A/N: Hey! Really love that a few people came up with suggestions! I'm going to try to incorporate some into this chapter, and others I'll implement into later chapters. Hehehe I came up with this idea really quickly but I think you guys will like it! :) On to the chapter!

Dealing with an Uchiha

Chapter 10: The Path from Sake

"Ino, give me a second!" I sighed as I shoved a pink bikini into my bag.

"Well hurry up, Forehead! We don't have all day!" she complained as she swiveled herself around again in my desk chair. "It's already 3:20!"

I looked at my friend incredulously. "That means that we have another forty minutes! And since when were you ever concerned about being early?"

She threw her arms into the air and gave me a look as if to say "really?!" "Since Jiraiya-sensei said that we'd be left behind if we don't get there by four! And from my experience, Sakura, 'There by four' means at least five minutes before."

"No duh." I said, dropping a stick of deodorant and bottles of shampoo and conditioner into my bag.

"I just want to get there, Sakura." Ino groaned.

"Fine, we'll get there. But we're wasting time by talking. Just let me pack."

"Did you tell your parents about the trip?" she asked. I raised my eyebrows at her. I opened my mouth to say something but she beat me to it.

"Your mom texted me and told me to let her know if something comes up."

Whoa… my mom texts…?

"Yeah, I told her." I responded. Pig nodded.

"Alright," I said, placing my hands on my hips in triumph. "I'm finally done! Chargers, computer, phone, clothes, goggles just in case, shampoo, soap and conditioner, a beach towel, sunscreen, bathing suit, flip flops, sneakers, and one pair of small heels since you tend to drag people off to parties… Um… I've got a book, my headphones, earbuds and mp3 player, my taser and… That's it! Okay! Let's head out!" I said, snatching my bag up from my bed and running out of my room with Ino stomping behind me.

"Finally!" she exclaimed while she rolled her eyes. I went over to Sasori and Rin who were sitting in the living room watching TV.

"I'm going!" I kissed Rin on the top of her head and noogied Sasori before jumping out of the front door and dashing to Ino's car where Hinata was waiting patiently.

"Let's go!" I jumped in the passenger's seat and we headed out to the school.

We started boarding the bus just as Tenten and Neji arrived.

"Sorry we're late!" Tenten told Jiraiya-sensei as she ran up to the door of the bus.

"That's alright, Tenten. Just make sure that next time you make it early by at least five minutes." Tsunade-sama answered for our teacher. "And you, Mr. Hyuga," she pointed at Neji. "I would have expected you to come a half hour earlier. But never mind that. Hurry up and get on the bus.

I watched as Tenten nodded and scrambled onto the bus. She looked around and finally spotted me and the rest of our friends. She hurriedly sped down the aisle and swung into the seat next to me.

"Hey." She said to us.

"Hi!" Ino yelled, jumping up from behind Tenten's seat.

"What the heck, Ino." Tenten almost shouted.

"Hey Ino…" Kiba came up beside Ino and lightly touched her arm, making Pig's face turn pink.

"Yeah?" she replied.

Kiba leaned in and whispered something in her ear and Ino shook her head. He whispered something else in her ear and this time she smirked in a flirty manner and shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not." She said. Then suddenly her face turned red. "Okay, okay… fine." Again, Kiba whispered in her ear and walked back to his seat. He eyed Ino – who was frozen in her spot – for a few seconds and turned away to continue a conversation with Sai – who seemed to be insulting Naruto.

"Ino, is there something that you'd like to tell us?" Temari asked, wiggling her eyebrows.

"Uh… Okay." Ino whispered as she sat back down. We all leaned in to listen to what she was going to say, but she picked up her phone and started typing.

"Really, Ino? Stalling?" I said. She ignored me and after two minutes, I heard four ringtones go off.

"I-Ino…. W-why didn't y-y-you t-tell u-us t-this be-f-fore?" Hinata asked.

"Yeah, Pig! Seriously! This is huge!" I exclaimed. I looked over at Kiba and noticed him looking back at us, shaking his head. 'Oh… I guess he didn't want it to get out…' Well too bad for him. 'Would you just leave me alone?' Fine. You're mean.

