"Naruko!" I yelled. I couldn't seem to find her, even with my Sharingan. She had really hidden herself well. I had been searching for three hours. I would've thought that someone with such horrible chakra control as her wouldn't be able to vanish like that. Naruko was likely to be in a few places. Her apartment, the top of the Hokage monument, the swing in front of the Academy…
I went to every place and couldn't find her. I hated to admit it, but I needed help.
"Sasuke-san!" a familiar voice called.
"Hm?" I turned to see Hinata, running over.
"Naruko-san…she…ran off!" she panted hard with her hands on her knees. She deactivated her Byakugan.
"I was looking for her with my Sharingan, but I can't seem to find her. As her teammates, we should look together," I said. Hinata looked surprised then nodded. I am pretty sure she saw through my words and saw that I needed her help. We walked to the highest point in the middle of the village and Hinata looked in every direction.
"I found her! I don't know how I didn't see her before!" she said.
"Where?" I demanded. She sweatdropped and didn't answer.
"Where?" I asked again.
"The bathhouse…" she said. My eyes widened.
"Well, that's good because Kurenai and Asuma's teams are going as we speak," a voice said from behind us.
"K-kakashi-sensei!" Hinata said. I sighed.
"Fine," I said.
"I'm sure you can be friendly and ask for soap from your fellow genin shinobi, ne?" Kakashi was really forcing us to go. A nerve popped out on my head.
"Let's go already!" I scowled.
Naruko POV
I blew bubbles out of my nose and sank deeper into the water. I couldn't stop thinking about that kiss. I wanted Sasuke to like me…but I knew he wouldn't. If I fell for him, I would be the same as those fangirls. Then Sasuke would hate me for sure. Even more than he already does. That kiss…I bet he just wanted to…to…I don't know…
I looked up as I heard another person walk in.
"That was kinda funny," the woman said.
"Huh?" I asked, hoping she wasn't a patron in the restaurant who saw Sasuke and I.
"You and Uchiha," she said as she started to wash herself.
"He was just being a jerk," I countered. My eyes widened as I recognized the woman.
"Why are you here?" I asked angrily.
"Oh, come on. Can't a girl talk to her sister about boy troubles?" she snickered as she poured water over her head and walked over to the bath.
"…fine," I sighed. I was too tired to fight about this kind of thing anyway.
"Would you like to know why he kissed you, from a bystander's point of view?" she asked as she draped an arm over me. I didn't answer.
"Well, I since those boys were flirting with you, or if you can call those pathetic attempts flirting, he got angry. They kept messing with him, or they were actually flirting, and he snapped. He wanted to protect you from them and make sure that the message went across: you were his. He likes you, and wants you to be his girlfriend…and perhaps eventually the one to restore his clan, dattebane," Kama said. I mulled this over and Ididn't feel like she was simply saying this to make me feel better, but to tell me the truth. Either way, it was music to my ears. I remained quiet as I felt a smile tug as my lips.
"Ne, I feel like you're finally showing me your true personality," I said, grinning a little.
"Well, I'm cold to Sasuke because he doesn't like me," she said simply. I heard more people come into the bath house in both sides.
"I can't believe Sasuke would kiss her! In front of ME!" Ino complained.
"Shut up! He's mine! I'm going to make him fall for me, and not that stupid ugly Naruko girl," Sakura said. Kama disappeared from my side and reappeared behind Sakura.
"Would you like to repeat that about my sister?" she asked.
"Y-you're Namikaze Kama! The nuke-nin!" Ino yelled.
"But, I'm not going to hurt any of you. Unless you do something I don't like. But I want to get to know my sister's friends dattebane," she said cheerily.
"H-hai!" Sakura and Ino said, terrified of the nude nuke-nin in front of them.
"Don't forget that I can kill you in an instant," she said and walked back to me. I sighed; somehow knowing it would come to this. They got even more terrified as she said this with such a calm look.
Ino, Sakura, Hinata and Tenten all washed themselves and went into the bath.
"Ok! I want everyone here to know that Naruko is my sister! She is super pretty, but not as much as me! I also want to teach her all the jutsu I know but being a nuke-nin makes it hard to do that," she pouted.
"Wait, wasn't the name Namikaze the last name of the Yondaime Hokage?" Sakura asked.
"I don't know. Maybe you should find out," she shrugged. My eyes widened. Everyone stilled as we heard loud conversations from over the wall coming from the men's side of the bathhouse. We listened in closely.
