CHAPTER 1
"THE STORY SO FAR"
-New Found Glory
In Konohagakure, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, there was a large training field where two people were training. One was a boy of about 13 with spiky black hair. He wore a dark blue shirt with a red and white fan on the back and tan shorts. The other, a girl, who resembled the boy but with long black hair down her back. She was the same age as the boy and wore a dark strapless top showing her stomach, which also had the fan, their clan's emblem, on the back. She also wore a very short skirt with the fan embroidered around the hem, bandages that went up her right harm and knee high boots.
"Come on Sasuke, I know you can do better." the girl said.
"Hn…"
"Okay, let's take a break then." The boy named Sasuke said nothing, but walked over to a big tree with two backpacks. He opened one up pulled out a water bottle, and sat down in the grass. The girl soon walked over and sat down next to him. She pulled some food out of the other bag. Both sat in silence for a while.
"Tamiko…" said Sasuke.
"Yeah?" replied the girl.
"What are we still doing in this village? We should be looking for Itachi…" Clenching his fists, he finished, "…and killing him."
"You know we aren't strong enough." Tamiko said. "We should stay in the Village and become stronger."
"How can you say that so calmly!" Sasuke said, his voice starting to rise. "He killed our clan! Our parents! And we couldn't stop him."
"I know how you feel, but we've just barely become ninja." she replied. "Maybe, someday soon, we will leave this Village. Soon we will kill him. But for now, we must train and become stronger. Please, just listen to me. Do you think our parents would have wanted this?" She looked away as she said this because the death of their parents had affected her as much as him.
"How will we ever know?" he said, "Because of him, we will never know." Tamiko sighed.
"Well, let's go for now. We've done enough training for today."
"Okay…" The two siblings rose to their feet and headed towards a very deserted section of the Village.
Early the next morning, Sasuke and Tamiko sat in their large dining room eating breakfast.
"So, do you have a mission today?" Tamiko asked.
"No, but I'm going to go and train." He replied.
"Well, I have a mission, so let's leave together."
They walked outside of the house, side by side into the heart of the Village. They soon stopped at a bridge. Nobody was there. Tamiko walked over and sat under a tree next to the bridge. Sasuke kept walking across the bridge and said his goodbyes. Tamiko watched him walk off and sighed. She then lay in the grass and looked up at the drifting clouds.
"It's so beautiful," she whispered to herself. She closed her eyes and slowly fell asleep. Time passed before she sensed someone coming towards her. Without even opening her eyes, she said, "Hey Yuuki."
"How did you know?" someone answered.
A boy with messy brown hair sticking out from under a black hat came from behind the tree and sat down next to Tamiko. He wore a black jacket and dark blue pants. Tamiko sat up and laughed.
"You're too predictable." She said. She stopped laughing and looked into his eyes. He did the same. A few seconds went by and she realized what she was doing. Smiling at him, she looked away blushing.
"She's so cute when she smiles." Yuuki thought.
"Tamiko, Yuuki!" called a voice. A girl came walking to over where Tamiko and Yuuki were sitting. She had very dark brown hair braided with red. Her skin was a lighter brown and she wore a black and red shirt with a stand-up collar that showed her stomach. She also had on shorts and a black and red piece of clothing that resembled a long skirt with large slits on the sides up to her waist.
"Hey, Kotone." they said together.
"Sorry I'm a bit late." The girl said.
"Hey, it's alright," said Tamiko. "Yuuki just got here too."
The three teens sat under the tree for a long time.
"Ahh!" yelled Tamiko. "Where's our teacher, Jiro-sensei?! Strange, he's always on time."
"Well, I just hope that he comes soon," said Kotone. "This is wasted training time." Yuuki did nothing but sigh and lay down. Tamiko, still sitting next to him also lay down.
"Tamiko should really show her feelings to Yuuk. Then maybe she won't talk about him all the time." thought Kotone. She remembered a conversation her and Tamiko had a while back:
Tamiko and Kotone were walking together around the village. Tamiko sighed.
"What's up?" Kotone asked knowing something was bothering Tamiko.Tamiko smiled
"I can't get him out of my mind…" she answered.
"Who? Yuuki?"
"Yeah." Tamiko replied, blushing and staring off into space.
Kotone watched Tamiko and Yuuki now. Tamiko fell right asleep, while Yuuki watched Tamiko sleep with a smile on his face.
