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*Latest Post* guys, i read -brezoflower-'s (a fanfictioner) update on her story 'INSTANT MESSAGE' on fanfiction.net, a sasusaku story!!! i'm lovin' IT totally!!! here's her update, chapter 5!!! summary: sakura got a new computer. she logged on Y!messenger and found a guy named noir18. noir 18 is sasuke, but he didn't know it was her who he's been chattin' with. does she still love him or not? they're already 18!!! Instant Message Chapter Five Sasuke just didn’t get it; didn’t get her. One situation after another, Sakura consistently blew all of his expectations away. He certainly hadn’t expected her to retaliate so furiously when Kakashi had impersonated him. Well, Sasuke had to admit that he was rather glad of that outcome. Somehow he had to admit that he would not enjoy seeing Sakura blushing and trying to kiss an image of himself. It would take years off his life. And he definitely hadn’t expected her to find him on the internet and then have the gall to talk to him like a normal person through instant message. She spoke on the internet as if she wasn’t a rabid fan girl, like she was just another person looking to make a friend. That was confusing, to say at the least. But most of all, he hadn’t expected her to show up for training the day after he confronted her about it acting as if nothing had happened. She had run away from the conversation! How could she just stand there now with so much confidence after that? Her signing off after he exposed her secret told him more than an outright confession. Yet here she stood, awaiting Kakashi’s instructions without a trace of shame, This irritated Sasuke somewhat, for reasons he couldn’t identify. She should at least have the grace to look embarrassed that he had caught her! She was getting to be more of an enigma each day he knew her. Training passed quickly that morning without incident, as Kakashi only put them through the regular basic drills. The real surprise, however, came when he informed them of a mission. “Now,” he said to the team importantly, “This is only a D-class mission (to which Naruto groaned loudly), So it should only last a few hours. But tedious or not, I fully expect you all to perform your best. That means you, Naruto.” Naruto’s apathetic look vanished, and he shook his head, grinning. “Kakashi-sensei, don’t I always do great on missions?” “The dog-walking mission, the weed-pulling mission, the cat retrieval mission,” Sakura said immediately, ticking her points off on her fingers as she spoke. “Okay, okay! I get it,” Naruto grumbled. Sasuke smirked. Maybe this would cause Naruto to be less of a hindrance this time around. In Sasuke’s book, the sooner any D-rank mission was completed, the better. “So what’s the mission?” he muttered. “Glad you asked,” Kakashi said as he smiled at them. “Today we’ll be pairing off and scouting out caves behind Tojira-san’s house. She suspects that the bats are eating her raspberry plants at night.” “Something’s always after her stupid plants,” Naruto commented glumly. “Too true,” Kakashi surprisingly agreed. “Anyway, Naruto, use your kage bunshin and you can take them out fairly quickly using any method necessary. Sasuke, your Goukakyuu no jutsu should roast them in no time…” Sakura cringed at the image of roast bat. “And Sakura,” Kakashi continued. He was silent for a moment, as if mentally assessing her skills. “Well, you’ll be with me, so there will be no problem.” Sasuke and Naruto instantly glared at him, while Sakura silently fumed at the implication that she had no useful skills. She was eighteen! Then again, none of her teammates, let alone Kakashi, had seen the skills she had learned while training under Tsunade. Well, Naruto and Kakashi knew that she could break the ground using only her fist. But that was all! Surely they didn’t think that that was the extent of it… “Oi! What’s with the pairing arrangements?” Naruto complained loudly. Sasuke couldn’t agree to his indignation more. “I’m stuck with Sasuke-teme!” Sasuke barely refrained from gaping at him. Was he blind? “After what happened yesterday with the chakra control practice, I don’t trust you to be alone with her,” he said dangerously. There was a long pause as he and Kakashi held each other’s stares, and then Kakashi looked away. “Fair enough.” “I’ll get to be with Sakura-chan!” Naruto interjected happily. “I think you’ll find that you’re no more trustworthy