He said YES. He said FUCKING YES. Why am I so hurt? I should be happy. I hate this. Why on Christmas Eve too? I picked up my phone and re-read the horrible text message again.

It's official. Hinata is now my girlfriend.

Sasuke, why? Why ruin my day? It's sad how you can either make my life heaven or hell in a matter of seconds. Naruto randomly barged into my room. I just slowly turned my head on my pillow to look at him. I wasn't exactly done with my sulking. When I looked at him, Naruto looked as miserable as me.

"What's got you down?", I asked, closing my eyes.

"He said yes.", was what he gave as an explanation.

"I know.."

"What if he replaces me? I can't handle that! I don't wanna lose my best friend! I mean I have you and Sakura, but Sasuke's a guy, and I need a guy best friend! Sure the others are great, but they're not the best I me-"

"Naruto."

"Yes?"

"He's not replacing anybody. So calm down."

Naruto sat down on his usual beanbag. "You're taking this surprisingly well."

"What do you mean?", I opened my eyes to look at him.

"I thought you would've screamed, go find him, declare your undying love for him, kiss him, and then demand him to rethink his decision."

"What the fuck makes you think that?", I asked, eyes wide.

"Cause you're crushing on him. Why else would you be sulking?", Naruto stated, standing up and heading for the exit.

"Point taken.", I huffed. The second Naruto left, I rolled down the sleeve of my shirt. I may have cut a bit. It was only five cuts, and they weren't that deep. I rolled my sleeve back up and sat up. No point in sulking. I should go to Temari's and make her see Shikamaru in a different light. I was already dressed because I went to store earlier, so I should just put on my coat. I opened up my bedroom door, and jogged down the stairs. I walked into the living room and saw my family. Naruto was on his laptop and my mom was watching T.V.

"Can I go to Temari's, mom?", I asked her.

"Yeah, sure, whatever.", she replied. I raised an eyebrow and looked at Naruto.

"She's been like this since morning.", he told me. I nodded and left to put on my jacket. Once I slipped on my jacket and my shoes, I left. It was about 1:00, so Temari and Gaara should be up. Kankuro doesn't wake up until the sun sets, that boy. I hopped up the steps of their house and slowly opened the door. They always leave it unlocked. I walked inside and slowly closed the door. There was no one on the first floor. Maybe they all are still sleeping. I quietly crept up the stairs and stopped. No sound.

"Fuck!"

I turned to my left. That sounded like it was coming from the bathroom. Without thinking, I opened the door, and wow. I totally wasn't expecting what I saw.

"Oh..um...", was what came off of Gaara's lips. Gaara was standing over the sink, a blade in his hand, and another one between his lips. Blood dripping from his wrist into the sink explained what was happening. "Juliet, it's no-"

"Gaara, don't talk with that blade in your mouth!", I quickly walked up to him, and slowly took the blade out between his lips. He had a couple of tiny cuts on his lips. I looked down at his wrist and saw about six cuts. They were all somewhat okay, but the last one was deep. I guess that's why he shouted. I reached for their medicine cabinet and took out the first aid kit. I took some water and a pad and began cleaning off the blood off his wrist.

"Juliet...", Gaara began.

"Shut up for a bit, umkay?", I told him. Once I cleaned off the blood, I took some rubbing alcohol and began cleaning the deep wound. Wouldn't want that to get infected, oh no, no. Gaara sharply inhaled from the sting. Once I finished cleaning, I took out some bandages and covered each cut with one. I then pulled down the sleeve of his black shirt. I looked at him, and he had guilt all over his face. I wasn't really focusing on that though, I was looking at the slight cuts on his lips. I took a tube of lip balm from my pocket. Gaara furrowed his make-believe eyebrows.

"It's medicated lip balm, calm down.", I explained. Gaara slightly opened his mouth to let me put some on him. I glided the lip product over his lips, paying close attention to the cuts. I closed it and put it back into my pocket when I was done. "I know what you're going through.", I told Gaara, as I began to take off my jacket. Gaara stayed quiet. I rolled up my left sleeve to show Gaara my cuts. Gaara's eyes went wide when he saw them.

"Juliet...", he began inching closer. He took hold of my arms. "You're beautiful. You shouldn't be cutting..."

"Mmm.", I hummed as a response, and fell into his arms. "You out of all people should've guessed. You know I fake my smiles."

"Yeah...I can be really stupid at times.", he said, resting his head in between my neck and shoulder.

"Mmm.", I hummed again. My head was resting on his shoulder. We stood like that for a bit, then I felt a pair of lips kiss my neck gently. They continued to do so, and I'm not gonna lie, I was sorta enjoying it. Those soft lips made their way up to my ear, and they slightly bit down on my earlobe.

"Okay, how about we both stop cutting for as long as we can, and when we need to, we just tell each other why we need to and we find a better way to handle, hm?", Gaara whispered into my ear.

"Deal, and I don't know how you've never kissed a girl, yet you're making me really want you right now.", I whispered back.

