So I couldn't wait to start this story so I updated already hahha .. anyways I love your guys reviews! I can't wait to really get into this story.
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As soon as Shizune dismissed them, Sakura bolted out of the room and ran straight upstairs to her room before someone could stop her. She panted and headed towards the bathroom, looking at her reflection in the mirror.
"I can't do this..." She breathed to herself, she was trying to keep calm during the entire thing, and she had managed to keep her composure, but when she saw Sasuke something had definitely snapped inside of her. How could she compete in this thing with Sasuke as one of the contestants?
A knocking at the door broke Sakura out of her thoughts and she stared at the door with nervousness and disdain. Sakura quietly walked over to the door and placed her eye on the eyehole so she could see who was on the other side. It was the red-head, she couldn't see his face so she couldn't tell if it was Gaara or Sasori.
Reluctantly she opened the door and quickly looked around the hallway to see if Sasuke was anywhere in sight. Sakura did not want to think about Sasuke right now, she always tried to block him out of her memory. It was something she simply did not want to think about.
"Hello, Sakura." Sasori said in his unfazed voice, he had this gaze that made it seem like he was staring through you rather than staring at you. Sakura gave him a forced smile and invited him inside, he followed her into her room and she shut the door behind him.
"What brings you here?" Sakura asked the red-head, now that she got a closer look at him, she noticed that his eyes were in fact brown and not teal as she had thought previously. Sakura tried to pass herself off as calm and composed, though she doubted that was convincing.
"You ran off quite quickly, I just wanted to make sure you were alright." Sasori said to her, he gave her another unmoved stare. Sakura could already establish that he was a nice and caring individual, he just didn't seem affected by the things going on around him, nothing fazed him.
"O-Oh..?!" Sakura stammered, "I'm fine!"
"Your eyes tell me otherwise." He started, "your eyes are darting back and forth between me and the door, you are worried about something. Your hair is also uncharacteristically messy, I'm going to assume you ruffled it in frustration and from the way your nose and cheeks are faintly red, I can conclude that you have been crying or have been about too." Sasori said, Sakura raised a brow and sweat dropped. How the heck could somebody establish that just by looking at her, now she didn't know whether she liked him anymore.
"Um...?" She began, unsure of what she was going to say. "Your wrong, and even if you-"
"Sakura, I'm going to ask you again. Tell me what is wrong?" Sasori asked her, "as your future life partner, I must know."
Now Sakura was a bit divided here, half of her was in awe at how sweet he was caring about her and wanting to know what was wrong. But the other half of her, the more dominant side clenched her fists in anger at how somebody could just barge into her life and assume they know everything about her.
"Get out!" Sakura growled, pointing towards the door.
"Very well then." He gave her another unfazed look and turned to leave the room, Sakura felt a little bit guilty now, he had come all this way just to see if she was alright.
"Wait." She muttered, closing her eyes because she knew she would regret this. "Sit." She sighed, pointing towards the bed. Another unfazed look and he sat down, Sakura sat opposite him.
"..."
"I'm just stressed out about all of this." Sakura said, well she wasn't really lying although that wasn't the reason she had ran away earlier, she was quite stressed. "How am I supposed to trust anybody here and know that they are being real with me?"
"True enough, that is somewhat of a dilemma." Sasori said, "but as time passes by, you will know. Those that are real are quite different from those that are fake."
"Easier said than done." Sakura snorted, she crossed her arms and shook her head. "You shouldn't be here, I promised myself I wouldn't get attached to anybody."
"Hm, I suppose." Sasori said, getting up from the bed and turning to leave. "I look forward to getting to know you better, Sakura." He said, while shutting the door shut behind him.
Sakura stared at the door for a while, she wanted to believe that Sasori was a nice person who did truly care about her, but she couldn't conclude that just yet. She had just met him and she saw what Ino went through all those times with the breakups, she was not going to go through that. Deciding that she had, had enough for one night Sakura shut the lights off and crawled into bed after discarding her clothes.
