"No prob, but hey, you might wanna get some sleep, tomorrow is another day of training and you start at 7 AM, OK? I'll wake you up if you need." My eyes went wide, waking up?

"Doesn't that mean I have to wake up at like 6? AM?" I asked, scared as hell, I HATE HATE HATE HATE getting up!

"Yes, it does! That means you have to be ready by quarter to 7 as well. OK? I'll wake you up, but if you don't wake up, I'll take desperate measures." Chirou smirked evilly, I DID NOT want to find out what desperate measures he'd take.

I nodded and ran up the stairs to my room. My room was quite pretty really, it was actually black with dark red trim. They were some dramatic colours! But they looked amazing, really amazing! I walked over to my bed, it was a black again, but the pillows the same deep red as the trim. I sat on the bed, taking in the whole room, the simple furniture, the large window, hold up. That wasn't a window, I walked over to it. I saw a black handle poking out from beneath the curtains.

I pushed gently on the handle, what lay on the other side took my breath away. It was a beautiful balcony, it looked out over the street and the half moon that hung high in the sky beneath light grey clouds. It was pretty amazing. The street itself was lit by the dim glow of lamps from inside and the bright glow of the shops that were still open. A whisper of voices from the street told me that sleep would never truly come across this small village. It reminded me of our old town. Except that after ten most lights were off and it was just the three of us…

I glanced down once again to see a stationary Sasuke leaning against the wall of a closed shop. He was in shadow, he must like it that way, little emo kid. I decided to join him, though I didn't know anything about chakra control or walking up and down walls I was good at climbing and quickly scaled the wall a couple meters then jumped off. Making no noise I quickened my footsteps until I was right next to Sasuke. I couldn't help but blush when I looked at him, but I quickly got over it and decided to talk.

"Hey! What's up O' Emo One?" I asked him loudly, and close to his ear as I could get before I was touching it.

He jumped away, and rubbed his ear.

"Don't shout in my ear." He mumbled, sending me a death glare.

I just grinned and stuck out my tongue.

"Do you always come out here at night?" I asked him, cocking my head to the side.

"Sometimes, it's PEACEFUL! Or at least it was." He narrowed his eyes at me again.

I chuckled lightly at him this time. Damn, he's so easy to get to? Hmm… I wonder how long it'll take for him to explode? LET'S SEE!

"So, are you and Naruto, you know," I lowered my voice dramatically, "Together?"

Most guys either sent death glares at me or ignored the gay comments I made. But I loved it when they reacted like Sasuke! So entertaining!

"DID YOU JUST CALL ME GAY? WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH YOU? EVEN IF I WAS GAY I WOULD NEVER EVER DATE NARUTO! NOT EVEN IN MY WORST NIGHTMARES!" Sasuke shouted, his voice full of disgust and a slight, haha, slight, yeah right, twinge of dislike.

I was roaring with laughter at his outburst! I had just pushed THE Sasuke Uchiha's buttons to the point where he had nearly murdered me on the spot. But damn, this boy was WAY too easy! But then again I loved the speed of it, a lot of times I had to work pretty hard to really annoy anyone, but Sasuke? Well Sasuke was, as I said, WAY too easy!

"Say whatever you want Sasuke, you'll NEVER convince me otherwise!" That wasn't really true, honestly I was sorta hoping, for, you know in the back of my mind, that he'd try to prove he wasn't gay. You know how… Hehe.

Much to my disappointment he just glared at me. I rolled my eyes and poked him.

"Poke." He merely grunted in reply. "Pokey pokey!"

His glare seemed to burn into my skull. He stared angrily at the finger I had poked him with. He cracked me up.

"Pokey, pokey, pokey pokey-pokey-pokey-pokey-pokey-pokey-pokey-pokey-pokey!" I shouted, poking him faster.

A light came on in my/Chirou's house and I saw a figure come towards.

"Oh shit, he's gonna kill me!" I murmured.

I heard a small chuckle and turned to see a smirking Sasuke. WTF? Did O' Emo One just laugh? OMG! It's a miracle! I was so shocked that I hadn't noticed there was a person behind me until they cleared their throat rather loudly. I turned around slowly, afraid that I would get a lecture on my sleeping habits, as if it wasn't enough that Nick had to force me to sleep every night back home!

"Hello Lynx." Chirou said with an evil look on his face.

I bit my lip and murmured out a response. I heard another chuckle, Sasuke.

"What're you laughing at O' Emo One?!" I shouted at him.

He just smirked.

"Stop smirking!" I shouted again.

More lights came on, and people leaned out of their doorways to tell me to shut up.

"Whatever! I'm not shouting any more! Happy?" I shouted at the annoyed villagers. "Anyways, it was his fault."

I pointed to Sasuke, his smirk disappeared and in its place was a death glare that would have scared me if I hadn't been so intent on sending him my own death glare.

"Sasuke, I need to talk to you, Lynx, inside, bed, now." Chirou told us sternly.

