Chapter Twenty-Five

"You are so beautiful." Sasuke spoke to his girlfriend as she straddled his waist, smiling at him after waking him up by a kiss to the lips. A blush came to her face, and she placed her hand against his face. "Am I?" He nodded, as he felt her hand slowly trail down from his face, to the waistband of his pajama pants.

"You are." Placing his hand on her face, he cupped her chin and brought her face closer. While gazing into his onyx eyes, she smiled at him while asking, "Can we, you know?" His charming smirk came to his lips, "Before school?" He teased her, while placing his hands on her hips, playing with the cotton material of her panties.

Sakura giggled a little and kissed his neck softly, before whispering into his ear, "Has a quickie ever hurt anyone?" Her lips proceeded to lay a trail of kisses down his body, before she reached his waistband.

With her emerald eyes staring up into his, she winked at him cutely, as her hands pulled his pants down. His eyes observed as she bit her bottom lip, before lathering his member in her lukewarm saliva, while simultaneously caressing him until he was rock solid in her hands.

Bringing his hand to her face, he held her hair out of the way, and bit his bottom lip to keep from moaning as she skillfully used her lips to bring him pleasure. "Fuck, Sakura." He moaned softly, before looking down into her lustful eyes that practically begged him to release his essence into her awaiting mouth.

Pulling away from his member before he could reach his peak, Sakura pulled down her pink panties, and bit her bottom lip as she straddled his waist. A soft moan left her lips as she felt his thick rod enter her throbbing core. His hand grasped her breast, while his soft lips kissed her flesh, leaving light bruises that made her moan into his ear.

"S-Sasuke." Her hands rested against his shoulders to steady herself, as she rotated her hips, while using her thighs to bounce, and bring the both of them pleasure. The closer she got to a release, the tighter her core clenched around his member, and the closer they both got to an orgasm.

So that she wouldn't tire herself out, Sasuke sat up with his back against her headboard, and grasped her ample ass. Leaning her chest against his, she used him as leverage as their lips kissed each other passionately.

Parting his lips to let out a throaty moan, that made her slightly smile while gently biting his bottom lip. His left hand grasped the back of her neck, before kissing her sweet smelling skin. A soft giggle left her lips as he kissed her jawline, and smiled while whispering, "You're so beautiful."

His onyx eyes watched her beautiful, flustered face as the morning sun shined brightly through her bedroom window. Their hands sat on either side of each other's faces, and as they stared at each other with passion-filled eyes, the world seemed to pause.

Sakura's mind that would normally be racing, allowed for her to focus on the young man in front of her. The way he looked at her, combined with his gentle kisses, and caresses made her realize just how much she loved him. She wanted to part her lips and tell him, but her anxiety got the best of her.

Though she loved him whole heartedly, she stood firm in her beliefs that he had a lot of self-reflection to do, before he genuinely could express his feelings. On the other hand, as Sasuke looked into her emerald eyes, he couldn't of been more confident in his feelings for Sakura. Like her, his anxiety got the best of him, so instead of saying that he loved her, he kissed her lips again.

"I-I'm about to cum." She moaned into his ear, as his tongue lightly licked her neck, before doing the same to her nipple. The feeling of his teeth gently grazing against her hardened nipple made her core clench harshly, making a light blush come to his face before a moan left his lips as he reached an orgasm.

"S-Sakura." His moans continued as the friction from her grinding hips, combined with his lips brought her to an orgasm. "Sasuke, oh my Goodness." Placing her hand on the back of his neck, they both gave each other small smiles, while their foreheads rested against each other's as they caught their breaths.

"Time for school." Sakura said softly, moving her legs to get off of him. He watched her walk into her bathroom, with a smile still on his face. When she closed the door, he fell back against the pillows, thinking of how he felt about her.

After everything she'd been through in the last three weeks, Sasuke knew that she didn't mean it when she said that she was okay, and he was there for her the best way he knew to be. They had been spending a lot of time together, and honestly Sasuke just wanted to be around her so much, because he was afraid of what she'd do if she was alone with her thoughts.

Though the way he constantly worried about her was unhealthy, they both knew that he cared deeply about her, and it changed Sakura's pessimistic views of their relationship. Like she told her friends just a few days ago, she initially thought that Sasuke wasn't prepared for a relationship, simply because of his relationship with his estranged brother.

But as they had been dating for almost a week, she started to see almost a new side of him. Oddly, the roles had reversed once they started dating; Sasuke was the one trying to get her to talk about her feelings, and allowing her to bury them with sex, while Sakura was keeping the facade of being okay. They were a ticking time bomb, and he knew it.

Hearing the shower running, Sasuke got out of bed, and decided to join her. The sound of her humming to the music that played brought a smile to his face, and when she opened her eyelids after singing passionately, a blush came to her face as she noticed him opening the shower door.

"That's embarrassing." He laughed, and kissed her forehead. "You're so cute." She just shook her head while laughing, "I can't wait for us to graduate, and just be engulfed in each other all day." Her arms wrapped around his shoulders as she said that, and he looked into her emerald eyes.

