kawaii-firestar- Yay!!! Chapter 4 everyone! It would have gotten out sooner but when your computer crashes what can you do? A big thanks to my reviewers! A special thanks to mikannatsume. The huge list of names was cool and I used one of them for the worker. Thankseveryone and onto chapter 4!
"We must be off!" Lee cried, tugging on Chouji's arm with all his might. It seemed that even Rock Lee's super-trained muscles didn't have enough strength to move a member of the Akimichi clan.
"Six large Cotton Candy on a stick," Chouji ordered, ignoring his bowl cut haired companion completely. He glanced at the golden name tag pinned to the striped shirt of the girl in front of him. "Misaki," he said to be polite. He had enough experience to know that you shouldn't be rude to the one making the glorious wonder of your food.
"Right away sir," the female worker responded. She wore an uniform similar to the Dunk Tank worker but it had blue stripes to compliment the bubblegum pink, pastel purple, and sky blue of the Cotton Candy stand. "Oh sir," Misaki started, ending her retreat to the back by turning to her customer again. "What colors would you prefer?" She gestured towards to three bagged samples with colors matching the stands.
Chouji thought for a second while trying to block out the incessant nagging of the youth-loving male next to him. "Just give me two of each," he decided.
"Of course sir." With that, she disappeared into the back of the Cotton Candy stand to make the fluffy sugar we've come to know and love.
"Please!" Lee pleaded, being noticed for the first time in two minutes. "I must help restore my fellow ninja's youthful flame! It will bring them such everlasting joy tha-" The ranting teen stopped. His circular eyes grew even larger as he spotted something behind Chouji's shoulder.
Chouji sighed in relief. Lee had finally shut up. His tortured ears could rest for the first time in twenty minutes.
At this time, the Cotton Candy worker came back, said sugary treats in hand. "Here you are sir," she said, handing Chouji the Cotton Candy.
Stuffing two in his pockets, two in his headband/hat thing, and keeping the last two in his hands, Chouji thanked her and turned towards Lee. Okay this was weird. Lee was in the same position as earlier: frozen, looking over Chouji's shoulder with huge saucer eyes.
"Are you okay?" Chouji asked, waving a Cotton Candy filled hand in front of the un-moving teens face. His only answer was a shaky hand pointing behind him.
Chouji turned around and took a bite out of the purple fluff in his hand. He squinted at the two approaching figures in ninja attire. Sasuke and Sakura were headed straight towards the Cotton Candy stand. In other words, they were walking towards them. If Chouji and Lee were to hook up the couple they couldn't be seen no matter what! And here Lee was, standing still practically asking if they could be spotted.
Chouji sighed again but this time it was in annoyance. He swallowed the rest of the Cotton Candy in his right hand and grabbed Lee with his now free hand. Throwing the thoroughly shocked Bushy Brows in the row of bushes behind the pastel-colored stand, Chouji told the pinstriped worker something. Once he saw Misaki nod in agreement, Chouji wasted no more time. He dived into the bushes just as the Uchiha and Haruno approached the stand.
"Sasuke, why did you do that?" Sakura asked, sounding extremely exhausted. The rosette shifted her attention onto the Cotton Candy worker. "One small pink Cotton Candy please?"
"Coming right up!" Misaki chirped and disappeared into the back again.
Sakura turned back to the stoic teen next to her. "Well Sasuke Uchiha?" she asked, putting obvious anger in her voice to show her withering patience.
Sasuke almost winced at the tone of her voice. It was just like the one his mother used when he did something stupid like practice his fireball jutsu in the kitchen. He quickly shrugged off the feeling. "He was annoying," Sasuke answered point blank, shoving his hands deeper into his pockets.
Sakura sighed. "Sasuke, he's the Strongman. He's supposed to lift weights and gloat about it."
"He called me weak."
Well, the Uchiha still had that little ego problem, didn't he?
"That still didn't give you the right to chuck a 2000lb weight at his head while yelling 'Are you strong enough to catch this, dumb ass?!'" Sakura scolded, trying to hold in her laughter, yet failing. Thinking back, he did have it coming to him.
A loud crash followed by a dull thud snapped Sakura out of her thoughts.
"Oh no!" Misaki cried. She was leaning out of her stands back window. The bushes that hid two shinobi were under her.
Chouji had asked her if he and Lee could borrow the CD player he had seen in the stand. She didn't ask any questions and nodded dumbly. So here she was, leaning through a window, worrying because she just dropped the heavy, loaf of bread sized CD player onto Rock Lee's poor defenseless head. It was a good thing he used so much hair grease to maintain that creepy bowl shape, or else that impact would have done more than knock him out.
"I'm sorry," Misaki whispered to Lee's limp form.
"What was that?" Sakura's concerned voice rang throughout the stand.
Misaki shot up at the sudden noise, accidentally banging her head on the windowsill. She clutched the blue and white cap on her head in pain. "Oh I just dropped my box full of Cotton Candy recipes that's all!" she shouted, trying to keep the pain out of her voice. "Your Cotton Candy will be up soon!" She quickly grabbed a paper cone and began twirling the pink fluff that had formed in the odd machine around it.