Tenten took forever to react. Meanwhile, Temari walked over to Ino and bonked her on the head nonchalantly.

"Temari!" Ino wailed, clutching her head.

"You brought it upon yourself, Ino." Temari sighed, shaking her head.

"Uh… Well I guess now's a good time for confessions…" Tenten hesitated before continuing. "Well… A few days ago at lunch…. When I was waiting for you guys to come, Neji came over and sat on my legs because I wouldn't move and… We kissed…" She looked down, blushing.

Hinata smirked – the first time I think that I've ever seen her smirk… "S-s-see, T-Tenten? I-I t-t-told y-you he l-likes y-you."

"But he –"

"No, Tenten! Listen to Hinata! Would he have kissed you if he didn't like you? No, right! I mean, you should know! You're his best friend!" Ino screamed, flailing her arms in the air like a mad person.

"Actually Ino, he would. Plus, he said that since we had an indirect kiss, he wanted –"

"Wait a minute! What's this about an indirect kiss?!" Ino screamed. The chatter on the bus stopped and everyone turned to look at Ino. Somehow, she didn't even notice.

"Ino, be quiet! You have the whole bus staring at you!" Temari hissed. She stood up and said to everyone, "Get back to what you were doing! Quit being so nosy and mind your own business!" The entire bus immediately complied, too afraid to even think of what Temari would do them if they didn't.

She sat back down calmly, crossing her legs, and turned to Tenten. "Continue."

"So I was throwing grapes at him and I licked one. He didn't see me do that so he picked the grape up from his lap and ate it… I told him that I licked it and then he kissed me. He said that indirect kisses are stupid and that he'd rather kiss me for real.

Just then I saw a wall of white cloth and looked up to see Neji standing beside Tenten.

"That's right. There's no point in indirect kisses. I don't understand why so many people obsess over things like that. At least obsess over the real thing." He cut in. Tenten jumped and swiveled around in her chair to face Neji. As soon as she looked up at him, his head came down and he kissed her. I saw Tenten's eyes bulge and lean forward a bit, but the second that she did that Neji retracted his head and stood up straight.

"Just in case you wanted proof that I actually did kiss her." He walked away nonchalantly, like he didn't just kiss his best friend.

Tenten was frozen in her spot, left staring at the place where Neji stood a few moments ago.

"Oh my god, Tenten!" Ino squealed. "Are you guys dating now?" Tenten remained in the same place with the same shocked expression, staring at the same spot with her mouth slightly open. Strands of hair were falling out of one of her buns on her head where Neji had held her head while they kissed.

"Hey, Ten." I snapped a finger in front of her face and it got her attention.

"Uhuh…" She sounded dazed. We could all tell that she was mesmerized by the memory of the recent event.

"T-T-Tenten-ch-chan, I-Ino-chan a-asked i-if you and N-Neji-nii-s-san a-are t-to-gether."

Tenten shook her head.

"Get together, then!" Ino said, excitedly shaking Tenten by the shoulders.

"Calm down, Yamanaka." Temari snorted.

"Don't tell me you're not going crazy too!" Ino snapped back.

"I am, but I go crazy on the inside – so I don't hurt anyone on the outside."

"Oh, whatever."

xx A xx

"Woohoo!" Everyone cheered once we drove into the parking lot of Kirigakure's one and only resort; one of the bests, from what I've heard. Students ran out of the bus doors by twos and threes, hauling their things along with them and sprinting to the cold, dark waters of the beach.

I chased Tenten and Ino to the edge of the water and collapsed onto the sand, stretching out to get used to being able to have more than a foot of space for my own.

"I-I c-c-can't believe t-that w-we were o-on the b-bus f-f-for t-ten h-hours." Hinata said once she and Temari caught up to us.

"I know right." Temari agreed as she sat down next to me.

"Hey guys let's swim!" Naruto exclaimed as he ran towards us in his swim trunks and giant goggles.

