Yep, Ages! I know. But I did tell earlier I am going to be busy. Yet I am EXTREMELY sorry for making you all wait for such a longer time! I hope you forgive me!

Last chapter didn't get much reviews. :'( But it's fine anyways, because 'something is better than nothing!'

I still haven't found a Beta yet. Actually i have, but we haven't contacted since ages. None of my work is Beta-ed yet. I'm still waiting patiently though. And although i promised myself I won't update till my exams were over or at least my work was Beta-ed, Here I am with a new chapter. I'm such a nice author! LOL!

Recently, I took a Naruto quiz which told me that Kiba would be my perfect Boyfriend/Husband! I was disappointed a little that it wasn't Sasuke, but after I thought over it for a while, I realized that Kiba is actually the person I would love to have as a boyfriend! Awesome energy and outgoing attitude! *Muwah! Love you Kiba! So now on, Kiba, my dearest anime boyfriend, is going to accompany me throughout the story! Aren't you Kiba?

Kiba: Sure as hell, babe!

Me: So let's start the story and give the readers what they want.

Kiba: Yup. Fiora-Mieko doesn't own Naruto!

Me: Uhuh, I don't. Now, on with the story~

Kiba: Enjoy the newest chapter readers! Until then babe why don't you come a little closer?

"Everyone in the official school sports teams I want to tell you this on short notice that today, you all will be staying after school until the ending of evening practice. No need to worry as your parents will be notified about this. As for excuses, don't even waste your time on them, as I ain't listening." The masked Hitler spoke casually from the doors of the class, his eyes still in the orange book. After giving out the notice he left just as he had come, suddenly. The class immediately burst into whispers and chatters.

"You've got to be kidding me!" a sudden horrified reply came from the bench in front of Naruto and Sasuke. The light brown haired boy slammed his head on the desk in submission. He sighed heavily from the upcoming exhaustion.

"Ha! You bet! I'm gonna show everyone how training is done today!" Naruto exclaimed punching his fist in air. He stood up in his position suddenly, which startled the Uchiha but he didn't show it.

"Shut it, Naruto. My head's already buzzing with the pain Kakashi is going to put us through. I don't want your broken record voice to make it erupt." Akane said turning to look at Naruto with an irritated expression.

"Hey! What didya say?" Naruto scowled angrily at Akane and they started throwing amusing insults at each other.

"Dobe." Was all Sasuke said and ignored the blonde who was now practically standing on the desk and leaning forwards in Akane's face.

Sasuke turned his head away from Naruto only to notice the pink haired girl in the front. She was in her own world right now and wasn't even paying attention to what her friend was saying. He felt a sudden pang in his chest at the look of her and pressed his lips involuntarily. Yesterday, he had to spend full three hours to explain Naruto that he wasn't actually in love with Sakura, (Courtesy of ILoveSxS! Thanks for pointing my mistake!) but maybe just liked her more than a friend. Naruto being the dobe he is, left the matter to its outcome because it was out of his tweeny mind's reach. Seriously. After all the trouble he went through. Those three hours! Not to mention ignore his constant chuckling and on time coughing brother.

"He isn't serious, right?" Gennai, another fellow team member asked the lazy captain from across the row. Sasuke's attention turned towards him. Gennai half, no full, wanted to believe that what Kakashi said was just a pre-match day hallucination, which he suffered from almost every time.

Shikamaru, who was now sitting with his legs on the desk, gave a yawn. Sasuke turned back, facing Shikamaru, and waiting patiently for his answer.

"As troublesome as it is, that is the truth. He did mention to me about this, but I didn't think he would apply it today." Shikamaru said folding his hands behind his head. Gennai sighed heavily. He opened his mouth and was just about to say something, when suddenly,

"ENOUGH!" Asuma shouted at the top of voice at the chattering students. Everyone turned their heads in the direction of their sensei.

"If you all haven't forgotten already, I am still in the class." Asuma said sternly eyes closed in concentration. He suddenly opened them and anger was clearly reflected. "Karin! Return to your seat. NOW. Ino! You too. Gennai. Face forward. Kiba, Sumaru! Stop that, whatever it is. Chouji, no eating in my class! Naruto, Akane, stop your pointless babbling right now or I'll make sure you'll regret it. Shikamaru! Legs off the desk! And everyone QUIET! No one utters one word or they'll be either sulking at home with no admission in matches or for others, reduced internal marks." Everyone immediately did as he said and the entire class became silent. Asuma gave one last look to the petrified, some irritated, and in some case bored students and clearing his throat started his lecture.

