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Chapter Twenty-Four

Rei woke up and yawned as her eyes adjusted to the morning light streaming from the window in her room. She sat up and rubbed her eyes before getting out of bed and into the shower. She winced as the water hit her. After getting dressed she went to the kitchen to make herself some breakfast which consisted of ramen. As she waited for the ramen to be ready she drank her first energy drink of the day. Sure, she was usually happy and hyper, but the happy didn't make itself, especially in the morning. If there was one thing that most people should be glad to not know was that Rei was not a morning person.

She stepped out of her house and headed for the training grounds. She was supposed to train with Sasuke for a while and that was one of the few things that made her get out of bed that day. Not that she was over excited, in fact, she should have been at the training grounds an hour ago. She smirked at the idea of Sasuke standing there waiting for her while he thought of different ways to kill her. However, she knew that that wouldn't happen. If there was one thing she could say about Sasuke was that he was a fast learner. He had learned about her annoying little habits quickly and so she doubted that he had actually showed up in time. She thought he would probably be making his way there too by that time.

As she walked through the village she tried to ignore the subtle glares she was getting from some of the girls she passed. Of course that was only some of the girls, most of them weren't so subtle. She sighed as she knew she would have to get used to being at the top of the most wanted list of Sasuke's fan club. She smirked at the thought. Something about annoying almost every girl in the village without meaning to was strangely satisfying. Oh how she loved to bother people.

She dumped the empty soda can in a thrash can and continued with her walk. As she walked she sensed someone watching her. She frowned when she realized who it was. She sighed and stopped as the person appeared. It was Sakura and she looked rather displeased to say the least.

'Damn.' She thought.

'And the morning was going so well too. Oh well, I was bound to run into her sooner or later.'

As she thought this she knew it wasn't true. She hadn't just run into her. She had been looking for her, maybe even waiting. She walked over to her and put on one of her fake smiles. The one she used when she liked to pretend nothing was wrong. It was one of her more popular smiles.

"Hello, Sakura." She said in an overly pleasant voice.

"There's no need to be so polite I guess you're going to see Sasuke-kun, aren't you? Well, just stay away from him. I've worked hard to get close to him and I won't let you come and take him away."

Rei chuckled.

"I see you like to get straight to the point. Well, I won't complain, the sooner we clear this up the better. As you said, I'm going to meet Sasuke right now so we can train and I'm already running a bit late." She said calmly and still wearing a smile.

"We don't have anything to clear up. Just stay away from him."

Rei smirked. She really didn't want to say anything that could hurt Sakura as they were teammates, but she was getting annoyed. She sighed.

"Sakura, I'm sorry if you feel that I took Sasuke from you, but I'm afraid you're wrong. All I did was talk to him and treat him like a friend instead of an idol. If you want Sasuke, it's too late, but I advice you to stop worshipping him, maybe you can be his friend then."

Rei moved to walk away, but Sakura threw a punch. She caught it easily and glared at her. She tightened her hold on her fist and made her flinch. She sighed and released her.

"Please, don't be reckless. I have no desire to fight my teammate." She said as she walked away.

"Stop making fun of me! Do you think you're better than me? Do you think you're stronger? Why do you always have to show off?"

Rei stopped and turned to look at Sakura. She could see that she was upset, but she was utterly pissed off. Here was a kunoichi whose only talent was stalking Sasuke. She was utterly useless in ninjutsu and was the worst at taijutsu and yet she was accusing her of showing off. She glared and walked up to her. She slapped her and she just looked back up at her in shock.

"Don't you ever say that I just show off. If you can't even block that you have no right to criticize others. Ever since I met you you have held nothing but contempt for me because of the fact that I don't waste my time fussing about my appearance. At first, I thought that Sasuke was a jerk for ignoring you so much and up until now I still thought that. But now, I see that I shouldn't have blamed him. You are nothing but a spoiled brat. You don't know how hard it is to be strong when you have no one to help you. All your life you have had a family and friends that protected you and so now that you see how weak you really are you blame those who are stronger for your failure."

"Shut up! You don't know anything. You don't know how it feels to work so hard to get to know someone and then to have someone take them away."

Rei chuckled.

"So, you think you know Sasuke. Then tell me, do you know anything that any other girl in Konoha can't tell me? Do you know anything that has to do with his character? Do you really know what he's really like beneath his serious personality?"

Sakura looked at her and realized that after all the years she had chased after Sasuke she didn't really know him. Rei knew what she was thinking and sighed.

"See, you really don't know him after all do you? Well, I guess you really aren't too good at learning about people are you? After all you see Naruto as a moron, when he is far stronger and more capable than you. I suggest you work on your people skills."

Sakura watched as she turned around and felt herself shaking with anger. She stood up and charged at Rei. She turned around and calmly dodged.

"Sakura, stop this. I told you I don't want to fight."

