blackheart01: Wai! It's April! My fave month ever!

Sakura: Belated Happy birthday BH01!

blackheart01: Sankyuu! . (hugs Saku-chan)

Sasuke: ... *gives a card to BH01*

blackheart01: Oooh! Sasu-chan gave me a gift! (opens card, starting to read) "April Fool's, baka" (card-actually an explosive tag-explodes)

DAMN YOU UCHIHA! (runs after Sasuke)

Sakura: (sweat drops) BH01 does not own Naruto. (Also if you have time, please try reading me and my friend, DuchessofDoom's joined fic:

"Arrow Through Your Heart"... ^_^)

blackheart01 replies***

Most of the readers: Yeah, the corpse thing was just a spur of the moment thing. I actually had a difficulty making sense of it. (ehehehe :3)

xXElementalistXx: I actually planned to reply sooner, but I was too shy back then, plus I didn't know what to say.

Anyways, COOL! I actually translated the messages on the books as well. It's fun,neh? Thanks for reading "Arrow Through your Heart"!

Also, duchie says: "Hi and thanks for reading the story. It's still under construction but I'll try my best to update when I have my free time."

-I also kept on bugging her to update, nyahahah, we have some things in common, I guess.

nfurukawa365: Well, I simply like Sasu-chan blushing, he's too cute in my imaginations... :3

RoCk-ThIs-PaRtY153: KYAA! I miss your reviews! And yes, I do remember you dear

***** (again, if you have questions, just ask, 'kay?)

Chapter 15: Corpse, RPG and The Unknown People...

"It's..." she trailed off "...a corpse"

"A corpse?" Sasuke's eyes widened but after a second, they narrowed in suspicion as he stared at her when she pulled back. "How many times in a day are you planning to joke around me?"

"Aww... I thought that was a good one" Sakura mumbled to herself disappointed. "Oh well, maybe some other time. And to answer that question; as long as I have the chance"

"Why?"

"Because I like watching for your reactions. You barely have some" she simply answered.

"Hn. Whatever" he rolled his eyes at her and turned his attention back to the box. "So what is it really?"

"As I've told you, it's a corpse" she replied nonchalantly.

"As in a... dead body?" he asked slowly.

She laughed at him. "You're such a morbid thinker. It's C.O.R.P.S.E., short for: Computer Operated Robotics and Personal Spying Equipment. I only named it that way cause it sounds cool, plus its good for pranks. I remember my last victim. He screamed like a little girl when I tried opening it in front of him"

"You have a sick mind. And you call me morbid?"

"I'll take that as a compliment" she grinned. "I'll show the contents later. Right now we eat. I'm starving!"

"Just out of curiosity..." Sasuke trailed off as they were now at the dining table having some lunch.

Sakura raised a curious eyebrow, looking up from her plate of lasagna. "Yeah?"

"What's up with the techie stuffs? Have you brought them from your agency or something?"

"Nope. They're mine. I like inventing things on my free time. Keeps me busy" she shrugged.

"I didn't know you're such a nerd" he snorted, getting back to his steak.

"Shut up Uchiha" she playfully glared at him. "For your information, nerds, geeks or whatever you call them, were the one's who make life easier for all of us. If not for them you wouldn't even have your precious gadgets, cars and other technologies in the world! Plus they're the ones who ends up being billionaires in the future. So, just shut your mouth up if you don't have anything good to -What are you laughing at?!" she yelled, as she eyed him with annoyance in her eyes.

The Uchiha laughed. Not a snicker nor a small chuckle, but a laugh. And if she knew him better, she would have a different reaction by now. Probably gaping, disbelieving or scared that it might be the apocalypse. Laughing was one of the rarest thing you could witness Uchiha Sasuke would be doing. And if you did tell someone about it, they probably won't believe you. The boy felt unusually good, for he hadn't laughed as much for as long as he can remember. Even his blonde best friend's stupidity or pranks never affected him this way.

"What is so funny?!" the girl blushed, now feeling embarrassed that she might have said something utterly weird.

"Y-You-laughs-You're such a nerd!-laughs" he said clutching his stomach.

"Stop it"

Laughter.

