Chapter 6: An Obvious Surprise

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Everyone present in the room was silent as they watched for the hazel eyed blonde's reaction. As fearful of Tsunade's wrath Naruto, Ino and Hinata were, they were also extremely worried for their emerald eyed friend. She had fainted immediately upon laying witness to Ino's pressence and said blonde was already blaming herself for not taking more precaution. The reason as to why the pinkette blacked out was still a mystery, but Ino could bet her Jimmy Choo's shoe collection thet it had something to do with that troublesome thing around Sakura's neck, that damned necklace. But what could they do? The neck piece played a very important role in all this.

They all heard Orochimaru sigh as he then chuckled and said "My, my Tsunade, you sure got your hands full nlow don't you?"in which said blonde simply responded by giving him a warning glare, the snake like man's amused smirk only grew.

"I think he means 'if you're unable to handle this by yourself then you've always got us'... right, Orochimaru?"Jiraya said, trying to send a silent message to the man as he nervously glanced at the busty blonde before sending Orochimaru his own glare.

"Far from it fool. If she really wants my help then payment is required."he retorded as he gave an amused chuckle at both their heated glares (what a sadist...).

Another round of silence consumed them as the three teens cautiously glanced between The Three Sages with a nervous looking Shizune, Kotetsu and Izumo while an indifferent looking Kabuto stood by Orochimaru, all observing the current situation silently. That was until Tsunade smirked, she then gave a dry, humourless laugh and said "Screw you two! I'll handle this myself!"

Both male Sages only stared at her, shocked and wide eyed. But why should they be surprised? Wasn't this how Tsunade always acted? Didn't she always pulled stunts like this? They both watched as she stood to her full height and left the room with three uneasy looking females, two bored looking adults who had something else better to do and a snickering Naruto saying he had to go report to his father, the Hokage.

"Oh~she shut you up now didn't she!"Jiraya exclaimed once she was out of ear-shot and started to laughing hysteriacally at The Sage of Snakes.

"...the poor idiot doesn't know she 'shut him up' too..."Orochimaru sighed as Kabuto only nodded in agreement.

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"...Hey, Sasuke?"Sakura said as she glanced towards him.

"Hn?"he grunted/replied as he tilted his head in a lazy manner towards the pinkette's direction to his left. The two teens were currently at the centre of the peace loving village by a big water fountain that was smacked right in the middle of the Village Square. Both were sitting on the ledge of the fountain with nothing in particular to do but people watching. Although it was a nice day out, only so few villagers were roming the streets of Konoha, going on with their daily lives. The ground was littered many cherry blossom petals and a few dried out leaves as Spring's warmth still had a long way till end before the arrival of Summer's blistering heat.

"How'd you get my clothes if you don't even have the key to my house?"she questioned, gaze innocent as she stared at his suddenly tense form.

"...Hn. N-none of your buissness..."the raven head defended, gaze not meeting her's.

"Oh?"she said as her suspicion grew. "I chose not to ask this before, but... the sudden thought of you either rumpaging through my stuff to find the house key or you breaking into my house occured out of no where, and I just wanted to confrim it."the pinkette stated and furiously added a "By the way, of course it's my buissness! It's my house for Hagoromo's sake!"

He sighed. "It's the former..."

"...I'll forgive you if you treat me to some Shiratama Anmitsu."she chirpped with the mention of her favourite dessert.

"Hey, I only did it because I accually felt guilty for not giving you the time to pack."he said and sighted her dissapointed pout.

"I didn't even want to come here in the first place..."Sasuke heard her mumble but chose to ignore her rudely yet childish comment.

"Uh...do you know the reason as to why I suddenly passed out the other day?"she curiously questioned as the wind picked up quite a bit, making several scathered leaves and cherry blossom petals raise from their slumber on the ground and go dancing with the wind. But one particular stray leaf decided to continue its slumber by resting upon the pinkette's messy bed head.