Tomorrow..
Sakura woke up to the sun shining down on her face, she stretched forgetting just about everything for a moment. Then it dawned upon her that she was not in her comfortable bed at home but rather in the hotel room.
Sakura slowly got out of bed and did her morning routine: brush, shower, and change into her clothes. Brand new clothes which had magically appeared in her closet, Sakura rolled her eyes and pulled out some decent clothing which included leggings and a casual t-shirt. She put her hair in a bun and headed outside to the kitchen to get something to eat.
She got in line at the kitchen to get something to eat, there was a tall figure in front of her, towering over her. She grimaced when she saw who it was.
"Oh.. hello." Sakura said timidly.
"Hmph." The other person said, turning away from her when he noticed it was her.
"I'm sorry!" Sakura apologized, "I didn't mean to say what I said! It just sort of slipped out... you know like one of those things you want to keep to yourself, but they slip-"
"Save it." He grumbled.
"But, sharky..!" Sakura said, a vein appeared on the shark's forehead and he turned around and pointed an accused finger at her face.
"What did you just call me?!" He growled, completely in her face now.
"Sharky..?"
"My name is Kisame Hoshigaki, and I'll have you know that I am one of the strongest men in the world."
"Mhmm." Sakura snorted, crossing her arms.
"Pfft." He also crossed his arms, "without that makeup and the tight fitting clothes, you aren't that beautiful."
"What?!" Sakura growled, this time in his face with the accusing finger.
"What's going on over here?" A masculine voice said from behind Sakura, she turned around to be face to face with her man crush: Itachi. Sakura instantly turned a little pink and looked away, fidgeting with her fingers.
"O-Oh..um, nothing.." Sakura mumbled, avoiding his gaze.
"This girl called me a shark, Itachi!" Kisame complained to said man.
"Wait, you guys know each other?" Sakura said, raising a brow.
"Yes, we both graduated from the same high school." Itachi answered, Sakura blushed again noticing he was talking to her. Great, she was like a stupid schoolgirl fawning all over the hottie.
"Don't change the subject." Kisame roared, interrupting the moment Sakura was having with Itachi.
"Oh, suck it you shark." Sakura snorted, before pushing past Kisame and grabbing an apple then heading back to her room.
"Why that girl..." Kisame clenched a fist.
"She's interesting." Itachi said, looking in the direction where Sakura was stomping away from them.
A little whilst later there was a considerate amount of banging on Sakura's door, and there stood Tenten and Hinata. They told her that the next round would be starting soon and they were ordered to make her look perfect.
"You seem a little off today, something up?" Tenten asked her, Sakura shook her head no. They decided not to pursue the issue any longer and only asked her work related questions after that.
"So what type of style should we do today?" Hinata asked, Sakura shrugged.
"Anything you think will suit me, really." Sakura answered, Tenten crossed her arms and raised a brow.
"Look I don't know what's up with you, but can you cut the crap and just be cooperative?" Tenten said.
"Ten-"
"I am cooperative." Sakura answered, "I told you to do whatever, I don't care."
"Mhmm." Tenten rolled her eyes and began working on her hair.
By the time the pair had finished, Sakura had her hair up in a high ponytail with light barely noticeable makeup and some nude lipstick. It was a natural but flawless look, the only thing it was missing was a smile.
"Sakura..." Hinata began, "please tell us what's wrong. You don't seem like yourself."
"Hinata, please." Sakura raised a hand, "just leave me be."
"Well we're going to get in trouble if you don't show up out there with a smile." Tenten exclaimed.
"This is all Ino's fault, she's the actress, not me, I can't do this!" Sakura buried her head in her hands.
"I-Ino?" Hinata repeated, "do you mean... Ino Yamanaka?"
"Oh crap." Mumbled Sakura, no point in lying now. "Yeah, she signed me up for this after she rejected the offer herself."
