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"You've had a headache this long, and didn't say anything?" Jugo questioned finally.

Sakura faked a smile then. "It's just from having such a long day." When they get upstairs Sakura goes to their room with them. She said goodbye, before she walked with Karin to her the other guest bedroom. After saying goodnight, Sakura left to go to her own room.

After brushing her teeth, she quickly ran to her bed, and jumped on it. Bouncing a little before she settled. Maybe the faster I go to sleep, the faster I can get rid of this headache.


The next morning

Hearing the familiar buzz of her alarm clock, made Sakura groan, and want to snuggle farther under her covers. Why does it already have to be morning already? She thought to herself, rolling over she slammed her hand down on her alarm clock. Making it turn off and stop its consistent buzzing. That alarm clock will give me a headache someday. That was when she suddenly realized something. My headache is gone!

Happy now that her head didn't feel like she had slammed it against the wall a hundred times, she rolled out of bed easily. It took her less than five minutes to get dressed in her ninja clothes and pull her hair out of her face. Tying on her headband as she left her bathroom to walk back into her room. Looking at her appearance in the mirror, Sakura snatched her bag off the table, before leaving her room.

As she walked downstairs, Sakura could already tell her parents had already left. But, when she felt a presence in the kitchen it made her raise an eyebrow. Who's up before me? I already wake up at five o'clock in the morning. Walking into the kitchen, Sakura's eyes met onyx one's. "Morning Sasuke."

"Hn," was Sasuke's less enthusiastic reply. He was sitting at the kitchen table by himself, his hand woven together, resting on the table.

Looking away from Sasuke, Sakura walked over to the coffee maker. Noticing it already had coffee made, she knew that her parents must have only left a little under half an hour ago. It was still steaming hot too. "Want some coffee?" She asked, cheerfully. It wasn't that she was a morning person, it was the fact that she didn't have the painful headache that made her so happy.

"Black," was Sasuke's reply.

Finding herself not the slightest bit bothered by his lack of conversation, Sakura just took a coffee mug from the cabinet and filled it with coffee. Putting nothing in it, she turned around to go give it to Sasuke, only to find him standing right behind her. She had to put her other hand on the coffee mug to keep it from spilling it.

Seeing surprise on her face didn't seem to bother Sasuke. He only looked at her. Studying her face for a moment, he spoke finally. "Does your head still hurt?"

Hearing Sasuke's question, made Sakura freeze. What in the world? Why did he have to surprise me like this if that's all he was going to ask? "No it doesn't, do you mind giving me some space?" She was feeling a little closed in, her back was already at the counter, and he was standing only a foot away from her.

"Are you lying?" Sasuke asked, almost wanting to activate his sharingan to check and see if she was lying. But, he had a feeling he could get the truth out of her without it.

Frowning now, Sakura propped one hand on her hip, the other still holding the coffee. "Are you questioning me?"

Was the only thing she had said to him. Sasuke only studied her again for a moment, before taking the coffee from her hands. Moving back to the table, and sitting down. Acting as if he had never got up in the first place.

Wanting to say something, Sakura just held back. Turning swiftly around, she began preparing her own coffee. In her travel cup. Almost missing the fact that her parents weren't there, so she couldn't go through the usual morning routine. Finding herself beginning to miss her parents already, Sakura shook her head to knock herself out of it.

It was quiet for a moment as Sakura continued fixing her coffee. Unknown to her Sasuke was watching her out of the corner of his eye. He caught himself staring at her, and looked away. "Your parents asked me to."

Hearing Sasuke's words, made Sakura raise an eyebrow. Putting a lid on her travel cup, she turned around to look him. "Asked you to do what?"

"Ask how you were," Sasuke replied, his eyes meeting Sakura's again. He tried to keep his look neutral, but what he wanted to do was frown whenever he looked into her eyes. He could remember when they were younger, whenever he looked into her eyes he could see her affection for him. But, it wasn't there now. Now it was just a simple look that she'd give everyone. He couldn't decide if he missed it or not, but it bothered him so much that he already had an answer to that.

