Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Second Story

The Captured Loyal Follower

Being a good follower is the first step in becoming a good leader.

Sakura was riding high on adrenaline as she chased the black chicken butt-haired teen that stole her phone. She was rapidly gaining on him. She smirked as ran, musing on the wonders of the supplementary leg exercises her adoptive mother, a hospital director, and doctor, Tsunade taught her. Since she was the striker of the soccer team, the blonde haired woman insisted. Bless her lucky stars, the doctor is always right.

They were now just one meter apart. After a few minutes, the distance was no more than half a meter. She kicked his butt. Literally.

His knees gave out on the sheer force she used, and he landed on the ground unceremoniously.

"Give it back you pervert!" She growled threateningly.

To her surprise, he gave her an intimidating stare of her own.

Tch. Pretty boys.

Sakura was having a good day. She was joyous and was totally in a good mood. She felt as if she was floating, walking a field of flowers. Until the black haired bastard knocked her down, sending her down the pavement.

"Sorry," he said in an emotionless voice.

He didn't even look at her; he was still fiddling with his phone! This caused her temper to reveal its ugly head.

"Can't you at least help me up?" She snapped.

He snorted, complied, and offered his free hand, causing the hand that help his phone unconsciously go down at angle that showed her underwear since she was wearing a short skirt. Unfortunately, the application he was fiddling with was the camera and his thumb pressed capture. Snap!

"Give me your phone," she told him in her deceptively but angry voice.

"My camera may have captured it, but I didn't see it, you know! I'll delete it!" The stranger that bumped into her answered.

"See what?" Sakura challenged.

"Your panty!" He all but screamed in the sea of crowd, causing all eyes to turn to look at them.

Sakura's face turned red in embarrassment. "Pervert!" She just as loudly as she got his phone, and destroyed it in one kick.

When it happened, it seemed as if everything was in slow motion. The phone rotated in the air in consecutive twirls until on landed on the ground in a heap of smoke and dust.

His eyes were wide in disbelief, his face white with rage while Sakura was finally able to process what she did. She broke a stranger's phone. She nervously gulped and prayed that the stranger would be kind to her and excuse her monstrosity of an impulse. Still, it wasn't her fault that he ruined her mood!

"You will pay," he seethed, his eyes narrowed into thin slits that made him look like a villain from a cartoon.

"I needed to call my mother around this time," he all but continued to hiss as her.

At this, Sakura couldn't help but snort in disbelief. Could anyone please explain how random that explanation was?

"I just moved back here and she's worried sick! I'm leaving alone," he convinced her. After all, it was a plausible fact. Fuck her and her compassionate heart especially for family matters.

Reluctantly, she held out her own phone which carried a handcrafted charm she made.

"You can borrow it for your call," she mumbled to the ground.

Almost immediately, he took her phone and ran like hell.

"Catch me if you can!" He taunted. Ha! He didn't know who he was messing with.

"Don't underestimate me!" She replied and gave chase.

Finally, she had caught him and now, she will not let him escape from her clutches. She was just about to choose a perfect punishment that she would execute in great pleasure when he interrupted her.

"Don't you remember me, Sakura?" He asked in genuine confusion, out of the blue.

Almost immediately, her menacing aura and thoughts dissipated and disappeared.

"You know my name?"

"Duh," he intoned, stood up from the ground and gave her cellphone back. "You used to like me a lot."

She did a double take, her eyes round in wonder.

"Sasuke-kun?!"

"I was waiting for that reaction," he said in a light tone as he dusted his clothes and wiped his sweat.

"But I thought you were in Sound High! What the- how did you become even more emotionless than you were before?"

At this, Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Gee, I don't know. You tell me."

Sakura giggled lightly, loving his new found sarcasm. He's still hot. Even hotter than before, she fangirled mentally. "Well, it was nice seeing you, Sasuke-kun," she gave him a smile and a rather cute wave, if she may say so herself. She was about to turn her back when Sasuke stopped her tracks with a simple line.

"I missed you chasing me so much that I came back."