to me.” Sakura’s eye’s opened to look at him. He was smiling softly, completely relaxed. She took a step closer and allowed herself to be pulled down next to him. He crossed his leg over hers and wrapped his arms around her torso. She placed her hands on his upper arms and she felt his lips come close to hers. But they didn’t just touch; instead they ran over her eyelids and cheeks, her jaw line. He whispered softly. Stupid little nonsense words she couldn’t understand…but she didn’t need to. Just the soft lips and words were enough to make her hands run up his arms onto his shoulders. Finally his lips came to hers and took them possessively. One of his hands ran across her thigh, the other down the smooth column of her throat. She felt his hands going lower and that stupid conscience of hers had to pipe up. What are you doing! He’s drunk! Can’t you taste the alcohol, smell it! You shouldn’t do this; it’s taking advantage of him. And of you too. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

But…

No buts! If you love him you’ll let go. You need to stop this…Now!

Suddenly Sakura was sitting up and Sasuke had raised an eyebrow at her. His arms were loose around her hips and he was frowning at her. “What’s wrong? I won’t hurt you.” His fingers were running up from her hips to run across her ribs. The touch was intoxicating and she had to jump up to keep from being dragged in again. “I-I’m sorry. But we can’t do this.” Before he could say anything she rushed out the door.

She ran downstairs and into the living room. She stopped there, waiting. Waiting for Sasuke to yell at her, to kick her out. She was already crying when she felt soft hands on her arms. Sasuke didn’t turn her around, simply wrapped his arms around her from behind. “Hey, listen. I’m sorry ok? I still want this. I still…want you. But not like this, right? You don’t want it to happen like this.” Sakura let out a small hiccupping sob during a short pause. “Come back in 2 days. I’ll sober up and we’ll go somewhere, ok? No crazy stunts. Just normal you and me. And no advances, I swear. That is…” he nuzzled her neck, “…unless you want them.” After a moment she turned to look at him. “Promise?” she sniffled. He smirked, “Promise.” With that his lips came forward and touched hers, soft as butterfly wings.

Haruno Sakura stared out of her window. She sighed. “Sakura? That Uchiha still isn’t here?”

“No mom. But he will be, just wait.” Her mom sighed behind her. She hadn’t told her mother much about her visit to the Uchiha estate. Only that she was going with him somewhere the next day. Needless to say her parents had been against it. Sasuke was an Uchiha and was also a former missing-nin. Of course her father hated this fact, being a hunter-nin. And her mother hated that he was 1. An Uchiha, everyone knew the story it was basic history now (Sasuke had skipped that entire week of academy) 2. He was one of the most sought after men in Konoha. But in the end Sakura was 18 and was quite capable of making her own decisions (as she had told he parents).

Sakura instantly brightened as she noticed a dark figure walking through the small crowd that the Konoha streets were always covered with. She jumped up and ran to the door, yelling a ‘goodbye’ to her mom. She didn’t give her mother a chance to object as she burst into the summer air.

CRASH

Though she hadn’t expected Sasuke to be right outside the door. (A/N: --’) Sakura blushed profusely as she backed out of the Uchiha’s chest. She grinned sheepishly up at him. (Of course Sasuke hadn’t fallen, Uchiha’s don’t fall) Sasuke quirked an eyebrow, “Rush much?” She glared up at him but quickly forgot her anger as she felt his hand in hers. He intertwined their fingers and turned away, leading her down the street by the hand. She beamed, oh if Naruto could see them now. He’d probably try to kill Sasuke for this. “So where are we going Sasuke-kun?” she said, trying to control her wondering eye. Sasuke was wearing long baggy white pants and a black muscle shirt. His hands and wrists were covered in bandages and vaguely wondered why he was hiding them. His voice drew her back. “You’ll see. And stop that.”

“Stop what?”

“You look like you’re trying to eat me with your eyes or something.” Sakura flushed. Oh no! I didn’t know he could see that.

Well come on, you were undressing him with your eyes and you know it. Don’t forget he’s an Uchiha.

Yeah…Hey where’d you come from? I thought I got rid of you years ago!

Well I’m back. Deal with it. I wonder where we’re going!

Where I’m going. You can go crawl back to the hole you came from.

