A/N: No excuses! Sorry for the delay. I can't believe it's been a year. School work. Laziness. Etc. So here's a very long chapter dedicated to you. Thanks for the reviews, man! I'm trying to improve my writing skills. My writing may not be that much different from a year ago, and I'm very sorry for that… I'm disappointed in myself. I'm going into high school. Can you believe that! Can't believe that summer is almost over. Hate.
Disclaimer: I don't own. I just don't! Forgot the disclaimers on Transformers, Proposal, & Harry Potter, which I also don't own. Oh and don't forget the candies from the last chapter. I wish I own some of those candies. Sugar-high to the max! I own the "Pop goes the weasel," though since I don't know a movie like that and since Deidara directed it.
SugarBabes
-Ryu-Nom
"This chocolate taste like crap."
"Excuse me?" asked Sakura. No one ever said that about a latte before since they knew it was made by the hands of Jiraiya, who even though is a pervert, is the 'King of all sugary sweetness' and the fact that it was the best in town.
"You heard me. And I am not repeating myself," he glared at her, thinking that she may be one of his fan-girls. Her left eye twitched at his rudeness. She didn't expect this kind of behavior from anyone when she signed up to work here. If she yelled at him, Tsunade might fire her and this is practically the best job she ever had. Instead she took a best way to not voice her thoughts.
Grabbing the latte and drinking a sip from it on the side she stated, "It tastes fine. I don't see anything wrong with it."
"Someone's sassy. What's up with your hair? Such an ugly color. What are you doing still standing here, you want an autograph or something?" This made her blood boil and her ears red with fury.
"What the hell did you say, pretty boy! How dare you make fun of my hair when yours is similar to a chicken's ass!" the blood that was going to her ears was going down to her face making it heat up in anger. This jackass was really making her blood boil. She wanted to punch his face just to get rid of that smug look, but she felt like screaming at him is going to get her in enough trouble. If he thinks he can get away with insulting her, he has another thing coming. No one insults the ill-tempered Sakura Haruno, who somehow took after her boss' insane strength after all these years.
"I. don't. like. re-pea-ting. Myself," he said slowing down the syllables like he was speaking to a child. That was the last straw. Steam was already coming out of her ears from frustration. She grabbed the cup, and before he had a chance to react, she threw the latte on his face. Naruto showed a surprise look while having a spoon hanging out of his mouth and whip cream covering every part of his face.
The other boys' companion had a smirk plastered on his face. Interesting girl. No one had ever done that to the Uchiha before. Sasuke, who was just surprised as the two, couldn't think. Until a second later, where he furiously stood up looking at the pink-haired girl like she was crazy.
"What the hell?" Sakura just laughed inwardly at his reaction and just smirked at him.
"Ahem." Uh. Oh. She quickly turned around at the voice and saw Tsunade watching her with narrowed eyes and her arms crossed firmly on her heavy looking bosoms.
"Sakura, what. did you. just. do? Tsunade ground out looking at the messed surrounding the young lad. Suddenly, Sakura's palms started sweating and her mouth started to get dry as her brained finally clicked on exactly what she had done. Tsunade was going to yell at her, and was going to die, she just knew it.
"Um… nothing," Sakura laugh sheepishly, trying to cover the incident even though it was obvious. Sasuke, who had trouble cleaning his hair stared at Sakura and Tsunade. Tsunade grabbed a hold of Sakura's shoulder and turned him around to face the mess she caused. "Apologize," she said sternly. Sakura mumbled and Tsunade shook her, "Say it loudly and like you mean it."
Sakura bowed and robotically said, "I am so very sorry," and smiled up at Sasuke. "May I get you anything?"
"Change your attitude and wipe my hair," Sasuke commanded. The vain on her forehead was throbbing. What was up with this guy? Tsunade pushed her forwards ordering her to do it, since she was the one who cause this scene anyways. She leaned towards Sasuke, with the table in between them, trying to catch the droplets with the napkin, which was unsuccessful since her arms were too short.
"Uh… Ano, excuse me. Can you let me through?" She asked the guy who had his pearl colored eyes set on her the whole time.
