A/N: Long chapters are hard for me to write . Oh well I'll do my best guys. Enjoy =)
Chapter 4 : Blonde + Pink team
"I'm so embarrassed right now..." Sakura groaned as she slumped her head.
"Why's that?" her platinum blond friend asked her as they continued down the street.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED!" Sakura yelled back.
"Actually, I was kind of disappointed..." Ino muttered.
"Huh?" Sakura blinked.
Ino started to wave her hands defensively, "Ahaha, I-It's nothing." she chuckled nervously but stopped at the thought of the blonde haired boy doing something 'Indecent'.
'Hehe, that would be nice.'
Flashback
Sakura stormed inside the small ramen stand, nearly tearing the curtain off the shop. Just as she was about to yell, there she saw Naruto reaching over the counter trying to get a bowl of ramen from a girl, a very beautiful girl at that. Naruto at first was a bit shocked at this but slowly turned back to his emotionless state.
"What do you want now?" he asked the pinkette.
The young woman across the counter saw Naruto's mood change and her own features started to get sadder. She hated seeing him like this, but he always went cold when someone else was in the stand with him.
"Oh-Um, Well I-I was just..." Sakura stuttered horribly.
"Anything good happen yet forehead?" Ino asked as she peaked inside. Naruto looked down a bit and slowly shook his head.
"So what do you both want now?" he asked again, not making eye contact but instead began eating his ramen slowly.
"Well forehead here wanted to know what you do after class." Ino said and noticed Sakura starting to sweat. Naruto continued eating his noodles. "Also we were wondering what all those begging noises and moans were coming from." Naruto started choking when he heard this. He pounded on his chest took make the food go down and after a few seconds, it did. He then composed himself,
"Moans? What are you two talking about?" he asked, playing annoyed.
"I don't know, the fact that you're here with a pretty girl and you seemed so happy and she just enjoyed you Begging her to please you." Ino said bluntly causing the girl over the counter to blush a deep shade of red.
Naruto didn't react at all to this, but on the inside he was very embarrassed. 'HAHAHA! Not only are those two annoying! They are perverted stalkers as well!' something inside Naruto said while laughing maniacally.
"Well nothing happened." Naruto said as he turned up his bowl of ramen and finished it. "If you would excuse me, I would like to go home, goodbye Ayame and thanks for the ramen." he said as he placed the money on the counter and got up from his seat.
"Wait, do you really like eating here a lot?" Sakura asked as she grabbed his arm.
"Does it matter?" Naruto asked, hoping to shut her up, but received a nod. With a sigh he answered, "Yes I do, but please don't stalk me whenever I come here..." he then pulled away from her arm and left the stand, leaving her flustered.
"Well that didn't go well." Ino broke the silence.
"So why were you two stalking Naruto-Kun?" Ayame asked, and received no answer as Sakura dragged Ino out of the stand, saving them from further embarrassment.
"Well, I think I'll forgive you for your overreaction forehead, since Naruto is the quiet type. But next time don't even think of blowing our cover like that." Ino said firmly. "Now that we're done embarrassing ourselves, I'd like to go home now." the blonde said as she began walking away.
"Wait, I'm still not done with Naruto." Sakura stopped her, earning a groan from Ino.
"Oh come on! We already got busted once, if we do it again like five minutes later that makes us Obsessed Stalkers. I want to go back home with a little bit of dignity left." Ino pouted.
"But Ino, we still haven't seen him when he's laughing or smiling. He sounded like he was enjoying himself before we interrupted."
"You, interrupted..." Ino corrected and received a growl. "Alright forehead we'll try and spy on him tomorrow. How's that? I had enough of degrading myself for one day."
Sakura sighed but agreed, "So what are our plans for next time?" she asked.
Ino put her finger to her lip, "We could just keep asking him to smile for us all day at the academy tomorrow. And if he still refuses, we could keep bugging him. He's bound to react to that."
"That seems a bit, pathetic?" Sakura asked and sweat dropped.
"Well stalking him quietly and getting caught is worse to me. So how about it?" Ino suggested, Sakura sighed but nevertheless, shook Ino's hand.
-With Naruto-
'So what do you think kit?' asked the Kyuubi.
'What're you on about?' Naruto asked, slightly annoyed.
'Those two loud mouth girls. I think they're interested in you.'
'So?' Naruto responded uninterested in the topic.
'So, let's avoid them at all cost you idiot. I'm already fed up with those other banshee's at your school. I don't want you talking to some for long periods of time.'
'I don't care what you want.'
'Stupid brat...' commented the Kyuubi but was ignored as Naruto approached his apartment. Unfortunately he didn't notice a certain blonde haired girl walking there as well.
The platinum blonde's eyes widen at the sight of seeing him. "Hey Naruto!" she shouted. She saw his shoulder's tense for a moment. He then sagged them and turned his gaze toward his classmate. "Where you going?" she asked.
"Home." he simply said and was about to start walking again.
"Wait, can I talk to you?" she asked as she ran to catch up to him.
'I'm so close to home.' thought Naruto while shedding comical tears. "What is it? If this is about what happened earlier, it really doesn't matter."
"Well, it is... I just wanted to say I'm sorry for spying on you. I didn't mean to invade your privacy, it's just that Sakura and I were interested in what you did for fun. You rarely speak to anyone in class and we were just curious."
"I understand... Is that all?" he pressed, trying to end the conversation.
"Well sort of... Do you live in those apartments up ahead?" she asked while gazing ahead.
