A:N/ I was on vacation, and got back on Saturday, so that's why I didn't update. I've been writing this down on paper first, and I had a little bit of writer's block, but I'm over that! Yeah me! Anyways, ENJOY!

Disclaimer: do I have to repeat myself?

Crushes Between Friends

Chapter 3 - A Dream, A Confession, and a Note: Part 1

FRIDAY-

"Hey guys!"Tenten yelled as she ran threw the halls when she saw her seven friends. (Sai wasn't with them.)

"Hey, Tenten-chan. What's up?" Sakura asked.

"You know how we always go on a mini vacation after we all got threw a week of school?"

"Um... yeah." Sakura said a little bit confused.

"Well I was thinking that we could go to Sasuke's lak house!"

"Oh! That the perfect idea!"

Everyone looked over a t Sasuke.

"What?" He asked.

Sakura smirked. "Is it okay that we go to your lake house for the vacation?"

"Hn."

"Please Sasuke-kun!" Sakura gave him a puppy dog pout she knew he couldn't resist.

"Fine." Sasuke said, reluctantly.

"Great!" Sakura and Tenten said simultaneously, while jumping in the air and gave a high 5.

"So, when should we leave?" Sakura asked.

"How bout today after school?" Tenten sugguested.

"Does that give you enough time to pack Ino?" Sakura asked.

"Are you kidding?" Ino said wide eyed, " I need at lest an hour."

"So an hour and fifteen minutes after school then?" Sakura suggested.

Everyone agreed. Sasuke and Sakura, being neighbors and all, would pick them up at 4:30.

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"Lunch break over! Naruto shouted.

The gang stood up and started walking to their assigned classes. Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata all had Science together.

"Hey, I've got to go get something from my locker, you guys go ahead." Sakura said walking away.

When Sakura go t to her locker she opened it, only to see a piece of pink paper fall out.

"What the heck?" Sakura bent down and picked it up. It read:

Your eyes are like the sun. so bright, captivating, and dangerous. Every time I look into them, I feel like my heart has stopped.

"Whoa." Sakura stood there for a second. She couldn't figure out the person by handwriting, because it had been typed. She stood there, just looking at the note, before she put it in her pocket and left for class.

"Tenten! Hinata!" Sakura said running to her friends at the back of the room.

"What's up Sakura-chan? You look so... excited?" Asked Hinata.

"So I went to my locker, you know, and this fell out when I opened it." Sakura pulled the note out of her back pocket and held it out.

Tenten instantly grabbed it out of her hands. She started reading it out loud, but only loud enough for Hinata and Sakura to hear.

"Sakura's got a secret admirer!" Tenten shouted, but no one heard her.

"Tenten! Be quiet!"

"How do you expect me to be quiet? We've got to tell the gang!"

"No!"

"Why not?"

"Lately, Sasuke has been a little out of it. I don't want him to act any weirder than he already is."

"Then we just won't tell him." Tenten stated matter of factly.

"What about Naruto and the others?" Hinata asked.

"Then we won't tell Naruto."

"NO. Don't even tell Ino." Sakura said giving a them a stern look.

"Why not?" Asked Tenten.

"Tenten," Hinata started, " when was the last time you told a secret to Ino and not hear people blabbing about it the next day?"

"Um...never." Tenten said still not getting the point.

"So we tell her, then everyone will know!" Hinata said getting a little frustrated.

"Oohh! I get it now! But I still don't quite get why you won't tell your best friend?" Tenten said with Hinata nodding in agreement.

"Okay, I might tell him." Sakura said just as the teacher walked in.

" Okay class, that's enough chit chat. Let's begin our lesson." Kurenei said walking into the room tapping a ruler on her hand.

AFTER SCHOOL-

"See you guys at 4:30!" Sakura yelled as she got into the car with Sasuke."

"So, Sakura, what's this I hear about you having a secret admirer?"

"ARG! TENTEN!"

"What? Weren't you going to tell me?" Sasuke said in a mockingly tone.

"Yeah, but I wanted to tell you. I can't believe that Tenten couldn't keep her lousy mouth closed." Sakura grubbled.

"So? What did it say?"

"Well at least she kept that much to herself." Sakura once again grubbled.

"Just tell me what it said." Sasuke said not taking his eyes off the road..

Sakura once again took out the note and read it a loud.

"Wow. Looks like this person is very fond of you."

"Shay do u mean by person?" It's got too be a guy!"

"Where in that note did it say that it was a guy?"