"Who knows... The old hag said it was 'classified'. Although, I do think it was the cause of you spotting your blonde friend, Yamanaka, here that you suddenly blacked out."he replied with a shrug as he reached for the resting stray leaf on top of the emerald eyed pinkette's head. He examind it for a mer few seconds before freeing it from his grasp and allowing the wind to snatch it away.

Sakura watched as the breeze carried the stray leaf along with its brethren and some other cherry blossom petals. It was as if the wind itself was mentoring those leaves and petals as they gracefully followed their mentor's instruction on dancing their way to who knows where. They're enjoying their freedom before they become fertilizers for the trees or other hungry plants, was a simple explanation of what she thought.

"I still don't get her reason to be here though..."she exclaimed and then sighed.

Sasuke shrugged once again as he eyed her playing with the cherry blossom pendant around her slim neck. After returning from uh... Sakura's house... the raven head had then returned to the forest to hear that the petite pinkette had blacked out. He then later found out that Tsunade had blown a fuse while searching for his ass- uh... him, searching for him. He, of course, did what any sane person would do when encountered with Tsunade's wrath, avoid her at all cost. But unfortunately for him, she had help. Yup, she sent a search party to look for little ol him, and of course they had found him almost instantly.

The busty hazel eyed blonde Sage had then interrogate him about his whereabouts, to which he kept silent about. Tsunade then made him swear to stay by Sakura's side at all times (she ignored the part where he questioned her about follwing the pinkette to the bathroom), and oh did he swear all right (he then received an ear full after that). A worried Ino and Hinata then lead them to the body of the unconscious emerald eyed teen which was looked after an annoyed Neji and a... person he knows by face but couldn't care enough to remember by name, all he knew was that the brunette always carried a white dog wherever he went, was it Kaiba? Kuda? Kibu? Meh, who cares.

The onyx eyed raven head then promised to care after the 'Sleeping Beauty' as he proceeded to carry her bridal style and in to his house to place her in her temporary room, on her temporary bed, but not before glaring at the others gathered outside his house that he did so. And since he swore to stay by her side by all means, he did. When she finally awoke, Sasuke felt as if he could jump for joy due to the uncomfortable chair he was stuck sitting on for hours (he should really reconsider on his choice in furniture), but he didn't do so, he was, after all, Uchiha Sasuke.

And so here they were, enjoying a serene afternoon two days after the incident. Sakura pouted and and looked up towards the sky. "Am I allowed to go back to school? I've been gone for nearly a week!"she said with narrowed eyes.

"Hn, ask Tsunade, not me."the onyx eyed teen replied.

"All right then, let's go!"she exclaimed enthusiastically .

"Wait, now?!"he asked but was ignored by Sakura as she grabed hold of his wrist and dragged him away.


"Ah, so this is the little missy you mentioned."Jiraya exclaimed as he eyed the small frame of Sakura. The pinkette could only smile uneasily at the attention she was receiving, and Sasuke hated it. Could she not see that the old man was checking her out?! Sasuke then watched as she introduced herself to both Jiraya and Orochimaru. Somehow she was in a good mood, he noted. The happy aura she was giving out made even made Sasuke feel-dare he say it-giddy and happy himself. Happy to the point where he almost smiled (key word: almost). After that thought, he felt sick to his stomach.

Although he wasn't the only one who thinks so, apparently, if you so happen to gaze upon his...' Sage-gyness' of snakes, you would notice that his right eye was twitching. And just knowing that Orochimaru was agitated by a bubbling sack of joy was enough to make his day, he had even tried to hide his smirk from view, cause that would be rude, right?

"Nice to see you again, Sakura."Tsunade greeted. "But what brings you here? Fed up with the Uchiha?"she continued with a smirk. Sakura gave a sheepish smile.

All was well untill Tsunade heard Jiraya's snickering. She glaced over to him to give him a piece of her mind, but all she got was him pointing his index finger towards an agitated Orochimaru. Once she glaced over, both could not contain their laugher at the uneasiness their fellow Sage was showing and proceeded to laugh hysterically at the uncomfortable expression he displayed towards the bubbling pinkette.

