Chapter 7

SM123: I'm so sorry I took forever to post this up! I'm in band and I had a competition on April 18, so I had to replace all of my story time with practicing-my-flute-time.

Sasuke: I'm surprised you didn't kill the judges.

SM123: GET BACK TO THE REHEARSAL ROOM! By the way, I revised the previous chapters so that kinda killed some time, too. Feel free to read them.

Sasuke: Whatever.

SM123: Lol, in that previous chapter, Itachi had an enchilada craze.

Itachi: *walks in* I never did try them until the rehearsal.

SM123: He never knew that he existed.

Itachi: But now I love 'em! *Performs a summoning jutsu and an enchilada bowl appears* I LOVE ENCHILADAS! *Stuffs face*

SM123: Now, for the next part. My next featured user is an AMV maker on YouTube. She highly supports SasuSaku and NaruHina and is currently ranked one of the top SasuSaku AMV makers. Trust me, folks. I checked the rating charts. Her account is kheartsterra. She's an awesome movie maker and I hope you check her videos out.

Now, last chapter, I placed a poll: Who's hotter: Sasuke Uchiha or Itachi Uchiha?

Sasuke: *Burst in* ME!!!

Itachi and SM123: WHAT?????

Itachi: Since when did you think that you're hot?

Sasuke: Sakura says I'm hot.

SM123: Yeah, you are pretty hot, but the readers get to decide. Not me. Anyway, the winner is… ITACHI UCHIHA?

SM123 and Sasuke: WHAT????????

Itachi: Oh, yeah!

SM123: That was weird. NOW ON WITH THE STORY!!!!!!


"Of all the places that we could have eaten, why a Mexican restaurant?" Sasuke grumbled.

"HUH? WHAT DID YOU SAY? THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD?" Itachi screamed over the maracas.

"WHY DO WE HAVE TO EAT AT A MEXICAN RESTURANT?"

"WHAT?"

"HUH?"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Itachi asked.

"WHY DO WE HAVE TO EAT AT A MEXICAN RESTURANT?"

"I'M SORRY, SASUKE. BUT I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE MARACAS, THE SALSA MUSIC, THE PEOPLE DOING THE SALSA, AND THAT BIRTHDAY PARTY OVER THERE!" Itachi yelled with crazy hand gestures.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIKKO!" some people yelled from across the room.

"WHAT?"

"MY FOOD IS COMING!"

"Oh."

Suddenly, the music ceased and Sasuke could finally hear Itachi.

"See, Sasuke. This is the reason why we came here: Enchiladas and that big piñata. I was reading on this tourist attraction thing in a handbook and it says that this restaurant, Long Live the Taco, serves the best enchiladas in the ninja world."

"Hn."

Itachi began eating his enchiladas and said with a mouthful, "So, do you want any, Sasuke?"

"No."

"What's with the one word reply?" Itachi asked.

"Hn."

"C'mon, little bro."

"This place is ruining the image I took years to build up," Sasuke hissed softly.

"What? Your emo image?"

"It's not emo! It's being calm and cool."

Itachi snorted.

It was true, though. The restaurant they were in gave a new definition to the word "weird." The restaurant was a round shape, like a hat. The tables were pushed up against the sides of the restaurant. In the middle of the restaurant, there were people dancing, there was a bar in the front, a huge piñata hanging over the ceiling, next to the bar, there was a huge band playing salsa music so loud that Sasuke's ears were about to burst, and if that wasn't weird enough, the whole restaurant was painted purple on the inside with none of the light completely on; the lights were constantly flashing giving the restaurant the "party" feel.

"ALRIGHTY, PEOPLES!" someone called. "LET'S BOOGY SOME MORE!"

The salsa music and the cheering began again and Sasuke's and Itachi's screams began also.

"I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO THE HOTEL ROOM AND ORDER SOME CHOW MEIN!" Sasuke roared.

"WHAT?"

"I'M GOING TO GO BACK AND ORDER SOME CHOW MEIN!"

