I hate to say this, but, I think this story would be very long. Long, as in it'll take 10-15 chapters long. Basing on the story outline that I've planned earlier, there are still many significant scenes that aren't even covered-up yet. And I think you guys have a very good guess of what those scenes are, you bunch of perverts. XD

Okay, we're already in Chapter 4. Like Chapter 3, I've edited this chapter a couple of times. I'm really sorry for the lag. Maybe some of you are already thinking about me living in a remote island with no internet access and a decent home to live in.

This is a bit late but, in case you're wondering where in the world did I get the story title, I got it from Cute Is What We Aim For. It's one of my favorite bands.

Well, here it is. I now present to you Chapter Four. Enjoy. :) Ah yes, and an OOC Sasuke, too.

- "Is it true that you dyed your eyebrows, too?" -

- "Can't you tell just by looking?!" -

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- Chapter 4 -

Myopia

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- SasuSaku -

"Speechless, huh, chicken-butt?" Sakura teased the raven-haired boy standing just a foot before her. Sasuke gave her a scowl before turning his head back to his bestfriend.

Yeah, right. Said bestfriend was obviously stifling his snickers. Sasuke's face went bleak and hit the blonde with his sling bag.

"T-teme!" Naruto couldn't hold it in any longer. He suddenly raised his head up and burst into laughter. "It's… It's so funny! I'm sorry, I'm sorry…" He continued to laugh his head off. Sasuke looked at Sakura with a nefarious glare. She looked back at him with the same intensity.

"Would you…" Naruto tried to talk between laughs. "Would you guys…cut that out? Oh my…oh my god…"

But the two didn't even give him a glance or two. Two sets of glaring eyes kept glued to each another.

"You were very rude!" Sakura yelled. "No one has ever told me ill about my hair!"

"Well, neither has mine!" Sasuke retorted. "Thank youfor telling me that my hair looks like…like… Like a chicken butt!"

"You were the first one to say that I look like a delinquent with my hair!"

"You sure do!" Sasuke howled back. "And your attitude reeks of one, too!"

Naruto watched as the two continued with their trash talk. His eyes shifted from one to the other. It was very amusing to look at, especially when he looked at Sasuke's face. It was priceless.

Sakura couldn't take it anymore. "Well, I suppose you're the complete opposite of who Uchiha Sasuke is! I have no idea what I ever did to you!" She pulled her bag rather harshly behind her, leaving a flabbergasted raven-haired teen and a blonde on the staircase.

Before going down, Sakura shot him a final glare. "You don't even look smart! I wish you'd rot!!" She rushed her way down the stairs.

Naruto and Sasuke absentmindedly stared at where she walked on. Silence filled the scene, and was interrupted when Naruto finally got hold of his voice and spoke, "Hey, doesn't she know…?"

Sakura was still fuming while she walked down the streets to her home. It'd been an annoying long day.

'Serves him right! That pathetic excuse of a guy! It's about time someone has given him a good scolding! I'm pretty sure he'd already done the same with other people. Urrrrgh!! I really hate him!'

She kept on walking when she found a familiar guy who just went out of a convenience store. She looked closer and immediately blushed at what she saw.

"N-Neji-senpai?!" She involuntarily gasped aloud, which directly caught the boy's attention.

"Oh," Neji walked towards her. "Sakura-san. It's already this dim. Why are you still outside?"

"Uhm, well…" She fidgeted with her fingers. She was really happy to find her crush at this hour. "I, uh… I just got home from school..."

"Hmm," Neji placed the plastic bag on his left hand to the other. "It's dangerous for you to walk outside at this hour. C'mon, I'll walk you home."

Sakura nearly dropped her things.

Hyuuga Neji, who had been her crush since she first saw him during her junior high school days, was offering to walk her home.

"Th…thank you!" Sakura bowed in embarrassment. She was surprised to see his hand reaching out to her.

"Your bag," Neji spoke. "Let me carry it for you."

Sakura, too nervous to even step forward, shook her head. "N-no… I can carry this myself. Besides, you're already carrying grocery bags." She replied.

"Oh, these?" Neji raised the bags. "They're not really heavy. If you want, you can carry this," he gave her an obviously light plastic bag. "I'll go carry yours."

"O…okay…" Sakura gave him her bag and took the grocery bag from his hands. "Thank you, senpai…"

"Now, where do you live?"

Oh, how she loved hearing that deep voice of his. She stared at his opalescent eyes, oh-so-perfectly gleaming in the—

"Sakura-san." He asked again. "Are you okay?"

"Uhh, yeah! I'm sorry, senpai…" Oh no, she was sure he caught her staring at him. "I live at Shinjuku. Just a few blocks away from here…"

"C'mon," Neji walked first. "Your parents must be worried about you."

Sakura blushed behind him. She would never forget the view of his back.

Saturday, Hyuuga Mansion –

Hinata hurriedly opened the front gate herself.

"Welcome, Sakura-chan!" She welcomed her bestfriend with a warm hug. "Let's get inside. I'm really excited about you coming here!"

"Me, too," Sakura smiled at her. Yup, she was really excited. She'd get to see Neji again.

