Hello people! Thanks for the reviews!. I'm sooo sorry for the late update but a lot of things have been happening and my life is pretty much a mess right now, so I didn't have the time or the inspiration to write this chapter sooner, so please don't shoot me! I'm sorry!

Disclaimer: Nope, otherwise Sakura would've kicked Sasuke's ass by now.

Sorry if there is any grammar or spelling mistake, english is not my first lenguage.

Here are the answers to some of your questions:

1-yes they will ended up locked in a room.

2-Naruto and Kakashi will plot against them.

3-Sakura will not cry.

4-Shikamaru will not suffer.

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"Unfinished issue"

Team 7 was currently eating at Icharaku's.

Naruto was grinning like an idiot and plotting.

Sakura was inwardly panicking.

Sasuke was confused and debating with himself.

The reason to this it was the mission of course. A full month in Suna helping in the hospital for Sakura and research of the remains of the Akatsuki for Sasuke and Shikamaru. Now this seemed like an easy mission if you ignore the fact that Sakura was trying by any possible means to avoid Sasuke, who was trying to figure out what to do with his feelings.

Naruto was thinking that it was a great opportunity for the two of them to finally get together.

Sakura was thinking that she must have kicked a lot of kitties in a past life and karma was indeed a bitch. A month in Suna with Sasuke? Damn, how the hell was she going to survive that?

Sasuke was trying to decide if this mission was a good thing or bad. Maybe being a month alone with her was going to help him decide if he should give up on her and let her find someone who truly deserved her or if try to win her back and tell her the true about his feelings.

God, dude you sound like a girl.

He mentally glare at that voice. (is that possible?) Shit, you again?

Yeah, I'm your inner, I'm always here. Oh joy.

I thought I made you go away.

Pff, you mean when you locked me in that little dark cell? Please, you used to do that all the time when you were younger, it doesn't work anymore! He exclaimed while throwing his hands in the air to add efect.

Damn! Really, why did he have to deal with this?

Back to the topic, really, you're acting like an idiot. Yeah inner Sasuke lacked that thing called 'tact'. Not like outer Sasuke didn't.

Wasn't you the one who told me to tell her my true feelings? He remind to his inner.

Well yeah, but you have to do it in a manly way, please don't pull a Rock Lee while confessing... because you know the stars in the eyes and the hearts in the air and all that stuff is just... creepy... and very un-Sasuke like.

Hn. Right. He couldn't believe that he was listening to his inner, it was like listening to something that Naruto said; but his inner did have a point.

While our avenger was busy staring off at the boul in front of him, Naruto was now babbling about his latest mission and how cool he was and how he was going to be the greatest, the most amazing and handsome hokage etc, etc. He failed to realize that neither one of his friends was actually listening to him... well, it's not like that they could understand what he was saying anyway seeing that he was constantly slurping his ramen between sentences making his speech non-understandable..

Sakura was too occupied forming a plan in her head to avoid Sasuke as much as possible during the mission, it's not like she was still angry with him, she had alredy forgave him a long ago, but she didn't approach him at the moment because... well she didn't wanted to fall for him all over again to ended up hearbroken. She just needed a little bit of time and she would've tried and be his friend; but nooo, he just had to go and kiss her senseless and make her confused and hurt and make her hope, and all those feelings were mixing up and she was going to get really emotional if she didn't get any distance for a while, and now she had to deal with this? A month with him away from Ino and Naruto, well at least she had Shikamaru, but still, it wasn't fair! Damn, she was getting a headache and she was really tired and she had to get ready for the mission... Sasuke... damn it! Damn it all to hell! Why the hell wouldn't he stay out of her mind? Okay she needed to go home and stuffed herself with ice-cream or she was going to have a breakdone or something, like seriously.

"Guys, I'm leaving, I have to rest for the mission I have tomorrow." She said while getting up and paying for her food.

"Sure, Sakura-chan, I'll be there to say goodbye." Naruto said, well that's what she thought he said, she wasn't sure considering that those noodles hanging from his mouth were making him speak funny.

He swallow and then...

"Why don't you walk her home teme?"

Sakura's mind was screaming two different things at that moment, one of them was: NONONONO! I couldn't handle being alone with him right now!

And inner Sakura was screaming: YES! HE'LL KISS US AGAIN! SHANNARO!

Of course, she ignored her inner and forced her into a dark corner.

"I'll be perfectly fine on my own Naruto" she said while glaring at both males in front of her, the glare directed at Naruto was screaming something along the lines: 'open your mouth and you'll regreat it' while the one for Sasuke was more like: 'don't you fucking dare to come anywhere close to me', yeah she could totally say that much with a glare, she was that cool.

