Okay; thanks to EVERYONE (okay there were like a couple of you heheheh) that reviewed my first chapter. Means a lot to me though. Anyway, I'm hoping you guys like the storyline and all. I'm hoping that I won't become one of those writers who'll take forever to update because I know how it feels to wait forever, but I can't make any promises. Anyway, I should probably shut up now. So enjoy!

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Chapter Two

Feelings or No Feelings?

Up until now, Sakura had never even thought of guys in any other ways than people who help her pass the time when she's bored. She had them all wrapped around her finger. Always doing what she wanted. Following her commands or requests at her will without any argument. But now, she had to behave. She had to make a good impression. There was no way out of this, so why even bother to rebel against it anymore? Why not cooperate and let everyone else be happy while her heart rots inside her chest due to burden and pain?

She didn't know what had come over her last night. Usually, she was a very good and successful actress who could fool anyone in a heartbeat (not her best friends of course), but last night, she wasn't able to bring herself to put on a smile and pretend that everything was alright. What's even worse was that she let her walls and defenses down in front of Sasuke.

Sakura groaned, Sasuke might never let her live it down now. In fact, he might even have spread around the word that she cried in front of him. Sakura thought about last night and they way he reacted to her. He seemed harmless and nice enough then. He even comforted her surprisingly. She didn't understand why he had done that. Ever since they had met back in freshmen year, She, Sasuke, and Sai have always absolutely loathed each other. They were always competing to see who could get the most dates. Who could get better grades. Who could get better scores and times in P.E. But NEVER were they ever nice to each other. But now, they were being forced to like each other.

With Sakura in the middle, and Sai and Sasuke competing to win her. It made her sick. It just wasn't right. Her life was beginning to turn upside-down. Her thoughts raced through the scenes from last night in her head again while she took a shower. But then she remembered something Sasuke had said something while she was pitifully crying on his shoulder.

"Sakura, I promise I'll try to do something okay? Smile for me again okay?"

Sakura gasped and leaned on the side of the shower for support. The water running down her body was unnoticeable now that she was trying so hard to focus. Had Sasuke really said that? For about five seconds, her hopes began to rise and thought that maybe what Sasuke said was true. Maybe he would find her a way out of this stupid arranged marriage. But her hopes didn't last all that long because she soon realized who the person who actually said it was. Sasuke Uchiha. She couldn't trust him to do that for her. She suddenly felt silly for even pinning even the slightest bit of hope on that ice cold guy. "Ugh, I'm so stupid, why would I even think that that Uchiha will even want to help me. He probably got irritated with my crying or something and said something just to make me stop."

She turned the scorching shower water off and stepped out, drying her body and got dressed. She had just finished blow drying her hair when she just realized something.

"Oh my God," she whispered to herself. Her mind replayed the last thing Sasuke had said while she was crying.

"Smile for me again okay?"

Sakura turned off the hair dryer and dropped down to sit on her bed in shock. Had Sasuke Uchiha actually said that? It didn't seem possible that he was able say such meaningful words. Did he really want her to smile? For him? He had always led her to believe that he couldn't stand her, but now that things were different, what could he possibly mean by that? Smile for him?

Sakura shook her head to get the thought out of her head before her hopes would begin to rise again. She couldn't afford it. She couldn't take anymore disappointment or pain.

Today was Friday, the last school day of the week; she couldn't wait for it to be over so that she could have a girl's weekend out although, knowing her father, she probably won't be getting any time for herself anymore now. He'd probably make her spend as much time as she could possible with Sai or Sasuke to see who she looked best with or who she got along better with.

Sakura sighed as she got her keys off the counter and was about to drive to school but as soon as she walked out the front door, a sleek charcoal black car pulled up onto the driveway. The shiny window on the driver's side rolled down and then she saw Sai's face.

Sakura groaned quietly, "What are you doing here Sai?"

He smiled and quickly replied, "What do you think I'm doing here? Can't a guy pick up his future wife?" With that he wagged his eyebrows.