"I said quit it!"

Still laughing.

"If you don't stop that, I swear I'll confiscate the fan girl repellent from you!"

Absolute silence.

Wow, that was fast, she thought but smirked triumphantly nonetheless. She went back to eating, ignoring Sasuke's eyes throwing dagger looks at her.

"Just so you know I'm the one who made that watch. So you better be grateful of this nerd in front of you" she stuck her tongue out at him.

"You never told me these were heavy" Sasuke grunted.

"I never told you to carry that, but you insisted, Your Highness" Sakura replied, as she passed by him, carrying a bundle of cables and wires up the stairs towards her room. The boy growled inwardly as he followed her. The room was actually very spacious, although Sasuke's room is still bigger. The interior was white with a splash of crimson red, like the color of her bed spread, the curtains and a sofa bed on the side. There were empty bookshelves, closets, desks and cabinets placed against the walls. A big screen TV at the wall across the bed with speakers on the side. Lastly a white door that probably leads towards her bathroom.

"You can put it down there. Thanks" Sakura's voice said coming from the door.

Sasuke was startled he that he almost dropped he box. How did she get there? He was only scanning the room for about two to three minutes only.

"Weren't you just ahead of me earlier?" he almost exclaimed at her.

"Yeah, now I'm behind you" she answered with a raised eyebrow, walking past him again. "You were too busy staring at my room, so you must have missed me walking out of the room... twice" she mumbled the last word under her breath.

He would've believed her answer if he didn't hear her last statement. "How did you get here so fast?"

She glanced at him with bored eyes. "I wasn't that fast. You were just staring too long" She turned back to the boxes she brought up and started opening them. She started setting down some odd looking black boxes, small wires, screwdrivers and such.

Shrugging of his unanswered questions, he went to her side to see what she's doing. "What's that for?"

The girl didn't give her reply for a moment and took out a sleek red-colored laptop from the box, with a white letter 'S' engraved on the middle of it. She placed it on top of the study table, opened it and turned it on. She went to get back the other devices from the box and placed them on the table, before turning back to Sasuke.

"Just some... nerdy stuffs" she answered sarcastically.

"Oh come on! I thought we were past that argument already. I thought I was forgiven" Sasuke frowned at her.

"I never said such thing. I actually threatened to retrieve the fan girl repellent for you to stop laughing at me, remember?" she reminded him, which made his frown deeper. "Which reminds me, I'm supposed to get that from you, so mind giving it to me for awhile?"

The boy instinctively hid his hand behind his back defensively, when she outstretched her open palm in front at him. "Why?"

"Don't panic" she chuckled lightly "I just need to recharge that, or would you rather have it lose effect when in the middle of a fan girl rampage?"

Sasuke hesitated for a moment, but took the watch and reluctantly handed it to her. "Why don't you just give me the charger so I can do it myself?"

"I also need to make some adjustments on it, plus to have it checked to make sure there's nothing broken on it" the girl replied as she set it on the table, after plugging it on the charger connected to her room's outlet.

Sasuke went over to the "CORPSE" box and checking the other contents. He saw smaller boxes with names written on them, some saying 'security cameras', 'recorder', 'batteries', 'nuts & bolts', 'screw drivers', 'mini mic', 'binoculars', etc. and there was also another laptop in a sleek, black color placed neatly on the side. From the corner of his eye, he saw the girl walking towards him. She picked up the black laptop once she was next to him, and went to place it on the table next to the red laptop and turned it on as well.

"What do you need the spying devices for?" he asked taking a seat on the chair meant for the study table.

"Hmm... For monitoring you of course" she answered, collapsing down on the bed deciding to sort the other mess for later.

"Why would you need it when were practically in the same classes? Plus how and where will you be putting those stuff anyway?"

"First question: Because it's not always that we're together, second question: It's a secret" she replied, blinking her eyes slowly.

"You're too mysterious" he frowned at her.

"I would prefer the term private" she mumbled, hiding a yawn behind her hand.

He raised an eyebrow at her form settled on the bed. "Don't tell me you're sleeping on me again"

"Mhmm" she smiled with her eyes closed. "I remember saying I slept late at breakfast. I'm feeling too sleepy after all the moving-OW!"

