Sasuke P.O.V

This has to be a mistake. She doesn't love me; she loves her senpai.

My heart began to beat in my chest. I was elated by her words, yet fearful that her feeling had suddenly changed towards me despite keeping her apart from the current Sasuke. I quickly ran out the room, heading towards the kitchen so I could cook and get my thoughts together.

I don't understand how this could have happened...I've been nothing but cold and rude towards her, so how could she have suddenly fallen in love with me?

Guilt consumed my heart as I realized the small bits of affection I had given her in the moments where my heart softened around her. This is my fault...I somehow lead her to fall for me when I was consumed by my own affection for her...Damn it! Why do I always ruin everything?! Why can't I ever make her happy?!

I heard the room door open and the shuffling of her feet as she walked up to the table. "Mornin'," she yawned.

"Hn." 

I continued to cook, frying the eggs, serving the milk, and toasting the toast for our egg sandwhiches. 

"So last night," she started, "Naori and I were talking, and she told me about her arranged marriage with some guy her family picked...She never told me his name, but it had me thinking."

The grip that held the pan stiffened. Thinking? Does she know...?

"Is that so...?" I replied as calmly as possible.

"Mhm...It had me thinking about our relationship..."

Sweat began to form on my temple. I quickly wiped my forehead with a napkin before serving the eggs on the toast. "What about our relationship?"

"You said that in the future, I gave you my dad's ring and you gave me my mother's. That meant we chose each other. We were given the opportunity to choose who to marry and that was each other...but we ended up as broken as Naori's own relationship...It made me think, did we really make a mistake in falling in love?"

It wasn't a mistake for me...but it was for you...

"I told you Naruko, it's complicated." I grabbed the plates of food and brought them to the table. "Eat up," I said while passing her a napkin.

She grabbed the sandwich, taking a bite out of it before putting it back down. "Hey Sasuke?"

"Hm?"

"Why did you get angry when I said I was going to help Naori?"

The warm blood that ran through my veins quickly turned cold. If I tell her the truth, she might go off and try to find me. How should I cover this up...?

I cleared my throat, taking a sip of milk before proceeding to speak. "When I was in highschool, there were kids always gossiping about the students in Saint Madara. Naori's name was brought up a few times...I had only known her through rumors, so it worried me when you said you were going to save some girl I had never known about."

"Really? So in the future I never knew Naori?"

"No."

She lifted up the sandwich, continuing to eat it with a sullen face. "That sucks...I like Naori a lot," she mumbled with a full mouth.

I did too...she was a good friend...

It was silent for a while before the expression on her face changed to show that she was dying to know something. Naruko had given me that face many times when we were dating, and I couldn't help but smile at it.

I brought the cup of coffee to my face to hide my smile from her. "What's wrong?" I asked before taking a sip of my drink.

"H-huh?"

"I know that face...What do you want to ask?"

She laughed nervously as she played with her hair, twirling the strands with her finger. "Um...I Know you don't want me to know about this time's Sasuke, but...What school did you go to?"

My eyebrow rose in suspicion.

"I-I promise I won't try to find you!" she shouted with a stutter, "I just wanted to know how close or far we were to each other that we eventually met!"

I sighed while pressing against my temples. Great...I don't know many highschools around here except for Konoha high and Saint Madara...Wait-I think my mother use to go to an outside school in the country side.

I cleared my throat to speak: "I went to Hidden Leaves Highschool, a public school in the country side."

She stared at me in awe before bursting into laughter. "Hidden Leaves High? Isn't that basically Konoha High? Haha, the way people avoid copyrights!"

I sighed in relief at her joke. "Yeah, it was low budget school."

Her laugh slowy began to calm down, leaving a smile on her face. "That's kinda romantic though..."

"What?"

"Like, we lived miles away from each other, went to different schools, yet somehow we managed to find a way to each other...I mean I guess it wasn't a good thing but still, it's kinda romantic when you think about it, you know?"

Even with the coffee to my lips I couldn't stop my smile from showing. You always say the cutest things, Naruko.

***

Naruko P.O.V

After breakfast, I had spent most of the morning on a phone call with my boyfriend, Kakashi-senpai.

"So Naruko."

"Yeah?"

"How would you feel about going out to dinner after basketball practice on Monday?"

My heart flipped in my chest as I thought about having my first date.

"Y-yes! I would totally love that, ya know?!"

"Haha, I knew you would be excited."

"Excited?! I'm like--jumping over the moon! Ahhh, okay, I'm just--ahh I can't wait, believe it!"

He chuckled over the phone at my innocent reaction. "You're really cute, Naruko."

Everytime he called me cute, my face would warm up, sending goosebumps to my skin. That feeling I felt showed that I did like Kakashi-senpai, but it wasn't the same feeling I would get with Sasuke. I liked my senpai, but I didn't love him.

