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A Fine Line Between Us	By : eksimenrol Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female > Naruto/Sakura Views: 4679 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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Quick notes:� All is cannon until 311.� All events take place on Day 3 (A.K.A. the
day of the date!)

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Chapter Seven:
Sick Days

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�� So all
night I tossed and turned until finally my alarm went off.� Somehow I managed to stumble out of bed,
remarkably making it to my kitchen without hurting myself.� Once there I managed to create a reasonably
tasteful breakfast that was only slightly over cooked.� Then I realized I had poured cereal into a
frying pan.� This day is not starting out
well at all.

�� As I made
my way to the bathroom to take a quick shower and get dressed I thought back to
that dream I had last night and shivered.�
The way Sasuke sounded, the pain I felt when he bit me.� All of it, it felt so real.� As I stood in the shower I glanced at my
wrist where the phantom Sasuke had bit me.�
All that met my gaze was a dry arm.�
Why is the water not running?� I
slapped my forehead at my own stupidity.�
How could I forget that the water would be turned off
today until noon for repairs.�
Today is really not going
well.

�� Somehow I
had managed to make it to work in one piece.�
That was when I realized that I had a headache.

�� Hey
Forehead, what�s with you?�� I�m not sure
if I�ve ever heard Ino be any louder than she was at this moment right
here.� And even if I had experienced her an louder volumes, I can�t remember her voice ever causing
my head to throb like that before.

�� Hey Ino,
could you keep it down, I have a headache.�

�� She was
looking at me.� She was examining me
closely.� What the hell is she
doing?� �Go home Sakura, you�re taking a
sick day.�

�� I can
handle-�

�� No you
can�t, you�re cringing when I whisper at you, what happens if you have to
assist in surgery?� You are going home
and straight to bed if I have to sedate you and drag you there myself.� Listen to me Sakura, I�m not telling you this
because we work together but because I am your friend.� You look like you
didn�t sleep at all and you�re on edge.�
You�re a danger to yourself and other�s like this so just listen to me
please.�� She was using her eyes to plead
with me to follow her orders.

�� But
tonight, Naruto-�

�� I�ll make
sure he gets the message that you went home sick.� Don�t worry Sakura, I�ll tell him personally
that you went home.� And if you feel that
down about it then you can always rebook it.�
Don�t even try and argue it.� I�ll
make sure he understands not to bug you and to let you rest.� So as I said, go home and get some sleep.�

�� She does
have a point, I could easily do more harm then good by staying here like this,
maybe I should go home.� �Get moving
Sakura, or so help me I�ll take control of your body and walk you home.�

�� Alright,
I�m going I�m going.� But do me a favor
Ino, after you tell Naruto I�m not able to make it, check in on me to make sure
I�m doing okay. �Will you do that for
me?�

�� She smiled
softly at me.� �I wouldn�t be a friend if
I said no to you.� So sure, when I�m able
I�ll check in on you later.� And if
you�re feeling better I�ll tell you all about me a Chouji last night.�� I tried to smile at Ino, but I wasn�t sure in
my sleep deprived state if it worked.�
�Now get going, you need some rest.�

�� I wasn�t
too sure how I had made it home.�
Actually I wasn�t sure it really was my home until my key actually fit
in the lock.� Slowly I made my way into
my house, quadruple checking just to make sure, that my door was locked and
that it really was my house.� That was
when someone decided to knock on my door.�
I swear if that is Ino or Naruto, I�m going to kill them so much their
graves will have bruises.

�� Go
away!�� They didn�t take the hint that I
don�t want them to be here, they decided to knock again.� It seems they have a death wish, this mystery
person.� Somehow I managed to storm over
to the door and unlock it.� When I
finally opened it I noticed the stick of a man behind the door.� He didn�t even have his eyes on me.