"Haha, guess I'm a natural.", Gaara laughed and kissed my cheek. He then reached for my jacket off the floor and led my into his room. "So what were you doing here anyways?", he asked me, closing his door and hanging my jacket on the back of it.

"I came here to talk to Temari.", I told him, sitting on his bed.

"Oh, okay. Her and Kankuro went to do some last minute Christmas shopping.", he explained, sitting next to me.

"Wow. Do you know how long it took me find 17 gifts for each of us?", I laughed.

"Took me hours.", Gaara said, laying down on his bed, closing his eyes. "I had to find something girly for Sakura and Ino, something dangerous for TenTen and Lee, something emo for Shino and Sasuke."

"Haha.", I laughed and laid down next to him. "Something gothic for you.", I teased.

"Heeeeyyy.", he whined and turned over to face me.

"Kidding.", I stuck my tongue out a bit. "I can't wait for the party tomorrow.", I smiled.

"I can wait. Being here with you is better."

"WE'RE HOME!", I heard Temari scream from downstairs. Well she ruined the moment. Gaara groaned, and got up.

"Let's go see them before they think we were doing...things up here.", he said, opening the door. I sat up, and sighed. I hopped off his bed and walked out the door, he followed behind me. We jogged down the stairs and saw Temari and Kankuro, each holding gigantic bags.

"Oh, Juliet you're here...", Kankuro said to me.

"Yeah, I wanted to visit you guys, but only Gaara was home.", I explained.

"So? You guys could've used that time to...you know."

"Kankuro, I swear to God, if you don't shut up I will rip your dick off and feed it to you.", Gaara gave his brother a death stare. I personally believe only Gaara, Neji, Sasuke and I are the only people that could pull of a death stare.

"Sorry...", Kankuro apologized. Temari just laughed and looked at me.

"Oh, have you heard about Sasuke and Hinata?", she asked me. I quickly put a smile on my face to hide my hurt.

"Yeah! I'm happy for them.", I told her. Gaara just looked at me, giving me a sympathetic half smile. He knew I was bullshitting.

"I thought you would've been more...broken.", Temari told me.

"Now why would that be?", I faked a giggle.

******************Christmas Day******************

"Naruto, are you done yet?!", I screamed up the stairs.

"One second!", he hollered back.

"We're gonna be late for the party! Carrying 17 presents isn't fun ya know!"

"I'm almost done!"

"Jesus Christ...", I muttered. This boy was doing God knows what upstairs in the bathroom. The party was about to start in five minutes and it's at Ino's house. I know I said we all lived by close to each other, but it just so happens that Ino's house is the farthest one from us. Of course, Naruto knows this, but he still decides to take FOREVER.

"I'm done!", Naruto screamed and came charging down the stairs. He came up to me and smiled. "How's my hair?"

"As blonde and spiky as ever...?", I answered.

"Hehe, thank you.", Naruto giggled.

"Can we go now?", I asked. Naruto nodded, slipped on his jacket and grabbed his bag of presents.

We finally got there, and we were twenty minutes late. I rang the door bell and Ino answered it. We walked in and everyone was there...or so I thought.

"Why are you guys so late? Oh, I get it. You were trying to be fashionably late?", Ino giggled.

"No we were not trying to be 'fashionably late'", I began to mock Ino. I had a lot of pent up anger.

"Oh now you set her off.", Naruto began.

"We are late because this fucktard over here, decided it would be perfect to play fucking hairdresser with himself. Then when we finally left, we looked like fucking Santa's little helpers with all these damn presents. And no I'm not on Shark Week! Yes, Naruto, I know what you and Sasuke call my period when I'm not around. Speaking of Sasuke where is he and his new girlfriend?! It's the second day of their relationship and they're already acting shadey?!", I lectured everyone. Temari slowly started clapping. Then Kankuro. Then Gaara. Then TenTen. Then everyone started clapping.

"Haha, I knew she would explode someday!", Kiba laughed.

"Ditto.", TenTen giggled.

"And we don't know where Sasuke and Hinata are.", Ino told us.

"Think they blew off the party?", Haku offered.

"I don't think they would do that.", I sighed, taking off my coat and sitting next to Gaara on the couch.

"Neither do I.", Naruto agreed, taking off his coat and sitting next to Sai and Shino. The doorbell suddenly rang and Sakura was about to answer it.

"Wait, Sakura!"

She turned around to face me. "Yeah?"

"Let me answer it.", I said, standing up. She nodded and sat back down next to Ino. I walked over to the door, opened it and saw the couple we were waiting for.

"H-hi Juliet.", Hinata stuttered. I looked at her then back at Sasuke who looked like he didn't give a shit about anything.

"Why you guys late?", I asked them.

"Well, I couldn't find my phone, and she was also running late, so we decided to walk together.", Sasuke explained. I walked away from them, and they closed the door behind them. I walked back and fell into place next to Gaara and waited for everyone to stop greeting the other two who just walked in.

