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Chapter three-

"Can you notice a bit of a tan yet?" Ino asked, shoving her long legs in my face.

"Um, I guess."

"Whatever." Ino said, lying back down on her beach towel.

"Sakura's right you are starting to brown a bit." Tenten said from beside me.

Ino shrugged, "I'm still too pale. Even with this stupid tanning cream!" Ino screeched as she threw a yellow bottle into the sand.

I rolled my eyes; she really was a drama queen. I fell back onto my towel; I could feel the heat from the sun burning my skin. It was a good feeling; I knew I was protected with mountains of sun block so I couldn't possibly get sun burnt. I closed my eyes and relaxed.

I felt wet, cold droplets landing on my forehead. Was it raining, I doubted it.

"Oi, Sakura!" I knew the voice instantly, it was Naruto.

"What?" I asked, keeping my eyes closed.

"You girls should come swimming with us."

Us?

I opened my eyes, to see not only Naruto standing over me but Kiba, Sasuke, Neji, Shikamaru and a boy I hadn't seen before. He had a bowl cut and thick eye brows. Poor guy.

"Where are you boys going swimming?" Tenten asked, with a smile.

"Down by the cliffs, we're gonna do some jumping." Naruto exclaimed with a giant grin.

"The cliffs are huge down there." Neji said.

"You can count me out, I don't want to get my hair wet." Ino announced.

"Whatever you're just chicken." Kiba said.

"What was that?" Ino yelled.

"Nothing, nothing," Kiba lied, looking genuinely scared of Ino. She could be very scary.

"I'll come," Tenten announced, she was always up for a challenge.

"Yeah me too," I added.

"What?" Ino said in a tone that made me think she had expected me to stay here with her.

"D-don't worry Ino, I-I'm staying too." Hinata piped up.

Ino rolled her eyes and continued sun bathing. "Whatever."

"Awesome, well hurry up then, we're heading over there now." Naruto announced.

I smiled and got up, grabbing my towel with me and followed the group of boys.

It turned out the cliffs were quite far away, through a track in the forest, down the sand dunes and up a rocky path. It took us forty five minutes just to get there.

The view was great at the top, you could see everything.

"Wow, this is really high." Tenten said.

"Yeah... you're right." Naruto said.

"I knew they'd be high, but this could kill us, and look there's rocks down there." Shikamaru said.

I smirked.

"C'mon guys, it's a piece of cake." I said with a giant reassuring smile.

"You go then," Sasuke said with a smirk.

"Okay," I said, pulling my t-shirt off.

"Don't go Sakura, you'll kill yourself!" Naruto said.

I just smiled, and then I ran. I ran to the edge. When I got to the edge, I just... jumped, I let myself fall. I screamed, and let the air pass through my lings. It wasn't one of those 'I'm scared' screams.

It was more like a 'this is awesome' scream.

SPLASH!

I hit the water, it hurt a little, just the impact. I soon found myself gliding to the bottom and then I floated to the surface.

I opened my eyes, and pushed the wet hair out of my face, everyone was staring at me. They looked shocked.

"Are you okay Sakura?" Tenten asked.

I smiled, "I'm great; get your butt in here!" I ordered. She looked sceptical.

Everyone just stood there. "Are you serious? No one's coming in?"

Silence.

Sasuke smirked and looked down at me, "well if no one else is going to do it, I guess it's my turn." And with that he jumped, without a sound. Then SPLASH!

He landed beside me.

"About time," I said. "I was starting to worry no one would have the guts to do it."

He scoffed, "I was just waiting to see if anyone else would go first."

I cocked my eyebrow. "Sure," I replied.

He smirked, and dove under the water. I rolled my eyes.

"Who's-"

"Ahhhh!" I screamed.

"Sakura are you alright?" Naruto called.

"Youthful blossom, I will save you!" the boy with bowl cut announced as he dove in.

I had felt something pull me under the water, then Sasuke popped up, laughing his head off.

"Idiot!" I screeched.

