[Masquerade Challenge] [Robots] Our Love Story
Title: His confession
Author: CherryFlower05
Summary: She insisted he was bad lucky and he called her danger prone but in the end of it all they fell in love. A series of ‘how we met’ and ‘horrible dates’
Author's Note:
It had only been two weeks. Only two weeks since Sasuke last saw or heard anything from Sakura and then suddenly he gets a call that she is in the hospital just about to undergo surgery. He rushes over and is just in time to see the doctor talking to Sakura’s parents. They had no idea that their daughter and her boyfriend had a misunderstanding so they were more than happy to call him over.
“How?” Sasuke asked as soon as he faced them. Sakura’s father was speechless but her mother looked stern and strong, “She will be fine but they couldn’t save her hand. It was too late.” She said.
Sasuke froze. Her hand? What happened to her?!
“It was horrible, I have no idea why she was in that neighborhood but she was attacked and they took her left hand from her!” At that point, Mrs. Haruno broke down and started to cry. She didn’t hide her face and allowed the fat drops to slide down her cheeks. The doctor appeared.
“Please I know you are upset but I have more good news for you.” The doctor said, “You can see your daughter now and we may be able to help her get a hand back.”
Sasuke sat down and listened. Apparently they were working on creating robotic limbs for humans where the wiring was directly attacked to the nerves in the body. It would be a long process but fortunately Sakura was part of the group who was doing the project and already had a mould of her own hands made from before. The doctor who was assigned to her was also her teacher at the University. She looked sickly pale as she spoke and Sasuke guessed it was because she didn’t want to use Sakura as the test subject for their project but the opportunity had revealed itself and only a fool would pass it up.
“With your approval I can start the project.” The doctor said. Sasuke glanced at the Haruno family before they gave the ‘ok.’ It wasn’t until three weeks later when Sasuke finally saw Sakura face to face.
She was sleeping. On the left right, Sasuke could see the robotic hand. It was naked, all of its wiring exposed to the world. Sasuke supposed they would build around it as time went on but they had to see if the test was successful and for that to happen Sakura would have to wake up.
Sasuke took a seat next to her and held her human hand. He felt her pulse quickened and realized she was awake.
“Sakura?” Sasuke asked.
Sakura opened her eyes and immediately tears came out. She cried and cried, “I am hideous!” she screamed. She lifted up her left arm slowly and flexed her robotic fingers. “Who would even love me with this attached to my body!” Sasuke grabbed the hand and held it close. It was cold and lifeless but he expected that much.
“Baka.” He whispered. Sakura gasped, “You really are a baka gaki.” Sasuke continued, “Since when do I care how you look?”
“Sasuke-kun.” She stuttered out. Sasuke brushed away her bangs from her face. “Tsk besides I am too surprised you ended up in this type of situation. You were always danger prone.”
Sakura blushed heavily. It was sorta true. On some days, Sakura really wondered why bad things kept happening to her. Tripping on things that were never there and always ending up in dangerous situations and never seeming to have an answer to why she got there in the first place.
“Sasuke-kun you don’t have to say these things. I know how you are. You think you are in debt to me.” Sakura started.
“Shut up!” Sasuke snarled out, “As if you know me that well.” He paused when he saw the fear in her eyes, “Gomen.” He whispered. He touched the robotic hand again, “You are still you.” He finished.
Sakura gasped, taking in a deep breath, “I…I don’t know what to say.”
“I love you.”
Sakura felt her heart skip a beat before she started crying again, “Now I know you’re acting out of responsibility!” she exclaimed. She used her human hand to cover her hand, “But don’t play with me Sasuke-kun! My heart is not something you can play with!”
Sasuke shot up from his seat, his eyes almost flashing red, “Is that what you think!” he exclaimed, “Do you honestly think I am that type of person! You think that I chased after you all this time because I wanted to play with your heart?!”
“You chased after me?” Sakura asked shocked. Sasuke chuckled sourly, “Yes.” He admitted bitterly, “Every single girl I met always treated me like I was some ouji-sama but you, you didn’t care. You were blunt and never hid your feelings. You were exactly what I needed.”
He looked at her and held tighter on her robotic hand, “This isn’t going to change how I feel.” He whispered.
Sakura started to wipe away her tears with her free hands before hugging Sasuke, “Gomen Sasuke-kun! I love you!” Sasuke chuckled dryly; his stupid little pink dwarf, “Hn. Thank you.”
A month later Sakura was released from the hospital. She could be seen being wheeled out by no other than Uchiha Sasuke. He carefully carried her to his rented car and shut the door. As he made his way to the driver’s side, Sakura spoke up.
“Hey Sasuke-kun did you know? Our love story has only just started! So please take very good care of me!”
Sasuke laughed and replied, “Ah.”
The End!