SasuSaku Month 2015 (Late) . Day 31- Reincarnation . Title: Through the Time . Summary: Sakura receives a future prediction and can’t help but getting excited. Too bad her boyfriend doesn’t feel the same way. . . A/N: FINALLY! The last theme of the SasuSaku Month of 2015! It took me… More than it should have XD I appreciate your patience and all of your AMAZING comments through all the themes! I'll return to the normal one shots now and I'll also focus on my long fics. So, as always, I hope you enjoy this one and also get excited for the upcoming ones!! Let’s rock this month until the end! And don’t forget to send me messages with your opinion! . . . It was 3 a.m. and he was wearing his pajamas.
It was 3 a.m. and exhaustion was spread all over his face.
It was 3 a.m. and his eyes were begging to be closed.
But at that exact moment, he was far from his room, and consequently, from his precious bed…
And it was all because of his annoying girlfriend. She would better have a good reason behind her emergency call.
The streets of Konoha City were completely empty on that cold, winter night of December. His car was the only car in the path in between their houses and there were just a few stars giving him some company. There were several street lamps fighting against the darkness of the night and a mysterious veil seemed to be covering the dark alleys. Alleys that hid dangerous secrets, from which Sasuke wanted nothing but to keep a safe distance from. Even though Konoha is a safe city, it doesn’t mean there is no crime at all disgracing its citizens. They go out at night, and for that, the Uchiha had already lost count of how many red lights he had crossed. There was no way he would risk getting his car robbed at such wee hours of the night. If that happened, oh- let’s just say that the robber would beg the police for protection against the sleepy and grumpy Uchiha Sasuke.
Fortunately, for the robber in potential, nothing happened on the way towards his girlfriend’s house. After almost 15 minutes, the raven haired boy had already parked his black, sporty car at her garage and was now unlocking her front door with the spare key she had given to him. After 8, long years together, Sasuke has long forgotten any kind of shyness, discomfort or embarrassment with things that involved their relationship or their life as a couple. Both of them were comfortable enough around each other to do basically everything, and their intimacy certainly allowed him to simply enter her house and climb up the stairs until her room without being announced or guided by the girl. It was not like he had never been there or didn’t know the way.
Still wearing that sleepy expression on his face, and on his body, his marine, blue t-shirt combined to some long, white, cotton pants; the Uchiha silently made his way inside her room. There were no lamps on and the only source of light in between those walls was coming from the girl’s notebook. She was sitting on a chair, near her study table, where the said machine was resting, and by the way the page on the screen was scrolling down so frantically, Sasuke doubted she had heard the creak of the door when he entered. He doubted she had even noticed he was standing just behind her. However, unlike her, the Uchiha had noticed something really important in her room: It was not on fire as he had thought it would be for being called at 3 a.m. The walls were not destroyed, a flood wasn’t ruining her house and there wasn’t even a cockroach to explain the reason behind that so urgent call.
Everything seemed to be perfectly okay. And that perfection had just destroyed all the patience left in that boy’s body… He was about to give her a reason to wake him up like that.
With anger boiling inside his veins and with his dark orbs making holes on his girlfriend’s back, the Uchiha approached her from behind, and in the grumpiest move in the world, he slammed his right hand on the table, causing not only the girl to scream, but also to have a mini-heart attack.
Apparently, he wasn’t happy to be there in the middle of the night.
“ Sakura… You better have an incredibly good excuse for waking me up and making me drive all the way here when I should actually be sleeping in my bed.”
Her breathing was slowly recovering its normal pace, and after almost a full minute, the pink haired girl he called girlfriend was looking at him, with those big, bright, shinning emeralds of hers. She leaned back on the back of the chair, with her hand resting over her chest as she tried to calm down. Her neck turned a bit, and that was when she met his so famous deadly gaze.
Perhaps, she should have let him sleep five minutes more.
“ Geez, don’t scare me like that again, Sasuke-kun! I might end up punching you again.”
“Tch, just go straight to th-“
“ Remember that time you did it while I was at the kitchen? I almost stabbed you!”
“ This has nothing to do with tha-“
“ Sometimes you are really a child, Sasuke-kun. You and Naruto are two-“
“Sakura!” He spun her chair around roughly, so she was now completely facing him. He leaned down, so their faces were mere inches apart and he easily deepened his glare. Sasuke was certainly in a terrible mood that night. And no jokes would be tolerated, obviously. “ Why did you call me? What is the emergency?”