  "Have you been thinking about our future?" Her cute blush appeared back to her cheeks, and she nodded while her smile faded from nervousness. "Y-yeah. Imagining where we're going to be gives me hope." He nodded, "Don't worry, I think it's sweet....I think about our future together too." She smiled brightly, "Really?"

"Really." Her lips puckered as she leaned forward and kissed his. "Thank you for coming over last night, by the way. I really was just having a hard time." She said to him with a light blush coming to her face, as she referred to the text she sent him last night, where she asked him to spend the night, because she hadn't been sleeping well.

Though she said it wasn't urgent, Sasuke had a strange feeling, so he dropped what he was doing, packed a bag, and was at her house within half an hour. When she opened her front door, she was an emotional wreck, and on the brink of an anxiety attack.

Luckily, he was able to calm her down with a conversation, and his warm embrace. Sakura fell asleep in his arms on her living room couch, and when he carried her up to her room, he saw the huge mess she had made. As she slept peacefully, he quietly picked up her room, and did her well overdue laundry down the hall in the laundry room.

His efforts didn't go unnoticed, because when Sakura woke up just a few minutes before her alarm would go off for her to wake up for school, she saw how neat her room was, and could've cried at his actions.

"It's no problem, Sakura. Are you doing alright now?" She nodded with a small smile, and kissed his lips again. Pulling away a little, her eyelids remained closed, while she said to him, "I'm always better when I'm with you."

In twenty minutes they were driving to school in Sasuke's car, talking about nothing in particular. "Have you found a dress yet?" Sakura shook her head, "My friends picked all the good colors, so I don't know what I'm gonna wear, and it stresses me out because it's literally in two weeks." He nodded, and placed his hand on her thigh in a comforting way.

"I'm sure you'll find the perfect one." "I just hope that it'll be fun." "You've been to one before, right?" He asked her, and she nodded. "Yeah, but the last one I went to was with Sasori, and honestly I was too high to remember anything."

"Wouldn't that of been before your dad died?" She nodded, "It was, back then I really just did whatever Sasori wanted me to, and I saw him doing a line before we went in to the, so I did one too." Sasuke nodded in understanding, "Oh, sorry for asking, I was just wondering."

"It's no problem. I guess we've never really talked about it before, huh?" "Yeah, I guess not, but that's fine. We don't have to if you don't want to." She placed her hand on top of his, "Thank you."

Walking into school, with their fingers intertwined, Sakura noticed the few glances they got, and she wondered why. "Did I do something stupid last night, that I just don't remember?" She asked Sasuke, making him give her a questionable look. "Not that I know of. Why do you ask?"

"Everyone's staring at us." Sasuke was oblivious to it, making her feel as if she was overreacting. "Everyone always stares at you." A blush came to her face, "Do they?" He nodded as they stood in front of her locker, "I guess I never noticed before."

  Turning the dial to open her locker, she was met with a bouquet of red roses, and before reading the note attached to them, she turned to give Sasuke a hug. "Aw you shouldn't have. We're already dating." She said with a smile, and before he could inform her that it wasn't him who had done it, she kissed his lips sweetly.

Truthfully he was going to ask her to the dance in a similar way, but now he knew he couldn't because of whoever had seemingly beat him to it. "Sakura?" "Yes, Babe?"

The look in her emerald eyes was full of love, and he hated that he couldn't take credit for it. "I didn't send those to you." She giggled cutely, "Did someone else ask me?"

Her question was answered when she plucked the card from the bouquet, and read it aloud dramatically. "Dear, Sakura. I miss your gorgeous face."

The smile on her face quickly turned into a frown as she flipped the paper over, seeing who sent them. "Who is it?" He asked her, noticing the distressed look on her face. "Sasori." She answered, biting her bottom lip at the mere mention of him.

  "I'll get rid of these for you, okay? A-and you just talk to Ino." He said, grabbing the girl's backpack and gently pulling her towards them, as she stood at her locker a few feet away.

"Wha-" She started, but stopped as she saw the look in her friends Emerald colored eyes. "Sakura?"

"I-I," She started, and Ino noticed her friend's hands start to shake. Before she broke down in the middle of the hallway, she pulled her into the bathroom, and watched the door close behind them.

"Tell me what's going on." She spoke to her softly, seeing the tears start to fall from her eyes, as her heart couldn't stop itself from beating so fast that she felt it was going to rip out of her chest.

"I-I'm overreacting." She finally said, though her body was numb, and she felt so out of touch with reality that she had to pinch the flesh of her hand repeatably. "It was just flowers, like I-I shouldn't be so effected by it. He's not here, I-I haven't even seen him in weeks. He just always does this when he knows something is wrong, a-and should I text him?"

She asked, looking her friend into her eyes. Ino was confused, because she didn't know why her friend was so amped up over flowers. Whenever Sasori and Sakura had gotten into a fight, they'd go a few days without talking, then he'd send her flowers, and she'd call him.

