Rebecca

How did I end up on a date with Sasuke? Yes, a date.

I was training with Sasuke under the moonlight, as usual. I was a bit afraid of what he'd do to me, since he promised himself he'd get his revenge at training.

I roundhouse kicked him, but he dodged it and held my leg in the air, and punched me in the stomach, sending me flying into a nearby tree.

"Ugh," I groaned, getting up, "Sasuke, you ripped my cloak! Baka! That's the fourth one this week!"

"Hn." He grunted, "Come at me again."

"You're gonna pay for the cloak," I mumbled under my breath, lunging.

I slashed at his shirt with my katana, not doing much damage with either of them.

Sasuke was very slowly learning to adapt to me reading his mind. If I could distract him for a moment, I could get him.

Rebecca, Sasuke thought, Don't look behind you.

On instinct, I looked around – finding nothing.

I suddenly felt my katana being wrenched from my hands, and a kunai being placed to my throat.

I have got to stop letting my inner blonde out when I fight.

"Tomorrow," He hissed into my ear, "Seven, at Ichiraku's. Don't be late."

Once the last word was said, he disappeared into nothing, leaving a gust of wind in his place.

Okay, so he didn't really say it was a date, but come on, if you read between the lines, you'll totally see it's a date.

But right now, I felt like he stood me up. It was 7:09, for God's sake, and he still wasn't here! I'd leave right now if I wasn't too curious as to why Sasuke told me to meet him here.

I even dressed nicely tonight. I had on a dark red shirt with black cargo pants, with my hair straightened and everything.

"You're here," It was more like a statement than a question.

"Yeah, Sasuke," I rolled my eyes, "We can see that. You're late, though."

"Hn."

"Of course," I muttered.

"So why am I here?" I asked, once we'd sat down and ordered our food.

"You told everyone I was gay."

"Correction, again," I corrected, "We told everyone you were gay. Call it payback for annoying us that day."

"You're going to get me out of this mess," He stated.

"How?" I scoffed, "By pretending to be your pseudo girlfriend or something?"

Silence.

"Oh, no," I shook my head, "No way. I am not going to pretend to be your girlfriend."

"I'm asking you to do this," He replied reluctantly, "As a friend. Please."

Whoa, Uchiha Sasuke saying please? I'm most likely dreaming.

"No way, Jose," I shook my head again.

"I'll get you a new cloak," He bargained, taking a new approach.

"Four."

"Three."

"Four," I insisted, "Take it or leave it."

"Fine," He sighed, "Do we have a deal?"

"How long?"

"Two months," He shrugged, "Or atleast until the rumor blows over."

"Fine," I sighed, slurping up my ramen.

"Sasuke-kun!" an all too familiar/annoying voice screeched, "Hi! Wait, what are you doing with my Sasuke-kun?"

"Date," I replied dryly.

"A date?!" Sakura screeched again, "Sasuke-kun, tell me it's not true!"

"I'd be lying if I said it's not," Sasuke shrugged, taking a bite into his ramen.

"N-no way!" She stuttered, "You're not actually d-dating, are you?"

"Sadly," I muttered lowly, "Yes."

Sasuke smirked upon seeing Sakura's reaction. My heart couldn't help but do flip flops when he looked at me.

"I don't believe you!" Sakura was making a scene, I noticed.

I sighed. "What do you want us to do," I scoffed lightly, "Kiss?"

Silence.

Me and my big mouth…

Sasuke leaned over the table, holding my chin in his calloused hand.

His lips only brushed over mine for two seconds – but it was a two seconds that felt like…like…Heaven. Is it possible to feel a nuclear bomb go off when you kiss someone?

I was in a daze when he pulled away, but I quickly recovered.

"Happy now?" I asked, "Now, could you go? You're causing a scene."

Sakura sputtered obscenities that'd make a sailor blush as she walked off.

"Well, that went well," Sasuke smirked lightly, "Don't you think?"

-x-

"You didn't need to walk me home, Sasuke," I stated once we'd gotten to my home.

"I'm a gentleman – don't comment. I know you will."

"You know me too well," I snickered.

"See you tomorrow at training," He said, smirking, "Don't think that just because we're 'together' that I'm going to give you mercy."

"You got lucky yesterday. I'll kick your ass tomorrow."

Sasuke leaned down so that he was level with me.

"Like hell you will," He whispered, brushing his lips against mine before disappearing into the night.

…I don't know what to say…

I walked inside, turning on the lights – only to find four smirking girls, craving details.

Claudia

"Bye, Shikamaru," I waved, getting up from my spot on the grass, "I've got to meet the others for lunch."

"Bye," He muttered tiredly.

I turned to walk away, but I suddenly felt his hand grip my wrist.

"Tomorrow," He began, "I was thinking…"

"You think?" I mocked, "I mean, I know you're a genius, but I've always thought you're too lazy to think."

"Oh, ha ha," he muttered, rolling his eyes, "As I was saying, tomorrow; you and me. Would you like to go on a picnic with me?"

My heart was pounding in my ears. I could only hope he was deaf so he couldn't hear it.

"Um, sure…" I stammered, "Here, right?"

He nodded.

This was our own little secret place, where we would watch the clouds together and sleep. It was hard to be lazy around five – well, four – super hyperactive girls.

