((I'm so sorry for the typos in the last chapter, turns out my iPad wasn't too keen on letting me sound normal!))
As soon as the knob started jiggling Ino had rushed to the door, not even giving Naruko a second to get in before jumping on her. The blondes both ended on the floor, poor Naruko holding her head and grumbling about a new bruise she'd be getting but it still didn't stop Ino from getting up and jumping around excitedly.
"WHAT HAPPENED?" She yelled, looking like she was about to explode from all the anticipation from the night.
"Just normal stuff." Naruko said with a sly little smile causing Ino to whine some more.
"I've been having to listen to this all night!" Kiba complained, walking into the front hall from the living room before cutely wrapping his arms around Ino.
"Awweh, that's adorable." Naruko sighed, Why the hell can't I have something like that.
"Are you kidding? I'm only doing this to shut her up." Kiba laughed, making Ino grunt annoyed.
Naruko smiled at them as they began play fighting, well... as Ino began punching Kiba forcing him to try to run away.
The blonde recalled to her other amusing 'fight' of the night and laying on the field with Sasuke right up to where he walked her to Ino's front door. A gigantic blush took over her face quicker than a deadly rash, this caught Ino's attention.
The bleach blonde snickered as she saw Naruko deep in thought and appeared behind her, ever so slowly creeping closer over Naruko's shoulder till a eerie voice escaped her throat, "Watcha thinkin' about?"
Naruko gasped as chills ran down her spine, Ino broke down into laughter, "For your information, I have the plan began to work." Naruko stated, irritated.
"Began? " Ino coined on, "What do you mean by that?"
"Well it's not like he was going to fall in love with me in one night! Sasuke and Itachi did fight over dancing with me then when the club closed we ran away to a field and watched the stars, then he walked me home." Naruko said, trying to be as casual about this as possible while her insides were doing flips.
"Right.. and this isn't affecting you at all?" Skeptical Ino pointed out.
"No, not at all."
Ino stared into Naruko's eye as a blank expression fell on her face, making things awkward for Naruko. She didn't want to admit she was having the time of her life and that she was rethinking the plan and have Ino disappointed in her.
"Right..." Ino finally gave up, "Let's get you more comfortable and you can tell me more details!"
"Us... Us more details." Kiba injected.
"Yeah, yeah... forgot you were one of the girls." Ino replied, and the two blondes started howling with laughter as Kiba shuffled himself back to the couch, crossed his arms and waited for the two to get back so that he smack them in the faces with his pillow.
After Naruko and Ino had come back through from changing into their pajamas, Naruko in blue tank and shorts with clouds printed all over and Ino in a short pink night gown, they sat beside Kiba on the couch who looked like he had almost fallen asleep waiting for them.
Naruko began going into every detail of the night to how she remembered it smell, to the songs, to the people's dancing, to her own escapades with the grease ball and the brothers. And definitely how much she has began to adore dancing.
"I want to learn all kinds of beautiful dances! Belly dancing, Waltzing, Fox-trotting, tangoing! It was just so amazing in that three way dance with all the eyes watching me, I almost felt like I was on Dirty Dancing !" She gushed.
"We can learn together!" Ino jumped in and they began their version of the 'tango' until Ino kept standing on Naruko's feet.
"Jeez Barbie! Were you made with two left feet?!" Naruko blurted out falling over to grab her foot and protect it from Ino.
"Don't call me that or I'll step all over you!" Ino squealed as she chased Naruko around the living room floor with Naruko on her knees.
Ino's parents appeared at the living room door, "What on earth is going on here?" Her father asked, laughing at the girls.
You could tell that Ino took straight after her mother, they could almost be twins. Her parents were gone a lot due to their owning their own flower company. It wasn't just a small little shop like Naruko had first thought, there were hundreds of them all over the land and they were incredibly popular, meaning that her parents were often traveling to check up on the other shops or being called into meetings about them, during the times that they didn't work in their local one.
"Ino darling, we have to head out again. One of the mangers at our latest opening has fallen deathly ill so we're going to visit him and the shop to make sure everything is in working order and that he's taken care of. So Naruko, please watch over our daughter! She can be a little reckless sometimes!" Ino's mother had said in a very posh sounding voice, Naruko loved listening to her talk.
"I will!" Naruko said proudly throwing her arm around Ino.
The Barbie was taking a look at her watch, "It's four in the morning though!" She exclaimed, the surprise made Naruko realize that it wasn't usual for them to be going at this hour, usually a more sensible time and they'd book a hotel and stay rather than last minute.
"Well he can't help falling ill and being taken to hospital at this time, can he?" Her father butt in.
"Besides, his wife died last year of cancer and his children are abroad so he has no one to be there for him in his dire time of need." Ino's mother's voice was heartbreaking, as was the story. It was like there should have been violins in the background.
"Oh dear, tell him that I'm praying for his safe return." Ino said understandingly, though it did upset her that her parents were gone often she knew it was for the best and that they were only going because they had to.