Sakura frowned at him, which Sai thought mad her look even hotter then she already was. "Sai, we're not engaged yet. You don't even know if you have a chance against Sasuke. My dad seemed thoroughly impressed with him and his family last night."

She had added the last part in just to bug Sai. It worked, he let out a small growl and got out of the car and started walking towards Sakura until their bodies were centimeters away from each other. "Sakura, don't you think you should be a little nicer to they guy whom you might wed? Besides, Sasuke doesn't stand a chance, you'll see."

Sakura rolled her eyes and attempted to step away from Sai but he had pulled her back towards him by wrapping his arms tightly around her waist. "Sai, let me go!"

"Oh I don't think so my little cherry blossom. Not until I get what I want," he smiled darkly has his hand travel down her waist and to her hips. Then they started to go lower and lower.

Sakura squirmed out of his grasp but was captured by him again, this time his hand grabbed her face and pulled it towards his so that their lips were just barely brushing against each other's.

"Kiss me, and then I'll let you go."

Sakura's eyes widened in horror and then narrowed in irritation, "No."

She breathed out slowly, and then was about to raise her hands to his chest to push him away when he suddenly crashed his lips into hers. Sakura gasped into the kiss absolutely astonished. She pushed away from him roughly and then smacked him.

Sai didn't seem the least bit mad when she slapped him. In fact, he seemed even satisfied.

"Sai, you asshole! Get the fuck away from me! I can't believe you did that!!!!" Sakura was furious. "I'll drive myself to school."

She stormed off leaving a smirking Sai behind. She climbed into her own car and sped away. Sakura was so mad she was almost in tears. Who did he think he was kissing her like he owned her? She sped into the school parking lot and parked beside a sleek black car. Sakura hadn't recognized the person leaning against it until she had slammed the car and was angrily throwing her bag over her shoulders.

The figure grabbed her arm and pulled her to face him. "Sasuke, let go of me, I'm not in the mood right now."

Sasuke studied Sakura's face. She looked so angry he was almost afraid she might break his hand off her arm, but he gripped her even tighter. He looked at her usually smiling, teasing face and saw that it was set in an angry grimace and her lashes were wet.

"Sakura, calm down, you almost broke the door of your car slamming it like that, what's wrong?"

Sakura glared up at him, "None of your business, besides, you wouldn't care anyway, now I'm going to say this one more time, let me go Uchiha."

Sasuke ignored her last comment and watched as Sai pulled up next to Sakura's car and got out of it. He smirked in their direction and his eyes traveled down to find Sakura's mad ones. Her eyes had widened her face showed some hostility and pain.

Sasuke's gaze moved back and forth between Sai and Sakura. What's going on? Sakura seems almost scared of Sai.

His eyebrows furrowed a bit but then his stoic face returned when he felt Sakura's small delicate hands cling to his shirt. She's definitely afraid of him or something to be clinging to me out of all people. I wonder what happened this morning.

"Sai, you idiot, what did you do to her?"

Sai gave them one of his 'sweet' smiles and said, "Oh, nothing you need to know about. Sakura didn't mind now, did you?"

Sasuke felt Sakura's grip on his tightened. Something was definitely wrong. He looked down at her. She was a whole head shorter than him and was small compared to his toned body. She was one of those girls that made guys look very 'man' next to her. His arm instinctively wrapped itself around Sakura's body, placing her in a protective position.

"You must have done something wrong, look at her," They both looked down at Sakura who was still glaring at Sai.

"Oh nothing. Well, I got to go to my locker before the bell rings so you two go ahead and talk, but Sakura," Sai paused to give her a look, "don't forget this morning."

With that he left, leaving Sasuke and Sakura standing in the parking lot.

Sasuke didn't seem to notice how Sakura's heart was suddenly beating faster and her body welt incredibly warm for a day in the middle of January. They were so close together. But they weren't as close as how she and Sai had been during that 'incident.' But even when they had kissed, Sakura had felt nothing but anger for Sai. Her body didn't react to him at all.

