OK, YOU KNOW WHAT! FINE!

YOU'RE FREE TO WHACK ME IN THE HEAD FOR CONFUSING YOU!

I AM SIMPLY A STUPID PERSON, WHO CAN'T MAKE UP HER MIND ABOUT A STUPID USERNAME!

So I officially changed my username from Crazed-Aki66 to lainey-bo-bainy cause it's more original me because my friends gave me that nickname.

Anyway, sorry for Sasuke's OC last chapter. I was already having doubts while writing it. And sorry for the lame scary story last chapter too. I hate the scary story… it's all normal and weird. Anyway, to Princess Fluffy and kakashi-sensei2, I'll be using you're stories that you suggested me somewhere after this chapter ok? THANKS AGAIN! I loved your stories…. Ok, I'm babbling now… on with the chapter…

Title: FireLight Horrors

Chapter title: The Head

Author: crazedAKI66

Leaning by the window sill, another sigh escaped the bun-girl's lips. Indeed, waiting for more than a half hour is truly fretful; especially when you are in a room together with a person whose mouth is 24/7 open.

"They said ten o'clock; they exactly said ten o'clock!" Naruto whined for more than a hundredth time.

"Stop you whining, Naruto…" Ino stated irritably, tired from hearing all his complains. "It's not their fault, miss Kurenai and Sir Kakashi probably made them do more work; so right now, please try your best to shut your 24/7 mouth"

"Wow… she's actually begging…" Neji whispered to the lazy-bum sitting beside him, "That's something new…"

Ino looked around to see what everyone else was doing. She felt rather amused seeing that they were all bored but still had their own ways to keep themselves busy. Naruto was sitting by the computer while playing online games as his eyes were almost as if glued onto the computer screen; which annoyed Ten-Ten the most, thinking it is her computer. On the other side of the room, Neji and Shikamaru were sitting on the floor, with a CD player next to them, while simply listening to rock music which scared Hinata by the aggressive lyrics and the great use of amplification. Hinata, on the other hand, was watching TV with Ino as they both were slopped down onto the bed. Ten-Ten, however, glanced at the damped window; slouching onto her seat, she gave out her eighteenth sigh for the night.

They –tired and bored- were all waiting for both Sasuke and Sakura who were still up in the school since 7pm. They were assigned to do various errands by their homeroom teacher Kakashi along with Kurenai who held the other class, since there were two classes in their grade. These work all comes down to their graduation -A.K.A. 'grad'- which was coming up only within months since they were now in term three and there were three terms in a year. Closing in to the month of June, they were all fairly thrilled to reach their last month of the school year, where they would do nothing except for grad stuff: which included retreats to other places, field trips without quizzes after, free workshops, not much homework, and also included planning for their grad like their its theme, food, music and all of those sorts.

Sakura held the yearbook department wherein she decides what or whatnot to put on the yearbook; also with being in charge of their fund-raising for grad stuff, she thinks of programs that students are interested in and would pay for. Right now, they are doing the Pizza program where they would sell pizzas every Thursday. All the money and funds goes to grad. In the mean time, Sasuke is in charge of Photography and more on coordinating their grad stuff: his task includes find interesting and memorable pictures, makes sure everyone has a picture, coordinating most of grad stuff like where to go, what theme their grad is and those sorts. These jobs were taken voluntarily which goes with other people too; except for Sasuke who was forced by Kakashi.

Going back to the six people who were dying in boredom, they were not able to start their scary stories as they were stuck here in a room waiting for the other two.

The woods were not a covered area which made it hard for them to stay outside. The cold breeze that was brought by the rain would only give them chills and they would be soaked even with an umbrella. The soil would be wet and muddy which was something Ino would not and never would want to get stuck on her shoes: mud. After meeting at the same spot they had always told their stories in about a quarter to ten, they decided to run to the nearest house from the park they were on, which leads to Ten-Ten's. Ino had contacted Sakura, telling her to meet in Ten-Ten's house instead of the woods.

They came to the house and decided to stay up at Ten-Ten's room- which was at the attic. Entering the room, she had purposely left the lights off leaving only a small lamp attached up at the wall which glows a crimson-red light. Darkness filled most of the room to match the eerie feeling of their scary stories later on.

Glancing out the window, Ten-Ten sighed once again as the droplets of rain poured down heavily then hits the window's glass violently. Another thunder boomed harshly which made some of them jump by the sudden sound. A flash of lightning emerged across black sky. It looked as if the sky was to be torn-apart considering its sound and size of how big the lightning was- stretched across the huge, dark, black space in the sky. Not a single star was visible on the dark sky and rain poured down like there was no tomorrow.

"Can it get anymore worse than this?" Ten-Ten complained, slopping her head down onto her arms, which was folded together placed on top of the window-sill.

Neji looked towards her then turned to look through the window beside her. He snickered, "Man, talk about raining cats and dogs… this storm hadn't stopped since forever"

Ten-Ten grunted, "Talk about total global warming… I mean, how could it possibly rain when spring is close to over and summer's coming?" she asked irritably.

