Warnings: Foul language. Alternative Universe.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of this and I'm not trying to sell any of it.
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Chapter 2: To the Movies
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Once Sakura made it to her house she pulled out her cell phone and called Ino. As the phone rang, Sakura made her way to the front door and let herself in while Ino picked up. "Hey forehead," Ino answered.
"Hey pig," Sakura replied, "guess who's got a date with Sasuke tonight."
"Don't tell me that's why Karin decided to blow us off tonight!" Ino grunted angrily.
"Karin's not coming?" Sakura was a little shocked but very relieved. If Karin showed up she'd be all over Sasuke, whether he was on a date with Sakura or not.
"Nope, she says she's got the flu," Ino answered. "So who's going on a date with Sasuke?"
Sakura paused, letting Ino's suspense thicken while a smirk spread across her face. "Sasuke is going on a date with me."
This time Ino was the one who paused, hesitating more or less. "You have something on him don't you?"
Sakura scoffed, "What makes you say that?"
"Do you have any idea how furious he was when I gave him his journal? It was terrifying. The last time I saw him like that was four years ago when Itachi started attending the school."
"Whatever, think what you want. I just wanted to let you know that I told him to bring four of his friends so we could all go to the movies together. I guess he can only bring three though, since Karin's not coming," Sakura said.
"That's okay, I can ask Temari to come instead," Ino reasoned.
"Great see you there," Sakura smiled.
"Yeah…" Ino sighed as she hung up, 'don't hurt him, Sakura…'
Sakura, Temari, Hinata, and Tenten met at Ino's house so they could ride to the theater together in her cobalt blue corvette, arriving sooner than the boys. Knowing they were going to be out on dates, the girls dressed to impress.
Ino wore a blue dress with a dark blue belt and matching dark blue gloves and ankle-boots. Her long hair was pulled into a braid that slung over her shoulder.
Sakura aimed for cute but casual. She wore a form fitting white t-shirt over a short teal skirt. Her bangs lightly pulled back by teal barrettes.
Hinata had on a lavender blouse which covered part of her cream colored dress. She also had a lavender beret on.
Tenten, always being an outdoors type, had a pair of dark capris on. She wore a white shirt with light purple stripes and a dark purple vest jacket.
Lastly, Temari, who was there more for the movie than the date, wore a plain purple tube top with white arm warmers and tight light blue jeans.
"I wonder who Sasuke will bring with him," Tenten pondered eagerly, a list of the popular high school boys running through her head, "Maybe Neji!"
"Maybe he'll bring Sai," Ino thought hopefully.
"M-maybe he'll bring Naruto…" Hinata hoped, blushing once she realized she had said that aloud.
"I can't believe you like him Hinata, come on, you have better taste then that," Temari scolded.
"Speaking of Naruto," Ino raised a finger and pointed to a rundown black pickup splattered with orange paint that had pulled into the theater's parking lot. The girls watched as Kiba, Shikamaru, and Chōji climbed out of the truck bed; Naruto and Sasuke getting out from inside.
"So much for Neji," Tenten muttered.
"Or Sai," Ino agreed. While the girls had gone out of their way to look pretty, the guys hadn't changed at all. All they had managed to do was steal some of Kiba's body spray when they went to his house to drop off Akamaru.
"I feel kinda bad for not dressing up," Chōji whispered to the guys as they walked through the parking lot, noticing what the girls were wearing.
"Ah who cares, we're men, we don't have to look pretty," Kiba said, shrugging Chōji's statement off. "I just want to know why the shrew's here, I was expecting Karin."
"Dude, what's your beef with her anyway?" Naruto asked, laughing a little at Kiba's comment. Unfortunately Kiba couldn't answer because they had reached the girls.
"I have a fun game I think you dateless eight should play!" Sakura announced once the groups were together. "Instead of you guys taking forever to try and pair up, why don't you draw straws to see who gets who?" She smiled, pulling eight straws out of her white kitty-head purse.
"You had this planned out from the beginning, didn't you forehead?" Ino grunted. Sakura just smirked and held the straws up, four in each hand.
"Your way takes less effort, I'm in," Shikamaru decided, convincing the other guys who really didn't care either way. The four boys each took a straw from her left hand while the girls took from her right, Sasuke standing off to the side, hiding his interest from who would get partnered with who.
"I got a yellow tip," Ino said, looking from the girls to the guys.
