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Chapter 10: The Lake

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Saturday was the day that they were supposed to go to the lake with all their friends. Sasuke had gotten up earlier than she normally would on a Saturday morning and gotten dressed and everything ready to go to the lake. She probably wouldn't have been so excited if she had known that the day was going to be as miserable as the day outside which was dark and cloudy.

"Sasuke are you ready to go?" Naruto said with a bright smile that made her heart be a little faster.

"Yeah, I'm ready," she said. "I'm surprised that you are."

"Shut up," he said with a smile.

"Before you two go, sit down and eat," Iruka said with a look that said not to argue.

"Thanks for breakfast Iruka," Sasuke smiled as she sat down.

"Yeah, thanks," Naruto sat down.

Iruka looked at Naruto, somewhat surprised, he usually never said thank you for breakfast, "You're welcome."

The two of them ate rather quickly as they wanted to get to the lake as soon as they could and they still had to meet up with all of their friends and drive to the lake, which wasn't a quick drive.

"We'd better get going, have you called Kiba yet?" Sasuke asked as she got up.

"Not yet, I'll call him now," Naruto said as he pulled out his phone.

He quickly called the brunette and waited for him to answer, but when he did, it was not the awake voice he expected but rather a tired one, "Hello?"

"Hey dude, are you ready to go to the lake?" Naruto asked.

Kiba let out a yawn, "Oh yeah, man I just woke up."

"Moron, okay well hurry up and get ready, we're going to meet up with everyone at Denny's."

"Okay, you know what I like, order my usual," he said with another yawn.

"Just hurry up lazy ass," Naruto said as he rolled his eyes.

"Okay, okay," Kiba chuckled as he hung up.

"Let me guess, he was still asleep," Sasuke said as Naruto put the phone in his pocket.

"Of course he was, but he's going to meet us at Denny's I'm going to call everyone else really quick and make sure that they are up," Naruto said.

"But we already ate," Sasuke said.

"So? I highly doubt anyone else has," Naruto shrugged.

"So you want to eat again just so everyone else can eat?" she raised an eyebrow at him.

"You don't have to eat, just have fun with friends," he smiled.

"Whatever, hurry up and call people," she said as she went into her room and grabbed her things that she was taking to the lake that day and started to take them out to the car.

Naruto quickly called their friends, most of who were awake and ready to go, and within a half an hour, they were at Denny's.

Shikamaru, Chouji, Naruto, and Sasuke sat at Denny's waiting for the food they had ordered to come when Kiba walked in.

"Okay we have to hurry because Akamaru is in the car, I have the window partly down but still we have to hurry," Kiba said.

"Oh right, I was supposed to order for you," Naruto said with nervous laugh as he stared at his best friend.

"You mean you didn't?" Kiba glared.

"No I'm sorry," he gave a small smile.

"Its fine, I'm not even hungry," he sighed.

"I have an idea, how about Kiba and I head to the lake ahead of time it can get pretty crowded up there and this way we can get a good spot," Sasuke said.

Kiba smiled, "Sounds like a good idea to me."

"Just call me when you get close and we'll tell you where we are," Sasuke said to Naruto.

"Okay," he said as he gave a small glare to Kiba.

"Kiba smirked at him, "See you when you get there."

They walked out of the restaurant and Chouji looked at Naruto, "So want to tell us why you're glaring at your best friend?"

"What? I wasn't glaring," Naruto said with a fake smile.

"And I want to go to the lake to swim today, not to lay in the shade," Shikamaru said sarcastically. "I thought you two were done fighting over her."

Naruto glared at him, "I like her, he likes her, and it is bound to cause problems."

"Who does she like?" Shikamaru asked.

"She doesn't seem to know," he sighed.

"Bummer," Chouji said.

"And you just let her go off with him?" Shikamaru asked.

"What was I supposed to do?" Naruto frowned.

"Tell them it would be easier to stay, after all it is hard to find people at a crowded lake," Shikamaru said.

"I guess but I told Sasuke there would be no drama today, I don't want to be the one to cause the drama," Naruto said.

"True, let's just hurry and eat then," Shikamaru said.

"Thanks guys," he smiled.

Kiba and Sasuke got to the lake to find that it was not very crowded. Where the lake would usually be so crowded that it would be hard to find a spot to set your things down and sit, let alone if you wanted to lay down and suntan, on this particular day there were so many spots that they could pick from multiple spots.

"I thought you guys said this lake was really crowded," Sasuke said as she looked around.

"It usually is, this is weird that it's not today," Kiba said.

"Whatever, let's just find somewhere to sit," Sasuke said as they walked toward the lake and found a nice sandy area to sit.

Akamaru was off the leash and running around near them and every now and then, he ran down into the water and then would run back out.

Sasuke just watched the dog; she didn't know what to talk about with Kiba at that moment. It was awkward as they just sat there in silence, but she wished it were comfortable silence.

She looked at him and knew that he wanted to say something, anything, but there really wasn't anything to say. She almost thanked god when her cell phone rang.

"Hello?" She answered.

"Hey we're almost there, where are you guys?" Naruto asked.

"Well, when you get here you'll see that there aren't really many people here so I think you'll be able to find us pretty easily," she said happily.

"Okay, cool, we'll see you in a little bit," he said before he hung up.

Within ten minutes Naruto, Chouji and Shikamaru were at the lake and had found their spot.

"You guys didn't have to wait to get in," Naruto said with a smile.

"How would I have heard my cell phone if I was in the water?" Sasuke asked.

"As you said it wasn't hard to find you," he laughed as he sat next to her and she rolled her eyes.

"Who said we wanted to go in the water?" Sasuke asked as she looked at him.

Naruto was silent for a moment then smirked and stood up and asked, "Who said you had a choice?"

"Naruto, don't you dare," she said.

"What shouldn't he dare?" a familiar voice said from behind them.

Sasuke froze as she turned her head with an icy glare toward the voice, "What are you doing here Suigetsu?"

"I told you I won't give up," he smirked.

"Please, just go away," she said as she got up and walked away.

He followed her, "I know you love me!"

"I'm not in love with you, get it through your head," she said as she shook her head.

"No, I won't," he said as he stepped closer to her.

"She said back off," Kiba said as he stepped between them. Naruto grabbed onto her arm and pulled her away from the two, knowing Kiba was going to start a fight.

"Make me," Suigetsu said as he pushed Kiba.

"I'll do just that," Kiba said as he punched him.

"Guys stop!" she yelled as they started to fight.

"Come on," Naruto said quietly to Sasuke. "Let's get out of here."

She nodded as she followed him away from the fighting and to the car. The slightly cloudy day turned into ran as they ran to the blonde's car.

"What about the other's?" Sasuke said.

"I promised a day of relaxation, and that's not relaxing, I think they'll understand," Naruto said. "Plus they can all get home in Kiba and Shikamaru's car."

"Thank you," she said in a slightly weak voice as he pulled out of his parking spot at the lake.

He just smiled, "Anytime."

They drove to the small park close to their house as Sasuke didn't want to go home and didn't want to stay at the lake. "You know, I really thought today was going to be a good day," Sasuke said as he looked down.

He just smiled at her and said softly, "It still can be, I mean don't let your ex ruin your day."

She looked up at him and her heartbeat sped up, "We should just go home, I need to think about some things."

He just nodded, "Your wish is my command."

As they headed home, Sasuke knew that she had many choices to think about, yet had no clue as to the answers.

TBC...