"No! Are you crazy? It's fricking two A.M. and the water is so cold! Feel it!" I splashed some water onto Naruto's feet. He jumped back and shivered a bit.

"I guess it is cold, but we should be able to get used to it, right?"

"Did you not hear me? I said it's two A.M. we don't need to be swimming right now. We have time later."

"But I wanna swim now!" he whined.

"Hinata-chan! Swim with me?" he begged and grabbed Hinata's arm, pulling her towards the water.

"No! Don't do that to –" Tenten started.

"S-sure N-Naruto-k-kun." Hinata stuttered. Even in the dim moonlight, I could see the light tint of pink on the Hyuga heiress's cheeks.

"Yay! Thank you Hina-chan!" Naruto hugged her and kissed her on the head.

My eyes widened and I suddenly became afraid that Hinata was going to fall to the ground at any given second. I was relieved to hear her voice, but was still worried that she could cave in.

"O-of c-c-course N-Naruto-ku – Aiee!" She squealed when Naruto dragged into the rugged waters of the sea. "N-N-N-N-Naruto-k-k-k-kun! It's s-s-s-s-so c-c-c-c-cold!" She rubbed her arms to try to reserve what warmth wasn't robbed of her.

"Oh, Hinata-chan! Sorry!" Naruto said and enveloped Hinata in a tight hug. He rubbed her arms and back for her and held onto her shivering form.

The rest of us smirked to one another. Temari fake-yawned and stood up with her things in hand. "Okay. I'll leave you guys to the hands of the sea. Have fun you two. I'm going to sleep." She winked at us and waved to the couple in the water, turning around and marching up the beach to the twinkling candle lights of the resort.

I yawned too and followed Temari's lead. "I'm pretty tired too. See you guys in the morning."

"B-b-b-but!" Hinata stuttered, turning around to see us smiling mischievously at her.

"Yeah, sorry Hinata. I need to tell Neji something and after that I'm going straight to sleep. Have 'fun'!" she quoted the word "fun" just to tease the poor girl.

Ino smiled at Hinata too and cheerily made an excuse to leave. "Hina-chan!" Ino called out to the girl being squeezed by our other blonde idiot of a friend. "I need my beauty sleep. I couldn't sleep with all of the vibrations of the bus. Sorry hon. Night-night!" she waved to Hinata and scampered up to Tenten and I, snickering at our mean little way of getting Naruto and Hinata together.

As soon as we made it into the resort, Ino turned to Tenten with an evil smirk and asked, "So what are you going to ask Neji, eh? Or are you guys going to have a little make out session in his room?"

"What?!" Tenten exclaimed, her face gradually becoming a darker shade of red as Ino and I continued to look at her for a legitimate response. She stared at us, her eyes screaming panic.

"N-no!" She stuttered and jogged over to the front desk of the hotel.

"U-um, could I please know which room I'm in? I'm with Konoha High School. My name is Tenten."

The man at scanned the computer in front of him and mouthed the word "ah", looking up at Tenten with a smile. "Yes, you're in room 415 with …" he looked at his screen again. "Hyuga." He looked back up at Tenten, still smiling at her.

"Could I know the first name, please?" I could hear the jitteriness in her voice.

"A Neji, ma'am."

I couldn't believe my ears.

I blinked. "Excuse me?" I asked. I needed to make sure that I was hearing correctly – not hallucinating.

The man in front of me looked at me uncertainly. "Neji Hyuga, ma'am." He repeated.

"A-are you s-s-sure?" I pinched myself from behind the desk.

"Yes, it's what it says." He turned his monitor around so that I could see. "Are you alright?"

"Y-yes. I'm just a bit surprised. Thank you." I took the key card from the desk and turned around quickly, speed walking to the elevators without looking up at my friends. I stepped into the elevator and pushed '4', waiting as the doors closed and the machine started going up.

The only thing on my mind was how I was going to survive the next few days and nights sharing a room with Neji. Sure, he's my best friend and we had sleepovers since we were four, but… This is different.