"It's taking her too long," Sasuke grumbled.
"She's probably just picking up her Cotton Candy recipes," his pink haired companion reasoned. Something clicked in Sakura's head at her statement. "Hey Sasuke," she started. He looked at her. "Is there such a thing? A Cotton Candy recipe I mean."
Sasuke shrugged. "I wouldn't know. I've never had Cotton Candy before."
"What?!?!?!" Two screams rang out, so high pitched that only a girl could be capable of doing so.
Great. She just had to come back now. A certain navy haired ninja thought in annoyance.
"How could you not have had Cotton Candy before?" Misaki asked in utter disbelief. She turned towards Sakura and replaced her open gaping mouth with a large smile. "Your Cotton Candy ma'am." She extended the arm with the sugary treat at the end of it and Sakura took it thankfully. Misaki glanced over at Sasuke but switched her gaze to Sakura soon after.
She had a plan.
"Ma'am if you don't mind me saying, I'd let him try some of yours." She smiled innocently and disappeared into the back of the stand once again.
"That's a good idea!" Sakura praised. She turned towards Sasuke and ripped off a piece of the sweet fluff. The rosette held it out for Sasuke to take.
Instead of grabbing it like Sakura had expected, he stared at it as if it were poisoned. First Neji with the comb and now Sasuke with Cotton Candy? Prodigy's these days...
Sakura's mouth curved into a slight pout. "C'mon eat it Sasuke," she urged while edging the pink fluff closer to the Uchiha's emotionless face. To Sakura's disappointment, he shook his head. "Sasuke!" she whined. "Just eat the Cotton Candy!"
"No Sa-" Sasuke was silenced as the Cotton Candy was shoved into his open mouth.
Sakura smirked at her victory. She watched as Sasuke's eyes lit up at the taste of sugar and then they burnt out just as fast.
Sasuke looked at his team mate in confusion. Was that genjutsu or something? "Where'd it go Sakura?" Yes, even the great Sasuke Uchiha didn't know everything.
Sakura laughed softly at his five-year-old antics. "Sasuke, Cotton Candy is pure sugar. Once it meets the saliva in your mouth it dissolves," she explained in her all-knowing voice.
Sasuke scoffed. "Sugar isn't fluffy." And to believe she was laughing at him. Psh! He wasn't stupid.
The rosette fought off the uncontrollable urge to laugh. "They use a machine to turn colored sugar from packets into fluff."
Not finding a reply to her correct explanation, Sasuke gave a small "Hn." in reply. He saw Sakura lift a dainty hand up to her mouth so her fit of giggles would at least be muffled. His onyx eyes followed her hand as it traveled back down to the miracle sugar he just previously tasted. He remembered the pleasant ring on his taste buds when the sweet fluff reached them. How he wanted to taste the Cotton Candy again! The fact that the said sugary substance was less than an arm's length away didn't help the situation at all.
Sakura had an odd felling. It was as if she was being watched-no... more like the thing in her hand was being watched. She looked over at the only person there at the moment and saw that Sasuke was staring intently at her Cotton Candy. Whether he knew he was or not, she didn't know.
The kunoichi smiled and held the Cotton Candy out to him. "Want some more?"
Snapping out of his sugar filled haze, Sasuke looked up at Sakura's smiling face. Keeping his cool calm demeanor, Sasuke nodded and eagerly reached for the pink candy.
Almost instantly, low romantic music began playing. It was just instruments. No voices. No cheesy lyrics. Just pure music. Even though it was the type of music to be played in a dimly lit room it set the mood perfectly and seemed to come out of no where giving it the 'Surprise! I love you!' message. Yep, it was perfect. The effect would be completely ruined if the couple knew that it was just Chouji pressing the 'play' button on the CD player with a still unconscious Lee at his feet, but as I said before, they didn't know that.
The two Konoha ninja looked around confusedly for a few seconds before deciding the Cotton Candy needed their attention much more than the music did.
This was a new sensation to Sasuke. The first bite of Cotton Candy was his first time eating sugar. I know! How could he have lived? Well, the Uchiha's never had any form of sugar in their house because Itachi loathed the sweet crystal with every fiber of his being. Once the sugar hater killed the whole clan, Sasuke never had the chance to know how wonderful it was. Therefore, whenever he had to buy food he ignored sugar completely. Damn the things he missed! The sudden jolt of flavor was pure ecstasy and once the Cotton Candy dissolved, the lingering feeling only made the young Uchiha yearn for more.
Eat more is exactly what he did.
Sakura had the urge to laugh again. Right before her was Sasuke Uchiha going gaga over something as simple as pink Cotton Candy. It was classic. It really was.
Within a few minutes the Cotton Candy was down to its last pink tuft.
Sasuke reached out for it but his efforts were in vain.
Sakura smiled happily while the Cotton Candy in her mouth slowly dissolved. The last bite did always taste the best.
