Thanks to the great people who gave me reviews. I really appreciate it more than anything. I finally got an Idea to dump Sasuke so don't ask when she will do it for I have to work up to it. Here's the next chappy hope you all like it! This chapter is shorter than the rest but not that short actually just a 1000 words shorter.


Chapter 9


Sakura walked out of her English class, her books tucked under her arm. She was thinking about Sasuke. She could feel his stares when she wasn't looking and when she locked eyes with him he would smirk not breaking the eye contact. English was one class where Ino was not in neither was Gaara. They both had the other English teacher, Asuma. Sakura walked up to her locker, packing away her books that she used for class. She took out the books she needed for the homework before she started to rearrange her locker. Seriously who would want a messy locker?

"Hey, Pinkey" Sakura looked up from locker to see Temari leaning against another locker. "What are you doing this afternoon?"

"Im going home and do my homework. There is also this test I have to study for and I still need to summarize the human eye fro Biology"

"Let's see. Its Friday and you can do all that very 'fun' stuff tomorrow. Today im dragging your ass to the mall for some shopping"

"I don't like shopping" Sakura pulled out her biology book.

"Neither does Gaara and Kankuro but their coming along for the fun" Temari said.

"Its not like we have a say anyway" Kankuro objected leaning on the locker next to Sakura. "Its usually a life threat and adding the work 'knife' and 'kill'"

"But really why do I have to go shopping. There really isn't anything I need" Sakura closed her locker.

"What about new clothes. The ones your wearing looks very nice on you" Gaara complemented, leaning on his locker across the hall. "What better way to show all these assholes that you are better than them" He added. Sakura didn't turn around from her closed locker because of the heavy blush she got.

"Yeah" Kankuro nodded. He looked over at Gaara's impassive face. "You look hot in those clothes. Really turns me on" Kankuro added smirking. He was still watching Gaara's face. Gaara shot him a death glare.

"Your leaning on my locker" a last year boy glared at Temari. The boy was taller than she was and had his hands full of books.

"What if I don't?" Temari asked in an innocent voice.

"I'll make you by force if I have to" The boy was buff and looked strong.

"Touch me" Temari pulled out a long knife. "and I'll cut off your balls. I need a new pair for my collection" Temari smirked playing with the blade.

"Your bluffing"

"No she isn't. Believe me, man. Run away now while you still can. Once my sister gets pissed off she will hurt you so bad" Kankuro said "Or you don't have to heed my words, It really doesn't matter to me anyway" Kankuro shrugged. Slowly the boy backed away from the insanely smirking girl with the insanely blade in her hands. Once he was a distance from her, he broke out in a run screaming.

"Im really for the stupid ass who will want to marry you" Kankuro shook his head.

"Whatever" Temari rolled her eyes "Were going shopping now and I will not take no for an answer" Temari looked at Sakura.

"Sure" Sakura smiled a bit uneasy. It really wasn't wise to say no to a pissed off person with a knife.

"Cool! Knew you would see it my way" Temari smiled. Sakura followed Temari to her car. "Sakura your in the back with baby bro. Kanky and me are in front"

"where the big kiddes are" Kankuro smirked.

"Tch, yeah Kankuro you are big as in huge" Gaara motioned with his hands to his stomach.

"Stupid skinny ass red head" Kankuro glared at his brother in the mirror. Temari laughed at her sulking brother. Kankuro wasn't fat and neither was he skinny.

"Kankuro doesn't look that huge Gaara" Sakura squeaked in her tiny voice. She bit her bottom lip as Gaara gave her 'are you kidding me' look.

"Thank you, Sakura." Kankuro smiled wide at his brother. "You sure are one fine girl" Sakura looked away blushing while Gaara's glare intensified. "ouch!" Kankuro screamed when his head got slapped.

"Sorry I saw a fly there" Gaara looked as innocent as a cat with birds feathers sticking out of his mouth.

"Fly my ass"

"Here we are my little kiddies, THE MALL!" Temari smiled up at the building. She parked her car in a parking space reserved for her.

"Temari practically lives at the mall" Gaara whispered when he saw Sakura's confused face. Sakura nodded not willing to say anything.

"Shopping time, girl!" Temari grabbed Sakura's hand "It's a pain to shop with these two" Sakura got dragged by Temari to the closest cloth shop she could find and it seems like the was know in the shop for when she walked in she was greeted by the clerk. Kankuro and Gaara followed behind.

