The Bet

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Sakura was walking down the street of Konaha during the hot summer day.

She was wearing a black tube top and a pair of tight daisy duke shorts.

She didn't have anything on over the black tube top.

It wasn't hard for her to keep the top on because Tsunade kinda rubbed off on her in certain places.

Guys were following her where ever she went.

Sakura was on her way to Ino's flower shop to see if she was free.

"Hey, Fore-head girl",

yelled Ino from a restaurant door.

Sakura turned around to see Ino, Shickamaru, Naruto, and Neji sitting eating.

"Come join us Sakura-Chan"

Naruto said stuffing his face full of ramen.

Sakura ran toward the door and walked in to be braded by guys wanting to go out with her.

" All of yall better get away from Sakura-Chan"

yelled Naruto coming in from the balcony the group was eating on.

All the guys looked back to see the current hokage walking up to Sakura and pull her out side on the balcony.

"Sakura-san it's nice to see you finally away from the hospital."

Neji said laughing a little.

" My why are we so formal Neji-kun please call me Sakura-Chan or Sakura ok"

Sakura said sitting beside him.

Ino and Shickamaru laughed and put some money on the table and said by to everyone.

"Ino-pig where are you going I was looking to see if you wanted to hang out today?"

Sakura asked getting up.

"Sorry, Fore-head girl I have a mission tomorrow and I have to go home and pack and Shickamaru is going to take me out later."

Sakura turned her attention to Naruto and he was on his fifth bowl of ramen.

She let out a small giggle, which didn't go unnoticed by the Huyga heir.

" What is so funny Sakura?"

She looked over at Neji and said

"Your face."

He scowled at her and huffed a big sigh,

"Sakura what is that supposed to mean?"

Neji said scooting his chair back and getting up.

"It means" started Sakura but never got to finish her sentence because she felt a familiar charka near by.

The charka was dark and cool, but it had some fire in it and was coming her way.

She looked down from the balcony to see the Uchiha Sasuke walking into the restaurant.

"Naruto did you call for Sasuke to come here?"

Sakura asked walking over to the edge of the balcony.

" Yes, Sakura I have to tell him that half of his punishment is over and that he has to stay with someone for another month or keep on like he is now. Why do you want to know?"

Naruto asked sitting upright in his seat.

" Because he is here and now I'm going."

Sakura said jumping off the balcony ledge and landing on the ground as the door to the balcony opened, to a young boy with raven colored hair and onix eyes that you could get lost in, stepped out of the door way.

He wore a pair of shorts and a baggy blue shirt with the Uchiha symbol on it.

He sat down on a vacant chair next to the edge of the balcony.

" Sasuke Uchiha you have completed half of your punishment and to serve the next half you must either live with some one, or help run errands for me all day until your sentence is over."

Stated Naruto stuffing his face again.

" You mean I can live with any one, Sasuke said looking from the balcony to see a young woman with pink hair and emerald green eyes.

Wearing a tight black tube top that was a little to small to fit her package and a pair of daisy duke shorts that let a little bit of her butt show.

Naruto and Neji saw him look down at Sakura and blush when she turned his way and walked because he was above her so he saw her cleavage and when she walked away her butt move from side to side.

Not to mention her stomach and hips.

" What are you staring at Uchiha?"

Neji asked with a little sarcasm in his voice.

"Nothing at all just thinking."

The only Uchiha said.

Neji and Naruto knew better and he was probably thinking what to do to Sakura.

" You know Uchiha since you have been in the village I haven't seen you and Sakura together.

Every time you come one way she goes another."

Neji said sitting back down.

"Huyga there is in some cases that you can say to much."

Sasuke said giving him a death glare that sent shivers down the Huyga's spine.

" Uchiha all I'm saying is that Sakura is avoiding you.

She saw you coming a mile away and when you got to the door of the restaurant she jumped off the balcony and left me and Naruto."

The Huyga said putting extra emphases on the 'ME'.

"What Neji is trying to say teme is that for some reason Sakura is avoiding you. I mean remember when we were twelve and she was all over you.

Now she is not even with viewing distance of you.

I bet you haven't even seen her face or her body up close have you teme?"

Naruto said raising an eyebrow to Sasuke to see him giving the Huyga a death glare still.

Neji looked over at Sasuke and replied

"Uchiha I bet that you can't get Sakura to let you live with her so you can finish the rest of your punishment.

I also bet that I can be her boy friend before you can."

Sasuke raised and eyebrow,

" Is that so Huyga do you really want to put that bet to real use? Like in real life.

The loser has to leave Sakura and the winner alone."

Naruto shot up knocking the table and a couple of chairs over.

"Teme you can't be serious about this bet.

What if Sakura finds out?

What if you loose to Neji?

TEME WHAT IF

Naruto didn't get to finish because Sasuke punched him in the face.

