Top of the morning to you children!

This chapter wasn't planned in any way so it may be a bit jumbled, I just kind of threw stuff together:P

So... I hope it's still suitable

- - Suzuki Yumi '.'

Chapter 7

When we made it back to my house everyone was tired so we sent Naruto home and they just talked a little until they slowly fell asleep. Tenten fell asleep first, then Hinata, then Ino, then Sakura, until it was only Temari and I.

"You know Saki…" Temari mumbled from my bed where Tenten was lying beside her, snoring.

"What?" I asked.

"I really do like Shikamaru," She said. I smiled.

"I thought so," I said. Temari slowly drifted off to sleep, leaving me all alone. I still felt a little discomfort from my earlier discussion with Sasuke, so I took the phone and walked to the bathroom.

He was the only person I could talk to, girls just get in the way in these situations.

I dialed the number and I waited for about three rings. The answering machine picked up.

"Yo it's Kiba, I'm probably on a mission or sleeping, so, leave a message," The voice said. There was a dog's bark (Akamaru) and then a beep. I thanked god that Kiba had his own phone in his room. It'd be awkward to leave Kiba a message at five in the morning and have his parents hear it.

"Kiba, its Saki… I just needed… someone to talk to, so, if you get this message before 9:00 AM tomorrow morning, call me," I said, sounding sullen. I hung up and I moped, knowing he wouldn't get the message. The phone rang in my hand unexpectedly and I answered it.

"Hello?" I asked, expecting it to be Kiba.

"You won a trip for four to Mexico!" The voice said. I was about to hang up when I heard, "Saki! Saki it's me!" I smiled. He didget the message.

I put the phone back up to my ear.

"I called as soon as I heard it, it sounded serious," He said.

"I'm sorry Kiba, I don't know you very well, I just couldn't talk to a girl and Naruto would be stupid about it," I apologized.

"Don't say sorry, just tell me what's wrong," Kiba cooed. His voice was crackly from my crappy phone.

"Well, we were playing truth or dare and they dared me to try and get Sasuke to let me in his house for half an hour, so I got there and-" I started, Kiba cut me off.

"This sounds serious, I'll be there in five minutes," He said, hanging up before I could protest. Did he forget the gaggle of girls that are here?

Hehe.

Gaggle of girls.

Gaggle.

Gaggle.

….

Gaggle.

Okay I'm done.

I stepped cautiously over the sleeping girls, opening the door to my apartment and slipping into the hallway. I waited there for a few minutes and then I saw the faint silhouette that is Kiba.

He sat down beside me in the hallway.

"Explain," He commanded.

"Well, I told Sasuke about the truth or dare thing and told him to just keep me there half an hour. So we talked… a little. Then I jumped on his bed, just for fun," – I didn't tell Kiba about the way Sasuke looked at me – "We had a little argument about Sasuke being a woman and then… well, my nightgown fell down," I explained, blushing slightly. Kiba laughed, it sounded like bells ringing, and it was so cool.

"Anyway, he kept staring, like he always does," I said huffily.

"Does this happen often?" Kiba asked.

"Well, there was the time I hang upside down wearing a skirt, and the time at hot springs, and today," I explained.

"Hot springs?" Kiba asked.

"Natural hot springs on our mission, I decided to jump off the waterfall and I lost my towel half-way down, exposing my 'upper body'" I told him. He nodded slowly.

"Anyways, he was staring so I went to punch him and I couldn't do it," I said, looking shell-shocked, "And then I told him he was like poison, that the more I hated him the more I liked him,"

"Are you sure you didn't say love?" Kiba asked.

"I'm pretty sure… I don't know, my memory is foggy," I said confusingly.

"And he just said, 'good, I can't have you hating me now can I?' as in, we need you for missions, and nothing more," I said with a mixture of anger and sadness, "And somehow I felt hurt by that, shut down." Kiba was silent.

"Did you veer think of the possibility that you might like Sasuke?" Kiba asked me. I scoffed.

"Like I would like that loser!' I said, laughing heartily. Kiba smirked.

I tried to open the door to my apartment, but my efforts were in vain.

"Shit. Locked out of my own apartment," I said angrily, "We'll just have to use the window."

"We?" Kiba asked, raising his eyebrow.

"I always refer to myself as more than one person," I said, waving it off. I thought back to earlier when I pushed Kiba through the window. Tenten had closed it. That's the only window.

