Title: A Game of Go Fish
Pairings: Sakura/Sasuke, Sakura/Neji, Sakura/Gaara
Summary: Six new students from two different schools transfer to Konohagakure high school expecting to stay for one whole year. Neji, Sasuke, and Gaara arrive earlier already becoming infamous for their repulsive attitudes. Although their friendship is somewhat, respectable. Their motto is, 'Stick Together'. But what happens when Sakura Haruno, another transfer, breaks them apart?
Genre: Humor/Romance
A/N: Tenth chapter is finally up! I just love updating and getting great reivews! ITs so cool! That's probably the reason why I love updating! I hope you enjoy this chapter. I didn't put too much effort in it, but it'll do, for now. And have any of you heard to a fic called, Dear Foolish Little Brother? It's super funny! You should check it out sometime. A great one-shot. A letter from Itachi to Sasuke. A laugh out loud type of story. Very cute. Although, most of you have probably read it because it has like...200 something reviews! It's crazy for a one shot!
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Chapter Ten: Clearly Obsessed
The color in Sakura's face completely faded. The feeling in the pit of her stomach ached. And her pride, don't get me started with her pride. Not only was she losing...badly. But she was losing to an amateur. An AMATEUR.
Seriously. What was the world coming to? Singing cows, flying pigs. Neji beating her in Go Fish? It was all the same.
It was all the same...
"I win." he muttered with a smirk of non-defeat made it's way towards his sneaky, evil lips.
Sakura gaped the whole time, not even realizing that Haku shoved her off the seat, mumbling the words, "Somehow, I knew you were going to lose." But Haku should be thankful she didn't hear that, or else...let's say she would've brought out the 'hurt'.
"No, that's impossible...," Sakura shook her head in denial. "No, that's...no. Impossible,"
"Get over it." Gaara rolled his eyes. "It's just a game."
"It is not just a game!" Sakura complained and pouted like a sore loser.
"Don't be a baby." Haku smirked.
"Sakura-chan's not a baby!" Naruto defended her honor.
"Thank you, Naruto." Sakura patted him firmly on the back. "You're the only one who understands me." Everyone else rolled their eyes. Atleast they were able to move on with their lives.
Naruto grinned like a love sick puppy and laughed to himself for some very odd reason.
"And now for the master!" Haku laughed courageously, setting up another game of go fish.
Sadly, three minutes later:
"I CAN'T BELIEVE I LOST!" he pulled out his expensive hair. "I LOST TO AN AMATEUR!"
"Will you people stop calling me that?" Neji twitched with irritation.
Sakura patted Haku by the back. "I feel your pain." she sighed.
"This is ridiculous." Sasuke crossed his arms. "I am way better than this. I'm leaving." he made his way towards the door. Sakura watched him leave and muttered the words. "He's no fun."
And it was only Gaara and Neji.
"Tell me again, why are we in the janitor's closet?" Neji cocked an eyebrow.
"Because that's what people do when they're playing Go fish, Neji. They hide in the janitor's closet." Haku rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, that's basically it." Sakura shrugged.
"My turn!" Naruto jumped in the air.
"Yay, class!" Deidara jumps out of thin air.
Everyone groans.
"Today, we're gonna have a discussion about candy...," he licked his lips. And out of nowhere, he pulled out a bag filled with delicious looking treats.
"Finally!" Everybody yelled. "A normal teacher!" the partied and cheered and did the wave.
Deidara grinned. "Yes, that's right people. Sex and Candy!"
Crickets chirp
chirp
chirp
"What?" he shrugged.
"I knew it was too good to be true." Naruto sighed.
"But before we start our lesson on how to use sex with candy." said Deidara. "I wanted to know if it's a good idea to pierce my tongue." he stuck it out.
This situation instantly turned to Lee, and he stood up boldly. "Deidara-sensei! I do not think that is a good idea!" he said passionately and fully.
"Er...," Deidara frowned. "Why not?"
