Again, I DO NOT OWN… ANYTHING!
THE GIRLS: APOV:
I led the way to the Haruno Clan's (Sakura's) mansion since I was the oldest and was the only one that remembered the way. I had made sure to have them slow down before we got into the village gates so we wouldn't attract unnecessary attention to ourselves. When we passed by the little coffee shop/ café we owned (our cover) I made sure to make a mental note of cleaning up the place before opening, it looked a mess. Damn, what should we call it? We kept driving and I showed them the school they would be attending, it was only about ten minutes away and would be easy to get to for them, since they would be working there everyday. This contemplation earned me a few snorts and a "I don't see why we need to go to school!" from a certain dirty blond, this whining continued on for about fifteen more minutes, until we reached the beginning of the Konoha Hills. In the valley behind the first couple hills was the most secluded and beautiful manor that I had only seen twice before, once on a business meeting with my father when I was seven and then on November 24th the year I turned fourteen, the girls were either eight or nine. It was three stories, including the basement, and had a stream with a waterfall behind it into the woods, that came after a huge lawn and very florally gardens. I snapped out of my reverie to realize I had stopped in front of the gate; reluctantly I pulled out my copy of the keypad and pushed the button to open it. At first it creaked, I heard Sakura mutter something along the lines of
"Shit, need to fix…"
"Language, Forehead!" Ino called back. Before they could argue I intervened
"Welcome back to Haruno Manor, kiddies!" We parked ours cars in the front on the driveway, even tough there was a perfectly good garage (that could hold twenty four cars and had a fourteen motorcycle platform), probably out of habit of keeping our vehicles at easy reach. We got out and stood in a football sort of huddle, all facing the house and just drinking in the imposing sight. Instinctively, we all jerked ourselves back toward Sakura when we heard her try to choke back her sobs, ten years simply hadn't been enough. When I turned to look at them others, I happened to catch a glimpse of myself in my car's window, our faces mirrored hers; red noses, red eyes, streaming tears, and very angry expressions. I tried to take some calming breaths I'm the adult, I have to be calm… for them. Less than a millisecond after that thought I felt six teenage bodies launch at me, screw calm. For about ten minutes the seven of us kneeled there on the driveway, bawling, holding each other for comfort and trying to compose ourselves before we let ourselves step into the house. When we did get up and walk in, Sakura was the one that lead us in with a
"Fuck that! We can't undo the past! But we can prepare ourselves to rip… someone's" she emphasized the someone's in a pained manner "balls off in the future." As was drilled into our heads we took off our shoes and headed to where we remembered the kitchen was, we were starved… again.
NPOV:
As the seven of them walked into the huge kitchen and sat at the island, on seven of the eight barstools. Suddenly Anko yelled something that took them a second to process,
"Not it!" and when they finished processing, coincidently at the same time, they simultaneously followed suit, but realized it wasn't good enough. Anko looked around mischievously, and Sakura felt her heart stop and her stomach drop. No she thought Please, please, please! No!
"Since I was the first to say 'Not it' I'll choose who gets to do it." The girls took up their prayer/begging for mercy positions; they got on their knees, clasped their hands, and shut their eyes murmuring something along the lines of 'Kami-sama save me'. Anko walked around each of them; her footsteps resounding off the semi-high ceiling and the shiny floors. She stopped behind one, each of them was praying it was not them, and six sighed
"But, why!" the shrill shriek broke the silence, Hinata, Tenten, Ino, Karin, and Anko noted how this was one of the only times Sakura's voice's pitch was that high.
"But, but-" Sakura remained in her kneeling position as the others climbed back onto their barstools, she put on the poutiest face that she could manage and began her rant,
"Annkoo- chaann" [sniffle, sniffle] " I-I, I don't wannnaaa! Pleaasee." She extended the 'please'. Anko got down to her level and gave her a sympathetic face, Tenten snorted fake… but Sakura's face didn't change, she was well acquainted with the bitch deception.
"Of coarse, Sakura, of coarse you have to make us lunch!" she replied to Sakura's pleads in a false sympathetic voice. Sakura's face fell out of her pout mode to a deadly glare as she got up and stomped to the fridge if looks could kill… the rest of them thought.
"What do you want?" the pinkette broke their thoughts and the rest of them nodded already having a whole meal along with sides and beverages planned out. Temari spoke,
"Chicken curry, rice, healthy stuff you know, corn and stuff, sound good right now!"
"Ooh and break out the V², I'm dying of thirst, Sak! Thanks!" Karin added in. V² stood for Vitamin water and vodka, their favorite combo while drinking). Sakura sighed and got to work as the rest of them sauntered into the nearer of the two living rooms.
After their delicious ( Sakura was the best cook, Karin, Temari, Ino tied for worst and Tenten, Hinata and Anko were second; they all cooked really well though) mean they decided to grab their very large duffle bags (in Ino's case three, very large duffle bags) from their cars and get reacquainted with their rooms. All of the rooms were already suited for each of them because of previous arrangements when they realized that they couldn't carry all their stuff around with them, these rooms were where they put all of their excess and unneeded accessories and sent for them when they did need them. There were eight rooms upstairs, seven if only the bedrooms were counted and not the game/work room. They went to the game/work room first; there were seven reclining chairs set up in a semi-circle around the giant flat screen on the wall (the small window at the top of that wall overlooked the front yard), that had a case-shelf-stand thing under and around it loaded with a surround sound system (the speakers ere connected throughout the house and yards, so if they wanted to play music throughout the house or in certain parts of the house all they had to do was connect their iPods or put in a CD) and a Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, a DVD player, a DVR (connected to the TVs in the rest of the house) and on a shelf a DSi and PSP, with the remote controls to the TV, sound system, DVD, and DVR neatly place beside them. In a storage area to the right of the TV were shelves filled with games to each different console, DVD's, and eight customized controllers (same as phones) to the different consoles (Temari and Sakura had altered them and each of the games to play with at least eight players; that's why the flat screen was almost the size of the wall it was on). They each set down the separate laptop cases they had, on their chairs (again customized, same as their phones) and went to their rooms, finding them based on the door décor they had made in a spare moment and had sent over to be put on their doors.