around her than I am, Naruto,” Kakashi added. It was something about the way he spoke his words that caught Sasuke’s attention. Though his teacher’s tone was light, Sasuke could tell that he was hurt by what he had said. “So that means…” Sasuke said, but Kakashi cut him off. “That Sakura is paired with you, and Naruto is with me,” he finished calmly. I trust that after the first thirteen missions Tojira-san’s given us, you know where to find her house.” They all nodded tiredly, impatient with their client. Sakura secretly hoped that someday those raspberry plants would die just to save them the aggravation of trying to keep them alive. Sasuke tried to brush away the feeling of guilt. Kakashi did what was necessary, even if it looked like he was going overboard to others. Maybe he thought that going as far as he did with Sakura during the chakra control exercises was required to break her concentration. He must have known that it would take a lot for her to slip up. Maybe what he did had nothing to do with personal feelings at all. “Let’s go.” Sakura found the cave easily, and Sasuke was not far behind. They both went into the right cave, while Naruto and Kakashi headed into the left one, although they were delayed by Tojira spotting them and demanding specific instructions to be carried out. Sakura was infinitely glad that she had avoided that. Despite it being a warm and sunny day, all the heat dissolved the further into the cave the two traveled, until it turned slightly chilly. Sakura rubbed her arms as she walked, and scanned the ceiling for any sign of bats. “Katon! Goukakyuu no jutsu!” she heard Sasuke yell as flame erupted from his mouth. The expansive cave lit up in front of them, and thankfully much of the plants growing in the dark out of the cracks in the rock caught fire, so the tunnel was well lit. Not a trace of a bat appeared, though. Sakura thought he knew better than to waste chakra simply to light it up. They had sharpened senses for getting through without the aid of sight. “Sasuke…kun, why did you do that?” she asked, unable to contain her curiosity. “You knew there weren’t any bats around yet.” “You were cold,” he stated shortly, and her eyes widened. The heat from his blast really had warmed her up. She was touched that he would even bother with such a gesture. “And it would be better to just light the place up to disturb the bats instead of catching them by surprise.” “Right.” Sakura turned a corner ahead of him, and stopped dead. A breeze rushed in from the cave entrance, completely blowing out the newly created light. As if it weren’t already bad enough, any heat that might have been in the air drifted out as well. There are bats in this section, Sakura thought. She could hear the faint rustling above her as one or two of them minutely shifted. Grasping five kunai from her holster, she concentrated on locating the little animals, and then released them. Sasuke rounded the corner just as five bats dropped from the ceiling, kunai embedded in every one of them. Sakura stood not five feet in front of him, and though he could not see her he knew she was smiling in satisfaction. “Five down,” Sasuke said carelessly as he pushed ahead of her. Her smile dropped. This was why she couldn’t love him anymore. Rude, thoughtless, completely uncaring of how much she had increased in skill and strength…basically, ignorant of the things she had dedicated her life to during his absence. Jerk, jerk, jerk. “Katon! Goukakyuu no jutsu!” Sasuke cried out as he sensed the presence of more targets. In one breath, he took out the rest of the furry creatures, and one by one they landed, shriveled, on the ground. Sakura hastily averted her eyes. Just the smell was revolting. They continued their search, going deeper and deeper into the cave and taking out small groups of bats along the way. Sakura’s kunais were dead-on, a feat she never would have achieved back in their genin days. And each time she hit her targets flawlessly, Sasuke said nothing, only trudged ahead as if she had missed them all. Why wouldn’t he at least acknowledge that she had gotten better? What was wrong with him? The girl seethed behind him, but refused to let him know that she was angry. That would be petty. “Katon!” “Oh, for Kami-sama’s sake, Sasuke, it doesn’t have to be a light show every time you sense one bat!” Sakura yelled out desperately. Oops. So much for not showing her irritation. Sasuke turned to