�� Good day
miss, I�m here to visit you on behalf of the fine people at Enerco.� Today I�ve come to offer to you the wonder
that all of the shinobi of the Leaf
Village are using.� These soldier pills will give you the energy
of a ninja to do all the running around you have to
do, to chase your children around for hours, and with energy to spare.�

�� It seems
his speech was cut off by a loud grinding noise.� He was staring at me with fear in his
eyes.� Oh, that�s me grinding my teeth,
time to stop that before I loose them.�
So I stopped my teeth from grinding against each other and looked
around.� This guy is selling cheap
vitamins and passing them off as soldier pills.�
Normally I�d tell him to get lost and tell Tsunade about it later, but
I�m too tired and pissed off to let it slide.�

�� I grabbed
the nearest sharp object, which remarkably was a kunai I had left out.� I looked deep into the fearful eyes of the
salesman at my door and gestured to the kunai.�
�I�m going to give you to the count of five before I throw.� And you should know I never miss.�� It seems the
man wasn�t too keen on making the sale, as by the time I reached three, I
couldn�t see him anymore.

�� It seems
that dealing with that nuisance of a salesman had finally drained me of all the
energy I had left.� I�m not even sure how
I was able to make it over to my bed.� However when my head hit the pillow I was out cold.� And thankfully I didn�t have a single
dream.�

�� I wasn�t quite
sure when I had actually woken up.� All I
could tell was that it was sometime in the afternoon.� Deciding that it was late enough in the day
for me to get up I slowly made my way into my bathroom and stated removing my
clothing.� I glanced at the shower and
decided to check to make sure the water was running before I stepped in.� The water was on again, and it was warm and
heavenly.

�� Properly
rested and secure in the sanctuary of a warm shower I began to question the
horrible imagery of my nightmare.� What
did it mean?� Was there even a meaning to
it?� I mean, Sasuke turning into a snake
and biting my wrist, is it some sort of prophesy?� Am I trying to warn myself that he�s going to
turn on us, betray out trust, our bonds
and attack us?

�� He
wouldn�t, no he couldn�t do that to us.�
The Sasuke I know would never try and attack this village.� We�re his home, his sanctuary.� He could no more betray us then he could
himself.�� And yet that doesn�t reassure
me.� Something in the back of my head is
gnawing and nagging at me, hinting that I just might be wrong.� And I hope with all my heart that it is
wrong, that when we meet next he will come home with us.

�� After what
seemed like forever I removed myself from the now cold shower.� It seems it�s getting darker out much earlier
than normal.� By now I�m probably late
for my date with Naruto.� Maybe I should
go and meet him, go out with him for an hour or so.� A rather long yawn out an end to that train
of thought, I�m just too tired to go anywhere.�
Ino said she�d tell him I couldn�t make it, and I know she won�t let me
down.� So for tonight I�ll forget about
it and tomorrow I�ll go see if he wants to have lunch.� I might even make it my treat.

�� Hey
Forehead, you awake?�� Speaking of Ino,
here�s the Piggie now.� I quickly threw a robe on and walked out of
my bathroom.
��
�� Yeah, I�m
over here Ino.�� She�s looking at me
critically. Why would she do that?� I
don�t have something on my face do I?� I
shouldn�t I just got out of the shower.

�� Are you
feeling any better?� You look flushed,
here sit down and I�ll make some tea.�
Then you are going to tell me why I had to do the work of two people
today.� You owe me.�� True to her word, she started making
tea.� �So start talking Sakura, why did
you look like you haven�t slept in week this morning?� You looked like hell.�

�� I�m sure I
didn�t look that bad.�� She gave me a
stern look.� �Okay, so maybe I did.� I didn�t sleep well last night.� First it took forever for me to even fall
asleep.� Then when I finally did, I had
the worst nightmare I�ve ever had.� It
was horrible.� It was so real.��
So I proceeded to tell her everything about my dream.� From the moment I had woken up to the time of
the bite.� And the whole time she just
stood there listening.� �After he bit me,
I woke up.� I was scared, hell I was terrified.� I wasn�t able to get back to sleep after
that.� I was so distracted by the dream
and the lack of sleep that I tried to fry up cereal.� You know the rest of the story, I went to
work you sent me home.� Shortly after I
got here a salesman came to the door and I threatened to kill him, then I went
to bed.� Woke up had a shower, then you
came here.� So that�s what happened.�

