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A Fine Line Between Us	By : eksimenrol Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female > Naruto/Sakura Views: 4636 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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WARNING:� This Chapter Contains graphic imagery, those
who might be scared by such a thing should skip to the bottom to read the
special notes.
Quick notes:� All is cannon until 311.� All events take place on Day 2 (at this point
only a few hours separate both stores.)

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Chapter Six:
Powerful Thoughts

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�� Yo, earth
to Sakura.� Are you there?� Anyone home?�� I must have been in a daze.� All I can remember is watching Naruto walk
off and now an annoying finger poking me in the forehead.� �Sakura, talk to me you haven�t moved since I
got here.

�� Ino, stop poking me before I hit you.�� That did the trick, she stopped.� �Now what are you doing here?�

�� Well, I
wanted to know if what went on earlier.��
What went on earlier?� Oh no she
knows I asked Naruto out.� What do I do,
deny it, confirm it?�
Or do I avoid the question at all cost?�
�So tell me, what the hell happened there?�� I decided to remain silent.� She gave me a hard look.� �Come on Sakura, the way you left so suddenly
today, something is up, so spill it, what did you do to him?�

�� She means
at the barbeque!� �Oh
that, yeah.� Funny thing, I sort
of thought Naruto was making a move on me and hit him.� He landed on a glass vase and I had to take
him back here to fix him up.�� Please let
it be please let it be.

�� Okay, then
why were you staring out your door with that dreamy look in your eye?�

�� What I was
not!�� Crap she�s not buying it!� Okay Sakura think,
why would you stare out your
door?� Oh who am I trying to kid, Ino
knows me too well, she�ll see through any lie I come up with.� �Don�t even start to give me that look
Ino.� You and I both know that neither of
us believe that so just come inside and I�ll tell you everything.�� For her part, Ino didn�t argue with me at
all.� She even led the way.

�� Alright
Sakura, this is how it�s going to work.�
You�re going to tell me what happened here tonight.� I�m going to give you my expert advice, and
we�re going to get this finished before 10 so I can go on my date.��

�� Wait,
what, a date?�� Since when did Ino go on
dates?� Since when did Ino get over
Sasuke?

�� Don�t
start with questions on my date.� If you
finish telling me what�s wrong, that is if
you finish before I have to go, then I might
tell you.� So start talking forehead,
spill it.�

�� Fine,
fine, okay well as I said he landed on a glass vase, and had some shards of
glass in his back.� So I took them out of
him, put some ointment on his wounds, everything a good medic would do.�

�� Uh huh,
you know Sakura, playing medic doesn�t leave one standing on their doorstep.�

�� No it
doesn�t, but as I was cleaning up he fell asleep on my couch.� I�m not sure why, but I couldn�t help but
watch him sleep.� Then I started to think
he was kinda cute, or that he would be if he�d keep his mouth shut for a while.� And for the life of me I couldn�t figure out
why.� So I just sat there leaning over
him then I thought that maybe you would have an idea why this is happening to
me.� So that�s when I tried to wake him
up.�

�� Ino stared
at me.� This is so embarrassing, why does
she have to stare at me when I have to tell her that we kissed?� �I sortta startled
him, and I was leaning right over him and he, we he sortta came at me really
fast.�

�� You didn�t
hit him again did you Sakura?�

�� What?� Hell no, I just kissed him.�� It was quiet for a long time after that.� She would blink, open her mouth, rethink what
she was going to say and close it.�
�Please Ino; you�ve got to help me.�

�� Was it
good?�� What!� What the hell does she
mean was it good?�

�� It didn�t
feel wrong.�� I looked away from her.

�� Was it
good?�

�� I didn�t
exactly hate it.�

�� Was it good?�

�� Yes, yes it was!� Is that what you wanted to hear?� That I liked it when Naruto kissed me?� That I think he�s cute?� That I just might be falling for him? �Huh is that what you want me to say?�

�� I just
wanted to hear you say it yourself.�
Because I know that if I just told you, that you might be starting to
care for him, that you would deny deny deny.� But you said
it yourself, so there�s no going back on it.�

�� But, I,
that is, I didn�t exactly mean it.�

�� Bullshit
Sakura.� You do mean it and it�s time you
start acknowledging it.� So what if you
care for Naruto?� That doesn�t exactly
mean that you love him, or even that you�re in love with him.� But then again it means that you could
be.�� She placed a gentle hand on my
shoulder.� �And it�s time that you
started thinking that it isn�t a sin
against Sasuke to see other people.� I
realized a while ago that for all this time while I was saving myself for him,
I was keeping myself from being happy.�
So I�ve made a decision to stop giving myself away to him.� He ran away from us without looking
back.� So now if he wants me, he�s going
to have to fight for me.� Just like every other man.� I think that if he truly wants to be with
you, that he should have to fight to be with you.� To put everything that is you above
himself.� To do everything he can to make
you happy.�

�� To fight
like Naruto does.�

�� Exactly.� So if you
really want my opinion, I think you should give Naruto a chance.� Even if nothing comes form it, who knows you
might have a little fun.��

�� I nervously
traced a figure eight on my arm with my finger.�
It seems Ino noticed it.� �What
did you do forehead?�

�� I sortta
maybe kinda asked Naruto out to see if he wanted to have dinner.�� I let out a nervous chuckle.

