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Chapter 3

"What?" Sasuke asked, hearing a knock on his door.

"One of your guests have arrived." A maid said.

"Ok."

Sasuke heard the maid's footsteps fading away and heaved a sigh.

'Why did I agree to this in the first place? Well, here we go.'

Sasuke got off of his bed and headed down stairs. He instantly smirked when he saw whom it was.

"I didn't know you were so eager to see me Sakura."

Sakura whipped her head around and looked at Sasuke standing on the bottom step, smirking at her.

'Of course he'd be smirking. Arrogant jerk.'

Sasuke's smirk got bigger, he could tell what she was thinking.

She's such an open book.'

Sasuke walked down the last step and walked away from her. He paused and looked back at her.

"Are you coming?"

Sakura's mouth dropped open in shock.

"You expect me to follow you without you saying anything? I'm not a dog!" Sakura indignantly said.

Sasuke's smiled at her.

"You had no problem doing so before."

"That was six years ago!"

"A dog always follows her master, no matter how long it's been."

Sakura's cheeks reddened in anger and she opened her mouth to yell at him, when Sasuke laughed at her. Still chuckling he turned back around and continued walking. Sakura didn't want to follow him but she also didn't want to be stuck here by herself so she reluctantly followed him.

'That jerk! He has some nerve! Whom does he think he is, talking to me like that? I should have pounded him into the ground! It would have served him right!'

Sasuke smirked, knowing Sakura was having evil thoughts about him.

'She's probably thinking about how she should have pounded me into the ground and how it would have served me right. She's so predictable. Besides like I'd let her pound me into the ground.'

Sasuke turned his head around and snuck a look at Sakura's face. She looked like she was ready to kill him. He turned back around as a small laugh escaped him. Sakura's eyes further narrowed when she heard the sound.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing."

"It can't be nothing or else you wouldn't have laughed."

"Sakura, if I say it's nothing then it's nothing. Drop it already."

"No, I'm not going to drop it! Just because you're my ANBU Captain doesn't mean you can order me around all of the time!"

Sasuke closed his eyes as a sigh of frustration passed through his lips. He turned around and Sakura almost bumped into him but managed to stop herself in time. She several steps back to put some distance between them and looked up at his face. When she did so she couldn't help but blush as she remembered her dream. Sasuke noticed her blush and raised his eyebrow in curiosity.

'Why is she blushing?'

"Why are you blushing Sakura?"

"I'm not blushing!"

"You shouldn't bother trying to deny it, your cheeks are red."

"Maybe it's from the cold. It is December after all."

"True, but your cheeks got redder after you came in."

A mischievous smirk appeared on Sasuke's face.

"Do I make you nervous?"

Sasuke slowly walked towards her and Sakura had to force herself to hold her ground. When Sasuke got to close Sakura backed up and hated the fact that she had been the one to back down. Sasuke smirked, knowing this. Before Sakura knew it, Sasuke had her against the wall with his arms blocking any escape route.

'Gee, how cliche is this? I can't believe I walked into something so obvious. Yeah Sakura, you're real intelligent.'

"So, do I?"

"Do you what?"

"Come on Sakura, don't play dumb."

Sakura didn't answer, she just stared into his eyes. His beautiful onyx eyes. His eyes was one of the many things she loved about him. Many people may think that onyx would be an uninteresting eye color, it was just another word for black. The people who thought that clearly had never seen Sasuke's eyes before, for if they had, they would not be making such a false claim.

Sasuke continued to stare at Sakura and he lifted his hand. He ran the back of his hand down her cheek. Sakura closed her eyes and when Sasuke cupped her cheek, she couldn't help but lean into his hand. Sasuke smirked at her actions. He dropped his hand and Sakura opened her eyes at the loss of warmth.

Sasuke leaned down and his eyes closed as his face got close and close to Sakura's. She tilted her head up and her eyes fluttered closed.

Sasuke pulled back when he heard the butler open the front door.

'Damn, I was so close!'

Sakura opened her eyes when she didn't feel Sasuke's lips on hers.

"We have company, Angel. We'll have to finish this some other time."

With that, he stepped back and got a far enough distance from Sakura just as Naruto, Hinata, Ino, Shikamaru, Neji and Ten Ten walked in.

Ino noticed Sakura against the wall, looking flustered.

"Are you ok Sakura?" She asked.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine."

Ino didn't look convinced and opened her mouth but Sasuke beat her to it.

"Come on guys."

He walked away and the others followed quietly behind. When they got to the livingroom, they dropped their overnight bags onto the floor.

"What movie should we watch?" Ten Ten asked.

"How about Silence of the Lamb?" Ino suggested.

Not hearing any objections, Sasuke popped the DVD in. Everyone settled down and Sasuke hit the play button. He turned off the lights and sat down next to Sakura.

Halfway through the movie, the girls were clutching the guys from fear. Sasuke looked down at Sakura and wrapped his arm around her. She instantly cuddled against him and the tenseness left her body. Sakura looked up and smiled at him. Sasuke gave a half smile in return.