The pinkette sent a smirking Sasuke a confused look, he shrugged. In all honesty, he really had no idea what those three stooges were thinking. He never did and never cared.

"What's so funny that's even got you smirking?"Sakura asked, gazing at him expectantly.

"Hn."his smirk widened at her reaction towards his lack of answer. "Aren't you going to ask the old hag permission to go back to school?"

"Right..."she said with a frown. "Uh... Tsunade-sama?"a pause as she waited for the blonde to acknowledge her "C-can I go back to school? I mean it's almost been a week since I've last been there...so?"she managed to question as she nervously glanced at the laughing blonde women.

"Ahaha-wait-heh! Okay, *ahem* go back to school huh? Sure, why not."the blonde said after finally suceeding in claming down. "But, someone has to keep gaurd on you. You never know what will happen, like the time when I sent Sasuke to retrive you."

"...fine..."she pouted. The emerald eyed teen then thanked Tsunade and went ahead of Sasuke.

Once Sakura was far enough and out of ear-shot, Tsunade's gaze landed on Sasuke. "And by gaurd I mean you Uchiha!"

"Hah?! You want me to enroll into her school?"Sasuke questioned, baffled.

"Exactly!"she said with a way too cheerful tone...a way too very cheerful tone...

"But Hyuuga goes there! Couldn't he be her 'gaurd'?"

"Erm, no. To be honest, this is the first I've heard someone say they want to go back to school, not to mention willingly too..."the hazel eyed blonde said, muttering that last part more to herself.

"School huh?"Jiraya questioned, face then morphing into an unquestionable perverted one. "Short uniform skirts, oh-"

"Anyway, two other people besides you will be enrolling too, can't be too safe. Also, Shikamaru attends that school too, so really, you don't have to do much work yourself."the busty blonde stated with a half-hearted shrug.

"And I'm sure by 'two other people' you mean the Dobe and female Hyuuga, am I correct?"the onyx eyed raven head said and sighed, pretty much knowing the answer.

"Yay, free cheers for the obvious, Captain Obvious."sarcasm was obviously laced in that sentance as she smirked at his glare.

"Wouldn't it be most amusing to see young Sasuke in a school uniform?"Orochimaru piped in. In which Kabuto responded with an 'indeed', making shivers run down said Uchiha's spine. The duck butt esque hair man then took this as a sign for him to leave, he then quickly excused himself and went to join the pinkette.

"What took you so long kitty?"a curious emerald eyed pinkette asked Sasuke, his left eye twitched at his newfound nickname and sent her a glare.

"Kitty? I'm only going to warn you once, don't cross that line, Pinky."

"Already did, and I'm not planing on crossing back anytime soon,duck-butt."she said it with confidence, but she was already starting to walk faster to get away from him.

An amused smirk spread across his face. "Sakura, come here."

"What? Hell no! You're planning something, I know it!"she said and stuck her tongue out at him.

"I'll treat you to some Shiratama Anmitsu."was enough to get her attention.

"Hah~ really?"she questioned with sparkling eyes as she neared him.

"No, not really."he said and poked her overly large forehead. He smirked at her dissapointed pout. She was that adorable sometimes... *ahem* do ignore the part where he said she was adorable, again... Really, what has gotten in to him lately?


"MY BEAUTIFUL CHERRY BLOSSOM, OH HOW I'VE MISSED YOU SO. THE FLOWER IN MY HEART HAS FINALLY BLOOMED UPON LAYING WITNESS TO YOUR BEAUTY!"a bowl hair cut teen announced, eyes shining with admiration as he knelt infront of her.

"Ah...glad to see you too, Lee..."Sakura replied uneasyly, staring at his knelt form and then quickly beckoning him to stand.

