Alrighty I gotta say I'm disappointed. Only one review for the last chappie? It really tore me apart (jk). Yep so on ward.

Chapter 9

Sakura and Sasuke sat in a restaurant, Sauke just sitting there and Sakura eating a fried egg and some toast along with a few pieces of bacon. Abruptly she stopped eating and sat up with a disgusted look on her face.

"What?"

"Well it's good but I just realized that I'm eating a heart attack." She pushed the plate away, "and I'm full. So where are we going today?"

For the first time Sasuke a little unsure "I was thinking we should visit the hospital."

"The hospital? Why did I get hurt a lot on missions?" They were heading over to the hospital even as she voiced her misgivings.

"The only time you were at the hospital was when you were visiting me" and as an after thought he added, "or Lee."

"So I never got hurt on missions?"

"You never did anything to be hurt on missions. You just hung back and stayed out everyone's way." he stated bluntly.

Way to say it kindly.

That's just how he is.

"Hey Sasuke, why are you such an ice cube?" Sakura was only half teasing him. She really did want to know what made him so cold to others. It didn't look like he was going to answer so she just sighed and continued the one-sided conversation. "Do you think we'll see any one I know?"

"Lee and possibly Shizune."

"Who's Lee a friend of mine? Or possibly another medic." She mused to herself "I wonder what he's like."

"You'll know when you see him, trust me."

"Now there's an oxymoron. Trust you? Sasuke you do realize that the only thing I know about you is that you're my team mate and you have a ton of crazy fan girls."

"So you don't trust me." His voice was calculating and extremely cold.

"Hey I didn't say that. Against my better judgement I actually do trust you. But it's a very thin trust, based more on what others think of you than what I do."

"You shouldn't think according to how others tell you too."

"If I didn't I think I would trust you even more." Sakura walked ahead through the entrance to the hospital, leaving behind a very confused Sasuke.

The pink haired kunoichi found herself in a large waiting room. The ceiling was very high and the walls were as expected white. In the center of the room sat a plain wooden desk cluttered with papers. The secretary looked up as soon as Sakura entered the building.

"Sasuke isn't here today." she told her "or do you want to visit Lee?"

"Oh I know Sasuke-kun isn't here. Is Lee really back in the hospital?" Sakura asked pretending that all was normal.

"He's just here for a check up. It's room thirteen that you'll be looking for."

"Thank you. Oh, Sasuke-kun I'm going to visit Lee!" Sakura waved her arm in the air disappearing behind a door as Sasuke walked in. Grimacing he followed her into the long white hallway. Catching up with her he asked,

"Sasuke-kun?"

"I'm getting tiered of explaining what happened to people. From now on if I think I can fake it I will. Ah, room thirteen." She knocked lightly on the door, opening it when she heard a vioce call "come in".

"Hello Lee!"

"Greetings Sakura-chan! And Sasuke too? I was expecting Tsunade-sama. Are doing the check up instead?" He seemed genuinely surprised to see them both.

"Actually I was just visiting the hospital and I heard you were here so I decided to come see you. I met Sasuke here and since we're meeting Kakashi-sensei soon we decided to just go together."

Sasuke just barely kept his mouth closed. He never knew that Sakura could lie that easily, he wondered vaguely if she'd ever lied to him before. Sasuke also wondered how Lee could be so stupid as to believe her, he would never have gone with Sakura to visit Lee, he would have gone straight to the meeting spot brushing her off.

"Well we'd better go. See you around Lee!" Sakura waved good bye as Lee thanked them for coming. As soon as they were out of ear shot Sakura turned to him.

"So, did I act normal." He merely nodded. "Oh I see we're back to gestures again." she sighed.

Not really sure where they were heading Sakura decided to walk along the bank of the river when they reached the bridge. Wordlessly Sasuke followed her.

"Was I really that annoying before?" she asked.

"Yes."

"You idiot! Your supposed to say no!"

"Why should I lie?" He was teasing her now. He meant every word that he said but it in such a matter that one might believe that he didn't. Playfully she shoved him, just enough that he would lose his balance and stumble, but she had forgotten about the river. He toppled in and came back to the surface looking mildly surprised. Which of course sent Sakura into a fit of giggles. She took a step forward and offered him her hand, taking it Sasuke pulled himself out or he would have if Sakura hadn't started laughing again. Her knees collapsed under his weight and she went in with a splash.

When she reached the surface Sasuke expected her to be mad. Instead she just pulled herself to a shallowed part of the river and laughed again. "Oh, that was fun!". Sasuke too dragged himself out of the center of the river and using a low hanging tree branch pulled himself out. "We should go dry off, I can give you a change of clothes at my house. It's closer than Ino's."

Sakura was about to refuse but when she stood up and felt the bitter cold wind that cut right to the bone she agreed,

"We don't want another Ino incident, do we?"

Wearing a large t-shirt Sasuke had found and a pair of sweat pants Sakura sat in his kitchen, a mug of tea in her hand.

"You know your house is a lot brighter than I imagined it to be." she told him looking at the cheery yellow kitchen.

Sasuke was about to reply when he was cut off by complete darkness and an ear piercing scream.

Ohhh cliffie! And it was one of my longer chapters. Or maybe it wasn't longer... Please reveiw.

-Fumei