He only nodded as a reply and she smiled. "That's funny, I live in the apartments over there." she pointed directly to the right of his complex. "Guess that means we're neighbors." she said with a small blush. He sank his head in depression. He slowly started walking home, "I'll see you tomorrow then Naruto!" she shouted, making him hang his head even lower. Although he did give a small wave, signaling that he had heard her.
'Well at least it's not the pink haired loud mouth. She was way more annoying...' the Kyuubi mentioned.
The next day, Naruto woke up with a headache. After tossing around in bed because of the horrific possibilities in the future from two Kunoichi's in training, he wasn't in his happiest mood. Today he had to avoid them at all cost and so he made his way to the bathroom to get ready for the academy. He put on his regular black and orange attire and exited his house. To his dismay, he heard someone call out to him, "Hey Naruto! Let's walk to school together." Naruto looked over to see his fellow blonde classmate waving at him. Naruto's eye twitched but decided he was to annoyed to even come up with an excuse to not walk with her.
As they walked to the academy, Ino was actually... quiet.
'Kit, forget what I said about this one. You should definitely hang out with this one more often. She won't say anything unless you speak first.' the Kyuubi chuckled.
"Umm... Naruto... why don't you ever talk to anyone in class?" the platinum blonde broke the silence.
Naruto, quite pleased with her being quiet for a little while answered, "There was no need."
"I see..." she replied as she lowered her gaze away from the blonde boy. Naruto raised an eyebrow, 'See what?' he thought. "Well do you want to hang out with me and forehea... err I mean, Sakura when we have time during class and lunch?" she asked a little happily. She wasn't begging him, or making him. In fact, she didn't seem all that bad of someone to be around. Although the pink haired girl...
Naruto, never making eye contact, nodded "Sure." he said with a hint of emotion in his voice that wasn't passed up by the Yamanaka. She gave a small but happy sigh and Naruto turned to her. She blushed a bit and turned her gaze back to in front of her.
'Maybe you should start charging people for joining the Naruto fan club. You would become a millionaire.' the Kyuubi bellowed.
'Shut it...' Naruto replied.
At the academy Sakura was waiting for Ino to discuss how they were going to approach Naruto and talk to him more. When she saw her enter she smiled, but when she saw Naruto enter right behind her she gave a confused look. Ino appeared to be having a good time talking to the boy who seemed like his normal emotionless self, but a little less... tense.
'What the hell does she think she's doing? We're suppose to be working TOGETHER to get Naruto to open up! That damn Pig taking Naruto all to herself!' Inner Sakura yelled while pulling her hair.
When Ino looked up in the row's of seats she saw Sakura with a sour expression on her face. Confused Ino motioned for Naruto to come and sit with her and he didn't reply but followed. When Ino sat next to Sakura, she began to feel uncomfortable. Naruto took a seat in the row to the back of the two girls and stared outside the window, ignoring everyone in the room like he always did.
"Ino-Pig what are you doing?" Sakura shout/whispered.
"What are you talking about forehead? I just got here with Naruto." Ino shot back.
"Why did you walk in with him? Were you two walking together? What happened? Are you dating?" Sakura started to raise her voice, but still gained no attention from any of the other students.
Ino blushed a bit at the thought of her and Naruto dating, but soon twisted her face into a wicked smirk. "What if we are dating forehead?"
Naruto eyes shot wide open at this. Even though he appeared to not be paying attention, he was interested in what those two were talking about.
Sakura started to get flustered, "What the hell pig? I thought you liked Sasuke like me?" 'I think...' she added in her head.
"Yeah so? I still can think Naruto is cute too right?" she said with a shrug. Naruto growled a bit, but wasn't noticed. Sakura's cheeks started to get redder from anger or blushing, Ino couldn't tell. "Jeeze, calm down Sakura. Of course we aren't dating. It's only been one day and I just was talking to him before we got to class." Sakura's relaxed a bit, "But I did find out yesterday that he lives right across the street from me."
Sakura was starting to get angry again but came up with an idea, she leaned in and whispered into Ino's ear so quiet that Naruto couldn't pick it up.
When the pink haired girl pulled away, she received a small giggle and nod from her blonde haired friend. Naruto was staring at the girl's trying to figure out what they were planning, when Ino got up and turned around to face him. "Naruto, can we treat you to ramen after class?" Naruto was a bit skeptical and didn't answer so she continued. "We want to make up for interrupting your meal yesterday." she said in a low voice.
'Don't you dare accept that brat! They are trying to lure you in to get something from you, I can smell it!' the Kyuubi warned.
'Hmm... well... of course I'm going to accept, It's free Ramen!' he shouted in his mind. "Alright." he answered and turned away with a small blush on his cheeks after the platinum blonde winked at him.
'Pathetic...' the Kyuubi muttered.
Sakura smiled, 'Just you wait Naruto... that ramen does have a small price.'
A/N: Sorry it takes me so long to post new chapters guys. I'm still getting ready for school. Once I get settled in school, I will probably go back to adding a chapter every day to my stories. Please be patient and I hope you guys enjoy reading my stories.
On another note : My story 'Hate is Painful' will be updated soon. I have a chapter almost ready, but I'm having a bit of a writer's block on exactly how I should go with it. I probably will start posting polls for reader's/author's opinions on things. I've also been addicted to Haruhi novel's as I find them fascinating. Ah well, hope you enjoy and feel free to review or private message me for questions on anything. :)