I had a feeling that Sasuke would be getting a talk that didn't have anything to do with shouting too loud. Oh shit, he thought that me and Sasuke… No way, even if I wanted that, it would honestly never happen.

"Chirou, you don't think that me and Sasuke… Look, I'm serious, we aren't… You know, so, don't get all over protective, cuz I'm not joking when I say we are BARELY even friends, more like acquaintances. Trust me, we ARE NOT what you think we are." I couldn't say it, it just sounded wrong!

He was cute, and if he asked me out I'd say yes in a second, but somehow even saying that we were dating, or admitting the possibility out loud seemed wrong. Chirou didn't look convinced, and raised his eyebrows at me.

"Bed now, you need your sleep." I scowled at him, then made my way over to the wall.

Quickly scaling it I reached the balcony and made a slamming noise. Though I stayed outside, I HAD to hear what he was going to say to Sasuke, what? It's funny! What, are you telling me you don't like seeing someone who you barely know act like your father or older brother? It's great, I mean he's already over-protective over me! Hehe, but then again it sorta sucks. Every time I met a guy, he always treated my like his little sister and was over-protective. But he never cared about me in that way. I liked Chirou as a brother, but it was always Alexis who was treated like a girlfriend or crush would be. Life sucks being me, sorta… Hey, I feel like complaining right now, so shut up stupid conscience!

Yes, I did have a conscience, but I almost never listened to it. But right now it was shouting pretty damn loud at me to stop complaining and not be jealous and self-centered, honestly though, I liked being a little self-centered in my head. It was easier, I never said anything out loud though, so I think I have some right to be jealous and think self-centered thoughts! Actually, I have EVERY right!

"What were you two doing out here?" Chirou's voice awoke me from my thoughts.

"/I/ was just relaxing when SOMEONE," He looked right at me when he said this, drawing Chirou's attention to my balcony, "Decided she wanted to annoy me."

Chirou looked back at him and said something to him, his voice barely more than a whisper, Sasuke kept his reaction to a minimal so that I couldn't hear or see anything again. This is so annoying, what is up with them? I was annoying him, that's it! Nothing more! God, people here are way to serious about these things. But then again, remember when I hung out with that one kid a couple months back and Nick pounced on him? And remember how afraid he was, Nick that is, of me getting hurt? He didn't want anything bad to happen, and it ended up that Chris was just hanging out with me to get closer to Alexis anyways. Why do people even try to protect me? They should be out protecting Alexis, she's the one all the guys want, the good boys, the bad boys, the geeks, the skater dudes, she's perfect, I'm not. She needs someone to protect her, I've always had Nick and Jake. But then again, there's Terry, if a guy so much as winks in her direction he's all over them. It's always been like that, I wonder who's gonna protect my lil gal now? I know I'm calling her my lil gal, but she's like my sister, as I've already told you.

I've always been there for her, I've protected her from as much as I could, as Nick did for me. And I've always stayed strong, for everyone around me. Alexis has had everyone there for her, and so do I, I don't think there's anything we can really complain about. Another part of me argued, it was right, but it sucked nonetheless.

I held my knees to my chest, and listened to the silence that had come. A sudden 'swish'-ing noise, I guess you could call it, and Chirou was standing next to me.

"What did you say to him? I wasn't joking when I said we were just talking." I told him.

"I know, but I don't want you getting mixed up with him. A lot of the girls might think he's great, but there's something I don't like about him. And don't worry, most of it didn't have much to do with you. OK?" I looked at him skeptically.

"Most?"

"Most, but that will have to wait. Good night Lynx." He said firmly, standing still.

I sighed, rather loudly, and stood up. I walked into my room, he followed and stood there until I sat on my bed. Then he came and sat next to me.

"Look, I'm only doing this because I know you're going through a hard time."

I wanted to scream at him, tell him that I wasn't going through it NOW. That I'd been going through it my whole life, and he wasn't helping at all. Then tell him to go away, that I could deal with this all by myself. But I didn't, I just sat there, not saying anything. I hoped he'd get the message, LEAVE, but he didn't seem to.

"The talk had nothing to do with you, OK? I just said that at the beginning, Sasuke Uchiha is hard to get by himself, and I needed to talk to him. About more pressing matters than whether he's hitting on you," He sounded slightly angry here, I couldn't help but feel the anger build up a little inside. "Good night Lynx."

"Night Chirou." I smiled slightly, but I was immensely curious as to what they were talking about.

It HAD to be serious, Chirou didn't look angry exactly, just, serious. And Sasuke, well Sasuke was Sasuke, he was as emotionless as before I talked to him. That is my conclusion! I laughed out loud. Maybe men were strange and perverted creatures who should be worshipping the ground that anyone of the female species walked on, or so much as glanced at, but I was an insane sexist creature! I mused silently.

I guess I SHOULD be getting some sleep… I sighed and curled up into a ball next to my pillow. I faded quicker than I thought and within almost seconds I was asleep.