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Chapter 8: Mall, Shopping and Invitations.

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Sakura and Sasuke (Sakura's room)

We were finishing our biology's project, well more like Sasuke, he was still making the animation and it was really good.

"hey Sasuke the animation is really good I can't believe you did it" I said laying on my bed with my swollen ankle.

"What's that supposed to mean?" he said offended.

"it was a compliment, have you ever heard of that?" I stuck out my tongue.

"Hn, coming from you I don't know when is compliment or sarcasm" I giggled, and turn my sight around my room until my eyes stopped on the computer clock, it read 6 p.m.

"Sasuke did you talk with him?" he knew exactly who I was talking about.

"yes"

"so? What did he tell you?"

"Hn. You were right he likes Hinata"

"Really?! I knew it! Sakura Haruno is never wrong!"

"yeah sure miss know-it-all" he said smirking but as soon as it came it faded " but he doesn't feel that confident"

"but why? Hinata likes him too!" my dissapointment was obvious in voice.

"I know but he doesn't know, Naruto is really slow"

"B-but –" I was cut off when someone knocked on the door.

It couldn't be Ino, she was with Shikamaru and she took her keys. Sasuke stood up and left to open de door, minutes later he came back with Naruto tailing behind him.

"hey Sakura-chan how are you feeling?" he said smiling.

"better thanks"

"I'm glad" and his smile turned to a frown.

"What's wrong Naruto? Did something happened with Hinata?"

"N-no no! everything was just fine…" he stopped to glare at the floor " until he came" his whispered but he didn't realized he said that out loud.

"Who?"

"you heard me?" he turned a bit red

"yeah, I think you should learn to talk not so loud" he blushed and he started to scratch the back of his head.

"I'll tell you Sakura-chan because I trust you, besides teme here, but you must promise you wont say anything, nothing I say can leave this room"

"okay I promise!"

"just start already dobe"

Naruto told me all about what happened between Hinata and him since the fact he likes her and is jelous of Kiba to the fact that he is absolutely oblivious to her feelings.

"but I don't think she will ever notice me... look at her family her dad is a really important businessman, maybe she wants someone with important status as the Hyuuga family" he said looking down.

"look Naruto first you shouldn't have those thoughts, Hinata is not the kind of person who cares about looks or wealth, so I think you have a big chance with her"

"but what if she doesn't likes me because I am always fooling around?! And that stupid dog breath is always calm around her. What if she likes him better than me?!!" he was walking in circles in my room screaming like there was no tomorrow.

"just calm down you won't know if you don't tell her" i assured him.

"but I never did this before"

"just take her to the annual party" Sasuke said.

"wow teme! Where did that came from?" he was surprised.

"Sasuke that is such a good idea! You could take her to the party Naruto and you could do a lot of fun things together and when the right time comes you will tell her"

"what if I don't know when the right time comes?"

"you will just know"

"-sigh- okay then, oh and Sakura could you lend me your chem homework?" he asked me grinning.

"Dobe what about the bet?"

"but you know whats going on! come on teme you promised me you wont tell kiba!"

"change my mind" reply Sasuke with his beautiful smirk. Wait where did that come from?! Ugh whatever is the truth.

"No! teme! Please I'll do anything!" Naruto said begging Sasuke on his knees.

"anything?" his smirk grew bigger.

" yeah! just don't tell Kiba"

"okay I wont but …you wont eat ramen for a week"

"WHAT!? NOO THAT'S WORST! PLEASE JUST TELL KIBA I'LL BE HIS SLAVE JUST DON'T TAKE MY RAMEN AWAY FROM ME!" he said crying anime style.

Who would have thought these two were friends?

FRIDAY

It was Friday morning and I didn't wait for Ino to be ready, after all I had to be early on my first period with Kurenai sensei, and with my still swollen ankle my walk was slower than usual so that was the reason that I was early.

When I got to the classroom it was empty so I took my seat and started to read Twilight. A few minutes later, I heard a lot of noise outside.

'What is going on?' I wonder and walked slowly to the door, just when I was about to reach the door someone opened it first.

My feet pained when I put pressure on it and I lost balance I close my eyes and waited to hit the floor when I felt strong arms wrapped around me.

I opened my eyes to find a pretty pair of black eyes staring back at me.

"You are so clumsy Sakura" he said smirking without letting me go and I could feel my cheeks heating up.

"Sa-sasuke!"

"Where were you going?" he said rainsing his eyeborow.

"I heard a lot of noise outside and I wanted to know what was going on"

"Hn" he said... well more like he grunted. Hn is not a word!.

"what happened?" I asked him.

"fangirls" that's all he said, but I get what he said. His fangirls were the ones making all the noise outside probably asking him to go with them to the annual party. I notice we were on the same position.

"Sasuke Could you let me go, please? I'm getting tired of this position."

