Author's notes: I could not find a reason to continue this story, i was suppose to just DROP IT, right THERE! on the last chapter. But a friend of mine kept bugging me to continue LOL. I'll take that as a calling to continue. I'm sorry for the very LATE update but it's not like anyone would read it whilst its timing and content. Who knows?

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Ino was the first to land, she then pulled out the kunai and thoroughly examined it, fingerprints, scent and appearance, she took precise note. Although there was no doubt she was an amateur on it, she specialized in familiar aromas and specialized colognes, an advantage for her as a flower shop owner's daughter. She whiffed at the weapon "hey wait a minute, this smells a lot like-"

"Give that back!" by now all four had already plopped to the ground whilst Hinata who had shook away her bloodline earlier. They all woefully stared at the person who had so randomly called out to them.

"Bushy brows? What are you doing here?" the said person stepped forward and put a fist to his chest, his hand mingling momentarily with the green leather of his jump suit.

"I plan to save my beloved Sakura-san from being attacked by a killer spider" his eyes shined with a wonderful yet strange light as the group sweat dropped.

"That wasn't a REAL spider, you know" Shikamaru sighed

"Its fake, we just tried to scare billboard brow with it" Ino held out the plastic spider to him. Lee held the toy between his palms and raised one of his really big eyebrows at them, like a mother would to her child.

"But... why would you ever do such a horrible thing to sweet Sakura-san?" the foursome suddenly went uneasy, being reluctant in revealing that little bit of premature information, luckily there was one who had more gut then the others did. He bounded forward and surveyed his left and right, all clear.

"We were trying to keep her away from Sasuke-teme!" Naruto declared, louder than expected but that didn't bother him.

"Ah, so that's how it is..." came a tenor voice, scaring the living daylights out of them all, Lee included. The five whirled around alarmingly to see a pair of midnight black orbs gazing straight at them; they all gave out an ear-piercing shriek.

"Shh!" a passing waiter put a finger to his lips, quite irritated at the level they allowed their voices to reach "you scared away some customers, don't do that again or I'll have to kick you all out" he gave an annoyed look before reentering the inner portion of the restaurant, leaving them in a stunned silence.

"Shikamaru, was that you who screamed like a girl?" Ino wheezed, not having enough breath to give out any laughter. Unfortunately, he couldn't hear her; he was staring at the source of the peculiarly low voice.

There he was, the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan sitting on the table he and Sakura had shared moments ago. He had his elbows on the table and his chin rested on his two hands, watching them with eyes of a Tiger.

"S…Sasuke-kun!" Ino squeaked, an unknown emotion of guilt washed through her like a cold bucket of ice.

"Teme? H…how long have you been there?" Naruto asked, rubbing the back of his head awkwardly.

"Long enough to hear why you've been stalking me and Sakura today" Sasuke responded

"I knew we would get found out" Shikamaru huffed, stuffing his warm pockets with his sweaty hands.

"You knew?" Ino raged "why didn't you tell us?"

"Thought you guys knew, you saw Sakura run out… did you see HIM run out?" most answered negatively, proving his point.

"You have no more reason to go after me and Sakura now tha-"

"E… Except that, you made Sakura cry today...I saw it...with my byakugan!" Hinata accused him as strongly as she could, although her words couldn't even threaten a mouse properly. She backed away as his animal-like eyes drilled into her innocent ones, angered because he had been rudely interrupted.

"That's between me and Sakura, just leave us alone" all of a sudden, Naruto charged monstrously at him, was that blood red chakra leaking out from his skin?

"Teme! Your going to hurt her again! YOU should be the one to stay away!" he aimed a fist at Sasuke's face.

"I never tended to hurt her" Rock Lee was the first to see Naruto advancing in incredible speed towards the Uchiha and had sprang at the demon fox holder, attempting to hold him back.

"she's annoyingly persistent on a relationship but if she goes any closer to me, she WILL get hurt... and I don't want that to ever happen to her again" Naruto broke from Lee's wrestling hold, having to scratch his face with a claw that grew from his nails, blood slipped out from the left mark. Naruto prepared his left hand again.

"I said this before… I don't want to see some one close to me suffer agai-" a fist hit Sasuke directly at his face but no sooner had Naruto noticed that he had only punched a substitution that he had stumbled onto the table, crashing some glass items and ripping part of the table cloth.