"Asuma sure has a hold on his class." Kakashi thought as he heard Asuma's raised voice shouting orders and the sudden silence among the students. He had just finished giving his notice in the next class, which had the similar reaction as the others he had visited. Inwardly, Kakashi was enjoying this little session of short notices and loved it when he made an impact on the horde of students. When he left the 10th grade, he heard Asuma yell at the top of his voice, and the silence following it. He couldn't help but admire the authority he could place on the most irritating and out of control class. On the other hand though, the Sensei of the 10th grade class, the one he had just left was having a much greater trouble getting his students to listen to him.

"B-But, we still have one day. He could have told us about it today and then arranged the practice for tomorrow. At least we could've prepared ourselves mentally." Gennai said to Shikamaru who was again resting his legs on the desk and had his hands behind his head. It was lunch time, and the soccer boys had decided to eat their lunch in the class.

Shikamaru was sitting on his own bench. Naruto and Sasuke were sitting on the desk of their place and had turned to face Shikamaru. Naruto wasn't paying attention to the discussion the boys were having and kept on gobbling his Ramen. Sasuke was taking a bite or two from his tomato, having finished his lunch in the earlier break. Chouji was behind them busy with his chips bag. Kiba, Mizura, Sumaru, Akane, Gennai and Sai were sitting in the next row, beside the boy's benches with their respective tiffins. They were sitting in a perfect circle.

"Tomorrow is going to be all rest and no practice. Not even touching the ball." Shikamaru replied in the same bored tone, his eyes were closed.

"WHAT?" Naruto practically screamed on hearing the words 'No Practice.' He gulped his ramen hurriedly to try and speak more.

Shikamaru winced at the frequency of his voice and also at the fact that Naruto was now leaning on his desk. Sasuke scowled at the sudden outburst of the blonde and gave him a short glare.

Shikamaru put a pinky in his ear and looked at Naruto irately. "The same thing you heard, idiot." Shikamaru said.

"What do you mean by no practice?" Naruto stated with the same non believing voice.

"No practice as in, NO Practice Naruto. Tomorrow is going to be full rest." Shikamaru said and went back to his original hands behind the head position.

"You're joking, right Shikamaru?" Kiba said, "As much as I know Kakashi sensei, he won't let anyone even spell 'REST' when matches are just a day away." Sasuke agreed with Kiba and looked at Shikamaru to hear his reply. By now every head had turned to look at their captain with the same you've-got-to-be-kidding-me expression. Only, Chouji, who was still fumbling in his chips bag, was appearing to be not interested. He seemed to have full faith in Shikamaru's words.

Shikamaru looked at the faces of his team mates and sighed. He put his legs down and leaned on the desk.

"Listen guys, as you know, our match is just two days away, if we take today in consideration. It's an obvious fact that we have to spend a whole day on the ground not to mention in the torturing heat on the matches day. But that is if we make it to the finals, which, looking at our current condition, I highly guarantee." Shikamaru said with a smirk.

"So, we need to be in our full strength and save as much energy as possible. But, as you see we still need to practice some of last moment tactics, and we also need to work hard." Shikamaru raised his eyebrows to make his point.

Naruto and Kiba nodded.

"If we practice tomorrow, we will surely be in a bad shape to compete the next day, which may cause us to lose before we have even started. Thus, even if we do have the moves and what it takes to win the championship, what good will it do if we wouldn't even be able to execute it. And so, all our efforts would be pointless."

"So, to balance out practice and necessary rest, we practice hard and even much harder today, while tomorrow is dedicated to full body rest, so that we can kick some asses." Shikamaru said the last sentence with a smirk.

Sasuke smirked at the intelligent reply of his captain. Naruto and Kiba shared a high five with a loud "You Bet!" Gennai and others felt much relieved and confident, and Chouji gave Shikamaru a big smile.

"FOREHEAD!" Ino screamed running in the corridor. She was huffing and waving her hand to stop the girl ahead of her. The girl didn't budge at the sound and kept on moving out of the school gates.

Ino, seeing this, increased her pace finally catching up with the pinkette. She stopped the girl in her tracks and leaned on her knees for support. She kept on panting and took one deep breath which helped her heart beat to go normal. She straightened her posture only to notice that the girl had left.