The emerald eyed teen had finally been allowed to return back to school. She was greatful to Tsunade for letting allowing her to do so, a week's worth of lesson was already making her wary of the homework she would have to complete. Sighing, she glanced at an overly joyed upper classmen of her's who had oh so happily greeted her, Rock Lee. To this day, the guy still frightens her with his overly bushy eyebrows and his bowl cut hair style. Lee was a nice guy, really, but he could get over bearing most of the time and Sakura didn't know how to handdle it without sounding rude. He had more than once confessed to her about his 'undying love' for her, although, she turned him down, he still continues to pursue her. Sakura didn't even know what he saw in her.

The pinkette then sighted Tenten and Temari along with a distracted looking Ino come through the class room door and shooed a dissapointed Lee away.

"Glad to see you finally got your lazyass up and come to school, lil miss shorty!"Tenten said with a teasing smirk as she patted the emerald eyed pinkette on the head.

"Didn't I tell you not to call me that, Bun bun?"Sakura pouted as she glared at her brunette friend.

"Yeah, why didn't you come to schoolSakura? It has beem three days."Temari said, blocking out a fuming Tenten.

"Er...some things came up..."Sakura said as she glanced at Ino questioningly. Strange. Sakura had been there for a week, and Temari said she was absent for three days...she will have to question it later. Ino only looked away guiltily, making the wonder 'why?'.

Sakura made a metal note to confront her baby-blue eyed friend later as she went to her assigned seat. The bell had rang, signaling the start of homeroom as students quickly rush to their respective classes.

A thought came to mind as Sakura wondered who her suppose guard was. Could it be Neji or Ino? Giving up on the thought, she watched as Kakashi, their homeroom teacher, came into class early once again. And for a brief second, she though she heard someone whining a 'not again'.

"Guess what class, good news. It seems we have more new students, yay..."Kakashi managed in an unenthusiastic tone as he watched the door slid open. And to Sakura's horror, a familiar duck-butt esque hair flashed before her emerald irises.

Sakura sweared and watched as an emotionless Sasuke and a nervous Hinata walked into the room. No sooner did the girls in the class started shrieking like tone-deaf people who were trying to sing. Oh...not only were the girls excited, it seems the boys were getting agitated too. Poor Hinata...not poor Sasuke.

The pinkette could not even hear the introductions of the two teens as the volume of her stupid classmates only increased. Although, maybe it was only her thet could not hear the introductions (not like she needed to) as the girls were already calling his name excitedly. Sakura gave Hinata a gaze filled with concern as she watched her blush at the whistling boys and hid behind an expressionless Sasuke.

"Quiet!"their teacher said as the noise slowly died down. "Now, since there are more students here, I 'm going to have you all reassign your seats."

"EHHHH!"the whole class exclaimed, including Sakura.

"... And we're going to do it the old fashion way."he announced and took out a box from under his desk. The hell? It wasn't there before...

Sakura hated changing seats, what if she got unlucky and got seated in the front row? It was a horrible place to be seated at. Teachers always pay more attention to the front row tables since it's closest to the teacher's desk. Also, she didn't really like to be seated in the middle of the class either, every time they need to choose a representative for something the classes attention immeadiatly travels to the middle. Really, not only was it troublesome, but also highly embarrassing. The only seat she would ever have peace at would be the window seat at the back row. It was normally isolated from the class and teachers prying eyes, and a wonderful view to look at whenever one is bored. Yes, the window seat, that would be nice.

Everyone in class got up from their seats and quickly lined up by the teachers desk for the 'lotery' as what Kakashi had announced. The first one to choose their seats were the new students (courtersy of Kakashi) as Hinata reached her hand into the box and pulled out a peice of paper. Her pearl like eyes then glanced to the black board to find her assigned seat. Sakura watched as Hinata sighed and head towards the second row by the window.

Sakura's emerald irises then traveled to Sasuke's form. Her gaze met his and he smirked at her expression. She glared, making his smirk widen.


