PHHEEWW!

I turned around to see my tea kettle steaming. I cut off the stove and poured the tea into my cup. I

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. I looked out my window to see moving trucks leaving from the house next door to me. "Time to show some hospitality." I thought to myself as I brushed my long pink hair and pulled it into a bun, while checking over my outfit; I was wearing a plain white t-shirt, pink shorts, and white sandals. Before I left the house I checked the weather forecast it's supposed to rain later on. Oh well I'll just keep an umbrella near me.

I walked towards the neighbor's house wondering who this mysterious person was. As I got closer I could make out somebody with their back to me moving boxes around in their garage. The person turned around and wiped the sweat off of his brow, I stopped in my tracks. The guy was really tall maybe 6"0 or 6'2; he had black hair spiked in the back, his eyes were black as obsidian, he had on a black muscle shirt with black and red basketball shorts on. He was welled muscled, and I continued to stare at him until he cleared his throat with an eyebrow raised.

I blushed chastising myself that I had a boyfriend and introduce myself. "Hi I'm Sakura, your neighbor; if you need anything just give me a knock." I extended my hand to shake his giving him one of my friendliest smiles. He smirked at me and shook my hand. "I'm Sasuke, thanks for introducing yourself." He continued to unpack boxes, "Do you need any help?" I asked him trying not to seem weird.

"Actually I'm pretty much done I just need to buy some new furniture later would you, and other stuff, anyways I need to get ready to meet up with my friend so I'll see you later." We shook hands again and he let down his garage as I walked out.

I met my friends at the park at 4:30 like they ask me to we were meeting because Naruto had a friend he wanted to introduce us to, Shikamaru and Neji were having a debate, Ino was trying to convince Tenten to wear makeup, and Hinata was talking to Naruto and somebody else, as I got closer I realized it was…Sasuke! That's the person he wanted us to meet!

"Hey guys, what's up?" I said while particularly looking at Sasuke.

"Hey girl!" Ino and the rest of the girls greeted me. "Sakura I'll like you to meet my friend Sasuke, Sasuke this is "cherry blossom" Sakura." When he glanced briefly at me, my heart started racing. I shouldn't be feeling this way, but I am. I think I'm blushing and when Sasuke smirked I turned away completely embarrassed. Shit, why do I have this feeling that?

Ino looked at me suspiciously and I avoided her glance, but I can tell she was still staring at me. "Okay guys we should meet at the arcade later in about two hours, for old time sakes." Everybody agreed and we talked a little more before I saw the time and realized it was almost time for to go to my boyfriend house we were supposed to meet in 30mins but being a little early won't hurt.

I arrived at Deidara house grabbing his spare key from under the door mat and unlocked the door quietly trying to surprise him. Deidara and I have been dating for about two years now. Deidara is 5'9 with long blonde hair stop at his mid back, he's an popular artist always having his art shows, sometimes he is called down to the police station to draw out the victim's description, all of the ladies love him which worries me a lot, but he always reassure me I'm the only one. I smiled at that thought.

Walking inside I glanced around before stepping farther into his home. I heard a noise come from his room so I headed up the stairs and as I got closer that noise became more disturbing and made my stomach churn. Reaching for the knob of his door I shook any thoughts from my head and opened the door.

"Hey Deidara I-" I stopped in my tracks at what I saw. My eyes widened at what I saw as tears came to blur my vision. Hideo sat up quickly and turned towards me with wide eyes as I looked away. There in his bed was Konan who was his manager; she wrapped her naked body in the sheet to prevent herself from being seen. I turned to look him in the eye and he was just as naked as she is, his blond hair stuck to his face from the sweat that came from his head.

"You asshole!" I shouted and turned to run. "Sakura wait," He called for me but I just ran down the stairs and left his home.

I ran to my car and started it up immediately; I just wanted to get home and never leave it. I can't believe he would do this to me, after these two years we've been together he cheated on me. How could I have been so stupid?

Making it home I ran to my bedroom and changed into black Nike leggings, white Nike shirt and my pink and black Nike running shoes. I grabbed my iPod and locked my front door and started jogging. 'Give me Love' By Ed Sheeran starting playing. That's when my tears really started to fall; I couldn't hold them back they just kept coming. It started to rain and I started to run faster. I tripped on a cracked concrete and feel my right arm taking most of the impact, I was so emotionally hurt I didn't even care for the physical pain.