"Oh boy." Tenten tugged at her collar, "so you're down because you don't think you can do this?"
"Partially... but.." Sakura paused, could she really trust these two, Ino had always told her not to trust anybody in LA, oh what the hell. "The thing is one of the contestants, Sasuke Uchiha... I used to be head over heels in love with him, I think for almost seven years and then..."
They listened intuitively.
"... He just changed one day. He stopped being friends with Naruto and me and just changed.. he joined the popular group that made fun of all of us and that was it. A few months after that I moved here with Ino and never saw him again.." Sakura paused, "I know its stupid, but it just hurt to see him after all this time. Especially the way we met too, I mean.."
"Oh, Sakura." Hinata said sympathetically.
"That must be rough, having to be separated from the guy you like, like that and him totally betraying you and then years later having to see him in a situation like this." Tenten summarized, "rough."
"Yeah that's not all of it.." Sakura said, "the people that Sasuke began hanging out with always used to tease me and call me names like whore or slut, and well.. I mean doesn't this situation make it see-"
"Sakura, just stop!" Tenten interrupted her mid sentence, "stop giving a damn about what those immature assholes think. We know you aren't a whore, and I mean you know you aren't and that's what matters right?" Tenten said with a reassuring smile.
"Tenten's right, S-Sakura.. you're better than he is, d-don't let him get to you." Hinata said with another reassuring smile.
Sakura didn't know what possessed her to do it, she had just met these girls after all, but she pulled them both into a big hug.
They gave her a vibe that reminded her of Ino.
"Welcome everyone, welcome!" Shizune said, giving everybody a hug as they entered the hall. The seats were just like they had been yesterday, Sakura was on one side, Shizune in the middle and the boys on the other end. "Now I hope everybody got plenty of rest!"
"You bet, bitch!" Hidan called from the group of them.
"Erm alright.. so anyways, we got a lot of hits from this show! There's already requests for certain pairs based on the chemistry the audience saw!" Shizune exclaimed, "let's see the chart now.." She said, pressing a button, a screen appeared behind her head and everybody turned to see it.
Audience Popularity..
Sasori: 1st place
Itachi and Gaara: 2nd place
Sasuke, Naruto: 3rd place
Lee: 4th place
"What, un?!" Deidara exclaimed, standing up from his seat. "Where's my name?!"
"Well no one voted for you so.." Shizune started, but he was paying her no mind.
"What?! How could no one vote for me, un?!" He crossed his arms, "I complemented her right when I met her."
"Erm yeah well-"
"Forget about you, where the fuck is my name?! Everyone know's I'm the best looking guy here." Hidan shouted, Shizune flinched for she did not want to say anything and have to deal with his cursing. "Pfft, stupid fucking viewers, don't even vote for me."
"Well um.. now that we're done.." Shizune whispered hesitantly, "clearly the viewers want Sakura with Sasori, Itachi or Gaara so far. But they may change their minds, after all it is up to Sakura." Shizune winked, "anyways aside from that the first round will begin today."
"Bring it!" Naruto exclaimed from his seat.
"So as you all know that when you meet somebody new, you get to know them before anything else to see if they click with you." Shizune started, "what we are going to have is a series of speed dates. Just a quick two minute session you get with Sakura to talk about yourselves and what not and see if you click. At the end of it, Sakura will determine who she felt connected to and who she didn't. She will then choose who she eliminates."
'Oh great, no pressure or anything.' Sakura thought to herself.
"Great!" Shizune exclaimed, getting up from her seat. "Now if you all could just follow me into the other room, I will send one of you in at a time and you will do as we instructed."
The guys all formed into a line and followed Shizune out of the room, Sakura nervously fidgeted in her seat. 'Okay, no big deal, all I gotta do is figure out which one I don't click with. Shouldn't be so hard.'
"Remember, two minutes!" Shizune called from behind the curtain.