Once everyone got to their assigned seat, Kakashi sterted the lessons.

Sakura was not happy, not in the slightest. Well, she was glad she didn't get to sit in the front row and got to sit in the back row instead, but... she didn't get the window seat. Instead, she got the seat beside the window seat, and you could probably guess who was the lucky bastard who got the seat instead. Sasuke, Sasuke fucking got the window seat! And to make matters worse, she sat beside him, her! Oh, how her luck sucked.

With a defeated sigh, the pinkette turn towards the Uchiha and silently hissed a "What in the name of Kaguya are you doing here Uchiha!"adding a glare as effect.

"Tsunade's orders."he simply stated with a shrug and looked out the window. Damn! That was suppose to be her seat, her seat. Although...with the way he was looking out the window with his left hand supporting his chin and the sun rays hitting him at just the right angle made him looked like an angel. Sakura blushed and returned to paying attention to Kakashi's lesson's, trying to forget what she thought about the raven head.

True, he was handsome, she knew that much. But his additude and personality completely throws his looks off the mark, well, at least for her anyways. Sakura had also seen him shirtless (if you recall chapter 3-4), and damn was that an image she won't mind remembering for a while...she's losing it... What was wrong with her?! First she describes him as an angel and now she's fantasizing about how godly he looks when he is shirtless (though, he still looks godly with or without a shirt)?! She's turned mad! Another curious thought hit her as she noticed Sasuke was missing his cat ears and tail.


Sakura stared at her blonde best friend, she had something going on in her mind, the pinkette could tell, but she didn't know what was bothering her. So when the bell rang, signaling recess, Sakura decided to drag a protesting Ino along with her to the now empty roof of the school. She needed to confront Ino about why she had been wearing a gloomy look ever since Sakura woke up from her unconcious state.

"All right Ino, fess up. Why the glum look?"

"Nothing's wrong, why?"Ino half-heartedly said with a nolchant shrug that almost made Sakura think she was mistaken by her friends earlier expression. But she won't go down without a fight. If her friend is in need then she will do everything in her power to at least get her to talk about her problem. But her friend seemed so nolchant about it, she had to stop to question herself.

"I'm serious Sakuraaaaa~ Do I look the type to get conflicted on things?"Ino said as she allowed herself a smile. But before Sakura could even say her come back, Ino beat her to it. "Don't answer that."

Okay, now Sakura was getting conflicted. What of the distracted yet troubled look she casted this morning? Is Ino trying to hide something? She better not. All the while she was at the forest, Sakura felt as if they were treating her like some precious item, and she hated that. They keep secrets from her, saying it was for the best, but do they really know how it feels to be kept in the dark? Sakura's emerald green eyes met Ino's baby-blue ones, and for a brief second she though she saw her blonde friend's eyes glow slightly.

Ino flinched and looked away. Suddenly, Sakura doesn't even know why they were on the roof of the school. The dazed pinkette looked up to see her blonde best friend grinning at her. She then started complaining on how hungry she was and dragged her confused pink haired friend to the cafeteria.

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"Amusing how the old hag managed to get you, of all people to gaurd Sakura."the pineapple styed hair teen mused at the grumpy looking raven head.

"Shouldn't you be sleeping!"Sasuke snapped, but was ignored as Naruto continued Shikamaru's musing.

"I know...it just seems so...weird, and hilarious too."the spiky blonde said as he proceeded to poke his food. The poor guy could not find any ramen around this god-forsaken place. Even if he did, he doubts it would taste as good as Ichiraku's ramen stall.

"Stop poking your food, idiot."Naruto's second mother, Neji, grumbled upon sighting him playing with his food.

Sasuke rolled his eyes at his group of friends...or more like 'people he can tolerate' (excluded the Hyuuga, he hated him). They were all currently at the cafeteria with really nothing in particular to do. Shikamaru just thought it would be 'nice' to catch up, so here they were.