'Are there two beds? Please be a big room… Oh god, I don't change in the bathroom…'

After about a minute of freaking out, I started fantasizing.

Ding! I looked up and saw that a little girl – around three years old – and her mother we standing in front of me, staring and waiting for me to step out.

"Is this your floor?" she asked.

It took me to get my head together and nod. I walked into the corridor and smiled sheepishly at the woman. She had to be around twenty-five.

"Tired, huh?" she yawned.

"Yeah. Does she like to swim?" I asked, gesturing to her daughter who was dozing off in her arms. She was wearing a green and pink polka-dot one-piece swimsuit with a little tutu around her waist. Her mom was carrying two towels on her shoulder and a set of tiny goggles in her hand.

"Yes, she does. She begged me to go to the pool and the time flew past my mind." She chuckled and kissed her daughter's head.

I smiled. "Well I hope you both had a great time. By the looks of it, she did, at least. Goodnight."

"Hehehe, it seems like it. Goodnight."

I started hesitantly walking down the corridor, scanning the room numbers.

It wasn't until I reached the other side of the corridor that I came across the twenties. "Nineteen… eighteen… seventeen… Fifteen." I grasped the door handle in my hand and took a deep breath before inserting the key card and stepping inside of the room.

xx H xx

I eyed Tenten while she walked to the elevators alone. She looked like she was in a daze – I wasn't really surprised. I had waited for the others in the lobby until they came up because I had a feeling that they had the same idea that I did. Or at least that they were following my lead.

I stepped up to the counter and asked for my room number and the name of my roommate. I was a bit scared to find out – seeing how it turned out for Tenten. I had a small feeling in the pit of my stomach that it was going to be Shikamaru.

"Room 230 and your roommate is Yamanaka Ino." He smiled and handed me a key card just as Ino bounced up behind me and started jumping excitedly.

"Yay! We're in the same room! Could I have a key card, please?" she waited while the man at the desk fished another card from a drawer, swiped it, and handed it to her. We waited for Sakura but couldn't hear anything that was said because Ino was busy screaming in my ear. By the time that we get home I'll be going to the doctor for hearing aids.

Sakura walked up to us with a dismayed expression. "I'm alone…"

"What? I expected you to be roommates with Hinata." I said, shoving Ino onto a couch.

"Well, I'm not. It's definitely going to be fun!" she said, putting up a sarcastic thumbs up.

"What floor are you on?"

"Nine." She replied.

"Heh, lucky you're not on the thirteenth."

"You're not on the thirteenth floor, though."

"Yeah, but there is a thirteenth floor." I said.

"Actually, Temari, I don't think there is."

"People on the fourteenth floor know what floor they're really on.*"

Sakura laughed a bit and we started towards the elevators with Ino running to catch up with us.

xx A xx

"Gather around, youthful blossoms!" Gai-sensei called. We were gathered in the lobby of the resort, scrambling around to find our friends and form groups to walk around with. "We're about to take the bus to the city! It's about ten minutes from here so you all will survive this ride. Get into groups of five and you will be allowed to roam the city as you please. The area that we will be visiting is primarily a marketing area. Be careful children! Now get your young bosoms over and onto the buses!"

I looked at Ino, mouthing "awkward" and walked to the second bus.

"Alright, girls!" Ino shouted, linking her arms in Hinata's and Temari's. "It's time for some shopping!"

Ino dragged us off to multiple stores the minute that we got off of the bus. By the end of two hours, she had literally eleven bags in her hands and made us carry at least eight. She was taking us over to a Forever 21 and began shuffling from rack to rack to find "the perfect outfit".

I groaned and looked around the room for somewhere to sit.

"Ino, are you seriously buying something else?" I whined – since I was the one that she forced to carry everything. Those bags were the heavy ones, too.

"Yeah, Ino. How do you even have this much money?" Temari asked, snatching a bag from me and sitting on the ground against the wall closest to the fitting rooms.

"Did you guys seriously forget? We've known each other since, what, first grade?" she sighed as she held a yellow dress against herself in front of the mirror.

