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Chapter 4

Partners?

'Where the hell is she? '

Most would think Sasuke would be worrying, and he was, but not about Sakura.

Sasuke was walking around the campus ground.

'So she's a witch huh? I was right about her being different, I just didn't think it would involve her knowing magic.', his mind started to wonder how she was able to crack the desk, trying to figure out if that involved any additional force at all. It reminded him of Tsunade's strength, he first saw it when she landed a punch on Naruto.

"She did know Tsunade…" he though out loud.

He stopped in his tracks.

'Does that mean she had the same strength that Tsunade has?' his thoughts darkened, along with his face.

He remembered what happen to Naruto, he had heard that Tsunade had a power as well. But when he met Tsunade, he had to admit that she was very good looking for a woman, but the image was put to a quick grave when Naruto called her an old bag. She hadn't had anything to drink, and it was early in the morning.

Sasuke's body shuddered at the thought of getting hit with one of those punches. To the nightmare worse, that punch that Naruto received wasn't anywhere close to half of her true strength.

Sasuke shook his head knocking away the dark thoughts. He took a right into a tunnel that lead him to another courtyard, this one was more of a garden type. The gray stone walk ways were sided with small white flowers.

'She thinks I hate her. I can't blame her. Most aren't on the side of blurting out that they have an unnatural power. But why would she assume that I hate her?'

"What do you want?" he asked coldly

"Go ask someone else."

"Don't call me that."

"Don't address me like you're so familiar with me. Hn, you're just like the other fan girls, annoying."

'That could be a reason. But the way she became so sensitive, it reminded me of the Baka.'

Sasuke stopped again for the second time. 'Maybe she was teased too.'

He took another tunnel that lea him to the back of the school. The school was surrounded by trees, nothing extreme like a forest, but very close to it. The trees varied from small to big, some were wider than others, and others were taller.

Sasuke noticed that one of the far large trees had a blink of pink at its trunk. 'And my bet on that's her is very high at this moment.'

Sakura was glaring into space. Her head suddenly went down with anime tears running down her dace again, 'I'm so hungry!'

Sakura started ripping the grass out like she was doing earlier. 'Today… Today isn't good. I thought it was gonna turn out well but it didn't. And to make things worse I yelled at Tsunade-sama.'

Sakura's anime tears started again, 'She's gonna kill me. I'm such a horrible person. I shouldn't have yelled at her like that.'

Her stomach started to grumble again, 'But I'm so hungry!'

She hugged her knees, letting her head lay on the one of the knees, causing her head to be slightly tilted.

And image of Sasuke popped up into her head, 'Maybe I shouldn't have overacted, I mean I sure there was a good reason why Tsunade-sama told Sasuke-kun… But I couldn't help but get scared.'

"What does he think?" she asked quietly.

"It doesn't matter."

Her head shot up. Sasuke was sitting on next to her, one knee up supporting his arm that was holding her lunch.

Sakura nearly screamed, she was on her side out of surprise.

"You would probably notice things more often if you didn't zone out as much."

"So…you don't care?" she sat herself back up.

"Not really, I had a feeling that there was something about you."

The knots in her stomach and chest were loosened. 'Sasuke-kun doesn't care. It feels nice. He didn't judge me.' She felt her cheeks redden.

"Wait, how did you know I was different?"

"Your chakra was different."

The witch blinked, "How do you know about chakras?"

Sasuke felt his stomach start to curl up. He didn't like to do things that he didn't know the results of. He didn't know how she could react, but he wouldn't admit that it scared him.

Sasuke smirked, ' So that's what she was afraid of, she thought I rejected her. Rejection.'

"You're different too."

His head turned towards her, she was sitting on her knees facing him. He looked at her eyes, looking straight at him. For some reason that he couldn't make out, he felt like it was fine to tell her.

"That's because…" he glanced at her one more time, her eyes still on him, the only thing that had changed about them was that they gained a curious look, he looked back down, "I'm a Vampire."

