Post it Notes

Chapter 6 Answers

As Sasuke walked into school, Itachi close behind, although he was talking to someone on his phone, he fingered the note in his pocket. He'd forgotten about the post it note until last night, when his mum had asked if he needed any clothes washing. Frowning, Sasuke bit his tongue. He hated to admit it but he was stumped as to what the answer was.

The note read 'I have leaves yet I don't grow on trees. I may have a spring but still, I can't bounce. I am full of lines yet I'm not a maze. What am I?'

If he broke it down, he supposed that would be easier. His body on auto pilot, Sasuke found himself greeted with the sight of an empty tree. Kiba and the others hadn't arrived yet, which meant he'd have time to sit and think, despite him despising it. Pulling out the note, he analysed it over. For the life of him, this was getting annoying. The post it probably didn't even mean anything, it was just something to wind him up. He wouldn't be surprised if it was Itachi; the bastard had plenty of time on his hands as of late.

"What's that?"

Jolting, Sasuke looked up to see Kiba staring down at him. Although, seeing the Uchiha jump, Kiba jumped back, eyes wide.

"Fuck, what's up with you man?" Kiba asked, snickering as he plopped down onto the grass besides him.

"Nothing," Sasuke muttered, tucking the note into his front pocket. He'd have to solve it later. "Do you have to be so loud in the morning?"

"Aww, I'm sowwy," Kiba mocked in a baby face, leaning to pinch his cheek as he continued "Did little Uchiha get scared" Kiba casted puppy dog sympathetic eyes, pulling his lips down in a pout "or is he just gwumpy?"

Sasuke growled at the back of his throat, clenching his fists tightly as he glared at the brunette. Kiba jumped back, grinning wolfishly. If there was one thing Sasuke hated, it was being mocked. He knew for a fact Kiba was only trying to get him to joke around with him, for his own entertainment, but Sasuke wasn't in the mood.

"Hey- whoa, what's going on here?" Ino called, arriving with Hinata and Sakura.

Sakura slumped onto the grass, sighing as she relaxed under the shade. Today was another hot day, there were no clouds in sight and the scorching sun was out.

"My mum almost made me put sun cream on today," she muttered, huffing, "I told her it wasn't hot enough, but god. It is!"

Ino eyed her best friend, rolling her eyes at her before turning back to the two boys. Kiba waved his arms about, explaining that they were only joking around. Sasuke just remained silent, looking off out at the field.

"Well, what's got Sasuke in a brood for then?" she inquired, eyeing Kiba.

"Uchiha," an angry voice greeted.

Sighing, Sasuke muttered "What can a guy do to get some piece around here-" Looking up he met white eyes staring back at him in a heated glare. Returning the glare, Sasuke asked "What?"

Sitting down on her knees, Ino glanced between the two. Something was up, Neji wasn't an argumentative person. Ino glanced to Kiba and Sakura, who were talking about some class that had homework assigned to them. 'Air heads' she thought, rolling her eyes, she turned back to the two boys, watching and carefully listening.

"What happened?"

Sasuke almost choked, his eyes blinking rapidly. Had Neji found out? Was he finally going to question him, even though he didn't have the answers? "What are you talking about, Hyuga?"

"I'm talking about why you resigned, Captain." Neji inquired with venom, crossing his arms.

"What?! Hold the blabber jabbing conversation right there!" Kiba shouted, interrupting Sakura, spreading his arms out between them as he glanced back and forth.

Noticing he'd got their attention, after a few moments, Kiba whirled round on Sasuke, asking "What do you mean you resigned? Fuck, man, I hate to admit this but we need you!"

"I quit, simple as that, there's nothing more to discuss." Sasuke clarified, standing as he did. He didn't want to talk about this, despite feeling relief that it wasn't the topic he'd originally thought of.

"Wait, why?" Ino asked, furrowing her eyebrows in confusion "You love basketball, as much as dog breath over there loves Akamaru and Chouji and his food."

