Look Beyond What You See

Charpter 4: I think I...

I do not own Naruto :'(

"Hey Sasuke." Naruto looked at Sasuke. "What?" He asked.
"Lately, you are getting close to Sakura-chan." Naruto started. "Not really." Sasuke shrugged.
"So do you like her?" Naruto asked. "What?" Sasuke asked.

"Just answer it." Naruto said.
"..." Sasuke looked at Naruto. "Why?"
Naruto groaned. "Look, do you like her, or not?"

Sasuke shrugged. "Fine." Naruto replied.

"What did he say?" Ino asked.
Naruto shrugged. "What did he say?" Ino asked again.
"He just shrugged." Naruto sighed.

"Are you sure?" Ino asked.
"Yes." Naruto answered. "Look, he's not interested in girls."
"I don't believe that." Ino snapped. "Ask him again."

"What!" Naruto cried. "C'mon, it's not a big deal." Ino said.
"Sasuke doesn't like people asking same thing over and over..." Naruto said.
"Tsk, geeks." She spat.

"But is it true that Sakura-chan likes him?" Naruto asked.
"It's so obvious!" Ino answered. "And I'm sure that Sasuke-kun likes her as well."
"How do you know?" Naruto asked. "It's called women's intuition, baka." Ino stuck her tongue out.

"It could be your misunderstanding." Naruto shrugged. "What did you just say?" Ino hissed pulling his cheek hard as she can. "Aaaah! Stop it! It hurts!" Naruto cried. "Stop it, stop it, STOP IT!"

"Oh well," Ino sighed releasing Naruto. "We'll go for a next plan!"

"WHAT!" Naruto yelled. "I'm not going to do this anymore!"
"You know this is for Sakura, right?" Ino looked at Naruto. "Yeah... but..."

"C'mon, for Sakura's sake?"

"...Okay, fine." Naruto sighed.

"I'm hungry." Tenten said. "Let's go to McDonald's!"
"Got any money?" Temari asked. "No." Tenten answered.

"Let's go home." Sakura started walking. "Yeah." Temari agreed and followed Sakura.
"Hey guys..." Tenten whined. She looked at Hinata. "Hinata?" Hinata looked down. "I think we... s-should go home."
Tenten sighed. "Fine. We'll go home." She started to walk slowly.

"We're home!" Sakura shouted across the room.

"Anyone seen Ino?" Temari asked. "I thought she'll be here, but..." She looked around the room. There was no sign of Ino.
"Weird..." Sakura muttered to herself. "No wonder it's so quiet in here."
"Sakura." Temari sighed. "Relax, maybe she's with her 'boyfriend'." Sakura said air quoting the word 'boyfriend'.

"I'm home!" They heard Ino yell. "Speaking of a devil." Tenten chuckled.
"Sorry guys, I forgot something at school, so I had to go back." Ino smiled. "Anyway, Sakura. Seriously, do you like Sasuke-kun or not?"

Sakura blushed but quickly answered. "I don't like him, okay? And he doesn't like me either. No one is in love, got it?"
Ino sighed. "C'mon Sakura, be honest." Sakura stood up. "I said no."

She ran upstairs and went into her room.

'There is no way that I like him. I mean... it's not that I hate him, but...'

"Ugh! This is all Ino's fault!" She shouted. She started walking around the room.

'Okay Sakura, think. No, first, you have to calm down...'

She breathed slowly and stopped walking and sat down on the floor.

'I don't hate him. I don't. He doesn't talk much and quite... cold. But still, he is gorgeous and good looking... Wait, what am I thinking!'

"I don't get it!" Sakura screamed. "This is so stupid." chuckled sadly at herself.

'Why am I feeling like this?'

-At Sasuke's house-

Sasuke sighed lying on his bed.
Suddenly, a phone rang.

Ring ring... Ring ring...

"Hello?" "Hey, it's me, Naruto!" Naruto shouted. "I just want to ask-" Sasuke hung up the phone.