"The way it snowed in summer three years ago…" Shikamaru stated. His eyes were closed while he was leaning on a bunch of pillows.

Ten-Ten sighed giving up on her complains, "Bring up a topic" she told, putting back up her head facing the others.

"How about Sasuke and Sakura?" Neji suggested, although he did not know what had got into him to put up such a topic. "They've been spending a lot of time together…"

Ino turned from the TV to face them as she spoke, "Do you think Sasuke wanted to join the committee as his own choice?"

"I highly doubt that" stated Shikamaru, getting up from his position, "But Sasuke smiles around Sakura…" he paused and thought for a moment.

Ten-Ten cocked an eyebrow, "You're point?"

"He smiles around Sakura…" Shikamaru repeated, in a tone saying that was enough said. Neji scratched the back of his head, "I guess he likes her… a bit… there's a 70 percent chance. And I guess Sakura likes-"

"I doubt it…" disagreed Ten-Ten, not bothering to let Neji finish from what-ever he was about to say, "Sakura likes someone else…"

Shikamaru, who was currently lying lazily at bed, perked up and looked strangely at Ten-Ten, "She does? Who?"

"I'm not sure but it's pretty obvious… I think it's that guy in our Science class. The one with blond, spiky hair… blue eyes, attractive…remember?"

Naruto glanced up at Ten-Ten with eyes that shown excite, "It is me!"

Neji snickered, enough for everyone to hear or noticed, "Keep dreaming, Naruto…"

"Yeah…" Ten-Ten started, "Blond, spiky-hair, blue eyes: matches you. Attractive… that's a definite no…"

Naruto pouted and went on with the game he was playing on the internet. Meanwhile, the four went on with their conversation. Ino spoke up, "Is it Kai? Forget it, that guy's a jerk…"

"Sakura doesn't know that…" Ten-Ten corrected, "Sakura's naïve… she's blind to mostly everything…even Sasuke; no exception for him, he makes her laugh but not the laugh she would only give for him…"

"Yeah, poor guy…" Shikamaru stated, joining in the conversation, "He deserves a chance…"

"He deserves nothing…" Ino argued, "He's the one that told… no, manipulated Sakura into taking those goofy pictures…"

"Yeah, he did! Sakura told me…" Ten-Ten agreed. Neji shook his head, "It was Kakashi, you guys; he told Sasuke and Sasuke told Sakura" he explained.

"I can't believe Sakura would even give into that…" Ino stated, "Unless she though it was fun…"

"Well, you never know, maybe it is fun." Shikamaru stated simply, earning a glare from Ino in the process. "Embarrassment is not fun…" She told, continuing to give out glares to Shikamaru. "It is if it's not you who's getting embarrassed." Stated the pine-apple head. Ino eyed him for a moment, examining his facial features: he had a smirk plastered across his face; his eyes were closed with arms folded which he seemed rather relaxed and confident. "What are you getting at?" asked Ino, suspiciously.

"I'm just saying that it's unfair if they're the only ones who could have fun… why not we have fun too?" Shikamaru suggested, earning a confused look from Ino. He ignored it and turned towards the white-eyed boy across from him, and then he asked, "You see where I'm getting at?" Neji replied with a nod. He faced Ten-Ten with an emotionless look on his face, but out of the blue, there was confidence and pride seen within Neji's stoic face and Shikamaru's lazy-bum look. Between these looks, the two girls were confused. They looked over at Shikamaru, then to Neji and then back to Shikamaru; it was as if they were watching a tennis rally. At last, the awkward silence of confusion was brought to a stop by Neji.

"Hey, Ten-Ten" he called out, taking Ten-Ten's attention to him, "You got a camera?"

At the sudden hearing the word 'camera', everything for Ino and Ten-Ten seemed to have put the pieces slowly together. From the 'fun' Shikamaru was talking about, to 'why not we have fun too?' line spoken by Shikamaru, down to the part Neji asked for a camera.

Ten-Ten nodded slowly, "Yeah I have one right here…" she paused for a moment seeing Neji plaster a smirk across his face; she scowled lightly "Are you guys serious?"

"Of course we are" Neji boasted, "It'll be easy… get them to do something and capture it… no big…"

"Actually…" started Ino, as she finally got the idea of where this went to, "It is a biggy, after that… then what? Yearbook; no way, we first have to let Sakura approve it… how will we do that?"

"Why go to Sakura when you could go to Sir Kakashi?" Shikamaru stated.

Ino raised an eyebrow and looked at him strangely, "When did you get all-evil?" she asked. Shikamaru, however, did not reply to her question and shrugged it off. Neji spoke up, answering her question instead, "I guess he's just determined to get his revenge…"

"Probably…" Ten-Ten told, "But he's right… Sasuke and Sakura had enough fun… it's our turn! Beside… they are awfully getting close to each other…"

"Sasuke is… not much for Sakura…" Neji stated, "She still hates him… he still hates her… it's called love's quarrel. Deep inside they both enjoy each other…"

"Why? 'Cause he has fun with her? Aren't we fun?" Shikamaru wondered. Ten-Ten gave him a weird look which he did not notice. She leaned over to Neji and whispered, "I sense jealousy… not to Sasuke but to Sakura for spending too much time with him…" she told and Neji slowly formed a smirk.

