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Chapter Seven

"… Katsu."

Sakura was about to yell "fuck yeah", but she decided it would be better if she didn't. She was in the friggin' football team now! They'd just have to figure out what position she'd be in… Hopefully not quarterback. She just didn't like being the center of attention sometimes. Especially now that she had a fanclub, which she was still spazzing out about.

"And Sai."

With that, the coach dismissed them and stalked off to some other area in the gym. Sakura's face turned from one full of jubilee into one of distress and depression. She didn't know how to feel—she got in… but Sai got in as well. She didn't see how well he was doing during the tryouts because she was concentrating on herself, but really, why was God so cruel? Her friends didn't seem to notice that she was half depressed and debating over whether God was a sadist or not, since they were patting her on the back, congratulating each other happily. Sakura glanced at Sasuke, but he wasn't looking her way.

"KATSU-CHAN!!!!" Yelled Naruto, even though he was less than four feet away from her. "You made it in! Yay!!!"

"Yeah… Now I have to go home and do all my homework."

"No you don't, save that for the weekend," Naruto's eyes were shining, "because I promised everyone we could go and hang out at Main Event!"

Sakura snorted, and reached over to open her locker. "Main Event? Isn't that for little kids that are bored out of their asses?"

"It's fun! We can play laser tag all day long!"

"Well, if you insist…" She sighed as she took out her messenger bag and slung it over her shoulder. She shut her locker and proceeded to follow Naruto out of the school, but she stopped. "What about my ride?"

"Shen's coming with us. He told his driver to pick him up at Main Event at nine."

"Oh…"

"The girls are coming too!"

Sakura suddenly felt queasy.

"Which… ones?"

"Uh, the ones that were at Sasuke's sleepover," Naruto counted his fingers for a few minutes until he spoke. "… and I think a few other people too."

Sakura shuddered. She did not want to hang out with girls at the moment because of her second encounter with her rabid fangirls two days ago. She'd finally figured out their routine—the fangirls came every other day and it was utterly impossible to get out of the school with two groups of fangirls filling the hall way. Luckily, they stayed after school for the football tryouts, so there was no need to hide from them.

"Ah… Cool." She said, as she walked beside Naruto, through the school's front garden (damn, that school was rich) and into the parking lot. There were two black limos waiting for them there. Naruto clambered into the limo with Sasuke in it, pulling Sakura along with him. They chose to sit directly across from Sasuke. Neji and Shen were also in the limo, Shen talking to Neji and slurping his Sonic slushie. They stopped talking and nodded at her. She nodded back.

"Laser tag, laser tag, laser tag, wheee, laser tag…" Naruto kept whispering excitedly under his breath, causing Sasuke's left eye to twitch. Sakura looked worriedly at Naruto, and then at Sasuke.

"Shut up, dobe."

"Hey! I'm not a dobe! TEME!!!"

"Whatever."

"You're a teme!"

"...Dobe."

"You're mean!!! Teme! Teme, teme, teme, teme!"

"You're still a dobe and yelling at me can't change that fact."

"Teme, teme, teme, teme!!"

Sakura was bemused. She could understand why Naruto was acting like this, but Sasuke? She looked at Shen and Neji, but they seemed to be used to this. After another four minutes of a heated argument between the two boys, Sakura became really annoyed.

"Guys, shut. Up." She hissed. They suddenly stopped yelling insults at each other and looked at her, surprised. Sasuke immediately looked away and became his usual brooding self and Naruto grinned widely at Sakura. Then he gave her a wink.

"Aren't you excited, Katsu? Laser tag's gonna be soo fun!" Naruto began to bounce up and down in the black leather seat. Sakura wondered if he was high off something, but she realized that he always acted like that. "But too bad Sakura-chan can't be there, huh?"

Sakura coughed a yes.

"Ne, it's too bad she has to go to boarding school," Naruto look pointedly at Sasuke, who was now listening to their conversation, "because of that really mean mummy of hers."

"Boarding school?" Sakura knew realization had dawned on Sasuke since he was the one to ask that question. His piercing coal black eyes stared right Sakura's bright green ones.