Sakura blinked.

Sasuke looked up to see what she was doing, his eyes went wide. She was on all fours clencheing the grass and trembling.

"I am such an idiot!"

Sasuke's eye twitched, 'What is wrong with her?'

"Of course you're a Vampire! Uchiha! The Uchiha clan!"

"W-What?' he managed out, still trying to figure out the concepts of this girls mind.

She was looking at him now.

"When I heard you last name, Uchiha, it kept bugging me cause I knew I had heard that before!" her lips curled again, "I finally figured it out."

"You aren't gonna tell anyone are you, about me being a witch?" she added

"I don't see the point of doing that."

"Who else knows?"

"Naruto, Kakashi and a few with the name Hyuga."

"Kakashi-sensei and Hyuga? They know?" it hit Sakura, she hit the palm of her hand with her fist "Oh right the Hyuga's! I knew that clan too! I just thought it was a coincident !"

"They have the same last name and one of the obvious traits of the Hyuga's, their eyes."

"Well!... Nevermind your right. So Naruto is your 'best' friend so it obvious that he would know but Naruto, he had something too."

Sakura looked at Sasuke, he seemed concentrated when she mentioned that there was something about Naruto. 'It's a sensitive subject' she thought.

"I understand , I'm being really nosy right now, sorry. If I really want to know I should ask them myself right Sasuke-ku- I-I mean Sasuke! Sorry! I forgot! N-No wait I didn't mean I forgot about what you told me I just meant that-" she was waving her hands frantically infront of herself, eyes wide with panic.

Sasuke felt a smirk coming on his lips. "It's fine".

"W-What?"

"Call me whatever you want ..."

"You don't care?"

"Not really."

"…But which would you prefer?"

"It doesn't matter."

"But I mean what do you like better?"

"I already told it-"

"But some sound weird when other people say it!"

"Just call me what ever you want!"

"So if I call you Sasuke-san it wouldn't bother you?" she asked with a tilted head.

'Hey Sasuke-san...Sasuke-san can you...', the idea wasn't appealing to him.

"What do you want to call me?" he asked her, secretly not wanting it to be 'san'

Without a wasting a second, "I like Sasuke-kun." A smile gracing her lips once again.

But it the moment was ruined by a certain witch with pink hair, her stomach made a sound showing that she was hungry. Her face light up red with embarrassment. Her head bent down, "I'm sorry, we didn't eat lunch."

"Don't worry about it, I'm hungry too." He sighed remembering it was a good deal of Naruto's fault. He got up trying to blow off his upcoming irritation, "Come on, Tsunade wants us back in her office."

Sakura blinked.

Sasuke looked at her, "What?"

Sakura then busted out into childish anime tears and started waving her arms frantically, "She's gonna kill me! I yelled at her and now she's gonna kill me!"

"I don't think she's-"

"I'm going to die!" she was on all fours,

"You're not-"

She looked at him and cut him off, "You know that she has a killer punch right?"

Sasuke nodded.

"Have you ever gotten hit by one of those?"

Sasuke shook his head no.


"Where are those two?" Tsunade bitterly said, her mood had become worse since Shizune took her drink away.

"Sasuke-kun no! Please!", Tsunade looked up to see what was going on.

Sasuke was dragging Sakura by the back of the collar, Sakura obviously refusing to go. Her arms were having a spasm attack and her legs attempting to become one with the ground.

"Sasuke-kun please, please! She's going to kill me! I don't want to die!"

Shizune only watched as Sasuke dragged Sakura, not knowing whether to help. Sakura looked at her with pleading eyes. Shizune took her chances and chose the wrong answer.

"U-Uchiha-san?"

He shot a glare at her since he wasn't enjoying what was going on. Shizune shut up. Sakura only thanked Shizune with her eyes, but now she was debating whether she should be more scared of Tsuande or Sasuke.