"I'm doomed," I said dramatically, sliding back down into a sitting position.

"Why?" Kiba inquired.

"Window's closed," I said, "We'll just have to camp out in the hall then."

"Too suspicious," Kiba warned.

"By 'we' I meant 'me'," I told Kiba. He laughed.

"Okay, I'll go," He said with a smile, waving goodbye.

"Thanks!" I called after him. I kept sitting there for a while, until I had a brilliant idea.

"Naruto…" I whispered, poking the blond boy in front of me. He groaned.

"Naruto you dumb-ass!" I yelled, he opened one eye.

"Can I sleep with you?" I asked. He raised his eyebrow.

"I mean, no, can I sleep, in here! I locked myself out of my own apartment," I explained. Naruto sighed, smirking.

"Typical Saki," He said. He got off his bed and offered it me.

"You sleep in your bed Naruto," I demanded, "I can sleep… on the floor."

"You're the guest," Naruto said tiredly.

"You know what would solve everything?" I asked slyly. Naruto shook his head groggily, rubbing sleep out of his eye.

"If we both slept on the floor?" Naruto asked.

"Uhhh… no, if we both slept on the bed," I said.

"Wouldn't that be awkward?" He asked.

"I'm sure it will be fine," I assured him, I didn't want to risk the floor, I don't need back pains for our mission tomorrow. But I agreed, it would be awkward. I lay down on the right say and Naruto lay on the left. It's funny, but I feel like Naruto is my gay friend, and I don't have to worry about him liking me.

Maybe it's because he likes Sakura.

Well whatever.

I woke up the next morning and rolled off of the bed, looking around and freaking out.

But then I remembered that I fell asleep there last night.

So no one had raped me.

I hoped.

I jumped off the bed, seeing a sleeping Naruto. I smirked and left the room, knocking on my apartment door. It felt weird to knock on my own door.

Ino answered it.

"Hey Saki where were you? Well whatever guess what Sasuke called but he wouldn't tell me anything. What happened with you two in his house I wasn't watching, Sakura was but she wouldn't tell me what happened, something tells me it wasn't very in-depth otherwise you wouldn't have been so pissy afterward," - She somehow rolled that all into one sentence - "I wrote down his number on a piece of paper by the phone."

"How did you…" I was about to ask how she knew his phone number, but it's obvious, because she stalks him. I nodded slowly, tiredly, and I picked up the phone and a piece of paper that was beside it. I looked around the room to see that everyone but Ino and Tenten were still asleep, and Sakura was already gone because she had a mission today.

I let the sleeping ones be.

I was going to go in the bathroom but Tenten was there, so instead I shoved myself into my closet because it seemed more fun then sitting on the bed.

I dialed the number that was written on the paper (it was hard in the closed space).

"Hello?" A bored voice asked.

"Sasuke?" I asked.

"If you're a fangirl…" He mumbled threateningly.

"Haha! It's Saki!" I said cheerfully. Sasuke sighed, it sounded like it was in relief.

"Why did you call before?" I asked him.

"Kurenai has a mission for us," He explained, "There's a festival tonight; our mission is to go to it."

"That's the stupidest mission of all time," I said blankly.

"I know," Sasuke agreed.

"So what kind of festival is it?" I asked him, breaking the tension a bit.

"I don't know, but the "kage's" from each country are coming with their families and staying for a week, I guess they have it in a different village every year. It's to show our 'bonds' with the other villages, so we have to set a good example and dress nicely, we were asked to go by special request of the Hokage, I guess we're the best behaved and we're the only team going," Sasuke explained.

"Okay, what time will we meet?" I asked him curiously.

"Lunchtime," Sasuke said, pausing, "We can have lunch before we go."

"You're paying," I said playfully, hanging up. I opened the door to the closet and I tumbled out onto the floor. The phone dropped and the batteries rolled under the bed.

"Crap," I said, getting up and rubbing myself off. Everyone stared at me. I smiled innocently and turned to grab my yukata out of the closet. I only kept kimono, yukata, dresses, and supplies in there, not too much room in a small apartment. It was summer so a kimono would be too hot.

"Hinata we're going to a festival, wear a yukata," I commanded, "Meet for lunch at Sasuke's." She waved goodbye and left. I grabbed out my three yukata and lay them out on the bed.

