Star-Chan-HELLO guys, sorry for not updating in like 3 months?! I've been busy with school those couple months and finals for this month, so finally it is summer break! YES, so hopefully I would stop being lazy and continue typing my stories! Well here is Chapter 9 of Will There Still Be Love?

Recap-

"I need your help idiot; I need you to meet me at my locker right afterschool tomorrow." Sasuke said glaring at the half-sleep boy who was now slightly awake due to his curiosity.

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Chapter 9: When Everything Falls Apart

The next day at school was very uncomfortable. The girls were trying there hardest to avoid the guys, but also act like they were still together in front of Karin. The guys were very confused, Sasuke had failed to tell them about the girls problems and what the guys should do to clear things up since Sasuke himself is having his own problem with Sakura, still wondering who she was talking to last night and who she is meeting afterschool.

The day went on normally, or as normal as it can get, the guys walking the girls to class, and then meeting up at lunch. Karin was always right around the corner waiting for them and seeing if anything has changed. Our four couples had put up a good act, but Karin saw right through it.

"So, looks like there as been some trouble hasn't there?" Karin said stopping the four couple's afterschool.

"No, there's no problem at all, just leave us the hell alone." Sakura said coldly to the redhead who laughed and nodded.

"If you say so…but I can feel that your relationship is going to be crashing down sooner then you think, good luck Sakura." Karin said and turned on her heels to leave. The girls started walking the boys not far behind them. Sakura turned to Sasuke.

"Sasuke, I need to go do something okay? So go home first and try to keep them from arguing okay?" Sakura kissed Sasuke quickly on the cheek and rushed off.

"Like I would go home without you," Sasuke whispered to no one in particular. He turned around and called out Naruto's name. The blonde boy turned around and waved.

"Yo, what do you need Sasuke?" Naruto said running from Hinata's side to his best friend's.

"You said you would go follow Sakura with me, remember?"

"Whoa, that sounded a bit stalk-ish isn't it teme?" Naruto said holding back a laugh. Sasuke scowled he was in no mood to kid around.

"No, I mean she's meeting with someone she wouldn't tell me, and she was talking in hushed tones last night with this person and I'm pretty sure that he's a guy. So now I'm going to see what she is up to."

"Don't you trust her?"

Naruto had a point. Sasuke does trust Sakura; it's just that, her being so sneaky makes him very uneasy, like something bad is going to happen. They had promised each other that they would not keep secrets from each other ever since the day he gave her that Uchiha necklace. a/n: refer back to the last chapter of my 'Happily Ever...' story if you forgot.

"It's just that, all that secrecy is making me very uncomfortable, so I just wanted to see, what she was doing…" Sasuke said trying to explain how he felt at that moment to Naruto. He knew it was being overprotective, but he couldn't help it. It was Sakura, he could never afford to lose her.

"Okay, if it'll make you feel better, let's go then."

"Thanks," Sasuke said. Sometimes Naruto could be a pain in the ass to Sasuke, but other times, when Sasuke needs his help, he would always be there for him, that's why Sasuke considers Naruto one of the closest friends he ever had.

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They headed to the mall to look for Sakura. Sasuke and Naruto decided to avoid following her up close since she is pretty sharp and would suspect someone was following her, and if she found out, oh is it going to be hell for the two. They entered the mall looking for the pink haired girl. Naruto was the first one to spot her.

"Sasuke, over there!" Naruto whispered to the Uchiha who quickly turned his gaze to a near by jewelry store. They saw Sakura, with someone, a boy who looked oh so familiar. Sasuke glared at the boy while his hands tightened into a fist. He was going to storm over there and kick the crap out of Sai. But Naruto held him back.

"Hey, calm down! Don't over analyze things would you? It's just Sai; you know they go way back! It's probably a coincidence." Naruto said trying to hold Sasuke back, but clearing was not succeeding. After a few more moments Sasuke calmed down, a bit.

"Come on; let's get closer to hear what they are talking about!" Naruto said pulling Sasuke behind a wall that is closer to the store.

"Sakura-chan, do you like this one?" Sai said pointing at a silver heart necklace that was behind the glass.

"Yeah…but it's a bit too plain, you should choose something more special," Sakura said looking around and smiled brightly when she found the perfect one. "How about this one, I love this one!" Sakura said pulling Sai to her side and pointed to a necklace similar to the one Sai had picked, but this one had a lock and a key with it.

"Can I please see this one?" Sai said to the salesmen. He took it out and handed it to Sai.

