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Hide&Seek

"The answer you gave me. First love that you brought me….".

Chapter 4

"My lovely blossom. How nice for me to see you again" a guy said in a sing-song voice.

Sakura cringed because she knew her day would be not good at all. Her back was still turned away from the boy as she wished that the assembly would start soon. She doesn't want to deal with Rock Lee now. If there was a genie, she will ask that Lee would disappear. But, she doesn't really hate Lee. She was just…annoyed.

"Lee, give Sakura a break. It's so early in the morning " Neji said as he returned in reading his book.

"I'm not really bothering her. I was just happy that she was back," Lee said defensively.

Sakura faced Lee and began to observe her love struck admirer. Well, how to start? She met Rock Lee in her first year of high school and it didn't turned great at first. He was love at first sight with Sakura and from then he became one of her many fans, which to Sakura's dismay. She didn't have any interest in Lee. Who wants a guy who she didn't even know what his true gender is. Adding the weird hairstyle and the big eyes with thick eyebrows. He even idolizes their P.E teacher so much that he sometimes imitates the way he dresses and the way he talks. Freaky, right? But the surprising part is after all the weirdness of Lee everybody still likes him and he's one of the popular ones. Basketball and track and field is his forte. He's also very kind and friendly which is the only part of him that Sakura likes. Maybe that's why they're friends.

"Hello, Lee. It's nice to see you again," Sakura said as she smiled at him.

Lee's eyes began to twinkle as he grinned at her.

"Your smile is so beautiful, Blossom. I'm really glad that you're happy to see me".

"Lee! Stop freaking out, Sakura" Tenten scolded him as she observed how Sakura is starting to fret.

"Ugh, weirdo" Ino said and rolled her eyes.

Sakura looked to her left and saw Shino. She decided to leave him be considering that they're not that close after all. Shino Aburame is a silent type of person and is not much of a talker when it comes to girls. She doesn't know much about him but she knows that he is kind to his comrades and is there to help. Shino isn't interested in any sports but he's still popular because of the crowd he hangs out with and because of his looks. Surprisingly, Shino is pretty good looking. With his shaggy brown hair, height and fair skin, some girls still admire him.

She switched to the one beside Shino who was busy lying on the grass…sleeping.

"It's hard to believe that a genius like this is so lazy" she thought to herself as she gazed at the sleeping boy.

"NARA! Wake up, lazy ass" Temari shouted and shook the guy to wake up which to no avail is still sleeping like a rock.

Shikamaru Nara was one of Sakura's childhood friends. So she basically knew everything about him, just like she knew the others. She met Shikamaru in the wedding ceremony of her mother's friend. She was walking in the garden when she saw a boy lying on the grass and was too busy looking at the clouds. He didn't talk much so she thought he was dumb but when they became classmates at elementary and their teacher assigned them to play chess, she actually found out that he was smart but is lazy. Now, looking at Shikamaru she concluded that nothing has changed. He just became taller which is an advantage because he was a player in basketball and football. Not much of a lazy person in sports, ne?

She walked to Shikamaru and sat next to him.

"Wake up, Shika-kun. Oh, and I thought you'll change when I get back" Sakura laughed softly.

Shikamaru slowly opened his eyes and looked at her.

"Troublesome girl. Good to see you again" he smirked.

"Yeah. You also. Let's play chess again. I missed playing that" she smiled.

Shikamaru nodded and after a few seconds drifted to sleep again. Naruto went to Sakura and sat next to her.

"Sakura-chan! I have so many stories to tell you. Many things happened this vacation and –

"Naruto! Can you please lower your voice? I'm just right next to you. Jeez".

"Sorry-

Ino butted in. "Naruto, please. That can wait until later. Just don't talk for now. You're disrupting the peaceful-

"Hey babe".

Sakura felt that someone putted an arm around her shoulders and she looked to the person's face.

"Hey to you too, shark boy" she smirked.

The person grinned widely showing his pearly sharp teeth. And who might be this guy? She's referring to Suigetsu Hozuki, the playboy. She didn't even know how she became friends with this Adonis wannabe. Sometimes his playboy antics and being indifferent can be annoying and now that he's a jock and has gained more popularity, it was out of control. He was also a prankster like Naruto and Kiba. She met him at a friend's birthday party and just like Lee their meeting was also unpleasant. He flirted with her all night and wasn't able to control herself anymore when he touched her butt so she gave him a hard, nice slap in the face. After that event, Suigetsu behaved around her.

"Who you calling shark boy, eh?" Suigetsu was about to hug her when she stopped him.

"Hold it right there big boy. I know what you're planning to do. So behave yourself." Sakura said as she stepped away from Suigetsu.

"Ha-ha. You're no fun, Sak. I just missed you".

Sakura turned her back on him and walked towards the roses. She really loved these flowers. it always reminds her of a certain someone. A beautiful one but was not touchable because of the thorns and if you're not careful enough, you might get hurt. She wonders what he did last vacation and-

"You're thinking of him right?

Sakura's thoughts disappeared as she looked to the person behind her.

"What are you talking about, Hinata?" she asked, clearly pretending not to know.

Hinata softly chuckled. "C'mon Sak, you don't have to hide it from me. I know that you're interested in him".

She just sighed. "Does everyone know?"

"Don't worry. They're too busy with their personal issues to observe you."

"This will be our secret, kay? I actually don't like him, not at all. But he's just way too mysterious to me so he caught my attention".

Hinata chuckled again. "He's not mysterious, Sak. You're just not close to him so that's why you find him odd. Besides, he's not sociable to girls, just his friends".

"Hmm, maybe you're right Hinata but-

The squealing girls that are jumping and was running towards their garden cut off Sakura.

"What the hell-

"TEME!"

Sakura now knew what's going on. She also knew that this would be a rough day indeed. Now that the prince arrived, chaos was brought along too.

Okaay. Sorry that this chapter is short. This is just the continuation of the previous chapter. And Sasuke will arrive at the next chapter. Yay. :) R&&R please.