"Naruto-kun." Sai's monotonous voice echoed around the small bar-like store of Ichiraku. Naruto's slurping of noodles paused for a moment to show that he had heard the other boy.
"What is love?" A choking noise was heard throughout the busy streets of Konoha and a loud pounding followed.
"WHAAAAAT?"
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♠ K N A V I S H ♠
The stage of falling in love..
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"What is it that you need Ugly?" he asked in such a calm tone that Sakura clenched her fists and the heat in her head increased by a few degrees. She abruptly halted her stomping to glare down at him.
"What does it look like to you? My lamp was shattered thanks to you and Naruto and now I need to go and buy a new one in the light store all the way across Konoha!" She screamed out the last few words practically into his ears, but his mask never slipped. He glanced around for any sign of Naruto, but none appeared. He would later have to gain some more tips from the blond shinobi on Sakura. Meanwhile, he had a very angry kuniochi to deal with, and no matter how much he held his mask, the pinching hurt.
"Oh, I see. You could have just told me that instead of appearing out of nowhere and placing your fist into my face, then continuing to drag me rudely on my behind." Sai's widening smile created a twitch on Sakura's left hand and her eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Watch your mouth Sai, or you are going to pay." With the last word hissed in a tone that Orochimaru would be jealous of, she continued to drag him across Konoha with an added finger on his ear, crushing the sensitive skin.
His smile only widened.
As his behind dragged over many objects on their journey, the civilians could only watch and shake their heads in pity for the clueless shinobi.
He would never learn.
The tingle of the door could be heard as Sakura pushed it open into the rather large shop. Shooting a glare in his direction, she opened her mouth to scream at him, then reconsidered. "Just..stay out here. Don't move, or else." Sai stood on the spot with his arms crossed, not moving an inch. He may have been clueless, but he knew when not to run away. Well, he always was a fast learner.(Took him two years to get it!)
Glancing up at a worker standing on a lengthy ladder preoccupied his time as he waited for Sakura to finish up. He knew, just knew that she was going to make him build the lamp by himself after dragging him all the way back to her house.
Watching the man grumble as he tried to fix the bulb on the light hanging from the ceiling, he couldn't help but think back to the advice Naruto had given him. It was good advice right? After all, friends gave each other good advice, so he could depend on Naruto.
"They have thousands of extra lightbulbs in there, but they make me come and fix this stupid half-dead one. This is a light store for God's sake! Cheapskates." Unmoved by the worker's ranting, he continued to analyze Naruto's advice.
"Well, when you're in love, it's like..it's like.." Naruto paused, placing his hand under his chin and rubbing it in a mock thinking pose. "AHA!" Standing up and raising his arm, he bellowed out the words.
"When you're in love, you'll feel something special." Sai blinked, awaiting a continuation.
"And well, um.." He grinned foxily. "You'll hear bells ringing and the girl will be all shining and when she speaks, you'll feel all funny inside." Sai nodded, storing the information for later use.
"I think I understand. Thank you Naruto-kun." He illuminated his large fake smile as Naruto sat back down, continuing on with his sixth bowl of ramen.
"Why, is there a girl that you like or something?" Sai shook his head. "No, not yet bu--"
His mind jumped back when he heard a slight 'ting,' signaling the opening of the shop door.
You'll hear bells ringing..
The door..
Sai stared at Sakura impassively and she stared back confusedly.
"Is there something wrong Sai?" She blinked a couple of times and furrowed her eyebrows together.
A slight shake of his head 'no' was the answer and he awaited her next request(order).
"Yes! Finally fixed it!" Both ninjas stared upwards at the exhausted worker as a blindingly bright light illuminated down on them. As he lowered his head to stare forward at the pastel haired girl, he froze.
the girl will be all shining..
The light..
"Now Sai, you are going to follow me to my apartment and you are going to obediently fix the lamp," She flashed his trademark grin back at him mockingly "or else I think you will be my next patient on my list for testing all of Orochimaru's unknown experiments."
When she speaks, you'll feel all funny inside..
That was definitely a funny feeling..
"Follow me, and don't you dare run." Her arrogance emitted off of her clearly as she raised her nose high and strode down the stairs.
Sai paused before hesitantly following her. He gulped nervously for the first time he could ever remember.
"Naruto-kun, how do you show a girl you like her?"
He followed obediently behind her, only taking steps when she did, following at a leisurely pace. This was not normal, for usually, he would stride on forwards and out of sight, rudely commenting on her appearance once he was far enough to not be endangered by her fist, yet close enough for her to hear. Then, he'd poof off somewhere and appear days later when he knew she would've forgotten about it.
