Chapter 3: Preparations

A week had past sense Shisui showed up and invited Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata to preform at Sasuke's party. Shisui had called a few days later to tell her it was in two weeks on his birthday July 23rd, and the color's that would be 'acceptable' were black, dark purple, dark blue, dark...anything dark...nothing bright or colorful...Uchiha's and their hatred for color... *Sigh*

Sakura was actually excited about it, she had their outfit's ready and was running through the routine with Tenten and Hinata when a few of her hip hop students walked in the room, a look of confusion crossed their face's.

Sakura smiled at them. "You guy's are early!"

"Sorry, we can wait down stairs." One of the littler girls said turning for the door.

"No it's okay, we're finished...we will be at mt house, come by when your done." Tenten said grabbing her stuff then left with Hinata following after her saying a quick but quiet 'goodbye' to Sakura.

Sakura smiled and put on some background music while they all stretched.

Slowly more students arrived until they were all there. After everyone was done stretching, they stood and got into their positions. Sakura pushed play on the stereo and waited a moment for T-Pain to start playing.

She danced with the kids until they stopped were Sakura left them off.

"That was great you guys...okay for our next move we going to move our right leg..." And Sakura showed them the next segment of the dance they were to learn.

(Her hip hop class had 4 girls and 3 boys...all between 12-15. Her ballet class had all girls between the ages of 5-10.)

"Miss Sakura, there's a strange man watching you." One of her students spoke over the music.

Sakura looked to the door and saw Sasuke watching them. "Oh thank you Hanabi, work on the moves, I'll be right back." Sakura said walking towards him. "What's up?"

"Well, I wanted to invite you to my surprise birthday party." He answered.

"Isn't the whole point of a surprise party for it to be a surprise?"

"Yeah, but Shisui has a pretty big mouth so I figured it out." The fabulous Uchiha smirk lightened his face.

Sakura thought for a moment. "Oh, I can't," She saw a flash of disappointment in his dark eyes. "I have a performance that day...I'm so sorry."

He nodded in understanding. "Have a good performance." He said then turned to walk away.

"Have a great 'surprise' party!" She called after him.

After he was gone she turned back to her class and continued with the lesson.

-With Sasuke-

He drove to his best friends house in the hopes of avoiding his insecure and very perverted cousin Shisui.

He parked in the drive way and mad his way to the front door. His fist collided with the door in a brutal knock.

"Hold on a sec!" Came the muffled voice somewhere inside the apartment.

Sasuke waited a minute but still no one opened the door. He brutally knock again. "Open the damn door Naruto!" Sasuke bellowed.

"Oh don't get your boxers in a bunch, I'm right here." He said opening the door, his blond hair in it's usual spiky style, his big blue eyes shown his happiness at seeing his best friend/brother, he was wearing an orange and black thin stripped sweater, a pair of black jeans, and a pair of orange convers. "What do ya want?"

Sasuke shook his head and walked past Naruto and into the small apartment only to plop down on the couch. "Are you going to come to my surprise birthday party?"

Naruto's trade make smile spread across his face. "You bet I am!" He answered plopping down beside him.

"Good." He grumbled.

Naruto laughed and turned the TV on, they watched nothing in particular but talked about his party, a little about Hinata, and a little about Sakura.

"Did you know the anniversary of Sakura's parents death is coming up, poor Sakura, I heard she cried for weeks, I also heard that she had to identify the bodies and that on her parents anniversary she spends that day alone and in the cemetery and that..." Naruto went on and on about what he had heard but Sasuke stopped listening, he had forgotten what she had lost, it wasn't that long ago either, he felt bad for forgetting something so important...'Poor Sakura.' He thought.

-With Sakura-

"That was great class, your free to go." She said collecting her stuff and waiting atop the stairs and counted her students as they walked down the stairs to their parents. To her surprise Hanabi and her father waited for her a the foot of the stairs. "Is there something you needed Mr. Hyuga?" She asked.

(The Hyuga were one of the most powerful family's in Konoha, along with the Uchiha's, Uzumaki's, and her family the Haruno's.

But after her parents died, she sold her fathers company to the Uchiha's.)

"When do you think my Hanabi will be able to preform?" He asked.

Sakura glanced down at Hanabi then back up to her father, ignoring the fact that he was freakishly tall. "Well, Hanabi is picking up the moves quite quickly and I love that about her, but the rest of her teammates are a little slower, so it will take a little longer so they will all learn the routine at the same time."

"And if I wanted Hanabi to learn quicker then the others?"

"Then you would have to take her else where to learn, Hanabi and the other dancers are a team...they dance together or not at all." Sakura said confidently knowing Hanabi would most likely would not come back, no one talked back to a Hyuga, but she would not let his stern appearance or the name Hiashi Hyuga stop her from defending her students.

"Daddy," Hanabi whispered, He turned and gazed down at her, his silver-violet eyes softening. "I want to stay here."

He nodded and looked back to Sakura. "Very well, I apologize." He bowed his head slightly before he took Hanabi's hand and left the studio.

Sakura sighed and followed, she made sure to lock the doors, then headed to Tenten's house so she could help them perfect their routine before the party.