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(...text) Inner Sakura

Truth About Men: Predators?

Three

She was confused.

She needed to think straight. And Sasuke's warm lips preying upon hers just didn't allow enough room in her system to do that.

Supporting the flowers with one arm, she gathered energy onto the other hand and shoved him away, hearing him growl as his calloused hands lost contact with her skin.

"That was uncalled for, thank you." The back of her hand wiped at her lips, while intelligent eyes made quick calculations for the free space above his head and beside him.

' Should I take the ground route, or use the boost jump?' Either way, she had to mold chakra onto her feet...and into her fists if she has to.

"Hmph. I bet you broke away 'cuz you're inexperience." The Uchiha prodigy mocking, cleaning off any flavor she had left behind on his lips with his tongue. He made an assumption that it had been honey by the sweetness he captured. "That was your first kiss, am I right?"

( Damn! How did he know?!)

The fact had just reminded her of how pathetic she was.

"In your dreams!" There was no way on earth that she'd choose to yield to an arrogant bastard like him.

He smirked, obviously unconvinced.

"Oh really? So who'd you give it to, besides me?"

( The bastard better screw off or else, I swear I'll-)

"Neji-kun, of course."

Her scheme worked. The cocky smirk on his lips demolished immediately.

"Impossible! Hyuuga?"

( Shit! Look what you've gotten yourself into!)

Well, it wasn't exactly a lie...

The gang, consisting of Naruto, Hinata, Ten Ten, Lee Rock, Ino, Shikamaru, Neji, and herself, had decided to go on a picnic in the depth of Konoha Forest to celebrate Ino's sixteenth birthday that day.

The Heavens had already given her their gift by covering the sky above their heads with a light azure blanket decorated with large cotton candy clouds, The morning was filled with the melodies of gales and jays.

It was a jubilant day.

"Come on! Let's play spin the bottle!" The Yamanaka suggested. And since she had been the star that day, the group had it her way. " Standard rules apply. Whoever spins the bottle would have to kiss whoever the bottle points to on the lips."

( Stupid Ino! What if we kiss the wrong guy?)

She didn't want to make anyone jealous in a happy occasion like this.

"I refuse to play." A calm, masculine voice spoke up within the group, causing all head to turn to his direction.

Hyuuga Neji, Hinata's cousin, a walking block of ice, had rejected the offer to participate in the game.

"What are you, a chicken?" Naruto teased, using his taunting technique (that seems to get on anyone's nerves)to goad the silver-eyed Shinobi into submission.

And like the perfectly shrewd ninja he was, he chose to disregard the comment with his deadly silence.

"I know what you're worried about." Jade eyes perked up at Ino's know-it-all voice. She waited for her best friend to pull the tricks out from up her sleeves. "You're worried about making out with the wrong person, right?"

For a moment, Sakura could have sworn she caught a flash of pink pass the muted Hyuuga's face then disappear when he adjusted his mask back into place.

"No worries! The bottle's magical! I diverted all my chakra into this baby and tested out enough times for me to say that it works well." She reassured him with a wink, causing the group's jaws to drop at her sudden revelation.

' What was that suppose to mean?'

"Whatever..." She watched as he picked himself up from under the shade of the isolated tree in the site and plotted himself down in the circle of teenage shinobis. He had chosen to sit directly across from her, between the loud blonde and Shikamaru.

"Okay! I'll start the game!" The birthday girl volunteered, fingers reaching for the slick core of the glass flask, giving the tip a light thrust, sending it into circular motion on the grass.

After several rotations, it stopped while its mouth, shaped in an "o", pointed towards the shadow manipulator, Nara Shikamaru.

Sakura's pools of green widened at the outcome.

( So that was what she meant by...)

Anxiety began to fill her heart then, when her sight began roaming around the circle. She started making mental couplings to herself.

' Ino with Shikamaru... Ten Ten with Lee... Hinata with Naruto... her cousin with...'

She gasped quietly when she had cracked the puzzle her companion had woven. Fear kicked in as she struggled to find a way to stop the game, or at least quit before it got out of hand.

"Hyuuga, your turn!"

Too late.

Bandaged hands were already placed on the cool glass material.

It was Hyuuga Neji's turn.

Author's Crap:

Phew... Chapter Three finally up.... Ready for some good news (if you care)? I finished writing this fic in my notebook... So, I won't be trashing it if that's what you're wondering.. It's going to have six chapters... Okay? I hope you're really enjoying this...

THANKS GOES TO JEWEL SONG, DURIAN, JELLY-BEAN89, BOREDATHOME, COOKIE6, BLITZBALLKAT, LILANGELCHICK, SCORPION05, IHEARVOICES, DEITY OF DEATH1, CELESTIAL-NIGHTFLOW, AND SHIROI HIKARI!!!!

SPECIAL THANKS GOES TO ANIMEVIVVERZ! Thank you so much for having the patience to review for the new chapters I uploaded for Three Things I'll Never Say!

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