Here's another chapter if anyone cares.
I do not own Naruto. I do own Saki and Kohana.
Kohana sighed, bored to tears, as she laid her head on Sasuke's lap making Sakura fume with anger and jealously from her spot across them. Ever since the day Sasuke nearly died and Team Seven completed their first official mission, they had become a pretty close group, except Kohana and Sakura. If they spoke to each other it was usually in the form of insults or death threats.
"Why does Kakashi-sensei make us come so early if he isn't going to be here for another hour or two?" Naruto asked crossly as he leaned up against the same tree Sasuke was leaning against.
Kohana frowned as she pulled her feet out from under Naruto who had rudely and purposely sat on them. Just because she could she outstretched her legs resting them on his lap. The blonde frowned a little but made no effort to move his friend's legs.
"It's probably to test our patience levels," Sakura mused pushing away a stray strand of hair out of her face.
"Well, I fail," Kohana groaned throwing her hands up in the air in defeat, "My patience level ran out a LONG time ago."
Sasuke smirked looking down at her, "Yeah it ran out the day you were born."
She frowned at him, "Oh look who made a funny, bet you can't do it twice in a row. You might go into epileptic shock."
His smirk only grew, "Isn't your middle name-"
Kohana jumped up to cover Sasuke mouth with her hand, "I swear to all that is holy don't say that or I will keel joo ded."
"HEY YOU CAN'T TALK TO SASUKE-KUN LIKE THAT!" Sakura yelled glaring daggers at Kohana.
"CAN IT BUBBLE GUM HEAD!" Kohana yelled turning her attention back to the pink haired girl, "This is an A and B conversation so C your way out of it!"
The two glared at each other before screaming in surprise when their sensei suddenly popped up.
"Sorry I'm late, I lost track of time and…….What are you two doing?" he suddenly asked looking at Kohana and Sasuke in amusement.
For a second the two were thoroughly confused, and then they noticed their….current position. When Kakashi had just suddenly appeared Kohana out of pure instinct and without rational thought, jumped into Sasuke's arms holding on tightly to the youngest Uchiha. Sasuke had, out of pure instinct too, wrapped his arms around Kohana's waist keeping her held firmly against him.
The two quickly pulled away with identical blushes on their normally pale faces, "Nothing," they mumbled staring at the ground.
Kakashi smirked a little before letting the issue drop.
"Tomorrow we will be fighting each other in a two on two match," he informed them leaning against a tree.
"I CALL NARUTO!" Kohana yelled throwing her arms around the blonde's waist before casting Sasuke an apologetic look, "Sorry Sasuke you're left with Pinky."
Kakashi didn't miss the glare Sasuke sent Naruto as he wrapped his own arms around Kohana's waist. He also didn't miss the smug smile that Naruto sent the fuming Uchiha member.
'This could be interesting,' the Jonin thought in amusement before speaking, "Not this time Kohana."
The strawberry blonde blinked her hazel green eyes in confusion before looking over at Sasuke.
"Nope," their sensei said with a growing grin.
Kohana's eyes narrowed, "You better mean Bob my imaginary half-brother."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "You have an imaginary half-brother?"
Kohana nodded with a serious look on her face, "He's a midget, half Asian, half Mexican, half Indian, half Irish, half German, and a quarter Native American."
Her three teammates and teacher all stared at her like she had grown a second and third head.
"What?" she asked innocently as if nothing out of the norm had been said.
"Where in the hell do you come up with this crap?" Sasuke asked.
Kohana rolled her eyes, "Years of having to attend dinners and ceremonies with my grandfather. The voices in my head just start talking when I'm at one of those things to keep me sane."
Kakashi rolled his eyes as he cleared his throat, "Sasuke and Naruto will be working against Sakura and Kohana."
"NO WAY!" Kohana and Sakura yelled in unison before glaring at each other their eyes full of anger and hate.
"Yes way," Kakashi insisted nodding his head, "This team needs to learn the value of team work a little more."
Kohana frowned at her teacher, "We all work together just fine Kakashi-sensei."
He shook his head, "No, you work fine with Naruto and Sasuke. Sasuke works fine with you. Naruto works fine with you. A team is like a machine. If you have one lose piece, the odds are it's gonna blow up in your face. But if you have all the pieces and they work together everything runs smoothly. Right now we're on the brink of a nuclear melt down.
The four Genins remained silent because none of them could find a suitable argument.
"Now you all have the rest of the day off, BUT Kohana and Sakura have to spend the rest of the day together. Same goes for you boys," their teacher said before disappearing.
They all kind of fidgeted for a while not quiet sure what they should do or not do.
"Maybe we should go get ramen." Naruto suggested with a hopeful glint in his blue eyes.
"NO!" both Sakura and Kohana said before giving each other wary looks.
"I want chicken fried rice," Sakura said.
Kohana would have loved to say something sarcastically to the pinkette but chicken fried rice was her favorite food.
"Ramen sounds way better," Sasuke muttered.
"Fine," Kohana said crossing her arms over her chest, "We'll go eat our chicken fried rice while you two go eat your ramen."
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A few moments later Kohana and Sakura were sitting in a booth in awkward silence staring at the table. Kohana played absently with her straw trying to think up ways to torture Konohamaru for going into her room.
Suddenly a familiar sickening voice broke through the silence making both girls cringe.
"Oh look it the two losers are on a date," Ino said with a smirk making the girls behind her giggle as if she had said the cleverest thing in the world.
Kohana smiled brightly, "Oh yeah Sakura's like totally my new bff!"
Ino's smirk dropped for a split second, "Well you really couple well together. The walking forehead and the clone: the perfect freaks."
Sakura's face flushed at Ino's comment as she looked back down at the table.
