A/N: Hello guys! First of all I want to say sorry for accidentally deleting my story! Sorry pps! Second, I want to thank all of my reviewers who reviewed this story and my other story 'I will love you forever'. Thanx! Last, I want to say it now and I would. "On with the story!"

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto…

'Thoughts'

"Words spoken"

(Author's note)

Love can change everyone

Chapter 5: Friendship back, love starts!

"Ino, come on! Hurry up!" Tenten shouted. It was after their P.E. lesson so of course Ino was the last again who is trying to catch up with her friends. "Coming! Why are you that excited anyway? Hmm?" Ino asked her friend raising her eyebrow.
"…nothing…uh…I just thought we shouldn't let the boys wait so long since they were kind to us a while ago!" Tenten lied. "Liar!" Ino said. "You just want to see that Neji again, don't you?"

'Knew she'll get me since we knew each other very well' Tenten thought and than said: "There's nothing wrong with that anyway. He's cute, he was kind, and friendly…I think…"

"Oh no! Tenten's falling in love!" Ino teased Tenten

"No I'm not! What about you? Don't you like that Shikamaru? If you haven't notice you're 10 minutes faster when you were changing clothes today than our last P.E. class!" Tenten lied and teased back.

"No. I don't like that Shikamaru." Ino lied. "But he is cute, friendly, kind, and warm. Anyway, what's wrong with being fast today!"

"Nothing!" Tenten said.

"Hey! Sakura! Hurry up! If you're going to walk like that we will be 15 minutes late you know?" Ino yelled at Sakura who was walking a little bit slower than her normal speed which was already slow for everybody except for Tenten and Ino who walks like her sometime.

"Why do we have to hurry? They asked us to meet them. They should wait." Sakura answered.

"Just Hurry Up, Would Ya?" Ino and Tenten said at the same time grabbing Sakura's arm and ran.

When they arrived at their meeting place the boys were not yet there. And the girls were panting.

"Wow! They're –pant- not yet here –pant-. I think we were –pant- too early." Tenten said. (They're not that exhausted.)

"No were –pant- not. It's the end of –pant- all classes now." Ino said.

"We're actually 5 minutes late –pant-, you know." Sakura said. (Did I tell you that she runs a lot during P.E. than the others? That's why she's not that exhausted.)

" Where's the boys then?" Ino said.

"Told you we shouldn't hurry" Sakura muttered.

After saying those two sentences, 2 boys came out from the bushes. It was Shikamaru and Neji.

"…You guys look…tired…" Ino said.

"…And exhausted…" Tenten added.

" Sorry –pant- we're –pant- late –pant-." Shikamaru said panting after each word.

"You see –pant- we were –pant- captured by –pant- our Fan clubs –pant-" Neji said gasping for some air. (Is that even a right term?)

"And we tried to escape them –pant- but –pant- we couldn't that's why we came late –pant-. Sorry." Sasuke said appearing from behind. (they're the one who is really exhausted)

" You should be…" Sakura muttered.

Ino and Tenten glared at Sakura and said: "What did we talk about a while ago?"

"Sorry." Sakura said.

-Flash back-

" Sakura, before we go meet the boys, I want to tell you to be kind to them." Ino said.

"Why should I?" Sakura asked looking confused.

"Because they were kind to us and in return you should too. They even said sorry right?" Tenten said

" Yeah, so?" Sakura answered trying to look innocent.

"Sakura!" Tenten and Ino said.

"Fine. I, Sakura, promise to try my best and be kind to those guys. Since, you two like Shikamaru and Neji." Sakura teased.

Ino and Tenten blushed. "Whatever. Let's go!" Tenten said.

' I can't even believe I'm the leader of this group' Sakura thought.

(Sakura's the leader but sometimes she needs to follow her friends. grins)

-End of flash back-

"Anyway, Do you agree with Shikamaru's idea?" Neji asked.

"Yeah."

