| Sasuke Uchiha |

"Come on just try it." Sakura giggles. We sat in the ice cream parlor as she, Naruto & Hinata enjoyed their ice cream.

I don't like ice cream. It makes my teeth cold. It gives me a brain freeze. I cant stand it.

"No thanks." I tell her for the third time since she had her ice cream.

"Pleaaase." She looked up at me and batted those long lashes of hers at me. Her bottom lip poked out as she moved closer to me. I felt my cheeks getting hot and looked for help from Hinata and Naruto who where in their own world together as always. I let out a breath before opening my mouth. Sakura slid the spoon in and dumped the ice cream on my tongue. I cringed.

"See its not so bad." She smiled at me. If She wasn't so cute I'd be mad right now. I turned away from her and slowly swallowed the ice cream. Butter peacan is what she had. "Here have some more."

"No thanks."

"Come on Sasuke." Her voice was like the pur of a cat. My heart began to beat fast. Again she batted her lashes at me. Something was fluttering around in my stomach. I hated this feeling, but at the same time I loved it.

"Okay but this is the last time." I say before letting her feed me nother spoonfull. Again she smiled. What was this girl doing to me?

Before I knew it, Sakura had shared her whole bowl of ice cream with me. I have no self control. We headed back to my place. Opening the front door I was greeted by Itachi, who was feeding a crow, yes a Crow on our living room floor. He was crouched down, one arm on his knee as the other was outstretched holding a piece of a slice of bread towards the bird. I frowned.

"Itachi what the hell are you doing?" I ask him.

"Shh brother you'll scare it." He says.

"What the fuck is it doing in the house!"

"It slammed into the patio door." He says tossing the peice of bread at the bird. It jumpped back startled before it moved in closer and pecked at it. Itachi stood to his feet, stuffing his hands into his black chino pants and looked at me. "I bought it inside. I think it's wing is broken."

"You should take it to my moms job." Naruto says getting closer to the crow. Naruto always had a fondness with animals. He has a fox for a pet for crying out loud.

"I was thinking that." Itachi looks down at the bird once more, watching as Naruto quickly befriended the thing. It bounced up Naruto's arm and sat perfectly perched on his shoulder. "But I didn't know if they were still open around this time."

"Dude yeah," Naruto grins. "They're open 24/7. My mom's just barely there because she owns the place."

Itachi nodds. "Well then come along with me Naruto." He says. "He seems to like you better." Soon the crow flapped its wings causing Sakura to clutch onto my arm. Naruto stood close to Itachi and the crow hopped from his shoulder to Itachi's who looked stunned.

"It's a girl." Naruto chuckled. "And she seemed pretty fond of you too Itachi. Afterall it did let you carry her into the house."

"Maybe so" Itachi says. He grabbed his keys from the counter that separated the kitchen from the living room. "Okay then I'm off." He says. I made way for him to exit.

"My brother's weird." I say before heading to my room. I opened the door and threw my satchel in my closet before kicking off my shoes. I got comfortable on my bed.

We've been laying around my room talking for hours. I hadnt noticed that Naruto and I were the only ones still awake. I looked over at Sakura who laid snuggled in my blankets, sound asleep. She even had a smile on her face. I pushed the loose strands out her face to get a better look. She was so beautiful. Why? Why did God put her in my path? What did I do to deserve her in my life? Was this a blessing? Or a curse? Either way, I'd cherish it.

"This is nice." Naruto croaks out as he adjusted himself under a sleeping Hinata. They laid on a futon that my brother bought in here from his room. It was about 3am. So of course no one was going home.

"What?" I rested my head in my hand as I laid on my side. Sakura lay in front of me. I had to look over her to look at Naruto. He moved slightly, trying not to wake Hinata as he moved from under her. She stirred in her sleep, turning over facing Sakura and I. Naruto laid on his side just as I did, facing me as well. His eyes traveled down to Hinata's sleeping form. He took his free arm and wrapped it firmly around her waist. She stirred yet again, turning towards Naruto, nestling her face between his shoulder and neck. She took in a deep breath, and exhaled slowly before returning back to her deep slumber.