I walked off, reaching the meeting spot, my mind pounding with thoughts – thoughts other than Shikamaru, for once.

I couldn't really take my mind off of Sue. It's been another week, and still no sign of her.

"She's okay, Claudia," Rebecca put her hand on my shoulder, "Stop overreacting."

She should really stop just appearing from nowhere and reading my mind.

"I am not overreacting," I huffed, sitting down next to Laura.

"I can read your mind," She smirked, "Trust me; you're overreacting."

"Should we start a search for her?" Laura asked, "It has been a while."

"Where's Ad?" Emily looked around.

"She's most likely with Kiba," I rolled my eyes, "Playing with Akamaru."

"They make a cute couple," Emily said.

"Can we please keep on topic here?" I asked, glaring at her, "We need to find Sue!"

"See? You're overreacting." Rebecca smirked again.

"I am not!"

Emily sighed. "If it makes you happy," She reasoned, "I'll go talk to Tsunade. I have to go there anyway – I accidentally did something to Naruto."

"What'd you do?" Laura asked.

"Stole his ramen, trashed his house, dyed most of his jumpsuits pink and multicolored," Emily shrugged, "Basically made his life hell."

"That was you?" Rebecca snickered, "Nice. It explains why he was running around in a pink jumpsuit yelling 'Emily! You spawn of Satan!'"

"I'll go talk to her," Emily said, "See ya."

With that, she jumped from tree to tree, disappearing.

"I think they make a cute couple, too." Laura broke the silence.

"Don't let her hear that," I warned, "She'd literally kill you."

"Yeah," Rebecca agreed, "With her waffles."

We laughed. "Either way," Laura grinned, "I think she likes him. It's hard to tell with Naruto, being the dense idiot he is."

"And what about you and Gaara?" Rebecca smirked, "You guys have been getting really close, lately."

"Not as close as you are with Sasuke," Laura shot back.

Rebecca growled.

The hairs on the back of neck stood up.

"Guys –"

"Wait a sec," Rebecca held her finger up to keep me from talking, "I hear something – no, someone's thoughts. And more than one someone at that."

"Damn it, if there was a shadow I could disappear to without raising suspicion, I could find something out."

"No, no," Rebecca said, "That's not necessary. Their thoughts…seem oddly familiar – and sadistic..."

"Is it Sue?" I asked hopefully. Being separated from her was like being torn into two pieces. "She always has been the sadistic type."

"No," Rebecca replied, "Damn it, their thoughts don't give anything away. The only thing I do know is that they know we're Daughters of Kami."

"Seriously?" Laura asked, "But who –"

"AH!" We yelled upon feeling kunais to our throats.

"These are the Daughters of Kami, un?" A strangely familiar voice asked, "They're weak, un."

"Deidara?" I asked, perplexed.

"How do they know you, Deidara?"

"Oh, my God! It's NEMO!" Rebecca and Laura exclaimed.

"I'm not Nemo!" Kisame yelled, "What's a 'Nemo' anyway?"

"It's this little tiny clownfish that swims in the big blue ocean," Laura explained, "It happens to have one fin smaller than the other, which makes it a clearly disadvantaged swimmer."

"Are you calling me weak?" He growled, tightening the grip on her.

"No, but phew!" She wrinkled her nose, "Would it kill you to take some breath mints?"

"Laura," I hissed, "Shut up."

"What do you want with us?" Rebecca asked, hood down. Her eyes showed anxiety, anger, and a hint of fear all in one.

"You're the Daughters of Kami," Itachi said in monotone, keeping a firm grip on her shoulder, "And you're coming with us."

We remained quiet for a moment.

"You were the ones who kidnapped Sue, weren't you?" I whispered.

"That is correct," Itachi nodded.

"AH!" Laura yelled, "EMILY! IF YOU'RE STILL HERE! RESCUE US!"

Kisame clamped a hand over her mouth, muffling her cries.

Rebecca and I rolled our eyes at her stupidity.

"We've got a loud one," He muttered.

Next thing I knew I was surrounded in darkness.

Emily

"Hey, Ad!" I yelled, walking out of the Hokage's office.

Tsunade considered looking for Sue, saying she was going to give it another week before she sent out search teams.

"Hi, Em," She waved.

"We're having lunch in the meadow," I said, "Wanna join us?"

"Nah," She replied, "I just ate. I'm going back home to read or something."

"Okay, well, bye!" I'll tell her about Sue later.

As I jumped from tree to tree back to the meadow, I thought about Naruto.

Heh, I was in trouble for it – but not much, since Tsunade didn't like Naruto as much as she preferred me – status thing, but oh well.

"Hey, where'd they go?" I asked myself, "Jeez, if they were going to leave, they could have left a note or something! They even left all their food for me to clean up!"

I returned home, thinking I would find them there. I'd give them hell when I did.

"Hey, Ad, did you see the others?" I asked when I got home, "They're not at the meadow."

"They're not here," Ad shrugged, "Maybe they got a mission or something."

"Hm…maybe you're right…"

"YOU SPAWN OF SATAN! I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!" I heard his megaphone loud voice from a distance.

"Heh, see ya," I told Adliani, running to my room and jumping out my window.

"Catch me if you can, kitten boy!" I laughed, jumping from tree to tree.

It was nice to make fun of people. Especially people with a short fuse like Naruto.