Love bites

Chapter 3: The Plan

Normal P.O.V

Sakura and Hinata enjoyed each other's company. If Hinata was down Sakura was there to cheer her up and vice versa. Hinata was there when Sakura started to distance herself from Sasuke. Sakura never pressured her to do things that would make her uncomfortable, until today that is.

"Hey, Hinata" said Sakura as she made her way to Hinata. She was to meet her at Ichiraku's ramen shop to talk to one another about how their day so far. It started out as a once a month kind of thing, but then they began to meet up with each other more often.

"Oh hello sakura, how're you doing?" Hinata asked. They didn't see each other for a month because Hinata had been on a mission. She was looking forward to seeing sakura, she really was, but once she returned to konoha, she instantly remembered a certain blue eyed and blond haired loud mouth who had stolen her heart, which instant reminded her that she needed to find a way to have him notice her.

"Oh... you know... the usual, trying to find a way to get Sasuke to understand that my affections for him are more than a school girl crush" said sakura.

She close to calling it quits, no matter how much it would hurt her, it was going to happen sooner nor later. She spent all day yesterday thinking about it. Sakura was going to give up. What good would it do if she loved a person who didn't reciprocate her feelings?. It was no use, but she couldn't shake the feeling that sasuke was missing her company. If she didn't know any better, she would say that Sasuke was getting irritated of her ignoring him.

*Flashback*

Team seven was on a mission to rescue a girl being held hostage by a rouge ninja. "Alright we'll rest here for tonight," said kakashi. He knew something was going on between Sasuke and sakura and he found it quite amusing. It wasn't everyday you saw Sasuke glance at sakura with such a hopeless expression, he found it hilarious.

Sakura was sitting with her back to a tree. She didn't notice Sasuke sit opposite of her, which was surprising because he was right in front of her. She was thinking about what Ino had said to her yesterday. She and Ino had been talking about the upcoming konoha festival. Since Ino wasn't going to compete, sakura didn't want to either. If she were to join, she would have to do it with someone else. She didn't want to do it alone. While she was in memory lane, she didn't notice Sasukes many and I mean MANY glances.

"You know teme you should just go and talk to her," said Naruto, he could see Sasuke was missing her presence.

"I don't know what you mean dobe" he couldn't believe Naruto was giving him advice. This was Naruto for Pete's sake.

"Whatever you say" Naruto got up and left.

What was funny about the situation was that they were having that conversation right in front of sakura. But she still didn't notice. None other than Sasuke snapped her out of her thoughts. She looked around and saw that Naruto and kaksahi were fast asleep.

"We have to keep first watch," he said looking at her with an expression she could not pin point.

"oh... okay," she said not looking him in the eye. Now he was getting irritated.

'how long was she going to keep playing this game?' he thought.

"I'll keep watch over there," she pointed to a tree far away from him. She was about to leave when suddenly Sasuke grabbed her arm.

"sakura" he looked at her with an expression that said 'you better tell me why you're avoiding me'.

"What?" she said deciding to play dumb.

He hesitated for a moment and decided he was going to play her game. Not only was he going to play her silly game, but he was going to win it too he thought. He was going to get her when she least expected it and give her a big surprise. What he didn't know was that she was waiting for him to tell her that he wanted her to stay with him. 'I shouldn't get my hopes up' she thought as she left.

End of flashback

"At least you're brave enough to talk to him, I can't even say a word to Naruto without blushing or fainting for that matter," she said snapping her out of her thoughts.

"Well, then we have to work on your social skills then" sakura would not back down from a challenge. Right now she was going to focus on hinata's love life and then she would worry about hers later.

"I've tried talking to him, but he doesn't get the hint."

she once tried to hint to Naruto that he should consider the possibility that there might be someone who sees Naruto as more than just 'friends', but that wasn't working.

Flashback

It had been 3 weeks since their last encounter. They bumped into each other on the way to their training grounds. "Hey Hinata" she wasn't sure if Naruto was blushing or not, but she could see hints of red on his check.

"h-hello Naruto-kun" she said once again trying to refrain from fainting. She thought she was done with that action...apparently not.

"How are you doing?" he still wasn't sure why he was having weird feeling for Hinata, but he was and he was liking it even more.

"I'm f-fine and y-you?" she really was going to faint.

"I feel awesome, since I'm no longer chasing after sakura-chan, I have lots of free time" he didn't how he could be so open to her, but he was. It felt nice having someone to talk to, even if it was occasionally.

"w-well you n-never know, s-someone could b-be chasing after you amd wanting to be by your side" she said trying to see if Naruto was catching along, but it was to no avail. He was CLUELSS

"nah I don't think so" he said confused. Was someone trying to get his attention? he didn't think so. And boy was he wrong.

"Anyway I have to go, I'll see you later" he said sprinting off.

End of flashback

"What do we have to do to get our feeling across ?do we have to serenade them?" Hinata said sarcastically.

Just then an idea popped into sakura's head. "That's it, well sing it to them" said sakura. Hinata was shocked, she didn't mean for her to take it seriously.

"w-what... you can't be serious, I can barley talk to him, what makes you think I can sing to him" she was horrified about such idea.

"Come on Hinata we'll join the konoha festival and participate in the singing competition" she was crazy if she thought that was going to happen.

"I can't, I'll freeze, I'll make a fool of myself, what If he rejects me afterwards" if Naruto rejected her she would be crushed and humiliated.

"Look we'll choose a song that won't be too obvious". If Hinata and herself were to choose a song that wasn't much of a love song but still got the message across, the plan can go one of two ways: Sasuke and Naruto would get the hint, Or they would be too blind to see the hint and they could finally move on with their love life.

Sakura explained to Hinata what their plan would be. Hinata knew that sakura wouldn't stop bugging her about it, so she agreed.

"b-but I don't want the song to be immodest". Neji and her father would have her head if they saw the heiress do anything inappropriate.

"I have the perfect song," sakura knew what they could sing.

"Okay, how well do you know Hale storm?"