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I was with Sasuke, walking through the darkness.

We had already found our white slip and we were making our way back.

There were shivers running through my body, skimming up my spine, but he stood, solid and calm, guiding me.

It was funny, how a small act such as this managed to affect me.

And he had remembered that I hated scary stuff.

There was a shuffling noise to the side, and I hugged him closer, well, his arm closer.

"It's just the wind." he said calmly, reassuring me.

"We're going to die." I said exasperatedly, "We're going to die."

"We're not going to die." he said, making me sound stupid.

"We are!" I exclaimed, "Something's going to come out and kill us!"

"No, it's not - "

"Sasuke, if you make it outta this, tell my friends I love them, and tell Haru that he's been a good friend, and tell Kyou that I was the one who ruined his sand castle when we were kids - he always thought it was Tanaka."

"Keiko, you're seriously overreacting right now." His patience was wearing thin.

"But there's so much to do in life!" I exclaimed, "We're going to die. We are. I know it. I feel it. It feel it in my bones - "

"Keiko!" He exclaimed, stopping and turning, "We're not going to die!"

It was silence.

"Fighting will only make enemies of us, Uchiha!" I exclaimed, "We have to stop!"

"Like I said," he started, irritated, "We're not going to die. And you're the one who's fighting with me!"

"You're yelling now!" I shot back.

"You were yelling before I was, idiot!"

And then, suddenly, I laughed, smiling, feeling somewhat giddier than I had in a while.

He stared, blinked, completely blank.

"Did I, uh, miss something?" he questioned.

It's just, this was so normal. We used to fight all the time when we had first met - we were like oil and water.

Back then, we had insulted each other countless times, and he had called me an idiot way more than once or twice.

With him still staring, and a smile along my lips, I grinned, "Remember when we first met, and we were like, freaking enemies?"

He seemed to like that remembrance, and grinned himself. A rare Sasuke sight. I made sure to save it in my memory.

"You were so freaking stubborn,"

"Were?"

He kept his grin, "You still are."

"You're no better now than before, you natural born jerk!"

He turned his head to look at me, still wearing that grin that not one person could claim they saw every day.

And in that instant, I realised that he had distracted me from my fear.

And then I had another realisation. He hadn't distracted me from my fear, he had averted it to something else.

I was scared. I was scared of him, of what that rare grin of his made me feel, of what he could do to me, of what could happen between us.

I was scared of him, of what I was feeling.

He seemed to catch on to the serious turn of thoughts that I had taken, and his steps slowed, grin fading, "What?" he asked, "What's wrong?"

"What happened?" I said unconsciously, without thinking, "What happened with us?"

His eyes met mine, and we both just studied one another, thoughts running through the both of our heads.

How did we turn out like this?

When it was just us, we were fine. But when we were surrounded by everyone else - the people who reminded us about all the bad memories, and the ones who tried to separate us, they successfully brought us down and apart from one another.

"How'd we even end up like this?"

He turned away, quiet, and we walked along slowly.

"I didn't cheat on you with Hitomi. Ever." He blurted out, like it needed to be said.

I paused, having yet another realisation.

"I... I know." I said. I did know. It was impossible, for Sasuke to go behind someone's back like that. Especially mine. He wouldn't have done that to me.

"I ended up just taking all the negative emotions on you, Sasuke." I said, head down, "I'm sorry."

"Why are you apologising, idiot." he said, "I don't blame you - "

"HOLY MOTHER OF FREAKING SHIT!" I screamed when a white, illuminated body, topped with tangly dark hair stepped before us.

It began walking toward us.

"Sasuke!" I yelled, "HOLY CRAP. SASUKE! RUN! RUN! RUN!"

I turned to run for my freaking life, but Sasuke held my arm.

"Idiot." he said, "Shouldn't you be able to recognise your best friend?"

"... Eh?"

The ghost pulled it's wig off to reveal blonde hair, and a grin on his face. "I got ya, Keiko!" Haru laughed.

I stared a few seconds longer before letting out a deep breath and then laughing, hitting my hand hard on Sasuke's back.

"Whew, that's a relief!" I exclaimed, "You nearly scared Sasuke out of his mind!" I laughed again, fakely.

The two males gave me a 'Uh-huh, really?' look and my head drooped.

"Fine." Was all I said. Damn jerks.

"C'mon, c'mon!" Haru grinned suddenly before running forward, where we could see the illumination of the campfire.

Sasuke and I shrugged to one another before following.

"Haboogidyboogidyasdfsdghkejo!" Haru exclaimed as he jumped out in front of everyone.

"Holy crap, mother of ... Haru?" Kiba exclaimed, "Damn you, you insolent piece of crap! You scared the hell outta me!"

The brunette glanced around, and then feigned a scoff, "I mean, pfft, that's a pathetic get-up. Like hell it would get to me."

Oh, Kiba, you.

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