Chapter 4

"Looks like Mr Taiki was very pleased with the way you handled this mission boys" praised the hokage, it had taken 3 days but finally they had arrived home. Sai was smiling but really he was feeling very depressed. Sasuke looked expressionless at tsunade.

"You are both dismissed" said tsunade; sasuke bowed to tsunade and immediately left the room leaving sai alone.

"Sai are you alright?" asked tsunade as she looked at one of the few documents that usually littered her desk.

"Yeah I'm good" Sai replied quickly, too quickly.

"The mission was alright wasn't it not?" asked tsunade still not looking up at the pale boy.

"It was good, alright lady tsunade" whispered sai.

"But you do not look very happy, you should be happy, you have another good mission report" tsunade said.

"I know I should be, I'm just a little tired that's all" whispered sai looking indeed drawn. Tsunade stopped reading her scroll and clasped her fingers together.

"Listen sai, I know that ROOT doesn't really approve of this, but I am the hokage and I order you to rest up for a while before going back to them, chill out, go home for a while, get a lady friend to hang out with" whispered tsunade "You're only human for crying out loud, of course you will get tired".

"But what about danzo?" asked sai suddenly petrified.

"I will deal with danzo if he asks where you are" said tsunade firmly.

"Thank you lady tsunade, I 'am very grateful" gushed sai, he bowed and left the office.

Sai decided to go back to his apartment and have a lovely hot bath and then he would hit the town tonight to look for a serious girlfriend. He had decided that after having a lot of heartache from being with guys he would give the girls at least a try. He went home, bathed and went back out. Konoha looked nice at night, sai being usually situated inside the ROOT headquarters never really was allowed to wonder the streets. He decided to visit a local bar.

It was rowdy inside, there was music playing and couples dancing away, he felt guilty that he had lied to sasuke about being betrothed to someone, he didn't know what else to say, if he said that his last boyfriend had used him and left him sasuke would have frowned and thought him promiscuous as he thought all homosexuals. Sai sat down and ordered sake. Sai wasn't promiscuous as were some of the gay community in konoha, he was in fact cautious but he tended to warm up to people too quickly and he would always pay for it later on when all the dude wanted to do was have sex with him, he started to wonder if a girl would abuse him like that.

"Are you done with that?" asked a feminine voice, sai looked up and saw an attractive blonde haired girl with her hair in a ponytail, and she had blue cerulean eyes, and was wearing a waitress uniform.

"No, but when do you finish?" asked Sai becoming flirtatious.

"Pardon me?" asked the girl a little unsettled.

"Sorry I couldn't resist letting a beautiful girl like you go" retracted sai sensing how the abruptness of his words had unsettled her.

"Oh, in that case I finish at 11, why do you ask?" said the girl blushing slightly.

"What's your name?" asked sai.

"Ino, what about you?" asked Ino looking coyly at sai.

"Sai" replied sai.

"Well sai, you are welcome to wait for me" said Ino and winking; she turned on her heel and skipped off. Sai watched her go and admitted to himself that she was rather attractive.

(Meanwhile)

"Do you Sasuke Uchiha take Sakura haruno, to be your lawful wedded wife?" asked the priest, sasuke who was standing in front of a small congregation that included his betrothed's father and mother, he nodded sakura nodded as well.

"Then I pronounce you both man and wife" announced the priest "You may kiss the bride" sasuke leaned forward to peck sakura on the cheek, sakura smiled up at him, sasuke smiled back.

(A few days later)

"The photos came out nice" said sakura as she and sasuke sat on their couch in their own flat looking at a photo album that was open on her lap, sasuke sat beside her with one hand behind her head.

"Next thing to come is children" sakura whispered.

"Yes of course" sasuke said. Sakura looked at sasuke's nervous face and kissed him on the lips; she pecked him first then sat on his lap and began snogging him more passionately. Sasuke was stunned again about how soft another's lips felt on his own, he was about to hold onto sakura to support her when she leapt off of him.

"I'm going to the shower, do you want to follow me?" she giggled and she skipped into the room to undress.