"Well.." The blond dragged out the word as he contemplated the question.(It wasn't a very hard question to answer, he just had zero experience.)" "I dunno." He bowed his head in defeat as Sai continued to stare in curiosity.
Sai lifted his hand from his pocket and hesitantly raised it towards her shoulder. Sakura turned her head back as she felt his aura flicker.
"Something wrong Sai?"
"But stuff like roses and poems and cheesy crap makes them happy. I once saw it on this anime Sakura made me watch with her." Naruto shuddered at the memory of that evil, evil day. Though it had been yaoi(he gagged at the thought everytime), he was pretty sure it applied to girls since only girls made that stuff up, and only girls watched that stuff.(He was an exception, for if he saw it ever again, he knew he would have to commit suicide.)
Sai furrowed his eyebrows as he calculated his question carefully. Sakura stood there quietly, awaiting, for she had never seen Sai show so much emotion.
Maybe he was finally going to break down and cry with joy for having such a wonderful friend like her, then continue to be her man slave to repay her kindness of putting up with him for those torturous years?
Yes yes, maybe that was it! Inner Sakura pranced and partied at the thought of her own man slave. Though it was no Sasuke, it was close. Her cheeks reddened as inner Sakura continued to list the things she would do as ruler.
But she wasn't expecting his next question.
"Do you like cheesy crap?"
Her face blanked and her eye twitched at the monotone that Sai had reverted back to.
"What?" She was on the brink of letting Inner Sakura loose, but she couldn't take responsibility for a dead body, she did have a reputation to uphold.
"Are you deaf too Ugly? I asked you, do you like cheesy crap?" She blinked cluelessly. He was serious, and she had no idea what that was.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Was he insulting her in another way? Getting her fists ready and pumped with chakra, she awaited for him to open his mouth and speak so she could shatter his teeth(Again,unfortunately).
"Li--" Ms. Fist met Mr. Mouth and the latter went flying across Konoha.
'I'm taking that as a yes' was heard before the cursing as Sai frantically scurried around, trying to locate all his missing teeth and rush to the hospital.
"Now where's Naruto?" Huffing in annoyance, she stomped off towards the familiar Ramen stand.
The slurping of noodles halted as Naruto's senses tingled. Rising from his stool so fast that Sasuke would've been jealous of his speed, he ran out of the small store, ignoring the yells from the old man for not paying his bills.
"Put the tab on Sakura-chan k?" He yelled back as he dashed off to the one place Sakura would never dare to look in; the porn store.
"Ah, welcome Sakura-sempai." A nurse bowed to her and she bowed back. She continued to tie her hair up as she listened to the latest news in the hospital and strode towards the door once the nurse was done informing her.
"A-ano." The nurse blushed. "A man wanted me to give this to you." Sakura leaned back curiously as the nurse handed her a piece of paper.
"Do you know who?" The nurse shook her head 'no.' "Was it Naruto, or Sai?" Sakura asked. Everybody who worked with her knew who they were.
"I- I don't know." She was probably new.
"Thanks for giving it to me. Do you know what he looked like?" Maybe that would give a clue.
"He was tall dark and handsome" was all the blushing nurse could mutter out as she scurried away, embarrassed for acting so unprofessional on her first day.
Shrugging it off, she opened the note to see what had been so important as to have left it for her in the hospital during her work time.
Her striding halted as she stared down at the sentence written on the paper. Narrowly dodging an emergency stretcher and barely avoiding a smooch from an insane man, she made it to her office and sunk into her spinning chair, growling.
Cooling her ever increasing temperature on her forehead by placing her hand on it was not as soothing as she thought it would be. She laced her fingers though her pink locks and inhaled and exhaled slowly, applying what she had learned from watching pregnant women to use.
Crushing the note with her free hand, her voice started to growl louder with each passing second, soon making passer by's think that there was a tiger in the room.
Plotting revenge wasn't the best way to go, she knew that--
Roses are red, violets are blue,
God made me hot, what the hell happened to you?
--but somebody was going to pay
and pay hard.
A/N: So, what'd you think? I'm attempting SaiSaku, because, well, it just seems so much more easier than all those other ones. At least, to me that is. Interesting or no? Delete or continue? Tell me in a review? Oh, and please tell me ANYTHING that is wrong with my writing, spelling, grammar, style, etc. I appreciate criticism(flames) but please just don't write
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