"Don't worry sir. I'll make sure to take her home safely," Sasuke answered in a casual manner.
'I feel so embarrassed as hell,' while Sakura appeared polite and bashful on the surface inside she was yelling with anger.
As they were walking in silence Sakura was the first one who spoke, "Sasuke-kun I'm so sorry about my dad. He can be like that sometimes."
"It's fine. It's natural for parents to care about their child," Sasuke said to Sakura with a natural smile. When Sasuke smiled at her Sakura felt her heart skipped a beat.
As they walked the two didn't say anything. Maybe because he inherited Sasuke's memories he can keep it cool in situations like this. As for Sakura she's hiding her head in bashfulness.
Her mind is going off tangent as she imagines herself starting a happy family with Sasuke in the future. The more she daydreams the hotter she finds her cheeks to be.
Knock Knock
"Oy there Sasuke-kun," Naruto opened the door with excitement as he greeted his best buddy. "Huh Sakura-chan?"
"Sakura-chan?" Behind Naruto was Hinata who poke her head out to see who it was.
"Sakura-san helped me out yesterday so I thought about inviting her to have dinner together as thanks," Sasuke explained.
Entering the kitchen Sasuke put down two bags of cooking materials. Naruto stood up and took a little peak of what it was, "These meats are huge!! What kind of animals are they?"
"Oh I got them from a friend," said Sasuke while taking out the huge chunks of animal meat from the two bags.
He really didn't lie since it was bought from his chat group member Sanji from the Community Mall. Ever since they knew about uploading items to the Community Mall the two perverts had been uploading a lot of strange stuff.
Besides the useful materials for survival, Jiraiya started writing his series of adult novels ahead of time.
A week ago with the inspiration from watching Naruto Jiraiya uploaded the first of his Icha Icha novels to the Community Mall. The sad thing is he even fooled Sasuke's good pupil Rock Lee to buy his novel as a 'learning material'.
Sasuke could only shake his head in deep regret at the change bought about by the Chat Group. Although he does find it useful to be able to buy great cooking materials like this with only a single Community Point.
"Okay everyone dinner is served," said Sasuke joyfully as he put the warm dishes onto the table.
The entire room was filled with exquisite flavor of the sauce that is dripped onto the meat. Also Sasuke's clone served up bowls of noodles for everybody.
"Wow Sasuke your cooking has really improved these days the ramen tastes awesome!!!" Naruto was slurping up the noodles at blitz rate as Hinata pat his back on the side afraid he might choke.
"Haha slow down Naruto I still got a whole lot more prepared for you," Sasuke said as he laughed whole-heartedly.
As Naruto and Sasuke was eating Sakura whispered into Hinata's ears, "How are you and Naruto progressing? Did you guys kiss yet?"
From just hearing the word 'kiss' made Hinata blush bashfully. As her mind become filled with imaginary scenes of them kissing.
Naruto observing that Hinata's face seemed really red asked in concern, "Hinata are you feeling unwell? Want a drink of water?"
Naruto takes his cup of water and hands it to Hinata who drinks it shyly. "Hey Hinata that's an indirect kiss you know," Sakura from the side teased her.
Which only made Hinata even more bashful than before as she struggles to hide her burning cheeks.
"Alright you, stop teasing poor Hinata here," said Sasuke with a playful smile while putting his hand gently on Sakura's pink hair.
Sakura turned into a polite puppy all of a sudden as she feels the warmth of Sasuke's hand on her head. Answering quietly with similar bashfulness, "Okay."
After finishing the dinner Sakura and Sasuke said goodbye to Naruto and Hinata as they walked away together.
Eversince she and Ino started falling in love with Sasuke the two had broken off their pass friendship. She hasn't felt this joyful like today in a long time.
Although she and Sasuke are not as close yet she can feel herself closing the distance between them slowly each day.
As she walks side by side with Sasuke she noticed his walking stopped. Looking up she sees Sasuke looking back at her with a playful smile.
"Sakura-chan do you mind if we stop by my apartment for a second," Sasuke asked casually, "I have something I want to give you."
'Something to give me?' Sakura wondered to herself what would Sasuke want to give her as she followed him to his home.
'So this is Sasuke-kun's home? It is really clean,' she observes the surrounding as Sasuke went to get the gift for her.
She sees Sasuke taking out something from the refrigerator. 'What is this sweet smell?'
"It's anko dumplings!" Sakura gasped from the happy surprise as she takes hold of the plate of sweets from Sasuke's hands.
"I didn't want to bring it with me or else the syrup might melt," Sasuke explained as he watches Sakura's happy expression.
He wouldn't had remembered this was Sakura's favorite dessert until he rewatched the earlier Naruto episodes.
This morning he was unprepared when he got a mission for preparing a gift for Sakura that she will like. They really talk so he would never had known what to prepare.
"Sasuke-kun how did you know I like dumplings?" Sakura asked with curiosity. She never anticipated that Sasuke would know this since she never told him before.
"Oh that. I just kind of guessed," Sasuke lied. Scratching his head in an awkwardly manner hopefully getting over this hurdle.
'Could this be the so called 'Lover's Intuition'?' Sakura thought to herself. If Sasuke knew what she was thinking he would had rolled his eyes and said, 'Definitely not.'
As she tried the dango she felt her heart feeling all warm and tingly inside. Her mind was seemingly filled with Sasuke's smiles and shadows.