Sakura groaned as the bright light hit her square in the face.

What the hell? I never leave the curtains open.

Well, unless you were too piss drunk last night to close them.

Oh right. There's that. I'm never listening to you or Ino again.

Inner Sakura giggled madly as the chuunin rolled over and snuggled into the warm pillow. Wait a minute… when did pillows breath?

When do you think pillows breathe?

Oh shit.

Damn right.

Her eyelids twitched when she first tried to open them. She was in all actuality too scared to see who she was with as she knew that the both of them were too naked for her liking. The first thing she saw was thick black hair, hair way too gorgeous and shiny. And then the man beside her chose that moment to conveniently roll over and she saw a way too familiar face.

You hooked up with the Ice King! Whoo hoo!

Sakura was not the least happy about Inner Sakura's priorities. Hooking up with ANYONE, was not something to be celebrating. And she was sore in places that were NOT meant to be sore. Trying to still her heart she pulled her horrified eyes away from that sleeping face and looked around. This wide, understated elegant room was most definitely not her room. Hers wasn't as neat. Why couldn't she remember what happened last night? How much did she drink?

She should just run away. Yes, running away seems to be the best option at the moment. Carefully moving away, her plans were foiled when a strong pale hand reached out and pulled her back into his warmth. She fell back into the welcoming heat with a quiet and undignified 'omph.'

Oh shit.

Glad you're getting with the program.

Terrified eyes searched the (Oh thank you Kami!) still sleeping face before her. Shifting out from under his arm, which thankfully didn't grab her again, she slipped painfully slowly out from under the quilt, off his bed and onto the plush carpet.

Then with a speed that would have made Gai gape in awe, the medic gathered her clothes and was out of that window.

"Neh Sakura! Aren't you going to eat your ramen?"

"No. It makes me queasy. You have it."

Kakashi, ignoring Naruto's cry of happiness kept his eye on the tired pink head. These past two weeks, she had been getting tired easily, and was more snappish than normal. Aside from that she had become far quieter, which for anyone else would have been normal but for her was a red alert that something was dead wrong. And then there was the strange behavior that kept showing up. Sometimes she would seem to spot something, duck, make up some obviously fake excuse that rivaled his own, and disappear before anyone could figure out what had frightened her. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, I just might be getting sick."

Naruto looked up from where he had been wolfing down what was formally Sakura's bowl of ramen. "Really? Then get Tsunade Obaa-chan to check it out."

Without looking at him, Sakura's fist slammed down on his head, "Stop calling her that! Tsunade sama is the Hokage! She's not some common medic!"

"Oww! I was just worried about you! Sheesh!"

Her face flushed, "Well, I'm not someone who needs to be looked after!"

"Sakura…"

She looked up at Kakashi's concerned gaze and immediately felt ashamed. "Don't worry. I'm really fine." Feeling awkward she shifted in her seat.

When the silence (aside from Naruto's slurping that is) persisted she stood up, "Well! I'll go to the training grounds and loosen up a bit."

Naruto growled into his ramen, "Loosen up and destroy the grounds."

His team mate flushed again, "I said I was sorry about that OK? You make it sound like I do it all the time."

"But you do, Ugly. You have no restraint."

A vein throbbed on Sakura's forehead and she trembled furiously but reeling in her self-restraint, she ignored Sai and stalked off. The rest of the team stared after her. She wasn't acting normally; usually Sai would have been socked into Kingdom come.

Sai blinked, "Maybe it's her menstruation cycle."

Naruto grimaced. "That sounds so gross! Eww!"

Sakura stomped down the worn path to the third training grounds furious. It's been two weeks since waking up in a bed that wasn't hers, and she was distracted, on edge and generally upset. What's more every time she saw Neji she fumbled, acted like an idiot and always came up with excuses to run away. Even if the said Hyuuga was a mile away. On top of it all, she seemed to be coming down with a flu!

God! I can't concentrate! I can't do anything! It's his entire fault! Even my team mates are noticing that there's something wrong with me! He's making me look like a retard! If I ever see that Neji Hyuuga again-

So what were you saying about seeing that sexy Hyuuga again?

Sakura blinked at who she found at the training grounds she had chosen. Pale white eyes stared blankly right back at her… Then Sakura automatically U-turned and started walking away and when she felt his chakra approaching she speeded up.

"Haruno san."

Oh god his voice is so sexy! Husky and deep, rawr!

Shut up!

"Ah ha ha… Hello Hyuuga san." God, she wished she could just evaporate now. For a moment she had considered becoming selectively deaf. But she discarded that idea because the Ice King was a far more stubborn ass than her and she didn't want to fast walk through Konoha with the Ice King behind her. Halting she turned around and plastered a smile on her face that wouldn't have fooled a blind frog. By the way he frowned at her; he obviously wasn't falling for it.

"Haruno san, are you running from me?"

"Who, me? Run? You? No, no, wrong idea, me go now, bye bye!"

She started backtracking only to feel a sudden displacement of chakra and soft black hair brushing against the back of her neck. Now why was she always getting into these positions?

She turned around to face him," Look, I only came to train-"

"Then we shall spar. You came at the right time. Tenten is busy and Lee is on a mission."

Arrogant pushy-

Hot, gorgeous-

Egotistical-

Hunk!

Inner Sakura having won, smirked smugly at the back of her mind. The Hyuuga prodigy simply filed away Sakura's emotions chasing each other across her face. "Haruno san, what are you thinking about?"

"Just a training session right? Nothing more?"

For once the Ice King actually looked surprised. "Should there be more, Haruno san?"

Sakura blushed furiously and looked away, "Of course not! You dirty minded Kappa!"

Stupid mouth shut up! Just shut up!

The dirty Kappa is us I believe…

Neji's eyebrow twitched at the 'dirty Kappa' bit, but he didn't get a chance to reply because all 54 kilograms of Sakura launched herself at him. Obviously it was her fists he had to be aware of though.

Leaping backwards he landed on the edge of the crater her chakra enthused fist had created.

She had distracted him before attacking, he on the other hand, hadn't thought of that. Her guile was indeed refreshing compared to the blunt, straight forward attacks, he had to face with Lee and Tenten as his opponents. Her speed was good and she had a solid stance, however their levels were still too far apart.

Sakura straightened up huffing, "Well? Are you going to attack or what?"

The young man, who stood in front of her, eyed her wide feral grin a moment, before activating his bloodline limit.

"Byakugan."

Then Sakura noticed something weird, Neji froze up, and he released his Byakugan immediately.

"Wha- what's wrong? Is something wrong?" Sakura quickly looked around.

"Nothing. You should refrain training. It's not good for you to train, too stressful."

Too stressful? What did he mean by that?

Is he implying we can't fight him? That we aren't good enough to?

Sakura's face twisted in frustration. The intensity of it actually made him back up a step even though he was quite far from her. If she had been thinking, her tenacious logic should have told her that something was wrong with her. The problem was of course; she wasn't thinking. "You stupid Hyuuga! Stupid, stupid Hyuuga! You and your stupid views on everything!"

After her exceedingly eloquent outburst, she stared at him with angry tears in her eyes and turned tail and ran. Not caring that she looked very much like a mad woman. The stoic jounin left by himself behind her narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.

"She called me… Stupid…"

Pale lips held the traces of a smirk, "Heh."