rise and fall

kokoro: yes, I will finish this even if i barely get reveiws for it!! because i really enjoy writing this ^_____^

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Holding a gun,

is like holding a bird.

Hold it too tightly, it dies.

Hold it too loosely, it flies away."

-the move "So Close"

"The final round of the chunnin exams are coming up-"

"I know."

"Sakura will be-"

"I know."

"Why do you have so much trust in the girl?"

"Dunno."

"Your so weird. It keeps me wondering why Tsunade sama chose you for the job...Aiko."

"Like, I keep telling you Seikyo. I like her eyes." Aiko did her trademark lick on her lips and left Seikyo to ponder.

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"I..can't....go anymore." Sakura said. She just plopped herself on the grass and fell asleep.

"Hoo boy." Tsunade said. She walked over to the body lying on the grass floor. "Get up. How do you expect to be a chunnin now?"

"I..Don't even know how I got into this." Sakura breathed. "It all started with, 'Do you want to do something cool with your chakura?' and here I am."

"Well, you answered your own question. Now get up."

Sakura raised her heavy body off the floor and turned to face Tsunade. The Hokage smiled and then hugged herself.

"I keep wondering why it's been so cold lately." Tsunade smiled.

Sakura huffed. She knew the answer. Sakura face turned to the right and she saw Haku sitting there, smiling as usual.

Haku caught Sakura's gaze and waved innocently. Sakura glared and turned back to her training.

"Come on Sakura! Pick up the pace! Three more days!!!" Tsunade yelled. "800 laps now!!!"

Haku watched the woman and girl leave. Three more days already? Time really passed by for Haku. Scaring Sakura, making things cold. It was actually quite fun. But the chunnin exams were coming up now.

"Sakura..I wonder how you are going to keep your promise to me.." Haku said. With a brief wind passing by, he dissapeared with it.

--naruto sasuke---

Naruto held up a thumbs up sign to Sasuke and Kakashi as all three of them headed their way towards Sakura's house.

"Why are you even here?" Sasuke asked his sensei.

"It's not everyday you enter your students house that just happens to be a female." Kakashi answered simply.

Sasuke twitched.

"Hey! You perverted freak! If you touch any of Sakura's under-" Naruto was cut off by a blushing Sasuke and a smiling Kakashi.

"Don't even say it." Sasuke demanded. Hearing a muffled answer, they went through Sakura's window.

"Waaah!! Sakura chan's room smells so nice!!" Naruto said he ran over to Sakura's bed and dove his head into her pillow.

"Freak." Sasuke muttered he looked around the room. Why was he here anyways? Sasuke wondered around, surprisingly, the room wasn't filled with pink as he thought. Instead, it was mostly made up of the colors brown, green, and maybe some pink.

"It's like were in a Cherry blossom." Kakashi stated. He made his way to Sakura's desk. Smiling he looked at a picture with team seven on it.

"Anosa! Anosa!! Look at this!!" Naruto motioned team seven to come look at his discovery.

"What Naruto?" Sasuke asked. Someone had to.

Naruto did his trademark laugh and held out something. Kakashi and Sasuke's eyes widened.

"Sakura's diary." Kakasho choked out.

--in the book---

.: Naruto opens book:.

Dear Diary,

ergh, Tsunade sama is soooo mean!!! She's making me do all these stuff!! And I just missed my chance to talk to Sasuke kun..AGAIN!!! Aaaaaa!!!T_T That boy just has to pester me at that one moment. He makes thing all cold and tell me to go training!!(Damn him!) I even miss Naruto now!! But Tsunade sama tells me to not get my feelings ahead of myself. She tells me I must forget Sasuke kun. But I can't!! His onyx eyes, his...aii! Can't write it in here!!!

.:Sasuke cringes:.

But anyways, like I said, I miss Naruto too. He's so cute when he does his fox face!! Oh my god, I can't believe I wrote that. But while were on the case..I wonder how Kakashi sensei looks without his mask? Just because, he is the hottest jounin out there!!

.:Naruto: Hah! She likes me! Kakashi: Like me too. Sasuke: Sick.:.

Then there's...that damn boy!!! He won't leave me alone though!!! I hate this!! Hate hate hate hate. And At training he gives me this innocent wave like nothings wrong!!! I have to keep my promise though. I have to.

~Haruno Sakura

--Naruto flips through book---

"It doesn't say who that boy was." Naruto said. Sighing he placed the book down.

Sasuke gave his i'm-so-annoyed grunt. Kakashi exhaled deeply.

"Well, I got to go now, this was really...fun." Kakashi said. With a big poof, he dissapeared out of Sakura's room.

Naruto's face clearly showed sadness abotu the boy Sakura was talking about. Sasuke walked over and looked at his teamate(A/N: no yaoi!).

"Trust her Naruto. I'm going home." Sasuke said. But as he turned and left he felt another tug on his wrist.

"Come on Sasuke! We can still catch up to her!! I know where she trains!!!" Naruto said. Not hearing a word Sasuke said to him.

"Naruto don't-"

"Let's gooooo!!"

Sasuke grabbed Naruto and held him at his collar. "WHAT PART OF 'I'M NOT A STALKER' DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!?!"(A/n: hehe, I love this line ^_^)

--sakura---

"Eaachooo!" Sakura snezzed.

"Eh? Someone's talking about you Sakura chan." Haku said teasingly.

"I'm not surprised if someone talked behind my back." Following that, Sakura snezzed two more times. That's when Haku really smiled and floated in front of Sakura.

"Snezze three times someone cares for you." Haku gave his smile once again and winked before haveing to dodge a "whack" not that it couldn't hit him in the first place.

"Idiot." Sakura said. She huffed and walked to her house.

--naruto sasuke---

Naruto laid beaten on the ground and Sasuke stood up proudly.

"That's what you get." Sasuke turned and left.

And when he reached for Sakura's door knob, it was already turning.

"oooo crap." He heard Naruto say. "Nice going Sasuke."

"Shut up dead last." Sasuke grabbed Naruto and jumped out of Sakura's house. Second floor. No big deal.

Sakura entered the room. "Eh?" SHe heard Haku say.

"What's wrong?" Sakura asked. She placed her training stuff on her chair.

"Does it seem, like someone was here? I thought I felt chakura on the other side of the door."

Sakura went into the bathroom and called out, "It must be your weird ghost things," Soon, you could here water running and a screeech, "Haku get out of here! Water!! Frezzing!!"

Haku smiled and left. Sakura was still too weak. After all, if she couldn't sense Sasuke's and Naruto's presence.

--three days later---

Sakura ran as fast as her feet would take her. Her alarm clock just had to run out of batteries on this morning. THIS!! What were the odds.

"I told you to check." Haku said.

"Shut. Up!!!!"

'But Sakura chan.' Haku thought. 'Not matter what, your still not strong enough.'

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