Can Hardly Wait

Sakura walked down the sidewalk reading her book that was in her hand. This one was very interesting, a love mystery like all the others she read, but this one had a character that reminded her of someone…she couldn't think about it right now. She turned the page. Soon she'd be back in hell with Ino. She sighed…couldn't they just take an F, she really didn't want to see the blonde anymore than she was suppose to. She knew her parents would be pissed if she got an F on a grade. She wasn't too far now, but she surely was taking her time.

She wondered if Sasuke would be there? And if he were, how long would he stay at the Yamanaka's? She didn't think he would stay long, she didn't plan to either. She felt a weird feeling in the pit of her stomach. How was she going to do this project if both Ino and Sasuke was on her team, I mean she could easily mind Shikamaru? She shook her head. Luckily she didn't live near to the MPGIS, most popular girl in school. Sakura was your average girl. Just all of the Sasuke fan girls hated her, well, they all hated each other, it wasn't wise to make a friend that was one as well, one or both might end up getting hurt.

As long as she's known the Yamanaka she knew she wouldn't give up, but Ino knew Sakura was not one to give up either. Though no one has yet won Sasuke's heart, some fans even give up and moved on with their lives, that's how you know it was just a crush thing and they were never in love with Sasuke. They were labeled as 'dropouts' like when you drop out of school. Sasuke fan girls, the really obsessed ones, hate Sasuke dropouts. Well they hated anybody who had something to do with Sasuke.

Sakura turned the page again. How were you suppose to get a guy to like you if he doesn't like anyone and turns everybody down? Well that's the point, you just do, so you always try and try again hoping one day he will notice you. Sometimes she hoped she would have a day like that, but so far no one has.

She kept walking as she turned another page. She was shocked on how fast she was reading this book. She heard a car's horn and she looked up. Her eyes widened. "Shit!" she cursed. She should have been paying attention, now she was right in it's way and it wasn't slowing down. She closed her eyes.

She was hit, more like being tackled, by what felt like a ton of bricks and went sliding across the payment road. She felt her shoulders scarp open and her thigh burned. She cursed again and opened her eyes thinking she was hit. Her eyes widened more. Oh she was hit all right, hit by a body. She didn't move the body that was on her, instead the person stood up. Sakura was speechless as she watched Sasuke rose.

He glared at her. "Baka."

'Way to go you big loser…you almost got hit by a car in front of Sasuke-kun!' Inner Sakura screamed.

'But Sasuke-kun saved me.' She argued with herself.

'He thinks you're the village's biggest dork now!'

'Oh shut up.' Sakura stood up and wiped off her pants. She smiled at Sasuke. "Thanks, you saved my life."

Sasuke looked away. "It was either that or have everybody blame me for your stupidity," he growled.

"Big-forehead!"

Sakura turned around and smirked. 'He saved me right in front of the eyes of Ino.'

Inner Sakura smirked and her eyes turned to flames. 'Sasuke-kun saved me instead of you loser! How does it feel? (Evil chuckle)'

Ino marched up to Sakura and grabbed onto her arm, the injured one, pulling the girl with her. "Don't think I don't know what you just did," Ino hissed.

Sakura winced. "What do you mean?" she questioned innocently.

"You walked in front of the car on purpose just so Sasuke-kun would save you," Ino growled.

Sakura glared at her. "I did not! I was reading my book…I had no clue what I was doing," she snapped.

'Well why don't you just wear a sign on your head that says 'full of stupidity' since you just told the best cheerleader in the school you were dumb for letting something like that happen!'

"Are we going to get this work done?"

The two girls turned around spotting Shikamaru leaning on the mailbox not too far them.

"He saw too?" Sakura questioned out loud blinking.

Ino huffed and stormed off to her house the three of them following. She opened the door letting them all in. She growled and looked away when Sakura walked passed her she hissed, "I'm watching you, Haruno."

Sakura cocked her head. "I'm so scared, Yamanaka." She rolled her eyes and sat down on the couch.

After a few minutes the girls decided to separate the death rate and birth rate into groups.

Ino nodded. "So groups with who?"

Sakura got where the blonde was getting at. She smirked. "Boy-girl is that okay?"

Sasuke and Shikamaru didn't respond.

Ino smirked. "I will look up the births in the year 1996 to now with…"

"Shikamaru," Sakura finished. "I mean you need the super genius in your group since you're not so smart…you might get done."

Ino glared at her. "Wait!"

"Sasuke-kun and I will look up the deaths of 1996 to now and average them," Sakura stated.