"Where did it say it was from a girl?" Sakura said giving him a 'smarty pants' smile.

They sat at a traffic light each giving the other a deadly glare.

-click- the light turned to green.

Sasuke just sat there not paying attention to the light.

"It's green."

"Whatever." Sasuke said as he pressed the gas pedal and returned his eyes to the road.

"The rest of the drive was one of those awkward car rides where nobody's talking.

When they pulled up in her drive way they both got out. They both walked to Sakura's door and she let them in.

Since Sakura's mom was a medic nin she always got home late, and her dad was on a buisness trip with Sasuke's dad in America.

"Let's see." Sakura said as she walked into the kitchen with Sasuke following.

"Paper. Pencil. Paper. Pencil." Sakura said rummaging threw the kitchen.

"Aha! Here it is!" Sakura said pulling a pad of paper and a pencil out from a drawer.

Sakura started writing a note to her mom telling where she was going to be this weekend.

"There. All done." Sakura said taping the note next to the phone.

"So, I'll go pack and see you over at your house?"

"Or I could wait here, that way you wouldn't have to drag it over there."

"Good idea. I"ll be right back." Sakura ran up the stairs and quickly packed a bag.

Sasuke stood at the bottom of the stairs. He was daydreaming and didn't hear Sakura shout.

"Heads up!" She threw a bag down the stairs.

Sasuke turned but all too late. He put his hands in front of his face. Then, he felt a very powerful force hit a very special spot.

"Sasuke!" Sakura ran down the stairs.

Sasuke had fall on the floor in pain, also because a big and heavy bag of luggage had hit him.

"Are you alright?" Sakura said kneeling down beside him.

He just had one thing to say.

"Ouch." He was trying not to scream out in pain, so it was a little high pitched.

Sakura tried to suppress a laugh, but it didn't help.

"What are you laughing at?!" Sasuke said with a painful yet deadly glare.

Sakura closed her mouth, but kept on giggling.

"You." She said letting a laugh slip out.

Sasuke gave her a you-know-that-did-hurt-type glare. But then he realized that it actually didn't hurt that much.

"You know, it's not nice to laugh at people in pain." Sasuke said standing up, and putting a hand out for Sakura to help her up.

"Yeah, well, I can't help it. I just think it's so funny! Espeically when it's you." Sakura said excepting his hand.

"So is this it?" Sasuke asked pointing to the one bag of luggage.

"Are you kidding? That's just my shoes! There's still hair products, razor, tooth brush, tooth paste, hair brush, dryer, the list could go on and on!"

"Do you really need all that junk?"

:Um... no." Sakura said pausing.

"Then why pack it?"

"I don't know." Sakura said thinking about it a little.

"Just pack the basics."

"Oh, Sasuke those are the basics!"

"You're joking right?"

"Yeppers! This is actually the only bag." Sakura said trying to pick up the bag.

"Good. Here let my get that for you." Sasuke said grabbing her bag and lifting it up.

"God! I can see why you threw it down the stairs!"

Sasuke slowly made his way to her door, which she opened for him. He walked out the door, went to the trunk, opened it and threw the bag in, with much difficulty I might add.

'Look at her body. The perfect curves in the perfect places. Wait! What am I saying!? Bad me! Bad perverted me!'

Sasuke hadn't noticed Sakura staring at him like he was crazy, cause you know, he was too busy yelling at himself.

"Helloo! Anybody home?" Sakura asked waving a hand in front of Sasuke's face.

"W-what?" Sasuke said snapping out of daze.

"I said, are you ready to pick up the others?"

"Oh. Right. I just need to get my stuff then we'll go."

"Okies!" sakura said getting into Sasuke's car, with Sasuke following suit.

After they dropped by Sasuke's house the two friends went to pick up the rest of the gang. Everyone was up and ready to go. Well, everyone except for Ino.

"Ino! Do you really need all this stuff?!" Sakura asked as she tried to stuff Ino's stuff in the trunk, and also try to shut the door.

"Sakura. You should know me by now. Of course I need all this stuff." Ino said hopping into the car.

Whatever." Sakura said also getting into the car.

Then they were off. It was about an hour drive out there, so they arrived about 6:00. Everyone grabbed their luggage and chose rooms. Well actually they had to share rooms. Naruto and Sasuke shared, Shikamaru and Neji, Sakura and Tenten, then Hinata and Ino also shared. The girls were down one hall, while the guys down another.

Naruto was in charge of food. So the girl's cooked up some ramen.

Around 8 the group went out side to watch the sunset.