Ino sighed, "We are the fun Shikamaru…" said she, "They simply enjoy taking goofy pictures of us and publish it on the yearbook by the end of the year…"

Shikamaru groaned, "Whatever…" he paused, thinking "How exactly do we do it?"

Ten-Ten sighed, "Do we need a plan? We need a plan; ok, here's the plan." She told as they all formed into a circle, planning about what they were about to do to get Sakura and Sasuke together and 'capture' their moment. But that was excluding Naruto and Hinata. Naruto simply did not want to mess up with Sakura, thinking he already had gotten enough punches mostly by the courtesy of Shikamaru- who he pushed onto Ino just last week. Hinata, however, knew nothing of the sort with what they were talking about. Nevertheless, she was not clueless for long; she had managed to hear some lines and plans.

After a few minutes, the door bell rang from the first floor. And only about seconds later, Ten-Ten's bedroom door was violently slammed open, revealing a furious Uchiha.

"I HATE HATAKE! THAT PERVERT, NO GOOD FOR NOTHING, SO-CALLED TEACHER!" yelled the raven haired teen as he came-in, stomping his feet. He had purposely kicked a chair intensely; it flew through the air, making a massive noise as it hit and crash onto the wall, causing everyone to either cover their ears or back-away.

"Whoa! Loosen up, dude… What happened?" Shikamaru asked, stepping away from the really angry Uchiha.

"Kakashi locked him up in the Girls' bathroom" Sakura stated who just happen to pop out if nowhere. She arrived in right after Sasuke had entered Ten-Ten's dim room. She jumped and sat next to Hinata on the bed.

"W-what? How?" asked Neji, while trying to hold his laughter.

"The question is… why was he there, in the first place?" Sakura corrected as she eyed Sasuke while grinning at him; Sasuke returned her a look which earned her an evil glare.

"Long story…" he grunted, trying to avoid the topic.

"The longer the funnier…" Neji stated.

"Could we just stop this conversation…?" Sasuke murmured. Then, a loud thunder boomed once again. Strong wind was breezing through, causing the trees to rustle violently and make noise of the movement.

Sakura noticed this which earned her to give out an exhausted sighed, "How are we gonna go home?"

"Simple," Neji said, "We walk"

"That's exactly what you call easier said than done…"

"Well what do you expect?" Sasuke asked, out dully.

"Well… we could always go do… a…" Ten-Ten started, and then Ino snapped up her head and looked at her, then grinned with Ten-Ten grinning at her

"Sleepover." they both suggested.

The boys were taken back a bit. "Nu-uh…" Shikamaru started, "That would be the last thing we would do…"

"Yeah but…" Ten-Ten paused for a bit, then she looked at Neji and remembered the quote he had said three weeks ago, "That's still on the list…"

"Well, that's actually a good idea…" commented Hinata, not wanting to walk on the rain.

"I am in jeans, Ten-Ten. How do you except me to sleep in these clothes?" Sakura asked, not really liking the idea of a sleeping in jeans. Then, Sasuke grabbed her backpack and unzipped it. Then, he rummaged through it, looking for something. Others had took notice of this and all had was starring at him; they were all wondering why the heck Sasuke was digging in into a girl's bag out-of-the-blue

"You know," Ino started, continuing to stare at Sasuke "You really shouldn't look around in a girl's bag; you might see… something in there…"

Sasuke then got something, and held it up for everyone to see; then he turned to Ino, "Like a remote control?" he asked curiously.

Ino hesitantly shook her head and sweat-dropped; a remote was definitely something she was not expecting for Sasuke to see. She was expecting manicure, lip-gloss, make-up, cell-phone… probably under wears… but not, a remote-control. "Not what I was talking about…" she defended. Everyone's gazes turn from Sasuke to Sakura.

Sakura, feeling embarrassed with many people looking at her, only groaned, "Put it back, Sasuke"

"What in the world is a remote doing in your back pack?" Sasuke asked in surprise, talking to her like she was some lunatic and still not putting it back; he had only held it up higher.

"I was watching TV, then my Dad came and he wanted to change the channel so I hid the remote. My backpack was the closest thing to me…" Sakura gave a small smile.

"That's a really retarded thing to do…" he sighed, and then continued. "Never mind…" Sasuke shook his head and stuffed the remote in her bag. And he kept searching through it.

"Okay…anyway, c'mon Sakura, you don't really expect to yourself to walk in the storm do you?" Ino asked, begging for her to give in so that they would all have sleepover and they could start doing their plan with Sakura and Sasuke getting stuck in a closet… or stuck in a room… or in the bathroom… or…mostly those stuff; just as long as they are able to get the picture.