"Sakura-chan?" Naruto said― standing up before the other guy could― so she could get to Sasuke, while Sakura passed Naruto, he could hear her muttering incoherent things such as 'Stupid bastard. Stupid man. Stupid Uchiwa.' He snickered at the last one. She was sure funny and slightly odd because of the fact that she never seem to fawned over them like some people at the café, who happen to be taking pictures and whispering to each other while pointing in their directions (too afraid to go up to the group of gentlemen in person). The abnormal thing about her is that she doesn't recognized them at all.
Sakura kept on patting away at Sasuke's smug face and patted a little too hard on his cheek causing him to winced.
"Now. Now."
"You're just lucky that I'm broke and need this job to survive."
"No attitude remember?"
"Fortunately, the latte wasn't too hot and didn't ruined that pretty face of yours."
After she finished and the grumblings here and there, she slid away from him to come up and standing in front of Naruto, who kept on eating despite the situation. Tsunade watched her
Tsunade who stood over Sakura said, "I am sorry for what my employee did to you," she then
tugged Sakura towards the counter and hissed slightly, "Remember what I told you last time?" Sakura shut her eyes tightly and nodded. She prepared for the word "FIRED'" come out of Tsunade's mouth. Instead she only heard a slight intake of breath from the other woman.
"Orochimaru?"
"My my my. Long time no see, Tsunade. It seems that your waiter disturbed my client." Sakura twisted around from her manager's gripped and saw a thin sick looking man standing before her. He was staring at Tsunade with snake-like eyes and had a creepy smile plastered on his face, his straight black hair was swaying every time he's head moved. Client? He better not be talking about that Uchiwa kid. Sasuke walked towards them followed by Naruto and coffee colored hair guy.
"What the hell are you doing here, Orochimaru?" Why the hell is everyone connected to this guy! Sakura thought, her head pounding from the frustration.
"Don't speak to your agent like that, Sasuke-kun. I came here looking for you. You have another shoot today." Sasuke stayed impassive.
"Shoot?" Sakura voiced in.
"Yeah, Sakura-chan. Teme, here is the leading actor for a new movie that's coming out. So he has a photo shoot promoting the movie and crap." Uchiwa? Movie? Uchiha Sasuke? WHAT. THE HELL?
"You're SASUKE UCHIHA?" Sakura pointed a shaky finger at him, while he only grunted at her.
"Maybe seeing my presence made your brain not function correctly if it took you that long to figure it out."
"Why you little, stuck up bastard," Sakura growled out making Naruto snicker and the pearl eyed man chuckle in amusement. Sasuke twitched at having a girl insult him― since he wasn't used to having the opposite gender being angry at him― especially not pink haired ones.
"SAKURA!" The girl in Tsunade's arms flinched at her voice. The girl then realized what her actions lead up to and started begging, "Please Tsunade-shishou! Don't fire me!" Tsunade sighed and Naruto cut in when she was about to say something to calm her down.
"Come on Baa-chan! It's technically not her fault, it's mostly Teme's."
"Shut it, Dobe!"
"I'm not a baa-chan, idiot! Sakura, I wasn't even going to fire you."
"Uh?"
"Come on, Sasuke-kun. We'll be late as it is." Orochimaru waltz out the door, motioning for Sasuke to follow him, in which he sighed and walked out behind the pale man. Naruto ran out yelling they'll be back later and the last guy, who happen to be the only one who hasn't spoken a word yet stopped in front of them and gave the back of Sakura's hand a chaste kiss saying he was sorry for his companions' behavior and that he'll come back later to repay them for the troubles, leaving a stunned Sakura holding the hand he kissed.
"Tsunade-mama?"
"…Hm?"
"Whose Orochimaru?"
"He was one of my colleagues that I met in middle school. I even had a crush on him, but then his bastard-self made me despise him. Now he's a top agent for stars everywhere. Including that Uchiha brat, you seem to dislike." Oh. "Oh yeah. I wasn't going to fire you, I was going to suspend you for a couple days, but now that I found out that bastard is managing that kid I'm not going to do that because some of his bastardness probably rubbed up on that brat." Sakura sweat dropped at this.
"Right. Anyways, where's Kiba and Ino?" Sakura asked seeing as both of her friends disappeared from her view as soon as she started serving people.
"They're in the lounge. I told them that Jiraiya brought in a video game console. So they're testing it out." So Ino missed out on the whole scene. HAHA.
Sakura headed to the back towards the lounge room and opened the door to hear Kiba and Ino yelling at each other while their eyes are glued firmly on the screen of the television.