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU, SASUKE!"

"WHAT?"

"WHY DON'T YOU GO BACK TO THE HOTEL AND ORDER SOME CHOW MEIN!" Itachi suggested.

"I said that…"

"DID'JA SAY SOMETHING?" Itachi roared.

"I'M ORDERING CHOW MEIN!"

"OH! WHY AREN'T YOU GOING TO STAY HERE?" Itachi screamed.

"I CAN'T CONCENTRATE ON EATING!" Sasuke replied.

"YOU CAN'T CONCENTRATE ON BEATING?"

"NO! EATING!"

"HOW CAN YOU NOT CONCENTRATE ON EATING? EVERYTHIG HERE IS PERFRECT!" Itachi asked.

"… See you later bro."

"WHAT?"

"SEE YOU AT THE HOTEL!"

"OKAY!"

Sasuke exited the Mexican restaurant but he still heard the salsa music blasting through the door.

Aaw, crap. We're never gonna find our Sakura this way! Sasuke's "voice" said.

What do you mean by "our" Sakura? I'm only looking for her because I have to!

Really, then why did you ask for Itachi's help? You only ask Itachi when you're desperate.

SHUT UP!

Sasuke's angered emotion cleared his head of the "voice."

Sasuke allowed his mind to begin wandering freely. His mind began to think of Sakura kissing him and all of Sasuke's anger vanished.

Sakura's soft lips, her lovely body pressed against his own, her silk-like hair, her sweet scent, her emerald eyes—

HOLY SHIT! WHY AM I THINKING OF THIS? AND I DO NOT LIKE HER! Sasuke thought before his "voice" could return.

You two used to be friends.

Used to, genius.

Sasuke's voice eventually faded away. As he entered his hotel room, his mind began to remember how Sasuke and Sakura began to hate each other.

Sasuke walked over to the phone to order his chow mien but then stopped in his tracks. The memories were flooding back.


Four years ago (remember, they're 17 right now)

"I'm so in love with you, I can't even stand it!" Sakura cried.

Sasuke's heart silently moaned. He loved Sakura. And causing her pain like this was torturing him.

Sasuke was in too much agony to notice her next plea, but when he begun to listen again, Sakura was screaming: "If you can't stay then take me with you!"

I want to take me with you! Sasuke's heart screamed.

Sasuke was about to begin his journey to Orochimaru.

Sasuke had to get Sakura away from him. If the Sound Four was to return to retrieve him, then Sakura could be killed. Unacceptable.

So Sasuke said the words that nearly killed him: "After all this time, you're still annoying."

Sasuke looked at Sakura to see her take in the words. Her dace was filled with chick, sadness, and fear as tears rolled down her eyes.

Sasuke couldn't bear to see Sakura in distress. He turned away and began walking.

As he did, he heard Sakura scream: "If you go, I'll scream and—"

Sasuke appeared behind Sakura.

He yearned to wrap his arm around her and hold her and tell her everything was going to work out fine, which they will be together. But he couldn't.

"Sakura," Sasuke began, "thank you for everything."

And with those words, before Sakura could even reply, Sasuke knocked his beloved unconscious with a blow to her neck.

Sasuke carried Sakura over to a nearby bench and laid her down.

Before Sasuke left, though, he thought: A quick kiss wouldn't hurt.

He bent down slowly and was about to reach her lips, but then Sakura disappeared.

A clone?

Suddenly, ropes appeared out of nowhere and tied Sasuke firmly to a tree. Sasuke struggled to break free of the ropes but the ropes held him in place.

"Sasuke Uchiha!" a voice he did not recognize yelled.

Sasuke looked up to see a massive amount of Jounin, the Uchiha clan, Lady Tsunade, and Sakura standing in front of him.

"What were you thinking?" Fugaku roared.

"You could have given valuable information to Orochimaru!" Tsunade roared.

But all of their screaming did not alter Sasuke's gaze on Sakura.

