Standard Disclaimer Applied.

Early update. enjoy (:

Sorry for any grammar mistakes. also if some parts don't make sense, the Doc manager messed it up. honestly, this thing is making me angry!

Wow, he really is a scatter brain. A lot of what he's trying to write doesn't even float.

Scanning the music sheet, Sakura sighed. She did know how to read music sheets as her mother made her learn the piano when she was young.

Its just Sasuke's lyrical content was incredibly hard to understand. His words just didn't flow together. Sakura had an impression of what he was trying to write and understood where he was coming from with it, but it just wasn't making sense!

Moon shining through my room, all alone, not with you.
you were gone …

As Sakura read the first line, she could see scratched out words and eraser marks. She picked up her eraser and cleared off the first line. She then picked up her pencil and began writing the same thing, but with different words.

Bright, cold silver moon,
Tonight alone in my roo
mYou were here just yesterday.

Ah much, MUCH better. Now it seemed to flow better. As she erased more lyrics, inspiration came to her and she continued writing more and more. The words just came to her.

Luck is not on my side
Words don't come freely to me
I wind up getting tongue tied
I need some luck on my side.

Sakura thought for a moment and began writing down more lyrics, as that last bit Sasuke had written didn't flow right.

I need a little more luck than a little bit
Cuz every time I get stuck the words won't fit
And every time that I try I get tongue tied
I'll need a little good luck to get me by

PERFECT.

Man, if she is this good at writing lyrics, she should go into the music industry.

And hopefully Sasuke wouldn't disown her lyrics.

RING RING.

Reaching for her house phone, Sakura answered.

"Mooshi Mooshi?"

"S-Sakura-chan?"

"Hinata, is that you?"

"Hai. Can you talk?"

"yeah, sure! How was your day with Kiba!?" Sakura said adding a flirtatious sound on Kiba's name.

Hinata was silent for a moment, and then spoke. "M-My date with Kiba never h-happened."

Sakura gasped, "what!? Why!?"

Hinata sighed, and even though Sakura couldn't see it, a bright red blush came on Hinata's face. "U-Uzumaki Naruto h-happened."

Hopeless Love

Chapter trois

Ramen, the flavor of love

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"alright, give me the whole story Hinata. Who's Uzumaki Naruto anyway?"

"W-Well…"

"Hinata, Hinata! Wake up!"

Hinata stirred and her eyes slowly fluttered open. As her vision was restored, she could see Kiba, Asuma and the blonde guy who jumped out at her all staring at her.

"Ah…w-what happened?" Hinata asked as she slowly sat up, with Kiba's help.

"you walked in and this baka startled you, and you fainted." Kiba said as he glared at Naruto. Naruto gave an embarrassed look and scratched the back of his head.

"heh heh, sorry there Hinata-chan. I'll pay you back somehow."

Hinata stared at the blonde boy with admirable eyes. The boy had a childish look … which made him look very cute. what captivated Hinata the most was his blue eyes. Beautiful pools of cerulean. They were breath taking.

"Oh, it's a-alright …uh…?"

Naruto put his hand out for Hinata to grab so he could lift her up. "Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto."

Hinata slowly took Naruto's hand. Surprisingly, he had very soft hands. He took a firm hold of Hinata's hand and pulled her up with ease.

Hinata smiled at the blonde as a blush crept on her face. "N-Nice t-t-to meet you Uzumaki-san."

"call me Naruto."

"H-Hai Naruto-kun."

Asuma turned to Hinata. "well since Uzumaki is now joining our staff, I'm leaving you in charge of training him Hinata."

Both Hinata and Kiba's mouth dropped, while Naruto just grinned.

"T-Train him!? but she just started working here a month ago! There's no way she has the experience to train this baka!"

"Hey stop calling me baka dog!"

"I'll call you whatever I–"

"Alright boys, that's enough. Even though Hinata is still new herself, I have full faith in her that she'll do a fine job. Because your going to be training him Hinata, you'll have to work overtime. Don't worry, I'll pay you double."

This was a win-lose situation for Hinata. She would get more money, which was the win, but if she worked overtime, that meant her plans with Kiba would have to get cancelled.

"H-Hai Asuma-sama."

Kiba was ready to argue back, but Asuma began drilling Hinata on what she was going to train Naruto with. Sighing, he gave up and walked away to the cash register.

