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Author's notes - Chapter eight. It took me forever to get this one done. It was impossible to think of any ideas and I needed some of our plot to happen. Thank you to Crazed15yearold though for the help she's been giving me throughout this story. Mainly a lot of the ideas come from her brilliant mind. (If you like Shikamaru x Ino or Hinata x Naruto, I suggest you go read her stories.) Oh, and thank you all very much for giving me over 200 reviews for this story! I don't really care for getting reviews, but it means so much to me that you guys have given me 200! (Huggles all my readers/reviewers.) Oh and I don't know if any of you remember, but I brought up that Sakura would be in a fashion show...next chapter is the premire of it and the blossom of our lovely OTP!


Anko, the P.E. Sensei was a short, curvy and busty woman with a fiery attitude and a mouth to finish it all up. She was normally 'easy' on the students, but Kiba and Naruto decided to bring up the 'physical education' lesson she had with Iruka-Sensei on Monday and made the rest of the class pay by making them run laps for the rest of the lesson. Making Sakura hate P.E. a bit more then she already did.

Ino, (who's hair had now been also cut to a legnth just a bit longer then Sakura's and was tied into a bun on the top of her head,) was less then impressed by running laps and agreed with Sakura that Naruto and Kiba should learn to keep their mouths shut on things that didn't include them. Especially things that had to do with that. After their discussion on Naruto and Kiba, Ino moved it into her upcoming dates with Shikamaru, apparently she was going out with him this Friday for dinner. She also gave full details about how she went to his house that weekend to study. Amazingly, she didn't ask how her day with Sasuke was, and Sakura was highly thankful for that. The only other couple she brought up was Anko-Sensei and Iruka-Sensei.

"They're cute together aren't they?" Ino asked, glancing back at Anko-Sensei who was yelling at Naruto for asking her a personal question.

"Very. Though I could do with the less-information about their sex life." Sakura shivered.

Ino laughed.

While changing out of their gym clothes and into their daily wear, Ino spotted the large bruise Orochimaru put on her. "Ew, Sakura!" She cried out, pointing to her shoulder and causing several heads to turn. "What's wrong with your shoulder? It's gross."

Sakura turned her head and looked down at her bruise. "Oh that...it's just a bruise. I was runway training when I fell and landed on my shoulder." She lied, the mark looked more like large circles in a circle which looked like it was obviously caused by a person digging their nails in, but Ino believed her.

"I was right, you are a clutz."

She rolled her eyes and finished getting dressed. Once finished, she and Ino headed off to their last lesson of the day, History with Yuhi Kurenai.

History was a fairly easy class compared to Anko's P.E. lessons. Currently they were learning about the Americans, which, to her, seemed like a boring country. They didn't have as many wonderful things as Japan did and their culture was a combination of several ethnic groups, it wasn't a bad thing, it was just along the lines of that it wasn't as interesting to learn as it was to learn about, unlike Spain and Russia.

When Sakura departed from Ino after school she saw a note from her parents saying that they were going to be out at a meeting and wouldn't be home till late. Her body gave a funny twitch, she'd finally be able to do what she wanted for so long. Running upstairs and locking the door, Sakura squealed with happiness. She had been longing to taste the cocaine once more and going almost an entire week without it was driving her slightly crazy. For each moment she didn't have the cocaine she could hear the last words Orochimaru told her; Why don't you use them more? The use of it will make your gluttony decrease.

Knowing that it would make her 'gluttony decrease' excited Sakura, she was eating so much lately and instead of doing what Orochimaru wanted of losing weight by the middle of February, she had been gaining weight and was now 117lbs. She pulled out the bag from her box and grabbed a CD case for a base where the drugs would li. Sakura then pulled out a small straw she picked up at the school cafeteria and set it aside for when she was finished lining up the cocaine.

When everything was set up identical to the way she saw Tenten do it, Sakura took several deep breaths and began to taste the cocaine once more, enjoying every bitter second of what was happening and what was going to happen. She didn't care about anything at that moment. She could care less that Martial Arts started in ninety minutes, that if her parents found out they'd be furious, that Orochimaru would be furious with her after she later binged this week. Nothing mattered.


