Going Crazy

By: Dexeka (aka InfynitiStar)

Chapter 4: A Night With the Enemy

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Too bad. Maybe someday…but that's just wishful thinking.

Warnings: Nudity…but you have to be using your imagination to see it!

Summary: Sakura is stuck rooming with Namie…haha…

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Wide-eyed, Sakura stood in the corner with her back tight to the wall. Namie was sitting on the large bed the two girls had to share reading a book by the light on the bedside table.

"You don't have to be afraid of me, you know. I mean, if you really wanna be scared shitless, feel free, but there's really no reason for you to be." Sakura gulped, still not moving from her place in the corner. "Fine. Freak yourself out so bad you wet your pants. I don't care." Namie sighed, glancing back down at her book one last time before slamming it shut, startling Sakura, and setting it down on the bedside table. "I don't want to have to deal with you whimpering all night," she said, turning to look at Sakura, "so you better either get your pathetic little ass over here and quit freaking out, or I'll knock you out so I don't have to listen to you all night. I've got a competition to win in the morning."

"You'll never be able to beat Sasuke!" Sakura's eyes widened even further, and she clasped her hands over her mouth, fearful that she had angered the blue-haired girl.

"Well it's about time you talked! Having to read the same book three times in a row is boring."

Sakura seemed to drop her guard. "You read that three times already?"

"Well I had to do something to entertain myself. I've read it before, so it didn't take long to read it three more times." Namie readjusted herself on the bed so her whole body was facing Sakura, then she patted the pillow beside her. "Come sit. I can guarantee the bed is a lot more comfortable than that wall." When Sakura still didn't move, she shrugged and reached her hands up to the top of her head. She proceeded to grab three chunks of hair and began working it into a French braid.

"You can braid your own hair?" Sakura finally loosened up completely and took a few unsure steps towards the bed.

Namie looked over in her direction, keeping her hands moving. "Yeah. I kinda had to learn how."

"Why?" Sakura stood at the edge of the bed, still fearful about sitting down.

"Because there was no one there to do it for me and with my hair being long, I had to keep it out of my way somehow while I was practicing." Most of her hair was braided, so Namie pulled the rest over her shoulder and continued braiding the ends. "Will you sit already? I won't hurt you. Really. I didn't hurt that friend of yours, did I?"

"Well, no, but…"

"No. No but. I didn't hurt him. I knocked him out, but I never hurt him." Namie grabbed the small string from the bedside table and tied it tightly around the end of her hair.

"How did you freeze him like that?" Sakura asked, finally sitting on the edge of the bed.

"I'm from the ice village. I can freeze things at will, pretty much."

"I've never heard of the ice village before…"

"That's because it no longer exists…at least I don't think so. I was told I was the only survivor." She stared down at the bed with soft eyes, as if trying to recall a memory. "I was very lucky, to say the least." Almost unnoticeably, she shook her head then turned towards Sakura. "I just hope that there were some others that escaped."

"So your parents…?"

"Both dead." Namie shrugged. "It's something I'm used to though. It's been a very long time. Ten years, in fact."

"Ten years? Wow…"

When Namie noticed pity tears slowly forming in Sakura's eyes, she quickly tried to change the subject. "Really, don't worry about it. Want to play some poker?" She opened the drawer on the table and pulled out a deck of red-backed playing cards.

"Sure!" Sakura quickly snapped out of her sad mood and turned to face Namie, completely forgetting her earlier fears of the girl. "Five card draw?"

"Works for me! Wanna be dealer, or do you want me to be?"

"You can. It's been a while since I played, so I think I should get into the hang of things again first."

"Okay." Namie pulled the cards out of the box and began shuffling them, bridging them every once in a while as needed. Once the cards were sufficiently shuffled, she dealt five cards to each of them, starting by handing the first card to Sakura. "So are we gonna be betting money of something on these games, or are we just playing for fun?"

"We'll do a few practice rounds, then we'll start betting."

"Works for me. How many you want?"

Sakura looked at her cards and pulled two from her hand. "Two." Namie took the cards and set them to the side then handed Sakura two cards from the top of the deck. She repeated the process with herself then set her cards face up on the bed. All five were of the suit of diamonds and in order beginning with the ace and ending with a five.

"So what do you have?"

Sakura set her cards down, but all she had was a pair of jacks and a pair of kings with an ace as her fifth card. "It's not too bad, but it doesn't beat yours."

"Yeah. Okay, time for practice round two!" Namie put all the cards back into one pile and reshuffled them.

A couple hours later, the two girls had added betting to their games and upped the stakes. Both were intently looking at their cards, trying to keep straight faces so they could fake out the other. Sakura was the dealer and had the deck of cards on the bed in front of her. A pile of coins and bills sat between them, waiting to be grabbed by the winner. Namie added a few more coins and looked up at Sakura.

"I raise you another three bucks."

"I see your three bucks and raise you another two."

They continued adding to the pot until both had no money left. "How about I make you a deal? Loser has to streak through the halls," Namie said, a wicked grin plastered on her face.

"In front of the boys' rooms."

"Deal."

"Deal."

"Okay, on the count of three, we both show our cards."

"No need," Sakura said with a smile. "I already know I won." She set her cards down on the bed in front of her. "Straight flush!" Namie began laughing, and Sakura glared at her. "What are you laughing at? The fact that you lost?"

"No," Namie said between bursts of laughter. "I'm laughing at the fact that you think you won!" She set her cards on top of the pile of money and finally eased up on her laughing. "Royal flush!"

Sakura's eyes widened, and she flopped onto her pillow in defeat. "Can we forget about the streaking thing?"

"Hell no!" She tugged at Sakura's shirt. "Strip! Now!"

"But…"

"If you don't, I'll freeze you and strip you myself…and I know you wouldn't like that, because I'd be cutting your clothes off."

"Okay, okay!"

Sakura gulped then slowly stripped down until she was in her bra and underwear. "Can I just go like this?"

"Nope! Off with it all!"

After a couple minutes of preparation, Sakura finally peeled off her bra and underwear and walked up to the door. Namie grabbed the handle and flung the door open, causing Sakura to wrap her arms around her self in a pathetic attempt to hide her nakedness.

"Start running!"

Sakura jumped as her butt was whipped with her own bra then she began running down the hallway, keeping her feet as quiet as possible. Namie followed closely behind her, and, when they reached the guys' section of rooms, she began pounding on the doors.

"Namie!" Sakura turned to glare at the ice-eyed girl but quickly turned back as she saw the first door beginning to open. "You bitch!"

"It's what I do best!" Namie laughed maniacally as Sakura continued to run down the hallway, hoping to avoid stares from all of the guys being woken up by Namie.

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Hahaha…I'm evil! So, what'd you think? I want at least one review for the chapter, or I'm not going to update, okay? Is that really so much to ask? As long as I get a review, the story will be updated as soon as I get the chance to write the next chapter, which might be a while, since school's back on…but if I get it before the long weekend is up, I might be encouraged to write and post the next chapter by Monday!