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Chapter 3: Lunch and Late
Here you go, another chapter. I really like the end of this one because... well, you'll see. Um, I can't remember if there were any questions from the reviews, but if there were, then I'm sorry for not answering/clearing them up. Thanks again for the reviews. Next chapter: Eyes on the prize. Enjoy!
Sakura and Ino meet to have lunch at the café close to Ino's work. As always, their conversation ended up being about the men in each other's life.
"Oh, did I tell you! Chouji got a promotion!"
"Ino… He owns the restaurant… What's there to be promoted too?"
"Okay fine, he didn't get a promotion. I just wanted to change the subject."
"How did you do that? Fifteen minutes ago you were talking about Chouji. Ten minutes ago you were talking about Chouji. Five minutes ago you were talking about Chouji. And look… You are still talking about Chouji. Ha. How does that change the subject?"
"No, five minutes ago I was talking about…"
Ino never finished because Sakura couldn't hold back her laughter anymore.
"Can we please talk about something else?"
"Okay… How's Sasuke?"
"Something other than men?"
"No."
Sakura only sighed at her and took another drink of coke.
"Come on… How is he?"
"Fine."
"That's it… Fine?"
"What did you expect him to be? Dead?"
"No. But maybe a little more detail. I gave you plenty with Chouji."
"Yes! But I didn't want to know about Chouji."
"Sakura!"
The waiter came over and placed their meals on the table.
"Enjoy."
"Thank you." They both said in unison.
Sakura began to eat her salad when a sigh came from across the table.
"What?"
"Come on! Come on! Come on!"
"No."
"That bad, eh?"
"Nothings bad. I'm fine. Sasuke is fine. The twins are fine. Everyone is fine."
"Oh! I'm sorry."
"What for?"
"You know Sakura… Denial is the first step in recovery."
"Denial? Recovery? What the hell are you talking about?"
Sakura abandoned any hope of eating her lunch and looked at her friend.
"What kind of friend would I be if I didn't notice?"
"The normal kind?"
"So when did it start?"
"Um? What are we talking about exactly?"
"When did you and Sasuke stop being intimate?"
Luckily Sakura hadn't started taking a sip of her drink, or else she would have sprayed the contents all over Ino.
"What the hell?"
"Its okay Sakura, I understand… I'm not experiencing it… But I understand."
"Sasuke and I are intimate."
"Oh yeah? When is the last time you had sex?"
Sakura blushed and looked around as a few heads turned, but none lingered. She looked back at Ino and scowled.
"You don't have to have sex with your partner to be intimate with one another."
"HA! I knew it!"
"It's just been really busy since the twins were born; and with them waking up through out the night, it's hard to…"
"Get it on?"
"In more or less words, yes. It's not that big of a deal. I knew this would happen."
"So when was the last time?"
"Um?"
Sakura thought for a few moments while she traced back the weeks.
"I'm thinking about a year."
"A YEAR! Holy shit woman! How have you managed not to rip that man's pants off, tackle him to the ground, and command him to take you?"
"I hope you just made that up. Anyways, I like a little foreplay before sex."
"So what… it's taken you a year to get ready?"
"Shut up."
"How's Sasuke handling this?"
"Eh… alright… I guess."
"You guess? Sakura… The man's a closet nympho… He has to be dieing."
"He is not a closet nympho!"
Ino raised an eyebrow at the remark.
"He's a public one."
A few seconds of silence passed between the women before they burst into fits of laughter.
"Sasuke is a trooper. I can tell the strain is getting to him. But we can't control when the twins wake up… Even if it's in the most inconvenient of times."
"If the man would lighten up and allow an overnight babysitter; then maybe something could happen."
"Yeah… He is set in his ways on that I'm afraid." Sakura said before taking another drink of her coke.
"I never understood why he won't allow that."
"Oh, something about his childhood or something. I figured the twins constantly waking up would wear him down…"
"But alas… not."
"Unfortunately."
"That is a bummer."
"Yeap."
"So no new kids on the way."
"Ha. No."
"That is a bummer."
"Yes." Sakura said while giving Ino a strange look.
"Indeed, I was hoping we could be pregnant at the same time."
"WHAT! INO!"
"I know!"
"When?"
"Well… I'm not sure yet… My periods late… and you know how dead on my periods are."
"Like clock work."
"Yeah… and it's late."
"Oh. My. God! Have you told Chouji?"
"Chouji is the one that told me."
"Eh… Come again?"
"He can always tell by my mood if my period is coming."
"And?"
"My mood didn't change according to him."
"No… How do you not notice your own period; when it comes on the same day every month?"
"Getting married throws you off."
"Ino… You got married five months ago… It doesn't throw you off that much and for that long."
"Don't rain on my parade."
"Fine… Whatever! When will you know for sure?"
"I'm going to wait a little longer and if it still hasn't come, I'm going to take the test. I'm so excited. Everyone but me has kids…"
"Is that the only reason you want to get pregnant; because everyone else has them?" Sakura said through her laughter.
"More or less… I want to have kids because I want to have kids… But having other friends with kids isn't a downside."
"You are so demented."
"Am not!"
"Are too…"
"Hey! Is that Sasuke and Naruto?"
"Uh? Where?"
Sakura looked where Ino was pointing and sure enough, her husband and husband's best friend were across the street.
"What are they doing over here?"
"Probably the same thing we are doing…"
Ino looked at her with a confused look.
"Having lunch. Even though I haven't gotten to take a bite out of my salad yet!"
"Should we call them over?"
Sakura looked at her watch and shook her head.
"No, they are probably just getting done with theirs. See… Naruto is running back… That means they are probably late. I'll send him a text telling him I saw his sexy ass on the street today."
Sakura pulled out her phone and began typing in a message to Sasuke.
Hey Baby, saw you on the street just now. Why did you ignore me like that?
"You didn't call out to him."
Sakura giggled and placed her phone on the table.
"He doesn't know that."
She looked down at her phone when she heard it ding.
Where were you? I didn't see you. Naruto was running back to eat some Ramen, I had to chase him… I didn't hear you calling me.
Sakura only smirked when she wrote him back.
How could you not see me? I was right in front of you… And why was Naruto running back to eat ramen when you guys were returning from lunch?
"You are evil."
"No… I'm playful."
Ding.
He was still hungry after we ate. I honestly didn't see you. I would have stopped to say hello.
"Now you are just making him paranoid."
"Oh please… That is a woman's job in life… To make their husbands paranoid.
Where did you eat?
"I'm actually kind of curious now."
"Why? Naruto is always hungry. Eating right after a five course meal is normal."
Ding.
I don't remember. Naruto dragged me there. I'm sorry I ignored you baby. I'll make it up to you when I get home.
"Evil. Pure evil."
"Give me a break… Like you haven't done it."
"Never! I would never do that to my Chouji."
"Bullshit."
You better. It really hurt that you ignored me like that.
"Oh Geez! Sakura…"
Ding.
7 o'clock. Dinner. Your choice.
"Dinner?"
"Foreplay."
See you then ;)