Star-Chan: Thank you for all the reviews! Here's chapter 4 of "Will There Still Be Love"
Recap:
"Hey Shikamaru-kun, here's my number, call me sometimes okay?" Temari said handing Shikamaru a piece of paper and walked off.
"How troublesome."
Chapter 4: Sweet Nights and Suspicions
The spin the bottle night had come to an end. Sai and Temari have left the Uchiha mansion and boy was Sasuke happy. The night was getting colder and the wind blew harder, a storm was beginning to brew.
"Hey the news said there was supposed to be a small storm later tonight." Neji said while listening to the reporter say on TV. Everyone stopped what they were doing and sat down next to Neji on the couch and watched for further information.
"Tonight there will be a storm coming into town so please stay in a safe environment for your own safety. The storm should clear by tomorrow late afternoon and sunny for the rest of the week…in other news…" Neji clicked off the TV.
"How troublesome…" Shikamaru complained to his friends who sighed and agreed.
"It should clear by tomorrow afternoon or earlier, anytime I get I will go buy a stock of food!" Sakura said trying to cheer the group up though it wasn't working very well.
"Sakura you know what I want if you go right?" Sasuke asked Sakura who laughed and nodded. She would never dare forget those. Everyone looked at Sasuke and Sakura wondering what they were talking about, but avoided asking.
"I think I'm going to go sleep now, it's getting late anyways." Tenten said as she yawned. Neji got up and gave Tenten a hand and helped her up.
"I'll walk you to your room, besides I'm going to bed too."
"Don't stay there too long Neji." Naruto said smirking and watched Neji and Tenten blush and hurried up the stairs before further embarrassment. Everyone else decided to go to bed as well since there was nothing to do and it was almost midnight. The guys walked the girls to there room before going to bed, just to be overprotective.
"Sakura are you going to be okay tonight?" Sasuke said while watching Sakura get into bed before walking to her bed. He stroked her smooth pink cheeks and watched her smile.
"Yeah, I think I'll be fine." Sakura said pulling the covers on top of her body and letting Sasuke tuck her in.
"If you need me, you know where to find me," Sasuke said kissing Sakura gentle on the lips. "Goodnight Sakura."
"Good night Sasuke-kun and thank you." Sakura said giving Sasuke one last smile before he walked out of her room. Sakura cuddled into her blankets and tried going to sleep. After a few twist and turns she finally started drifting off to her dreams when a loud boom of thunder forced her eyes wide open. Sakura sat up and looked out the window, it had started raining and the thunder and lightening were clashing and booming everywhere. Sakura took a deep breath and lay back down and closed her eyes, but lighten flashed and lit up her room casting creepy shadows everywhere followed by another clash of thunder. Sakura was now scared; she was never a fan of thunderstorms or lightening ones. She pushed the blankets away from her and got out of bed. She looked into Ino, Tenten, and Hinata's room to see them sleeping soundly, though Tenten wasn't in her room.
"What a naughty girl Tenten could be…from the looks of it, she hasn't even laid on her bed before…must be in Neji's, though I shouldn't be talking." Sakura thought as she continued walking.
She walked down the hall to a specific bedroom and opened it slowly trying hard not to make any noise. She poked her head in and looked around and quietly walked up to the figure on the bed. Sakura smiled at the sight of the calm looking Sasuke and didn't want to wake him. She started to walk out the room when a loud thunder struck the sky and Sakura jumped and screamed softly. She covered her mouth with her hands and turned around to look at Sasuke.
"He sure is a deep sleeper…" Sakura whispered to herself and started walking out again.
"No, I'm not; I knew you were in here, Sakura."
"Sasuke-kun, I'm so sorry I woke you…I'll leave you alone now…sorry!" Sakura stammered and hurried to leave the room.
"Sakura come here," Sasuke called the cherry blossom back. Sakura walked up to Sasuke's bed and stood there. "What's wrong?"
"N-nothing what could possible be wrong…"Sakura said painting a fake smile on her face not wanting to let Sasuke know she was scared of a little storm. Though he did always know what was wrong when Sakura had a fake smile.
"You mean to tell me you just wanted to sneak in here and watch me sleep?"
"Uh…yeah sure let's go with that."
"Or do you mean to tell me that you're scared of a thunderstorm." Sasuke said to Sakura who began to open her mouth to protest but closed it and nodded.
"You silly girl, come here." Sasuke said lifting up the covers for Sakura to get in. She got into bed and Sasuke put the covers over both of them. She snuggled under the warm blankets.
"Now do you feel better?" Sasuke asked Sakura who nodded and smiled to Sasuke. "That's good, goodnight Sakura." Sasuke said and turned around letting his back face her. Sakura closed her eyes and took a deep breath letting Sasuke's aroma fill her body. She had to hold back a giggle. Again she started to drift off to sleep but another clash of thunder and lightening scared her awake. She sat up and looked over at Sasuke.