The pinkette took in some seconds to recover from his stare before she could finally snap back to herself. Having her boyfriend by her side, at such an important moment of their lives, and while she was still wearing one of his large, blue t-shirts and white long shorts; was certainly not something easy to absorb. Still, after his dark eyes freed her body, Sakura carefully spun the chair back and returned to her previous position in front of the computer. Her right hand went for the trackpad, and quickly, she clicked on a saved tab, opening a whole page regarding the Japan’s feudal history. And for what the Uchiha could see, his girlfriend was researching about the ninjas that, according to old tales, once saved the world.
Since when did she like that kind of thing?
The sound of a deep breath inflating her lungs drew his attention to the screen, as one of his brows arched in confusion. Sasuke was still trying his best to figure the whole reason behind the ninja thing and what could be so important that couldn’t wait until morning. There was a bit of curiosity inside of him, but not enough to change the sleepy, stoic expression that ruled his face at the moment. That expression was his trademark and only one person was able to change it. And on that night, changing it was a part of her plans.
“Look, Sasuke-kun… This morning, Ino and I went to a fortune teller an-“
“Tch, come on, Sakura… Did she tell you were going to die and thats why you're worried?”
“Uh? What? Of course not! Let me finish the story before you can make your own conclusions!”
“Hn.”
“Well… Ino paid a section for us and the old lady looked at me and told me that I am the reincarnation of a legendary ninja.”
“ What a Charlatan… Why were you two even there, from the start?"
“ Ino wanted to know something about Sai, but… This is not the point! We were there and then she said that to me, and she even said that this ninja fell in love with a criminal, and that only after a long time, they both lived a life full of love for the eternity.”
“ …I still don’t understand where I stand in the middle of this whole thing.”
“ You see… She told me that their love was so strong that not even death could destroy it, and now their reincarnations are destined to be together for the rest of their lives!”
“ … And you really believed that?”
“ Of course not!”
A vein popped out of his temple in a sign of irritation. If she hadn’t believed in that old lady, then why the hell did she even call him!? Was that another one of her stupid jokes? If that was the case, then Sasuke was definitely going to teach her a lesson she would never forget.
But her call was not a joke. And he was about to find out the truth behind that prediction.
“ If you didn’t believe her, then wh-“
“ I didn’t believe her until I came home and found this.”
With another fast touch on the trackpad, his eyes instantly widened due to the content of the notebook’s screen. He felt his rational and concise side shutting down for a moment as his eyes were glued to the picture that was displayed on the screen. It was an old image of the two original lovers, standing side by side, while a blue sky surrounded them. He was wearing a dark cloak and she a red outfit that fitted her petite body perfectly. They seemed to be at a rooftop or something similar, with their eyes set on a mysterious horizon that only they knew.
Eyes so full of passion and hope that certainly captured the attention of both of the teens.
Eyes so determined and full of love.
Eyes as green and as black as Sakura’s and Sasuke’s. And the eyes were not the only terrifying similarity in between those lovers…
The more they looked, the wider their eyes opened. The resemblance was just too impressive and anyone that compared their pictures could easily tell that they were the same people. They had the same hair colors, the same facial traits, the same eye-shapes and that girl even had an equally wide forehead as Sakura’s one. Apart from the clothes, those two couples were simply identical. And no matter how much he wanted to, not even Uchiha Sasuke could deny the fact that the man in the pic in front of him was his own spitting image.
With his mouth hanging agape, the raven haired boy didn’t know what to say. Sasuke wanted to say that that woman was a fraud and that she knew nothing about their past, present or future. There was no logic behind that kind of thought and the Uchiha refused to believe that cheap talk. He was not going to admit that old lady could be right. He was not going to give in that easily to the mystical world. He was not going to believe in the words of a fortune teller, no matter how believable they seemed to be at that moment. Still, apart from his pride, there was another thing bothering the raven haired boy. Another thing that could affect their entire relationship and that Sakura hadn’t clearly thought about.
Another thing that could destroy their love.
Accepting that those words were true, in Sasuke’s mind, would also be the same as admitting that their love had already been arranged and that their real feelings didn’t really mean anything. Accepting that truth would mean accepting that their love wasn’t real and that they shouldn’t really be together.
It would mean their love was a lie.
A lie that would last forever, and a lie that would force those two, naive hearts to feel something that couldn’t really be called love. And even if staying by her side for the eternity was something that made him incredibly satisfied, he wasn’t sure if that was right anymore. He wasn’t sure if it would be real anymore.