He completely ignored the sharp glass particles that pressed onto his skin and just wiped off the smear of blood curling onto his lips, the demon's chakra dispersing from his body.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata cried, hurrying over to the boy's side and assisting him in getting up.

"Whoa, that was fast! I didn't even see you charge at him" Shikamaru came over, offering him a make-shift hankie he ripped off from the same table he collapsed in.

"Yeah, only I could have stopped him" Lee smiled even with the wound fresh on his cheek "I was lucky not to wear my weights today"

"It was a clone! Darn it! We wasted too much time here" Naruto cursed, having not listened to what his comrades were saying earlier. He pushed himself to stand and was about to depart to search for Team seven.

"Wa...wait Naruto-kun..." Hinata placed a hand on his arm, on her part affectionately.

"Maybe we...should leave them a...alone" she looked up at him and hoped that he would at least listen to her. Fortunately, he did for he even hesitated to make another movement.

"She's right Naruto, besides it would be troublesome if we do" Shikamaru put in, gesturing to the fallen table.

"I've only been here for a while and I probably shouldn't butt in but I think we should respect on what Sasuke-san had said" Lee agreed. Naruto suddenly noticed the large bruise on his face and apologized numerously once he remembered that he was the one who caused it, Rock Lee assuring him he was fine.

Shikamaru glanced at an unusually silent Ino, cross-legged on the floor as well as picking up sparkling shards of glass that have fallen. "your quiet, Ino" he frowned "what do you think we should do?"

"I...I think that" she began "… Sasuke-kun is soooooo cool! He cares for her that much? With all that 'I don't want to see some one close to me suffer again' thing, Forehead girl is just SO lucky!" she leaped off the ground and began babbling on in a glorious tone as everyone grimaced at her change of attitude, looks like someone was eagerly paying attention to Sasuke's speech.

Sakura slowly peered open her eyes as she realized her head on a shoulder, lifting it she recognized who's shoulder she was on and immediately retracted.

"Sasuke, what do you want? I have an appointment to go to" the two have settled at a little bench in the park. True enough, Sakura had no choice in the first place, so she was even angrier then before.

"Sakura... remember when team seven was made? When we introduced ourselves?" Sasuke asked her, she remained silent for a moment and then positively nodded

"What did I say?" his gaze fell so carelessly at her as the memories flowed in exactly as her photographic memory had bid it to.

Flashback
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are tons of things I dislike but I don't really like anything. And... I don't want to use the word 'dream' but... I have an ambition. The resurrection of my clan and... To kill a certain man"
End of Flashback

She recalled also her fan girl reaction back then, something like 'Sasuke-kun is so cool' or something like that. Comparing the past with the present, she really wondered WHAT she found 'SO cool' about him, the looks seemed to fill in the blanks plus how his expressions seemed to dazzle her but now it's like she hit reality and found out she had been dreaming the whole time.

"That's what you said but... I don't see the point, Sasuke" although still mad, her voice lightened up a bit, she made her emotions clear by leaving out his honorific nickname.

He presented his emotionless stare to her as silence filled the area. Green apples mixed with dark blackberry orbs, creating a tension between the two. Sasuke, by just looking at her eyes, realized she wasn't mad at him. She was confused, hurt and somewhat depressed. Her eyes didn't allow tears to come out but that only stuffed her feelings inside desperately trying to hide them away from him, this mission has proved failure.

Realizing that he had read her so simply, she turned her head and faced the brushing grass below her. "I... really have to go..."

"That's a lie..." she blinked hard, forcing her eyes to remain dry.

"...you don't have an appointment today" she blinked again.

"How would you know that?" she asked quietly like she didn't want him to answer it, suddenly feeling his gentle grip on her chin and the turn of her head to face him unwillingly.

"I can see it in your eyes..." blink, blink, blink!

"Is that ALL you wanted to do? To see if I really lied about that dumb old thing? Well... if you got your answer, shouldn't you let me go now?" she asked as calmly as she could, her eyes peeking at her right to avoid from staring into his cold eyes. Just by looking away, she won't have the trouble of blinking anymore.

"If you go now... it would only complicate things"

"C... complicate things?"

"Sakura, the revival of my clan...I..." he was stammering, so unlike him.

"Sasuke, what are you-"

"I need you" her eyes fell wide open at his words but as soon as he looked back at her, her gaze returned to its normal state.