"What the hell?" Ino shrieked. She turned around in frenzy and saw Sakura go out of the gates. She sighed and though she hated it, moved her legs to follow her friend.

"Forehead!" she exclaimed and held Sakura by her shoulder. Sakura stopped and shot Ino a death glare. Ino didn't pay attention and instead flicked her pony back.

"Ino-pig, what did I tell you about screaming my insane nick name?" Sakura spoke with clenched teeth.

Ino tossed her pony again and waved her hand, totally ignorant of the death aura emitting from Sakura. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever, sure." She said and Sakura scowled. "Anyways, that's not the point." She looked at Sakura in shock, "About Kakashi sensei, he's not actually going to put us through that, right?" she asked with a false hope.

Sakura turned her head right lifting her nose. She huffed once and left.

Ino gave a WTH expression, "Forehead!" she exclaimed again. Sakura stopped some steps away from her and turned. Ino gave a little pleading look. Sakura sighed at her lame attempt.

"Yes, piggy-chan. He is going to put us through that torture. And he's got a special training for you." Sakura smirked.

"Ha ha. As if I'm going to believe you!" Ino folded her hands and pouted.

"As you wish. Don't come to me later saying I didn't warn you." Sakura shrugged and left a confused Ino behind. Ino watched Sakura's back as she went near the school volleyball grounds. The chattering and playing students of the recess came to a stand still for her. 'No, Sakura can't be kidding! No way!'

Sakura heard a loud screech behind her. She could make out the muffled screech from the crowds and shouts of students. Yep, it was Ino. A typical Ino. She smiled to herself having made a necessary impact on Ino's fashion crazy mind. Serves her right for screaming my idiotic name in the recess.

She headed towards the grounds only to notice her sensei fixing the net. He turned his head and saw Sakura heading in his direction.

"Yo." He said making a V. his other hand was holding the net in place.

Sakura smiled and greeted with a V. "You called me sensei?" she asked and standing on her toes, held the net.

"Yes, Sakura." Kakashi smiled from his mask and pulled the string of top of the net towards the pole. He stretched it and twisted it on the lower hook.

Sakura straightened the other end of the net and held it higher. Kakashi went towards the other side of the ground and Sakura followed.

"I wanted to talk about your team strengths." He said holding the string up to fix it on the pole pulley. "Wanted to get it over with before the practice."

"Oh." Sakura said raising her heels again to hold the net higher. "Um, the team's not in a bad shape. Our defence is great but we need to work on our attack. Not many girls can perform Tennis serves, you see."

Kakashi stretched the string and hooked it too. He turned towards Sakura, dusting his hands.

"I see. How many can shoot Tennis serves?" he asked.

Sakura folded her hand and held one finger on her chin thinking. "Um, let's see. It's me, Tenten, Ami. Yeah, that's all." She said unfolding her posture.

"Hm." He took the same position as Sakura. "Individual Performance?" he asked, "Go as per your numbers."

"Okay, so One, Ami. Third man. Tennis service good and reliable, but needs practice. Passes are good. Tosses are good. Perfect defence. Best third man." Kakashi nodded.

"Two, Ino. Attack. Underarm perfect serves. Good at digs. Cannot toss. Defence good, but must work on attack. About Ino, sensei, I personally think she can do better." Sakura smiled.

"Yeah, I've seen her game. She needs to put in a little more hard work and she can be the best Attack line player." Kakashi replied nodding, "Now continue."

Sakura gave a nod. "Okay. Three. That's me, Sakura. What can I say? Net man. Reliable Tennis serve. Reliable Underarm serve. Good at placements. Plays both attack and defence. Lifting, pretty good. Best tossing. Best at placements." Kakashi nodded again.

"Four, Inaho. Attack. Best Underarm serves. Good at placement shots, but needs to do better. Best attack. Not so good in tossing."

"Five, Hokuto. Third man. Best defence. Best Underarm serve. Tosses are pretty good. Attack good, but best in defence."

"Six, Tenten. Middle man. Best underarm serve. Non reliable Tennis serve. Best at tossing. Best at placement. Best at digs. Good at Passing. Smashes. Best attack and defence."

"Hm, I see. Good analysis. How many can shoot smashes?"

"Um, none. Ami, I , Hokuto and Tenten can smash but only direct. Three man smashes are out of reach for us." Sakura smiled sheepily.