Ring ring... Ring ring...

"He-" "WHY DID YOU HANG UP!"Naruto screamed. "I just felt like it." He answered.
"Anyway," Naruto cleared his throat. "Do you like Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked carefully. "I thought I told you already, dobe." He answered.
"Yeah, but..." "Or are you just too dumb that you forget everything that I say?"

Naruto fell in silence.

"Look, I said I not in love with her." Sasuke answered. "But Sakura-chan is." Naruto replied.
"And?" Sasuke asked. "I don't care."
"If she confesses to you, do you just reject her and turn her down?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke did not answer. "That's just mean, Sasuke."
"Then what? I don't have a feeling for her, but I have to accept her confession just to make her happy? I think that'll turn her down." Sasuke snapped.

Naruto was speechless. He didn't know what to say. Sasuke's right. That will upset her even more...

"Yeah, maybe you're right." Naruto sighed. "But Sakura-chan likes you, you know."

"..."

"Just... Don't let her down." Naruto hung up the phone.

Sasuke fell in silence for a moment.

'But am I okay to believe in that baka so easily? It could be his misunderstanding... Why am I thinking so hardly about it?'

"Maybe I'm tired." He rubbed his eyes.
"This is so stupid." He muttered to himself. "What is that baka thinking?"

-Next Day-

"Morning..." Sakura sighed.
"Morning Sakura." Tenten smiled. Her smile was blown as she saw Sakura."SAKURA! WHAT ON EARTH HAS HAPPENED TO YOU!"

"What's wrong?" Ino, Temari and Hinata came.
"SAKURA! WHAT HAPPENED!" They had a shock expression on their face.

"I was thinking about it all day..." Sakura whispered.
"Okay, but how come you look so..." Ino looked at Sakura. "Haggard?"

"I couldn't sleep at all..."
She had big black ring around her eyes and her hair was all over the place.

"You look like your cousin." Ino giggled. "Who?" Temari asked.
"It him..." Ino stopped. "Ooh... What's his face..."
"Gaara nii-chan..." Sakura whispered. "Yes! Gaara-kun! You look exactly the same! Except you have pink hair." Ino said.

"You said you were thinking about 'it'. What is 'it'?" Tenten asked.
C-Could it be about S-Sasuke-kun?" Hinata stammered. Sakura nodded slowly.

"Well?" Ino asked excitedly. "I..." Sakura whispered. "I think I..." Sakura stopped.
"Sakura?" Ino called her name. She didn't answer. "I think she is asleep." Tenten said.
"Then leave her alone." Temari sighed. "We need to get going. We're going to be late."

"Oh shit. I haven't got dressed yet!" Ino gasped.
"Language!" Temari snapped. "What? We're not in school." Ino yelled.

-At School-

"Phew, we made it on time!" Tenten smiled.
"What do we have today?" Temari asked opening her locker. "We have Science then PE core." Hinata answered.
"Ugh! Science. I hate science." Ino sighed.

The bell rang.

"Okay let's go!" Tenten started walking. "Hey, wait for us!"

"You guys are so slow. Hurry up or we're gonna be late!"

-Period 1: Science-

"Everyone, take your seats." A female science teacher yelled.

"Please turn your book to page 132..." She said as she wrote the date and the title on the board.
"... And copy the diagram, please."

"Kurenai-sensei," Ino rose her hand up. "Yes, Miss. Yamanaka?"
"Sakura is absent because she is feeling unwell." Ino stated.

The whole class began to chat.
"Silence!" The class went quiet as Kurenai shouted. "Thank you Miss. Yamanaka." She smiled at the student.

"Sasuke, Sakura-chan is not feeling well." Naruto whispered to his friend.
"It's none of my business." Sasuke replied at got on with his work. "Scary..." Naruto muttered.