"You were up that early?" Sakura asked, walking a bit closer to the table. Taking a sip of her sugar filled coffee. "I didn't realize you were an morning person, but I guess you are. You used to always be the first one to training everyday when we were younger."

Nodding his head, Sasuke drank some of his own coffee. "They wanted to make sure you weren't pushing yourself past your limits. And I know you're not lying to me, so you're fine."

It was quiet for a moment, with Sakura looking at Sasuke. Before she finally turned her head. "I have to leave soon."

"Training?" Sasuke asked, finding himself averting his eyes like she had done. He settled on looking at the ceiling.

"Yep," Sakura said, feeling of guilt in the pit of her stomach. It's weird. Now that Sasuke's back I feel a little bad for him not being involved in our training. He's still apart of team seven, whether he's announced it or not.

"Maybe I can talk to Tsunade," she told him, seeing his eyes go back to her in question. "About your training. Out of all four of you, I'm sure she probably would agree to you training with us sometimes." When Sasuke didn't respond, Sakura only turned away from him again, this time to go to the fruit bowl that was on the kitchen counter. Trying to decide on what she wanted to eat this morning.

Little did she know that even though it was barely noticeable, Sasuke smiled. It looked more of like a smirk on his face, by how he was trying to hide it. But, it was there. Sitting in silence for another few minutes, he opened his mouth to speak. "So what? Are you just leaving us here by ourselves?"

The question only made Sakura smirk, she turned around to face Sasuke. "Not a chance," she said, just as there was a knock on the door. "Come in!"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at Sakura, just as the guests entered the kitchen. Rolling his eyes, Sasuke only looked to Sakura again. "You got us babysitters?"

"Humiliating yet, Uchiha?" Came from none other than Neji Hyuga, he stood in-between Lee and Tenten.

Seeing Sasuke about to stand up from his chair, Sakura only stepped in front of Team Gai. "Sit down Sasuke," she scowled at him, without having to turn around to face him. When she noticed he sat back down, she spoke to Team Gai. "You three know what to do?"

"Of course," Tenten said, smiling at Sakura. "They can't leave the house until you return, we can handle it."

"She is right beautiful Sakura-chan! We can handle anything!" exclaimed Lee, he looked at her with hearts in his eyes. "Anything you ask us to do we will do it! Our youth keeps us strong!"

Sweat dropping, Sakura only took a step away from Lee when he tried to kiss her hand. When he tried going after her, she only stomped on his foot, causing him to bounce up and down in pain. To which Sakura only rolled her eyes. "I may have put a little bit too much chakra in that. Sorry Lee."

"N-no problem," Lee said, pain still evident in his voice, but he was trying to look strong.

Neji's face was the next person Sakura looked for, she only raised an eyebrow at him, and crossed her arms.

To which Neji only returned the gesture. "I promise Haruno."

Nodding her head finally, Sakura looked to Sasuke, to find him already looking at her. "Try to behave will ya?"

Sasuke only looked away, crossing his arms over his chest. Muttering under his breath about her seriously getting them babysitters.

Smirking, Sakura turned away. Looking over to Tenten. "Make sure there is no fights okay?" When she received a nod from Tenten, Sakura quickly walked past them. Moving to the front door, to go head to training. A smirk still on her face.

Almost nine hours later, four in the afternoon

"And then I tried this new type of ramen, and it was so spicy that my mouth felt like it was on fire!" Naruto exclaimed, telling his team like it was the biggest deal in the world. "Today I'm supposed to go back to try another new type of ramen. Old man Teuchi won't tell me what it is and…"

Sakura had started to drown Naruto out now, his constant talking about ramen was starting to drive her crazy. When will he ever stop talking?

Saku Inner: You can't say that you don't enjoy hearing him talk. Don't you feel like you two have a special connection?

Sakura: By special connection I hope you mean me knowing him for so long.

Saku Inner: That's only part of it my dear outer self.

Not bothering to keep questioning her inner, Sakura only stopped in front of her house. "I'll see you guys later," she called to them.

Which the rest of her team stopped. "Wait! You're not coming to eat ramen Sakura? Kakashi sensei offered to pay!"

"I did not," Kakashi said, rolling his eyes at how his student was trying to put him in that position.