But with Sasuke, her body was beginning to act very hormonal. This scared her a lot. She had never felt this way around Sasuke before. She didn't intend to either, after all, Sasuke was known for breaking hearts, so she just pushed the thought out of her head and pulled herself away from his warm arms.

Sasuke didn't resist so he let his arms drop to his sides, "Sakura? What did he do to you?"

Sakura looked away from him and tried to erase the scene from this morning from her head. Her fingers involuntarily touched her pink, full lips. Sasuke watched her fingers do it and then he suddenly realized, "He kissed you?"

The menacing tone in his voice startled Sakura. She looked up at him curiously. "Sasuke, it . . . wasn't me. . . I didn't want to . . . he forced himself on me."

To her surprised, Sasuke let out a small grunt. "He forced you do what?"

Sakura couldn't answer him because she wanted to forget it. "Sasuke, the bell is going to ring. We better get to class."

She walked ahead of him and to her first class, which, fortunately, neither Sai nor Sasuke were in. This gave her time to think. Sakura forced a smile on her face and walked into the classroom. She braced herself for the yells and screams and confessions of love that were sure to bombard her as soon as she opened the door.

Sure enough, as soon as she walked across the room, all she heard was:

"SAKURA I LOVE YOU!"

"GO OUT WITH ME!"

"NO ME! LET ME BE THE FATHER OF YOUR CHILDREN!"

You get the idea. Sakura ignored them as she walked over to where her friends were all sitting together.

"Sakura! So who are they?" TenTen was the first to ask.

Ino added, "Are they hot? Good looking?"

Hinata asked, "A-are they n-nice?" They kept on attacking her with so many questions that she was even able to answer them.

"Guys, wait a minute. Too many questions!" They all stopped simultaneously and looked at Sakura expectantly. She took a calming breath and answered them one at a time.

"You'll never believe who they are," Sakura said quietly. She paused for a moment. TenTen asked again, "Who are they?"

Sakura lowered her voice even more and said in an almost inaudible whisper, "Sasuke Uchiha and Sai Kitori."

At first the three other girls said nothing. They didn't even seem like they had heard a thing that Sakura had said. Ino was the first to break the awkward silence.

"EXCUSE ME? WHO ARE THEY AGAIN?!?!?!?!?!?"

Sakura, TenTen, and Hinata looked over at Ino in alarm. "Shhhhh. Ino, do you want people to find this out?"

Ino chuckled nervously and put her fingers to her lips, "Oops sorry, hahaha, I just got carried away."

They all turned back to Sakura, who was looking a little impatient, "Okay, well, anyway, they are the bachelors. I'm going to have to marry one of them, even though I can't stand either of them."

The other three shared a look that looked pretty suspicious to Sakura but before she could say or ask something, the bell rang and in came Kurenai-Sensei. The first half of Sakura's day was first period history with the three girls, second period advanced algebra with Sasuke, Neji, Hinata, and Sai (that class was going to be hell). Third period was science/chemistry with Sasuke, Naruto, TenTen, and Shikamaru. After that was lunch with the whole gang for about half an hour. Fourth period was language arts with Sai, Ino, Shikamaru, Naruto, and Neji. Fifth period was elective, which she chose fencing for with Sasuke, Naruto, and TenTen. Her last period was P.E. which she had with everyone.

Her days were usually spent avoiding Sai's sexual harassment, defending herself from Sasuke's insults and insulting him back, telling Naruto to 'use his inside voice,' and gossiping with the girls. But that was all going to change. She'd have to live through Sai's harassment and she wasn't going to insult Sasuke at all. Her life was getting way to crazy and Sakura began to wonder if she could deal with all of this.