"For today Hyuuga, just show him around and him start stacking shelves."

"Hai."

Asuma nodded and then left the two to get to work. Hinata turned to Naruto.

"U-Uhm, I g-guess I'll give you a t-tour."

Naruto nodded, "alright Hinata!"

The two toured around the establishment for awhile, just learning where everything was. Along the way, something made Naruto think.

"Hey Hinata?"

"Y-Yes Naruto-kun?"

"Did Asuma call you Hyuuga Hinata?"

"H-Hai. Why do you ask?"

"oh well… are you by any chance related to Hyuuga Neji?"

Hinata froze. "Y-You know my c-c-cousin?"

Naruto shrugged, "yeah sort of… or I did at least."

"Wait Hinata, you have a cousin you've never told us about?" Sakura interrupted the story.

"Ah, Gomen Sakura-chan. I usually don't l-like to talk a-about my family."

"Ah right. Anyway continue."

"H-Hai."

Hinata raised an eyebrow. "sort o-of?"

Naruto nodded. "yeah. We were friends. Me and my friends kinda got into a big argument and we've gone our separate ways for the time being."

Hinata nodded. "Ah I-I see. How is m-my cousin?"

Naruto shrugged. "Fine I guess. He's heading to some sports festival thing in the states to relieve himself of some stress."

Hinata smiled, "i-its just like N-Neji to do sports to g-get his m-m-mind off something."

Hinata continued showing Naruto the establishment, making small talk as they went along. Something annoyed Hinata though.

"um just wondering, but w-where do y-y-you come from? Its just t-that I've never seen you in K-Konoha before."

Naruto picked up a box of canned goods as Hinata had directed him earlier and smiled at her. "Uhm, well I don't really have a home. I travel around a lot, but Konoha is my home town. I'm just rarely here."

"O-Oh I see. So you c-came here because of the a-a-argument you got into w-with your friends?"

Naruto nodded. "Yup, that's right. I've always had an apartment here in Konoha, but now I can't pay the rent, so that's why I decided to work here. Plus, with an employee's discount, I can have all the ramen I want for cheap money!"

Hinata raised an eyebrow. "R-Ramen?"

Naruto grinned. "yeah, it's the best! Hey, when do we get off work tonight?"

Originally without the overtime, Hinata would have been able to leave with Kiba at six, but now with the overtime, she was working to nine with Naruto.

"N-Nineish."

"Yosh! You wanna come with my to Ichiraku ramen? They serve the best ramen ever, and I haven't been in Konoha in awhile and it be cool if you came!"

"Wait, Hinata, you don't even like ramen that much."

"Yeah, which made i-it hard to decide t-to go or n-not…"

"So did you go Hinata!?"

Hinata sighed. "Well, I asked Kiba first if w-we still h-had any plans tonight, but he s-said we'll reschedule for a-another day."

"so you went with Naruto?"

"H-Hai. H-He seemed really excited and I c-couldn't decline. We went t-to Ichraku's. I had a b-bowl, while N-Naruto-kun had about s-seven. I have to admit, i-it was actually really g-good!"

"holy, he eats more then Ino-pig!"

"I-I know! The whole time h-he talked about where h-he's traveled too, and the p-people he's met. N-Naruto-kun is a really great guy Sakura-chan. I-I…" Hinata trailed off at the end of her sentence as a blush crept on her face. Sakura knew what Hinata was talking about.

"So you mean… you may kinda already like him in that way…?"

"…"

"Oh man Hinata! You got it going on girl! I'll have to meet this guy sometime soon so I can approve of you two."

"S-Sakura-chan!"

"Aha I'm kidding Hinata! Although I do wanna meet him."

"Sure, s-soon maybe. H-how was your day?"

Sakura groaned. "ah, the same as usual. Karin nagging on me, Suigestu being a flirt, Juugo just being silent and feeding the birds. But then I met the biggest egotistical prick EVER!"

"Oh?"