His cheeks turned a light red as we returned to a normal position, and I was sure mine were redder than his.

I was about to return to my place when I felt a sharp pain on my feet making me stumble and almost fall again. but he caught me again.

"you hurt your feet again" his statement was soft, almost as if he was worried. But … could it be…? No... the pills Shizune sensei gave me maybe have some kind of side effect. Next thing i knew he was lifting me up on his arms.

"Sa-Sasuke what are you doing?" I can feel myself as red as a tomato

"What does it looks like? Helping you of course, its obvious you can't walk properly" he said walking to my seat. when we heard someone enter the classroom.

"What do you think you are doing forehead bitch?!! Get away from Sasuke-kun!!" I didn't have to turn around to see who it was, I can tell who she is by her voice, her oh so freaking annoying voice.

By the time she stopped shouting at me, Sasuke putted me down gently on my chair.

"he is just helping me, don't you see it?" I said annoyed and she strode in front of me and hit her hands against my desk.

"What kind of pathetic excuse did you use to convince Sasuke-kun to do that? I'm sure he would never do it"

"he would never do it to you I'm sure… look, I don't need to make lame excuses as you, but if you want to blame someone this is all your fault for hurting me!. Now get lost Karin" I was clearly mad, and Sasuke wasn't helping either, he just stood there with his eyes closed hearing all our fight.

"How dare you!" she was about to slap me but was stopped by Sasuke's hand.

"Don'.dare" he said giving her a death glare.

"B-but Sasuke-kun she- … I'm making you a favor" she said her scared expression turning to a mad one.

"I don't need nothing from you. You are annoying" he said keeping his glare, but his voice was scary. if he ever tells me annoying in that tone I don't know how I would react. But Karin she cried and ran out of the classroom.

"that was harsh" I told him, no matter how pathetic Karin looked at that moment I just felt… sorry for her.

"thank you would be better I saved you from being slapped" he said smirking.

"thank you Sasuke" I said giving him a sweet smile.

The class started soon after the incident. We did great on our project, Sasuke and I are a great team. The rest of the classes were great too. But the best of all was Karin didn't pester me at all after what happened with Sasuke. Today I felt everything was falling right into place. Well… except my ankle.

Saturday (one day to the party!)

Ino was really excited, it was contagious, but not in a good way, It was giving me a headache. But thankfully today I could walk better, and it didn't hurt as much as it did yesterday.

Ino and I were on the kitchen having a late breakfast, instantaneous ramen. I'm surprised Naruto is not here already, he can smell ramen at

miles away.

"Forehead I cant believe tomorrow is the dance! I'm so excited! We have to look so cute tomorrow. We have to go to the mall" she said too cheerful.

"to the mall? I already know what I am going to wear"

"if you are talking about that black skirt and that green shirt, hell no! They were hideous! As if I let you wear those" I just threw her an annoyed glance, who told her I was going to wear that? And those are not ugly, I like them.

"Ino they are not hideous"

"Anyway you should buy something better, I'll help you Sakura!" Ino said grinning.

"okay, Ino fine" I said. Maybe it would be better buy something nice.

"I'll call tenten and Hinata so it would be more fun"

At the mall

Ino is a shopping-maniac. She was dragging us to all the stores in search for our new outfits. I still didn't get how she did to see half of the stores in just one hour! The small was huge and I was getting annoyed, every time I found something cute she would said "its better to look at everything first"

"Ino, why don't we just pick something at any store? They have pretty clothes and my feet are killing me" Tenten said.

"of course not Tenten! We must look around every store so in the end we can pick the clothes we like the most"

"At least give us a break Ino, my feet hurts! We are tired"

"We should rest and also Sakura should take care of her ankle, is not completely recover" Hinata tried to reason with Ino.

"okay okay" Ino agree.

We went to the food court for something to drink, I was drinking a strawberry milkshake, Tenten a moka cappuccino, Hinata a vanilla milkshake and

Ino just lemonade.

"so girls are you going to go with someone to the party?" Tenten asked.

"No, I wont" I reply.

"you should invite Sasuke, Sakura" tenten told me excited about her idea.

"no way tenten, not you too! I wont" I said remembering Ino had told me the same thing yesterday.

"Oh Sakura I'm sure he is going to say yes!" Ino tried to encourage me.

"if he wants to go with me he should ask me, I don't plan to go with someone as date or anything like that"

"You are such a party popper Sakura"

"Shut up Ino, what about you? We know Tenten is going to go with Neji, have you persuade Shikamaru to ask you to go to the party?" she blushed.

At least my mocking did work.

"yeah we are going together" she said red as a tomato.

"I'm so happy for you Ino" Hinata said.

"that's nice" I said smirking and turned to Hinata. "and what about you Hinata? Are you going with someone?" I was hoping Naruto had asked her by now.