“So, do you believe it now, Sasuke-kun?”
“Hn, this is ridiculous, Sakura.”
“ What?! Can’t you see it?! It is us, Sasuke-kun! We are the ninjas’ reincarnations!”
“ I highly doubt that. There is no such things as reincarnation!”
“Of course there is!” Her emeralds widened, sparkling in pure excitement. " You and I are those ninjas’ present lives, and like them, we will be together for the eternity! Can’t you see how this affects us?! We are continuing their love story… We are adding a new chapter and with our own love story!”
“ Are you even listening to yourself? This is insane!”
“No, it’s not!”
“Hn, I can’t believe you woke me up for this…”
“ This could be a part of our own story, Sasuke!”
“No, this is not our story. This is their story, Sakura. We have our own and there is no way we are all connected by fate.”
“ Tch, You’re so stubborn sometimes!”
Tsk-ing in frustration, Sasuke finally surrendered and turned away from the computer screen. His arms were crossed over his chest and the annoyed pout resting on his lips was one of the grumpiest that girl had ever seen. His socked feet were soundlessly stomping against the wooden floor, and by the time Sakura turned her chair to face him, the raven haired boy was grumpily pulling the covers of her bed aside. He threw one of her extra pillows at her before she could even start talking again, and without a care in the world, the Uchiha laid down comfortably in her bed. Sasuke had certainly had enough of that conversation already and he was way too tired to even go back to his own bed. So, because of that, the raven haired boy decided that he would use his girlfriend’s bed for the night and she better not wake him up again. Not because of that story and not even if her house was on fire. His head was already aching with those stupid thoughts and all he wanted, and needed to do was go back to the land of his dreams in that warm and smooth bed of hers.
He just needed to sleep.
Too bad his girlfriend wouldn’t simply let him sleep without a proper answer.
The pinkette simply watched in confusion as he leaned his head on her pillow, and turned his back to her. A wave of irritation started to strike her, and before she knew, her teeth were already biting her lower lip.
How dared he throw that pillow at her?
How dared he ignore her like that?
How dared he not to feel happy about a future by her side?
At the same time rage was boiling inside her veins, her heart couldn’t help but to feel sad. Sakura didn’t understand the reason behind his behavior and the only possible explanation for that was that he didn’t love her anymore. Could it be that he was tired of her? After long, 8 years by her side, could it really be he had had enough?
Of course not, but she didn’t know about it. She didn’t know what was happening inside his head at that moment.
But Haruno Sakura wouldn’t just stay there, waiting for an answer, no.
She was going to confront him about that, for sure.
She was going to make those words come out from his mouth. Whether he liked it or not.
With a childish pout on her lips, the Haruno girl threw the pillow on the floor, taking her notebook and her cellphone in her hands before heading towards her own bed. She didn’t care if he was already asleep or not, as she carelessly kneeled on a spot next to him on the bed. Her weight caused the mattress to shift a little, and as she shoved the devices in front of his sleeping face, her eyes watched as the bright light caused his eyes to squeeze a bit. She was not going to let him sleep so easily that night. Even if he ended up burning her house down in a fit of rage, she would confront him about their possible future. She was going to confront him about their probable past.
“ Why on earth are you so mad about this, Sasuke?”
“ Tch, I am not mad, Sakura. I just want to sleep.”
“Bullshit. I know there is something bothering you, so spill it out already.”
“ There is nothing bothering me… Actually…” He opened his dark eyes and looked at her with an annoyed face. “ You are the only thing bothering me right now. I want to sleep. Let’s talk about it in the morning, okay?”
“No! We are talking about this now!”
“Tch…”
He looked away, closing his eyes one more time, as if trying to shove her away from her own bed, and after that, a deafening silence enveloped the room for almost a full minute. Sakura’s heart was beating anxiously and his was starting to feel too heavy for his chest to bare. It was clear that something wrong was going on and that all their failed assumptions were making things even worse. Who would have thought that some random words would have caused such a big commotion, right?
But things couldn’t go on like that. And it was up to the pinkette to break that unbearable silence that was nourishing their worse fears.
“Sasuke… Don’t you… Don’t you love me anymore?”
“Uh?” He lifted his torso, looking at her with worried eyes.
“ Are you tired of me?” Sakura looked down, with tears threatening to pool around her bright, emerald eyes. “ Were those years that bad? Would eternity be so bad by my side?”
