Sex Ed

Chapter 2: Gardenia

The average person wouldn't have the guts to knock on the Hokage's offices door before entering. Especially not after she had lost a huge bet and had a hangover from the day prior. But of course, Sakura Haruno did not have the average temper.

"Lady Tsunade! What's the meaning of this?"

Tsunade's head shot up from her desk. A drool spot was left on a few of the many of documents on her desk. A red mark decorated her forehead. "I wasn't sleeping! I just wanted to get a closer look at this document!"

"Yeah right!" Sakura held up the rubric to Tsunade's face half sleepy face. "What's the meaning of this?" Tsunade paused for a bit before she spoke.

"A solution to an obvious problem." "What the heck does this have to do with sex and parenting education? You don't have to get all of us involved so you can go out gambling more! I'm not going to live with Sai and act like were together! You've got to be kidding me! Tsunade frowned.

"SHUT UP!"

Sakura could only blink.

"You misunderstood the paper. It didn't say you had to be a couple, just parents. Most parents generally live under the same roof so that's why we had you spend the night at one of the others houses. But since you've given me an attitude problem you will have to date Sai and live with him for a month."

"But Lady Tsunade!"

"Buts are for cigarettes Sakura. Now get out! Or I'll extend the time!" Sakura stormed out of the room. Sai waited for her outside of the Hokage's office holding their little bundle of joy. "I can tell by the look on your face it didn't go well. Want me to try?" Sakura put her hands on her hips. "Good luck with that."

Sai put on his best smile and knocked on the door to Tsunade's office. "GO AWAY SAI!" Sai turned to Sakura with a look of confusion. "I didn't even say anything." "Lady Tsunade extended our time to a month." "So I heard." Sai and Sakura took turns carrying their bag of flower, Saia, on their way out of the building.

Flashback

"How about we name it Fugly after you?" Sai gave her one of his well known fake smiles. Sakura had just about lost her faith in getting a decent grade on this project. But she still tried to keep her head held high. Who would want to repeat something like this?

Most of the other pairs got along pretty well. Everyone else had already named their bags of flower except for them. But of course, Anko Sensei was starting to lose her patience with them. "Have you two finally decided on a name yet?" Asked Anko. "Nope." Sakura rested her hand on her chin, her elbow on the table.

"I'm thinking of a number one though ten. Whoever is the closest the baby will be named after."

"One." Said Sai rather quickly. "Ten." Sakura wanted nothing more than to be as far away from Sai as she possibly could right now. Even if the only way could be in numbers at the moment.

Anko smiled. "The number in my head was 4! Looks like Sai's the lucky winner." He showed no enthusiasm. "Since Sai's a boys name let's go with a more feminine version, like Saia."

"Can we stay at your place?" Sakura did not want Sai spending the night at her house. Who knew what he would do to her home while she wasn't present? Her mother wouldn't find this a pleasant situation anyways. "Sure. But your going to have to sleep on the couch."

Later, at Sai's apartment...

Sai opened his apartment door and proceeded to set Saia on the couch. Sakura took in her surroundings. His home definitely screamed of belonging to an artist. Paintings were all over the walls, all with blank name plates under them. The kitchen and the living area were the same room. In between the kitchen and the living area there was a mat on the floor, an easel with buckets full of brushes on top of it. A coffee table was in front of the couch. It too also has some painting supplies on top of it but a bit more organized. There were blank scrolls all around the table. Untouched easels were placed against the wall in front of the table. The couch seemed to be one of the only pieces of sit-able furniture in the whole room. There even was no dinning room table; the art mat took up that space. But what made Sakura uncomfortable was that there was only one window in the whole place.

Sai gave her a tour of his apartment. It was only three rooms but that was all one person really needed.

Sai garbed a book off of the coffee table and began to flip through it. It seemed to be called, "Entertaining for the Entertainer". Sakura took a seat on the couch. "Sakura, would you like some refreshments?" "That sounds nice."

Sai brought a tray carrying one cup, a teapot, and some sugar from the kitchen. Sai placed it on the coffee table. Then took the vacant seat next to Sakura.

He just looked at her; almost as if he was expecting something. This went on for about ten minutes till a blush began to creep onto Sakura's face. "Aren't you going to pour the tea?" Sai blinked. "But I thought I was supposed to bring out some drinks and then you were going to take your top off." That was all it took. Smack! Sai put his hand on his swollen cheek. "I was only doing what the book said. I must have done it wrong." He grabbed the book off of the table and began to flip through it in a hurry. "It says I did it right."

"Give me that!" Sakura ripped the book out of Sai's hands and took a look into it for herself. "Idiot!" Sakura walked over to the only window in the house and opened it. She then proceeded to toss it out of the window. "Sai, this book isn't about what you think it is. The 'refreshments' weren't meant to be just any 'refreshments' and when it said I'd take my top off they didn't mean the teapot or the sugar."

"Then what did it really mean?" "Something perverted." Sai paused for a second. "Is this what they call an awkward moment?" "Yes, but pointing out how it's an awkward moment makes it worse."

Sai poured Sakura some tea. "I hope you like raspberry tea." "Yes, thank you Sai." Sakura absolutely detested raspberry tea; but she wanted to support Sai's attempt at being hospitable.

"You have quite a bit of artwork around, it's beautiful." Sakura took a sip of the tea. No way could she down something she disliked so much in big gulps. She looked at all of the blank name plates under his work. It was the only thing in the room that gave her a alight disturbance. "Do you think you will ever name one?" "It would be nice to get to that point someday. I've been reading up on emotions and social interactions quite a bit." Sakura frowned. "I've noticed."