"Because your youth is in jeopardy!" Mostly everyone in class who even cared, groaned. It was always about youth with that guy. Can't he talk about something else for once?
Deidara simply shrugged. "Tomorrow, it'll be final-,"
"NO!" Lee shook his head persistently. "You must not! Youth is the most-," The sparkly, black head of hair on his head scrambled up as someone anonymously (Naruto)(cough) threw a paper ball at his head.
"Ok, class. I think we're getting too excited here." said Deidara. "Let's just calm down, calm down, yeah."
Sakura spoke up, "Deidara-sensei, if you do decide to pierce your tongue, I'll back you up a hundred percent!" she smiled.
"(cough) suck up (cough)," mostly everyone had a bad case of sore throats.
'Hahaha, that way, he won't be able to speak in class...hahahaha!' she laughed evily.
"Thank you, Sakura." Deidara beamed. "You were always my favorite, yeah." he winked.
"(cough) teacher's pet (cough),"
"Oh no!" Sakura ripped her bag apart. "I can't find my lunch money!" she cried. "I'll starve! I'll starve!" complaining won't help with anything. But what else was she supposed to do? She'll starve! She'll starve!
Haku happily kissed his girlfriend gently by the lips, having no care about Sakura and her money problem at all. "Tenten." he sighed.
"Haku." she sighed.
"Tenten."
"Haku."
"Tenten."
"Haku, don't you think it's kind of weird making out in public?" Tenten blushed.
Haku pressed her against the lockers. "Aww, Tenten. You're SO cute."
"Oh will you two shut up!" Sakura lifted her fist, hitting Haku on the shoulder. "I'll admit, it was cute in the beginning, but now you're just pushing it." she punched him once more.
"Oww!" He pouted. "What was that for?"
Sakura breathed in...and out. "Sorry, I'm just angry and frustrated." she continued to rip her bag apart.
Haku rolled his eyes, "Ok. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Just take all of your anger and frustration out of me." Tenten rubbed his arm, making him feel a little better.
"Well with that attitude, it's hard not to!" Flames lit in Sakura's green eyes.
Haku gasped, "OH snap! You...oh no you didn't!" he snapped his fingers.
Tenten sighed, "Guess some of his gayness is still there."
"Shut up!" she pounds him again.
"OW!" Haku cowered behind his girlfriend. "There you go taking your anger and frustration out on me again!" he pulled Tenten away from Sakura. Hey? He didn't want her to recieve Sakura's anger and frustration too.
So far, Tenten's been having a lot of 'Sakura' moments lately. Not something he wanted more of. Sakura steamed and continued to rip through her bag."C'mon!" she yelled.
A shadow hovered over her tiny body. If she was a normal nobody, she would've been shivering with the frights, cowering in the corner with complete and utter fear. The shadow grew and grew, into something dark and scary.
"Hi Neji." Sakura bluntly replied.
Neji stuffed his hands into his pocket. "What's your problem?"
"I lost my lunch money." she sniffled.
"I see." he coughed and pulled something out of his pant's pocket. "I'll make you a deal."
Sakura's eyes lit up with amusement and she flipped her hair aside. "A deal?" she gave him a suspicious look. "Tell me. What's the deal?"
He threw Sakura a deck of cards wrapped in a single rubberband and leaned against the walls. "A game of go fish." he managed to put on a straight face. "If you win, I'll lend you some money," I also forgot to mention. Neji decided it wouldn't hurt to 'visit' the Hyuuga mansion. Just to explore for a while. So he's loaded!
Oh yeah. Now we get to know TWO rich boys.
Sakura raised an eyebrow. "And If I lose?"
His pale smirk grew. "I'll take you out to lunch." there, he said it. Waiting a while to even mutter the word 'out' he struggled everyday to ask her on a simple date. Just as friends of course!...maybe...yeah, yeah. Just as friends.
Sakura smirked. "Either way, I win."
"What was that?"
"Nothin'!" she laughed nervously. "Ahem, let's do it!"
Neji smirked and followed her to the janitor's closet.
