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CHAPTER 7: A moment

"SASUKEEE!"

"What!"

"TOO FAST!"

"WHAT?"

"TURN THE DAMN RADIO OFF IF YOU CAN'T HEAR ME!" Sakura yelled, turning it off. Right then, Sasuke jam braked at a red traffic light.

"What were you saying?" He turned to her, deprived excitement on his face.

"Sasuke! You're going to get us killed at this rate! You don't even have a license and you're driving too fast; this isn't an arcade!" Sakura snapped.

"Hn, it seems like one-"

"But it's not! That's the scariest car ride I've had!"

"Hmph…What a way to talk to a senior… You don't even call me Sasuke-san, Uchiha-san or Sasuke-kun." Sasuke teased, feigning hurt.

"What makes you think I'll ever call you that?" Sakura turned to look at him.

"Me being your senior, it's only right. Every girl in your class greets me with honorifics." He smirked before pausing. "Except your Ino friend."

"Well…I'm not any other girl." Sakura muttered.

"Whatever."

Sakura just rolled her eyes and cross her arms to her chest, before looking out of the window. Her emerald eyes followed many passing cars next to them, and they trailed up to something green.

"Oh shit, Sasuke, go, Go, GO! The traffic light turned green!" Sakura started hitting Sasuke in panic. Sasuke was looked at the rear view mirror and cursed to himself before trying to step on the pedal. Suddenly, they jerked front and heard a crash behind them. Sakura only had time to widen her eyes.

"Are clouds always so peaceful?" Ino broke the silence.

"…Can't you just shut up? Shikamaru snapped one eye open.

"What!" Ino sat up.

"You heard me, troublesome woman…" Shikamaru sighed.

"That was mean." Ino looked away, annoyed. Shikamaru sat up.

"Seriously, are all women this annoying?" He asked. Ino just kept quiet.

"Fine, what's a guy supposed to do in this type of a situation?" He asked again.

"Apologize." Ino mumbled.

"Fine, I'm sorry. Happy now?" He laid back down.

"Yup! There's another thing you have to do!"

"Geez…What?"

"Bring me out for lunch. Come on!" Ino pulled him off the grass and dragged him away.

Sakura opened her eyes and saw smoke surround her. She was about to sit up from her uncomfortable position, when she noticed a pair of strong arms around her, one covering her head and shielding it, burying onto something warm. She looked up to see Sasuke's chest pocket. He had been 'hugging' her, shielding her from getting any injuries. Sasuke took his palm away from where it originally had been, on her head, and let slid his hand away from her back.

"Sakura, you okay?" He started checking for injuries on her.

"I-I'm fine…" She stuttered, from how close the two were. Sasuke heaved a sigh of relief, and leaned away from her, slamming his back onto the car seat. This time, Sakura started observing him. Her eyes broadened.

"S-Sasuke! Y-You… You're injured!" She panicked, looking at the cut on his cheek and large open wound on his arm.

"Hm?" He looked at her from the corner of his eye, touching his cheek and wincing.

"We've got to get you to a hospital!" Sakura started looking around.

"Where are we?" She yelled, looking front to see a tree.

"That car that crashed onto us made such a huge impact, the car lost control and headed for the trees." Sasuke calmly said.

"Stop being so calm! You're injured!" Sakura shook him, as she got out of the car onto the road. She ran over to the driver's seat and pulled Sasuke out.

"Let's go get a cab or something!" She instructed as she pulled Sasuke by his elbow.
"Oi, your brother's car!" Sasuke looked back at the car.
"He'll take care of it!" Sakura looked out for cabs.

"…" Sasuke just sighed and eyed a motorcyclist coming their way.

"Hey, you!" He called out to the cyclist, who stopped in front of them.

"Hey bud, what's up." The stranger greeted.

"I need your bike." Sasuke said. Sakura widened her eyes and was about to say something, but Sasuke quickly put his hand over her mouth and held one of her elbows to prevent her from escaping.

"What makes you think I'll give it to you?" The cyclist laughed.

"I'm Uchiha Sasuke." The cyclist took off his helmet and widened his eyes. Sakura twitched and rolled her eyes, muttering 'So?' onto Sasuke's palm.

"Dude, you serious?" Sasuke nodded, signaling for the cyclist to reach into his pocket. The cyclist did so and pulled out his ID card.

"You don't want to be fired from your job and have me move your family to the North Pole, right? Give it to me." Sasuke threatened, and the cyclist did so. The cyclist bowed, thinking of it as an honor to be able to talk to the Uchiha and ran off.

Sasuke smirked and put the helmet on Sakura.

