I don't own Naruto…

I don't own Naruto….I am really getting tired of writing this!!

So there will be no Kino in this chapter except for the mind of evil inner-Sakura hahahaha. And a little bit of some Sasuke and Sakura fluff. But not before feelings get hurt of course. What do you expect from Sasuke? LOL

Sakura sighed as she walked to the building where her team was waiting for her. Today was the start of the Chuunin Exams; her team had decided to meet up with each other at where the exams would take place. Kakashi-sensei said by that when they show up here they should know whether or not they wanted to take the Exam.

Of course back then Sakura had been hesitant about the Exams but now…

Thinking back about the argument she had with Kino the other day she couldn't help but smile; he really did give her the will to want to become stronger. Nobody else has ever given her this feeling before and it warmed her heart up. And other places inner-Sakura mentally winked at a picture of Kino in her head that inner-Sakura created with her perverted mind. Sakura giggled at her inners tactics and nodded her head in agreement with her.

When she reached her team, she bid them good morning, with the exception of Kakashi-sensei, who wasn't yet there. There's a shocker!! Inner-Sakura sarcastically remarked.

"Morning Naruto, morning Sasuke."

"Good morning Sakura-Chan!!"

"Hn."

Asshole "So are you excited Sakura-Chan?!" Naruto asked with big eyes full of warmth. He really did like her didn't he? Before Sakura could answer a big poof came near Sasuke and there stood Kakashi-sensei.

"Sorry I'm late I got lost all the way of…."

"LIAR!!" the pink-haired and blond-haired teammates screamed. The Uchiha didn't say a word.

"Well then…" Kakashi-sensei sighed. "Since you are all here now" "you mean since you're here!" "…have you decided if you're going to take the Exam?" Poor Kakashi just couldn't finish a sentence without Naruto interrupting.

Even though he was acting as if he was speaking to all of them he really was asking Sakura. All of them knew that…well except Naruto who was grinning.

"You bet I am, nothing is going to hold back the great Uzumaki Naruto from becoming Hokage believe it!!"

Kakashi smiled and patted his head. "We know that now calm down and let's hear what the other part of Team 7 has to say Sasuke?"

No answer except the usual 'hn' which guesses in Sasuke language means "Yeah"

Naruto glared at his rival before turning his eyes to his crush "Sakura-Chan?"

Sakura at this time was in a little heated battle with inner-Sakura due to the fact she had made a comment about what kind of underwear Kino wears. The evil little inner was giving her naughty little mental images of ways of finding out while Sakura kept trying to mentally block her and her perverted images which had been working before Naruto called her name.

"Huh?" she replied. Kino in a pair of pants with no shirt, the edge of his boxers showing.

"Have you decided?" Kakashi asked. Kino in a pair of orange boxers, no shirt or pants. What was he asking her again? She was having trouble remembering due to evil inner-Sakura winning. "Decided what?" she asked with pink cheeks.

"The Exams Sakura the Exams…are you going to take them?" He tried again, noticing she was acting funny. He realized the girl must be worried about taking them and that was why she was so out of it. Boy was he wrong.

"Umm..Uh…" Kino in silver briefs, the color of his eyes. "I…uh…I…" Kino in nothing but a towel around his waist. "…gulp…uh…umm…" Kino walking over to her in nothing but a towel with a sexy smirk on his face. " …I…was…uh…um…" she was losing the battle with inner-Sakura, she was just to damn strong. Kino cornering her against a wall and grabbing her wrists to pin them above her head. Pushing his hips up against hers as he kissed her neck like he did when he had kissed her before. As he kissed his way up to her face, the towel slowly dropped on to the ground then before she could look down he slammed his lips on hers… "Sakura!!"

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT?!"

It only took a second for Sakura to realize where she was and who she had yelled at. Naruto was on the verge of laughing, Kakashi looked astonished and Sasuke, take a guess, was furiously glaring daggers……at her.

Uh-oh. She had yelled at Sasuke. And he looked pissed.

She tried to look sorry and apologize when she couldn't figure out what to say.

"Uh…I ah…I'm umm well…………my bad, dog." The moment those three words came out of her mouth Naruto burst out laughing. The one visible eye Kakashi had was wide and full of bewilderment.

Naruto was laughing so hard he dropped to his knees, almost crying saying his stomach hurt.

Sakura took a glance over teammates and almost sighed out loud. Although Naruto didn't seem to take notice of the way she had been acting as of lately, mainly because he's an idiot, Kakashi did and so did Sasuke. The difference was Kakashi's mind was full of worry and Sasuke's mind was full of anger, despite it always was full of that.

