Chapter 6:

"Sai! How are you?" asked Sakura.

"Hi Sakura. I'm fine thanks. How are you?"

"Fine too. I was wondering, did you had fun last night? Cause I just dragged you there and I wonder if you didn't left just to be kind…"

"Oh. No. Don't think that way. I read on a book that we must be sincere to friends and that's what I'm doing."

"Really? Thank you so much." Sakura gave Sai a hug.

"Eeh?" Sai was surprised. He blushed a bit and got a bit disconcerted.

Someone on the street was going on their way. Sakura was still holding Sai, and him was trying to see who was coming. It was Uchiha Sasuke. When he passed by them he got surprised by the sight he was seeing but continued his way with his hands on his pockets. Sai said "Good afternoon Sasuke-kun.", Sakura released Sai from her hug and stared at Sasuke. Sasuke turned around:

"Hi Sai. Good afternoon to you too."

"Sasuke-kun. Hi." said Sakura feeling a bit uncomfortable.

Sasuke took a while to say "hi" to her, but he said it.

"Sakura-chan!" now Naruto and Hinata were going on their way. After all Hinata didn't went home, it 's useless to say what she went to do. Sasuke turned around and said. "Tomorrow in the morning, training on area 3. 8 o'clock. Bye."

"Wh-wh- Nani?? What's with him?" Naruto asked Sakura.

"…" Sakura didn't want to say to Naruto what happened on the party. She thought Sasuke was being cold with her because of their kiss. For her he was avoiding spent any second around her, because he was afraid she could just jump on him suddenly again.

"I'll go and talk to him. Don't worry Sakura-chan! Maybe he is in a bad mood." Naruto promissed to Sakura a talk with Sasuke. Before he went after him he gave a passionated kiss on Hinata. "And see you tomorrow, miss you already…" he went away blushing a bit.

"Well I'm going home Sai. Hinata." said Sakura.

"I understand Sakura." Hinata gave Sakura a look understanding of her reason to go home.

"I'll take you both home then." said Sai.

"You don't need to do so."

"That's what friends do, isn't it?"

"Always so kind to us Sai. If you insist of being a gentlemen and walk these two ladies home… "

"Sasuke! Sasuke!" called Naruto.

"What do you want?" obviously Sasuke wasn't in a good mood.

"Spill it all out. Why are you being rude to Sakura-chan?"

"Go away!"

"Sasuke. I'm your best friend. To me you're like my brother. You know you can count on me for anything…"

Sasuke sighed. He was thinking if he could trust on Naruto a such delicate subject to him.

He started to tell what happened on the party. And confessed what was going on on his mind. Only one thing. Correction, one person. Haruno Sakura.

"Sasuke!!! You are starting to like Sakura-chan!" said Naruto excited for his friend. "So why were you being rude to her today??"

"She was hugging Sai." even if his mind were a total mess Sasuke always stayed and acted calm. "And I do not like her. I just don't know what's happening with me. She's like the others. In th end, I'm nothing more then a stupid wish that her stubbornness wants."

"Sasuke! Did you forgot what happened in our last mission? And in the hospital the first she talked to and asked if were ok were you. And when you went out with Orochimaru, you really let her depressed, and well me too, but she suffered more then me. Did you forgot that?"

"No… You may be right, but I just don't know what's going on…." Sasuke were getting under his thoughts again.

" I will help you in spite she already loves you and for you to get your feelings straight. Well tomorrow I will train with Hinata so you can be with her alone. Kakashi-sensei is on a mission so make use of this opportunity…"

"You are not helping me! You just wanted an excuse to date and be with Hinata tomorrow. What about Sai un?"

"Ehehe, Sasuke, don't be like that…" Sasuke glared at Naruto. "Ok, fine. I'll take Sai with me… I'll say that me and Hinata want his help to improve her skills. She will not mind when I tell her. It's for her friend after all. And don't worry, Hinata will not know that you like Sakura-chan. And Sai, he's so nice that he will accept."

"Nice… that's his problem…" Sasuke thought.

The next day, at 7h30am Sasuke was already there. He was calm, but watching the hours passing slowly. As he waited for her to come, he started to feel a bit nervous.

8 o'clock. No sign of Sakura yet…

8h01am… No Sakura…

8h02 am… gasp…

8h03am… "She can come at second now…"

8h04am… "Damn it already!"

8h05am… "Finally!"

He got up in the first second he put an eye on her.

She entered the training area and seeing no sign of Naruto or Sai, she was going to Sasuke to ask for them, but her heart was beating fast and she was apprehensive when reached him. She was afraid of his reaction, as he had turned rough to her since that day. His heart was beating fast also. It was the first time he was seeing her as the girl he seemed to be head over hills.

