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"Talking"
+LITTLE VOICE IN THEIR HEAD+
'Mainly sarcasm or exaggerated words, etc' (but also some sarcasm is also used out of 'these' things)

Chapter 5: Secrets To Be Kept

To be her best friend again is going to be hard and is going take some time... Just to be her friend is going to be hard since I betrayed her!

.:JADE'S VIEW:.
OH MY GOSH, SNAP! Does he like me? Wow, wow? Well he sure is taking his sweet time responding, and he also has some sort of...expression...on his face! No, he couldn't like me! Maybe he's thinking of a way to say no without hurting my feelings? Ha! Which I have no bloody idea why he would need to do that (and it would be really absurd to even hear those sorts of words escape his lips)! Maybe he's thick headed and doesn't think I hate him for joining Orochimaru!? But then again, maybe he does like m-
"No," he said monotone, cutting my thoughts back to reality. I just kept looking at him to make sure what he said was the truth. He looked like he was almost disappointed with what he said, like he regretted it…?
I brushed off that crazy thought. Mr. Uchiha regretting something? Over my dead, mangled body!
I put my hands on my head with my eyes closed and smirked. "Are you sure about that?" And then I walked off to my room, still with my hands resting on my head and my eyes closed, with my statement lingering in the air.

When I got to my room, after I had gotten ready for bed, I thought back to what I said to him. Hehe, I'm not actually sure if Sasuke does like me. I just said, "Are you sure about that?" to confuse him, and if he did like me to make him think that I knew he was lying. Oh yes another of my little teases/games. Anyway, as I thought, "Mr. Uchiha regretting something? Over my dead, mangled body!" IS the truth! It has to be... He would never regret something, right?

But do I like Sasuke...? Naaarrrr! Anyways, as I thought to myself the other day he's a dick for leaving his friends behind... Especially his BEST FRIEND, me! Yeah I know it was a good cause, FOR HIM. But I still can't believe he left like that!
Ok, maybe I'm not peeved with him for why he left but for when I had seen him, which was only a couple of months of him training with Orochimaru, he was so cold towards me. Like I didn't even exist. L-like back when he was living in Konohagakure when we WERE best friends it meant NOTHING to him! Like I was another piece of trash to him; a fan girl...

.:FLASH BACK:.
"SASUKE!!" I yelled in glee. It had been about six months since he left and I missed him dearly.
He turned around.
"What?" He demanded coldly while giving me a death glare.
I ignored his voice and glare. "How's it been? Have you gotten stronger?"
"Hn, yeah. Too bad I have to show you!" His voice was like ice.
What does he mean? ….WHAT THE?! He started to run at me with no hesitation. He threw his fist back to punch me. I caught his hit. "I don't want to hurt you!!" I pleaded with confusion.
He hollowly cackled. "That's right because you'll be the one getting hurt!" His voice was so cold, it seemed like it was dripping with deadly poison.
.:END OF FLASH BACK:.

I shook my head from the thought, trying to clear my mind. A tear started to slowly slide down my cheek. I wiped it away then went to sleep with the thoughts of Sasuke still traveling around my head.

Doors creaked. Window shutters banged. Vines crawled up walls... Everything was left in ruins to rot.

I opened my eyes to the sweet sound of chirping birds and saw a blood red sunrise… Weird, but beautiful. I watched as the sun gradually rose up higher into the sky.
After watching the morning's beauty I quickly grabbed a fluffy, white towel from the closet and headed to the bathroom down the hall.

The water trickled down my body, soothing me. I got out of the shower and went to grab my towel off the bench. As I did I saw my reflection in the mirror. "...Wow..!" I whispered with amazement. My eyes were a white blue. Usually they turned dull blue after being in water, but today they were totally different. Why are they? I questioned myself. Ohh well, I suppose they do change after the years when I go in water... For this happening, I have no idea.

I dried myself off. I looked at my eyes again. I sighed happily. Back to the normal green going into blue colour, I smiled to myself. I wrapped the fluffy white towel around my now dry body and headed back to my room to get dressed for the day.