Kohana smirked, "You too. Malibu Barbie with all of her little Barbie wannabes. Tell me where did all of you get those nose jobs?"
The three behind Ino gasped as they covered their noses which all resembled Ino's small one.
Ino growled as she flipped her hair over her shoulder, "Whatever, lets leave these losers alone."
"OH, Ino would you like me to tell Sasuke you said hi?" Kohana laughed after she asked, "My bad, he doesn't even know you exist!"
Ino cast them both one final glare before leaving the restaurant with her little 'posse' following closely behind her.
It was silent for a while until Sakura spoke up, "How do you do that?"
Kohana blinked a couple of times as she looked at her only female teammate, "Do what?"
"That," Sakura said motioning to the door, "Come back at Ino like that. No one ever does that."
Kohana rolled her eyes as the waitress brought them their food, "Ino talks a lot of trash but that's all it is. If you were to take away her 'beautiful looks' and those little followers of hers, she'd be weaker then a brand new baby."
It was silent again as they ate before Sakura spoke again, "So….why aren't you two friends anymore?"
Kohana shrugged, "She didn't like me and Sasuke being friendly and I found it stupid that she would get upset over something stupid like that."
"Oh."
It was silent once again before Kohana spoke, "So what happened between you two? You guys use to be super close."
Sakura nodded sadly, "I told her I didn't like Sasuke because I didn't think our friendship would survive if we both liked the same boy."
"Oh."
Silence followed again until Kohana spoke, "Boys really screw up the world don't they?"
"Amen to that."
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After they got done eating they walked through the park casually talking about random things.
"Ok, uhm…favorite ice cream?" Sakura asked.
"Chocolate with chocolate syrup," Kohana said with a dreamy smile at the mere thought.
Sakura nodded with an identical smile, "Me too."
"Favorite movie?" Kohana asked pushing one of her braided pigtails over her shoulder.
Sakura's face flushed, "It's kind of embarrassing but when I was little the Swan Princess was my favorite and I still to this day love them all."
Kohana stopped dead in her tracks, "Get out………ME TOO! BEST MOVIES EVER!"
The two laughed, "We really have a lot in common don't we?" Sakura mused.
Kohana nodded, "I guess. Why did we hate each other to begin with?"
Sakura thought about it carefully trying to figure it out, "I………don't remember."
They both started laughing again holding on to each other for support. They only stopped when they heard Kohana's name being shouted.
"Oh hey twerp," Kohana said as Konohamaru and his two friends ran up to them.
Konohamaru frowned before taking a good look at Sakura, "Who are you?"
Kohana slapped her little brother upside the head, "You have manners munchkin, I expect you to use them," She then turned to Sakura, "Konohamaru this is my teammate Sakura. Sakura this is my little twerp of a brother Konohamaru and his two friends Udon and-"
"I'm Moegi!" the little girl said cutting off Kohana, "The sexiest kindergartener!"
Sakura looked over at Kohana who was shaking her head biting her lip to keep from laughing.
"It's nice to meet you," Sakura said politely.
Konohamaru nodded before looking over at his sister, "I came to tell you I'm staying at Udon's tonight. So bye!"
Kohana stepped on the long scarf he wore, preventing him from making his quick escape.
"Uh hello, have you asked Papa?"
The young boy shook his head no.
Kohana rubbed her face in agitation, "Then go as-"
"Onesan lets not play this game," Konohamaru said looking more like a serious little adult then a kid, "Papa will say ask you sister then you'll say 'its not my place' and to ask Papa. Papa will say ask you. You'll get irritated and say you don't care. So let's make this easier on us both and just let me go to Udon's."
Kohana sighed knowing her brother was right, "Be back by noon tomorrow, got it twerp?"
Konohamaru smirked in triumph, "Got it onesan!" he yelled as he and the others ran off.
Once they were gone Sakura finally asked, "Sexiest kindergartener?"
They both began laughing hysterically until tears formed in their eyes and their sides felt like they were on fire.
"So it looks like I'm home alone tonight. You wanna stay over?" Kohana got a sly smirk, "I've got all three Swan Princess's, a tub of chocolate ice cream and a brand new bottle of syrup."
Sakura smiled, "Sounds great!"
"RACE YA!" Kohana yelled speeding off toward the Hokage mansion with Sakura hot on her heels.
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Naruto and Sasuke were waiting at the bridge for Kakashi as usual but also for Sakura and Kohana.
Usually the two Kunoichi arrived when they did. (Kohana with Naruto and Sakura following Sasuke) It was kind of awkward to not have the two around bickering with each other or Kohana being her weird yet loving self.
"Hi guys, sorry I'm…." Kakashi trailed off when he noticed he was missing his two Kunoichi students, "Where are Kohana and Sakura?"
Sasuke shrugged, "We haven't seen them since yesterday when we split up for lunch."
Naruto shook his head, "Hana-chan probably killed Sakura-chan and is burying the body as we speak."
It had been meant as a joke but the three males winced in silent terror because as much as they wanted to deny it, it sounded like the exact thing Kohana would do.
"Maybe we should go look-" Kakashi was cut off by feminine giggles heading their way.
All of them openly gapped when Kohana and Sakura appeared with their arms linked, laughing like they were old friends.
"Sorry we're late," Kohana apologized with a smile, "We sort of over slept."
Sakura nodded, "Way to much sugar last night."
Naruto suddenly fell over in a dead faint while Sasuke kept gapping. Kakashi had a smug look under his masked as he muttered, "I knew it would work."
Sasuke sent him an, 'You big liar' glare before looking down at his fallen teammate.
"So I guess that means Kohana and Sakura win by default." Kakashi mused watching the two girls high-five.
Now they were finally a true team.