"Heh, and I also know that Yuuki likes Tamiko too…" Kotone thought.A memory of a conversation between her and Yuuki also returned:
Tamiko fiercely spared with Jiro, their squad leader. Yuuki and Kotone watched them from afar.
"Wow, she is so pretty when she spars…" Yuuki said randomly. Kotone stared at him in surprise.
"So you do like Tamiko!" Kotone said.
"Huh? Did I say that out loud?" He said flushing. "Well, it's no use in denying it. But can you not tell her? I'm waiting for the right moment."
"Yeah, sure." she replied.
"So, you would know, does she like me too?" He asked, the pink tint deepening in his cheeks.
"I'm not telling. You'll find out when you tell her your feelings." She said.
"Fine." He sighed.
It seemed as if hours had gone by when a puff of smoke appeared, making the three of them look up. But, it wasn't their teacher. This man wore the green jounin vest also, but he had spiky silver hair, a black mask covering his mouth and nose and his Leaf headband hiding his left eye.
"You three all know that all the squad leaders are jounin and have separate missions right?" the man asked. Tamiko and Kotone nodded,confused, while Yuuki was drifting off to sleep. Kotone nudged him hard with her elbow. He looked up grumpily, rubbing his arm.The man continued. "Well, Jiro is on a mission. We're hoping he will return tomorrow. My name is Hatake Kakashi and I'm the teacher for team seven."
"So does this mean you're leading us on our mission today?" Tamiko asked.
"No. I just came to tell you that the mission was canceled and you will be training with your teacher tomorrow morning."
"You're more than 2 hours late!" said Kotone. "And it was just to tell us that?!"
"Well, yes." Kakashi said. "But I might be seeing you three later. Goodbye!" As quickly as he came, he left in a cloud of smoke. Tamiko sighed.
"That was weird."
"Hey, since we don't have a mission, let's all go get some ramen." Yuuki said looking at Tamiko. Kotone and Tamiko looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders.
"Sure, why not?" they responded together. The three students left the bridge and started to walk through the Village. They soon come across a park.
"Lets go through the park." suggested Kotone. "We can get there quicker that way."
They started to walk through the park, Kotone in the lead. She started to run ahead, leaving Yuuki and Tamiko together.
"This would be a great time to talk to her…" thought Yuuki. Yuuki grabbed Tamiko's hand and she looked at him curiously.
"Can we talk?" he asked nervously.
"Sure."
He let go of her hand and walked to a nearby bench under a large cherry blossom tree. Tamiko sat down next to him, still watching with a confused look on her face. For a few seconds of looking at him Tamiko, of the silence and looked up at the tree.
"Wow!" she said. "I love sakura trees. This one is almost as big as the one I have in my backyard."
"Tamiko…?"
"Yes?"
"Remember the day we were assigned to the same group?" Yuuki asked. A little confused, Tamiko thought back:
The ninja graduates gathered together in the classroom for orientation. It was loud with many students talking excitedly. The classroom door opened and Iruka walked in. Everyone became silent.
"Good morning," he said. "Today I will assign you all into squads of three. Once in your squads, you will be assigned a Jounin. With them you shall train and become better ninja. Ready? Let's start with squad one…"He began to name off students and assigned each of them to groups."Squad four…Uchiha Tamiko…Natsu Kotone…" Kotone turned to Tamiko.
"We're in the same group!" Kotone said happily.
"Alright!" Tamiko said.
"…and Ronin Yuuki." Iruka finished.
"Yes!" Yuuki said loud enough for the rest of the class to hear.Kotone looked at Tamiko. She was staring forward and turned a deep shade of red.
"Yuuki's in our group…" Tamiko said quietly, smiling.
"Great." Kotone thought. "This isn't going to work out…"
After reliving their assignments in her mind, Tamiko laughed.
"Well, it wasn't that long ago." She said. "But yeah I remember."
"Well," he started. His voice was shaky. "I'm really happy that we're in the same group together and I just wanted to say…uh…well, I really l-like you…" His face was red.
"Really?" said Tamiko who also started to blush.
"Yeah…so how do you feel about me?"
"I really like you too…ever since I met you." said Tamiko, smiling.
They looked into each other's eyes and got closer and closer. Their lips were almost touching when a loud voice interrupted them.
"TAMIKO! YUUKI!"