4 hours later

"Can we go home now!" Kankuro groaned. His feet was killing him. Temari made them practically follow her to each and every shop in the whole mall. She didn't even have a heart for crying out loud! Poor him and Gaara had to carry all her damn bags like damn mules. Mostly he carried it, Gaara was to uncaring to be carrying anything. Kankuro remembered this one time when Gaara threw her bags in the garbage and walked away to buy a new knife or something.

"Nope" Temari hissed. Kankuro was really getting on her nerves. He's been complaining about going home the first minute they walked into the mall. "Just shut up. We have only been here for a few hours"

"FEW HOURS! IVE BEEN DRAGGED AROUND FOR THE LAST FUCKING FOUR HOURS!!!" Kankuro yelled frustrated and very tired.

"Just shut up and carry the bags mule!" Temari hissed glaring at him. "Lets see we bought Sakura new clothes, accessories and new shoes. We need make up" Temari sat at a fountain thinking while Kankuro laid on the floor with tears in his eyes.

"I just want to go home" He sulked.

"Gaara why don't you and Sakura go buy makeup" Temari turned her gaze to the two youngsters. Sakura was busy trying to calm Kankuro down while Gaara was………"GAARA!" Temari walked off leaving Sakura and the baby Kankuro. "I TOLD YOU TO STOP DITCHING!" Temari glared at Gaara who was in a knife shop AGAIN!

"I saw something I wanted ,ok" Gaara held onto a black leathered sheath in his left hand while he observed the knife in his right hand. The knife was designed in a very beautifully artistic way. Temari just rolled her eyes.

"I want you to take Sakura for some make up while I get Kankuro some ice cream. That boy is driving me up the wall"

"Sure" Gaara nodded to the clerk and gave him the knife.

"It will be ready in two day, sir" The clerk said. Gaara nodded. He walked passed the confused Temari and up to the fountain. Kankuro was now hitting his fists on the floor screaming about going home and something about an evil, devil of a sister.

"Come on" Gaara pulled Sakura away from his crazed brother. "Temari told me to take you shopping for make up. Don't know why she chose me" Gaara sighted looking over his shoulder. Temari was pulling Kankuro by his feet in an attempt to let him go of a fence surrounding the fountain. Kankuro was screaming and swearing.

"Your family amuses me a lot. They are so funny" Sakura smiled looking at them.

"Yeah and they sure make a scene" Gaara replied. Walking next to Sakura to the make up shop on the corner of the long hallway. The shop was surrounded with glass and inside was loads of make up on shelves.

"So what make up should I buy?" Sakura smiled at Gaara. She walked next to Gaara into the shop.

"Don't ask me" Gaara shrugged.

"Come on eyeliner boy. What is the best kind of eyeliner or what do you use."

"Revlon I guess. The others make my eyes water and itchy" Gaara walked over to a shelve filled with eyeliner of all colors. There were pencil eyeliner and liquid eyeliners.

"What about this pink it would look so pretty on you" Sakura held up a shocking and very bright pink eyeliner pencil.

"Don't even give me that color" Gaara glared at the pencil. He looked down at the other colors digging through them for the color he wants.

"Why" Sakura pouted.

"It's the color I hate the most. Here" Gaara picked up a pencil "Black is the best to wear" Gaara held a pencil in his hand.

"That's the only color you wear" Sakura pouted.

"Doubt I'll look intimidating with purple, pink ,blue and what the hell is burgundy?" Sakura opened the pink eyeliner and made a long stripe on Gaara's pale face.

"look how adorable you look with pink" Sakura smirked.

"Your evil" Gaara smiled opening the black eyeliner and drawing on her face.

"Hey!" Sakura and Gaara had their own personal eyeliner fight in the shop. They ended buying all they eyeliner they opened and used which was almost each and ever color you can find worth of eyeliner. Sakura bought some eye shadow and lipstick too which Gaara told her to since Temari instructed him to do so.

"You know Gaara you look good smiling" Sakura and Gaara was busy walking out of the shop as colorful as a garden filled with flowers.

"And so do you" Gaara smiled again.

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Sasuke and Ino sat at a nearby restaurant eating their food and talking which Ino mostly did. Sasuke just sat there pretending to listen to each and every word she was saying. He heard laughter that he knew was Sakura's. Sasuke snapped his head in the direction that the laughter was coming from. He watched Sakura laughing with

"Gaara" Sasuke growled under his breath.

"What's that Sasukekun" Ino smiled.