With that her parents took off saying their goodbyes, kissing Ino, Naruko, and Kiba on the head as if they were all her own but this made Ino's brain start thinking.
" Did Sasuke kiss you goodbye?" She asked, a smile pulling on her lips.
"I thought you'd never ask!" Naruko winked back at her, "He tried to."
Naruko thought back to when he was walking her home. His hand was holding hers tightly and for the first time in a long time she felt genuinely safe. She considered how lovely their romance could have been if she wasn't trying to drive a stake through the cold bastard's heart. Why was he so back and forth with how he treated her? But tonight he was a gentleman.
"This isn't your house?" He said, ten feet from Ino's door.
"No, but she's expecting me." Naruko sighed, with a small giggle. Ino was probably eyeing them through the peephole while sticking her ear to the door and telling Kiba to shut up.
"We should do this again sometime." He smiled, and what a glorious smile it was! Making Naruko's heart melt. She had seen him smile only a few times in the 11 years she knew him but it was never this amazing. He looked so happy and cute and Naruko just wanted to smooch those lips right off his face.
"I don't know." Naruko mocked, a cocky smile had taken over her. "I don't really date sluts."
His face dropped instantly, "What are you saying?"
"I'm saying you've had your hand in a lot of cookie jars, mister."
"What would that have to do with me seeing you again?"
"Well, it's a gigantic change of character from what I know you, and I can only assume that's because you wanna do me. So you're trying to charm me, like the rest of them." Naruko stuck her tongue out.
"No, it's not like that. I wanted to make it up to you about what Sakura said. I promise I won't try to get into your pants, cross my heart." He said making the gesture with the hand his wasn't using to hold hers.
"Since when have you ever cared that much?" Naruko had difficulty believing him, but could anyone blame her?
He was silent unknown to him of what to say next, probably shocked too, not expected it take quite this turn.
"Maybe, you're starting to like me." Naruko teased and puckered her lips inching into him.
Sasuke stayed silent and started to reach in too and when they were a centimeter apart, Naruko breathed against his lips and whispered, "But you aren't going to have me." And pushed him back gently on his chest with her index and middle finger, running them down his chest till they dropped back down to her side.
Before he could even say a word, she turned on her feet and started heading for the door, not turning back to look at her or watch him walk away, she could already feel him staring at her until she reached the door and he snuck off into the night.
"He seemed so innocent, I swear it was an alien." Naruko blurted.
"Why is he acting so weird then?" Ino asked, neither of them could work it out.
"Well, maybe a lot of feelings were brought out through the jealousy of his older brother holding you?" Kiba intervened.
Naruko's and Ino's jaws dropped and Kiba was entirely sure he heard them hit the grounds. "You're a bloody genius!" They shouted, and then all of a sudden the next part of the plan was hatched.
"I've gotta go see Itachi." Naruko smiled, it's not like this was a part of the plan she didn't like. After dancing with him and being held in his arms, she wasn't totally off the idea of it happening again.
"How are you going to find him though? Does he live with Sasuke?" Ino asked, playing with Kiba's hair.
"Can't we deal with this later?" Kiba moaned, it was quarter to five, on a Thursday night.
"Oh shit." Ino growled, "We have school... in like three hours."
"Shall I pop the coffee on after a nap?" Naruko offered, knowing how incredibly crap they'd feel tomorrow.
Everyone nodded and then shifted their all of a sudden dead bodies to Ino's room. "Who's sleeping where?" Ino asked, yawning, so it sounded more like, "wohoas sweeting weer."
"I'll sleep on the couch." Naruko proposed, "I know you too like to cuddle in your sleep, plus I am the reason we're all up..."
Everyone was too tired to disagree and dropped down on the bed, and Naruko painstakingly dragged herself back to the couch and belly flopped it. Tomorrow's going to be a long day.
And little did she know how right she was. In those two hours of sleep everyone woke up mumbling, grumbling, and cursing. They were pretty much imitating zombies.
First they had to make a timing plan so everyone had enough time to do what they needed. As such Ino and Kiba got to have their coffee's while Naruko took a shower. When Naruko got out to get dressed, Ino hopped in the shower and Kiba made Naruko a coffee and went to get dressed. Naruko drank her coffee and made everyone something quick to eat. So while Naruko and Kiba were eating, Ino got out of the shower and got dressed then came out to join them. Naruko went to style her hair and do her makeup quickly followed in by Ino to do the same. Kiba brushed his teeth and ended up waiting half an hour. However by the time they were done they were half an hour late for leaving anyway.
"Aren't you going to get washed?" Naruko questioned Kiba, sniffing the air around him.
"Eh, I'm not trying to impress anyone." He said with a sneaky smile.
Naruko gave him and Ino a disgusted look and they all shared a small laugh.
By the time they had made it to their classes they were forty five minutes late and all given detentions for the time they missed.
