Boundry

Chapter 4 Enjoy!!

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The streets of the market place were quite crowded as Sakura made her way through them.

It had been a week since the whole I-kissed-my-best-friend incident. After she had had her little talk with Ino, Sakura had made up her mind to tell Naruto exactly what happened that night. She was determined to say what needed to be said so that she could get back to her normal life when she didn't have dreams about her best friend; in the non platonic way.

Only...she hadn't gotten around to it yet.

Every time she would work up the nerve to say something—anything, she would chicken out or some outside force would interfere. Of course, for a while, she had avoided him like the plague. Making excuses to not be alone with him and not looking at him in the eye. After that he would notice that something was up, she had eventually forced herself to act normal. In a way, she admitted that she was sorta happy about the whole thing, not telling him yet. Nothing was weird between them (yet) and everything was okay.

Accept for her exasperating mind.

She knew that one day she would eventually tell him…but not anytime soon.

Sakura sighed, watching her breath leave in the form of a white puff. The air was getting even chiller and it had even snowed once or twice, including today. It was also the most annoying weather to train in; which is why Kakashi had scheduled a team meeting.

Scowling at no one in particular, she made her way through the crowds and headed towards team 7's usual meeting place. To her surprise, both her teammates were already there, waiting.

"Sakura-chan, you're late!" Naruto yelled.

Making her way over to the spot across from Naruto, she plopped down, "Please, as if that's ever mattered to this team." She then turned to Sasuke, "Good morning, Sasuke."

"Hn."

"You know, one day you're going to become mute because you never use your vocal cords." She responded cheekily.

"Haha, like that'd be any different then how he is now." Naruto answered, snickering under his breath. Sasuke only had to glare at him before his snickers turned into loud chuckles. Sakura smile at her teams antics and so she too was laughing with Naruto. Even Sasuke had cracked a small smirk.

Still giggling, Sakura said, "Well at least he won't become a loud mouth like you, Naruto."

"Ouch Sakura-chan, shot to the heart." Dramatically, Naruto put his hand over his heart and began making weird gagging noises.

As soon as he did this, Sakura began laughing even harder. Sasuke too was chuckling under his breath, quietly of course. It was times like these that Sakura was grateful for, knowing that no matter what, the bonds of team seven were stronger than anything.

And this was how Kakashi found them, a 'dying' Naruto, a chuckling Sasuke, and Sakura with both hands on her stomach, tears forming in her eyes from laughing so hard.

"Did I miss something...on second thought; I really don't want to know."

Managing to gain some control, Sakura replied, "No—snort—you probably don't."

Kakashi just shook his head, "Anyways, since today is such a nice day, we are going to have a fun training day."

"Since when is anything we do here fun?" Naruto said.

"And it's not a nice day." Sasuke added.

Ignoring the boys Kakashi said, "We…are going to…"He paused for dramatic effect and put his hands together, "a snowball fight."

"WHOO, SNOWBALL FIGHT!" Naruto loudly exclaimed.

"A…what?" Sakura muttered.

"Snowball fights of course." Kakashi answered, "To help you with…uh…dodging and…stuff?"

"Kakashi-sensei, I think you're just making this training up so you can fulfill some sick childhood fantasy." Sakura mutter again.

"Hehe, maybe." Kakashi giggled. To say the whole team was disturbed would have been an understatement. The idea of a snowball fight as a way of training was way to strange, but unfortunately, they should have seen something like this coming. After all, their sensei reads porn in public, and he a complete perv.

"How, exactly, is this going to help us with our ninja skills?" Sasuke spoke arrogantly.

"Stop being such a prick, teme. You need to life once in a while 'cause ya know, not everything revolves around being a 'ninja'." Naruto said, putting air quotes up when he said the word ninja.

"Dobe, of course it does. It's your job."

"Blah blah, I'm an emo who has no fun. That's all I hear."

"What are you, five?"

"What are you, like two?" Naruto said in a high pitch voice.

"Alright you two, knock it off. You're both acting like your five." Sakura intervened.

""He started it."" They said simultaneously.

"Well I'm going to end." Sakura said, in a tone that they both knew meant, 'piss me off even more and I'll have you in the hospital for weeks'.

Kakashi smiled as he watched his pupils interact with one another. Without Sakura as their referee, those two would have killed themselves by now.

Coughing to get his kids attention he said, "Each of you must fend for yourself and try to outsmart the others. If you can do that…well, good for you! Try not to kill anyone okay?"

"Are you not going to play Kaka-sensei?" Naruto asked.

"No, I was due to see the Hokage three hours ago." He smiled as he saw all three of them sweat drop. "Have fun!"

With that said, Kakashi disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Not really knowing what to do, each of them looked around, and then at each other.

"Do you think he was actually serious?" Sakura asked.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't." Sasuke said, "This has nothing to do with training, I'm going to go home a train myself, see you."

"I guess your-" She was cut off however, when a chunk of snow hit her in the back of the head. Furiously she turned to see Naruto, holding a pile of snow and wearing a grin on his face.

"Hehe, I got you."

Angrily, Sakura bent down, made a snowball, and threw it at Naruto. Unfortunately, she missed.

"HA, you call that a throw? I bet even teme could do better than that."

"UGH, that's it! You get back here Naruto!" Running towards him, she used his shock to her advantage and jumped onto of him, all the while trying to shove snow in his face. Laughing, they rolled around in the snow until finally Naruto rolled them over so that he was straddling her hips.

"Let—me—ugh, go!" Sakura shouted.

"Haha, not until you eat my snow." Naruto replied, trying to get snow into her mouth. Twisting and turning her head, Sakura managed to avoid the snow as best she could. Frustrated, Naruto grabbed the hand that had been smacking him and placed it under his knee. Sakura, noticing that she would not be able to win due to his strength said, "Alright, alright, you win. Get off me."

"I don't think so. I'm comfortable here." He said, leaning his forehead against hers. Sakura felt her eyes go wide, unable to control the butterfly feeling in her stomach. She also felt her face begin to heat up, and her heart beating wildly.

"Sakura-chan, are you okay? Your face is kinda red. Do you have a fever?"

'I don't think you have a fever…. But I better make sure'

He leaned closer; his intentions purely innocent while hers completely inappropriate.

'I may have been wrong; maybe you do have a fever'

Sakura's mind was racing. Flashes of what happened that fateful night danced before her eyes, her mind beginning to create scenarios that were not PG.

'You know what they say about people with fevers, Sakura?'

Suddenly, it was all too much. Summoning the strength she never knew she had and pushed him off. Naruto, not expecting it, tumble back, landing on his backside in the snow. "Wha?" was all he said. He looked up at Sakura, who had immediately jumped to her feet and was shocked. Her face was bright red; her eyes were glassy and filled with a look he had not seen in a long time.

Desire.

"I, uh I have to go. I, um, have something, um, to do."

Not giving him a chance to respond, she made a quick dash out of sight.

Sitting there with a dumbfound look on his face, Naruto kept replying what had just happened. What was that all about? He wondered. Standing up, brushing the snow off, he looked towards the direction Sakura had left in. He then narrowed his eyes.

It was time to find out what was going on.

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Hope you enjoyed chap 4!

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