That’s mean!

Leave!

Humph…

There were no more voices in Sakura’s head, making it clear her conscience was gone. She sighed gratefully. “What?”

“Oh nothing.” Sakura smiled up at Sasuke who raised an eyebrow at her but ignored it. Sasuke suddenly lifted a hand and pointed. “There.” Sakura looked up and grinned. They were headed towards the boardwalk and in Konoha that meant one thing: the Konohagurke Museum. “Yay! I’ve never been here! I always wanted to go though!”

He smirked and pulled a few dollars to pay the man at the door. Sasuke and Sakura ran threw the four floors of the museum, pulling levers, looking threw things. They were children again, lost in a world of old jutsu’s and illusions even Sakura couldn’t see through. Sakura even caught Sasuke smiling softly a couple times.

After their trip through the museum the both ate lunch in a small café outside. Sasuke had coffee (black) and a donut, while Sakura had apple juice and a cinnamon bun. Sasuke looked at Sakura over his cup. “Having fun?” She smiled and nodded, mouth full of cinnamon bun. He took another sip of coffee to hide his smile. “Hey, after this, wanna go see the seals?” Sakura asked with shining eyes. Sasuke nodded.

“They’re so cute!” Sakura squealed happily. Sasuke smirked “You’re cute.” he thought as he watched the seals swim round and round in the cement tank. “Hey Sasuke? Remember when we had to write that report on seals during academy when we were 10?”

“For ‘Appreciation of life’ right?” Sasuke replied, remembering the class’s name.

“Yeah. We were partners and we wrote a report on how the seals were being skinned.”

“You cried when we had to explain the clubbing of the baby seals.”

“Yeah. Sorry about that.” she blushed.

“Don’t be. It was cute. I wanted to kiss you. What would you have done if I had?” he looked at her and she blushed. This time Sasuke was sober and the words were his own. Instead of saying she would have kissed back she shrugged and pretended not to know. She pointed at the seals that swam round and round in the tank, never getting anywhere “Don’t you wish we could set them free? Release them into the ocean and wave as they swam away?” Sasuke turned and frowned at the sea in front of them. It lead straight out to the ocean. “Do you remember the report, Sakura? What good would it do if we let them go? We may be sending them to their deaths. At least they’re safe here.” After a moment Sakura nodded. Her face had fallen, though and she looked sad. Sasuke took her hand and lead her down the boardwalk. “I made you sad. I’m sorry.”

“No. It was the truth. I should’ve known that.” Sasuke looked at her out of the corner of his eye. He spun around and stood in front of her, shoving his face in hers. He contorted his face into an ugly gargoyle face, sticking his tongue out and crossing his eyes. “I bet you can’t do that.” Sakura shook her head; she didn’t want to make herself look ugly in front of Sasuke. He made a face, “Try.” she shook her head. Sasuke stepped back and suddenly he was doing back flips down the boardwalk. He then front-flipped back to her and walked around her on his hands as stuff fell from his pockets. Coins, his wallet and a few more objects hit the ground with a clatter. “I won’t stop till you laugh.” And she did, she almost doubled over laughing. Sasuke flipped over onto his feet and quickly grabbed something to her right and shoved it into his pants. He then started picking up the rest of his stuff (though he left the coins on the ground). “Why don’t you pick up the coins?” Sakura asked, pink from laughing. He shrugged, “Ever seen a child’s face when he finds a quarter on the ground? And I don’t need them. They jingle and I hate that.” She smiled and took his hand as they walked down the boardwalk, knowing he was lying.

It was then that they noticed a man on the corner selling balloons. Big red hearts. “What about a balloon? Will that make you happy?” He turned and was next to the man holding out 2 bucks before she could say anything. He came back with a red balloon bobbing happily above his head. He put it in her hand. “Here. Happy now?” she smiled and nodded. Then noticed something behind him. “Looks like we have an audience.” she murmured. Sasuke turned half around to notice a group of 6 looking at them and whispering disapprovingly. Young men obviously mad that the beautiful, top med-nin Sakura was with Uchiha Sasuke. He smirked and turned to her, “Let’s give ’em a thrill.” Sasuke’s arms went around Sakura’s waist then, and his lips came to hers. He kissed her gently, yet possessively and she returned it whole-heartedly. When they finally parted Sasuke put his head back and stared. “Your balloon.” Sakura’s big red heart was floating away, up into the sky. “I’ll go get you another.” Sasuke turned and was about to run back to the corner and get her another when Sakura grabbed his arm. She remembered the seals, swimming round and round, never getting anywhere. “We set it free. We liberated it.” Sasuke smirked and put an arm around her waist. They walked down the street like that, their arms around each other, hips bumping with every other step.