"Nothing" Sasuke muttered. He watched as Sakura drew on Gaara's face. Gaara and Sakura ended having a battle in the shop using each other for a coloring book. Deep down inside of Sasuke he felt deep hate and envy growing. The sight before him fed the raging monster inside of him called envy

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"So tell me Sakura" Gaara turned to Sakura who walked next to him.

"Yeah?" She smiled. Her smile was so beautiful and addicting that Gaara couldn't help himself from smiling too.

"When are you going to dump Sasuke?" Gaara asked. He had caught Sasuke glaring at him from a distance in a restaurant with that blond girl who's name he couldn't remember and cared even less to know.

"I really don't know if I can." Sakura smiled sadly "I have been in love with him for so long"

"So you like being hurt by him. Is it fun watching him in the arms of another?" Gaara sighted

"No I really don't like being hurt and no I dot like him hanging with that..Ino. School is no fun anymore. Ever since Ino came along school turned out to be a living hell. My friends ditched me and Sasuke ignores me."

"Get attitude"

"What?" Sakura raised a brow.

"You know be a non caring girl. Look you must be the first person who ever made friends With Temari. Temari doesn't give a shit about being liked or not liked and because of that she has never felt the betrayal of friends but boyfriends is a way different situation." Sakura and Gaara waited patently at the elevator for the elevator.

"What doe you mean?"

"I haven't seen Temari date the same guy for longer than a week. She usually dumps them or they hurt her and me and Kankuro beat the living shit out of them." Sakura watched him with big eyes. The elevator door slide open.

"Please don't kill Shikamaru. He and Neji are like my brothers" They got in the elevator.

"If he doesn't break her heart I wont break his neck, simple actually" Gaara shrugged.

"Shikamaru is too lazy to break a girls heart" Sakura smiled "Im amazed he asked her out in the first place." Gaara raised his eyebrow "Shikamaru is one person who thinks everything is troublesome" The two left the elevator door and walked down the hall towards the fountain. Temari, Kankuro and the bags sat there waiting for them.

Temari raised her eyebrow as she observed Gaara and Sakura's faces. "Did you get tackled by toddlers who used your faces as a coloring book?"

"No." Gaara replied watching as Kankuro burst out laughing.

"I wanted to see how Gaara will look like in pink" Sakura smiled "Then a war broke out. That was the best shopping trip ever"

"Oh my, Sakura" Temari began laughing "You colored each other" Tem wiped her eyes "you two must have been such a cute sight!" Sakura and Gaara both blushed while Kankuro rolled on the ground laughing.

"Are we finished? I have homework to finish" Gaara asked. He really tried to preoccupy himself with something to stop the blush.

"Sure we can go home now" Temari smiled. She picked up a few bags which was one bag and left the other twelve to Kankuro. "Lets take you kiddies home"

"Finally" Kankuro muttered. He took as much bags as he could carry with Sakura picking up a few of them and surprisingly Gaara took a few bags so that Sakura did not need to kill herself while carrying them. Temari drove Sakura to Tsunade's home where she gave Sakura ten of the twelve bags. Temari said that it was a gift to Sakura and that she should not complain.

"Thank you" Sakura watched as the Sabaku family drove off. She felt so happy at that moment.

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After the shopping trip Sakura packed her things away. She took a nice refreshing shower before dressing up and headed out again. She grabbed a cab who drove her over to the Uchiha mansion.

Sakura stood in front of the huge Uchiha mansion. She was dressed in a simple pink dress just above her knees. Her hair was nicely pulled back in a pretty braid while some bangs framed her face. Itachi always invited her over on Sasuke's birthday then they would have a nice family dinner and talk about anything they could think of. She really didn't want to come tonight but Sakura was too much of a good girl to break traditions or deny kind requests plus she missed the older boy. She was suppose to go home after school but decided against it. She went to Tsunade's house for the day.

Itachi opened the huge wooden door. "Ah, Sakura you look beautiful as always" Itachi was dressed simply. He had on black silk pants with a red silk top. He had his hair tied back like the usually did and He still looked damn hot. "Come in. Sasuke is not here yet."

"Thank you" Sakura walked in to the house past Itachi. The place was clean like always. Sakura never in her life saw any house as clean as this one. For a guy, Itachi was very hygienic. He was not gay either just a well brought up kid.

"Uh where is Sasuke?" Sakura asked. She turned around to watch Itachi close the door. Itachi shrugged. "Don't know and seriously don't care much" Itachi may have been Sasuke's older brother and he did not seem like he cared but in actual fact is that the older Uchiha cared for his younger brother.