"Try it on; I want to see how it looks." Sai handed it to Sakura. She undid the Uchiha ring necklace she was wearing and put on the necklace that Sai handed her.

"Wow, it's beautiful!" Sakura said running her fingers over the heart and smiled at the key and the lock, like symbolizing how someone has a person's heart under a lock and key.

"We'll take this one thank you…" Sai said to the salesman. Sakura took the necklace off and put it in the box while Sai paid from the necklace. Sakura put back on the necklace Sasuke had given her. Sai smiled.

"Coincidence my ass, it looks more like a date to me, that bastard." Sasuke said getting angry once again. Naruto pulled Sasuke farther away just incase he got to loud and blew there cover.

"Relax and don't go jumping into conclusions okay? Why don't you just ask Sakura later?"

"I don't think so; she didn't tell me yesterday, and I doubt she would tell me today." Sasuke said drifting his eyes from Naruto's to the crowded mall. He spotted Sakura and Sai talking and laughing happily, anger grew more.

"Oh no, there coming let's go Sasuke hurry!" Naruto said pulling Sasuke from there hiding place and into the crowd, trying to use the people to cover them up but as clumsy as Naruto is, instead of running from Sakura, they ran right into her. They both gasp when they saw that Sakura was only feets away from them and turned the other direction.

"Thanks a lot you idoit." Sasuke mumbled. Naruto kept walking faster but I guess from Naruto's orange shirt, blonde hair, and Sasuke's duck butt hair cut, Sakura found them out.

"Sasuke, Naruto? What are you guys doing here?" Sakura asked her boyfriend and friend curiously. They both turned around. Naruto was laughing uneasily as Sasuke standing there observing Sakura and Sai.

"I should be asking you the same thing Sakura," Sasuke said coldly and glared at Sai. Sakura looked from Sasuke to Sai. She sighed. "Must I have to do this everytime they meet..." Sakura thought in her mind.

"Sasuke, I was helping Sai buy something for someone, no big deal!"

Sasuke turned his glare from Sai to Sakura. "For someone? Or is it for you?" Sasuke said rather loudly to Sakura who was taken back by Sasuke's reaction.

"What are you talking about," Sakura said getting angry at how Sasuke just jumped to conclusions.

"You heard me, it was for you wasn't it, don't think I didn't hear what you said. You said you loved that necklace, and he bought it for you!" Sasuke said pointing to the box Sai was holding.

"Sasuke listen-"Sai said trying to explain the whole situation.

"Shut up you have no right to talk bastard," Sasuke said fist tightly together. He was just about ready to sock the crap out of Sai when Sakura stepped in.

"No YOU shut up! Sasuke what has gotten into you, don't accuse him like that!"

"So you're defending him now, how typical. If you didn't like me anymore why didn't you just tell me?" Sasuke said angrily.

"What are you talking about? You think I'm cheating on you, is that it? And you followed me here? You don't trust me?" Sakura said sad and angry at the same time.

"What if I don't trust you anymore?! You don't even deserve it!"

Sakura gasped as tears started to form at the corners of her eyes. She kept it in and looked at Sasuke.

"Fine, if you don't trust me anymore, then I don't need to keep this anymore!" Sakura said pulling off the necklace Sasuke had given her from her neck and handed it to Sasuke. She walked past him and out of the mall. Sai chased after Sakura while Sasuke stood there holding the Uchiha necklace ring in his hands. The chain had broken, just like there relationship.

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Sakura came back to the Uchiha house, to find that everyone was sitting in the living room, boys on one side and girls on the other side. She walked over to where they were.

"Sakura, what's wrong?" Ino said seeing Sakura's red eyes. Ino put her arms around Sakura giving her a comforting hug. Sakura had been crying while she walked back her alone.

"Nothing, what are you guys up too?" Sakura said.

"We decided to sit down and talk about our problems…so we can work things out." Tenten answered. Sakura sat down next to Ino. She heard the door open, but didn't turn around, knowing who it was.

"Sasuke, Naruto where were you guys? Especially you Sasuke, Sakura isn't happy and you weren't even comforting her." Ino said pointing her finger at Sasuke who turned away when Ino mentioned the last part.

"Did something happen…"Tenten said putting her hand on Sakura's shoulder. Sakura looked over at Sasuke who looked away and walked over to sit next to Shikamaru.

"I think we all need to have a group discussion about our problems or we're never going to fix them." Sakura said. Everyone nodded and agreed. They all sat in a circle. Everything was silent for a few minutes.

"So Ino, are you going to tell me what you're mad at me for?" Shikamaru said wanting to start this whole discussion. Ino looked at him with painful eyes.