"You there!" Kurenai pointed at Naruto. "Y-Yes?" Naruto asked nervously.
"Quiet. No talking." "Miss, I wasn't talking." Naruto replied.
"Are you arguing with me?" Kurenai asked her hand on her hip. "No miss..."

"Good, now get back to you're work."

-Period 2: PE-

Ino walked angrily.

"Why do we have PE? What's the point of it?" She screamed. "Because you need to be fit?" Tenten answered.
"Well, then no point I'm doing it." Ino said. "I'm already in a perfect shape."

Tenten burst out laughing as Ino finished her line. "In your dreams, Ino."
"What do you mean? I am in a perfect shape!" Ino said. "Oh yeah? then what is this flab?" Tenten pinched her stomach.
"Hey stop it!" Ino blushed. "No I won't." Tenten laughed.

"Okay guys, today, boys are doing football and girls are doing athletics." PE teacher said with a big smile.

"Sir," Sasuke said raising his hand. "I have a headache, so can I just rest here?"
"Okay, do whatever you want." Guy smiled.

"Right, let's begin."

Sasuke watched his classmate play football.

"Hey Takeshi, here!" Naruto shouted to his team mates.
Naruto shoot a goal, but was saved by a goal keeper, Choji.

"It's not fair!" Naruto yelled. "He's so fat that he's a size of a goal! No wonder I can't score a goal."

"Or maybe you just suck." Sasuke muttered.

"Naruto... What did you just say?" Choji asked Naruto. "I said you're fat." Naruto repeated.
"I am not fat! I'm chubby!" Choji yelled and ran towards Naruto, who was running away from him.

"STOP CHASING ME, FATTY!" Naruto yelled. "I'M NOT FAT, I'M CHUBBY!" Choji yelled back.

"Idiot." Sasuke sighed.

Ino glanced at Sasuke who was standing, leaning against the fence, his hands in the pockets.

"Tenten," Ino whispered. "I'm going to talk to Sasuke-kun." Ino said standing up, making sure that her PE teacher is not looking.
"Okay, good luck." Tenten smiled.

"Ino, where do you think you're going?" Guy asked Ino who was now smiling awkwardly.
"Well, actually..." Ino quickly held her stomach. "Ow, my stomach hurts." Ino said sarcastically.
"Oh that's bad." Guy said. "Go where Sasuke is and rest." Ino smiled. "Okay sir."

"How stupid is that teacher..." Temari and Tenten face palmed.

Ino walked slowly towards Sasuke.
"Hello Sasuke-kun." She smiled. Sasuke glanced at her and slowly, walked away form her.
"Hey! What are you doing?" She asked. "Moving away from you." Sasuke answered.
"I can see that, I'm not that stupid." Ino scoffed. "Wow, what a surprise." Sasuke sighed.

'He is so rude! How come Sakura likes him so much?'

"Can I ask you something?" Ino asked. "No," Sasuke answered. "But you're just gonna ask, right?"
Ino smiled. "Yeah." Sasuke asked. "What is it, then?"
"You know my friend, Sakura, right?" Ino asked. Sasuke nodded, knowing where this conversation is leading.
"Then, here is my question," Ino looked at Sasuke. "Do you like her?"

Sasuke sighed. "Why people keep asking me that question?"
"Because I want to know!" Ino answered. "Sakura likes you, Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke remembered what Naruto said last night.

'So what dobe said was true... But that's not important anyway.'

"And?" Sasuke asked. "What do you want me to do?"
"It's quite obvious, isn't it?" Ino asked back.
"Oh I get it," Sasuke said. "You want me to do out with a girl I don't even like."
Ino gasped. "That's not true! I just want her to be..."

"Leave me alone, okay?" Sasuke walked away.

"He is such a bastard!" Ino screamed.

"What happened?" Temari asked Tenten. "She had a little chat with Sasuke-kun." Tenten answered.
"Ino..." Hinata looked at Ino anxiously.

