A/N: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters associated with it.

A/N: This fanfiction is becoming a lot longer than I thought it was going to be. Oh well, I just keep getting all kinds of ideas.

It All Started With A Dare

Chapter Four: A Good View

Sasuke and Sakura hoped that when they had returned that everyone else would be asleep. No luck. As soon as the two entered the apartment, there was a silencing affect while a mixture of smirks and stares fell upon them. Sakura instinctively moved towards the girls' side of the room while Sasuke slowly went over to the guys' side. 'A little bit later and they would have all been asleep' He grunted to himself acknowledging how everyone was in their sleeping bags.

As soon as Sakura got situated in her sleeping bag, she was plagued with her friends whispering all sorts of questions.

"What took you two so long?" Ino said wide-eyed with a hint of jealousy in her voice. Everyone knew that she still had a little thing for Sasuke despite having moved on to Shikamaru.

"Ano, nothing." Sakura said trying to convince herself it was true, but her face had it written all over it that it wasn't true. She couldn't hide her look of happiness as she thought about the time Sasuke and she had just had. It wasn't much, but sharing his robe with him was the closest she had ever been to him.

"And we're supposed to believe that?" Tenten inquired raising one eyebrow.

"Well, he let me borrow his robe because he thought I was cold. That's all." She said realizing that it's all Sasuke probably meant by it. Plus, she didn't want to get her hopes up. She had liked him for so long that she had basically given up on him, but deep down she knew that she still liked him. Just being alone with him made her happy, but she couldn't so easily give way to getting her hopes up again. She simply couldn't take getting let down.

"That's all? Ha," Ino laughed, "and to think I thought he actually had done something with you." Those words burned Sakura as she heard them. 'As if that will ever happen.'

"I…I'm sorry Sakura." Hinata whispered while placing her hand on her shoulder. She was the only one that knew the details of Sakura's feelings for Sasuke and the struggle she had trying to give up on him.

"It's okay, Hinata. I'm fine," Sakura said giving her a reassuring smile, "Besides, I see that you and Naruto have been, how do you say, warming up to each other?" With that being said Hinata turned about 5 shades red thinking about the night they had just had.

"Actually, they've all been warming up to us." Tenten smiled. "Neji invited me to go out dancing tomorrow night."

Sakura's jaw dropped. Neji was definitely not the 'let's go dancing' type. "Dancing?!?" She asked flabbergasted.

"Well, it wasn't his idea… it was Ino's." She said pointing to the blonde that was now making kissy faces at Shikamaru from across the room.

"Yea, I told Shikamaru he was going dancing with me tomorrow, and before I could finish Naruto jumped in and asked Hinata to go to!" Ino said with a hint of anger that Naruto had invited himself along. Sakura was sure that Ino wanted to get Shikamaru alone, but couldn't help but laugh that Naruto had dubbed it as a double date.

"So Neji followed suit and asked if I wanted to go!" Tenten exclaimed rather happily.

"A-Are you going to invite Sasuke-kun too?" Hinata asked with the hope that her best friend would be there for back up.

"Well, actually… He asked me to dinner already," She said giving Hinata a sympathetic look.

"So something did happen!" Tenten and Ino exclaimed in unison.

"No. No. It's nothing like that." Sakura laughed nervously trying to convince her friends that Sasuke could never have meant it like that.

Similar whispers could be heard from across the room. "So, what happened with you and Sakura-chan?" Naruto bugged Sasuke.

"Nothing, you dobe."

"Nothing at all?" Shikamaru started mocking Sasuke.

"No, nothing at all" Sasuke insisted as he started to recall the softness of Sakura's body against his. That familiar pink hue started creeping upon his face once again.

"Aha! Something did happen!" Kiba announced catching on to Sasuke's face.

"She was cold so I have her my robe, but then she insisted we share. That's all" Sasuke tried to say coolly but he noticed he was turning a darker shade of red just speaking of it.

"So why are you turning so red?" Neji said happily since he was no longer the center of guys' jokes for him asking Tenten to dance. He liked the embarrassment being on Uchiha, and he intended to keep it so.

Trying to come up with a quick excuse, Sasuke blurted out the first thing he could think of, "She's not that special. Her gown's made of a nice material!" He immediately slapped his forehead realizing how stupid that last remark was. 'I couldn't think of anything better than that.' He thought to himself in disbelief.

The guys just starred at him trying to refrain from laughing in case the girls were asleep. "Wow, teme, even I wouldn't say something that lame…" Naruto said shocked that something that lame had came out of his friend's mouth.

Sasuke had just given the guys a perfect opening to make fun of him which they so gladly took every advantage of. Sasuke just stared at the ceiling trying to close the guys' jesters. Soon enough, the guys had quit and had quickly fallen asleep. Naruto also made mention to invite Sakura to go out dancing tomorrow night before he had fell asleep as well.

Sasuke couldn't fall asleep so easily. His mind was plagued with many questions, but he mainly tried to stick strictly to the dare. He couldn't have his mind wondering towards just Sakura. Uchiha's never loose to a dare. He debated on whether or not to ask Sakura if she wanted to change their plans and go dancing or to just stick to dinner. 'Well,' he thought, 'it would be better for the dare if I went out with the other guys.' But his mind soon strayed. 'I'd rather spend alone time with Sakura though… Maybe I'll just ask her if she wants to do dinner and dancing.'

He had decided upon this last thought and turned over to catch a glimpse of Sakura sleeping. 'She looks so cute when she sleeps.' He smiled to himself. 'Wait! I can't be thinking of her like that! Get yourself together man. This is the same girl you've ignored for the past 4 years.' With that final thought, he shrugged it off. 'Just hormones'

Sasuke spent the rest of the night trying to keep Sakura out of his mind, but he couldn't go asleep. His eyes were just gazed upon the beautiful pink-haired girl from across the room. It was clearly obvious he wasn't going to get any sleep tonight. He didn't mind though. 'At least I have a good view.'