Once I sat down I brought my legs up so I could rest my arms on them to bury my head and hide my tear-stained face. Two fucking years Deidara and I have been together and he went and cheated on me with some whore. I shouldn't have expected too much, all the guys I dated cheated on me sooner or later, why would this one guy be any different?

I head home walking slowly although my hair and clothes were soaking wet. When I arrived home I took a shower and changed into black shorts, lime green shirt, and knee high socks walking outside onto my patio watching the rain disappear. I started to think about the rainy nights when Deidara would draw me small paintings in his basement.

"Hey." I jumped when someone said that, glanced up, afraid that he would be Deidara but I was relieved when I saw Sasuke standing next to the waist high fence that separated our yards. He had taken a shower; his new attire told me that. He wore a pair of black cargo shorts with a white shirt. His raven-hair was still spiked up in the back like before.

"You okay?" He asked, with I would guess, concern. "Yeah I'm fine," I said but I knew my voice betrayed me. "No you're not," He jumped over the fence and came over to me, "You're crying." I reached up to wipe my eyes and looked away from him. He was right about his accusation, but I didn't want to look like a baby in front of him, but I can't help it, the tears came to my eyes again as I looked to the ground at his feet since he was standing in front of me. I was shocked when I felt something touch my cheek and I glanced up, it was Sasuke.

He wiped the tears from my face with his hand and knelt down in front of me so he could be at eye-level with my position. He dropped his hand and looked me in the eye; his onyx orbs instantly had me captured, and I almost wanted to drown in them. I was shaken from my thoughts when he decided to speak. "Why are you crying?" He asked.

I struggled to answer but he didn't seem to mind, he waited calmly and I decided that it would help me get this off my chest. I may have just met him today, but I feel like he is someone that I can trust. "I walked in on my boyfriend having sex with another girl," I choked out.

"Damn, that's harsh." He shook his head and sighed. "We were together for two years and he chose to cheat on me, maybe I was never meant to have a relationship with anyone." I didn't bother to stop the tears that fell and I noticed Sasuke was staring at me.

Great. He thinks I'm a stupid crybaby.

"Sakura." I was surprised he actually remembered my name, despite just having a brief time with him. "Don't let this spoil anything for you." "How can I do that?" "Well, you just need to think, it could be a whole lot worse," He stated and glanced away for a few seconds before turning his attention back to me. He was right but I'm a doctor I know what worse is, but that still doesn't make the pain go away.

"You know," I began, "You didn't seem like the type that would comfort someone." "Looks can be deceiving," Sasuke smirked at me, "Think twice before you judge someone, you really don't know what they are all about until you get to know them."

"You're right about that, I have learned my lesson," I grinned sheepishly and he shook his head at me. I had a question itching at my lips and before I could stop myself I ended up asking him it and as soon as I did I wish I could have taken it back. "Have you ever been in a relationship?" He raised a brow at me and nodded. "Several times, and one time it was the same as you, I caught her cheating on me."

"You mean you never dated again after that?" "Naw she was the last girl I dated which was maybe six months ago. I didn't really have time to date again during those six months, because I was to busy with work and moving to this new city. But I'm not really completely alone."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"My dog," He smirked.

"Oh, what kind of dog is he?"

"A Siberian Husky." My eyes widened. "Aren't those dogs huge?" I saw him smirk. "Yeah, but he's just a big softy, on the other hand he can get aggressive if need be." Sasuke explained to me. "That's not often though, only when he senses danger or I tell him to."

I smiled before getting to my feet so I could stand in front of him before I hugged him, which I think he was surprised by. I'm really tiny compared to him I'm only 5'2 "Thanks Sasuke, you made me feel better. We should go meet the others at the arcade." He nodded his head in agreement as I let him go. He offered to drive me to the arcade in his car, he told me what kind of car it was, he said it was a 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish and it was a nice car that he really took care of.

Sasuke and I arrived at the arcade and we found Naruto engaged in shooting game with Shikamaru who looked bored. He yawned saying that he was utterly bored with this game, according to him, games like that weren't challenging enough for him. I glanced around at all of the games and I briefly wondered where the girls were hiding at.

