Epilogue- Heading Home

To: Saku-chan
From: Ino-rose

OMG a flying bird!!

To: Ino-rose
From: Saku-chan

No shit, Ino, they all do that

To: Saku-chan
From: Ino-rose

No!! Penguins! Dodo birds!! How do u text and not look?!

To: Ino-rose
From: Saku-chan

Because it's like a keyboard…many people can type without looking at it.

To: Saku-chan
From: Ino-rose

Just stop ogling at Sasuke!! It's making me jealous!!

To: Ino-rose
From: Saku-chan

I thought you were over him after sophomore year.

To: Saku-chan
From: Ino-rose

I am, but EVERYBODY but me has a boyfriend they're staring at now!!!

To: Ino-rose
From: Saku-chan

So ur not dating Sai? Then y r u next 2 him?

To: Saku-chan
From: Ino-rose

Because I plan 2 seduce him!! Then I won't b alone in this couple-filled world!!

To: Ino-rose
From: Saku-chan

Right, have fun w/ that. I'm gonna go now.

To: Saku-chan
From: Ino-rose

The bus driver doesn't allow people 2 make-out on the bus!!

To: Ino-rose
From: Saku-chan

I wasn't planning 2!! ///

To: Saku-chan
From: Ino-rose

Oh, it's crossed ur mind, don't deny it!

To: Ino-rose
From: Saku-chan

Just leave me alone….
~*~

Sakura huffed, and put away her phone. She had no intention to reply if Ino sent yet another random text message.

"So Ino's really buying for attention?" Sasuke asked.

"Yep, but I won't answer anymore." Sakura replied.

"So why did you blush a minute ago?"

Sakura's eyes widened for a moment, but she tried to put on an innocent face. "Girl stuff, nothing to worry about."

Sasuke didn't seem to want to press after the words "girl stuff", and proceeded to look out the window for a couple moment.

Sakura giggled. "See, I told you you'd never say anything a girl would."

"That form of 'girl talk' is on a completely different level from our previous conversation." Sasuke responded.

Sakura giggled even more. "But guys can wear make-up! That classifies as something more on the feminine side."

"Yeah, maybe, but we wouldn't sit around and talk about it."

"How do I know that? I wouldn't be surprised if you do."

"Are you saying I wear make-up?"

"No, maybe, I don't know, but didn't a guy come up to you before and ask if you liked his eyeliner?"

Sasuke gave Sakura an incredulous look. "How did we get on this conversation?"

"Ha, I was right!"

"I didn't say anything on that."

"But you're trying to change the subject! That leads me to believe you are trying to deny or hide the truth! I win!"

Sasuke opened his mouth to say something, but at that moment his cellphone went off, signaling a new message. He pulled out his phone.

To: DarknessAvenger
From: RamenKing

Hey lovebird! R u and Saku fighting?! R U LOSING!?! Show some man guts!!
~*~

Sasuke rolled his eyes, but one glance over at Sakura and he knew he'd better take this moment of silence, and hopefully change the subject right afterwards.

To: RamenKing
From: DarknessAvenger

Shut up, Dobe, and we're not fighting. And u r 1 2 talk, u have been flirting w/ Hinata the whole ride home.

To: DarknessAvenger
From: RamenKing

Like u haven't! B4 this all u and Sakura were doing was making googly I's each other!

To: RamenKing
From: DarknessAvenger

Shut up…I'm serious.

To: DarknessAvenger
From: RamenKing

HA! U DIDN'T DENY IT!! I WIN!!
~*~

Sasuke mentally cursed at having the same logic used against him twice in the last five minutes.

Bing!

To: DarknessAvenger
From: RamenKing

Hey, Teme, u should change your cell name from emo-freak (ha! New nickname!) to Saku-chan'sSparkleSparkle!!

To: RamenKing
From: WillKillUJackass

STFU
~*~

Down where Naruto sat, he practically choked on his own laughter. Hinata gave him a couple of odd or concerned looks, but eventually decided not to press when Naruto started replying to a text message.

To: WillKillUJackass
From: RamenKing

Don't send Sakura a text w/ that screen name, or she really will kill u!! XDDDD

To: RamenKing
From: DarknessAvenger

Happy now, Dobe?