"I used to love basketball." Sasuke noted "Past tense. Meaning I don't anymore."

"What the fuck?! Like that makes any fucking sense!" Kiba hollered, standing up as he followed the Uchiha.

Hinata gasped, reaching out to grab Kiba's shirt sleeve as he said "K-Kiba-kun! Don't!"

Kicking the grass in annoyance, Sasuke shoved his hands into his pockets and walked away. Why did he have to justify himself to them? Shouldn't they be understanding and accept it? In his anger, he scrunched up the post it note. He needed to just get out of here. He mildly contemplated just walking out of school but knew Itachi and his mum would be on his case. Sighing, he combed his hair, ruffling it at the back as he walked into the cool art building. No one was around, so that meant he could hopefully sneak into his form room. Kakashi always left it open anyway.

As he climbed the stairs, reaching the English floor, he looked up to see his brother walking out of the hallway. Raising his eyebrow, he stopped, asking "What were you doing?"

"Shortcut," Itachi replied, frowning as he looked back "Kisame and Deidara are dead set on trying to do my hair in plaits."

Snickering despite himself, Sasuke smirked, wishing him the best of luck as he climbed the next set of stairs, calling out "I think they'd suit you!"

"Get lost, little brother!" was his only reply.

Chuckling, Sasuke sighed in relief as he reached the top, opening his form door, which happened to be the first door as he walked in. Opening the door, thankful that he had been right in his assumption, he walked in and sighed, throwing his head back as he found the windows open, a breeze filling the room.

'Heaven…' he thought as he walked to the back of the room, tracing his fingertips along the desks. Reaching his desk, right by the window in the right corner, he sat down, drumming his fingers on the table. He enjoyed the silence and cool breeze; it woke him up a little bit. Last night he hadn't had the best sleep, he kept tossing and turning, trying to get comfortable, and when sleep did eventually come, he'd wake in a sweat from a nightmare. It was the same nightmare though; he must have dreamt it at least six times last night. Well, it wasn't necessarily a nightmare it was more of a memory.

It would start with him standing in the countryside. It would be around midday, the trees gently swaying, their leaves rustling, down the bank there would be a stream, trickling by, encased in shadows from the trees, slippery stones sticking out enticing people to cross only for them to fall victim to the water. The pathway he was on was small, enough for one person to go along; if anyone else was there it would have to be single file or someone walking on the bank. The pathway was muddy, but had hardened over the suns heat, and little rocks protruded from it.

In the fields were wild flowers, a gigantic meadow, long grass coming up to his waist, with wild animals and bugs in. From what he could see there were butterflies and bees, drifting in and amongst the purple, yellow, white, red and variety of flowers all merging to create a beautiful landscape that couldn't be replicated.

On the breeze, Sasuke could smell the fresh air and the flowers, causing him to wrinkle his nose. The bees were buzzing from out in the meadow and, despite not seeing them, crickets were chirping and birds were flying overhead, singing their chirpy tunes. He'd been here before, when he'd gone with his mother to see an old friend of hers, who was sick. He'd been fifteen at the time, on summer holidays. His mother had been talking with her friend and had told him to go for a walk, seeing as they were going to have an 'adult talk'.

So, he'd been on this walk and he'd been walking along this path. When, out from the trees, someone stumbled out, falling on their knees. Sasuke, in his dream, had seen this and had begun to run to them, calling out if they were okay. However, he never got to the person as he always woke up, either from falling over on the path or butterflies clouding his vision, stopping him from moving any further.

Hearing a bang, Sasuke abruptly sat up, watching the door as it was thrashed open with a moaning Kiba entering, whining "Why does it always get hotter as we go up the stairs?!"

Sakura, snorting, chastised him, tugging at her top "Maybe because heat rises?"

