Taru: I'm not going to apologize for this one being late because someone very close to my family died last Tuesday night.

Aki: And her memorial was on Saturday.

Taru: Yeah, so that's why this was a little shorter and took so long to get out. It's very hard to write a romantic comedy when you're still sad about someone dear dying.

Miyuki: It's all right, Taru.

Taru: I know, but I still don't feel well enough to do my stupid funny author notes. Oh, and this is the ONE and ONLY WARNING: If anyone dares to post that "if you don't do this your love life will suck" or "if you don't do this a dwarf will pull out your eyeballs tonight at midnight" BULLSHIT I swear to God that I will delete this story and take more time out of my schedule to send the chapters strait to peoples e-mails. I don't care. I've never sent a single one of those fucking chain letters and my love life is fan-fucking-tabulous!! Just ask my friends.

Miyuki: It's pretty good.

Aki: There are some problems, but everyone has them.

Taru: And those ones that say someone's gonna kill you, well I'm still fucking alive aren't I?! So for those of you who post that shit, do it some-fucking-where else! Now, for those of you nice reviewers who supported me, thank you. And I'm sorry you had to read that. I'm just depressed and angry and really tired, so please bear with me.

Aki: Yeah, and now you can read the chappy.


Recap:

"Of course." He smiled once more as Lee and I turned around.

I sighed. "Well, I guess I'll just head over to Hinata's then. You coming, Lee?"

"No, I have to get back home. I'll just see you tomorrow." He smiled, waving as we went our seperate ways.

Chapter eleven: New people just keep coming!

Once I had finally made it to Hinata's mansion I rang the door bell. A girl, who looked about four or five years younger than Hinata, answered the door. "Um, is Hinata home?"

"She's busy right now. You will see her tomorrow at school. Good night." She said, bowing respectfully before closing the door.

I stared at the door for a second and blinked a couple times. "O...k...?" I shook my head and turned around and headed back towards home. The sun was already starting to go down and I still had a distance to go. Damn, why did Hinata have to live so far from everyone and everything else? I saw an empty bus stop and decided to rest a little on the bench. Man, the walk didn't seem so far when I was with my friends. I closed my eyes and leaned against the back of the bench.

"Can I please join your club, Zetsu? PLEASE?!" I looked down the street and saw that boy from earlier, Tobi I think it was, was talking to a...giant plant?! I was half expecting it to say, "Feed me, Seymour!"

"Tobi is a good boy. But the Leader said no." The plant thing, Zetsu, said.

"But, Zetsu-"

"Hush." Zetsu said, cutting Tobi off. He stared at me for a second before turning around and leading Tobi back in the direction that they came from.

So...I'm guessing whatever they were talking about is a secret? Eh, whatever. I got up and stretched a little before continuing on my way. I hummed Sandei by Asian Kung-Fu Generation as I kicked a can the had been left in the middle of the sidewalk. I kicked it up into the air and started bouncing it off my knees like a soccer ball.

"She shoots, she scores!!" I laughed kicking the can with all the force I could and sending it strait to the back of some guys head. Oh shit!! I ran over to him and helped him up. "I'm so sorry!! Are you ok?"

He fixed his glasses and smiled. "I'm fine, just a little bump." He was pretty tall and had silver hair that was pulled back in a pony tail. "My name is Kabuto, by the way."

"I'm Sakura." I smiled. "Are you sure you're ok? I can kick things pretty hard."

"Well, I'll be sure to send the doctors bill to you then."

I chuckled lightly and then things became awkwardly silent. "So, er...it was nice meeting you."

"You too. Goodbye." He smiled and waved as I started walking away. For some reason, I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that he was going to end up being bad news. But I just shrugged it off and started humming again. The rest of the way home was extremely boring.

"Sakura, you're home." Mom said, sitting in the living room in front of the tv. "I saved you some dinner. It's in the microwave."

"Thanks, Mom." I smiled, dropping my backpack by the door. I heated up my food and brought it into the living room. My mom had been watching another one of those old black and white movies. Apparently in this one some old ladies had poisoned some guy and stuffed his body in the seat by the window and now some other guy had just found it.

"Why do you watch these old things?" I asked, slurping up some of the pasta I had.

"Why don't you like them? Because they don't have those high speed chases and explosions the new movies have?" She said, giving me a look "You should try watching these movies sometime, you might find you like them. Like this one, Arsenic and Old Lace, it's actually pretty funny."

"All right." I said, putting my empty plate to the side.