"Yeah! Boarding school."

"And Sakura is her name?"

"Yeah, Sasuke-teme, that's what I said!"

Sasuke muttered her name under his breath and turned his head to gaze out the window, and Sakura looked murderously at Naruto, but he was engulfed in a deep conversation with Neji and Shen. So Sasuke had found out her name. Oh well, it wasn't so bad—it didn't really matter anyway. But she really didn't want Sasuke to know her name... It's wasn't like he was gonna call her that any time soon. Hopefully.

The limo slowed to a smooth stop in front of main event. Sakura could see through the windows that a few teenagers were staring at the limo, pointing and smiling. They all climbed out and Sasuke waved goodbye to his driver, just as the others arrived in the other limo. Gaara, Chouji, Lee, and Kiba climbed out and joined their group. Sakura looked up at the large building—she hadn't been there for years. The last time she was there was probably when she was… eight or nine. She followed everyone inside.

They were greeted by a chorus of squeals as they entered the dark building. Or, at least, Sasuke was. Sakura didn't know that Sasuke was well known with girls around the whole area. She never knew who he was—she just remember Ino always mentioning him, but it never seemed important to Sakura, so she just tuned Ino out whenever she talked about him. And she didn't spend much time with guys that weren't in her neighborhood, but she knew Naruto and Shikamaru since she met them at a party once.

"Oi! Neji! Katsu! Over here!" She heard a very familiar voice call. Turning around, she saw a group of her friends, including Ino, waving and gesturing at them to come over. She was about to run over and hug them all, telling them how much she'd missed them, but she stopped herself in time. Instead, she followed the guys over to them, by the bowling area and pool area.

The two groups joined into one big one as they wandered down to the arcade section. A few of them wanted to play DDR (for those of you who don't know what that is, you're extremely stupid), some decided to head back to the bowling area, some decided to play pool, and some headed for the food court. However, they all agreed to meet in two hours for laser tag. Sakura just followed Naruto around until she walked away in embarrassment when he asked the one of the cashiers of the food court if they had any ramen. So she sauntered off, walking aimlessly around the pool area, where Sasuke and Neji were playing pool. After Neji cursed about unsuccessfully getting the eleven ball into one of the holes, he noticed Sakura silently watching the game.

"Hey, wanna grab a pool stick over there and join the game?" Neji asked, just as Sasuke got the eight ball into a hole. Sasuke glanced and Sakura and waited for her to grab a stick and join the game. She pretty much sucked at pool, but she didn't want to tell them that. They'd find out soon enough. She put her hand in position with the pool stick, aiming to hit the three ball…

She guessed she hit too hard, and it really wasn't her fault that Sasuke was standing there. After she "nudged" the white ball with her pool stick, it flew off the table and straight into Sasuke's crotch.

"AAAAAAAARUGHHH!!!" He yelled and fell to the floor, in a fetal position. Sakura stared down at him, not knowing what to do. Neji was shaking with laughter and clutching on to his pool stick for support. People who were playing pool were now looking strangely at Sasuke, and some people just laughed and turned back to playing pool. After a few minutes of staring at Sasuke, Sakura decided to help him up, but saw no way to help him up, since both his hands were clutching his crotch. So she just crouched down next to him.

"Oh my gosh, Sasuke, I'm really sorry, I didn't see you standing there and I sorta hit too hard and, like, I really didn't mean it, so please forgive me, I'm really sorry, I won't do it again, I promise—"

"Ughh…"

"—And I'm really, really, really sorry—"

"My balls….. Ughh.."

"—so please, please, please, just please forgive me—"

"..the paaiinn…"

"—okay, so can you get up or do you need help—"

"Oh, they hurt…"

"—I can help you up, you know."

Sasuke slowly shook his head and reached out to grab the edge of the pool table and yank himself up. Neji was still laughing, but he immediately stopped when Sasuke glared at him. Neji coughed.

"Ahem, right. Moving on…"

Neji and Sasuke went, and it was Sakura's turn again. But Sakura dropped her pool stick on the green carpeted floor. "Really, guys, I won't play anymore. I suck at pool. I'm hungry, anyway, so I'll go to the food court."

