Hey everyone! I'd like to announce a new story I'm working on! But don't worry; 'The Happiness & Sorrows of a Cherry Blossom' will always be my number one priority! :D

So the new story is called 'To risk, or not to risk? THAT is definitely the question.' I'd very much appreciate it if people read it and commented. I'd also absolutely be very thankful if people gave me some ideas for it by sending me a private message, or a review :) .

Thanks so much!

Previously on "The Happiness & Sorrows of a Cherry Blossom"...

"That was Shikamaru…What?" Naruto asked, bewildered by the weird expression on Sasuke's face.

"What you said on the phone did not make sense at all." The raven head said. He honestly didn't know how he and Naruto had become best friends, they were total opposites.

"Oh, well, I met up with the girl's today in the field, and the guys and then just made plans, so now you and I are off to the mall."

"And what does the monkey have to with all this?" Sasuke asked, dumbfounded for once.

"Well… One time I forgot to use the washroom before I went to the mall-" Naruto was interrupted by Sasuke.

"What are you, a little kid?" Sasuke teased.

"Fuck you, let me finish! So when we got to the mall, I ran to the washroom as fast as I could, and the washroom was right beside the animal store. And so I saw a monkey through the window and it was just calling me! So I bought it. But then it crapped everywhere, and I needed some protection to shield me when it was throwing crap everywhere."

"What the fuck…"

"Anyways! Let's go!"

And with that, Naruto grabbed Sasuke's wrist and dragged him to wherever.

C H A P T E R 8 : T H E T R I C K T H A T A L W A Y S W O R K S

"Beep. We are experiencing technical difficulties in the school today. There will be no classes for the day. Thank you and we apologize for the problems. Beep." The Dean of the school announced from the intercom. Most of the students cheered loudly from the joyful information they had just taken in.

Naruto ran across the field with Sasuke following behind him. Except Sasuke wasn't running. Apparently he was "too cool" for that.

Sasuke was walking rather slowly, his was facing the ground with his hands in his pocket.

'This sucks.' He thought to himself.

'Hmm, what does exactly?' A voice asked from inside his head. The voice that had kept him company for the past day. Mostly.

'Nothing in particular.' He admitted. For once in his life, he was going to have a normal conversation with someone, well not exactly "someone", more like a voice from out of the ordinary.

'You're a strange one, how can you be all pissed off for no reason? You can turn emo like that you know. Oh my gosh, don't tell me you've already started cutting… show me your wrist now!' She continued to rant on and on non-stop.

This annoyed Sasuke, but somehow managed to make him chuckle lightly.

'Don't tell me you're one of those talkative freaks like Naruto.' He added quickly as he found a way to speak in between her rants, which wasn't very easy.

There was a pause, a very long one.

'Hmm, maybe.' She confessed.

He chuckled once more.

'You know, you should open up more. You won't seem like much of a claustrophobic freak.' She said, a hint of laughter rang in her voice.

'Hn.' He replied.

Naruto looked back at Sasuke, his eyebrow raised with a big sign of curiosity on his face.

"Oi! Sasuke! You're acting all weird again!" Naruto yelled. He was further away from Sasuke since he was running.

Sasuke lifted his head up enough to view Naruto, and shrugged it off.

'Weird teme. I could've sworn I saw a grin right there.' Naruto thought to himself as he began to walk to his car, but then stopped as he saw a hint of pink in front of him.

"What the…" He muttered.

Then he laughed. It was Sakura.

'What's you're name by the way?' Sasuke asked.

'Hmm…' The voice pondered. 'I forgot.'

Sasuke rolled his eyes.

'Shut up. You're the freak who talks to voices in your head.' She accused as she stuck out her tongue.

'Yeah, but you're the freak who's talking to me.' He retorted back at her.

'Whatever, you're just-.' She began, but her voice slowly faded away as Sasuke continued walking.

He stopped walking as he looked at the grass beneath him. She was gone.