"Ino, I am not going to sleep in this outfit, okay? It will feel like…so uncomfortable since these clothes are ones I wear outside and-" just before Sakura could finish, she was interrupted by Sasuke who handed her khaki pants and a bit of a loose black shirt which surprisingly came from her bag.

"Here," he stated with a cold, monotone voice while shoving it up her face. "Get undressed…"

With this statement, everyone started gaping at him; everyone, with an exception for Sakura who whacked him in the head, harder than usual "Ow, jeez! What is your problem?"

Sakura glared, "That… is just plain sick and wrong…"

Sasuke gave out an annoyed look while using his right hand to caress the side of his head. "What? Ok, you're the one who's just plain sicko. I didn't mean get naked! Just change into these clothes!" he yelled as he shoved it to her face, once again.

"Where did you get those? Are those even mine?" Sakura asked curiously, she did not like the idea of wearing someone else's clothes which she did not know who it belonged to. In addition, she did not remember herself bringing extra clothes this afternoon when she was packing her bag for the night.

"It's yours" Sasuke stated in his cold, monotone voice "Kakashi gave it earlier, it's not a uniform; it's just a kinda cool matching clothes for all people in the committee… all black." Sasuke continued a bit more, "So being the gentleman I am, I stuffed everything carelessly in your bag cuz you weren't there" then he grinned.

Sakura sighed, giving up "Fine, we'll sleep here…" and she harshly snatched the clothes from Sasuke's hand.

Ino and Ten-Ten cheered a bit but then calmed down when they both noticed everyone was staring at them.

"Since when did you turn into another Ino?" Neji asked curiously, referring to the bun-headed girl. Shikamaru, on the other hand, only groaned. "Oh please no…" He begged playfully, "One Ino is enough… too much, actually…"

Ino twitched in annoyance, "Pardon? What did you just-?"

"Ten-Ten, answer me" Neji called out, interrupting Ino in the process. After all, if she did not get interrupted, Shikamaru and she will get into another 'troublesome' quarrel; which gets really loud and unpleasant by the use of… colourful words sometimes.

Ten-Ten gave a sharp look at Neji, "What the hell has gotten into you?" Neji asked rather curiously, "I mean, you said you didn't want a sleepover earlier about 30 minutes ago then now you're so into it. What's with that? I mean, how come you suddenly want us to stay here… it's not like were going to do something new like-"

"SSSSSHHHHH!" Ten-Ten hissed, putting up her index finger and placing it against her lips. The she eyed Neji, and he quickly got the message… it was mostly along the lines of 'shut up or they'll get suspicious'. It was quite obvious that he wasn't informed about the sleepover. Actually, he didn't remember a sleepover part of their plan. He settled down, deciding that maybe the girls had changed the plan without informing neither him nor Shikamaru. Sakura and Sasuke looked at her then at Neji suspiciously and there was silence after that. Sakura was the one who broke it first.

"What's going on? What did I miss?" she asked curiously, looking back and forth between Neji and Ten-Ten who was exchanging glances.

"Not much really… nothing at all…" Shikamaru lied.

Sakura, knowing Hinata would be a good reference of the truth, decided to turn to her "Hinata, what's going on?" she asked as she turned to the fidgeting girl beside her. Knowing that she was the type of person who wouldn't lie to her friends, Sakura thought it would be a good idea to ask her. Hinata, on the other hand, did not know what she should do or what to reply to her pink-haired-friend. She looked aside, though trying to avoid Sakura's gaze. By looking on the other direction, it only resulted by meeting a pair of pearl-eyes like hers, obviously owned by her cousin, Neji. He was eyeing her and she even panicked more when she felt pressure of being watch by her cousin. His gaze told her something along the lines of 'don't you dare spill anything…'. Hinata, feeling very uncomfortable now, decided to answer Sakura.

"I-I'm sorry Sakura…" Hinata started and looked up at her cousin for a while then took a deep breath and continued, "but Neji's glaring at me and judging from his gaze… he doesn't want me to tell about anything they planned for the night, earlier while you and Sasuke still haven't arrived." She told rather very fast.

Everyone sweat-dropped then rivet their eyes on Neji, who choked while in the process of drinking his soda. He accidentally coughed out some of his drink in surprise of what Hinata just said. Unfortunately, he was sitting near Shikamaru and well, when he coughed… this was what happened.

"Eeeewww! Gross, man! What in the world has gotten into you! Your saliva, like… went straight into my eye! Ugh!" Shikamaru yelled while scratching his eye with his right hand, wiping off the saliva. Shaking his head in embarrassment, Neji covered his face with his hands. An exception for Naruto who burst out in laughter, the others tried to hold back their laughs.

Sakura and Sasuke, on the other hand, just glared at Neji and as Sakura was about to ask tons of questions, Ten-Ten stepped up; "Okay, never mind that;" she told quickly, hoping to get the others' attention. She picked up an orange-mid-size flashlight from the table and sat down on the carpet. Then, she flicked on the light and placed under her chin.