"I said wait!" Ino bellowed.

"Whatever…let's just get this finish," Sasuke mumbled standing up.

Sakura waved at Ino sticking her tongue out teasing the blonde. Ino growled and looked away. Sakura and Sasuke left heading to Sakura's house.

Shikamaru mumbled under his breath. 'This is going to be a bother.'

Sakura smiled as her and Sasuke sat down in front of her computer, looking up their research for their project. She searched the Internet and they had found a perfect site to do their assignment. She looked around trying to find some paper; Sasuke saw her throw things off the desk and shook his head.

Sakura had an innocent smile on her face as she looked up at him. "Uh…do you have a pen?" she asked, still looking for a clear piece of paper.

Sasuke rolled his eyes and bent down to get a pen out of his backpack.

Sakura opened on of the desk's drawers and found the paper she needed. She smiled. 'About time, I think Sasuke-kun was starting to think I was weird.' She lifted her head up slowly…the same time Sasuke was lifting his from his backpack. Surprisingly when both were halfway up their lips met. (Just picture the Naruto Sasuke kiss, gross, but it's like that, just no blue lines above their noses). Sakura blushed and turned away. 'Baka! What'd you do that for!'

Sasuke looked at the computer screen as if nothing happened.

A million thoughts ran through Sakura's head. She knew if she would have stayed in that position Sasuke would have gotten annoyed. She sighed mentally to herself. 'Damn, why did that have to happen; now I'll never have a clear head. That was so…arg stop!'

'Haha we kissed Sasuke! Now what will Ino-pig think! (Evil chuckles).'

"Are we going to get this thing finished?" Sasuke asked leaning back into the seat crossing his arms over his chest.

Sakura gulped. She looked at the computer screen, her eyes widened as they came to one year that had many deaths, a lot of deaths…with the name Uchiha. 'That's right, the whole Uchiha Clan was murdered nine years ago, the only bodies they didn't find were…' Her mind came to a halt as she looked at Sasuke. 'His parents and his brother. Even though they didn't find the bodies they are known to be dead…Sasuke is the only survivor. How could I forget that was the year…stupid, stupid, we should have done the birth rate.' She looked back at the screen and clicked to the next year, she had a feeling Sasuke wouldn't want to look at that (she just didn't know he was staring at the ceiling he could care less about the project.)

She wrote down the numbers from the last page and started righting down the ones on the new page. She held her pencil tighter. 'I wonder why he isn't saying anything, maybe it was all just a nightmare to him and he doesn't want to talk about it. I know I wouldn't if that happened to me, that just had to kill him, he was only eight. Poor Sasuke-kun.' She felt her eyes water just a tad, she shook her head to make them stop. 'I can't let him see me cry, he'll think I'm a freak.'

'He already does, hello you walked in front of a moving car how stupider could you get, talk about FREAK!'

Sakura huffed. 'Shut up!' She shook her head. She hated this about herself, always arguing with her inner self, who was a major pain in the ass, she was so lucky that she wasn't really like that, she would die. She clicked next on the page as a new page came up. She mumbled under her breath about how boring this will become. After a good hour or so they finally got that part finished. She sighed and sat the pencil down; she looked over at Sasuke whose eyes were closed. A question mark appeared above her head as she blinked. 'Is he asleep?'

'Take this to your advantage baka! Kiss him dammit! If I were in control you would see me do it! Come on kiss him!'

'Shut up, what would you know? That's totally invading someone's personal space, plus he might not even be asleep, but he looks extra cute this, way.'

'Extra cute, but he's hotter awake! Wake him up! Kiss him like I said!'

'Why would I listen to you? You'd get me in trouble.' She sighed and tapped Sasuke's shoulder.

'Baka! You big loser that was your chance! Ino-pig would have done it!'

'Yeah and Sasuke would totally hate her and kill her for sure, I don't want to bug the guy anymore than I have.'

Sasuke opened his eyes and looked at her. "What?"

'He wasn't asleep.' She thought almost upset. 'Told you, you would have gotten me in trouble.' She smiled at him. "We're finished. You can go home now."

'Don't let him leave!'

'Shut up!' She stood up and walked over to her backpack putting the information in it. She looked up at Sasuke, smiling. She closed her eyes. "I know you really don't want to be here any longer…it's fine. You probably have more important things to do at home."

Sasuke stood up, not replying. He grabbed his backpack and headed to the door.

