After Dark

After completely devouring Sasuke's cookies, which were surprisingly good, the three decided that maybe they should wake up Neji. Sakura was on the floor (nobody knew why), so she leaned over and shook Neji.

"Yo! Nejiiiii! Wake up!" He didn't move, so she shook him harder. That was a mistake. Neji suddenly grabbed Sakura's hand, pulled her ontop of him, and wrapped his arms around her. Wonder what he's dreaming of…

"Ne…ji!" she mumbled, trying to pry him off. "Let… GO!" Finally she was free, and Neji opened his eyes to see Sakura lying ontop of him.

"What the crap? Get off me!" he grumbled, flinging her off.

"You idiot! Stop grabbing me in your sleep!" she went to whack him on the head, but he pulled her close again, his arms wrapped around her back.

"Sakura… I never knew you were so… beautiful…" Sakura suddenly realized that Neji was actually REALLY hot.

"Neji…"

"AHAHA, just kidding," he exclaimed, flinging her across the room. "So, guys… why's Sakura here?"

Shikamaru had lived with Neji the longest, and knew that he did this a lot. He'd gotten weird in his teen years.

Sasuke was not so lucky, and felt… was it… jealousy? Maybe it was the pink hair… or the way she'd eaten his cookies… or maybe he just wanted Neji all to himself… wait… no. It was definitely her. It's not like he LIKED her or anything… he just didn't want Neji near her. That was all. Yup.

"Neji." Shikamaru replied, in a serious tone. "Sakura… lives here now."

Neji stared at him in shock. Not for long, though, as Sakura snuck up behind him and whacked him on the head, fairly hard, with a pillow. A particularly large pillow. She would get her revenge, whatever it took.

"Ahaha… yeaaaaah… anyways…" Sakura looked around a bit, and then retreated to the safety of the couch.

The sun was setting, and the three, lacking anything better to do, all sat on the couch and watched it. Then, a thought dawned on Shikamaru.

"Wait… shouldn't we… show Sakura around the house?"

"Yay!" Sakura replied cheerily, eager to see her new home.

"Hn… I'll help, I guess," mumbled Sasuke, and they all got up, stepped over Neji, and headed for the kitchen.

"So… this is… the kitchen…" Shikamaru said, pointing inside.

"It's… a mess…" was all Sakura could say, and soon followed with a "How about I clean it up tomorrow…?"

They all agreed that was a good idea, then led Sakura through the kitchen to another door.

"And that's the bathroom." At this point, Sasuke wondered why he'd come, as they only had three rooms in the house ANYWAYS, and then realized he'd rather be with them than an unconscious Neji.

"Great! Hey, since it's almost night… I think I'll go set up my bed. Where do you want me to sleep?"

They headed back to the living room while she spoke, and Shikamaru answered.

"Sasuke sleeps by the window, Neji's on the floor, and I'm on the couch. Do you wanna sleep beside Neji?"

Sasuke quickly jumped in with his two cents. "NO! Wait, I mean, uhh… no… how about she sleeps on the couch, Shika, I mean… hnn… she is a… girl…"

Sasuke realized that was… kind of weird reason. But Shikamaru would understand.

"I want… my couch…" Shikamaru said. Sasuke stomped on his foot, and quickly said "You're… gonna… sleep… on the… FLOOR… okay?" Shikamaru muttered a "this is so… troublesome…" before replying "Fine, whatever…"

Sakura had missed the whole thing, however, as she was already throwing her things onto the couch. Pillow, blanket… pajamas… manga, flashlight… all set for the night.

By the time all that was over, the sun was almost done setting and Neji was finally conscious again, only to be told that they were all going to bed and to go to sleep. He was too groggy to listen, though, and zombie-walked to the bathroom, only to open the door on a changing Sakura. Good job, Neji.

"NEJIIIII YOU PERVERTTTTTTTTTT!" she screamed, slamming the door. After throwing on her tanktop-and-pjpants pajamas, she whacked Neji on the head, hard, and stormed off to her bed. Sasuke was looking out the window, and Shika was reading doujinshi his friend Chouji wrote (who amazingly grew up to be an aspiring manga-ka)

All the while, moonlight filled the whole room – it was beautiful. It wasn't long before they fell asleep.