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Day 6 – Thank You (SSM17)

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He holds up one of her knee-highs. Sakura grabs the article of clothing quickly from his grasp. She mumbles a quick, “thank you,” and proceeds to pull the silk over her legs.

Sasuke watches her, “so…” he begins, “we should…talk about this”.

She responds with a non-committal, “uh-huh,” whilst continuing with her task to clothe herself as quickly as possible. It is the perfect contrast to Sasuke; he continues to sit on the hotel bed, nude under the sheets without any intention of changing that state any time soon.

“Sakura,” he grumbles.

She stops, and stands upright. She turns to him, “this didn’t happen”.

He doesn’t even bother hiding his smirk, “Sakura, we should talk about this–”

“I’m sorry,” she blurts out, turning to face him completely. Her words are genuine, “I’m sorry, we shouldn’t have done this”.

“I know,” he replies softly, “but there’s no point in thinking along those lines now – it happened, so we–”

“I’m going to leave,” Sakura interjects, glancing quickly at the door, “my team is most likely wondering where I am and you…” she pauses, noting his lack of clothes – still, “you, um, you’ll probably head off. Konoha may not actively look for you, but if they do find you then they’ll–”

“They’ll what,” Sasuke cuts in, “will they treat me as, accommodatingly, as you did last night?”

She gapes at his cavalier attitude towards the situation at hand. “What is with you?” she hisses.

Sasuke exhales, “Sakura–”

She holds up her hand.

“No,” she steps towards him, “no, you’re right. I was wrong. I am in the wrong”.

As he’d not predicted Sakura to admit this (nor had he wanted her to), he decides that the appropriate response to such an admission is; silence.

She bites her lip, “I don’t know why…why did…”

His demeanour softens. Sasuke gets out from under the covers, and out of the bed. He takes a step towards her, “I don’t regret it,” he tells her softly.

Sakura looks up to him, smiles, and blushes. He knows that she doesn’t either – despite their circumstances.

She opens her mouth to speak, then pauses before saying, “um…could you maybe put on some pants, Sasuke-kun”.

He holds his position, then looks down to his state of undress.

He scoffs – it isn’t like she’d not seen him like this before.