"Sasuke, you know we were kidding about provoking you!" Kiba said.
"I wasn't! Naruko is beautiful!" Lee yelled. Kama punched my arm as I blushed.
"Shut up!" Sasuke yelled angrily.
"Come on! Lighten up!" Chouji said.
"It's a real drag having you be all cold. We were all in the same class together anyway," Shikamaru sighed.
"But, Sasuke, the thing we want to know is if that kiss was real or just to fight back our teasing," Kiba said.
"Why should I tell you anything?!" Sasuke yelled. I could practically hear the blush creep on his face.
"Sasuke! You're blushing! You're not in the water so you can't blame it on the heat of the water!" Kiba laughed. "No matter what you say now can't change this! You like her!"
"I wanna know what you see in her," Chouji said. "I mean, she's kinda pretty but she's loud and the dead last in our class."
"I guess it's because she understands me, and the pain of solitude," Sasuke said.
"Anything else? Her personality? Her looks? Her body? ANYTHING ELSE?" Kiba complained.
"No. Now go away," Sasuke said. I stood to walk away to beat the crap out of all of them there, but Kama held my arm. She smirked and I knew that whatever she had in mind wasn't good.
"Hey! Naruko, what do you think of that kiss? Do you like Sasuke?!" Kama said loudly. She was doing this on purpose. I sighed inwardly. Ino and Sakura glared at me. Kama smiled at them and they shivered.
"Oh, I don't know what he was trying to say! Maybe he likes me, but it was hard to tell! Maybe he was being a jerk!" I laughed a little, playing along.
"Hey girls! Do you like any of the guys in your teams or on other teams?" Kama asked loudly.
"I LOVE SASUKE-KUN!" Ino and Sakura yelled.
"What about you, Hyuuga?" Kama asked.
"N-no, n-n-not in pa-partic-cular…" Hinata stuttered.
"Well! As for me!" Kama started. I almost facepalmed at her antics and how she was about to be dragging this out as she put a hand on her chest in a prideful way.
"I want Naruko to know, as her S-rank NUKE-NIN SISTER! THAT I FELL IN LOVE WITH AND HAD A CHILD WITH UCHIHA…" she started, feeling the tension grow as the seconds passed and the wide eyes on both sides of the bathhouse. I was tempted to ask if she was drunk to be revealing such sensitive information, but I didn't object. Like I could against an S-rank nuke-nin.
"ITACHI!" she yelled. She smiled like a loon. I was about to ask if it was true about the child part, but I was interrupted.
"you called?" a voice said quietly. I turned to see none other than Uchiha Itachi with a blindfold over his eyes and a towel around his waist. She blushed and nodded.
"What's wrong? Or were you just showing me off?" he smirked.
"Itachi, go back to the other side. I want to enjoy my time here as much a possible!" she smiled brightly. I felt another chakra signature come.
"Itachi! Why the hell are you here?!" Sasuke yelled. He clearly hadn't noticed that coming to Itachi would require being in the women's side. I stood and tried to punch the living daylight out of him, but he just moved in front of me, standing between me and Itachi and Kama. Kama frowned.
"Uchiha, I wasn't done talking to her. Get back to the men's side," she said. She let out a lot of killer intent, and Sasuke frowned. He threw a towel at me and we disappeared.
"Teme!" I started, half blushing from my severe lack of clothes in front of him. I looked around and I saw we were in his apartment. "Actually, never mind," I decided not to talk to him until he apologized sincerely from earlier. I crossed my arms and put my nose up in the air.
"Naruko," he said seriously. I opened one eye to look at him.
"Hm?" I asked.
"I…I um…" Sasuke looked nervous.
"You're sorry for kissing me in front of everyone which humiliated me?" I asked levelly.
"Yeah…" he said.
"Alright. But I have one question," I said. He looked so surprised that I forgave him so easily.
"What?"
"What were you trying to prove? Were you just trying to make Kiba and the rest of them stop flirting with me or was that kiss real?" I asked. I tried my hardest not to smirk but it was so hard!
"That has the same answer. No matter what I say it will prove both of our thoughts," he said.
"What does that mean?"
"It means…" he got nervous again.
"Argh, spit it out, Uchiha," I said, frustrated.
"Naruko…" he started. I saw a smirk forming on his face.
"I think I love you," he said as he stepped forward and kissed me. My eyes widened but then I caved and kissed him back. His arms reached back and pulled me closer to him. He broke the kiss and said:
"Now I have two questions for you," he smirked as I blushed hard.
