Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Second Chance ❯ The Mistake ( Chapter 1 )

A Second Chance

By: sleepingbunny

Disclaimer: SB no ownee

Present: “normal”

Thoughts: `italics'

The Mistake

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The crest fallen maiden was huddling in the corner, crying.

“I can't believe it, I just can't believe it, how could this happen. How could you do something like this to me, SASUKE?” She screamed out bitterly into the dark.

She was supposed to become the new Mrs. Uchiha Sasuke in a month's time. After all that chasing around and rejections she finally had him.

“Had,” she smirked bitterly to herself.

Now 24, Haruno Sakura had matured, losing the child like image and replacing it with a beautiful, sexy, vixen yet still managing to maintain her innocent carefree nature. She was an excellent kunoichi, specializing in seduction and could easily seduce a man just by a mere look and smile.

She was a stunning beauty, her smile lightened up the room. Her hair, once short and bright pink was now a wavy black, falling to the middle of her back, which she loved to tie back in an elegant bun. The color changed only for missions, other than that then it was still usually her sunshine vivid pink, although there were times she felt like leaving it black, which she did.

Talented, accomplished and humbled, Ms. Haruno could easily pass as any man's dream girl, and wife, but she was already taken… After all the little childhood fantasies, and the millions of times of asking him out on dates, Sakura Haruno currently found herself the fiancée, of the one and only, Uchiha Sasuke!

She still couldn't see how things went wrong.

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Hours earlier…

“Wow… Mommy, that lady is so pretty.” A little boy pointed to the beautiful woman who passed them by.

“Now, now Shiro, don't go around saying stuff like that. It embarrasses people.” The older woman scolded her son, “now come along, we're late!”

“Ok Mommy,” the little boy just couldn't help but look back as his mother dragged him off.

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Haruno Sakura was going grocery shopping. She couldn't help but go window-shopping also. Already, she saw this really cute handbag that she just had to have. What can she say; shopping was her passion. She would occasionally stop and marvel at random stalls while chit chatting with the shopkeeper. A cheery smile could be plainly seen plastered on her face.

Clearly she was in a good mood.

“Hmm, I wonder what I should make tonight.”

Nothing could destroy this, nothing at all.

She turned the corner quickly and bumped into the man in front of her. They landed on the floor in a big heap.

Nothing that is, except…him.

“Oh, forgive me, I didn't see you there, I'm very sorry sir, I wasn't look-” She stopped in mid sentence, realizing whom she just smacked into.

Even with his back facing her and his new jacket, she could still immediately make out who the person was…Just her luck, she bumped into the worst person imaginable, the last person she wanted to see… the man who broke her heart.

Neji.

She hated everything about him. His distinctive smell, the way he wore his shirts, (always rolled up at the sleeves) his stupid sense of fashion… his haircut.

Everything.

Every-thing.

Every-goddamn-thing.

The man stopped, composed himself, turned around and offered his hand to help the gorgeous women up.

“Neji?” She silently prayed that he didn't recognize her. This man, the man in front of her, he didn't mean anything to her any longer. She had grown out of it, all of these silly schoolyard crushes, the ones that just don't really matter. She promised herself that she would, didn't she?

“Haruno, are you going to stay down there forever, or can you not see my hand?”

The tiniest of smiles graced her lips. She reached out her hand to reach his and he helped her up. She told her thanks and started to brush off the dust on her pants and jacket.

“Erm…” She fidgeted slightly. He had no idea what he was doing to her. She was trying hard to control those little bits of excess feelings that just wouldn't go away. No matter how good she was, she still couldn't hide the blush that had stolen her cheeks and the slight trembles she was giving off. She couldn't do anything about those things but she could try to fight off the small feeling that was in the pit of her stomach that reminded her of butterflies.

“What are you doing here?” She looked up, expecting an answer, just to see him already walking away. She just stared after him until he disappeared from her view.

`What an ass,' her inner self-roared out, wanting to lash out at the insensitive jerk that just ignored her. She started walking home, fuming. But all the while wondering why her heart was still beating so loudly.

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She was heading towards Sasuke's house. `The one we'll share together in a few weeks,' this put a smile on her face. She hasn't been this happy since…

“Neji,” she uttered…he broke her heart, that man.

