"You are at my house, aren't you? What are you doing there!?" Sasuke was very angry now and Sakura felt hot tears work their way down her cheek. She was surprised that Kakashi grabbed the phone from her.

"Hello, cousin! Sakura was kind enough to come over and get to know Ino more. Can you believe that Sakura managed to convince Ino to go back to school?"

The pink haired girl smiled at the silver haired man and mouthed, 'thank you.' She could hear what her boyfriend was saying.

"Sakura has no business to meddle in things that aren't her business! Put her back on the phone!"

Kakashi sighed. "I don't think I should do that, Sasuke."

"What is he saying?" Ino asked.

"He's trying to tell me it isn't Sakura's business to interfere in your business!" Kakashi answered, his cheerful mood seemed not to change in the least.

"Give me that phone!" Ino rushed over to grab it. "Sasuke-kun! Sakura is my best friend now, we have had a heart to heart and I think she is right. I would be wasting my life by not facing my fears and go back to school! You should be nicer to her!"

Sakura watched Ino roll her eyes as the blond girl put Sasuke on speakerphone. Is that so everyone can hear, or just me?

"Listen, I don't care if she saved the whole world, no girlfriend of mine gets into family business and she should know better than to be there hanging around with you."

"Why, Sasuke? Sakura can be friends with me and still go out with you. Don't you want us to get along? Plus, she was only worried about me. It's not like she was trying to dig information about you. She was asking about me and she came to me to do it."

Sakura refused to give a guilty look, even though that was how she felt. That was kind of the second reason I came here… I'm sorry Sasuke. I am so sorry! Please forgive me… I can't be without you!

"Look, just give the phone over to Sakura, Ino. I don't want to talk about it anymore."

The pink haired girl took the phone from her new friend. She shut off the speakerphone and walked to the front porch. "Yes, Sasuke-kun?"

"Sakura, meet me at the ramen stand. We can talk there."

"Wait, Sasuke!" Sakura heard the dial tone and tears leaked out of her eyes again. She spent sometime sobbing in front of the Uchiha household before heading towards the ramen stand. Sakura hid in the shadows while she reapplied her make-up.

The pink haired girl didn't want Sasuke to think she was weak or guilty of anything. He hated weakness… He also hated calculating people, even though he was one…

She approached the ramen stand slowly. This is it. Sasuke is going to break up with me.

Inside the ramen stand, Sasuke was nowhere to be found. Am I early? Did he just tell me to come here so he can make me wait alone for hours until he feels like breaking up with me? Sakura looked around, only to see Naruto eating some ramen.

"Oi, Sakura-chan! Over here!"

Great! Sakura thought. Sasuke sent Naruto here to break up with me. He must really hate me…

"Hi, Naruto." Sakura smiled weakly. Hurry up and get it over with, Naruto.

Naruto smiled at her and she felt butterflies inside her stomach. Sakura had always had a crush on Naruto for as long as she liked Sasuke. They were two strong males who were so like those knights in shining armor in fairytales. Well, Sasuke was like the knight, Naruto was more of the clue-less best friend…

"So why are you here, Sakura-chan?"

"Wha-?" Sakura almost fell out of her chair. "Didn't Sasuke send you to break up with me?!"

"No…" Naruto drawled, but he seemed to be telling the truth. "Sasuke told me to meet you here to bring you somewhere special for him." Naruto looked down into his bowl of ramen with a sad face.

"Oh…Well that's great!" Sakura ignored her fears to pretend that everything was all right. She didn't like it when Naruto got depressed because Sasuke and her were together. "So…Sasuke isn't going to break up with me?"

"Not that I know of, though I'll beat up that teme if he does!" Naruto's positive energy came back to the surface. Sakura found herself giggling at her blond friend.

"Thanks Naruto, but Sasuke could kick your sorry but with both hands tied behind his back!" Sakura looked around to make sure the pretty boy wasn't in sight, then gave Naruto a kiss on the cheek. She ignored his blush.

"You better hurry up and bring me to Sasuke-kun!" Sakura chirped.

"Oh, yeah…about that…Can you pay for my ramen, Sakura?" Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"Naruto! YOU IDIOT!" She wasted no time hitting the blond boy.

"Hey, it's not my fault! Teme took my wallet!"

"Don't blame Sasuke on you not having any money and quick calling him teme!" She screeched.