"No, I'll show you how strong I really am!"

She took out a kunai and got ready to fight. Rei frowned.

"Tch, annoying girl. She really doesn't know when to give up."

Sakura ran towards Rei and as she got closer to her she jumped up and threw some shuriken. Rei sighed and jumped back. She dodged as Sakura tried to kick her and kicked her instead. Sakura hit a tree and Rei threw some shuriken which circled around the tree. She pulled on some thin strings attached to the shuriken and Sakura was trapped. She walked over to her and sighed.

"Give up, Sakura, it's too late. I'll let you go, but please don't try something like this again. As I said before, I have no desire to fight my teammate, but I will if I have to."

Rei let Sakura go and continued walking to the training grounds. She hated to be so cold, but she really had no choice and Sakura had really annoyed her.

"She should just be grateful I went easy on her." She mumbled.

She arrived at the training grounds and smirked when she saw Sasuke laying down on the grass. She wondered if he had actually waited fro her. She snuck over to him and was about to attack/glomp him when he smirked.

"Don't even think about it."

"You're no fun." She pouted.

"Then by all means leave."

"Fine I will."

She stood up to leave and Sasuke opened his eyes to look at her.

"You're not really going to leave are you?"

"Well, why shouldn't I?"

She smirked as she had her back turned to him.

"Well…because…we have to train."

"We can train some other time."

She took a step forward.

"Wait."

"Why?"

"Because."

"Because what?"

Sasuke glared at her for making him do this. He knew she was trying to annoy him.

"Do you really have to do this?" He said irritated.

"Do what?" She said innocently.

"I'm just doing what you told me to do. You told me to leave. Unless you want me to stay I'll be leaving now."

Sasuke tried to keep his eye from twitching.

"Fine, stay."

"Why?" She said grinning.

"Because I want to train."

"Oh, well, that's not nice. I guess you really don't want me here."

"Rei, wait, I do."

"You do what?"

"I do want you to stay." He said through gritted teeth.

"Why do you want me to stay?"

"Because…I want to…be with you…"

He glared at her as she walked over to him and sat down.

"Well, that wasn't so hard was it?"

Sasuke just glared.

"You know, you really have to work on your attitude."

"Shut up you brat."

"Stop being so grumpy, why are you mad today?"

"I'm not mad."

"You're still grumpy."

Sasuke sighed and laid down again crossing his arms beneath his head.

"I'm grumpy because my airheaded girlfriend made me wait an hour and a half in the training grounds just so she could annoy me."

Rei laughed and Sasuke looked up at her as he propped himself up on his elbows.

"What now?" He groaned.

"You just said I was your girlfriend."

"What? No I didn't!"

Rei just laughed at his expression.

"Relax, there's no one around so I think your reputation as a cold hearted jerk is still intact."

"Yeah, right. I bet the whole village knows by now. Sakura probably told everyone already." He said as he laid down again.

"Oh, now that you mention it I ran into her on my way here." She said casually.

Sasuke looked at her.

"Are you alright?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah. It wasn't too bad really. She was annoying, but I don't think she'll bother me. Actually, I think the other girls are more annoying."

"Why?"

"They just keep glaring. It's kind of creepy." She shivered.

Sasuke chuckled.

"What are you laughing at? I can't wait until Naruto hears about this. I wonder what he's going to say." She grinned.

Sasuke groaned.

"Please don't mention that."

"Oh, what's wrong? Is Sasuke-kun ambarassed?" She said mockingly.

He looked away and she smiled.

"Hey, Sasuke, did you really wait here for an hour and a half?"

"Yeah."

"Why, you know I'm always late."

"I thought that for once you would be on time."

"Really? Well, I think that was very silly of you. After all you know it's one of my habits. So, the way I see it, you're either really stupid this morning."

Sasuke glared at her.

"Or, you needed time to think about something."

Sasuke sighed.

"You know, I still don't understand how you can be so annoying and so clever at the same time."

"So, what do you want to talk about?"

"Never mind, I'll tell you later."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

He stood up and held his hand out to Rei. She took it and he helped her up. She yawned and he smirked.

"Are you sure you want to train today?"

"Of course I want to train today! Stop being lazy."

"I'm not lazy."

"Suuure you're not. Now come on, I want to train."

She ran off to the other side of the field and Sasuke smirked. He was actually looking forward to training with her again. It had been a while since they had fought. Still, he knew he had to go easy on her as she had just gotten out of the hospital. He sighed. That wasn't too bad. At least they would have some time after training to talk. He shook his head. It was funny how he actually looked forward to spending time with her. She was the only person that could annoy him and make him happy at the same time. Although he wouldn't tell her and he wouldn't even admit it to himself he was starting to love her. He smiled as she waved at him and stuck out her tongue. Sure she was childish, but at least she wasn't a fangirl.

End Chapter Twenty-Four

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