So here is the last chapter of this story. It has been so much fun to write because no one else has a story quite like this one. I hope you have all enjoyed reading this as much as I have writing it and I hope you enjoy this final chapter! Thanks to those reviewers who inspired me to continue this: Echo Uchiha, dragontamer ri-chan, Shadow's Ruby, SakuraHarunoxBleach, CaribeanTrinidadian, kusukusu225, sakura-cherrytree, Amber-Rose-Madien, lexi, Icy-Blue22, TheSecretPrestige, KaiandApple, pluhsauce, , Zoey24, Saiyuri Haruno, AnimaAmore, Sexxiiness, shesINSPIRED, sapphireangel09, xSoulxDemonx

"Talking"

'Thinking'

RECAP:

Sakura's eyes widened slightly at the action then slid closed as the male in front of her continued to kiss her. When they broke apart she opened her eye to gaze at him only to find him smirking at her.

"What was that for?"

"Well I saw you and Hidan earlier and thought it was only fair, yeah," her fellow drum major spoke as he walked back to the dorms, "Have a good night Sakura-chan."

"You asshole!" she called after him as she heard him laugh in response.

She made her way back to her room and locked the door behind her. Noticing that Temari was already in bed, she quietly pulled out her uniform for tomorrow's performance. Moving over to a mirror, she held the uniform up to her body and sighed.

"This uniform shouldn't be allowed to exist; especially when I have males of every age and section chasing after me."

She groaned and tossed the uniform on the end of her bed before she hid under the white sheets, "Fuck my life."

Ch.7 IT'S A GAME DAY BAND!

"Sakura, get up."

"Sakura! Get up!"

"Sakura Haruno, if you don't wake the hell up right now so help me god, I'm going to get my pervert of a brother in here to do it!"

"I'm up!" the pinkette answered rapidly as she shot up in her dorm room bed.

Temari rolled her eyes at her roommate and threw one of her pillows at her. "We have to be down at the field in fifteen minutes, so move your ass girl."

"I hate my life," mumbled in a sarcastically sing-song voice as she sat in her bed and rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

Once the girls were ready to go, with Sakura deciding to remain in her pajamas, they made their way out of the building and over to the marching field where the other members and instructors were preparing for their last morning band practice.

Until the school year started up again that is.

Temari parted from Sakura as she found her spot on the field while the pinkette made her way over to the main podium where Itachi was leaning against the small ladder watching her as she approached.

"Good morning, Sakura," he greeted with his smooth textured voice while he inwardly smirked at her tired appearance.

"Morning," she replied sleepily as she didn't look up to acknowledge him as she climbed up the other side of the contraption and sat herself Indian style atop it.

She let out a tired sigh as she combed her pink bangs from her slightly larger forehead, "Where's Deidara? I owe him a nice punch to the face."

Itachi smirked at the pinkette, "Not that he doesn't always deserve one, but what has he done now?"

Sakura grabbed onto her feet and leaned back slightly with a small smirk tugging at her lips before she gazed down at him, "You don't want to know."

Before Itachi could press an answer from his fellow drum major, the previously addressed blonde appeared before them.

"Well good morning my fellow drum majors, yeah," he greeted wit his all too cocky smile as he shot Sakura a glance. "How is everyone this morning?"

"Deidara," Itachi's voice addressed strictly causing the blonde to tense slightly and Sakura smirk. "Why don't you kindly tell me what you've done to upset Sakura this time."

Sakura watched Deidara swallow nervously, "I'm not sure what you mean, yeah."

"Then let me put it simply for you," the head drum major began with a cold tone. "What did you do?"

Before Deidara could utter some lame excuse, Kakashi walked over to them and instructed Itachi to call the band to attention. Once the attention of the large group was gathered Kakashi stood atop the podium with a large smile hidden under his mask.

"It's a game day band!" he yelled throwing his arms in the air.

The band was silent.

"Um, Kakashi-sensei," Sakura whispered from her spot next to the podium. "It's not actually a game day."

"You're correct, Sakura," Kakashi spoke still loud enough for the whole band to hear him. "It is not a game day, though it is just as important. But if it were, that's how I'd be announcing it."

"Right," Sakura muttered to herself at her director's sheepishness.