“I have to get home.” Sasuke whispered against her lips. He had pulled her into an alley by her home and Sakura had kissed him. Now they had been in that alley for about 15 minutes. Sasuke drew his head back from her (he was against a wall so he couldn’t go far) his voice was low, thick. His eye’s half-lidded. She kissed him once more and he had to remind her of the time before she drew away. She made sure she didn’t look like she had just made-out with an Uchiha for the last half-hour and Sasuke gave himself a once over, fixing his shirt.

Sasuke took her hand and they both walked towards Sakura’s house. They stopped at the door and Sasuke gave her a quick kiss. The door opened not a second after his lips left hers. A man with dark hair and green eye’s was glaring at Sasuke. Sasuke nodded, “Haruno-san.”

“Uchiha Sasuke.” the man replied icily. Sakura’s hand fell from his and she turned to leave. The 2 men continued to stare at each other. The eldest Haruno glaring at him and the eldest Uchiha staring with clear determination. Sakura walked past her father and into the house. The Haruno stayed. “Where did you two come from?”

“The boardwalk.” Sasuke matched the ice in the man’s tone.

“You shouldn’t take such a tone when you’re taking out a man’s daughter.”

“I apologize. I don’t mean to take a tone. It happens naturally.”

“Comes from undercover missions, doesn’t it? Comes from when you want to threaten someone. I guess you do that naturally when you’re a missing-nin.”

“No it doesn’t. I’m not a missing-nin. I’m a Jounin of Konoha. My tone is natural though. It’s natural for Uchiha’s. But you’d know that, wouldn’t you?”

“You’re right. I know it well. I’ve had to hunt down one too many Uchiha’s.”

“And yet I was the one to kill my brother and I was the one who chose to come back.”

“Yeah. I just wish it was me who got to take down that Itachi-teme.”

“Don’t call him that! Don’t call him that. You never knew Itachi. And to you my brother is Itachi-dono.”

“To me that monster is better off dead.” Sasuke felt his chest heave. If there was one thing you didn’t do, it was to insult Uchihas’ around Sasuke.

“Don’t speak of which you do not know and do not understand.”

“Oh I understand quite well. You might not have known it, but I was one of the people to clean up after that boys mess.” Sasuke’s fist balled up.

“How dare you! You don’t even know what my brother’s middle name is, and yet you claim to understand us! You could never understand a man like my brother! You don’t know what we went through in that house! Don’t ever claim to know or understand us! Your life is not ours and a man like you would never understand what we went through!” Sasuke all but screamed. He was angry, righteously angry. That was when Sakura and her mother appeared at the door. “What’s going on here?” Sakura’s mother demanded of her husband. This was the first time Sasuke had seen her up close. She looked a lot like Sakura except for her brown eyes. Sakura came to Sasuke’s side and took his hand. She looked worried. “What’s wrong?” she whispered, ignoring her mother who was scolding her father. Sasuke couldn’t look at her. He was shaking with anger and even with his lips closed she could see him grit his teeth. “I shouldn’t have yelled.” Sasuke gave a small bow then turned around, walking into the darkness. Sakura turned to look angrily at her father who couldn’t meet her eyes. She felt tears prick her own and ran upstairs.

Sasuke ran until he was out of sight of the Haruno’s. He ran angrily down the street until he could duck into an alley. He shoved his hands into his pockets and felt something in his right pocket. He pulled it out and looked at it. A simple orange bottle with a white label. It was dated almost a month ago with “Take one every night for 6 months.” in big letters on its front. It was almost half gone now. He quickly opened the bottle’s child-proof cap and shook a few out onto his palm. He put his head back and swallowed them.