" Okay, I'll explain it then." Shikamaru said. "Since you girls are three and we boys are three too, we'll have 2 competitions of 1 girl and 1 boy. One is at studying, and the other one is at sports. The other girl and boy would be your team's referee. Understood?

"Yeah."

"You could choose who's the one competing for studying and who's the one competing for sports. We'll choose ours too." Neji added.

"Ok"

After a few minutes…

"In our team, Sakura's competing for studying and Tenten is competing for sports." Ino announced. "And I'm the referee for our team."

"Sasuke's competing for studying and Neji is competing for sports." Shikamaru announced too. "I'm the referee."

"Okay It's all set then!" Tenten said

"I guess that's all, we could go home now." Neji said.

"Okay…" Tenten, Ino, and Shikamaru said.

" Sakura, we're going now. Hurry up!" Ino shouted going ahead of Sakura with Tenten, Shikamaru, and Neji. (What I meant is: Ino, Shikamaru, Neji, and Tenten went ahead of Sakura and Sasuke.)

"Whatever." Sakura muttered. (She mutters a lot so people couldn't hear her)

"Sakura, Can I talk to you for a while?" Sasuke asked.

"…I guess…" Sakura answered.

"I want to say sorry for what happened to us 4 years before. Do you still remember that? And Do you want to know the reason why?" Sasuke said.

"…I still remember that…when you hurt me right? …and yes, I want to know the reason." Sakura replied.

"The reason is, Watanabe Mari (OC) told me not to go near you anymore. She said if I ever go near you again she'll kill you or hurt you. And I didn't want that to happen to you. That's why I did what she told me to. I'm sorry." Sasuke said looking at Sakura.

Sakura was silent. It took her a while before answering Sasuke.

"I'll accept your apology. But I want to tell you that, getting hurt by Watanabe is better than getting hurt by you, since you were my best friend at that time." Sakura said looking back at Sasuke.

"Maybe getting hurt by Watanabe was better than me hurting you, but her killing you will be worst than anything. You know she's rich right?" Sasuke said smirking.

"Whatever" Sakura answered back smirking too.

"So……Can I be……uh…………I mean…can we…" Sasuke took a deep breath before talking again. "What I mean is…can we be friends again?"

Sakura was surprised, but then for the first time, smiled.

"Yeah sure. I guess I wanted my first boy friend again anyway. What I mean by boy friend is a boy that is my friend, okay? And remember we still have a competition." Sakura replied.

"Okay" Sasuke laughed.

And then there was a sound from the bushes.

"Ino, Tenten, come out!" Sakura said.

"You two too, Shikamaru and Neji" Sasuke said

Then the four came out from their hiding place.

"hehehe…we uh…heard it all" Tenten grinned.

"Not on purpose!" Ino added.

"Yeah, you guys were just too slow" Shikamaru said.

"That's why we went to check what happened." Neji said smiling at Sakura and Sasuke.

"And hide?" Sasuke asked.

"Yeah, we didn't want to bother you guys" the four replied.

"Whatever" Sakura, for the first time, laughed.

"Hey we should party you know. This is the first time Sakura laughed and smiled." Ino grinned.

"Party tomorrow if you want since it's Friday today, but not now. Let's go home." Sakura said.

"Okay!" Tenten replied.

"Give us your phone numbers then" Tenten added to the boys.

"No need. She has our telephone numbers. She owns the school remember?" Neji replied.

"Okay. Let's go home then" Ino said.

They all went home together since they live near each other. Everybody thought that today is a very nice day. First of all, Sakura laughed and smiled today for the first time. Second, Sasuke and Sakura's friendship was back. And Last, they're all going out tomorrow and it seems that everybody is friends now!

TBC………

A/N: Yay! Chappie 5 finished. I hope I'll finish this story "Love can change everyone" during this summer vacation of mine and then start a new one! But that's kinda impossible. Well, I'll try my best! Please Review!

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