"Once this rehearsal is finished, I want you to go back to your rooms and change into your summer uniforms. After you do that, bring your luggage down to the indoor practice room if you haven't done that already," Kakashi instructed. "Once those things are finished, you are free to go to breakfast. When breakfast is dismissed meet down on this field with your instruments, and be ready to march over to the performance field. So let's run through the drills once or twice then you can be dismissed."

The band immediately got to work running through their drills with no instruments to perfect the motions, while the drum majors took turns on the podium.

Once Kakashi gave Itachi the go ahead to dismiss the band, the members moved off to finish the task's that their director had instructed them to do.

Sakura and Temari had already taken their luggage down the night before so they wouldn't have to deal with it on the last day. So while everyone else was running around Temari and Sakura sat in their dorm room, staring at Sakura's summer uniform.

"I cannot believe I actually have to wear this in public," Sakura complained as she looked at the uniform like it was a plague.

"Well you'll be receiving a lot of attention, that's for damn sure," Temari told her as she gave her a firm pat on the back before grabbing her own uniform to change into.

"This is something I should have mentally prepared myself for two weeks in advanced," Sakura mumbled to herself as she flopped back onto her bed and stared at the ceiling.

"Not only do you have to wear that slutty excuse for a uniform," Temari told her from her spot across the room. "But you also have to look presentable and smiley. I suggest you start prepping yourself now, since I figure that will take you longer than changing."

"Are you saying it's difficult for me to look smiley and presentable?" Sakura questioned with hints of sarcasm in her voice. "I'm hurt."

Temari turned around from finishing changing into her uniform and gave the young drum major a smirk, "Oh, wah. You live such a difficult life."

"I will say this," Sakura began as she looked over her roommate's uniform. "I already don't missing that awful uniform."

Temari showed Sakura her middle finger as she grabbed her white marching shoes and began to lace them up. The regular uniform for marching band members consisted of leaf green shirts with the white Konoha high school logo on the left side of the upper chest. The words Leaf Marching Band were printed on the back in large white letters. They also had to wear the most hideous white pants due to their school colors along with white marching shoes that looked like an elderly person should have them in their closet. And to top off the entire uniform, they had green and white baseball hats with their logo on them.

The pinkette giggled at her friend, "So attractive."

"You'll be missing this uniform when you're wearing yours out in public," Temari told her with a sweet smirk as she tossed the mentioned uniform at Sakura. "You might want to get moving."

"Yeah, yeah," Sakura groaned as she held the short outfit up to her body in the mirror.

'Kill me now.'

Once everyone had taken care of their luggage, most of the band was already down in the cafeteria eating whatever slop they were serving for breakfast.

"Where's Sakura-chan?" Naruto complained as he pushed the gross looking food around on his plate.

"I don't know, but she has to come out in uniform at some point," Temari murmured as she raised her fork to her mouth.

"She doesn't like her uniform?" Neji questioned to the blonde.

Temari let a small smirk pull to her features, "Not in the slightest."

As if on cue, the main doors to the cafeteria opened revealing the Konoha drum majors to the bands that were eating their breakfasts. Deidara and Itachi were standing in front, but everyone knew Sakura was hiding behind them.

With Deidara realizing this, he turned around and grabbed Sakura by the shoulders and pushed her in front of the two males so the rest of the largely crowded room could take a good look at her in all of her uniformed glory.

There she stood, with everyone in the lunch room's gazes on her cause her cheeks to slightly flush in realization.

Her left hand was at the end of her short slightly flared white skirt that barely covered the essentials, while her right hand brushed back her pink side bangs. The shortness of the little cotton skirt was accented by the tightness of the dark green Konoha marching band shirt she had on. It had the same logos in the same places as the other members of the band, but her shirt was much tighter fitting to her body than everyone else's was. As well as the fit, the collar of the shirt was different giving people a better view of her collarbone and a peak of cleavage with a v-neck design.

Skimming down the view of her long milky legs, shown off wonderfully in her skirt, she had on knee high white socks that had two dark green strips at the top of her sick below her knee. She wore dainty white tennis shoes and topped off her look white a white headband with a bow attached to the left side.