face her, incredulous. “It’s the quickest way to get rid of them,” he said in defense. “But it’s not the most efficient,” she argued. “It uses up a lot of chakra, and that’s completely unnecessary for a D-rank mission.” Sasuke snorted. It was a D-rank mission. It didn’t matter how much chakra he used up. “We could run into something far worse, Sasuke, so conserve what you have,” Sakura continued. Sasuke’s attention finally fixed on her as he noticed his name without the honorific. “Sasuke?” he repeated. “No, Sakura,” Sakura corrected him sarcastically. “You ought to know that by now.” Sasuke shot her the look that he consistently used with Naruto, the “I know exactly what you meant, dumbass” look. Sakura never thought she would see the day when it was used on her. “What’s got you so upset? You didn’t even call me ‘Sasuke-kun’ this time.” “I figured that since I was past the crush stage, the -kun wasn’t needed any longer,” Sakura replied immediately. “Which means that you love me, or that you’re completely done with me now?” Sasuke challenged. Why the hell am I asking? Sasuke almost hit himself. None of this really mattered to him. None of it should matter to him. “It means that I--” “Don’t lie to me again, Sakura,” Sasuke added. “Don’t say it as if it’s something you can just throw away later.” Sakura stared at him with a slight frown. Why was he acting this way? As far as she knew, her feelings were of no concern to him. “Sasuke, why do you think I was lying yesterday?” Sakura asked. Sasuke smirked. “So you immediately thought of that exact time, instead of any other time you said you loved me?” Sakura gasped, and glared at him. He was trying to catch her. Why he was doing it was beyond her, but she wasn’t going to give in to his little game. “Yesterday was when you accused me, so I assumed that was the time you meant.” “Don’t get off topic. Which is it? Do you love me or not?” He was so direct. A tense silence hovered above them as neither spoke. It was strange, how this was set up. Sakura was trying to convince him that she loved him, when she was pretty damn sure that it was the opposite. Sasuke was trying to get her to admit it either way, not that he felt anything in return. This wouldn’t be a declaration of love at all, just some stating of facts that wouldn’t make a difference anyway. “I love you, Sasuke.” Sasuke snapped. “Dammit, Sakura, you’re lying again!” he growled. “You can be so completely confusing! Can’t you just give me a straight answer for once?” Sakura, apparently, had reached the end of her rope too. “Why do you care about it, Sasuke? What does it matter to you whether I’ve dropped the suffix to your name, huh? Why all these questions about whether I love you or not?” “I just want to know whether you’ve finally given up being a fan girl, Sakura,” Sasuke told her. “I consider you one of my closest friends, but the only thing keeping me from maintaining that is your constant obsession.” Sakura bit her lip. His admission stung her; it wasn’t every day that the Uchiha let you know he cared about you, even if it was only platonic. Only platonic…Sakura thought. At least that’s good. She still wasn’t done being angry at him yet, though, close friend or not. She clenched her fists, choosing her words carefully before opening her mouth. “I’m not sure you’ve noticed how I gave up my obsession with you when you left us, Sasuke. If you had even bothered to look at me twice since the day you returned, you would have seen that. I’m done with you!” Sasuke paused only long enough to let her sentence echo off of the cave walls. “So that’s it. You’re done with me. And that’s the truth.” His statement seemed more like a question. As much as Sakura had tried to avoid it, Sasuke had caught her. “Y-yeah. I’m done with you. I’d apologize, but you don’t seem to care.” Her words lacked the bite they held a few moments ago, and she lowered her gaze to the floor. When she looked up, he was standing right in front of her, personal space ignored. “You’re done. No more feelings for me.” She gulped. “That’s right.” “So if I kissed you right now, you would shove me away.” Sakura involuntarily took a step back. “Wh-what are you saying! Are you crazy?” “Just answer me. Would you?” Sasuke repeated, reclaiming the space she had created between them. Sakura concentrated hard on not letting his breath on her face distract her. She held her chin up in what she thought was a confident manner. This