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.Heaven's Gate: Princess.

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Extra One: Poker Face.

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Sakura was doing her writings in her room. Sasuke sat outside her terrace, the door was opened so he could still keep an eye on her. He was sharpening his katana.

Sakura gasped suddenly. Her pupils changed color, Sasuke noticed none of this. Her Keepers came out with a big grin on their faces.

"Are you guys dumb?" Sakura said, obviously annoyed. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, confused. He turned around and saw them. He frowned.

"What are you guys doing out?" he asked. "It's twice already this week." He walked inside and sat next to Sakura.

Naruto shrugged. He sat himself down in front of Sakura, followed by his three friends.

"We're bored," he said.

"Kankurou sensed no big threat coming to Konoha for the next five days," Gaara said as he made himself comfortable.

Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"You said his prediction rarely come true," he said.

"He's still a God," Gaara narrowed his eyes.

"Whatever," Sasuke shrugged.

"You're getting on my nerve, Uchiha," Gaara said as he stood up.

Sasuke looked at him and sighed. He looked at Naruto instead. Gaara narrowed his eyes as his sand made his way toward Sasuke.

"Gaara, forget about it," Sakura said as she looked at the sand. "You're supposed to control your emotion better than that."

He pouted and then sat himself down.

"So, what brings you out?" Sakura smiled at them.

"We're bored," Naruto repeated. Sasuke and Sakura waited patiently.

"Let's play cards," Neji said.

"What?" Both of their eyes popped open.

Naruto grinned as Lee made his manly pose.

"Play… cards?" Sasuke turned to Sakura. She looked back at him with the same expression. He concealed his expression better though. He composed his face and then turned to them. "Okay," he said, "sure. What game?"

"Poker," Naruto grinned again.

"Po…ker?" Sakura looked at Naruto, confused.

"Yeah," Naruto grinned. "Don't tell me you don't know."

"I do know," she said. "Mom was… well, a gambler… I… observed…" she mentioned the embarrassing background. "But… how do you…"

"Back in Heaven, we love to see Kankurou's puppets plays poker," Gaara explained. "Seriously, you humans are stupid," he said with no emotion at all, "losing all the time."

Sasuke rolled his eyes as he made himself comfortable for the game.

"So, you on?" Naruto grinned as he looked around. Sasuke nodded, Sakura smiled.

"Gaara," Lee grinned. Gaara nodded as his sand started to move and shape the cards. Gaara shuffled the cards and started to give five to each of them.

"Any additional rule to make it more fun?" Sakura rolled her eyes as she said this. Of course there were going to be more rules.

"Gods won't be allowed to cheat," Sasuke said as he eyed Gaara whose sand started to form an eye and moved its way toward Sasuke. Gaara frowned at Sasuke, obviously pissed, and the eye disappeared.

Naruto frowned as he think.

"The loser will have to choose between Truth or Dare," he grinned again.

"What?" Neji snapped.

"Come on, Neji," Lee smiled, full of enthusiasm. "It'll be so much fun!"

"Yeah, of course," he rolled his eyes, sarcastically, "why not?"

"Okay, let's start this ToD Poker!" Naruto nodded.

Sasuke took a card from the pile, discarded one of his, and frowned. Sakura took a card from the pile as well, discarded one, and frowned. Neji decided to also take from the pile, three this time; his face showed no emotion at all. Naruto discarded two and took two, he grinned widely. Gaara discarded two and took two, his eyes narrowed. Lee took a card from the pile and smiled, and then put on his manly pose.

"Okay guys," Naruto grinned. "Show."

They all laid down their cards. Naruto gasped as he saw Neji's cards. Gaara sighed, Sakura sighed in relief as well while Sasuke's face seemed to have turned purple.

Neji got a Royal Straight Flush, Naruto and Lee a Straight Flush, Sakura and Gaara both got Three of a Kind, Sasuke… unfortunately, he got nothing.

"Hmm," Naruto grinned as he looked at Sasuke. "Neji, since you win you should be the one deciding the ToD to Sasuke."

Sasuke clicked his tongue but said nothing. Neji frowned as he stared at Sasuke. Suddenly, he grinned an evil grin.

"Okay Sasuke," he said. "Truth or Dare?"