"You must be really obsessed with go fish." said Sakura.
"No, not at all. The game is stupid." he snorted. Actually, the other reason why he made the deal with her was so he would have a reason to play go fish.
Sakura threw him a weird look.
He is clearly obsessed.
And just when things were going great in Neji Hyuuga's life, Sasuke just had to show up and ruin everything. "What's going on?" he followed the two to where ever they were going.
"Will you stop following us?" Neji muttered.
"Neji and I are gonna play go fish." Sakura answered truthfully.
Sasuke threw Neji a weird look and Neji did the same. "Are you obsessed or something?" Sasuke mumbled carelessly.
Neji snorted. "It's just a stupid game.
Sasuke threw him an even weirder look.
He is clearly obsessed.
And just when things couldn't possibly get any worse. Gaara shows up! "Hey," he muttered bluntly. "where are you guys going?"
"Janitor's closet." chirped Sakura.
"Why?"
"They're going to play go fish." Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Who?"
"Neji and Sakura." his reply had a hint of jealously in it.
"...go fish..?" Gaara raised an eyebrow. Well...actaully, he has no eyebrows. But you know what I mean?
"Yep!" Sakura skipped.
"Are you obsessed?" Gaara said flatly.
Neji frowned. "No, it's just a stupid game." he shrugged them off.
Gaara threw him a weird look.
He is clearly obsessed.
"I knew it. You're cheating." Neji pointed an acusing finger at the shocked, very shocked, a little too shocked pink haired girl.
"Yeah right!" she placed a hand against her chest. "Just because I saw something weird on your cards, and decided to take a look, doesn't mean I cheated!" she crossed her arms.
Neji growled. "You peeked."
"I didn't!"
"You did."
"I didn't!"
"Gaara, tell her. She peeked, didn't she?" asked Neji.
Gaara looked from Sakura to Neji. "Don't drag me into this."
"Sasuke, tell her she peeked." ordered Neji.
Sasuke pulled his head out of Sakura's bag. "Uh...I was just looking for something to eat." he threw Sakura's bag aside. His stomach growled constantly.
"Ha, just admit that you're losing." Sakura smirked in clear victory.
"It's not over yet, Haruno. It's not over yet." he drew his deck of cards closer to his face.
...he is clearly obsessed...
Well, the game continued for sometime now. And to everyone's surprise, Sakura won. It to a shock for everyone. Sakura's a loser, much like Tsunade. Perhaps things were changing? Well, Neji being the sore loser he is, constantly told himself he wasn't in denial and he did came not lose to a girl
Unfortunatly, Sakura won the game. But in the process, lost her lunch. That's right. The game went on for so long, she didn't have time to buy her school lunch with her lunch money. What a loss. And now that she won, Neji can't take her out to lunch after school either!
Jeez, her day was sucking badly.
Sasuke cleared his throat and wiped the sweat that traveled down his forehead.
'I am not obsessed, I am not obsessed.' he constantly kept telling himself. In the middle of the table, his eyes wandered on a small deck of cards. He picked one card up, slowly. Lifting it up to see for his eyes only, he twitched. "Yes." he sighed with complete and utter relief.
"Ok, it's my turn." said Neji. "Do you have a ten?"
"Dammit!" Sasuke flung his newest card in Neji's face.
Neji threw him a weird look.
He is clearly obsessed.
Sasuke growled and pounded the table with frustration.
Clearly...
Gaara watched the two idiots with no fascination at all. The whole scene was ridiculous in his eyes. For crying out loud, they were obsessed with a card game. A CARD GAME. And this was all Sakura's fault, Naruto fault, and Haku's fault. Stupid Go fish lovers.
They were ruining his life!
And just when everyone (Gaara and Neji) thought he had just about lost. Sasuke did something unexpected.
"Do you have a five?" he quirked an eyebrow.
Neji's eyes flared. "Dammit!" he flung his five across the table.
Success!
The Otogakure trio heard voices and footsteps drawing nearer.
