Chapter 4

recap:

"What are your relationships with each other?" Deidara throw him a glare.

"None of your business." Gaara not even bother giving her a look.

"..." "You guys are not dating right?" Deidara clutched her fist tightly which Gaara did noticed.

Does she like me or something? shit, if so, she would probably do something to Sakura. "No. I know her mother, that's all."

"oh." Deidara let out the breathe that she had been holding without knowing it.

"Here, it is. Thanks," Gaara got out of the car, got Sakura in his arm and left without looking back.

"...you better not do anything to her Sabaku." Deidara said in a deeper voice and drove off.

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"Hey, Gaara. Where's Sakura?" Naruto asked the red-head.

"Home, resting."

"oh...I didn't know it was that serious. She didn't go to work did she?" Naruto worried about his Sakura, wanting to know every detail of what happened to her after she left his sight from gum yesterday.

"...you're annoying." not wanting to talk anymore, he closed his eyes for a nap.

"What did you call me? you son of a-" Naruto stood up ready to start a fight.

"Uzimaki! You will be standing up for the whole lesson." Miss Kurenai announced, now starting the lesson.

"..." Naruto sulked.

Sasuke throw Gaara a hatred look. I was supposed to be taking care of her yesterday and finish off our talk, bastard. Also closing his eyes ad start thinking about his pink-haired angel who he longed to have.

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"WHAT! Ino, no, please stop joking around. It's not funny anymore..." a tear rolled down our princess's cheek. She's on the phone talking to Ino, her best-friend and also partner in their modelling business.

"You're not fooling around, are you?" a few moment of silence past. "Have a safe journey then, Ino. Does he know about it?"..."ok, love you too." she smiled a sad smile then snuggled back into her bed and catch some more rest before her job tonight. She needs to be in her top top top shape tonight because she will be pairing up with THE Deidara.

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"Hey! Shika, you alright? You look like shit." Naruto yelled across the rooftop. It's lunch time right now for them.

"Shut up dobe."

"Don't tell me to shut up teme!" Naruto yelled back at Sasuke who's trying to sleep.

"Both of you shut up. Shik, what's up?" Neji asked calmly.

"..." Gaara was looking at Shik as well, curious since he never seen Shikamaru like that before apart from the time where he was about to asked Ino out.

"Ino?" Gaara asked.

"...yeah, she left a couple of minutes ago." He frowned, still staring at his phone.

"WHAT?!" Naruto screamed while the other three looked at Shik shocked, even Sasuke. Then a couple of silent minute passed until they all started dumping questions on the poor Shikamaru.

"What do you mean she left? Where?" Sasuke asked, now interested in what happened between his friend and Ino.

"Where to? Why?" Neji asked.

"...Are you guys still together?" Gaara questioned.

"Was it just Ino? or Sakura-chan as well?" Naruto asked worriedly, focus more on Sakura than Shika at the moment...what a friend...

Shika gave out a frustrated sign and start answering all their questions. "Ino got kicked off from a job which she supposed to be partner with Sakura. Her job got stolen by that D.E.I.D.A.R.A. " his face suddenly darken when he spitted out the name Deidara, he continued. "Anyway Ino's career and reputation is at stake right now, so her company send her on one of the job which requires filming in France. And don't worry, I'm still with Ino and Sakura will stay here, she's fine but she will be partner with that girl later tonight." he frowned a bit, worried about Sakura.

"...Is Sakura's going to be alright tonight? She's not well, right? Which meant she will be in disadvantage tonight next to the Deidara girl." Naruto said his thought out loud.

"I'm going to watch her tonight. " Gaara and Sasuke said the exact thing at the same time. They immediately send each other the most hated glare at each other's face.

"Hey, it was suppose to be my line"

"I'll go as well."

"I'm going as well...troublesome."

The other three boys also want to watch Sakura, worried about her.

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"Wow, you two look really good together. You guys should be partner with each other more often." the photographer said to the two posing model.

"arigatou! I want to be partner with Sakura-chan more often as well, but I'm not sure if I'll be good enough though." The blond-hair goddess smiled which made all the workers around her faint.

"Deidara-chan, what do you mean by you might not be good enough? Shouldn't that be my line?" the other pink-haired goddess joked around with the blond.

They were smiling and laughing, both seem to be having a great time. The photographer took the chance to take some more photos of them. "Wow..." he unconsciously said out loud. The sight was indescribable, like two angels from heaven playing around, got caught by the human eyes.

"She seems fine." a certain white-eyed rock star whispered, hiding behind the curtain.

"yeah, she seems to be having fun." a blonde-haired boy whispered hiding behind a big board.

"She does look pretty natural and all..." a pineapple-head said lying on the floor lazily. 'too troublesome to hide' apparently.

"...but something just isn't right. I don't think that's her real smile, she's just acting again." a dark-haired boy said, finishing Shik's sentence for him, sitting in the shade against the wall.

"..." a certain red head was watching the pink-haired model with calculative eyes, observing everything. He was surprised to find that Deidara person was actually being honest when saying she likes Sakura, her eyes told the truth. Sometimes the girl will look at Sakura with longing, but most of time she was just admiring Sakura. Gaara found this rather strange but shake it off. Maybe that Deidara girl is just one of sakura's fan girls with talent.

