Author's Note:Since Meemy-chan asked for it, here is a Sasuke chapter. Please enjoy and let me know what you think! :)

Chapter 45 – Sasuke's Chapter (Part 6)

Sakura was different. Annoyingly so. She was exuding happiness and friendliness to everyone. She smiled all the time and did what she normally did. But too cheerful. It almost unnatural how cheerful she was. I only saw her at school since she didn't live with us anymore when her parents were gone. It greatly distressed my mother. When summer came I thought she would come around more often but she seemed to either work more with Kakashi-sensei or go out with her friends. I focused on baseball.

When school started to draw near, my cousin Shisui decided he was going to move in with Itachi since he transferred to Konoha Hospital to head up the pediatrics section. I liked Shisui. He was a lot like Itachi. They were both geniuses but cool. He was like a second brother to me despite living far away.

Itachi brought Shisui to mother's birthday cookout. The Uzumakis and Harunos came of course. Itachi went about introducing Shisui to everyone.

"What do call an alligator in a vest?" Kizashi asked Naruto and I as we waited around for the food to be ready.

"What?" We asked.

"An investigator," Kizashi started laughing as did I. He always told such funny jokes.

"Oh, Itachi, who is this?" Kizashi asked Itachi when he and Shisui walked up.

"This our cousin Shisui Uchiha. Shisui, this is our neighbor Kizashi Haruno," Itachi introduced them.

"Nice to meet you, Shisui," Kizashi shook his hand.

"You too, Mr. Haruno."

"Please, call me Kizashi."

"Okay, Kizashi."

"I got a question for you, Shisui. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?"

"No."

"He's all right now," Kizashi finished. We both laughed. Apparently, Shisui, Itachi and Naruto did not get this great joke.

"Oh, Otou-san, don't start with those stupid jokes again," Sakura walked up and sighed. Her hair really grew out again. I hadn't noticed.

"Part pooper," Kizashi pouted and went off to be with my dad And Minato at the grille.

"Oh, Sakura, let me introduce you to my cousin. This is Dr. Shisui Uchiha. He's going to living with me for a while. Shisui, this is my old neighbor Sakura Haruno," Itachi introduced the two.

"It's nice to meet you, Dr. Uchiha," She smield and shook his hand.

"Please, call me Shisui," He smiled back. She blushed. Why was she blushing?

"You look too young to be a doctor," She commented.

"Everyone says that," He laughed, "But I'm actually two years older than Itachi. Way smarter too."

Sakura laughed. He wasn't funny.

"What kind of medicine do you practice?" She asked him.

"Pediatrics. I love working with kids."

"Sakura is thinking about becoming a nurse," Itachi announced. She was? I hadn't heard anything about that.

"Really?" Shisui kept smiling.

"Yes. I love helping people. I know you doctors do a lot to help with patients but nurses seem to get to interact with people more."

When did she decide all of this?

"Where do you think you'll go to school?"

"I've been accepted to the Konoha School of Nursing. By doing that I can get all my credentials in two years instead of four. I can't wait to enter the nursing world." She did?

"Would you want to work at a hospital or a private practice or-"

"Hospital. I'd like to work in the pediatric apartment with the children. I love children."

"Maybe you can work with me then," Shisui winked.

"Maybe," She giggled.

"Sakura, can you come here for a minute?" I head Mebuki call to Sakura.

"Please, excuse me," Sakura left us.

"She's cute, Itachi," I heard Shisui say to my brother.

"Don't tell me you like her?" Itachi scoffed. Shisui blushed!

"What? I just met her, Itachi," Shishui denied this. He better not. Wait. Why did I care?

"Sure," Itachi did not believe Shisui. I didn't either. Suddenly Naruto laughed.

"What are you laughing about?" I asked him.

"Investigator! Hilarious!" He was such a dobe.

"Time to eat!" Kizashi announced. We all gathered to get food. All the adults sat together. We younger people went to a different table to eat. As we ate Sakura kept smiling and talking with Shisui like he was the most interesting person in the world. He was not.

