For Day 4 (City Lights) of SasuSaku Month 2019

This fic was inspired by the Filipino celebrity pair/loveteam called "AlDub" (based from their screen names: Alden Yaya Dub) or "MaiChard" (their real names: Maine Mendoza Richard Faulkerson, Jr.). The plot and content have nothing to do with the said actors, but I based the idea for this fic from the themes of Maine's two most controversial blog posts.

Rating: K

Summary: The truth was loud and clear, that the combination of pink and green wasn't meant to be with black and blue – both professionally and realistically.

: Get some tissues

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and AlDub.

Enjoy reading!

...or not.

[sakuraharunotes / official-blogs . com]

Hey, Blossoms! It's been a while! I know I haven't touched this blog since my open letter half a year ago, but I have important things to share with you – finally – as you read this.

First, I want to thank everyone who has been tweeting me or commenting on my posts to ask about how I am doing every now and then. I may not be able to reply but I'm really grateful to know that there are still some of you guys who care so much about me (despite the amount of fans-turned-to-bashers that came out since the last time I opened up through this blog).

To answer your queries – I've been very fine, really.

I've been a lot happier.

I've been a lot me.

It took some time, but when I posted that open letter about me feeling like I was losing myself within the whirlwind that is show business – because of all the overwhelming requests (demands) of our loveteam's fandom – it helped me to be more genuine with myself.

For once, I'm living and working as I should, not as I'm told. And I'm doing things as Sakura, not as any other role.

So yes, I've been very fine even though you guys haven't seen me much on social media. And I'll always be grateful for all of you who have stayed, respecting me and caring for me as a person, and not just as a celebrity that you often see onscreen.

Second, I know there had been lots of speculations about this but I never answered yet because I know that there would be another uproar that could cause unnecessary hate to a special person in my life.

That's what I want to avoid, honestly. I've already received tons of hate after I voiced out my thoughts through my open letter that eventually led to the needed separation of my former loveteam. And having a special person receiving hate as well – just because people prefer someone else as the one I should love – is something that I wouldn't tolerate anymore.

But yes, I want the truth to come from me: I'm officially confirming that I'm happily dating Sasori Akasuna.

Since when? I'm not gonna tell.

How? I don't think I'm required to divulge that.

Why? Wait a sec—are you kidding me? Cos my answer to that is: Why not?

Although I am deeply flattered with your love for me and my leading man for four years, I have already mentioned in my open letter that Sasuke and I are only friends and workmates in the industry. Up until now. And just because you're supporting our loveteam, and you're paying for our movies, or you're managing fan accounts for us, doesn't mean that you could dictate us about the matters of our hearts.

Even though we love you, we have our personal lives and individual decisions that need some respect too. After all, whatever you see onscreen doesn't necessarily reflect our real lives.

So really, to ask me why I'm dating Sasori is as if you're asking me why I'm making decisions for my own life.

To give you some sort of peace, Sasori makes me incredibly happy in ways I have never imagined. He cares for me even better than I care for myself. And my family adores him, probably even more than they adore me! Haha.

What I want to say is that (for my true supporters), you guys don't have to worry if I have chosen the wrong guy. And (for my former supporters), I understand that there are things (or a person) that you think is the best for me but honestly, at the end of the day, the decision is still mine.

And now that the truth is out in the open, I truly can't wait for everything else that is in store for us throughout this year. But what I can assure you all is this: I'm feeling a lot better than I've ever been since I've entered showbiz, and one of the reasons that contributed to this is my newly found freedom to finally be true to myself without being afraid of what people would say.

I hope all my fans would respect this.

So thank you, really. For sticking around. It really means a lot to me that you're supporting not just the Sakura or other roles of me that you see onscreen, but also the real Sakura behind the scenes.

All the things that you've done for us as SasuSaku will always be a part of my sweetest memories. But I hope you would continue to support me, and Sasuke, despite going our separate endeavours as artists. I am pretty sure that he's meant for greater things, even without me as his leading lady. And I can't wait to see that from afar.

Til next time, Blossoms! Continue blooming where you're planted!

— Sakura H.

He shut his macbook, albeit with a little more force, as his other hand pinched the bridge of his nose. He remembered reading another post from the same website months ago, and the way he felt after reading it wasn't like this.

