It was a cold and dark day. The Christmas Eve. Standing on a small bridge,that was so narrow that only one person could pass it at time, you brought your head back and sighed.
“Move”
Startled, you twirled around only to find the gloomy Uchiha behind you.
“Oh, it’s only you…”
Uchiha’s eyes narrowed at your comment but he didn’t say anything. No matter how strange that sounded he never was the one to start an argument with you. Bored, you chose to ignore him and started walking so you could give him a way. You heard his footsteps and you knew he fallowed. When you stepped out of the bridge, you took a turn to the right, taking the path that led to the training grounds. The day was just too cold and you didn’t feel like going home so you thought that maybe a short training could warm you up a little bit. The sound of your soft steps was overcome as the Uchiha caught up with you and started walking right next to you.
You let out a sigh of annoyance but left your lips shut. Obviously he was heading to the training fields too. What luck, today, on Christmas Eve, you wanted to be alone but now you got company.
Should’ve figured out he was going to train at such day… After all he doesn’t have family too…
“You”
Surprised, you looked at him, your eyebrows crooked up.
“You’re going to the training grounds?”
“So and what?”
He grunted at closed his eyes plunging his hands into his pockets. You let out an annoyed grunt too as you saw that he was ignoring you now.
“Fine, be that way, bastard” you grumbled. You were sure that was too soft for him to hear anyway.
Finally, you reached the training grounds and you let out a sigh of relieve. At least now you could choose a different field and get away from him.
As you were taking your turn to the 5th field his voice reached your ears again.
“Up for a match?”
“Hm?” arching your eyebrow you doubted if you heard it right, “What? A match? With you?”
“Who else?” he retorted irritated now.
Geez, what moods swings
“So?”
You stared at him and finally, when he was about to say something, you spoke, “Why?”
“I’ve wanted to fight you for a while now” was his reply.
“Well, okay, then. Let’s have a match” you gave in, knowing it’d be pointless to argue with him and try to decline.
I wonder why he wants to fight me at all…
His smirk brought you out of your thoughts. You watched him walk in the middle of the field where he stopped and turned to you. Sighing a countless time today, you made your way toward him and stopped there, getting into the fighting stance. He did the same.
A smirk crawled on your lips as the wind blew past you and the snow started coming down. Dumbfounded, you brought your gaze to the sky, it was the first time you ever saw snow in Konoha. More and more white fuzz came down as you forced your gaze on Sasuke. His gaze also traveled from the sky to you and you both smirked at the same time before charging at each other.
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Your kunais clashed again and you twisted your body to the side bringing up your knee. You tried to kick him but he dodged that and caught your fist that was only millimeters away from his face. Frustrated that you weren’t getting anywhere at all, you did the only thing that came to your mind. With your free hand, that he wasn’t holding, you grabbed another kunai and swung it at his shoulder. You suspected him to bend down and dodge it but he didn’t. The kunai stuck in his body. At the same time you felt a knee colliding with your body. The pain forced you back and you landed on your knees breathing heavily.
Faintly, you lifted your head up to look at your opponent. He was kneeling on one knee, his hand clenching a huge wound on his shoulder. The wound you made.
Blood was pouring down his arm and falling on the ground, the snow around him was already red- soaked in his blood.
You gasped softly and forced your body to stand up. In few seconds you were kneeling beside him.
“Sasuke! I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to…”
“It’s ok-…argh” he grunted clenching his teeth together due to the pain.
“No it’s not okay. It’s my fault… I’m sorry, I-..”
“I said I’m fine…” he argued again but clung to his shoulder even tighter.
“Sasuke…” you whispered looking at him. The blood was everywhere around you now. The wound was bleeding badly.
It’s Christmas and it’ll be hard to find help…But maybe…
“Come on” you spoke again and gently took his hand in yours. He looked at you with eyes full of pain and your heart ached, you turned your gaze away…
It’s my fault he’s hurt so badly… all my fault…
“I’ll take you to my house and clean your wound there”
“No, I..”
“No, it has to be done” you cut him off with a stern face on. “My house’s not far away for here… Just come on”
You helped him up and he shook your hands off of him.
“I can walk myself”
You opened your mouth to argue but then decided not to. It’s not like you could have won anyway.
“Ok then, fallow me”
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“Here, come on in” you more like ordered than invited, and opened your doors widely for him to come. He did as you said without a word. Quickly you ran to get some bandages and a first-aid.
“Come here, to the bathroom” you shouted and he obeyed again.
“Sit” you ordered and he sat down on the edge of the bath. You kneeled in front of him, bandages in your lap. “Take off your shirt”
He grunted but took it off with few painful winces as the fabric of his shirt touched the wound. You yelped at how bad it looked.
“Tomorrow you’ll have to see Tsunade-sama for this… it looks too bad…”
He remained silent and you glanced at him. He looked much less pained now.
“The pain’s not so strong anymore, I take it?” you asked as you started cleaning the wound.
“It’s okay”
“No it’s not” you sighed, “Listen, I’m really sorry. Really.”
“ It’s nothing”
So not like him to say something like that…
When the wound was clean you bandaged his shoulder and stood up examining your work.
“That’s all. The wound’s fine for now, but I still think you should go see Tsunade-sama tomorrow. Oh and…” you took a quick glance at his shirt laying on the floor “… your top’s soaked in blood, you really can’t wear it and… hey, stop sulking there”
He stood up ignoring you and walked out of the bathroom. Your confused eyes fallowed him out.
What is he doing…?
Curious, you rapidly cleaned the blood that was on the floor and left the room. You found Sasuke in the lounge, looking at your pictures.
“Maybe you want something to eat or drink?” you asked breaking the silence.
