Wings Chapter 9, a naruto fanfic

Abc-talking

Abc-thinking

Wings

Chpt. 9

The lights in the arena were turned off since it was close to midday and the sun was giving us light now. The party was still going and the Suna boys were still talking to us. I wasn't really paying attention; only when Naruto talked because he and the Hokage are also fairly close. He probably knows some things that only certain people should know. He also gets some of the best missions considering we're just beginning our military career.

But, I've been so tense during this party. I think the Suna boys have noticed because whenever our conversation turned to the tests and how we think we did, I shut down; only giving one word answers. I don't know why, but I can't talk about things that could bring our country's to war. It's like a life or death situation. Things are just getting too complicated.

On a lighter note, you know; since Konoha is hosting the tests… we, the Konoha students, get to clean up after them too. How fun is that?

"Sakura?"

Is that really fair? Shouldn't they help too; I mean we are letting them stay here, giving them food, and giving them something fun to do during the day when we should be learning to be smarter and stronger. But, no-

"SAKURA!" I jumped and looked around to find out that everybody was staring at me. Well, not everybody but, the Suna guys (That Akito guy had a smirk on his face and it was oddly close to mine, but I don't think I paid that much attention to it then.), my girlfriends, and then the other guys (Sasuke didn't look to happy because he had a scowl on his face.)

"What?"

"You weren't listening to me!" It was Ino who was whining.

I shook my head to clear it of my earlier thoughts although I have a couple of good insults that I want to get out but, none the less, I tried to pay attention now. "Okay, sorry. What were you saying?"

She hesitated and then smirked. Then she leaned back and asked me, "So, do you plan on getting off his lap or are you just going to stay there?"

"What?" I looked down and finally noticed that I was sitting on someone. I turned to look back at him/or her and found out that it was Akito that was underneath me. I blushed and quickly jumped up and started scratching the back of my head. "Ahaha… um… sorry 'bout that." He was smirking too.

"No problem." I groaned. How embarrassing! I'm supposed to be the HOKAGE'S APPRENTICE and I didn't even realize I was sitting ON someone. I sat back down next to Hinata and glared at Ino. I was putting her at fault for what happened.

"Ahem, what were you saying?"

"We were talking about the test again and I was asking you how teaching went." She winked at me. I knew she wanted me to tell her how she did. I smirked back at her.

"Grading tests was very… interesting… especially yours, Ino." My smirk turned into a friendly, fake smile. She pouted.

"Did I do well?"

"I'm not sure."

"Wait, you graded the intelligence tests?" It was that blond guy that talked this time. What was his name again?

"Uh…yeah."

"But, you took it right, so how come you were scoring them?" I hesitated. Did they know who I was, or were they trying to confirm something?

"Oh, Sakura-chan is the Hokage's apprentice!" Naruto said. I glared at him. He didn't notice of course. Stupid, dense, idiotic, MORON! Yes, my temper was flaring. I didn't really like where this conversation was going.

"You are?" This time it was the brunette.

"Yes, I am." I replied slowly. I was in 'think' mode again.

"How did you do on your test?" Brunette guy again. I really needed to learn their names but oh well.

"I'm not sure. I didn't grade it."

"Oh, how did you think you did on your test?"

"Fine." I gritted out.

"Only fine?"

"Yes, I did FINE." I stressed that word. I was tense again and I knew they knew it but they just decided to ignore it.

"Oh." He sounded disappointed. Poor him. I snorted internally at that remark.

"Yeah, how did you do?"

"Fine." I'm starting to resent that word. There was a short pause after that.

I glanced at my friends to see what they thought of these guys. Hinata looked like she was going to faint from all the tenseness in the air. Ino didn't look bothered and was inspecting her nails. Also, she was leaning against Shikamaru…again. Shikamaru looked like he would fall asleep sometime soon. Naruto was chatting up that white haired guy again. Neji, I noticed, put the feather away and was teasing Tenten about something and the Uchiha was leaning back staring down at the center of the arena where students were mingling. I glanced again at the Akito guy and he was also staring out at the center of the arena. I glanced too, but there wasn't anything interesting to me.

"Hinata what time is it?" I asked. Like I had anything better to say. Hehe. I didn't like silence. I was a talker; not as bad as Ino though.

"Ano… three-thirty." School was over, but it didn't look like anyone was planning on leaving soon. Around five o'clock, I have to go meet up with the Hokage to make up Konoha's list of people who passed the first part and who have failed.

"Thanks."

"So…" Naruto was trying to start up a conversation. "Um…"-

"Uchiha, how do you think you did?" I asked, but of course I knew, since I graded it.

"I think I did okay."