"I'm a freak for talking to myself." Sasuke muttered underneath his breath. So maybe he was strange, he thought about it, and found it rather pathetic that he found the company of the melodic voice to be quiet appealing. She seemed kind, funny, but very mysterious.

'But she's only in my head.' He assured himself. "Ugh, I'm going to get therapy." He told himself out loud. He made a mental note of that as he began to walk forward. He looked up to see Naruto waving frantically at someone ahead of him.

"Sakura!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke's eye twitched.

'Damn it!' Sasuke thought to himself. 'Calm, think calm.' Just then he realized that she was his room mate. He remembered the look on her face as they shared the awkward moment of first seeing each other as room mates. It wasn't very pleasant.

'I really am an idiot.' He thought again, as he smacked himself on the head. The scene of him just staring at her blankly in their dorm popped into his head. She stared back at him. Then he walked into his room again as if nothing happened.

'Not only are you an idiot, but you're a jerk.' His conscience reminded him.

'What the fuck is up with the world?! Now I have TWO voices speaking to me!' He yelled in his head. He reminded himself ten times more to get hard core therapy.

He walked even slower knowing that Sakura was ahead of him.

'Damn Naruto for being so fucking loud.'

"You want to come with us to the mall?" Naruto asked the pink headed girl as she looked at him.

"Oh, I just got a call from Ino to meet her there…" Sakura said lightly, she started thinking of what to do. A little habit of hers, she thought for quite some time, but her conclusion never really did make sense in the end.

"I'll give you a ride!" Naruto said happily, but then remembered the big blob of boredom behind him. Sasuke.

'Crap.' Naruto thought to himself as he cringed. Unlike Sakura, Naruto NEVER thought before he spoke. Thus, he forgot about the whole situation between Sakura and Sasuke. He mentally slapped and scolded himself.

"Umm…" He began as he looked behind him. Sakura looked behind him as well and saw Sasuke.

"He's going too, huh?" She asked. She tried to be as calm as possible. But inside, she was dieing.

"Yes…" He nodded his head. Finally Sasuke arrived to the two people.

His hands were still in his pockets, but his face was no longer looking at the ground.

It was a very awkward silence.

Cricket. Cricket.

Naruto looked from Sasuke to Sakura. He knew Sasuke well enough to read his features. Sasuke tried looking cooler than usual when he was really nervous. But being Sasuke, NO ONE could ever tell when he was nervous. Because obviously, Uchihas are NEVER nervous.

Sakura on the other hand was fidgeting with a peace of grass that she had picked up from before.

'A gay baby was born…' Inner Sakura said. It was a conclusion that Sakura had always came up with whenever an awkward silence had occurred.

"So!" Naruto yelled rather unexpectedly. This made Sakura jump. "Let's go to the mall! Sakura, I might as well give you a ride."

"O-okay…" She stuttered. She glanced at Sasuke and glared at him.

'Damn you. NO ONE makes Haruno Sakura cower!' She notified to herself as Inner Sakura agreed.

Sasuke glanced at her and caught her eye. He raised his eyebrow and smirked wickedly.

"Loser." He muttered as he followed Naruto who had already started walking to his car.

"Asswhole." She retorted back at him. Loud enough so he could hear. He glared at her harder. As she did also.

"Hurry up! We're going to be late!" Naruto yelled.

"Shut up!" Sasuke yelled back at him as he jumped into the passenger seat.

Sakura muttered a few curse words involving an Uchiha dieing in a crappy whole. But then shrugged the evil thoughts away and walked into the back seat of the shiny new vehicle.

Everything was going okay for now. As long as Sakura could retort easily back at the Uchiha that she despised, everything was going to be fine.

Sasuke looked through the window at the moving things in his sight. The trees were passing by fast, and little kids were holding balloons.

'The amusement park reopened today…' He thought to himself. The Uchiha Corp. had bought the old amusement park and improved it. He watched as the little kids jumped around, and some of their balloons floated into the sky.

Then he glanced into the mirror outside of the car. He saw Sakura through it as she was looking outside. Her features were calm and peaceful. She had a small hint of a smile on her lips. He just stared at her.