A few minutes later, the guys all heard the front door open but didn't bother to say anything. The girls were so engrossed in the movie that they didn't hear the door.

The girls all screamed when they saw someone from their peripheral vision.

"It's Hannibal!" Sakura shouted.

"Oh my God! I don't wanna die!" Ino screamed.

"I'm too young to die!" Ten Ten yelled.

"No! How did he find us?!" Hinata asked.

They picked up either a kunai or shuriken and were about to throw or toss them but the guys hands on their wrists stopped them.

"Calm down, it's not Hannibal." Sasuke ordered.

The girls lowered their arms and Sasuke turned on the lamp next to him. Light instantly flooded the room. Everyone saw that it was Itachi and his fiancé, who the girls had completely missed in their fright of thinking Hannibal had found them.

"Itachi, it's you! You scared the crap out of me!" Sakura exclaimed.

The other girls nodded their head in agreement.

"I'm sorry. It was no my intention to frighten you. Although I have to admit, it was pretty funny."

Itachi then began laughing while Sakura, Ino, Hinata and Ten Ten all glared at him. Itachi's fiancé proceeded to drag him away.

"I"m sorry about him." She said.

As she continued to drag him down the hallway, everyone could still hear Itachi laughing.

No longer able to contain it, the guys all burst into laughter as well. The girls glared at the guys but soon were laughing as well. Once they had all finished laughing, Sasuke pressed the play button and turned off the lamp.

The next morning Sasuke woke up and noticed pink hair in his vision. He glanced down and saw that Sakura had fallen asleep on him.

'What the...?'

He glanced around and noticed Naruto, Hinata, Neji, Ten Ten, Shikamaru and Ino in similar positions.

'Oh yeah, we had a movie night last night. We must have fallen asleep watching a movie.'

He felt Sakura stirring against him and looked down as she opened her eyes.

"Good morning Angel."

"Good morning."

Sakura realized what position they were in and began blushing.

Sasuke chuckled and let go off her. She immediately scrambled away from him.

"I'm sorry." She said.

"Don't worry about it. I liked it."

Sakura's blush deepened at this and she turned away. Sasuke's soft laughter rang in her ears and she couldn't help wanting to hear it again.

One by one everyone woke up and they all trudged into Sasuke's kitchen for breakfast. Once they ate, they all left to get ready for that day's training.

Sasuke walked up the stairs and entered his room. He walked in the bathroom and shut his door. He turned on the shower and began stripping his clothes off. Once he was done he stepped in and let the warm water relax him. He grabbed his shampoo bottle and proceeded to wash his hair.

When he was done with his shower, he just relaxed under the water. He loved being able to do this. The warm water always managed to make him feel at ease. It also helped him to think. Which he did, a lot. The main focus of his thoughts was none other than a pink haired kunoichi named Sakura.

'Patience was never my strong suit but it will definitely be worth it. After all, what an Uchiha wants, an Uchiha gets.'

Sasuke was the first to arrive at the training grounds. He leaned against a tree and waited for the rest of his squad to arrive.

He opened his eyes when he heard foot steps. He saw Sakura walking towards him. The wind whipped around her pink hair which was braided and fell to the end of her back.

"Good afternoon Sasuke." Sakura greeted.

"Hey."

Sakura stood next to Sasuke as they waited for Naruto and Hinata to arrive.

To distract herself, she pulled down her right jacket sleeve. She prayed Sasuke wouldn't know she was nervous but she knew it was futile. He had to know she was nervous. She sighed and leaned against the tree.

Sasuke glanced over to her when he heard her sigh.

"Afraid I'm gonna do something to you?"

Sakura slightly jolted when she heard Sasuke's voice.

"Don't be ridiculous."

"Ridiculous? I'm not the one pulling on my jacket sleeve in nervousness."

"Hey Sasuke-teme! Hey Sakura-chan!"

Sasuke and Sakura both glanced over and saw Naruto holding Hinata's hand. They were quickly making their way towards them.

"What a loser." Sasuke muttered.

"Good afternoon Sakura-chan, Sasuke." Hinata greeted.

"Hey Hinata." Sakura said.

Sasuke simply nodded to Hinata.

"All right! Let's train!" Naruto shouted.

The four took off their jackets, hats, and scarves and placed them under the tree. Since it was cold they kept their gloves on and each had a long sleeve shirt underneath their normal ANBU outfits.

"Naruto, you'll fight Hinata. Sakura, you're with me."

"Wait, why does Sakura get to fight you?"

"Because I"m ANBU Captain and what I say goes."

Naruto glared at Sasuke but didn't say anything.

Sasuke walked away from Naruto and Hinata. Sakura quietly followed him.

They looked at each other and got into fighting positions. Sakura pulled out a three kunai and threw them at Sasuke. He saw this and pulled out a kunai and knocked all three away.

While Sasuke was doing this, Sakura punched the ground. It cracked and traveled towards Sasuke.

Sasuke jumped out of the way and then jumped into a tree. He activated his Sharingan and began making hand signs.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"

Sakura dodged the flames and felt Sasuke's presence behind her.