"Oh?" I gave him 'you do, do you' look.

"You graded my test, right?"

"Mm-hmm."

"And?"

"Ask me nicely if you want an answer." I smirked at him. Ha, take that Uchiha!

"I don't really care." I frowned.

"Okay… if you say so."

"Ne, Sakura-chan, did you grade my test?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, I did." I glared at him.

"Ahaha…"-

"Don't even ask how you did."

"Hai." He bent his head down.

"N-naruto, I think you d-did well." Naruto laughed nervously again, but he didn't say anything else. I should probably get going. I'm getting kind of bored and talking to the Suna boys is getting dangerously close to off limits territory.

"I'm going to go."

"Aw, why, Sakura-chan?"

"Work."

"Baa-chan will forgive you if you're late."

"Naruto, be serious."

"…fine."

"Bye guys!" I start heading down the steps.

"Bye, forehead."

"See ya."

"Bye, Sakura."

"I'll walk you; I have to go to." I turned to look at that blue haired guy.

"…okay." I glanced at Ino, giving her my 'help me' look. She just smiled sweetly and turned to Tenten, who turned to her, in my opinion, with more that enough enthusiasm than necessary.

"Oi, Pinky, don't get lost. He's new to this town. I won't be there to help you get home." I turned to glare at him. He smirked.

"It was one freaking time! Let it go and you know what? I so could have gotten home on MY OWN, but you were dragging me against my will."

"Don't act like you didn't like it." I growled at him; yes I growled. Instead of retorting, I turned around and hissed something like 'hurry up' at the Suna boy.

We were walking for awhile; I hadn't asked him where he needed to go, but I think he knew because he didn't stop or hesitate. We hadn't talked at all which was kind of nerve racking.

"So… where are you going?" I asked.

"…" He just glanced at me and then kept going. Okay… not a talker, I see…reminds me of a certain someone.

"Um… well we're kind of going the opposite way of the Hokage tower; so I think I'll leave you here if you know where you're going…" I started to slow down and walk backwards down the street we are on.

"Fine, but answer one question for me okay?"

"Uh… sure…"

"You like that Uchiha?" He thinks I like him? What the heck?

"No way, not in a million years! Ahaha… were did you get that idea?"

"Just wondering…" He turned back around and kept going down the street. That was… weird.

I asked some civilian what the time was and he said it was around 4:45. Uh-oh.

I was going to be late…

"LATE!" I sighed.

"Sorry, I was helping some kid that was lost." I lied. There was no way I was going to say I was hanging out with a boy. She would go crazy on me.

"Fine, I made the list already of who was passing." She passed it over to me. There was twenty students from our freshman class, forty-seven from the sophomore class, and fifty-two from our junior class. It wasn't really that many students; in total we'll only be sending one hundred and nineteen students our of our fifteen hundred students. Well senior class didn't count but still.

"That's not a lot of students. Kind of a disappointment, huh?"

"Sure, sure." I glanced at her. She didn't look disappointed. I looked at her suspiciously, but I didn't question her. In an after thought, it would make sense to mess with the results. The other countries are probably doing it too.

"Well, okay then. When are you posting the results?"

"The other countries and I decided that we would tell the results after the physical test." In other words, you don't trust each other.

"So, is there anything else that needs to be done around here?"

"No, I just wanted to let you know that… you passed." I smiled. "Congratulations."

"Thanks!"

"Yeah, yeah… go away now."

"Hai, hai."

It's Friday now and next week Monday we're starting the physical part of our exam. I think we're going alphabetical. Thank God. Hehe.

The arena is going to be divided into three sections; so that three pairs can fight at one time. There will be three judges in each section and there will also be a referee. The rules… well there are none. The main purpose is to either kill your opponent or to make them admit defeat. Not that hard really. Could you hear the sarcasm in my voice?

I'm at home now; it's around six o'clock. Ino and the girls are coming over soon. We're doing a sleep over. Fun, right? I'm sure it will be fine. I bet their all nervous too. Isn't that just what you need, four nervous girls in one house? I'm just glad that my parents love me. Wink, wink.

The door bell just rang, but when I opened the door, there stood Sasuke with Naruto and all them. This was spelling trouble. "What?"

"Is that any way to treat guests?"

"What guests, Uchiha? All I see are some immature boys." Instead of answering me, he brushed past me into MY house. "Hey, what do you think you're doing?"

"Sorry, Sakura-chan; we smelt pizza." Naruto said while shrugging; like that gave him a reason to break into someone's home.

Instead of arguing (I don't know what I was thinking), I decided to be nice and entertain my immature guests; also Ino's here and she just screamed 'The boys are over! What the heck, Sakura? Do you see what I'm wearing?' I just ignored her and walked into my house.