“No”
“Well, feel free to take anything”
“Is that your family?”
You walked up to him at glanced over his shoulder to the picture he was holding.
“Yes… That’s my mum and dad.”
“They look like nice people.”
“They were nice people” you answered taken off guard by his words. He put the picture down and turned around facing you. However, his gaze didn’t land on you; it traveled around the room, examining it and all the Christmas decorations.
“Naruto forced me to decorate the house, if you’re wondering…” you said blankly. He hn-ed and walked around you, then sat down on the sofa and sighed.
“Um… well…” you started feeling a little uneasy about what you were going to say next “You see, it’s snowing out there and your shirt…I don’t have clothes that’d fit you, so…um…”
“Hn,okay, I’m staying” he cut you off before you could say anything more. You gave him a surprised look which he greeted with an annoyed one. You let out a nervous laugh mixed with sigh.
“N-nice to hear”
At least I didn’t need to say that myself… ^^’
“I um… going to shower… so… um… you’ll sleep in the guest room. It’s at the second floor, first doors to the right…”
He glanced at you and nodded.
“If you want to take a shower or something you can use the guest bathroom, you’ll find it…”
He nodded again and you turned around, feeling a little uneasy about the whole situation.
I can’t believe he’s staying at my place…
Clearing your throat, you forced all the thoughts out of your head in order to gain back your coolness. Taking few steps toward door you remembered something and faced the Uchiha again.
“One more thing- don’t you dare to go into my room. I warn you.”
He stared at you blankly, ignoring your threat. Then he smirked lacing his fingers and rested his chin on them.
Typical Sasuke… -.-‘
You took one last glance at him and exited the room. The way he smirked back then made you nervous. Was he planning something…?
That bastard…=.=‘
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The water felt great. After what seemed like an hour you turned the water down and stepped out of the shower. Taking one last glance at the mirror you toweled down and dried your hair before grabbing the clean clothes you’d brought there before. There was no way you’d walk around only in towel when Sasuke was there.
When you were done you opened the door straight to your bedroom. The room was dark and you could hardly see anything.
You made your way to the bed and lied down. Your body felt heavy, you were tired and…
“Finally”
“Ah!” you jumped up, almost falling off the bed. “Sasuke!!! What the hell are you doing here?!”
You couldn’t see him but something just told you that he was smirking.
“I thought I told you not to enter my room!”
You got no response again. He surely wasn’t going to say anything.
“Why are you here, dammit?” you asked again angrily. “Couldn’t find your room or what?”
“……”
“……”
“……”
“….. answer me, dammit!”
“Hn, didn’t look for it” he finally answered, sneer in his voice. At least now you could tell where exactly he was sitting-almost next to you. To think that you didn’t feel him…
“Then why the hell are you here?”
“….”
“Sasuke! Get out! Now!”
He didn’t move. He was ignoring you again.
“You…” you gritted your teeth. That bastard was making fun of you.
That little… That’s it, I had enough!
Angry, just furious you tackled him to the bed, falling on top of him, on his bare chest since he still had no shirt on. He yelped in surprise as his back hit the soft bed. Your face was only few millimeters from his face. Few strands of your hair felt on his cheeks. But you honesty didn’t care about that or about the fact that there was no space between your bodies. The only thing you cared about was to whip off that damn smirk that had appeared on his face once again.
“Uchiha…” you hissed but didn’t get to finish as you were cut off by his lips. Your eyes went wide and, even though you would have better died then admitted that, your heart started beating faster. You did not kiss back but you didn’t push him away either. You were simply too shocked to do anything. He noticed that and you could feel him smirk against your lips as he turned over lying you down on the bed and leaned over you. And he did all that without breaking the kiss.
And finally, he pulled away. You opened your eyes but did nothing. His hand grazed your cheek gently and you felt him getting up.
“Hn” was heard in the dark and once again you could feel the smirk in his voice.
The soft footsteps were be heard when he walked across the room and reached the door. You sat up.
He opened the door and the streak of light from the corridor lightened the room up.
Now you could see him. With an emotionless look on his face, he stuck his hands in his pockets and exited the room leaving you to stare after him dazedly.
It took you few moments till you recovered and were able to move and think again. You blinked few times trying to get the events of the past few minutes to make some sense.
He kissed me.
I can’t believe he actually kissed me.
Slowly and without releasing this, you smiled.
“Sasuke…”
Still with a smile on your face you stood up and changed in your pajamas, thinking about him. Putting your head band on your night stand you saw something. It was a small red box.
I don’t remember seeing it before… could it be..?
Slowly, you reached and picked it up. The box was light and looked rather simple. But somehow, it made you eager to open it. And you did.
Inside was a small silver necklace. You giggled when you saw the pendant than hung on it; it was shaped like a small shuriken.
So like Sasuke
Taking one more glance at the box you noticed a small white card in it. Curiously you picked it up and read it.
Sasuke
A small giggle left your lips and you tiptoed out of your room and headed to the guests room. Without a sound you opened the door and stepped inside. He was standing near the window, his back facing you. You walked up to him, he didn’t notice you, and gently hugged from behind. His body tensed up.
“Calm down, it’s only me…” you whispered in his ear. “I found the necklace. Thank you, Sasuke.”
He moved a little and you let him go wondering what he was up to. He turned around and faced you. No emotions on his face.
“It’s nothing.”
You smiled at him and stood on your tiptoes pressing your lips to his. At first he seemed surprised but then kissed you back. Sweetly and gently.
When you pulled away he was smirking. You smiled at him again and wrapped your arms around his neck.
“Merry Christmas, Sasuke”
“Yeah, Merry Christmas, Kaori” he whispered in your ear bringing you closer to him. He wasn’t going to let you go. Not now. Not ever.