The cabin sat on a small cliff, so there was a fence on one side.

Sakura was leaning on the fence hair swaying with the wind.

Sasuke couldn't help but think how beautiful she looked with the sunset in the back round, accenting her hair perfectly. Sasuke hadn't noticed Tenten and Hinata standing next to him, and he unconsciously said something.

"Wow."

"Yeah, isn't it beautiful?" Hinata said, thinking that Sasuke was talking about the sunset.

"Yeah. She is."

Tenten and Hinata looked at each other, then at Sasuke. He just stood there. Then realization dawned on him of what he had just said, and that they were standing next to him. So he the first that came to his mind. Cover it up.

"I-I mean. The sunset is beautiful." Sasuke couldn't keep the blush from showing on this face. Hinata and Tenten started laughing a little.

"Sasuke?" Tenten said giving him a sly smile.

"What do you want?" Sasuke said trying to act like he didn't know what she was going to ask next.

"I never knew you liked Sakura like that." Hinata said narrowing her eyes a bit as he she started blushing more and sweating.

"I-I d-don't."

"Why are you stuttering?" Tenten asked also narrowing her eyes a bit.

"Cause I feel like it." He said trying not to stutter.

"Sasuke, come with us." Tenten said grabbing his arm and walking farther away from Sakura.

Even though Sakura was a good distance away that should couldn't hear, Tenten wanted to make sure that Sakura didn't walk over and hear part of their conversation.

"So, Sasuke, spill." Tenten said both her and Hinata putting their hands on her hips.

"I've got nothing to tell."Sasuke said crossing his arms over his six-pack of a chest.

"Sure. Spill."

"I said I don't have anything to say."

"Okay. Then you won't mind if I tell Sakura what you said." Tenten started to walk off but was stopped by a hand on her shoulder.

"Wait." Sasuke said in defeat.

Tenten turned back around with an evil grin on her face. "Spill." Hinata and Tenten said together.

Sasuke started to blush a deep shade of red. " I guess, I-I might, might, l-like S-S-Sa-Sak-Sakura." His whole face was red, not one spot was still his natural skin color. And his shirt is wet from his sweating of nervousness.

"HA! I knew it! I knew you liked her!"

She was about to say something more, but was stopped by a hand covering her mouth.

"You don't need to tell the whole world!" Sasuke said in a low whisper, taking his hand off her mouth.

"Yeah, but we've got to tell Sakura!" Tenten said, screeching it out.

"No!" Sasuke shouted in a low whisper.

"Or what?" Tenten said smirking, but then wished she hadn't.

" Or else." Sasuke said in an even lower, but deadly, whisper.

Tenten could've sworn she saw a flash of red go though Sasuke's eyes.

"O-okay." Tenten said squeaking, out of fear.

They had to stop their conversation since a pink-haired girl came over.

"Hey guys! What's cha talking about?"

"Nothing! What makes you think that we're talking about anything! It's absolutely nothing! Nada! Zip!" Tenten said quickly.

"Okay, I get it." Sakura said, looking at Tenten with a what's up-with-you-you've-gone-crazy type look. "Well I'm tired so I'm going to bed." Sakura said walking slowly away.

"Okay! You do that! Night!" Tenten said waving her hand.

Sakura just looked back at her, also waving her hand, then turned back around shaking her head at Tenten's odd behavior.

Sasuke watched her retreating body not being able to take his eyes off her.

"What's cha lookin' at?" Tenten said with a sly grin plastered on her face.

Sasuke just growled and turned around to also go to bed.

Once Sasuke was gone Tenten and Hinata started talking.

"We've got to tell the gang!"

"But what about Sasuke?" Hinata asked worried about that red flash she saw.

"He just said that we couldn't tell Sakura. He didn't say anything about the rest of the gang."

"Riiiggghhhht!" Hinata said understanding what Tenten was saying.

"So let's go!"

"Wait. Remember that note Sakura got today?"

"Yeah."

"What if... Sasuke is behind it?"

"(gasp) You're right! That would make perfect sense!"

"We'll have to ask him that tomorrow."

"Yeah. You know, we get to black mail Sasuke with this now." Hinata said an evil grin on her face.

A:N/ So did you like it? I know the little note thingy was a little cheesy. Okay, a bit more than a little. Anyways, hope you enjoyed it! And for those of you who are also reading Accused, I'm sorry it's taking my so long to update it, it's just that I'm in love of updating this story. But I promise I'll get it updated sometime this week! R&R!!