They both quickly looked up. A blonde haired boy in an orange outfit was running towards them.
"Hey, Naruto…" said Tamiko and Yuuki with a hint of annoyance in both of their voices
"H-hey." Naruto said. He stopped to catch his breath. "So, what were you guys doing?" Yuuki and Tamiko both turned a deep shade of red.
"Nothing." They replied quickly.
"I'm going to get some ramen…Where are you guys going?" Naruto said.
"Oh!" Tamiko remembered. "Kotone is still there. Come on Yuuki!"
She grabbed his hand and they ran quickly to the ramen stand. Naruto followed them.
Kotone sat in the ramen shop alone. She occasionally looked at the door to see if Yuuki and Tamiko had come in.
"Where are they?" she thought. "I shouldn't have left them alone." She heard the opening of the door and saw that they both came in. They were smiling and holding hands. Kotone smirked. "So they finally got together…" They walked up to Kotone.
"I'm sorry that we took so long," said Tamiko smiling. Kotone could see both Tamiko and Yuuki blushing. The door opened again and in came Naruto completely exhausted.
"Y-you guys run f-fast…" said Naruto, trying to catch his breath again. Everyone laughed and ordered noodles.
"Idataki masu!" they said simultaneously, and they started to eat. It was silent, besides the sound of Naruto slurping his noodles.
"So what are you doing after this?" asked Kotone, looking up at Tamiko.
"Well," Tamiko said. "Since we don't have mission, I guess I'll go find Sasuke and make him something to eat." She chuckled and continued. "I can't let him cook by himself, because last time he
tried, he almost burnt the house down!" Everyone laughed at that comment. "We have to train together anyway…" Tamiko finished.
"Wow," Naruto said, "You must be really strong to train against Sasuke-teme."
"Don't call my brother that Naruto."
"He's your brother!?" Naruto said, chokin on his noodles. Tamiko hit him on the back.
"You idiot. Of course he's my brother…I'm Uchiha Tamiko. We look identical. Haven't you noticed my shirt?" She turned with her back to Naruto and pulled her hair up. On the back she had the exact same symbol as Sasuke had on the back of his shirt, a white and red fan. She turned back around to face Naruto.
"Oh! Well, I guess I never noticed." Naruto admitted
"My brother is right. You are a dunce."
"SHUT UP!"
Everyone soon finished eating. They all had one bowl, except Naruto who had seven. All of them left the shop, and walked through the Village to get back to their houses. They passed a training field and saw a boy with black hair training alone.
"Hey Sasuke," yelled Tamiko. "Let's go home for a sec, and I'll make you lunch." Sasuke, calmly walked over to the group and they began to walk again. Tamiko and Yuuki were in the front holding hands. Naruto was walking behind them; bringing up the rear was Sasuke and Kotone. Kotone looked to her left at Sasuke. He had an angry look on his face, as he glared forward. She looked up and saw that he was watching Yuuki and Tamiko holding hands.
"I guess he's still really protective of his sister. Since she's the only family he's got left and everything." thought Kotone. No one made a sound. Only their footsteps could be heard echoing off of the walls.
"Hey, Sasuke-teme," Naruto said, breaking the silence. "We have a mission tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah, dunce."
"What!" Naruto yelled, "You're such a-"
"SASUKE-KUN!" came a loud voice behind them. Everyone turned around. A girl with bright pink hair came running up to them holding a bag of groceries. She stood on the right of Sasuke, pushing Kotone aside.
"How does Sasuke stand all these groupies?" Kotone thought disgustedly.
"Hey Sakura-chan!" said Naruto. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I was doing some shopping, and saw you guys from the window." She replied. The group passed Yuuki's house first. Everyone except Yuuki, Tamiko, and Kotone walked away.
"I'll see you later okay?" Yuuki said to Tamiko.
"Yeah, sure." She replied. He put his arms around her into a close embrace. She put her arms around his neck and sighed happily.
"Did I ever mention you are very pretty?" He whispered in her ear
"Thank you Yuuki-kun" Tamiko replied with a blush on her face. Kotone loudly cleared her throat. Tamiko and Yuuki broke apart and looked at Kotone remembering she was still there. Yuuki put his hand on Tamiko's shoulder and said good-bye. He walked into his house as Tamiko and Kotone started to walk away together. They soon stopped at Kotone's house.
"See you tomorrow." Kotone said.
