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Sai: So...

Lili: So... what?

Sai: WHEN AM I GOING TO BE IN THE STORY?

Lili: I don't know Sai... but I'll let you say the disclaimer

Sai: She doesn't own Naruto. Hmmf!

Chapter 16

Naruto, Shikamaru and Neji arrived at Sasuke's place. A maid let them in. As they reached Sasuke's room, they heard shuffling and something that sounded like...sniffling? They went inside and found Sasuke curled up in a ball and was shaking. They all rush to his side and discovered that made them nearly scream. He was crying. It was then when he realised that they were there. In an instant, he sat up and wiped his eyes.

"W-what are you guys d-doing here?" he stuttered. The three guys could only stare at him. Naruto for once sensed the tension in the air and went up to Sasuke...and hit him on the head. Sasuke fell back on his bed and the others just stared with their mouths open. Sasuke immediately jumped back up and hit him back

"Dobe, don't hit me" Naruto rubbed his head and said

"I was only checking if you were ok and if you hit me back, you seem fine" Sasuke sat back down.

"Well this is troublesome but what happened between you and Sakura today?" asked Shikamaru, who he and Neji had made themselves comfortable on his bed.

"Nothing much" Sasuke mumbled.

"No use in lying Uchiha" Neji said

"You guys wouldn't understand"

"I heard she's leaving Konoha" Shikamaru yawned.

"H-how did you know that?" Sasuke asked

"Who do you think I am?" Shikamaru asked, smugly. Giving up, Sasuke lowered his head and spilled everything.

*At Sakura's place*

Ino, Hinata and TenTen let themselves in as the maids didn't appear. They entered the silent house. As they looked around, they heard a voice. It was grunting. The voice led them to the backyard and the sight took their breath away. It was a training ground. It was filled with every weapon imaginable. Even the richest ninja's wouldn't be able to afford that kind of training ground. The girl's eyes then all focused on the figure in the middle of the training ground. It was Sakura, and she seemed to be fighting...herself? They looked between the two Sakura's, both were injured, battered and scarred. One of them was on the verge of collapsing. They saw straight away that that was the real Sakura.

"Sakura...stop!" they all yelled as they ran towards the girl. Sakura looked at the people who were running towards her. That was the last thing she saw, before she fell into a world of darkness.

"Sakura...Sakura...Sakura..."

Who's calling me? A foggy picture of her mother appeared. Mother...Mother...MOTHER. It slowly turned into a girl with blonde hair.

"...Sakura" Sakura looked around and found her lying in her room with three girl's heads looking at her. She quickly got up and got into a fighting pose and snarled. The girls shrieked. Sakura's eyes widened when she realised it was only Ino, TenTen and Hinata. After she calmed down, the three girls reapproached her.

"Sakura, are you ok?" Ino asked

"Why are you all here?" Asked Sakura

"We're worried about you, we heard you had a fight with Sasuke" said TenTen. Sakura's eyes averted to the ground after that statement and in a shaky voice she said

"I'm sorry; I'm going have to ask you to leave"

"What-"Ino started as she and the others were pushed out the door.

"-Sakura-"TenTen said

"-Please-"Hinata said. None of them got to finish their sentence. Sakura slid down the door on the other side, tears running down her face.

"Gomen...Gomen...Minna" she just sat there crying.

*At Naruto's place that night*

*Knock Knock*

"That must be the girls" said Naruto, "Guys, wait here" Naruto walked to the door and opened it. He found something he didn't expect...all the girls were crying or in TenTen's case, teary. Naruto quickly ushered TenTen and Ino in and pointed to the kitchen, Hinata stayed behind as Naruto and enveloped her in a hug. When the guys saw the girls, they all rushed to their girlfriend and hugged them and fussed over them.

"Ino you troublesome woman, whats wrong?"

"TenTen, are you ok?" TenTen pushed him away, and turned around so he couldn't see her wipe her tears away.

"I'm fine." Neji walked up to her, unconvinced.

"No, you're not" he then forcefully pulled her into a hug; she finally gave in and released small sobs. Hinata was also crying on Naruto's shoulder while he whispered words of comfort in her ears. Ino on the other hand was little crying her eyes out. She had collapsed onto Shikamaru and as he hugged her, she drenched his shirt. (Your probably wondering why they would be crying, I honestly don't know but I wanted some romance between the other characters)

After a while, the girls finally calmed down.

"What happened?" asked Naruto. The girls all snuggled up to the guys. Even they didn't know why they were crying.

"Sakura-a she k-k-kicked us o-out" TenTen stuttered for the first time in her life. Naruto not moving as Hinata was in his arms.

"Then why did you guys cry?" Hinata slapped him lightly on the chest.

"What..."

"I dunno, I just felt like crying really badly because Sakura seemed so miserable." Sniffled Ino

"You loud woman, there was no reason for you to cry"

TenTen got up, stretched slapped her face a few times. She then went inside the bathroom and when she came out her face and the front of her hair was soaked.

"TenTen, what the.." started Neji.

"Forget about that entire bs, I'm back" stated TenTen. Neji smirked and thought That's my girl..

"Anyway you two stop your crying at once. This is not a time for us girls / magnificent creatures to be crying" The other girls agreed and wiped away their tears.

"Did you guys find out anything?" asked Ino

"Yeah and it isn't pretty"

*After explaining what happened*

The girls gasped in shock.

"That is bad..." muttered TenTen, "What are we going to do?"

"I think we should help Sakura and then convince her not to leave" said Naruto. Everyone stared at Naruto and were all thinking that same thing. How come Naruto is so smart these days (DON'T GET ME WRONG PEOPLE! I LOVE NARUTO!) They all spent the night at Naruto's formulating a plan for the upcoming day.

Sasuke did not sleep that night. His heart had been shattered from sadness and guilt. He looked like a wreck. The next morning was school which he didn't look forward to but he had to go to school. When he arrived, his friends rushed up to him and pulled him into an empty room. He looked at them with dead eyes.

"What..."

"Liven up teme... You're scaring everyone..." said Naruto. At this, Sasuke's anger soared.

"HOW CAN I "Liven up"?! THE GIRL I LOVED LEFT AND IT'S ALL MY FAULT... It's my fault..." a tear escaped his eyes. The girls looked at him with surprise. They had never seen this side of Sasuke before. Naruto grinned

"Do you admit that you love her?" Sasuke stopped sniffing and blushed at what he had just said.

"Y-yes..."

"GOOD! Now our plan can work." Naruto said, beaming.

"What plan?" Naruto looked at Shikamaru. He started explaining the plan.

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