"Sakura can't be in love with that bastard!" Ino said. "If she is, we need to separate them!"
"Er, we?" Temari asked. "Of course, you guys too!" Ino said crossing her arm.
"Excuse me, but I don't have a time being someone's Love cupid, okay?" Temari replied. "We're busy unlike you."

"I'm doing this because I'm her friend! I'm trying to decide what's best for her, and being with that bastard is the worst thing you can decide in you whole life!"
"Stop being so full of yourself!" Temari raised her voice. "You're not doing this for Sakura, you're doing this for your sake!"
"What?" Ino screamed. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"Guys..." Tenten sighed. "Stop fighting."

"You're doing this to make yourself happy. Isn't that right? So stop saying that it's for Sakura!"

"That's not true!"

"Then why don't you leave those two alone?"

"That's because..."

"Well?"

"YOU TWO STOP FIGHTING!" Hinata shouted.
"... H-Hinata?" Ino asked in surprise.
"Both of you just stop fighting! Ino, stop stepping into someone's life! Just leave them alone!" Hinata shouted.
"And Temari," Hinata turned to Temari. "Stop being rude to Ino! Both of you apologize to each other!"

Temari and Ino looked at each other. Quite surprised to see Hinata like this.
"I'm sorry that I was being full of myself." Ino said to Temari. "I'm sorry that I yelled at you and said rude things to you." They shook hands and smiled at each other.

"Oh," Hinata blushed. "I'm so sorry! I ..."
"It's okay Hinata." Temari said. "It's all thanks to you." Hinata looked at her friends. "Huh?"
"That was awesome, Hinata!" Tenten cheered. "I never knew that you could shout like that."

"I... what?" Hinata blushed even more brighter with embarassment and fainted.

"H-HINATA!"

-At Sakura's house-

Sakura woke up.

"What's the time?" She looked at the clock. "2 o'clock? Wow, I slept a lot." She yarned.
"But still not enogh. Hmm... I need something to eat."

Sakura quickly got changed and went to the kitchen.
"What should I eat..." She opened the fridge and realized that there was nothing in there.
"There is nothing to eat." Sakura mumbled to herself.
She took a water bottle from the fridge and walked into the living room and sat down on the sofa. She reached for the TV remote control and switched the TV.

"I... I like you." She heard a girl's voice coming from a TV. She spat the water out from her mouth.
"What the hell?" Sakura looked at the screen.
It was at school rooftop. Sakura guessed that it was after school.
"Please go out with me!" A high school girl bowed at a boy. A boy nodded. "I'd love to."
A girl smiled at a boy, now was blushing. "Thank you!" She hugged him and stared at each other for seconds.

"Ugh. So cheesy." Sakura said as she changed a channel.

"I love you Kenshiro-sa-"

"AAAAHHHH!"

Sakura quickly swutched off the TV.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS TV!" She yelled.

"Somehow, I have a feeling that the TV is trying to say something..." Sakura muttered to herself.

'Maybe I'm thinking too much?'

Sakura looked at the clock.
"2:30, huh?" She said. "School's not finished..." Sakura sighed.

"I'M BORED!"

-Back To School...-

"Temari let's go home." Ino whined.
"Stop it..." Temari mumbled. "Wake up, Temari." Ino shook her.
"Ino, leave her alone. She'll wake up soon anyway." Tenten said.

"Wake up, wake up, wake up, WAKE UP!"

"SHUT UP!" Temari yelled. "Alright, let's go home!" Ino cheered.
"That girl..." Temari sighed.

"Ooh, a message from Sakura!" Ino smiled.
"Guys, Sakura says 'nothing in the fridge. Buy some food.'." Ino read out.
"I forgot about that." Tenten said.

"Okay then, you guys buy some food and I'll go home, sounds good?" Ino smiled.
"Sounds like a terrible plan." Others said in unison gradding her along with them.

"What do we need..." Tenten mumbled. "Food. Duh." Ino said giving Tenten 'Duh' look.
"Shut your face before I beat you up Ino." Tenten hissed.
"Ooh, very scray." Ino said sarcastically.
"Seriously. Stop it." Tenten hissed again.