Sakura only shook her head. "I've got a lot to do today. I'll get ramen with you some other time Naruto," she said, before opening the door to her house.

When she closed the door, she began to feel slightly nervous. It was quiet in her house. Extremely quiet. She continued walking through the house, wondering where in the hell everyone was. Just as she was approaching the kitchen, she began thinking to herself. Please don't tell me they tried leaving. I-

"There you are Sakura! I've missed your much too beautiful fa-"

Sakura laughed when Tenten punched Suigetsu in the arm, interrupting his greeting. Everyone was here in the kitchen. It didn't look like they did get in any fights, but she hadn't really checked upstairs yet.

Team Gai did stand up though, ready to get the hell out of there. "They're all yours Sakura," Tenten said, a smirk on face. Dragging Lee towards the front door before he could try kissing Sakura again.

Neji stayed behind for a minute, but approached her. Stopping only a foot away. "Nothing happened, you can stop your worrying. I stayed true to my word, and Uchiha and I didn't fight," he said, whispering almost so the others couldn't hear.

"Thank you Neji," Sakura said, receiving a nod from him, before he left after his teammates. When she heard the front door shut, she turned to face team Hebi. "Well I guess there's no point in staying here. We need to go ahead and get started moving."

It took less than five minutes for everyone to be ready to leave, Sakura didn't get any of her stuff yet, because she wanted to do that later on. Everyone else had originally only brought one bag with them anyways, so of course it didn't take them long.

When they walked outside, they began walking down the street. "We need to go ahead and get the shopping taken care of," Sakura said, her eyes looking at the others. She noticed Sasuke's look. "Don't look at me like that Sasuke. I know you boys hate shopping usually, so I will give you an easy job."

Once they reached the market Sakura had looked around for a second, before she spotted Sai. She ran over to him while nearly knocking a bunch of people over. She just laughed when she reached him, practically running into him to stop herself. It was basically a hug, but it was more just to stop from running.

"It looks like the villagers still love you," Sai teased at her confused look. His arms wrapped around her when he noticed Sasuke and the others were here with her. Feeling glad that Sakura had taught him many emotions, he was interested in making Sasuke feel the emotion jealousy. After what he's heard about Sasuke from the past, he couldn't help but not like him.

Sasuke, Suigetsu, Karin, and Jugo came up behind Sakura then. When she heard them she realized that she was still in Sai's arms. She just laughed it off and hopped backwards a few steps. Breaking free of his arms.

"I know the villagers love me and I love them. But it's not fun if I can't mess with them every once in a while." She grinned at Sai's look of confusion at that. "Oh and I need you to do something for me."

"What is it?" Sai asked cautiously. There was no telling what was going to come out of her mouth, and he didn't want to agree before he knew what it was. He's learned that in the past few months that he's known Sakura.

"The boys need to go shopping for clothes. I need you to go shopping with them while Karin and myself go to shop for her clothes, the food, and more cleaning supplies." Suigetsu laughed and she looked at him. "What?"

"Did you think of telling us these plans?" Suigetsu asked, to which Sakura only shook her head no and he laughed again.

"Okay lets split up. Oh and Sai you guys will probably get home before us. We have to go to my parents house and get my stuff. Then we have to go to my apartment to get some more of my stuff." With that said, Sakura grabbed Karin's arm and practically dragged her off.

"I feel so sorry for you three," Sai said as the guys began walking.

"Why?" Sasuke asked, wondering what Sai thought made him have the right to feel sorry for them at all. He felt himself taking on a glare again at the thought of Sai.

"Well let's just say Sakura is a very outgoing person." Sai laughed and the other three looked at him.

How exactly was that a bad thing?

Sasuke's house a couple hours later

The boys have been back for two hours and no sign of the girls yet. Sasuke was sitting on one of the couches in the living room, and thought about the trip to the store.

Flashback:

"You might want to know a few things about Sakura." Sai told Sasuke. Sasuke had been purposely ignoring Sai as he looked through some dark blue tee shirts. But when Sai said Sakura's name he began listening.

"What is there to know? I know my own teammate." Sasuke grabbed a couple of tee shirts then moved to a different rack.