I'm really just leading him on...but maybe, once Sasuke leaves, I could learn to love my senpai as well?

"Oh, my dad's calling me outside to practice some more with him...I'll call you later tonight."

"I look forward to it~"

I was about to hang up the phone when I heard him say one final goodbye:

"See you Naruko...I miss you..."

In an instant, the call dropped. Did he...did he just say he missed me?! Ahsjsjsks! I feel so bad because I don't--no! I do miss him! I miss him more than I ever would--

"Naruko, could you go out to the store and buy some things?...Uh, what're you doing?"

Sasuke...

I was laying on my bed with my head hanging over the mattress. Blood was rushing not only to my head but also to my cheeks, intensifying the blush I tried to hide as I drapped my pigtails over my face.

"N-nothing! G-geez Sasuke, ever heard of knocking?! Can't a girl talk to her boyfriend in peace?!"

"Oh...I didn't know you were talking to him..."

I couldn't see his face since I held my hair over my own, but the tone of his voice was enough to tell me there was something wrong. Why does he sound heart broken...I'm the one who's heart broken...

"Um so...what's the list?" I asked while sitting up, trying to change the subject.

"I'll make it right now," he was walking out my room when he suddenly stopped and looked back at me. "Naruko, why were you in my room this morning?"

I flinched at the sudden question. What am I suppose to say?! Ahahhsjs I walked in there after being with Naori because I was sad! How am I suppose to tell him I showed up to his room so I could be with him while I was in my feelings?

I just sound like a creeper now! Ughhh, why did I have to go and get feelings for him! I'm suppose to hate him and love my senpai, but it's not working! Maybe we're just cursed!

I laughed awkwardly as I played with my pigtails. "Oh, you see when I got home I was super tired, and I wasn't really looking where I was going so I ended up in your room. Haha sorry..." That was probably the worst lie ever!

His eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Are you lying to me?"

Sweat ran down my forehead in fear. "Uhhh no..."

He folded his arms, leaning against the doorway unconvinced with my lie. "Naruko, in the future we've been married for 7 years, and in that time, I learned to read you like a book. I know when you're lying."

Seven years?! That's a long time! Why the hell would we be married for seven years and now suddenly wanna get divorced?!

"N-no you don't. You're bluffing." Damn it! He probably does know when I'm lying! I mean it's been seven freaking years!

"Naruko, you're the worst liar. You can't ever hide how you're truly feeling. When you do try to, you tend to play with your hair and avert your gaze from me."

I then noticed I was doing the very things he claimed that I did when I lied. In an instant I looked up at him and placed my hands down at my side on the bed. Ahh crap! Stupid nervous habits!

He sighed from the doorway and slowly walked over to me. "Now that I think of it, you've been doing that a lot: lying. What are you hiding from me?"

I was panicking. My heart was trembling from fear that he may know my true feelings for him. "I-Im not hiding anything!"

He leaned over my bed, trying to corner me. His face was slowly appraoching mine to intimidate me. I tried to move back, but my back hit against the wall as I sat up in my bed.

"Naruko...do you actual have feelings for me?"

My blood went cold. Was I that obvious?!

"N-no!" I shouted, "And even if I did, what does that have to do with you?!"

He sighed, slowly backing away from me. "If you have feelings for me, then I would have to go back in time and redo this entire process again."

My eyes widened in fear. Redo...? So everything I've expirenced up to now would be erased?

The idea of forgetting him pained me. Even if he does restart...I know I would still fall in love with him. It'll be a never ending time loop of an impossible love that could never be erased from my heart. But it's not the same for him...

Sasuke doesn't love me, and that's why he's trying so hard to stop us from meeting. He probably strung me along for seven years and finally couldn't handle me. 

My heart was broken when I finally realized my love was only one sided. Sasuke never loved me, and that was why he came back from the future to stop me from falling in love with him.

"Ha, don't waste your time going back in time. I don't love you and I never will. You're cold-hearted, rude, selfish, and self-centered!" I yelled angrily.

His expressionless face soon turned into an angry one. "Selfish?! How am I selfish! I sacrificed everything to come back to this time just to make sure we never meet! So how am I the selfish one?!"

"Last time I checked, you never even told me that you had left me in the future! So you are selfish! You don't love me! You only care about yourself!"

"Shut up! You don't know anything!" He retorted.

"Really?! Then tell me! Why are you even here if you actually loved me?!"

He stayed silent.

"I knew it. You never loved me."

"You have no right to say that!"

"Then tell me Sasuke, why don't you want us to meet?!"

He clicked his tongue and stormed out the room.

I'm an idiot! Why did I ever fall for that selfish guy?!

Tears ran down my cheeks from the pain of a broken heart. From now on, I need to love Kakashi-Senpai...I can't make the same mistake twice.