History went by fast again today, so she headed to algebra. She walked slower than usual, trying to pretend like she was interested or flirting with some of her fanboys, but really, all she was trying to do was delay her arrival to class because both Sasuke and Sai were in there. Sakura turned the corner and saw a couple of girls hanging all over Sasuke. He was leaning against the lockers and the girls' hands were feeling his muscles, his abs, and playing with his hair. They were laughing flirtatiously and it made Sakura sick to watch.

It didn't just make her disgusted but there was this nudging feeling somewhere deep inside her mind that bothered her while she watched Sasuke. Sakura didn't know what it was but she didn't like it. At all. She ignored it and pushed it aside. When Sasuke saw Sakura round the corner he smirked straight at her and wound both of his arms around each girl making them squeal in excitement.

Sakura narrowed her eyes and smirked back, So that's how he wants to do it huh? Trying to make me jealous? In your dreams Sasuke. Let's see how you react to my form of flirting.

Sasuke saw her smirk back and watched her while barely paying attention to the oblivious two girls in his arms who were too busy marveling at his body. Sakura grabbed one of the guys that was checking her out by the lockers. He had dark brown hair and eyes and he was tall. In other words, he was pretty hot, but didn't compare to Sasuke nor Sai.

She gave the guy a flirtatious, yet seductive smile. "Hey there, what's your name?"

He obviously like what he saw and smiled back as his eyes traveled down her body to stare at her assets. Sakura resisted the urge to roll her eyes as he closed in on her, "I'm Kunko, you must be Sakura right?"

Sakura took her hand and placed it on his arm, "That's right, nice to meet you Kunko."

Sasuke watched as the guy named Kunko said something that made Sakura laugh. Her hands ended up on his chest which made her body move closer to Kunko. Sasuke didn't have to look at the bulge in Kunko's pants to tell that Kunko was getting turned on. Sasuke did not like this at all. Right now, this competition for Sakura was only between him and Sai. He did not want another guy in the picture to make things more complicated.

Then Sasuke realized something, he was jealous. He didn't try to deny his feelings like Sakura had. He had known from the very moment he found out that the girl he might be marrying was Sakura, he had started to feel something. At first he did try to deny it. He didn't want to have any feelings for this pink haired girl. But when she had cried in his arms last night, things had changed for him. He didn't quite understand it at first. He didn't understand what he was feeling. Sasuke had been confused about it until Sakura was once again in his arms this morning, afraid of Sai. Sasuke had felt that spark again between them. He had felt the urge to protect her delicate yet beautiful body. He had felt the urge to make her happy again. He then realized it. Realized that he had feelings for that girl over there flirting with some other random guy. It made him mad. Possessive. Protective. Jealous.

Sasuke walked over to where Sakura was standing with Kunko. He left the other two girls standing there confused and a bit annoyed. As he neared them, he heard, Kunko ask, "So Sakura, do you have a boyfriend?"

He could tell that Sakura was going to say no but he didn't give her the chance. He grabbed Sakura's right hand and didn't realize that Sai had also come up and taken her left hand.

Sakura was shocked, one minute she was opening her mouth to tell Kunko she was currently single, the next, her hands were being held by Sasuke and Sai.

To her surprise, both Sasuke and Sai opened their mouths and replied for her at the same time, "I'm her boyfriend."

Kunko looked at the two boys hovering over Sakura protectively. He backed off immediately once he realized who they were, but looked at Sakura in confusion. Two boyfriends? He left without so much as a sound and left a slightly annoyed Sakura with both of her bachelors. She freed her hands from Sasuke and Sai's firm grips and turned to face them. "What is your problem?"

Sai gave her one of his 'smiles' and said, "Do you think we'd let you flirt with any other guy that wasn't your husband-to-be?"

Sasuke didn't say anything but his famous, "Hn," but he looked at Sakura intently.

Sakura murmured a "whatever," and turned on her heels to walk into the classroom with Sasuke and Sai at her heels. They made it past the doors just before the bell rang. Shizune gave them a look but let them go to their seats nonetheless. Sakura took her seat and Sasuke and Sai took their seats on each side of her.

