'I feel so powerful. I no longer feel the need to mourn over the lost love between myself and Lee. Bah! Who needs him!? He's just like Sasuke. Just when I think things couldn't get better between us, another girl catches his eye. Stupid Ino! Let's see her try and get... what's his name? That doesn't mater. All I know is he's way to extreme for Ino! HA!' I think to myself as I walked down the street. My head held high and with each step I take I grow more confident with myself.

'I don't need anyone. People are either the players or being played. I used to be played but now, I'm a player. No one is going to hurt me again.'

"Sakura, we need to talk." A gruff voice says behind me. I turn around and am slightly surprised to see Sasuke. I open my mouth to greet him but I suddenly remember, why should I stop my schedule and listen to a guy who brought nothing but pain in my life?

"I'm busy and even if I wasn't, I can think of plenty of better things to do than talk to you." I say coolly as I turn around and walk away from him. I can't help but allow a small smirk out onto my face when I saw the surprise in his eyes.

'Good. I'm happy he's shocked. He better get used to me acting like this because I'm not changing.'

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"Another miso ramen!" Naruto shouted, so as to make sure the chef would know what he wanted.

"Not until you paid for your last one." Nagged the chef, exasperated with the hyperactive teenager.

"Oh! Uh..." Naruto stuttered as he scratched the back of his head and nervously looked around.

"SAKURA-CHAN! How are you doing today?!" Naruto yelled with a grin plastered across his face. Sakura raised a questioning eyebrow towards him as she walked towards a table that was farthest from the stools. Naruto jumped off his stool, walked over, and sat across from her at the table.

Smiling at her he chimes, "How are you doing today Sakura-chan? Nice day today isn't it? I was wondering, can I please please PLEASE borrow some money from you to pay for my ramen?"

"Go away... Dobe!" Sakura scoffed as she flipped through the menu. Naruto just gaped at her.

"You... Sasuke... Dobe..." Naruto stumbled on his words until he finally cleared his throat and said, "You never called me that before! Only Sasuke calls me dobe!"

Sakura looked up from her menu and smiled cruelly at him, "I just felt that dobe suited you better than Hokage." Naruto was thoroughly shocked, but that shock soon turned into anger as he clenched his hands into fists, growled in frustration and stormed out of the restaurant, ignoring the chef's protests for him to come back and pay.

"Baka." Sakura hissed under her breath before telling the chef her order.

After finishing her ramen, she arose from her table and turned to leave but let out a startled cry when she ran head on into the one person that she despised the most, Rock Lee. Reaching down, Lee offered her a hand to help her off the ground. Sakura smacked it away and quickly got back onto her feet. She glared at Lee while she crossed her arms, waiting for an apology. She smiled inwardly to herself when she saw Lee open his mouth but was immediately shocked when she saw him point to the ground.

"What is that?" He asked looking from the green pill, that laid on the floor between them, to Sakura.

"That's mine." Sakura hissed towards him before hastily picking it up and stuffing it into her pocket.

"Sakura, I'm worried about you." Lee said as he looked at her with concerned eyes.

"You shouldn't be worried about me but instead, be worried about yourself if you don't get out of my sight." Sakura growled bitterly casting another nasty glare towards Lee.

"Have you looked at yourself lately? Can't you see how pale you are? How your eye's look like they're about to bulge out from their sockets? How your clothes look so baggy?" Lee said as he frowned and looked over Sakura's appearance again. Indeed she no longer looked the way she used too. Nor did she act the same.

"It's none of your business." Sakura muttered, but loud enough for Lee to hear, and brushed past him. Lee grasped her arm and spun her back towards him causing Sakura to let out a gasp.

"Yes it is. I'm not going to stand by and watch you wither away from an amazing cherry blossom to a weed." Sakura looked away from him, her eyes starting to glaze over but she quickly replaced them with cold and confident eyes.

"I don't need you, Sasuke, or Naruto! I'm not perfect so deal with it! Save your bullshit for another girl!" Sakura screamed at Lee as she ripped her arm out of his grip and stormed out of the restaurant, leaving Lee standing there, the centre of attention to all the curious consumers in the restaurant and with her bill.

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I'm back! Sorry it took so long! Moving to a new country is a bigger pain in the butt than I thought it would be, but it's all worth it when I hear a hot Scottish guy talk. *sigh* I just love their accents but no matter how hard I try to imitate it I end up sounding like I'm trying to rap. -_-\/ Blah! What sucks though is I start school 2 weeks early O_O! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not cool!

Anyways I wasn't able to type on the laptop like I had planned to do while I was computer less but no worries! I'm back so I'll keep to my every updates every second day plan!