Her hair was left down with the ends effortlessly curled to give her locks a slight bounce when she moved, while her side bangs remained on the right side of her face. Her eyes had light touches of mascara and eye liner, while her pale skin showed off its natural flush.

Everyone's eyes widened as they gazed at the rosette.

Ino let a small smirk tug at the corners of her lips as she looked at her friend, "She looks…"

"Gorgeous."

"Beautiful."

"Absolutely amazing."

"Fucking hot!"

Deidara smirked at his fellow drum major's embarrassment as he slung an arm around her shoulder to whisper in her ear. "We can't stand here all day, yeah. But eventually you're going to have to move."

Sakura rolled her eyes and pushed Deidara off of her with a frustrated huff and made her way over to sit in the empty seat next to Gaara. She knew she had eyes glued to her figure as she walked, but she just tried to ignore them.

Once she finally sat down, the silence in the room broke and whatever conversations that were previously commencing continued.

"Are you not eating?" Tenten asked her pink haired friend, breaking the silence.

Sakura let out a sigh as she placed her elbows on the cafeteria table and leaned her head down to brush both hands through her hair, "Honestly; I'm too anxious to eat right now."

"You should still at least try to eat something," Ino told her as she sipped on her water. "Now's not the time to be dieting."

"Says the troublesome woman drinking water as her meal."

"Lay off, Shika," the blonde scowled as she took another sip. "It's not like I keep this figure by eating ramen for every meal."

"You live a sad life," Naruto told her as he continued to scarf down his beef ramen.

"I think we have something more important to focus on besides Ino's eating habits," Temari interjected with a sly smile as she turned her attention back towards her pink haired roommate for the week. "Sakura dear, I love your outfit."

Sakura shot the girl a look, "Temari dear, I'd love for you to shut your mouth."

"Temari's right Sakura, you look great," the male Hyuga complimented from his spot from the further down the table.

"I second that statement," Sasuke commented quietly from across the table.

"Third," Kiba added.

"Well I think she looks hot!" Kankuro retorted with a giant smirk plastered to his features. "I mean seriously, look at her! She's like a dream come true."

The drum major crossed her arms on the table and laid her head into her limbs with a exasperated breath, "Why me?"

"Hate to make things even worse for you, Sakura, but there's some sound members currently approaching our table," Tenten told her as the table members turned the gazes to meet the approach of the rival members.

"Hello, leaves," Kimimaro greeted with a fake emotion behind his smile as he looked around at Sakura's friends. His eyes continued the gaze at the glares and sour looks that were directed his way until his eyes stopped on Sakura, letting his smile turn into a smirk.

"Sakura darling," he acknowledged as she gave him a warning look from her seated position at the table. "You look wonderful."

"Kimimaro," she acknowledged sourly as she gazed up into his forest green orbs. "My friends are trying to eat. Stop ruining their appetite with your unwanted presence."

The white haired male let his smirk widen at her fiery attitude. "I only wanted to wish you luck, Sakura," the sound band member told the Konoha female before he leaned down to whisper in her ear. "You're going to need it."

She turned her head slightly and looked at him from the corner of her eye, "Is that a threat?"

"Not at all," he told her with a smirk still on his features.

"Well then let me give you one," she spoke lowly as she turned in her chair and grabbed the front of his purple Sound shirt pulling him to meet her emerald eyes. "If you use anything remotely similar to our songs or routines, I will make your life miserable."

She released her grip on his shirt and pushed him away from her slightly, "And that's not only a threat, it's a promise."

"I'll keep that in mind," he told her with a smirk before he walked back to his table to join his friends.

"I think I love you Sakura," Kankuro told the pinkette, breaking the silence.

The drum major couldn't help but laugh, "Good to know Kankuro."

By the time everyone finished eating and made their way out to the practice field in full uniform with their instruments, they began to go through a final check to prepare to march over to the performance field. They were finally going to show everyone what they have been working so hard to prepare.

"Alright band listen up," Kakashi called out to get the band's attention. "Your drum majors will be going around to each section to make sure everyone is in proper uniform."

"Deidara take flutes, clarinets, and alto sax," Itachi instructed as he then turned to his pink haired assistant. "Sakura you can take the tenors, trumpets, and trombones. Meet back at the podium when you're finished."

The drum majors went their separate ways as Sakura started with the tenor saxophones, which she knew is where she would find the most problems.

