A:N/ Ello fellow reviewers! This is the last short update, since school is starting tomorrow, so I hope you like it!!

Crushes Between Friends

Chapter 8 - Silence

The next day at school Sasuke and Sakura didn't talk. They didn't make eye contact. Heck, they made sure they didn't even see each other in the hallways. Finally Tenten, HInata, and Ino got fed up with it and asked Sakura what was going on.

"What's up with you and Sasuke today?" Hinata aske.

"What? Who are we talking about?" Sakura stated blandly.

"Sasuke. Your best friend." Tenten said.

"No. Best friends don't make a big deal about who their going out with!" Sakura shouted.

"Oh. I see what this is about." Ino said.

"It's not about anything." Sakura said, starting to walk away from them, but they kept following her.

"Did Sasuke talk to you about Sai?" Ino asked.

"No. I mean, why couldn't he just leave it to himself? Why did he have to go out and blurt something out? I was happy! But, no! He just had to ruin that!"

"Sakura. What exactly happened?" Hinata asked.

:well you know how I'm going on a date with Sai on Friday?"

"Yeah." They all said.

"Well, after we got done researching yesterday, he told me he didn't trust Sai. Said that he was playing me. Or something like that. If he didn't want me to go out on a date with him, why didn't he just ask first! Or at least said something!" She said, tears now swelling up in her eyes.

"Oohhh. I het it now." Ino said.

"Get what? What is there to get? He's being a jerk." Sakura said.

"You wanted to go on a date with Sasuke!" Tenten shouted, luckily no one heard her.

"No! It's not that! I don't think of him like that. I just don't get why he said those things. Look. I've got to go to my locker. I'll see you guys in class." Sakura said walking away.

SASUKE AND THE GUYS-

"So, Teme. What's going on with Sakura-chan and you? You haven't spoken all day. You didin't even come to school together."

"None of your business." Was all Sasuke said before walking off in some random, or not so random, direction.

SAKURA-

Sakura got to her locker and opened it.

'No note this time.'

Sakura hadn't heard from her secret admirer for awhle now. She was started wondering if she had dreamt it all.

'Wait a sec. What's this?'

Sakura picked up a CD. There was a little note taped to it, reading:

track 5

Just then the bell rang. Sakura grabbed the Cd and stuffed it into her bag.

'So what? Am I to listen to track # 5?'

'Well DUH!'

'You!'

'Yes, ME!'

'Fine, if your so smart how does he know that I won't listen to any of the other songs?'

'Maybe he'll give you a new Cd everyday.'

'Why would he do that?'

'How am I suppose to know!? I'm not giving them to you!'

Sakura took the empty seat between Hinata and Tenten.

"Anything new from a certain admirer?" Tenten asked.

"Just this." Sakura said pulling out the Cd.

"A Cd?" "Yeah. There was a note too."

"What did it say?"

"Track 5."

"That's all?

"Yeah."

"So, you've got to listen to track 5 today?"

"I guess."

"What about the other tracks?"

"I guess he'll give me a different Cd everyday, you know, instead of a note."

"That'll run a budget. So you can listen to the other tracks?"

"I guess. Don't know."

"Ok class! Settle down!" Their science teacher said walking in. She had crimson eyes and dark wavy brunette hair. She was Kurenei Sensei.

The class gradually quieted down.

After class Sakura searched for Sai. She finally found him talking to one of his friends.

"Het Sai." she said. He turned around.

"Oh, hey Sak! Hey, are we working on that project today?"

"I don't know. You have your next class with him right?"

"Yeah, but-"

"Good. Could you ask? Oh, and if we are, I'm going to need a ride." She said.

"Sure! I'll ask."

"Thanks See ya later." Sakura then spotted Sasuke and tiptoed up and gave Sai a light kiss on his lips.

Tenten, Hinata, and INo had witnessed the whole scene. They gawked. Sasuke, of course, saw it and was fuming. Sakura walked off satisfied, and since most of the school witnessed this, Sai and Sakura were, officially, dating.

