UNDEFINED TRIANGLE
Sasuke U. & Tenten
Chapter 8: Something is very fishy about him
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto! In case I didn't make that clear... and I do not own the name Ken Ichijouchi! 'Cause that's the Digimon Emperor from Digimon Adventure 02.
After passing down noisy halls of mischievous KBS students, hanging out, popping confetti and hanging out celebrating a bright new year and stuff, she finally reached a quiet residence in the campus rooms. And frozen solid in front of the room 202, she hesitated before reaching for the doorknob, chewing on her lower lip, preparing herself to be as manly as she can.
"Room 202, I guess this is it then," with that she turned the door knob, opening it, giving her access to the room she'd share with him.
She opened the door, and turned on her big wide welcoming smile. "HEY! Roomie!" and stuck out her hand for a high five with him. And after a strange silent 10 seconds, guess what?! He returned the invitation! That wasn't really strange to her since Sasuke was always nice to her since the beginning. Normally he would ignore her, in this case him.
For some strange reason he felt familiar to her and couldn't stop himself from returning her high five. He knows those honey orbs, he knows his familiar crystal clear voice; he knows how it felt to brush the slightest of his skin. But couldn't figure out who he was! That frustrated him but his face did not express it.
"I'm Ken Ichijouchi," TenTen introduced herself, after returning her hand by her side.
"Uchiha Sasuke," in this case he'd add the 'hn', but his lips wouldn't allow him. The words wouldn't come out!
"Ooh, nice sheets," she complimented at his bed sheets which was a huge Uchiwa fan logo printed on a really dark navy fabric. "Ooh! You are on the team as well?! Cool!"
He nodded, though he knew it was a rhetorical question. "I'm joining the team, too... if I get accepted," she added.
Then there was a bang on the door, obviously Naruto forgot to turn the knob and push. He sighed at his stupor and went over the door to open it. "HEY, Sasuke!" he yelled. "I heard you have a roomie! Where is he?!" he scanned for a boy and finally spotted TenTen and drop dead stunned. "You're too small,"
"Oh. Well, my growth rate is very slow," she explained in a-matter-of-factly way.
"Oh... that explains it... oh well, Neji's here!" Naruto announced as Neji made his entrance into the room in a god-like manner.
"Hey Neji," Sasuke smirked for no reason... the only way he knows how to express slight happiness. The Uchiha prodigy and Hyuuga prodigy never smiles! Nor do they grin or whatever that has to do with smiling... they just smirk.
"Sasuke," said Neji. "He's your new roommate?"
TenTen could feel the butterflies fluttering in the pit of her stomach as she felt Neji's gaze upon her. After all, the guy was her first crush. She placed her hand on her stomach and pressed it real hard, annoyed by the butterflies.
"Hi, my name is Ten, I mean Ken Ichijouchi," she stuck her hand out for him to shake but he waved his hair away and said. "I'm Hyuuga by the way,"
Embarrassed, TenTen shove her hand back in. She was too embarrassed by her actions that she forgot to get mad at Neji for ignoring her just like that. She blushed instead. But managed to say, "What was that?" to give a very confused looking Naruto and Sasuke signal that she's still here.
"And this is Naruto by the way,"
"Don't mind Neji and Sasuke! They're always like that in their egotistical jerk mood,"
"Um... Sasuke did a high five with me awhile ago," she explained, making Naruto go nuts.
"You serious?! He wouldn't even look at a newbie... well he used to! I mean, really? Or are you lying?"
"I'm not, right Sasuke?" He felt the familiarity in her voice as she calls him his name.
"Sure, he's telling the truth," he said, still lost in his train of thoughts, trying to figure out where they have met before.
"Um, so I see my stuffs are already unpacked," she said pointedly at her wardrobe with its door opened wide enough for her to peek what's inside. She didn't even notice her voice changing back to a high tone feminine voice.
"Hey. You sound familiar, and you look familiar as well," Naruto pointed at her accusingly with his innocent perplexed look.
"Um, I resemble a lot like my brother," she lied, smoothly. "You must know him, yeah? Yeah,"
"No, it's not that kind of familiarity," Sasuke said, eying her very suspiciously. And that tensed her up; she was worried he might find out about her true identity.
"Hey," Shikamaru entered after giving Neji a high five in the hallway. "So this is a new kid?"
"Hi, I'm Ken," she introduced herself, using the lowest and deepest voice she could manage and it sounded so weird that the guys, believe it or not, burst out laughing. "Um?" her voice turned kiddish again.
"You don't... –laughs- need to –laughs- pretend to be macho or whatever," says Naruto out of laughter.
When totally calm, Shikamaru questioned her. "So you know about the-big-return-back-to-school party Haruno is holding?" She nodded. "You going?" She shook her head, adding. "Sorry, can't, don't ask why," she tried to make her sound like she was teasing.
"Sure, later troublesome people," with that the lazy pineapple head retreated for his own room he shares with the Hyuuga prodigy.
"I'll be leaving as well, Sasuke, have fun with the new boy," with that the blonde fox left.
"You know... Sakura Haruno has a big crush on you, so does Ino Yamanaka," she tempted, wanting to know what his feelings for them are. She might as well give the two of them a hand when she's Sasuke's roommie.
"Yeah. Annoying fangirls," he simply stated as he retreated to his bed and lie on it with his eyes close and hands behind his neck.
"Annoying fangirls? Come on, I won't tell anybody, besides my sister is close friends with them," that simple line made his eyes wide open.
"Is your sister TenTen?" she nodded uncomfortably. Like she's stuck, well she is. But she decided to nod anyways.