"Me too," Naruto replied, flicking the straw in his fingers while he held it up to show her.
Temari chuckled under her breath while Hinata looked away from the group with a small frown, lightly saying, "Mine has a blue tip."
"So does mine," Chōji smiled warmly, walking up to her. He wanted to be partnered up with Ino, but Hinata was a sweet and pretty girl so he didn't complain.
"I've got red!" Kiba smirked.
"Great, I get the guy who smells like wet dog," Temari muttered.
"Ugh, and I get the old hag," Kiba growled.
"What was that punk?" Temari sneered.
The two started bickering while Shikamaru sighed, "So what're we gonna watch?"
"I wanna see Kick Ass!" Naruto answered.
"That movie looked awesome!" Tenten agreed.
"I second that!" Kiba chimed in, forgetting his verbal fight with Temari.
"If Naruto thinks it'll be good I'm sure it will be," Hinata replied shyly. With that decided the group headed inside to buy their tickets, or in their case, pool their money and have Temari, the legal adult, buy their tickets.
As the boys started going through their wallets Naruto whispered to Ino, "hey um, since this is a date, do you think you could buy my way in? I don't have any money."
Ino glared at Naruto and took her wallet out of her purse, sighing as she looked inside, "I don't have that kind of money on me Naruto, I can get myself in, but not you too if I plan on buying something to eat."
Catching the conversation, Sasuke leaned over to them, "If I buy Naruto's way in will you split whatever you're getting with him?"
"S-sure Sasuke," Ino stuttered nervously, still a little on edge from earlier.
"If you're going to buy my ticket, then don't worry about giving me gas money," Naruto told Sasuke. He hated owing people things. Sasuke just nodded and handed Temari a twenty.
Once everyone had their tickets, they made their way to the concession stand. Sasuke ended up buying a liter of Pepsi, a large bag of popcorn, and some Gummy Worms to split with Sakura. So far the date had cost him thirty dollars and fifty cents, and Itachi said forty dollars was a bit much… 'Ha!' Sasuke thought bitterly.
They sat in two rows, towards the back, and in the middle. Down the line in the first row were Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto, Ino, Chōji, and then Hinata. The row behind them went Kiba, Temari, Shikamaru, and then Tenten. As the movie started, their group quieted in eager anticipation. Forty-some minutes into the movie, Sakura noticed Sasuke's body movement change. She recognized, from his changed position, that even though he wasn't letting it on, he was really enjoying the movie.
Figuring now was as good a time as ever to show him she meant business; Sakura leaned over to him and lightly nibbled the tip of his ear, not going unnoticed by Naruto or Ino. "What are you doing?" Sasuke whispered, frustrated but turning to face her no less.
"Couples generally make-out during movies," Sakura whispered back smugly, pecking his lips lightly.
Sasuke glared, saying under his breath, "And what makes you think I'd be interested in making-out with you?"
"Just a little piece of notebook paper I ripped out of someone's diary," she smirked, running her hand through his gelled hair and pulling him closer. To further show her dominance she refused to shift her body and continued sitting forward, forcing him to move over and shift his position for her.
Not one to take being pushed around lightly, Sasuke decided to take control of the situation. While they kissed he leaned forward more, resting his hand on the small of Sakura's back. Then, he casually put his hand on the leg closest to his hand. Slowly he moved his hand further up until he reached the thigh then he squeezed lightly, starting to head for the crotch when…
"Stop feeling my leg up, teme!" Naruto shouted, shoving Sasuke's hand away.
"Oops, you're so small and girly I guess I thought you were Sakura," Sasuke replied offhandedly, smirking in the dark room.
"I'm not short and I'm wearing pants, she's wearing a skirt, big difference!" Naruto continued shouting.
"Oh, then I guessed you'd just wanted some of the action," Sasuke said, growing annoyed by how loud Naruto was.
"Are you implying something teme?" Naruto growled while standing up and grabbing the front of Sasuke's shirt.
"Sasuke, Naruto, you're disrupting the peace, get out of the theater!" The boys looked towards the front of the theater and saw Haku standing at the foot of the stairs.
Sighing, Naruto let go of Sasuke and the two headed towards Haku. "I didn't know you worked here," Naruto said to Haku as they walked up to him.