"How did you do that? What's the big deal about you being Uchiha Sasuke?" Sakura gaped.

"You don't know?"

"No."

"…That's for me to know and you to find out."

"Whatever, I can always ask my brother."

"Hn. Get on the bike."

"Oh no…You're so not going to drive again!" Sakura said, traumatized.

"I'm not driving…I'm riding." Sasuke carried her onto the bike and got on himself.

"You don't have a helmet!" Sakura hit him.
"I know."
"You're injured!"

"I know."
"You-"

"Either hold on to me, or cling for your dear life." Sasuke said as he stepped on the pedal and rode off.

"AHHH!" Sakura screamed and quickly hugged him from behind, resting her head on his back.

"Hn. We're headed for your house." Sasuke informed.

"No! We need to go to the hospital!"

"I'm the driver. Sasori told me to bring you home."

"You're not the driver!"

"Then what am I?"

"The rider!"
"… You know, Sakura…You're really lame."
"But you-"
"Sakura."

"H-huh?"

"You talk a lot."

"… You have a problem with that?"

"Hn."

"You don't even talk!"

"I do."

"…"

"Sakura."
"What!"

"Can I tell you something?" Sasuke asked, eyes on the road.

"What is it?"

"It's about Sai."
"…What about him?"

"Don't think about waiting for him."

"What did you say?"
"You heard me."

"…"

"He's not worth the wait, because he's a bastard."

"I never even said I wanted to wait for him…"
"Sakura, you do, don't you? You want to wait for him."

"…"

"Are you crying?"

"W-What? No! What makes you think so?"

"The back of my shirt is getting wet."

Sakura broadened her eyes and immediately stopped leaning her head on Sasuke's back. The whole remaining journey was quiet, and she found herself sleeping on his back.

Sasuke hit the brakes.

"Sakura." He whispered. No reply came.

"Sakura, you're home." Sasuke reached his hand behind and shook her a bit. She slowly opened her eyes.

"You're home. I'll send you to your front door then go back." Sasuke's sentence made Sakura jerk up.

"Your injuries! I need to clean them up for you!" She gasped as she pulled him out of the vehicle.

"Sakura! It's okay-"

"Sasuke? Sakura?" A voice came from behind them. Both of them turned around.

"Sasori!" They both called out.

"What happened to both of you? Sasuke, you're injured! Sakura, you're in a mess!" Sasori quickly pulled both of them into the house and settled down. Sakura helped Sasuke bandage his arm and put a clean plaster over his face cut. Sasuke stared at her throughout, her being unaware.

"…What happened to my car?" Sasori suddenly asked, looking out of the window at the empty parking lot meant for his car, in its place a motorcycle.

"Uh…" Sakura fidgeted nervously.
"I crashed it. Sorry, Sasori." Sasuke stood up and bowed. Sakura gasped at Sasuke's straightforwardness.

"Figured that answer would come out of your mouth…" Sasori heaved a big sigh.

"How exactly?"

"We got into a car crash." Sasori's eyes widened at Sasuke's answer.

"What! Are both of you-"

"Sakura's fine." Sasuke nodded.

"You?"

"He's not, that's why I cleaned his wound." Sakura interrupted

"Oh…"

"Hey," Sakura started, gaining Sasori's attention.
"What is Sasuke's status in society? I mean this guy immediately got scared of him once Sasuke said his name and gave him his motorcycle." Sakura continued. Sasori chuckled.

"Sasuke never told you?"

"Hn."

"He is the son of the richest man in the continent, owner of Uchiha corps." Sasori explained. Sasuke just smirked at Sakura's reaction.

"Hey, Ino."
"Yup?"

They were both in a Chinese restaurant, thanks to Ino and her like of chinese food.

"Can I ask you something off topic?"

"Just talk to me, I'm eating my food."
"Okay… Sai. Is he connected to Sasuke and Sakura or something?"

Ino stopped chewing her food and put her chopsticks down, before swallowing her food.

"…Why would you ask that?"

"I'm a person who never listens in class. What else would I do other then sleeping or looking out of the window?"

"Continue."

"I observed that Sakura keeps staring at Sai in a longing manner. Sometimes, without realizing, she also stares at Sasuke. Sasuke keeps glaring at Sai because Sai is obviously his rival, but it seems that he glares at him for a totally different reason. Sai at times looks at Sakura and glares whenever Sasuke's with her." Shikamaru took a drink.

"So... What are you trying to say?"

"To break it down…" Shikamaru sighed. "Sakura likes Sai, but is starting to like Sasuke too. Sasuke's taking interest in her. Sai might be attached, but there could be a chance that he liked her before or still likes her a little."