�� She was
silent.� She was silent for a long
time.� �Wow, no wonder you looked like
you did. �Considering the facts, I�m
surprised you looked as good as you
did.� Hell if I had had that dream, I�m
fairly certain that I would be having a meltdown of some kind right now, and I
know I wouldn�t have left my bed at all.�
But you seem to be feeling a bit better now.� All rested up.� So I�m going to help you with the last part
of your treatment.�

�� Treatment?� What
treatment?�

�� Oh don�t
worry Sakura, and stop giving me that look, you�ll put a crease in that huge
forehead of yours.� The treatment I�m talking
about is simple.� You need to hear about
something positive.� And as I had
promised you earlier, I�ll tell you how my date with Chouji went last night.�

�� Really,
how was it?� How was he?�

�� Stop with
the questions, I�m getting there.� It was
fairly simple really.� He was actually
quite shy about it, asking me to dinner.�
He wasn�t even able to really call it a date.� I did actually, and he turned so red, you
know those family markings he has, they disappeared.� Anyway, he had asked me out to dinner, so I
thought he meant one of the restaurants.�
So when he came to pick me up, well I was a bit surprised when he led me
to his house.� I wasn�t too sure what he
was planning, but when we got inside I was in heaven.�� What did she do there?� Did she and Chouji do it?� �Hey Forehead, get your
head out of the gutter.� He didn�t want
to go out to dinner because he made
me dinner, or well he made us dinner.�
He�s a wonderful cook too.� But
anyway we ended up talking through dinner, and we really got to know each other
quite well.� Near the end of the night he
asked me what I thought of him.� To be
honest at the time I was slightly afraid I might hurt his feelings.� Now don�t get me wrong, I had fun that night
and would love to do it again, but I didn�t exactly have any new feelings for
him.� To be honest I was surprised he
didn�t let me answer.� He said he didn�t
think we would work out as a couple either.�
He didn�t exactly seem disappointed either.� He walked me home shortly after that and said
that he had fun, he even said we should do it again sometime as friends.� I told him it was a great idea and that next
time we should invite Shikamaru.�

�� Sounds
like you had a really good time Ino.�

�� Yup, we
did.� But I should get going; I have to
pack for a mission tomorrow.� Don�t
worry, it should be simple.� We�re
backing up Asuma on a long distance patrol so we�ll be okay.� Don�t worry about me, I�ll come back.� And then you can tell me all about your date
with Naruto.�

�� Leave it to
Ino to know how to cheer me up.� As she
was leaving she turned back to me.� �Oh,
Sakura, I almost forgot, there�s a gift I left in your fridge.� Pleasant dreams.�

Author notes:� That�s
it, I�ve finally done it.� I have caught
up to A Fine Fine Line, and I�m actually behind a little
bit.� So from this point on, assuming
that I don�t have major writers block, I will now be writing a chapter of one
story then the other.� On a small side
note, I�m noticing I�m getting more reviews for this story than for A Fine Fine Line.� By chapter
7(this one) I have 13 reviews.� However
while at chapter 11 in A Fine Fine Line, I only have 19.� I find this sort of odd when they are a
similar story.� Not the same, but
similar.

Response to Reviews:

RichardtheDragon:� I did say it was graphic and that if it would
freak you out to read the warning at the end of the chapter before reading the
chapter.� However I did apologize, so I�m
not going to do so again.

Naruto-sama:� Behold, unexplored territory awaits after this.

Kyuudaime:� I didn�t exactly behead him. �Then again he could use a good hair cut at the
neck.
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