It was their thing, so she didn't know why she was so upset, but she assumed that they had just gotten into a huge argument; However, simultaneously she assumed that she would've told her if they had. Her best friend was confused to say the least.

"No, you shouldn't, at least not when you're like this. Did something else happen?" Sakura shook her head, ready to part her lips to tell a lie, before she heard the door to the bathroom open, followed by the sweet voice of her teacher. "Good morning, you two."

Looking over her friends shoulder, Ino smiled at her. "Morning, Mrs. Sarutobi. How are you?" The older lady smiled as she poured out her coffee mug into the sink, "I'm well, how are you ladies?" "We're doing good."

"Are you now?" She asked, this time looking at Sakura through the mirror, as she stood just a few feet away, seconds away from breaking down. "I have a free period right now, you both are welcome to talk in my room. I'll excuse you from class, Mr. Hatake right?"

"Would you? Thank you so much." Ino said to the lady, before grabbing her friend, and dragging her away to the empty classroom. The bell had already rang, so everyone was in their appropriate classrooms, but Ino waited until they got to their destination before she got her answers.

"Talk." She commanded, and instantly, Sakura began to cry. "Why am I like this?" She asked with a laugh leaving her lips. "You know what I did last night? I was having an anxiety attack, and I tore my room apart looking for.... well you know. I even called Sasuke, and he felt so bad that he came over."

Sighing deeply, she continued, "I'm so pathetic that he even cleaned up my room and did my laundry, Ino." Her friend gave her a questionable look, "Stop for a second, Sakura. Let's start at the beginning, what triggered your anxiety attack?"

The only person she had told the truth to was Sasuke, and she didn't want her friends to know. She wasn't sure why, because she knew that they would be supportive, and ultimately just want the best for her. A part of her knew that the more she started to talk about what happened, the more she'd start to have to actually accept it for what it was, and she feared that the moment she did that, her mental health would be even more worse than it already was.

"I was so stressed out about absolutely nothing, Ino. Like one moment I was fine then I just started getting so many intrusive thoughts, that I didn't know what to do." Ino nodded in understanding, although she could tell that she wasn't being truthful.

"S-so I called him, and honestly I don't remember what we talked about, because my mind was racing that much." As she made up a somewhat random story as she spoke, she could tell that Ino wasn't falling for it.

Watching Ino part her lips, ready to ask her why she was lying, Sakura brought her hand to her forehead, not sure of what she wanted to say. "Saku-" They were both interrupted by a light knock on the wooden door, followed by, "Mrs. Sarutobi, I have a quick ques-" Karin stopped talking as she saw who was in the room.

"Oh." She said softly, looking into Sakura's emerald eyes. "She's not here at the moment." Sakura said to the young woman, "Yeah, I can see that. Is all well?"

They both rolled their eyes at her question, "Everything's fine." Ino answered, making a seemingly genuine smile come to the young woman's face. "That's good, I guess I'll see you guys later."

Once she left, Sakura changed the subject, "Did you notice that?" She asked Ino, "I did. She seems almost human." They both laughed, "Right? She's weird." Ino nodded in agreement, "But seriously, Sakura, I love you, and when you're ready to talk I'm here for you."

  Sakura nodded, and pulled her friend into a hug. "You're such a great friend, and I don't tell you enough just how much I appreciate you. I love you." Ino hugged her friend tightly, before looking behind her at the wall clock.

"The bell is about to ring, so I'm going to ask you one more time, are you okay?" Ino asked her, looking into her emerald eyes. She brought her hand up to her cheek, and caressed her tear stained face. The question alone brought tears to her eyes, but she  smiled and nodded her head. "I'm okay."

Ino nodded while tucking a lock of her pink hair behind her ear, "Okay. If you say so." She spoke softly, with a small smile one her face, as they heard the bell ring.

"And where were you two all first, and second period?" Hinata asked her friends as they walked out of the classroom, across the hall from her own.

"Just talking." Sakura answered with a small smile, making Hinata glance at Ino, who just shrugged her shoulders. "Well, we didn't do much in first period anyways."

Sakura asked, "Do we ever?" They all giggled at that, before going their separate ways. "Was everything okay?" Hinata asked Ino as they sat in their seats. "I'm not really sure, I think she was just freaked out. She got flowers from Sasori today."

Hinata rolled her eyes at the mere thought of that. "He's so annoying. Please tell me she didn't call him." Ino shrugged her shoulders as Sasuke sat in his seat behind them. "I told her not to, so I hope not."

  After a while, once the bell rang for class to start, their teacher handed out their assignment. "What happened to her, Sasuke?" Ino asked the young man as Hinata got up from her seat, "I thought she'd tell you."

She sighed deeply while leaning back in her chair, "She said some stuff, but I could tell that she was lying." Sasuke shrugged his shoulders, "Maybe I'll be able to get something out of her."