"So… Let us start…" she began cautiously to add up the eerie aura, "My story for tonight is titled… 'The Head'"

In the story

In a huge house, right around the corner of a very populated street, there lived a man and his wife. They both lived happily together and everyone in their neighbourhood thought they were perfect for each other. At times, they would go to the park and some people would stare at them of how happy they were. They both loved each other; she loved him, he lived her.

But it didn't last as long as their random neighbors expected them to be together. After a few years… a fight finally happened.

Everyone thought they lived happily with each other at first, but the key word there is thought. They didn't know… they started hearing rumours about the couple arguing around the supposedly quiet park and one would always run away leaving the other who would be weeping.

The couple, though, would always go out of their house and show their smiles, like saying they were happy and nothing was wrong. But deep inside, there was a big wound across their marriage, and unaware that they were, their neighbours already know its. Looks, indeed, can be deceiving.

They were not happy, at all. Both would fight, almost all the time, about different things. But mostly, the main reason why the husband was mad at his wife was for not having a baby.

They were already married for years now and the wife never became pregnant. The wife would get hurt and ask him if that was all he cared about. He was getting tired and bored with every day.

Every once in a while, the wife would try to make her husband happy by preparing a royal dinner or something but then her husband would always be late and say "I already ate dinner"

Then there were a few nights where the husband would go home, very late at night. The wife would ask where he was and he would always say he came from a meeting. This would happen at least once a week.

Eventually, the neighbors knew about this; they knew about the baby issue and even the part where the couple always had argued. Gossip travels fast. In fact, they don't need to hear it… it was easy to see.

There were times were they would see the husband late at night, come home or sometimes storm out of the house after a huge fight. Shouts of anger were sometimes heard late at night; slams of furniture could also be hearable.

It was pretty obvious that they weren't quite fond of each other like they were when they got married. In fact, honestly, they hated each other. At least only the husband says it out loud; the wife tried to keep her love for her husband but it was slowly drifting away. She wanted to do something to make him stay with her; she wanted him to stop hurting her emotionally and physically. But she wasn't aware that she was already asking for revenge.

Weeks passed and it happened more often and the husband was barely at home. The wife started to get suspicious and tried to find out what the husband was really doing at night.

She followed him by car and he headed towards a bar. It turns out the husband was flirting with some girl! She stormed into the bar and asked what he was doing here. She was expecting to get a lame excuse but she didn't get that. Instead, it was something worse.

"What are you doing here at the bar!" screamed the wife.

"Why, it's you. Well, can't you see? You're no fun to be with and pretty boring. You can't even bear me a child. So I went out to find another woman who can, a woman who actually has a life and not only depend on me" her husband continued to boast.

And once again, weeks passed but something was different this latest weeks. The neighbours didn't see the husband anymore, he never came and he never has gone. It made them wonder, but then there were times that they would see the wife, just outside their house, and cradling something, wrapped around with a cloth in her arms…

Turns out it was her husbands head!

Everyday, she would cradle it on her arms and would think, "At least now… you won't leave me anymore…"

End of story

"The end!" exclaimed the brunette. "What do you guys think?" She asked searching for comments.

"N-nice s-story…"

"Creepy"

"Retarded"

"Hn…"

"Whatever…"

"Troublesome…"

"I don't get it…"

Ten-Ten sighed, "How can you not get it?" she asked, "it's like… totally narrative… there weren't even dialogues in it…"

"Well… I don't get it…" Naruto complained.

Ten-Ten groaned, it was pointless explaining to him.

It was already around midnight. The eight of them stayed in Ten-Ten's room and had spent the past half hour entertaining themselves by playing cards, using the internet or simply playing truth or dare. After a while, most of them got bored or hungry; specifically Naruto.

"I'm starving!" he whined while getting up from his current cross-legged position on the floor. As he stood up, Naruto stretched and yawned; he paused for a second and looked at the yellow coloured clock that was placed onto the table beside him. It read 12 o'clock; his eyes glistened with excite and turned to Ten-Ten who was sitting on the ground. "It's twelve!"

Ten-Ten cocked an eye-brow at him, "So?"

Naruto looked at her as if she was someone from another planet that was clueless, "So!" he asked in surprise, "We've been here for more than two hours and we don't even get a mid-night snack!"

Ten-Ten sighed, "Riiiight… I forgot about that…" she turned to look at her other friends, examining them if they were hungry or not. Not getting a clue whether they were or not, she diced to simply ask them instead of doing the silent treatment. "You guys hungry?" she asked. Neji snickered loudly, "Duh…" with this, Neji stood up, dusting his jeans in the process. He relocated his hand and placed it inside the pockets of his jeans. He walked causally out towards the door and opened it only to notice that no one was following him as they were on the floor staring at him. He stopped on his tracks; he faced his head side wards without moving an inch of his body, and he looked at them by the corner of his eye, "You guys coming or not?"

