An: hello again, I won't be able to update much anymore since im back in school tomorrow so I'm giving you this chapter as a way of apologizing. Here it is chapter 7.

One again the whole of Rookie 9 (minus Sakura), team Gai and the san siblings were stationed in the living room of Naruto's house. Most were eating and drinking tea, while the other few just sat and waited for something to be said.

"Anybody find anything" Naruto asked the gang. Everyone took their turn to shake their head, and disappoint the rest.

"Damb it, somebody must have found something." Naruto said.

"All we found was his name, the village he came from and his position in ANBU, and we already knew all that." Temari told them.

"What about your Team Shikamaru?" Naruto asked him "You must have seen him do something suspicious, after all you followed him around for two days."

"All we found out was that he writes in a little black notebook from time to time. We couldn't get it though, he keeps it on him at all times. We were hoping Hinata could sneak in his room at night when he's sleeping and get it. Since she's the quietest that is"

"Id be glad to, anything to help Sakura-Chan." Hinata said. She put a small smile on her face. " I'll do it tonight. I just hope he doesn't wake up"

"Don't worry Hina-Chan he won't, you're the best at sneaking around." Naruto comforted while placing a kiss on her cheek. " Anybody else find ANYTHING"

"We did find a sealed room which we thought of as suspicious, but when Shino's bugs checked it all they found were pictures and paintings. All of Sai's brother and Sakura while she did her work and stuff like that. At first we thought he might have been stalking, but Sakura would catch him easily." Tenten told him.

"So we have what we already knew, a sealed room with worthless pictures in it and a black notebook" Naruto summarized. "Anything else?"

"nothing. I have a new plan though, since apart from the notebook this plan didn't do anything." Shikamaru told them.

"What is it Shika-kun?" Ino asked.

"I say since we can't get that troublesome guy away from Sakura, we get her away from him" Shikamaru explained

"How do we do that then lazy ass?" Naruto asked

"Troublesome. It's simple really, we make her fall in love, or back in love with someone else, that way she'll dump Sai, since she has her new guy." Everyone looked at Sasuke.

"That won't work, she said she hates me, she won't back down on what she said, even if it isn't true. It's obvious she just wants me gone, so she can move on fully." Sasuke said.

"Yes but if she doesn't know it's you she's fallen in love with, then you have nothing to be worried about. As soon as Sakura sees the new you properly, she'll want to be with you, no doubt about it." Ino told them.

"How the hell do we do that Ino. Are you saying we give him a disguise or something, cause I think Sakura will see right through it." Naruto said

"I know that idiot. I meant that he writes notes to her. A secret admirer thing. Sakura loves romance after all. She was saying just this morning how she wished Sai were more romantic, she even said that she wouldn't even think about kissing him unless he became romantic. They haven't even been on a date yet. That guy knows nothing about romance at all, if I didn't want him as far away from Sakura as possible I think I'd have to teach him about all that stuff." Ino told them. Sasuke inwardly thanked Kami-Sama that Sakura had not yet given away her first kiss.

"I can do that" Sasuke said not shore if he was telling the truth. "Atleast I hope I can."

"Don't worry , I'll help you Sasuke. Anything for my girl, and I know she wants you. You should have seen her blush when we walked past a shop you were in, that was hilarious." Ino told him.

"So the new plan is to get her to fall in love with Sasuke, without knowing it's Sasuke?" Naruto sheepishly asked.

"Yes" the whole group shouted at him, even Hinata. He scratched the back of his neck while laughing slightly.

"Once we get the notebook though, we might not have to continue that plan" Shikamaru told them. "The troublesome thing might tell us Sai's plan"

"Well even if it does, were still sticking to that plan, I honestly don't care what any of you say to that. Sakura waited long enough for Sasuke, and even if she doesn't want him she and him will get together." Ino told cough shouted atcoughthe group

"Fine, just shut-up you troublesome women" Do I have to tell you?

"good" Ino said " So Sasuke lets get to work on your first letter"

"Hn" Sasuke said

"Shit Ino, you converted him back to his old self" Naruto shouted at her.

"Shut up dobe" Sasuke said.

"Teme"

"dead last"

"Bastard"

"Dickless wonder"

"Damb you teme! You hate the guy and your using his names" Naruto shouted

"I told you I liked the name, just because I don't like him, doesn't mean I can't like his names." Sasuke stated

"Will you two just shut your mouths and get to work" Ino shouted at them.

"hn" Sasuke said before walking away with Ino and chuckling a bit at Naruto.

(With Sasuke, Ino and Naruto)

The trio were walking down the street, looking through shop windows to find something to make a card for Sakura. Ino suddenly turned into a shop and both guys followed. Inside were selections of card and decorations for the cards.