Opening the bathroom door I saw a sleepy Sasuke with his arm outstretched about to open it as well.
Holy crap!? ...Oh yeah. I forgot he lives here too, hah... He stood there in shock just staring at me. Grrrrr. I thought. How dare that prick look at me like that!
"Take a picture, it lasts longer," I uttered walking pass him.
I sensed that his body had turned around to watch me as I walked to my bedroom. I felt his gaze lower to my butt. Annoyed, I stopped in my tracks. Quickly, I smirked cheekily. "Hey, hey, eyes up not down!"
I heard a very, VERY quiet gasp from him and smirk wickedly to myself.
That's right, never check me out!
I got to my room and shut the door very slowly, for you know, so I could tease and annoy the bastard more; Mother always did say, "don't play with your food, darling." But what if my food needed to be played with...?

I quickly put my usual clothes on: My black corset top that has a red criss-cross ribbon down the back of it, my black skinny jeans, and my black ninja shoes... Oh how I loved my clothes!

I went down stairs and made some toast for Sasuke and I.
I finished eating mine and started to drink some apple juice. While drinking the rest of my juice I heard Sasuke coming around the corner so I tossed him his toast...
It hit him in the face! HAHAHAH!! I mentally laughed in my head, almost letting the juice come through my nose. He had a scolding look…but he still caught the toast; even though he got hit right in the face by it.
"Idiot," I whispered as I passed him.
At the door I looked back to see him fuming at me. "That's your breakfast!" I pointed. "And you're running late for training!" I coldly spoke. He made his way over to me, so we could leave, with an oh-not-too-friendly-look on his face.

.:SASUKE'S VIEW:.
Grrrrrr, how could I have not known something was coming to me and TOAST of all things! Grrrr, stupid Jade! And what the hell did she mean by I'm going to be late for training? What about her? Wouldn't she be late too! I heard a slight chuckle escape Jade's soft, pink lips-
Gah!
"What's so funny?" I asked her, my voice sounded unfeeling, completely uncaring.
"Well I thought of all people-" she had a slight pause "-especially someone who left to get all powerful; couldn't sense a piece of toast getting tossed to them," her words turned harsh. Then she laughed again. "Well, their face," she said normally with a slight smirk on her face.
"Shut up," I said annoyed but firmly, and straight to the point. Shit… must calm down!

"...Why did you say only I would be late and not us?"
She smirked proudly. "I don't really need to train."
Before I could question her more I got tackled to the ground.
WHAT THE? Oh. "Sakura. Get. Off. Me. Nnow!" I glared at her
She giggled. "Sasuke you're so handsome! Anything for you!" She said in a sickenly sweet voice as she battered her eyelashes at me with a huge smile spread across her face...
She finally got off me.
"It's so good to have you back, Sasuke-kun!" She said still battering her eyelashes towards me with that same cringing sweet voice. Sighing to myself I thought, stupid fan girls!
I walked away, "…you're still annoying."

An hour later: still waiting for Kakashi to come. During our waiting time everyone either sat around or talked... Or slept...
I kept glancing at Jade, but she was lying in a tree with her eyes closed.
I glanced at her once again, she smirked and opened one eye and looked at me then to the left of me.
POOF!
Kakashi popped out of nowhere with smoke surrounding him to where Jade was looking at.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto and Sakura yelled... You'd think they would have learned.
Kakashi got a sweat drop on his face. "..Well you see I got lost on the track-"
"Hn. Haven't changed a bit, have you?" I stated.
Kakashi chuckled nervously while rubbing his head.

"Ok class, back to perfecting Energy Blast," Kakashi informed.
I looked at him with a penetrating stare, soundlessly asking what energy blast was.
He looked at me unaffected by my steady gaze. "Oh yeah, you wouldn't really know it. Jade, would you like to do the honors for showing Sasuke what it is?"

...To be continued

A/N: Oh! And no, the toast getting thrown at Sasuke does not mean he's a piddly diddly weakling! You'll find out how/what I mean later in the story.