"His name is Uchiha Sasuke and he just checked into the hotel today for a month. With Karin already nagging on me, he's demanding I hurry up signing him in, and he bossed me around like crazy. Of course though, he has to be super gorgeous which means he's totally untouchable for someone like me…and because he's so gorgeous, 'Karin-hime' was all over him. the best part though was that he was totally ignoring her! I got into a few arguments over the day with him though. Ugh, and then I found out he was a musician, and he ran into Suigestu, causing him to drop his music sheets and I found one on the ground and picked it up. I was gunna return it, but I knew he'd just yell at me. Plus, I wanted to read it over."

"I-Is it any g-good?"

"Pah, you kidding me? From reading it, you can understand he's frustrated over something and he can't seem to write the words right. That's why I took the liberty of re-writing it all for him!"

"S-Sakura-chan, was that really a good idea?"

"of course it was! I salvaged his work! Why isn't it a good idea?"

"B-Because its his work, and you re-wrote it all. He could get mad a-at you for t-that."

"Oh… your kinda right. Well, maybe he won't notice I wrote it all over for him. Did I mention he has the coolest hand writing? Everything's in cap letters!"

"D-don't you think he'll maybe n-notice the different h-handwriting?"

"…lets hope not!"

Hinata fell down anime style at her friend's words.

"well, I gotta go now S-Sakura-chan. I'll talk to y-you later."

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"Oh my God…"

The platinum blonde grinned at the sight in front of her. She couldn't believe she was here.

"I'M IN ROME BABY!" she screamed at the top of her lungs as she leaned against the mouth of the trevi fountain. People stared at the girl as she yelled out loud.

"Now Chouji, where are you?" she whispered to herself. Chouji was a pen pal she had since she was in grade seven. They had never met each other, as Chouji traveled around a lot. They e-mailed each other all the time, and sent each other pictures of themselves. Chouji sent a picture of himself, and Ino had to admit, he was gorgeous! Tall and muscular, short brown hair and a few dimples. She was on the lookout for him today!

Chouji had asked Ino if she wanted to try out for a movie his friend was starring in, and she immediately said yes. So here she was, at the trevi fountain, looking for her muscular man.

"Ino, is that you?" a voice said behind her. Ino was lit up with excitement as she heard her name said from behind her. She took a deep breath and then turned to her tall, dark and handsome pen pal.

Except one problem…

He wasn't muscular, and he wasn't tall. Oh no, and his hair... was long.

Who was this guy?

"Wow, is it really you Ino? Its me, Chouji!" the man said happily. Ino scanned 'Chouji' over, and he was FAR from what the picture looked like.

He was HUGE! Long brown hair, chubby face, chubby…everything.

Ino stood there petrified. Chouji continued smiling, and then eventually pulled out a bag of potato chips and began munching down.

Ino blinked. "Uh, I'm sorry; you can't be Chouji…not the one I'm looking for at least."

"Oh no, I am! Akimichi Chouji!"

Oh please no!

"You thought I really looked like my picture, huh?" he said as he leaned against the trevi fountain. Ino just stood there, still frozen in place.

"Well…yeah kinda…"

Chouji began laughing, which made him receive an odd glance from Ino. He again smiled at the blonde. "I sent that picture as a joke. I didn't think you'd take it that seriously!"

Ino's mouth dropped. "What!? I sent you a real picture of me, and I wasn't kidding around!"

"Well, I didn't expect you to send a real picture of yourself."

Ino opened her mouth to say something, but the words wouldn't come out. Chouji stopped munching on his chips and turned to Ino, with a serious expression.

"I'm not what you expected me to be, huh?"

All Ino could do was shrug. Chouji continued smiling. "well I'm sorry Ino. Hopefully we can still be friends!"

Ino turned to the big boy and smiled. "Yeah, sure."

-randomstomachhungrynoise-

Ino's face went tomato red as her stomach growled loudly. Chouji began laughing.

"Wow, when was the last time you ate? Yesterday morning."

Ino tensed. "aahah, yeah…"

Chouji began to walk to the stairs to get out of the trevi fountain area. "well, then lets go get something for you to eat. You can't expect to audition for a movie on an empty stomach!"

Ino froze. "Wait, I have to AUDITION!? I thought you said I already had the part!"

Chouji rubbed the back of his head. "heh, yeah well… I may have lied about that part."

"B-But how am I suppose to audition?! I don't even know what I'm gunna have to say, or…or ANYTHING!"

"Whoa, relax Ino! Don't worry, we'll figure something out! You still have two days!"