"Okay, see ya!" Tamiko yelled. Tamiko continued on by herself.
Futher down the street walked Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura, the ninja of squad 7. They passed Naruto's house. He waved good-bye to Sasuke and Sakura, leaving the two of them alone together.
"How's your sister Tamiko?" Sakura asked trying to start a conversation.
"Good." Sasuke answerd shortly. It was silent for a while.
"Well," Sakura said, attempting to get him to talk. "If you aren't doing anything, you can come to my house and I can make you lunch?"
"No." He replied. "My sister said she will make lunch for me."
"Oh, Okay…that's cool." She said with a hint of disappointment in her voice. They soon came to Sakura's house. Out of respect, Sasuke stopped and said good-bye. He started to walk off.
"Wait!" Sakura yelled. He stopped, turned around.
"What?" he said with annoyance, knowing what was coming. She blushed and ran up to him. She looked into his dark eyes. Sasuke averted them. She got closer and tried to embrace him. He
pulled away stiffly, and started to walk away. Sakura watched him as he walked away. She sighed, and sadly walked into her house.
Tamiko picked up her pace.
"I'd better hurry, Sasuke is probably home." She thought. She soon got to her house. As she got closer she noticed Sasuke was up in the tree in the front yard. He jumped down.
"There you are…" He said.
"Sorry." She replied. "I was held up."
"By that guy you were holding hands with?" Sasuke asked suspiciously.
"Well, for your information, yes."
"I don't trust him."
"You don't trust anyone."
"Hn…"
"Whatever, you want something to eat right?"
"Yeah…"
They entered the house together. Tamiko went straight into the kitchen while Sasuke waited in the dining room. After Sasuke ate they decided to go and train. They went to the same training field as last time. They decided to start off with some light sparring as they got to the field. Tamiko quickly ran at him. He stood his ground and aimed kunai knives at her. She dodged them and threw a punch at his stomach. He blocked it and kicked her in the face. Tamiko was thrown into a tree. She slowly stood up again, and started to run straight at him again. She threw some shuriken, to distract Sasuke as she disappeared. While he looked around he was suddenly kicked in the side, and hit the ground. He looked up and Tamiko had a kunai at his throat.
"Too slow." She whispered, returning her kunai her pack. Sasuke pushed Tamiko off of him.
"Hn, that was just luck…" He said.
"Sure it was, but enough light stuff. Let's practice something else." They kept at their training until late that night. Both were breathing heavily. Tamiko had a bloody cut on her cheek, and Sasuke's sleeve was ripped, blood dripping down his arm.
"Okay," Tamiko said. "That's enough for today, let's go home."
"Alright…" Sasuke replied, exhausted. They returned home, ate a quick dinner and fell asleep.
The next morning, Tamiko, Yuuki, and Kotone were, once again, waiting for their teacher Jiro-sensei, by the bridge. Naruto's team was also waiting for their teacher, Kakashi, having the same meeting place. Yuuki and Naruto were asleep. Kotone and Tamiko were leaning against the railing and talking together while looking at the water. Sasuke was leaning on a tree ignoring Sakura, as she tried to talk to him. After an hour Kakashi-sensei came for team 7.
"Hello everyone," Kakashi said. "I have some unfortunate news to tell team 4." He looked over at Tamiko, Kotone, and Yuuki. "Remember that I told you before Jiro was on a mission? Well we received word that he was killed, including a few of his teammates during their mission." He looked at team 4. They seemed to take it all right. "But on the bright side," Kakashi continued. " due to the recent drop of jounin, you will temporarily be joining my team!" He gestured towards Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto. "So the six of us will participate in a group training session." He started to walk away. Everyone followed. They soon got to a wooded area. Kakashi stopped in front of a tree.
"Okay, today we will learn to--" Kakashi started.
"Learn some sweet new skill?" Naruto blurted out. "Alright!"
"No," replied Kakashi. "We will be climbing trees."
"WHAT?" said everyone simultaniously.
"Climbing trees." He repeated.
"Wait a minute…," said Sakura. "How will this help us become better ninja?"
"There's a catch." Kakashi said. "You cannot use your hands."
"That's impossible!" said Yuuki.
"No, it isn't." Kakashi replied.
"Prove it." Sasuke said smartly..
"Well, okay." said Kakashi cheerfully. He turned around and faced the tree behind him. Then without hesitation, he began walking slowly up the trunk of the tree.