"So did you think about what I said?" Sasuke tapped Naruko's shoulder as she beat her pencil on her desk. She almost shit herself. She forgot Sasuke was in here almost every day and she was too dead to even notice him or anyone else around her. God, her and no sleep don't equal a good mix, but she tried to act as though she wasn't lifeless for the plan.
"Actually, I believe I said I don't date sluts. Besides, I have other plans." She emphasized the word plans, hoping he'd catch on.
"I'm not a slut. Who would these plans be with?" God , he was making this easy!
"If you can't count how many people you've slept with on the number or toes and fingers you have then you definitely are. And what business of it is yours?" Naruko loved to get on his nerves after all.
"How would you know how many people I've been sleeping with? You been counting?" His infamous smirk making an appearance.
"No, but I can't filter all the garbage my ears hear, now can I?" Naruko said and got up to walk away. She knew the more contact she had with him that it would make it all the harder to continue on.
Sasuke followed her out and grabbed her wrist, forcing her to face him. "Who are you going out with?"
"Itachi." As soon as the name left her mouth a scowl appeared on Sasuke's beautiful face.
"Why are you going out with him? Isn't he too old for you?"
"Not that it is your business, may I point out again. but I can see whoever I want to see and you can't stop me." She pulled her wrist away and started to quickly walk in the direction of the exit.
"Wait!" He called after her. His voice was so smooth, she had the urge to ask him to tell her a story for her to fall asleep to.
"What?" She didn't turn around as the blush consumed her face from the thought of him telling her stories and lullabies. Why am I so weird?
"Can we still see each other? As friends?" He asked, he almost sounded desperate. A state in which she was sure never came out in his voice.
"I didn't know we were friends." Naruko said though the pain in her voice couldn't be masked as she remembered the words that Sakura spat at her.
"Don't listen to that bitch. She doesn't know what she's talking about." Sasuke said, knowing exactly where it was coming from.
"Fine, tomorrow's Saturday, we'll meet as usual." Naruko said, instant relief filling her entire body.
"I look forward to it."
Naruko's heart began racing just like it had last night, damn this boy and his effect on her body. Now what she had to do was get to Itachi before Sasuke speaks to him so that she can let Itachi in on part of the plan. Just enough to let him know that she wants to make Sasuke jealous. BUT WHERE THE HELL DID HE LIVE?!
Naruko began searching all the recently updated phone books for his address and after about an hour and four phone books later she managed to find him but not through the phone book. He happened to see her in the phone booths looking through the magazines. How awkward...
"What on earth are you doing, Angel?" He asked, his voiced seemed a little rougher than last night but maybe it was his lack of sleep and struggle to be heard over the music that got to him too.
"Angel?" Naruko questioned, a blush coming over her face for the second time that day.
"That's what you looked like on the dance floor, gracefully dancing along almost gliding." He said a smile starting to form. It must have been a good memory for him.
"I definitely wouldn't be an angel." She said embarrassed but flattered.
"That's right, an angel wouldn't have her chest out on display, but that doesn't stop you from looking like one." He smirked, the same as Sasuke, at his little dirty joke but this only made her pink blush on her cheeks go red all over her face.
"You shouldn't have looked!" Naruko said a little loudly as the embarrassed was clear on her voice.
"There was no way I could avoid them when they're that size and staring at me!" He defended himself, throwing his hands in the air to gesture his guiltiness.
"Well it wasn't my dress anyway..." Naruko grumbled, regretting Ino pick her clothes out.
"Hey, I'm not complaining, if anything you should wear it more." He winked. Oh he was every bit as flirty as Sasuke is with other girls. "Anyway, what were you doing?" And every bit as pushy.
"Actually , I was looking for you. There was something I wanted to ask." Naruko admitted, suddenly feeling a bit shy.
"Here, let's go in my apartment. You can ask me up there in private." Itachi said, throwing his arm over Naruko's shoulder and pulling her in close.
Naruko nodded and started walking up with him, he only lived two buildings down from where she was.
When they had made it inside, it was one of the most luxurious homes Naruko had ever witnessed, it looked like it was taken straight from a magazine. Penthouse suite with an amazing view and modern art deco styled with matching furniture.
"Wow." Naruko couldn't help but let out as she excitedly hurried to the window to see how small people looked. She was only 17 stories up!
"So what did you wanna talk about?" Itachi asked, although he found her personality as cute as a kitten, he had his own stuff to get on with.
"Well, as you might know, I'm friends with your brother..." Naruko started.
"Until you fell in love with him, he doesn't feel it, and is humping everything in sight?" Itachi the mind reader... "It happens way more often than you think but usually they keep trying the same thing looking for a different result, just sleep with him to get the closeness, or give up. But you, you have come to me to do what?"
"Actually, I want you to pretend to be my boyfriend. " Naruko said, straight faced.
"Oh, that does sound interesting... and fun. How should we start this?"
((Thought I'd race to finish this off today after such the long wait! Not long until another chapter will be up! Much love. 3 ))
