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Days after the argument, Sakura had mostly healed from the injuries she sported and got out of the Uchiha household as soon as she could, for she did not want to deal with the awkward and tense atmosphere that surrounded her and the dark(duck)-haired male in said household.

It's been a week and he hasn't said anything about our argument, this could either mean he's eliminated the choice or he's still thinking of how he'll execute his plan; of course I'd much rather he do the first choice but the stupid Uchiha I know would must definitely and almost assuredly go for choice numero dos. I am officially screwed. Sakura thought to herself exasperatedly as she walked down the hallway to her locker with Ino next to her, chatting about her fashion crises and her boy problems. But of course, Sakura droned out most of her one-sided conversation to think of her own problems with one dark-haired individual who they were slowly approaching.

Sakura mentally stopped all train of thought, trying to think of ways to bring up the topic to him and make him stop whatever plans he had in his big head. So as she walked down the hallway with her blonde friend, she started making a list of ways to drag him away to talk about it then beat the shit out of him right afterwards. But time was running out and in no time at all, she was standing right in front of said person as his dark eyes bore into her.

As she opened her mouth to get him to talk to her, the dark haired Uchiha did something that she never would have thought possible, not in this lifetime or the next.

He slammed her right against the lockers and kissed her. Hard.

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, what is happening, what is he trying to do? No no no no no no no. What in the name of the deepest level of hell? These were the only thought that ran through her head as he kissed her thoroughly. In front of the whole student body. Well.

"YEAH GO TEME! I knew ya had it in ya!" Sakura heard Naruto yell when everyone else was too surprised to even form a thought.

A moment after Naruto so crudely broke the silence; a shriek like (of) a banshee rang through the hallway. What followed was a string of very colourful and very curse words.

Air, air, air, need air, get the crap off you stupid pretty boy, can't breathe, those were the thoughts that ran through her mind as Sakura tried to push Sasuke away from her. But he persisted and even went as far as to plant his hands on the lockers behind her just to keep himself in place. It wasn't until Karin – a.k.a. banshee – stomped away, practically fuming out of her ears, with her string of colourful curses, that he pulled away, looking down at a slightly disarrayed and very, very breathless. He smirked a very smug smirk and took her hand in his larger one and dragged her to somewhere away from privy eyes and the rain of questions that was surely going to be rained down upon them.

Sakura, too dazed to even form thought, allowed him to drag her off to wherever he deemed suitable for a talk.

Sasuke dragged her off quite a distance away from everyone; all the while Sakura was as still as stone. Not knowing how to respond to the sudden and unexplainable kiss, she kept quiet and allowed to Sasuke to drag her off to God knows where whilst coming up with more than enough ways to kill the idiot she called a friend very painfully and very slowly if he didn't come up with a good enough excuse other than to piss Karin off who say the whole ordeal. Oh ho-ho no, he isn't going to get away from doing that just to piss Karin off. He's got it coming for him, for this I swear it to Lucifer.

They came to a stop at somewhere Sasuke deemed far enough from people and where Sakura deemed idiotic.

"Are you kidding me, the bleachers?" Sakura raised her eyebrows in a questioning and 'this is the best you can come up with?' manner. She couldn't help but wonder if her friend was, is, mentally challenged.

"As clichéd as you think this is, no one ever comes here, so it's just you, me and the thing we have to talk about, and don't try to correct me, I know you want to talk about it." He said as-a-matter-of-factly.

Sakura felt a headache forming at her temples and resisted the urge to just straight up knock herself out and escape from the situation that the person in front of her was forming. "I don't need this Sasuke, I really don't. I know why you kissed me, it's as apparent as the sky, and don't even try to correct me on that. But tell me one thing, do you really think she would back down even of you do that, quite the contrary I think she'd double her efforts on trying to get rid of me. So my dearest Sasuke-kun, pray tell, what the fuck are you trying to do?" She didn't have time for fun and games she didn't want to be involved in, all she wanted to do was graduate and get out of school to become a doctor and put all of this behind her so she can live a happy life saving lives and making a living for her so she won't starve.