"Where are you going?" asked Ten-Ten. "Let's get to the entertainment room… we'll eat there while watching a movie…" Neji stated simply. Ten-Ten nodded as she stood up as everyone did so too. Sakura was about to head out the room when Ten-Ten stopped her, "You're turn to clean…" she told. "It is?" Sakura asked, she turned around and looked around the room, she sighed, "Fine… I'll catch up with you in a minute" With this, Ten-Ten had formed a smirk on her lips which Sakura had quickly notice and she eye Ten-Ten. "What?" she asked innocently. "What's with the smirk?" Sakura asked, still eyeing her. "Oh nothing…" Ten-Ten lied as she ran away, avoiding to talk to Sakura about those… stuff. Sakura sighed and turned to look at the room again. It was messy, pop cans were everywhere and there were some chips and crackers too. It made her think for a moment how her friends are still hungry when they had already eaten crackers. She shook of that idea as she fixed of determination upon the messy room; and she quickly went to work.

After a few moments, Sakura started to have eerie feelings. Why wouldn't she? She was all alone in a dark and quiet room; its only source of light was the night-light that Ten-Ten left open which glows in crimson-red, including the moon's light. The aura around the room made Sakura shudder, since most of the room was covered with shadows. She walked slowly towards the flashlight and flicked it on, and then she swayed around and fixed the flashlight upon the door, only to find no one. 'Okay… I am completely… paranoid' she thought as she went back to cleaning. Just at that moment, that door swung open, making Sakura jump back. She held onto the nearest thing she could reach and threw it at whoever was at the door.

"OW!" yelled that someone. The voice seemed rather very familiar, "What the hell, Sakura! I come up here to help you and you throw a pop-can at me!" Sakura only sweat-dropped; she didn't know that it was a pop-can she held. "I… was paranoid… hey, I got good aim!" she exclaimed only to earn a glare from the Uchiha who was scratching his head; he already got his twice by Sakura in the head. "You're annoying…" he commented. Sakura only stuck out her tongue, and Sasuke glared at her even more, "Stop that and start cleaning." Sakura gave out an irritated took upon Sasuke who was currently smirking. She shrugged it off and went to work. Sasuke, however, started helping her clean up the room too. There was an awkward slice after that, and neither of them made a single sound. But for Sakura, there was something different; the feeling or eeriness and fear she had earlier had now gone away. She thought, probably because she wasn't alone anymore. She shrugged once again; the silence was really getting in to her.

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"Where's the camera?" asked the lazy-bum.

"It's here…" a girl with two buns on her head said. She handed it to the guy next to her, "God, it's hot here…" she complained.

"Stop talking, it's not my fault you have a small closet…" stated the Hyuuga.

"Oh, I do not have a small closet…OW! You stepped on my foot!" she hissed.

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"Huh… how would I step on your foot?" Sasuke asked.

"What?" Sakura looked at him weirdly. "You said I stepped on your foot…" Sasuke stated. Sakura stared at him, "No I didn't…"… Sasuke only shrugged it off, "Fine…" he said. After another long silence, it was killing Sakura. Silence was not something she liked to stay at for a long time. "Hey Sasuke?" she called out, hoping to start up a conversation. "Hn?" he replied. Sakura paused for a moment, thinking of what to say, "What did you mean by 'my'… you know, last week? Just right after everyone else went…" Sakura asked as she stopped what she was doing, and now starring at his back since he did not face her. "Forget it, it meant nothing… it just slipped out of my mouth…" Sasuke stated coldly. Sakura sighed, as she threw the bag of crisps onto the trash can, "Did you know," she started, "The things that just 'slip out of your mouth' are actually the things that comes straight from your heart? It's because it doesn't pass your brain which gives you the disability to think whether you'll say it or not…" she kept starring at his back, with her voice urging but yet gentle. Sasuke had stopped what he was doing but just standing there. "It meant nothing, Sakura…" he stated. Sakura sighed while getting back to work, "Fine… you cold-ass…" she murmured, but was heard by Sasuke

"What are you trying to say?" he asked, while finally turning around to look at her.

"Nothing…" Sakura replied.

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"I can't see anything!" complained a blonde.

"Shut up, Naruto!" argued another blonde.

"That is it… I'm tired of being in a closet with girls… let's get a better view…" the Hyuuga stated as he squished through the others and headed for the exit found on the other side of the closet. Finally getting some air, he inhaled and exhaled deeply. "And where would that view be?" asked the bun-girl who followed soon after he came out. "Don't worry… I have another plan. Let's get to the second floor balcony…"

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Sakura continued cleaning up Ten-Ten's room, as she heard Sasuke sigh. "What, you mad at me or something?" she heard him ask. "No…" Sakura answered, and then paused for a moment, "Do you like someone at the moment?" she asked while mentally slapping her forehead by asking such random question. Sasuke was taken back, but to his surprise, answered the question. "Yeah, I guess…"

"Is she pretty?" Sakura asked. Sasuke hesitated to answer but replied anyway, "Gorgeous"

"Nice?" Sakura asked once again. "She's like an angel…heaven sent…" Sasuke stated, his voice growing gentle at the moment.