"Uh… You guys? I almost got suspended." With a grunt from the two and mumbling of a whatever. She walked in front of the them blocking their view of the game. When both heard "Game over." They snapped out of their trance and glared at the pink-haired teen.
"What was that for?"
"Ino… You just missed out on a gossip-worthy event."
"Uh? And do tell what that would be?"
"I almost got fired," with a 'Not a surprise there' from Ino, Sakura continued, "because I threw a drink at Sasuke Uchiha."
"…WHAT! That's not true. If it is I could kill you right now!"
"Well, I better prepare for my funeral then."
Kiba who was looking back and forth from a sarcastic Sakura and the babbling buffoon of a Ino, interrupted them with, "Who the hell is Sasuke Uchiha?"
Ignoring him Ino went on, "Why would a hottie like Sasuke-kun be here, and why would you freaking throw a drink at his beautiful face?"
"He's an ignorant stuck-up jackass that almost caused me to lose my job because the latte didn't fit his needs! He just pushed my buttons and so for payback, I threw the latte at him because he insulted me."
Sakura huffed and Ino just gaped at her.
"That can't be true."
"Fine if you don't believe me, then ask Tsunade-mama herself or other people who saw the scene." Ino sighed and almost started back again, but Sakura stopped her, "Come on you guys, it's been busy today, Sugarbabes is starting to crowd up, and I really could use your help."
"Fine fine." Kiba and Ino both stood up grabbing extra aprons from the end of the couch and tied it around their waists. Walking out, the two found out that Sakura wasn't exaggerating. The place was, in fact, packed probably because of the fact that the three, who were in a 100 most gorgeous celebrity list, were there.
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When it reached around 9:30, less people filled the shop. Chairs were stacked upside down on the single tables all except for a couple. Kiba who wore nothing, but a black t-shirt (after spilling a drink on himself and having cake splattered on his regular clothes he came in with, he decided to grabbed the extra clothes kept at the back― with the signature chibi chef of the café and the name written in pink), and the apron still wrapped tightly on his waist, currently had his left elbow propped up on the table with his hand holding his face up, he was sleeping which you could clearly tell from the drooling. Sakura was tickling his face with the feather part of her pen, giggling each time his nose twitch. She seemed to be drawing what looked like a pig eating bacon to passed the time by since half the people from earlier already left.
Ino, who was behind the counter the whole time, walked towards Sakura holding two cups of hot chocolate. She grabbed a chair from another table and put it near Sakura.
"So… Karaoke night?" Sakura stopped herself from tickling Kiba once again to face Ino.
"Yeah. Tsunade-mama said that the theme this time is in the sixties and seventies."
"Are you going?"
"No. I want to stay home after I finished setting everything up."
"You're such a party-pooper. Stay and live a little!"
"Hai. Hai. I'll see," Sakura waved her off.
After people started leaving and when the last customer left, Sakura nudged Kiba to wake him up until she heard the bell ring signaling that someone just came in, "Sorry sir, but it's about time we clo-"
She never got a chance to finish her sentence when she saw who it was.
"Uzumaki-san?"
"Hi hi! Didn't I tell you to call me Naruto?" He grinned rubbing the back of his head. "Hey… um Ino!" Ino just waved him off trying to wake Kiba. "I didn't know you're friends with her, Sakura-chan," Sakura just nodded, ignoring the fact that every person she met seemed to be acquainted with Ino, "I heard you guys are having a Karaoke night?" Sakura bobbed her head up and down to confirmed his question. "So… um… do you want to be my date?" Ino choked on the cocoa she sipped and had a coughing fit while Sakura was turning as bright as a tomato, she really didn't know how to answer, she planned on ditching Ino and going home after she did finished decorating.
"Um, I don't know," she began until she saw the crestfallen face he had, "sure I guess." Naruto beamed at her saying that he'll meet her at seven just when Karaoke night started.
"WHAT ARE YOU! CRAZY!" Ino yelled at her when Naruto left their sight, "You're going to go out with the most idiotic person in the world! He's insufferable… He's stupid… He's a pig…And did I mention he's stupid?"
Sakura glared at her, trying to defend a person who she didn't really know, "From what I can see, Ino, is that he's kind and sweet! You probably don't even know anything about him. And you should be thanking him that I'm even going to Karaoke night!" Ino sighed and Kiba chose this time to wake up.
