OK! I am REALLY upset because stupid Karin is getting in the way of sasusaku and stupid Sasuke is so mean to Sakura!

I know he's just trying to make her hate him so he can break his bonds but…

Sakura: he is?

Me: duh…

Itachi: I'm rather upset with my brother at the moment…

Me: Me too! BUT, I just figured something out…

Sasuke: what?

Me: Well, Sasuke cares about Sakura to a certain extent, right…?

Sasuke, Itachi, Sakura: Right.

Me: Now! What is the only thing standing in between Sasuke and Sakura?

Itachi:…?

Sasuke: Revenge?

Itachi: ME?

Sakura: yeah…

Me: SO! Technically, Sasuke is running away from Konoha recruiting suigetsu and all these losers, just so he can kill Itachi! And he wants to kill Itachi just so he can be with Sakura!

Itachi *to Sasuke* Your so mean to me.

Sasuke: whatever, it looks like she's figured me out…

Sakura: You know, that's highly unlikely… Sasuke-kun really doesn't care about me…

Itachi/Sasuke: WHAT?

Sasuke: of course I care about you, Sakura.

Sakura:!

Itachi: whew that was close…

Sakura: you do?

Sasuke: yes.

Itachi: hey isn't it about time you got on with the story?

Me: uh… yeah…

*readers throw random crap at me*

Me: Uh... ok! Ok! Moving on! I just wanted to say because I am so upset about the lack of sasusaku things, this chapter will be loaded with sasusaku! YAY!

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I woke up to the sound of a loud BOOM! I jolted upright in bed and glared at my alarm clock.

4:30 AM…

That was a whole 30 MINUTES ahead of my schedule… An INTERRUPTION of my routine.

I felt the insuppressible need to kill something. A loud scream coming from outside my door offered me an available victim.

My sharingan activated involuntarily.

The loud ruckus outside was cut short as I slammed the door open.

The blonde boy, the blonde girl, the kid with the dog, and Haruno Sakura stood in the hallway.

Apparently, the kid with the dog had been chasing his dog through the mansion which explained why there was cracked porcelain and earth scattered throughout the hallway.

"W...H…A…T… THE… H … E…L…L ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING?" I think I popped a brain cell with that one.

Everyone stared at me with fear written on their faces. No one answered.

The door across from me suddenly opened and Itachi's glare melted the trespassers who were now bubbling masses of melted ex-humans.

"What is going on here?" He asked in a cool, extremely angry, voice.

The puddles melted still further until they dripped onto the lower floor.

"Answer the question." I added with another icy glare.

Haruno Sakura was the only one to find her backbone and take responsibility for their actions.

"Moshi wake arimasen." She said bowing politely. "It is our fault entirely, Akamaru went missing, Kiba found him, but Akamaru had been eating some chili powder and so he ran around without stopping and Kiba tried to catch him but…"

She noticed our blank expressions as we failed to keep up with her one-sided conversation and finished with,

"… It won't happen again."

"That's right." Said Itachi stepping out of his room.

He picked up Akamaru,

"It won't."

A maid popped up out of nowhere and took Akamaru from Itachi.

Itachi turned to Kiba, "You will see your dog at the end of the week."

Kiba blubbered incoherently before bursting into tears and running down the stairs.

I stared after the idiot. This was a perfect start to the worst day of my life.

I suddenly noticed that the hallway was awkwardly silent.

The blonde girl was staring at me and … Drooling?

I then noticed that I was wearing my black pajamas and no shirt. With a groan of frustration, I headed back into my room and slammed the door.

I hate my life…

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I had showered, finished my homework, and even gone so far as to CLEAN MY OWN ROOM, and still no breakfast had arrived.

This called for homicide.

With graphic violence flashing before my eyes I headed to… the kitchen.

I slammed open the kitchen door and all the servants there became instantly silent. A few faces turned white.

No matter. They would be red in a second.

Blood red.

"WHERE THE HELL IS HE!" shouted a voice that partially cooled my anger.

A girl with long black hair and black eyes that flashed dangerously barged into the room.

"Where the hell is your Father? I'll tear him to shreds!"

Ah. That would be Sande. And if she was looking for my father, that meant I'd better leave the building.

"I'm not sure, why?" I asked.

"I'll kill him! I'll boil his eyes in lemon juice!" She continued raving madly.

I raised an eyebrow.

"That IDIOT!" She continued. "He has RESPONSIBILITIES dammit!"

