dull thud. Sakura screwed up her eyes. Not only was her bottom hurting from the impact, something hard hit her head.
"What ... you ... get off me !!!"
"Who is running around here like a wild fury? Me or you?" A young man, with amazingly long blond hair, got up in a bad mood and patted his dark blue jeans. Then he picked up the many folders the blond boy had carried with him, which he apparently thought was much more important than helping Sakura up.While the Haruno treated the boy with evil looks and got up, she rubbed the now tugging place on his head and realized that it had probably been one of those thick files.

"Hm !?" The blonde-haired man paused, apparently not missing the angry looks of the pink-haired man, and stared back.
There was a short silence in which the two only looked at each other with devastation. "Baka!", The Haruno hissed before she marched past him.
"Hey !!" was the angry reply of the blonde and he watched her go. "Hey, little one !!"
Sakura stopped abruptly and looked around. Had he just called her "little one"?
"Yeah, you! What's your name anyway?", The blond boy called defiantly and put his right free hand on his hip. Sakura looked at him perplexed for the first time, then she stuck out her tongue and threw in at him: "Would you like to know!" before she continued down the stairs.
The young man remained standing, listening to the girl's rapid steps until she fell silent downstairs.He sighed.
"Tz, women."

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Pretty exhausted, Sakura reached the fourth floor of Moon Star Entertainment. When she looked around a bit, she remembered that this was something like a canteen or cafeteria area. The room was quite busy; People sat alone or in small groups at tables, drank their coffee or chatted together.
What was striking, however, was the large number of women who sat together giggling and whispering, and a strange construction formed around a single table.

The pink-haired girl had to find out with annoyance that the great Uchiha was sitting right at this circled table, right near the counter, and relaxed, indulging in a hot cup. Haruno snorted. She meandered between the full round tables, and then stopped right next to the Uchiha, crossing her arms. Suddenly the voices around her fell silent and Sakura felt several pairs of eyes from the many girls rest on her.Sasuke only seemed to have received a signal that something had happened and looked up. "Sakura.", He started sounding mock astonishment. “Your coffee is getting cold.” He pointed to the cup on the other side of the table. The Haruno wanted to reply something immediately, but noticed that there was eager listening around her, and so she reluctantly sat down in the open space opposite the Uchiha.
"Had a nice walk down the stairs?" Asked Sasuke and seemed to pretend that he had never let the elevator door close in Haruno's nose.
Sakura looked angrily at the Uchiha again, and said with an annoyed tone: "Because of you, I bumped into a perverted Baka! Besides, you think the whole thing is very funny, don't you?"
“Oh?” Sasuke's eyes took on an amused glow. He grinned.
"Maybe.", The Uchiha said calmly and sipped his coffee.

"Sasuuuuke-chan !!!" An extremely high and girlish voice echoed through the room.A platinum-blonde and very thin girl came up to her table perked up - her high heels had at least ten centimeters high heels - accompanied by a crowd of giggling girls. Sakura couldn't deny that some of the girls' group glances caught her and they whispered excitedly to one another; Sakura tried hard to stare at her mug with the brownish broth. Whatever they wanted, it couldn't promise anything really good.

"Sasuke-darling, what are you doing here?", The platinum blonde girl asked sweetly with her squeaky voice.
"The question is so superfluous.", Thought the Haruno and stirred her coffee with the spoon. She had seen these girls before at one of the tables and noticed how they had eagerly looked over at the Uchiha. A giggle went around.
But Sasuke didn't seem a bit happy about the appearance of this group of "fan girls", especially not from the leader with the bleached hair."Oh by the way, Sasuke-kun, who is that girl with you?" Asked a brown-haired woman and gave Sakura a very cursory look. There was something derogatory about her tone of voice that Sakura didn't like at all.
"She's just a colleague, that's all.", Sasuke said with a sigh and you could see that he was a bit annoyed, although he spoke quite calmly.

In some unfathomable way the phrase made Sakura feel strange in the pit of his stomach. But actually Sasuke was right, they were "just" colleagues, nothing more. So there wasn't anything bad about it, was there?