"This." He says again. "Us. Together. I like the feeling. It's comforting."

"Yeah it is." I tell him.

"You and Sakura were really cute at the Ice Cream parlor." My eyes narrowed at his words as he spoke. "You stepped out of your comfort zone. With the ice cream and all."

"I was bullied." I say in my defense.

"Yeah." He snorts slightly. "By a pretty face."

I could feel my cheeks getting hot. "Shut up."

"It makes me happy that you're happy ya'know?" His eyelids lowered as he stared off. "It's almost like I have my old best friend back. You're actually smiling alot now around Sakura. Im glad."

"You're such a loser."

He chuckled lightly before he turned on his back and laced his fingers together behind his head.

"Goodnight Sasuke." Naruto says closing his eyes. I laid down as well getting good and comfortable.

"Goodnight."

| Sakura Haruno |

The rays from the sun hit me and I found myself burrying my face into Sasuke's neck to get away from it. In response to my movements, Sasuke pulled me closer to him. He let out a deep breath, before his breathing slowed again as he slept. I tried to match his breathing so I can go back to sleep myself, but nothing was working.

I turned over in Sasuke's arms seeing that Naruto and Hinata were still sound asleep. Naruto lay on his back one arm outstretched and the other sitting peacefully on his stomach. His mouth wide open, a line of drool falling from the corners of his mouth and a slightly snoring Hinata sleeping on his chest. Naruto was obviously a wild sleeper.

I turned over again, coming face to face with Sasuke's chest yet again.

"Stop moving." He mumbles before he stirred in his sleep a little.

"Im trying to get comfortable so I can go back to sleep."

"You were fine the way you were before you started moving." He mumbles yet again. Taking a deep breath, he slightly moved back and tilted his head down to become face to face with me. His eyes fluttered open, exposing those beautiful onyx orbs. "Goodmorning."

"Goodmorning." I reply to him.

"How are your doing?" He asks.

"I'd be better if you brush your teeth." I say causing him to frown. I giggled.

He turned over on his back and rubbed his eyes. He then propped himself up on his hand and looked over at a snorting Naruto. He took his pillow and threw it as hard as he could over to him. Naruto snorted loudly before springing up from the futon. Naruto turned his head toward a laughing Sasuke. Naruto's eyes were on fire.

"What the fuck Sasuke!!" He snaps.

"You know I hate when you snore." Sasuke says casually. He he ran his fingers through his hair, pushing his hair back, before propping his arm on his leg. He looked back over at Naruto.

"I wasn't snoring!" He argues.

"Shut up before you wake Hinata." I tell the both of them.

"Too late." Hinata voices sounds. "Sasuke hit me with the pillow too." She turned over and faced me.

"Forgive me Hinata, your boyfriend's snoring really annoys me." Sasuke apologized causing Naruto to grumble.

The four of us all got up and got our day started. Naruto and Hinata both took an uber home leaving me with Sasuke. I was trying to go with Hinata but she insisted that I stayed with him. For what, I had no idea.

Over the course of time I did become interested in him. Under his cold exterior, he's a really nice person on the inside.

He sat on the floor at the foot of his bed, doing his homework as I sat next to him. He looked so cute studying. His hair falling in his face as he looked down at his math book. He blinked slowly.

"Stop staring at me." He says never bothering to even look my way.

I blinked and continued to stare at him. His eyes shot my way then back at his math book.

"Stop." He says again.

"Am I making you nervous?"

"No, its annoying." He replies.

I then reached over and pushed his hair out his face for him. Leaning back, he turned his head my way.

"Why don't you wear your hair pushed back?" I ask.

"Why wont you wear bangs?" He shot back. I frowned his way causing him to laugh. "Now, let me finish my work in peace. Go bother Itachi so much since you're so fond of him."

I stood to my feet. "Actually, I think I will." I crossed my arms and made my way out of his room. I found Itachi im the kitchen making himself what looked like a sandwhich. He smiled my way and continued what he was doing.

"How do you deal with your brother?" I ask him leaning over the counter. He smiles.

"It's not that hard." He says calmly. "Once you get past that tough facade of his, he's a big softie."