Ino gulped.
"That's…"

"Complicated, huh?"
"More like shocking! Sakura likes Sasuke? Sai likes Sakura? No way!"

"That's what I observed. Don't you find it shocking that Sasuke is taking interest in her? Especially when he doesn't show interest in any girl?"
"Nope, we had a deal-" Ino suddenly paused.

"What deal?"

"H-huh? What deal? Ha ha! You must be hearing things!" Ino fake laughed. Shikamaru just stared at her expectingly.

"Fine…But you have to keep it a secret…"

"Yeah, yeah."

"I'm paying Sasuke to get closer to her by getting him to go on dates with her, though it hasn't happened yet. He's slowly getting to know her first, then he'll proceed with the dates." Ino scratched her head.

Shikamaru thought about it, before speaking. "Have you ever thought about a circumstance when Sakura starts liking or even loving him?"
"Well, then they'll get together and she'll forget Sai!"

"What if she ends up getting her heart broken, finding out that Sasuke only got closer to her for the money?"
"Well…I haven't thought of-"

"Think about her once in a while, yeah?" Shikamaru interrupted, continuing his meal. Ino just twitched before looking away, guilty.

"Hey, how's your wound?" Sakura sat down at her assigned seat, next to Sasuke. It was the next day.
"Hn, I'm fine. How's your brother's car?"
"He sent it for repair yesterday night after it got towed back." Sakura smiled, as she gazed somewhere. Sasuke noticed this and matched her gaze to Sai.

"Are you ever going to tell him you like him?" He snapped.

"W-What? Who?" Sakura feigned confusion.
"You know who."

"…No…"
"That's plain stupid. If you like him, tell him."

"He has a girlfriend…"

"That doesn't make a difference. He isn't married yet." Sasuke looked away, resting his chin on his palm.

"Why're you telling me this?"

"Because I'm a friend. I don't want you to get hurt. I know how bad a bastard he is."
"Stop calling him that!"

"Whatever." While he said that, Ino's words about him being nice to her rang in his head.

"…Sakura." He called.

"What?"

He bit his lip before saying.
"…Do you…want to go out sometime?"

Sakura just blinked countless number of times.

"Are you kidding me?"
It was Sasuke's turn to blink. No girl had said no to him before. Actually, Sakura was the first girl he asked to go out with. Usually it was the girls asking him, and he'd say no.
"I just asked you out."
"Yeah I know, but we... I like Sai!" Sakura clarified.
"That doesn't matter to me."
"So, you want an answer?"
"Aa."
"No."
With that, Sakura got up from her seat and went to talk to her classmates. Sasuke just sat there, surprised.

"I have just been rejected…" He muttered, wide eyed.
Now that I've tested her…She's going to be a hard target…If I want the cash, I'll have to work for it.

"I totally saw that, teme." A voice came from behind him. He twitched before glaring at Naruto.
"You asked her out! Now that's a first and something unexpected! You got rejected too!" He punched Sasuke playfully.

"…"

"What's up? I know there's something more to it! Was it because she looked like a hard catch and you wanted to test her, being the spoilt brat you are?" Naruto grinned and sat next to him, on Sakura's seat.

"No."

"So..?"

"It's none of your concern." Sasuke walked out of the classroom, it being their free period.
"Hmph, he wouldn't tell me, but I already know because Ino asked me how to threaten him that time!" Naruto cheered inwardly.

"Tch…" Sasuke rolled his eyes. I've been so nice to her only to face rejection… Boy, he was still mad about that, how petty.

"Teme!" That voice made him stop in his tracks.

"What?"

"What're you planning to do now?" Sasuke just shot him a questioning look at the sudden question.

"I know about the bet between you and Ino, geez. What now? You've been fairly nice to Sakura lately. I've never seen you treat any girl that way." Naruto commented.

"Whatever."

"So, what's your plan? Obviously plan A didn't work."

Sasuke was surprised. He didn't expect Naruto to get what he was doing of all people.

"What? You mean you-"

"Yes. I know what you're doing. You have two plans to get her to go out with you. Plan A involves you acting like some nice gentleman -which you obviously fail at- to get her drawn to you. If that doesn't work, you move on to Plan B." Naruto grinned.

"How did you know?"

"I'm smart."

Sasuke just snorted.

"So, teme, time to move on to Plan B!" Naruto said.

"Hn."

"Plan B: Get Sakura to get drawn to teme by him acting as his own and original character- Bad, mysterious boy." Naruto laughed at how Sasuke reacted to him saying that. Sasuke couldn't have thought more lowly of Naruto.
"Never knew anyone would find out my plans… Especially a dobe like you." Sasuke twitched.

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