Sasuke stretched as he yawned, being bored out of his mind. He was sitting on a roof of the exam stadium, in which were currently the most recent chuunin exams taking place. He was glad that he was already a jounin, as the opponents didn't seem very strong this year. Well, most of them. From the 8 participants that managed to get into the third part, only 3 seemed to be chuunin material. And sadly, 2 of them were not from Konoha.

The Uchiha heir sighed, why did Tsunade want him here? He and the other guards were nothing but trinkets to show other hokages that they care about the event and have some security. He sighed again and signed others that everything was clear.

"Ah, here you are Sasuke-kun," came a female voice from behind him.

Sasuke craned his neck to look behind him, "What are you doing here, Sakura?"

The pink haired kunoichi smiled softly, "Can't I see how you are doing?"

"We are here for a job," Sasuke barked, "Shouldn't you be at med station waiting to heal injured?"

Sakura ignored his tone and sat beside him, "Shizune-san is there, and besides, this is final round and there were no serious injuries."

Sasuke didn't react his eyes glued to the duel below. Sakura was right, it was last round, but it seemed to drag itself, as no one wanted to surrender.

"Nee, Sasuke-kun?" started Sakura shyly, "Do you think… that maybe after the exams… We could go eat somewhere?"

"No," Sasuke said shortly.

"Why not?!" Sakura asked angrily, and hissed, "You know… it's been 10 years Sasuke! Naruto won't come back from his grave! You need to move on! The council…"

"The council what?" Sasuke glared at her, "They can't make me do shit!"

"But you always wanted…" Sakura's eyes filled with tears, but Sasuke only glared harder.

"I think you need to leave Sakura," the Uchiha heir said icily.

"B-but…" Sakura stuttered.

Sasuke activated his sharingan and send Sakura hateful glare, "I said: LEAVE!"

Sakura took the hint and quickly left, with tears streaming down her cheeks.

Sasuke sighed and deactivated his sharingan.

"Tough time?" this time it was male voice at which Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Not you too, Kakashi," he said.

"Actually, I came to help you, but you handled it," Kakashi chuckled.

"So now you can go," Sasuke said, "Isn't Iruka-sensei waiting for you?"

But Kakashi ignored him and looked at the match.

"Seems like Yuuto-kun found his match, neh?" he asked nonchalantly.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. He knew that Kakashi only wanted to lift his mood, but the older man should know by now that he hated small talks.

"That little redhead might even win," Kakashi refused to give up.

Sasuke snorted, "Come on, I agree she is really good, but once Hyuuga decides to use his byakugan, she will lose."

"You never know," Kakashi grinned.

Sasuke shook his head and looked back at the match. As he said, soon Hyuuga Yuuto started to utilize his byakugan more and the redheaded girl had to go on defensive.

"See? Doujutsu is too much for a fresh genin like her," Sasuke said.

And then a call from the Kirigakure's girl made both males freeze: "Sharingan!"