That being said she turned around and dissapeared in a swirl of blossoms, she didn't wanted to take any chances of Sasuke following her.

Naruto stared for a while at the empty spot where Sakura had been standing a minute ago, and then he turned to his friend/rival with a glare.

"What did you do to her, teme?" he said with suspicion laced in his voice.

Sasuke had been staring at the same spot when Naruto spoke, he turn to see that he was glaring at him.

"I didn't do anything to her dobe" okay maybe that statement wasn't entirely true. But Naruto didn't needed to know that... yet. He will tell the dobe about it only if it was extrectly necesary. And with that he got up, placed money on the counter and left with a simple 'Hn' ignoring Naruto's yells demanding an answer for his question.

Sasuke was alredy waiting at the gates when she got there, that didn't surprise her, he always was the first to arrive whenever they went on missions, at least when they were genin, she hadn't been in any mission with him before this one, so she didn't exactly know what to expect. However she decided that it was better to not let her mind wander because of Sasuke, but she reminded herself to be careful around him, she didn't want to be taken by surprise by his actions again. She greeted him and he replied with a grunt; God, what was he, a caveman? He could at least say 'Hn', but then again, that wasn't exactly a word either, she sighed and looked around hoping to spot Shikamaru, but she didn't...

Well it had been only a couple of minutes of silence but she wasn't feeling too comfortable being alone with Sasuke, she had tought about trying to make a little talk but then decided against it, since she was feeling pretty tired at the moment to deal with him, besides she wasn't exactly in a good mood, Ino had been harassing her since she told her about the mission, I mean yes she was her best friend and she loved her but the blonde could be so annoying!... okay, irritating was a better word to describe her... she had spend the whole time they were together to interrogater about her 'relationship' with Sasuke and she kept teeling her that Sasuke was indeed attracted to her and forehead are you blind? so she was so wrapped up in her own musings that she failed to notice that Sasuke was pretty much blatanly staring at her. When he was about to asked her if she was okay when Shikamaru came.

Sasuke was surprised when after greeting him, she didn't try to start a conversation, well she knew him enough to know that he wasn't the talktative type, but he remembered that she always used to talk and talk and talk, about everything, about anything, and he had come to realize that she didn't like silence. So why wasn't she talking?... maybe she was tired, yeah that must be it, or maybe she was anxious about the mission.

He took a discreet glance at her and he noticed that she was too busy with her own toughts to even note him. And so he just kept staring with fascionation at the way her emotions made themselves known in her face.

He hadn't been able to see her display so much her emotions in a real long time, well, except for when she was angry or hurt, like the look she gave him that night when he kissed her- okay, let's not go there. He was amazed at how fast her emotions could change, but still he found that he liked to watch her like that, to be able to know how she was feeling, besides he loved to see her expressions, he found himself thinking that it didn't matter if she was pouting or frowning, she was still the most beautiful woman he had ever seen... he then realized that the frown was permantly attached to her face in the moment, was something troubling her? Maybe she wasn't feeling good, he was about to asked her if everything was okay when the Nara appeared.

"Hey Shikamaru! Good morning!" sakura said rather cheerfully, forgeting about Ino's 'love advices'.

"Morning Saki" he replied in his usual bored demeanor but with a warm and friently underlying tone.

"Long time no see Shika, how have you been doing?"

All she got in response was some mumbles of ' troublesome' and 'that woman is crazy'

Sakura was in no way surprised by this, she was used about him being like that, you know muttering things under his breath when he was frustated about something or someone. But she wasn't worried, she knew that if he wanted to talk he would come to her, she knew he wasn't as prideful as other men and that if he needed her help he wound't hesitate.

A few words regarding the mission were exchange (Shikamaru was the leader, Sasuke wasn't really pleased by this) they left Konoha and headed towars their destination:Suna.

So yeah again sorry I didn't update before, my life is really fucked up now, but that doesn't matter right now because you know what? Today is my birthday! I'M FINALLY 18! HELL YEAH!... God I feel old...

Anyway, I decided to put some advances of the upcoming chapters...

Ch.9: in this chapter Sasuke will hear Sakura and Shikamaru talking about dating...

Ch.10: this one is going to be pretty much about a girls sleepover and their relationships...

Ch.11: here team Hebi/Taka will make an appearance and things between Sasuke and Sakura will get a little more complicated...

Ch.12: this will be the final chapter where our lovebirds are locked inside a room...

There will be an epilogue.

so tell me what you guys think... REVIEW!