'She's changed a lot.' He noticed.

She shifted in her spot, which surprised him as he quickly diverted his view from her incase. He would've panicked if she caught him staring at her, but being Sasuke, he would've made a lie and said that she had something on her face and it was seriously gruesome.

As Naruto drove. Everything was silent. A little too silent. He cringed as he tried concentrating on the rode. But he felt like he was being pressured into dealing with the silence that he hated with a passion. So he reached for the dial and turned up the volume. Since the volume was up to the max, it was rather hard to ignore.

The music started with a soft tune. Sasuke's head lifted straight up as he was dumfounded by the sound.

I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it's fantastic!

Sakura looked as if she was going to puke.

"Naruto…" She muttered lightly.

Imagination, life is your creation

Come on Barbie, let's go party!

"What.The.Fuck." Sasuke said. Slowly emphasizing each word as he slowly turned his head towards Naruto.

I'm a blond bimbo girl, in the fantasy world

Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly

You're my doll, rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink,

kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky...

You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours"

Naruto was happily dancing to the beat. His left had wailing around as his right hand managed the steering wheel.

"NARUTO!" Sasuke yelled enraged.

Come on Barbie,

let's go party!(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)

The blonde headed moron stopped dancing as stared at Sasuke.

"What?" He asked. His voice was calm as if he had no clue what was going on.

"For Fucks sake man! What the fuck do you listen to?!" Sasuke's features were mad. Really, really mad.

Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please

I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees

Come jump in, bimbo friend, let us do it again,

hit the town, fool around, let's go party

You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours"

You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours"

Sakura was banging her head on the window sill. People from outside were staring amusingly at the moving vehicle. Little girls were all happy and cheerful.

"What are you talking about? This stuff is the shit!" Naruto yelled happily as he began to dance in his spot again.

Sakura had stopped banging her head and was now staring at Naruto like he was the strangest THING she had ever seen. Two seconds later, she burst out laughing like a crazy maniac.

Naruto stopped dancing and was now staring at Sakura with a wide grin on his face.

'Heh, this plan works ALL the time.' He said to himself. You see, this was a plan Naruto always used to pull when he was little. Whenever there was an awkward situation between the three of them. It always made Sakura laugh, which made Sasuke laugh, WHICH made Naruto the hero of the day.

"That's the Sakura I know." Naruto stated with his big grin on his face.

Sasuke looked at Naruto and chuckled lightly. He glanced at Sakura, and inside his mind, he smiled.

It really was the Sakura he used to know. She really didn't change much when it came to her laugh.

Just then he remembered the melodic voice. Where had she gone?

Sasuke looked back out of his window as the stupid Barbie song was playing. He noticed they had arrived at the mall.

He sighed. Then his cell phone rang and he looked at the caller ID.

"God Damn it." He swore.

Sakura had calmed down and was sitting in her seat patiently. She looked questioningly at him.

"Suyu?" Naruto blurted.

Sasuke nodded.

"Dude, don't pick up. She can have her time later. Let's go!" Naruto stated as he jumped out of the car.

Sakura did the same. She got out of the car and dusted her skirt off.

Sasuke got out and looked at her.

"What?" She asked. Actually she hissed. Apparently she had eyes on the top of her head, because there was no way she could've known that he was looking at her.

He flinched.

She looked up at him. And stared back at him with a questioning look. "What are you looking at?" She asked in the most pissed off way possible.

"Bitch." He muttered, his eyes now glared at hers.

"Ass." She retorted. The glaring contest had started.

"You're really short." Sasuke stated. This caught her off guard.

"THAT'S what you wanted to say?" She asked surprised. "You can be really random."

He shrugged.

"Well, I'm not short. I'm just unusually NOT tall." She declared as she put her chin up in the air and crossed her arms as she walked away from the raven haired Uchiha.

"Hn." He simply said.

Then the three young adults were off to the mall.

AN:

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