"Sasuke-kun?"
"Uh…what is it?" The younger Uchiha mumbled.
"…" Sakura didn't want to answer him and keep him awake again; she had troubled him enough for one night. She laid back down and pulled the over her head. She felt the bed move and Sasuke turning around to face her. She felt his strong arms wrap around her waist and pull her close to him. Sakura blushed deep red since her head was on Sasuke's strong chest.
"Why so quiet all of a sudden, hm?"
"I don't want to bother you anymore; I already disturbed your sleep." Sakura said frowning at how annoying she had been. She heard Sasuke laugh.
"It's okay, so now you can sleep right? Don't worry, the thunder and lightening will never hurt you as long as I am here you got that?" Sasuke said pulling Sakura closer to him. Sakura nodded again.
"I love you Sasuke."
"I love you too Sakura, good night." Sasuke said as he cuddled Sakura close and waited for her to go to sleep. Her breathing began to go in a slow and steady pace and body relaxed. Sasuke smiled and released her slightly. Another loud boom was heard from the sky.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled subconsciously and started to stir in her sleep. Sasuke pulled her into him and hugged her tightly.
"Sh…its okay I'm right here." Sasuke said and watched Sakura calm down and drifted back into a peaceful sleep, and he too drifted off to sleep.
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Hinata was sleeping soundly when she heard a loud knock on her door. She forced her eyes open and got out of bed. She opened the door to see no other then Naruto standing in front of her.
"Naruto-kun, what are you doing here?" Hinata said covering the yawn.
"I couldn't sleep because of the thunder…did I wake you? Sorry…"
"No, it's alright come in." Hinata said opening the door to let her boyfriend in. Naruto walked over to her bed and plopped down on it, followed by Hinata.
"Naruto-kun do you want something to eat, I'll go make you some ramen."
"Nah, I like ramen, but I don't want to eat it right now."
"Is something on your mind?" Hinata asked shyly and blushed because Naruto has never been in the same bedroom as her this late before.
"I'm just wondering if we will win this bet, I really don't want to lose you Hinata-chan."
Hinata blushed. "Don't worry we will win this, everyone loves each other so much. So I'm sure this bet is nothing." She said and smiled brightly. Naruto smiled back and laid down on Hinata's bed.
"Maybe I should just stay the rest of the night here." Naruto yawned and stretched. Hinata blushed deeper red.
"I-I don't thin-think that's such a good idea!"
Naruto looked up at Hinata who was playing with fingers and looking on the ground face red as an apple.
"Why not Sasuke and Sakura-chan are doing it."
"WHAT, ho-how did you know?"
"I went into teme's room before I came here; I was hoping to bug the crap out of him. But when I walked over to his bed I saw him cuddled up with Sakura-chan. I would have taken pictures for blackmail, but when Sasuke wakes up, he's usually in a bad mood so he would have beaten the crap out of me right then and there."
"You're so mean Naruto-kun, just walking in like that." Hinata looked up and locked her eyes with Naruto's blue ones.
"Sh…he doesn't need to know! Besides it's not like they were doing anything inappropriate. So what do you say Hinata?"
"Um…"
"Might I add in that Tenten is staying in your cousin Neji's room? She was in there way earlier, even before Sakura-chan went into teme's!"
"How do you know these things?"
"I hear things, so it's just a couple hours more, if I walk back to my room as tired as I am now I might faint half way!" Naruto said jokingly to Hinata who giggled and nodded her head. Both of them pulled up the blanket and covered themselves.
"Good-night Hinata-chan!"
"Good night Naruto-kun." Hinata replied quietly, ah who was she kidding; she was too happy to sleep anymore!
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"Damn, I can't sleep!" Ino said tossing and turning in her bed. She opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling. It was about four in the morning now and she only got a little amount of sleep. The rain had stopped outside so did the thunder and lightening. "Maybe I'll go find Shikamaru and wake his lazy ass up." Ino thought and got out of bed. She walked down the hall to Shikamaru's room. She heard some voices inside Shikamaru's room. Ino opened the door a small crack and looked inside. She saw Shikamaru sitting on his bed his back facing her.
"Sorry I had to call this late Temari…I had to make sure everyone was a sleep." Ino heard Shikamaru say and gasped, mouth dropped open.
"Look I need to get things straight with you, so meet me at the corner coffee shop tomorrow at noon okay? Bye." Shikamaru closed his cell phone and threw it on a table and plopped on his bed. Ino knocked on the door.
"Who is it…?"
"It's Ino can I come in?"
"Yeah sure," Shikamaru sighed and sat up on his bed. Ino came in and walked over to Shikamaru and sat on his lap.
"What's wrong can't sleep?"
"Yeah I can never sleep when there's a storm going on; it's been like that for a while now."
"I know, you told me before when you called at three in the morning one time." Shikamaru said resting his head on Ino's shoulder.