AFTER SCHOOL: SASUKE'S-

"What should we look up today?" Sai asked. He was currently sitting between Sasuke and Sakura. Kinda awkward for him.

"I don't know. Sasuke? Got any ideas? Cause we all know you have opinions that you just can't keep to yourself."

"No. Why don't you ask your boyfriend?"

"You know what? I might just do that. Sai? What do you think?"

"Um..I-"

"Oh, you know what!? I've just got a great idea!"

That's a first." Sasuke said. Both started to glare at each other.

"Shut up. We should look up hot to be a good friend, since Sasuke hasn't quite grasped that yet!" Sasuke stood up, and Sakura did the same. They started yelling at each other, about god, knows what. Sai was very uncomfortable, so he tried to stop them.

"Excuse me." he said quietly. They didn't hear him.

"Hello?" The kept screaming.

"EXCUSE ME!"

"WHAT!!" Both screamed at him.

Sai cringed.

"Look, I don't know what this is about, and from the looks of it I don't want to. So I'm going to leave and let you to sort this... thing, out. And I'll see you guys tomorrow." He said then he was gone. Out the door I mean.

When he left they went back to glaring.

"Well?" Sakurasaid.

"Well what?"

"I'm waiting."

"I'm waiting."

For what?" He asked.

"Your apology."

"I don't have anything to apologize for."

"The things you said yesterday." She said, pestered.

"I meant the, and I'm not taking them back."

"Well it's nice to know I have such a supportive friend!"

"I'd say so!"

"Yeah! Well I'm leaving now, and I never want to speak, see, or hear you again!" Sakura stormed out of the room.

"Do whatever you want! It's not like I care!" Then he heard the door slam. And it slammed hard, the whole house must have shook. Sasuke punched the nearest wall he could find.

When Sakura got home she ignored all of her mother's questions. She got to her room and Started talking to her self.

"I mean, the nerve of that guy!" Sakura threw her bag down, and saw the Cd slide out. Then, all her thoughts about the fight her and Sasuke had had were gone. All that was in her mind right now was the secret admirer.

'Who could it be? Not Sai. We're already dating.' Sakura picked up the Ck and put it in her radio/Cd player. Then turned it to track five.

Nobody But Me By Blake Shelton

Verse 1:
Don't waste your time looking over your shoulder
Those loves from the past ain't getting no closer
When I look in my future you're all I can see (so honey)
Don't go loving on nobody but me.

Chorus:
Nobody but me gonna love you like you ought to be loved on
Nobody but me gonna cry if you up and leave
You can do what you want to,
But I'm asking pretty please (Honey) Don't go loving on nobody but me.

Verse 2:
I took my time to tell you how I feel.
Just because I took so long doesn't mean that it isn't real
I ain't got no diamonds, but I'm down on my knees (so honey)
Don't go lovin on nobody but me

Chorus:
Nobody but me gonna love you like you ought to be loved on
Nobody but me gonna cry if you up and leave
You can do what you want to,
But I'm asking pretty please (Honey) Don't go loving on nobody but me.

Chorus:
Nobody but me gonna love you like you ought to be loved on
Nobody but me gonna cry if you up and leave
You can do what you want to,
but I'm asking pretty please (Honey) don't go loving on nobody but me.

Don't go lovin on nobody but, me...

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When the song finished she was dumbstruck.

'So, this person? Do they know I'm going with Sai? Or maybe it really could be Sai?'

Sakura fell asleep that night, but she wasn't thinking about her admirer, but the fight she and Sasuke had had. Slight tears running down her face. She kept replaying that one song though.

A:N/ Yeah. Sorry if you don't like country music, but I love, and I'm gonna use it. I mean it's not all going to be country, just most of it. So I hoped liked this chapter, and I'll see you all when I update next, which I will remind you, that it might take longer depending if we get loaded with homework on the first three days of school.

I HATE SAIXSAKURA!!!

just had to make that clear.

R&R!!