"He called my forehead big." I say placing a hand on my forehead. Itachi chuckled and moved strands of his silky sable hair.

"That's just his way of telling you he likes you that's all."

I frown. "How come Sasuke couldn't be like you Itachi?"

He cut his sandwich in half and offered me the other half before taking a bite of one. I politely took it and bit into it myself. We walked over to the leather sofa and sat down together.

"He's alot like me honestly." He replies. "He just haven't came out of the darkness yet. There's a bit of me and Naruto in him. He's still coping with the changes of our family at the moment. So he's been distant." He then leaned in closer to me and began to whisper. "But, I do see hints of the old him whenever you're around. It's a breath of fresh air." I look at him as he pulled away and a gentle smile. On impulse, I smiled back.

"Dont take his hardness personally." He says again. "Hes just being him."

I nodded slowly and enjoyed my half of a sandwhich with Itachi. We sat watching episodes of Criminal Minds. Spencer was my favorite. He's just so hot.

Sasuke finally came from his room and leaned against the wall to look at us. Itachi and I sat there, comfortable laughing and talking about the show. I saw Sasuke from the corner of my eye but I was determined not to look at him. He smirked casually and pushed himself off the wall walking into the kitchen. He returned with a bottle of water and sat on the couch leaving me in the middle of him and his brother.

"Nice of you to join us Sasuke." Itachi says.

"Can we watch something with a little more violence and blood in it?" He asked. "The Originals is on Netflix too."

"Ooou I love The Originals!" I end up saying. He looks over at me and I couldnt help but avoid his gaze.

Itachi kissed his teeth. "The Originals don't really get my 'love for violence' juices going." He says. He then tosses the remote to Sasuke. "See what kind of movies they have."

"Sure." Sasuke took a swig of his water. "Anything but this crap." He watched as Itachi stood to his feet and streatched. "Where you going?"

"The gun range." He says. "I'm training for my Gaurd Card so I can quit the music store. So I can do both security and Customer Service. It's more money that way."

"Can I go with you?" Sasuke asked. Itachi stuffed his hands in his pockets.

"Sure." He says. "I'll go get changed." With that he made his exit. I looked down and twiddled my thumbs. What did that leave me to do?

"You ever shot a gun Monster?" He asked me. I shook my head.

"I've never even held a gun." I tell him truthfully.

He smirked. "You're gonna like it."

"You guys ready?" Itachi appeared at the front door.

We nodded and headed out with Itachi.

| Sasuke Uchiha |

"Here, hold it like this." I was behind Sakura helping her position the 9mm she held in her hand. "Now stand like this." I helped her posture. She trembled under my touch. "Dont be scared."

She looked up at me with those innocent eyes. Only she , Itachi and I in the shooting range. Itachi was shooting his targets effortlessly while I on the other hand, was teaching Sakura.

"Hang on to it, when you shoot it will have a kick back to it." I tell her. "So don't drop it." She nodded.

"Okay."

"Take your aim." I tell her as I take her hands and aim for her. "Pull the trigger."

She bit her bottom lip and pulled the trigger, she stepped back into my chest and I chuckled at her. She looked up at me.

"Shoot it again." I tell her. She looks back at her target, takes her aim, then fires. Again she backed into my chest. I placed my hand on her waist to steady her. "One more time."

She fired again and this time I prevented her from crashing into my chest. She'd had emptied the whole clip. I was kind of proud. She looked pretty hot holding that gun. She placed the gun down on the counter and removed her headphones. She smiled at me.

"Th-that was fun!" She says.

"Oh yeah?" I smirked at her. She nodded her head in response. I took her hand in mine, lacing our fingers together. She looked down at our hands then up at me. Taking her chin in my other hand, I tilted her head further up and placed a soft kiss on her lips. She blushed.

"Your brother is here." She whispers.

"He isn't paying us any attention." I tell her before placing my lips back on hers. "I haven't kissed you all day."

"So its routine now?" She murmurs against my lips. I wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her to me causing her to whimper.

"Yes," I tell her. "It is."

She smiled against my lips and kissed me again.

"I like you Sasuke." She whispers in my ear once our kiss was broken...