"Oh well I just want to refresh your memory," Sai said, as he followed Sasuke to the other rack. Not letting Sasuke get away so easily. "Don't make Sakura mad or you will end up like Naruto and myself were yesterday. She is sweet as hell, but when you get on her bad side you need to apologize as soon as possible. Another thing Sakura is adventurous. She will be the first one to do something insane. Which is why whenever you are with her you need to keep an eye on her. On a few missions in the past few months she has been doing things that could potentially kill her. Somehow she always ends up okay. When we ask her about it she just shrugs, and says she wanted to do something fun. Last thing. She doesn't like to bother people with her problems. Which causes her to become restless. When something is wrong she lets her feelings out by playing the piano. It would be a good idea to have one until you can figure out how to get her to talk about her problems." Sai finished talking, noticing Sasuke wouldn't look at him. He knew Sasuke had listened even though he acted like he didn't.

When Sasuke felt Sai turn away to walk to the front of the store to wait for Suigetsu, Jugo, and himself to finish, he sighed. Thinking he was finally getting a break from Sai. That's strange though. When Sakura gets upset or something like that she plays piano.

"Oh, and another thing," Sai said, stepping a bit closer to Sasuke. "I've known Sakura for a few months now, we've gotten close. You may have been her teammate first, but you left. Now I'm here." Seeing Sasuke wasn't moving still, Sai only continued. "I would hate for something to go wrong and Sakura get her feelings hurt again. I may have not been there the first time it happened, but I'm here now. Just so you know, Uchiha."

Sai walked away then, leaving Sasuke by the clothes rack by himself. He didn't notice the look on Sasuke's face turn to anger quickly at how he said Uchiha.

End of flashback

Now they were back at his house. Sai had acted like nothing had went wrong between the two of them. But, Sasuke could still feel the glares Sai sent his way sometimes.

Sasuke was going to go insane if Sakura didn't walk through that door. Just as he was about to move to go and find her, the door opened. In came Sakura and Karin. Karin's arms were full of shopping bags and grocery bags. While Sakura on the other hand had her bags from her house which were probley holding her clothes, a few grocery bags, and two boxes.

"Well I know we took a while but after we shopped for clothes and groceries, we had to go get my stuff. I ended up only getting half of my stuff I will have to get the rest tomorrow. We picked up things we will need tonight and tomorrow grocery wise, but we can shop more tomorrow. Someone come and grab these boxes please." She finished out of breath.

Sasuke noticed that Sai was about to walk over to help Sakura, so he just got up quicker. He got to Sakura first, and was able to take the boxes from her. Not being able to hold himself back, he sent a smug look to Sai.

Sakura, now free of the boxes, went into the kitchen and placed the grocery bags on the counter. Then she walked back into the living room. "Alright, Jugo if you can grab the rest of the grocery bags from Karin and place them on the kitchen counters that would be great." Sakura was exhausted after the days work. She had actually gotten along with Karin well. They both love to shop. They both enjoyed hanging out with one another. Sakura noticed Sai, and smiled. "Sai thank you so much for staying around with them. I know you're exhausted from training."

Sai only smiled softly, pushing past Sasuke to talk to Sakura. "No problem. You're probably just as exhausted, and you need a break. You don't need to deal with babysitting them all the time."

Sasuke growled under his breath when Sai said 'babysitting'.

Sakura hugged Sai, before stepping back. "Thanks," she said, before he nodded, and disappeared.

"I assume you want to know where you are sleeping." Sasuke looked at Sakura still holding her boxes.

"Yeah that would be great." Sakura replied with a grin.

Sasuke looked at Suigetsu. "You know where Karin's room is. Show her where it is." Sasuke then started walking upstairs. Sakura guessed she was supposed to follow him so she began walking after him. After getting to the top of the stairs, they began walking down the long hallway. Sasuke fell into step beside Sakura.

"So Sasuke just out of curiosity why does your home seem so different. I mean three times a year Naruto and myself were given a mission to clean it up. So I know that something has changed about it." Sakura frowned trying to think of it.