Kakashi sweatdropped. 'Even after I showed these girls so many times.' "Okay, anyways. What about three man passing? And placements?"

Sakura brightened up at that question. "Oh, it's great for us. We are pretty good at three man passing. I and Tenten can confuse the hell out of the opponent for placements. You see, we both are the only best at tossing. Tenten and me form a really good Middle-Net position team. Other than us, Inaho is good at placements. Ino and Hokuto are best at digs."

"Hm. So that means we aren't in a bad condition. Considering the opposing teams we will face, I guess we have only two threats. I must add Sakura, these both teams have three man smashers. And really good ones. Almost whole of their team is best at tennis serve and they have two very good Net man that can place very good placement shots."

Sakura took in all the information. 'Hm, good placers, good overarm servers. As long as we kept our defence intact, it won't be a problem. The only pain will be if these girls shoot really fast smashes. We are not good at playing defence against smashes. No one shoots three man smashes in our school. How will we practice against that?'

"But, sensei, we haven't played against three man smashes. How can we defend their?" Sakura looked worried. If they couldn't find three man smashers to practice against, poof goes the championship.

Kakashi was thinking on the same facts that Sakura was. And knowing the girls like Ino, Ami, Inaho and Hokuto, they will be scared just by the fact that the opposing team has a tact they have never played against. This needed to be fixed. But how?

'Let's see.' Kakashi thought, 'Three man smashes include a passer, a tosser, and a smasher. The girls are good at digs, so the two steps won't be a problem. The only problem will be the smasher. And if the opposing team has fast smashers, then these girls don't stand a chance. They also need to know the smashing pattern. But we have only got two days. And there's no one who can give them a practice against fast smashing. Damn it, if only I would have paid more attention towards the girls instead of boys. But that can't be blamed. Seeing that we had a new team member, it couldn't be helped. But now what?'

"Sensei?" Sakura called out seeing Kakashi nod and shake his head.

"Uh, oh Sakura. Um, this is a problem. We have to find someone who can give you practice against fast smashing. You only need to practice the smashing pattern and also to face the impact of the ball without fail. Three man smashes usually focus on places between two players. They are struck with real force and hit the ground before you can react. You need to see the pattern that's all. And also, as they come with great force, so you also need to handle the impact. I must say, they are painful."

Sakura winced unknowingly. Of course she knew they would be painful. She had seen smashes on sports channel and always wondered if she could hit some too. She always used to wonder how much painful they would be. And now, she can experience it. Just what she needed.

"This means that, even if we do trace the pattern, we cannot defend unless we are used to the force of the attack?" Sakura asked doubtfully. Please say no, please say no. She knew her team mates. There was no way Ino, Ami, and Inaho would agree to go through added physical torture.

"Yes, exactly. So, all we need to do is, arrange someone who can shoot with a speed of 20 to 30 miles an hour." He said thinking. He suddenly brightened up as an idea came to his mind. Sakura could sense the danger behind it. Whatever their sensei was thinking, wasn't going to be good.

"Or maybe, more than 20 to 30 miles an hour." He said and by the curve of his eyes, she could see that he was smirking.

"I'm getting a feeling it's going to be painful." Sakura said not so surely.

"Oh, don't worry. It won't be that painful." He said flicking his palm.

Well, let's just say Sakura knew better.

"He WHAT?" Ami exclaimed banging her fist on desk Sakura was sitting on. The recess was about to end and the girls had entered the class. The boys were still circled in the opposite corner and the girls chose first row for their little chat.

"Same thing you heard, Ami." Sakura said clearly annoyed by Ami's behaviour. No one bangs their fist on desk that Sakura is sitting on.

Kakashi had planned that as they couldn't get fast smashers to practice against they would very well practice against fast shooters. Now, that led to only one fact. Practice. With the boys. Has anyone ever seen them shoot goals? No? Well, let's say it's better if you are just seeing it.

"B-But, that's completely, utterly, totally, torture!" Inaho said wide eyed. She held her fists near her chest.

"It's not that bad." Sakura said. She knew this was going to be her teammate's reaction.

"Actually, Forehead is right. It's not that bad." Ino said. Sakura and the other girls looked shockingly at Ino. This wasn't planned for.

"Ino? You are saying this?" Tenten exclaimed.