"I don't know why Tenten's so angry at me, all I did was call her meatball head-" Haku, Sakura and Naruto stopped in their tracks, seeing three almost grown men sitting around a small table, in the janitor's closet, playing go fish?
Sakura opened her mouth to say something, "What are you guys doing here?"
Neji and Sasuke looked at eachother. Gaara only seemed bored. And the only response Sasuke could come up with was,
"What areYOU guys doing here?" he raised an eyebrow.
Lame-O
"We were going to have a round of go fish." said Naruto.
Neji spoke, "Us too." he coughed nervously.
"Really?" asked Haku.
"No." answered Sasuke. A little too quickly.
Iwagakure trio threw him a weird look.
He is clearly obsessed.
Sasuke, Neji and Gaara met up at the janitor's closet...again. Gaara couldn't possibly see how a game of go fish would get someone into clear obsession? It's just a stupid game after all? He watched the two cearly obsessed Go fish lovers play another round.
Neji-two losses
Sasuke-three losses.
Neji was beating him by a point.
Gaara frowned. Watching them play was a simple bore to him. Sure he was a boring person. He'd usually sit by himself, staring at nothing. But this was just boring on a whole different level.
What was the obsession? There's nothing hard about the game. It's simple. Gaara could beat anyone easily if he was interested.
"Dammit! I lost again." Sasuke threw his cards with frustration.
Gaara decided to join in. It wasn't like he was going to be obsessed with it afterwards. He just wanted to see what the big attraction was.
"I'm in." said Gaara.
Sasuke and Neji looked at him.
"What?" he shrugged. "Deal me in." he ordered.
Neji and Sasuke exchanged glances but quickly shrugged it off.
Pft! This game is nothing. Nothing at all. Just a simple, boring, idiotic, stupid, not-worth-anyone's-time, dumb, crappy game. What people saw in this game, was beyond him. It wasn't like anyone needed an actual skill. It was simply a 'who has the better luck' kind of game. Really stupid-
"Damn, Gaara won." he blinked.
He...won? A few minutes ago he was complaining about how stupid this game was. And he...won? Gaara blinked twice. And before you knew it, Gaara played another game, and another...and another...and another...it was never going to stop.
'Actaully, this is sort of...fun?' he narrowed his eyes. Since when was he the one to say 'fun'? It must be his inner self talking. Minutes and minutes soon hours passed by. And every single game, he was winning. Actaully, it isn't just SORT OF fun, it was REALLY fun.
Gaara smirked. "I win."
"Damn!" Neji and Sasuke muttered.
Gaara laughed evily.
And Neji plus Sasuke were throwing him weird looks.
He is clearly obsessed.
Nine o'clock in the evening. Sakura realized she left one of her important text books inside of her lockers. She couldn't possible study without it. So she got on a bus and was heading for Konohagakure high school.
She yawned in her hand and walked hurridly towards her locker. "Yes." she smiled with triumph and lazily slammed her locker closed. But as soon as she did so, she heard weird noises coming from the janitor's closet.
Sakura summoned every single ounce of courage left in her and walked valiantly over to the janitor's closet. Placing her hand on the knob, she slowly twisted it...
And hastily drew the door open.
"AH!" she saw the scarriest thing known to man-kind.
"Ah!" three boys with dark circles under their eyes jumped in their seats by surprise. Well, except for Gaara, she wasn't so scared of Gaara. He always had dark circles around his eyes. But other than that, she was scared.
"W-What are you guys still doing here?" she threw them frightening glares.
"Nothing." they replied a little too quickly.
"It's nine o'clock at night. Shouldn't you be...I don't know, somewhere else?" Sakura rubbed her eyes.
"I'm fine here." Sasuke retorted.
"Yeah." they replied.
Sakura groaned. Walking up to the obsessed go fish players, she threw their cards into the trash.
"Hey." Sasuke growled.
"That was uncalled for-," Neji was cut off.
"Oh, shut up." Sakura frowned. "You guys are obsessed!" she crossed her arms.