Ino sighed. This day stared out great, and was now turning out horribly.

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"AH LEE LOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO!"

"Ah, gomen Tenten! I didn't mean to spend that much time in the bathroom!"

"ARGH! I can't believe we missed the bus to camp! Now were stuck at the Florida airport, half way around the world from Japan, with little cash! Now what are we gunna do!?

"No worries Tenten! The power of youth will come to our aid!"

Tenten was ready to strangle Lee. Anymore of this youth stuff and she'd–

Tenten stopped right in the middle of her thought as she saw him. Hyuuga Neji…

He was walking over to an exit. Tenten then remembered she still had his pants on. Surely he would want them back…right!?

Tenten chased after him, and slid right in front of him, stopping him in his tracks. Tenten took a deep breath and then looked up at him.

Only this time, he wasn't wearing sunglasses. She could now see his pearl eyes, which were identical to Hinata's!

She'd be sure to ask him about that.

"Hi…uhm I still need to give you your pants b-back."

Neji stared at her for a moment, and then raised an eyebrow.

"Who are you?"

Ouch, that was a blow to her ego.

"uhm, the girl from England…the one that got coffee spilt on her pants, and you lent me these sweats…"

"Ah, right. Keep them." He said as he began walking away. Tenten gawked. She got to keep the pants, but Neji was walking away, barely acknowledging her.

And Tenten still had one more question to ask.

"Wait!" she said taking three strides to her. He stopped and half turned around, slightly aggravated.

"what?"

"Uhm, you're a Hyuuga right? Are you related to Hinata?"

Neji now turned right around to face Tenten.

"You know Hinata-sama?"

"yeah, she's one of my best friends."

"Where is she?"

"Back in Konoha. She's working at a grocery store over the summer holidays."

"Ah, I see."

Neji stared down at the ground for a moment. Something puzzled Tenten.

"Hey, if you don't mind me asking…why don't you live with the Hyuuga's back in Konoha? I mean, the whole family is there, and it's a little odd I've never seen you there before."

Neji's eyes narrowed and his fists clenched. Tenten was starting to regret asking.

"You know what, never–"

"I'm part of the branch family. I am not welcomed in the main house."

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"So is this how you do it Hinata?"

"H-Hai Naruto-kun. Be careful w-when you c-cut though. You don't w-w-wanna cut yourself!"

Naruto concentrated as he took the knife and began cutting a sausage. Hinata watched making sure he didn't do anything stupid.

Naruto grinned. "Hey, this isn't so hard!"

Hinata smiled. "Good j-job N-Naruto-kun!"

Naruto gave Hinata a wink. "Well, I'm only doing so well because of your teaching me all this Hinata."

Hinata began blushing and turned away to hide the blush. "O-Oh, uh t-thank you Naruto-kun."

The sudden noise of a guitar solo caused both teens to look around. Naruto dug down into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone, which had a familiar guitar solo ring tone. It sounded like a Shinobi song.

Naruto checked the caller ID, and Hinata swore, she saw Naruto cringe. He turned to Hinata.

"Uh, can I go answer it?"

Hinata nodded. "J-Just don't let Asuma-sama c-catch you."

Naruto nodded and headed somewhere into the backroom to take the call. Hinata turned back to the meat products her and Naruto were cutting up, and continued her job. As she worked, the blush on her face continued to shine brightly. Uzumaki Naruto was taking a big impact on her. This feeling in the bottom of her stomach began turning everytime she was near the blonde. His determination and kindness were inspiring to Hinata, and she knew all to well, within the past few days…

She was falling for Uzumaki Naruto. She wasn't in love yet, but she was falling into it.

"Hinata?" a voice interrupted her thoughts as she cut. She looked up, and there was Kiba.

Hinata smiled at her co-worker. "A-Ah, Kiba-kun!"

Kiba nodded. "Hey…uhm, I was wondering…if you're not busy, if we could reschedule our date…?"

Hinata eyes widened. Her thoughts had only been on Naruto, that she totally forgot about Kiba. She wasn't even sure what she should do!

"Oh…uhm, w-when were you t-thinking?"

Kiba shrugged. "Hmm, whenever you're free? Maybe after work?"

Hinata did not want to be rude, and she knew she owed this date to Kiba. Sighing, she smiled.