"Please, pass the tomatoes, Sakura," I asked her once. She must not have heard me for she was giggling loudly at something stupid Shisui said. It was creepy. Shisui was nine years older than her. He was too old for her even if he was deemed young at twenty-six.

"Sakura, the tomatoes, please," I tried again but she was babbling on with Shisui. I did not like her ignoring me. I did not like her talking with him so damn much. I did not like it one damn bit.

"Sakura!" I finally yelled at her.

"Sasuke-kun!" She yelped and looked at me.

"The tomatoes, please," I held my hand out.

"You didn't need to yell at me," She passed them to me. Everyone at our table looked at me like I was the bad guy.

"I asked you twice nicely," I kept my cool.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't hear you. Shisui-kun and I were talking," She apologized. Shisui-kun? Shisui-kun! I took a tomato and left the table.

I sat in the living room eating my tomato angrily. Why was I so mad? Sakura and I were just friends if not siblings. She was so annoying. First, she acted so cheerful after I rejected her then she kind of ignored me all summer and then she was all "Shisui-kun~." If she was so in love with me how could she just move on like that? I didn't think she'd actually give up on me. Not that I cared. I didn't care if she wanted to flirt with old guys or if she didn't pay attention to me anymore. I didn't care that she didn't tell me about her future plans. I didn't care that she had given up on me. I didn't care that I lied to her about not feeling anything when we kissed. I didn't care. She was just an annoying distraction. I only cared about baseball. Baseball was all that mattered.

"Sasuke, what are you doing in here?" Kizashi came into the house.

"It was too hot outside," I lied.

"It's not even eighty degrees," Kizashi stared me down, "What's really going on?"

I tried to avoid looking into his invasive blue eyes. He sat beside me as he kept staring at me.

"Sasuke, you now you can tell me anything," He patted my shoulder. He was so nosy like Sakura.

"It's nothing," I tried to look away from him.

"Is it a girl problem?"

How did he know?

"I used to have girl problems too when I was your age," He sighed. It was not hard for me to believe a pink haired guy like Kizashi had problems with girls.

"You may find it hard to believe but a lot of girls weren't really into guys with pink hair." Again it was not hard to believe.

"No matter what I tried, girls did not like me. I tried being the smart guy, the athletic guy, the cool guy, the artsy guy and even just being myself which is the funny guy. None of it seemed to work. So I decided I would just focus on my future. I would focus on fulfilling my dream of becoming a pilot. I was so focused on my dream that I actually didn't start noticing that Mebuki liked me. When I did realize that she liked me, I didn't know what to do. I was so career oriented that I thought I couldn't like her back or else I would become distracted from my dream. Luckily, your father talked some sense into me. He told me that love was far more important than a career. Jobs come and go but love lasts forever. So I asked Mebuki out and I found out that her dream was to be flight attendant. How perfect were we for each other! We got married and you know how we are now. So I guess what I'm saying is, don't worry too much about girls. Love is like the cherry blossoms. All winter you think they'll never bloom but one day they do and when that happens you have to make sure you're there to see it before they go away again."

Kizashi was very insightful. I guess it was bad of me to think he was just a jokester.

"Thank you, Kizashi," I was sincere. I guess I was just distracting myself with baseball to avoid dealing with my problems with Sakura. Did this mean I actually liked Sakura?

"No problem," He ruffled my hair, "Now let's go back outside."

I followed Kizashi back outside just in time to see that everyone was still just talking and eating. I sat back down beside Naruto. I looked over at Sakura. She was still smiling and chatting with Shisui. Why did I have to realize now about how I felt about Sakura? Why didn't I realize the great feeling of kissing Sakura meant I actually liked her when she made me kiss her? Now she was obviously falling for Shisui. Damn us Uchihas and our great looks and charm! I had to get her back. I had to make her like me again.