Onyx eyes widened in shock. The sweet sweet sugar was gone! How could someone of his stature have let this tragedy happen? He was an Uchiha and Uchiha's don't let people walk over them! Sakura was about to face the wrath of a sugar crazed teenager that was for sur-hold that thought.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes to get a clearer line of vision. So I wasn't hallucinating. Right before him was the last piece of Cotton Candy. It was going completely unnoticed by the young kunoichi and that was exactly what Sasuke needed. The only problem was that the Cotton Candy was on... Sakura's lips.
He couldn't eat it now!
Sure, Sasuke still harbored feelings for the pink haired medic but she couldn't possibly like him after the whole betraying Konoha and only coming back because Naruto dragged his sorry ass back to the village thing. Hell he wouldn't forgive himself so why would she? Easy. She's Sakura.
That was all he needed to know.
Sasuke's eyes were glued to the pink fluff resting on Sakura's equally pink lips. He knew the probable consequences but damn it looked so tempting! Maybe just this once...
Sakura blinked. Why was Sasuke looking at her like that? He hadn't talked ever since she explained how Cotton Candy was made and now he was staring at her. Yeah, she liked the attention but he was Sasuke. The only reason he could possibly be looking at her would be if something was on her face. Was there?
She reached a delicate hand up to her face to find the answer of her previous question. The hand reached her lips first since they were one of the lowest points on her face. Instantly, Sakura felt the sticky fluff Sasuke's eyes were currently glued to.
Realization hit and the rosette lowered her hand so she could lick the Cotton Candy off her mouth.
She's not. Sasuke threatened in his head, subconsciously glaring as if she would get the hint. Sakura didn't catch on, the Uchiha soon noticed when her bubblegum pink tongue peeked out from between her lips. His eyes widened. She is!
Sasuke acted on impulse and quickly lowered his face down to Sakura's. His lips crashed onto hers and he instantly felt the pink haired girl stiffen in shock. Using this as an advantage, Sasuke darted his tongue out from his own lips and lapped up the last remaining piece of fluffed sugar on Sakura's lips.
Once he made sure none of the sweet substance remained, Sasuke slowly-if reluctantly-broke the kiss. He licked his lips to taste every last piece of sugar. Wow... he really was deprived as a child.
"Yes I'm recording this," Misaki whispered to Chouji, keeping her volume as low as she possibly could. The video camera in her hand was beginning to feel heavy and the strain was starting to take over.
Ever since she retreated to the back of her wonderful stand, Misaki was conned into filming the fateful scene between the two teens. From Sakura force feeding Sasuke the first bite of Cotton Candy to the kiss, Misaki had kept the camera perfectly still. Fifteen minutes of stillness while constant paranoia peeled at you to not get caught was torture.
Why was she even doing this?
These people were total strangers and they were demanding so many things of her. She so deserved a raise for all this! Stupid matchmaker instinct all carnival employees were required to have...
A slap snapped Misaki out of her thoughts. She inched her head closer to the video camera. What's going on? Slapping should have nothing to do with kissing. Unless... "Sir," she said, tilting her head toward Chouji. He looked at her, a piece of Cotton Candy still stuffed in his mouth. "Tone down the music. The mood is definitely ruined."
Sakura was pissed.
Sasuke had decided this right when she slapped him. Right now, he was frozen, his head stuck in a sharp angle while a bruise rested on his cheek. Five, ten minutes, he didn't know how long he stood there. The only thing Sasuke knew was that when he turned back towards Sakura, he wished he hadn't.
"You kissed me!" she yelled, pointing out the obvious. "You kissed me! Not because you wanted to either! Of course some stupid little piece of Cotton Candy is so important that you have to kiss a girl to stop her from eating it first! I bet you'd kiss any girl if you'd get Cotton Candy, wouldn't you Sasuke?" Sakura stopped momentarily to see Sasuke's reaction. His emotionless face just fueled her anger. "Well fine! All other girls are probably shallow enough not to care because you're Sasuke Uchiha. Well let me tell you something you pompous bastard!" She jabbed a finger on his chest at the insult. "I'm not like those other girls! If you kiss me then you have to mean it! What do you say to that?"
Feeling satisfied, Sakura crossed her arms across her chest and waited for the 'pompous bastard's' reply. What Sakura didn't expect was a sharp tug on her arm and the same feeling of Sasuke's lips on hers.
Cue the music.
He pulled away sooner than before. After all, he wasn't on a mission to clean off every piece of Cotton Candy from Sakura's lips this time around.
The pink haired kunoichi opened her previously closed eyes and saw a smirking Uchiha looking right back at her.
"How was that?"
For a second, Sakura was dumbfounded by his question but she quickly was struck with an idea. She fisted his shirt in her hands and put on a fake glare. "I said to kiss me like you meant it."
He didn't need to be told twice.
kawaii-firestar- And done! Now the next chapter might take a while because when I'm most likely to get done with it I'm going on vacation to my aunt's cabin and I doubt my cousin will let me borrow the computer. Reviews make me smile! D