"S-sur–"

"Hinata! I'm back!" Naruto's loud voice interrupted Hinata's words. Both teens turned to the blonde as he returned.

"Oh, N-Naruto-kun!"

"Hey, what were you two talking about?" Naruto inquired. Hinata and Kiba looked at each other. Hinata looked down blushing, while Kiba smirked.

"Me and Hinata are going out after work!" he said proudly. Naruto grinned.

"Really? I'm coming too then!"

Kiba's mouth dropped while Hinata stared at the blonde. Kiba put his hands down on the meat counter and glared at the blonde.

"You baka! As a date!"

Naruto continued grinning. "Okay, I'll go on the date with Hinata, and you can tag along!"

"No! The other way around baka!"

"What, you and I are dating and Hinata is tagging along? Ew, are you gay!?"

Kiba smacked himself in the face. "No, I'm going on a date with Hinata, and you're NOT coming!"

Naruto folded his arms. "why can't I come?"

"Because it's a date. You know, between two people?"

"well, why not double date?!"

"you got someone to bring tonight?" Kiba inquired, smirking at the blonde. Hinata felt her heart sink. She thought maybe…her and Naruto had somethin–

"Well no, BUT Hinata…you have that friend you were talking about…Sakura? Ask her to come and she can be my date!"

Hinata felt relief wash over her. She nodded. "I c-can see if s-she's not busy."

Naruto grinned. "Yosh! Call her up!"

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"Haruno-baka, bring in my delivery of candy from the storage room. I got my hands full at the moment." Karin demanded as one of her hands was busy holding a mirror, while her other hand was applying a new coat of lipgloss. Sakura grunted.

"Do it yourself! Its your job!"

"As yes, but I am the assistant manager around here now, so you must listen to my every word, so go do it!" she hollered. Sakura sighed and headed into the storage room, she kicked an empty box in the room.

"Argh! That girl is the biggest–"

"six days on the job, and you're already ready throwing a fit? You lasted more then the last girl who had your job." A snarkey voice said from behind Sakura. She turned around, and there was Suigestu, leaning against the wall, with a playful smile on his face. Sakura glared.

"What did you say?"

"The last girl who had your job lasted three days before Karin drove her mad. I'm surprised at how long you've lasted, since you and Karin have never seen eye to eye."

Sakura let out a low laugh. "Oh, you and me both. I've worked too hard for this job, and I'm not letting Karin dictate how I work. Speaking of which, how have you and Juugo lasted so long? I mean, you've been working here almost as long as she has…"

Suigestu shrugged. "I don't know. She hardly talks to Juugo, and when it's the two of us, I always seem to win the battles."

"Pah, lucky you. She's just waiting for me to do something wrong so she can report me to Anko."

"Karin's not all that bad. Eventually you'll get used to it."

A smirk tugged on Sakura's lips. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you have a little crush on her Suigestu…"

Suigestu rolled his eyes. "Yeah, right. Karin-hime and moi? She's always ready to bite my head off."

Sakura and Suigestu both laughed at his last comment, because no matter how you looked at it, it was true.

There was a silence for moment, before Suigestu spoke. "You won't tell her, will you?"

Sakura was surprised by his words, but then promised she'd stay silent. "my lips are sealed!"

Suigestu smirked. "ight. Well, you better hurry up and get what Karin ordered you to get, or who knows what she'll do."

Sakura nodded and grabbed a box of candy from the back, and headed to the door. Before leaving, she gave a quick wink at Suigestu, who she guessed was restocking the shelves.

"About time!" Karin said as Sakura dropped the box on the counter of the candy counter. Karin was currently filing her nails.

"What took you so long!?"

"I was gone for five minutes!"

"four minutes to long Haruno-baka."

Sakura rolled her eyes and went to the main desk, where she sat down and looked through files on the computer. She needed to get something to get Karin out of her mind before she punched her.

Bored, Sakura pulled out her bag with all her stuff in it – cell phone, ipod, money, keys, make-up… the whole deal. As she looked for her phone, she noticed the music sheets that belonged to Sasuke.

She still had to return them.

"Ah, Sasuke-kun!" Karin's voice echoed through the lobby as she went and clung to the Uchiha's arm. Sasuke glared at her and shrugged the girl off, stuffing his hands into his pockets and heading for the door.