The raven head sighed and glared at another person he would have to tolerate, Rock Lee. He swears, if that bowled hair styled freak ever utters anything 'youth' related or 'his youthful cherry blossom' related again then he would personally burn him alive. It was bad enough he would have to tolerate with looking at him. I mean the guy was not the most good looking person. And his eyebrows... don't let him get started with his eyebrows. Who in the world would have such bushy eyebrows...excluded the gym teacher, Gai-sensei. Sasuke shuddered at the thought.

"Ah! Hinata-chan, over here!"Naruto called as he waved at the dark haired girl along with two other girls he pays no heed to. Seriously? Twin buns and four pigtails? Who does that to their own hair? A thought then occured to him at what Sakura nicknames him, duck-butt hair... He frowned, stupid pinky...

"H-hello Na-Naruto-kun!"the lavender eyed teen chirped. She then glanced towards her cousin and nodded her head at him in greeting while adding a 'Neji-nii-san'.

"Eh? No wonder you looked familiar, Hinata. You two are related?"the twin bun brunette questioned her as she glanced back and forth between the Hyuuga hairess and Neji.

"It does not concern you now does it?"the long haired brunette replied smugly as the twin bun girl fumed at him.

"I only asked! ...douchebag..."she said whiled muttering the last part.

Hinata gasped and told the twin bun brunette to watch her language. "Please refrain from using vulgar language, Tenten-san."she scolded, making Tenten laugh sheepishly.

"So, who is this fine looking specimen?"the blonde girl with four pigtails asked as she eyed Sasuke, completely ignoring the other newcomer with bright blonde hair.

The raven head ignored her as Shikamaru sighed, both teens also ignoring the now hurt looking Naruto as he pouted. "Brute blonde, this is Uchiha Sasuke...and the idiot with the whiskers is Uzumaki Naruto..."Shikamaru drawled out as a yawn came to.

"Wha-?! Who ya callin' brute blonde, ya lazy jackass?!"she fumed as the shy Hyuuga heiress muttered a "Language..."and sighed a defeated sigh.

Sasuke glared at his half-eaten (and unedible) cafeteria food, he was getting annoyed, highly annoyed. When was Pinky getting here? More importantly, where was she?! Fucking hell! If something were to happen to her then Tsunade would have his head! That Yamanaka better do her job. The onyx eyed teen sighed a fustrated sigh and spotted a familiar looking red head and a brunette greeted the blonde with four pigtails. He immediatly disliked the red head. Why? He doesn't fucking know! Wait, why was he getting so worked up?

"How come more and more people keep gathering here!"Sasuke hissed to the pineapple esque haired teen.

"I wouldn't fucking know! ... Maybe Naruto's befriending power is working up?"Shikamaru replied as both him and Sasuke watch the sapphire eyed blonde make a fool out of himself.

The onyx eyed teen slamed his head against the table as Naruto sighted dog boy and bug boy and called out to them, loudly. That knuckle headed idiot! Why in the world would he call more people over... why?! WHY?!

"Woah Teme, you okay? That was a really loud sound you made there."the blonde teen questioned him as he drew closer without knowing the desaster that was to befall on the two teens.

Sasuke looked up to sneer at him, but at the same time, some random student ran pass Naruto and bumped into him by accident. And just as anyone would predict, the two rivals clashed. It was the most comical yet disgusting sight their friends had ever witness. Wide eyed with shocked, the two rivals quickly pulled back and spat to show their disgust towards each other. Sasuke tried to glare at his snickering group of 'friends' with what little dignity he had left.

"You idiot! Look what you've done! Shit, I think I'm going to puke."

'M-me?! I was only trying to show some concern, but no~ I was wrong to have even bothered. Aww, I'm scarred forever! My frist kiss, with you of all people!"Naruto wailed as he clutched his blonde hair. "Why couldn't it be with Hinata-chan~"he wailed some more as Neji sent him a death glare for mentioning his cousin who was beat red.