After Naruto had gained control of himself, Kakashi had approach Sakura again.

"Sakura." It wasn't really a question. "Yes Kakashi-sensei?" her voice didn't sound sweet and apologetic like he expected, instead she sounded amused almost like she was getting a big joke out of this.

"Is everything okay? You seem a little…off today." He hoped the last sentence would get to her. It didn't.

Inner-Sakura rolled her eyes and chuckled. Little huh? Just because you spaced out and yelled at Sasuke doesn't make us off Kakashi. You really should call him sensei. Why? It's not like he is actually teaching us anything anyway. He's to busy teaching Emo-kun over there and Idiot-san. When has he ever offered us special training like he has them huh?! When did he say "Let me help you get stronger Sakura" so you won't die later in life because you didn't know how to protect yourself? He even offered the chance to give up the Exam to us not them but us! Why, because doesn't think we can do it! Face it babe he looks down at us. All his compliments about having good charka control and being smart was like handy downs. Dirty and stupid.

As inner-Sakura said all this, Sakura let it sink in and she realized inner-Sakura was right.

He never tried to help her get stronger but instead he let her go to waste. He didn't even bother to because he must thought it would be useless. She felt herself starting to get angry with her suppose sensei and resentment built up. She had to clam down herself for a minute and be rational about this.

All the things inner-Sakura was true but she knew Kakashi was a good guy and he just wanted to protect her because he cared. The only thing is was his caring wasn't helping her at all and instead made it worse. She analyzed all of this for a moment and came to a conclusion. If she wanted to get stronger she would have to do it by herself, not Kakashi, nor her team. If she needed help she would go to some one else for help. Someone who wouldn't want to protect her but instead better her as a shinobi. The first person or more like people that came to her mind was Kino, Hikaru, Michiko, Yuki, and Ichigo.

Her new friends.

They were probably the reason why she was thinking like this and acting like this. The last two days she had begun hanging out with the five of them and she noticed, along as everybody else, she started changing. Her whole life was slowly going into a different direction and to be honest she didn't know whether she liked it or not. But she could deal with that later, right now she had a concerned sensei yeah right, a grinning teammate not to bad looking when he smiles eh, and a glaring teammate Another big shocker! Cha loser.

Sakura smiled at inner-Sakura's comments and shook her head. She looked at Kakashi and her face went blank.

"I am fine Kakashi-sensei. Why do you ask?" He looked startled that she responded after being silent for so long but he shook it off and spoke his concerns. "Sakura you were spacing out for a long time and…"

"I was thinking about something."

"Oh? You were thinking of something? Well you seemed flushed at the time want to let us in on what was going through that mind of yours?" he was hoping she would blush and go back to normal so he could go back to what he wanted to say but he wasn't that lucky.

"I was of thinking of someone." With the statement made he could have sworn he heard Sasuke mutter "Orange teme" but his eyes was set on Sakura. She was thinking of someone? Who could of it been to make her turn so pink out of embarrassment and he thought anger too? Was it Sasuke?

"Oh you were thinking someone not something. Well what was happening in you're fantasy world?" He smiled in amusement waiting for her to give up this time knowing she wouldn't want to tell.

Oh so he wants to play this game does he? Well two can play at this game Scarecrow-san.

Sakura giggled mentally had the new nickname and knew that once inner-Sakura gave someone a name it would stay forever.

Something flashed in Sakura's eyes and Kakashi thought he saw her eyes change silver. Then she let out a yawn and replied to his question.

"Nothing much was happening really just the usual."

One silver eye brow rose. "The usual?" He was going to wish he had never said that because her next response had his jaw and the rest of her team hit the floor.

" Yep thinking of having sex with a total sex beast you know the usual?!" She had said it so carelessly like she said this stuff every day.

Looking at her teammates expressions she laughed out loud. One for Sakura, zero for the boys. This time it was her own thoughts.

"Sorry my bad, I didn't think you would react that way at least not all of you." She apologized to them. When they got themselves straightened out, Kakashi coughed his embarrassment away of being caught off guard.

"Sakura?" "Yes?" he took a deep breath and tried again. "Have you decided to go through with the exams?" she smiled at him showing some of her teeth. "Oh that? Yeah I decided a long time ago to do that."

All he could do was nod and look at his team. He gave them a long speech about how proud he was of them for coming and if they hadn't of come together they would have all failed because they needed to be a three man cell. When he was done he dismissed them by telling them to go into the building. When they started to walk away he looked at Sakura's back and noticed she seemed to carry herself a little bit differently then a few days ago.

