I'm sorry for taking forever with this story but I've been writing others that I'm going to post soon. Please don't stop reading though. I beg you.

Disclaimer: Blah blah blah we all know I don't own this but Masashi Kishimoto does.

Ch. 4

The Last Straw, and The Book of Love.

After the corn picking quarrel Kakashi decided to treat his squad to Ichiraku's Ramen! So they all headed over to the ramen stand and sat at the stools.

"Alright time to order a nice bowel of hot ramen." Kakashi smiled as he pulled up the menu.

They all pulled up their menus and looked for the tastiest ramen they could order.

"Hmm… Ramen…" Naruto licked his lips as he scanned the menu. "So many choices! I know I've already tried everything here but what should I get this time… Hmm…" Naruto put down the Menu. "Hey Oji-chan is there anything new that I haven't tried yet?"

"Well actually now that you've brought that up there is something new that you, my number one customer could test out for me." Ichiraku went into the back for a few minutes and then came back with a bowel of ramen covered in plastic wrapping. "Here it is." He placed it in front of Naruto. "Sorry it took a while. I had to heat it up first."

"Oh…. Ramen…." Naruto drooled.

"Naruto you're drooling all over your self you idiot." Sakura said to Naruto as he drooled some more.

Naruto then snapped out of his daze.

"All right!" Naruto broke off his chopsticks. "Itadakimasu!" Naruto dug in the ramen bowel.

"Naruto take it easy! You're going to make your self sick eating like that!" Sakura said.

"Oh trust me." Ichiraku chuckled. "No matter how fast Naruto eats my ramen he never gets sick. I've actually seen someone time him and he ended up eating a full bowel in 28 seconds."

"Well what do you expect from Naruto." Kakashi sighed.

"Uh…" Sakura sighed. She then looked over to Sasuke who was still deciding on what to order. "Finally! Now is my chance." Sakura thought to her self. "While Naruto's pigging out on ramen and the others are laughing at him I can finally do something with Sasuke.

"Hey Sasuke-kun." Sakura said.

"Hmm…" Sasuke looked up at Sakura. "What is it?" Sasuke asked.

"Well Sasuke-kun I was just wondering if after we eat some ramen would you…" Sakura was finally about to ask Sasuke to spend some time wit her.

"This is it." Sakura thought.

"Sasuke-kun would you care to go…" Sakura almost had it out when of course….

"Hey, hey Sakura-chan! You have got to order this! It's soooo good!" Naruto yelled into Sakura's ear.

….Silence….

"Grr… NARUTO!!!!!" Sakura thought to herself!

"Hmm? Sakura your face is all red! Are you sick? Got a fever?" Naruto placed a hand on her forehead.

"NO!!!" Sakura pushed away Naruto's hand. "My face is red because I'm pissed at you!"

"Oh…. Uh sorry…" Naruto pushed his fingers.

"Grr…." Sakura still fumed with anger.

"Hey, idiot, you have a ramen noodle going down your chin." Sasuke said.

"Huh? Oh…" Naruto wiped his mouth.

"Geez you are such a pig." Sasuke smirked.

"What!? I'm not!" Naruto slammed his hands down on the counter

"Oh sure your not." Sasuke said sarcastically. "Of course you are you idiot! I mean look at you. You eat like a pig, you act like a pig, and of course you fight like a pig."

"Sasuke Uchiha you take that all back right now!" Naruto yelled.

"Why should I when we all know that it's all true." Sasuke sneered.

Both of their eyes sparked as they stared angrily at each other.

"Now… you two calm down. You're making a scene." Kakashi tried to cool them down.

"No way! Now it's personal!" Naruto said. "Let's go Uchiha! Right here right now! Naruto stood up and pulled out his kunai.

"Fine with me!" Sasuke also stood up and pulled out his kunai as well.

"Hey you guys can't fight here! You'll drive away my business." Ichiraku yelled out.

"Grrr…" Sakura was still furious.

"Alright, let's go! Come on mama's boy!" Naruto yelled.

