Author's Note: Okay, I almost took 2 months to update this chapter. Well, sorry for the delay. Part of the blame had to be put on my stupid laptop. It freaking broke down when I wanted to continue typing my story. Whatever it is, hope you guys won't mind the delay and I hope none of you lose their interest in this story :D

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto but I did dream of owning it.

Replies to the Beautifuls:
Sakura0chan - LOL, your review made me feel so happy and high and if Sasuke was real, I would also want to have him as my math teacher. By then, I would probably love attending math lessons :D
red24ly,Sakurachan623, Dannie.. 3 and Namine-sama - Sorry if I disappoint you with my late update but still, I hope you will enjoy this chapter (:
kt - OH MY GOD, I SWEAR WE HAVE THE SAME MIND OR SOMETHING (great minds think alike, LOL)! When I read your review, I was like "OMG, how does she know?!", LOL. Anyway, you have guessed it. Sasuke would have to bring Sakura to his home or her home. The answer lies in this story :D
fan-godess,AngelOfDarkness1005, EmeraldEyes69, kiki and Sakura5558 - Thank you and thanks for your review! (:
abriel - You will know what happen next in this chapter :D
sasusaku0129 - LOL, your punishment was what I was thinking
hellopanda23 - Thanks and in the first place, I already intended to have ups and downs in Sakura and Sasuke's relationship. That would make things more interesting, HOHOHO ;D
fumiko-chan - Thank You :D
Sakura4eva - LOL, and I thought that part where Sakura started drooling was pretty dramatic.
xx-tenshi-xx - yeah, maybe 17 and 22 would be better but the wider their age gap, the better cause there would be more interesting events and I also love even numbers, LOL
Princess Pika - LOL, thanks for your review :D It made me feel happy and high :D

Take Note:
Sakura - 16 years old
Ino - 16 years old
Sasuke - 24 years old

You are Mine - Chapter 5

E is for Explosive Chemistry

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When Sakura woke up, she found herself in an unfamiliar surrounding. As she took in the whole view of the room she was in, she spotted an open window and found that the sun had already set. God, how long had she been sleeping? When she tried to raise herself up, the process was languid as her body was aching crazily. After much difficulty, she finally found herself sitting on the bed and noticed that there was a wet handkerchief on the pillow. It must have somehow slipped off her head or something. Whoever had put the handkerchief on her forehead was an unsolved mystery for now. All she wanted to know now was, where the hell was she?

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Meanwhile, Sasuke was walking back to his apartment with a bag full of medication. After Sakura fainted, he decided to bring her back to his apartment since he did not know where she lives. Furthermore, he could not leave his student in the lurch, after all, she fainted due to the enormous stress he had given her. He did not expect his student to faint as she was always feisty and talkative but still, she fainted because of him and knowing that made him feel guilty about this whole unexpected situation.

After he brought Sakura back to his apartment, he laid her on his bed and placed a wet handkerchief on her forehead, hopefully it might help to subside her burning forehead for the time being. While Sakura was taking a nap on his bed, Sasuke was out buying medication for Sakura and that explained why he was walking on the sidewalk in the middle of the night. Snapping out of his thoughts, Sasuke picked up his speed and rushed back home after realizing that Sakura would probably freaked out and start screaming after she found herself sleeping on someone's bed.

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For the past ten minutes, Sakura had been exploring the apartment she was currently staying in. She searched through drawers, cabinets, closets and places that might gave her some clues which could tell her where she was and who was the owner of this house but until now, she could not find anything that could gave her a slightest hint. While she was venturing through the rooms and looking around the house, she managed to memorize where the toilet (in case she had a sudden nature call), the kitchen (in case she needed the knives to protect herself from the person who brought her back to his house. He could be a kidnapper or maybe even a raper. Well, she never know) and other necessary things that might come in handy.

Sakura was looking through some paper work on the owner of the house's desk when suddenly she heard someone trying to open the main door. Upon hearing that, Sakura stood rooted to the ground and she could feel her heartbeat increasing dramatically. Her mind was screaming at her to run to the kitchen and grabbed a knife to protect herself but n-o-o-o, her body was fixed in a trance. After she received many raucous "Just freaking run to the kitchen and grab a knife"s from her intelligent brain, she finally found herself rushing for the kitchen. Sakura rummaged through the cabinets and thank god, she finally found what she had been looking for - the longest and sharpest knife of all.

Deciding that this could be the last few moments before she was summoned to Heaven since she practically did not know how dangerous the person she would be facing, Sakura decided to make full use of the time she was left with. She took a dry towel that was hung out of the window to dry and painfully bit her finger before making use of her blood to write down her last words on the towel. Sakura narrowed her eyes and tried to look like some dramatic woman who was prepared to die in those drama shows. She then wrote,

"Mum, I know you probably would not be able to see this but after I die, please burn me a roast chicken for me to eat in Heaven."

Sakura wanted to add an "I love you too, Mum" at the back but she was already losing a lot of blood and furthermore, her mother doesn't deserve her love since she just practically abandoned her for some disgusting man.