The boy with the bowl cut, landed a few metres away from me, and obviously he couldn't swim. His hands were everywhere, he was splashing and kicking, water was sprayed everywhere.

"Look what you've done Sakura!" Sasuke mused.

"Me? You were the one trying to scare me."

"Now poor little lover boy is going to drown." Sasuke said with a taunting smile.

I rolled my eyes, and swam over to the boy, I pulled him up and swam to the shore. Sasuke had followed behind me. Everyone had descended from the cliff, probably using the boy as an excuse to not jump.

The boy lay limply, he looked dead, and he was all purple.

"Shit," I muttered.

"You killed him!" Sasuke taunted.

"Shut up, don't jokes like that." I said and I gave him a glare, which Sasuke obviously wasn't used to. He kept quiet for a while.

"Maybe you should give him CPR," Sasuke suggested after a while.

"I said no jokes."

"I wasn't joking."

I looked at him, then back at the boy.

"Fine," I said.
I didn't exactly know how to give CPR; I'd only seen it in the movies. But I held his head back, and pressed my lips against his and began breathing into his mouth. Man was this weird.

Everyone soon joined us on the beach. Tenten looked really worried, and ran and sat by the boys side and held his hand.

"Lee..." She said.

So Lee was his name.

"Man, I'm gonna go drown, maybe then I'll get some CPR from Sakura!" Kiba said, I would of glared at him if I wasn't busy.

I stopped for a few seconds to breathe. Lee coughed, he coughed.

"Lee you're alright!" Tenten said, she gave him a very motherly look.

Lee sat up and coughed some more.

"I'm so embarrassed." He announced once he had finished coughing. "I was meant to save you and you ended up saving me." Lee exclaimed.

"Oh don't worry about it, next time just think before you jump."

Lee blushed.

"I better take you back to camp," Tenten said, pulling Lee up.

"Yeah, I think I've had enough for today," Neji said, although I suspected he just wanted to walk back to camp with Tenten.

"This is too troublesome," Shikamaru added, as he too began to retreat.

"I'm tired," Kiba said.

"Me too," Naruto agreed.

"You guys are pathetic! C'mon those cliffs were just baby cliffs, there are even bigger ones up there that we can jump off."

"Sorry Sakura, maybe another time."

"Yeah it's starting to get dark anyway."

"Great..." I mumbled.

"Looks like everyone ditched you." Sasuke said from beside me.

"Don't sound so pleased mister, they left you too."

Sasuke laughed, "Not if I ditch you too."

I pouted, "But it's getting dark and my t-shirt and towel are still up on the cliff."

"So you're scared of the dark but not of jumping off a massive cliff."

I scoffed, "Massive? That cliff was just a baby cliff."

"Well you were telling Naruto and Kiba about those massive ones you were going to jump off."

"Well yeah I guess I was. I bet your just leaving because you're to chicken to jump off them."

"Hey, I never said I was leaving."

"So you'll stay with me to come and get my T-shirt and towel."

"Sure... if you can jump off the highest cliff."

"Of course I can. It's you I'm worried about."

"Well you shouldn't be, I've been jumping off these cliffs since I was fourteen."

"Good, then you can go first." I teased as I poked out my tongue and began walking back up the cliff face. He caught up to me, and smirked.

"So you and Ino eh?"

"Uh, what about her?"

"Nothing you two just seem to be getting mighty close."

"Close? Nah I don't think so."

"Is that so?" I said jumping up onto a higher landing. "That's not what she seems to think."

"Well she would think that wouldn't she. She's so typical, thinks everyone's in love with her," there was a fair amount of venom in his voice.

He had pretty much nailed Ino on the head. He was absolutely correct.

"That's not true."

"It is and you know it."

"Well still... you can't blame her for getting mixed messages seeing as you kissed her."

"What?" Sasuke asked, freezing in his spot.

"That's what she told me. And she may be many things but she isn't a liar."

"I didn't kiss her, are you kidding me? I can barely stand her, she pretty much threw herself at me and... Why am I even arguing with you?"