Sasuke turned to the Huyga and said in a very mocking voice,

"The bet is set and I'm gonna win."

With that he jumped and was gone in flash just like the Huyga.

Naruto woke up and went to his tower and did work.

Sakura went to the only place that she could be alone,

The Cherry Blossom Trees in the park.

There was about thirty or so trees and lush green grass with cosmoses growing in them.

Sakura was in one of the trees sitting near the top reading a book.

Sasuke was walking by the park thinking how he was going to see Sakura.

' Neji was right I haven't seen Sakura's face since I've been in Konaha, and that has been almost six months.

Where would she be right now?

Hey, Look at all the Cherry Blossom trees there sure a lot here in this area.

I wonder why? Is that who I think it is in that tree?

Sakura OMG She is beautiful. Her body, tanned skin, muscles, face.

Maybe if I sit under it she will see me.

It's worth a shot.

Sasuke walked over to the tree she was at and sat under it and thought out loud to himself.

Sakura was too much into her book to care lees what was happening around her.

She was reading a medical book about the mind and brain that Tsunade gave her when she became a doctor.

Sasuke was talking about the old times.

"I wonder what Sakura is doing now and what she looks like." Sasuke said looking up into the tree to see no one there.

' Where did she go?'

" Are you looking for me Uchiha-san or are you looking into the clouds like Neji and I do when we have free time?"

Sakura said looking down at Sasuke like he was a little kid.

'Did she just call me Uchiha-san? What happened to Sasuke-kun and everything.'

Sasuke sat up and propped his back against the tree.

Sakura stood there in all her beauty in front of the sun set.

"Sakura Haruno well look at how much we have grown.

You may have grown in looks and maybe charm, but what about in strength?"

Sakura scoffed and stared to laugh like there was no tomorrow.

"What is so funny?"

Sasuke asked getting up and standing in front of Sakura.

She pulled her fist full of chakra back and through it toward Sasuke's stomach.

He wasn't expecting this so the air was knocked out of him and Sakura filled her other fist so when he leaned down she did an uppercut and knocked him backward a mile.

When she felt him land she walked away and whispered,

"Not so tuff Uchiha I have eaten steak tougher than you."

Sasuke was knocked out on the ground he wasn't expecting this from Sakura.

When he finally got up he proofed away to the hokage tower to have a little talk with Naruto about Sakura's strength.

"So Teme looks like you had a little taste of Sakura's strength. You look like you just got mauled and threw a mile."

Naruto said laughing out of his chair.

Sasuke looked his way and scoffed

"So that was a little bit of her strength? Man I would hate to see it all."

Naruto sat back in his chair and with a serious face said,

"Teme only one person has tasted all of her strength and he his dead."

Sasuke eyes got real big and his mouth gaped open.

" Naruto who was it?"

Naruto laughed and said,

"Teme it was that new mentor you left her for, Orochimaru."

Sasuke lied down on the couch and closed his eyes trying to remember.

(Flash back)

It was a stormy night and Orochimaru called me into his quarters and said,

"Sasuke-sama it has been three years and now it is time for me to get your body."

Then there was a loud crash and an ANBU burst through the door.

The ANBU had a cat face and PINK whiskers on the white mask.

It was a girl every one could tell.

The tight black tube top that was a little too small, and a pair of tight black pants with a PINK design on the side and the initials S.H on her butt.

She wore a pair of boots that were black too.

Her hair was covered due to the ANBU mask and the eyes of the mask had slits in them.

I didn't get to see her eyes, but her fighting was exceptionally good.

It would be better than mine.

She walked up to Orochimaru and with on hit she had him on the ground.

He couldn't move and she beat him into a bloody pulp and did a bunch of hand seals and a bunch of needled came out of no where and shot toward him

His screams of agony will always be in my nightmares.

Then he died.

The woman turned toward me and held her hand to the lips of her mask and walked on past me.

I was frozen.

When she walked her hips swayed in perfect rhythm and her skin was a nice tan color

. She turned around and looked at me one last time and disappeared as soon as she was there.

That couldn't have been Sakura?

Could it?

NO WAY!

" Sasuke snap out of it!"

Naruto yelled. Sasuke opened his eyes and sat up.

"You sent her on a mission to kill Orochimaru?"

Sasuke yelled back.

Just then there was a knock at the door.

"Come in"

Naruto said sitting back down and motioning to do the same. Sasuke laid back down on the couch and the room door opened.

Sakura walked in with Neji's arm around her small bare tanned waist.

Sasuke sat up and shot Neji a glare with the Sharagan.

Then Sasuke felt something cold and medal next to his neck.

He looked over to the side to see Sakura with a kunai at his throat ready to kill him.

"Sakura back down I'm sure he didn't mean to what ever it is he did."

Naruto said walking over to Sakura and putting his hands on her shoulders massaging them.