"Right then Sasuke, go find things to make a card for her, well actually a few, were obviously going to be making more than one. Remember they have to be romantic." Ino told him. Sasuke looked at her with a blank face. "Fine, I'll get you them, jeez do I have to do everything around here." Ino stormed off to the other side of the shop and the two guys followed after her.

"Hey Ino, if your writing the card, then won't Sakura really be falling in love with you?" Naruto asked her. Both Ino and Sasuke looked at Naruto, Sasuke looked like he was about to burst out laughing and Ino looked ready to kill.

"First of all, I won't be writing it I'll be helping, just to make sure he doesn't put something stupid in the card. Secondly, me and her are not lesbians, so no she wouldn't fall in love with me. Thirdly, shut the fuck up." Ino shouted the last part at him.

"Hey Ino, hey Naruto" A very very familiar voice came from behind "Hey Sasuke."

"He-He, hi Sakura, what are you doing here." Naruto asked the pink headed girl infront.

"Alright spill Naruto what are you up to." Sakura told him.

"He-He what do you mean Sakura-Chan?" Naruto asked her.

"Your Nervous, your only ever nervous when your up to something." Sakura told him as a matter of fact.

"He's up to nothing billboard-brow. He just nervous because he and Hinata had a small argument before and they've never had an argument before, were here so we can make an apology card for her." Ino told her.

"So why are you here with him Ino-pig" Sakura raised her eyebrow and looked sternly at Ino.

"Because Hinata's my friend and I don't won't the Baka writing anything thing that came out his mouth before. He was planning on writing, I'm sorry for hurting you, I hate hurting you as much as I hate hurting my precious ramen. I'll even take you out for Ramen to prove how sorry I am. Ramen makes it all better. That would be the most stupid apology ever, especially since the argument was about amen. The idiot's terrible at writing things." Ino lied to her friend.

"Wow, I always knew you could be an idiot Naruto but I never knew you were that bad." Sakura told him.

"Ramen really does make everything better" Naruto defended himself "So what are you doing here?"

"I'm going to make Sai a birthday card. It's his birthday tomorrow." Sakura replied.

Sasuke felt his hands clench into fist. 'Why the hell is she making a handmade birthday card for him, there for me, she even told me when we were younger that I was the only one that she made them for' Sasuke thought. The motion of his hands didn't go un-noticed by Sakura who smiled, knowing it had got to him.

"Hey Sasuke, you ok there? You seem a bit tense" Sakura mocked.

"I'm fine apart from having to stay with this dobe. He's more annoying than the fan-girls." Sasuke told her. He mentally sighed for his quick thinking.

"You don't have to worry about that much longer, your trial is tomorrow, at noon. I was going to send someone to tell you, but it seems I saw you first." Sakura told him "I'm sure the council won't have you with Naruto much longer, infact they won't have you with anyone. You'll be 10 feet underground by next week."

"Atleast I'll go knowing I've had most my friends forgive me for my mistake, it would be great to have you forgive me too, but I see that's not going to happen." Sasuke told her. "Hey Naruto can you just get something to make Hinata's card with, so we can go enjoy my last day before I'm told I'm sentenced to death."

"Sure, come on Ino we have to find the perfect thing for her card" Naruto said.

"Sure I'll be along in one second, I just need to talk to Sakura second." Ino frowned when looking at Sasuke's sad face.

Both the guys nodded and walked away to some other part of the shop. Ino watched their retreating back until they were out of earshot. She then turned to Sakura.

"Do you really have to be so harsh on him Sakura, he loves you and your telling him he's about to die and your glad about it. I know he was mean to us when we were younger, but he was never that mean." Ino told her.

"Ino, you know as much as I do that I still love him, being mean like I am stops me from giving in to him. I can't go down that road again, especially with Sai in the picture." Sakura said. Ino couldn't be sure, but she thought she saw Sakura face turn into a scowl at Sai's name. She just passed it off as a trick of the eyes though, after all she loved him. "Anyway Ino, You need to go help Naruto, and I need to go find something for Sai's card, so I think we should go our separate ways now. Cya Ino-pig"

"Bye billboard-brow, atleast try to be a bit nicer to Sasuke will you" Ino Asked

"Fine, as much as I can handle I will" Sakura told him.

Both parted and Ino noticed how Sakura just walked out of the shop without buying anything. Ino then went over to the guys and they bought card and decorations for it. After that they all went back to Naruto's house and made the card. They then gave it to Ino to leave somewhere for Sakura to find.

th chapter done, this story is actually longer than I expected already lol. Next chapter is the Trial and you get to find out what the card to Sakura said. Please if you want your punishment to happen to Sasuke then please tell me it and I might use it. I will also give you all the credit for the idea, so don't worry I won't play it of as my own. Thanks. Please review, next chapter will hopefully be out at weekend. Cya xxx