�� Wait a
minute.� So you mean this whole time
you�ve been ignoring the fact that you
asked him out!� Sakura, what am I
going to do with you?�

�� Simple
Ino, like any good friend, you�re going to grin and bare it.�� I smiled at her.� �But thanks for your help.� If you didn�t help me see through my own
lies, I might still be confused.� So tell
me, who�s the date with?�

�� Chouji.�� She stated
quite simply.

�� Chouji?�

�� Yes, he
asked if I wanted to do something tonight, I was free and I thought I might
have fun.� Why not?� Tell me Sakura, is there some reason I
shouldn�t go on a date with Chouji?�

�� No, it�s
just I never thought you would go out with him.�
Don�t even try to give me that look Ino, I just don�t think of you are
Chouji�s type.� Well it is getting late,
and you have a date to prepare for.� So
I�ll see you tomorrow right?�

�� Yup, I�ll
see you tomorrow Sakura, and I�ll tell you all the gory details too.�

�� What else
are friends for?�

�� Ino made it
safely on her way and I closed the door in somewhat high spirits.� So I care for Naruto, that fine.� Maybe I love him like a brother, which would
explain why that kiss didn�t really feel too wrong.� Okay, I�m going to just stop thinking about
it.� Tomorrow night we have a date, and
I�ll just take it as it goes.� Until then
I�m going to get a good nights sleep, and then go to work.� Just take at as it comes
Sakura, so go to bed.

�� Just go to
bed.� I kept repeating that mantra as I
lay there.� Tossing
from side to side trying to get comfortable.� This is impossible!� Every time I come close to falling asleep
something happens.� First it was the owl
outside my window.� Then it was that
stupid cat next door.� What next?� A ninja alert?� A yet unheard of Ten-tailed
Beast attacking?� Just let me
sleep.� Please, a few hours are all I
ask.� Just a little
rest.� Let my mind stop wandering
into the realm of what if.� What if I
fall for Naruto?� What if I fall for him
and Sasuke comes back and sees us?� What
would Naruto say?� What would Sasuke
say?� What would I say?� Please
anyone listening, grant me sleep.

�� I�m not
sure how long I was lying in bed before I realized it, but the sun was up.� I groaned at the sudden arrival of the
offending orb, and then my brain caught up with me.� The sun was shining in my window.� The sun was shining in my window on the west
side of my house.� Crap I must have
overslept.� Okay, I�ll just have to rush
over the hospital and explain.� I�m sure
they will understand, I mean it�s only 5:30.�
Wait, 5:30?� Crap not only am I
almost twelve hours late fro work, I�m almost late for my date!� Okay I barely have enough time to get ready
and arrive at the hospital before six.�
Hopefully I can explain it to them tomorrow.� They�ll understand, wont they?

�� Surprisingly
it took almost no time at all to get ready and leave my apartment.� Even sooner I was standing outside of the
hospital and searching for Naruto.�
Unremarkably, he was standing out in the open wearing his same old orange
jumpsuit.� �Hey Sakura,
ready for our date?�

�� Yes,
Naruto, I�m ready.� Sorry about my hair
still being wet, I was running a bit late.��
Despite the slight embarrassment I was feeling I gave him an assuring
smile.

�� Oh it�s
not problem, come on, lets go eat!�� Well, I�ll give this to him.� He sure is enthusiastic.� He took hold of my hand and started dragging
me off down one of the busier streets.

�� Hey Naruto, where are we going?�

�� I have a
surprise for you!�� A
surprise?� What sort of surprise
would he have for me?

�� What is
it?�

�� No way
Sakura, I�m not going to tell you it.�
It�s something you have to see to believe.� Now trust me, you�re going to love it.�� What is this surprise he has for me?� And where is he taking me?� �Okay Sakura, we�re almost here.� So give me your hands and close your eyes
until I say so.�� I gave him a hard look
but he wouldn�t back down.

�� Fine
Naruto, I�ll trust you.� But don�t try
anything funny.�� I gave him both of my
hands before I closed my eyes.� Before I
could even ask how far we had to go I felt him pull me forward faster then I
thought it was possible to travel.