Gaara walked out of the studio to get a drink. "What are you doing here?" he heard her voice from behind him. He turned to look at her, "Sakura...nothing, got bored." He turned back to the machine and got out his drink-green tea.

"What, the whole band? Bullshit. I don't need you guys to worry about me. I'm fine without Ino, and don't you think I would be good enough to pair up with Deidara on my own? I would've thought you guys will have more faith in me." She said coldly and started to walk back to the studio. "Wait, we didn't mean it like that Sa-" Gaara ran to catch up with her and someone bumped into them, they looked to see who it was, it was none other than Deidara.

"Gomen. Gomen-nei, Sakura-chan, ...gaara-san." Deidara throw a discreet glare of jealousy in gaara's face, like an over-protective brother shielding his sister from other guys. "I was in a rush, hahaha" Deidara explained to Sakura with a sheepish grin, slightly scratching her head. Sakura couldn't help but smile at her innocence, she was about to suggest to walk back together then she noticed Deidara had dropped something. She bend down to pick up the card, she accidentally scanned the writings on the card and froze.

"What's wrong, Sakura-chan?" Deidara bend down as well looking at Sakura with big innocent eyes.

"...I think you dropped something. Is this yours, Deidara...-chan?" Sakura still had her head down, her bangs covering her eyes but they were focusing on the card she's holding.

Deidara saw that Sakura was holding her medical centre ID. "Yes, that's mine! Arigatou for picking it up for me, sakura-chan." Deidara smiled, but what he heard next made his smile vanish immediately. "...Deidara-chan...you are...a ...guy?" Sakura looked up at Deidara with disbelief all over her eyes, her mouth slightly opened.

"Sakura, " gaara put his hand on her shoulder, slightly worry since she've been kneeling down for some time now."Is everything alright?" Sakura looked up, "...ye-eah, sorry, I just had this headache for a few second." she smiled and hand over the card to Deidara. "Deidara-chan, we should get back now." she then left with Gaara trailing behind, looking back at Deidara only to see her glaring at him again but quickly turned into a fake smile as soon as she was caught. 'strange girl. and why did Sakura lie? She didn't get a headache, she was never a good liar...it must be the thing she handed back to Deidara. that thing made her kneel there for the couple of minutes. What was the thing, I couldn't see it coz Sakura was in the way, and I couldn't hear what she said to Deidara either coz she was being so quiet. Gaara frustratingly shaking his head.

"Gaara, you alright?" Sakura cupped his cheek, looking into his eyes. "You look tired, you should get some rest." gaara was about to blush but forced it down with all his will coz he can sense some of his band glaring holes at his head, namely Naruto and the Uchiha. "i'm fine, don't worry." Gaara took her hand away from his face. "Whatever then." She walked back to where Deidara and everyone else were and carried on with the shooting.

'Is she going to pretend nothing happened like last time again? (Where they got drunk in the club)' Gaara thought to himself feeling a bit frustrated. 'Should I let it slide this time...I really don't want to but this isn't the time, and that's the truth. With her being so busy at the moment, (sign) I will just talk to her when everything settles down a bit.'

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The band was going to give Sakura a lift but she waved them off saying she's going to have dinner with Deidara, so the band sulked off and said their goodbyes.

In the changng room...

"So...why do you pretend to be a female model..." Sakura asked with shock and confusion over her face.

"...I..." Deidara signed, taking off his shirt showing his hard six-pack abs, "My classmate got selected for a modeling job a year ago and she invited me to go watch her, but just before it started, she got really nervous and ran away." He undid his beautiful silk-like hair and wiped off his make-up. "The director saw me and told me to replace her which I did. After the advertise got out, there were lots of positive comments on it and the other companies wanted me to be their model for their cases." He changed back into his male school uniform and covered his hair with his hoodie. "I've also signed a lot of contract back then, so now I couldn't even get off and quit this job." he finished explaining and looked at Sakura with a boy face expression.

"...but how about your family and your boss?" she frowned a bit. 'This is definitely the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard...He's pretty hot actually when he wears his guy clothes again...nice abs too.'

"I don't have any family and my boss knows. I only have half more year to go since by then, I won't be able to pretend to be a girl anymore." he walked towards Sakura, never breaking their eye-contacts. "Sakura-chan, will you keep my secret for me? please." his eyes begging her to say yes, so she did and nodded her head. "Thanks." he smiled, not only his lips but his eyes as well, gleamed with happiness. He then leaned down to give her a quick but sweet peck on her soft lips then left.

Sakura couldn't help but stood there, just breathing and blinking her eyes for a few minutes. She needs a bit of time to absorb everything in. The whole 'Deidara is a guy' thing, the shooting they will have tomorrow, and how the kiss he gave her made her blushed. 'Arg, what's wrong with me and guys lately. First with Sasuke in the classroom, then Gaara in the changing room and now...WHAT ARE YOU THINKING, HARUNO SAKURA??! That was just a friendly kiss from Deidara, for keeping the secret...why the hell do you act like you're attracted to him?' "Arg, I need some sleep and forget all this things. They're too troublesome as Shika would say." Sakura got change as well and went back home.

A/N: Thanks for your reviews minor-san!!!! Xxx

Can't wait till' easter---I can write full-time, wahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, have a nice easter everyone.