Sasuke only stared at her. The look she held on her face was curiosity, and for some reason he saw it as attractive on her. Why am I thinking this? He shook his head a bit to clear his thoughts. "Well you and Karin took so long that we did a little bit of changing." Sasuke smirked at the look of awe that crossed Sakura's face.

A grin appeared quick after the look of awe. "Hey girls love shopping," she said, having noticed his smirk.

Sasuke kept his smirk on his face as he stopped and opened a door. Letting Sakura walk in before him. When he walked in behind her, he could already see the shock on her face.

The room was amazing in her eyes, it was huge. The walls were a light creamy coffee color. There was a queen sized bed in the middle of the wall to the right. It had a rose red comforter(a quilt/blanket thing for those who don't know), creamy beige sheets and pillows. Surrounding the bed was a white see through canopy. Next to her bed was 2 bookshelves and a desk. The wall to her left had two doors on it; one to the bathroom, and one to the closet. In-between the two doors was a mahogany wood vanity, that had a huge mirror on it.

Sasuke placed the boxes he was holding on the ground. Watching as Sakura looked at the bookshelves. He was checking her out again. His eyes stopped at her hair. She had grown it out to her hips. She kept on giggling as she observed the books. She didn't really seem to realize it, but she could make any guy fall for her without trying. Her carefree attitude reminded him of a little kid. But Sakura was no kid. Sasuke switched his gaze from her hair to a few different place. Yep she definitely isn't a kid.

"Sasuke?" Sakura turned to look at him with a grin on her face.

"Hn." Sasuke looked away from her… um well he looked at her face and leaned against her desk.

"Thanks for the room," Sakura frowned when Sasuke smirked. His gaze shifted away from her and to the other side of the bedroom. Sakura followed his gaze and gasped. On the wall across from the bedroom door there was a balcony that gave her the perfect view. But that wasn't what she was looking well gaping at. Right next to the window was a black grand piano. Sakura walked forward towards it, when she reached it she stopped walking. Opening the covering of the keys to reveal them, she let her hands fall and touch the keys. "Wow," she whispered, finding that to be the only thing that came from her mouth.

It was sort of like the one she had at her parents house except hers was way old. She fell in love with this one already. It went perfectly with her room. "How did you know I liked the piano?" Sakura asked.

"Sai," was Sasuke's one worded response. He tried not to show it in his voice, but disgust was slightly evident in his voice.

Sakura laughed, not picking up on Sasuke's disgust at Sai's name. "I guess Sai really must pay attention after all."

Raising an eyebrow, Sasuke crossed his arms. "You seemed like you trusted him before. Was that all an act?"

Looking at Sasuke, Sakura spoke. "I trust Sai, but since he is from ROOT it's different. Having to adjust to him at first was hard because of his lack of emotions and unsure alliance was difficult. But, after getting to know him, he's become a friend over the time. And because of his lack of emotions sometimes, it's a surprise when he does things like that. Of course he has gotten way better than where he was before." Sakura sat down at the piano and began to play.

Imagine her playing Bella's lullaby from the movie Twilight. Just because I like the song.

Sasuke listened to her play. With each note she played, he found himself becoming less observant of the world, and more focused on her playing. The whole entire time she played she had a smile on her face.

As Sakura finished she turned to Sasuke. "Thank you very much for the piano." Sakura got up and went over and gave Sasuke a quick hug. Sakura was going to let go, but Sasuke held her a little longer.

"I am glad to see you Sakura." Sasuke said, waiting another moment, before he released her. Feeling her warmth disappear when he released her, almost made him want to hug her again, but never let go.

Sakura could feel blood rushing to her cheeks, but she shook it off. Turning away before it could be noticed, she spoke. "I am really happy to see you to Sasuke. I didn't say it yesterday, but welcome back to Kono- I mean welcome back home." With that said, Sakura walked over to her bags she had dropped on the bed, and pretended to be searching for something.

"I am going back downstairs," Sasuke said, after watching her for a moment.

As soon as Sasuke left her room Sakura sat down on her bed, and brought a hand to her head. I can't believe I blushed when he hugged me. Second thought I can't believe he hugged me. Why did I do that? I don't like Sasuke that way anymore.