She stopped suddenly, "Sasuke, what are you doing in the kitchen?" she asked.

I sighed. "Today," I sent a glare to every corner of the room where a servant might have been hiding.

"There was no breakfast."

Sande gasped. A glass deep in a cooking area of the kitchen that was hidden by some western swinging metal doors fell and shattered.

"Wh-wh-why?" she stammered.

"That's not all." I said every syllable dripping with vehemence.

"Th-th-there's MORE?" she asked in shock.

I nodded grimly. "This morning…"

An eerie wind swept through the kitchen.

"I woke up at 4:30 am."

Sande's face went sheet white.

Pin-drop silence ensued.

"Masa ka!" she shouted. She pushed me into a chair at a table and rushed into the kitchen, two seconds later, she returned, bearing a tray with my traditional breakfast.

She set it in front of me, and at last, I ate some breakfast.

"So," she said "Do you have any essays for me?"

I thought about it a minute… "I have a history one."

I snapped my fingers and a maid rushed off to get my school things.

"It's about the Second Industrial Revolution." I explained.

"Souka," she said "That's the one where they exchanged iron for steel; it was in the 1800's right?"

I nodded in confirmation.

The maid returned with the instructions for the assignment and Sande took it from her and read it over carefully.

"Alright, I'll bring it over this evening, ok?" she said.

"Aa. Just be sure not to"- but I was interrupted.

"She's writing your essays?" came a voice from the doorway.

The voice belonged to none other than Haruno Sakura.

Having finished my meal, I stood up and allowed a maid to clear the table.

"It's none of your concern." I said. The orphans were really stepping out of place.

"You know that's not right. What would your father say? There's a reason you're supposed to do your own work." She countered.

"Just because you're rich doesn't mean you can bribe or blackmail people to do your homework!" she said accusingly.

"Hey!" interrupted Sande "I'm not being bribed or blackmailed!"

"This doesn't concern you." I repeated to Sakura in an icy tone that made her hold her tongue.

"Listen." I said. "When you're living in this home, you have to follow the rules of this house."

She looked at me defiantly.

"Rule number one." I said holding up a finger. "Uchiha Itachi."

"Rule number two." I said, holding up a second finger, "Me."

With that, I stepped past her, and was about to leave the kitchen when she said softly, "Chotto…"

I froze; she still had something to say?

"You said your Aniki is the first rule?" She looked at me with a raised brow.

"He is." I replied. Itachi is first and foremost.

"Souka." She said with a smile. "At first, I thought you only cared for yourself, but I guess despite the fact that you're an annoying rich kid, you still care for your brother, I misjudged you."

What? I was taken aback. It had nothing to do with caring for Itachi… Maybe it did, but caring for Itachi was equivalent to caring for myself.

And did she just call me an annoying rich kid?

"You're annoying." I said, and turned to leave.

I paused in the doorway, though, and turned back to Sande. "Why did you want to see my Father?" I asked.

She gasped as she suddenly remembered and rushed down the hallway shouting "I'll kill him! I'll KILL him!"

I looked down the hallway with my hands in my pockets and a raised brow. This definitely meant I should leave the building.

Sakura stepped beside me, and also looked down the hallway. "What was that all about?" she asked.

I headed down the hallway in the opposite direction and said "You don't want to know."

"I think I'm going to check it out." She said, heading in the direction Sande had disappeared in.

"Wait." I said.

She turned, "Nanio?" she asked.

"You're going in there? Alone?" it was impossible.

"Uh… yeah." She replied.

I was dumbfounded, what guts…

With a sigh, I stepped beside her and said "You'll need an escort."

"Oh." Sakura said.

We walked down the hallway together in a seemingly peaceful silence that was only disturbed by the sound of the orphans breaking things on the higher floors.

"Ano," said Sakura. "Do you like Sande?"

I stopped, a puzzled expression on my face. Was she crazy?

"Sande is nineteen." I said.

"Oh." She said, continuing down the hallway as if she had said nothing out of the ordinary.

"So, where did she go?" she asked.

"To my Father's office, where else?" I replied.

"Your father has an office in his own home?" she asked, bewildered.

I let my silence serve as an answer.

"So, who is Sande anyway?" Sakura asked, "Like, cousin or sister or…" she trailed off waiting for me to fill in the blank.

"She's Itachi's partner." I answered.

"Partner as in…?" she trailed off again.

I raised an eyebrow at her. "How much do you know about the Uchiha clan?" I asked.

"Erm… not much. You guys are really rich and… you have a hand in the government I guess…" She said.