They are probably watching Tenten play the basketball game, it never fails. Hinata, Ino and I weren't really into the whole video game thing, we only played every now and again, though it was mostly me who played the games with Tenten anyway. I have admitted it before but I kind of like playing the games, its, in a way, fun.

I watched as Sasuke walked over to one of the shooting games. I walked over to him and grabbed a plastic gun t. He glanced at me from the corner of his eye and smirked before he said something that brought out my competitive side.

"Wanna go against me pinky?."

"You did not just call me that chicken-butt!"

"Chicken butt? Is my hair really that bad?" He asked with a brow raised at me accusingly. "Well no but- I mean- well you see-" I was at loss for words and he just slipped a token into the slot of the game and hit start.

After about 15mins of playing this zombie shooting game I was shocked, and when he turned to me I saw a stupid smirk on his face that said 'I won' and I only glared at him for that. We stood up and I walked up to him raising an accusing finger. "You cheated!" I whined out. "Cheated? How the hell do you cheat on a damn shooting game?!" He shook his head at me and poked my forehead. "You, little girl, need to grow up."

"I'm not a little girl!" I shouted as my face turned red. "I am a strong, independent and confident woman." I crossed my arms and turned away. "A strong, independent and confident woman wouldn't be whining like a little girl." I twitched and turned back to him as he looked away innocently and I couldn't resist punching him in the arm. "Ouch," He faked hurt and rubbed his arm.

"You jerk," I hit him again as we walked off to find the others and we found them by the Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) game where Naruto was in a dance battle with, would you believe Ino. She looked frustrated but she was winning, that's really no surprise she's a great dancer and I sometimes wish I had the moves that she did, but I was too self-conscious about dancing in front of people. I may be weird sometimes, but I'm still afraid of embarrassing myself in front of people. I turned to look at Sasuke as he stared at Naruto.

"Damn Naruto, I thought you said you were good at dancing," Sasuke said as he crossed his arms. "Shut up Sasuke," Naruto yelled out after the game ended, "I'm rusty right now, I haven't played DDR in forever." "Yeah I think you made that obvious," Sasuke stated as he rolled his eyes before Naruto grabbed him in a headlock and tried to knock him to the ground.

I don't know why, but Sasuke seems so different from other guys I've met or been around. He was quiet and calm like he was raised that way or something. It made me wonder who his parents were, and what they were like. Sasuke gotten loose from Naruto hold and pin Naruto to the ground.

I though back to Deidara and how I thought the same about him, what if Sasuke was just acting? What if he would be the same as all the other guys I have dated? I can't take that pain again, I don't want to fall for another guy but I can't help it. I was pulled from my thoughts when someone grabbed my arm and pulled me away. Looking to the culprit I saw the girls standing in front of me with their arms crossed. Tenten was the first to talk and I should have expected what she was going to say.

"Sakura, you keep staring at Sasuke with that dreamy girl look." "And? What's your point?" "Uh hello?" Ino tapped my head. "You have a boyfriend remember?" "Not anymore I don't," I mumbled sadly.

"What happened?" Hinata asked. "I caught Deidara in bed with his manager." I clenched my fists tightly as their eyes widened. "That bastard!" Tenten yelled. "I'll kick his sorry ass!" "Tenten, leave it alone, besides, Sasuke already made me feel better." "Ooh, Sakura's got a crush, on the man who lives next door," Ino sang.

"Ino shut up, he'll hear you!" I blushed and glanced at Sasuke briefly.

"Go ask him out then," Ino pushed me.

"I can't, I just got out of a relationship an hour or so ago, besides I'm not ready for another one yet."

"Oh whatever Sakura, but you better hurry before somebody else captures his heart," Ino shrugged and stared at me.

I sat in my room thinking, I just met Sasuke today and my relationship ended today. Was I supposed to think this is a good thing? Was I meant to break up with Hideo because of Sasuke being here? I jumped when I heard my doorbell ring, sighing I wondered who it could be, it's 11 o'clock pm for crying out loud.

