After searching for a few minutes, Sasuke finally spotted Sakura and Naruto sitting at a table, apparently having lunch. With them was Kiba, Hinata, Ino, and Shikamaru. "Hey." Sasuke approached them. Six heads turned to face him.

"Sasuke. What are you doing here?" Naruto asked through gritted teeth.

Sasuke frowned. "I just heard there was a carnival and thought I'd go today. And then I saw you six sitting here, and thought maybe I'd join you," he lied, quickly dropping the potion into his pocket.

"Sure Sasuke, you can sit with us," Sakura said, much to Ino's, Kiba's, and Naruto's dismay, and Shikamaru's annoyance. Sasuke took a seat next to Hinata silently. "So...I heard about your breakup with Karin..." Sakura started.

Sasuke looked at her with interest. "Who told you?" he asked nervously.

"Tenten did, actually. She's here somewhere with Neji, I think. Anyway, she passed by Karin on the way here and asked why she seemed so happy, and Karin told her the whole story. And Tenten told me just a few minutes ago."

"The...whole...story?" Sasuke looked at her anxiously. "All of it?"

"Well...I suppose not. Just that you broke up with her and she hit you below the belt."

Sasuke winced despite his relief. "Oh...well, yes, that's pretty much what happened. It just wasn't working out."

"How long were you dating, then? One day?" Kiba pointed out sourly.

Sasuke scowled. "That's not important."

There was an awkward silence as everyone else ate their food. Sakura took a sip of her drink and frowned, turning to Naruto. "Hey Naruto, do you mind getting me a refill?"

"I"ll do it," Sasuke quickly interupted, ignoring Naruto's glare. "What are you drinking?"

Sakura gave him a strange look, but shrugged. "Coke. I bought it over there." She pointed to a nearby stand. Sasuke grabbed her cup and headed that way, and after a quick argument over whether the stand offered free refills or not, Sakura's cup was refilled. Sasuke checked to make sure nobody was looking, before swiftly taking out the bottle and dumping every drop of potion into the cup. He smiled to himself and returned to the table, handing Sakura the cup with a smile.

"Here you go!" He stood in front of her as she took a sip, and Sakura gave him a strange look.

"Sasuke, aren't you going to sit down?"

Sasuke scratched the back of his head. "Why isn't it working?" he thought. Suddenly, Sakura's eyes snapped shut and she gripped her head. Everyone at the table turned to look at her. Sasuke inwardly smirked, but put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Sakura, are you oka..."

Naruto came barreling towards him from the side and knocked him out of the way, taking his spot in front of Sakura. "I can handle this!" He spit out in a horrified Sasuke's direction. "Are you okay, Sakura?"

Sakura shook her head as if to clear her thoughts, and her eyes slowly opened to meet Naruto's. Sasuke saw them glaze over immediately, and Sakura blushed up at Naruto, giving him a cute smile. "Of course I am. Why do you ask?"

Naruto blinked at her. "Well...you were just holding your head like you were hurt, and so I thought maybe you..."

He was cut off as Sakura leaned swiftly forward and pecked him on the lips, pulling away and giggling like a maniac.

Naruto stared at her in shock, along with the other five shinobi. "Sakura!" he whispered. "I thought you didn't want anyone to know!"

"Know what, silly?" Sakura said loudly. "That I'm totally and completely in love with Naruto Uzumaki?"

The other four at the table gaped at the couple, while Sasuke glared at them angrily. "What the hell?! That was supposed to be me! What am I supposed to do to get Sakura to love me?" He sighed. "Well...nothing will work for the rest of the day, so I need to spend the time thinking of something else... this plan went down the tubes pretty quickly, I'd say...and I used up all of the potion!" He ran a hand through his hair and watched Naruto's reaction.

Naruto went from confusion, to disbelief, to finally happiness in less than ten seconds. "Well, if you don't mind then..." He pulled Sakura up off of her seat and planted her in front of him, pressing his lips against hers.

Ino, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Hinata watched in shock as their two friends made out in front of them.

"I didn't see that coming..." Kiba commented.

"Unexpected things are such a drag..."

"K-Kiba-kun, isn't is so cute?"

Ino jumped up happily. "Sakura got a boyfriend!" she cried, wrapping her arms around the kissing couple with a grin.

"Get off!" Naruto muttered, pushing her away and returning his hand to Sakura's waist. Ino frowned and sat back down.

Sasuke watched them with disgust. "Naruto's such an idiot...how could she possibly like him? Well...if Sakura's into idiots..." He frowned. As much as he was going to hate doing this..."I guess I'll have to act like one..." Sasuke waved a quick goodbye to the four that would actually notice his departure, fleeing the carnival rapidly.

The next morning, Sasuke found out quickly that almost everyone knew of Sakura's and Naruto's relationship. As expected, Sakura had returned to normal, and he could guess that she had NOT been pleased with what she had found out. Sasuke realized that he had been right: it would be even harder to break them up now that everyone knew about them. Still, he had to try.

He spotted Sakura having lunch with Naruto at Ichiraku's later that day, and decided to put his plan into action. "Hey, Sakura-chan!" Sasuke cried right in her ear when he reached them.

Sakura jumped about a foot off her seat. "Sasuke, what the hell do you want now? I'm already in a bad mood as it is."

Sasuke's grin faded ever so slightly, but he had to keep his act going. "I was just wondering if you wanted to go for some ramen! Er...believe it!"

Sakura's eye twitched. "I'm already eating ramen with NARUTO, my BOYFRIEND...whichallofKonohanowknows..." She muttered the last part.

Naruto glared at Sasuke. "Why are you stealing my catchphrase!?"

Sasuke glared back. "I am NOT stealing your catchphrase! It's a phrase I just happen to like, too!"

"That's bull and you know it!"

"Is not!"

Sakura sighed and put her hands over her ears.

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Fuck this, I can't do it anymore," Sasuke said aloud, turning around and walking away from an extremely confused Naruto. If there was one feat Sasuke Uchiha would admit to be incapable of, it was acting like Naruto.

"What now? I've tried charm, jealousy, love potions, acting like her boyfriend...what next? The only thing I could possibly do now is to kill Naruto or something!"

Sasuke stopped in his tracks, his eyes clouding over darkly. "Could I? Could I really kill Naruto?" Sasuke shook his head and the darkness disappeared. He smiled to himself. "Of course I couldn't, not now! Sakura would be heartbroken! I couldn't do that to her..."

He sighed. There was only one real choice left. He had to just come straight out and say it...one more time. But this time he would make it special. He could ask her out for a friendly get-together, but once they were alone in a romantic setting there was no way she would be able to resist his charms. Sasuke grinned. Yes, that was it. Stalking her late at night and then confessing his feelings hadn't been the best thing to do, and surely this way would be better.

Sasuke hurried away from Ichiraku's, putting all thoughts of Naruto and everyone else except Sakura out of his head. He WOULD get that date.

I know it's short, but this was a good place to end it :)