(oh, yeah...I think I forgot to add Ino and Shikamaru to the group whose playing the game. Sorry dudes. .; kinda forgot...hehe...sweatdrops anyways, they're going to be in the game, and I gotta hurry up and write the chapter. Ja!)

What An Atypical Life I Lead-Chapter 8-Outside Games Part 2

"Well? Who said I was lying?" came the smug question again. Sakura looked strangely at him.

"Sasuke? Are you high or something?" she asked suddenly. He did an anime fall. "Wh-what kind of question is that!" he exclaimed. Sakura giggled. "Just wondering! I mean, your the "Great Uchiha"!"

He glared. "Doesn't mean I like that title.." he muttered darkly. Sakura tilted her head to one side questioningly. "What do you mean, Sasuke?" she asked. He shook his head.

"Nothing that concerns you is what. Anyways, about our earlier conversation," he began to smirk. Sakura glared.

"I may be a little dense, but I'm not that stupid Uchiha Sasuke!" she pouted. He smirked some more. 'Weird...I feel...different. NO! Don't think like this again, Uchiha. Stand your ground. Can't let a girl get in the way of your reputation! No matter how much you hate it.' he thought.

"A little dense?" he asked, taunting her. She glared daggers at him again. He shrugged innocently. "Hey, just a question!" he mimicked.

"You're still a liar. I know it," Sakura stated firmly, saying it more to convince herself rather than to him. He shrugged again. "Believe whatever you wanna believe, Sakura." he said.

"Even if it were true, though," Sakura began after a long silence between the two. Sasuke's ears perked up. 'Why am I so anxious to hear what she has to say?' he thought.

"Why me?" she asked. Under the blindfold, Sasuke's eyes widened a tad bit. 'She's right, why her?'

He kept his cool and shrugged. "I dunno. Since it's, apparently, not true, then I can't really answer that question truthfully, now can I?" he asked cooly.

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Whatever Uchiha." she let the subject go easily. "Do you want that blindfold off, or not?" she asked. He nodded.

Sakura leaned and untied the knot at the back of his head. "Ugh...finally. I almost got a migrain from that thing. Geez," Sasuke huffed, rubbing his eyes.

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Wimp," she murmmured. Sasuke snapped his head back. "What was that?" he asked daringly.

Now it was her turn to smirk. "You heard me. I said Wimp!" she taunted. She pulled one eyelid down and stuck out her tongue. (On animes, they do that a lot. It's funny. xD )

He shot her a menacing glance. "Pinky," he said and began to walk off. "Oh no you don't," Sakura muttered. She ran up behind him and jumped on his back gracefully.

"W-w-what!" he he screamed, realizing what Sakura had done. He now had a pink headed girl attatched onto his neck, haning on tightly. "I wanna a piggy-back ride, Sasuke-kun!" she whined like a child.

'Kun? Where'd that come from? Hmmm...like the sound of it though. Hehe' Sasuke thought while on the outside he was glaring.

"No way, pinky. Sorry, no piggy-back rides today." he said, trying to dump her off of his back. Apparently, she wasn't going to go down that easily. She still hung on for dear life at his neck.

She wrapped her slender legs around his middle tightly. "Nope, I'm going to get one, and I'm going to get it now!" she whined. Sasuke blushed at where her legs were currently located.

"Carry me back to TenTen and I'll get off!" Sakura said into his ear. He rolled his eyes. "Why?" was all he asked. She shrugged.

"To tell you the truth, I really...don't know!" she answered happily. Sasuke would have done an anime fall, if Sakura wasn't on his back at the time.

"Fine, whatever. And what's with the whole Sasuke-kun thing? It's annoying coming from you." he asked, begining to walk easily with her on his back. 'Wow, she's amazing light. Not that I'd ever admit that in a million years.'

She shrugged once again. "I dunno. It sounded right to annoy you, so I'll begin to call you that!" she replied happily.

He shook his head in disbelief. 'She's very persistant. Well, ya know what they say. Fight fire with fire...' he thought evilly.

"Fine, I suppose you deserve a name more meaningful than Pinky," he said somewhat thoughtfully. She raised an eyebrow. 'Wow, that's a first.' she thought.

"Hmm...My Little Cherry Blossom. That'll do for now," Sasuke concluded, smirking. He could almost feel Sakura's face heat up for two reasons: One, her head was right next to the side of his face. And two, he was just awesome like that. (Hehe!)

"I swear, if you call me that in public, your butt is mine!" she exclaimed. Sasuke smirked. "Oh? I always thought my rear end was my own to keep, at least, that's what we learned in those classes titled "Your Body Belongs to You"." he replied back. (I don't know what the title to those programs are called, but you've all had one!)