"Bring your shoulders back more. Good, don't flaunt out your chest too much...just like that--- perfect!"

Sakura did every single thing she was told to do while preparing for the runway show that was only two weeks away. To Orochimaru, her runway skills were so poor that he insisted on her taking extra runway lessons to make sure she mastered it in the amount of time left. She couldn't understand what she was doing wrong. The runway instructors thought she was doing wonderful for a starter, the amount of time it took her to change her clothing was fast and at it's best, she never rushed it and never went to slow.

"Alright!" Her instructor said, clapping his hands together. "We're going to have another practice run. So go to the back, put on your first outfit on and we'll grade you from then on."

She did as she was told and took little time to prepare. When her instructor gave the word, Sakura walked out from behind the large curtain with a little bounce to her walk to represent what type of mood the outfit gave off. When she reached the end of the runway she posed twice, smiled, and turned around smoothly. Behind the curtain, she quickly changed into her second outfit and came out with a more elegant walk, she was careful not to trip on the gown and this time when she reached the end of the runway, she struck more elegant poses instead of cute and bubbly ones. Then, at the beginning of the runway, she struck one last elegant pose.

"Brilliant!" Cried out her instructor. "I've never seen a model progress so fast before. Orochimaru will be thrilled."

A large smile crossed Sakura's face and she excused herself to wander the agency for a while. Hoping to run into Tenten or Sasuke.

Wandering the agency was something Sakura had grown use to, and enjoyed doing it every time she was given the chance. She first went to Tenten's room, where she was lucky enough to find her sitting on her couch and reading a magazine that mentioned Tsunade's upcoming fashion show. Tenten seemed calm and it looked like a good time to apologize for the cocaine she stole.

"Tenten?" Sakura knocked on the door. "Can I come in?"

Tenten shook her head. "No, sorry. Neji's coming to get me for our date. He'll be here any minute."

"Oh, well then have fun."

"Sakura...you can keep the bag you took...I have a new one." Tenten quickly added as Sakura began to leave. "Just next time you want some, let me know." She said with a small laugh to lighten the moment.

Sakura laughed with Tenten. "Alright, and thank you."

It was a relief for her to find out Tenten was fine on sharing the cocaine. She had seen in several movies what happened when someone was accused or caught stealing drugs. Sakura laughed once more. Like Tenten would honestly have someone come and kill me just because I took a small bag.

The next room she went to was Sasukes. All the lights where off and it was hard for Sakura to see, but she able to make out that, like Tenten, he was sitting on his couch, only he was reading a thick book instead of a magazine.

"Hi, Sasuke." She chirped. "How are you?"

Sasuke didn't reply. He simply turned the page in his book and continued reading.

"Er...well...I'll see you tomorrow at school so we can go over our project once more. Iruka-Sensei will be pleased to know that we'll be one of the first groups to finish."

Sasuke turned the page as she closed the door to his room.

With no photoshoots for the next week due to increased runway lessons, Sakura became a little bored of wandering each room in the agency and finally left, making sure she was not caught by Orochimaru who would insist on weighing her now that she had some free-time. Her stomach growled with the pain of hunger and her mind began to debate on whether or not she should go out to get something to eat. She saw all the cons, which totaled into a long list, while the pros was a short list of three or four things. The thought of food made her mouth water and mind go crazy. Sakura ran to her car and drove to the nearest fastfood restaurant, breaking yet another fast

She inhaled her meal fast and quickly to the point where she was all of a sudden confused of where her meal went.

"Oh...my god..." Her lip quivered as she looked at the wrapper of the hamburger she had just binged on. She burst into tears and began to cry aloud, ignoring the people who stared at her with looks of disgust. "Why did I do that?" She screamed to her reflection in the car mirror. "Why? You can't keep yourself away from food for five minutes can you?!" Sakura punched her steering wheel and set off the car horn, following up by slamming her head onto the steering wheel and ignoring the blaring alarm.

