Acrimonious: I'm really sorry I haven't updated earlier! But school started again and I'm so freaking tired! I'm really happy about the reviews! Thank you all! What's with people trying to fool me and make me believe they hate me...that's starting to get seriously scary!

Warm ramen by the fire.

After 10 minutes, which seemed like hours to me, though I have no patients what so ever, Sasuke came out of the shower and, unfortunately, had his pyjamas on. The weather was worse than ever, I looked out one of my suspiciously small windows. It looked like a battle between rain and wind. The water was cutting through the earth and ruined the roads to my apartment and some of the threes a little further a way from my house had been ripped out of the earth and laid on the ground helpless. 'It takes 20 years for a three to grow up, but in a mere second the life of it can be terminated. Is that the rules of nature? It's kind of sad when you think about it.' I removed myself from the window; I didn't want to be depressed, well not more than I already was.

"Sasuke?" I said and looked at him, he was now sitting at the very same window and looked out into the storm. Somehow I felt a bit bad for him, he was trapped here with me after all.

"Hn?" he answered without looking at me. The storm wasn't THAT fascinating, not that I minded.

"How long do you think it will be before some one finds us" A semi long silence followed afterwards. The storm wouldn't end soon and chances were that no one would really care about my apartment door being blocked. So our choices were wait until Kakashi or Iruka comes or blow a whole in the wall, either way it was going to have to wait until the next day.

"Don't know, the storm will probably be over by dawn". When I thought about it I remembered that Sasuke might be hungry, well I sure was, my stomach growled like the kyuubi itself was behind it. Come to think of it, he could be.

"Would you like some Ramen?" I asked and Sasuke looked at me, he got away from the window and sat down in front of the fire place and started to make a fire. We were lucky we still had electricity, though I didn't really think it would take long before that would go too.

"Yeah, I guess there isn't such a big selection if I know you right." I ran to the kitchen and took the boiling water of the stove, my stove is a very bad one and it takes several minutes before it gets hot. I made the ramen and took it out to Sasuke, who had made the fire. Sasuke have been really weird since he got here. He looked kind of sad and he hadn't insulted me as much as he use to.

"Here's your ramen" I said and gave him a fox grin. He took it and gave me a thanking 'hmph' and started eating. The fire was warm and comforting in a way that it made me feel safe, but when I think about it I don't really think it was the fire that made me feel that way.

After we finished we decided, or rather I decided, that we should play a game to get our minds of the storm because none of us wanted to sleep when it was a storm outside. Sasuke seemed bored anyway, not that he ever seems entertained.

"So what should we play?" I asked and smiled like never before, the only person who actually got the time to play games with me was Iruka and he didn't come over to do that anymore.

"I don't know, it was your stupid idea." he said and looked into the fire. Something was off with him tonight but I couldn't put my finger on it.

"Well I don't have any board games but I think I got some cards" I ran to my room and looked under the bed, where most of my stuff ends up, well, either there or somewhere in the cough. And what do you know, there was a whole set of cards, so I ran out to Sasuke and gave them to him.

"Wanna play?" he looked at me with question marks written all over him.

"How do you play this game then?" he said and looked at the cards. ' You got to be kidding me!'

"What? You haven't played cards before?"

"No" I looked at him and my face dropped. This guy was really that boring, huh? Who didn't know how to play a simple card game? Sure, I didn't know before, but that was when I was like, eight.

"Okay I'll explain it" I finally said and started to explain how you play poker since that was the only card game I felt like playing at the time. After a not too long explanation he got it and we started to play. The storm wasn't as wild anymore and it gave us hope to be able to get out of the house. Sasuke was surprisingly good at poker even though he said he hadn't played before. 'Okay, so I've lost like 30 times at least he doesn't seem bored.'

"This game is boring" I said when I'd lost about 35 times, not that I counted or anything.

"You're just saying that because you lose all the time" Sasuke said and smirked

"Konohamaru is soooo much more fun to play with; at least I can cheat without him noticing anything." I said to myself. Sasuke put the cards on the floor and sighed. He looked up at me, he looked a bit tired.

"Well... this is getting kind of monotonous." I looked at him and nodded in agreement.

"Well, you can bet money on this...and that's one other to...I don't know the name but I think it's called strip-poker, anyway, when you lose you have to take of one garment, we can play that if you'd like to." I said in my most innocent tone and looked at Sasuke who blushed. 'Hehehe I got him didn't I?' Sasuke looked up at me and blushed even deeper.

"Hey, Sasuke, I was just kidding" I said laughing.

"There's no way in hell that I was going to play that with you anyway." he said in defence. I was still laughing and didn't really pay any attention. He started to look weirdly at me.

"What?" I said and looked back at him. He pointed towards my face and smiled a bit.

"You got something one you're cheek." he said

"Well where?" I felt stupid.

"Never mind, I can get it" Sasuke said and placed his hand on my cheek, I started to blush furiously. He still looked at me, but there was something in his eyes, something I can't describe. I noticed that he was very close to me now. If I just bend over a bit I will touch his lips with mine. So I did, I didn't care if he knew that I like him, he got to know sooner or later. I closed my eyes. His lips was surprisingly soft and warm, it sent tingly feelings through my whole body. I never want to leave his arms.

TBC?

Acrimonious: Oh yes, another cliffhanger, I like those! REVIEW IF YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN! MUAHAHA!