Sakura rolled her eyes and smirked. "You actually paid attention?" she shot back. He shook his head. "Nope, Naruto filled me in on everything, sadly. I swear, every single frickin' detail they said, he relayed back to me in a worse manner!" he sighed.

Sakura giggled. Sasuke smiled inwardly. 'I like hearing her giggle...' he thought. "What's so funny?" he asked hotly. Sakura giggled some more.

"You!" she exclaimed between fits of laughter. "Me? What about me?" he asked. She tried to keep a straight face.

"When you pout you look so-so KAWAII!"(cute) Sakura exclaimed. Sasuke almost choked. "N-nani(what)?" he asked again. Sakura giggled again. "I'm not repeating it! You know good and well what I said!" she replied. Sasuke smirked.

"Yeah, I know, I'm good like that," he said cooly. Sakura punched him playfullly in the arm. "You so-totally-wish!" Sasuke shrugged. "It's the truth and you know it!" he replied back.

Sakura shook her head stubbornly. "Nuh-uh!" she whined back. She stuck out her tongue. Sasuke rolled his eyes.

They both saw TenTen up ahead, so Sasuke quickened his pace, hoping to get Sakura off his back as soon as possible.

TenTen tilted her head to one side, not believeing her eyes. 'Is that Sasuke Uchiha carrying Sakura Haruno?'she thought, completely amazed.

Sasuke stopped in front of TenTen, sighing. "Okay," he began. 'I'm going to embarass her to no end...My Little Cherry Blossom' he thought.

"The piggy back ride is over for today, My Little Cherry Blossom," Sasuke said, emphasizing her new so called 'pet name.'

Sakura winced. 'I didn't think he had the actual guts to ruin his rep. just to embarass me...oh dude, it's on!' she thought.

"Hai, Sasuke-kun!" she replied happily. She slid off his back gracefully.

TenTen just stood there in shock.

"Nani? What is it TenTen?" Sakura asked, acting as if she were confused.

She shook her head. "Did you and Sasuke...hook up?" she asked dumbfoundedly, her head switching back from Sasuke to Sakura. Her arms criss-crossed as she pointed to both of them.

This time, they both did an anime fall. "WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU SAY THAT!" Sakura exclaimed. TenTen backed up and put her hands in the air for a sign of surrender.

"Nothing, Sakura! But...well...you're calling him Sasuke-kun, and most suprisingly of all, he's calling you My Little Cherry Blossom. And neither of you have a problem with it?" she replied, her eyes as wide as saucers.

Sakura shrugged and Sasuke just stood there being...Sasuke. "Long story, TenTen. I'll tell you later. I'm sure my dearSasuke-kun wouldn't want to wear out his wind pipe with such a long tale, would you Sasuke-kun?" she asked, smiling devillishly.

Sasuke glared. 'Oh, so that's how she wants to play, eh?'

"Ummm...hate to interupt you two's...love fest, but uhhh...yeah...you get the idea, right?" TenTen butted in, rubbing the back ofher neck nervously.

Sakura giggled and Sasuke smirked. "I wonder how everyone else is doing?" Sakura piped up, changing the subject. Sasuke silently thanked her for that.

TenTen shrugged. "You two were the first. But I heard Reika and Neji. It was kinda funny." she recalled their barely audiable conversation.

"Well, you two...love birds, can sit on the bench over there. I highly doubt people will be back any time soon. Just make sure you don't do anything to...out of hand if you catch my drift," TenTen said, winking at the two.

Sasuke choked and Sakura's eyes widened. She patted Sasuke on the back, trying to get him to stop choking. "It's not like that TenTen!" Sasuke managed to spit out, looking up at her.

She smirked. "That's what they all say..." she replied.

Sakura smiled evilly. "Yeah...kinda reminds me of what you sometimes say...about a certain Hyuuga prodigy. Hmmm...I can't quite recall his name...ahhh now what was it? Neji! Isn't that right, TenTen?" Sakura asked darkly.

TenTen's eyes grew wide and gulped. Her cheeks were all rosy now. "No!" was all that she managed to sputter out.

Sakura smirked. "Of course, TenTen. Of course..."

"Oh, and before I forget Sasuke-kun..." Sakura said. She picked up the shovel she had dropped right behind her. She bashed Sasuke on his head. "Itai!(ouch!) What was that for?" he exclaimed, holding onto his sore head.

Sakura smiled. "For not telling the truth, that's what!" she replied. Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"I already told you...what if I wasn't lying?" he replied back cooly. Sakura shook her head. "Liar..." she denied it herself. 'It can't be true...can it? I mean...he's Sasuke Uchiha. The great prodigy...'


