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Chapter 2

Saukra walked slowly down the street toward her house. Kicking an offensive rock that stood in her path. "I wasted enough of the day already." Why did that bother her? 'he didn't mean the way it sounded...did he?'

Glancing up she saw her house up ahead and a familiar figure sitting on the stoop. "Naruto?" "Hey you long time no see!" Naruto quickly walked up to Sakura to give a warm hug but stopped half way seeing the look on her face. "What the hell, you look like someone ran over your cat." "..."

"umm...did someone run over your cat?" Sakura gave him a disapproving look and shook her head "Naruto I don't have a cat.." Scratching the back of his head he gave a thoughtful look toward Sakura.

She knew he was worried. "I'm just a bit tired and hot." a half smile appeared on his face. She could be tired and it was still very warm out..but that's not it. it's something else. "Your not fooling anyone! Come on Sakura..I'm your friend you can talk to me you know." his pleading eyes grew wide and bright, it reminded Sakura of a small child begging for candy. "what happens when you don't give a small child candy when he asks for it?" Naruto's puppy dog look immediately was replaced by a look of pure confusion. "huh?"

Waving her hand at him she walked past him towards her front door. "nothing thinking out loud I suppose...wanna come in, I need a shower but your welcome to stay and have some iced tea with me." Sakura's true smile had veered it's head. Naruto cheesed at it they both walked up the stairs to her apartment.

Ruffling her pink strands in a fluffy towel with one hand, and checking her messages with another, Sakura's eye's darted back and forth looking for the blond man that came up with her. "you have two messages" the mechanical voice on the machine really knew how to give her a headache.

beep Sakura it's your mother..why haven't you called me, I have this- She quickly deleted the message and took a deep breath of relief. "message deleted"

beep Sakura it's your mother again Iknowyoudeletedthatfirstmessegeand- Scrambling to push delete once again she dropped her towel from her head before she had to hear another word. "Message deleted."

"Trying to avoid your mother I see." Looking up she found the man she had lost a few minutes ago. An evil smile spread across her face. "She's driving me crazy" picking up the discarded towel and tossing it to a near my chair she joined Naruto on the balcony. " She keeps calling and telling me about men she meets and wants me to date." bending down Sakura placed her elbows on the railing of the balcony and held her head up with the palms of her hands. Naruto laughed out loud, Sakura knew he thought it was hilarious that someone like her needed help with dating. One swift wack on the head with her fist stopped his outburst of laughter but it did nothing for the stifled giggles. "It's not funny in the least."

After a few minutes of listening to Naruto try and stifle the laughter he finally settled down. Looking out on the excellent view of Konoha, She certainly got her self a nice place he thought. peering over at her he watched her a moment as she fiddled with her thumbs. She always did that when something bothered her. He knew she wasn't going to start the conversation.

"well what's up?" "hm." A smirk rose on his face, she heard him. letting out a deep sigh she let it out. " I think Kakashi thinks I'm a waste of time..." didn't even look at him just kept on fiddling with her thumbs. Naruto's eye brows deepened in to thought. "why do you say that you two are pretty close aren't cha?" her arms flew up into the air in esaperation. " I don't know we were having a good time..at least i though we were then all of a sudden he makes the comment, I wasted enough of the day already. and PUFF he was gone. " Naruto couldn't help it he let out another larger then life laugh. "NARUTO!" He could almost see the steam billowing from her ears.

Wiping a tear from his eye he desperately tried to once again stifle his laughter. If she kept this up his sides would most defiantly split. "I'm sorry Sakura-chan." Holding his hand in front of his moth he tried to make his laughter less obvious.

Watching Naruto try so hard to be a an ear to listen to her past it's braking point, she couldn't hold it in any longer and burst out laughing. It was silly to think about. Wiping another tear from his eye Naruto placed his hand on Sakura's sholder "Sakura..kakashi isn't the same when your not around. He's almost like a kid when he's around you."

Sakura's bright smile faded away slowly. "I bring out the kid in him..." she didn't like that, was she so kiddish that she made other feel kiddish? Naruto had seen that look before on Hinata, when he said something she didn't like. That was the look of disappointment, he knew it very well.

"Hey now, what did I say?" he held out his arms to her and she gladly took the embrace. "What ever I said I'm sorry...I really am..I swear." raising her face to meet his with his finger, he looked directly in her eyes.

"Look Kakashi is Kakashi, if he didn't WANT to spend time with you he wouldn't. maybe he just had somethin' to do" Sakura nodded and stepped back. She wasn't crying but the tears were begging to fall. "Why don't you ask him about it, I'm sure it's nothing." She stared down at her bare feet she sighed. "yeah, I'll talk to him...I'd hate to loose a friend and not know why." Naruto rolled his eyes "okay okay now your over reacting, but if you do loose a friend I can buy you that cat" thwack "NO CATS!"

Sakura giggled "...ready for that tea?"