"Dinner's not yet ready, so let's go to my room first." Hinata hurriedly pulled her inside the house. Well, the word house just doesn't fit. Hinata's house is more like a mansion.

It took them a while to get to Hinata's room, and Sakura didn't quite remember the directions. There were too many rooms and halls. It kinda made her feel dizzy just walking around the house. She looked at her bestfriend, who was all to giddy about what they were about to do that night. The pale-eyed girl squealed as she pulled Sakura inside her room. "Come on in! I wanna show you lots of stuff."

Sakura stared in awe as her eyes scanned the room. It was finely lit by the light blue lampshade beside the blue queen-sized bed covered by a blue seashell-patterned comforter and pillows of the same style and color. The walls were plain white, and the curtains were also blue. There were plush dolls everywhere, and it surprised Sakura to see Tai-kun, a cute plush dolphin she gave her a year ago for her birthday, settled on the bed along with her pillows.

Hinata smiled as Sakura took in the sight of her room. She found her looking at Tai-kun on her bed. She immediately went to grab the plush doll and held it close to her chest. "This one is my favorite! I can't sleep without him!"

Sakura was glad because Hinata had treasured the first gift she received from her. Hinata mouthed a 'thank you' and pulled Sakura on the bed.

"So, how was your day yesterday?" Hinata asked.

Sakura recalled everything that had happened, and sneered at the mental image of one raven-haired boy. "It was…horrible." She answered. "There was this guy who ruined my day, and my first club meeting."

Hinata seemed intrigued. She had never seen Sakura look like that before. "Why? What happened?"

Sakura told her everything with pink puckered brows plastered on her seemingly wide forehead. Hinata half-heartedly laughed at her misery when she heard her story. Seeing a pissed-off Sakura was a first, and it amused her in a way.

"I don't think he was serious about it, really." Hinata giggled. "Do you remember doing anything that rubbed him up in a wrong way?"

"I don't! And that was the first time I met him!" Sakura fumed. "I thought he was nice because he supported me when I almost fell."

"I think he likes you." Hinata teased. Sakura's face glowered with hatred and disgust. She was about to reply when someone knocked at Hinata's door.

"Hinata-sama," a female voice came through the door. "The ingredients are ready."

"Okay, I'll be right there, Kagami-san." Hinata stood up. "Is father home already?"

"Not yet, Hinata-sama." The female voice replied.

"Alright," Hinata faced Sakura. "Sakura-chan, I have to go to the kitchen for a while. I'll be right back."

"Okay," Sakura replied. The door was clicked shut, and Sakura was alone. Moments later, for some reason the room felt awkward and she suddenly felt the need to get a glass of water.

Oh, no.

She was feeling sleepy all of a sudden and she realized that if she wouldn't get out of the room she'd be dead to the world like a rock, and Hinata would have a hard time waking her up, which would effectively ruin her visit and make her miss the whole dinner.

Okay, she really had to get out now.

She opened the door slowly and crept out of the room. She looked at the hall before her and groaned at the view. The halls in the Hyuuga Compound are excruciatingly long and dark, and she fathomed that she'd probably be dead before she'd reach the kitchen.

She thought that maybe if she'd just walk back and forth across the hallway in front of Hinata's room she'd be relieved of her sleeping problem. And walk back and forth she did, but just moments later, she felt stupid and slouched down on the floor. She really needed to get away further.

'What's taking her so long? I mean, it's already been a while.' Sakura talked to herself. Perhaps the young Hyuuga was so busy in the kitchen preparing something, or maybe her father had already gotten home and went to talk to her about certain things she knew she wouldn't understand. Hinata's father was a renowned man in the business world. She had never seen him in person; she had only seen a few pictures of him in newspapers and business magazines her father was always reading. She suddenly tensed on her seat. She hadn't prepared for anything that'd involve her best friend's father.

But she knew that there was nothing to worry about. Hinata had told her that she always mentioned her every time she and her father shared conversations involving her studies and such. She knew right then that Hiashi-san was a good man, although he looked so intimidating and professional in his pictures. Okay. There really was nothing to worry about.

She shot a glance at the hall across her. Maybe a nice short walk would make her feel better. She stood on her heels and started to walk.

"Well, I suppose you're the complete opposite of who Uchiha Sasuke is! I have no idea what I ever did to you!"

The words kept playing over and over again in his mind like he was having LSS.

"Hm," a male voice cracked the silence inside the room. "It's been a while since I last saw you looking at something so seriously."

"Aniki," Sasuke acknowledged the figure quietly walking inside the study room.

"What are you doing?" Uchiha Itachi sat on the zabuton(*) nearest the fusuma(**). He flicked his desk lamp on and settled his books on the table. "Is it me, or is it just you looking incredulously peculiar about having a sudden fascination with pink flowers on green vases?"

Sasuke's eyes widened at what his brother had just said. He was right. He was caught stupidly staring at his mother's flowers she placed on his study table.

Seeing his brother's semi-shocked state, Itachi folded his arms together and turned to face Sasuke's back. He let out a chuckle and slipped a package out from under the table. "By the way, I just got back from Shisui's house and Sachiko-san gave me these lanterns for mother," he took two round lanterns from the boxes and made chiming sounds which caught Sasuke's attention. "These are the newest sakura lanterns mother was looking forward to have. Aren't they pretty?"