"Uh… What'd I miss?"
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RING RING.
"This is Sugarbabes, how may I help you?"
Sakura sighed at the lack of customers there were in the store. She was tired from last night, having to listen to Kiba's ramblings about not going out with a guy she barely knew, he didn't stop until they got to the apartment building, inside her apartment, and going as far as staying outside the bathroom when she was taking a shower (He was, of course, muffled by the door so she could barely hear him. She was tempted to stay in the shower so she wouldn't have go back and listen to him yelling at her, but she didn't want to risk herself turning into a prune) After that she kicked him out of her apartment saying if he didn't stop she wouldn't speak to him ever again, which they both knew was a lie, but it did keep him quiet.
"Sakuraaaa," Jiraiya drawled, "did you make the fliers yet?" Sakura nodded too tired to even speak, picking up the stack of papers near her she shoved them in his face for emphasis.
Jiraiya looked over the pink papers in his hands to see the signature logo except it was holding a microphone and had a smiling television near the baby like figure. Underneath it were the information:
SugarBabes' once a month Karaoke Night this Saturday.
7:00pm-12:00am
Let's go back to the psychedelic sixties/seventies!
For the theme, you are recommended to dress up and participate in the costume contest.
It's going to be a groovy night, baby!
For more info call us at (###-###-####)
Or come to Sugarbabes!
Jiraiya slapped her back with the papers earning a groan from the small stature hunched up on the counter. "Sakura, you should start passing these out and hanging them up before Tsunade gets back."
"Hai hai," Sakura stood up straight grabbing the fliers out of his hand, knowing that if she didn't get to passing these things out, then Tsunade would be angry at her, she was already at loose ends with the busty woman and another furious tirade from her will cause more stress. A fact about Sakura Haruno is that she did NOT like it when people were disappointed in her.
She grabbed a staple gun and took the stack of papers with her outside. Walking towards a wooden telephone pole at the end of the street, she set the papers on the ground, grabbing one, she stapled the paper onto the pole as fast as she could. After stapling papers onto random telephone poles, she walked into a grocery store and was about to ask if she could put one in the glass up front, but stopped when she saw the guy sleeping on the counter.
She put a hand on his shoulder and started shaking him awake. Sakura heard the figure groaned and swore that she heard him mumble out a "Troublesome." He scratched his cheek yawning out a how may I help you?
"Shikamaruuuu… Can I hang up a flier on the window?" Shikamaru shrugged and waved a hand at her signaling that she can, and throwing a scotch tape towards her. After putting the sign up, she gave one to the person who was watching her with a bored expression.
"Karaoke, eh?"
"Come on, Shika! It's going to be fun. Dress up!"
"Why are you so enthusiastic about? You usually aren't this happy when Karaoke night comes."
"Well, a guy ask me out to go with him," Sakura laughed sheepishly when Shikamaru's bored expression turned into a slightly serious one.
Shikamaru was one of the guys she grew up with, since he stayed in the same place all these years, they went to elementary school together, but didn't get to know each other until middle school having him and Kiba around as her "protectors." He may be lazy and most of the time useless (when he doesn't really want to do anything), but he was definitely smart and overly protective of Sakura. He had her to play shogi with and enjoyed it when they have intellectual conversations which mostly consisted of them arguing. As for the protective side, he must admit, maybe he took a little bit of liking towards the her, and maybe he didn't like it very much when she was around other guys who he didn't trust (Kiba for example. Even though Sakura and dog-boy were only friends, he would be likely to jump at her anytime.)
"I'll be there."
Walking around the corner headed towards the café, Sakura notice a black Porsche Carrera GT park nearby and screaming girls looking through the giant window― which showed what was going inside the place― surrounding it. She noticed two bulky guys were standing in front of the door and she didn't know if she can even get through them. So she tried, "Anooo, can I get through you guys? I kind of work here." When they didn't budge she tried to squeeze through in the middle which didn't really work seeing as they were standing side by side.
"Didn't you hear me? I work here." She glared up at them, considering they were taller than her.
"Uh-huh. That's what they all say," one of them said, Sakura flinched at how deep his voice was.
