A/N: Wooo! Another chapter!

Disclaimer: Sadly, Naruto isn't mine.

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Sasuke decided to wait until they came out of the ramen stand. He couldn't just walk in there and no way would he disguise himself. Why would he want to look like someone else if he were already completely hot? No one could match up to his status as hotness! Oh, well…

Sakura thought that stupid Ryota was –ahem- cuter. Cuter?

Now who in their right mind would go for that stupid kid when they could have the hot Sasuke?

Sakura might.

Oh…

-Awkward silence-

Gosh darn! Well jeez, he would have to drag her away from that kid and write property of Sasuke Uchiha all over her! Wait…. He shook his head. Now why would he want to do that?

Focus! He looked back at the stand, hiding in a bush. Why was he degrading himself so much to see what they were doing anyway? He looked at a rock all pissed like. Great, back to staring down rocks.

He looked up though and saw that they were already leaving from the stand and were walking away. Shoot! He got up quickly…. too quickly.

Down goes Sasuke.

He had tripped on a tree root and fell forward a few good feet. Those tree roots have been known to kill. Sasuke was just unfortunate enough that there was one in front of him. He lie there, face in the dirt. He didn't move though….

Maybe they didn't notice!

Yeah, right. Sakura just turned around enough to see Sasuke go flying, face first into the ground.

She just blinked a couple of times. "Sasuke?"

Oh…

No…

She had noticed apparently. Sasuke's been falling a lot toady…. He got up and regained his cool and stoic composure, patting the dust off of himself as if nothing had happened.

"Hn?"

She crossed her arms. "Just what are you doing?"

Ryota couldn't help but look at the Uchiha. He wondered why Sasuke was over here in the first place. He seemed like one of those guys that didn't care about anything that inhabited the earth.

"Taking a walk."

"Really?" she wasn't convinced at all. "And you just happened to be walking over here?"

"I take walks over here," he mumbled, already feeling this thing of embarrassment rise up within him.

She raised her eyebrows. "I never knew you took walks by the ramen stand? I thought you didn't like the ramen stand…"

What was this; trivia, twenty questions?

"Sakura, stop questioning me." His man pride wasn't feeling so good.

"Why?" She thought for a moment and then let out a small gasp. "Sasuke! You weren't spying on us…. were you?" She hoped to god he would say no. She didn't want an invasion of privacy…. It made her feel hurt and degraded.

"Hn." It wasn't really a yes or no answer, just a shrug or whatever. An 'I don't care really'.

"Sasuke, you can be really cold sometimes!" she burst out and took Ryota's hand. "Let's go, Ryota," she said and smiled at him, giving him a small kiss on the cheek, which made the boy blush heavily, before walking away from Sasuke, leaving him there alone again.

Sasuke frowned, really frowned. 'Way to go Sasuke….' He thought to himself, a sharp pain of betrayal invading his heart. He let out a deep sigh and this time actually went for a real walk to just think.

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The next day at training Sakura and Ryota had walked there together, laughing and smiling. Sasuke was already there, feeling pretty down himself. Sakura looked over at Sasuke and was a little worried. He didn't look so well… like more emo than usual.

She just shook her head. Just what did she care?! He was being so… She couldn't help but frown though as her grip on Ryota's hand tightened. He looked down at her and wondered what was wrong.

"Something wrong?" Ryota asked her.

"U-umm…no." she just shook her head and looked away from Sasuke, back up at Ryota. Sasuke looked up at them both and just glared at Ryota without Sakura knowing. Ryota looked at him confused, why was he so mad in the first place?

Kakashi showed up a little while later after Naruto and smiled at them all. His eyes drifted over to Sakura and Ryota though. "Oh, looks like Sakura had taken a liking to our new comrade," he teased and smiled.

That was it. Sasuke could feel the anger rise up with in him again. He hated that kid so much now and didn't really know why.

"Shouldn't we start training," he asked darkly.

Sakura looked over at him quickly and Kakashi did to. Sasuke really didn't sound happy at all today. Naruto was just…staring at a flower on the ground while Ryota was looking at it, too.

Ryota picked the flower and held it up to examine it. "It's pretty."

Sakura averted her gaze from the problem with Sasuke and looked at Ryota. Did he just say pretty?

Sasuke sneered at Ryota.

What a fruitcake.

Naruto looked at the flower and then Ryota, laughing slightly. He took the flower and threw it into the stream, letting it float away before anyone had anything to say about the whole matter. "Okay, let's go to training!" he smiled and walked to the training grounds with all of them.

When they got there Kakashi looked at them all.

"Okay, we can fight in pairs today since there are four of you."

"Sounds good to me," Sasuke mumbled, sending a death glare towards Ryota, a dark aurora beaming off of him like a waterfall. He was so ready to kick that kids butt.

Kakashi nodded, he was actually curious to see Ryota's potential. "Okay, Ryota with Sasuke and Sakura with Naruto." He then took out his book and just said, "Go."

Sasuke just glared at Ryota again, going in to make the first move. Ryota blocked it of course, but Sasuke didn't make it easy. He was so pissed, he just really needed to vent. He started to get frustrated but sent a big punch Ryota's way, sending him back a few feet. He sneered and told him, "Get up."

Sakura looked over at the two worriedly, but then went back to her fight with Naruto. Ryota got up and wiped some blood off of his cheek where he received a small cut.

"J-just why are you so mad anyway?" Ryota said, getting a little agitated him self. "D-do you have a stick lodged up your butt or something?"

Burn.

What did that kid say?! Argh! Sasuke just stood there, thinking of something to say, but nothing came out. Ryota took this time to get a fast one on Sasuke, delivering a kick right at him. Sasuke hit the ground, completely oblivious to what happened.

He cheated!

Sasuke was so off guard.

Sakura stopped and let out a small gasp. She just ran way from her sparring from Naruto and Ran to the fight with Ryota and Sasuke.

"Oh, Ryota, are you okay?" she said and ran to him.

Sasuke felt a stab again. Here he was, lying on the ground, while Ryota was standing and probably feeling pretty good about himself. Well, there was a big smile of his face.

Cocky idiot. That was just…luck.

Sakura looked at the small cut that Ryota had on his cheek.

"Yeah," he smiled. "Of course."

Sasuke just got up by himself and frowned at the two. He was getting really bothered by this now. Bothered like a person would be bothered if he were to lose his favorite possession. –Cough-Sakura-cough-.

"I'm going home," he announced unhappily, darkly at the two and just trudged off.

Sakura turned her attention off of Ryota and watched the annoyed Sasuke walk away.

'Sasuke…' she thought to herself and frowned.

Something was bothering him.

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Finished it! I'll write the next chapter as soon as I can.