was a mistake. He was just barely taller than her, so her gesture only brought their faces closer. She refused to be the one to back down, but he wasn’t giving in either. Was this some kind of staring contest? Judging by the way neither person was blinking, maybe it was. “Yeah. I would,” she finally answered firmly. He smirked. His confidence irked her, and she resisted the unreasonable urge to poke him in the chest. “What?” she yelled. “You want a demonstration? You don’t believe anything I say, do you? Aaaaaaaaagh!” Bats swooped down from across the tunnel, flying just above her hair and filling the area. Sakura forced her screaming mouth to close, ashamed that they had taken her by surprise. Yanking herself around, she stood back-to-back with Sasuke, and prepared her technique while he did the same. “Katon!” they both yelled. “Goukakyuu no jutsu!” Two equal bursts of fire shot out from their mouths, and screeches of dying bats filled the air. It was safe to say that the cave was considerably warmer after they were done. Relaxing their stances, Sakura and Sasuke stopped the techniques and stared at each other. “You learned my technique?” Sasuke asked, his face unreadable. Sakura couldn’t tell if he was impressed or irritated that his technique was no longer unique to him alone. “While you were gone, I learned several techniques of every element,” she explained. “I just didn’t flaunt them needlessly.” It was her turn to smirk in his direction, but he simply turned away again, angering her just like he did the first time. “Fine. Well, at least you do it well.” He started forward, and continued down the cave without looking back, leaving her standing there. She gaped after him. In his indirect, jerky way, he had just complimented her. A smile lifted the corners of her lips. Perhaps they would at least get along for the remaining time until Kakashi retired. She didn’t get why he still kept them as a team. None of the other former teams were together any longer. Sakura got the feeling Kakashi would keep it going until he died of old age. The thought was, somehow, comforting. She liked the idea of seeing Naruto and Sasuke again nearly every day for years to come. Cherrylover2: Caught you online! Cherrylover2: Hey, sorry about leaving during the last part of the conversation. I was away from my computer for just a second, and OMG, did you see the huge power outage in my district? It completely shut off my computer, and our power generator wasn’t working…aggg. Cherrylover2: Hope you can forgive me. Noir18: Wait, what? Noir18: A power outage? Cherrylover2: Mmm-hmm. It really sucked; even the guys I know who run the corner store in the market lost power. They had to close for the night. Noir18: You didn’t see what I had written. Cherrylover2: Nuh-uh. Was it important? Noir18: Not at all. Sasuke sat back in his chair, wondering. Was she lying? A power outage was a bit hard to believe, especially since it was so sunny the day before. Impossible. She had to have been thinking of an excuse. A lame one, at that. Still, there was no harm in confirming… Taking his cordless phone off of its charger, he dialed the number of the corner store. “Ken’s Fish and Veggies. How may I help you?” “Was your store open yesterday?” he asked immediately. “Well, yes, it was…” So she was lying. “Until this large gust of wind knocked over a power line and cut off the electricity to my freezer at about ten last night. We were working late, see…” “Thanks. Bye.” Sasuke ignored his “But would you like to buy some fish today?” and hung up. Her story was true. Damn it. Not only did she escape his interrogation with a perfectly good alibi, she didn’t even know about it. Great. Cherrylover2: Hey, are you there? Noir18: Yeah. Had to make a phone call. Cherrylover2: Oh. Cherrylover2: So, how was your day? Oh, he had her now. It was perfect; she didn’t even know she had given him an idea, and he was going to catch her. She would expose herself! Noir18: Fine. Noir18: Almost kissed a girl in my team today. Sakura’s heart stopped. Cherrylover2: Really now? Noir18: Yup. Cherrylover2: And how’d that happen? Noir18: She claimed that she had no feelings for me anymore, and I wanted to see if she was telling the truth. Cherrylover2: You really did that? Cherrylover2: Only as a test, too. You really shouldn’t have. Cherrylover2: That poor girl. You really need to have more faith in people. Cherrylover2: You’re not a very trusting