"'Stuff it you bastard!" Sasuke yelled back.

Sakura's bottled anger was rising by the second until finally she couldn't take it any longer.

"THAT'S IT DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!" Sakura slammed her hands down on the counter so hard that she cracked the side.

"You selfish, inconsiderate, pigheaded, bastard!!!" Sakura stood up. "I'm going home!!" Sakura stormed off still cursing silently to herself.

….Silence….

"Who was she talking about?" Naruto wondered.

"Who the hell do you think?" Sasuke looked at Naruto in disbelief.

"You shut up Sasuke!" Naruto shouted.

"I will if you shut up and start fighting!" Sasuke motioned for Naruto to come forward.

"Damnit!!" Both of them came at each other.

Meanwhile poor Sakura was walking home by herself.

"Oh, it's impossible to do anything with Sasuke. Sasuke doesn't even like me that much. Not to mention it's hard enough with Naruto always interrupting." Sakura sighed.

Sakura continued to trudge along when all of sudden…

"GROWL!!" Sakura's stomach let out a loud hungry growl. (I don't know what noises stomachs make so I just went with this.)

Sakura placed a hand on her rumbling tummy.

Uh… that's right I didn't even get to order my ramen." Sakura thought. "I haven't eaten since breakfast. I got to find some place to eat."

She looked around to see where she could buy something to eat.

"Why aren't there any food stands?" Sakura couldn't see a food stand anywhere close.

"Oh…. That's right the food stands are down towards the library. I better head down there." Sakura walked down the street in the direction of the library.

She walked and walked until finally she spotted a beef bowel stand.

"That'll do." She walked over to the stand but know one was there.

"Hmm… Hello is this stand open?" Sakura called out. "Hello?"

Just then a young woman, who looked as if she could be in her 20s walked out,

"Hi, how may I help you?" She asked.

"Umm… Hi I'd like a beef bowel with vegetables and a cup of hot green tea please." Sakura asked.

"Sure coming right up!" The woman went to work.

"Hmm…" Sakura looked around the shop and saw bunch of pictures frames. "Huh?" She saw one of the picture frames contained a newspaper article.

The woman then placed a beef bowel and green tea in front of Sakura.

"Here you go." She said. "One beef bowel with veggies and cup of green tea."

Sakura was still looking at the article trying to read it.

"Huh? Oh thanks." Sakura then noticed the beef bowel and broke off her chopsticks. "Itadakimasu." She then began eating. "Mmm… It's good!" Sakura smiled.

"I'm glad you like it." The woman smiled back. "By the way my name is Mana Rakuso."

Sakura gulped down her rice then spoke

"My name is Sakura Haruno." Sakura then looked up at the article again.

"I noticed that you keep looking up at that article." Mana said.

"Yeah, I was wondering if you could tell me what it's about?" Sakura asked.

"Well if you really want to know. It's about a book in the library." Mana said.

"A book? What book?" Sakura asked again.

"The Book of Love." Mana said. "It's a book filled with spells for love."

Sakura choked on her rice…

"Cough… Cough…" Sakura coughed. "Did you say Love spells?"

"Yes, many people have used it in hope that it would help their crush fall in love with them." Mana began to clean a dish.

"Are you serious?" Sakura asked with a glimmer of hope in her eye. "What happened to it?"

"Well it's still in the library of course." Mana said.

"Oh this is too good to be true." Sakura thought happily to herself. "Sasuke-kun

"Oh, but why did they print an article of it?" Sakura asked,

"Well because the last person who checked it out ended up going insane." Mana put the dish away.

"They what?" Sakura looked confused.

"They went insane." Mana said.

"Well that was only one person right?" Sakura smiled.

"Well yeah put still…" Mana got cut off as Sakura placed her money down and rushed out.

"Thank you very much!" Sakura yelled.

"Your welcome." Mana yelled back. "Oh great another poor girl who will be driven mad from the book.

End chapter 4

This Chapter was pretty long I think. That's the end until my next chapter comes out.