"H-he's climbing…" said Naruto.
"With his arms and feet straight down…" said Sakura. Kakashi walked higher and soon was hanging upside down from a branch.
"The only thing you need to do is concentrate your chakra to your feet. Use that power to climb the tree." He said.
"And how will this help us?" said Sakura.
"Wait, wait…" He said, "I'm getting to it. To put this simply, you're training to have greater mastery over your chakra. Now, enough talk. All of you take out a kunai knife. Using your kunai will help you mark the place where you've been on the tree. You want to try and get higher and higher every time. Now pick a tree and go!" Everyone took a moment to focus their chakra into their feet, then ran up separate trees. As soon Yuuki and Naruto took a few steps up the tree, they fell and hit the back of their heads on the ground. Sasuke was a bit luckier, managing to run about halfway up to a branch. He lost his concentration and jumped off the tree. He slashed a mark in the tree where he lost balance.
"Well, I hope you can all see your mistakes." said Kakashi. "Yuuki, Naruto, you didn't use enough chakra. Sasuke, you were controlling your chakra well, but you used too much and lost balance."
"Hey, it was pretty easy for me!" came a voice. Yuuki, Naruto and Sasuke looked up. Sakura was sitting on the high branch grinning at them.
"It's not that hard, so don't rub it in." said Kotone, who was even higher than Sakura, on another tree.
"Sakura, Kotone…you've almost mastered it, good." said Kakashi. "Where's Tamiko?" Everyone looked at the tree Tamiko was running to, but didn't see her.
"Tamiko." said Kakashi, "Come down." They heard a chuckle and Tamiko jumped down onto a branch, she stood up and looked at everyone.
"Sorry, I was on the top of the tree." Tamiko said.
"She can already do that?" thought Kakashi. "With only one try? This girl has amazing chakra control. I wonder…" Tamiko fell backwards and hung from the branch just as Kakashi was doing. Everyone could see the blue aura of her chakra coming form her feet.
"Well," said Kakashi, jumping down. "Since Tamiko has already seemed to master this, she can come with me of a second. The rest of you keep going." Tamiko followed Kakashi to a small clearing, where they couldn't see or hear the others.
"Well, Tamiko," said Kakashi, sitting down on a fallen branch, "I want to ask you, have you ever done training like this?"
"No, sensei. I haven't."
"You have great chakra control, have you ever considered to be a medical ninja?"
"Well, I don't know much about it."
"Basically," said Kakashi. "you will be learning healing abilities. With your precise chakra control, you could be a great medic ninja."
"Well, maybe I could try it…" said Tamiko. "But who would teach me?
"Most of the time you will be taught by other medical ninjas. But Tsunade comes to Konoha once in a while, and she can give you few tips."
"Tsunade?"
"She's one the 3 Legendary Sannin and is considered the strongest and most beautiful of women. Her sensei was the 3rd Hokage, and was the first medic ninja to be put on the field."
"Wow," said Tamiko amazed.
"Let's see…since we don't have anything planned for the team tomorrow, why don't you meet me by the bridge at noon?"
"Okay, but try to come on time sensei?" Kakashi chuckled.
"I'll try…Now let's get back with everyone else." He said. Both of them stood up, and made their way back to the rest of the team. Tamiko noticed everyone was still training. Sasuke seemed to
be doing quite well, as he made his way closer to the tree branch. He got higher and higher every time. Naruto and Yuuki were not doing as well. Both of their trees had many cuts on the bottom. Kotone sat on a high branch breathing heavily. Sakura was lying at the bottom of her tree looking exhausted. Tamiko walked to get her backpack and kneeled down. She saw that Yuuki was walking up to her, as Naruto walked over to Sakura.
"Tamiko-chan…" Yuuki said as he kneeled down. He lowered his voice to a whisper "Um. Can you help me out with this?" He gestured to a tree. Tamiko sighed.
"It's exactly how sensei told us, Yuuki-kun…" She said.
"But it's not working!"
"Well, you have to concentrate more. Don't think of anything else. Relax, and keep your concentration."
"That's hard when I keep thinking about you…But I'll try harder." Yuuki said standing up. He gave Tamiko a kiss on the cheek. "I love you…with all my heart." She blushed.