"Hmm? Oh, yeah I have a lot of various jobs since Zabuza won't pay for my schooling. Thanks for getting into that fight by the way, very entertaining; gave me something to do," Haku said, smiling up to the boys. He might have been eighteen, but he was short for his age. He gave them a casual wave as they left the building.
"Good going chicken ass," Naruto mumbled as they sat against the theater's wall outside, his anger returning
"Now you're making fun of my hair, porcupine?" Sasuke mocked.
"You know how much I like her, why would you start making out with her right there?" Naruto asked angrily.
Sasuke sat silently, choosing not to answer; he wasn't ready for Naruto to know his secret yet.
"Fine, ignore me asshole, why don't you get your brother to come get you or something, I don't wanna look at you anymore," Naruto muttered.
Sasuke sat next to Naruto a little while longer, until, sighing, he finally stood up and walked towards the street, heading to his house. A block away he pulled out his cell phone and called Itachi. "Well, that was a short movie," Itachi answered.
"Shut up and come get me," Sasuke mumbled, telling him where he was before hanging up. He knew he was being rude but that was just how he and Itachi were. Itachi understood that something had pissed Sasuke off without him saying anything. He knew anger was fueling Sasuke's words, so why waste his breath arguing with him when he could just let it slide? As soon as Sasuke calmed down he would talk about it with Itachi and then apologize for being rude anyway; that's how it worked.
Sasuke sat on a nearby park bench, stretching his arms across the back of the bench, and leaning his head back to look at the cloudless night sky. He hated that Naruto was upset because of him, he hated that Naruto was upset in general, what was he supposed to say to him to make him feel better? 'Sorry for kissing the girl you like, she's blackmailing me so I have to… Yeah right,' Sasuke thought; thinking of different apologies.
And Sakura, how was he supposed to deal with her? He leaned forward, remembering that night three years ago. Sakura's crush on Sasuke was as obvious as Naruto's crush on Sakura and Hinata's crush on Naruto. Naruto and his friends had succeeded in dragging Sasuke to a school dance, where Sasuke spent the majority of the dance hiding from all the girls in the boys' bathroom. Eventually Naruto and Kiba found out and dragged him back to the gymnasium where the dance was held.
Luckily, a song was playing, so most of the girls were already dancing. Sakura however, wasn't dancing. As the song playing started to end, she causally walked over to where Sasuke, Naruto, and Kiba stood. "S-Sasuke…" she began to ask nervously. Sasuke tried to ignore her like he ignores everyone but she continued, "…would you dance with me?"
Just as he was about to say 'no' Kiba shoved him into her, loudly saying, "Sure he will! He hasn't danced with anyone yet!"
"Great," Sakura smiled and cupped her hand in Sasuke's while Sasuke glared at Kiba but walked onto the dance floor no less. He didn't know what was pissing him off more, Kiba, or the fact that the song that was starting was a slow love song. As they swayed gently with the music Sakura built up the courage to lightly lay her head of Sasuke's chest. "Sasuke?" she began.
"Yes?" Sasuke answered flatly.
"There… There's something I've been meaning to tell you," Sakura continued, lifting her head up and staring into Sasuke's eyes. They had stopped dancing at this point, just standing on the dance floor with Sasuke's hands on Sakura's waist and Sakura's arms draped around Sasuke's neck.
"And what might that be?" Sasuke asked, not really wanting to know the answer.
Sakura leaned closer to him, whispering, "I… love you…"
All Sasuke could do was stare at her. "Thank…you?" He offered, not sure what to say.
"Please don't leave it like that, If you could just give me a chance to explain..." Sakura began but Sasuke cut her off.
"Why don't we go sit down?" They headed towards the metal folding chairs. As Sakura sat down Sasuke lost his nerve, "I'm going to go outside quick to get some fresh air; I'll be right back, okay?" Sakura nodded, figuring he was just nervous.
As soon as Sasuke was outside he ran. The only place he could think of going was a park a couple blocks away. Once he had reached the skate park where Naruto and his friends had started to hang out, Sasuke pulled out his cell phone and called the last person he thought he'd ever ask for help at the time.
"Nii-san, come get me," Sasuke breathed into the phone.
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His brother's car pulling up to the side walk brought Sasuke back to the present. He stood up and stretched before climbing into Itachi's car. "So what happened?" Itachi asked as he started driving again.
"Naruto and I got into a fight, they kicked us out of the theater, and Naruto said he wouldn't give me a ride," Sasuke explained.