Sakura heard a beep and the first to walk in was none other than Kiba, the boy with two red marks on his cheeks. He gave Sakura a toothy grin and sat down opposite from her.
"You look different from yesterday." Was the first thing that he said to her, she clenched her fists and furrowed her brows.
"I what?!" She growled.
"You looked so unrealistic yesterday, I definitely like this version much better, you look natural." He said, Sakura didn't know whether that was a compliment or not but she took it as one.
"Well thanks, I think. So um.." She started, but couldn't find anything to say.
"What do you do for fun?" He asked her, starting up the conversation. She listed a bunch of things as did he and they just had forced chatter for the remainder of their time. Once the beep came, Kiba gave her another grin and walked off.
Sakura would admit that he was nice and knew how to keep a conversation going, but he wasn't something she was really interested in right now. Maybe she would keep him around as a friend, she put him in the maybe pile.
Next came Itachi, and as always, Sakura began blushing. Oh she definitely knew she wasn't going to disqualify him anytime soon, in fact even the audience wanted to see them together.
He sat down across the pinkette, and held his hand out to her, there was a single rose in it.
"Oh, thank you." Sakura said, taking the rose and blushing.
"I must say there is something about you that is absolutely stunning." Itachi said to her, making her turn from pink to red. "Father originally entered me in this competition and I had absolutely no interest in it, but after seeing you here my mind changed."
Sakura's blindness by her infatuation with him was beginning to make her forget that he may just be saying this for the sake of television, someone as beautiful as Itachi couldn't be fake.
"Sakura? Are you alright?" He asked her, placing a hand on her forehead to see if she was alright. "You're a little bit hotter than normal."
"You're hot." Sakura blurted out, then instantly covered her mouth. "I-I mean.."
*BEEP*
Itachi gave her a smile before heading off, she swore she saw a smirk on his face. 'Oh damn it all, Sakura.' She thought to herself.
Naruto came next, he walked in with a huge grin on his face and sat across her.
"I still can't believe that the bachelorette turned out to be you." Naruto grinned, "I mean its just so funny."
"Yeah I know.." Sakura gave a grin, "the odds of seeing you here.. and Sasuke too, I wasn't expecting that."
"Sakura." Naruto said in a serious tone, "we'll talk after." He said, Sakura nodded and gave him a weak smile. They didn't chat much other than that.
Naruto left and Gaara emerged, he wore that same face he always did, sat down across Sakura and said nothing.
Sakura fidgeted a little bit, unsure of what to say to him. Truth be told he kind of scared her, he always looked like if you were to talk to him he would kill you with his stare. Sakura thought that everyone deserved a chance though and Gaara was no different, she would start the conversation this time even though she sucked.
"Um Gaara? What do you like to do for fun?" Sakura said awkwardly, mustering a smile.
"..."
Okay he didn't answer her, maybe he hadn't heard.
"Erm, Gaara?"
"You're irritating." He stated.
"What?!" Sakura growled, "why did you enter this competition then?!"
"To see what woman was the best of the best that had to be offered." Gaara stated, "the bachelorette needs to reevaluate their standards."
"Why.. you!" Sakura clenched a fist and before she knew what she was doing she was aiming a punch at his cheek. Sakura didn't know how it happened but she had ended up on the floor, with Gaara's face inches away from her face. Sakura took this time to notice his features, he was fairly good-looking he just looked so isolated and so alone, Sakura blushed noticing how close they were.
"Never try that again." He said in a low tone, low enough for only the two of them to hear, low enough just so that the camera's couldn't hear. Sakura gulped, 'where was that damn beep' she thought to herself.
"S-Sorry.." Sakura whispered, he slowly got off of her and she quickly got up as well. The beep finally sounded and Gaara was off, not looking back.
Arghhhh what a jerk! Inner Sakura said in her head, we'll show that jerk whose boss! Just watch! Cha!