Sakura stopped the alarm two minutes later when an elderly man said that it had been going for a while and it was bothering him. She wiped away her tears and took several deep breaths. She needed to focus on the goal - 100lbs. Sakura ran her fingers through her hair and sighed, it wasn't going to happen when Orochimaru wanted it. At the rate she was going, it wasn't even going to happen at all.


How did I win the competition? There were so many girls at that agency who were much prettier, taller, and thinner then I. What was so special about me that made me win out of hundreds of girls? The judges had to see something that was so different about me that they were willing pay me to model for them...Sakura thought as she walked through Konoha, watching the naturally thin people walk pass her with large smiles upon their faces. Sakura couldn't help but hate them for being so natural.

"Pakkun! Stop!" A familiar voice cried out.

Sakura's eyes moved to the ground where a tiny Pug ran out from Sasuke's backyard and up to Sakura's legs, where the dog then began to lick at her calfs and jump up onto two legs to get her attention. "Hey, cutie." She said to the dog, bending down to scratch him behind the ears.

"Pakkun, how do you keep getting out? Kakashi! Pakkun got out again!" Rin cried, rushing over to Sakura and the dog named Pakkun. "I'm sorry. He's been so hyper-active lately." She said apologetically as she picked the small Pug up into her arms.

"It's alright, I don't mind." She smiled and made a cute face to Pakkun the Pug.

Rin gave the same smile she gave Sakura when she first met her. "You know, Sasuke just got home and Kakashi is cooking supper...maybe you'd like to come in and join us?"

Kakashi and Sasuke walked out from the backyard. Kakashi with his usual dazed look and slouchy position and Sasuke carrying his bored expression and his hands stuffed in his pockets.

Cha! Dinner with Sasuke?! Sakura blushed. "I don't know. I think I'd be a bother if I joined you. Besides, I'm sure my mother would want me home since it's getting late."

Kakashi came up behind Rin and scratched behind one of Pakkuns ears. "You can call her. Besides, I'm sure Sasuke will like to have company over for a change. You're the first person that's come over that goes to school with him." (Sasuke gave Kakashi a sharp glare.) "I hope you like Teriyaki pork bowls!"

Teriyaki pork bowls? Pork! I-I can't eat pork, Orochimaru will have a fit! "Sure!" She said smiling. "I'll join you."

Dinner with Sasuke's 'family' was awkward. Even though they had such a big house and a big kitchen that made any housewife happy. It was rather, well, empty. Their fridge was nearly empty, only a carton of milk, some cheese, and several bags of salads claimed it. Their cupboards had only a few minor cooking spices and one box of cereal. Sakura was slightly jealous that Kakashi's house had little to no food. And as if their kitchen wasn't weird enough, dinner conversations only added on.

"You know, Sakura." Kakashi said, handing her a bowl of Teriyaki pork. "Sasuke tells me that you're the only girl he likes shooting with."

Sakura's jaw dropped. Uchiha Sasuke enjoyed shooting with her out of all the other girls he had modeled with?!

Sasuke gave Kakashi another glare and then muttered what sounded like the word 'Idiot' to him before returning to his Teriyaki bowl.

Through the rest of dinner, the only conversation that went on was Rin asking Kakashi how his day at work was. Apparently, it was boring and Kakashi wished he worked with smart people for a change. When dinner ended, Rin pulled out a small cheese cake she had prepared earlier that day and while they ate their dessert, the conversation was finally moved to Sasuke and Sakura.

"So, who is your agent, Sakura?" Kakashi asked, scratching off a little bit of Teriyaki sauce that fell onto the table.

"Mikatochi Orochimaru."

Kakashi raised his only visible eyebrow. "Mikatochi eh? He was Sasuke's agent for a couple years...He's an interesting character."

Sakura glanced over to Sasuke, who was scrapping the top part of his cheese cake off and leaving only the crumb base left. "I had no idea."

"Before the family incident, Sasuke was Orochimaru's pride and joy in the modeling world." Kakashi started as soon as Rin sat down to eat her own cheese cake slice. "Sasuke had started modeling when he was seven and was the highest paid male model the industry ever had within a year and a half of modeling. Orochimaru claimed that Sasuke was his greatest model yet and treated him with high respect even though he was so many years older then Sasuke."