"So…why are you awake? Did someone call you on your cell phone?"
"Uh…no one called, I just needed to use the bathroom, you should probably get back to bed now eh?" Shikamaru brushed Ino off his lap and rushed her off to bed.
"Hey, wait…Shikamaru!" Ino said pushing Shikamaru away from pushing her to the door.
"Are you hiding something from me, why do you want me to leave so sudden? I can't sleep and I thought I might come over here but I guess you never wanted me here did you?" Ino said sobbing as tears slid down her face. This was the second time Shikamaru had made her cry and all in just one night.
"Ino…that's not what I meant, if you have girl problems why don't you go talk to Sakura, I'm sure she can help you more then I can."
"I would but I don't know where she went..." Ino said crying harder.
"I'm sorry Ino; I'm just really tired today that's all okay? So why don't you just head back to bed and sleep for a couple more hours. That goes for me too."
"Okay then Shikamaru, good night." Ino said. Shikamaru kissed her on the cheek before she left the room. Ino cried while walking back to her room. She knew Shikamaru was lying to her…and she cried harder of the thought of losing him. She wanted to talk to Sakura, but had no idea where she went. So Ino plopped back on her bed in her room and cried her poor heart out.
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Sakura was the first to be awake the next morning. She had a terribly hard time getting out of Sasuke's strong embrace, but she managed to wiggle herself out of it without waking the sweet Uchiha. Sakura decided since it had stopped raining she would go to the market before it started up again. She spent an hour or so at the market and came back around ten o'clock.
"Everyone else is still sleeping I guess…" Sakura said opening the door quietly and stepped in then locked the door. She headed for the kitchen to put down her stuff. She took everything out of the bags and started cooking breakfast.
"Okay, so we have chocolate chip pancakes for everyone and of course…" Sakura thought to herself and smiled seeing the nicely made onigiri. "…Tomato onigiri for Sasuke-kun." Sakura giggled wondering what Sasuke's expression is going to see when she made him one of his favorite food.
"Sakura…?"
Sakura heard someone called her name and turned around to see a very tired looking Ino. She ran to her side to see if she was okay.
"Ino, are you okay? You look so tired, are you sick?" Sakura said touching Ino's forehead to see if she had a fever, but she didn't.
"No I'm fine; I just couldn't sleep all night."
"You should go get some sleep right now then. I'll save some food and bring up to you later."
"No, its fine, I don't need to sleep, it's more like I can't sleep."
"Ino, what's wrong, is it Shikamaru, did he do something to hurt you?"
"Sakura, you have to swear not to tell anyone you got it?" Ino said eyeing her friend, though she knew Sakura wouldn't do that. Sakura nodded.
"I went into Shika-kun's room like at four in the morning and I heard him talking on the phone with that new girl Temari was it? And he also said that he had to call that late because he needed to make sure everyone was asleep so no one was listening. I think there's something going on between them. I asked him who it was but he said it was no one and rushed me out of the room!" Ino said tears starting to fall from her baby blue eyes. Sakura hugged her tightly patting her back said it will be okay.
"What am I going to do Sakura…?"
"I'll tell you what we're going to do, we're going to follow him later and find out what the hell is going on."
Star-Chan: Wha-la here is chapter 4! I hoped you enjoy reading it. Sorry I haven't been updating once a week, school is just so UGH too much homework…anyways I tried making ever couple have a little fluff except for Ino…and Tenten, well she did I was just too lazy to type it. So continue reading and reviewing, my next chapter should be up in a week or so. Thank you for the reviews!
Reviewers Corner! [Note: I am only putting the people that read the last chapter, I would put everyone from chapter one…but I'm kind of lazy…hehe sorry! But don't worry I appreciate everyone's reviews!
Cardboard Yeah I tried to make it seem like Sakura was going to say Sai…but of course SasuSaku all the way right!
Paramore Rox Your Sox I don't know what to make it anymore…I'm not sure at the moment, but I like both couples. In the beginning of the anime I did like Ino with Shika-kun, but since Temari came in the picture I started liking that too!
SakuraUchiha14 No need to thank me! I need to thank you! Those are some great ideas too, but I just had to make someone turn into a girl. I thought Neji might be good since he does have the hair for it, but suddenly I just pick Naruto and I'm happy with the results!
pinkprincess0210 Ha-ha your review made me laugh! Drags Sasuke back for you here you can test if he's the better kisser or not[But he's still mine, KIDDING!
shuriken-thrower: Again I'm not sure if this is going to be Ino/Shikamaru…maybe I should take a vote later on?
xXxSakura-chanUchihaxXx: I'm glad you enjoyed the previous chapter! I hoped your enjoyed this one too:D
CaPtAiNSaKuRa21, Chibi Angel-chan, Nightshadow Dweller, winrycherry101,WaterBlossom1, THANK YOU to everyone else who read the story and either didn't review or from previous chapters! Love you alls
