5:03pm

Bored. Exited about going home, we surfed today, well, in my case, attempted to surf, t'was fun anyhoo!

I will be SO glad to see Gaara again, I can tell you that for sure! I mean, as lovely as if is to spend five straight days with only Itachi, Sasuke and Naruto's company, I will be glad to see my cats.

I had really bad chafing, note to self: NEVER SURF AGAIN! IT BUURRNNNSS!! And I only stood once. And then Sasuke pushed me off my puncy wave. I will never forgive him for that. It was fun, and then we had hot chips and stayed away from Itachi (best part of the day). Then we headed back, and now I'm spose to be packing before dindins so we can fly home! YAY!

Oh oh oh! Dinner! Be right back!

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After dinner

Damn, left shoes in Naruto's and Sasuke's room. Better go get them, I shall be back!

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10 minutes later

EWWW!!! AAHH!! I KNEW IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE! I KNEW IT! I had gone the whole HDFH (holiday from hell) WITHOUT running into a 'private' moment between Sasuke and Naruto. DANGIT! I ruined my winning streak! Errgg! And you know what!? Through all that my shoes weren't even IN THERE! They are on the balcony damnit! Well, better go get them before the evil sea-gulls do.

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½ hour later

I had walked out onto the balcony, and to my annoyance, was greeted by Itachi.

"We're leaving in an hour, make sure your things are out the front." He said. "I'm going to go tell Sasuke."

I shrug, not caring, just wanting him out of the scene; I just wanna find my shoes and get out of here. It's cold outside. He walks out and then it's not just my outside that's cold, I feel myself go pale. Sasuke and Naruto! CRAPPERS!

I ran up and tackled him, walking next to him and blocking his way. "You know what? It's a great night for a walk through the garden, isn't it? Why don't you go look at that instead?"

"Because then Sasuke'll be late." He said blandly.

"Um, I'll tell him!"

"You need your shoes."

"No I don't! I can live!"

"Just let me past!" he was getting annoyed, and I wouldn't move

"No, no, no, you know, I think I'LL tell Sasuke! Save you the long walk all the way to the- er, um," I turn to see how far the door was. "The door, a full SEVEN METERS!" I pat his shoulder. "With your age and, erm, stature, I wouldn't overdo it buddy."

He glares at me, and walks another meter foreword before I step in-front of him again. "Now, now, don't get pushy, I know! Let's go and play Twister! Twister is always fun!"

"Sorano, just step aside."

"Never! OH MY GOD! SOMETHING SHINY!" I throw a bracelet down the hallway. "Looky looky! Go fetch!" He glares again and keeps walking. Five meters left. MUST STOP HIM!

"Um, um, oh, the dark is scary, please! Can you help me find my shoes without evil things attacking me?" I pout as the distance decreases to Three meters from the door.

"No."

"Yes? Great!" I pull him back towards the balcony, he wrestles free of my grasp and reaches for the doorhandle after another few steps.

"Seriously, not even willing to help a girl in need of protection!" I rush in front of the door and press my back against it. "I know! Let's go for a walk, continue that conversation we had about killing your relatives, remember? Wasn't that fun? Ah, good times, good times."

He sighs, pushes my out of the way, and I have no choice. I walk up to him, and lightly touch his shoulder. "I'm sure there are much more… interesting… things we could be doing, while Sasuke is occupied…" I look around under my lashes. And take a step towards him, he steps back.

"What's gotten into you?" He asks, looking at my strangely.

Stepping up to him, I put my arms around his neck, and look him in the eyes. "Does it matter?"

He doesn't say anything, and I shuffle him discretely back, heading away from the door, keeping his eyes locked on me. I touch his hair and he responds by coming a little closer, at which point I fall against the wall.

Come on, come on, Sasuke, come out, come on…. The bang against the wall I hope carried into the other room, I lean up to kiss him, and then feel relief spread through me as I hear the door open.

"Sora?" Sasuke asks, Itachi and I spring apart, him in front of me, I stand behind him and do a victory-dance for Sasuke's awesome timing. "What the hell is this!?" he yells.