"Wow, amazing! What happened?"

Kakashi took a large bite of cheese cake. "When Sasuke's family incident happened three years ago, he left the agency in distress. Orochimaru wasn't thrilled of course and snapped at Sasuke."

Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Snapped at Sasuke? What did he say? I've seen them talking before and they seemed to be getting along pretty well." Her eyes shifted to Sasuke then back to Kakashi and Rin.

"He just threatened him...Sasuke never did tell me exactly what he said." Kakashi shrugged and took another bite of Rin's cheese cake.

"Oh..." Sakura glanced down at her empty plate. She was then filled with regret on agreeing to come eat with Sasuke. "Can I use your restroom?"

Kakashi nodded and told her where it was. As Sakura excused herself from the table, she only hoped that Rin had a scale and kept it in the main bathroom. She needed to know how much weight she put on through her binge and little supper with Sasuke. Praying to herself that it would only be a small number and that she hadn't put on anything more then three pounds. She was lucky enough to find one beside the sink and quickly removed her clothing. "115lbs...still?!" The weight she would gain from her binge had not yet pilled on her body and it frusturated her. Sakura gave out a small cry as she quickly put her clothing back on and rushed downstairs to continue her time with Sasuke, acting as if she never weighed herself.

"It was nice having you over for dinner, Sakura." Rin said, resting her head upon Kakashi's shoulder.

Sakura smiled. "It was nice to be over. I think I should go home, it's getting a little late and I have some things going on tomorrow." She stood up from the table and placed her dishes in the sink. "Dinner was wonderful." She added as a quick lie.

"Sasuke..." Kakashi said, his head now on Rin's. "Why don't you walk your girlfriend home? It's late and there might be someone who wants to hurt her, you wouldn't want that would you? Oh, and take Pakkun with you!"

Sasuke shot Kakashi yet another nasty glare and grabbed his coat. "Come on..." He muttered, opening the door for her.

She enjoyed Sasuke's company as she made her way home with him. Even if they didn't speak a word to each other until they were halfway to her house. In which, Sakura asked if he was excited to be in the upcoming fashion show.

"Not really..." He replied softly.

"Not really? Have you just lost all excitement for them or do you just not want to do it?"

"I just don't want to do it."

Sakura frowned. "Why not?"

"I've lost all feeling of excitement for them." He said dully, almost as if he was talking to a brick wall.

"How did you feel before your first show?" She asked curiously.

"I don't know. Excited, I suppose."

"You suppose?" She cocked an eyebrow.

"Hn...is this your house?" He pointed to the small white home she lived.

Sakura bit her lip. She didn't want her walk with Sasuke to be over, it was too soon. "Yes...thank you for walking me home."

"Hn...welcome..."

"I'll see you tomorrow at school." She added as he began to walk away.

"Hn..." Sasuke said, walking away with Pakkun following at his heels.

Sakura shut the door and smiled. That was the most amount of words she had ever heard Sasuke say in a day and was thrilled because of so.


Author's notes - Yes...from this chapter on it'll be a lot more drug use and self-hatred...I'm finally starting to give you Anorexic Sakura, which I've seen ton of you begging for, lol. These things actually do take a lot of time and they don't just start over night. Really she's more EDNOS at the time...I apologize for the short chapter too! (I don't think anyone really paid attention to the way Sasuke eats his cheese cake...lol...but I love it when people do that!)

Thank you for reading.

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Sasuke looked back at Rin and Kakashi who still wore confused faces. "Come with us...I'll explain it to you later." He pulled on Sakura to follow and they rushed to their car and told her to get in and that he'd take her to the hotel where they were staying until her parents came back from their meeting. Rin sat in the backseat with Sasuke and Sakura, and rubbed Sakura's shoulder to calm her down, telling her everything was going to be alright while she explained the horror that had just been upon her. Hyperventilating and shivering from the cool air and experience.

"Here...you look cold." Sasuke took off his shirt and handed it to Sakura.

Sakura took his shirt and slipped it over her head. "Thank you, Sasuke..." She choked out in between tears before returning to her story.

Hm, I wonder what happened that made Sakura so scared...!