He didn't know what was going on with her but he was deeply concerned. She acting like a totally different person and he didn't know how to act. Neither did her teammates. She seemed more relax around Naruto today. She actually said hello to him first. Not Sasuke.

And on the terms with Sasuke, she had yelled at him and didn't even really apologize about it. She didn't even call him Sasuke-kun.

But what made him worry the most was her words and face expressions. He had seen them on someone else before. He shuddered thinking about that person and sighed. Then it hit him hard. His eyes widened and he let out a gasp. He started jumping to house to house to busy to even think about transporting to his destination. He had feeling about his students' sudden new behavior and he was on his way to that person's house. For once in his life though he wishes he would be wrong because if he was right that meant Sakura was going to get into a lot of trouble. And the way Sasuke had been looking at her the moment she showed up made him worried about team 7 all together.

When Sakura had met Lee she didn't know what to say to his sudden "Will you go out with me?" The Sakura a few days ago would of said "Hell no" but this Sakura couldn't be so mean to some one so nice and so she politely declined. "Sorry Lee-san. I am kind of not interested in dating right now." Although he looked disappointed he didn't look rejected so it was okay.

But when Lee had fought Sasuke and kind of won, she had gained a little respect towards the fuzzy-eye brows kid and actually told him she thought his taijutsu was wicked awesome. He looked at her with eyes full of hearts and ran up to meet his team after being slapped by Gai.

She sighed and began to think 'were all the guys that was interested in her, weird?' She took a look at Sasuke and saw him still on the ground. She had out of reflex caught him before he fell to the ground after Lee kicked his ass and tried to help him up when Gai showed up introducing himself as Kakashi's rival. Now that they were gone she could get her team up. She extended her hand to Sasuke and smiled a friendly smile.

"Lets go Sasuke, we don't want to be late and we still have to wake up Naruto." She giggled thinking about Naruto being knocked out by Lee in no more than one minute.

Sasuke glared at her and slapped, actually slapped her hand away from him. Her smile turned into a frown as stood up by himself.

He continued to glare at her, wait no he has been glaring at her the moment she yelled at him. Even before that. She shook her head even before yelling at him. Since they met this morning from the moment he saw her had been glaring at her. She didn't know what his deal was but she needed to find out.

"Hey. Sasuke are you ok?" She tried to take the nice approach first.

Didn't work.

"Hn." He turned away from her and started walking to Naruto. He didn't go very far because a hand, a soft warm hand, caught his wrist and he twisted his body around to find the owner of the hand. When he saw the pink haired girl holding his wrist he hissed out "Let go!"

She wasn't affected by his words like usual and it pissed him off. Instead she glared for the first time in his direction and he noticed her pupil slanted wolf like and they green around her pupil was darker. If it wasn't for the fact he was a Uchiha and he knew Sakura wasn't strong he would have been intimidated by the dark look she was giving him.

"Sasuke" his name was a little bit heated from her lips but not the good kind of heated.

"What?" He snapped. She snapped back. "What is you're problem?!"

"Nothing, you're the one making a scene!" "ME! Please like you don't make a scene? You have been glaring at me non-stop since we met this morning and I have no idea why!!" she hissed. "You are imagining things Sakura now remove you're hand."

Why the hell couldn't he remove her hand? And why was her grip so strong? Is this how it feels when she punches Naruto?

"Are you mad at me cause I yelled at you? I already apologized but god gets over it." Wrong thank to say Sakura Sasuke thought.

"Get over it? You yelling at me like that? You think I'm mad over that? Why should I care if you yelled?" Why do I care?

"Well I don't know Sasuke you tell me! It's not like I can read you're damn thoughts and I don't think I honestly would want to know what runs through you're mind!" she was yelling at him again, but she couldn't help it he was just so damn infuriating. She had no idea how Naruto was still unconscious throughout all this.

He glared at her and tried yanking his hand away again to fail as her grip grew tighter. Where the hell did she get this strength from?

"If you don't want to know what I am thinking then stop yelling at me demanding that I tell you." His voice was getting louder and he was getting angrier.

"Oh my god! You deserve to get yelled at sometimes! Do you know how crude you are to people?!"

"No and I honestly don't fucking care." Great now he was yelling and swearing at her. Where did she get this attitude from? He hated it more than he disliked her acting all fangirl like. At least then she didn't yell, talk back or touch him. Well she did touch me but not like this and sure as hell didn't feel like this! She is going to fucking snap my wrist if she doesn't let go. "Let go!!"

