My Light ||NaruSasu||

Chapter 16: Elastic Heart

Bright flashes of light began to fill the dim sky as the sun slowly risen up, despite the sunny day the atmosphere had a very cool feel to it that many people would consider one of the best weather to just enjoy themselves including the blonde teen. Naruto was always late to wake up, his mom would usually wake him up but surprisingly he woke up early in his own and in the weekend. He's so excited to meet with Sakura that everything around him seem to be invisible, the day had already started with so much joy and possitivity and yet his craving for more. He happily went downstairs and went to the dining where he saw his mother preparing breakfast.

"Naruto, you surprisingly woke up early today."

"I'm just really excited I guess," he blithely grinned.

"By the looks of it-you're going out for a date with Sakura aren't you?" she quickly turned off the stove and put aside the kitchen tools as she intriguingly paid attention to his son's response.

"Close but no."

"Come on tell me."

"Well..." he leaned closer and whispered. "It's our second anniversary."

"Aww~" she cooed and grinned. "Well I wish you the best of luck! Oh, and you should bring with you the strawberry cake I bought yesterday."

"But weren't you planning it for us to eat it for dinner tonight?"

"It's fine, I'll just buy another one from the bakery and besides I know Sakura loves to eat sweets."

"Thank you kaa-san," he smiled.

Once they finished their breakfast the blonde resumed to prepare for what's to come soon. He planned to act cluelessly when he meets with her, he thought that once she finally surprises him he'll surprise her back by telling her that he knew all along and offer her the cake. As soon as he saw that the time was already 9:30 he quickly took his leave.

He never doubted the pink-haired girl whenever she acted weird, he would usually predict what happens and at the end of the day he'd always be right; it's already a habit for him to look up to Sakura as being this perfectly imperfect person and how she embraces that side of herself. Despite their shortcomings especially in their relationship the blonde would always fix their every problem and so does Sakura-at least that's what he thinks.

He came to an abrupt stop as soon as he spotted the girl and rushed to meet her.

"Sakura-chan!" he enthusiastically called as he waved to her with the cake in hand.

"Naruto sit down," the girl said in a very serious tone.

"Okay..." the blonde raised an eyebrow as he sat down with her, little does he know what's going to happen next.

"There's something I've been meaning to tell you."

"Go on..."

She closed her eyes and sighed anxiously as she tried to put her thoughts into words, "Naruto, for the past year we've been in a relationship I know you've done so much things for me. Even before you became my boyfriend you always helped me go through the most desperate times of my life despite my stubbornness and my obssesiveness towards other guys. I'm very thankful for everything really but-I can't go on with this relationship any longer, I just can't love you the way you expect me to. You're so nice and a very caring person which is why I think that I really don't deserve your love. I'm sorry but I'm breaking up with you."

His eyes widened in shock, he never expected that kind of response."S-So what? Does this mean that the night we did it together didn't meant anything to you? The day I bought you all those gifts?"

"But you slept with a girl the day before that! What makes you think you're better than me?"

The blonde gritted his teeth as he looked down.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to raise my voice," she frowned.

"That girl..."

"Huh?"

"That girl I danced with in the party-I admit I followed her outside without telling you but only because she left drunk. As I offered her to take her home she kept saying the name Mark, it turns out she got dumped by her boyfriend and she can't seem to get over it so I stayed and talked with her the whole night until finally she agreed for me to take her home. She even made me promise to her not tell anyone what happened so I kept my word."

Sakura's eyes widened, she was surprised that all this time the blonde was really being loyal. She looked down and felt so bad at every bad thing she'd ever done to him.

He puts up a bitter smile and showed a pained expression as he release a weak chuckle, "You know what's so funny? All I ever mentioned in our conversation was you, I told her everything about us and that you were the most precious girl in my life..." he took a long paused as he clenched his fists. "I-I don't think I can call you that any longer."

The girl couldn't hold back her tears any longer, "I-I'm sorry."

Naruto had only looked at her with the most coldest eyes he'd ever given to anyone and it wasn't just his stare that was cold but also his affection for her that he had been carrying for years, as if an ice block was cut into half and just kept on breaking until nothing's left. Sakura looked up only to see his dull and lifeless eyes, the eyes that once looked at her with so much joy.

"You didn't even remember that it's our second anniversary, I even brought cake but I guess you don't want it," he sighed and paused for a moment. "So all this time I've been holding to this relationship just for you to end it? Then..." he turned his back at her. "As you wish."

He began walking away as tears started pouring down his cheeks. It was finally over-as much as it hurts to say for both of them they were already drifting away. As he steps farther it felt like the sky became darker, like the clouds shrouded the light of their relationship-the light that they once had.

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