Next came Deidara, he was walking over to Sakura with that same smirk he always wore, Sakura crossed her arms in annoyance. He was very good looking, she just wasn't exactly attracted to his obnoxious personality.
"Hello, beautiful, un." Deidara said, grabbing her hand and placing a kiss on it.
"Hey, yourself." Sakura said, snapping her hand away from him.
"Ouch, feisty, un." He said, placing a hand on his chest and pretending to be hurt. "What did I do to deserve that?"
"I don't know." Sakura said with a hint of attitude, she crossed her arms again as well as her legs this time.
"Give a chance, I actually kind of like you already, un." Deidara said, smirking again.
"You don't even know me." Sakura snorted.
"I'll get to know you, un."
"Then how can you say you like me?"
"I just know, un."
That continued for a while before the beep sounded again, Deidara gave her one last smirk before leaving. Okay, so maybe he was kind of charming, totally obnoxious but charming nonetheless.
The next to come was Hidan, Sakura sweat dropped. He made Deidara look modest, he took a seat on the couch and placed his legs on the table in between Sakura and himself.
"So, what do you wanna talk about?" Hidan said casually, "or should we get straight to the fucking."
"The what?!" Sakura shuddered and turned a deep red, she pictured herself with Hidan doing all sorts of dirty things.. he was definitely sexy as hell, Sakura wouldn't mind doing that. No wait, yeah she would this was her virginity for gods sake!
"How many guys have you done it with?" He said with a grin, "I've fucked more girls than I can count."
"Um.. I.." Sakura then remembered this would be broadcasted on television and shook her head, "that's none of your business!"
"Sakura." Hidan said seriously all of a sudden, "are you a virgin?"
"H-Huh...?" Sakura was red as a tomato, no guy had ever asked her something like that. How was she supposed to tell Hidan that she hadn't so much as ever kissed a boy. "U-Uh.." Then she remembered something Ino had said once of not falling short of who you are and she clenched her fist and found the courage to blurt out, "yeah, I am! Got a problem?!"
"Jackpot!" Hidan yelled, punching a fist in the air. "Sakura-"
*BEEP*
"Shut the fuck up, I'm not done!" He growled.
"U-Uh Hidan?" Shizune said emerging from the corner, "y-your turn is over.." she mumbled.
"Fucking bitch." He said in annoyance, but nonetheless complied and went out of the hall. Sakura sighed, could this be over and done with so she could leave already.. just four left, she thought to herself.
Sharky was the next to arrive, he scowled when he saw Sakura and crossed his arms and looked the other way as did Sakura. They were both clearly still angry and offended by what had transpired earlier.
"I hate you." Sakura muttered.
"I hate you more." Kisame muttered back.
"No I do."
"No, I DO!"
"I do!"
"No, me!"
"I do!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"You said I wasn't even that great looking!"
"You called me a shark!"
"You are a shark!"
"You aren't that great looking!"
"Why you..!"
That continued for the remainder of the time and Kisame got up and left before the beep had finally sounded.
Lee was the next to walk over to Sakura, like the previous day he presented Sakura with flowers, Sakura gave him a hesitant smile. She wasn't sure if Lee was really her type, he was nice and she admired him for his efforts.. but.
"Sakura! You are even more beautiful than yesterday!" Lee exclaimed.
"Thank you, Lee." Sakura said, blushing at the compliment. "Lee-"
"Say no more, I do not wish to waste my time with words when I have given you flowers which are much more beautiful than any words I could ever muster!" Lee exclaimed, "Farewell beautiful!"
"Uh, bye.." Sakura said, waving a hand as he left. 'Okay just two more..' Sakura thought to herself, next to walk on stage was non other than Sasuke. "Fuck.." Sakura mumbled.
"Hello, Sakura." He said, sitting across her. Sakura furrowed her brows and stared long and hard at him. He was so similar to what he looked like then, but his features had definitely matured, he was much taller, much more built and his face had aged. His eyes were the same though, cold and closed off like always.