My living room has been taken over. I repeat; my living room has been taken over. First, Naruto helped himself to my pizza that my parents ordered and ate the whole thing. We ended up ordering more later. So I have boxes of empty and full pizza everywhere. Second, my couch has been invaded by Shikamaru, who is sleeping on it. Hinata is sitting on one of my chairs, sipping at her tea. Ino is leaning against the couch, looking at her nails. Sasuke is sitting on a rocking chair with his feet up on a foot stool and his arms crossed. Neji is leaning against the side of that chair, playing with Tenten's feather again. Tenten is leaning across from him on Hinata's chair, and me; I'm standing in the door way thinking and staring at my 'friends'.

"Hey, Sakura-chan, you got any scary movies?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, I've got the message, the omen… um… Number 23, the grudge, and the shining."

"Dude, let's watch the shining! I love that movie!!"

"No way!" That was… Ino and just to be mean…

"Okay."

So, I went and made the hugest bowl of popcorn for all of us and brought some drinks. Then we started the movie. I just sat some where because the lights were already turned off. This ought to be something to talk about on Monday. Hehe. I just want to see how Hinata deals with this because right now Naruto is sitting against her knees.

Halfway through the movie I hid behind a pillow and curled up against someone. I didn't know who, but I didn't really care either. They could suck it up, right?

The movie was finally over and I'm pretty sure that I'm sitting on someone's lap. If you want to go and say names then it would be Sasuke's. I know…embarrassing. Give me a break!

"Do you plan on getting off me?" I just glared at said person.

"No, I'll get off when I want to."

"So, then you want to sit on my lap?"

"Ye-no!"

"What was that?"

"Oh shut up." I finally yelled while getting off. I spread my wings, trying to knock him in the head but he just ducked.

"That wasn't nice."

"Bite me."

"Where?" I blushed. He…he… that PERVERT!

"SHUT UP! I'm going to my room." I glanced at everyone else when I turned the lights on. Shikamaru was still sleeping but his arm was hanging over the edge of the couch and Ino had it pulled around in front of her. She looked like she would possible rip it off to defend herself. Hinata was in Naruto's lap. He didn't seem to mind… Tenten and Neji were something else. Tenten was currently being held by said Hyuuga and said Hyuuga didn't seem to mind. I smirked.

"Having a good time, Tenten?" She looked over at me.

"What?"

"I never knew you and Hyuuga were an item. I should spread the news." She finally realized what I was saying and glanced to her left. She also noticed that his arm was around her. I had a fun time watching her face go from pale to red in mere seconds. Then she glared at me while viciously tearing Hyuuga's arm away from her.

"Shut up, sakura! Don't act like it was something! I saw you and Uchiha!" She got me there. I just huffed and stormed out of there before Sasuke could add his little comments 'cause Lord knows he would.

Ino, Hinata, and Tenten joined me later. I didn't know if the boys left, but I hope they did. My parents might be a little angry if they find four teenage boys in the same house as four teenage girls with no supervision. So, I put my bravado on and asked.

"Are they still here?"

"I don't know. I think they put in another movie." Tenten said.

"What movie?"

"I'm not sure."

"That's specific."

"Thanks for the compliment."

"Welcome, Tenten." And that ended our conversation. "Well I'm tired so… G'night."

"Me too, night."

"Good night, everyone."

"Night."

We fell asleep very fast and didn't hear the boys walk in with dangerous intent. Of course we would find out in the morning.

The next morning, I woke up to screaming. It sounded like someone was being burned alive. So, when I finally decided to see who was trying to make me deaf, I found Ino crying and looking at herself in my mirror. She did not just wake me up because of her appearance or someone is going to die soon.

"What is it, Ino?" I drawled out.

"Look at my face!" She turned around and I had to double over so that she wouldn't see my face. She looked like a very happy clown that had green eye shadow all the way around her eyes and very red lips that stretched all the way up to her ears. The rest of her face was pure white and, boy, was I trying so hard not to laugh. Tenten wasn't so courteous. She full-out laughed. Hinata's face looked like shock and she was doing very well at keeping it frozen like that.

"Wow, Ino, who knew you up and joined the circus?" Tenten said. Ino glared and then glanced down at Tenten's chest.

"Oh really, look who's talking. I didn't know your breasts were property of Neji Hyuuga." She sneered at Tenten. Don't mess with an angry Ino.

Tenten glanced down at her shirt which had 'These are property of Neji Hyuuga. Don't touch what's his!' written neatly in block letters across the top of her shirt. Now, I couldn't help it and I burst out laughing. Tenten turned so fast at me that when she saw me she froze. That caught my attention.