Ino, followed by Shikamaru and Neji, entered after them. Ino frowned as she met Sasuke's eyes, biting her lip in thought. Sasuke looked away first, preparing himself for the onslaught he knew he was going to get when Kiba sat down.

Instead, Kiba didn't glance his way as he plonked down on the table, lying down spread eagled. Sakura wrinkled her nose as she walked by, pausing to open her bag and squirt some perfume as she complained "You stink, Kiba!"

Ino pushed her along, listening to Kiba groan as he panted, wafting his hand in front of his face. "It's too hot~"

Shikamaru sat down next to Sasuke, resting his head on the cool table as he sighed, closing his eyes in preparation for his twenty minute nap. Ino and Sakura claimed the table in front, Neji sitting in front of them, apparently giving up on asking Sasuke why he'd left. Ino and Sakura rummaged around in their bags, picking out makeup and deciding it was due time that Shikamaru had a makeover. However, they were stopped as he raised his finger, muttering "If you even think that cherry pink lipstick comes off easy, you're mistaken. So, don't."

The girls gawked, not realising he was awake, as they put away their makeup in dismay. Their fun thwarted.

"Sasuke, you know what?" Ino asked, turning round with a nail varnish in hand "Red's really in at the moment and I think it would go really well with your complexion."

Sakura nodded eagerly, taking the pot from Ino and shaking it before untwisting it. Dipping the brush in and dabbing it on the sides, so it wouldn't dribble or create massive splodges on his nails, Sakura gestured for his hand. Sasuke glared at them, crossing his arms as he warned "Don't even think about it."

Whining, the girls pouted as they told him "You're no fun,"

"You are being a bit of a grumpy pants lately, Sasuke," Ino chided, nodding her head in his direction.

Rolling his eyes, Sasuke watched as more students entered, Kiba sitting up from the desk to allow the others to sit. Grumbling, Kiba looked over in their direction, staring at Sasuke.

"Why's he staring?" Sakura whispered, covering her mouth so only they could hear.

Shrugging, Ino turned around and yelled "Kiba, stop staring!"

Grunting in annoyance, Kiba looked away and sat down next to Neji, talking about something that they couldn't hear.

"There we go, situation resolved," Ino stated, critically analysing her nails, which were baby pink today with black bows on.

Sasuke could never work out how girls did it. Were they there for hours on end trying to do tiny black bows, without smudging it all? Grunting, Sasuke watched as the girls began gossiping about some girl fancying a guy apparently on the baseball team. Feeling himself shiver, Sasuke glanced outside the window. He wasn't cold, it was too warm outside to be cold so what was it? Scanning the room his eyebrows furrowed, his head jolted slightly when he saw two chocolate eyes glaring at him, seething.

Sasuke quirked his eyebrow, asking a silent question, 'Why're you glaring?'

The brunette merely stared back, scowling.

To amuse himself, Sasuke continued staring back.

Kiba narrowed his eyes, bringing his shoulders up as he stared over his chair.

This was getting annoying now.

Then Kiba started making a noise 'Hnnnnnn…"

Turning his head slowly, Neji stared at the boy, frowning as he shook his head, asking "What on earth are you doing?"

"Staring," he answered back, never taking his eyes off the Uchiha.

"Why?" Neji asked, glancing between them both.

Squinting his eyes, Kiba whispered "They sense fear!"

Rolling his eyes, Neji looked away, focusing on his notebook, which he was writing in.

Sighing, Sasuke rested his chin on his hand, looking away. Yet those eyes continued to stare at him. He wasn't going to satisfy Kiba, he wasn't going to give in.

Suddenly, all heads turned round as they heard what sounded like a trumpet. Glancing around, they all eyed one another. Until the girls squawked, yelling out their complaints as they shouted "Eww, Kiba!"

Standing up, his face straight, he yelled indignantly "It was a duck flying by, fuck!"