"N-no, I don't think so" she said with a sad smile. Okay so he didn't ask her yet. This boy is slow.

"What? Why?" Tenten asked.

"because no one has asked me" Hinata started to play with her fingers and her face was cast down.

"Don't worry Hinata, someone will ask you, just wait" I gave her a smile of comfort to try to reassure her.

"and if not, at least Sakura will be with you"

"thank you girls" I said sarcastically.

"Ino? What are you doing here?" a voice behind me said. I turned around to see who it was.

"Shi-Shikamaru what are you doing here?" Ino said with a tint of pink on her cheeks.

"we came to eat something here, the campus is boring on weekends" Neji said answering Ino's question.

"you should have told us so we could came together!" Tenten said a little bit angry.

"we didn't wanted to come, but it was coming here or Naruto would drag us to eat ramen" typicall Naruto.

"w-where is Na-naruto-kun?"

"he said he had to look for something and Sasuke went with him, they will catch with us here" Shikamaru said dragging a chair to our table and sitting next to Ino, Neji did the same and sat down next to Tenten. After a while Naruto and Sasuke arrived.

"hey guys -! Hey what are the girls doing here?!" Naruto said pointing at us.

"shopping of course, what else Naruto?" Ino said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Naruto took a sit next to Hinata and Sasuke sat down between me and Naruto. Gladly out table was rounded and big enough for all of us.

"what were you doing?" I asked Sasuke.

"Dobe was looking for something" he said kind annoyed maybe he was tired of searching for god knows what with Naruto. I guess he is planning something for Hinata.

"Well girls we should continue our journey to find the perfect outfits" ino said eager, maybe all the energy she has know was because shikamaru was here. –sigh-.

"Ino I swear if we don't pick something quickly I'll go insane" Tenten said.

"Neji you should take her to the psychologist after this" Ino told Neji and tenten had anime tears in her eyes.

"what are you going to do guys?" I asked to anyone in particular, the boys shrugged not really knowing what they were going to do.

"just go do something and wait for us" Ino told Shikamaru, more like demanded.

"you are troublesome Ino, why do you need us?"

"to take our bags of course" she said smiling, Shikamaru just mutter a small 'troublesome' but stop complaining, no one can say no to Ino.

"let's go to the arcade so I can beat you Teme"

"you're on Dobe" Sasuke said smirking.

"-sigh- troublesome, lets go"

"I guess there's nothing better to do" and they left, while Ino dragged us to all the stores in the mall.

we searched in the rest of the stores and Hinata is the only one who has picked something so far. At least we are now in the last store and then we could pick something and go back to the campus.

Ino was trying to make Tenten wear a miniskirt but she refused.

"No, I wont, I want to wear jeans not a sluttly skirt!"

"Tenten this skirt is too decent for Karin, is too long for her taste, come on Neji is going to love with this on"

"he loves me already Ino, thank you" After all Tenten has a tomboy personality that's why she doesn't like to wear skirts.

I was looking around the store until I found a pretty light pink skirt with white flowers. I love it! So I went to check if it fits me. Thankfully it did. When I went out of the change room Ino said "we have the winner outfit here", at least she approved it, if not I would have to search for something else.

"where is Tenten?" I asked looking around for her.

"on the change room" Hinata said. after a lot of persuasion she finally agreedto try on one dress.

"Now go out Tenten we want to see you!" Ino screamed.

Tenten reluctantly opened the door, she was wearing an green apple sun dress that reached above her knees.

"you look really good tenten"

"hell no I look awful"

"its not true, Neji definitively will love it"

"and what about you Ino?"

"oh I bought mine while you were changing" she said grinning.

We finally paid and left to find the guys in the arcade where Sasuke and Naruto were eagerly playing a ninja game and lots of people were surrounding them. Most of them were girls giggling while looking at them. I glanced at them a little bit annoyed.

"they have been like this since we came here" Neji said with bored tone.

"Naruto is too troublesome to give up"

"NOOOOOO! I cant lose to you no matter what! I want the rematch teme!!"

"Hn. I already beat you 50 times. Just give up looser you cant win, everyone are waiting"

I was walking beside Sasuke, when I felt a lot of girls glaring at me. 'whats wrong with them?' I thought.

"are you going to take the subway?" I asked trying to make a conversation and forget the glares but he just stared at me like I was growing another head.

"we don't take the subway, and today Naruto borrow Jiraiya's car"

"What?! Why would he do that?" I seriously don't think Jiraiya would trust his car to Naruto.

"he is his grandpha" Sasuke said as if it was obvious. I was shocked!

"WHAT?! Really? I didn't know! but at least their fights make sense now… and … what about his parents?" I asked. But Sasuke stopped walking and turned to glance to where Naruto and Hinata were happily chatting. I can tell he was thinking whether to tell me or not. I was about to change the conversation when he spoke again.

