Chapter Four- Because of Your Effect

Recap:

The next things that happened were so simultaneous that I couldn't react in time. The brush Tenten had brought with her flew through the air and collided with the back of Sasuke's head. The sudden force made him lurch forward, and our lips connected.

Now:

It took me a second before the situation I was unintentionally in sunk through. Sasuke seemed to be frozen in shock as well, and our connection remained. The silence in the room was deafening, and it seemed like reaction was beyond everyone.

Sasuke was the first to recover, and, too my absolute shock, instead of pulling away he pressed into the kiss. My first reaction, after movement sunk back into my nerves, was to gasp; my second reaction…

Slap!

Our connection was broken as Sasuke's head jerked to the side at the impact of my slap. My face flushed a deep shade of pink, and my fists clenched, ready to beat the living daylights out of the Uchiha in front of me.

"Y-You…you freaking jackass," I screeched, "what the hell went on in that perverted Uchiha mind of yours…to…to make that okay!?"

"Sakura, it was my fault, I threw the brush." Tenten interjected.

"That's not the half of it." I growled and glared viciously at Sasuke.

"Hn, you sure are temperamental." Sasuke grunted.

A low growl escaped my throat. "Well at least I don't have such a big ego that I think I can turn an accident into a make-out session!"

By this time, barely to my notice, everyone else had slipped out of the room. Sasuke and I were the last two in the living room, and I wouldn't doubt it if they're all currently taking cover in closets or rooms in case of explosions or violent chases.

Sasuke smirked and glared at me at the same time. "I bet you'd have liked that, wouldn't you? I bet you were just too embarrassed because your friends and brother were with us."

"What are you insinuating?" I seethed heatedly.

"Hn, nothing," Sasuke replied in a nonchalant manner which only caused my anger to rise to a higher level.

"You annoying, stupid, hormonal, insincere jerk," I glowered, "if there's anyone here who was enjoying themselves or wanted to take it farther, it's indefinitely you."

"Well, all good things must come to an end, I suppose." Sasuke stated.

"Then what happens to the things that are already bad?"

"They're left with us, which helped inspire the quote 'life sucks'."

"So I take it you're one of those bad things that are just left behind."

"That's pretty cold."

"Says the ice cube."

"So what does that say about you if you're even colder than me?"

"Then I guess I'm dry ice or liquid nitrogen, and yet I'm still hotter than you in more ways than one."

"I guess I can't disagree with that."

My face began to glow with pink, and I abruptly turned away.

"P-Pervert," I grumbled.

"You are so—"

"Hey, are you guys done yet?"

I turned my head to the hallway and saw Naruto with his head peeking out at us.

"Does it sound like we're still bickering?" I spat.

"Well…I'm not exactly sure what 'bickering' means, but I wanted to ask you something." Naruto replied.

"What is it?" I asked.

"…I'm hungry."

I shot my brother an annoyed glare before I responded. "I'm pretty sure mom left some money for a couple pizzas for the groups."

"Well….maybe we can order them now?"

"Is everyone else hungry?"

"Yeah, their stomachs are growling."

"Okay, I'll order them."

"Cool, order a big pepperoni for the guys!"

"You want anchovies on that?"

"Ugh, no, I don't want to eat through fish brains!"

"I think you should." Sasuke interjected. "Maybe we'll get lucky and those fish brains will take up that empty hollow where yours is supposed to be."

"Hey, Teme," Naruto growled.

I giggled at the remark and went up the stairs to find the money and ask the girls what kind of pizza we were going to eat. When I came back downstairs, Naruto and Sasuke were sitting on the couch casually as if Sasuke and I didn't just have an argument. I inclined my head to tell that we were ordering now and went to the phone to order.

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The pizzas arrived about half an hour later. Naruto immediately jumped for the food and nearly knocked over the pizza man. I pulled him out of the doorway and threw him against the floor.

"Naruto, why don't you listen to what I say and stay back before the foods all over the floor, rather than in your stomach?" I growled while I counted out the money I needed.

"I'm hungry! No amount of authority will ever take me from my precious pizza!" Naruto retorted.

"You either follow my orders or suffer the consequences of your ramen stash disappearing in the middle of the night." I glowered.

"How did you discover my secret stash?" Naruto gasped.

"Because you're just that obvious," I sighed as I paid the pizza man and took the boxes of food into the living room.

"Let's see…here's the box for you guys." I stated as I handed a box to the boys. "Here's the one for the girls, and here's a couple bottles of soda."

"Hey, why don't we all just eat together?" Naruto suggested.

"Because you'll probably steal our pizza," I answered.

"I don't know, Sakura, why don't we?" Tenten interjected.

I turned to face the two girls. Hinata nodded her head to Tenten's suggestion; I sighed and turned my head back to the boys.

"Fine, since the rest of the girls wants to." I huffed and took a seat on the floor with the box of the girl's pizza. Tenten and Hinata came over to me to take a couple slices and sat down. Tenten took a seat next to Neji, and Hinata sat in between Naruto and I. Sasuke sat between Naruto and Neji on the opposite side of the circle from me. We all ate in silence for a while until we finished our food and a bottle and a half of soda.

"See, we're all sitting around, and no one's dead." Tenten sighed.

"Says my accomplice who's probably even more violent than me," I stated.

"Well, while we're all in a good mood. How about we play a game?" Naruto proposed.

"Like w-what?" Hinata asked.

"Hmmm…how about…spin the bottle?" Naruto suggested as he picked up the empty soda bottle and twirled it around.

Whack! Whap!

Sasuke and I had both reached over and smacked Naruto in the head.

"You pervert." I growled.

"Hn, Dobe, why don't you think of something else?" Sasuke snorted.

"Wow, you two were really in sync. Maybe you are meant to be together." Naruto groaned as he grabbed his probably throbbing head.

I balled up my fist to hit him again, but held it back as Sasuke punched Naruto in the arm.

"Gah, no one can take a joke anymore." Naruto whined.

"With you around it's pretty hard." I sighed, and abruptly turned to stop the conversation.

"Just have to survive…probably about another four hours…then people should start falling asleep, and my headache can go away." I mentally huffed.

Well…the ending's pretty open ended, but I've been sitting here writing like crazy for the past couple hours!! I've been working on three stories at once, and now that two of three are done, I can focus on the last one, and then all three shall be released! Though…by the time you read this that would have already happened so…what the hell am I ranting about?! And why's it so dark in here!? Oh…because the sun decided to go down…okay…random ranting over! Hope you people enjoyed!! And now I need to change the channel, too…argh!!