A/N: Thanks to all of you (two people) who reviewed it makes me smile! ^_^. Without further ado, the chapter.
Evening Without Your Girlfriend
By Aimie
…Woah it wouldn't have been too pretty….
Chapter 6: "Misery Business"
"You know, I heard human brains forget things frequently…" said Naruto walking around looking over at Sakura. "Like the hardships and stuff…and that's why I forget things frequently"
"Or you could just be an idiot…" said Sasuke looking around.
"Teme." He glared, Naruto looked around and spotted Ichiraku's. "RAMEN!"
"What weird circuits wire your brain dobe?" Sasuke asked following Naruto as he ran across the street and into the place.
He walked into Ichiraku's and ordered some ramen. Naruto finished 10 bowls in 1 minute, Sasuke thought it was possibly a new record for him.
"Eat more, and you'll be clever for a while, because of the high…" Sakura said coming up behind Naruto. "Ramen again?"
"What else would I eat?" asked Naruto stuffing a waterfall of ramen into his mouth.
"I don't know some sandwiches---"
"BLASHPHEMY!" he screamed.
"Right." Sakura smiled, she then sat next to Sasuke. "So did my tips work?"
"Kind of." Sasuke said. "She's more…open?"
"Good." Smiled Sakura.
Naruto lifted his head a bit and looked across the room. He spotted something and ran, a few seconds passed and he came back and grabbed his bowl of ramen and continued to run.
"He's going to do the most idiotic thing he's ever done his whole life eh?" Sakura sighed. "What else is left for him to do?"
Sasuke smiled or smirked she couldn't tell. He looked as if he was suppressing a laugh. Instead he said 'Hn'.
"I don't think 'hn' is a word, Sasuke." She said looking at Naruto harass the waiter.
"Well then I'll make it a word." He said.
"I'd like to see you try." She scoffed.
"I'd like to see you stop me." He smirked.
"And what made you think I was going to try to stop you?" she asked turning to him.
Naruto came back. "I just got 20 bowls of free ramen." He smiled triumphantly.
"I..I'd like to take a good look at your brain…" Sakura said biting her lip.
"Don't touch my head I need that for thinking." Said Naruto pointing to his head.
Sasuke tried to suppress laughter again. "Hn. Really?"
"Yes."
Sakura burst into to laughter, Naruto's face fell. "Oh you know I love you" she said laughing.
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Right"
Ino Yamanaka, current blonde bitch, walked inside Ichiraku's and sat next to Sakura. "Rough day?"
"Ha, that's an understatement."
"Care to tell Ino, what happened Forehead?" Ino said looking at her almost, with care. She eyed Sasuke, he rolled his eyes.
"No particularly Pig." She said smirking.
"You know you'll eventually spill, and when you do…I'm going to be right there." Ino smirked.
"Uh huh. Sure."
"Well…" Naruto started. "I think I'm going to go..since Sakura is having a staring contest with Ino….and I'm not part of it…I'll go…I have a date with Hinata anyway."
A vein in Ino's head popped. "Oh really? Where, pray tell, are you going to take her? Here perhaps?"
Naruto blushed. "Well you see I was thinking maybe I could---"
"Make her ramen?" asked Ino staring into Sakura's eyes, trying to win.
"No…"
"Make her something with ramen in it?"
"No…"
"Ra—"
"NO RAMEN!" he yelled. "I was going to ask her to marry me."
Ino lost concentration and tore her eyes away. "What?"
Sakura smirked. "You do know I just won right?"
"Uh huh…sure..you may have won this battle Forehead but not yet this war." Ino narrowed her eyes at her.
Sakura stood up and patted Naruto on the back. "Good job, Naruto, good job."
He shrugged blushing. "Well…I figured since teme over there had the courage to ask a girl he didn't know to marry him...I could ask a girl I loved to marry me."
Sasuke smirked raising a perfect eyebrow. "I've always had more courage then you, dobe."
"You'd like to think so—" Naruto shrugged.
"No baka, I know so." Sasuke scoffed.
Sakura rolled her eyes. "Do you have the ring yet?"
"Yeah..I do." He blushed.
Ino frowned. "I think some of Hinata has rubbed off on you, all you do is blush."
Naruto narrowed his eyes. "Maybe so."
Sakura smiled. "No time for fighting you need to ask her!!"
"Oh yeah, you support him but not me." Sasuke scoffed.
"That's because he actually loves Hinata." Sakura said waving goodbye to Naruto. "Unlike you."
"I could learn to love Ai, if I wanted to." Sasuke said.
"Let me see you try."
"No Sakura, you don't watch me try you watch me succeed." He smirked getting up.
She laughed. "Ahaha, someone as anti-social as you, love? Ha."
"I promise that I will." He said. Sakura scoffed.
He rolled his eyes and smirked. His brain began to plot.
"Maybe I can't fall in love with Ai, but I can sure as hell pretend" his smirk only grew with that thought. Sakura would see, he wasn't a bad actor
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"What the heck!" Ino said pacing around in her room.
"Geez Pig, what's wrong with you?" Sakura yawned laying down on Ino's bed.
"Nothing."
"Why are you always on permanent PMS?" Sakura raised a pink eyebrow, sitting criss-cross on Ino's bed.
"I am not. I'll have you know that I got my—" Ino raised a finger in the air.
"—Too much information Pig." said Sakura making a face.
Ino narrowed her eyes. "Hmph. I'm too much of a good woman to you"
Sakura sighed. "You're far from being a good woman, but you're a good person"
Ino threw herself on her bed. "Did that even make sense?"
"No, actually I was slightly hoping it would make sense to you." Sakura said bashfully.
Ino rolled her eyes. "I'll get the ice cream…"
"What? Pig, I thought you were on another one of your 'diets'" Sakura tilted her head.
"I am. I'm on the Acai diet, so I got a bunch of ice cream made of Acai." Ino left.
Sakura laughed. Ino came back moments later with a bucket full of ice cream, Sakura served herself a small helping while Ino grabbed the bucket and began eating quickly.
"Geez. You've got a frightening metabolism." Sakura put a small spoonful in her mouth.
"I know." Ino smirked. "This is going to make me 10 sizes smaller!"
"Any smaller and you'll disappear…" Sakura muttered.
One hour later…
"So…" began Ino shoving another spoonful of Acai ice cream in her mouth. "About this Sasuke business…"
"There's nothing." Sakura shrugged.
"You're positive you don't feel anything for him, right?" Ino inquired.
"As positive as I'll ever be. I don't know what to do though, he's going to break the poor girl's heart." Sakura sighed.
"Well…you could get him to fall in love with you and do your bidding and then---" Ino held a finger in the air talking quickly.
"You ate all the brain food and that's the best you could come up with?" Sakura asked looking at her, raising an eyebrow.
Ino scowled "So what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to see if he can keep his promise." Sakura said, distracted looking at a wall. "Even if it hurts."
…But I got him where I want him now…it feels so good…
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A/N: These are filler chapters! ^_^. The action, lol, doesn't start till the next chapter. Sasuke and Ai!...Sasuai…Sasai? LOL. Yeah ahahah.