"Sasuke." Sakura said, "it's been a while."
"It has. Ten years?"
"Yeah, eleven." Sakura mumbled, "how have you been..?"
"Well, hn. Father entered Itachi and I in this, hoping for one of us to get married." Sasuke told her, Sakura gasped, how could she have forgotten that Itachi was Sasuke's brother?!
"I see.. how is.. Karin?" Sakura said, grinding her teeth at the mention of Karin's name. Karin was apart of the new group of friends that Sasuke had left Sakura and Naruto for.
"I don't know, I don't speak with her anymore." Sasuke told her, "we lost touch many years prior."
"I see.."
"Sakura-"
"Save it." Sakura interrupted, "I don't want to hear it, not here."
"Later then?"
"Yes."
And he was off, and that meant that only one person was left and that was Sasori. He walked into the room and gave Sakura that unfazed look he had yesterday as well. Sakura smiled gently as she watched him sit down across her, she was definitely developing a small thing for him.
"Hi, Sasori!" She exclaimed.
"Hello, Sakura." Sasori replied.
"Last one thank god!" Sakura whined, "feels like I've been sitting here for ages."
"It's been almost ten minutes." Sasori said, "not that long."
"Yeah well you try having ten different guys trying to impress you." Sakura mumbled under her breath.
"That would be a sight, now wouldn't it?" He said, "Sakura, do you like art?"
"Art?" Sakura repeated, "well.. I'm not much of an artist, but yeah it's something that I like to observe once in a while."
"Interesting."
"Why do you ask?"
"I'm an artist." Sasori answered, "I was going to ask you if you wanted to accompany me tomorrow to my art studio, we are having an art show."
"Wow, really?" Sakura said in awe, "sure! I'd love too.. I mean if we don't have a round scheduled tomorrow."
"You don't know? Rounds are every second day. We all have the day off tomorrow to do as we please."
"Oh that's awesome!" Sakura gasped, though she was pretty sure she would still be filmed and televised.
"I hope to see you then." He said with a small smile and then walked back off into the curtains.
"And now that is that!" Shizune said, emerging. "Boys, to the front please." Shizune said, the boys all stood in a line now, facing Sakura. "Sakura, we hope that you have made your decision."
"M-My decision?!" Sakura repeated, completely forgetting that she had a choice to make here. "S-Sure.. give me a sec.."
Sakura started at the left and scanned her eyes across to the right to decide who she was going to say no too.
On the left stood Kiba, Sakura wasn't really attracted to him in that way but she liked him as a friend, she would put him in the maybe pile if she could not find anybody else to eliminate. She did not want to lead him on, as she doubted she could acquire any feelings for him. Sometimes people just don't click.
Next to him was Itachi, and Sakura didn't even bother weighing his traits down for she knew that whenever she looked at him butterflies formed in her stomach so he was definitely staying. Hottie! Inner Sakura cheered.
Then came Naruto, Sakura knew that her friend had a crush on her all of the years prior and she didn't want to lead him on here, but he was one of her closest friends at one point, so she would spare him the embarrassment of eliminating him in the first round. Maybe she could find somebody else to hook him up with in return..
Gaara was next and Sakura recalled the events that had transpired earlier, she knew she should never physically threaten him again like she had done today, and maybe she should eliminate him for her safety. But something about him intrigued her and made her want to get to know what was underneath the clothes. No sexual pun intended.
Deidara stood next to Gaara and gave Sakura a smirk as her eyes landed on him, he was obnoxious, vain and.. well charming. Sakura didn't want to admit it but she kind of liked his attention, maybe keeping him around for a little longer wouldn't hurt.
Hidan was next and Sakura blushed again recalling what he said earlier, he was in the maybe pile as well. He made Sakura feel absolutely gorgeous but well.. his personality was not something that Sakura would really consider fit for her.