That's it.

So she knew nothing.

Nothing about the sharingan or our prestigious and historic background. How could such a girl have become an Uchiha?

"The Uchiha clan is a prestigious clan that dates back to Japan's earliest days. We were formerly Lords and Samurai but as such a world became outdated, we became the leaders in business and politics." I lectured.

She listened intently and it almost seemed as if she understood what I was saying.

"So," she said "How does this explain Sande and Itachi's partnership?"

I shook my head, "You'll find out in a minute" I said as we neared my Father's office.

I motioned for her to be silent and leaned against the outside wall, lowering my head. The office doors were wide open, so every word could be heard.

Apparently, Sande had just arrived.

"If they elect you, it'll be the biggest mistake this country has ever MADE!" She shouted furiously.

"The headlines would look great! Wouldn't they? Prestigious governor keeps his own SON from fulfilling his responsibilities! Well, what the hell does that say about the FATHER!"

She shouted as my Father stammered incoherently.

"I- I what-?" he asked.

"Itachi has responsibilities to the Police Force! Just because you're too much of a handicap to manage a single evening without him, does NOT mean that you have the right to pull him off a mission WE needed him for!"

She continued.

"Your problem is that you think just because you're so stinkin' rich you don't have to care about anybody else or your responsibilities to anyone else!"

She shouted.

"Excuse me!" said my Father, "I'll have you know that I donate 2 million dollars to nonprofit organizations annually!"

"SURE!" said Sande "IN OTHER COUNTRIES! If you wanna make the world a better place, maybe you should start looking a little closer to home! You just do the good deeds that will grab attention! Maybe you should fix yourself before you start worrying about other people you got that?"

I took the silence to indicate that my Father was dumbfounded.

"And Itachi had BETTER show up for today's mission or the media will hear of this!" she shouted as she stormed out of the room.

She stomped down the hallway and just as she turned the corner, Itachi came from the other side of the hallway.

Seeing me, he asked "Where's Father?"

I pointed a thumb over my shoulder to indicate that he was in his office and Itachi headed inside.

"ITACHI!" said my father.

"Yes, Father?" asked Itachi.

"Tell me, Son, you have no intention of marrying that Sande girl, do you?" My father seemed sincerely concerned.

"Of course not, Father." Said Itachi.

"Good!" said my Father patting Itachi's shoulder "Well then, make sure you're not late for today's mission!"

Itachi raised a brow as my Father left the room.

He then turned to me and said "I take it Sande was here?"

"She was being surprisingly tolerant and patient today." I replied.

Itachi left some papers on Father's desk and turned to leave.

"Sasuke, make sure you and Sakura get to school on time, you two are the only ones who haven't left yet." Itachi said.

I glanced at the clock 7:45… I was running late.

"Hai." I said heading down the hallway.

Ordinarily, I would only be worrying about myself but now that Aniki had said it, I had to make sure Sakura got to school on time as well.

As Itachi left, I turned to Sakura, "Hurry up and change into your uniform. We're running late as it is."

She looked at me with a confused expression, "er… but, I don't have a uniform."

"Uniforms were ordered for the orphans in advance, I'm sure the maids must have brought your uniform to your room." I explained patiently.

"In... my… room?" she looked at the ceiling, clearly thinking of all the stairs she would have to climb.

She sighed and shook her head, "Why don't you guys install an elevator?" she asked.

"Just hurry." I said. "I'll wait for you at the front door."

She sighed and ran off and I headed to the front door.

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The uniforms for our high school were very simple. Black pants, white shirts, and black blazers for the males and black skirts, white shirts, and black blazers for the females.

Somehow though, the uniforms had the effect of making it seem that people from this high school all came from prestigious families.

As Sakura rushed through the living room and headed towards me, I was surprised to find that an orphan girl could be taken out of an orphanage, dressed in a Konoha High uniform, and end up looking like, well if not an Uchiha, at the very least she seemed to belong to a noble family.

She almost looked as if she were intellectually and socially on my level.

Impossible.

I acted as if nothing had changed and we headed out the door. I led the way to the limousines and found my usual chauffeur looking sweaty and panicky.

I headed towards him and wondered why he had not driven the limousine up to the front door as he usually did.

"Oi." I said to call his attention.

"Eep!" he squeaked, how manly.

"Sa-sa-sa-sa-sa Sasuke-sama…" he stuttered.

"Well?" I asked with a raised brow.

