We'll this was supposed to be a one-shot, but now it's going to be a story with several chapters. I'm sorry for starting this one without updating my other stories, but I'm like half way done a chapter for both 'Secret Feelings Finally Revealed ' and 'Blessings Or Curses'. So just wait and they'll be uploaded, sometime soon…I hope.
Anyway, this supposedly one-shot was the result of experiment of different writing styles. I kept reading fanfics in which each sentence had it's own paragraph. We'll see if it's any good!
Operation: Uchiha Sakura
Chapter 1
Naruto's Plan
Sasuke sat down next to Sakura.
Sakura and Sasuke were seated together, albeit awkwardly, at the movie theatre.
Why, you ask?
Well, it was all entirely Uzumaki Naruto's fault. Yes, it was very mature to blame your idiot friend for the predicament that you find yourself in.
However, Naruto had planned to see a movie weeks ago and he was the one to invite everyone.
Sort of.
Technically it was his fault, but not really. You see, he had asked his girlfriend Hyuuga Hinata to join him at the theater to celebrate finishing their last midterm.
And that, my friends, was what started a chain reaction.
Hinata had accidentally messed up, bad. She had told her over-protective cousin, Neji that she was going to go to the movies with Naruto.
Alone.
Being the bastard he was, he insisted that he came with them because, frankly, Naruto was a dumbass.
He then felt bad (OMG Hyuuga Neji has HUMAN EMOTIONS!) and asked Tenten to join him and make it a double date, so Hinata and Naruto wouldn't feel uncomfortable. Tenten unintentionally let it slip to Ino about their little date. Of course she wanted to make it a triple date by inviting Shikamaru to come along with her.
Shikamaru, being the lazy boy we all know and love, forced, ahem, I mean asked Sasuke politely to come with him, so that he wouldn't not suffer alone.
Sasuke, the kind gentleman, invited Sakura too, for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with love. So all in all, there were 8 people coming. But…
…Where on earth were they now?
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Being the punctual people they were, Sasuke and Sakura had arrived 15 minutes earlier than everyone else. Sasuke had purchased the tickets, and they stood waiting at the movie's entrance for 10 minutes, looking like idiots, before finally retreating to the inside of the warm theater. Together, they entered the movie theater and looked for their friends, thinking that they had already arrived.
But, they weren't sitting in the middle of the movie theater with snacks and drinks in their hands, waiting for their beloved friends.
They weren't there at all.
And now we are back here, waiting for one of them to realize that they had been tricked. By the king of pranks himself, Uzumaki Naruto and his reliable crew.
Of course, Naruto had never originally planned this. He had truly wanted to see a movie, but after hearing that his single friends were coming, he decided that it would be much more entertaining if he scammed his friends instead.
At first only Ino wanted to help, saying that it was a necessary for Sakura to get together with Sasuke, so that he would remove the stick lodged into his ass and so that she would finally be happy with prince charming by her side.
Finally, every joined in with (lame) excuses of wanting to humiliate them and that it had nothing to do with the fact that they had nothing better to do. Of course Naruto, being the idiot he sometimes was, believed them and let them join him in his most evil plan.
Enter 'Operation: Getting Teme and Sakura-chan together so that they would fall in love and make cute, little Uchiha brats'.
Yet somehow, no one liked that name so the dubbed it 'Operation: Get Sakura and Sasuke Together' aka, GSST.
Anyway, the plan had taken over one week to complete before it was perfect. Naruto's plans were absolutely awful, so Ino forced her lazy boyfriend to do something useful and…
BLAM!!
They had a plan.
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Naruto watched Sasuke and Sakura carefully from his hiding spot. So Sasuke and Sakura's missing friends had shown up.
They just weren't going as a group.
Naruto and Hinata were at the very back of the theater, observing the victim of their scheme.
Neji and Tenten were at the far corner of the room doing the same. And…
So was Ino. She sat beside the snoring body of Shikamaru, who would groan something unintelligible every once and a while, making her believe that he was actually conscious and not in LaLa Land.
They, meaning Shikamaru, had planned this very moment. Each couple was to enter the theater in between a 5-minute intramurals and take a seat close to the middle of the theater, where they knew Sakura would want to sit, and remain unseen. But, the trick was, they had to arrive before Sakura and Sasuke as to not get caught.
Everything went smoothly, except Naruto almost got caught. He had arrived a little bit too late and had almost run into Sasuke. At the last moment though, Hinata dragged Naruto behind a wall.
Without Hinata, Naruto would remain a dumbass for the rest of his life, but now he had the slightest chance of gaining a higher I.Q than a monkey. Oh, what would we do if our poor Hinata-chan had decided to go out with Kiba?
And that concludes our lengthy explanation.
Back to the present, please.
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Although Sasuke would never admit it, his arm hurt like hell. Why on earth had they gone to see a freaking horror movie when he knew Sakura was terrified of them?
Sakura screamed, along with many others, as the head of the victim rolled on the floor. She clutched Sasuke's arm as if it were her lifeline, and buried her head into his shoulder, which also hurt unsurprisingly.
You see, being the gentleman Sasuke was, he had offered his arm for Sakura to hold when she was scared since he knew she didn't like horror movies. But what he didn't know was that she had a grip stronger than any other female he knew.
Sasuke asked himself why he even bothered going to see this stupid movie.
The answer was his idiot best friend, Naruto.
Who was not here, by the way.
Sasuke ignored the thoughts running through his head and focused on the movie.
Let's rephrase that, shall we?
Sasuke tried to focus on the movie that was playing on the big screen.
He was actually glancing at his watch every two seconds, willing it to go faster.
But, as always, God was not on his side, and it continued to stay at 4:39 instead of 5:45.
He sighed and leaned back, trying to forget the predicament he was in. Sasuke closed his eyes.