"Y-y-yeah g-g-guys. I-I-Ino's fami-ily o-owns a l-l-large d-decorating c-company." Hinata reminded us while she searched through the rack of earrings.

"Ha, yeah I forgot." Temari snorted. "We know too many rich people."

Ino twirled around to stare at Temari. "Hey! What is that supposed to mean?" She never did like it when people referred to her as "rich". But then again, she's bound to be described as that. People can't really help calling wealthy people rich. Besides, wealthy isn't in a lot of people's vocabulary as far as I've seen. I doubt she'd like that term either, anyways.

"It's supposed to mean that we know too many rich people." Temari replied bluntly.

"Well she has a point." Tenten interjected. "I mean, there are you, Naruto, Sasuke," she named each person while counting the number off with her fingers. "And heck, even the Hyugas."

"Yeah… It's actually really crazy." I said, sitting down next to Temari.

"Well, sorry. I can't really help it." Ino sighed again.

"Ino, do you know how snobby that sounds?" I asked.

Pig looked up for a moment in thought and looked back at me. "Huh, I actually didn't notice."

I rolled my eyes at her. 'Of course she didn't know. No point in asking, Sakura. No point in asking.'

"Oh my god, Ino… Are we done yet?" Tenten groaned as she struggled to lug five of Ino's ten million bags across the road. Out of all of us, she's one of the most athletic and strongest ones, so that means that whatever Ino got was pretty heavy. And Ten already had her stuff to carry around – she doesn't like having to carry things around.

"Almost. I just want to check out this one store really quick then we can go." She said, skipping over to Levi's. I looked in the window and ran over to Ino to try and stop her.

I grabbed her shoulder, "I don't think you wanna go in there."

She gave me a "what the heck?" look and turned around to go into the store. Once she opened it she immediately shut it closed again and turned on her heel to walk away.

"Hehehe. I told you, Pig."

"Well you didn't tell me that the employees in there were going to be half-naked!"

"Ino, the windows are glass – see through." Tenten sighed.

"Whatever…" Ino grumbled.

She started off down the sidewalk, rummaging through her purse when she bumped into Tsunade-sama.

"Oh! Ino Yamanaka, watch where you walk! You don't want to get snatched by some creep. Hehehe. Hey! I was just on my way to a casino for a little gambling but I was gonna stop by this place for a second and grab a few bottles. Want to come with me?" she asked. It was a well known fact that my shishou was both a gambler and quite the alcoholic.

It was clear that she was drunk.

Ino looked back at us – first with a shocked expression. That of which transformed into a very devilish grin. "Sure!" she chimed.

She followed Tsunade-sama into the liquor shop that just happened to be right next to us. Hmm… I watched with the rest of the girls as the two blondes walked in nonchalantly as our school principal grabbed at least ten bottles of sake and brought them over to the counter, where an unsuspecting thirty year old man almost fell out of his seat from the sudden slamming of bottles on the counter where he was resting his head to take a nap.

A few seconds later, the two were walking out of the shop looking especially gleeful. Tsunade-sama had a big bag in her hand and she pulled Ino into a big embrace.

"Ah, it's been forever since someone came into the liquor shop with me! At least, it feels that way. I think it was a year or two ago when Orochimaru and Jiraiya came in with me and then they ran off… Hmm… I really, to this day, don't understand why." She shook her head, giving up on trying to find an answer to her question.

"Well, don't tell anyone about this, okay Ino-chan?" she whispered as she pulled out three bottles and put them in Ino's giant purse. She put a finger to her lips and smiled. They started walking towards us and that's when Tsunade-sama noticed us.

"Oh! Are you with them?" she asked, pointing to us. "Sakura-chan! Oh, Ino-chan's with you, isn't she?"

She turned back to Ino and tapped her finger on her chin for a few moments in contemplation. Then suddenly she beamed at all of us and clapped Ino on the back. "Okay! You can share with them! Just make sure you don't give any to that Karin girl. Who knows how she'll fly off the handle, eh? Well I'm off! Wish me luck!"

