1ST PLACE ISN'T EXACTLY THE BEST

-CHAPTER FIVE--

Uh…I'm sorry?

Sakura started to laugh at this thought as she finished up her smoothie and walked towards the exit,Before she left,the boy looked at her with narrowed eyes.

"Why the hell are you laughing."

"No reason."

She started walking and heard the boy mumble,'Crazy bitch' under his breath and Sakura fought the urge to beat him up.

'Well,at least he didn't comment about my forehead!'

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She had made it home by six and she had decided to go out to the mall to get more clothes.Since she had already unpacked her clothes and found that some of them didn't fit her,she pulled on her favorite pair of black jeans,a white t-shirt and her favorite jacket that she almost always wore when she went out anywhere.When she arrived at the mall that she visited earlier,she say the raven haired boy with a crowd of girls swarming over him.

"Hey…I wonder where his 'girlfriend' is…"

-Probably hiding.Who would want to be seen with that baka teme?-

'Good point.'

For some reason,Sakura felt compelled to go up to him and say hi,but fought back the urge.Then her cell phone rang and she answered it.It.was.Temari!

"Hi Temari!"

"Yeah,hi Sakura!"

Sakura started walking again,but she wasn't looking where she was going since she was looking for a pad and pen.

"That's nice Temari…"

"You think that getting a hole drilled into my kneecap was nice?"

"No…the thing about the…uh…other thing."

"Oh yeah,that?Yeah well,I was just…"

'This girl talks a mile a minute!'

"Look,Temari,I heard that Gaara lives in the area that I do now…do you know his cell number?"

"WHAT!HE DIDN'T TELL YOU HIS!You guys were like best friends since-"

"Pre-k.Yeah,I know.I gotta go quick,so you mind making it fast?"

"Yeah,no problem."

Sakura wrote down his number and bumped into someone as she was putting the slip of paper with the number on it away.

"Watch where you're going!"

"Ow…uh,gomen…"

Sakura looked up and saw the same boy that claimed that he would beat her in arcade games no matter what.

'(asd)Oh boy,here we go again…no wait.I'm safe!I'm not wearing all those guy clothes!'

The boy didn't look as happy as Sakura when he saw her face.He had a look of sheer annoyance on his face when she had knocked him down.

"Look,just because you're a girl doesn't give you privileges to just bump into anyone."His voice stayed as frosty as ever as his onyx eyes looked at her spitefully.He got up and didn't even bother to help Sakura.

"Yeah,thanks for helping a lady when she's fallen."

"What?You're not a lady,are you?"

Inner Sakura: You bastard!You better help me up!

Truthfully,in the boy's mind, he was thinking something like this - 'This girl looks exactly like that punk that beat me in the arcade.I guess that he wasn't lying when he said that he had a sister.'

While in Sakura's head,she was thinking something like this - 'I think he's figured me out!He might just call my bluff about having a sister right here!'

If Sakura was nervous,she didn't show it since she was too busy combing through the crowd of fangirls following the boy to try and find one that might be his girlfriend.But then he looked at her weirdly when she was looking around and still on the floor.

"What the hell are you looking for?"

Sakura looked at him through narrowed eyes and said,"Nothing."

It was pretty awkward during that moment where they were both looking at each other while Sakura was on the floor.It was pretty weird since she was waiting for him to offer her his hand,but he didn't.She acted on her own accord and pulled herself up.

"Thanks for helping me up."

"Yeah,whatever.It must have been hard to get up considering that your forehead must weigh twice as much as your body."

The second that he had insulted her,his fangirls started giggling and laughing.

"Shut up you jerk!"

-That's right!You go tell him off for laughing at us!-

Sakura stormed to the nearby arcade to try and calm down.When the boy saw her heading toward the arcade,he followed after her.If it was true that her brother wasn't lying about having a sister,he had to follow her and watch her play games in the arcade and observe her skill.He almost was completely in the arcade right behind her when she stopped and said,"What are you,a stalker now?"