Naruto smiled at her. Sakura tried to chase him after she paid for the ramen, but he was too fast. When she stopped for a break he would egg her on to get her to chase him again.

"Come on, Sakura! I thought you wanted to see teme!"

"NARUTO, YOU COME BACK HERE!" Where does he get all of his energy?

"You should join track this year, Sakura! You could beat the other team easily with me there!" Naruto smiled. Sakura was out of breath and huffing outside of the school grounds.

"Are you…insane?" She huffed. Once Sakura caught her breath, she allowed Naruto to give her a hand up off the ground. "Where is Sasuke? Why are we on the school grounds? It's still a weekend, you know."

Naruto scratched his cheek, "Oh yeah. I was supposed to bring you to teme. We better go back to my place then."

"He's not here?"

"No, he's at my house."

Sakura's vein popped up and she held up her fist. "Naruto, we are on the other side of town! We are way away from your house!"

"I know. That's why we should walk back. It'll be dark soon." Naruto announced. Sakura gazed up at the orange sky. Why didn't I notice sooner? Mom and dad are going to kill me!

Sakura sighed. "I'm sorry Naruto, but could you tell Sasuke that I had to go home. I have a curfew."

"Okay, Sakura!" The blond boy made no move to leave.

The pink haired girl looked around and spotted a bus. "Come on! You can take me home and then walk to your place since it is closer than walking from school to your place."

"Okay!" Naruto began walking towards her house, but she stopped him.

"No, you idiot, we're taking the bus!"

"Alright Sakura, but we better hurry!"

They made it to the transit bus in time. Sakura paid the fee for both of them and they sat together in the back of the empty bus.

"Why do you think Sasuke is going to break up with you, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked as they sat down. The two were close enough to touch, but she leaned away from him, towards the window.

Sakura sighed. "I hung out with Ino today. I wanted to see if she was really like you guys said… Sasuke ended up getting angry with me… Naruto, can I ask you something?"

Naruto smiled at her. "Of course you can!"

"Why did Ino drop out of school?"

"That's easy," Naruto's cheerful attitude was misplaced in his answer. "She got harassed a lot for being with Itachi. Girls thought that Ino was using Itachi to get to Sasuke or something like that so they started calling her a slut. The fan girls ended up getting some guys riled up and Ino was almost raped in the girl's bathroom. Sasuke wouldn't let her go back after that, but Itachi thought she shouldn't have dropped out in the first place. It caused a big fight between the two brothers and that's the last time they really spoke to each other."

"Really?" Sakura asked unbelievingly. 'Wait, what do you mean almost raped?"

Naruto's smile was gone. "Sasuke did everything to get into that bathroom and help Ino, but for some reason she was mad at him for interfering. Itachi was already in the bathroom fighting off the guys and Ino was going for the girls who were blocking the door. I don't know why, Ino just seemed to think it was none of Sasuke's business."

Sakura tried to piece everything together, but it was just more jumbled. Why not let Sasuke help her? Unless it really wasn't about rape and Ino being with Itachi and friends with Sasuke in the first place…

"All…of that is so confusing." Sakura stated.

"Yeah," Naruto agreed, "Here's your stop! We better go!"

Sakura stopped Naruto before the street to her house. "Thank you, really, Naruto. I don't think I could figure out anything without your help. I'll have to ask you more soon!"

"Well, what's happened between Sasuke, Ino and Itachi is a mystery! I'd even like to know what happened, but you know Sasuke! He'd never talk!" Naruto was about to head off, but stopped himself. "Hey Sakura, you ever think about if you and I had gotten together instead."

Yes. Sakura rolled her eyes and replied, "Of course not Naruto! Sasuke is my one and only! You know that!"

Naruto laughed as he jogged away. "I'll take you away from him one day! I swear it!"

"I highly doubt that!"

Sakura walked into her neighborhood and went straight for her house. I hope I'm not too late. Cha, it was all Naruto's fault anyway! The jerk made me run all over Konoha!

The pink haired girl didn't pay any attention to what was in front of her as she strolled up her porch. She ran into a body that she could only note wasn't female and fell backwards on her butt. "Ow!"

"Sakura, we need to talk."

Sakura gazed up to see her boyfriend, who was highly agitated, glare at her. Oh no…

Yes, the end of the 3rd chapter, which I finished the same day as chap 1 and chap 2, at 3 in the morning… Next is chapter four and there is a shocker! There are points of view away from Sakura's!! Wow! I can't believe it!