Sasuke stopped, but Sakura didn't, they were in front of the entrance of Tsuande's office. Sasuke was still hanging onto Sakura. Sasuke looked at Tsunade, a look that said 'Make her stop'

"Sakura,stop." Tsunade said in a calmly irritated tone.

Sasuke felt that she wasn't struggling anymore. She turned and got closer behind Sasuke. She leaned out forward to the side while hanging onto his arm. She looked straight at Tsunade.

Tsunade felt her mood lift up, and let out a small chuckle. "I'm not going to hurt you."

Sakura continued to look at her, "You promise?"

"Yes"

"So you promise that you won't cause damage to me OR Sasuke-kun?"

"Why would she cause damage to me?"

"Well if she's mad at me, she might consider you an accomplice."

"An accomplice to what?"

"Helping me" Sakura simply stated with a large smile.

"I promise Sakura." Tsunade interrupted them.

"Pinkie Promise?"

"Yes Sakura I Pinkie Promise!"
"Well when you say it like that it makes me sca-"

"Just get over here!"

"C-Coming!" she spoke back, "Go on Sasuke-kun" she whispered as she pushed him forward, not moving from her place of being behind him for safety.

When they got to Tsunade's desk Sakura held out her hand with the pink sticking out, referring to the promise. Tsunade sighed and intertwined her own pinkie

"I-I'm sorry Tsunade-sama, I didn't mean to yell at you. I…I was just upset, you know how that topic is to me."

"Yes I know Sakura, you don't need to apologize, I was the one who-"

"No! Of course I'm the one who should apologize, I should have trusted that you had a good reason for telling Sasuke-kun! I should be apologizing, right Sasuke-kun!"

Sasuke looked down at her staring at her with a bitter expression on his face.

Sakura blinked.

"Never mind Sasuke-kun."

Tsunade took another deep breath, "Just sit down, both of you"

Sakura obeyed, Sasuke just took his seat in a irritated fashion.

"Now what I have to tell you both is that there is going to be an important object coming in…Shizune can you close the doors please?"

"Yes Lady Tsunade!" she yelled back as she quickly did as she was asked.

"Now there is an important object that is going to be staying here for a few months because of the ridiculous Dimension Laws. The object has been traveling threw a few places and after this the next stop is at your home Uchiha."

Sasuke's eyes had a perk in them. He was remembering something about this, he had heard his father say something about this.

"We cannot have major guards from other dimension coming here to protect it. They would cause too much of a scene, here and in the other realm. Also the black market would find out about this, as if they aren't already catching on, and more creatures would be coming for it. I'm sure there are a few stupid idiots already planning their attempts. So I need someone to guard it at night, well a majority of it."

Tsunade did a soft cough and continued.

"I have a shield here that will guard it during the day but will need to recharge for a few hours before it comes back up. It goes down at five and comes back up at ten to eleven, depending on it there are any attacks during the day. So during the time that it is down I need guards, and that is where you two come in."

Sakura lifted both hands then pointed one finger at Sasuke and at herself.

"Us?"

"Yes Sakura you two."

"Why?" Sasuke chimed in.

"Because I know for a fact that Sakura can do this job, and I'm assuming that since you are an Uchiha, Sasuke, you are able to do this as well. I'm sure that the Uchiha's teach offense and defense, you aren't the wielders of Sharingan for nothing. And I have already discussed some of the issues with your parents. "

Tsunade took another small pause.

"Of course you mother, Sasuke, wasn't too pleased with the idea that you would be risking your life against creatures, but she bought into the idea of it sooner or later. Sakura, we already know about your father or if you want technically terms, step father. What all you'll be doing is guarding is all and probably fighting a few weak creatures. Also if it's too late to go home then there is a room that you can stay in. So, do you agree?"

"Yes, you know I'm in Tsunade-sama."

"Sasuke?"

He remained silent, and then answered "I'm in as well."

Tsunade smirked "Very well then, I know announce you two as partners, congratulations."


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