"W-Wait!" Sakura screeched from her table. Karin and Sasuke both looked at her at the same time. She stepped out from around her table with the sheet in her hand and walked up in front of him.

"Uhm, you dropped this yesterday." She said handing the sheet to him. He took the sheet, opened it, and scanned it.

"Hn."

He then began proceeding out the door. Sakura sighed as he didn't notice the lyric change.

"Wait."

Sakura turned back to Sasuke, who narrowed his eyes at her.

"this isn't my hand writing, and this isn't the song I wrote."

Ah, what do I say?

"Uhm yeah well…I thought your song didn't flow, so I re-wrote it!" she said happily. Hopefully Sasuke would be content with it.

However, he just glared at her.

"You wrote this?" he inquired. Sakura just nodded.

He glared harder. "why? My work is none of your business."

Sakura retaliated back. "Well sorry Sasuke-kun, but you can't write if your life depended on it! it didn't flow, your words didn't even match up with the tempo…hell it was a mess! You should be thanking me for saving your work!"

Sasuke gazed at Sakura with a murderous look. He was about to reply back, but Anko's voice disrupted the scene.

"Sakura, Karin, back to work!" she said coming in from the music hall. Both Sakura and Karin bowed to Anko and went back to their counters. As Sakura left, she quickly glanced at Sasuke.

His face was blank.

And then he left.

And for the rest of the day, Karin glared holes into Sakura.

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"Come on Ino! Eat some more food!"

"Uh no thanks. I'm not that hungry."

"Man, girls like you really need to eat more. How you survive, I'll never know."

"You know, eating to much can kill you."

"That's why I eat in proportions!"

Ino scoffed. If he means eating a cow a meal…

"Oh yeah, I want you to meet a friend of mine. He'll be here any minute! He's working on the set of the movie your trying out for!"

Oh man, its gunna be another fat boy!

"As what, a custodian?" Ino said sarcastically as she forked a piece of lettuce.

"Yeah, pretty much."

Ino wanted to laugh, but held it in not to be rude.

Chouji looked towards the door of the small Italian restaurant he took Ino too, as he heard the door open. "Oh there he is. Hey, Shikamaru, come and meet my pen pal Ino!"

Ino chocked on a piece lettuce in her mouth. She stood up abruptly and turned to the door. There standing at the door was none other then her childhood friend.

"Shika…" she said in a low voice. The boy at the door looked at Ino with surprised eyes.

"Ino?"

Chouji stared back and forth at the two as he continued stuffing food in his mouth.

"You two know each other?"

Ino laughed half heartedly. "Yeah, we did know each other."

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"Thank you for the food!"

"No problem ma'am! Have a good day!" Sakura said with a cheerful smile as the door closed on her. She was currently on the penthouse level, delivering room service.

"Alright, who's next?" she said to herself as she scanned her sheet of room service tasks on the floor. She'd only been working there for 6 days, so she's still working rookie style, writing everything down.

"Neh neh, neh neh neh, you can't catch me!" a little kid said as another kid chased him. They both ran past Sakura, causing her to drop the towels in her hand, and the sheet.

Which happened to slide under someone's door, into their hotel room.

Argh, stupid kids! Watch where you're going! She uttered to herself. Picking up the towels, she looked at the room number the sheet went under.

She gulped. It was Sasuke's room.

And she needed that sheet. Standing up and taking in a big breath of air, she walked over to the room and knocked.

No answer.

She knocked again just to make sure.

Still, no answer.

Maybe he left the room unlocked…

Turning the knob, a click noise sounded.

The door was still open.

Inconspicuously, Sakura walked in and looked for her sheet. Turning to her left, there the note was. She went to pick it up, but the sheet suddenly flew through the air and landed on the coffee table in the next room. Sakura raised an eyebrow.

"What the hell–"

WHOOSH!

A blast of air blew by, causing Sakura's hair to flow in her face. Turning to her right, she noted Sasuke left the fan on.

Argh, energy waster!

Sakura walked over and switched the fan off, annoyed he left it on. Heading into the living room with the coffee table, Sakura grabbed her note.

Something caught her eye. Walking around the coffee table, and over to the couch, Sakura noted a newspaper was left wide open. Looking at the title, it was about Sakura's most favorite loathing band Shinobi. Sakura arched a brow.

