A/N: Sorry about that last chapter and this chapter. It contains a lot of fluff. Don't kill me! sweat drop

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

It All Started With A Dare

Chapter 5:

The next morning was filled with commotion. Ino and Tenten were fighting over one of the bathrooms, while Naruto and Kiba were fighting over the other one. Shino and Choji had left apparently early in the morning. Everyone wondered why they left, but resigned and settled on the thought they felt out of place. Hinata and Neji were the last two asleep while Sakura started to prepare breakfast for all of her friends.

Sasuke, who hadn't got a bit of sleep last night, entered the kitchen groggily. He was so tired that he didn't even notice that Sakura was already at the stove and was making breakfast. He instinctively walked towards to the stove to start making breakfast since he was the one who usually had to fix it on the normal 'boy's night in.' Sasuke reached around Sakura and grabbed a pan causing his arms to be wrapped around Sakura's waist. Startled, Sakura turned around to see who it was. Sasuke leaned in and his lips brushed Sakura's forehead.

The unexpected warmth on his lips promptly woke the raven-haired boy to wake up realizing what he had just done. Sakura blushed. 'He was half asleep,' she reminded herself, but couldn't deny that it didn't feel good. Sasuke was more startled than Sakura was. Feeling embarrassed, Sasuke resigned and sat at the kitchen table. An awkward silence fell upon the two.

"So…" Sakura said trying to break the silence, "did you sleep well last night?"

"No, not at all," Sasuke yawned, "I was to busy watching-" He stopped. What was he saying? "I mean, I was busy listening to Naruto snoring." He tried his best to cover up what he had just said.

Sakura laughed, "He does snore a lot." Sasuke gave a sigh of relief. She didn't suspect a thing. He needed to wake up. Who knows what else he would say if he stayed like this.

"So, Sakura, I have a question."

"Yea?" She turned around tossing her short pink hair behind her ear. With the sun rays beaming inside the window behind her, she looked just like an angel. Sasuke stared at her in awe. How could he not have realized Sakura before this?

"The guys were talking to me," Sasuke said with the level of shyness in his tone increasing with every word, "and I was wondering if you would want to go dancing with the others?"

"Sure, I guess we can do dinner some other time?" Sakura asked with the hope that he would say yes.

"Yea, but we could still do dinner tonight too, if you would want to." How he could use complete sentences, he did not know. He wouldn't have been surprised if he looked down and saw his knees shaking. He anxiously awaited her reply in hopes that she would still want to have dinner with him tonight.

"That's fine." She replied blushing, but she tried not to look too excited.

"I'll pick you up at 6:00 then I guess." He said coolly upon Shikamaru entering the room. He was not going to let anyone know, especially not Shikamaru, that he was actually excited about tonight, but he smiled in spite of himself. After all, she had said yes.

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at the two unsure if Sasuke was happy that Sakura had said yes to their date or if he was happy that he was going to be able to complete the dare with ease. He sighed, 'even if he's not anxious about tonight, he still has another month to go.'

Gradually, the rest of the gang entered the room. The breakfast table was filled with the food that Sakura had prepared and chatter as everyone anxiously talked about going dancing tonight.

"Oi, Hinata-chan, wanna go out for Ramen before?" The obnoxious blonde said wide-eyed with the thought of having ramen for dinner.

"S-sure," She replied, but surprisingly didn't turn so red. Sakura chuckled to herself as she saw that Hinata was becoming more comfortable around Naruto.

"Shika-kun, I wanna go somewhere to eat to!" Ino wined.

"You're so troublesome." She smiled because she knew that was he own way of saying okay.

Neji looked around nervously. Was he going to have to ask Tenten too? Not that he didn't want to, but it was so embarrassing. He couldn't come off as cool as the other guys.

"Hey, Neji! Wanna get something beforehand too?" Tenten smiled at him. He returned the smile and nodded.

The group went on eating breakfast passing compliments to the cook. Sakura was delighted, but also disappointed because Sasuke didn't say a word to her all breakfast. He just sat there, occasionally looking at her, but not enough for her to make any deal about. Sasuke on the other hand, didn't know what to say, in fear that he would give the guys at the table the wrong idea. They might actually think he likes her.

Soon after breakfast was over, the group decided that they would meet after dinner at 7:30 to go dancing. With having that decided, everyone slowly started to leave to get ready for the night that lay ahead. Sasuke was the first one to leave. Everyone else left with the person they were going dancing with to walk them home. Sakura was a little disappointed that he didn't stay to walk her home or anything. 'Why would I have thought that he would have? He probably only asked me dancing because the guys were cracking jokes on him because he wasn't going,' she sighed, 'I knew I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.'

She promptly got her stuff together and walked out of the door. She looked around just on the off chance to see if Sasuke had actually waited for her, but of course, he was no where to be seen. She let out a sigh of disappointment.

"What's that sigh for?" Sasuke asked while jumping down from the roof.

So he had waited. Sakura smiled, "Nothing." Sasuke gave her a smile back, but then pointed towards her bag. She sat it down to see if he was notioning that her bag was unzipped, but it wasn't. He picked up her bag and threw it over his shoulder. 'He wanted to carry it for me?' Sakura blushed. They slowly walked down the street towards her house. Sasuke kept looking over towards Sakura. He was really nervous so he didn't really say anything. He really couldn't understand why he hadn't noticed her before, but he tried to shrug it off. After all, maybe it was only the dare that made him see her this way.

They reached her house sooner than he had expected. It was normally a ten minute walk from Naruto's apartment to Sakura's, but he felt as if he had only been walking for a minute. He glanced at his watch. They had been walking together for fifteen minutes. Startled, he nervously sat her bag down at her door. "I'll see you at six." He said and disappeared. Sakura was a little startled by the abrupt departure, but glanced at her watch and screamed in horror.

She only had 4 hours to get ready.