~Chapter Twenty-Four~
I grabbed Sasukes' hand and stormed away from them so fast that there was dust following behind us. 'How could they even think of something so, so gross!?' I turned right at the first alleyway I saw and let go of his hand. I started to pace back and forth just thinking to myself..
"Could you stop doing that, it's annoying.." I stoped cold in my tracks..glanced at him and then started to walk away from him. I was just about to walk out of the ally when he grabbed ahold of my hand and pulled me back in. I looked at him like he ws crazy but he didn't pay any attention to me, he was so focused on the street trying to find something out there.. but what?
"Umm Sasuke? What are you doing?" I was still thinking about what they said that I was turning tomato red at how close he was to me.. but before he even acknowledged that I said anything to him, he moved away from me and looked left and right down the street, leaving me leaning on the wall red faced and dazed.
"Hnn.." He looked at me and motioned for me to follow him out to the street. We stated to walk back to our houses and I still refused to say anything as I felt his gaze on me every few steps. It was like he was expecting me to say something about what happened but I couldn't... 'Every time I think about what happened or what was said my face starts to heat up and all I can think are dirty thoughts.. Why did it have to be all THREE of them?.. I'm just glad that my brother wasn't there... Sasuke would be dead and buried as soon as my brother even got the hint of anything like THAT..' I sighed andlooked to the sky as we were walking.
"You ok Kimi?" I closed my eyes, took a deep breath in, and then looked at him with a small genuine smile.
"Yeah, I guess I am.. I'm sorry about all that back there.." I nodded my head back in the direction of the 'incident' and then laughed at his pink cheeks. 'I guess I'm not the only person made uncomfortable by them..' He looked away from me and I pretended to be offended and lightly shoved him on the shoulder. He moved a few steps away and then tried to shove me but I dodged his hand and he ended up hitting a tree instead.
"Hahahahahahaha... your still as slow as ever Sasuke." I looked back at him and realized too late that he was close enough to push me down but he didn't anticipate that I would not go down alone. We both fell down and rolled around on the floor, I ended up coming out on top of him both of us laughing. I smiled down at him and he looked at me, 'this is the first time I've seen him smile in a very long time..' I giggled one last time before I felt the need to talk.
"So the great can laugh at the simple things in life." he smirked at me with this strange look in eyes.
"So you finally admit that I am great." He picked his head up just in the slightest way that it brought to light how close we actually were to each other. My face turned a light pink as he continued to stared at me from on the ground. I shook my head then got up off of him and held out my hand for him to take. He grabbed my hand after looking at it for quite sometime. Dusting ourselves off we started to walk back in the direction of my house. The fact that it was still dark out made the trip a little quiet and peaceful almost enjoyable even. I gazed at Sasuke from underneath my bangs and noticed that he still had a smile on his face, it was very soft but it was still there. I was actually starting to notice a change in him and this made me giggle softly to myself.
"What is so funny?" I looked at him and smiled my biggest smile.
"Oooh nothing important." I mused as we kept each others speed. I turned my gaze up and realized that we arrived at my house far sooner than I anticipated. He cleared his throat as my smile dimmed. I looked at him waiting for him to speak, but he took too long so I threw my arms around him and hugged my oldest friend and I felt sadness as I realized how stiff he was underneath my arms. I felt like it was my fault for leaving him all by himself, for tricking him and lying to him for all these years. tears were on the brink of falling from my eyes before I felt him relax and wrap his arms around my waist and pull me in tight for a long over due embrace. As I cried silently in his arms, he placed his face in the crook of my neck, I could feel is breath on my collar bone. He felt so nice and smelled the same as he always had, he felt like something I've lost so long ago... He felt like home. I pulled away from him far enough t see his eyes.
"Would you like to come in?" I asked, even tho I would have rather told him that I needed him to come in. I didn't want to give him the wrong impression.
"Yeah." He pulled away so I could open the door. As we walked in I realized that this was the first time he was even close to my house so I decided it would be best if I showed him around. It was a nice sized flat\apartment, just big enough for two people. After I showed him where everything was I excused myself to go change out of my dirty pajamas and into a clean pair of shorts and a clean shirt. When I came out I found him looking at some of our pictures we had hanging on the wall. The particular picture he was looking at was of both of our families.. It had my father and both of his parents, and our older brother with us, I gazed at him.
"I miss how blissful we used to live, before all this crap happened.." I looked from him to the picture. A sad smile growing on my lips.
"We were nothing more than ignorant children.. listening to the lies of our parents, believing them. Actually convincing ourselves that we were ever safe.. using them as a shield from the horrible truth that is life. I do not miss most of my past, just you.. Kimi.." I was shocked at how cold he was acting. I looked at him and saw longing, fear, and sadness, but there was something else hidden behind the wall that he was trying to put up..
"I have had the same day play out in my head over and over again almost every night for the past seven years... And I can tell you this.. I missed every second of our shared past. Including the bad and good times.." I walked over to the couch and sat down on the edge.
"The times that you bullied me, the times where we had to run form those crazy ass fan girls of yours, the times where we fell asleep together in your bed after playing one of our silly childish games." I looked at my clenched hands as I reminisced on memories. I didn't noticed him moving to sit next to me, until he grabbed my hands and forced my chin upwards. He smiled at me as a tear escaped my eye, I truly felt upset. I never actually let myself feel much about the situation, I've learned to keep myself busy and let my mind forget what happened, He pulled me into his arms and held me tightly in a warm embrace. I slowly gave into his comforting hug and finally let my feelings take over my entire being.