Satisfied with her decision, Sakura quickly tore a strip of cloth from the towel. She could perfectly hear her kidnapper/raper already managed to open the metal door and now he was trying to open the wooden door. Knowing that she had very limited time left, Sakura quickly tied the strap of cloth around her forehead tightly and swing the knife in mid-air, thinking that she was some Kung Fu master. Not wasting anymore time, Sakura pressed her back against the well, mimicking the moves of a professional spy before doing something dramatic that she never thought she would do it in her entire life.

Before she could regret her actions, Sakura started rolling on the floor, towards the place right behind the sofa. She did not know where the thought of rolling on the floor came from but you could say it was another inspiration from some drama show. While rolling on the floor, Sakura suddenly realized what a sucker she was in rolling. Every time she finished rolling three full turns, she would start panting like a dog and oh, did she mention that it was harder rolling on the floor with a murderous knife?! Sakura had to keep an eye on where the knife was poking when she was rolling on the floor. It was definitely not an easy job and kids, parental guidance would be needed if you want to try this dangerous activity at home.

When Sakura finally reached the back of the sofa, she was already sweating profusely. Not that she mind since it would help to lose heat from her body but being in such a tense situation and sweating all over would only make her feel tired and lazy. And no doubt her hair was sticking out in every direction after rolling on the floor. Sakura also had to sweep off specks of dust from her shirt. Gosh, since when did her kidnapper ever sweep his house?

Just as Sakura was about to keep ranting on how sweaty she was and how dirty the floor was, the main door opened and a beam of light shone through the opening. Sakura could feel her heart beating faster again but this time, she could sense the danger she was facing. Clutching the knife as tight as she could, Sakura let out a breath she never knew she was holding and gulped down the lump in her throat, bracing herself for whatever might happen next.

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When Sasuke entered his apartment, the first thing he noticed was that the door to the room where he put Sakura was wide opened. He remembered clearly that before he left, he had closed the door. Somehow, Sakura felt worried and anxious about his pink-hair student.

"Haruno Sakura, where are you? Stop playing games with me, I know where are you hiding," Sasuke tried to sound as stern as possible but in the end, his voice came out strangled and anyone could sense the urgency in it. And in the first place, Sasuke did not even have a clue on where Sakura was. Hell, he did not even know whether Sakura was still in his apartment or not. A kidnapper could have just climb through an opened window since his apartment was only on the second floor. Furthermore, a burglar once did come into his house before but because he was inside and fully awake, Sasuke managed to box the hell out of the burglar before throwing him out of his door. Thinking about it, Sasuke got even more worried about his student's disappearance. What if someone really did climb through the window and kidnapped Sakura?

While Sasuke was worrying about Sakura, Sakura was sitting down right behind the sofa and letting out a sigh of relief. After she heard a very familiar voice that belonged to her disgusting math teacher, she felt her stiffened body relaxed a little and her heartbeat resumed to its normal beating rate. Although his voice usually spells trouble which she already learnt to detest, somehow, it calmed her down in such a tense situation. Sakura then made a quick 'thank-you' to God before letting out a groan to tell Sasuke that she was somewhere in the house.

Sasuke's sharp ears managed to catch a whimper or rather a groan behind his sofa and surprisingly it sounded like Sakura. He quickly rushed over to the place when the groan came from and what he had assumed earlier was correct. The groan belonged to his pink-hair student who was now lying on the floor and looked ready to faint again.

"Oi, are you okay?" Sasuke pulled Sakura into his arms as he felt her forehead and realised that it was starting to burn again. Sasuke frowned as he scanned his student's appearance. For some reason he did not know, his student had tied a strap of cloth around her head and what really freaked him out was that she was holding a knife that he was sure it belonged to him.

"What have you been doing when I'm gone? Acting as if you are some professional Kung Fu master? Do you fully and clearly know that you are having a fever?" Sasuke voice was stern and that scared Sakura, well, a little but that also made Sakura furious at his bossy attitude towards her. Apparently, he was acting like some cold bastard and treating her like some three years old kid who did not know how to take care of her health.

"I'm not a child anymore okay? I know how to take care of…," Sakura talked back but her words were cut off by Sasuke.

"If that was the case, why are you having a fever now?" Sasuke interjected and found himself raising his voice at Sakura. His reply was a cold and eerie silence as Sakura practically shut her mouth for once since this time, she knew that Sasuke was seriously angry with her. Oh and did she mention that she was kind of shocked and surprised at Sasuke's sudden outburst? Sakura was also trying to resist herself from crying by chewing on her lips. It had been a long time since someone scolded her and now that her math teacher just raised his voice at her, she was emotionally hurt.

The silence hanging in between them suddenly broke when Sasuke muttered a rather insincere apology to Sakura before rising himself up and disappeared into the kitchen. Minutes later, Sasuke came back with a glass full of water. He roughly pushed the cup into Sakura hands and this resulted about ¾ of the water to spill onto Sakura's shirt.