Sakura sat up clutching her forehead yet again. "What is the matter with you flicking my forehead?!"

"I wouldn't let you sleep while I'm here. You still have other stuffs to move" Sasuke stated crossing his arms over his chest.

"I'll do it later! I'm tired" she scowled. "Anyways, why don't you just go home? Don't you have anything else to do besides hanging out in my place?"

"Why are you talking to me that way? Aren't you working for me?"

"It's my day-off, Your Highness" she smirked. "I'm free to do whatever I want. Today, I'm just Haruno Sakura: your simple and ordinary classmate"

"Make that seemingly simple and ordinary classmate" he mumbled, which the girl heard him saying because of their distance from each other"

She shrugged. "It's your choice"

The young Uchiha narrowed his eyes at her uncaring facade. "There's nothing to do at home. I'll just get bored. Don't you have anything else to do here?"

"Uhm..." the girl trailed off, searching the room before spotting the CORPSE box again. "Oooh! We could play some RPG!"

"That stands for Role Playing Game, right?" he raised an eyebrow at her.

"Uh, yeah sure..." she chuckled, pausing for a second. "But it's a bit different. My friends from work and I meant to use this for training but we ended up making it a game. Would you like to try it?" she asked, standing up from the bed and started to fumble through the box.

Sasuke shrugged. "Sure, why not?"

The girl took out two boxes labeled 'RPG'. She tossed one to Sasuke and the boy opened it a bit eager to know what it was. He found something that looked like a shiny, black glasses. Though it would more likely go around his head, a bit thicker although it seems lighter and there were blue blinking lights and tiny buttons on the sides. He glanced to his right and saw Sakura already wearing hers, which was red in color. The girl went over to him and placed the glasses on him herself. She grinned at him and led him to sit at the bottom of her bed.

"Okay, so we call this game RPG. We wear these glasses instead of using a big screen and controllers. It brings us to the game and it would be us playing the characters. What we think would be our characters actions, so if you know a lot of moves from video games, you'll have the upper hand." she explained.

"Wait, so there's no rules on the moves? Is this game gonna be literally painful?" Sasuke questioned, somehow feeling a bit excited.

"No rules, first one to empty their life bars loses and gets kicked out of the game. Also to make it a little realistic, the pain your injury would cause, will give a vibration on your body. A bit the same when you're using the controllers." she answered.

"So how do we start this?" he asked, eager to start.

The girl lied her back on the bed and the boy copied her movement, lying on her side. "This game needs concentration when you turn it on. Lying down would be the best position. The more relaxed, the better." she said, while staring at the ceiling. "I'll explain the other rules when we start. So, are you ready?"

"Yeah."

"Good. Now, press the first button and just follow the instructions, okay?" he nodded. "See you there!" Sakura said, before pressing the button. Her hand fell on her side after doing so. She remained still, and her eyes were closed when the boy looked through the lenses.

He sighed. "She's just found an excuse to sleep." he muttered, but copied what she did.

*****GAME*****

It was completely dark from where he was. Sasuke blinked his eyes. Am I dreaming?, he thought. Last thing he remembered was pressing the RPG glasses' start button, then-

Suddenly, there he heard a soft tinkle of bells.

Welcome to RPG. REAL PLAYER'S GAME. Please state your name. A smooth male, robotic voice sounded from all directions.

Real Player's Game? I thought she said it's the Role Playing Game?, he shrugged. Oh, well. He felt himself shrug despite the fact he can't see himself. He only knows he's floating in space like an astronaut right now. Sakura was nowhere in sight.

"Uchiha Sasuke."