We watched as Tsunade-sama strode casually (in a drunk way) down the sidewalk and turned into a random store. I turned around to see Ino giggling and start to head back to the buses.

"Come on, Hinata!" Ino begged for the millionth time.

"I-I-Ino-ch-chan! I d-don't w-w-want to get i-in t-trouble!" Hinata hissed.

We were sitting out on the beach by the water, trying to avoid the rest of the crowd. I shivered from my memory of the most recent event that I had just finished ranting about.

After we got back from the city, I went to my room to change into something comfortable and cool to wear so that I could peacefully hang out at the beach. I took out my swimsuit and began changing, and at that same moment my door opened. I was shocked because I didn't know that anyone could enter my room without the proper key card – until I remembered that I decided for some reason to leave it open just a crack. Once I recovered from shock I scrambled to get under the covers of my bed, which failed miserably.

I looked up to see Sasuke staring at me with a horrified expression. "W-w-what the hell?!" I screamed at him, reaching out to grab my bikini and slip the top on.

"I thought that this was Naruto's room." He replied nonchalantly.

"Well it's not! I don't know why you'd think that!"

"He sent me a text that said room 1131. Look." He shoved his phone in front of my face so that I could see what he was talking about.

I rolled my eyes at Naruto's stupidity. "No! He gave you the wrong number!"

"Yeah, I see that now." Sasuke growled, turning around to grab hold of the door knob. I started to get out of the bed, thinking that he was leaving until he turned back around and said, "Someone was listening to us. Watch out. I think you may have a stalker or something."

Then with that, he walked out the door and shut it behind him.

I couldn't get the feeling of being exposed out of my head. I think that I was traumatized. For some reason, I wasn't quite concerned that someone may have been eavesdropping on us earlier. I know that I should have been, though.

"But Hinata! It won't be for too long! And I promise I'll clean up and make sure that no one knows and that there's no evi-" Ino whined again before Hinata cut her off.

"N-No, I-Ino!"

"Please!"

"F-Fine!"

Ino jumped up and cheered, running into the sea and splashing water at a group of people beside her. She ran back to us and dragged Hinata by her arm up to the resort. "Come on guys! Party time!" she called.

"Whooo!" Tenten screamed while she danced with Ino in the middle of Hinata's room. Ino decided to bring out the three bottles of sake and make Hinata's room into a tiny party place. So far, we've gone through a whole bottle. I only had around four small cups, but I was already feeling woozy.

"Come on, Sak!" Ino said, hip bumping Tenten.

"No, not right now!" I called back. I took a bite of the veggie pizza that we ordered and picked up my phone, debating with myself whether or not to text DarkRaven. When I thought of Sasuke in my room and looked up to see Ino and Tenten pulling Hinata and Temari over to dance with them I immediately brought up a chat with him.

Watchforcherry7: Hey hon. U awake?

I waited for a few minutes, watching Hinata drink a surprising amount of sake and Temari video tape Ino stripping for no apparent reason…

DarkRaven7: Ya. Wuts up babe

Watchforcherry7: My friends r partying and being rlly weird. They're getting drunk and I think that I may b 2. O_O

DarkRaven7: O babe, that's a big nono.

Watchforcherry7: Hahaha I know

DarkRaven7: Omg I have 2 go babe srry. My friends r being rlly annoying. Sometimes they're such a pain in the ass. Lol

Watchforcherry7: Aww that makes meh sad :'( anyways night hon

DarkRaven7: Talk 2 u l8r ;)

Watchforcherry7: Muah!

I sighed and put my phone on the bed beside me. I looked over at my friends and saw them doing pretty much the same thing that they were before; getting drunk, dancing, and being total weirdoes.

"Come on, Sakura!" Tenten exclaimed, grabbing my arm and trying to pull me over to where the rest of them were.

"No, I'd really rather not, Ten." I sighed again. Ino came over, holding three cups of sake in her hand. She shoved a cup into my hand and wiggled her eyebrows at me.