To: DarknessAvenger
From: RamenKing

Not till I see Saku-chan'sSparkleSparkle!!

To: RamenKing
From: DarknessAvenger

Know what…I h8 u…. I really do.

To: DarknessAvenger
From: RamenKing

Come on! No flirting! I don't roll that way and we both have girlfriends!!

To: RamenKing
From: DarknessAvenger

U r not gonna make it home…u do realize that?

To: DarknessAvenger
From: RamenKing

Well, maybe Sakura won't w/ how horny u r.
~*~

Sasuke had to try really hard to resist getting up and hitting Naruto upside the head at that instant. He unconsciously gripped his hands harder, one of which had been holding Sakura's hand.

"Ow, you're affecting the circulation here. What's wrong?" Sakura asked.

Sasuke immediately let go of Sakura's hand, and also nearly dropped his phone.

"Nothing…just the Dobe," Sasuke responded.

Sakura nodded and twined together their fingers like they had been before. "What's he been saying? Has he been talking non-stop about having a girlfriend now?"

"Hn, I wish that was what he was blathering about. Instead I'm being subject to his crappy jokes."

"Here, hand me the phone." Sakura instructed, and held out her free hand.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her order.

"Just do it. I can get Naruto to shut up."

"You're not gonna say anything that the Dobe will hold over my head for thinking it was me talking, are you?"

Sakura shook her head. "You'll be fine. I just don't want to bother getting my phone out right now."

Sasuke handed Sakura his phone, and she immediately began to text. When she finished, she hit send.

"That should do it." Sakura beamed.

A bit down, Naruto pulled out his phone as he was alerted about a new message.

To: RamenKing
From: DarknessAvenger

Naruto, it's Sakura, if u want 2 kiss Hinata at all 4 the next 2 weeks, I'd consider shutting up.
~*~

Naruto stared at the message for a moment, and then quickly put away his phone. While it was fun to mess with people, once it got to Sakura and violence, it was best to stop. Not kissing Hinata for two weeks was a price he knew she could dish out, and one he did not want to pay.

Thinking of Hinata, Naruto turned and saw said girl as she stared out the window. He grinned, such an outcome to the day was definitely not what he had expected. He knew that Sakura would have said yes to Sasuke, but he honestly thought his below-the-belt area may have been damaged or Hinata would faint for the stunt he pulled, but everything turned out alright.

Naruto looked around and spotted Temari and Shikamaru. Shikamaru was asleep, again, but he apparently decided to do it against Temari, who looked blissfully triumphant over the action. He didn't even think Ino could faze her now.

"Hey Hinata…." Naruto announced suddenly.

Hinata seemed to pull out of a trance as Naruto spoke. She looked up at him. "Yes?"

"Do you think it's always going to be like this after today?"

"I don't get what you mean…."

"Do you think the people we're with today will be the same people we're with years from now? I mean, we're all going to college next, who knows what'll happen."

Hinata looked down at her lap. "I…I don't know…but I…I really hope so…Naruto."

Naruto grinned and looked up. He could see the back of Sasuke and Sakura's heads. Sakura had her head leaned over on Sasuke's shoulder, who in turn seemed to have an arm around her.

"Yeah, me too…after all…who else can make such a field trip so interesting?"

THE END (officially)

And that's a wrap! I realized a couple things…one, I screwed up. In a chapter I said that Sasuke was going to pay for Sakura's meal, then in the next one with them Sakura said she had paid…whoops. I guess I lost track seeing as in between that I'm pretty sure there was a whole chapter of TemaShikaIno. Excuse the mistake! And another realization…on the poll I put up I accidentally put in the story I'm writing next! (I already deleted it, though. Thankfully there were no votes on it.) I told myself I would do this epilogue, and then I would do the next one, THEN I would write according to the poll. (Which, last I checked, seems to have a popular demand in "blackmail", but that's good because that one will be hilarious!) Well, I do hope you people enjoyed! It'll take a while until I can get up a new update…school, and life, and blah…but I shall try! (Hopefully that doesn't curse me again.) Till then!

Sorry this took longer than expected…fanfiction didn't let me on for a whole day, and then it wouldn't let me upload this!!