'Shikamaru's mine...ewwww...that so did not sound right...' Ino thought, while prowling the surroundign area.

She spotted Shikamaru's lazy butt up ahead and began to slowly advance up to him.

Since Shikamaru's too stupid/lazy to notice Ino's presence, she ultimately taps him on the shoulder, leading him to jump about three feet into the air from shock.

"Wow, who ever know that you would have enough energy in yourself to do that!" Ino complimented, her eyes growing wide.

"Shut up. Just ask the acursed question so I can get this nusiance of a blindfold off of my face!" he grunted.

Ino smiled. "Hai!" (as you all know, the questions are going to be the same for everyone. "Who do you like?" Sorry it can't be more original, but 1)there's only a certain amount of originality in me. sorry...2)I just want to get everything sorted, the couples realizing their feelings...etc. . Mushy, I know, but I try my best to keep it from going in that direction. .)

"Do you like me?" she asked, yet her voice sounded almost...like a plea. As if she wanted more than anything for him to say yes.

Of course, you couldn't really tell, but Shikamaru could, barely.

"Ugh, don't you have a less troublesome question, like "What's your favorite color?" or something?" he asked, sighing in annoyance.

She shook her head, knowing that he couldn't see her anyways. "Nope, sorry. Only one I got..." she answered, shrugging.

He sighed. "Yes okay? Now would you please just get this dumb thing off of my head?" he asked. Ino's eyes grew wide.

"W-what did you say?" she asked again, not sure if she had heard right. He sighed again.

"In answer to your question of whether I like you or not, I said yes. Now, would you please get this blindfold off?"

"you're lying! You know that if you say no, I'll start crying an-" Ino cut her sentence off, realizing what she had just let loose.

Shikamaru's eyes grew wide. He, finally, took off the blindfold himself, making sure this wasn't some sort of crazy dream.

"Uhhh...I mean...oh crap..." Ino muttered, her cheeks beginning to flush. Shikamaru smirked. "What was that again? I'm not sure if I heart correctly," he taunted.

Ino glared. "Nevermind! Anyways, I don't want to be too troublesome!" she replied back.

Shikamaru shook his head. "Actually...to tell you the truth...I never really thought of you as troublesome at all. I just thought of you as...Ino," he said simply, and began to walk off to where TenTen and the rest were at.

Ino's eyes grew even wider, if that was even physically possible! She shook her head and followed Shikamaru. 'What just happened? Did he just say that...he likes me?' she thought over and over again.

'Well, at least I told the truth. She still doesn't believe me, but I admitted it. Hey, that's something' Shikamaru tried to convince himself. They both walked in silence towards TenTen.

"Hey you guys!" TenTen waved happily. Ino smiled and ran towards her. Shikamaru shrugged, and began to walk towards the bench where Sakura and Sasuke sat.

"So, how'd it go with your lover girl, eh Shikamaru?" Sasuke sneered, giving a small smirk. "Don't even think of it, Sasuke. Nothing happened," he replied.

Sasuke laughed. "Hey, I didn't bring up anything about things happening. So, obviously, something had to be going on for you to have a guilty conscience about it," Sasuke retorted smugly.

Shikamaru's cheeks flared up. "N-nothing happened, alright?"

Sasuke shrugged. "Whatever man. Believe what you want to believe. Aha, here comes your little lover girl Shikamaru!" Sasuke brought up the fact that Ino was now walking towards them.

"Hey you guys! Hey Sakura!" Ino greeted casually sitting next to the pink headed teen. "Hey Ino," Sakura replied back. "So, any news from everyone else?" Ino asked. Sakura shook her head.

"Oh, wait! I see Reika, and I think that's Neji behind her too. Is-is that Neji blushing? Oh man, Reika must have told him about TenTen," Sakura whispered.

Ino nodded. Reika had a smirk on her face.

Reika walked up to TenTen and whisperd, "Neji has something to say to you, in private. I think it's best if you went to talk to him though. He's still in a bit of a shock mode, I think."

TenTen looked at Reika quizically, but she had already turned and began walking towards everyone else. TenTen began to walk towards Neji.

"Neji, is there something you wanted to talk about?" she asked, tilting her head to one side again. Neji flushed furiously. He gulped and nodded slowly. 'Well, this is it. Might as well get this overwith. I already wrote my will just in case she rejects me...' he thought, looking TenTen in the eyes.


And that is where I shall leave my chapter! . Bit of a cliffie, ne? School is starting to let off, we've only got like 14 more days left. Not including the weekends that is. . I really enjoyed writing this chapter! It's waaay longer than the previous ones I wrote! Well, hope you all like! Ja ne!

fuhen-shinkan