A loud crash woke Sakura up from her peaceful slumber. "What was that?" She heard the storm that was raging outside and slowly got out of her bed to see what had made the crash. She was spurred to go faster action when she heard her mother's scream. When she reached the hallway, Sakura screamed too.

Their house had a new guest. A rather large tree had fallen unceremoniously through the roof. "Well," Sakura said optimistically," at least no one was hurt."

They headed downstairs to the phone to call the insurance and a nearby hotel. When her mom hung up the phone, she just shook her head.

"What's the problem?" Sakura asked. "We have insurance. We should be able to get this fixed. Until then we'll just have to stay in a hotel."

Her mother shook her head again.

"Mom?" Sakura asked worriedly.

Her mother sat down in a chair and let out a long sigh. "Sakura, what would you say to staying at a friend's house a few days?" She questioned finally.

"What? Why?"

Her mom grabbed the coffee pot and pored herself a glass before continuing," The local hotel is full, and while I can just join your father on his business trip, you need to still go to school and the house is going to take a few weeks to repair."

Sakura nodded slowly," Okay."

"So can you stay anywhere?"

Sakura nodded again. "I think I can get a place." Sakura headed over towards the phone then paused when she was about to dial. Who could she really ask?

Tenten lived in a small apartment with her parents. There was no way they had enough room for her. Ino had a small house with one spare bedroom, but Saran was already staying there since her parents had disappeared on another couple month long business endeavor. And of course, here was no way she was staying with Hinata. Her family lived together with many of their relatives, and it was just plain creepy and oppressing. The left only one option. I just hope he doesn't mind. She dialed the number before she could convince herself not to. Each ring deepened her worry.

She heard someone pick up the phone. Finally.

"Hello, this is the Uchiha residence. What the hell do you want at one in the morning?"

Okay obviously not a morning person. Hey, that's not Sasuke's voice. "Naruto?"

"What?"

"Why are you at Sasuke's house?"

"Huh, who is this? How do you know my name? What's--"

"--Naruto, it's me Sakura. Let me talk to Sasuke."

"Idiot. He's not going to be happy."

"I don't care. Get him for me."

"Fine, fine." Sakura heard the muffle sounds of a conversation sounding vaguely like," Jerk, come answer your own phone," and '" Dobe, what's so important at one in the morning?" and "she asked for you." With that, Sakura heard the phone get thrown at Sasuke and she imagined him pulling it up to his ear with a long sigh.

"Who is this?" he asked apathetically.

"Sasuke, it's me Sakura."

"Sakura? It's one in the morning."

"I know, uh, you see…"

"What?"

"Well, a tree fell through our roof and I need a place to stay, and the girls have no room. Couldistaywithyou?"

The last part was said so quickly that Sasuke had to pause and decipher it in his mind. "You need a place to stay?"

"Yes."

"Because a tree fell through your roof?"

"Uh, yeah" Sakura said somewhat impatiently.

"Do you need a ride too?"

"What?" Sakura asked, not understanding.

Sasuke sighed. "Does someone need to come get you?"

"Uh," Sakura looked over to her mother who still had her head down on the table," that'd probably be the best plan."

"Someone will be over around 1:30 okay?"

"That should work. See you then!" Sakura hung up, happy that her plan had worked. She ran upstairs to pack up some clothes, and then waited outside the front door for a car to pull into the driveway, after saying goodbye to her mom.

A small black car came up and two people got out of the car. Both had umbrellas, but neither was the correct height to be Sasuke. She made their faces out through the glass when they got closer. Neji and Gaara.

She opened the front door and walked out carrying her bag. Gaara took it without a word and headed back to the car to throw it in the trunk.

"Surprised?" Neji questioned.

"A little," Sakura answered truthfully. "Do you all live at his house?"

Neji laughed lightly. "We didn't use to." He saw her puzzled expression. "I'll explain in the car." He pulled her under the umbrella and they walked over to the car and got in.