"Of course Tenten! C'mon, like. Look at the brighter side!" she exclaimed. Sakura was shocked that Ino would be so optimistic when it came to gruesome training. Maybe she misjudged Ino. She was ready to go through a schedule that even Sakura, the toughest of the tough, was annoyed about. Sakura had a newly found respect for Ino.

"And what's that?" Ami said with her hands on her hips.

"Oh, duh. C'mon. Till now, we only watched the boys from a corner. Now, we'll play with them. Sweaty boys, sweaty girls, sounds good to me." Ino said with twinkling eyes. (A/N: This came out a lot different than I thought it would! LOL)

Respect goes down the toilet. Sakura was about to smack Ino, but the good deed was done by Tenten.

"Ow! C'mon! Who doesn't want to play with the boys? I want to. I can't actually wait. Especially 'cause of Sasuke." She said mouthing 'Sasuke' seductively and glancing in his direction. Sasuke had just hit Naruto for something stupid he had been doing.

Sakura unknowingly clenched her teeth. She fixed her posture although she was comfortable and huffed.

"Whatever, piggy-chan." Sakura said more harshly than she intended and scowled her face.

Ino was surprised by her behaviour. She thought of something in her mind and went on more seductively, "Just look at the hotty. I cannot wait for a chance to pounce on him." Ino licked her lips looking at Sasuke and out of the corner of her eyes watched Sakura's reaction.

Sakura. Was. Fuming. She had clenched her fists and was trying very hard to sit in a fixed posture. "Ino, just shut the hell up. I'm done with your nonsense craps." She said without making an eye contact with the blonde.

"Oo, looks like someone is jealous!" Ino said with sparkling eyes, "My my Sakura. Of all people, Sasuke? Though I must admit, he is kinda sexy. You just cannot overlook him. Well, I must say though, he must have some spark in him to be able to impress The Sakura Haruno."

Good for Ino the bell rang and all of them immediately headed to their seats, mostly because they didn't want to witness Sakura's rage.

Sakura's mind: Strangle Ino. Scratch. Break Ino's legs and then strangle Ino.

Ino went to her seat completely satisfied with herself. She had seen how pink Sakura became when she mentioned Sasuke. Sakura was idiot. She would never admit the fact that she liked Sasuke. Well then, she'll get it out from her. Yes, she, Ino Yamanaka, would make The Sakura Haruno spill out that she likes Sasuke Uchiha.

She giggled to herself as she thought of it. Now, what could possibly bring Sakura out of her safety zone? Let's see. Hm, she did snap out when Ino tried an indirect flirt at Sasuke. Hm, maybe jealousy would do it. Yup, the only thing that can bring out Sakura off her safety zone was jealousy. And it was perfect. She would get to open flirt with Sasuke too. Too good and perfect plan. Only thing remaining is to start it. Well as do it now.

"Hey there, Handsome." Ino called seductively at Sasuke's direction as they took their seats, waiting for their teacher to come. Ino's seat was behind Hinata and opposite to Shikamaru.

"You talking to me, sweetness?" Naruto turned trying to act all cool by keeping his elbow on back of his seat and stretching out one leg, not to mention his cool guy grin.

"I did say handsome, didn't I?" Ino said with a blank expression. Naruto hung his head down in shame. Sasuke paid no attention whatsoever to the two.

"So, I was saying Sasuke-"

"Good Morning, Sensei." The class chorused and stood. In came their teacher with curly hair and oval specs. Ino cursed under her breath for the worst timing.

"Hm, good morning students." She said climbing on the small stage. As soon as she reached the table she started dusting it while holding a hanky on her mouth with the other. She then sprayed something and cleaned the table with the detergent (A/N:Lol, I don't know where it came from!) After being completely satisfied with the cleanliness of the table and chair she took a seat. "You all can sit. As you see, Kurenai sensei is on a sick leave. So I'll be your substitute teacher for this class. Do what you want without spreading more germs."

'Great.' Ino thought and smirked. 'Perfect timing Suzume sensei.'

"Oh yeah!" Naruto pumped his fist in the air, "Say Sasuke-Teme, what should we do?" he kept on wiggling his eyebrows.

Sasuke showed no interest and didn't even bother to look up at the Dobe. He just Hnned and kept up with his cool demeanour.

"Gah, you're no fun Teme." Naruto pouted.

Sasuke still didn't bother to reply.

"Hey, Naruto! Come on here! I and Sumaru have something cool!" Kiba called out over the chattering students.

