The Two of Us

15 | Said

Sasuke is now quietly walking with Sakura towards her home. Though Sakura finds the solitary with him peaceful, Sasuke was uncomfortable. As someone who basks in silence all the time, this one was unusually making him queasy.

Sasuke has thought his actions over and over, contemplating if he should apologize or just to let things flow between him and Sakura but for some unknown reason, he kept quiet until their presences are now facing with Sakura's maroon door.

"Sakura." Sasuke called, nervous evident in his tone but when the kunoichi faced him, he found comfort in her forest eyes.

Sakura only looked at him with anticipation, keeping her mouth shut as she waited for him to speak his mind.

"I'm sorry."

It wasn't what Sakura expected. She thought the man before her will pour his heart out to her again but instead, he apologized.

"For what, Sasuke-kun?"

"For what I did yesterday until today." his single onyx eye never left hers as he observed the confusion crippling in to her expression.

"Which is?"

A heavy sigh escaped his lips as he closed his eyes, preparing himself to be open about his thoughts and feelings.

"My actions towards you must be overwhelming for you and I apologize for that." he started, opening his eyes as he looked apologetically at her, "It's unusual for me to act that way and I realized how I did things without your consent."

Sakura's eyes widened at the confession. He was saying sorry for kissing her?

Hearing no response from her, he continued, "I took advantage of our heated conversation and I lost control because..."

This was it, Sasuke thought. Months of contemplation and doubts about his feelings will finally be served at the table. He wasn't a man of words, he never was, especially when it comes to what he thinks and what he feels but with her, with Sakura, he wants to do everything for her, with her, and to her. If she wasn't going to say it, then maybe he should.

He didn't really have a lot of time. He was bound to the other villages for two years, six months from now. Sakura will leave next week for the Wave country and no one can tell how long she will take. The thread of time they're holding on keeps on thinning and if fate will soon separate them, might as well tell her what's going on.

"...because I can't take the silence anymore, Sakura." Sasuke finished, looking at her intently with passion burning in his obsidian and amethyst eyes.

"I've been thinking about this for months since I've been here at Konoha and I had countless of dumb conversations with the dobe just to get to this point."

"Sasuke-kun, what do you mean?"

Sakura knows what he meant. But she needs him to say it, she needs her ears to hear it directly from his mouth.

Sasuke was now glaring at her, was she acting dumb now? However, Sasuke ignored this and took a deep breath before letting the words escape his lips.

"Sakura—"

Sasuke's confidence in uttering those words suddenly deflated when an ANBU arrived. Sasuke snapped his head at the ninja and a sharp and cold "What?!" was heard from him.

"The Hokage requests for your presence, Uchiha-sama."

"Now?!" he aggravatingly asked, pissed at how he ruined the moment.

"Yes. I believe it's urgent." the ninja said before disappearing, unable to catch the series of curses under the sannin's breath.

"Go, Sasuke-kun." Sakura said softly, almost like a whisper.