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So, have you all noticed I started making previews of the next chapter? Well, I was wondering what you think of that.

1.Do you think it gives away too much of the story, or you just don't like it?

2.Do you think it's a great new part of the story?

3.Or maybe you don't care if it's there or not.

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Anyway, here is chapter eight for you all...

Chapter 8 : Cat- Er, Kunoichi Fight!

Sakura walked happily along the path, humming her favorite song. She couldn't wait to talk to Sasuke! She had the perfect dress and everything, and he was going to take her to the dance! Well, she had to talk to him first, of course.

As soon as she saw Sasuke, sitting on a bench nearby, reading a book, she was filled with so much excitement, she had to turn around and, as quietly as she possibly could, squeal. She then took a deep breath, whirled around, and strutted toward Sasuke, trying to look as cute as possible.

"Hey, what's up?" she said, standing next to him, hands on her hips, smiling.

He looked up, clearly annoyed, and asked, "What now, Sakura?"

"I just came to talk to you. I wanted to tell you that I-"

"Hi, Sasuke-kun!"

Sakura tried her best to keep that smile on her face, but it was twisted into a disgusted scowl. Ino had appeared out of nowhere, and was sitting very close to Sasuke, her arms wrapped around him.

"Oh, it's you," the blonde sighed. "Go away. I have to talk to Sasuke about something very important."

She looked at Sasuke and grinned. The poor guy looked like he'd been thrown into a fire.

"No! I wanted to talk to him first!" Sakura yelled.

"Well, whatever you have to say, it can't be as important as what I wanted to say."

"It's even more important."

Ino smirked. "Well, I was going to tell Sasuke-kun that I was going to go to the dance with him!"

Sakura completely froze. Her whole body was still, all except her twitching fingers. 'THAT PIG!' Inner Sakura shrieked. Then Sakura realized she wasn't breathing, and took another deep breath, and exploded at Ino.

"I WAS GOING TO TELL HIM I'D GO TO THE DANCE WITH HIM!"

"What? You're so copying me, you billboard brow! He gave me a love note asking me to the dance! ME! And I came to tell him I'd go with him!" Ino argued.

"Sasuke, tell her you asked ME to the dance!"

Sasuke mumbled, "Just knock me out or something."

"NO!" the two girls yelled at him. Then they turned and glared at each other.

"HE LOVES ME!"

"HE LOVES ME!"

"ME!"

"MEEEEEEEE!"

Just then, Sakura raised her hand a slapped Ino soundly on her cheek, and grinned while Ino shouted with anger. "GET LOST, FOREHEAD GIRL!" And she slapped Sakura right back.

And so they began to hit and kick each other, and pull each other's hair, and scream and... well, you get the point. And neither of them even realized Sasuke had walked away about four or five sentences ago.

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Their fight went on for hours before someone else came down the path. By now, they had started to throw shuriken at each other. They were both bruised pretty badly and had a lot of scratches on them. They only stopped when they heard a familiar voice next to them say, "Hey! Stop hitting Sakura!"

Both of them stopped and groaned, "Naruto."

Sure enough, when they turned their heads, Naruto was standing there, fists up in the air, looking angrily at Ino.

"She tried to steal my date, you idiot!" Ino yelled. "You should be on my side!"

"He couldn't be on your side, because he knows I'm right when I say YOU tried to steal MY date!" Sakura screamed.

"Who's your date?"

"SASUKE!" they shrieked at the same time, pointing at the empty bench behind them, without looking at it. Naruto blinked and said, "But Sasuke's not there. I saw him walking home. He was mumbling something about annoying fangirls."

The two kunoichis' faces got even more red with anger when they whipped around to see Sasuke wasn't sitting there. Slowly, their heads wheeled around till they were once again glaring at each other.

"Yooouuuu," Ino said in a low, deathly tone. "You chased Sasuke-kun away!"

Sakura growled. "I did not!"

"Look," Naruto said. "It's seven o'clock. You both should just go home and stop fighting!"

They both looked at him. That was a little... wise for Naruto. Still, he was kind of right. Neither of them would win this fight, no matter how much Inner Sakura screamed, "I'M GONNA KILL THAT PORKER! I'LL DEMOLISH HER! CHA!" Neither of them would win, unless, of course, one of them actually got Sasuke to take her to the dance...

"Well, I don't need to win this fight. I already know that Sasuke's taking me to the dance," Ino said, a smug smile on her scratched face.

"Yeah, we'll see about that," Sakura retorted.

Both of them walked away, Sakura in one direction, and Ino in the other. Naruto shrugged and walked toward his own house.

Preview of the Next Chapter:

Temari walked across her room to the door, and looked out the little hole to see who the heck would be knocking on her door. She groaned when she saw Shikamaru standing there.

"Here we go," she muttered under her breath, as she grabbed her fan from its place leaning against a wall and opened the door.

And there he was, looking as bored as ever. Anger flickered in Temari's narrowed, onyx eyes. She walked out of the room, shutting the door behind her, placing the closed fan upright on the ground beside her, her arm resting on it.

"What?" she asked, scowling.

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