Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

A circus, a movie, a mysterious event at Sasuke's place, hohoho…what a perfect setting for a romantic scene… Oops…did I let the cat out of the bag? Really sorry for not updating…gomen

Heheh…nope…

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Chapter 16

"Ding dooong"

"Wait just a second!"

Fifteen minutes later…

"PLEASE OPEN THE DAMN DOOR!"

"OKAY OKAY"

Natsume ran to the door and opened it, hostile expressions greeted her.

"Look guys…I'm sorry okay…geez…we aren't late or anything…lets go…"

Natsume's POV

Walking along that corridor of my house, I began remembering scenes when I was young….

Flashback

"Come on Sasuke, hurry up…." Naruto hurried.

"Why the hurry? It's just some circus acts with clowns monkeying around" Sasuke revolted.

"Awwww, don't say that, it will be a blast, just lighten up!"

Sasuke just followed the small boisterous boy just bouncing to go to 'Hetru'.

Watching the amazing acts performed, Naruto could only gape in awe whilst Sasuke gloomily stared into blankness.

"Don't be sad….if your parents go overseas again, you will always have me to play alongside!" Naruto tried consoling the icy boy.

For a second, the raven-haired boy seemed to have smiled a bit.

"Thank you…."

"Come on….what are friends for?"

End Flashback

The memories from ten years ago made me think about how the cold Sasuke slowly rose to become independent.

Outside of 'Hetru' ...

"Look at the time already, girl, you got to run more!" Ino commented (a little pissed off).

"If I ran, I would be even later…." Natsume said, pointing to the white Lamborghini.

Sasuke stepped out of the car & locked it, he then asked seeing the people around, "Sakura and Gaara?"

"Apparently, they have some place they wanted to go in private" Ino replied, emphasizing on the last word.

"…."

Everyone stared at one another (everyone being Sasuke, Natsume, Ino, Gaara, Kiba, Neji & last & the least Lee….XD).

"Why are we stoning here for? Lets go!" Energetic you-know-who replied.

"To be in the company of an angel the glorious light that befits her the…." Lee was cut off.

"Shush, we are for the circus, not your ever going speeches….so troublesome…." Shikamaru said.

Passing the tickets to ticket-collector, they went into the circus tent & looking around, they knew that should have been there earlier.

"It's so packed…." Kiba said.

So they begun searching around, looking for seats, hopefully before the show starts. As they walked on, they separated one by one as there were no seats that could contain the group all at once. As they separated, Ino winked at Shikamaru then began whispering to him, "my plan worked, saying the exact timing would definitely make Natsume late….".

An evil light glinted pass Ino's eyes. Shikamaru slapped his palms on his face. Looking around for seats, the only two left, Natsume and Sasuke, found two free seats. Just when they were about to seat the lights went out with only one spotlight shining. The circus manager began with the introduction, then, the next performance, the acrobats came into play. Natsume 'ooh' and 'ah'ed when the performers did their agile acrobatic moves. The animals were taken out next doing the tasks they were trained to do, and thus getting fed for every successful task.

"Looking at her now was like when we watched it many years ago, she till has the same amazement as the last time…." Thought Sasuke as he unknowingly stares at her.

"The sparkle in the eyes…." Sasuke thought as he continued staring.

As he continue staring, the magicians stepped up about to execute the cut-body-into-half-via-a-person-in-a-concealed-box move (wow, that was a whole mouthful). So Natsume grabbed Sasuke's shoulder and put her head on it, peeking at the stage at times. Sasuke flushed as a result of the action. After that was over, the end result was bitter-sweet as even though the feeling was good, the grasping caused a blue-black print embossed on Sasuke's shoulders. Whilst rubbing it, Natsume began hitting the 'injured' part.

"The clowns!" She exclaimed, leaving Sasuke to make a bitter smile.

He then turned to look at the stage, small cars carrying clowns drove in. Then seemingly big clowns that would not have fit in the tiny cars stepped out of the vehicles. Natsume laughed at the scene, seeing clowns throwing pies around and blowing balloons.

At last the show was over, Ino motioned for all of them to move out in order to leave Natsume and Sasuke alone.

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Leaving the two alone, I wonder what will happen? Muahahahah...

Openly apologizing to many readers for not writing, with life having problems for me, a writer's block is bound to surface sooner or later... Review and au revoir, till next time!