"You and Naruto were fighting? That's odd, I thought you two were finally passed that stage," Itachi smiled, trying to lighten the mood.
"I guess not," Sasuke said, resting the side of his head on the passenger door's window. Itachi glanced over to him, normally Sasuke went into more detail. What had happened that made him not want to talk?
"Where are we going?" Sasuke asked looking at Itachi when he drove passed their turn a few minutes later.
"I don't want to go home yet, Madara's in one of his moods," Itachi explained. Their grandfather was a very eccentric and angry, bitter old man with a split personality disorder, but Itachi was only twelve when the Uchiha family died so all of their family's money went straight to Madara. Despite how angry Madara was all the time, he was also very lonely from being shunned from his family for so long, so he told Sasuke and Itachi that they had to live with him until he died if they wanted to see any of their family's fortune.
"Oh, so he's Madara now? I like him better when he's Tobi," Sasuke sighed.
"Yeah well I'll like him better when he's dead," Itachi mumbled.
"You could blow up the house like you did last time," Sasuke offered, receiving a smack on the back of the head as a reply. Sasuske burst out laughing and Itachi smiled, happy that Sasuke wasn't upset about the evening anymore.
They pulled up to a small shop about ten minutes later. "Where are we?" Sasuke asked as he got out of the car and looked into the shops windows. The inside of the store was filled with mannequins and puppets along with some other things.
"This way Sasuke," Itachi said, walking to the side of the store. On the stores side was a small door. Itachi tapped the back of his hand on it lightly.
"Why hello Itachi, it's good to see you again," an old woman said as she answered the door.
"It's nice to see you too Chiyo-san, this is my younger brother Sasuke," Itachi said, indicating Sasuke to the side of him. "Is Sasori-san home?" The woman nodded and welcomed them in. After taking their shoes off, the two walked up a small flight of stairs.
"You're so weird Itachi. You're the only person I know who hangs out with teachers," Sasuke said.
"That's not true, Naruto hangs out with Iruka all the time," Itachi argued.
"That doesn't count, Iruka's his adoptive father for crying out loud," Sasuke said. Itachi stopped and knocked on the door in front of him.
"Not now grandma, we're busy," Sasori called from inside.
"Get off of each other and let us in," Itachi answered back.
'What the hell are they doing in there?' Sasuke wondered even though he was pretty sure he knew the answer.
Movement could be heard from inside and then the doors lock clinked and the door opened. Sasori's stood in the doorway, his shirt was un-tucked slightly and some of the buttons at the top and bottom of it had been undone. Sasuke looked further into the room and saw Deidara, his hair no longer in a ponytail and his face was beet red, he stood next to Sasori's bed awkwardly staring at the other boy in the room. It was a junior from Sasuke's section of the school named Sai.
Sai didn't have a shirt on and he hadn't bothered to re-button his pants. Once he caught sight of Sasuke he smirked and ran his hand over his chest asking, "Want to join us?"Sasuke flushed and turned his face from the room.
"Itachi, now really isn't a good time," Sasori said calmly.
"I can see that," Itachi said. "I guess we're going to go home after all," he told Sasuke. "Sorry for interrupting," he added, nodding to Sasori and then Deidara before giving Sai a puzzled look. Sasuke and Itachi headed back downstairs as they heard Sasori's door close and then lock.
After driving in silence for a while Itachi finally asked, "Isn't that pasty kid still in high school?"
"Yes, he's a junior, his name's Sai," Sasuke answered. "I guess that does make Sasori a pedophile," he added jokingly.
Itachi smirked and said, "Well that Sai kid totally wanted your ass," earning him a smack across the back of his head this time. "Ack! No hitting the driver."
The rest of the drive was uneventful. When they arrived at Madara's mansion they said goodnight and headed for their own bedrooms to do schoolwork and relax. Around ten, when Sasuke was deciding to go to sleep from being bored of doing nothing, his phone started to ring.
The caller ID reading: Sakura
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AN: Alright, I've now re-edited this chapter. If you see anything wrong with it plz let me know. Thankx in advance. FYI: the outfits that Sakura, Ino, Hinata, and Tenten are wearing to the movies are based off of an adorable picture drawn by gabzillaz on deviantart. I've linked the page on my profile. I'll edit chapter 3 when I put up chapter 12.