�� Stay calm
Sakura, we�re almost there and you can almost open your eyes again.�� He took both of my hands a placed them on a
chair.� �Sit down here and I�ll be right
back.�

�� Wait
Naruto, where are you going?�� And what�s
that smell?� It smells like soup of some
kind, but not of a type I�ve had before.�
�Naruto, are you there?�

�� Just a
second Sakura, it�s almost ready.�� I
heard him grunt, and something that almost sounded like a heavy bucket being
set down.� Now I was really curious, what
is he up to?� �Okay Sakura, give me your
hands again.�� A little skeptical to his
motive I hesitantly complied with his request.�
I felt him put a set of chopsticks in my hands.� �Okay Sakura, you can open your eyes now.�

�� So I
did.� And there in front of me was a
large bowl of murky water.� �What is
this?�� I poked into the bowl with my
chopsticks and stirred it about.� There
was something in this bowl besides water.

�� It�s a
surprise, try some!�

�� What is he
up to?� Try as I might I couldn�t think
of what he might be up to.� So I decided
to follow his command.� Stirring around
the contents of my bowl once more I found purchase and raise my chopsticks to
my mouth.� And nothing happened.� Whatever Naruto had put in this bowl, it was
heavy.� Again I tried to raise my hand.� This time I was gifted with something coming
out of the bowl.� It looked like thin
dark noodles.� Of course, knowing Naruto,
it had to be a super special ramen as a surprise.

�� Special ramen?�� He
gave me an excessively happy nod.� What
is this stuff, even the little bit I have out of the bowl is hard to
remove.� It�s almost like it�s attached
to the bottom of the bowl or something.�
Okay, this is getting ridiculous; I�m going to use everything I�ve got
to get this out of that bowl.� So I
braced myself, prepared the flow of chakra to my hands and pulled.� That�s when the mass of black noodles grew
and lengthened.

�� That�s when
those very same black noodles came alive.�
They reached out to me, startling me and causing me to drop my
chopsticks.� That was when the very same
hair like noodles wrapped around my wrist and secured themselves to my
body.� The orb that was attached to those
hair-like strands swung into view.

�� That�s when
my whole world crashed around me.� That�s
when the orb attached to the black hair-like strands surrounding my wrist
completed it�s rotation to face me.� That
was when I stared into those red familiar eyes.�
Sasuke�s eyes.�
Naruto was crying and looked like he had gone insane.� �I promised I would bring him back to
you.� I promised I would and I always
fulfill my promises.�� He was going into
shock.� He was rocking back and forth and
shaking.

�� Sasuke�s
disembodied head turned to look me straight in the eye.� �I�ve broken all my bonds with you.�� Then he changed.� His face began to lengthen and shrink,
becoming distorted and snakelike.� Fangs
grew in his mouth and the hair wrapped around my wrist became solid and
scaled.� Then he struck, sinking his fang
into my wrist.

�� I awoke
with a blood curtailing scream, clutching my wrist.� It was all a dream.� It�s been only a few hours from when I went
to bed.� It was all a dream.� Try as I might, the thought
that it was just a dream would not comfort me back to bed that night.

SPECIAL NOTES:� There is a section where Sakura has a dream
that contains the image of Sasuke�s disembodied head.� If this disturbs you please stop reading this
chapter after Sakura has problems going to bed and mentions if a Ten-tailed
Beast might attack.

Author notes:� Wow,
this proves that I have too much time on my hands.� I�ve only really spent a few hours writing
this.� Okay so if anyone was confused,
the �date� was really a dream.� That
explains why Sasuke�s head was in a bowl of human soup.� From now on if I decide to put something that
might cause some people to be disgusted or find fault I will place a warning
and information in a special not on when to stop reading.� I would hope that those of you who do decide
to read this chapter in full will not be scared.� However I will apologize if I do.� But I did give you fair warning, so don�t go
complaining.

Response to Reviews:

RichardtheDragon:� Hopefully this can help you remove some of
those pins and needles. �And I�m sad to
say this but I forgot that you had said you were not a fan of Naruto and Sakura
together. �The fact that you are a
regular reviewer personally raises my spirits.

Kyuudaime:� Well it was minor; I only ended up loosing
about 2 lines because of an auto save. �That
and I was going to delete most of those lines anyway.� So I�m not out yet!

Darkened.Naruto:� I can understand how you can be confused.� Basically when Sakura says one thing and then
thinks another that is when IS is making her say. �Basically if you follow psychology IS is
Sakura�s Super Ego.� And if you don�t
then IS just says what Sakura really wants in a given situation. �Or IS does when Sakura gives a more politically
correct response.
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