whoot. chapter three... hm... It's after class. italics r thoughts. Major sasuke OOC ness. lil bit of sakura ooc ness too but whatevr. bold is situations and inner people.


After leaving the classroom ,in a rather sped up motion, every one had ,pretty much, thought the same thing.

"How much mayonaise went up her ass this morning?"

Not wanting to waste anytime, everyone else rushed home to get a jump start on their assignment. Everyone else except team 7 that is. More like Sasuke and Sakura that is; Naruto didn't waste anytime getting some ramen while Kakashi was just reading his book, pretending that nothing happened. Sakura got worried about her fellow teammate. "Wow, Naruto should really focus on this assignment."

"It's not like that." Sasuke suddenly found himself thinking over and over again. "Wait, what the hell? I'm not the jealous type damn it." "Well, he's a big boy , he can handle himself." he said slyly.

"Yeah" Sakura said in an almost rebutal-ish tone, "When he's like, in a lot of pressure and stuff. Plus-" she was cut off with Sasuke's finger on her mouth.

"Finally! I couldn't take it any more." "I heard that you're good at this kind of stuff." She nodded an "I guess so" kind of nod. "Meet me in the library tommorow, an hour from now." He removed his finger. "Later." he walked away, cold and motionless. "Hellz yyea. she stopped talking about dobe! I uh, mean, she grew room for respective developement in him anyway." Sasuke was amazed at how well he could lie to himself after all these years.


With Sakura alone:

She watched him walk away, almost in the same fashion he did about three years ago. She wasn't going to cry. She was more mature than that but, the little girl in her wanted to believe that something is going to rise out of this. After all, she still did love him, no matter how hard she tried to forget. She tried to focus on what had just happened, and evaluate it. "Let's see, I was talking and he wanted to meet me at the library." She thought again, penciling on the little details. "I was talking about how Naruto should focus more now that he's finally Chuunin, then Sasuke put his finger on my mouth and told me to meet him at the library." Something in her self thought had "pinged" , like one of those commercial smiles. "I was talking about Naruto." A small half smile crept on her.

"Dude, he so wants you now."

"What the hell? I thought I got rid of you years ago. " She thought , or rather mentally argued, at the return of "Inner Sakura".

"Please, you'll never get rid of me. I'm part of your cerebral cortex. It's like with mayonaise; the only way to have me truely out of your system, is surgically. SO ha"

"That can be aranged." She answered back, remembering how immature and annoying her Inner self had made her. "All I need are the right tools and -"

"Wait, you might not wanna get rid of me just yet."

"As if...did I just say that? Anyway, why wouldn't I get rid of you?"

"Just hear me out." Older Sakura decided to give it a chance. "You have Sasuke-kun right where you want him now!"

"Oh hell no." her mind lashed."I'm not going down that fan-girly road again. I'm better than that."

"Which is exactly why the timing couldn't be more perfect!. He asked you to help him. Think about it. He was top of his class back at the academy, why would he need our help?"

"Are you calling us stupid?"

"No no no. I'm just saying that, there has to be another reason why he wanted to meet us...alone...at the library. I can already see where this is going. " Inner Sakura mind theater ( yes that is a Host Club reference).

Sakura was getting tired of this. "That's it. I'm turning you off. " Her mind put inner Sakura in a TV and she was about to turn the on-off dial when-

"If you're not going to take what I say at least think of the facts. You're still love him, no matter how mature you've become. " Inner Sakura smirked at what temporarly saved her.

"Shit, she's right. I mean I'm right. Grr." She turned the knob off. "Oh well, I need to work on my assignment." She walked tall, yet wounded.