"Ah, well, you see the 'other' Uchihas each went with their own individual limousine, therefore, I have no limousine with which to take you to school…" He explained clumsily.

"Where's your limousine, the one you drive?" I asked.

"Uh well, you see…"

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"WHOO HOO!" shouted Naruto as he speeded down the street and slammed on the brakes as he reached a red light.

"Sweet!" said Naruto with a grin as he waited for it to turn green.

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"You let him WHAT?" I asked, in disbelief.

"Please forgive me, Sasuke-sama!" he said cowering in fear.

I caught Sakura trying to stifle her laughter with her hand and I rounded on her instantly.

"This." I stated. "Is NOT funny."

Somehow, this seemed even funnier to her, and she gave up trying to stop laughing and burst out with very rude, raucous laughter.

"HAHAHAHA!" She held onto her stomach dropped her schoolbag onto the floor and laughed like there was no tomorrow.

I groaned in frustration.

I turned back to the chauffeur "Well, what do you suggest I do?" I asked him.

"Er… Um… Well…" He stammered incoherently.

"Walk, of course." Said Sakura from behind me, still grinning widely.

"Walk?"

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And that was how, I found myself walking across the streets of the city of Konoha.

Like a COMMONER.

I prayed that no one would recognize me.

To think that THE UCHIHA SASUKE was walking around on the streets on his own two feet like a COMMONER.

Commoner. Urgh. Even the word felt poisonous.

"I'll kill them." I said again.

Sakura sighed, "That must have been fun for Naruto."

I raised a brow at her. She seemed like a sensible person, and yet she always took that idiot's side in the midst of his stupidity.

I was certain that, if someone else had done it, she would have been reasonably upset.

I decided that it didn't matter and that she was after all, nothing more than an orphan and a commoner.

She seemed oblivious to the agony of the current situation and watched the scenery with a smile on her face, it was irritating.

I briefly wondered if anyone had ever angered her, and how she gets angry, that would be interesting.

At long last, we reached Konoha high.

Sakura stared up at the large building. There was a gate in the front and a courtyard filled with cherry blossom trees. The building itself was nothing short of magnificent and it was also sparkling clean and spotless.

"Sugoi…" she breathed in admiration.

"Let's just go…" I grumbled walking past the gate.

She looked all around her as we walked, like a peasant. It was humiliating to be in her presence.

I decided to ignore it.

She watched in openmouthed admiration at a large aquarium that covered one wall of the hallway through which we were walking.

I decided I could not ignore it.

"Stop doing that." I ordered as I took her arm and dragged her down the hallway.

"Doing what?" she asked, irritatedly.

"Staring at everything. You represent the Uchiha clan now, never forget that." I lectured once more.

I thought I saw a flash of anger spark in her emerald eyes but it was subdued almost immediately.

"Alright." She said.

"Er… you can let go of my arm now." She said, seeing as I was still dragging her down the hallway.

I let go of her arm, but didn't slow my pace. We were late as it was.

I reached the principal's office, opened the door, and headed straight to his desk.

"This is Haruno- er... Uchiha Sakura, she needs the schedule of her classes." I ordered.

"Tsk, tsk Sasuke," said the principal as he handed me the schedule.

I turned to leave as the principal said "You're late for class, don't develop a bad habit now."

I froze and Sakura too, stopped. I turned slowly and walked back to his desk.

I then slammed my hand on his desk and asked, "Do you like your job?"

"Er, um… yes. I do?" The last part was an uncertainty.

"Hmph." That was a threat enough; I took Sakura's arm once again and hurried to her first class, which was, coincidentally, also my first class.

Homeroom with Orochimaru, this was gonna be a blast.

Without slowing my pace, I slammed the door open, dragging Sakura inside. I dumped her in the nearest empty seat and stomped to my desk.

"You may continue your class." I said to Orochimaru.

"I- I see, Sasuke." He replied, he didn't say anything further because I had arrived into the classroom late, which most likely meant that my day had been full of things that had interrupted my routine which meant I was in a TERRIBLE mood.

All of which was true.

"I'll just continue roll call, then…" He said.

"Uchiha Chouji!" he called.

"Here!" A deep voice grumbled.

Impossible, they were here too? I swept my glare across the room, guaranteeing that each of them felt the full effects of my anger,

"Uchiha Hinata!" was next.

"P-p-p-present!" stuttered Hinata.

What a shame to the Uchiha clan, what a shame oh, what a shame. Some fat kid and a near-mute girl.

"Uchiha Ino!"