"Guys, stop it." Temari sighed. "It's not school."
"So it's okay if it's in school?" Ino asked. "That, well..." Temari stammered.
"I can't be bothered to fight with you." Tenten sighed. "Plus, Sakura is waiting at home, probably starving."
"Yeah you're right." Ino replied. "I wanna go home too." She said.

"Tenten..." Hinata mumbled. "What is it, Hinata?" Tentyen asked smiling.
"I want to... buy this..." Hinata said shyly. "What is this?" Tenten asked again looking at what Hinata gave to her.
"I-It's f-for Sakura." Hinata smiled a bit. "It's her favourite sweet."

Tenten looked at the product trying to remember what it is.
"Oh I remember!" Tenten said. "This is the chocolate she used to eat when she was little." Hinata nodded.
"I think she'll be happy." Tenten msiled at Hinata. "I t-think so too." She smiled back.

"We're home!" Ino yelled across the room.

"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakukra shouted.
"Well, we had a bit of problem about what we are buying..." Tenten smiled awkwardly.
"I'm starving." Sakura sighed. "What did you buy?"

"We got you this." Temari handed her a bag.
"What's in it?" She asked while opening the bag. "Oh my favourite chocolate ever! Thanks!"
"It was Hinata who said it." Tenten said pushing Hinata to go forward.
"Thank you Hinata!" Sakura hugged Hinata tightly. "I-It's okay..." Hinata replied.
"Let go of her Sakura. She can't breath." Ino said. "Oh right... Sorry." Sakura chickled.

"Anyway," Ino sat down on a sofa. Others followed. "What were you going to say this morning?"
"Huh?" Sakura asked. "Don't 'huh' me, Sakura. Just tell us." Ino said.

"You think you?" Temari looked at Sakura. Sakura blushed remembering what she said this morning.
"I-" Sakura opened her mouth. She breathed slowly few times. "I think I'm in love!"

"Yes!" Ino cheered. "I knew it!"
"What? You knew?" Sakura asked. "It's quite obvious, isn't it?" Ino scoffed.
"Worrying about him, thinking about him all day, it's pretty obvious that you like Sasuke-kun."

Sakura blushed. "Well, that's why I..."
"It's okay Sakura," Temari oetted her head. "We'll support you."
"Really?" Sakura asked. Her friends nodded.
"Oh I love you guys!" Sakura cried hugging her friends tightly as she can.

-Next Day Lunch Time-

"S-Sasuke-kun," Sakura blushed.

"..."

"I..." Sasuke looked at her. "I want to be friend with you!" She bowed.
"Well," Sasuke sighed.
"Can I be friend with you...?" Sakura looked at Sasuke. "Sure." He answered. "Do whatever you want." He shrugged.
"Really?" Sakura smiled. Sasuke nodded. " Thank you Sasuke-kun!" She bowed again and ran towards her form room.

Sakura entered the rom.
"How did it go?" Ino asked. Sakura nodded happily.
"Yes!" Her friends cheered. "You done it, Sakura! I'm so proud of you!" Ino hugged her.
"Now there is a chance that you can be his girlfriend, right?" Temari asked.

"WHAT! WHO IS GOIG TO BE SAKURA-CAN'S BOYFRIEND!" The boys in thier class shouted.
"It's a secret." Sakura winked. The boy fainted.
"Sakura..." Temari face palmed.

"Okay Sakura, today you have to ask him to walk home with you." Ino said.
"What?" Sakura screamed. "I-I can't do that! That's embarrassing."
"No it's not." Ino looked at Sakura. "This is a second step to get closer to Sasuke-kun."

"Alright, fine." Sakura sighed. "I'll ask him after school."

Finally finished chapter 4! I'm kind of proud of myself (laugh)

Anyway, thanks for reading! Please review coz I only got 1 review so far... :'(

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