"What a caring brother you are" Sakura joked.

"Yeah. Im his brother not his babysitter" Itachi lead Sakura towards the dining hall. "That stupid kid is so arrogant and everything." Sakura laughed.

"look who's talking great Itachisama" Sakura made a face at the annoyed Uchiha.

"Ok so im a tad arrogant. Im still wise enough not to be mean to others who are my friends." Itachi pondered for a second "Well Deidara does not count. I am still going to ring his neck" Itachi and Sakura took a seat at the dining table where no food were yet. " At least I have seen the inside of the detention room. Sasuke is way too inactive and no fun"

Sakura laughed "you practically lived in the detention room!"

"Yes and still I was the valedictorian. I had fun when I was still in school. Heck I still have fun now that Im at the University here in Konoah"

"Yes true" sakura smiled.

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Itachi sighted as he pulled out his little black cell phone "If its Deidara again I am going to mail his mother whets left of him" Sakura just laughed at the reply.

Itachi nii-san im on a date with Sakura for my birthday so don't worry about me missing your home dining thing. . I'll be home soon so do whatever you do.

"I just got a text message from Sasuke" Itachi looked up at Sakura. "he said that he's at the movies and cant make it. Do you know with who he's at the movies with?" Itachi watched for a face expression or something. She might have forgotten about the movie.

"Probably Naruto and the guys dragged him there for his birthday"

"Oh I see" Itachi frowned. 'What the hell is going on here?' Itachi thought.

Itachi sighted not really in the mood to think about this. He will definitely kill Sasuke if he hurts his friend. "Then fuck him. Let me call the others. How does bowling sound?"

"Like fun" Sakura smiled at him "I really miss the others" Itachi grabbed his keys from the dining room table.

"Lets get going" He and Sakura left the house and got into Itachi's car for a night of laughter.

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Sakura stood in the bowling ally watching Itachi and Sasori sigh at Deidara while he spoke to the manager more like screaming at each other. Sakura smiled, Itachi, Deidara, Sasori and Kisame were her dearest friends ever since she met the weirdo's a few years ago.

"It wasn't my fault yeah!" Deidara yelled while throwing his arms in the air.

"Really?" The manger asked glaring at the blond boy "So the ball blew itself up?"

"Yeah" Deidara smiled

"It was you and don't try to hid it, boy!" Deidara steamed at the nickname 'boy' really what it worse than being called that?

"If it was me, yeah. You would definitely learn the new meaning of BANG!" Deidara was right up in the managers face now. "Don't piss me off. I wouldn't mind getting thrown back in juvy for blowing up this fucking place and your farted face with it, yeah!"

"Kisame" Itachi motioned in Deidara's direction.

"Sure" Kisame walked up to the blond boy "Come on Blondie" He grabbed the back of his shirt color and dragged him back to the others. Deidara was screaming colorful words the whole time.

"Keep him out of trouble" Itachi told Sasori. Kisame threw Deidara down on the floor.

"I'll blow up your whole body, you stupid old fart – egk" Deidara's words were cut.

"Sure" Sasori smirked standing on Deidara. Itachi nodded his approval before walking over to the manager and having a little talk with him.

"I think we need more people then we could have a little bowling match" Kisame commented.

"I approve" Sasori added. He kicked Deidara down after the blond attempted to make a mad dash for the manager. "Don't make me break your legs, Yeah" Sasori mocked at his childhood friend.

"Why are you always so mean to me, Danna?" Deidara sulked. He laid his head down on the ground, giving up on the fight against the red head.

"Because you always cause trouble. It was your fault I was send to detention so much in school" Sasori added. Deidara just sighted.

"Hey pinkie, you got some friends who wants to bowl?" Kisame looked over at Sakura who was sitting in a booth, writing down scores of their previous game.

"Invite Naruto and I'll personally throw him out of the window. Don't Invite that other girl, Tenten either. If she tells me how to do something, I'll personally shove her tongue down her throat" Sasori looked scary as he glared at the floor in what looked like at most distaste for the people he just mentioned.

"I'll see who I can invite" Sakura stood up from her seat, dusting off the skirt she got from Temari. Sakura was still wearing the clothes she wore during the day that Temari gave her. Sakura blushed bright pink when Deidara wolf whistled like a cartoon character. Needless to say all the boys including Itachi liked her clothing.


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