Why would someone like him read an article about Shinobi?

RING RING!

Sakura jumped as the phone began ringing. She knew she had no right to answer the phone, and decided to leave.

As she began leaving, the answering machine went off. A man with a deep voice came on.

"Sasuke, this is Kakashi. I know your still fuming over the fight in you got in with your band mates, but I want you all together to discuss an issue coming up. It will dictate the future of Shinobi. If you don't show up, you're kicked out of the band."

Sakura's eyes bulged out. "No, way…"

"You have three days to get back to me."

Click. Beep, beep.

The message stopped recording. Sakura plopped down onto the couch, with an unreadable expression on her face.

She couldn't believe it.

Sasuke was in the band Shinobi. The band she hated with a PASSION.

As to who, she didn't know, or really care for the matter.

But this was front cover news of every newspaper out there. If she let this slip, she could be making millions.

And her most hated band would be no more.

But should she even consider doing this crime? It's not her style to be scum. She's not a sneak of any sort.

"Oh man, oh man, Oh man!" she said to herself, now pacing around the room.

Sakura stopped and froze. The sound of feet shuffling outside the hotel room alerted her senses. She looked to the door and saw a shadow under that little crack in the door.

"Oh shit!" she said to herself in a whisper as she looked around. She needed to hide somewhere!

Looking to her right, she saw a random closet in the main room. Not having much of a choice, she quickly and quietly slipped inside the small space and closed the door, leaving it ajar open.

Crap, oh man! What happens if he finds out I was in here! He'll assume I was snooping around and that I'm like…obsessed with him! That's Karin Damnit, not me! He's not gunna believe my sheet flew under his door. Oh damn, what do I do!?

Sakura heard the sound of a door opening and then closing. She held her breath as she heard footsteps entering the room.

Taking a chance, she peeked through the small crack she left open. She could now see Sasuke heading over to the phone. He pressed the speaker button and the message began playing. Sakura studied Sasuke's face as the message played. She could clearly see a scowl.

Once the message stopped Sasuke sat down on the couch and held his head in his hands, in deep thought. For some odd reason, Sakura felt the need to put a comforting arm on him. Obviously he was having a hard time, and needed someone to talk to. Sakura argued with herself if she should help, but didn't dare leave the closet.

Sasuke turned to the other side of the couch and pulled out his guitar case. Opening it, he took out his acoustic guitar and strummed it, making random tones. As much as the thought of Sasuke being in Shinobi, the songs he was strumming had a certain flow to it.

Sasuke stopped and dug into his pockets, and pulled out a sheet. He scanned it over and placed it down on the coffee table. From what Sakura could see, it was the song she re-wrote.

Sasuke began strumming the first bar of the song. Sakura began getting excited.

Is he …no way! He's singing my new lyrics!

However her hopes shattered as Sasuke began singing the first bar of what he had originally written. She guessed he had it memorized.

But half way through his singing, he stop and grunted. From Sakura's interpretation, he didn't like the sound of his own lyrics.

He grabbed the sheet and looked over the lyrics. He placed it to his side and began playing the song again, singing the first three lines of Sakura's version.

Bright, cold silver moon
Tonight alone in my room
You were here just yesterdaaaay

Sasuke stopped and stared at the sheet. Sakura felt her insides melting as she heard Sasuke sing that first part of the verse. He sounded amazing.

Sasuke continued playing the whole song with Sakura's lyrics. Sakura closed her eyes as Sasuke continued singing the song. He sounded to perfect for the song, and his soul was put into it. It sounded–

"–Amazing…" Sakura said as she began leaning on the door. However, she wasn't completely thinking, and leaned against the door with a little too much weight.

CRASH!

The door flung open and Sakura landed on the ground with a thud. The music stopped instantly as Sasuke stared at the girl sprawled on the ground.

"ow…" Sakura said rubbing her side, totally oblivious to Sasuke's stare.

RING, RING.

Sakura's cell phone went off to the tone of Love so Sweet by Arashi, as she was receiving an incoming call.

"Ahem." Sasuke coughed. Sakura froze.

How was she gunna get outta this one?

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chapter trois fini! Hopefully it was not a disapointment.

Song: Tongue tied - Faber Drive

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