All credits goes to Yves_Liong (writer from Wattpad) and Masashi Kishimoto (maker of Naruto).

Warning: OOC characters

-DenHime

Battling With A Hot Guy

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07

No matter how annoying Sakura-chan's words were, she was right. It really was my fault Sai is in this situation where his closest peers were mad at him. I know I have to do something about it and not just watch here.

I ran over to the scene and attempted to stop the players from pushing and shoving Sai by pulling their arms with all my might. "Stop it! Please!" I exclaimed loudly. Unfortunately, you couldn't expect a girl like me to succeed in a situation like this, could you? And so, I ended up being pushed back hard.

I almost thought I was going to fall flat on my butt after one of those guys pushed me but to my surprise, someone managed to catch me before I completely lost balance. I turned and checked who it was.

"If you're going to continue stopping them that way, I don't think you're going to succeed." It was Sabaku Gaara and he didn't look very happy though he didn't seem mad either.

He was right. I had to think of another way to stop them. Maybe it was time for me to stop this by telling the truth. However, if I do that, everyone will get mad at me instead. But then again, it was my fault. Sai didn'y deserve to be the one to take the blame. I shouldn't have gotten him into this mess.

"Listen, everbody, I have something to say!" I finally shouted, hoping everyone will turn their attention to me. Sadly, no one even glanced at me. The basketball team just continued to push Sai around and yell at him.

I cleared my throat as I decided to shout again, this time I'm going to try to make it even louder. But before I could say anything, we heard a voice that made everyone stop. It's not that loud but not soft either. It was authoritative. "All of you, stop."

Everyone one, even me, turned towards the origin of the voice which was from the bench. Sasuke was already standing with a serious expression on his face. When the people saw him, silence filled the air. Even his angry teammates stopped. Soon, he was walking towards us. He removed his teammates' hands from Sai's clothes.

"What do you think you're doing? He is our captain." He spoke in a firm voice.

"He doesn't deserve to be called our captain after what he did!" One of the varsities scoffed.

"We almost lost because of his bad decision." Another said.

Sasuke's eyebrow arched. "Are you serious?" He asked in a sarcastic and annoyed tone. "Was there ever a game we played where we were confident in winning? Our opponents are unpredictable, they could play well or not."

The teammates couldn't answer Sasuke, and so he continued.

"You can't blame Sai for this. You and, we all chose him to be our captain. When we did that, we implied that we trust him. If Sai thinks one of us shouldn't play, we follow him. So if you have a problem with Sai, then you have a problem with me too."

After what Sasuke said, his teammates started backing away from Sai. With their heads down, they left the court. As soon as they were gone, Sai placed his hand on Sasuke's shoulder. "Thanks for doing that."

Suddenly, Sasuke frowned at Sai. "Why didn't you let me play?"

"That is..." Sai started, unsure of what to say. But then he smiled. "It's because I knew we could do it even without you. The other team is pretty easy." Sasuke just smirked. I was a bit taken aback when I saw Sasuke look my way. But maybe he was looking at something else since he turned to Sai immediately. Then the two started walking towards the locker room.

"What were you going to say just now?" Gaara suddenly asked from beside me. For a moment there, I forgot about his presence.

I turned to face him. "I think you already you know that." I answered, seeing how he frowned at me earlier.

He looked at me with confusion. "What do you mean?"

He was probably trying to cover up the fact that Sai told him about it. But I am not going to fall for that. "I know that Sai told you about our deal. That's why you were frowning at me earlier, weren't you?" I retorted.

"So you're really responsible for what happened after all. I was only speculating earlier that you have something to do about it since it involved Sasuke." He looked at me seriously. "How did you do it? How did you convince Sai?"

There he is again, confronting me like I'm an evil person. "Why are you like this towards me? If you se me as a bad person, why do you even bother talking to me?"

"Actually, I've just realized something. I was wrong about you." He said, looking at me with interest. "At first, I thought you're really doing this because Sasuke wouldn't go out with you. But then if that was the reason, why would you do all these things that would obviously make him hate you? So now I'm wondering, what's your real motive?"

So he sis actually smart. And he is definitely a good basketball player. But wait a minute, what was I saying? I shouldn't be thinking like this right now. "It's none of your business." I told him, leaving before I could formulate another silly thought. I still need to patch things up with Sakura-chan.

I decided to look for Sakura by her locker. She was probably getting ready to go home now. But on my way there, I saw here talking to a girl I couldn't recognize because I am still too far to see. I hurried towards them and finally realized who it was. It was Uzumaki Karin, the leader of Uchiha Sasuke's fanclub. Rumor has it that she was so obsessed over Sasuke that she even has a shrine in her room filled with Sasuke's stuff. Sadly though, Sasuke doesn't seem to notice her. At least not the way she wanted him to. The only times he would approach her was when he would ask where his bestfriend, Uzumaki Naruto, is knowing that Karin is the cousin of Naruto.

Anyway, when Sakura saw me nearing them, she quickly ended their conversation and said good bye to Karin. After that, she walked over to me with a cold expression that she always uses whenever we fight. Curious why she was talkin to Karin, I chose to leave the apologies for later. "Why are you talking to Karin? I thought you both hated each other?" I asked her. See, Karin hated the fact that Sakura became Sasuke's girlfriend when Sakura wasn't even part of Sasuke's fanclub. Karin believes that Sakura doesn't deserve him.

Sakura shrugged. "She approached me first." She replied, still not warming up. "What happened to your mess?"

I didn't answer her. Instead, I asked another question. "What did you two talk about?"

"About how disappointed everyone was that Sasuke didn't play." She answered flatly.

Seeing how she wouldn't soften unless I apologized, I finally swallowed my pride. "Look, I'm sorry, okay? I know I should've told you beforehand but I had a feeling that if I did, you wouldn't approve of it and you would definitely put a stop to it." I said, trying to sound sincere thoght it was a complete lie. After all, I have a feeling that she wasn't telling me something about her conversation with Karin so we are even.

She smiled upon hearing my apology. "You know that I would never stop you from doing something you want to do, right? I'm behind you whatever you do." She said. "Just don't surprise me like that again."

After that, we went home on our separate ways. But as I walked home, I just couldn't stop thinking about what it was that she's hiding from me. It was really strange how Karin and Sakura are talking to each other in a friendly way when they were the worst of the worst enemies. And Sakura hadn't been the perfect friend when I had to clean up the mess I made with Sai. She just left me all alone. If it wasn't for Sasuke, I'd probably be facing another swarm of haters. Could my bestfriend actually betray me?

No.

I was probably just being paranoid. I am fighting this battle for her, why would she desert me? I had to get my mind to think straight. Sasuke is the enemy, not Sakura. He didn't even intentionally save me. He just wanted to help Sai.