"Sakura, calm down," Sasuke said monotonously. Not very willing to be on the receiving end of her cold fury, he put on a blank face that seemed to have riled her up more… Maybe the blank face approach was not the best course of action.

"I am calm Uchiha Sasuke, now please tell me how you're going to continue with this dumb plan because I really don't fancy the idea of having to be beaten up even more than necessary and for longer than need be. You are making my life so very difficult now, I don't even want to try and think about it."

Sasuke mentally shrinked on his spot. She was angry, very angry. He had to explain himself, fast. "Sakura, as you should know by now, my father has relations with the director, so I thought I'd use this connection to its fullest… extent," He paused for a moment to look at her face which was quite impassive at the moment, which meant she was listening to him, or thinking of a lot of creative ways to kill him. Both way, he had her attention, and that was good enough. "Sakura, be my girlfriend."

Hell simultaneously broke loose and froze over at the look of pure rage on Sakura's face. "Uchiha, you have two minutes to explain yourself before I go over there and rip your balls off."

Sasuke took a deep breath and did what she said, "Sakura, I'm using the relationship between them to get Karin to back off, because as much as the director says he loves his daughter, he loves money more and he wouldn't dare try to do anything that would displease my father. He is his major source of income."

"And how did I come to being your girlfriend, pray tell?"

"Because," Sasuke said as he bore his intense dark orbs into her bright emeralds', "that's the only way she would, willingly or not, stop hurting you; and you should know that by now."

"Does it really matter?! She did it when I was your best friend, who's to say she won't continue doing it even if you declare me you "girlfriend"?! Nothing Sasuke!" Sakura seethed. "As much as you think you're doing me justice, you aren't because in the end of the day, I'm still going to be their target and you their goal"

Sasuke's felt like he got physically slapped in the face by the one person who he considered the most precious to him. He was just trying to help! What was he doing wrong? "But as a girlfriend, that's a level up Sakura, it'd be even more personal than just friends; don't you think she'd back off? As stupid as she is, she'd know better than to mess with me, and you know that too," the air was tense for as moments passed between them before he opened his mouth, again. "Please Sakura, trust me. I just want to protect you, please."

Sakura's eyes shot towards his and tried to find any trace of uncertainty to wriggle herself out of the sticky situation. But all she saw was true determination and an underlying emotion that she didn't really want to dissect at the moment. Exhausted as she was, she sighed and walked towards him and placed her palms on both of his cheeks tenderly…

Before she palmed them and squished them together, making him look like a child that she had grown up with, with the big, chubby cheeks and the slightly irritated look in his eyes whenever she did that. Sakura burst out laughing and started to make his face even more deformed by moving her hands around his face more, creating weirder faces and an even more irritated Sasuke.

Normally, Sasuke would remove her hands from his face and berate her for doing silly things to his face and then poke her forehead, but this time he continued to let her do as she pleased and just watch her laugh out of pure happiness. These were the days he lived for, the days he saw her real smile and her fake mask stripped away, lighting her face up with pure mirth. He wanted to see more of these days, more of her true personality and even more of the person she was supposed to be, and all he had to do was get rid of a certain red-haired annoyance.

Sakura continued to laugh until she had her fill of weird Sasuke faces and took her hands away from his face. Her eyes and mouth still slightly tilted up with a ghost of a laugh. "Okay, I guess that this is punishment enough. By the way, that's for the months of torture to come."

"So does that mean you're agreeing to this?" Sasuke asked, his face lit with hope. Please say yes, please say yes, he chanted the line like a sacred mantra in his mind.

"Yes my dear duck-haired friend, but there's just one thing I have to point out, this is not going to be real and nothing will happen between us alright?"

As soon as Sakura finished her sentence, a feeling of cold water pelting down his skin seemed to overcome him. He didn't know why, but what Sakura said seemed to leave a cold hole in his chest, but as the stubborn person he was, he didn't care to delve into understanding the feeling, nor did he want to find out.

"Okay, sure."

And that is how the days to come turned to become somewhat heaven and hell to the both of them.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter, now I ca finally put all of my creativity into work *evil cackles*. Keep an eye out for the new chapter :3