Sharky was next, a evil grin came across Sakura's features, she would never dream of going for Kisame in her entire life, but somehow she had grown fond of arguing with him. He would also go in the maybe pile.
Lee was next and Sakura had a feeling that she would have to let Lee go this round, for he was simply well not her type.
Sasuke was next, Sakura knew she wasn't going to eliminate him right now, it wasn't because she possessed any romantic feelings for him, it was simply because she wanted to hear what he had to say for himself. It was a whim.
Sasori was last and he was the only one who Sakura genuinely smiled at, he had already asked to hangout with her tomorrow and Sakura was lying if she said she wasn't excited.
She knew who she had to let go.
"I've um.. made my choice." Sakura said, looking at Shizune.
"Great, here." Shizune said rushing over to Sakura.
"What?"
"Your roses? You have nine roses and are to give them to those you wish to not eliminate." Shizune said with a grin, Sakura nodded, she thought she was just supposed to state who she was going to eliminate. This was going to be kind of awkward.
She started off at Kiba and handed him a rose, he grinned at her. She kept him around because she felt he knew that it wasn't going to work out with them, she liked him as a friend though. Next, she was blushing and handed Itachi a rose, when he made movement to grab it from her, their hands touched briefly and lingered over the rose.
"I'm honored, Sakura." He said politely, making Sakura blush even more.
Next she turned to Naruto and gave him a warm grin and a rose, he sported a grin as well and pulled her into a hug. She nervously turned to Gaara and handed him one as well, he didn't show any emotion in his face but he took it. Sakura then walked to Deidara, raising her eyebrow in a attempt to be the dominant one.
"Here." She muttered, handing him the rose. He placed his hand on her waist and pulled her close so that he could whisper something into her ear.
"I'll see you later, then, un." He whispered into her ear seductively, it sent shivers down Sakura's spine and she continued with her job.
"Um Hidan?" Sakura said, sighing. "Here." She said, passing him a rose.
"Knew it, pinky." Hidan said with a smirk, "my room or yours?"
"Oh god, no!" Sakura said, walking away from him and too Kisame. "Here you go, Sharky. Didn't think I was going to let you off the hook that fast now did you?" Sakura said grinning.
"Well, well, you proved me wrong." Kisame said, with a smirk.
Now the hard part was coming, Sakura saw Lee standing next to Kisame in the corner of her eyes and she looked at her feet as she walked by him and handed Sasuke and Sasori a rose.
"I've made my decision.." Sakura mumbled.
"Oh, ouch." Shizune said, "it seems that Sakura has chosen to eliminate Lee."
Deidara and Hidan roared in laughter and Sakura rolled her eyes at them, she walked towards Lee and gave him a small smile.
"I'm sorry Lee." Sakura started, "you seem very sweet and would make a wonderful boyfriend. Just not.. my boyfriend." Sakura said, with a reassuring smile.
"Sakura." Lee started, "you have broken my heart, but I will take that as a challenge to find a girl who will love me!"
"Yes." Sakura said, giving him another smile.
"Farewell then!" He said, before leaving the hall and the building presumably.
"And there you have it!" Shizune said, "Sakura has made her decision. Now all of you know that you have the day off tomorrow, and there is no elimination."
The group nodded and Shizune dismissed them, Sakura began walking towards her room, 'that actually wasn't so bad.' she thought to herself, suddenly in the midst of her thoughts she felt a arm wrap around her waist, before she knew what was going on she felt herself against something hard.
"I knew you wouldn't eliminate me, un." Sakura didn't even have to look at his face to see who it was, for it was the blonde Deidara, he was the only one who used 'un' after almost all of his sentences.
"Okay, Mr. High and Mighty." Sakura said with a snort, "can you let me go?" She said, trying to free herself of his grasp but it was to no avail. To think, she was almost at her room too.
"I was going out to get food, un. Was going to ask you if you wanted to come with?" Deidara asked her.