"You knew I was leaving," Sasuke began coldly.

Sakura burst into tears.

"BUT YOU TOLD EVERYONE!"

At that moment, all of Sasuke's emotions for Sakura vanished.


Present time

Sasuke plopped on the couch. That was only half the story. The other half was how Sakura began to hate him.


A few months later after Sasuke's attempt to escape

Sasuke walked casually down the hall to his locker. I was nearly lunch time at Konoha High and Sasuke had to put his books away.

"Hey, Sasuke-kun!" several fan girls called out to him as they walked past Sasuke.

Sasuke glanced towards them for a second and turned away. He didn't even know those girls! But that was good. Even after Sasuke tried to join Orochimaru, he was still popular.

After he closed his locker and finished texting to Naruto, a musical voice behind him whispered, "Hello, Sasuke-kun."

Sakura.

"Hn," Sasuke muttered without even looking at her.

Sasuke began heading towards the cafeteria but Sakura kept following him.

"Sasuke, are you still mad at me?"

"Hn."

"Look, I stopped you from making that biggest mistake of your life!"

"Technically, that's a matter of opinion," Sasuke said lazily.

"You regret that you couldn't go to Orochimaru!"

"I don't regret it—"

"Then—"

Sasuke raised his hand and said, "Let me finish. You're annoying."

"I'm annoying because I interrupted you, or I'm annoying 'cause I stopped you from leaving?"

"Both."

"Ugh! Forget it, Uchiha!" Sakura yelled and stormed away.

"Baka," Sasuke muttered.

Sasuke entered the cafeteria and scanned the crowd for his "gang."

They're probably near the ramen stand.

As Sasuke headed to his "gang's" (which consists of Naruto, Kiba, Neji, Shikamaru, and himself) he passed Sakura's table.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Sakura as Lee jumped in.

Tsk. A twinge of jealousy shot through Sasuke. But he quickly shoved the jealousy out of his mind. Who cares it Lee gets to date Sakura?

"Good afternoon, Sakura-chan!" Lee saluted.

Sasuke finally reached his table and saw Naruto gobbling down multiple bowls of ramen.

"Hey, Sasuke!" Kiba greeted. "Do you have an egg? Or pie? Or something that's messy when it hits something?"

"I have some eggs and tomatoes," Sasuke replied. "Why?"

"You know that bet Shikamaru and I made?" Kiba asked. "The one of who can stick more ice cubes down their underwear and can hold it without screaming or dancing?"

"Yeah."

"Shikamaru lost. So now, he has to start a food fight."

"What a drag," Shikamaru moaned.

"Does ramen work?" Naruto asked.

"Yes it does," Neji replied.

"What are you using, Neji?" Sasuke asked.

"Jell-O," Neji replied.

"Does Jell-O even work?" Kiba asked.

"Yeah. It's a far range weapon and it splatters a lot."

"How are we going to do this without getting caught?" Naruto shrieked.

"Shikamaru's a genius, dobe. No way's he's going to get caught!" Sasuke snapped.

"Alright then. Let's get started," Shikamaru said with a wicked grin.

A few moments later

"FOOD FIGHT!" Some one that's not from Sasuke's "gang "yelled.

Immediately, food began flying everywhere. If one was to stick their hand into the battle zone (cafeteria) for one measly second and then take it out, the chance of having ice cream in their hand was high.

Sasuke was throwing eggs as hard as he could (there were numerous dents in the walls that contained the remains of eggs now). He looked down to his stock of his eggs to get restock on his egg-ammo but then hesitated. There, next to the eggs was a nice, large bowl of ice cream Sundae (yes, there was nuts on it. There was even chocolate syrup, sprinkles, and bananas). Whose ice cream it belonged to? He had no clue and did not care. Sasuke grabbed the Sundae but saw that the ice cream didn't melt enough to become irritating.

He ducked underneath a defensive wall (the table) and began melting the ice cream with a fire jutsu.

