Sukuna's room was smaller, quieter, and much less pink than hers. Much darker and silent. Even colder.
Which was exactly why Sakura hated it.
She usually doesn't come here, especially at night. Only now did she realize how creepy this place could be.
"This is so unfair," she complained for the fifth time as she laid out a thin futon on the floor. "Why do I have to sleep on the ground?"
"Because it's my room," Sukuna said calmly, already sitting on the bed and loosening his shirt. "And I'm sleeping on my bed."
"You could at least pretend to be a gentleman!"
He glanced down at her. "You snore."
"I do not!"
"You talk in your sleep."
"That's a lie!"
"I got a recording, you were calling Sasuke in your sleep."
"What!"
"And you kicked me once when we were kids."
"That was one time!"
"One time was more than enough... and you're here because you overspend on your bed. It's your fault that your bed is so comfortable that they chose it over mine." Sukuna shrugged.
Sakura huffed and flopped dramatically onto the futon, arms crossed, back turned toward him. Sukuna lay down, lights off, the room settling into silence.
"It's too dark, how do you sleep here...!" Sakura complained, not even a single night light in this guy's room. Is he a vampire or something?
"By closing my eyes. In the dark. Like normal humans."
Sakura felt veins throbbing on her head.
She decided not to call him. Ignore him. Yeah... just ignore the idiot.
It lasted exactly thirty seconds.
"…Hey."
He ignored her.
"Hey, Sukuna."
Silence.
"Hey, are you asleep?"
"No."
"Good."
He sighed.
She rolled onto her side, propping her head up with one hand. "Mom was so annoying today. Did you see her face when she said Sasuke's name? She does that on purpose."
"She enjoys our suffering."
"She really does," Sakura groaned. "It's like her hobby."
A pause.
"…You don't get teased like that."
"That's because I don't react."
"That's because you don't have a life," Sakura shot back.
"Last I checked, I was alive, thank you."
"That's not living. That's just alive... ahhh... you know what I mean."
He turned his head slightly. "I have a life."
"Oh yeah?" she smirked in the dark. "Name one romantic achievement."
"How come having a life means romance for teenage girls...?"
"Urg, just tell me."
"Why?"
"Because I'm curious."
"Right in the middle of the night, you're curious about my love life," Sukuna asked like he could have a thousand better things to do than this.
Even for a second, Sakura felt how further she had fallen, but still the urge to gossip was making her restless.
"Just tell me if you have none, bet you didn't even kiss a girl in your life..." Sakura shook and teased.
He didn't answer immediately.
Sakura waited, waited, and waited until no answer came.
Sakura's eyes narrowed. "Wait."
She sat up like the village was under attack. "Have you kissed someone? Mom not allowed."
Sukuna just sighed. "…Why does that matter?"
Her eyes widened.
"Oh my god... you have."
She stared at him like she'd just discovered a secret forbidden jutsu.
"You did!" she gasped. "Tell me, tell me who!"
Before he could react, Sakura launched herself off the futon and onto the bed.
"What—Sakura—!"
She landed squarely on his chest, hands planted on either side of his shoulders, hair falling forward. Faces only inches apart.
"WHO," she demanded, whisper-shouting, "WAS IT?"
"That's none of your business!"
"You're younger than me!"
"I'm not!"
"You had a kiss and I didn't?!"
"I can arrange that, there is a 60-year-old grandpa in my contact..."
By then, the entire conversation had already resorted to Sakura trying to physically shake answers out of him.
The bed creaked.
From the other room came Kizashi's tired voice.
"You two, don't break the bed. I'm not buying you a new one!"
"Sorry!" Sakura shouted back instantly.
"Honey, what are they doing..." Mebuki asked.
"Let me show you..." Kizashi grinned and pounced on his wife.
Another bed creaked.
Both Sukuna and Sakura froze.
"Oh god, they are on my bed." Sakura had a horrified expression.
"Why do you care, at this point you're considering me as a replacement anyways..." Sukuna said with an annoyed groan.
She was lying on top of Sukuna. Her chest pressing down on his own, and to even his disbelief, he really felt something.
Seems like my existence has changed Kishimoto's flat plot...
Needless to say, they were too close. Way too close.
Her face felt warm.
"…Move," Sukuna muttered.
She tried to scramble off him so fast she nearly fell off the bed, but in reality she lost control in haste and fell back on him...
"Awee..."
"Great... you might have just broken my nose."
"Shush... just shut up." Sakura groaned, she hit her elbow in her haste.
They lay there again, quieter now.
After a while, Sakura spoke again. Softer this time. Not planning to move any time soon.
"…Sukuna."
"Mm."
"What really happened with Kiyomi?"
He didn't answer right away.
She turned her head slightly. "I'm worried about Sasuke. He doesn't say anything, but… I know it's eating at him."
"A lot of things eat at him. I would have been the same if my older brother had killed my family and ran away," Sukuna grunted. He too felt bad for Izumi. Kiyomi would wake up sooner or later; however, Izumi was gone.
Silence stretched.
Then she added, almost without thinking, "If something like that happened to me… what would you do?"
Sukuna's eyes lost his indifferent tone and hardened. Sakura didn't see it, since her head was resting on his neck.
Not sharply. Not angrily. Just enough that his voice carried weight.
"I wouldn't let it happen."
She blinked.
"That's not an answer," she said quietly.
"It is," he replied. "Because I wouldn't fail you. Not you. Not anyone I care about."
He said, and slowly his hands went on to wrap around her smaller figure. One hand resting on her lower back while another on her head.
She stiffened at the sudden show of affection and protectiveness. Her cheeks were dusted pink at the uncomfortable, embarrassing situation.
"…Geez, you're still trying to act cool in front of your sister," Sakura complained.
"And you're still sleeping on the floor."
She smiled faintly in the dark.
"…Goodnight, Sukuna."
"Goodnight, Sa... hey wait. Get up... don't sleep on top of me."
-x-
[Next Morning]
Dining Table...
"She tried to kill me." Sukuna pointed at Sakura, who avoided looking at him directly.
"Oh come on, don't be such a drama queen, Sukuna." Mebuki sighed. She thought they'd get along well after spending more time together.
"I'm telling you the truth. She really tried to kill me." Sukuna said, face darkened.
Sigh... Mebuki hadn't had this kind of morning ever since they had grown up. It almost was nostalgic.
"Sakura dear, mind telling what your brother is talking about..."
Sakura, who was still avoiding looking at Sukuna, stiffened. Recalling this morning, her face flushed even more.
When she woke up, she found herself on top of Sukuna. Turns out she ended up sleeping on top of him.
If that wasn't embarrassing enough, then when she wished to quickly get off of him before he started to wake up and complain, her butt landed on something hard.
She almost jolted at the contact, and her hand roamed down her back to remove it only to grab something long and hot.
She froze on the spot. Her hand couldn't completely hold on to it, it was that thick... and did she mention it was hot. Very hot.
She gulped even imagining it.
And that was when Sukuna too started to stir when he felt strong pressure down there, like someone was holding him in a death grip.
"Oh no... don't wake up..." she flustered, and before he knew it, his head hit the raw bedding, the cushion gone, only for her to bring it down on his face with her enhanced strength.
"Don't wake up, you idiot."
Sakura remembered it and her face turned completely crimson...
"S-shut up... you bi..ggg baka, Baka Onii."
xXx
A/N : Ah the fluff... I'm recently liking this so much. By the way guys, I guess we are at the point of the story were we should talk about the FML right ?
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