"Not until you stop acting like a child and tell me what is wrong! We can't work together as a team if you stay mad!" she insisted. Then he scoffed at her and chuckled. Her grip loosened a bit surprised.

"A child? Work together? Don't make me laugh Sakura. Us a team? You call us a team yet all you do is hide and cry when some one gets hurt! We always have to protect you when on a mission; you never train or do any of the hard work. You don't even bother to try to better yourself. Instead you go around acting if you are better than Naruto, punching him all the time when you are even lower than the dope and considering he is a dead last guess where that puts you Sakura?! And you wonder why I turn you down all the time! It's because you are not even worthy enough to call yourself a shinobi, so stop trying all the FUCKING TIME BECAUSE YOU ARE PATHETIC!!" By the end of his rant he had yelled louder than he had ever yelled in the last four years.

And as for Sakura…she had never looked so…emotionless in her life before. Her face showed no emotion and neither did her eyes. She looked as if she had born with no emotions and it startled him. He thought for sure that when he was done she would have started crying, looked hurt or something. Yet she didn't and now something was stirring inside his stomach and chest. What is this feeling he thought.

When she finally let go of his hand he felt the blood slowly return to his hand and he noticed that it was numb. She took a step back from him and blinked. She looked him straight in the eyes and showed nothing. It was more like she was looking through him and he suddenly felt uncomfortable. He had seen this look before. It was the look his brother use to give his father when staring him in the eyes almost looking for a vulnerable spot. He hated that look and he hates it now. He especially hated it now on Sakura.

He could deal with a emotional Sakura and fangirl Sakura but not with a yelling Sakura and sure as hell not this Sakura.

He took a step forward and she took a step back. He stopped and looked at her.

"Sakura" It wasn't a question but instead a need for her to respond. This wasn't right. Stop acting like this. You are acting like a child now. He wanted to say these things to her but he wondered if that would make things worse.

He tried again but his time a little bit more softly.

"Sakura…" he took a step forward and this time she didn't move. She stood her ground just like in his dream. Something within him snapped when he remembered the dream and the next thing he knew he was standing in front of Sakura only like maybe a few inches away from her face. He could feel the blood pumping through his veins and his hand on its own record reached out and caressed her cheek. It really was soft just like in the dream.

Before he could stop himself or even figure out what the hell he was doing, he cupped her cheek and tilted her head back and face up. The blank look disappeared and was placed with a confused and slightly scared expression.

He was looking right into her eyes and noticed they change back to their normal size except they were still darker than usual. From fear or something else he didn't know. All he knew was she was right there looking at like she had looked at him in his dream. He stared at her lips. They looked really nice when they weren't moving or saying words.

When they did move he didn't hear but instead read what they whispered.

"Sasuke…" a small frighten voice came out and he felt exited knowing he had caused that fear.

He slowly leaned down his face to hers and what very satisfied when her eyes widen and her breath hitched in her throat. So close. He thought. She is so close I can taste her breath and fear.

She closed her eyes and he closed his, both for different reasons he was sure. And just before he could close the gap between them it happened…

"Aw man my head hurts. Where the hell is fuzzy brows?!"

Naruto woke up. And when Sakura opened her eyes she found herself twenty feet from Sasuke who was standing right next to Naruto.

"About time you woke up dope." Sasuke's voice came out smooth almost like he hadn't been yelling at her a few moments ago. Naruto looked at Sasuke and squinted his eyes.

"What happened to fuzzy-brow? And why do you look so white and pink at the same time Sakura-Chan? And don't CALL ME DOPE YOU TEME!"

Sasuke bonked him on the head and told him to get up. They were leaving to go to the real Exam room.

Naruto smiled and ran over to Sakura. "Are you ready Sakura-Chan?"

Sakura shook her head like a dog that was in a trance and grinned. "Yeah let's go Naruto." With that she grabbed his hand and walked pass Sasuke not even to bother to grab his or look at him. Sasuke obviously did not like that and began to glare again.

Naruto cocked his head in confusion.

What did I miss?...

So yeah that's the end of this chapter and I think I made it a bit longer than usual and I worked really hard you know? And I would like to say thank you to all of you that reviewed. I know I did not reach 50 hits yet but because I got so many reviews I was so happy I just couldn't help it. I wanted to treat you guys with something special you know? Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter it I hope it had enough fluff for all you Kino and Sasuke lovers out there lol.

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