'He must have used that time to sneak up behind me. He always was fast.'

She turned around, kunai in hand and blocked his kunai. Both struggled and Sasuke finally managed to knock Sakura's kunai from her hand. Instead of stabbing her because this was only training, swept her legs from underneath her. He lightly straddled her and pinned her arms beside her head.

"I win." He said, smirking victoriously.

"Would you mind getting off me."

"As a matter of fact, I would. I quite like this position."

Sasuke leaned down until he was only a few inches above her face.

"Don't you?"

Sakura said nothing and Sasuke smirked again.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. I know you do."

"Hey Sasuke- teme! I didn't know fooling around was a part of training."

Sasuke got up off of Sakura and helped her up.

"It's not. Sakura and I were just talking."

"It looks like you wanted to do more than just talk."

"Shut up Naruto. You and I will fight now."

After fighting Naruto and winning, Sasuke had decided to do some target practice. Once they had done that, they had trained for a couple of more hours.

"All right, we're done here. You may all leave now."

"Yes! Let's go get some ramen Hinata-chan!"

With that said, Naruto dragged Hinata away so he could have some of his precious ramen.

"I'll walk you home."

Sakura looked over to Sasuke when he said this.

"Thank you but no. I'll be fine."

"I really make you that nervous, huh? Even when I'm trying to be nice you still don't wanna be around me. Fine, have it your way. Although it does make me wonder what kind of squad we'll have when a member can't trust another member. Especially when that person is her ANBU Captain."

Sasuke began to walk away when Sakura's voice stopped him.

"Wait!"

Sasuke turned around.

"Yes?"

"Fine, you make a good point. You can walk me home. It'll be nice to have some company."

Sakura caught up to Sasuke and the two began walking.

"You fought well today."

Sakura looked at Sasuke in shock.

"What? You think I don't know how to give a compliment?

"Pretty much, yeah."

Sasuke laughed at this.

"I can see why you would think that. I meant it though. You've come a long way from your genin days."

"Thank you." Sakura said, blushing.

"I've made you blush again. You look cute when you blush."

This caused Sakura's blush to deepen and Sasuke laughed again.

They continued walking, talking about trivial things.

They arrived at her apartment and Sakura dug out her key. She unlocked her door and turned around.

"Thanks for walking me."

"It was my pleasure."

Sakura turned back around and walked in and closed the door.

Sasuke turned around and walked back down the stairs. He walked back to his own place thinking about Sakura.

'I knew she'd fall for the whole trust thing. Not only would she think it's true but she'd also feel guilty for hurting my feelings. Hurting my feelings, ha! She must be giving me more credit than I deserve for thinking I still have feelings.'

Sasuke arrived at the Uchiha Compound and walked in. He walked up to his mansion and the butler opened the door for him.

"Good evening, Master Sasuke."

"Yeah, good evening to you too."

Sasuke walked by him and walked up to his room. He walked into his bathroom to get all the dirt and sweat that he got from training. He sighed once he felt the warm water on his body.

'Now this is the life.'

After washing his hair he grabbed a small towel and some soap. He lathered up the towel and proceeded to wash his body. Once he was done he let the water rinse off the soap. The soap bubbles ran down his stomach and then his legs as the warm water got rid of it. He relaxed under the shower for a while and then turned the water off. He grabbed his towel, dried his body and then wrapped the towel around his waist. The towel hung low as he grabbed another towel to dry his hair with.

He threw that towel in his hamper and walked out of the room. He was just walking by his door when he heard a knock. Since he was there he decided to just open the door.

"What?"

A maid stood there and gawked at Sasuke's lack of clothing. All he had was the towel wrapped loosely around his waist.

"Are you just gonna stare or did you actually have a reason for disturbing me?"

The maid quickly shut her mouth and the blush she had from seeing Sasuke like this further deepened.

"F-forgive me M-master S-sasuke. Your father is home from his mission and is in his study. He would like to see you now."

Sasuke sighed and didn't even bother thanking the maid. He just slammed the door in her face. Not that she minded, she did get to see Sasuke in just a towel, after all.

Sasuke walked to his dresser and pulled out some clothes. He slipped them on and fixed his hair. After hanging his towel back up Sasuke headed downstairs.

'I wonder what father wants to talk about. Wait, why do I even bother asking? I know it's gonna be about Itachi somehow. Even when the conversation has nothing to do with him, father still manages to somehow bring Itachi into the conversation. Who knows thought maybe this conversation won't somehow be about Itachi. Yeah right, and maybe hell has also frozen over.'

Sasuke arrived at his father's study and knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Sasuke walked in and shut the door. His father sat behind his desk. Sasuke walked up to the desk and bowed.

"So Sasuke I heard you made ANBU Captain."

So what do you guys think? Please review and let me know. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for this story please don't be afraid to tell me. I also love long review, hint hint! In case some people are wondering, I'm not sure who Itachi's fiancee is yet. I didn't want it to be an OC character so when I find a girl from the Leaf Village that I think will work, I'll tell you guys who she is. Does anyone know how to do that line separation thing? I think my story would be less confusing if I had those.