"W-what?" I whispered.
"Do you love me back?" he asked. I nodded and stared at my feet.
"Well? What's the other question?" I asked.
"I think I'll ask later," he said as he kissed me again. I wrapped my arms around him and he followed. We stood there for a while and broke the kiss for air.
"Let's not die in the Chūnin Exams," he said.
"Okay," I said with a small smile.
"Woot! I thought that cold Uchiha would never get a girlfriend!" Kiba yelled. He was looking in through the glass of the door leading out to the balcony. A nerve popped out on my head and I stomped over to him and slammed the door open. I noticed that it had been recently fixed and I almost broke it from using that much force.
"You…you saw…." I said murderously. My long blonde hair began to float and my eyes glowed dangerously.
"I ain't afraid of you! And I am certainly telling Sakura about this!" he smiled and ran off.
Sasuke POV
I panted hard and collapsed. Two weeks had gone by since I kissed Naruko. Kakashi was making sure our teamwork was perfect and he said that in a week he might start either teaching us new jutsus or helping us make our own jutsus. Naruko was in a similar state and Hinata had passed out. Kakashi stood in front of us with a creepy eye-smile and knelt down behind us. We looked up at him upside down.
"What, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruko asked.
"Oh, nothing. Just looking at you two…" he said.
"Shut up…" I said.
"What's wrong with a teacher looking at his students?" he asked.
"You're a pervert, that's why," Naruko glared.
"Naruko, don't concern yourself with him. Didn't you say you wanted to get ramen after this?" I asked as I got up. I held out a hand and she took it. I pulled her up.
"Well? Or was it a genjutsu that you somehow pulled off even though that's your worst skill?" I smirked. I got the desired reaction: her wanting to beat the crap out of me. I held her back and took her to Ichiraku Ramen.
"Teme, I thought you didn't like ramen," she eyed me suspiciously.
"I thought it'd see if I like it or not again. Some people say that the foods you don't like are just foods you have to get an acquired taste for," I explained.
"I've never heard anyone say that…especially when referring to something as holy as ramen," she sweatdropped.
"Shut up, let's order," I said. Naruko ordered miso ramen and I ordered whatever the cook would like to surprise me with.
"Well would you look at that!" Ayame said, smiling as she gave us each a glass of water.
"What?" Naruko asked in between slurps of her ramen. I looked up.
"Naruko finally got a boyfriend!" she said. "Congrat—"
"What are you talking about?!" Naruko and I screamed.
She sighed. "That just proves it…"
Another lady came out from the other part of the shop.
"Ayame-chan, what is all that screaming?" a woman with slightly purple hair and brown eyes asked.
"Anko-chan! Look at these lovebirds! Aren't they cute?!" Ayame laughed. Anko walked over and looked at us intently.
"Wait, aren't you the blond girl who always pulls all those pranks and aren't you the Uchiha kid? Isn't your sensei that Kakashi guy?" she asked.
"Yeah! How'd ya know?" Naruko asked, her mouth full of ramen.
"I have my sources. Plus you two alone are famous. If only she was here to kick your ass, Uchiha. My friend would never let you be near her. But the funny thing is that she dated an Uchiha. I just get the feeling that she hates your guts. And if she knew you two are dating—don't lie, it's written on your faces and I'd guess this is your first date—she'd really kick your ass, Uchiha," Anko said.
"You're like an investigator! You can just read us so easily!" Naruko laughed. I raised an eyebrow. Why wasn't Naruko reacting to her comments the way normal people would? I mean, she certainly wasn't normal, but she wasn't even making a comment about her saying 'dating'. Ayame refilled her glass again. Wait, wasn't this the fifth time she'd refilled her glass? I picked up her glass and sniffed the liquid and it had a slightly sharp smell. Sake.
"That's 'cause I am an investigator! You're slow, even for a genin. You must've passed by some miracle to be a genin," Anko smirked.
"Hey! I am not slow! And yeah, I did pass by a miracle! The Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! And I beat Mizuki-sensei's ass with that killer technique!" Naruko laughed and then passed out, her head hitting on the counter.
"Ayame. That isn't water. It's sake. She got drunk. Looks like I'm taking her home then…" I sighed, put down some money to pay for everything, and picked her up.
"Aww! They're so cute! I bet their kids are going to be so adorable!" Ayame said to Anko. Anko laughed and they kept talking as I tried to hide my blush and walked home quickly.