I updated fatser this time! I've been sick for the past four days, but I feel much better now :) I wrote this entire chapter just now, I normally write it in sections. I changed the last chapter a little bit- so if you read it and it didn't have some snippets of memories, then I suggest you reread it. If you do or not, is entirely up to you.

Larissa- I'm glad you loved it! I won't say anymore, enjoy the chapter!

Hope that everyone likes the chapter!

xX Aya Marie-chan

When Sakura woke up she couldn't move. A strong pair of arms was embracing her. Despite the fact that she was receiving body heat from whoever it was, she was freezing. Then she remembered that she fell asleep after her talk with Sasuke, probably due to emotional exhaustion.

'Who the hell does he think he is? Couldn't he take me home like a normal human being? If someone saw us, he's dead meat, not that he isn't already,' Sakura thought angrily to herself.

'Cha! Kick his sorry ass from here straight back to Sound! What if he took advantage of us while we slept?' Inner Sakura roared, fire burning viciously in her eyes. Sakura took a minute to process her current predicament. Her head was being crushed into his chest. His hands were draped possessively around her waist. Sasuke's back was leaning up against the side of the bench and his head resting peacefully on top of hers.

She decided to go with Inner Sakura's idea. Sakura drew back a chakra-powered fist and landed it straight into his chest forcefully. She was so strong that the entire block of stone behind him broke off and his body skidded about ten feet away. His eyes shot open as he jumped into a defensive stance.

Sakura nodded as she complemented, "Good reflexes, Uchiha. Nice wake-up call, ne?"

"What was that for?" Sasuke demanded crankily.

"Grumpy, now are we, Uchiha?" Sakura asked in a venomously sweet voice then screamed in his face, "Who the hell do you think you are? First you leave me unconscious on that damn bench, defenseless to freakish pedophiles and now you get all cuddly on there with me?" She stomped over to the bench and began to beat the crap out of it until only a pile of small stones remained.

Temporarily forgetting the punch Sasuke asked incredulously, "Why the hell did you do that?"

"Obviously, that damn bench was awful luck for me. To solve that problem, there no longer is a bench!" Sakura answered evilly. Sakura stood there for a moment, frozen.

'Holy shit, he's all emotional in the mornings! This is hilarious! Of course he was really over-emotional last night too. Bleh! He actually thought I believed that bull shit? Talk about gullible… I knew that he was a lot of things- selfish, vengeful, stoic, annoying, and grumpy, but never gullible! Well, you learn something new every day!' Sakura thought to herself as she giggled a bit.

Sasuke had finally calmed down and resorted back to his indifferent demeanor as he asked, "Okay, anyways, now why did you punch me?"

"Duh! I socked you because you slept with me!" Sakura accused. As she said this, the Chuunin from the gate the day before was walking by. When he heard this tears began to stream down his face like Lee.

Sakura waved her hands in front of her and shook her head as she denied, "No, no, not like that! That came out completely wrong!"

"Why, Sakura-chan, why?" the boy cried, then turned to Sasuke and yelled, "You made the flower impure! How dare you! I must inform the rest of my fellow fan club members that sweetest Sakura-chan was raped and is no longer virgin. I am the bearer of grave news!" With those last words he parted hastily, still bawling his eyes out. Sakura clenched fists at her sides and her chakra became dangerously homicidal.

"Uchiha Sasuke, pray for mercy when you move on to the after life," Sakura advised, her voice murderous. Inner Sakura was on the loose once again. Only this time, Sakura didn't release her, she broke her way out.

Sakura cracked knuckles as she smirked sadistically. Fury burned in her eyes and she looked like she would kill anyone and anything in her path. She probably would. Sakura didn't care who he was or who he thought he was, she only had one thought running through her mind: Kill that brat.

She began to advance toward him slowly, almost lazily. She looked similar to cat preparing to attack its prey. Her smirk hadn't faltered a single bit.

Sakura asked rhetorically in a malicious tone, "Do you know what you just caused? Now everyone in all of Konoha is going to think that I'm some sort of naughty whore who was sweet talked by the traitor enough to get down and dirty with him.

Then yesterday, with the stunt you pulled of toying with my heart again. Honestly, I knew that you always thought I was weak, but since when did you think I was some foolish ditzy bimbo too? You seem to believe that I'm also gullible and am easily flattered. You may think lowly of me, but I think even lower of you. I think that you are a selfish, pretty boy who thinks he can get whatever he wants when he wants it. Oh, I forgot, I think you're a traitorous asshole as well." At her words, Sasuke didn't even blink.

All he said in return was, "Since when did you get a fan club?" With those words, Sasuke stole the final shred of all of Sakura's remaining sanity. Bad move on his part.

"Uchiha Sasuke, consider yourself in the afterlife," Sakura hissed and charged at him, her left fist raised. He easily caught it, just as she planned. Her fist posed solely as a mere distraction.

Sakura's face was only a few inches from his when she landed her knee in his most sensitive spot. She liked to call this move "The Nutcracker." He groaned a bit and then collapsed to his knees while clutching his private.

