A/N: Fuck it...Here's one more for the weekend and here's to hoping ya'll enjoy and review!

Disclaimer: As far as I know Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto not me…but please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Warnings: Minor sexual content and a not so subtle allusion to a particularly steamy, but lovable movie scene.

Chapter title taken from Pretend for the Weekend by CB7

Tsunade's Office

The Next Day

"You've never seen this woman before?"

"Not in my life," Sakura answered sternly.

Tsunade sighed, "Well, you're not hurt, so I think it'd just be best to put it behind you for now."

"Y-Yes," Sakura agreed. She knew the village was dealing with a lot of shit and didn't want to be a strain on the situation, but something about that woman gave Sakura a really bad feeling. Although she was sure she'd never seen the woman, she looked eerily familiar. The woman hardly looked like a kunoichi. More like a housewife. So how did she get in her apartment in the first place? The worst part was how the woman just vanished into air, it made Sakura worry she could reappear at any time just as easily.

Tsunade, as if sensing this, added, "If you're still upset by this, maybe you should stay over with a friend."

"Aa, sensei, I've got the perfect person in mind."

~()~

"No problem, billboard brow!" Ino shrieked, "Oh my God! This is going to be so much fun! Like consecutive sleepovers!"

"Sure, that's a good way of putting it." Sakura answered. The evening played out exactly like a junior high slumber party. First, they played Would You Rather…

"Jaraiya or Kakashi?"

"That's easy!"

"But! Kakashi's just been out training his ninja hounds and smells like a wet dog."

"Oh…erm…Jaraiya."

"EW!"

Then they danced and sang emotionally songs while standing on their bed…

"T-t-t-tongues! Always pressed to your cheek."

"Well my tongue is on the outside of some other girl's teeth!"

"You tell your boyfriend if he says he's got beef!"

"That I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fucking scared of him!"

And they finished with a nice movie viewing…

"Well if Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman are wrong then I don't want to be right!"

Yes, it played out exactly like a cliché junior high slumber party…except for when this happened…

"Kami, Shikamaru, what's the matter with you? Be a man and fuck me!"

"This is so troublesome…" And the banging began.

Sakura tried to cover her ears with the pillow but she could still hear them loud and clear…

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! "What's the matter, you're already nutting?" "Urusee, Ino!" BANG! BANG! BANG! "Oooooh! Shikamaru you sexy beast!"

"Okay, that's about all I need to know about their relationship," Sakura muttered as she began to pack up her things.

"Ino, this isn't going to work out. I'll talk to you tomorrow!" Sakura yelled as she shut the door and pulled her rolling bag through the dark, empty streets of Konoha.

Naruto? No, he and Hinata are probably asleep already. I can't just go knocking on their door. Kakashi-sensei? Shit, no he's on a mission.

Tsunade-sama? No, she's got enough on her plate. And where the fuck does she live anyway?

Maybe I should just go back to my apartment? No other real option I suppose…

"Sakura?"

She spun around to see the familiar, shadowy outline of none other than Sasuke Uchiha.

"What are you doing up?" he asked stepping into the light allowing Sakura to see he was carrying a bag of groceries. Never had a more strange sight reached her eyes. Similarly he noticed her rolling luggage and the look of displacement in her eyes, "Are you looking for a place to stay?" he asked after putting together the pieces of the puzzle before she could even answer his first question.

"Um…yeah."

"Why?"

Sakura answered, "Because last night there was this woman in my room…and it just sort of freaked me out."

"Hn," he began to walk away, "Good luck."

A bizarre sounding idea flew into her head, Oh, Sakura, you are definitely going to regret this one, "Sasuke," she thought carefully before truly committing, "could I maybe stay with you?"

Sasuke turned back around, "I'm not sure if that's a good idea."

"Just for one night, I swear. It's just too late for me to go knocking on any doors."

Sasuke seemed to consider this for a long while then shrugged, "Okay."

Sakura couldn't help the smile that came to her face, "Arigato, Sasuke-kun."

"Aa." He turned to begin heading for his apartment, and she ran to catch up to him.

"So were you grocery shopping all the way out here?"

Sasuke nodded.

"But you live on the other side of town. There's gotta be a grocery store closer to you, right?"

"I don't like their milk."

"Oh, I understand." I guess…

They went the rest of the way in silence. I t was kind of amazing that even after all the dinners they had together their conversations still had time set aside in the schedule for awkward silences.