"Is she going to the party?"
"Well, that I have to ask her," she answered and his face, later, expressed disappointment. "I think she's going, since Haruno's the hostess,"
Despite his reputation, pride and ego, his face noticeably lightened up immediately. There was an awkward silence, the two of them piercing through each other's eyes like a staring contest. But thanks to Sakura's phone call, the contest ended Sasuke being the winner.
She fished for her sidekick in her side pocket on her bag, and immediately turned the power off. (She knew the call was from Sakura because of the ringtone she used for calls from Sakura.)
"Aren't you going to pick that up?"
"That was just a call from a cousin, it's ok if I don't pick that up," she gave him an assuring smile.
(With Sakura)
"Tennie didn't pick up?" Temari wanted to know. It was at school at school so Ino really can't kick her off of the clique with her decision only, can she?
Sakura nodded as she shuts her sidekick and resume consuming on her strawberry yogurt.
"Well, she must be really busy," said Hinata.
"Busy enough not to enrol in school yet," says Sakura looking around the campus giving the freshmen a toe to head check up.
"But she will come to the party, right?" the Hyuuga asked, worried that she might never see her friend again.
"Of course she will. If she doesn't, I'm gonna skin her alive!" Temari yelled attaining attention from nearby fellow students. Looking around them, giving them apologetic looks, only then, did she realized the glare Ino was giving her and it was then she noticed how quiet Ino has been throughout the day.
"What's wrong, Ino? You haven't said a word and what's with your looks?" Temari asked, somewhat feeling intimidated.
She turned away, then faced her back, flashing a smile muttering in a whisper, "Satisfied?" but only Hinata heard it and she kept it silent knowing the situation.
(Back to TenTen)
Walking down the hallway, she found many posters of Sakura's back-to-school-party stuck on people's wooden lockers. She sighed, deciding whether or not she should go. But it's best she sees them sooner or later and explained everything or lie to them as well.
She turned her sidekick back on and received the many missed calls in the missed call list from her friends and the many voicemails they sent. Sakura only gave 2 calls with Hinata and Temari 4 times and the rest of the calls are from Ino. And all of them sent her a voicemail. But what interested her most was from Ino, saying.
"Tennie, where have you been? I need you right now. I don't know who to talk to other than you. Call me back ASAP, bye Tennie, love ya! Mwahz!" And the voicemail ended. She immediately pressed Number 1, speed dial to Ino.
Then Ino picked up all her call. "Tens!! You answered!!!" she exclaimed frantically.
TenTen tried to shush her and asked if the others are there. "Ino, I have something to tell you as well... I'll tell you at the party, yeah, I'm coming, and you must not tell anyone else about the secret I'm going to tell you tomorrow night. You must swear to secrecy,"
"I won't Tens, thanks for calling me, I'll just tell the rest that you called,"
TenTen wanted to stop this serious tension right now, and Ino was easy to distract so she switched to a new subject asking what Ino is going to wear for the party.
After the call ended with Ino, she logged into her Instant messenger and saw Neji online and received a pop-out message from him.
Byakugan-fate: Hey TenTen
She was surprised that he'd be this nice to her when he was really obnoxious to her. But she was glad he greeted anyways.
Destiny-predictor: Hi Neji
Byakugan-fate: Will I see you tomorrow night?
Destiny-predictor: Sure
Where are you right now? At school?
Byakugan-fate: In my dorm room
You?
Didn't want to lie to Neji, she told him she got to go and quickly signed off.
"Hey Ken!" Naruto came running behind her and she turned back to bump into him and fell on her bottom. Naruto helped her up and asked. "Did we really collide into each other that hard?"
"Um..." this was what she always does to skip a question she doesn't want to answer.
"Never mind that. We're going out to eat, wanna come?"
"Sure," she was glad they remembered to call her. The guys here are friendlier than she thought, to ask someone who they just met 2 hours ago to go out with them to have lunch with. It's like; they agreed to let her in their clique. She knew it's hard to get into a clique at the Girls' school.
The guys went to a pizza place she knew too well. It was a place where the girls and she normally hang out in the weekends where they have their day off. And they usually meet the guys here as well. But she was too busy to notice them.
And the girls are here as well. The boys picked the table in the other corner, as far away from them as possible, thank god. And she sat the corner-most area to conceal herself from them as best as she can. She can see Ino looking really upset and she really wants to get up and talk to her ask her what's wrong, but she had to prevent that from happening.
"Hey Naruto, there's your Sakura-chan," Kiba mimicked how Naruto normally calls her.
"-gasp- Sakura-chan!" Naruto called, waving at her which she took a glance but ignored later on.
'Thanks for seeking for attention, Naruto,' TenTen thought, sarcastically.
"Hey, there's a new boy over there," said Hinata in her soft voice to her friends as they all gathered around and looked at TenTen. She has never felt so intimidated before then her friends goggling at her saying. "He's sorta cute," and giggling as well. It just felt so strange. "Let's ask them to introduce him to us,"
"Check it out. The girls are all over you," said Kiba.
"Um..."
"But Sakura-chan is off-limits!!!" Naruto declared. He's such a nice guy, why Sakura doesn't like him she has no idea.
"As always," Kiba added in behind.
The trio walked over to the pack and asked who TenTen was. "Hey. He looks familiar," Ino exclaimed and continued scanning over her, making her feel more intimidated then she already have. "His eyes looked like Tennie's orbs! And his brows are arch almost the same and the nose is exactly alike, and the lips are curled the same as well..."
She was disturbed abruptly by Sasuke. "Of course, he's TenTen's brother,"
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