"It's your own fault Dobe, you shouldn't have called more people over."the raven head said through gritted teeth.

"Che! Unlike you Teme, I'm social! So man up and socialize, ya antisocial emo, dattebayo!"Naruto said while pointing an accusing finger at him and glared.

"Shithead!"

"Douchebag!"

"Fucker!"

"Manbaby!"

"Noob!"

"Why I otta-"the blonde started but was cut short by a pull to the ear, same goes for Sasuke too as both cringed in pain. Their group of friends stopped conversing, wondering what caused the two to silence.

There stood an angered Sakura as she glared at the two. "Watch your use in language, both of you!"she scolded with a scowl and furrowed eyebrows, Sasuke couldn't help but stare. The damn woman had brutal strength, he could fell his ear start to throb with pain.

After releasing both teens, she heard them mutter a "Yes mom."which caused a smack to the head. The pinkette sighed and watched as most people in their group start snickering, included Ino. She then noticed Gaara and Kankuro and gave them a nod in greeting. She also noticed Shino and Kiba and she gave them a small wave and stalked towards an empty seat between Tenten and Temari.

'Fucking finally' Sasuke thought as he watched Sakura and Ino look for empty seats. He pushed his food aside as he had no appetite to eat after that incident with Naruto, said blonde was trying to get Chouji to share some chips. He scowled and tuned everything out as he watched Sakura start reading a novel. The onyx eyed teen then wondered as to why the pinkette had dragged the Yamanaka to 'who knows where.'

They didn't seem to have a serious conversation as Sakura looked neutral, but Yamanaka seems tense, he noticed. So maybe they did have a serious conversation. He narrowed his eyes. What did she do this time? It got out of hand before too, because of her. The necklace's powers, was it that strong? If it is, then they must take more precaution.

They all had a part in this. All of them. Even Sakura's oblivious friends. They just have to find out what part they're in...or it will be too late. Although, seeing as it was Tsunade's 'carefully planned out plan', things are bound to go wrong. Poor gambeler she was. And to top it all off, both Orochimaru and Jiraya don't give a damn or they're completely useless in this case. Idiots, idiots are surrounding him.

"Oi, Uchiha..."Neji called as Sasuke ceased his thoughts.

"What?"he questioned.

"Yamanaka seems off, don't you think?"

"Oh yeah?"the raven head replied with a raised brow and glanced towards her. She still looks tense, he noted. Maybe something was wrong. Normally she would have already started talking none stop, like Naruto.

"Maybe you are right..."

"I know I'm right."Neji said sternly as he glared at him. 'So full of himself' the raven head teen thought as he glared back

Both teens stopped glaring at each other as Neji questioned Ino of her strange behaviour. "What did you do now, Yamanaka."

She twitched, took a deep breath, and faced both of them. "Sh-she was getting suspicious about my behaviour."she started as both teens nodded for her to continue.

"So, I erased it from her memories."she fidgeted under their gazes.

"But?"Neji pushed on with a frown. Sasuke had a bad feeling about this.

"But... I think the necklace might have reset her memories...to counter me..."the baby-blue eyed blonde confessed guiltily.

"What?!"both Sasuke and Neji questioned with startled looks.

"But she was fine just now!"the onyx eyed raven head argued. This was a disaster, a complete and utter disaster!

"I don't know! I really don't! It's confusing!"she cried as she shield her face with both her hands and said "I need time..."

"OH MY YOUTHFUL CHERY BLOSSOM! I HAVE COME-"Lee started but was cut off by none other then his youthful cherry blossom herself.

"I'm sorry, but who are you?"


Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

A/N: I wish to travel back in time to stranggle the person who made up exams. Ugh, I failed my history and chinese exam! So yeah, I didn't manage to update this because of my exams, so I apologize for my lateness. Anyway, did you see the length of this chapter! A little present for my lateness in updating this chapter, hope you enjoyed it! Sorry for grammatical and punctuation errors, uh spelling too.

-Y