"Which should I wear?" I asked Sakura. She looked closely at all three of them. The first was a soft-yellow one with a red obi made of lined material. The yukata was decorated in red and yellow flowers with light green leaves.

The next one was a white colour with an off-white obi that had light silver flowers on it. The yukata itself had dark pink flowers with pine-coloured leaves.

The third and last one was very plain. It was very light pink with a dark pink obi, nothing more.

Sakura immediately pointed to the plain one.

"You don't want to stand out too much," She said blankly. I picked it up and I went to the bathroom. I slowly undressed, stepping in to the shower and letting the water fall on me.

I stepped out of the shower and wrapped myself in a towel, picking up my brush.

"Let me handle that," Temari said, taking it from my hands. She started to brush my hair while I vigorously brushed my teeth.

"The rest of them left," Temari explained. She kept brushing my hair, pulling it into a neat little bun.

"Ummm, Saki…" Temari said nervously as I got my yukata on. She started tying my obi.

"Yes?" I asked quizzically.

"You don't suppose I could stay here… all this week…?" She asked, "If it's too much of a hassl-"

"Nonsense," I said, "My home is your home." She smiled and finished. I picked up my fan and my hand purse off of a little table with a lamp on it and I went to the closet, digging through it to find my geta, wooden shoes with an elevated base and a flip-flop like strap. I slipped them on awkwardly.

"I feel like Jiraiya," I said, stepping out of the closet. He always wears geta, must be uncomfortable.

"I may not be here for missions, food's in the fridge an- Wait, why do you have to stay here all week?" I asked Temari. She smirked.

"Even though my father's dead, we're still the kazekage's children," Temari explained. I nodded. I had heard that the fourth Kazekage died, and I wasn't sure if it was true or not.

"And I don't really want to stay in a hotel with my brothers for a week," Temari added on the end. I smiled. I wouldn't either. A week with Gaara and Kankuro? No thanks.

"Well, if you need to borrow something more suitable to wear, feel free, we look about the same size anyway," I said, "I'm meeting my team for lunch, see you at the festival!" I shuffled along in my geta and I hurried to Sasuke's house. By the time I was outside I gave up and took the darn shoes off, jumping across the rooftops to the Uchiha Compound.

This time, the fence-door swung open, no fence-climbing for me. That made me sad.

I slipped my shoes back on and scurried to Sasuke's seeing Hinata at his door. I smiled to her and we both knocked. She was wearing a Yukata too. It was a light blue with pretty flowers on it.

Sasuke opened the door to face us.

"Hello," He said. He was shirtless. I couldn't help but feel my heart flutter a little, but I ignored it. He smirked and walked back into his house, leaving the door open. I assumed it was an invitation to come in, so I did, Hinata following.

Sasuke came back wearing a dark blue yukata that was slightly undone to reveal a black shirt. Not to the point where it was sloppy, but to the point where it said: "I'm a bad boy, adore me fan girls!", and he wonders why they like him when he wears crap like that?

"Ready to go?" I asked him. He nodded.

"Have your money?" I asked. He rolled his eyes and we left.

I chose an especially expensive restaurant for us to dine in.

I sat beside Hinata with Sasuke on the other side, slowly picking up a menu. I smiled slyly. The waiter (thank god it was a man, otherwise the Kiba – waitress incident would probably be repeated) walked up. He pursed his lips.

"What would you like?" He asked politely.

"I'll have steak and the grand sushi," I said, smiling sweetly, "Oh, and water."

"Lemonade and the smallest, least-expensive sushi you have," Hinata said shyly. I waved my hand.

"Don't worry, Sasuke's paying," I told her. Sasuke glared at me and ordered what ever it was he wanted. The waiter left.

"So…" I said quietly after a while, playing with my cutlery. No one said anything. Awk-ward!

"Do you think the festival will be fun!?" Hinata asked to break the tension. Sasuke gave a hearty "hn" with a nod.

"Most likely, but everyone will expect us to be well behaved!" I said, laughing. The waiter passed us our drinks and muttered something about "food and eventually" before walking off. I sucked my water through I bright pink bendy-straw, making that annoying noise straws make. I looked around anxiously.

"I can't take it anymore!" I finally screamed, jumping up. People stared at me. I leaned down, placing my arms on the table.

"If someone doesn't talk soon, I'm going to kill myself," I whispered harshly.