"Okay, guys...I kinda got some of our teacher's phone numbers. So how about we prank call some of them?", Sakura suggested. Everyone cheered.

"Haha, Sakura, I don't even know how you managed to that. But I'm proud of you.", I beamed. She smiled at me, and took out an array of phone numbers. Shikamaru stood up and looked at me.

"Juliet, a word?", he asked.

"Yeah, sure.", I said, standing up and walking over to him. He led me to the kitchen and sighed.

"Okay, so I'm suppose to start phase one tonight, right?", he asked me.

"Mhmm.", I nodded. "Get get her to notice you. This might take a couple of hangout sessions, but if you do very well tonight, it could just be the party!", I smiled.

"Okay, and...thanks for helping me.", Shikamaru smiled at me.

"No problem ShikaBitch.", I patted his back.

"Way to ruin the moment.", he laughed. I laughed as well and we joined the others. They were prank calling Anko at the moment. After a while of prank calling, people decided that we should play 7 Minutes in Heaven. Basically you're suppose be locked in a closet with somebody for 7 minutes and make out. Kiba and Ino went in first, and we didn't hear anything. Though, when they came out, they were both hot, and their cheeks were red. After sometime is was my turn.

"Juliet, what number do you have?", Sakura asked me.

"4", I said. Sasuke showed me his number. It was a 4 as well. Just great. Sasuke and I stood up and walked over to the closet. Sakura shut the door and started the timer. Sasuke and I sat in the large closet in silence for a few seconds, then I sighed.

"Do you hate me?"

"Wha-what?", I looked at Sasuke in the dark. "Of course not."

"Well...we haven't hung out in like, forever. And in Art you're always with Deidara so I kinda-"

"Sasuke, I don't hate you. You're my friend, and I love you.", I smiled at him, even if he couldn't see it. Sasuke leaned into me and before I knew it his lips were on mine. I placed my arms around his neck and kissed back. I could feel him smile underneath my lips. He then lowered me down and got on top of me. He began to strip his shirt and work on kissing my neck. "Sasu..ke!", I choked out when he bit down on my collarbone. I felt at absolute bliss when he slipped his hands underneath my shirt. His cold finertips, exploring my body. He stopped kissing my neck and looked at me lustfully. He leaned into me once more and brushed his lips against mine. His fingertips made their way out of underneath my shirt and starting dragging their way across my inner thigh. I frowned. "Stop teasing.", I ordered.

"This is payback for making me worry about our friendship.", he smirked. I huffed and turned away from him. He grabbed my chin, and forced me to look at him. "Now don't be like that.", he smirked again. He leaned in and grazed his tongue along my bottom lip. I was not just gonna sit here and let him tease me. I flicked my tongue out and it touched his. He raised an eyebrow at my move and I smiled. I took his hands and lead them underneath my shirt, and over my bra. Sasuke eyes went wide. He looked at me as if he wanted permission. I bit my lip and nodded. Sasuke slipped his hands underneath my bra and his cold fingers were now being warmed up my chest. I bit my lip and fought of a moan. I didn't wanna be too loud. Sasuke's lips met mine, yet again. He nibbled on my lower lip, wanting permission in. I slightly parted my lips and Sasuke quickly dipped his tongue into my mouth. I was too busy running my hands across his well built figure. These people must really work out, I swear. Sasuke's lips left mine and a string of saliva was hanging from in between us. Sasuke took his hands from underneath my shirt and got off of me. I handed him his shirt and he quickly slipped it on. Sakura and Ino opened the closet door all of a sudden.

"Time's up!", they hollered.

"So what did you two do?", Ino asked, winking. Sasuke and I looked at each other.

"Uh...", we both started in unison.

"What could they have done? He's in a relationship!", Sakura reminded her. Oh yeah. He is. Sasuke smacked his head. We both stood up and walked out of the closet.

"I'm gonna go get a drink.", I announced and walked to the kitchen.

"Me too.", Sasuke added and followed me in.

"Juliet, I'm sorry. I kinda forgot about Hinata for a second.", Sasuke apologized.

"To be honest, I did too.", I sorta laughed, while pouring myself some punch. "But before I forgive you...", I continued, setting my glass down. I turned to Sasuke and kissed him. "There. You're forgiven.", I smiled once I broke the kiss. I grabbed my glass and left the kitchen before he said anything. When I walked out, another couple were already in the closet.

"Shika and Temari are in there.", Gaara came up behind me and whispered.

"Looks like phase one will be complete tonight.", I smiled to myself.

"Phase what?", Gaara looked at me. I shook my head.

"Nothing, nothing.", I dismissed it.

Tonight was...fun.

A/N: Boom! This chapter was out so quick! And a lot has happened with my little Juli-chan! :) I'm kinda worried though. Should I change the rating to M because of this chapter? I think it should be kept to T. Anyways, I'm gonna go watch Naruto Shippuden now, because I'm kinda behind on it. Reviews are appreciated, next chapter shall be up soon, and the school play is almost here! Haha, bye, I love you. :)