"Sorry" she said "but I don't believe in liars" Sakura stood up from the bench and attempted to leave when she realized his grip on her hand.

"Sasuke, let go!" she commanded as sharply as she could, but the Uchiha didn't provide any sign of movement. He simply continued to clutch at her wrist in a fairly iron grip, Sakura knew that her blood had stopped because of the hold. She also knew that it had stopped when he had told her of her being necessary to him, but her pride didn't allow that to be registered in her mind. She pulled, wishing that she knew how to channel chakra into her fists in an attempt to form super strength, but that was highly impossible. She was a Genin and that just sounded an impeccable task for her. Though as impossible or impeccable as it seems, she decided to try that kind of idea.

She put her free hand together with her abducted wrist and pumped chakra into her fingers, she recalled a tip from school that concentrating it into your fingers has a high rate of strength compared to your palms. Sasuke stayed silent but he tended to be curious at what she was doing. He felt his eyes slide over to her and stared in amazement at the visible chakra gathering together at her finger tips. Chakra couldn't normally be seen unless it was strong enough and...That, he commented mentally was clearly visible.

Once she felt her chakra intact within her fingers, she tightly clenched her fists. Feeling her chakra spread throughout her grip, she ripped through Sasuke's hold on her wrist. Gasping for breath at her sudden attack, she made a wild break for it. Sasuke didn't have time to think of the deep wound at the palm of his hand, which had started to bleed. He ran after the girl, wincing at the constant pain delivered to his hand.

"Um… so now what?" Naruto asked his four companions as they rounded a corner down a street.

The restaurant owner wasnt exactly pleased with the mess they had made back at his establishment. Oh what luck they had, when they found out the 'passing waiter' had called up the owner out of the blue just so he may deal with the commotion going on outside. So Ino, the only one with pocket money at the moment had to pay all charges against them. She wasn't found of giving away the commission she worked on, blood and sweat at the Yamanaka local flower shop so as far as their concerned, they owe her.

"Whatever we do, we should just keep out of trouble this time" Shikamaru muttered, focusing at the dark starry sky that displayed above him.

"You still owe me" Ino taunted, flexing her fingers as they strolled.

"Why are you looking at me?"

"Well Shikamaru, YOU were the one who suggested that I'd pay, definitely no complaints here" her face was straight but sarcasm was still present.

"Was it my fault that we were on this troublesome chase in the first place?" Shikamaru growled.

"Hey, I've got a fabulous idea!"

"Hey, are you listening to me?" Ino ignored her team comrade, beaming wildly at the others.

"Let's ALL do a double date" the group stopped abruptly, startled at the talkative female's words even Shikamaru had halted yelling at her and now stared at her in utter disbelief.

"Ino-san, you do know that we are only twelve" protested Lee

"So? Sasuke-kun and billboard brow went on one, didn't they?" there wasn't a response so Ino had to lighten up the mood on her own.

"Don't worry guys, it'll be fun, you could go with me... and Hinata could go with Naruto, we could go karoake, eat pizza, you know all those stuff..." she wrapped an arm around Shikamaru's limb, who in turn tried to shake it off.

"I thought I said we'd stay out of trouble!" he tried to bark, something hot sneaking into his cheeks as Ino decided to hug his arm instead. Her excuse? It was a better kind of handcuff.

"It DOES sound fun!" Hinata heard Naruto remark, feeling his arm slide over her shoulders, she flushed at the touch but didn't say anything, in fear of fainting in front of her life-long crush

"What about me? Youthful ones?"

"Oh... um... you could just come along, Lee" Ino wagged her hand in front of the male, uninterested in his future whereabouts.

"I've got a better idea, why don't you replace ME for the next couple of hours?" Shikamaru proposed quickly but his voice didn't seem to have reached the Might Guy look-alike.

Lee's head fell depressed "oh, I wish I was the one who dated Sakura-san today" he murmured, following as the two couples headed for Ino's chosen venue. Ofcourse, Shikamaru and Hinata were being dragged by their partners unwillingly but it wasn't like they had a choice.

Author's Notes: Lets see? Should i Drop or shouldnt I Drop? Thats what reviewing is for! Please tell me if I should stop or continue, I have the next chapter in my computer so... yeah! Update Timing won't be a problem anymore :) If there is no reply to this question than I'll take it as a 'no', see you next time! :D