I shrugged. He rolled his eyes.

"Look we kissed for like two seconds, but I pushed her away because I'd rather kiss a horse than her."

I slapped him across the face; he was very taken a back.

"Ouch," he complained.

"That's my best friend you're talking about." I said carrying on without him.

"Best friend, really?"

I glared at him.

"You can go. I'll get my stuff by myself."

Although I told him to leave I hadn't expected him to actually leave. I was by myself, on a rocky cliff face, with trees surrounding, and to make it worse the sun was setting.

I clambered up slowly, by the time I reached the top, the sun had almost set. The sky was a purple, redy, gold color it was beautiful.

Someone was sitting on the edge of the cliff, it was Sasuke.

"How'd you get up here so quick?" I asked, keeping my voice neutral.

"There's a shortcut." He said without turning to look at me.

I nodded and bent down and picked up my t-shirt and towel. I was very tempted to stay and sit with Sasuke, but I had to get down. Then again I was never very good at resisting temptation. I walked over and sat beside him.

"I thought you were mad at me?" He said, sounding cocky as ever.

"I still am."

"Hn," he said.

"Why do you hate Ino so much?"

I breathed in deeply, "Let's just put it this way, if you heard the things she said about you behind your back you would question being her friend."

I looked down at my feet that were hanging over the cliff face; I wrapped my towel around me. It was cold.

"Oh," I said.

"Mhmm," he said.

"That still didn't answer my question though, why do YOU hate her?"

"I deal with girls like her everyday at school, their just annoying."

"So you're not the shallow type then?"

He laughed.

It was silent for a while. Not an awkward silence, but a calm silence.

"Isn't the sunset beautiful?" I asked.

Sasuke murmured something under his breath, I just ignored it. It was probably something mean anyway.

"Sasuke, can I ask you something?" I asked a few moments later.

"It's a bit late for that," he said.

I ignored him.

"How many girls have you actually like gone out with?" I asked.

"Sakura I don't have girlfriends," he said.

Maybe he wasn't a playboy like I had first thought...

"It ties you down too much, and it's too much commitment."

Maybe not...

"You're a pig."

He shrugged, "I don't think so. I'm just honest. Most guys think like that, they just don't admit it."

"Sure they do."

"If you knew what most of the guys here said about you, you'd agree."

"What do they say?"

He shrugged, "you're the one who thinks all guys are 'prince charmings'."

"No I don't, you're no prince charming."

He laughed.

"We should head down now."

Sasuke got up and began walking, I trailed behind him.

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"Hey," I said as I walked into the cabin.

Ino was combing her hair.

"Hi." Ino said simply, she was mad.

I sat next to her, "you alright?" I asked.

"Fine." She said.

"No you're not your angry."

"Well honestly, yeah I kind of am. After all I just found out my best friend had gone off with Sasuke, by herself."

"Ino we're friends, it's normal."

"I thought you didn't like him?"

"I never said that."

"You didn't need to!"

"Ino you don't go out with him!"

"We kissed, I like him I'm pretty sure he likes me. It won't be long until we are going out."

Sasuke was so right about Ino. What I said I wished I could of taken back, but I couldn't.

"Ino he doesn't like you he told me, not as a girlfriend, not even as a friend!" I shouted.

Tears welled up in her crystal blue eyes, and she stormed out.

"Ino where are you going!"

"I'm going to stay with a real friend, someone who stayed with me at the beach!" Ino yelled as she ran out into the night. She had to come back, all her stuff was here. Then again she had enough money to replace them ten times over. I sighed and lay back on my bed.

I had fucked up, and I had fucked up good.

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A/N – Chapter three done! Yessssss! It hasn't really gone to plan, but I hope it's not too bad, Sakura and Sasuke are becoming friends so thats a good thing, please review, let me know whats going well and whats not going so well. Haha, anyway hope you enjoyed this chappie, sorry it's short, but thats just what I do my chppies are always short, but I usually update daily so... :P