His eyes widened in shock as the meaning behind her words hit him as a knife trespassing his heart. There were no words in his head that could offer her a proper answer for those questions, and because of that, he simply looked away for a moment, focusing his attention on her phone as soon as a notification popped up. It didn’t seem to be anything important, for the pinkette’s expression remained blank and sad as she simply shoved the phone away from her sight. However, because of that notification, the Uchiha was reminded of something a lot more important than a future prediction. Sasuke was reminded of their love. And it was all because of a simple moment eternalized on a cellphone screensaver.
On that screen that lit up, the Uchiha saw the picture that was serving as her wallpaper. It was a picture of them, from a day when they had gone to a college party with their friends, but ended up stuck alone on an empty rooftop for what felt like hours. He remembered giving her his coat when she started to shiver and he remembered staying there with her until the sun started to shine on that day. And that was the moment when she took the photo… When the light was perfectly outlining their silhouettes and when her innocent, pure smile made the sun look like a flashlight in the middle of the day.
That was the day when he said he loved her.
And when he remembered that, their whole story together seemed to be passing in front of his dark eyes, and all the answers consequently made their way to his heart.
Of course he wasn’t tired of her.
Of course those eight years weren’t bad and of course the eternity by her side will be simply wonderful.
Being it fate or a stupid promise made between ancient lovers, spending the rest of his days by her side would be simply perfect, he knew. She is the love of his life. The love of all of his previous and future lives, and no matter who or what made him fall for her, Sasuke was now glad that that love was alive inside of his chest. He was glad to have met her and to have shared so many memories with her. He should actually thank whoever was responsible for doing that, to be honest. Whoever is responsible for creating that lie.
Whoever is responsible for creating a love as old as time.
It was now time for him to make that prophecy come true.
“Sakura…” The corner of his mouth faintly curled up and his fingers slowly went to caress the side of her face, brushing away some of her rebellious, pink locks from her eyes. At that moment, she looked at him again and her heart skipped a beat.
Was he really smiling?
Yes, and it was all because of her.
“ Sasuke-kun… Wha-“
“ Marry me.”
“Uh?”
Those words sounded a lot more like an order than a request. They left the pinkette completely shocked, as her mouth went agape and her emerald eyes were searching for any kind of joke on his expression.
He couldn’t really mean those words, right? It was probably his sleepy side speaking louder, right?
No.
Sasuke was not asleep anymore. He was in love, and in love with her. And that was how he intended to be for the rest of the eternity.
“ I-It’s not funny, Sasuke… You can’t simply joke abou-“
“I'm not joking. I’m serious… Marry me, Sakura.”
“ …” Her cheeks turned a deep shade of pink and at the same moment she placed the notebook on an empty spot next to her. “ How… When… Why now?!”
“ Hn… You said we will be together for the eternity, right? Then why not making it official already?”
“ So… You do believe in that woman?”
“Not more than I believe in you….”
“Aw, Sasuke-kun…” She placed both of her hands over her mouth and slowly took them away, revealing a bright, tender smile. “ I love you so much…”
“Hn.” He smirked. “ So, what’s your answer?”
“Of course I’ll marry you! We can do this after we graduate and we could even use some ornaments based on the feudal era! It’s going to be so amazing and… And it will be our marriage!” She chuckled, placing the notebook over her lap again and siting with her back facing him. “ I can’t believe this! You and I… Marrying each other… Our previous lives also got married you know?”
“Oh, did they?” He said, approaching her from behind and resting his lips against the crock of her neck.
“Yeah!”
“And did they have kids?” He said, his right hand wrapping around her waist.
“ Apparently, they had a girl… Her name was Sar- Ah!”
Before the pinkette could even finish her sentence, her future husband had already pulled her back, making the notebook slide down to the bed. Sasuke, then, carefully placed the device on the floor with his hand, before placing his body over hers. There was a smirk playing on his lips, and by the time his eyes were locked on hers, Sakura already knew what was on his mind. Perhaps he had finally given up on his sleep for the night.
“ Don’t spoil the name of our kid, Sakura.”
“Oh, so we are having kids as well?”
“Of course… Actually, we could practice a little right now, what do you think?”
“ What a perverted boyfriend…” She smirked back at him, leaving her answer quite clear for him.
“ Hn.” He leaned down, placing a chaste kiss on her lips for some good thirty seconds, before he finally whispered: “your future husband, you mean…”
“ Yes… My future husband.”
The End.