While waiting for his new weapon to become effective, Sasuke witnessed strange things on the battle ground:

Naruto was running around, dumping bowl of ramen on random people's heads. Kiba was throwing pie around (did the school even have pie?), and yes there were dents from the pie too. There was swirling red storm of jell-o occurring around Neji who was laughing maniacally. And Shikamaru… Shikamaru was sleeping underneath a defense wall in enemy territory (a table).

"FACE THE FURRY OF MY JELLO SHURIKANS!" Neji screamed.

Sasuke turned back to Neji. He was aiming his star-shaped jell-o at someone who was trying to aim their weapons at Naruto.

As Naruto thanked Neji, Kiba appeared and yelled, "Naruto, Neji, look out!"

Ino was running towards the two with numerous meatballs in her hands.

Oh no she doesn't! Sasuke thought.

At last, the ice cream was ready and Sasuke dashed out from under the wall.

Because the Uchihas were known for their speed, Sasuke reached Ino less than a second. However, Ino managed to duck out of the way as Sasuke swung the sundae. Sasuke used too much momentum in his attack and began to fall forward. He grabbed onto something silky and smooth. He tugged it down to allow himself to balance while the ice cream in his hand hit something behind the silky-thing.

"AAAAAAAAGH!" Sakura's voice rang louder than the entire cafeteria.

The whole place fell silent and turned to Sakura to see why she screamed.

Sasuke accidentally tugged down Sakura's shirt revealing her chest and slammed the ice cream there.

"Sakura… I-I…" Sasuke stumbled.

"UCHIHA!" Sakura bellowed.

"I'm sorry!"

"YOU SLAMMED A SUNDAE DOWN MY CHEST!"

"I SAID I WAS SORRY!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!"


Present time

After recalling that food fight, Sasuke was no longer hungry anymore.

*Ring, ring*

Sasuke cell phone was ringing.

Sasuke flipped it open and said, "Hello?"

"Sasuke, where are you now?" Tsunade snapped.

"Um, I'm in the hotel ordering chow mien for dinner while Itachi is at a Mexican restaurant eating enchiladas."

"Are you guys at the Lotus Leaf Suites? That's the hotel that's nearest to the only Mexican Restaurant in the country."

"Yes."

"I'm sending Rukia as back-up for you guys. We did some research and we learned that you're opponents are tough."

"Who are they?"

"They're a society that's—"

Tsunade's voice was cut short.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Sasuke screamed.

"You're minutes are up," a robotic voice answered. "You're monthly bill will be arriving at your home within one or two days. Please pre-pay your bill if you wish to talk longer on your cell phone. Have a nice day."

"… Stupid cell phone bills…" Sasuke muttered.

*Knock, knock*

Sasuke got off of the couch to open the door. Itachi was standing outside.

"Hey, bro," Itachi greeted.

"Why did you come home early?" Sasuke asked.

"What, do you want me to stay partying at the restaurant as you worry about Sakura?"

"Hn."

"Is that even a word?"

"Whatever. Look, Tsunade called a few second ago. She said that she'll be sending Rukia as our back-up—"

"SWEET!"

"Shut up! And she began telling me about our opponents."

Itachi's face grew stern. "What did she say?"

"Um, she couldn't. My cell phone met its dead line…"

"You have got to start pre-paying."


At Tsunade's office

"Stupid, stupid Sasuke," Tsunade growled.


Back at the hotel

"Did she say when Rukia is arriving?" Itachi asked.

"Um, no."

Itachi shook his head.

*Knock, knock*

Itachi opened the door before Sasuke could even breathe.

"RUKIA!" Itachi screamed.

"Itachi!" Rukia replied.

The two wrapped themselves in a warm embrace.

"Ah-hem," Sasuke coughed.

Itachi and Rukia fell apart flushed.

"Joy killer," Itachi muttered.

"Whatever," Sasuke replied.

"Nice place you got here," Rukia commented, ignoring Sasuke and Itachi glaring at each other.