"Shikamaru, I don't think I feel…comfortable with you. You see a pretty girl and you forget all about me right?" Ino said sobbing quietly. Shikamaru looked confused and hurt.

"Ino, is that what you really think about me…that I don't love you enough? How can you feel that way…I…" Shikamaru couldn't continue so he stopped knowing that whatever he said would not help there relationship at this moment. He did do something wrong he had to admit, he saw Temari and let her crawl all over him knowing well that he was hurting Ino. He couldn't hate Ino for hating him, he hated himself.

"At least you knew he loved you," Hinata sighed. Naruto looked up curiously at Hinata. He didn't know there was a problem with his relationship with Hinata.

"What do you mean Hinata-chan…I don't understand." Naruto asked Hinata who sobbed once.

"Naruto-kun, I know you love me…but you always seem to take me to places like the ramen shop. I know you love ramen, I do too, but sometimes it gets a little tiring. Every time to take me to the ramen store, all you care about is the food, you don't even care how I feel about it. I want…something romantic sometimes, maybe not all the times, but at least a couple. Something like a candle light dinner or something…" Hinata said tears falling from her cheeks to the floor. She covered the face and cried in them. Neji looked over at Naruto and scowled, angry that he had hurt his cousin. But then Tenten spoke up take took Neji's attention from Naruto to her.

"Neji, do you know what I like?" Tenten asked the older Hyuuga.

"Of course, you love sports and stuff." Neji answered poorly. Tenten locked her brown eyes with his white ones, clouded with disappointment.

"It's true I like those things, but sometimes, I want to be more girly, instead of sports, I want to walk on the beach or something. You clearly don't know what I want since when we went to the mall I really wanted that necklace…and to take those pictures. They were something special to me; something special I wanted between us. But all you cared about was the stupid game on TV; do you know how that makes me feel?"

Tenten said. Neji looked down ashamed of himself. He knew she wanted all those things, but at the time, he was angry with Tenten dragging him to the mall, he just didn't care.

"Tenten, I'm sorry. You're right I was acting very immature, regardless of your feelings, I promise to not do it again." Neji said walking over to Tenten's side to try and embrace her but she pulled away quickly.

"At least all you guys had trust in your relationships. I don't think I ever had one." Sakura said stressing the word trust and looked at Sasuke sadly. He avoided her gaze.

"It's not that I don't trust you…it's just-"Sasuke started to say but Sakura cut him off angrily.

"Is what, there is no explanation to it! A relationship is supposed to be built from trust. But you, you didn't trust me at all, when I said it was going with a friend, I was! I didn't lie to you Sasuke!" Sakura yelled.

"Why didn't you want to tell me who you were going with then!?"

"I didn't tell you who it was because you would be acting like the way you're acting right now, misunderstanding and jumping to all sorts of conclusions!" Sakura said standing up and crossing her arms. Sasuke stood up as well and walked over to Sakura.

"I wouldn't be jumping to conclusions if you told me who it was in the first place!" Sasuke said up in Sakura's face. She scowled, and so did he. They glared at each other for a long time before Sakura finally gave up and looked away, afarid if she was to continue looking at Sasuke she would break down and cry.

"Well it seems like it doesn't matter anymore since you said I don't deserve your trust!"

"Yeah, you don't!"

"Fine then Sasuke Uchiha, it is over between us, forget about the damn bet! I don't care if Karin has her hands all over you, it doesn't seem like you seem to care either! Then go on right ahead and see if I care! And since this bet is over I am moving out!" Sakura screamed and turned on her heels and stormed up to her room and slammed the door hard. She leaned against the wall and buried her face in her hands and slowly started to let tears fall from her eyes. Sakura slowly slid to her knees and wrapped her arms around them pulling them close to her. It was over, they lost the bet it's finished. Everything had fallen apart.

"Sasuke, what happened?" Neji asked the Sasuke calmed down and looked like he was in a lot of pain. He shook his head and walked upstairs. He passed by Sakura's room hearing her loud crying from behind the door. Sasuke reached from the doorknob, wanting to go in and wrap his arm around her and apologize, but pulled his hand away and continued walking.

Star-Chan: Here you are guys. Sorry again for the late delay on the chapter, but i promise that chapter 10 will come faster then this one. I'm actually already working on in while your reading this! So how did you like it? I think it's starting to suck again :( Well this story is coming to a close end. Maybe 2-4 more chapters, I'm not sure yet. But soon...

Chapter 10: Living Life Without Each Other

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