"But-but I really do work here. She held up the remaining fliers, and knowing it not might convinced them, she took out her work I.D. out of her pocket, now seeing how useful it really was (even though she said it was dumb at first). The two men looked at each other, and the other guard said, "If you jump on our client, we will have you extracted from this place."
Even though she wanted to roll her eyes at them, she just gulped seeing how they were intimidating and nodded her head.
When she got inside, she saw what the commotion was about. It was non other than the famous model/actor himself. ITACHI UCHIHA. -insert squeals from fan girls outside-
He looked right at her and knowing he was the brother of that bastard she glared at him since she assumed that he acted the same way as Sasuke, even though he's features betrayed what his personality could be.
"CUT!"
Sakura stopped looking at him and saw Deidara strolling towards her. "Hey, Sakura-chan! Are you here to watch the behind the scenes of my new movie?"
"New movie?"
"Yup. It's going to be a sequel of Pop goes the weasel," he winked at her, "No one knows about it yet, so keep it a secret, yeah."
"Why are you shooting here?" Sakura tilted her head and her eyebrows drew together in confusion.
"Well, when I met you, I got inspired. A lovers story involving pastry and cooking. Then I thought to myself, where can I find a wonderful pastry store? Then BAM. Your faced came into mind and Sugarbabes is THE place!"
"I don't think Tsunade-mama would like it if you use her place for a movie."
"Au contraire my dear, we contacted the manager, and she said it's an opportunity for promoting the café because it could attract more costumers," Itachi who sauntered over them awhile ago voiced in, seeing how the girl caught his attention by fiercely glaring at him. Sakura blushed, she then remembered him from "Pop goes the Weasel." Seeing him as one of the leading actors, she thought of him as a very attractive person and his acting abilities were flawless, but still doubt that his attitude isn't the same as his brother. When Deidara saw her blushed, he glared at him and put an arm around Sakura's shoulders. "So you're the girl that threw a hot coffee at my foolish otouto, aren't you? He kept going on about revenge on a stupid pink-haired wench yesterday. Of how you almost ruined his perfect face. He was like a storm, kept going on and on."
Sakura snorted knowing what he was talking about. Stupid Sasuke Uchiha. "Not my fault he's a stupid self-centered brat."
Itachi smirked, "How fascinating. No one ever seemed to dislike him so much as you. No wonder after he was in an angry rampage, he started planning out on how he should make you his. How you weren't like any other girls, and the fact that he wanted to marry you."
"You have got to be kidding me, I don't want to be married into a family full of rich snobby people, I'm only nineteen," Itachi raised an eyebrow at this, if a regular girl walked in, they would've taken this opportunity to gawked/stare/fawned over him or yell out that 'Sasuke-kun is finally mine!' He most certainly didn't expect this. Deidara was grinning from ear to ear seeing how his girl wasn't under the spell of Itachi's looks or that she didn't want to marry the weasel's stupid brother.
"Fascinating indeed. Tell me, little girl, if you've watched Pop goes the Weasel― which Deidara told me you enjoyed very much, why do you seem to not like me? Considering on how you glared at me when you walked in, I would've expected you to fawned over me." Itachi tilted his head to the side, and Sakura just downright glared at him again.
"I don't go gaga over guys especially not ones who are related to that beast aka your brother. You probably have the same attitude seeing as you both are blood-related, so you must be stuck-up and spoiled, aren't you?"
Itachi walked up to the point where he was hovering over her, he took her chin and tilted it upwards so she was directly looking into his eyes, and whispered, "I'm not the same as my foolish otouto." Deidara's eyes were wide seeing the young actor taking hold of the girl, but before he could react the door burst open revealing Sasuke and Naruto.
"Let go of her, you fiend!" the whiskered boy yelled out, and before the three lads killed the Itachi he quickly swooped down and kiss the living daylights out of Sakura.
BOOM BOOM.
SPARKS FLEW.
Haha. Just kidding. Or am I ?
End of chapter 4, boy my fingers are hurting from non-stop typing!
Next chapter, Karaoke night!
Give name suggestions of Sasuke's "New Movie." I have ideas for the next Karaoke night of the next month. I'm not too sure.. Do you guys want a Hawaii theme, with coconut bras? Or Lolita theme with roller skates? Go to my profile and vote! While you're there, you should check out my story "Bottle Pop." Nothing better to an ending than shameless advertising. Haha. Kidding.