“Aha, colleagues.” Another girl, also brown-haired, but in a lighter shade, nodded with raised eyebrows. "And since when?"
The murmuring at the other tables grew louder.

"Strange, I've never seen her here before."
"Is that the ...?"
"I heard that this is Sasuke's girlfriend !!"
"No, not you serious !?"
"What do you think??"
"He just said that she is" just "a" colleague "!""Sasuke-kun, you didn't tell us anything about it!", The girl next to the light brown-haired woman shouted indignantly. "Sasuke-k ..."
Sakura rose. The chair scraped noisily on the floor as she abruptly pushed it away. "Don't you have anything better to do !?", she snapped at the girls, who now shrank back in shock. Sakura was getting tired of listening to all the fuss. It was enough.
With quick steps she moved away from the crowd and she could still feel the many glances on her back before she turned the corner and got into the open elevator.

When the doors closed automatically, Haruno breathed a sigh of relief. Sakura was happy to finally be away from all the people. She didn't care that she had simply left Sasuke behind without saying goodbye or saying thank you for the coffee, he would certainly not have done it. She cared even less what the other girls thought of her now, especially after making such a rapid exit.A bright gong rang and the elevator finally stopped on the first floor. Sakura, who actually hadn't pressed a button, now looked up in surprise.
Then she hurried past the young man with pointy dark brown hair that he had tied up and into the hallway. The young man looked after her in amazement. "Wasn't that ..."

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Sakura reached the great hall and ran out the door. It was still raining heavily; the sky had darkened. The pink-haired woman took a few steps back so she could shelter from the rain under the blanket at the front entrance, and checked her watch. It was just before three thirty.

To make matters worse, she remembered that she didn't have her umbrella with her - thanks to the radio host she trusted. How could she go home with this rain?
"Well, it can't get any worse.", The Haruno sighed audibly and decided to walk home without any protective headgear despite the bad weather.She felt the rain falling wet on her and for a brief moment her pace slowed down; she closed her emerald green eyes. There was something liberating about the way she stood here in the rain.
But suddenly Sakura noticed from one second to the other that it was stopping. Slightly startled, she opened her eyes again and looked up. Instead of a cloudy sky, she looked at the inside of a red umbrella.

"Who ...?" The Haruno looked directly into the face of Sasuke, who was holding the umbrella over them.
"No umbrella?" He asked. But instead of answering, Sakura interjected, almost reproachfully, "Why aren't you with the others ??" At the moment, she didn't feel the need to see Sasuke. That strange feeling came back to her, and Sakura swallowed.
"I didn't want to stay with these girls," he explained.
However, Haruno was only half listening. Why did he do that?
"Oh, okay," Sakura said slowly.
Sasuke held out the umbrella."Here, take the umbrella," he offered the pink-haired man in an indifferent tone and waited for her to accept it. But the Haruno did not move.
"You do not need that."
Sasuke looked incomprehensibly at the girl in front of him, who had lowered her head so she didn't have to look him in the eye any longer. "It's okay ... just leave it," she said quickly and with that last sentence Sakura turned and ran home through the pouring rain.

"Hm." The Uchiha remained standing for a while; then turned and went back inside, into the building of "Moon Star Entertainment".

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"Oh dear, Sakura! You are completely soaked!" Ino ran to the Haruno with a concerned look; took off Sakura's jacket and hung it on one of the coat hooks right next to the entrance. Then the blonde hurried into the kitchen to make them some hot cocoa.

Sakura immediately went to the shower and was now sitting at the living room table with a white towel around her neck."And ..." Ino put the tray with the two large cups of steaming cocoa in front of her and sat down on the seat cushion next to Sakura.

The living room of the apartment was neatly furnished and was also relatively large, which the two girls must have used as a space for their creativity, because the room was decorated with a few plants, pictures and other small things, but it didn't look over the top, but rather cozy .
A large television screen flickered in the middle of a living room fixture; a music video from a well-known boy band was playing.

"How was it?", The Yamanaka asked and blew the rising steam out of her cup. "It was ..." Sakura paused and stared at the TV. A new clip was recorded - and how could it be otherwise - it was from Cloud Noir with "Lost".
Ino, too, had her eyes fixed on the screen.

The black-haired boy whispered the first