"Coming right away!" Naruto exclaimed and practically jumped over Hinata's desk to reach Kiba.

Hinata blushed at the sudden Naruto outburst but kept quiet. More like went quiet.

"Once a dobe, always a Naruto." Shikamaru muttered. So true.

Ino saw Sakura stretching her arms to relieve the tension in them. Great. Now's her chance.

Now, firstly, she needs to get Sakura come to the last benches. Mostly, her's or Hinata's. But how? Sakura would only leave her bench if she's annoyed by the class brutes.

Yep, that would do. The class brutes. Time to put them to good use. She went over the middle row that belonged to the girls. To the last bench to be exact.

"Hey, Kasumi." She said sitting cross legged on Kasumi's desk.

Kasumi, a curly haired girl, looked at Ino with a fake smile. "Hey, Ino." She replied. Ino was completely aware of Kasumi's fake demeanour. "I was wondering, what do you think of the hotty over there?" she said looking in Sasuke's direction.

Kasumi leaned back to see where Ino was looking at. She saw Sasuke's familiar face and smirked.

"Total God." Kasumi said looking at Ino, who smirked even more.

"Don't be too happy Kasumi. I'm asking for my convenience. I just want a little help." Ino said.

Kasumi scowled hearing that Ino just wanted Sasuke for herself. But between them, Ino had more powerful hold on her position. So all Kasumi could do was keep quiet and listen to Ino.

"You see, Sakura doesn't approve of me flirting in the class. But he's just a seat beside me, and knowing my flirty nature and hormones, I just couldn't stop myself. So I want you to keep Sakura busy while I try my chance with the Sexy." Ino said tossing her head back to look at Kasumi. Kasumi gave another of her fake smiles.

"So?" Ino asked. Kasumi gulped her urge to smack Ino. "O-okay." She said and Ino smirked.

'Huh, as if I'll let you have the newbie for yourself Ino-b!tch. I'm going to ruin your petty attempts. Just watch me.' Kasumi thought and smirked evilly in her mind.

'Great. Just the expected reaction'. Ino thought. 'Now she'll try and get Sakura to watch me flirt with Sasuke. I can always trust you with my plans, my dear Kasumi. Too bad, you never know of it.'

Ino winked at Kasumi who smiled at her and left to her own bench. As soon as Ino reached her place she gave Kasumi a nod as a signal.

Kasumi rose up from her place and swaying her hips (Lol, I had to!) trotted to where Sakura was sitting.

Ino, watching Kasumi play her part went near Sasuke's bench and sat cross legged on his desk. Thankfully Shikamaru and Chouji had gone to watch Kiba and Sumaru's newest prank or something. She flicked her pony and leaned back towards Sasuke.

"Hello handsome." She said pouting her lips at the last 'ome.' (I didn't know how to explain it otherwise!)

Sasuke ignored Ino but she didn't look annoyed with it. She had expected Sasuke's reaction to be this. He was just like Neji, but a little ruder than him.

"Aw, c'mon. You don't just ignore a pretty face. Or are you afraid you'll lose control?" Ino said now practically sleeping on Sasuke's desk. Sasuke leaned back and scowled at Ino's behaviour.

"What do you want?" he asked when Ino kept on batting her eyes.

"Oh, nothing. Your attention is all I live for, oh almighty!" Ino chuckled. Sasuke scowled even more.

"I haven't got time for your filthiness." Sasuke said folding his arms, eyes closed.

"Aw, you haven't?" Ino said faking a hurt expression. Sasuke gave her a death glare and she just giggled.

"Whatever mister grumpy pants." She said now sitting up on his desk. She cast a look at Sakura's bench and saw that Sakura was getting pissed by Kasumi's pointless rambling about some homework. Kasumi looked at Ino and they both gave each other a smirk, thinking completely opposite things they expected the other will be thinking about them.

"So, Sasuke," Ino said now turning her head in his direction, "how have you liked the school so far?" she asked swaying her legs.

Sasuke sweatdropped. She went through all that flirting for that silly question?

"You have something else in mind, don't you Ino?" Sasuke said narrowing his eyes at her.

"Pretty good there huh?" Ino said tapping her finger on her temple. She saw Sakura get up from her seat. Great, now she'll come and sit on the back seat.