"Here!" the girl said jumping out of her seat.

I slumped deeper into mine, what had become of the Uchiha name?

"Uchiha Kiba!"

"…"

I scanned the room for the dog-kid and sure enough he was sitting at a desk in the back at the far left with his feet up on the chair and his knees drawn tight to his chest.

Apparently, he was still mourning the loss of his dog.

What a girl.

"He's Here." The kid with the jacket and sunglasses answered.

"That's not good enough." Said Orochimaru. "When I call Kiba he has to answer for himself!"

"Uchiha Kiba!"

"…"

"Uchiha Kiba!"

"…"

"UCHIHA KIBA!"

"I'M HERE DAMMIT! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

I felt as if Orochimaru were just trying to torture me by calling that guy by my last name three times.

"Uchiha Lee!"

I think that one hurt the most.

"YOSH!" said Lee.

"Uchiha Naruto!"

"HERE!" shouted the blonde enthusiastically.

I turned and sent the Idiot the deadliest glare I could muster. His desk turned to dust.

"Uchiha Neji!"

I actually didn't mind that one so much.

"Uchiha Sakura!"

"Here."

… I'll leave no comment on that one.

"Uchiha Sasuke!"

I sent him a glare as a sign of my presence.

"Uchiha Shikamaru."

"Yeah, I'm here."

"Uchiha Shino!"

"Present."

Wait a minute what was that weird, buggy sound?

"Uchiha Tenten!" said Orochimaru finally.

We looked towards Tenten who did not answer.

She had her hands clasped in front of her face and tears in her eyes.

"Could you say that again, please?" she asked.

What, was she trying to torture me too?

"Uchiha… Tenten?" asked Orochimaru.

I winced. Tenten sighed.

"What's up with her?" asked one kid.

Ino sighed. "Tenten has never had a last name."

Everyone raised their brows.

Ino was an idiot. No one knew that the 11 of them had been adopted so now they were simply thrust into further confusion.

"I see," said Orochimaru, "So the rumors of Uchiha Fugaku adopting 11 orphans were true?"

He smirked, "It's pleasant to see so many Uchihas, but really, there's only one original."

He then walked to me and began… stroking my HAIR? This guy is crazy…

No amount of glaring could get him off my case and the other students were laughing like mad.

This day was worsening by the second.

Sakura stifled a laugh as well, and I sent her a glare. She smiled sympathetically and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.

"Orochimaru, teach the class or I'll see to it that you spend the rest of your life shut up in a sanatorium for the mentally insane." I said.

Orochimaru gasped in wounded innocence and turned to the teacher's aide and said "Kabuto!"

"?" Kabuto looked up from his game of online solitaire.

"Oh! Everyone please open your books to page 319." Said Kabuto.

There was a reluctant shuffling as everyone did as they were told.

"Now!" said Orochimaru, "Sasuke, please begin reading at the top of the page."

I scrutinized the page, it seemed normal enough.

"At the equator, the earth rotates at a speed of about 1600 kilometers per hour. (This is about 400 kilometers per hour faster than the speed of sound in the air.) It takes the earth about 24 hours to rotate once on its axis. The amount of time the earth takes to complete one rotation is called a day. So a day on the earth is about 24 hours long."

(AN: Random stuff from a science book I pulled out of my bookcase)

"Well done!" said Orochimaru. "Naruto! Please explain what Sasuke-kun just read to us."

"Well." Said Naruto with a grin, "If I could make anything out of that incoherent babbling it would be blah, blah, blah."

I didn't waste my time glaring at him; instead I plotted a thousand ways to kill Naruto. The more violent the better.

Sakura frowned at Naruto, and answered the question for him.

"The paragraph states that the earth spins at 1600 kilometers per hour which is 400 kilometers per hour faster than the speed of sound. The paragraph also states that the time it takes for a planet to rotate once around its axis is called a day, and an Earth day is about 24 hours long."

"Ooooooh." Said the entire class.

"Very good, Sakura. But next time, don't talk out of turn." Said Orochimaru.

So the day went on, I headed from one class to another, enduring as well as I could, but hating my father all the while.

How could he have done such a cruel thing to me?

Maybe I can have the orphans transferred to a different school. Maybe I could transfer to a different school.

My life is hopeless.

Eventually the bell rang, signaling lunch time. I resisted the urge to breathe a sigh of relief and grabbed my bag and headed out of the room.

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Sakura frowned. Sure, Sasuke was an annoying rich kid, but he was clearly suffering. From what she had seen of his life, it seemed clear that he had no friends whatsoever.