"Tenors," she called out lightly as she stood in front of their section. "Stand in a horizontal line in front of me so I can check your uniforms."

The saxophone players looked toward their white haired section leader who gave them a nod before they did what she asked.

"Good to know that you have them so well trained Hidan," Sakura spoke lowly as she passed him before she went to move down the rest of the line. But before she had the chance she felt hands grasping her waist and pulling her back into a muscular body.

"I'd rather fucking train you, if you know what I fucking mean," Hidan whispered in her ear as he tightened his arms around her slim waist.

Rolling her eyes, and trying to hide the faint blush that dusted her cheeks, she elbowed him in the stomach and pulled away to examine the rest of the section. She only had to do some hat adjustments and pull up a couple pair of sagging pants until she came back around to Hidan who had decided to remove his shirt.

"Hidan, put it back on," she told him with a hand on her hip, "Now."

"Shit, why?" he asked with his all too cocky and handsome smirk. "You're not going to fucking help me put it back on like you helped every other shit head in my section?"

"You're a big boy, Hidan. I'm sure you're more than capable of putting on your own shirt."

Hidan smirked at her defiance as he grabbed her hips once more and pulled her into his bare chest, "Damn straight I am, but if you want to fucking assist me, I'm not going to fucking complain."

Although Sakura loved to feeling of being held against Hidan's chest, she pushed off him and stalked away.

"Temari, make sure his shirt gets back on or I'll make Deidara do it for him!"

She then moved to the trumpet who all greeted her with sweet smiles, she even noticed some of the boys blushing at her appearance. "Hello everyone. Can you please for a single file horizontal line for me?"

"Of c-course, Sakura-san," the freshman males replied as they quickly hustled into formation.

Naruto just chuckled at his section members before throwing Sakura a large smile. The pinkette quickly checked over their uniforms before standing next to Naruto resting her arm on his shoulder, "You did good, Naruto. I'm impressed by your section and I have been this whole week."

"Glad to hear that, Sakura-chan," he told her with his usual smile before her turned and gave his adorable friend a quick peck on the cheek. "You look really pretty by the way."

She blushed before she brushed some hair behind her ear and gave him a small smile before she began to walk to the next section, "Thanks."

"Sakura!" Kiba called as he noticed her approach. "C'mon over and be extremely impressed!"

The addressed female let a small smile appear to her features before she let out a short laugh, "You guys better live up to my expectations!"

As the trombones stood in a line Sakura was surprised at how put together the normally laid back section looked.

"I've gotta hand it to you guys, I am certainly impressed," Sakura told the section who all gave her slightly cocky smirks in response.

"Well duh," Kiba replied as he moved next to her and threw an arm around her shoulders. "They were taught by the greatest."

"I didn't know you thought so highly of Shikamaru, Kiba. How sweet of you," she retorted with a smile.

"What? No! I mean me!"

"Kiba, shut up. You're being troublesome.

Sakura let out a giggle as she waved off the section and returned to the podium where Deidara stood waiting for her.

"Finished, yeah?" he asked as he leaned against the podium with one of his arms propped atop the flat surface.

She nodded slowly as she moved to stand very close to his slightly taller form moving her nose to reach barley an inch from his own, "But there's something I want to say to you."

"And what would that be, yeah?" he asked quietly as he placed hi hands on her hips that were so conveniently placed in such close distance to him.

She slowly cupped her hand around the back of his neck and pulled his ear closer to her lips.

"If you ever kiss me without my permission again, I'll castrate you. Got it?"

Deidara chuckled. "I love it when you talk dirty, Sakura-chan, but we have a show to get ready for so it'll have to wait."

"Arrogant prick," she hissed before she pulled away from him only to see Itachi standing five feet away, watching the entire interaction.

"You kissed her?" Itachi asked in a bone chilling tone sending his blonde assistant an equally intimidating glare.

Deidara began to stumble over his words as he laughed nervously at the elder Uchiha's approach. But before he reached Deidara, he stopped in front of Sakura and tilted her chin up. Before she had the chance to question his actions, he kissed her.

Her eyes widened in shock, as did the rest of the band's as there attention turned to the drum major lip-locking.