Sasuke looked at Neji expressionless when inside he was panicking. He thought about which one would bring less harm, and so he decided…

"Truth," he said. Neji's grin grew wider and he 'uh-oh'ed.

"So, Sasuke," he smiled. "What do you think of our precious Cherry Blossom here?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes and turned to Sakura for a second.

"She's a very respectable person, worthy the title of a Princess," he answered, but Neji shook his head.

"I mean, you personally," he said. Naruto's grin grew as wide as Neji's and it seemed as if they were going to cut their face in half.

Sasuke's face seemed to have reddened in the dim light, but the next second the blush was gone. Sakura looked at him; her eyes were filled with anticipation.

"She's nice," he muttered.

Neji sighed and turned to Naruto who shrugged.

"We'll dig more later," he whispered to his mates. They all nodded except for Gaara who glared at Sasuke deathly.

The next round was up. This time Lee won a Full House, with Neji and Gaara behind him with a Flush, Sakura and Naruto got Straight, Sasuke lost again.

"Okay Sasuke," Lee grinned. "ToD?"

"Dare," Sasuke said without thinking, the truth was pretty bad already.

Lee nodded, he stood up.

"Okay, Sasuke," he looked at Sasuke seriously. Sasuke looked back at him, ready for a fight. "I dare you to…"

Sasuke's eyes narrowed. The Keepers waited with curiosity, Sakura frowned as she thought what the Dare could be.

"Do the Manly Pose!" he announced, proudly.

Neji's eyes popped open, Naruto fell on his back, Gaara's eyebrow twitched. Sakura looked as if she was going to faint. Sasuke's sighed in relief.

He stood up and did the manly pose.

"Wrong!" Lee yelled. "Not good enough!"

"What?!" Sasuke's eyebrow twitched.

"You have to really use energy!" Lee yelled. "And smile wide like this!" he posed. Sasuke's eyes went blank. "Come on!" Lee looked at him.

Sasuke sighed.

Drum roll came out of nowhere. Sasuke gritted his teeth together and turned to Naruto who got caught drumming the drum that came out of nowhere. He grinned sheepishly and hid the drum behind his back.

Mists came out of nowhere, Sasuke ignored it. And then…

BAM!

He posed. A loud exploding sound was heard.

Everyone fell on their back.

"Hime-sama!" Ten-ten banged the door open. She tripped when she saw Sasuke and laughed like there's no tomorrow, joined by Sakura and the Keepers.

"We're under attack!" Ino burst into the room. Her mouth fell to the ground when she saw Sasuke's pose.

"Sakura!" Kakashi appeared in the room in his ANBU mask. He froze when he saw Sasuke, he opened his mask slowly and blinked. And then he joined the others laughed.

Sasuke seemed to have frozen in that position.

Sakura sat next to him as the others went to war. Temari came in and laughed out loud as well. The small war was over but Sasuke had yet to move.

"That's odd," Sakura frowned.

"Hell yes!" Ten-ten rolled her eyes. "Look at him! Lee looks so much better in this manly pose!" she laughed again.

"No," Sakura reached out. "I mean he hasn't moved at all."

"Huh?" Naruto turned. "You're right."

Sakura touched him, her hand let out a small amount of green chakra. Sasuke fell to the floor and panted.

"What happened?" Naruto looked at Sakura, confused.

Sakura smiled.

"It seems that the explosion got a side effect that affected only Sasuke-kun alone," Sakura giggled. "He'd stay frozen unless someone pour some of their chakra in." she laughed. "Everyone get to see his manly pose, this is one heck of an outcome just from a Poker game!"

Everyone laughed again. Sasuke rolled his eyes and walked outside into the cold night. Sakura saw him and followed, leaving everyone laughing and talking about what happened.

She smiled at him and held his hand, as usual. He took it just as happily.

"Thank you," he muttered after a while of standing in the cold, holding hands.

Sakura nodded and tightened her grab.

"Anytime," she smiled. "Besides, having to see your manly pose is a great reward for all of us already."

Sasuke turned away as he hid his blush. And then, he smiled to himself. Hanging out with them turned out to be fun… and different.

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I have been really sick last week and got completely forgotten about my promise. Not to mention I have been making assignments instead of writing any stories at all.

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I am sorry again as I won't be updating for the next three weeks because of the final exams that are coming.

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Again,

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