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Chapter Eight

Naruto's POV

I was sitting on the bench waiting for Jiraiya. Everyone else had gone home at this point. I had gotten bored and decided to try to work on my Algebra Two homework. Math had always been my worst subject. I might as well have been studying a different language. A language that was all numbers. Yuck.

When I skipped over the first two questions, I heard the door open. My head popped up to see who it was. It was Sakura. She walked out looking kinda sad. She looked around for her car then sat down next to me when she saw no one was there but me. My heart began to race.

"Hey Naruto," she said softly.

"Hey," I gulped. "What's up?"

"Nothing," she said as she rubbed her bare arms. "It's cold."

"Oh, here," I pulled off my orange hoodie. She was making me overheat anyway. I offered it.

"No," Sakura said. "You'll get cold."

"No I won't," I assured her. "My manliness can keep me warm."

She giggled, took my jacket, and wrapped it around her self. I went back to my homework. Sakura looked at the homework. She must have noticed all the unfinished work, 'cause she asked, "Do you need help?"

"Yeah," I said. "I hate math."

She pulled my binder onto her lap and looked at the page. "What you need to do is…" I only half listened. She was so pretty when she concentrated on her work like that.

She handed my paper back to me. I saw the first answer answered. "Wow," I said. "You're a genius too?"

"No," she blushed.

"Seriously, when did you take this class?"

"Last year."

"See. You're smart and good at singing and at acting and…" you're beautiful. That's what I wanted to say. "Is there anything you can't do?"

"Cook," she said simply. I snickered. "No I'm serious, I burn popcorn."

"So there goes your future career as a chef," I said sarcastically.

"Yeah," Sakura giggled weakly.

It went quiet for awhile. I cleared my throat and asked her a question that had been bugging me since she had sat down. "Uhm, Sakura?"

"Yeah?"

"May I ask you something kinda…personal?"

"Depends." Sakura raised her eyebrow at me.

"Can you tell me what girls see in Sasuke?" I had originally meant to say what she saw in Sasuke, but girls seemed to work too.

"Well," she bit her lip. "He's a total hottie." I almost laughed. That was something Kiba would say. But I didn't, I was too focused on the angel talking to me. "And he's athletic. And, I dunno, he has the mysterious air about him…or I thought he did."

"Huh?" Our eyes met. She opened her mouth to say something but instead of words, a car horn came out.

"Naruto! Come on!" Jiraiya yelled from my car.

"Hold on!" I packed up all my stuff. Sakura got up to offer my jacket.

"Nah, hold on to it," I told her. I threw my back pack over my shoulder. "I'm coming old man!" I shouted after he honked the horn again.

I looked out the window of the car and waved at Sakura, before we drove off.

"Dammit Naruto, why did you give her your jacket?" I shrugged and smiled at the though of her wearing my hoodie. "Oh, I get it, she's your girlfriend, isn't she?"

My smile disappeared. "I wish," I mumbled.

Sakura's POV

On the ride to school, I was still in disbelief that I almost told Naruto what Sasuke wanted to do in the library. I didn't even know him that well. I couldn't place it, but there was something about the way he looked at me; I felt this comfortable feeling, and it made me want to spill everything out to him. Maybe we were best friends in a former life… I thought.

I said goodbye to my mom. I walked in school looking for Naruto. I had to give his jacket back to him. After dropping my stuff off at my locker I went on a quest for him. I secretly prayed to not run into Sasuke. I was in no mood to make out.

After about five minutes of searching I saw his friends in a large group in an oddly shaped circle at what appeared to be Tenten's locker. Neji Hyuuga (hot rocker boy) had his arm around her. Temari was also entwined with some girl I'm sure she had only just met. Shikamaru talked to Kiba and Naruto! There he was. I bravely walked up to him and patted his shoulder.

He turned around and gave me a huge smile. "Hi Sakura!"

"Hey," I said, trying to ignore the unwelcome feeling I had with his crowd. "I just came by to give you back your hoodie."

"Oh thanks," he took it and put it on.

"No problem," I said. I turned around about to leave when I heard him call out.

"Wait, Sakura," I stopped and turned around.

"This Saturday the entire cast is gonna come to my house, we're gonna try to work on the play…we kinda need Maria there."

I hesitated, this could get me out of the Sasuke business. But I was worried he might think I was putting the play before him. There were other ways to stop us from having sex. I was sure.

"Sorry, I already have plans," I said.

"Oh," Naruto's expression fell. "Oh, uh, ok. Well, uh, I guess Setsuna will just play your role. It's cool."

He turned around to rejoin his friends. "I'm sorry," I called.

"It's cool," he shrugged.

I really am sorry Naruto…

A/N: I'm really proud of myself for finishing this chapter so quickly. Usually I'm not so dedicated to finishing these things. I'm too ADD. I hope y'all liked it. Like I said, there was more Sakura and Naruto interaction. The next one will take place on *pause for effect* SATURDAY! I can't guarantee that chapter will be up before I go to camp, but who knows.