"No one would complain," Sasuke said. I slapped him on the back of the head and people looked over to me, shooting me sit-down-or-I'll-call-the-management-so-they-can-kick-you-out looks. I smiled innocently, sitting back down. I glared at Sasuke and he looked absent-mindedly out the window.

A little while later the waiter came with our food. Sasuke looked at my huge plate of sushi and steak that was double the size of him with a how-can-you-eat-that-much-and-still-be-skinny look. I smiled at him.

"I work out," Was all I said, and he immediately understood.

The number one most silent, death-glarey lunch ever!

"We should go to the festival," Sasuke said, looking at his watch that I never knew he had. When we made it to the festival there were a bunch of smiling people, many around our age, greeting us. We were polite and always smiled back sweetly, sometimes asking how their village was and such. I clutched my purse tightly, nervously, the whole time.

"These are the representatives from Konoha," Tsunade said, pushing us onto a random stage. I almost fell on the way up, but it's all good. We stood on the stage smiling.

"Hello," I said nervously. Everyone stared at us.

"Welcome them!" Tsunade hissed behind us.

"Welcome to Konoha everyone, I hope you have a great stay here!" I said with a smile. We stepped.

"I think that went pretty well," I said, turning to glare at Hinata and Sasuke, "No thanks to you guys!" Temari ran up to us.

"Oh my god you guys! There's like stuff to do here! And food! And people are like, selling shit! I'm so excited!" She exclaimed.

"Temari! What did you eat… or drink?" I asked her, concerned for her mental health.

"Or smoke?" Sasuke added. I elbowed him.

"Umm, just punch, its good punch you know. I like punch. Did you know that sometimes punch has little fruits in it? I didn't until today. But I didn't like the little fruits so I have them to Gaara," She said, jumbling it all into one sentence.

"How 'bout you go see Gaara?" I asked her. She nodded vigorously and left.

"Dear god…" Sasuke muttered. I laughed. Hinata saw her father and went off with him.

"Where to now mister?" I asked him, linking my arm with his.

"I don't know," He said, pulling his arm away like I was some sort of disease. I frowned.

"What's your problem today?" I asked him.

"Nothing," Sasuke said, creases his brow.

"P.M.S?" I asked him. Sasuke pushed me up against a tree angrily.

"No!" He said through clenched teeth. I bit my lip through the pain of his hands against my shoulders. He let go, looking away and mumbling "sorry".

"I don't know if your goal was to break my shoulder but you did a pretty good job," I said to him as he walked off. I ran up to him.

"Yeah, follow the guy who almost broke your shoulder," He said sarcastically.

"Sasuke you silly goose, I just don't want to be alone, and neither of us have family here, so we should stick together!" I said, smiling. He rolled his eyes and we walked around for a while, walking past Temari and her siblings. Temari ran up to us and hugged us both, giggling. I pried her off of us and directed her back to her brothers.

"You should control your sister," Sasuke said to Gaara.

"You have a problem with my sister?" Gaara asked defensively, uncorking his gourd.

"Gaara don't do this, he's not worth it," Kankuro said, holding Gaara back. He put the cork back on, glaring.

"You're right," He said, turning and leaving. Temari waved goodbye to us with a goofy smile, walking with her brothers. Sasuke kept glaring at Gaara and he grabbed my hand. We stormed away. Wait. Hold it. My hand!? He grabbed my hand?

"Sasuke…" I said quietly, looking at our clenched hands. I smirked a little as I saw Sasuke flush red, pulling his hand away.

I heard a strange movement in the leaves.

Ino jumped out and pointed at me.

"You! Trying to steal my man!?" She asked angrily. A girl with long black hair jumped out.

"Don't you mean my man?" The girl asked Ino.

"Shut up Manami," Ino commanded. The girl stopped all movement. Ino sauntered up to me and punched me in the face, preparing for a fight. That's it, I'd already snapped and we all knew it.

I smirked, pulling on my obi until my entire yukata fell off. I passed it and my shoes to Sasuke to hold. Underneath it I was wearing black pants and I black tee shirt. I slipped on my black gloves and pulled the pin out of my hair, letting it all fall down and graze my shoulders. Ino glared and jumped at me. I scraped her back with my pin, smiling satisfactory. Her shirt fell to the ground. She gasped.