Not much time later, she saw Sakura walk past her out of the corner of her eyes. She turned to look at Sasuke and was surprised to see his gaze follow Sakura all the way to the last bench with what was that in his eyes? Compassion?

'Oh, mutual feelings, huh. This is going to be so good!' Ino thought to herself and smiled even more.

"Ah, Sasuke," Ino said and scooted next to him. Sasuke so wished he had planned something with Naruto right now. He regretted letting the Dobe go to Kiba.

"Hn." Sasuke said.

"Oh, don't be so mean, Sexy." Ino said and earned a death glare from Sasuke. It didn't seem to affect Ino though, who would just chuckle or giggle at his reaction.

"I'm asking this last time, what do you want, Ino?" Sasuke said as the blonde clung more to Sasuke's arm.

"Oh, nothing much." Ino said and leaned her back against Sasuke's arm and started to examine her nails. "Let's just say, I love being around Sexy guys." Ino said with a chuckle. Sasuke was fuming. He hated these type of girls. Sluts. They annoyed him to no end. He just wanted Ino to leave him alone.

"What would you take to leave me alone?" Sasuke said completely, totally, utterly annoyed. Oops. Wrong question Sasuke.

Ino smirked, "So, you'll do anything to get rid of me?" she said. "That's hurting, you know." Ino said with a pout and pressed herself more to Sasuke.

"HN." Sasuke's loudest Hn ever.

"Okay, okay, I'll leave you alone for now. But," Ino said seductively and Sasuke scowled at the 'but'. There's always a 'but'.

"But," Ino continued, "if you promise to do anything I ask you to." She said seductively.

"Fine, but only one thing." Sasuke said and realised too late what he had agreed for. He was so engrossed in the fact that he wanted to get away from the blonde that he brought his guard down.

Ino smirked as her plan was coming into action. 'Just what I wanted Sasuke. Looks like I'm pretty good at these things.' She saw Sasuke's frowned face and smirked.

"I guess you already know what I want." Ino said again examining her nails. Sasuke scowled at his foolishness. How did he fall into her trap? He jerked his head in opposite direction.

Ino looked at Sakura out of the corner of her eyes. She was fuming again. Perfect. She saw Kasumi in the next row. She was sitting with an unbelievable expression on her face. Huh, thought you'd outsmart me huh?

"So, handsome, are you going to make the first move, or shall I?" Ino said turning to look in Sasuke's direction.

Sasuke, out of instinct, moved his head backwards. Ino expected this reaction. Hell, she wanted this reaction out of him. Let Sakura witness what a gentleman he is. Wait, he isn't. But who cares? He's one woman man. Just what Sakura needs.

Ino sat on her knees on the bench and leaned more close to Sasuke, but slowly. She didn't wish to kiss him, but act as if she was going to. She knew Sakura would snap out before their lips could make contact.

She leaned more closer and saw that Sasuke had shut his eyes close. 'Such a shy guy. Geez, thank god he's already in for Sakura. I don't think I could stand this type of person.'

She watched Sakura again and was shocked. Sakura was sitting there, with her head down. She didn't seem to notice what Ino was doing.

'Shit, this is bad. If Sakura doesn't see this, there's no point doing it.' She looked back at Sasuke who looked as if world end was near. She sweatdropped. She seriously couldn't stand this guy.

But her highest priority now was to have Sakura's attention back to them. But how? The position she was in right now, she couldn't do anything. 'Damn it, this is bad.' She kept on racking her brains for the solution of her problem, but she couldn't seem to think of any. She was about to give up when she noticed Kasumi go towards Sakura. She smirked at her luck. Ha, she had hit the perfect target.

Ino turned back to her prey. He had clenched his jaws together as if going through some extreme torture routine. 'Must be a quiet a torture for him to be seduced by a girl in front of his crush.' Ino thought. She traced her hand on his cheeks and leaned more close. Yes, any time now, any time now.

She leaned more close but Sakura refused to make an appearance.

'C'mon Forehead, don't be such a stubborn ass. Don't you see what I'm doing?' Ino thought. It was now or never. Sakura must make an appearance now or else Ino would have to kiss Sasuke.

'Shit, Forehead! You're such a stubborn ass! Don't blame me later if I take his first kiss!' Ino said in her mind. Sakura still didn't appear. She looked at Sasuke.

'Damn! Looks like I would have to go for it. Sorry forehead, but I blame you for this.' Ino said in her mind and shut her eyes close as she held Sasuke's chin on her forefinger.