A look of relief replaced the somewhat fearful look that filled Sasuke's face, but Neji protested.

"It's okay, I'm hungry and I might neuter someone if we keep playing," Sakura glanced at Sasuke, "So I'll see you guys at laser tag."

Neji just laughed and said goodbye.

By herself again, Sakura roamed around the arcade section until she spotted a few of her friends playing DDR. Ino against Ten Ten. Shikamaru was standing next to them, watching them through bored eyes. Sakura was under the impression that Ino was trying to impress a certain someone.

"Hah! You can never beat me, Ten Ten!"

"That's 'cause you're on, like, standard mode and I'm on heavy!"

"Fine! I'll switch…"

Sakura sniggered as she passed by them, and made her way through a horde of kids dressed in black with dyed spiky hair. She made sure not to touch any of them, in fear of getting beat up. A few of them glared at her as she passed by. She finally made it to the food court, where Naruto was eating pizza with Chouji. Naruto looked up, a slice of pepperoni pizza halfway in his mouth.

"Katsu-chan," Naruto said with his mouth full of cheese and pepperoni's, "Come eat some pizza with us!"

And so she sat down and filled her empty stomach with the goodness of pizza.

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"LASER TAG!!!!!" Yelled Naruto as he punched his fist in the air. "LET'S GET TWO PASSES FOR ARENA 2!!"

"We already decided on that a long time ago, Naruto." Sasuke mumbled.

They all bought there tickets at the counter and waited in line for the people to let them in the room with the vests. When they finally let them in and finished explaining the rules of laser tag, they all grabbed vests and split into two groups: boys against girls. There were a few other people they didn't know, but some joined the boys and the others joined the girls. Sakura recognized them as the group of scary kids she bumped into earlier.

"Okay, guys! Are you ready?" A teenage girl who worked there led them into their base—they were the blue team. Everyone gave her a cheerful yes, especially Naruto.

And then the game began.

Sakura sprinted off to the first floor without being caught running and hid behind a pillar. She crouched down and looked through the holes in the pillar and spotted a few green team people. She began to shoot at them.

"Emily! Someone's shooting at us!" Cried the small girl she was shooting at. Her twin looked around and saw Sakura's blue-lighted vest, and pointed at her. The twins ran toward Sakura's pillar, but she fled across the room, shooting the two while making her escape. She ended up in front of the green base, but there were only two people guarding it—Hinata and Ten Ten. They were too busy with a Naruto and Shen shooting at them, so Sakura took that chance to shoot the base about a billion times before the two green members noticed her. She stuck her tongue out and ran back to her base to refill her ammo. This time, she went up to the second floor, leaving Shikamaru and someone she didn't know to guard their base. Suddenly—

"You are now in Rapid Fire mode." Her vest spoke to her in a deep robotic voice.

"Fuck yeah!" She yelled.

"No cussing!" Yelled back someone patrolling from the first floor.

Sakura found a few members of the green team running toward their base and she began shooting. Ino, Temari, and Emily's twin immediately turned back to their base, trying to look for the person shooting them. Sakura kept shooting them until they went up the slope through their base to the second floor. She hurried to hide behind a pillar, keeping her eye on them—

CRASH.

She fell on her back, a body sprawled on top of hers. She could see from the lights glowing from his vest that he was on the green team, but she didn't know who he was. He pushed his body up from hers with his arms, her head in between his hands. His knees were jammed in between her legs, so he lifted them and rested them on either side of her legs. He peered down at her with his ice blue eyes. There was something very familiar about him…

"Hey man, sorry about that…Wait—You…"

He put his head closer to hers, making her blush, and squinted his eyes. His jaw dropped.

"Sakura?!"

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Author's Note: HAHAHA CLIFFIE!!!

I LOVE CLIFFIES!

Yeah… Anyway, this post wasn't as late, I hope. What's funny about this chapter was that when I decided they were going to go to Main Event and I started writing about it, a few hours later my friend invites me to go with her.

Thank you, reviewers! I love you guys—you guys keep me writing. Next chapter will be up soon, I hope.

xoxotia