The boy froze up and said,"Oh,I thought that you were my girlfriend!"

-What a lame excuse!-

He left right after she sat down at the nearest racing game.

"Baka teme!Trying to spy on me right in front of his girlfriend!"

-Have you ever thought that he doesn't have a girlfriend and that he was lying?-

'What!Why would some jerk like that lie about having a girlfriend?'

-To make your 'brother' jealous.-

'Hm…maybe.Don't know why he would want to make me…I mean my 'brother' jealous by flaunting that he has a girlfriend'

-Look,does any guy need a reason to flaunt that he has a girlfriend!-

'Good point.'

When Sakura was satisfied with playing games,she headed for a clothing store that had a sale on really cool jackets that she always wanted.

-Sakura,why do you always want some stupid jackets!-

"Because…now shut up!"

Then Sakura saw some of the girls that had been following the jerk and they were sneering at her.

"What the hell is their problem?"

They began laughing loudly when they began to advance on her.One of the girls went up to her and said,"Look,it's that bitch that he was talking to.What a loner!I could hear her talking to herself from all the way over there!"

The other girl just sneered more as the girl kept on insulting Sakura.

"And he was right!She does have a big-ass forehead!What a bitch!"

Sakura found this the right time to insult the other girl back.

"Bitch?Please!You're the bitch!Following that jerk around everywhere!I'm starting to think that you're that bastard's girlfriend since you're talking a lot of trash!"

The girl looked completely shocked,and she would look even more shocked after what Sakura would do to her next.Almost instantly,Sakura sucker-punched the unexpecting girl and turned on her friend with fire burning in her eyes.

"Do you want some of this!"

The girl ran away frightened while dragging her unconscious friend behind her.

-You beat up good,Sakura.-

'I've had experience!'

After Sakura had bought every article of clothing that she had wanted,she started the long walk home while carrying tons of bags filled to the brim with clothes and jewelry and a couple of string bags that she thought were positively 'cute'.

"How am I gonna walk home while carrying all these bags?They're getting pretty heavy!"

-Call a taxi…duh!-

This idea struck her as a stroke of genius as she pulled out her cell phone and called for a taxi.The taxi was taking quite a while to arrive,so she found this as the perfect opportunity to call Gaara.

"I just hope he has his cell phone with him!"

She dialed the numbers and hastily waited for someone to pick up.It was Gaara who picked up and she almost screamed with joy.

"Gaara!Is that you!"

"Uh…yeah.Who's this?"

"It's me,Sakura!Sakura Haruno!"

"Sakura?I-I-…I haven't seen you in a long time!"

"Yeah,well I heard that you moved to Osaka.I moved there too!"

"Really,where do you live?"

"Uh…do you know where the Uchiha condo's are located.Yeah,well,I live in the one near the highschool."

"You live in one of the Uchiha family-owned condo buildings!Aren't those really expensive to live in?"

"I model for fashion magazines,remember?My parents wanted me to learn how to pay for my own bills…stupid way to teach me though…"

"You know the highschool near there right?I go there for school,you're going to go there too,right?"

"Yeah…"

Sakura was laughing mentally since she had thought that she was late for school on a Saturday…how stupid.

"Gaara,I gotta go.The taxi I called is here.I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Yeah you will.But before you go.Before I moved,you know how you didn't show up when I left?That…was harsh."

Sakura didn't remember any of this.She didn't even remember Gaara telling her to meet him anywhere to say goodbye to him before he left.

"Gaara…?"

"…"

"What are you talking about?"

"…"

"Uh…I'm sorry?"

The taxi pulled up beside Sakura and she loaded her bags into the car.That was the first time that Gaara was ever mad at her.Ever.

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Author's note:

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!I didn't tell you who the 'raven haired boy's ' girlfriend is!But you'll find out who it is…next time.Or maybe the time after that.Oh well,review please