"Here," he handed her a pillow and a blanket.

"Arigato again, Sasuke. I have no idea where I would've sleep tonight if I didn't run into you." She smiled up at him from the pull out bed of the couch in the Uchiha's living room.

"Hn," he replied trying to keep his black eyes open as he made his way back to his own bed in hopes of actually being able to sleep now.

"Goodnight, Sasuke," Sakura called, but his door was already shut.

The Next Morning

The onyx eyed boy awoke to the permeating smell of breakfast coming from the other room. He yawned as he threw on an undershirt and came out of his room.

"Good morning Sasuke, I hope you don't mind, I made some breakfast as a thank you for taking my sorry ass off the street last night."

He nodded, still in awe of the foreign sight of such a huge breakfast. Eggs, sunny side and scrambled, pancakes, bacon, hash browns, and fruit salad.

"You made all this?"

Sakura scoffed, "No, are you insane?" But then kind of regretted her word choice upon seeing a slight drop in Sasuke's expression, "I bought the fruit salad already made at the grocery store across the street, but don't worry I didn't buy any of their milk." She checked her watch, "Well, I gotta go, enjoy, and I'll find someone else to stay with tonight, so I'll be out of your hair." She waved goodbye and left.

~()~

"Yoshiko, you cannot, leave me hanging here!"

Yoshiko Kita was Sakura's best friend at the hospital and her natural first choice for finding a place to stay after Ino fell out. She wore her light brown hair in a long braid and always adorned mascara to highlight her cyan eyes. Yoshiko was an accomplished healer like herself, but also a sensor so she got a lot more field work which Sakura assumed attributed to her free, open lifestyle.

"I'm sorry, but Takahiro and I are expecting company."

"Who the hell is Takahiro?"

"You don't know him? We've been living together since like…last night." Free and open lifestyle exhibit A.

Sakura face palmed, "And who are you expecting over?"

"My parents are visiting and bringing Kenshin."

"Oh God…Kenshin."

"Your leg has still yet to recover after the Great Leg Humping of '04, huh?"

"I don't know if it ever will," Sakura shook her head and rubbed her right calf.

Yoshiko snapped her fingers together, "Hey! Why don't you just stay with your parents?"

"We're on better terms than when I moved out, but I'd rather not fuck that up by moving back in with them even for a night. I would never hear the end of it… 'So Sakura you finally decided to put your pride aside, huh?'" she mimicked her father, then her mother, "'It's alright even big girls need their mommies sometimes.' Ugh! I wouldn't be able to take it."

"I can understand that. When I moved out I told myself I'd never move back," Yoshiko sighed, "But what's wrong with just staying with Sasuke? Aren't you guys getting along again?"

Sakura shrugged and grunt, "Once again I'd rather not fuck that up by living with him."

"Fair enough," the brunette agreed with a laugh. That was another thing Sakura liked about Yoshiko, she unlike most people in the village didn't hold prejudice against Sasuke. It was just in her nature not to do so Sakura guessed. The cyan eyed woman seemed to have this faith in people and their ability to change while even some the people who once considered themselves Sasuke's friends advised Sakura against being around him.

"Well, sorry, I can't help you out, Sakura. I've got to go," Yoshiko said after she got a message on her pager, "Ciao, for now."

Sakura returned to Sasuke's apartment defeated. She begged eleven people after Yoshiko, and it was like none of them even wanted to give her the time of day. Apparently a rumor had spread that she and Sasuke were "romantically involved" and since everyone was trying to keep their distance from him she was included in that by extension. So there she sat on the rail outside his apartment waiting for him to come back to open the door for her.

"You're here," she heard his low voice say from behind her.

"Yeah," she dragged out the word not taking her eyes off the ground in front of her. Soon Sasuke stepped in front of her eyes, blotting out the grey floor with his navy blue shirt.

"No luck I assume." He stated more than asked.

Sakura only shook her head in response, "Sorry, Sasuke…I promise I'm trying to find another place to stay."

"Don't worry, you can just stay with me until you feel better about going home."

Sakura looked up and his sweat soaked face, "Are you sure?"

Sasuke shrugged, "I'm fine with it as long as you are."

The pinkette was shocked. He's being so "Nice—I mean—that's really nice of you. It'll just be for the weekend, okay?"

"Hn," he turned to unlock the door, having the large Uchiha fan on his back. Is there some factory out there I don't know about where he buys those shirts in bulk? She wondered as she followed him into the house.