Sakura watched him head to the door. She blushed remembering the little kiss that occurred. "Um Sasuke-kun…" he stopped once his hand was on the knob. "Sorry about earlier," she looked at the floor as she apologized.

"Hn," was the reply she got as he opened the front door and exited.

Her heart was racing. She fell back on the couch and sighed. "Shit…" she grabbed her head, "Gasha is so wanting to hear about this."

"WHAT? OH MY GOD! YOU WHAT!"

Sakura covered her ears as Gasha screamed on the other end of the phone. "Damn Gasha-chan, you're loud." She shook her head. "I kissed him, well not really a real kiss but…"

Gasha cut her off. "Why didn't you take a picture! It still was a kiss, your lips met! Did you feel anything?" she asked a little calmer.

Sakura sighed. "I felt a bunch of things," she mumbled in the phone.

She heard Gasha sigh. "Well Sakura-chan you're lucky, you get to kiss your crush mine doesn't even know I'm alive," she muttered ashamed.

Sakura giggled at her friend's remark. "Come on Gash, who is he? Tell me please?"

"No way, I'm sorry Sakura, but I can't do that, not yet. Let's go back to your little moment so what did he say?" Gasha questioned, in a dreamy tone, Sakura could tell.

"He didn't say anything, he looked at the computer, he didn't even blush, I swear I was a tomato," Sakura replied sighing in disappointment.

"Well maybe it wasn't his first kiss and it didn't bug him. You shouldn't have blushed now he's gonna know you were inexperienced. It sucks that you didn't take a picture or kiss in front of Ino then all the snobs would have known," Gasha complained.

'It's not even her problem.' Sakura giggled. "I don't care if he thinks I was inexperienced, I don't want him thinking I'm a fucking slut or something like that. Oh well, he saved my life in front of Ino-pig and she was pissed," she beamed.

"Really?" Gasha questioned. "He saved you? How, do tell."

Sakura smiled. "Well I was walking in front of a car while it was in drive, I was too busy to notice. I heard it's horn so I looked up and saw it coming, but it was too late I couldn't move. I was tackled to the ground and realized it was Sasuke-kun all in front of Yamanaka," she boasted.

Gasha giggled. "Well you had fun today, so what about your project?" she asked.

"Uh well…" Sakura started, "We looked on the web…and I found the Uchiha Massacre, it was horrible, but I don't know if he noticed."

"Oh…" Gasha started in a soft voice. "Well I got to know my team better, but I wanted to know more about a certain someone."

"Gash, give it a rest. You're making me wonder who he is," Sakura claimed. She looked at the clock. "Sorry girl, but I gotta go."

"See you tomorrow Chica," Gasha said, most likely smiling.

"Bye."

The line went dead and Sakura hung up her phone placing it on the wall. She walked in the kitchen seeing her mother cooking.

"What was all that about, dear?" her mother asked looking at Sakura.

"Nothing Mom," Sakura stated smiling sitting on a stole. Her mother looked like her with the same long pink hair and emerald green eyes. "Just girl-talk."

"About that Uchiha boy?" her mother questioned giving her daughter an innocent smile. "I overheard."

Sakura blushed. "Mom," she groaned covering her face in embarrassment.

"Nothing to be embarrassed about sweetie, its life," her mother giggled.

Sakura mumbled under her breath and stood up. "Tell me when Dad gets home will ya?"

Her mother nodded and went back to the stove.

Sakura walked up stairs, pink still crossing over her nose. She couldn't believe her mother had heard the whole conversation with Gasha. 'Dammit.'

'Well she's right you shouldn't be embarrassed, we kissed UCHIHA SASUKE! Come on, that is really something, every girl would love to be in our shoes! Haha what now bitches! I, Haruno Sakura, kissed Konoha's biggest hunk EVER!'

Sakura shook her head placing her left hand on her forehead. 'I wonder how he'll act tomorrow, probably like nothing happen…man this sucks. I kiss him and he doesn't care.'

'Whatever, he knows he enjoyed it! Haha!'

'Yeah right, he probably thought I did it on purpose.' She sighed again, hopefully Uchiha Sasuke didn't. She opened her bedroom door and walked in falling on her bed, staring up at the ceiling. She felt her lips and blushed once again.

'Gasha was right, we should have taken a picture. (Fire in her eyes) Ino-pig would so die!'

She shook her head and closed her eyes. 'I need to rest and clear my head…before I really go crazy.'

Naruto stood at the door of the Hyuuga Mansion grinning. "See you tomorrow Hinata-chan!" He turned to leave.