Sakura rubbed her hands together wiping off imaginary dust as she said victoriously, "Opps! I think that I may have kneed you hard enough to make your second goal impossible. If I do recall correctly, that second goal was to 'Revive the Uchiha clan.' Sorry about that Uchiha!" She turned around and was about to skip off until she heard someone.

It was Naruto yelling, "Sorry, Sakura! That move shouldn't work on teme, seeing as there's nothing there…" Sakura sweat dropped. Sasuke was rolling on the ground, moaning in pain.

Through all of his pain, Sasuke managed to sneer, "Shut up, dobe. Sakura, if I can't have kids, you're personally going to have to heal me so that I can." He was smirking by the end as Sakura blushed profusely. She was embarrassed because he would be pant less and she would be touching him there if she had to heal him.

"I would swear to God that it was you, not Naruto, who trained with that perverted Jiraiya," Sakura shot back, still blushing.

'Asshole… He thinks he can always have his way…' Sakura thought to herself, giggling slightly. Sasuke managed to get off of the ground, still smirking.

Naruto looked towards the pile of rubble that was formerly the stone bench and wondered aloud, "How the hell did that happen?" Sakura just laughed sheepishly and brushed off his question.

Sasuke turned to Naruto and said, "Dobe, I'm not done talking with Sakura. We'll meet you for ramen at Ichiraku's when we're done, on me."

"Actually, quite to the contrary, we're long past finished chatting. I was wondering if you would walk me back to my apartment, Naruto. Oh, about the ramen, I'm not really hungry, you guys can go without me," Sakura said hastily.

'Finally! Sweet escape! Run for it while you can! You know that Naruto would never turn down a chance to walk you home!' Inner Sakura exclaimed then added darkly, 'Hopefully he won't be swayed by Sasuke's offer for free ramen. It's a pretty risky call. Yet, our offer gives him the best of both worlds- a walk with us and free ramen!'

Naruto grabbed Sakura's hand and said, "Sounds great! I have to tell you about what happened after you went to Konoha ahead of me anyways. Well, teme, I'll see you at Ichiraku's later! Oh, and I came here to tell teme to go see Tsunade-baa-chan in her office! Have fun! She didn't look too happy…" Sasuke grunted in acknowledgement and disappeared in a puff of smoke, heading off towards the Hokage's office. They both began to walk at a moderate pace towards her apartment complex.

Sakura turned worriedly to Naruto and asked, "What happened yesterday that you had to tell me, Naruto?"

"Nothing," Naruto beamed.

"Huh?" Sakura questioned, "I don't understand."

Naruto answered, "Don't you see? I said that to get Sasuke-teme off of your case. I could tell that you really didn't want to talk to him anymore. I sensed tell that you were frantically wracking your brain searching for an escape route. I figured that you deserved a break from all of his cockiness… You put up with enough of him already. You've earned an emotional vacation, especially with those horrifying rumors flying around… Which aren't true, right?"

"Ew, of course not!" Sakura denied, her face scrunched up in a disgusted expression.

Naruto exhaled, relieved, and said, "Whew, good! Lee is currently running around town screaming about how Sasuke-teme 'deflowered' you and that 'the Springtime of Youth was too overwhelming for the two of you to bare.' You're fan boys are on a homicidal rampage and teme's fan girls are equally murderous. I think that Konoha would have been safer with those Sound-nin attacking. Currently, everything is in complete utter chaos. It's pretty darn scary." Sakura shivered at the thought of Lee bawling his eyes out and screaming obscenities.

Sakura silently prayed to herself, 'Please, please, please, do not let me run into Lee, my fan boys, or Uchiha's fan girls…' Her prayers were answered, because they found themselves in front of the entrance to her apartment building.

"Sorry Sakura, but I'll have to leave you here, no more time to chat! I've got ramen to eat!" Naruto apologized as he darted off towards Ichiraku. Sakura sighed and shook her head; some things never change. She entered the building and began walking up the stairwell.

'How could Sasuke-kun possibly think that we would forgive him so easily? That would take much more than a few falsely sugarcoated words and an hour of being in his oh-so-charming presence. The magic of his manly allure wore off a while ago…' Inner Sakura yawned.

Sakura agreed, 'Yeah, at first last night, I actually considered his words. Then I understood that I was being played like a deck of cards. He was toying with me. I played along, just to see how far he would go. He obviously knew and understood my vulnerable state of mind and decided to have a bit of fun. I always knew he was cruel, but honestly, that's over doing it. I suppose that's what happens when you're living with a snake-freak that is attracted to twelve-year-old boys for three years. He choose his own destiny. I changed my path on life a while ago and he can't seem to comprehend that. He doesn't understand that I'm not a lovesick fan girl anymore… He's going to get an even harsher wake-up call than the one I graced him with earlier this morning. All in good time.'

Sakura then took out her key and opened her apartment door. It was really dark inside, so she flicked on the light. When the lights turned on she saw a dark figure was sitting on her bed.

Sakura sighed and slapped her forehead as she questioned crankily, "How the hell did you get in here, Uchiha?"