"Aww…I love you too!" Tamiko said happily. Yuuki went back to the tree, while Tamiko watched him. She noticed that Sakura and Naruto were having a similar conversation, as her and Yuuki. They both
seemed to be doing much better. After a while, she decided to train by herself for a little while to kill some time. It was early evening when Kakashi decided to end the training.
"Okay, I think that's enough training for today." Kakashi announced. "Our next team training session is in two days. See you then!" As Tamiko made her way out of the training area, Kotone walked up to talk to her.
"So,"Kotone said. "What did sensei talk to you about?"
"He asked me if I wanted to be a medic ninja." Tamiko replied.
"Wow! Congrats."
"Thanks...Want to go for a walk and talk. We haven't done that in ages!" As the rest of their team went home, Tamiko and Kotone went walking around the village.
"So, Tamiko...Are you going to be a medic ninja?" Kotone asked.
"Well, I guess I'll try it, and see what happens..." After walking around the Village aimlessly, Tamiko spotted two boys walking ahead of them. "Kotone, wait here."
"What? Why?" Kotone turned to look at Tamiko, but she was already running to catch up with the two guys. Kotone sighed, and sat on a nearby bench and waited.
"Takahiko, Daisaku!" yelled Tamiko. The two boys turned around. Tamiko could get a good look at them now. The first boy went by the name of Minoru Takahiko. He was very tall, had long sandy brown hair. He was a 14 year old Genin and a previous boyfriend of Tamiko. The other boy was Hisashi Daisaku. He was a little shorter than Takahiko, and he wore a brown hat. He was a 17 year old Chuunin, obvious by the green vest he wore.
"Hey Tamiko-chan." Daisaku said, with a smug look on his face.
"Hi Tamiko," said Takahiko. "What are you doing out late?"
"Yeah it's late for little girls like you to be out," Daisaku said laughing, casually slapping her butt.
"DAISAKU!!" Tamiko yelled turning red. She jumped up and grabbed his hat.
"Hey!" he yelled. She tried running away, but Daisaku grabbed her jacket. She smirked and slipped out of her jacket, and kept running. As soon as she got far enough, she turned around and called out to him.
"Give it back tomorrow! Bye Daisaku-kun, love ya!" She laughed and ran back to where Kotone was waiting.
"What was that all about Tamiko?" Kotone asked. Tamiko smiled and shrugged.
"I don't know."
"Trying to get back together with Takahiko, or are you moving onto Daisaku?" Tamiko blushed.
"You know that Takahiko and I broke up already, and Daisaku is way too old for me. Besides I have my Yuuki-kun. I just like messing with them." It was silent, as they started walking again.
"Kotone?"
"Yes?"
"Wanna come over to my house?"
"It's getting late, I don't know."
"Well, you can sleep over!"
"But I don't have my clothes..."
"You can borrow some of mine."
"Like the clothes you're wearing?" Kotone said, looking at her strapless blue top and mini skirt.
"Only if you want too..." Tamiko said chuckling.
"No."
"You know I'm just joking!"
"Yeah, I know. I guess I can sleep over.I have nothing else to do."
"Yay!" Tamiko exclaimed as they made their way to her house. As they walked, Kotone noticed they were in a part of the village she had never set foot in. The place was completely deserted.
"Tamiko?" Kotone asked looking around.
"Yeah?"
"Where are we exactly?"
"This part of the village belongs to our clan, the Uchiha's." Kotone knew how touchy Tamiko was about the absence of her clan and decided not to ask any more questions. It was silent for a while until Tamiko sighed and stopped.
"This is my house." Tamiko said. The house they stood infront of was more like a mansion. It was signifigantly bigger then the other houses around.
"Nice place." Kotone said as she followed through the gate and to the front door. They both entered the house.
"There you are Tamiko" said a voice at the top of the stairs. The two girls both looked up. Sasuke was walking down the stairs.
"Sorry Sasuke, I was walking with Kotone." Tamiko said. Then she added, "She's sleeping over."
"Whatever." Sasuke said in his usual tone.
"Well, if you want me to make dinner," Tamiko said as she walked up to Sasuke, and pushed him over to Kotone, "you gotta keep Kotone company while I cook." Tamiko smiled as Kotone blushed.
"No, Tamiko its okay," Kotone said. "I'll help you cook and --"
"It's fine." Sasuke cut in. "Let's go into the living room Kotone." Kotone hesitated and followed Sasuke into the living room. Tamiko chuckled and went to cook dinner.