Love bites

Caught

It was the second day of rehearsals and Sakura realized that she had woken up late. She looked around frantically trying to find where her alarm clock was. She couldn't find it anywhere. She didn't need to look st the time to notice that it was past nine in the morning. Rehearsals started at eight in the morning. She shot up trying to get out of her bed, but her sheets were tangled between her legs and she feel face first into the ground.

"this must be how Naruto feels like when he falls, which is almost all the time," she thought.

Speaking of Naruto, she and Shikamaru had been discussing various ways to get Hinata noticed by Naruto. Shikamaru had suggested Kiba kiss Hinata in front of him, but Sakura didn't think that would be wise. It wouldn't be fair to both Hinata or Kiba. They were close, but in brother and sister kind of way, so she rejected that idea. She just had to hope that this contest would do the work. She was so caught up in Hinata's love life that she didn't even think about what to do with her feelings towards Sasuke. Maybe this contest was slowly helping her get rid of said feelings.

"oh crap, I've been laying here for about thirty minutes," she internally screamed as she got off of the ground and ran to the shower. She cleaned up as fast as she could and changed at a records speed. She was out the door in only fifteen minutes. Shikamaru was already outside the door. He didn't look angry with her, but she felt bad for making him wait that long.

"I am so sorry, Shikamaru really," she pleaded with him, but he wasn't angry at all. He laughed instead.

"it's cool, I came late anyways," he stated. As they walked to the rehearsals room he spotted Sasuke and looked towards Sakura but she didn't seem to notice him, it seemed as if she had forgotten about trying to make Sasuke jealous, so he initiated contact.
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Sasuke was out of tomatoes for the day and that was a no, no. So he went where only the best tomatoes were located and that was besides Ichirakus. He walked towards the stand he could already see the luscious red of the tomatoes when out of the corner of his eye he saw a bright pink color, which compelled him to look back and there he spotted Sakura. He didn't want to make it seem obvious that he was staring at her, so he turned his head a little bit forward so that it looked as if he was staring ahead.

"This is stupid," he thought, he shouldn't be staring at Sakura, this was ridiculous, but he continued to stare. He decided that the tomatoes could wait. Checking up on Sakura was more important at the moment. Yeah, he was only checking up on her well being was all, nothing more nothing less.

Shikamaru put his arm around Sakura's shoulder. He began to converse about the different methods that they could practice for today, and he made sure to keep his voice low, so he could have Sasuke wondering about what they were talking about.

"I think we should have Hinata sing the parts that don't have curses in them, that way she won't be in trouble for what she sings about," he said. Sakura didn't know why he suddenly decided to put his arm around her and whisper, but at this point she didn't even care anymore. She was supposed to focus on their performance which was a week from now.

"I was thinking the same thing, her dad is really strict I guess we'll do Love bites and I'm still thinking about the next song," she stated.

"I thought you already had he other song?" he questioned, he could see Sasuke following them. At this point he decided to slow down the pace and greet the guy. He came to a halt stopping Sakura and waiting for Sasuke to catch up to them.

"what's wrong?" she asked.

"Nothing," he said as he let go of her shoulder and turned around to greet Sasuke.

"Hey Sasuke," he greeted. He could see Sakura's eyes widen. She stayed on the spot and would not turn around, so he grabbed her hand. She spun around slowly.
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"Shit, he caught me" he thought