Neji and Sakura were together for about 18 months, when it all went wrong. They got into a terrible fight and exchanged many hurtful words… and before she knew it, it was all over. She couldn't even remember what the fight was about. This saddened her immensely.

“Idiot…” her voice trailed, she hadn't thought about him like this in a long time (well, not counting their earlier encounter)…but she did think of him when the moment Sasuke-kun asked for her hand in marriage. She couldn't help it; he just popped in her mind. She smiled, “but you're over him, you got over it Sakura,” she mentally congratulated herself. Yes, she sure she did, but sometimes… whenever she looked at him, she felt something stir inside of her. She always just passed it off. I mean it was normal to still feel attached to your old ex, isn't it?

Her thoughts were interrupted when she saw her Sasuke-kun up ahead; a smile instantly found its way to her lips. She ran up to greet him when she noticed that he wasn't alone. There, next to him, holding his hand was none other than Ino. Her eyes immediately darted to their conjoined hands.

“Sasuke-kun…” Sakura whispered.

What was going on? She looked away from the horrid scene in front of her, only to look back to notice that they were gone.

`!' What? They're gone?

She figured that he was headed back to the estate. Maybe what she saw before with them together was just a trick of the light.

Fat chance.

She quickly decided to forget about what she just saw, and hurried off to the estate to surprise her soon-to be-husband. If she only knew that, that was one of the stupidest moves she will ever make in her life.

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“I can't wait, I know he isn't expecting me today, but I really want to surprise him,” she was humming a tune while walking towards the front door. She never really liked this place; it was just too big, and very isolated. It gave her the creeps. She reached for her keys and entered the large home.

“Sasuke-kun, I'm home.” She took off her shoes and slipped on her very comfortable happy bunny slippers. When she got no answer she started to become a bit concerned.

`I know he's home, his shoes are still here. He's just probably in the living room,' she thought to herself.

But to no avail, he was not in the living room. Sakura checked the kitchen, dining room, and backyard. She came out of the laundry room, when she heard a low moan coming from upstairs.

“Oh, he's sleeping. I won't bother him then,” Sakura started to walk away from the stairs, planning on making dinner when she heard a woman's voice.

“Oh, Sasuke-kun…”

Sakura froze.

“…Oh…”

She almost lost it when he heard Sasuke grunt. That's it! She needed to know what was going on. She marched upstairs to their bedroom fully wanting answers when she pushed opened the door.

She found them there. She found them together, wrapped in each other arms, too preoccupied to what they were doing to notice her standing there. Watching. Waiting. She was pissed. She felt betrayed and hurt. This was the ultimate betrayal. He might as well have stabbed her and ripped out her bloody heart for Christ's sake! She needed to get out of there. She ran down the stairs grabbed her shoes and didn't look back.

Only when Sasuke heard the front door slamming shut did he realize his mistake. The mistake that would soon cost him his relationship with the one woman he truly loved. Uchiha, Sasuke was after all, the biggest idiot alive.

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Present

“Jackass,” she muttered. Tears flowed freely down her cheeks, smudging her mascara. Just remembering why she was in the predicament she was in right now hurt her so much.

She was in a supposedly abandoned apartment crying her eyes out (and she was hungry). She knew she had no choice but to come here after hearing Sasuke yell her name several feet away from the main gate.

So the bastard wanted to go after her huh?

He should have known better than that.

Sakura ran and she ran fast. She just needed to get away from him, and from what she just witnessed. He would never find her here. No one knew about this apartment. He would never find her. She could easily survive here for at least 3 days. It was even fully furnished! She never bothered to pack up all the furniture in the rather nice apartment. They held too many sad memories… She figured it was better to leave everything behind and buy new stuff.

This is what she is going to do with her feelings for the Uchiha. Instead of the buying new stuff part, she was going to forget about him, and every stupid memory that came with him. She was going to drown out all her feelings for him.

Starting with today.

She figured that he would stop looking for her in a couple of hours. All she needed to do was to avoid him for a week.

`Just one week.'

“I will forget you in a week… Uchiha Sasuke.”

`That's more than enough time to get over him,' she thought bitterly.

“7 days. Just 7 days. You can do it Sakura, you've done it before.”

Her thoughts were once again interrupted when she heard the apartment door creak open.

She gasped.

`He couldn't be here…could he?'

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