Anko's room was red with black furniture; a desk for her laptop, a bed, two night stands, and a tall chest, with a matching bathroom and small walk-in closet. Temari's room was lavender and had really light blue furniture; a desk for her laptop, a bed, two night stands, and two bean bags with a matching bathroom and small walk-in closet. Tenten's room was black with orange furniture; a desk for her laptop, a bed, two night stands, and a mini weapons maintenance center with a matching bathroom and walk-in closet. Karin's room was red with white furniture; a desk for her laptop, a bed, two night stands, and a giant pile of different stuffed animals she collected, with a matching bathroom and walk-in closet. Ino's room was purple with bright blue furniture; a desk for her laptop, a bed, two night stands, and a vanity, complete with three mirrors and various stands, with a matching bathroom and small walk-in closet. Hinata's room was beige with crème furniture; a desk for her laptop, a bed, two night stands, and an elaborately designed table (no doubt a priceless Hyuga heirloom) with pictures all over it, and a matching bathroom with a small walk-in closet. Sakura walked into her room slowly, she got the master bedroom, she found green walls, and black elegant furniture; a desk for her laptop, a bed, two night stands, a chest, a dresser, and shelves filled with books, pictures, weapons, tools and other knick knacks. She tossed her duffle bag near her slightly bigger closet, jumped onto her California King sized bed (specially imported, just like the rest of the California Kings in the house), turned her head towards the door to her slightly bigger bathroom, and inhaled deeply, Tadaima…
HPOV:
I walked up the stair and the five steps needed to get to Sakura's door and knocked.
"Enter." Came her muffled, distant voice, she's been thinking, as I entered I took a glance at her clock, it read 3:15 pm, of coarse, the drive took an hour and a half, then the eating took about an hour and we've been lazing about so… I stood there and watched her play with a stray strand of hair.
"Sakura-Chan, Anko-Chan want to clean up the Dragon Teahouse, we're letting Anko drive, so unless you want her to make us walk or something you need to get up so we can leave." She looked up at me, glared, sighed, and got up. We were all already dressed to work in shorts, simple tees, and sneakers. We rushed down the stairs and instead of using the door in the dining room that was embedded into the floor (like a trap door) and required ladder climbing (or jumping, depending on the person) instead we headed out the front door and saw that Anko had pulled up front for us (and that she had moved our cars into the garage). The Navy blue Escalade, pimped out with chrome accessories (Sakura liked to keep her cars looking pretty) shone in the afternoon sun and the sulking pinkette immediately brightened up at the sight and ran to the passenger side and climbed in, I went to the back and saw that the girls had pulled out the three extra seats in the back and currently were occupied with an energetic Karin and lethargic Ino. Next to me Tenten and Temari were arguing about whether giant iron old style fans would be good weapons or not [AN: wink wink] while in front of me Anko and Sakura were waiting for me to reply to a question I hadn't heard so I did the smartest thing I could think of and replied with
"Huh?" everyone in the truck stopped and looked at me weirdly, Temari spoke up,
"I think that blond you were ogling at the gas station rubbed off on you. I mean he seemed like a total idiot." I blushed while the others laughed in agreement.
"Shut up, guys. And let's go already, Anko-Chan, don't we have to be doing something right now?" with my reply Anko drove out of the gates and into town. They are so not going to let the ogling thing go… I prepared myself for the time ahead and sighed. The whole ride to The Dragon Teahouse was tense and filled with argument, over the name 'The Dragon Teahouse'. It was Karin, Ino, and Temari vs. Anko. Sakura and I were neutral, Karin, Ino and Temari's argument was with a name like The Dragon Teahouse we wouldn't get any customers and even if we did, they would all be 'geezers'. Anko retaliated with the fact that we were supposed to be keeping ourselves on the DL. After they argued the whole way and continued as we pulled cleaning supplies out of the truck, I decided to intervene, yet again,
"Why don't we name it Cherry blossom café?" they all looked at me and murmured in agreement and then looked at Sakura, who had remained quiet about it,
"Well I was thinking something along the lines of Porker's Café; since she's the coffee addict but yeah, Cherry blossom sounds good." It was meant to be a jab… at Ino Oh, shit.
"What was that, Fore-"
"Sakura! Come help me get the door open, my hands are full."
"Coming, Anko!"
"Ino! Can you help with the rest of the supplies and close the lift gate, please?"
"Sure, Your Shyness." I sent her a glare as we followed Temari in. The Café was big, very spacious and had many (boarded up) windows; those were the first things Sakura and Anko attacked (they were claustrophobes), we immediately jumped in and when the light allowed us to see properly was when we saw (DUN, DUN, DUN) THE mess. It was horrible,
"Well since we need to make this place as green as possible," Sakura was an extreme environmentalist, even the house was green, we were even using green cleaning products,
"Temari and I will just-"they ran off with Sakura's precious tools, which were very expensive, very, very expensive. We looked at the mess, they would have to help out later because the mess would take forever, but by then it would be cleaner-ish (don't get me wrong they, and the rest of us, are all hard workers, but sometimes they were very lazy). All I knew was, that this was going to be a long night, and tomorrow was going to be a long day considering the fact we were going shopping with INO tomorrow.
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