"Bitch!" She yelled. She kept fighting. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Sasuke, he was gawking at Ino.

I pointed to Sasuke angrily.

"Sasuke you pervert!" I exclaimed. I was pulled down by my hair. I looked up at Ino and I smiled innocently, not wanting her to hurt me any further.

I then punched her. She scratched my neck and before I knew it we were on the ground kicking and scratching.

"Whore!" I screamed. Ino kicked me.

"Excuse me!? Sasuke only likes you because you're one too!" Ino yelled, biting my arm. I winced.

"At least I don't stalk him in my spare time! It's sad when you're so desperate you stalk them to see what they like!"

Sasuke came in the middle of us stood in between us. Ino stopped because she'd hurt Sasuke, I stopped because people had gathered to see.

Tsunade looked closely at us, seeming angry. Ino smoothed back her hair, her ripped shirt sitting on a chair In the corner. Thank god she was wearing a bra.

"You idiots think you can ruin our relationships with the other villages!? This was supposed to tighten our bonds! And you destroyed this opportunity, damnit! Our village could have withered away because of you!" Tsunade screamed, she then softened her gaze, "You're lucky the other kage's are old farts who understand that teenagers can be teenagers."

We sat, backs against each other, in room number seven of the hospital. A nurse walked in.

"Ino, you can go," She said, "Saki, you stay, you have damage in your shoulder blades and your nose is broken." I nodded. Ino left, turning around and sticking her tongue out at me.

Tsunade came in to heal my injuries.

"How did it happen?" She asked me. I blushed.

"Sasuke… ummm, well, she got jealous and punched me, and then it got out of hand," I said. Tsunade sat on the hospital bed to my left.

"Ino… she didn't hurt your shoulders did she?" She asked. I nodded, not lying very well.

"Saki…" Tsunade urged.

"Sasuke," Was all I said. I didn't want him to get in trouble.

"I was taunting him, I had it coming," I added, "I hurt him all the time."

"Not to the point where you break bones, Saki," Tsunade stated. Okay, she made a valid point.

"Sasuke has a temper, so you have to be careful, sometimes he can hurt people when he's not even trying. I'm only telling you this because you're the closest person to him in the village," Tsunade said. I frowned, realizing it was true.

"Does it have to do with that mark on his neck?" I asked her. She ignored me, patting the bed and leaving.

I closed my eyes, close to sleep. The door opened and I opened my eye slightly, seeing a spiky-haired figure coming toward me.

"Sasuke?" I asked him curiously, "Did you come here just to see me?" He blushed madly, rubbing his arm behind his head nervously.

"Uh, no!" He assured me, lying, "I just happened to be in the building…"

"Seeing who?" I asked him, raising my eyebrow.

"Umm, my… cousin?" Sasuke lied.

"Sasuke, you don't have any cousins," I told him. He seemed to mouth "crap". I smiled, sitting up.

"So you are here to see me," I said, feeling the warmth spreading across my face. Sasuke hugged me.

"I'm glad you're okay," He said blankly, pulling away quickly. Wow. I had never seen him show so much emotion.

"Tsunade looked at my shoulders," I said blankly.

"And?"

"She asked about them."

"And?"

"I told her you did it." His face seemed to fall.

"And?"

"Nothing." I didn't want to tell him about the whole "temper" thing.

"Good," Sasuke said.

"Why?" I asked.

"I thought she would forbid me from seeing you or something," He said, looking relieved. I gave him a confused stare.

"I think you're growing on me Saki," Sasuke said with a half-smile. He slowly started to lean in and I prepared myself, a little scared. Actually, I wasn't prepared at all; I just couldn't make myself move. But, right before his lips pressed against mine Kiba came in. Sasuke quickly pulled away but it was too late, Kiba had seen him leaning in. Kiba looked horrified but then he smirked.

"I'll leave you two alone," he said, leaving. I was about to protest, but, too late. Sasuke kissed me gently on my right cheek and left. I rubbed my cheek slowly, walking out to see Kiba.

"Still don't think you like Sasuke?" Kiba asked. I narrowed my eyes.

"Not a chance," I told him blankly.

Another chapter done! Let's see where Sasuke and Saki's relationship takes them!

K well, it may be a while 'till the next chapter because I have to catch up to this story with my other one:P

So just bear with me and at least pretend you're not mad at me for making you wait.

- - Suzuki Yumi '.'