I look at the ground guiltily, stopping my dancing. "I-I, I was- um, you see…" He looked really angry, even I was scared. Sasuke can be really evil when he's mad. "Itachi tricked me. I was walking back from getting my shoes and- and…" I break off and run to him.

Itachi's eyebrows go up. "Really? Different story to what I heard."

"Liar!" I cry.

Sasuke holds me protectively. "Bastard, go away!"

Itachi shrugs, and walks away. "We have to go in an hour." He says, and keeps walking.

I relax when we are dragged into the room, I collapse on the chair. "Whew, we should start an acting troupe, we ROCK!" I say.

Sasuke still looked mad when I look up, and the happy smile is wiped off my face. "No, seriously, what was that?" He demands.

I glare. "It was me trying to get him away from you and Naruto is what!" I say back, annoyed at him even asking.

"I'm sure, yeah, you were all over him!"

"I was keeping him away from you two!" I say, my voice rising, Naruto would have run to my room through the wardrobe and out to his room by now, we had an emergency procedure.

"By being a whore?" Sasuke said angrily.

"Well, if it worked, what's the problem!?" I yell. "Because I bet it's just what Itachi wants!"

"SO!? It matters more to be keeping you and Naruto a secret, doesn't it!?" I yell. He doesn't reply, so I continue. "Or what? Hurting your brother means more to you then us, your friends? Does revenge really play such a part in your life Sasuke!?" I stand up, and face him.

"You don't have to be all over him! He has done that to all my other girlfriends! And I wanted one who would stay away from his charm!" he says loudly, changing the subject.

"Not like you even LIKED your other girlfriends! And I didn't! I WAS HELPING YOU!"

"Who says I didn't? And you liked him; nobody can resist the older Uchiha." Sasuke spat out nastily.

"I say you didn't! You brought them here just to rub in Itachi's face! JUST LIKE YOU DID WITH ME!" I yell madly.

"As if!"

"You never really liked them, because you can't have liked somebody as much as Naruto!" I say.

"What would you know!?" he demands. "What would you know of anything!? All my life I've had to fight for love and attention, all my life! I've been bested! And just once I'd like to beat Itachi in something!"

"By using US?! No amount of revenge is worth that Sasuke!"

"You don't know anything!" he yelled.

"At least you had somebody to fight over! I HAD NO-ONE! No-one Sasuke!"

"Yeah right!"

"You didn't even know I EXISTED until last term!"

"I did so!"

"No, you didn't. That's what you do Sasuke, you sit around and use people! When they appear, suddenly you like them, when they disappear, you don't care! One day they'll stop appearing Sasuke, and you'll be the invisible one, when that day comes, I will pity you!" I yell.

"You need to be able to survive alone anyway, it wouldn't be bad at all! I'd like it! And you know why? I'd be away from people like you!"

He is quiet, daring me to speak. I mouth angrily, before turning away and marching to the connecting Wardrobes. As I reach the door, I turn again. And face him, deadly quiet. "You can do whatever to me, I'm strong by now, but I swear on my life, if you hurt any single hair on Naruto's idiotic blonde head in your stupid quest for revenge against your brother being born first, I will never forgive you, and I will do anything I can to make sure it's amended for." And with that, I walk out of the room and into mine to finish packing.

I hear Naruto come in the room a few minutes later to get me. "I heard you guys yelling, what happened?"

"I don't wanna talk about it."

"Oh, a break-up?" he laughs, but seeing I don't join in, he stops. "Sora, Sasuke is a dick sometimes, and you know he will never say sorry, and never admit he's wrong. We just have to just carry him out of the ocean when he says the tide's not rising. If we're not there to stop him from drowning, who will? We've done it before." He says, patting my shoulder. "He needs it too."

"Ok, ok, but I'm not apologising, and as soon as I get home, I don't have to talk to him for a while, okay?"

Naruto smiles. "Deal." He walks out, taking some of my bags with him.

If Sasuke has us to carry him out of his ocean, who do I have?

I am never leaving Gaara again.

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Hello! A bit of a sadder chapter then usual! HDFH is over, we'll be back to schoolies soon, thanks SO MUCH for reading!

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