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My mom was right this movie was pretty good. I especially liked the old dude who thought he was digging the Panama Canal when he was actually digging graves. "Well, I've got homework to do so I'm heading upstairs."

"G'night, honey!" Mom called as I grabbed my backpack and ran upstairs.

I fell onto my bed and turned on my stereo so it would blast AFI. I finished all my homework in about a half an hour and decided to go take a shower. The water was so nice and relaxing and the white cherry blossom scent was so nice. After about an hour of being in the shower I turned off the water and wrapped the towel around my body. I walked into my room and pulled out some silky smiley face boxers and an oversized tee shirt that had a picture of a flat line and under it "For a second there, you actually bored me to death." was written. I switched cds and turned it to Random Techno Mix 1 and started playing a club version of "Blue".

"Time for me to blow some shit up." I smiled as I put Grand Theft Auto: VIce City into my PS2. Boy, I had forgotten how much fun it was to just lay around at home! I ended up playing til about two in the morning before I finally fell asleep.

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"SAKURA!!! You need to wake up!!" I heard my mom shouting.

"I'm up!" I shouted back. I stretched and rolled over a little, only to roll completely off the bed. "Ohh..." I groaned, rubbing my arm, which had been hit the hardest. I got up and pulled out a black tank top that read "I'm just on big f#$! ray of sunshine, aren't I?", a white skirt that had black suspenders hanging on the sides, black and grey footless tights and some knee high black boots. I put on Sasuke's jacket again and vowed to myself that I would return it today!

"I'm just gonna head strait to school, Mom. I'll see you later!" I said, opening the door and skipping out, only to run into someone with a hard chest. I fell on my ass and looked up to see Sasuke smirking down at me. "Ow, my ass..." I groaned, as Sasuke helped me up.

"That's why you should look where you're going." He said before planting a light kiss on my lips.

I kissed him back briefly before I pulled away. "Maybe you just shouldn't stand right outside of my house. You know, people might think you're some weird stalker type person." He was about to kiss me again, but I stopped him. "Now before I forget, I need to give you your sweater back."

He looked me up and down before shaking his head. "Keep it, it looks good on you."

I blushed and hugged him tightly. "Thanks, now lets get going." I said, grabbing his hand and pulling him towards the school. We walked in silence, but it was a comfortable silence.

When we finally got to school I saw Hinata talking with Kiba, Lee talking with Ten ten and Neji, but Naruto was still no where to be seen. "Sakura, Sasuke, over here!" Ten ten called.

"You go ahead, I have something to do." Sasuke said, heading into the school.

"Ok." I said, heading over to my friends. They were talking about a concert that was coming up and apparently students got in free or something.

"So do you want to come, Sakura?" Lee asked.

I thought about it for a second. "I guess so. It's Friday, right?" Ten ten nodded, "Then sure. But who's playing?"

"Some small town band called "Stuck in Sound" but I heard they're actually really good." Ten ten said. "Oh, I know. Why don't you and Hinata spend the night at my house, Sakura. My parents are really cool and said that I could stay until midnight, so then you two could too."

"That's awesome!" I smiled, starting to get more and more excited about this. Just then Sasuke joined our little group. "Hey, Sasuke, wanna come to a concert tomorrow night?"

"Sure." He mumbled, wrapping his arms around my waist and lying his head on my shoulder.

A little bit later Hinata joined our group too, but she seemed very nervous about being around Neji. "I-I guess I could come." She said quietly. "Um...w-will Naruto be c-coming?"

"I'm sure he'd love to come." Lee said.

Just then the bell rang, so we all headed to class. Just before second period began Naruto can running into the gym. "Sorry I'm so late."

"That's ok, Naruto, just go get changed!" Gai said, giving his signature shiny smile.


Taru: I know that was short, but it's all I could bring myself to write right now.

Aki: It's ok.

Miyuki: Yeah, I'm sure everyone is just happy you wrote anything at all!

Taru: Yeah, and once again, thank you to all that reviewed! You guys are amazing! And, XxblackxwingedxangelxX, chances are there will be a lemon, but it won't be til later in the story. And, warcraftchick95, I think you're the first person to call this story sexy, so thanks! And, Bundyangel, I'm glad you like the shirts, I used to help work at a friends kiosk which happened to be right next to one of those adittude shirt kiosks. Also if you ever do want to write a story with me, just e-mail me and we could try to do something together.

Aki: Now, Taru's still feeling down, so please just review and make her feel better.

Miyuki: And she said, she'd probably get the next chapter out soon!