"Sasuke! I need help to unbutton my dress" she called a few moments later, sasuke nervously got up and went to help her to unbutton her dress, he slowly pulled down her dress to expose her unblemished pale skin underneath, he brought the front down to show her bra and knickers and she stepped out of her dress.

"Unbuckle my bra?" she asked. Sasuke again unhooked her bra that revealed a lustrous set of breasts, sasuke immediately was stunned to discover that his hormones went into overdrive as soon as he saw her perfectly small arse.

"Now to go for a shower" sakura said and smiling knowingly at sasuke she went into the shower. Sasuke waited for a while and then began to quickly undress and then he went into the shower room. It was hot inside; sasuke saw sakura standing in the shower, gently soaping her body, gently pouring water over her pale breasts and body. Sasuke pulled his boxers down quickly and tossed them to one side. Then he joined her. She immediately slapped her buttocks against his member, which began to twitch with hidden pleasure. She teasingly did it again while trying not to laugh.

"Are you alright?" she asked her lips curving discreetly.

"It's just, I've never done this before" sasuke whispered. Sakura gave a hearty laugh and turned to face sasuke; she kissed him on the lips and whispered.

"Don't worry, I'll teach you".

(Sai at the restaurant)

"Hi there, so you did wait!" cried Ino, she had changed her work uniform back to her normal ninja attire which had been slightly modified to her creative dress style with her headband protector on her waist acting as both belt and accessory.

"Yes of course! I said I would wait" said sai.

"So do you want to come back to my place for a quick drink?" asked Ino, nervously twirling her finger around the strand of hair that fell nicely in her face.

"Sure" replied sai and got up, he placed her arm through his, like a real gentleman and they both made their way back to Ino's apartment.

Ino's flat was very clean; everything had its place, in the living room there was a kitchen as well as a door leading off into the bedrooms. Ino went straight to the kitchen to get a bottle of wine out of the fridge whilst sai sat down on the settee.

"How long have you been working at the bar? Aren't you a ninja" asked sai trying to make some kind of conversation. He felt weird being in someone's house, for someone to warmly welcome him into their apartment, just to get to know him surprised him so much.

"I am. I just do this to keep myself busy, what do you do?" asked Ino finally unscrewing the cap off the bottle of wine and coming to sit beside sai.

"I'm in ROOT" replied sai.

"Oh that crazy ninja training place? I heard that danzo guy isn't to be trusted" gasped ino.

"He isn't" said sai.

"Then why do you carry on training there?" asked ino.

"I made a promise to my older brother that I wouldn't let him get to me, plus the money is good" explained sai.

"I see. So do you have a girlfriend?" asked Ino.

"I used to have a boyfriend, but not anymore" said sai.

"So you're gay?" asked Ino uneasily.

"I'm bisexual, I haven't found the right person in either sex" answered sai calmly.

"So you are single then?" asked ino sounding relieved.

"Yes" stated sai.

"Do you find me attractive? Honestly?" asked Ino again twirling her fingers around the strand of blonde hair that dangled from her hair.

"I do very much, you're the first girl that I can honestly say, that I find very attractive" said sai looking ino straight in the face.

"It's funny. You remind me of someone I used to like" Ino whispered.

"Who?" asked Sai.

"Sasuke Uchiha, it's a shame that he's married now" Ino said.

"His… married" stammered sai.

"Yes he sealed the deal today, my heart completely broke" said ino forlornly "Why did you know him?"

"We had a few missions together" whispered sai.

"Ha! Did he break your heart too?" asked Ino teasingly, gently tapping sai on the hand.

"He sure did" said sai but he smiled so as not to let her see how seriously she had broken his heart with the announcement she had just made.

"You… have such a lovely smile" blushed ino stroking sai's face, sai stopped smiling and blushed.

"Am I your first girl?" asked Ino maintaining eye contact with sai.

"Yes… you are" stammered Sai trying not to look her in her eye, he was feeling a series of emotions he had never felt before.

"Sai I find you very attractive, would you like to go out on dates sometimes?" asked Ino.

"You find me – yes of course" babbled sai. Ino leaned forward and pecked him on the lips and then they continued to talk all throughout the night while sipping on the wine in front of them.

THE END