"Why not have another, Sak?" she asked mischievously. She…was trying to do something…

I reluctantly accepted the drink and downed it all in one gulp. I stared into the ceramic glass, longing for that fire shooting down my throat again. Ino's smile never left her face as she handed me the second glass in her hand.

"That's why I brought three, hon." I snatched the cup from her hand and again, I downed the sake. After that cup I could feel myself begin to lose control of my own mind and body. Ino gulped down the last cup in her hand and started to drag me out onto the "dance floor" with Hinata and Temari. I still had enough self-control to resist her pulls and tugs. When she started yelling, I could tell that she was definitely drunk.

"Dammit, Sakura! Stop being such a fricking *quack* and just have fun! It's so annoying when you always try to resist when we try to hang out and have a good time! I don't understand why you have to be like this! Am I really that horrible to you, Sakura? Am I, because if I am, I'd like to know."

I could feel tears swelling up in my eyes. I think that the alcohol really was getting to my head, but I couldn't really help it. I guess that I'm just the sad-drunk type…

"Well I'm so sorry!" I exclaimed, throwing a pillow at Ino, picking up my phone and running out the door. I took the elevator down to the lobby and jogged out to the beach. I walked along the shoreline, kicking rocks, pebbles, sand, and shells as I silently cried to myself. I couldn't understand at the time why I was so upset, just that I haven't heard Ino call me that name so sincerely since we were younger and all that we did was fight.

"Haruno!" I heard someone call out. I didn't want to look up. I didn't want to respond. I didn't want to react at all. All that I really wanted was time to myself.

"Haruno! I'm talking to you!" the voice got closer and I could hear the crunching of feet on sand behind me. A hand reached out to grab my shoulder and twirl me around so that I was facing them. I looked up into the furious face of Karin and her gang.

"I saw what happened today with Sasuke-kun." Karin declared, pointing her polished purple nail at me.

"What?" I couldn't understand what she meant. I didn't remember anything about Sasuke at the moment.

"Don't lie to me you *quack*! You know exactly what I'm talking about! I saw your little moment with Sasuke-kun in your room while you were naked. If you think that you can get away with this, you're a *quack*ing idiot!"

"I-I d-don't remember…" I stuttered. I was afraid of hearing anymore name calling and accusations after Ino. And judging by how Karin's group was surrounding me and Karin's tone, this wasn't going to be a little school-girl fight. Even me in my drunken state could tell that.

"It's unbelievable; the nerve that you have to even try to lure my Sasuke-kun into such a trap! And the fact that you thought that it would actually work is sad." Karin took a step towards me. "And not only have you badmouthed Sasuke-kun and used that as a diversion to try to get in his pants, you screw up my life every day in school! I can't stand having you and your stupid friends around to get me into some sort of trouble that I don't even deserve to go through! You quacks need to learn your lesson, and so we'll start with you."

She shoved me into one of her friends, who shoved me into another gang member. This cycle kept repeating and I was too drunk to do anything about it. Eventually I came to a halt at the center of the circle, only to collapse to the ground and be kicked continuously by Karin and her friends.

They yelled insults and curses at me; calling me an inconsiderate, soulless person, an animal, thief, b**** (quack), skank, and a fake pinkette. In the middle of everything, I was able to roll over and escape from in between Ami's legs. I ran like the wind, all the way back to the resort from which I previously needed to escape from. I shielded my face with my arms to hide the bruises that covered it – and also to conceal the tears that came streaming down my face.

I ran into the elevator and smashed my thumb onto a random number: seven. I waited as the elevator slowly rose to the seventh floor, softly sobbing to myself. Finally, the elevator doors opened and I came bursting into the corridor.

A/N: Yay I'm done! Hope you liked this chapter! What comes next is the actual exciting part, so … Yeah. I'll try to update soon. I stayed up until three in the morning writing this for you guys while my friend was passed out and it actually was quite hard to write in a tiny notebook with her arm on it. Hehehe so yeah. Review please and tell meh what you think should happen next! ;) Happy Independence Day, btw! :D

*That is actually a Mitch Hedberg joke. You should look it up on youtube or something for the better effect. ;P

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