The first time it ever happened to him was with Karin. She was a member of his group, Hebi, that he joined to chase his brother Itachi. After they finished their purpose Sasuke left them, and let them go the way they wanted to. Karin wanted to be with him, as she always had loved him, but he was going to Konoha and she couldn't enter as she didn't belong there. She asked for him to stay with her, but Sasuke had understood his mistake when left his friends, and preferring them over her, he left her alone. She got pretty much hurted, as when he confessed her his feelings and everything started, was when it was all over because he was going back to his village. He never heard about her again and along the few years he was over her as he didn't had the chance to let his feelings for her grow.

"Sasuke-kun…"

Hearing his name from Sakura now for him had another meaning.

"… where is Sai?..."

His heart felt like it had fallen on the ground. She came to him asking for Sai.

"… and where is Naruto?"

She asked for Naruto too. But still asked for Sai…

He got away from his thoughts and answered: "I don't know. I think Naruto is with Hinata. And I don't know where Sai is."

"He doesn't seem mad at me anymore…" she thought.

"Oh, ok. Hum… but I needed their help to train… They were teaching me a new taijutsu style. But since they aren't here there's no sense of me being here too. Hum… Bye Sasuke-kun… And I ask sorry for them to make you wake so early and didn't even come." she said.

"No! Wait!" he didn't want his plan to fail. But he talked in a desperate way and she looked at him strangely. He, perceiving his mistake, cleared his throat. "Hum-hum, I mean, there's no need in that. I'm going to help you today since none of them has come yet. And since I'm more ahead at skills then you, it makes more sense I help you then we train by our selfs." Sasuke was hoping his lame excuse to train her, in thoughts of her falling and he catching her as they deeply kissed after that, worked.

Sakura blushed. "He has offered himself to train me, it never happened before, he always thinks I'm on his way for everything… Inner Sakura: Yoshi! As I have always told you. Love make crazy things happen. And once again Love Wins!"

"Sasuke, is anything wrong with you?" Sakura wanted to be sure he was certain about what he had just said.

"Why?" his heart was beating really faster now."I'm so stupid. I knew she wouldn't fall for that one!" he thought.

"Hum. Nothing."

"Let's begin then."

During the training he acted normally as Naruto told him to. Sakura found strange how he acted at the beginning, but after he became his old self and Sakura thought she was imagining things. Trainement with Sasuke was very quite different then the trainements she had with Naruto and Sai. In a few hours she was already tired, Sasuke told her what to do and she just did what he asked. With Naruto and Sai it was fun, Naruto saying jokes and Sai was always too kind, when they fought he always took easy on her and was always saying sorry. She kinda missed the fun she had training, but she was with her Sasuke and that was all that important to her.

When they finished by lunch time, Sakura was almost crawling on the ground.

"We are finished. Now where do you want to lunch? At Ichiraku's?" asked Sasuke.

She couldn't't believe. Sasuke was asking to lunch with her!!!

"Inner Sakura: See? Fairy Tails come true...!" inside Sakura was like a balloon filled with happiness.

"What's wrong? You don't want to eat ramen? I thought you wanted to pass by to see Naruto…and Sai" the last part he thought to himself. Her lack of response was making him think she would turn him down.

"Hãa… yes, of course I want. I'm starving, this train almost killed me. I now understand why you are so strong Sasuke, and isn't just that. you are a genius and a really hot one ---" she closed her mouth. "Damn Sakura, you always talk too much. That last part he didn't need to really know…" she thought embarrassed.

Sasuke on the other hand was happy inside. Hearing her compliments and what she thought of him, how amazing he was to her, made his chest fill with satisfaction.

"Oh, but actually I don't want to go to Ichiraku. Today I was going to make a surprise for you guys. I made and brought lunch. I brought a lot of food because I thought Naruto would come. But since only we are going to eat a lot of it is going to waste… Maybe I could meet them later and give it to them… What do you think of us eating under that tree?" Sakura continued.

"Perfect." Sasuke who was always calm, indifferent about things and sometimes cold, also had his sort of romantic way that he only demonstrated (and tried to hide too) when falled in love (which was rare). His "perfect" was that that tree actually was a good spot for him to advance something with her. Naruto teached him some things that he had learn with Ero-sennin.

"Find some place calm, some place you know you two can't be interrupted by anything. She likes you, so you can already make a move on her without fearing she will blow you to the stratosphere when you try something.Make her breathless when you kiss and make her feel you are serious about her.Don't panic and act by instinct. Most of the times works. Ero-sennin has good advices, you'll see…" Sasuke was repeating on his mind what Naruto told he should do when his time to be alone with Sakura came.