Greetings Uchiha Sasuke! I am Accel, your game guide. You are now on the starting phase of the game. Please choose your desired beginner's outfit. As it was said, there was a 3D hologram in front of him showing a screen with a picture of male costumes, like the ones in an actual video game. Sasuke pressed on an arrow and scrolled through the hundred options. He finally chose a blue shirt with a raised collar, white shorts and ninja shoes. (A/N: Yep, Sasuke's outfit when they were 12 on the show.) When he finished, a bright light consumed him forcing him to close his eyes to block the light. After making sure that it was over, he slowly opened his eyes, looked down himself and saw that he was already wearing the outfit. He was now standing upright in the middle of what seemed to be a lobby. There was a navy blue door at the end of the room across from him. Curious, he went towards it. His hand was already on the doorknob, ready to turn it when someone knocked from the other side startling him. On the door, there was a flashing red word saying "LINK" while the knocking continued. Sasuke hesitantly opened it, only to see Sakura on the other side beaming at him.

LINK Successful. Accel's voice echoed.

"Hey! What took you so long?" the girl greeted him.

"..."

"Sasuke?"

"..." The boy only blinked slowly at her.

Sakura had a slightly worried look in her eyes. "Accel? Is there something wrong on Sasuke's side?" she asked, looking up.

Starting auto-check on gamer's stats. Accel's voice rang inside, after a few seconds the game guide gave his report. Gamer stat: All green. Gamer fault: None found.

"That's weird. Sasuke, what's wrong?" she tapped the boy's shoulder lightly.

"... what are you wearing?" he blurted out.

This time it was Sakura who wore a blank expression on her face. She slowly looked down at her chosen apparel. "A ninja outfit?" she asked more than answered him.

"What kind of ninja outfit is that?" he exclaimed, his eyes still on her outfit.

"ANBU level nin." she simply answered shrugging. The girl was actually wearing a black sleeveless, turtlenecked shirt underneath a white-corset like tube, paired with black skin tight cycling shorts. She wore finger-less gloves that reaches her elbows underneath arm guards and black ninja boots, armed with shin guards. On the side of her face, hung a white cat mask with red, whisker-like streaks on the sides.

Sasuke tried to ignore the fact that the outfit hugged her curves snugly, and that she actually looked hot in it. "Aren't you too... overdressed?" he asked trying his best not to stare too much.

Sakura pouted thoughtfully, after a few seconds, she nodded her head in understanding. "You're right. You're on the beginner's stage so I should level with you. That way, I can accompany you while playing." she looked up, missing Sasuke's puzzled expression. "Accel, please save my game and switch me on Genin mode." she called out.

"Wait-" Sasuke was about to ask what she meant, but the girl was already consumed with the familiar bright light.

ANBU level saved. Gamer restart complete. Accel's voice announced.

The girl standing in front of him now wore a red sleeveless, Chinese-collared shirt, beige-colored skirt with black cycling shorts underneath. She also wore the black, finger-less gloves-though this time it only reaches to her wrists- and a pair of black ninja boots. Her hair was tied up in a ponytail and the ANBU mask was gone. She turned back at him grinning.

"So, is this fine now?"

"Hn."

The girl took it as a yes, so she decided to start explaining the game. "Now, since it's obviously shown on our costumes, this is basically a Ninja RPG. We actually have options on what kind of game to take. Be it a spar with your fellow player, or doing a solo or group mission. So what would you like to try first?"

"Mission." he answered.

Sakura simply smirked at that.

Sasuke groaned, taking the glasses off as he slowly sat up from the bed.

"You're a fast-learner."

Sasuke almost jumped in surprise when the girl next to him spoke. He watched her sit up and remove her own glasses. She was smiling widely at him, a mischievous glint appearing in her eyes. She got off the bed and stood up, reaching out her hand to get the glasses from him.

"That's because you kept on pushing me to danger. If this wasn't a game, I'd think you really want those assassins to get me killed." he narrowed his eyes at her suspiciously as he gave her the gadget.

Sakura laughed. "Well, you needed it. If you kept in mind that I'll simply be there to help you, then you wouldn't give any efforts at all. The mission was a success wasn't it?"

"Aa." Though he wouldn't admit it out loud, he seriously enjoyed the game. It was actually addicting.

"Oh crap! It's night time already?!" Sakura exclaimed when she noticed that it was already dark outside from the window. She glanced at her desk clock. It was already 7:30 pm. They've been playing for almost six hours already. "Sasuke, you need to go home now. It's almost dinner time in the mansion. Mikoto-sama would get worried. You didn't even call them yet"

"It's fine. Why don't you just come over for dinner. I'm sure everyone at home would like that?" He offered as he started texting his mother to tell her he's coming home and the family driver to come over and pick him up already.