She backed off Sasuke and sat in the chair across from him. Sasuke was scared to move.

He was stiff and was shaking.

Naruto motioned over to Neji to keep massaging

Sakura until she was calm.

Naruto walked over to Sasuke and sat next to him.

"Sasuke did you activate your Sharagan toward Neji?"

Naruto asked looking at Sasuke.

"Yeah, but why did she almost kill me Naruto?

It's like she didn't care who I was. Like she was trained to kill when ever she feels a disturbance in someone's chakra or a spike in their attitude."

Sasuke said looking at Sakura and how ruthless she had been.

"Sasuke when she went into the ANBU she was the strongest at sensing chakra.

She could find anyone's chakra once she was exposed to it.

Also she was a medical nin and still is she works at the hospital. Sakura was trained that when she felt the Sharagan being activated or already active to kill the person who activated it.

They taught her this because Itachi was still alive and you were still a missing nin.

Our elders made the ANBU teach Sakura this with out my knowing of it.

It is part of the reason she doesn't want to be around you.

Neji understands that he can't activate his bakugan unless he is on a mission or Sakura isn't around.

She isn't afraid to be around him cause she knows that he won't make her kill him."

Naruto said getting up.

"But Naruto can't she control it?

She doesn't have to kill them."

Naruto turned to look back at Sasuke and said,

"Teme she can't control it her inner self is let out and we can barley control her.

She has an inner personality too.

Did you see her eyes?

They were not emerald green they were ruby red like blood."

Sakura got up walked over to Sasuke and kissed him on the cheek and said,

" To think I came to power to get you back and to make you notice me. Now, it is my downfall.

I can't be with you Sasuke-sama, I don't want to kill you."

She stepped back and left in a cloud of Sakura pedals.

Sasuke stood up and walked out of the room.

Neji just stood there looking dumbfounded at Naruto.

Naruto walked to his seat and sat down putting his head in his hands.

He started to talk to no one specific

" Sakura you had to go to ANBU now TEME is doomed to never revive his clan and Sakura will never be happy like she once was.

Sakura please let teme live with you.

HE is your hope."

Wiping away tears he left to go home.

Neji sat down in the chair and Thought to himself.

' Sakura please let him live with you.

The only reason I made that bet is to get you and him together, but your making this harder than it needs to be.'

Neji looked up and shed a little tear.

He slowly got out of his chair and walked to the window and jumped.

He disappeared into the night.

Sakura was at home making some tea when she heard the doorbell.

She unlocked the door and opened it to have a pair of strong arms wrap around her.

Engulfing her in a hug.

She looked to the side to see raven colored hair and tear stained onix eyes looking at her.

She let out a small gasp and hugged him back.

After that was over with he went inside and she went to her teapot.

Sasuke watched her small figure move with a quick pace.

She was wearing a mesh top with the leaf headband wrapping around her breasts to hide the front.

You could see the shape of them and how big they were.

Her pants consisted of a pair of spandex panties that was black.

Sasuke was wondering how much skin she showed at work. "Sakura please I have to ask you something important."

She turned her attention to him.

"Was that you at Orochimaru's lair that killed him and wore that black suit?"

She looked at him and no emotions came across her face.

He looked her up and down for an answer.

When she didn't give one he yelled,

" Sakura answer me was that you or not?"

She got up and walked over to a futon and pointed to it.

" Sasuke-sama this is where you will sleep and you will know tomorrow."

With those being her last words she went to her room and closed her door.

He looked at the white door hoping it would open again to a beautiful Sakura wanting him, but that dream was never coming true in Sakura's eyes.

She didn't want to be labeled the girl who killed the last Uchiha in the village.

Sasuke took off his shirt and pants.

He jumped on the futon letting out a big sigh.

Sakura what made you like this.

Why do you keep me at bay and never have a smile on your face. You always state the negative and are always trying to avoid me. You remind me of myself when we were twelve.

The only difference is that you don't realize that me and you were made for each other.

Sasuke turned over on his side and buried his head in the pillow.

He could smell the sent of cherry blossoms and strawberries mixed.

Soon he drifted off to a good sleep filled with cherry blossoms.

Sakura watched through a crack in door as Sasuke took off his shirt and pants.

She looked away and blushed.

Sakura still loved Sasuke, but she didn't think he loved her back because of what she did to Orochimaru.

Sakura closed the door again and laid on her bed with a dreamless sleep.

The next day Sakura got up first and was wearing a pair of black silk bikini underwear with the Konaha headband across her breasts with out the net undershirt.

She had completely forgotten that Sasuke was there in the living room, which is connected to the kitchen asleep.

Sakura was in the kitchen making breakfast for her self, which consisted of bacon eggs and some cinnamon rolls.

Sasuke smelled the food being cooked and instantly woke up going strait into the kitchen forgetting to getting dressed.