Sakura look at the clock on the wall. "It's getting rather late. I think we should go to sleep now. Were going to have to get up early again." Sai went into his room; he came out with a pillow and a baby blue blanket in one arm. In the other was a single flower. Sakura set Saia on the table. Sai placed the pillow and blanket beside the pink haired kunoichi on the couch. She grabbed the delicate flower from Sai's hand. "The flower is for you. It's a Gardenia." Sakura smiled and held the white flower with the bright yellow center up to her face. "Good night, Sakura." She set the Gardenia on the table in front of the couch and then proceeded to cover herself in the blanket. "Good night, Sai." The lights went out.

Sakura awoke to the aroma of food cooking. Sakura got off of the couch and walked into the kitchen. "I didn't know you could cook Sai." "I live by myself so of course I would have to know how." "Naruto lives by himself and he can't cook." "I'm not surprised he can't cook but I am not Naruto." "I'm sorry if I offended you it's just that no one else other than me or you on our team can cook."

The rest of their breakfast was silent pretty much silent. Sai never seemed like much of a person to converse.

Sakura and Sai were walking down the street taking turns carrying Saia. A quick cloud of smoke appeared before them. Standing there was Kakashi holding a big pink bag that said "It's a Boy!" on it. "I have a congratulatory present for the lovely couple." "I thought blue was for boys. And besides, we have a girl."

Kakashi gave the young couple an innocent smile. "I know, but the store ran out of pink bags and this is all that was left." Sakura put her hands on her hips and sighed. Why didn't it surprise her that Kakashi did something like this? She accepted the bag from her ex-sensei's hands. Kakashi held out his arms in front of Sai. "May I?" Sai handed Kakashi Saia.

Sakura opened the bag; in it was something that looked kind of like a backpack. She held it up with two fingers in front of her. "What is this Kakashi?" "You stick your baby in it and carry it in front of your chest." "You've got to be kidding me." Sai of course remained expressionless. "It's like the 80's with the fanny pack. You'll be setting the new trend! Now it will be easier for you two to hold hands!" Just as Sakura was about to punch him, he went away in a poof quicker than he came. Saia was back in Sai's arms. Sakura turned to Sai and frowned. "We better be taking turns if were going to wear that thing." "How about we just don't." For once Sakura thought Sai had a great idea. Holding the pink bag with their present well covered inside, they continued heading toward the academy.

Sakura went to her assigned seat with Sai. Half of the class was already present. Sakura saw Neji and Hinata take the seat beside her. "Hello" Sakura smiled at them. Both Hyuuga's greeted her back. "Hinata, Who's your partner?" "Neji nii-san and I a-are p-partners." "Why does your bag of flour have a button eye missing?" "A-A-Anko Sensei ripped i-it off. She said it was because i-i-i-incest c-c-causes d-deformities." Hinata's face glowed red. She held a tightly clenched hand to her chest. "Oh." Sakura turned away from the Hyuuga's. Sakura felt a quick stab of pity go through her.

Anko walked to the door. Slam! "Good mourning class!" She walked to the center of the room. "Now who can tell me what abstinence is?" Naruto raised his hand. "It's when you don't show up for school because your sick!" "Wrong!" Sakura put her hand over her face. "Don't ever have sex or do drugs till your married! Ops! I mean just the marriage part! Don't do drugs kids, or you all will end up looking like Orochimaru before you know it!" Naruto slouched at his table.

Anko then began ranting a lecture. It pretty much went,' If you have sex you will die ' to sum it up. Sakura looked away from Anko and turned her attention to Sai. He was drawing a picture with charcoal. "He looks so focused." Sakura watched as his hair fell down in front of his face. But he did not let that distract him from his work. His skin was a pale cream color. He had no blemishes or scars, almost like a procilean doll.

"Sakura, why are you staring at me? Do I have something on my face?" Sakura started to blush. "Um... Yeah..." Sai put down his charcoal pencil. He closed his eyes and rubbed his cheek. While Sai was busying himself with a nonexistent smudge, she took a peek at what he was drawing. Her jaw went slightly agape. It was a drawing of her staring off into nothingness at her seat. Sakura quickly turned her head away before he noticed. "Is it gone now?" "Yes." She looked down at the table and mentally said to herself "He's not Sasuke." about 10 times.

Anko came over to the table and swiped the blue bag off of their table. "What do you two talkers have here?" She hesitantly shoved her hand inside the bag and pulled their lovely present out. Sai quickly closed his sketch book. "Why haven't you two worn this yet?" Sakura looked up at her."Isn't it obvious?" "Isn't it obvious I'll mark you down points for talking in my class if you don't use this? Lady Tsunade also informed me of yesterday's incident as well I might add." Sai turned to Anko and gave her his signature smile. "Please excuse us Anko Sensei. Well do whatever you think is necessary." Anko set the child bag in front of Sakura. "You should learn a thing to two from this boy Sakura."

My Comments

Sorry I took so long to update. I'm a person that likes to busy myself. Sadly Sai the goldfish has died. RIP Sai! DX My Mama won't let me buy a new one so my friend's buying me one for Christmas next year. XD For now I just have a pepper plant my hairstylist gave me. I have really long hair so I have to go to a specialist. She's become a family friend. Any suggestions on a name for my pepper plant? Sorry for how the first chapter seems scrunched together. This site has changed the characteristics aloud apparently. Now it won't let me go back and fix it. DX When I typed Orochimaru into my computer the spell checker suggested the word pacifism. lawl Made my day.

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