"Nah, it's okay. I'll eat later when I get hungry. I still have to finish unpacking my other stuff, remember?"

"Alright." He nodded absently as he went out the door, Sakura following behind him. She led him to the living room and the boy sat on the couch as he waited for the car. Sakura idly checked the living room's interior to check if she was missing something while she sat on the arm of the couch.

"How come you're so addicted to ninjas?" Sasuke asked, breaking the silence, after getting bored of just staring into space. "I mean, you make shuriken-shaped cookies, you change your clothes the way they do, heck, you even move like one." he mumbled the last part.

"Hmm..." she hummed, thinking for a moment. "I don't really know. I just think they're cool and so awesome. They're brave, determined, focused and ...they don't hesitate to kill." She said the last words in a low and grim voice, a dark expression passing over her face. Sasuke wasn't able to see it since he was facing her back, but he could almost feel the heavy tension in air, as if she said something she shouldn't have.

"Sakura, what do you-"

"The car is here." Sakura spoke over him, standing up. Just as she said it, they heard the loud car horn from outside.

Is she psychic?, Sasuke thought a bit surprised she was able to tell it. He didn't even hear the tell-tale sound of the tires crossing the street.

"See you tomorrow then?" she said after leading him to the front door.

"Hn." He nodded. He was about to get in the car when he turned back to her. "Sakura?"

"Yeah?"

"...I had fun."

She blinked in surprise but smiled nonetheless. "Me too."

With a final wave, the young Uchiha went inside the car. The girl waited for the car to move further before deciding to close the door. Sakura let out a heavy sigh, the smile disappearing from her lips slowly.

"Time to get serious."

"P-Please! Just kill me! I-I beg of you!" green eyes pleaded, eyes filled with terror and agony. She felt pain all over her body, specially her arms. She knew they were bleeding from all those injections given to her. She knew there was something not good in it. Everything was blurred in her vision, but it wasn't blurry enough to not see the snake-like, yellow eyes of the man in front of her. Tears filled her eyes as she saw no mercy on those cold, sadistic golden orbs.

"Not quite yet my dear. If you survive this, you'll live. Trust me." the man voiced out, too sickeningly sweet. His voice also sounded like that of a snake's, like he was hissing everything he's saying.

She knew nothing is to be trusted of this man. She knew he was lying. How did this happen? How did she even get here? One minute she was at home, the next, men suited in black abducted her and brought her here. To this man. Why her?

The opening of the door caught their attention for a split second. A man went in. She could tell from the reflection on his face that the guy was wearing a pair of glasses. "Ah, good, I see you've brought the improved one."

"Hai." the newcomer replied, as he came near to his Master placing a black box on the table, next to where the yellow-eyed man sat, and where she was laid. It was a very vulnerable position. Even though she wasn't bound, to the metal bed, her whole body felt like it was made out of lead. Even blinking her eyes and talking was taking a lot of her energy.

The man next to her, chuckled darkly as he opened the box and pulled out a small syringe, filled with purple liquid inside. "Excellent work. Now..." the man's eyes turned back to her. Fear already spreading quickly in her gut. "... Let's see if this one works."

He injected it on her right arm, aiming for a vein that haven't been touched by a needle yet. At first, she didn't feel anything. After all, she was already numb. The other occupants of the room were silent, as if anticipating for something exciting to come. It stayed that way for a good ten seconds.

Then, a bloodcurdling scream filled the place... But it fell on deaf ears.

Sakura: ... Was that me dying? (teary-eyed)

blackheart01: (being strangled by an angry Uchiha) ...H-Help!

Sasuke: What did you do?!

*puffs of smoke filled the room, Sasuke now holding a log*

blackheart01: (appears far behind the couple) Not telling! *que evil laugh* BWAHAHAHAH!

APRIL FOOL'S! Did you really think I'll make it a fluff until the end?

So, please read and review if you wanna know what's next! ^.* neh? :3