Sasuke's and Itachi's room was a suite (um, well duh?). It contained three rooms, and two grand bathrooms, and the small, mini restrooms in the hallways. Two of the rooms were master bed rooms; each one had its own queen size bed. The last room was a "living" room with a flat-screen, Play Station 3, a coffee table, counter, sink, fruit on the counter, a mini-fridge, two large green couches, and all the other sweet things a suite would have. The walls of their room were white with green lotus leaves painted all over in a pattern.

"Itachi, which bedroom is yours?" Rukia asked. "I want to talk to you privately."

"The one to the left," Itachi replied.

"Oh, gross. I am out of here!" Sasuke yelled.

As Sasuke left the hotel room to who-knows-where, Itachi opened the door to his bedroom for Rukia.

"Thank you, Itachi."

Itachi shut the door.

Rukia glanced around the room.

The walls of the room were the same as the outside. There was a canopy bed with brown wooden stands, green bed sheet, the canopy was green, and all of the pillows were white with green lotus leaves on them.

Rukia jumped onto the bad and asked, "Itachi, may you lock the door please? I don't want Sasuke accidentally witnessing this."

"Sure."

Itachi swiftly locked the door and sat down next to Rukia.

Itachi pulled her over his body so that she would be laying on him.

"Itachi," Rukia whispered.

"Yeah?"

"I hate to tell you this, but I never loved you."

Before Itachi could say anything, Rukia kicked him in the stomach and Itachi flew towards the wall.

Itachi used his hands to bounce off of the wall towards Rukia to try to land a punch on her.

Rukia dodged, performed some swift hand signs but was cut off when Itachi performed his Phoenix Flower Jutsu on her.

"AAAAARGH!!!" Rukia screamed.

Itachi could have strengthened his jutsu. He was about to but then a mental image on Rukia smiling at him shot through his mind. He couldn't hurt her.

Rukia, on the other hand, could.

Rukia performed her hands signs again (the ones where Itachi cut her off), and screamed, "Ninja Art! Time Freezing Jutsu!"

Time froze again.

Rukia took out a small device. It was about the size of an eraser. She held it up to her mouth and said, "Hello? This is Agent Double Oh-Seven. I have captured Uchiha Itachi."

And through the walkie-talkie, a male voice replied, "Good work, Rukia. We will immediately send someone over to retrieve him. Return to base immediately when Itachi is retrieved. I want you to interrogate Haruno Sakura. She refuses to answer any of our questions. You may use any method you wish. Just don't kill her."

"Very well," Rukia nodded.

The moment Rukia put her walkie-talkie away; a ninja appeared and bound ropes around Itachi.

"Let's go," the ninja said.

"Right."

With that, Rukia, the ninja, and Itachi, vanished.


SM123: Wow, that was fun to write. I would have made it that Rukia knocks Itachi unconscious but then I thought: Could Itachi even be knocked out? I mean, even though he likes her, I don't think that he'll allow Rukia to knock him out.

Sasuke: Well, that's one of your reasons.

SM123: Okay, okay! I find it hard to write fight scenes.

Sasuke: Really?

SM123: Not really. They just take forever.

Sasuke: …

SM123: Alright, I don't think that I'll do the polls for a while. It seems that I'm making myself a deadline. On the bright side is, Sakura will be having a small scene (I think small) in the next chapter!

Sasuke: When Rukia questions her. *Turns to SM123* DON'T ACTUALLY HURT SAKURA!

SM123: Dude, it's just acting.

Sasuke: And to clear things up, there is nothing going on between Itachi and Rukia.

SM123: And for you people that think Rukia is a familiar name, she is a Death God from Bleach. RUKIA OWNS!

Sasuke: What about me, huh?

SM123: You're annoying.

Sasuke: What about Sakura?

SM123: Sakura owns in shippuden.

Sasuke: DON'T INSULT SAKURA! *Takes out katana and starts chasing me*

SM123: Well, see you guys in the next chapter!