15 minutes later

Sakura sat in her walk in closet after putting away the clothes she had brought over. Which wasn't all that much. It was only a small portion of her wardrobe. The rest was still at her parents house. Eventually she got up after sitting there for a while. She forgot she still had to put groceries away.

As she walked down the stairs she sighed heavily. It has been a long day. She had trained for nine hours and shopped for a while afterwards, she felt her energy start draining out. It didn't help when she walked into the kitchen and saw all the groceries sitting on the counter. Thankfully someone -probably Karin- had already put the cold groceries in the fridge.

All Sakura had to do now was put the rest in the cupboards.

Trying to keep her lack of her energy from controlling her, she began to work. After being in there for a couple minutes, she heard someone come into the kitchen.

"Hey Sakura need some help?" Suigetsu asked from the doorway of the kitchen, he had leaned against the door frame, as he waited for her reply.

"Oh sure Sui. If you can just get the stuff out of the bags and hand them to me that would be great," Sakura said, happy for the help.

Suigetsu walked over towards the counter. Reaching in a bag, he took out some cans of food. "You called me Sui," he said, raising an eyebrow, as he held out the cans to her.

"Well yeah I did. Is alright if I call you Sui?" Sakura asked, taking the cans from his hands.

"Yeah it's fine. But, only if it's alright if I call you Sakura-chan. I think it would make Sas-gay jealous," Sui grinned as he passed her more stuff.

"Sure I don't mind if you call me that," Sakura told him, putting up the stuff he gave her, before she waited for him to pass her more stuff. They worked in silence for a while until Sakura asked suddenly. "Why do you call Sasuke that?"

Suigetsu laughed a little bit. He grinned at her. "Well I don't call him that all the time. But when I do, it is purely to piss him off. And if I piss Sasuke off, it's more entertainment for me." He passed her the last of the groceries.

"As long as you have a reason," Sakura grinned as she threw away the empty grocery bags.

Sui leaned against the counter and watched her. "So did you and Sasuke like each other when you were younger?" He asked her, watching closely for her reaction. Although he frowned when he didn't notice one, all she did was laugh.

Sakura began to wash her hands. She looked back and Sui and laughed again. "Well when we were younger I had a huge crush on him. Just like most every girl in Konoha did. I was so annoying, that it annoys me just thinking of how I acted. He didn't return my feelings. His focus was in other places."

It was quiet for a moment, as she stopped washing her hands, and turned off the faucet. "After he left I realized how idiotic I acted around him. I felt embarrassed for a while. When Naruto and myself were given a mission to find him again I always told myself the first thing I would do was apologize for that," she paused, and began drying her hands off. "Wait! The first thing I said I would do was punch him in the face, then apologize," Sakura said, as she laughed, and leaned against the opposite counter.

Suigetsu chuckled at her expression. "You got the punching him in the face accomplished. What about apologizing?"

Sakura sighed, thinking about it. "I'm not sure. I haven't found a chance."

It was quiet for a moment, Suigetsu studying her. "Do you still feel that way about him now?"

"Do you mean about apologizing to him?" She asked.

"No, I mean do you still have feelings for him?" He explained.

Sakura paused and took a minute to think about it. "Well to be honest, I am not really sure about how I feel about him. I mean after he left I was able to think clearly, and I realized that I was going through a phase. Every girl goes through it in life. I think the reason I went through the phase longer was because I was competing against my friend Ino. When I see Sasuke now, I seem him as I would see Naruto or Sai. But, I mean of course the memory of myself as a child still seems to come back to me a lot since he arrived here yesterday. But, I really just don't know what I feel towards him."

"Good because I don't need any competition," Suigetsu laughed, as Sakura playfully punched him in the arm.

Sasuke's POV

He was in the living room, where he had casually overheard Sakura's and Suigetsu's conversation. Well he had been in the living room when he heard them talking, he just happened to get up to get closer towards the entrance towards the kitchen to hear them better.

So Sakura doesn't know if she like's me or not. Why do I feel happy and irritated at hearing that? I should be happy, but the irritation at her being unsure is bothering me.


A/N: Hope you loved the chappie :)