Sasuke could just let out a snort. Was his brother toying with him, or what? No way. There was absolutely no way his brother could have known, let alone met Sakura before. What was he thinking?!

"They're….nice," he replied. What's wrong with those lanterns? They're just lanterns; sakura lanterns, for Kami's sake. They're their mom's favorite. And they looked so damn cute and pretty.

'Just like her.'

Wait a minute. Had he also got himself fixated over a couple of pink hanging thingies, too? Oh—

"—crud." Sakura paced back and forth across another hall only God knows where. She was panicking now. If only she hadn't given in to her curiosities, she wouldn't be here. She mentally slapped herself for being such an idiot. She didn't want to blame herself, so instead she pointed the finger at the whole compound for being so breathtakingly beautiful that she had to enter a door which led to another, and another, and another, until she was as far as where her feet had taken her. For the first time that night, she inwardly cursed as to why the Hyuuga mansion housed so many unoccupied rooms.

She heaved a sigh. She glanced at her watch and sighed once more as she gawked at the thin platinum digits. It'd been thirty minutes since she went out of Hinata's room. She thought that if she'd stop walking, she'd end up completely lost inside the compound. But, what the hell, that was a ridiculous idea. Hinata could easily find her. She continued to walk ahead.

Her string of thoughts had snapped off when she saw a newly lit room at the end of the hall. Her nervousness had finally gone down, and she hurriedly went for the room.

"Oh, thank goodness! I—"

And Sakura landed on someone unexpected, or expected, rather.

"S…Sakura-san," a boy clad in a traditional yukata breathed. "Are you alright?"

Sakura couldn't believe her ears. She knew she had slipped and landed on someone, but she never expected it to be the one who had been plaguing her thoughts almost every minute of the day. Right now, she was settled between the arms and chest of Hyuuga Neji, who luckily caught her just in time because she had slipped from a wet leaf or something.

She blushed so furiously that she had to bury her face deeper in Neji's chest.

"Sakura-san?" Neji repeated and carefully sat up, immediately sliding Sakura off of his torso. "Are you okay?"

Sakura held her head up and met Neji's gaze. She tried her best to conceal the heavy blush adorning her cheeks. "N-Neji-senpai!" She hurriedly tore herself away from him, although she didn't want to. "I'm…I'm so sorry! I didn't see you coming!" Sakura bowed down in apology.

"It's alright. I was just about to finish putting my clothes on when I heard some footsteps outside. I didn't think it was you." Neji stood up and patted the dust off his clothes. "Why are you here, Sakura-san?"

Sakura tensed and suddenly couldn't move. It would be very embarrassing to tell him that she walked around the house without Hinata's consent. Plus, she knew it would make her look stupid.

"Uhm, I…" Sakura stuttered.

"Come on," Neji offered his hand to help her stand up. Sakura stared at his hand before accepting it and pulled herself up. Of course, she didn't forget to take a mental note about how soft and gentle Neji's hand felt around hers.

"I'm really sorry," Sakura started. "I roamed around the house without letting Hinata know. She kinda left me in her room and well… I have this sickness…"

Neji gave her a worried look which made Sakura blush even more. "Sickness? You're sick?"

"N-No! Not really… It's just, a sleeping problem." Sakura bowed her head to hide her shame. "I easily get drowsy, and I'm a heavy sleeper."

Neji let out a chuckle, to Sakura's surprise. "I see. Well, it's nice that you didn't fall asleep. If you did, you would've missed dinner." He folded his arms across his chest and gave her a small smile. "But, you mustn't force yourself, Sakura-san. If you're not feeling well, you can always rest."

Sakura wanted to tell him that this would be the most important dinner in her life because it would be the first time that she'd eat dinner with him and his family. But, of course, she couldn't.

"Thank you, senpai," Sakura smiled. "But this dinner is very important to me. You see, this is the first time I went here, and this is also the first time Hinata has invited me over for dinner…" She replied.

"I rushed home because this'd be the first home-cooked dinner I'm gonna have in a week, and this is the first time that Hinata had told me to stay over for dinner." Neji smiled and turned his back on Sakura, which surprised her a bit. "Hn, this might be late, but," he turned his head to Sakura. "Welcome to the Hyuuga Mansion."

Sakura gave him her sweetest smile yet, and when he started to walk to the dining hall's direction, she followed him, enjoying the view of his back.

*zabuton – a Japanese cushion for sitting

**fusuma – sliding doors, usually made of paper

Arrgh! Damn, my OCD attacks again! Why? Because all my fics are limited to only seven pages in Word, and my obsessive-compulsive self won't let me go further than that! D:

I love NejiSaku. In fact, it was the first NARUTO pairing that I loved. But now, there's SasuSaku, NaruSaku, KakaSaku, and any Sakura pairings in the NARUTO universe! Well, except for LeeSaku, GaiSaku, SaruSaku(hey, this EXISTS *gets shot for telling a BIGFATLIE*).

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