Five Months (Redone)

Chapter Four

"Knock it off, Naruto-kun," someone commanded before the boys could continue with the fight, or I could finish thinking up an explanation.

The blond boy paused, blinking several times as he noticed a man with shaggy brown hair appear. He looked like the type who never got enough sleep and who had a bad habit weighing them down. I almost immediately liked him.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked, loosening his posture a little. His armed hand lowered slightly, while the other boy still had a firm hold of his weapon.

"Wait... You wouldn't be...?"

The man nodded and I was, again, driven crazy. He wouldn't be what?

"I'll be your replacement captain while Kakashi-senpai is in the hospital," he said, and I felt a bit of relief blow out of my chest. I finally knew something about this team!

"And as for him, he'll be part of the team."

I glanced at the pale boy, giving him a quick look over. I promise that my eyes didn't stray on his abs, yum. I didn't mind having him along...

"A team? With him?" Oh, give him a break, he's attractive!

"Sorry about earlier," Attractive said with a smile. He let go of his weapon and straightened up, allowing the grossly fake smile to spread even more. Meh, I could do without the smile, it was so obvious he was being sarcastic. "I just wanted to test your strength."

"Oh." Naruto let the small knife slide back into his sleeve, standing straight as well. "You didn't have to go that far."

Attractive's smile grew.

"Thanks to that, I learned that you are a useless, dickless pantywaist."

I think four full seconds passed before I realized what he had said, and my teeth clamped down roughly on my bottom lip. I suck my cheeks in and tried, desperately, to not show how hard I was laughing.

Naruto didn't help the matter, and he went forward with the intention to kill. This only made me laugh harder for some reason, and I honestly wouldn't have minded watching the two wrestle and fight, knowing I was free of blame and to watch.

The pinkette ruined it, grabbing ahold of Naruto and holding him back. "N-Naruto, calm down," she muttered, grunting slightly as he squirmed in her arms. She then fixated her eyes on Attractive, giving him a half-stern, half-wary look.

"And you, that wasn't very nice. You shouldn't be such a jerk."

As much as I wanted to be disappointed about missing out on the show, I had to agree. Attractive was kinda a dick.

"Oh?" Attractive let out a small laugh. "But I like ugly girls like you."

I glanced at Pinky, whose lips were in a little 'o' shape. I'd barely blinked when she threw herself forward with the intent to kill. I slightly stepped back, eyeing the scene as the replacement leader grabbed ahold of the girl. She was yelling something about Attractive being an asshole when he spoke up.

"Sakura! Remember what you just told Naruto!"

She let out an angry, hissy breath between her teeth as she began to settle down. Attractive turned his gaze to me, using dark eyes to scan me up and down. The eldest of the group sprung to action before any more damage could be done.

"Let's just... get to introductions."

Attractive moved to stand between me and Sakura, gaining three wary glances as he did so. Our leader rubbed his temple, frowning a little. "Why don't we get started?"

Naruto snorted, lips curled into a slight snarl as he regarded Attractive. "Uzumaki Naruto."

Sakura was next, and she scowled at the boy next to me. "Haruno Sakura."

The smile only seemed to grow on Attractive's face. "You can call me Sai."

Sai, huh? Kinda plain, if you ask me. Oh well, he didn't choose it.

"Usilida Brea," I said, crossing my arms over my chest.

"I'm Yamato, your captain."

He cleared his throat and sighed, letting his hands drop to his side. "Anyway, our plan is to head to the Bridge of Heaven and Earth, where we will meet Sasori's spy."

I could hear both Sakura and Naruto gulp, and eyed Sai out of the corner of my eye. He had the most serious of expressions on his face.

I turned my eyes back forward, listening as Yamato said something about how the spy was important, some guy named Sasuke that had a weird effect on Naruto and Sakura, and the meeting time.

Once he was finished, he disappeared in some sort of smoke cloud and I gaped at the spot where he'd stood. Once I was aware I probably looked like an idiot, I carefully shut my mouth and proceeded to look at the rest of them.

"I guess I'll see you all later then."

They nodded and, with a turn of my heel, I was headed back towards the apartment. Doing my best to retrace the path taken was the right course of action, and I made it there in more or less five minutes. As I opened the front door, I glanced behind myself and jumped, hitting the side of my head against the door. "Good Lord," escaped my mouth and I pressed one of my hands to my racing heart.

Sai stood there, head slightly tilted and expression blank as he watched me try to pull myself together. It took me a few moments to completely register that he was there, and I sucked in a deep breath.

"Why are you following me?" The words came out a little nicer than I expected, but they got the point across just fine.

"This is the building my apartment is located at," he replied. "And I would assume you reside here as well."

"I… umm…" I kicked myself and nodded. "Yeah. I do."

After that, he silently brushed past me, seeming to be done with the conversation. I turned, letting the door shut, following him through the lobby to the staircase. After we reached the second floor, I let out a small laugh.

"Lobby's kinda tacky, don't you think?"

Silence from up ahead. I sucked in my cheeks and bit them, knowing that this was a tough crowd. We rounded up to the not-very-tall second floor, him still pretty mute and me feeling more and more insecure in my ability to make friends.

His apartment was right across from mine, and from the peek I got inside, seemed pretty similar. I turned the handle to mine and glanced back at Sai.

"See ya later, um, Bud," I tried with a very fake cheerful tone.

That was the only time he glanced back at me, his expression somehow blank and asking 'what the absolute fuck' at the same time.

I threw myself into the apartment, holding my chest and trying not to hit myself on the forehead. Okay, note to self- do not attempt friendship with anti-social people in Konoha. They don't like it at all.

Pushing off of the door I'd had to lean against, I looked around the apartment. Barely had time to settle in and I was already being shoved out the door. Oh, well. Might as well just get this whole thing over and done with.

Well hello Lovelies!

How's your day going so far? I hope life's been good to you.

I'm not gonna lie, it hasn't been the easiest on me these last couple of months, but I think it'll get better despite the bad day I'm having.

But, you know what? Finally we get Brea back. XD Unfortunately, Sai and Naruto never fought in the Canon anime, so Brea didn't have to stumble her way out of this one, which I would've loved to see. Also, I got a laptop and Microsoft Word! Hell yeah! Now, gonna start Chapter Five and maybe my essay for World History.