"N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata questioned playing with her fingers. She looked up and was about to say something but stopped.

"What?" Naruto asked looking back at her.

"Uh…" Hinata blushed a deep red and played with her fingers. "S-see…you t-tomorrow."

An eyebrow upraised on Naruto's forehead. "Okay, see you then." He turned around after waving one last time. 'She's weird.'

Hinata sighed. 'So close. What happened? I was about to say it then I stopped.' She looked at her feet ashamed. She turned around and saw Kaylin leave giving her a weird look. Hinata looked at Kiba who got up.

"See you then too," Kiba stated grinning.

Hinata nodded and closed the door after them. She leaned her back against it. 'Naruto-kun.'

"Hey Nee-chan," came her little sister's voice.

"Hey Hanabi," Hinata said in a soft quiet tone as usual. She turned around and started walking up the stairs.

"Was that him?" Hanabi asked looking up the stairs at her older sister.

Hinata blushed. "Y-yeah," she whispered.

Hanabi smiled and looked out the window. "He is cute…why didn't you ask him to stay for dinner?" she questioned knowing very well about her sister's crush.

Hinata blushed even deeper. 'Naruto-kun staying for dinner?' She giggled and looked back at her sister. She was on the verge of fainting; she grabbed the railing to prevent falling.

Hanabi giggled. "Hinata-chan, you're blushing, what's his name again?"

"U-Uzuamki N-Naruto," Hinata asked, smiling like no other.

"Uzuamki Naruto, huh? Not that weird of a name," Hanabi grinned and walked up to her sister. "I might only be twelve but I know he needs to open his eyes, cause sis, he just doesn't notice it."

"I-it?" Hinata questioned.

"He doesn't know that you have a crush on him," Hanabi stated. "I could tell, but good pick."

Hinata watched the younger Hyuuga walk up stairs to her bedroom.

'Is she right?' Hinata thought. She blushed. 'I hope so…I don't know how I'd feel if he did know.'

Naruto scuffed his hands in the pockets of his jeans. He was already three or more blocks away from his house. 'Hinata-chan is a little weird, I wonder why she stutters, she's the only person I know that does.' He scratched his head and shrugged. "Oh well." He walked across the street; he turned a corner and his eyes widened with rage. "Sasuke-teme."

"Dobe," Sasuke replied his eyes closed as he passed Naruto.

Naruto turned around and pointed at the Uchiha. "What are you doing here! You live ten blocks from here!"

Sasuke turned at him. "I'm on my way home baka," he remarked.

"Why though? Why are you coming this way?" Naruto was very curious. He took a step closer.

'What a loser.' Sasuke thought to himself. "I was walking, got a problem with it?"

Naruto looked down the street. "Sakura-chan lives down there…about two blocks down that way," he claimed pointing.

"So?"

Naruto was furious. "Why would you be walking that way," he fumed.

Sasuke crossed his arms over his chest. "What? Did you think I went that way or something?"

Naruto stomped his foot. "Did you!"

'This guy has a problem.' Sasuke glared at Naruto. "What if I did?"

'Why that little bastard!' "It's a question Uchiha! Answer it!" the blonde barked. "Fine…you caught me," Sasuke said dryly. He had enough with Naruto for the day; this guy always got on his nerves.

Naruto's eyes went white as they twitched. "You bastard!" he bellowed. "I should kill you! Why were you down there!"

'Toying with this guy's head might be interesting.' Sasuke smirked. "I don't think it's any of your business."

Naruto's eye twitched again. "Not any of my business? If it has anything to do with Sakura-chan…it is my business!" He grabbed the Uchiha's shirt collar and glared at him. "Were you at her house! Huh! Were you!" Sasuke growled and shoved the blonde away from him. "Yeah I was, is there a problem?" Naruto's mouth opened. "You…were…" Sasuke rolled his eyes. 'What an idiot.' Naruto growled. 'I thought Sakura-chan said they were going to that girl Ino's place, not her own.' He shook his head and glared at his rival, crossing his arms over his chest. "Why would you go there?"

Sasuke shrugged and turned to continue walking home. "What do you think."

Naruto's eyes widened. He had to be playing with him, he had to be. There was no way that he wasn't! "I'm not done with you Uchiha!"

Sasuke stopped and didn't turn around. "Get a life." He started walking again.

Naruto's jaw dropped to the ground. 'That asshole! I'll kill him for sure if he laid a hand on Sakura-chan!' He stomped the rest of the way home.

That's it for chapter three, so how was it?

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