Back then, he felt proud of her. For standing up for herself in a world that tried to manipulate her just because she's the best leading lady for Sasuke Uchiha, realizing that she has a life of her own and she wasn't meant to please people even if the fans were basically the ones who made them the most sought-after loveteam of their generation. Amidst the sea of facade, she decided to choose to be real. That personality development that was vivid in her open letter posted six months prior was enough to make him so proud of her.

His head whipped around his bachelor pad, seeing black and blue here and there. His mind traced back to seeing a tinge of pink and green in this same place every once in a while, but as his gaze landed on his macbook once again, it hit him like a tsunami that seeing pink and green here will never happen again.

That's why the feeling was different now.

The truth was loud and clear, that the combination of pink and green wasn't meant to be with black and blue – both professionally and realistically.

A week after her open letter, they found themselves seated in front of their main manager, setting a new arrangement for the two of them so as to lessen the uproar of fans' expectations on the world's sensational loveteam SasuSaku – as their fans called them – with the projects that they were a part of.

The Music Show that they were hosting alongside another love team – NaruHina – had a drastic adjustment in terms of who would report on the field and in the studio. It wasn't VJ Sasuke and VJ Sakura together in the studio or on the field anymore. But it was VJ Sasuke in the studio, and VJ Sakura on the field.

They also didn't have commercials or magazine shoots together anymore, let alone movie projects even after their worldwide blockbuster hit movie entitled "The First," which was ironically their last.

Although he was discreetly uncomfortable with the idea, considering the fact that this was totally new to their four-year status quo, Sasuke complied and adapted to the changes.

At first, he thought it was just the adjustments that made it difficult. But it suddenly dawned on him when he was offered a project with a new redhead leading lady that it wasn't just about missing his old routines anymore.

He missed her.

Damn. He totally missed her.

There's no more continuous chatter from his passenger seat on their way home after shoots.

No more pink strands on his shoulder during long flights.

No more lazy good mornings and good night hugs in their offsite tents.

No more Sakura.

It was on times that Sasuke was very worn out after coming from the gym or a commercial shoot that the reality of this sank further in his mind. Parked in front of his condo one night, he unconsciously glanced at his passenger seat and blinked as a blurred pink suddenly clouded his vision, or so he thought.

He drove her to her place like the usual, but tonight, he wasn't able to stop himself from staring at her after turning off the engine of his car.

Gladly, she stared back as if it was the most normal thing to do at a time like that, which only urged him to slowly lean in, pausing slightly as if to ask her permission, before capturing her lips with his.

It wasn't their first kiss. But it was their first without a number of cameras recording every angle of the contact.

And Sasuke liked it. He liked how slow and achingly beautiful the moment was, until they both pulled away, breathless and flushed.

A part of him wished this was how his every night ends and how his every morning starts. But for now, he could only continue to stare at those green pools that never failed to draw him in, whether it's filmed or not.

As he lifted a hand to tuck a few strands of her hair behind her ear, she then chuckled. "That was one heck of a good practice for our next scene, huh?"

And just like that, he was suddenly out of his daze as if a blue electric current coursed through his veins.

"Thanks for the ride. Goodnight...Zeke."

The next thing he knew, she was already out the door of his car, leaving him blinking once, twice, as his brain slowly processed what had happened. His hand then collided with the steering wheel. "Damn it!"

What he didn't realize was that their little moment was quite similar to the one on their recent script.

Groaning, his face fell on his hands. Did she really think he was still on work mode?! He wasn't being Zeke! He was being Sasuke!

That night, he went home without touching the said script even though he had some lines that he needed to memorize for the next day.

Just thinking about it now, he wished he didn't become complacent. Heck, when he entered the show business he was already aware of the fact that nothing is constant in it. He had seen how the ones before him and even those that started alongside him didn't really have careers that remained skyrocketing.

He was only one of the fortunate ones and it all began when an undeniable chemistry was seen between him and Sakura on a TV series that aired five years ago.

While he was still paired up with her, he realized he should've made the most out of the time they had. He should've told her that his feelings weren't that of Landon's, nor Zeke's, nor Marq's anymore.

Instead, his feelings were – are – of Sasuke's.

But like what people always say, regret comes in the end.

And indeed, it came. Like a wildfire.

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June 2019 AriannJS

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- A