Begin Again (Third Book To The Tale of Princess Maiko) (Naruto Fanfic)

24 Hours Before....

24 hours before the last chapter....

He tried to kiss me...I thought as I dashed through the trees, not really knowing where I was going. Though, now that I think about it I never know where I'm going when I'm...startled.

It was hard to imagine that just like his older self, Sasuke liked me. His grown-up self, the quiet emotionless one, needed someone to care for, something worth fighting for. Rather than revenge.

Was this really the only way? Was the only way to live in this place, in this world, was being with him? I've been hanging out with him and I find him charming. Very charming, funny, open-minded, sincere, well-behaved, and well. He was very handsome.

But...but...

The real but here...was really against my mind's but's.

When I saw him in the eyes...that...feeling, the blood-heating feeling that started on my ends to the very core of me...it was different...

Even the flashbacks, the cute, warming flashbacks, made me uneasy. Stuff like his hand, always warm and confident as he grabbed ahold of mine, locking each other as his thumb caressed the back of my hand.

When he wrapped his arm around my waist...as if he were afraid of losing me... Or his kiss, those soft, warm lips, his upper-side lips reacting in some kind of flinch every time I kissed back. As if surprised I'd kissed him back, or perhaps he expected me to snap at him...I never planned on it, until that last kiss, of course...

I stopped on my tracks when I saw some pink blur. I looked at it carefully from behind a tree...of course it was Sakura. But then again, it took me aback to why she was there. Actually it took me aback who she was there with...

She was talking to Kakashi, my brother...He actually listened to her ranting girl-problems. And of course too, she was talking about Sasuke. Sakura always talked about Sasuke, every girl in Konoha always talked about Sasuke, parents always talked about Sasuke too. It was as if he were some famous teenage boy like...Justin Bieber or perhaps Taylor Lautner or even more popular and girl-affecting. One Direction.

A band I used to be very into back at home, they even went to Japan once...I freaked and was on first row doing weird hand movements for their new movie, I believe or something like that... Zayn Malik even talked to me, and also did Louis Tomlinson but I wanted to talk to the others too...

I still remember what they said...

"Nice hair...it really makes those shiny eyes of yours stand out...What's your name?" Zayn had asked.

I smiled and almost blushed. "Maiko...Maiko Antoinette Johnson."

"Well HELLO!” Louis yelled as he jumped next to Zayn, making us both jump and Zayn dropped the strand of silver hair.

"Oh My God! You have white hair?" Louis exclaimed.

"Louis, please, just don't..." Zayn said, rolling his eyes.

"Zayn, shut up, you have a girlfriend..." He answered then turned to me. "So, why did you dye your hair white? It's awesome but with a cute face like yours would stand out without the necessary of that! Wait, do you understand English?"

"OK...first, it's silver not white. Second, yes I do understand English and seven other languages, Third, I didn't dye my hair I was born with it like this, no one, not even doctors know why, fourth, you have a girlfriend too..."