"So?" Sakura asked as Gaara got in and started the engine.

"Well," Neji said," let's see. Gaara's family moved back to Suna, and he wanted to finish school here, so he moved in. Naruto doesn't have any parents and was living at a foster home, when he turned 16, he moved in. Shikamaru's parents had to leave for a business trip for an indefinite period of time, so they asked if he could stay with the Uchiha's. I of course, got sick of all my relatives. I couldn't stand them, so he let me move in a few months ago."

"What! Just how big is his house?" Sakura exclaimed.

"You haven't been there before?" Neji asked, surprised.

Sakura shook her head. "Now that I think about it he always made sure we didn't go to his house."

"Well," Neji said turning forward," you'll see."

Sakura didn't much like that answer, but she realized that Neji had already ended the conversation and she had no chance of figuring anything else out. Therefore, she resigned herself to looking out the window to figure out where they were going.

They went through a pair of gates and pulled up into the garage of a large manor. "This is his house?" Sakura said in disbelief.

"Yup," Neji said getting out of the car.

"Wow."

"You can admire it later," Sasuke said walking into the garage.

"Sasuke! Why didn't you tell me your house was huge?"

"Didn't seem relevant. Anyways, you should come inside and get some sleep. You can't have gotten much."

"No," Sakura yawned, suddenly remembering how tired she truly was (excitement was wearing off)," where will I sleep?"

"Follow me." Sasuke walked into the house. Sakura followed with Gaara and Neji bringing up the rear, Gaara carrying Sakura's bag.

"Here's your room," Sasuke said stopping at the first door after a climb of many stairs. The bathroom is two doors down to the left, and I advise you knock first. My room is the next to the bathroom, Gaara's is next to yours, then across from your room is Neji, then Shikamaru, then Naruto."

Sakura nodded," Great," she said with a yawn. "Thanks again for doing this," she said as she walked into the room.

"No problem," Sasuke answered before leaving and going back to his own room.

Sakura stepped into the room, and was greeted with something unexpected. Well, she wasn't sure what she had expected, but a completely made up bed, dressers, and a walk-in closet hadn't been on the list. She sat down on the bed and fell back. It was amazingly soft. She needed to get a bed like this. She crawled under the covers and closed her eyes, falling asleep almost instantly.

Sakura woke up to the ringing of an alarm clock. She was tempted to throw the annoying thing into the wall, but she turned it off and got out of bed. She went over to her bag and grabbed an outfit, and stuff for her usual morning routine. Then she went out the door and headed down towards the bathroom. Which door was it? I think he said this one…She opened the door slowly, she was greeted with the sight of a dripping Sasuke with only a towel wrapped around his waist. She slammed the door shut quickly.

Sakura fell against the wall and slid down it into a sitting position. "Wonderful Sakura," she muttered to herself," opening the door while he was in there. Just wonderful. He's going to think you're a creepy stalker or something." She banged her head lightly against he wall. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

"Sakura, I did warn you," Sasuke said as he came out of the bathroom, hair still wet, but clothes thankfully on.

"Yeah, sorry about that," Sakura said getting up and beating back a blush on her cheeks. "But, why not just lock the door?"

"Lock's broke."

"Oh," Sakura walked into the bathroom, then hesitated," Sasuke, no one's going to…"

"No one will come in."

"Thank you." Sakura pulled the door shut.

Sasuke laughed softly to himself, then sat down in the hall. If I don't, Naruto will probably walk in. He really doesn't wake up well in the morning.

Sakura made it through her shower with no intruders. In fact the entire morning went well, and Sakura learned some new things, like that Gaara could actually cook really well, and Naruto wasn't always hyperactive. When they all piled into the car to go to school, Sakura realized that she had probably just had one of the best mornings she had ever had.

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And we have the end of chapter three. It's the longest chapter I've ever posted. My next update may not be for a while because I'm going to be at the beach for two weeks and I may not be able to get to a computer.