Sakura mentally cursed and wanted to start whacking Sasuke on his head but decided not to since he was in such a bad mood now. Sakura also silently swore to herself that she saw Sasuke blushing or something although that would be rather rare for the thinks-he's-so-mighty Uchiha Sasuke to do.

After seconds flew by, Sakura wobbly grabbed hold of the cup before watching Sasuke took out some pills from a medication box and gave it to her to eat. Suspecting that the pills are meant for her fever to subside, Sakura swallowed them in one gulp which she drank it with water before giving the cup back to Sasuke. During this whole process, no one was talking and Sakura did not like this one bit. She would rather have the both of them go back to torturing one another with their tricks than having the both of them not talking to each other.

"Go back to bed. You would need a lot of rest in order to recover," Sasuke's voice rang throughout the whole apartment and Sakura just meekly obeyed his orders before going back to the room where she slept in and climbed back into bed. While doing so, Sasuke was leaning against the door watched her every moments so as to make sure Sakura went back to bed. Just as he was about to walk away, Sakura suddenly called out for him.

"Mr. Uchiha," Sasuke turned back and took a look at Sakura to see what was wrong.

"Look, about just now, I'm sorry," Sakura swore to herself that this would be first and last time she would ever say sorry to Stupidhead. Sasuke just gave her a blank look, as if nothing had happened but inside, he was screaming like hell.

"Seriously, does she know why is she saying sorry to me? Does she know that she made me worried like hell? Does she know that if anything happened to her, I would have to take the blame?" And list goes on and on.

"Whatever," Sasuke simply replied before leaving Sakura and quietly closed the door behind him. Sakura was pissed and well, kind of hurt at his attitude towards her. She already said sorry and he was still obviously angry with her. Ergh, what does she have to do to please him huh? For once, can he not be such an asshole?! Sakura started cursing Sasuke but she could not deny that the fact that Sasuke did not forgive her stabbed her heart.

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It was already 1 a.m. and Sasuke was in the middle of setting up a surprise test for his students, which included Sakura, tomorrow. Before that, he was marking the 100 math questions that Sakura had done in school and he was awe-struck by his student's sudden intelligence. Apparently, Sakura had gotten full marks for it and Sasuke spent an hour just to re-mark the quiz again so as to check carefully for any mistakes but he found none. Until now, he was still shocked about it and started wondering whether Sakura had asked somebody to do the quiz for her or something.

Suddenly, he was filled with guilt just thinking about it. Sakura had a high fever because of the quiz and now, he was accusing her for cheating. Gosh, how could he think of that in the first place?

Sasuke quickly cleared his thoughts and went back to setting questions for the test. He had already decided that he would make use of the 100 questions that he made Sakura to do earlier to be the surprise test. Sasuke perfectly knew that this was completely unfair to the rest of the students but he thought that if Sakura knew that she got full marks for a surprise math class test, she might probably start working hard and who knows, she might even start liking math. Sasuke smirked. What a wonderful idea of his.

Suddenly, he heard some groaning and turning around in his bed. After he left Sakura in the room to rest, he came back into the room again with the 100 questions quiz. For the past few hours, he sat in the same room as Sakura, busy marking the quiz and at the same time, keeping a close watch on her.

Back in reality, Sasuke turned around and found Sakura slightly panting on his bed with beads of sweat dripping down her forehead. Sasuke checked the clock and realised that it was time for Sakura to eat her medicine again. Rushing to the kitchen, Sasuke got a cup of water and the pills before rushing back to the room again. He gently shook Sakura on the shoulder so as to wake her up. Sakura slowly opened her eyes as she tried to get use to the light.

"It's time for your medication," Stupidhead's voice rang through her ears as her vision started to get use to the light. Sasuke helped Sakura to sit up and carefully gave the cup of water to her and this time, he was careful not to spill the water all over Sakura's shirt again.

Sakura took the water and the pills in one gulp before handing the empty cup back to her math teacher. Just as Sasuke was about to walk away, he felt Sakura pulled onto his shirt. Sakura herself did not know what on earth was she doing but she just did not want to be left alone in the room by Sasuke even if it was just a minute. Her brain was fuzzy and probably not functioning well. Her body felt cold and although she only slept for a few hours, she still clearly remembered that she had made Sasuke angry.

Sasuke looked back and saw Sakura looking at him with half-opened eyes. She mouthed him to stay and before he knew it, he put the cup onto the bedside table before climbing into bed Sakura and in a minute, Sakura was hugging him like her teddy bear. While his student was snuggling into his arms, many questions were going through his mind.

Since when did he listen to Sakura, a rebellious student of his?
Since when did he allowed a student to hug him?
Since when did he become so worried over his student's health?
Since when did he care so much about his student's studies?
Since when did he care so much about Sakura?
And since when did they become so close?

Whatever, it was, he was not going to care tonight, just for tonight.

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Yay, I finally updated! Send me a review and make me happy guys, LOL :D

P.S: The next chapter's title should probably be 'Failure'.
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