Chapter 4: Boys Will Be Boys

"How's college been treating you? I understand that your first day of class is Monday. Are you excited?" Kakashi asked he always opened every session with Sakura with simple, easy questions to help ease her into more serious matters.

"It's been fine… I am kind of…. Anxious….. I guess." Sakura said shrugging. Kakashi nodded.

"Have you met people? Made friends?" Kakashi asked again. Sakura rubbed her upper arm slowly while exhaling, thinking on what to say.

"I ran into my old friend… Hinata." She said.

"Ah yes, Hinata your friend from middle school. Right?" Kakashi said Sakura nodded.

"How did it go?" He asked.

"Ok, it was mostly my mom talking…" Sakura explained Kakashi nodded.

"If you did talk to Hinata, what would you want to say to her?" He asked Sakura thought for a moment.

"I… I don't know…. Maybe that, I'm…. sorry about how things ended and that," Sakura's eyes began to water and her voice slightly cracked, "…. That I miss her and …. And Ino…" Sakura quickly pulled her long sleeve maroon sweater over her hand and wiped the tears threatening to fall from her eyes.

Four years ago

"SAKURA! SAKURA OPEN THE DOOR!" Ino shouted banging on Sakura's door. Currently, Hinata and Ino were at Sakura's house trying to talk to her, Sakura's parents were both out of town for the weekend.

"Sakura please! We just want to talk to you! Please tell us what's wrong!" Hinata pleaded jingling the handle of the locked door. Sakura buried her head further under her pillow trying to ignore them, silently willing them to leave her alone.

Suddenly the banging stopped and there was a moment of silence, Sakura exhaled slowly thinking they were gone until she heard Ino's voice, this time much more calm.

"Sakura, we're worried, you've been ignoring our texts, you won't return our calls, you avoid us at school!" Sakura looked at the door and slowly got off her bed and walked over to it and leaned her head against it as Ino continued.

"Whatever we did to you we're soo sorry, we just want our best friend back, you're like my little sister Sak, I love you!... Please, open the door."

"Please Sakura! Whatever it is we'll understand, I love you too! I want us all to be together again, please!" Hinata said softly. Tears began to gather in Sakura's eyes as she shook her head, she took her head off the door and looked away, and as she spoke her voice came out tired and cracked.

"Please just…. Just leave me alone."

End Flashback

"Things just… they ended so badly between us all and I just wish I could…" Sakura trailed off and Kakashi leaned towards her handing her a handkerchief, she shook her head to decline it and Kakashi leaned back into his chair again.

""You wish you could what Sakura?" Kakashi asked as Sakura sniffed and wiped her eyes again.

"I don't know!... Turn back time…" She said, "… can we please talk about something… something else?" She asked, Kakashi's eye crinkled, signaling that he was smiling at her and nodded.

"Besides running into old friends, have you met anyone new?" Sakura nodded.

"My parents have a friend whose son attends KU," Sakura began. "His name is Sasuke."

"Oh, do you get along with him?" Kakashi asked Sakura nodded.

"Yeah he's nice…" Sakura trailed off again that day, not sure of how else to describe him.

"Well that's good that you're meeting new people Sakura."

Sakura stepped off the bus at the front entrance of KU, every Thursday at 5:30 Sakura will board a bus to town to have her weekly appointment with Kakashi and return around 7:30. Today was her first appointment since she's entered college.

She adjusted the strap of her bag before she began to walk back to her dorm. As she walked she heard three male voices, one she recognized as Sasuke's and the other two unfamiliar. She soon saw them turn a corner and her eyes scanned them all. There was Sasuke who, even though was rolling his eyes, appeared to be having a good time, there was a brunette one wearing a hoodie with a dog zipped up in it, he was slightly shorter than Sasuke and the other one who was the shortest of the three was blonde and waving his hands wildly while yelling. Sasuke smirked at his blonde friend while the brunette laughed, Sasuke looked over and his eyes met Sakura's.

"Hey Sasuke, what are you looking at?" Kiba asked following his gaze, his eyes landed on Sakura.

"Oh I see, yeah Uchiha, nice pick, you've got good taste!" Kiba said wriggling his eyebrows in a suggestive manner. Naruto grinned and started cat calling at Sakura.

"Hey sweet heart! You like what you see!" Naruto called out gesturing towards Sasuke who in turn blushed light pink as he glared at Naruto embarrassedly.

"Shut up you idiot! That's Sakura!" Sasuke said through his gritted teeth.

"Who the fuck is Sakur-? Ooh! You mean THAT girl? She's Sakura!" Naruto asked loudly, Kiba raised a curious eyebrow at the raven haired man who in turn nodded.

"Yeah, so shut up you idiots!" Sasuke ordered sending the two death glares, Kiba gulped and chuckled nervously while Naruto grinned nervously while scratching the back of his head.

"Y-yeah, sure thing Bastard!" Naruto stuttered out. Sasuke glared at them one last time before walking over to Sakura, Kiba and Naruto following behind him.

"Hey Sakura, what are you doing out?" Sasuke greeted and asked.

"I… I just had an appointment." Sakura said quietly, she looked at Naruto and Kiba and then back at Sasuke, who could tell that his two friends were making her nervous.

"These are my roommates Naruto and Kiba, don't worry, they're exceedingly dumb, but completely harmless." Sasuke said smirking, earning him two glares from Kiba and Naruto. Sakura just nodded.

"Hey, uh, sorry about that, you know what they say! Boys will be boys!" Kiba said embarrassed to Sakura, Naruto nodded.

Four years ago

"Hey, I'm sorry about those guys. They're kinda immature." Kabuto said chuckling slightly, he and Sakura were currently at a party at Sai's and some of the guys had sprayed Sakura with beer. The two were currently in the kitchen; Kabuto was helping Sakura dry herself off. Sakura laughed, looking at the said guys who were currently trying to get the girls to participate in a wet T shirt contest.

"It's ok! Boys will be boys, you know that!" Sakura said smiling; throwing away some paper towels that she had previously used to dry herself with. Kabuto smiled back before he turned his gaze to a door leading to the basement where some of his other friends, were entering, one of them, Sai, signaled to Kabuto to come over; he smirked and nodded before looking back at Sakura.

"Hey, let's go hangout in the basement, it'll be quiet and we can talk." He said placing his hand at the small of her back, guiding her towards the door. Sakura smiled and nodded.

"Ok, sounds fun!"

End flashback

"Yeah…" She said looking at her feet shyly.

"Yeah, really we didn't mean it! If we knew you were Sasuke's friend we would never have done those things…" Naruto said franticly, not wanting Sakura to have anything against him, "any friend of Sasuke's is a friend of ours." He finished, he was about to pat Sakura on the shoulder as a form of a friendly gesture, but she immediately shrunk away from his hand.

"I should get back to my dorm… nice meeting you." Sakura said quietly and quickly, she's was about to walk away but was stopped by Sasuke's voice.

"Next Friday to celebrate the end of the first week of classes we're going to have a few friends over to watch movies and order food; want to come?" Sasuke asked Sakura nodded.

"Sure." She then walked away quickly to her dorm. Sasuke looked back at Naruto and Kiba to see them staring at him with mischievous looks.

"What?" He asked irritated.

"Nothing! Nothing…" Kiba said innocently holding his hands up and walking ahead; Sasuke looked at Naruto who continued Kiba's sentence while catching up to him as well.

"We just think your babies will be adorable!"

A vein grew on Sasuke's forehead as he glared at the two ahead.

"Hn."