'Sorry, Forehead.' Ino thought again as she felt Sasuke's heavy and warm breathing. She was too close to back down now. Way too close. Just a millimetre and she would kiss him.

"I assume that you want to interrupt my class again, Kakashi." Asuma said before Kakashi would open his mouth. That guy had perfect timing, even with Kakashi having his mask on.

"Uh, yes. Sorry Asuma." Kakashi said scratching the back of his head. Asuma was about to enter his class when Kakashi greeted him with his famous 'Yo.'

"I assume it has something to do with the matches." He said again.

"Uh, yes." Kakashi replied still scratching the back of his head.

"And I also assume it means you are here to fetch Neji so that he can bunk his class and practice. But Kakashi, how did you assume that I would allow it?" Asuma said strictly. (A/N:His mind's all cranky because of a sick Kurenai! Pish posh!)

"Oh, stop it Assume-ma." Kakashi said with another happy curve eye and a flick of palm.(A/N: And Kakashi knows it. HA.) Asuma's vein popped. "I know you'll allow. Tsunade doesn't seem to mind. She said I can do whatever I want unless I promise to complete her paperwork."

"And you promised?" Asuma asked unbelievably.

"Of course! Don't you see I'm doing what I want. As long as I have Naruto and Kiba sparking trouble, I don't need to worry about the paper work." He said smiling, "But nowadays, I have switched to Shino. It's better if I don't have my room filled with paper planes or fire. You see, Shino is easy to convince. Just allow him to collect bugs in sports class and he's all yours."

All Asuma could do was sweatdrop.

"Well, anyways, I know you won't mind and so I'm taking Neji with me." and with that the scarecrow entered the class, called for Neji and escorted him to the next class. Asuma, well, he just kept on "assuming" how did this happen.

Haha, cliffhanger that ended with a short joke! Lol, I had to end it dramatically. Yehow! Aaaanyways,

First of all, I know MANY of you readers must be confused over the volleyball part. I'm extremely sorry for putting you all in a world of total confusion. I also know that the ones who play volleyball are confused too, mainly because of the terms I used. But, I myself am a volleyball player. Mind, have been captain of my school team. And the team that Sakura has, well, that pretty much is what my team is. I, being Sakura. The players of my team and Sak's team are similar to their positions. We had the same positives and negatives. You can say that I turned my team into Sak's team. Yeah. But our team didn't learn to play defence against smashes by the tact I explained here. We did learn it because of our class boys, but our class boys were the best Boys Volleyball Team in school. Our was best girls! Anyways, so, the boys gave us training on that one, but we never learnt to shoot a smash. Defending was much easier for us, so we stuck to that.

Now, the important thing. I know many volleyball players out there must be frustrated over the misuse of terms in this fic. But, I must say that these are the terms we use in our region. They even used this in official matches that I attended. I don't know about Inter State or Inter National, but Intra State, these are the terms. So, if I confused or offended you, I'm sorry but I can't help it. If you are still confused I'll just clear your doubts.

Smash- Usually I guess it means spike or attack.

Tennis serve- Topspin

Placement- I don't know what it's called but it usually means to place a shot perfectly in the empty space between two players. It's really tactful and handy.

Toss- Tossing involves passing or handling the ball with fingers over your head. It's handy for placements and lifting. But needs practice.

Lifting- To lift the ball for the smasher. It is usually done by the Net man or by second passer.

I came to know of these terms when I was just surfing around the net. I saw them and was like, 'Great, now the readers will be confused.' But being Shikamaru-istic, I just wrote this AN instead of editing. Also I wanted to stick to my native slang.

Another note I might mention is that all the extra characters that I mentioned aren't OCs. They are all from Naruto and belong to Kishi. You can have a look at them at Naruto wikia.

Ino's seductive scene was the most fun to write! Lol, i just loved it! Thank god my sis wasn't in my room to witness me writing it. I was practically giving out Ino's expressions myself. Haha! I loved writing it. I just LOVED IT! Hope you all love the chappie!

LOL, such a big AN. But it was worth it. Sorry for the free Volley lessons, but I hope I helped you. If not, feel free to pm me, review, or just google it. LOL!

Fiora-Mieko and her anime boyfriend Kiba!

Kiba: Nice role for me. I feel like a spot boy.

Me: Feel lucky. Akamaru's not even mentioned.

Kiba: Point.