"Sasuke, do you want to get out of here?" Sasuke could barely hear her quiet voice through all the screaming in the movie.
"Yes, let's go."
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Naruto yelled in frustration as Sasuke and Sakura exited the theater. Why couldn't they just get together? Hmm, let's see…
– They didn't like each other in that way,
– They didn't want to be together, and
– It was not Naruto's day.
Hell, Naruto was way awesomer than all those reasons! He would get his two best friends together if it were the last thing he did!
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Ino dragged Shikamaru up to Naruto's desk where all her friends were gathered, discussing things in hushed voices.
"–didn't work though."
"So?! Who cares, we'll get them next time, right Ino?"
"Shut up Naruto! Everyone's listening now! Sasuke and Sakura'll be here any moment now! So be–"
"SIT DOWN!"
As if on cue, everyone's head turned to the voice of the newcomer.
Unsurprisingly, it was not heir homeroom teacher, Hatake Kakashi.
Instead, it was Tsunade, the principal of Konoha High School.
"Oh! OHAYO TSUNADE-OBAACHAN! We were so not just discussing a plan gone wrong! No way in hell!"
A vein pulsed on Tsunade's forehead.
"I am not old, Naruto!" She paused and finally caught on to his lies. "What are you talking about?" she asked as Tenten and her friends groaned.
"Um, we were definitively not trying to get Sasuke and Sakura-chan together!"
"Excuse me, what do you mean by that Naruto?" Shikamaru interrupted before Naruto could make the situation any worse.
"You see, since Sasuke doesn't know that he loves Sakura, we're trying to speed up the process before they find someone else." He said in between yawns. "We tricked them into going to the movies together, when we were supposed to go to."
Tsunade raised a thin eyebrow.
"You mean you're trying to get them together? We'll then," she pointed at Naruto, Hinata, Neji, Tenten, Shikamaru and Ino, "come with me."
The rest of the students gaped as they watched them leave the class.
"Oi, Shino! What do you think they're gonna do?!" Kiba barked out when they left.
"I do not know."
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Quietly, Tsunade lead her students to the staff room, where no student had ever gone before.
When they entered, you could literally hear Naruto's jaw drop.
All the teachers were in there, having a cup of coffee as they chatted amongst themselves. Simultaneously, they all looked at the newcomers.
"Everyone leave except for the students and the teachers who know about 'Operation US'!" Many of the teachers left the room, as the only ones left were Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai, Gai, Jiraiya, Itachi, Anko and Shizune.
"Anou, Tsunade-obaachan, what's this 'Operation US'?" Naruto looked at Tsunade with confusion apparent in his eyes.
"Well," Kakashi explained, "the 9 of us here are also trying to get Sasuke and Sakura together."
All he got was a bunch of 'huh?'s and more confusion finding its way into their eyes.
"Ok. So one night we were the only one's at school, correcting several assignments and Tsunade-sama got a little…tipsy."
Tsunade's face went red.
"She started saying things like how she all of you would end up dating. And one thing lead to another and Tsunade-sama decided to make a bet." He paused for dramatization. "How long would it take before Sasuke and Sakura got together?"
Jiraiya continued Kakashi's explanation. "Since nothing happened, we gave up on the bet and we formed a…plan. We called it 'Operation Us' in public and 'Operation Uchiha Sakura' when we discussed it during staff meetings.
"So you want us to help you?" Neji questioned suspiciously.
"Well, frankly, yes," Tsunade announced sheepishly. "You've had the most success so far and plans haven't worked yet."
Shikamaru contemplated this. "And what if we do help?"
"You get a spare period for this entire year."
Before anyone could say anything, Naruto yelled:
"You got yourself a deal, Tsuande-obaachan!"
"Fine, but know that there are consequences... and conditions. Each and everyone of us gets a chance to trick them into falling in love, but you only get one. Whoever wins gets five bucks from everyone else, agreed?
Murmurs of settlement echoed through the large room. They all started to exit the area until Naruto noticed something.
"WHAT! That means that I've already used up my one and only chance. NOOOOO!!" Naruto screams of agony ricocheted off the hallways and into the classrooms.
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"Sasuke, did you here something? It sounded a bit like Naruto for some reason."
"No Sakura, it's just you. Maybe you have some sort of hearing problem."
"B–but, I swear I heard him yelling," Sakura whined with pleading eyes.
Sasuke remained unmoved.
"Nope. But I do wonder where everyone is. Kakashi isn't usually this late, and Naruto and the others are all absent." Just as those words left his mouth, Naruto's smiling face entered the room with his friends behind him.
"Hey Sasuke-teme, Sakura-chan!"
"Why weren't you here?" Sakura's wide, green eyes searched for something in Naruto's eyes. He looked around suspiciously until Hinata spoke.
"Anou, Sakura-chan, we found Kakashi-sensei outside while we were walking here earlier and he needed some help putting stuff into the storage room."
"Then where's Kaka–"
"Okay everyone! Shut up and listen. We need to talk about some pretty impo–"
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"Oh, we'll go to your next class, we'll chat next time!" Kakashi announced cheerfully.
He failed to notice the sweatdrops that appeared on the heads of his students.
Kakashi-sensei was their homeroom teacher and their math teacher.
First period was Math on Mondays….
Kakashi would never learn.
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Time for…AUTHOR'S RANT! Yeah! I just love these… Anyhow, if anyone can guess who's going to make a scheme next, I'll dedicate the chapter to her! Are there any guys who read fanfics…? But, I guess it does't matter since no one reads these so I repeat:
IF ANYONE GUESSES CORRECTLY WHO IS GOING TO PRANK OUR FAVORITE COUPLE NEXT, I WILL DEDICATE THE NEXT CHAPTER TO HER/HIM! Now click the purple button!
