A/N: Please enjoy chapter 4... i think

Never Alone

Protection

Sasuke woke up that morning. He was in a good mood for once. He was going to have a good day. He walked down the long staircase smiling as he went. All the servants in the house asked him why he was so happy. He would simply say. "I don't know." They would look at him oddly than leave. Some thought that he and Sakura got together. That was just a rumor. Some of the fan girls were in a bad mood because of that rumor. Even his parents asked because it was rare he was this happy.

He walked down to training because it was not far from his house today. His mood was lifted even more as he saw Sakura. Then it dropped as he saw Lee hit on her. Lee was flirting like crazy, then finally Lee asked Sakura something that made Sasuke upset but wanting the answer badly.

"Will you be my girlfriend?" Lee asked. Sakura was speechless. Sasuke swore under his breath. "Well… um… I'm sorry Lee. I- I like someone else. She then did not make eye contact with Sasuke for the rest of the training. Sasuke was now worried that she liked some one else not even him. He was down for the rest of the day.

Sakura was doing the dishes. She now knew that Naruto liked her but she did not share the same feelings. She liked Sasuke. But she was unsure that he liked her back. The next night Ino held a sleepover. The boys and girls of the gang were going to be there. Ino made sure of it. The sleepover was that night. It took her awhile to get ready for the sleepover.

She was finally ready she grabbed her bags and rushed out of the house securing the alarm, there was a burglar around the area lately. She was late so she took the short cut to Ino's house. She got there fifteen minutes late. No one seemed to notice because Sasuke arrived a few minutes after her. They all got settled in and in their PJ's. They were going to watch movies now.

Ino rented all kinds, scary, humor, suspense. Every one agreed on a scary movie then a humor so they could relax after the first movie. They watched the movies and still no one was tired so they played a few games. One was truth or dare spin the bottle kind. Every one was exited. Ino started. The bottle landed on Tenten.

"Truth or Dare Tenten?" Ino asked. "Truth."

Ino smirked. "Rate Neji."

Tenten when wide eyed. She wisped something into Ino's ear. Ino nodded. Tenten sighed. "9…"

"Wow." Some people said. Tenten and Neji both blushed. Tenten spun the bottle. "Truth or dare Naruto?"

"Dare." He said. "I dare you to…" Tenten was thinking. "Run around outside in shorts only."

"That's not hard." Naruto smirked. "It's raining twit." Sasuke said smiling. Naruto's smile left his face.

"Fine, I'll do it, but I will get my revenge on you Tenten, I will." Naruto got into shorts and went out side he shivered. Then he ran around and every one was watching him. They all laughed. Naruto was not happy as he came in.

He spun the bottle. It landed on Hinata. Naruto asked her truth or dare. "I pick t-truth." Hinata said shyly. Naruto was thinking hard. "Rate the person you like on 1-10."

"Oh… ok, 9 ½." She said. "Wows' were all around the room. Every one knew who she was talking about, except for poor Naruto.

Hinata spun the bottle. It landed on Sakura. Hinata asked. "Truth." "Rate the person you like from 1-10." Sakura looked away. "8." She said. Sakura blushed. They all went to sleep after a few more rounds. Every one was either asked a truth or dare once.

Every one left the next day around 10AM. Every one had a great time. Sakura was in a good mood today now, the sleepover made her more relaxed. She had work today, she was doing well for money now. She could pay the taxes

The next day she heard a rumor the Megan a Jonin had become a rode ninja. She and Megan always hated her. The same day team 7 went on a mission. It was a B ranked mission because the Hokage trusted this team. They were to drive out intruders spotted, they were lounging around which was odd.

"This is going to be so easy!" Naruto said joyfully.

"Don't get your hope up Naruto, they could be strong Ninja." Sasuke said. "Twit."

"Take that back!" Naruto said fuming. "No."

Sakura rolled her eyes, this was like Sasuke said, it could be a dangerous mission. Maybe an A ranked mission it would become. No one would know for sure. They were walking along the forest outside of The Hidden Leaf boundary walls.

Kakashi told them to get moving, and be quiet. Naruto nodded and said "Ye-." Sasuke interrupted him with a hiss. Sakura noticed there where 5 rode ninja sitting by a stump talking. They could not scene the Genin's presence.

Kakashi told us to all throw weapons at the same time when positioned around the camp the Ninja's had made. She recognized one of the ninjas automatically. It was Megan; she looked a lot stronger than before.

They got into position and… They threw the weapons. But the ninja where ready for it. They caught the ones flying at there face and dogged the rest! Kakashi ran into the battle and so did Naruto and Sasuke. She almost hesitated but went as well. She was not going to be scared of Megan.

They all went after someone, Kakashi took two and Sasuke and Naruto took one. That left Sakura with Megan. Every one was fighting except her and Megan.

"Oh look who it is, poor ugly wide fore headed Sakura who can't defend her self." Megan taunted.

"Oh is that so?!" She replied. She threw her self at Megan. The fight was going on for awhile now. Megan was beating her. Sasuke was doing fine, Naruto was being helped by Kakashi who was done with the two he was with. She was the one who had trouble. She turned her head to Sasuke; he had just used Chadoi, and finished his person off.

"Your friends are strong Sakura, too bad you are not!" Megan yelled and once again threw her self at Sakura. Sakura saw Megan do a hand sign. "No…" She whispered. It was a deadly Justsu. And this might have been the end of Sakura.

Just as Megan had power d up Sasuke went in front of her. "It's ok. I got your back."

"Sasuke! You'll get hurt, that's a powerful jutsu." He did not respond he just looked back at her his eyes were soft. Then his eyes widened and every thing went black.

Sasuke saw another ninja behind Sakura they were going to knock her out. They did a sleeping jutsu on her then Sauske kicked the ninja. He then realized the other ninja was heading for him with the powerful jutsu. He could not dodge it. He was hit. Every thing went black for him. He awoke, but was not were he was before. He saw that he was watching the fight of Sakura and the Ninja. They threw taunts at each other then fought.

He could tell they knew each other because of the way the ninja taunted Sakura and the way Sakura fought. She was putting a good fight. He noticed Kakashi helping Naruto then. Just then he saw Sakura was watching him fight. Then Megan saw the chance and started the jutsu then he came and helped and then got hurt saving her. He awoke for real.

Sakura woke up, she saw Kakashi next to Sasuke who was still out of it. And Naruto was beside her. She sat up and coughed up blood. She felt horrible. She tried to stand but fell down as she tried. She looked over at Sasuke. He was badly hurt.

He had tried to save her but it did not work. She crawled over to were he was.

"So you are awake at last." Kakashi said to her. She nodded. She looked at Sasuke. "He looks badly hurt." She said.

"If he had not had saved you from that jutsu, this would be you but worse. Much worse." Kakashi said. "He saved you life I think."

She nodded and looked at Sasuke. She did all she could to help. He was groaning. Wetted a cloth and put it on his fore head. "I should have thought of that." Kakashi said and Sasuke calmed down a bit.

"Kakashi? How long have we been like this?" About two hours. They sat there for an hour more before Sasuke woke up.

"Hmm?" He said. Sakura was relived that he woke up, she had just put a new cloth on him and he awoke. She hugged him. "Thank you for saving me." She said. He almost stiffened but relaxed. He was alright now. He had finally awoke and he was doing ok for health. They took him back to Kahona. They took him to the hospital. She was told to stay over night for her injuries and Sasuke was staying too.