"they are dead"

I was shocked, again, I cant believe the always cheerful Naruto didn't have parents. I felt like crying, poor Naruto I never imagined something like that. I know what it is like to lose someone you love, but lose both of your parents... it's just too... hard.

"don't cry, he doesn't like when people cries for him, he say he feels like they pity him" when I turned to look at Sasuke he kept talking without looking at me. "he didn't met his parents, he was a baby back then and now Jiraiya is the only family he has, that's why he is optimistic, he says at least he is not alone... and he is right. Don't you think?" he gave me a smirk, but when I kept staring at him I notice it wan't a smirk... it wa a small smile. this was the first time I watched him smile! SMILE not smirk! and it was beautiful.

"yeah. You are right" I said cleaning my unshed tears and giving Sasuke a big smile.

Soon we were outside the mall, walking to Naruto's car.

"hey guys there is no way in hell that we are going to fit in the car" Shikamaru said.

"Shikamaru is right, five people barely fit and there is no way 8 people can. Any suggestions? " Sasuke said.

That's when an idea hit me. Second part of plan Naruhina starts!

"we should take the subway" the boys looked at me with a WTF face, "What? You never ride the subway before?" I asked raising my eyebrow.

"NO" they said at the same time.

"Why not?!"

"why would we? We have chauffeurs, or we drive our own cars" Neji said with a hint of arrogance in his voice.

'wealthy bastard' I thought.

"Come on guys it will be fun!" I told them.

"I wont take the subway" Sasuke said.

"please Sasuke! You should live a little more" I said.

"I think I live well enough thank you"

"come on Sasuke this is part of my plan! Help me!" I said whispering to him so no one could hear.

"Hn. Fine, I'll go with you"

"I want to go too" said Tenten.

"as hell I'm going" Neji said crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"OW! little Neji is afraid to take the subway?" tenten said mocking him

"I'm not"

"suuuuuure Neji" she said sarcastically

"okay I'll prove it woman lets go" he said taking Tenten's wrist and dragging her away.

"yeah we are going too" Ino said cheerfully dragging shikamaru with her.

"guys what about me?" Naruto said with a puppy face.

'the plan is on'.

"Hinata can go with you. Right Hinata?" I said turning to glance at her. "that way you wont be alone"

"y-yeah sure! If Hinata-chan wants to" he said nervous.

"y-yeah of course" Hinata said and they both left in the car while we took the subway.

At school.

Ino and I were at Tente's room waiting for Hinata to arrive.

"hey it's been half an hour since we arrived and yet they are not here " Ino said cheking her wristwatch.

"they should be here by now" tenten said worried.

"Don't worry girls I'm sure they are fine" i try to calm them down.

Suddenly the door opened to show a red and happy Hinata.

"Hinata finally you are here! Where have you been?!" Ino ran beside Hinata screaming and hugging her in a worried manner.

"Ino-chan, Sakura-chan? What are you doing here?" Hinata asked surprised to find us in her room.

"we were worried about you when tenten told us you haven't arrived yet" Ino said.

Hinata just giggled at Ino's expression. She was so happy and she had a dreaming look on her face.

"okay Hinata spit it out what happened?" I questioned startling Hinata,

"W-what? Why do you say that Sakura?"

"Hinata the look on your face betray you and also half an hour later? when you were suppoused to be here before us?" she blushed more than she already was.

"Na-naruto-kun invited me to eat ramen" she said playing with her fingers.

"typical Naruto" Ino said.

"And what happened?" Tenten asked desperate to know.

"he invited me to the party tomorrow"

"Really?! That's great!" I said hugging her

"We are so happy for you Hinata" tenten said happily

"Don't worry Hinata, Ino will be there to make you look awesome on your date with Naruto" ino said punching the air.

"thank you girls" it was really good to see Hinata truly happy. We were so happy for her.

We kept talking for a long time. At least everything is working out. First week and I already have great friends, enemies and tomorrow is my first party here at Konoha High, and I am so excited.

I cant wait to know what is going to happen tomorrow.

FINALLY! I know it's been soo long since my last update, I'm soo sorry! i was really really busy at school with exams and homeworks. I spent two weeks sleeping at 3 a.m and just when I was free from school and I had free time my computer decided to break down. ugh! i hate my computer but I hate more the guy who fix it because I was happy with my Windows Vista and he just decided to put XP without asking me and I couldn't open this story because I HAD the newest microsoft word and hell the ugly fucking old M. word just doesn't open it and I lost my original file of this story so I have to rewrite this chapter. U_U.

and that is my lame excuse for a late update but is true!

I tried to make this chapter longer to compensate the lack of updating. I hope you like it and I promise next time I'll update sooner :).

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