"Does she like you back?" she questioned. Sasuke sighed, "She hates me…" Sakura turned to look at him, "How do you know?" Sasuke looked at her straight in the eye, "She said it to me right at my face, and she's too dense to notice me…" Sakura cocked an eyebrow, "Did she break eye contact?" Sakura asked in a more interrogating way. "Yeah she did…. What does that have to do with it?" Sasuke wondered. "She broke eye contact… she's lying…"

Sasuke only nodded slowly, "Oh…" Sakura shook her head and turn to continue her work which was surprisingly not yet done until now. "How about you?" Sasuke asked suddenly, causing her to jump a bit, "You like someone?" he asked. Sakura thought for a moment, "I dunno… I think so; but I don't like to like someone who doesn't like me back… it's kinda sad to think that you like someone who doesn't like you back so… yeah…" She paused, noticing she was babbling. "Is it me?" Sasuke asked out of nowhere. Sakura bolted upright and turned sharply to face him and eyed him. "AS IF…" and she glared. Sasuke only snickered, "Oh c'mon Sakura, I know you have hots for me…" he stated coolly. Sakura acted flattered, "Oh Sasuke, I know you think I'm hot, but, it's just not for you…" Sasuke shook his head, "You wannabe I don't think you're hot…" he said, rolling his eyes.

"You just broke eye-contact, idiot" She smirked and he glared. "Whatever" and he shook his head. Then out of nowhere, a little pebble flew through the window open window and hit the floor. Sakura heard it and went out to see what it was while Sasuke followed. "Hey… it stopped raining…" she said holding up her hands to feel nothing. They headed out the small terrace of the third floor attic. Sakura held onto the railings of the terrace as Sasuke stood beside her with his hands clasped together and arms leaned on the railings. As the wind flew pass them, Sakura inhaled the fresh air coming towards her as she closed her eyes. Sasuke looked towards her direction and stared at her; the air breezed gently through her hair making it flow gently, the moons light shone upon Sakura's porcelain face where a smile was found, forming, as she opened her eyes and looked over to the scene before her: Konoha's city-lights. Then, she averted her gaze upon the silver crescent moon found up on the dark sky, "It's nice… isn't it?" she asked Sasuke, snapping him back to reality. "Huh? Oh yeah… it is…" he shook his head and looked towards the direction she was looking at, the moon. "You like the moon?" Sakura nodded, "Sometimes…" Sasuke did nothing but closed his eyes; his peace was quickly broken by Sakura who spoke up, "You should tell her you know…" Sasuke though for a moment of what she was talking about and soon knew. "And ruin my reputation? No way…" he shook his head. Sakura sighed, "You know what I think?" She asked and Sasuke looked at her as if to say 'go on' and she continued, "I think that you're afraid." Sasuke was taken back, "Afraid of what?" He asked. "Getting rejected," Sakura turned to him, "You're afraid to know if she likes you back or not…" Sasuke was irritated, "What do you want me to do? You're not a guy… you don't know how I feel…" Sakura perked up, "Oh you know what you should do? You should kiss her gently in the cheeks. Fast but gentle; and thriving as if to say 'I like you' but innocently as if to say 'don't worry, I won't cross the line'" and she smirked. Sasuke looked at her weirdly, "You really think that would work?" he asked in disbelief. "Yup!" Sakura exclaimed. "I doubt it…" Sasuke stated, "You can't doubt it unless you try it…" Sakura stated. Sasuke faced her, "You are truly annoying…"

Sakura scowled, "Ugh, fine… I'll just shut up and give you a long, long silent treatment… and you'll be the first one to break and you're gonna be the one who's annoying" She turned away only to here a 'hn' from Sasuke. She kept starring at the city-lights like she did earlier. Then, she felt quick warmth closing in to her face and soon felt a gentle peck on her cheeks. She stepped back and faced to the direction where the kiss came from only to find Sasuke beside her, "Hey! What the heck was that!" she said loudly. Sasuke snickered, "So silent treatment didn't last that long…" Sakura gave out an irritated look but Sasuke went on, "You are truly annoying"

Sakura shrugged again and turned away, touching her cheeks by her hand, "What was that for?" she asked, trying to put annoyance in her voice. Sasuke scowled, "I thought you knew," he started causing Sakura to look at him questioningly, "A kiss on the cheeks: fast but gentle, thriving but innocently. Jeez, you really are dense…" Sasuke complained. Sakura, on the other hand, kept starring at Sasuke, surprised by his actions; or mostly his words, his actions were still 'Sasuke' since he was still rude. Sakura slowly faced the city-lights in front of her, still speechless from what had happened. There was slice again after that but was soon cut off by rustling leaves from trees, wind breezed passed them once again. Then, out far from the city, there they were able to see fireworks: various shapes and colors of fireworks, causing Sakura to sigh, she was tired, it was already pass midnight. She leaned her head onto Sasuke's shoulder and closed her eyes, "I'm tired…" and she yawned.