"No thanks, I'm not hungry." Sakura said with attitude, but at that moment her stomach had decided to growl. "Erm.. fine." She said with a blush.
"Perfect, un." He said, pulling her along with him to the lobby.
"I can walk on my own you know." Sakura said, attempting to remove his arm off of her.
"I like it better this way, un." He said with a smirk, "where do you want to eat?"
"I don't care." Sakura answered.
"Tell me or I'm taking you to Mcdonalds, un." Deidara said with a smirk, Sakura gave a scowl.
"How about that greek place?" She said pointing across the street, "you would never catch me dead at a mcdonalds. Do you know how unhealthy that is?!"
"I know. I heard your introduction earlier, un." Deidara said.
"Y-You did?" Sakura said, a little bit shocked to know the obnoxious guy actually remembered something about her.
"Yeah, you said you go to medical school, un." He answered, "come."
They arrived at the greek restaurant, ordered their food and ate with some chatter here and there, once they finished they left the restaurant and headed back towards the building.
Sakura discovered that maybe Deidara wasn't as bad as she had thought, he was actually quite fun to talk to when he wasn't being a jerk.
"So tomorrow one of my pieces is going to be presented at an art exhibit, un. Do you want to come with me?" Deidara asked her, Sakura gasped and realized that this was probably the same exhibit that she was going to with Sasori.
"Oh... Uh.. Deidara I'd love to but um.. Sasori already invited me to that exhibit... to go with him." Sakura mumbled.
"Oh, Sasori, un?" Deidara repeated, "that's fine then, I'll see you there."
"Dei-"
But he had left before she got a chance to continue, Sakura sighed. How had she gotten herself in such an entangled web, she was not supposed to make friends with these people she was supposed to enter this competition and exit.
So Deidara must work for Sasori then, interesting.
Sakura finally made it to her room without any more interruptions, she took a quick shower and decided she would go to bed early tonight.
'Maybe I'll go see Ino tomorrow after the exhibit.' Sakura thought to herself, 'or would that be televised?' Probably not.
*Knock* *Knock*
Oh for pete's sake.
Sakura annoyingly got out of her bed and threw the door open.
"What?!" She snarled, not bothering to look at who it was.
"Oh I apologize, did I bother you?" It was his angelic voice, it was the person that made Sakura melt.
"O-Oh.. Itachi.. come in." Sakura said blushing, "I'm sorry, I've just had one of those days."
"Understandable, there's a lot of pressure on you." He said, walking into her room and shutting the door behind him. Sakura walked over to her bed and crawled back underneath the blankets and getting in a sitting position.
"Um.. you can sit.." Sakura mumbled, blushing like always. He gave a half smile and sat down at her toes, it was fairly silent for a while but he broke it.
"Sakura, would you like to have dinner with me tomorrow evening?" Itachi asked her, absolutely gracefully.
"D-Dinner?" Sakura repeated, "s-sure.. towards the evening, yeah.."
"Excellent. Be ready by eight?" He asked her, she nodded in approval. "Then I'll let you sleep." Itachi said, getting up to leave from her room, Sakura got up again to see him to the door. Before leaving he turned around and Sakura who was not expecting that collided straight into him.
"Sorry.." Sakura mumbled, removing herself from off his chest. Ow, she mentally thought.
"It's my fault." He said, "I'll see you tomorrow then." He said, before placing a kiss on her forehead and leaving the room. The second he was gone, Sakura shut the door and jumped up and down in excitement.
"W-Wait.. what am I doing.." She stopped, thinking to herself. "It's just a game."
But she didn't think that of course, it was too late for Sakura because whether she liked it or not she was trapped in the game of love.
The worst part of it all? She wasn't sure which of the boys she even had feelings for.
Hehehe what do you think ? :$
Okay this update was really soon , but umm can you guys please please review and tell me what pairing you want because the more votes I have the merrier!
Aside from that any additional feedback will be much appreciated :)
See you soon!
-Marron