Sorry school work has been keeping me busy. Photography class has been my main worry. But well enough about me, here's the next chapter.

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Two Saturdays after Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura helped Kayase unpack Kayase gets a call around two o'clock and her ringtone goes off.

It was the chorus from Mirror Ball Alice Nine's newest single for the movie Aquarian Age.

(A/N: Alice Nine… love them, especially Pon and Shou kun!)

It was Sakura.

"Hey later on today we're going to the movies. You wanna come?"

"Sure, why not? I'll come… is it going to be just us girls?"

"No, what fun would that be? But Miss Ino pig can't come."

(A/N: She calls her that when she's mad with her)

"Aw, why not?"

"Something about homework blah, blah, blah, and her mom said that she needed to do it. OH! And Sasuke will be there… this is the first time he's actually agreed to go anywhere with us… hmmm." She says, implying it's because of her.

Kayase smiles, still holding the phone to her face. She replies, "Oh… well, okay. Who else is going to go?"

"Trying to brush off the Sasuke comment eh? Anyway… it's just going to be you, him, and me, Naruto, Gaara and Hinata. Come to think about it now… it's like a couple thing!"

"Sakura…" She says a little annoyed. "We don't go out."

"I know but Hinata and Naruto don't go out either, but everyone knows that Hinata likes him, and from the past weeks seems like Naruto is kind of getting that she likes him."

"Hmm… whatever. See you later…"

"Kay."

"Bye."

She shakes her head as they hang up the phone. Later on, around seven o'clock they all make it to the movie theater.

Naruto asks, "Hey. What are we going to see?"

Sakura says, "Let's see Halloween."

(A/N: Yeah the one that came out last year, I know it like the back of my hand…)



Kayase says, "That sounds good." Hinata nods her head yes. Both of them not knowing it's a scary movie. Sasuke asks Kayase, "You're not scared of scary movies?" Thinking he should ask her just in case she didn't know what it was… which she didn't.

She responds, "What?! A scary movie? No… I don't like them at all…"

Hinata starts to look scared as well, as Gaara and Sakura had everyone's money and with the first response of 'that seems good' the went to go buy the tickets, they were now stepping out of line with everyone's ticket.

Kayase starts to back away really scared, she's about to turn to run away when Sasuke pulls at her hood. He steps closer to her and says, "Come on… come in with us…" "No." "When you get scared just close your eyes." "Um…."

She turns around to him as she says to everyone, "All right, I'll try it but if it's too scary I'm going home." Naruto laughs at Kayase, as he told Hinata that nothing was going to happen that bad.

Sakura says, "Well, let's go then."

They all get their ticket stubs and head in the theaters. They were a few minutes early for the movie though, previews were still playing. They sat down in about the middle of the theater or a tad higher.

Gaara asks Sakura, "Do you want anything from the stand?"

"Just some Skittles please." She smiles. He nods and asks Naruto and Sasuke, "Are you two coming?" Sasuke looks at Kayase who's looking at him pleadingly not to leave her there, she always felt protected with him by her. He asks, "Do you want anything?" "No…" He liked the way her eyes held that gaze, as if she needed him, even though he didn't want her to be scared.



He says quietly to her, "I'm coming right back Kayase, there's nothing to be scared about." He got up as Naruto got out of his seat as well, Hinata also stating she wanted candy also. They all went around the corner and out of the door.

Sakura is on the end, sitting next to only one open seat. Two seat; Gaara's and Sasuke's were open then came Kayase's, then Hinata's seat and finally Naruto's seat. Sakura scoots over into Gaara's seat; she was sitting on the end only from his over protective mind when concerning her. She asks, "Kayase you're really scared?"

"Hell yeah I am!" She says a little loudly. Sakura laughs, she replies, "Oh I just thought you were kidding around." She laughs, as Kayase gives her a fake smile. Naruto says loudly, "We're baaack!" Sakura scoots back over to her seat as the three boys sit down in their seats. Sasuke sat down next to Kayase with a soda and some popcorn.

(Disclaimer: I don't own any of the parts dealing with the movie.)

The movie starts to play; a little boy with mid-length blonde hair has a mask on and is playing with his pet.

Sasuke holds the popcorn out, offering it to her, as she takes two pieces and starts to eat them. Next thing you know, the little boy now has his pet and a knife in his hands as his mother calls him for breakfast.

Naruto had lifted up one of the chair arms so if Hinata got scared she could move in closer to him.

(A/N: He's finally getting it!)

And Gaara did the same thing, not for the same reason, and way before Naruto did. He just always wanted to feel Sakura close to him. The only people that didn't do that were Sasuke and Kayase.



Sakura gets up from her seat and move the row behind them crouched down so she wouldn't be in other ways of seeing the screen. Gaara didn't even look back knowing that she was probably doing something half stupid.

She slowly and carefully raises the chair arm between them up. Kayase has her eyes closed but Sasuke notices the arm moving up. His eyes turn around in rage but soften a little when he sees its Sakura. He says testily, "What are you doing Sakura?" He says, his eyes narrowing to her.

"Just trying to make the atmosphere perfect between you two. Be glad Ino isn't here, she'd be worse."

"Hn. Move now."

He thinks, She is right though, thank God she isn't here.

"All right, okay." She quickly lifts the chair arm up anyway and as she does Kayase had opened her eyes to see Michael beat up a kid with a big stick who was talking about his mom. She covered her mouth and went to put her elbow down on the arm…

Which wasn't there and fell into Sasuke. He says, "Get up." She looks at him noticing her head was on his arms. She asks, "Didn't you see that?" "Hai." "It doesn't bother you?" "No." "Uhh…." She mumbles her stomach turning with disbelief, nervousness, and disgust.

She had never moved from having her head rest upon his arm, and he forgot about her being right there until the night of Halloween. His sister said she wouldn't take him trick o' treating so he basically went psycho that night more than any other time. His first victim was his father.

He taped him to the chair with black duct tape while he was sleeping. Kayase wraps her hands around Sasuke's arm. He could fee her hands shaking; he knew that she was dreading the worst when he got a knife from his kitchen.



He looks down at her smiling a bit just because of how scared she really is, he never knew someone so scared besides Hinata. He was also a little satisfied knowing that he made her feel protected.

He cut his father's throat as Kayase looked down into his arm. He could feel her light but ragged breath a little through his hoody. He asks her, "Do you want to go home?" She shakes her head no as she sits up straight, deciding it was time for her to be brave.

He was surprised by this; she was putting on a strong face trying to show courage. But he knew on the inside she was still as scared as ever. And she let her hand come into his and he wrapped his protectively around hers. After that she felt more at ease than she ever was in there.

At the end of the movie when he was chasing after his little sister, the only person he didn't kill besides his mother. His little sister would make noises leading him to find her, almost every time.

Sasuke smiles at her and whispers in her ear, "Dun… dun… dun… DUN!" As to make the movie more nerve wracking. She pushed him back out of her ear as she smiles nervously, "Stop Sasuke…!" As Michel flies out the window and onto the ground.

He whispers, "You're such a scaredy cat…"

She looks at him sadly, him picking on her faults.

"But I'll protect you from anything that comes your way." He says solemnly and quietly than anything else that he previously said. She barely heard it, but she heard it.

She puts her head back on his shoulder as the police look at Michael. She replies, "Arigatou Sasuke kun."

He looks down at her as his eyes slightly widen, he thinks, Sasuke… kun.