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Chapter Four

I was warmer than normal when I awoke. Sure, usually my blankets kept me pretty warm, but this was something else. I let out a soft sound as I attempted to stretch out my body, but something stopped me from moving.

I opened my eyes and looked down to see a head of blond hair resting against my shoulder. My heart warmed as I realized that he had spent the entire night with me, my Naruto. My hand tightened where it was still tangled in his fingers, a smile playing across my lips.

I didn't think to check the time.

Naruto's intake of breath made me look down to see him shifting against my side, his arm tightening around my waist and pulling me closer to his chest. I giggled slightly, but did nothing to resist as he slowly woke himself up.

His face pressed against my shoulder, and then he looked up at me, his blue eyes still tired. "I hate mornings…"

I smiled. "Good morning to you too."

He grinned, kissing my shoulder gently. "This is a good morning. I got to wake up to your beautiful face."

Naruto was just about to scoot up to give me a kiss on the lips when we both heard the sound of a door opening nearby; the bathroom.

We both looked at each other, eyes wide, and then to the clock. 9:40! Sakura had been awake for at least two hours! Naruto and I moved almost as one, me shoving him off the bed and him throwing himself upright to locate his clothes. I stood, moving to the door to look out into the hall, shaking slightly as I tried to locate my sister.

The bathroom door was shut; she was in there. I wasn't sure about the reason, as she had her own bathroom on the other side of the house, but the smell of ammonia and bleach was harsh against my nostrils. Sakura was cleaning? Wow, some apocalyptic event had to have happened…

Naruto came up behind me at that moment, his breath harsh as he finished buttoning up his jeans. "Coast clear?"

"Yea, go quick. You could probably even make it to the shower, she's cleaning the bathroom."

"Cleaning? What's wrong with her?"

I shrugged. "Beats me."

He pulled on his shirt, but left the buttons loose as he pushed past me, moving down the hall like lightening and disappearing towards the other bathroom. I felt my heart calm down just a little, but then I heard Sakura's voice. "Is that you, Sasuke? Did you need to get in here?"

I swallowed my heart, grabbing my bathrobe and throwing it on over my still sticky body and tying it just before the bathroom door opened and my sister wandered out, her short pink hair tied up in a ponytail and the bucket of cleaning supplies in her right hand.

I grinned, trying to keep my expression calm as I walked toward her. "Yea, I slept a little late, I guess."

She opened her mouth to return a comment, but then her eyebrows twitched together. "Sasuke, what happened to your neck?"
I blinked. "Huh?" I went into the bathroom to look into the mirror and felt my heart stop. The bite marks! I hadn't thought to cover them up!

"I was… uh… with the guys yesterday while you were at work, and we were…crap… wrestling! You know how guys get!" I laughed nervously, trying to cover up my mistake.

She frowned, not believing me for an instant. "Somebody bit you."

I nodded. "Yea. We weren't really paying attention, I guess. I had him um… pinned. He wanted up."

She still didn't seem to buy it, but shook her head slightly as she moved through the house. "Men… I'll never understand them…"

I sighed in relief as she went around the corner, slumping against the counter. Thank god she'd believed it! I started to shut the door, and then something clicked in my mind.

If she had noticed the bite mark on me, what would she notice on Naruto?.!

Naruto scrubbed at his hair, sighing slightly. Thank god they had gotten out around what could have been a horrible disaster. The only thing he had to wonder about was Sakura cleaning the bathrooms; she never did that.

The door opened at that moment and Naruto looked over his shoulder to see Sakura with her bucket of supplies coming into the room. "Sakura, I'm taking a shower!"

She glared at him. "So what? It's not like I haven't see it all before."

Naruto grinned at that, going back to washing his hair. "Geez, Sakura, what's up with you? How come you're cleaning, anyway?"

"What the hell happened to your back?.!"

Naruto froze. Shit! "Um, my Uncle got a new dog. Violent little sucker, climbed all over me, and Jiraya didn't think to get it de-clawed."

"I thought Jiraya didn't like dogs." Sakura said with a frown, a hand on her hip as she stared at her husband.

The blond chuckled rather nervously. "He just thought that this one was good, he really liked it. Don't know why, maybe he needed someone to keep him company during the week."

She shrugged. "That makes sense…"

"So uh… why are you cleaning?"

She glared at that. "Bad weekend at work. A couple of my models got sick the night of the show, the clothes just looked all wrong on Ino cause I had to call her to fill in."

Naruto chuckled slightly at that. "I'm sorry."

"Whatever. Just finish your shower so I can keep cleaning."

"Yes ma'am!"

"I'm taking Sasuke to work on my way to school, you'll have to get him later, alright Sakura?"

The woman looked up from where she was sitting at the couch, flipping through one of her old high school yearbooks. "Got it, just call me when you're done, Sasuke."

"Sure thing. See you later."

They were both silent until they got in the car, and then as the door shut Sasuke slumped down in his seat, letting out a shaky breath. "We've really got to be more careful Naruto; she's going to find something eventually!"

Naruto shrugged slightly, backing out of the garage and pulling into the street. "Oh, you worry too much. She hasn't caught us yet, she's not going to!"

"She almost caught us this morning! She saw the marks on my neck, and she almost figured out what it was from too!" Sasuke leaned his head back, closing his eyes. "I still don't think that she believed what I told her!"

The blond was silent for a few moments, and then he spoke. "Well, we'll just have to make sure that we get up time next time."

"Why didn't my alarm go off at 7?" Sasuke wondered out loud, glancing out the window as they went into the city streets.

"You must have forgotten to turn it on before I got there; you certainly weren't thinking clearly enough to do it afterwards." Naruto said with a grin, glancing toward the younger man.

Sasuke blushed faintly, looking away from him. "We still need to be careful. She's starting to get suspicious."

"Yea, yea, I know…"

"Hello?"

"Hey, is this Hinata Hyuuga?"

"Yes, what can I do for you?"

Sakura smiled slightly. "Hey, this is Sakura, Sasuke's older sister."

"Oh wow, it's been forever since I've talked to you! What's going on that you decided to look me up after so long?"

"Well, Sasuke's been acting… strange as of late, and I know that he talks to you quite a bit, so I was hoping that you might have noticed something." Sakura asked, settling back against the couch and staring up at the ceiling.

"I can't think of anything off the top of my head… I've been having that same type of problem; my husband is acting strange and is mad at me for the moment."

Sakura felt a little bit of sympathy for her old friend. "I'm sorry to hear that Hinata. Would you like to talk about it, sometimes that helps."

There was a slight laugh from the other end. "That's true. Well, I've been wanting to move with him to the city, you see, he goes to college during the week and then comes home to me on the weekends because it's a three hour drive, so I don't get to see him as often as I'd like. And lately he's been drifting even farther away, which is really not like him."

Sakura frowned, something in her mind clicking. "Hinata… who are you married to? I never did find out."

"Oh, you'd probably remember him from high school, he was always well known! Naruto, remember him?"

Sakura froze. "Um… I've got to go to work right now, but perhaps you could come stay here for a few days, come… surprise your husband at college." The word husband was almost spat out of her mouth and it left a nasty taste on her tongue.

"I like that idea; I'll head up in the morning if that's alright with you. That way I can see Sasuke again, and we can try to figure out what's wrong with him. I've been a little worried about him anyway; he always seems a little down on the weekends…"

"That sounds like a wonderful plan, Hinata; I'll go ahead and give you directions to my house…"