"We're not obsessed." Gaara sneered.
She looked from Gaara...to Neji...to Sasuke and threw them weird looks.
They are clearly obsessed.
"You're playing GO FISH in the middle of the night!"
"It's only nine o'clock?"
"Shut up." snapped Sakura. "Look." her expressions soften. "I understand why you are so obsessed."
"I'm not obsessed-,"
"Shut up." Sakura cut Neji off. "I was obsessed too. Once I started playing, I couldn't stop. And honestly, I don't think anyone can."
Neji sighed. "That's true." he was finally out of denial.
"Of course, I have a whole lot of control over myself, so I got over it easy." she grinned.
"I thought you said once somebody's hooked you can't get them to stop?" Sasuke crossed his arms.
"Well obviously I lied." Sakura stuck out her pink little tongue. "Now come on. Whoever leaves first gets a kiss." she grinned.
"...cough...,"
Neji snorts. "Just because you offer me a kiss doesn't mean I want it." he crossed his arms.
Gaara turned his head and glared. "Who said she offered you a kiss?"
"You can only assume...," replied Neji.
Sasuke threw many glares at his so called 'friends'
The Otogakure trio looked from Sakura...to the deck of cards that sat in the trash.
Sakura?
Go fish?
Sakura?
Go fish?
Gaara slowly made his way to the trash can, but stopped to think again..
Go fish?
Sakura?
Go fish?
Sakura?
Was this supposed to be this hard?
Neji was the first to take a step. But Sasuke cut in.
"Where do you think you're going?" growled Neji.
"You just want that kiss." hissed Sasuke.
"Well, what about you?"
"I didn't want it. I just wanted to go first." he lied.
"Yeah right. Backstabber!"
"Backstabber? Talk for yourself!"
Gaara decided this would be the perfect time to sneak away. Slowly, he walked away from the fighting love sick puppies and shoved his hands into his pockets. He was five inches away from Sakura, but she closed in giving him a light peck on the cheek.
Gaara sighed disappointedly. All that for a peck?
Deidara walked in class that day, proud, and somwhat...happy? Students everywhere wondered, did he pierce his tongue? If so, then they just had to party! Deidara keeping his mouth shut during the entire class due to the pain on his tongue, could do wonders.
"Hello class." he anounced clearly, with NO pain at all. What a disappointment.
Everyone in class groaned.
"Dammit! I owe you a dollar." Naruto pulled out a dollar from his pants and threw it at Haku.
"Haha, I knew he was to chicken to peirce his tongue." he snickered.
Lee looked like he was in heaven. Youth will surely be destroyed by a tongue pierce! That is the way of non youth!
"No kids, I did not pierce my tongue." he chirped. "Yeah...,"
"Thank you god." Lee clasped his hands together and looked up to the ceiling.
"I pierced my nipples instead!"
"WHY GOD!" Lee fell on his knees dramatically.
Deidara lifted his shirt, just barely. "Wanna see?"
"NO!" everyone tried to block their view.
"Come on! It's really neat, yeah!"
"NO!"
"don'cha want a peek?"
"NO!
"Just a little-,"
"NO!"
"A-"
"NO!"
"Jeez, all right then." he huffed.
A/N: Phew! I'd say that went pretty well. Did it? Remember, like Gaara, Sasuke, and Neji, I'm obsessed. Except I'm obsessed with reviews not a card game. Jeez, how stupid. Anyways, the next chapter...hmm...what can I tell you about the next chapter?
Guess you'll just have to find out. It'll be quite interesting. Maybe in my point of view. But check it out. That is, when I update. And who knows how long that'll be!
laughs evily
Mwuahahahahaha! Wait and see! Wait and see! Just wait and see! But you reviewers/readers are lucky. I tend to have another obsession with updating. So the next chapter won't take long. I'll probably update...uh...should be less than a month, and more than three days.
Who knows? I could even update the next chapter right now?...Unlikely...
Updated: 3/13/06