"So were you training today?"

"I train every day," he responded simply.

"And I thought the pills had all of your energy hostage."

The Uchiha lazily droned, "Dr. Tatsuya said exercise would help the medication level out."

"Is it helping?"

"It's not hurting."

The Next Day

The pink haired kunoichi returned from work late and after Sasuke that day and luckily he had left the door unlocked for her. She heard snoring and soon found that he had headed off to bed mildly early that night. Well no wonder…he didn't get any sleep last night after all. Sakura was woken up almost every hour by the Uchiha either getting up to pace or his sleep talking. She even felt that a scream of his made it past the walls of her own subconscious and rang into her own dream.

Unable to resist the opportunity and against her better judgment, Sakura tip toed into Sasuke's room to get a better look at him while sleeping. For lack of a better word, she was fascinated by this peaceful looking Sasuke.

"Sayonara, Kaa-san," he muttered in his sleep.

The jade eyed girl couldn't help, but smile. Sounds like he's having a good dream. She wondered what it could have been, but whatever it was he seemed to feel safe. I wish he could find this kind of happiness while he was awake…

"He can if you help him, Sakura," a strange feminine voice filled the room.

Sakura's green eyes shot up to see the same woman from three nights ago standing across the room from her. She wore a curious smile on her alabaster face and looked back at Sakura with gleaming black eyes. The rosette stood petrified as the woman slowly walked towards her. It was when the woman reached her hand out to touch her that Sakura finally found the sense to scream. Below her Sasuke shot up in bed, "Nani?" he shouted, still obviously tired, but alert.

Sakura spastically looked around the woman who seemed to disappear the moment Sasuke opened his eyes, "Sh-she was right here!"

"Who?" he asked, standing up to try to calm her down.

"That woman! The one who was in my house before! She was right fucking here! Kuso!"

Sasuke rolled his eyes, "You're fine. No one's here. Don't look so goddamn terrified."

"You don't believe me?"

"Just calm down, you had a long day."

"I'm not hallucinating if that's what you're implying."

The boy sighed, "I'm only implying that you should get some sleep," but upon seeing the reluctant and still shaken look in Sakura's eyes he added, "But if it makes you feel any better I'll take a look around the apartment."

She nodded.

"Wait here."

Sakura took a seat on the edge of Sasuke's bed, counting the seconds until he came back.

~()~

"No one," he announced once he came back into the room after fifteen minutes. Quite a long time to be looking around an apartment. I know he doesn't believe me, but he actually looked…so, what does that mean?

"Sasuke, I know I sound insane, but she was really here, okay?" Sasuke noted Sakura wincing again at her word choice. The raven haired boy nodded and crawled into bed, "Just try to get some sleep."

To his dismay, she didn't get off the edge of his bed, "I don't want to sound like a baby, but this has got me really freaked out. This woman just gives me a really bad feeling."

Sasuke groaned, "How come?"

"I have no idea. It's like I've seen her somewhere or somehow, but she's always smiling, and it just kind of throws me off because her smile seems so natural to her, but to me it's like it's out of place. What do you think that means?"

Sasuke shrugged and Sakura gave a disappointed sigh. The Uchiha wasn't sure why, but it affected him somehow and made him turn on his side to face her, "You're truly scared of this woman."

"I feel like I shouldn't be, but I am."

"Has she said anything to you?"

The pinkette nodded, "She knew my name." She decided to omit the other things the woman said.

"And then she just vanished?" Sasuke continued after the girl nodded, "Like a ghost?"

"I know, I know, it sounds absolutely ins—implausible."

To this the boy said nothing, only keeping his eyes staring at the empty space in front of him allowing a long silence to ensue before he offered weakly, "If you're still afraid you can stay with me here tonight."

"In your bed?" she asked, shocked.

"If you want."

"…yes…I'd like that," she mumbled, "A-arigato, Sasuke."

He scooted over as close as he could to the furthest edge of the bed, leaving a good amount of room between them, "Goodnight, Sasuke-kun."

"Get some sleep."

A/N: I hope everyone enjoyed the extremely cliché slumber party with my little Black Swan reference, I wanted a pillow fight but when there's only two people it just doesn't work. You like? All reviews welcome and helpful suggestions are seriously encouraged!

P.S. Please feel free to comment on the songs I use for the chapter titles. I'm really trying to find the best possible song matches for each chapter.