𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗔 || sasusaku

Chapter 20: Secret

When Sakura was a child, she hates it when someone keeps a secret from her. But she hates it even more when she has to keep a secret from someone.

However, now that she has grown up, she realized that there are secrets that must be kept from people. Every person has at least one secret they couldn't tell anyone.

"Keep this a secret from Sasuke," Itachi told her.

Sakura had gotten a hold of herself and now she was sitting across the man who is responsible for Sasuke's rage and vengeance. But Sakura couldn't sense any ill motive coming from him, not a littlest amount of any concealed motives.

"Why?"

"That I can't tell you," he said, the smile that didn't reach his eyes had gone back to adore his face.

Before Itachi left, he told Sakura something.

"When I'm gone, stay by his side. You're the only one left who can show him how it feels to be love."

How it feels to be love?

Sakura couldn't speak after that. She just watch as the two men left the penthouse.

Everything that happened by then was so surreal and Sakura went back to the dining room and continued cooking the dish.

Only thing was, she finally felt the tension broke out as she almost fell, leaning on the counter. She has to distract herself in order to not think too much about the event earlier. She must act like it never transpired in the first place.

That Uchiha Itachi didn't just come to the penthouse and told Sakura to stay by Sasuke's side.

She has already composed herself and was arranging the table when Sasuke and Naruto came barging from the door, clothes soaked in blood.

What was more than surprising was when Sasuke suddenly pulled Sakura in a very unexpected display of affection that made Sakura's heart pounded on her chest in that weird way again.

"You're fine," Sasuke said.

He sounded as if he's convincing himself that she's right here, safe and sound.

"You're fine,"

He had to repeat himself and he doesn't even know why.

When Sasuke felt small slender arms snaked around his torso and Sakura scooted closer, did he finally let out a breath he didn't even know he's holding.

"I'm fine, Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke doesn't know why he felt it. It was so strange and such a foreign feeling to even be comprehended.

But somewhere down the line, Sasuke knew the reason why he was so afraid something bad might have happened to Sakura while he was gone.

To the only girl who showed him genuine kindness when he was a kid, Sasuke was afraid he might lose another person whom he cared.

He doesn't even know it until now, how much he cared for the girl who tended on his knee when he was a kid and coincidentally, the same woman who saved him on the brink of death.

When Naruto walked inside the living room, Sasuke and Sakura had already put a good amount of distance between them. The moment Sakura's eyes landed on Naruto, it widen in surprise.