"What?"

"…" Instead of answering me she smirked.

"Nice dye job."

"W-what?"

"Your hair, absolutely amazing. Although, I didn't know you were so into black and the Uchiha symbol."

No, no, no, no, no, this is not happening. I roughly pushed Ino out of the way to the mirror and stared in horror at my head. My hair was dyed black and on the side of my left part there was, conveniently, a red and white Uchiha fan. NO!

"UCHIHA!" I turned around and was about to stomp my way over to his house when Ino called my name. "What?" I hissed.

"Um… come look at your bathroom." I stomped my way over there only to see my beautiful green walls gone and replacing them was wall paper with the Uchiha fan all over it. Oh my Gosh! No!

"UCHIHA!" I all out screamed. Tenten came over and I watched as her face changed from curiosity, to shock, to glee. I turned to warn her about what she was going to say but then I noticed that she had writing on the inner side of her right thigh. "Hey, Tenten, what's that say?"

She looked at me. "What's what say?"

"On your inner right thigh." She lifted her right leg and braced it against the wall. I read out loud.

"Note: This also belongs to Neji Hyuuga. Under absolutely no circumstance is ANYONE allowed to touch, think about, or look at this part of Tenten Kunai." Then it had an arrow pointing to her… special place… Don't make fun of the way I said it. I'm just not comfortable saying that word, okay?

I glanced at her. She looked fit to kill. I glanced at Hinata who was sitting on the floor in her sleeping bag with a relieve look. Nothing happened to her I bet. Why does she get someone as thoughtful as Naruto? Yes, he was an idiot, but on the bright side he did not dye her hair orange or whatever.

"I think we need to have a little talk with some dead men. Shall we?"

"Lead the way." Tenten growled. I stomped my way to see Naruto asleep on the floor. I let him be because he obviously wasn't part of this. I proceed through the front hallway and basically ripped the door off its hinges. Then me and my friends stomped our way to the mansion across from my house and I banged on the door. Unfortunately for us, his brother opened the door. His face stayed the same but his eyes told me he would later break into a laughing fit in his own room.

"How can I help you?"

"Is your brother here?" I asked with a sickly sweet smile.

"Yes, I do believe so."

"Could I have a little chat with him?"

"Of course, this way."

"Thanks." I grunted in reply. He led us through the house and up the stair case. We kept walking for awhile until he stopped at a door.

"This is his room." He then walked back down the hallway and down the stairs. I waited a couple seconds until he was out of hearing range and then…

"UCHIHA, OPEN UP!" I hollered while banging on his door. The door opened a couple of seconds later and I saw the smirking face of an Uchiha.

"Did you go get you're hair done?" He asked.

"No, it was a surprise."

"Oh, is your birthday soon?"

"Shut up, Sasuke. You know who did this! It was you after all." I glared at him.

"Sakura, you shouldn't accuse people of doing something if you're not entirely sure they did it." He stated.

"I happen to know for a fact, that you did do it! You were at my house last night and fell asleep pretty early so you would have had a chance. Also, I don't think any of my friends would do it."

"How do you know? It could have been Tenten." I glanced at her but the look in my eyes told her I wasn't blaming her, but that I was telling her to show her new 'tattoos'.

"Really, Uchiha. You think it was me?" She asked.

"It could have been."

"Then would I have done this to my shirt and my thigh also?" She pointed to her shirt, urging him to read it. I could tell he was about to laugh but held on. Then she lifted her right thigh and braced it against the door frame so he could read it. When he read what it said he full out grinned.

"You could have." I looked at Ino.

"Oh yeah, Uchiha Sasuke. Would she have done this?" Ino stomped into view, pointing at her 'make up job'. I heard him chuckle a little.

"I'm afraid that I can't help you with your…issues."

"I do not have an issue!" I yelled at him. He was not going to make me sound crazy.

"Sure, sure." He walked through his door and grabbed my elbow. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave." He smirked at me. "I know you may not have read this, but in the laws it is illegal to break into someone's house." Before I could respond he pushed me out the door, along with Ino and Tenten, and shut it.

"UCHIHA, COME MONDAY YOU ARE GOING TO WISH YOU HADN'T MET ME! I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS IN THE PHYSICAL COMPETION. DO YOU HEAR ME, CHICKEN HEAD?" Before he could even respond, I stomped angrily back to my house to get my wallet so that I could buy some pink hair dye. Ino and Tenten followed me back to my place. This was not over yet!

Hey, guys sorry that this took me awhile. I hope you like it. It was about nine pages long. Yay me! Hehe. Next chapter I'm going to start the physical exam so it might take me awhile to get it going. Don't hate me!

Brittney