Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters.

Hello everyone! I posted this rather fast didn't I? Yay me! Just kidding, don't you worry!

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Sakura swung back and forth slowly, thinking of her options.

I could just cancel with Naruto, and call Sasuke….

No, that's a bad idea. Naruto is… I can't exactly go out with Sasuke anyway, it would be horrible for my reputation, as an honor roll student and as a prep.

But I like him, and he likes me….

No. I have to think straight. Even if we do like each other it wouldn't work out between us, we're just too different.

No matter how sweet, kind, caring he may be…

I have to be strong. It's just a crush. A stupid, insignificant, meaningless… crush….

Sakura leaned back in the swing, putting her legs up so she's upside down. Straightening back up again, she closed her eyes.

Even if I do like him, it's just stupid for me to go with him.

So I'm going to sacrifice my happiness, for my reputation…?

Outer Sakura didn't answer this question, shutting it out from her mind, silencing her inner-self.

She stood up, grabbed her bag and walked out of the park and headed home. She was going to go with Naruto.

To Sasuke!

The pale teen pulled into his driveway, stepping out of the car and slamming the door shut, not letting himself think about the day. Sasuke walked across the gravel and up the way to the large house that he lived in by himself, that his parents had left him when they died. He pulled open the door dumping his school stuff onto the couch, going to his room. Walking through the plain white halls, eyes still shut.

"YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BODY BAG! I'LL BREAK BONES YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD! WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT OF YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDS TO HOLD ONTO!" his cell phone screamed at him, reaching in his pocket lazily pulling it out, and flipping it open.

"Hey," the dark teen said lazily into the device.

"What's with the 'hey', sound more enthusiastic, brat!" Neji's voice said through the phone.

"……." Was all the answer Neji got.

"Well aren't you grumpy," Neji said, "still pissed about last night?"

Sasuke grunted.

"Did you see her again or something?" Neji said, hitting the nail on the head, "was she with that blonde preppy?"

"You always were annoyingly intuitive," Sasuke said, annoyed.

"Haha, I know, I rock. So spill, what happened?" Neji said, knowing Sasuke would answer him now. They had a strange, almost girlish relationship, maybe because they were bonded together with their loathing and lacking of their families.

"Fine. She got a job at the bakery my brother owns, I flipped and dragged her away then she ran away from me, conveniently the blonde was just down the street and she ran into him, sobbing hysterically. Out of fear of me. Oh, by the way, I now work there," Sasuke said, drowning in anger and self pity.

"Ouch… that sucks man…. Want me to come over?" Neji asked softly, he knew what had happened by the word "flipped", "Did I tell you about the time I used the Eight Trigram Palms in front of Ten Ten?"

"No… what happened?"

"She started dating Lee and I used it on him out of jealousy, without thinking…. She hasn't spoken to me since…. Sorry that probably just makes you feel worse…" Neji said, realizing the effect what he said must've had on Sasuke.

"Yeah, it does," he said, more then a little angry with his white-eyed friend.

"Well… do you think she likes you but she was just scared and panicked?" he said, hopefully.

"No, why would she like me? Basically every boy in our entire bloody school thinks she's hot, even the one's when girlfriends," Sasuke said.

"Because you can basically beat up every boy in your entire bloody school, even the ones in gangs?"

"Shut up."

"Meh, well, I'm coming over. Its already decided, I'm actually in my car right now, I got in when I heard your tone of voice so I'm almost there," Neji said, "peace, see you in a minute," shutting his phone, worried about his friend.

Sasuke sighed, looking down at his bloody knuckles for the first time, blood was flowing between his knuckles, his fingers as if painted red. Just as he was thinking that he should wash off his hands, Neji walked in shouting, "Hey kid, where are you?" he never let it down that he was older then Sasuke.

"Over here," Sasuke called, trying to wipe of the blood from his still bleeding hands.

"K," Neji called, walking to where Sasuke was standing, noticing the blood dripping hands immediately and grabbing the little emo boy's wrist and dragged him to the bathroom, all without a sound from either party.

Neji washed off Sasuke's hands carefully, then put Neosporin on them before wrapping them tight with bandages. Neither of them thought this was odd, or in anyway ashamed of this, it was just the way they were, they way they always had been. They had been friends for so long that they were like brothers, at times like these, no matter what their differences were, even if it had been one that beat up the other, they would still bandage each other up.

When Neji was finished they walked to the kitchen, Sasuke sitting on the counter, Neji making T.B.M.'s (1). They ate in silence, both thinking.

"Hey, Neji? Is there anything I can do?"

"Probably, I just don't know yet."

"Hmph, load of help you are," Sasuke might've been heart broken and scared that Sakura would never speak to him again, but he was still Sasuke Uchiha.

"Uh huh, you shouldn't be alone here tonight, you're staying with me again," Neji said assertively.

Back to Sakura

When she got home she shut the door quietly, and walked up to her room, collapsing on the bed, it hard been a rough twenty-four hours and she was exhausted.

1. Incase you're unaware what a T.B.M. is it's a tomato/mozzarella/basil sandwich, and Sasuke's favorite food is tomatoes… don't as how I know this……..

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What did you think? I thought it was really pretty sweet! By the way, this isn't a yaoi story, Neji and Sasuke are really close but they aren't going to start dating or anything! Lots of girls have friends that they're really close to and hug constantly without people thinking they're yuri, so why can't guys be that way? Besides, it makes me happy that they're friends in my story, because in the actual Naruto they're both pretty much loners that can't rely on anyone! It's so tragic….

Happy Earth Day everyone!!! If you don't know what Earth Day is, you officially suck.

Oh and as a side thought, Sasuke's ring tone is Body bag by Hit the Lights, its an awesome song that should be listened to by everybody! Because it's a sexy beast… like Sasuke…. I was actually about to buy it last night as my ring tone for my cell… either that or Girlfriend by Avril (the had like seven different kinds of the song Girlfriend, including it in Japanese and Mandarin, crazy eh?) but then I decided that I shouldn't be looking at ring tones but instead reading Tale of Two Cities, which is actually pretty good, that I had to read forty pages of last night because I space out and procrastinate like mad, reading it for school. ANYWHO! You probably don't care about my required reading, or what ring tones I have on my cell, (incase you do: Marching Bands of Manhattan by Death Cab for Cutie, Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel, Bleed Like Me by Garbage, and Hands Down by Dashboard Confessionals….)

Peace out my devoted readers! Thank you to those that have reviewed! You rock!!!