Neji looked rather pale as he wafted his hands, trying to get rid of the smell. The girls armed with their perfume, began squirting it as the smell intensified. A hot room, with two large windows open, in a confined area at the top of a building, where heat rises, people already bringing in the unholy smell of body odour, the raunchy smell was greater than any gone off egg. People visibly paled at the smell and Kiba had the decency to blame a duck.

Realising his excruciatingly bad cover up, Kiba wafted his arms around as he whined "Fuck, I'm sorry! When I was glaring at the bastard I squeezed to hard, clenching my butt and I let it out!"

Abruptly, Sasuke almost getting whiplash from the mere quickness used, Shikamaru's head bolted upright, his eyes opening slowly as he took a deep breath, before covering his mouth as he asked "Oh god, what is that smell?"

All heads turned to the sheepish Kiba.

After the horrendous episode of Kiba's uncontrolled bowls, Sasuke had successfully managed to get through periods one, two and three safely, ignoring the persistent stares of the brunette. However, Kiba had lost his patience by the end of period three and had decided to corner the Uchiha, not letting him go until he'd got his answer.

It had almost ended in a near fist fight; luckily Itachi had broken them up before any fists could be thrown. Although Itachi was sporting a rather nasty bruise on his chin from Kiba throwing his head back, trying to get the older Uchiha to relinquish his grip. Thankfully no teachers had caught them and with a slap on the heads from Itachi, they'd both gone to English quietly. They were five minutes late to the lesson, everyone's heads peering round to face them as they entered. They then had to do the walk of shame to their seats, interrupting Kakashi with their excuse of going to the toilet and then proceeded to get their English books and pens.

"Well, seeing as the two morons have finally graced us with their presence, how about we carry on with this lesson?" Kakashi asked cheerfully, clapping his hands together. "Today, we'll be looking at Poems; can anyone tell me what's found in a poem?"

As Kakashi went round the classroom, writing on the board the answers so students could copy them down, Sasuke busied himself with finding a clean page in his thick book. Finding a page he absentmindedly rolled his pen around his hand, already bored with the lesson. Everyone knew what was in a poem, so what was with the need to write them down?

"Sasuke," Kakashi called "Sasuke?"

Blinking, Sasuke shook his head and looked up, asking unsurely "Yes, sensei?"

"What else do you find in a poem?" Kakashi asked, watching him along with the class. It was unusual, after all, to see Sasuke stumble over a question let alone not pay attention. There was a snort of laughter from the back, which Sasuke could only presume was Kiba.

Glancing at the board, he noted almost everything had been noted down. Placing his pen on his book, Sasuke lapsed his fingers together, resting his chin on them, as he answered "Puns,"

"Which are?" Kakashi asked, his eye half-moon, his mask hiding his smile.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed at the man, who merely chuckled as he added "Come on, I'm not going to let you not answer."

"A play on words, it's witty, it's like a riddle." Sasuke answered stiffly, glaring at his teacher, who clapped his hands together.

"Very good, Sasuke, that wasn't so hard, now was it?"

The lesson continued in a familiar pattern, although Sasuke paid little attention. He'd already learnt about poems and didn't need a recap lesson. Instead, he dug around his bag and pulled out his notebook, doodling in it and occasionally writing down notes in his book when required. The lesson was tedious, a typical Kakashi styled lesson. He took his time, occasionally setting work to do and reading his book, then he'd write something on the board, ask questions, answer any and then make fun of the class for the rest of the time. When they'd studied Macbeth he'd put a Macbeth rap on, thinking it was cool and 'down with the kids'. Sasuke swore, all teachers at Konoha High were socially awkward or had some weird habit or interest or simply something wrong with them.

Thankfully, the lesson went by and the bell finally rang. As everyone scurried out of the room, not wanting to get stuck cleaning up, Sasuke picked up his notebook from the desk. As he bent down to put it into his bag something fluttered from it. As Sasuke looked down, his eyes widened, it was a pale orange post it note.