I headed down the stairs to see who it was and I don't know what possessed me to open the door but I did. As soon as I came face to face with the unwanted guest I wish I hadn't answered the door. It was Deidara, he pushed himself in when I attempted to shut the door which knocked me to the floor. He had a look on his face that made the fear I was feeling increase. "Sakura, you shouldn't have walked into my home unannounced," He gritted through his teeth. "What I should just let you continue cheating on me?!" I yelled as I stood up and that's when I felt a stinging feeling on my cheek, he actually hit me across my face.

I hissed and touched the tender skin on my face. I backed away slowly as he continued to step forward and I knew he had some bad intentions. "You want me to show you what I was doing to that girl at my place, because I'll give it to you too."

Deidara chuckled at me as I turned to run away. When I made a move to run up the stairs he grabbed my ankle and pulled me down to the floor before flipping me onto my back. He held me down under his weight and I struggled to get to my feet but he sat on my hips to hold me down. I cried out for help as he pinned my hands above my head with one of his own.

He reached for my shirt and tore open the front exposing my black lace bra. When I saw him make a move to touch me I lifted my head up and head butted him causing him to release my hands and I clawed at his eyes as he fell backwards. I stood and ran out the door clutching my shirt closed and I could hear him running after me. "Get back here Sakura!" He yelled at me as I ran over to Sasuke's place. I banged on the door. "Sasuke! Help me! Please!"

I'm afraid; I don't think Sasuke would make it to me in time because when I turned around Deidara was right there. I leaned against Sasuke's door as I slid to the ground and clutched my head in my hands waiting for whatever he was going to do to be over with. I let my tears fall as I cried out again for help. The door behind me suddenly opened and I fell backwards at someone's feet before they knelt down to help me sit up. I turned quickly to Hideo and he continued coming and I knew he thought he would be able to fight anyone. I turned to Sasuke as he glared at Hideo before he whistled.

"Zeus, attack!" I suddenly saw a huge dog jump over Sasuke and I and then go after Deidara. Deidara eyes widened before he took off running, when he had run far enough, Sasuke whistled again for his dog to come back. Zeus came running back and I fully saw the colors of the dog, he was all white with patches of black over different parts of his body, one patch was over his eye and I thought he looked cute with that. Sasuke helped me to stand up as Zeus came to sit in front of Sasuke even when sitting the dog's head came to Sasuke's mid-chest. Sasuke pat him on the head and scratched his ear before turning to me. "You alright?" He asked as he led me into his living room.

I was shaking pretty badly and Sasuke left and came back a few minutes later with a shirt. My eyes widened as I suddenly remembered my exposed chest and covered myself up with my torn shirt. I could feel my face heat up as the shirt was handed to me and I took it with gratitude and quickly slipped it on.

"Thanks." "Let me guess, that was your cheating ex, right?" "Yeah," I murmured as I shook again, I was nearly raped and if Sasuke hadn't been here I would have been. Sasuke touched my shoulder before moving his hand to my chin to make me look up to meet his gaze. "Don't worry, he's gone now, he can't hurt you."

"I know, and I apologize for being a burden to you."

"You're not a burden Sakura," Sasuke assured me as I smiled slightly. I turned to look at Zeus since he was sitting by the couch, my eyes were level with his since I was sitting, but even if I was standing he would be just as tall but just a little shorter than me. Sasuke was tall so if Zeus stood next to him well, Zeus was pretty big compared to any other dog that would be at Sasuke's knee height. "I owe you one Zeus," I smiled at him. Zeus leaned forward and touched his nose to my cheek, I'm assuming it was something similar to a kiss.

He leaned back and let his tongue hang out and wagged his tail happily. "He approves of you," Sasuke smirked.

"What?"

"Normally, Zeus doesn't like anyone to be near me."

"So he's overprotective of you?"

"Yeah," Sasuke muttered, "I can't tell you how many times he chased Naruto around before he learned

to trust him." "Oh," I giggled as I pictured the scene in my head. "You scored points with Zeus, I don't know how, but you did." I grinned inwardly at that thought. If only I could score points with you.

Author Note

1-Tell me what you guys think.

2- Shout out to Kakashi500 who inspired me to do this story.

3- Some parts of this chapter and ONLY this chapter is based off of Formula for Disaster.

4-Review please!