Midnight. The moon has come up and Simba has fallen asleep with his lovable parents, Mufasa and Sarabi --thank you RenotheTurk for telling me Simba's mom name!

"Hey mom! I'll be back! I want to go and check on something!" said Sakura as she headed out to the front door of her house.

Her mom called back,"hold on Sakura! Why this time of the nignt? It's almost 11. Can't you do it in the morning?"

"Sorry mom, I can't because the villagers would be awaken and the streets would be crowded and I'm grumpy waking up way early in the morning just to wait for Kakashi-sensei for two hours, and I WOKE UP FOR NOTHING! ARGH!" she slapped her face,"it happens everyday..."

Her mother blink and says nothing.

Sakura got tired of waiting for her mother to speak so she left the house, shutting the door.

Her mother stood her,"my big girl is growing up...heh heh...and she continued doing her work."

The streets were peaceful and quiet. Crickets...cricketing...and more crickets cricketing. Some fireflies were flying, which made Sakura all calm and happy. Plus it's very dark, so it's kind of hard for Sakura to see. On the streets, there's like quite a few lamp post ? hanging from the wall. Mostly are above the news post.

Sakura found one and look at the paper that everyone was fussing about earlier. It says:

1st ANNUAL TOURNAMENT

FOR ALL KONOHA'S GENINS

EVER GENIN MUST PARTICIPATE

RULES:

1. NO FIGHTING WITHOUT ANNOUNCER'S

PERMISSION

As Sakura kept on reading, in which she didn't finish reading, she heard Naruto's voice calling her name, outloud,"Sakura-chan!"

Sakura saw Naruto waving at her, running towards her.

"Hiiii----" Before Naruto could finish his greeting...

He tripped.

"Ahhhhhhhh! My beautiful face! It's ruined! Now Sakura-chan will never love me! I've become hidious!" Naruto screamed.

"Shut up. Will you, dope?" said a cold voice.

"Grrrr. Who's the dope here? Come out and fight me you coward!" Said Naruto clenching his fists.

Sakura realized who it was.

"Sas..uke.." she says.

Sasuke walked out of the shadow, towards where Sakura and Naruto were.

"Okay then. Let's fight." he says.

"Alright!" said Naruto.

So..their battle...begins...

Sakura sighs. She was watching the battle. Their not fighting. What's going on here? She thought. That's when she actually realized while watching this for quite a long time.

A staring contest.

Oh. My. God. She thought.

Sakura look at their eyes. Both are struggling.

Sakura look at Naruto's eyes, they were watering and redness. The same goes as Sasuke's.

Wow I've never seen them have tears in their eyes before. This is very interesting. Sakura thought.

The outcome of the game...er battle was that no one won. At the same time, they both blinked. Naruto screamed and covered his watery eyes with both hands. Sasuke just kept on blinking and rub his eyes with his right fist. "Argh...dope, you don't wanna wake the villagers up do ya?" he says.

Naruto ignored him.

Team 7 was quiet for a while until Sakura broke the silence,"So what are you guys doing here in this time of the night? You both do know that we have training in the morning?"

"Yah, so? I can stay up all night and still can be still awake in the morning." Answered Sasuke.

"Oh yah. Your right Sakura. I wonder why I'm here? I should be sleeping right now." Answered Naruto.

"Speak of what you just said Naruto. That brings up one of the questions that I just asked you guys. Why are you both doing here again?" Ask Sakura.

Sasuke spoke up,"Well I--"

"I came here because I want to see the poster that my future men put up earlier," said Naruto interupting Sasuke's answer.

"Oh," said Sakura,"how about you Sasuke?"

Sasuke shrugs,"same here."

Naruto was showing his stupidy fox face,"So Sakura-chan, what brings you here too?"

"Same here. So far from what I read about this paper.." she looks at Naruto," before Naruto could interupt..is that the hokage is calling every single genin in Konoha to participate this competition. And it's the very first tournament,too."

"Hmm..sounds interesting!" Naruto smiled.

Sasuke smirks and left.

Naruto and Sakura watched him left. Sakura frowned.

Naruto saw Sakura's frown,"Ah don't worry Sakura-chan! I'll cheer you up!"

Sakura eyed Naruto,"and how's that?"

"Watch this." Naruto stick his right hand inside his jacket where his left arm pit is, and made a farting sound. When he was done, he looked at Sakura. And he can tell that now, she isn't happy to hear what he just did.

"Ah...lol..." he says, laughing.

"Naruto! I'm gonna get you!" She started chasing him.

Before she could chase him, she froze.

Naruto smile,"goodnight Sakura-chan." And he left.

Sakura just stood there. Naruto...kissed her on the forehead.

"...Naruto.." she says, then smiled, bit of blush on her cheeks,"thanks." And left back home.

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Hey you guys. This chapter sounds like it's pretty long. But it isn't! sighs Oh well. I'll try and keep on working chapter 5. While I'm at it, please review! Tell me what you guys think so far, is it good? bad? what is it? Anyways, thanks!