When Itachi finally pulled away, Sakura could only stare into his eyes as he gave her a small smirk in return.

"Well, now that the band is to attention, let's march over to the performance field!" Kakashi spoke up hesitantly as the band face the front and Sakura quickly moved to take her spot in front of the parade block.

Once they reached their destination at the performance field, Sakura commanded the band into parade rest as they waited at the side of the field. As they waited, they noticed the Sound marching band making their way onto the field.

"I swear if they use our routines, someone is going to die," Sakura hissed as she glared at Kimimaro and Suigetsu as they made their way onto the field.

Luckily as the first song started, Sakura saw no similarities in their show and was happy to say the least. As they continued to play, the pink haired drum major began to feel the 'pre-game' jitters. It was something she normally experienced before she performed in front of large amounts of people, but it felt like it was multiplied by two.

"I'll be back in a few minutes guys. I just need to catch my breath," she whispered to her fellow drum majors as she began to move through the other band members in the parade block.

'I can't breathe, I can't breathe,' she panted in her head as she tried to quickly push her way through the sea of green and white band members.

"Sakura," she heard a voice call as she made her way into the percussion section, trying not to be noticed. Before she could get any farther she felt a hand on her wrist preventing her from moving any further into the marching band members.

"Sakura."

The addressed girl turned to face the person grasping her wrist and found Neji standing before her with concern in his pale eyes. "Are you alright?"

"I just…"she trailed off as she let out shaky breaths. "I just need to get…some air. I…"

The alto saxophone player pulled the shaking girl into his chest and rubbed soothing circles across her green Konoha t-shirt. "You'll be fine. Just relax and take some deep breaths."

Sakura laid her ear against her friend's chest and listened to the sound of his heartbeat while she took in calming breaths to the rhythm he was providing her.

"Sakura," she heard Sasuke's voice call out as he walked over to her form. "What happened?"

"I-"

"Nothing. She's perfectly fine, Uchiha," Neji answered for her as Sakura gave him a small grateful smile.

"Hn, fine then," the dark haired percussionist replied before sparing Sakura a glance and returning back to his spot in the block.

"Thank you," she whispered quietly as Neji moved his position to wrap an arm around her waist as he escorted her back up to the front of the line.

"It's not a problem, Sakura," the chestnut haired saxophone player replied politely. "You should know you can come to me any time if you're having a problem."

"Thanks, Neji," she told him with a smile as she gave him a quick peck on the cheek. "I'm glad I have you in my life."

The pale eyed male gave her a curt nod before he returned quickly back to his spot, hoping she didn't notice the faint blush that tingled across his cheeks.

Itachi noticed his assistant's approach and shot her a questioning glance.

"I'm fine. I just needed to get some air," she told him sheepishly as she rubbed the back of her neck. "I guess it's just the nerves hitting."

"Just relax Sakura," Deidara told her as he walked over and slung an arm over her shoulders. "Once the show starts, you'll feel nothing but excitement, yeah."

Surprisingly enough, the blonde drum major was right.

The minute Sakura marched onto the field with the band following closely behind her, she felt the adrenalin ruse through her. She had never felt anything like it. To be in front of the band she had been a apart of for years before and conduct them while they played well rehearsed musical selections, her heart swelled with pride.

When the time came for her and Deidara to do their dance, she was glad that her uniform came with small white shorts for her to wear underneath, seeing as how she was being flipped and what not.

The performance finished with thunderous applause from the band families that came to watch their sons and daughters and Sakura could only turn to her fellow drum majors and smile.

As they marched off the field and exchanged friendly and excited hugs, Sakura couldn't help but let a huge smile appear across her perfect features.

"I can't wait til the season actually starts!" one of the freshman exclaimed to another band member.

And then the thought hit her.

She still had an entire season to finish with these people, and it didn't look as though her male friends were planning on giving up on her any time soon.

'Oh goody.'

I apologize on the wait, but let me just say; that's another story finished! Woo Hoo! Party up! But not really. I have other stories that desperately need updating and plan to be having another update out in about a week. Thank you to all of you out there that have supported this story as well as myself as I worked through writing it. It was a lot of fun to get to share personal experiences through this story. Much love to you all and I hope to be seeing your support on my current stories, and other stories to come.

Love you!