guy, are you? Noir18: Not at all. Sasuke thought hard. She wasn’t giving in. There was nothing that she said that would give him the advantage. As far as he was concerned, everything was a challenge. This was just one more. Sakura was getting tired of the constant runaround. All the secrets and games were starting to wear her out. Honestly, if she were to tell him that it was really her all this time, would he hate her for the rest of his life? She really didn’t think so. Coming clean might make him angry for a while, but he would get over it. As much of a grudge-holder as he was, he wouldn’t hold this over her head forever. So, which was it? She sat there for a moment, undecided and nervously chewing the end of her fingernail. To tell him, or not to tell him. A sentence entered her head, and she decided to type, and simply see where it took her. Cherrylover2: I had a similar experience today also. Noir18: Did you? Cherrylover2: Yeah. And I almost allowed it. Noir18: Why would you allow it? Did you feel anything for this guy? Cherrylover2: Well, the thing is, I wasn’t sure whether I was lying to him or not. I was starting to suspect that I didn’t feel anything for him, so I simply told him that as if it were written in stone. Noir18: And you’ve come to a different conclusion? Cherrylover2: No. Sasuke sighed in frustration. Was she going to get to the point or not? Cherrylover2: The thing is, I don’t think I love him. Not like I used to, anyway. But I think something is still…there. Noir18: Something. Cherrylover2: Don’t ask what it is! I don’t know. Noir18: Well, figure it out, woman. Cherrylover2: Shut up! Matters of the heart aren’t easy. Noir18: chuckling “Matters of the heart” is a bit dramatic. Cherrylover2: You can shut up about that, too. Noir18: So, what you’re trying to say is, you don’t love him, but you can see it going somewhere if given the chance. Cherrylover2: …Maybe. Sounds accurate enough. Noir18: This so-called “matter of the heart” didn’t sound all that difficult, Sakura. Cherrylover2: So what? It’s still complicated. Wait. Sakura froze. He didn’t. Noir18: Are you still there, Sakura? He knew. Oh, Kami-sama, he knew. Sakura looked up dazedly to realize that she had fallen to the floor in shock. Scrambling back up to her chair, she reread his last entry over and over again. What on earth would she say? Noir18: Annoying. I’m going to sign off. Cherrylover2: Hold your horses, I’m right here. Noir18: Took you long enough. Cherrylover2: So, Sasuke. Sasuke smiled triumphantly. Cherrylover2: I’m not going to bother with all of the “how long have you known?” crap. Cherrylover2: What I do want to ask… Cherrylover2: What are you going to do about it? Noir18: What do you expect? Cherrylover2: How the hell should I know? You’re a bit unpredictable, in case you haven’t noticed. Noir18: Oh, I’ve noticed. Cherrylover2: Then you tell me. He didn’t know, either. Noir18: Don’t go asking questions that nobody can answer. Cherrylover2: So you’re not mad then. Noir18: …Not yet. Cherrylover2: What’s that supposed to mean? Noir18: Would you have pushed me away if I kissed you? Cherrylover2: Would you have kissed me solely because you wanted to? Noir18: Answer the question. Cherrylover2: You first. Noir18: … Noir18: …Then yes. Cherrylover2 signed off at 9:48 PM. “Augh, dammit, Sakura!” Sasuke said aloud. Cherrylover2 signed on at 9:49 PM. Cherrylover2: Just kidding! Noir18: That wasn’t funny. Noir18: Now answer before I change my mind. Cherrylover2: Mayyybe I would, maybe I wouldn’t. Noir18: I never knew you were the type to play mind games. I’ve been meaning to ask you about that. Cherrylover2: lol Cherrylover2: It’s fun. Noir18: Are you going to answer or not? Cherrylover2: Fine. Noir18: Well? Would you have pushed me away? Cherrylover2: You’ll have to try it to find out. Sasuke smirked. Noir18: You’re teasing me, aren’t you? Cherrylover2: That’s the only answer you’re gonna get. Noir18: Well, then, we’re just going to have to try that again, won’t we? Cherrylover2: Your place? Noir18: Ten minutes. Cherrylover2 signed off at 9:54 PM. Noir18 signed off at 9:54 PM. akkaime: didn't i tell you?! her story's awesome!!! CYA!!! i've alot of fic business to deal with!!! here are 2 other AMVs of mine i've uploaded on youtube: (please, RATE) naruto- invoke shaman king- smooth criminal love ya guys!!! tata, sayonara, adios and good-bye!!!

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