"So who do you like?" Sasuke asked, ignoring what Sakura had just said. "I'm still thinking about it…" she replied. Sasuke snickered, "Oh c'mon, you liked me since kinder garden" he boasted. "Has it ever occurred to you that that was the time I was still learning shapes and colours? I didn't know any better… my bad…" Sakura stated which made Sasuke quiet and think about the things she said. His heart sank for a bit, but still kept his cool, not wanting to let down his pride. Sakura noticed Sasuke shutting up all of a sudden and figured it might be what she said, she sighed. "Sorry… I didn't mean that…" Sasuke turned to the girl leaning on her shoulder, "I though the things that slip your mouth comes exactly from your heart?" he mocked. "I know…" Sakura stated simply, "Are you mad?" Sasuke looked at her, "Well, do you like someone else?" he asked. Sakura shrugged, "I'm still thinking" she replied and with this, Sakura leaned on top of her head; of course, he did it gently not wanting to squish her head, "Then that's fine…" then he paused, "So…are we an item?" Sakura snickered and playfully punched Sasuke in the arm, "Don't get you're hopes up…this means nothing…" Sasuke, after dodging Sakura's weak punches, leaned back on her head that was leaning on top of his shoulder, "That's good…to be honest even a cute guy like me still thinks I'm too young to court someone. I'll wait till we get to high-school…" Sasuke said. Sakura rolled her eyes, "No… you wait until I get to tenth grade… after I brake up with my first boyfriend!" she exclaimed which caused Sasuke to cock an eyebrow at her, "You're such a loser…I hate you…" Sakura snickered, "Right back at yah…"

"Psycho…"

"Retard…"

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Down below them, on the second floor balcony stood the four who had currently captured their moment. Neji stared at the screen of the camera before him, "Hm… sweet picture…" it was Sakura and Sasuke's picture. Sakura was leaning against the metal railings of the terrace with her arms together leaning on it. Sasuke, however, had his arms around Sakura's waist and they were both starring at the fireworks found somewhere on the city. Sakura had her head leaning back on Sasuke as he had his resting on her shoulder from the back.

"We are so dead when they find out…"

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Sakura noticed a flash below and wondered where it came from. She thought it was only part of the fireworks but then soon saw four people at the balcony of the second floor, gathered around with a camera. Her eyes grew wide, "Oh. My. Gosh…" When Sasuke heard it, he followed Sakura's gazed and his gazed soon landed on a Hyuuga who was smirking holding up a camera. "Ino!" Sakura called out which caught the four's attention. Sasuke on the other hand glared at them evilly "I'll kill them…" he sweared and quickly let go of Sakura and ran down stairs towards the four; which was soon followed by Sakura.

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Shikamaru groaned, "I think I spoke too soon…" and his thought was put to a stop when Sasuke started storming into out to the balcony, heading for the Hyuuga, "HYUUGA GIVE THAT ME!" he yelled.

"Like I really will" Neji snickered but then Sasuke threw a punch at him which he quickly dodged, "Chill man… It's only called revenge" and Sasuke reached for the camera but Neji threw it towards Ten-Ten who caught it. "Ten-Ten give it!" yelled Sakura who came running towards them. She reached for the camera but since Ten-Ten was taller than her, she wasn't able to get it. While the four were fighting over the camera, Shikamaru and Ino only stared in amazement, "Whoa…" Ino stated, "Some scene we're watching here…" Shikamaru only grunted, "Troublesome"

Ten-Ten passed the camera towards Neji who jumped up and carefully caught it. Sasuke, who was in front of him, kneed Neji in the gut causing him to almost drop the camera as he caught it just in time before it hit the ground. He managed to get loose of Sasuke's grip at least for a few seconds, to be able to move and do something "Dude! You hit me harder than usual! Why the he-" he wasn't able to finish his sentence since Sasuke snatched the camera away from his hand and threw it off the balcony and landed into the pool below. Ten-Ten's eyes grew wide, "Oh crap… my camera…"

Sasuke snickered and Neji only grunted with his hand on his stomach, "Man, that hurts… you were really that desperate to away the picture!" Sasuke looked at him, "Aren't you used to it? That's always what we do, every time you act stupid. What's wrong with you?" Neji stood up straight, "Your face!" Sasuke only cocked an eyebrow at him, "My what?" Neji shrugged, "Whatever, I dunno where that came from" Sasuke shook his head. "I'm going sleep, it's past midnight…" he walked away, waving his hand and headed inside. Ino and Shikamaru also followed Sasuke along with Sakura who was glaring at Neji, "What?" He asked, "What have you done? Now I have another person to hate…" Sakura shrugged and left Neji confused as he called out "What?" Sakura did nothing and waved good-bye to Ten-Ten and headed inside.

This left Ten-Ten and Neji with him still crouching onto his stomach from the force Sasuke did earlier. He stood up straight and turned to Ten-Ten seemed to be waiting for him to do something as she raising an eyebrow at him. Neji gave out an exhausted sigh and reached for the lower pocket of his long khaki shorts. He then took out a memory chip of the camera's and threw is towards Ten-Ten who caught it at ease. "I need some rest…" Neji said and went on with ordering Ten-Ten.

"Give that to Kakashi first thing in the morning…"

The End

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