He didn't strike her as the kind of person who really wanted friends but, she was beginning to think that his life was really not so different from how her life had been at the orphanage.

They both were constantly forced into things they didn't want.

She walked into the lunchroom, wondering if the orphans would be able to get along with Sasuke.

Her jaw fell to the floor.

There were about ten girls crowding around the lunch table that Sasuke was sitting at and Sasuke was desperately trying to glare them all away.

She changed her mind. His life was VERY different from her life at the orphanage.

She searched for Naruto and she found him sitting at a large table with most of her other friends.

She sat down next to him and was disappointed to find that the subject of the conversation was none other than Uchiha Sasuke.

"I really don't like guys like that." Said Naruto, looking over to where the squealing noises were coming from.

The group shuddered collectively and sighed.

"It can't be helped." Said Tenten. "The guy's an idiot."

"A cute idiot." Countered Ino.

"He treats us like we're peasants or something." Said Kiba.

"This means only one thing…" said Lee.

"Revenge…" grinned Naruto.

Sakura sighed, she'd just as soon not get involved.

Sakura glanced over to where Sasuke had given up trying to shoo his fangirls away and had let his head collapse onto the table.

With a sigh, she stood up and walked over to his table, two fangirls especially eyed her suspiciously, Ami Hitakitekate and Karin.

"Ano, Sasuke-san," she said.

He looked up, wondering whose voice it was that was not squealing, whining, or shouting.

Seeing the face of Haruno Sakura, he sat up straight and said "Nanio?"

"I just thought that maybe you would want to come eat with us, it's a lot…quieter." She offered.

He glanced over to the table she had come from, the orphans were watching her openmouthed.

"Thanks but no thanks," said Karin stepping in between Sakura and Sasuke, "Sasuke is just fine with us."

"Yeah! You can go back to your own table!" Ami added.

"Actually," said Sasuke pushing them aside. "That sounds like a good idea." He picked up his tray and followed Sakura to her table.

Karin and Ami plotted war.

The orphans stared silently as Sakura sat down next to Naruto, and Sasuke sat down next to Sakura.

There was a few moments' silence. Then… "So, Sasuke! How old are you?"

This came from Ino.

He arched a sleek brow at her and said "Seventeen."

"Oh!" she said as her mind screamed 'The perfect age!'

"I'm sixteen!" she said with a huge smile.

"You should know." Said Sasuke, "That because my Father adopted you, technically you're my sister."

Ino blushed terribly, but Sakura jumped on Sasuke to cover his mouth. It was too late however, she looked over at Neji and Tenten and an awkward silence ensued as they gazed at the floor.

Sasuke followed Sakura's gaze and came to a conclusion quickly.

'Could those two be…?' he wondered. If that was the case, his Father had certainly made a difficult situation for them.

Neji stood up and cleared his throat, "Tenten." He said. "Come with me."

He turned and headed out of the lunchroom as Tenten jumped up to follow him.

With a sigh, Sakura released Sasuke.

She picked at her food, feeling miserably for Neji and Tenten.

Hinata looked at her feet as well, and Sakura wanted to punch Sasuke's father, just once with the superstrength she had learned from the time she and Naruto had known Tsunade.

The turquoise necklace Naruto had given Hinata shined gently, and Hinata softly excusing herself, also left the lunchroom.

"O…K…" thought Sasuke.

Naruto looked after Hinata in confusion, "Ano, Sakura-chan." He said, "Whats wrong with Hinata-chan?"

Sakura raised a brow and said "Why don't you go find out?"

Naruto nodded and left the lunchroom as well.

"Playing matchmaker, are we, Sakura?" asked Ino.

"Don't be ridiculous, Ino, if Naruto weren't such an idiot, those two would have been together long ago." She replied.

Sasuke felt weird to be included in their conversations, and for them to act and speak so freely around him.

He had never been close to anyone other than his brother and for the most part, he was sure he didn't like it.

"Don't tell me that those four are…" he trailed off as everyone began to glare at him as if it were his fault.

He had honestly never thought that such a situation could have been the case, and now that he knew, he wasn't sure how he felt about it.

The remaining students slowly began to leave the lunchroom and Sasuke decided once more that those orphans were nothing but trouble…

AN: Hope you liked it! I'm frickin tired, I was gonna write more but Ive been writing for hours on end, so I'm gonna stop now, people tell me my face is turning weird from staring at the screen all day.

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