Neji looked over at them curiously while Hinata just smiled at Sakura in support. Neji watched them for the rest of class. Usually the three of them sat as far away from each other as possible, so their close proximity made Neji wonder what was going on between those three. Actually, Neji wasn't the only one that had noticed this. Sai's and Sasuke's fangirls were all glaring at Sakura murderously while Sakura's fanboys were giving both Sai and Sasuke death glares. None of the students bothered to pay attention to Shizune standing in front of the classroom teaching. They were all staring the three down.

Sakura blushed a deep pink, making her look oh, so innocent. Sasuke and Sai watched her out of the corner of their eyes. Didn't she know what affect she had on the both of them? They were just teenage males, with overreacting hormones. Sasuke glanced at Sai and their eyes locked. They were communicating silently. Suddenly Sasuke knew. From the way Sai looked at Sakura. From the way the lust glinted in his eyes. Sai's only intentions of getting Sakura was to have her to pleasure him. He didn't care about Sakura herself, just her body. . . . and her money.

Sai seemed to notice that Sasuke had figured him out, he gave Sasuke a fake smile and mouthed the words, "May the best man win."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes menacingly. There was nothing he could do about Sai until lunch which was only another hour or so away. Shizune's class went by impeccably slow. Sakura seemed to stare into space a lot trying to ignore the two males on either side of her, while all they did was be aware of her.

Classes generally went like that for the rest of the day. They all received glares from fans; Sakura ignores them; they watch Sakura. And all throughout that; Sakura had a lot of time to think. Even while she was running laps around the gym in P.E. she was thinking.

Her options were: Marry Sasuke and live with the human ice cube for the rest of her life (but he's starting to get better), Marry Sai, and get raped and harassed everyday for the rest of her life, or get disowned by her parents, or mainly, by her father.

They were all unpleasant options. She couldn't deal with it anymore. Sakura drove home feeling defeated and found that her parents were going to be out of town for two weeks on a business trip and conference. Sakura sighed as she put the note from her mom down. It was always like this. Her parents were barely home, and when they were home, only Sakura's mom bothered to spend time with her. Her life was already officially screwed up; why not make it even more unbearable by adding an arranged marriage?

Sakura's heart felt agonizingly heavy. Her eyes filled with tears as she plopped herself on the living room couch. Sakura had always been a clean girl. She never smoked, and only drank a little amount of alcohol when she partied, she didn't take drugs and hell, she didn't even cut her wrists.

But desperate times called for desperate measures. Sakura got up and went into the kitchen, rummaging through the drawers until she found a small knife that they usually used to cut apple slices and peaches. It was small, but it was sharp. That was all Sakura needed. Tears filled her eyes as she thought about her twisted life. It was like a fairytale with no happily ever after. She pushed the sleeve of her blouse up and brought the knife to her arm. She was about to make the first cut when suddenly there was a firm arm and hand holding her wrists so that she was unable to move.

Alarmed Sakura turned around and turned the knife so that it faced the unknown person. The knife in her hand lowered when she saw who it was that was holding onto her wrists.

She gasped when she saw who it was and dropped the knife to the ground. It clattered noisily but Sakura's eyes focused on the person in front of her through her tears.

"Sakura, what are you doing?" The voice asked demandingly.

Sakura's tears fell now, "I-I. . . . ."

She looked at the person in front of her again, then looked away as she began to sob.

Her eyes searched for the knife again that was on the ground. She saw it just beside her feet, and suddenly she didn't care. Quicker than the other person could react, she bent down and grabbed the knife.

She positioned the knife so that it was once again just above the soft smooth skin of her arm. Her sobs began silent tears as she lowered the sharp blade to her skin.

"Sakura, NO!"

Oooh; who's the mystery guy? Will Sakura succeed in inflicting pain on her self? You'll have to wait and see1

Okay; well, happy Valentines Day to all of you! I wasn't very satisfied with this chapter because I could do better but I didn't have much time this week.

So please review and tell me your opinions. I love them.

With Love,

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