Stranger things have happened.....or maybe not.

Obliviousness is an art

I am skipping the excuses and just giving you the story, I hope you like it. Thank you everyone who is reading this, it is super awesome of you and your beautiful self. 

They ate lunch in a comfortable silence and when it was over they both split the price of the meal. Which Sakura greatly appreciated, she didn't mind chivalry but it had a point to where it got annoying. Akuma was different, he didn't treat her like others would. He let her do her own thing; he didn't treat her like a fragile little doll. Akuma understood her need to prove to herself that she was strong enough, and he admired that.

As Akuma and Sakura exited the tea shop Akuma began leading them to their next destination.

"So what's next then?" Sakura creased her eyes at him and Akuma smiled.

"Something I'm sure you'll like." Akuma grabbed her hand after looking at his watch and shunshinned to the location. Sakura looked around and realized that they were at a theater. Akuma, still holding her hand, walked inside and ordered their tickets.

"Two to 'Red Rose Sanctuary: Whispers between mist.'," Akuma said with a grin at the blushing girl behind the counter. He turned around to see Sakura with stars in her eyes making him smile even more.

"Really, we are seeing the first movie of my favorite series of all time, there is no way you didn't pre-plan this day." Akuma looked away trying to avoid the question and Sakura smiled warmly. She grabbed her ticket and took a step toward Akuma and quickly pecked him on the cheek. Akuma's head immediately snapped in Sakura's direction as his eyes widened slightly. Even if she had been wearing a mask, Sakura had just kissed him on the cheek. Something completely odd and out of character for her to do. Sakura creased her eyes and squeezed his hand dragging him toward the room the movie was being shown in. They handed their tickets in and entered the theater and sat in the back row toward the middle. During the entire movie Sakura had to keep her mouth shut as things were playing out differently than in the book. Once it was over she ranted to Akuma the entire time about how many details were wrong.

"I mean come on Chihio has black hair not brown hair, it is specifically said so many times." Sakura sighed at how wrong they got the movie.

"So you didn't like it then." Akuma had figured they would get some things wrong in the movie but didn't know that Sakura would be ranting non stop about it. Sakura looked up at him and at the disgruntled look on his face.

"Well I mean I liked the parts they did get right," She said sort of awkwardly. Akuma smiled a bit trying to shake away the awkwardness. "So uh, where to now?" Sakura asked as they walked out into the cool night air.

"I have a place in mind." Akuma smiled as they walked through the streets that slowly got emptier. "We have to pass through the red light district to get to it but it's a pretty nice place, not many people go there because of the location though, I found it when I was exploring a bit ago." Sakura nodded. They walked in a comfortable silence for a while until hey made it to the redlight district. Sakura saw Akuma looking at her quite worriedly from the corner of his eye as they walked through. Sakura smirked a bit as they got toward the middle of the red light district where prostitutes and drug dealers roamed the streets.

"Sakura-chan!" Sakura turned her head to see two scantily clad woman walk up to her. She creased her eyes in a smile as they came to her cooing over her.

"It's good to see you Tali, Nami." They smiled.

"Are you coming in tonight, the boss says you haven't played in over a week, that's pretty strange for you Kura-chan." Tali pouted slightly as she started playing with Sakura's hair.

"Mm maybe I'll play a quick round if my friend doesn't mind a quick stop?" She asked turning to look at Akuma and immediately laughed at how flustered he looked. The two girls just now noticing Akuma stood up straighter and put mischievous smiles on their faces. Sakura looked at them after she stopped laughing and sighed. "Don't even think about it." She looked at them before they could pounce on the poor unsuspecting Akuma. They pouted and whined making Akuma even more flustered.