Pulling the other post it note out of his pocket, smoothing it out from its crumpled state, Sasuke read over the riddle again.

'I have leaves yet I don't grow on trees. I may have a spring but still, I can't bounce. I am full of lines yet I'm not a maze. What am I?'

Of course, it all made sense now! The spring was the thing that kept all the papers together, lines was for the lined paper and the leaves because he had sections where he could place torn out paper in. Shaking his head at his own stupidity, he leant back down and picked up the next post it note. Wanting to keep the first one he shoved it into his notebook and finally put it into his backpack.

"Sasuke?"

Looking up, Sasuke glanced towards Kakashi, although he was engrossed in his book. Instead, he turned to look towards the door, where Ino was standing. Sighing, he placed everything into his bag and shrugged his bag onto his back, still holding the new post it note.

'This better be good…'

The hallways had drizzled down to having the odd student going off to detention or a teacher passing by, on their way to the lunchtime rush. So, Sasuke closed the door behind him and leant against the wall, facing Ino who leant against the wall opposite.

"What do you want?" Sasuke asked impatiently, crossing his arms as he studied her.

Worrying her lip, she glanced around nervously. No one was coming down the hallway. Letting out a breath she hadn't realised she'd been holding, she sighed before asking "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Eyes widening for a mere second before narrowing, Sasuke informed her "Is there something I should be telling you, which is any of your business?"

"Well," she twiddled with her hair, flipping it so it fell down her left shoulder "it's just that it's unlike you to quit the basketball club. Especially with how hard you've worked and the team's going so well. Don't you think you could reconsider?"

"No, I can't," he muttered, looking down the hallway "I've already told Kakashi and I'm not going back."

"But the team need you," Ino explained, watching him as she to crossed her arms.

"Why do you care anyway?" Sasuke inquired, becoming more annoyed with the way she was pressing for him to reconsider. At the end of the day it was his final decision, no one could change that. Besides, if she already knew then surely she'd be more understanding. Had Sarutobi not mentioned it? Why wouldn't he? It was protocol to mention something like that.

"Because," Ino whispered "I know what you're going through and-

"Bullshit," Sasuke said, eyeing the floor as his fingers twitched. How could she? She didn't have a single fucking clue what he was going through! He gritted his teeth. His jaw clenching as he tried to calm himself.

"Look, if you ever need to talk to someone you can talk to me, alright? You don't need to fight this alone."

"How the fuck do you know what I've been through?" Sasuke bit out "You weren't there, you didn't have to do anything, you could fucking cry when you wanted to because you didn't have to be brave for someone else. You didn't have to live through it!"

Sasuke's anger sky rocketed, panting harshly as he clenched his fists, as he spat out, looking harshly at Ino "Don't you dare think you know me and understand what I've been through!"

Ino eyed Sasuke in fear, never seeing him act like this before. Whimpering softly, her eyes wide she opened her mouth to say something, when a voice boomed-

"What on earth is going on out here?!"

It seemed like the wine bottle had finally popped.

A/N: Phew, we! That was a heck of a lot of drama, aye? Well, I'm rewarding you with another chapter, hope you liked it! I understand this may be a bit of a filler but just think of what's happened.

Kiba's angry and in a foul mood with Sasuke

He got the second post it note

The wine bottle finally popped because of Ino.

Hasn't it left you in suspense?

Once again, thank you for the lovely reviews and please leave me with another on what you thought of this chapter. I attempted humour, I probably failed at it miserably but there ya go.

I will mention that the farting incident and staring has happened to me (I wasn't the farter or starer), it didn't quite go as I've played it out as but it was just as funny. Also, my form room is an art room and IT room, so if they occasionally swap in the story, you know where the reference is coming from.

Next chapter we'll reveal who shouted, what's going to happen there, the friends view on Sasuke's behaviour and the revealing of what's on the post it note!

Stay tuned!

Honey-Emily98