Hello again, Chapter Nine up! Well this chapter is longer than others because more... events happen. Funny events, weird events and... romantic action XD Just a little bit. Hope you guys like it! DISCLAIMER:I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR ITS CHARACTERS, ONLY MY OWN ORIGINAL CHAPTERS. Now on to the reading!

Chapter Nine: The Beach and Modern Warfare

"Don't wait for something to expire or for someone to die

To start valuing how much they meant

Because it would too late"

"Ha! Take that! Who's a noob now?" Naruto screamed at Ike as he gave a headshot to him in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 videogame.

"That was just luck…Dobe." Ike replied back.

"Luck? This was my fifth headshot! Not to mention the knife kills!"

"You've got to admit he's good." Ari said.

"Whatever." Everyone was playing and for now Jack, Natas and Ari were the three first positions, followed by Naruto. The others watched, not really understanding much though. They were having a LAN Party. On one screen were Ari, Sasuke, Naruto and Natas while on the other were Jack, Kakashi, Ike and Sakura.

The pink haired was the last one in the second team's list while Sasuke was at Team one's last place.

"I can't believe it! Teme is the last one!"

"Shut up, Dobe. I don't get this."

"Me either. It doesn't have any shurikens or kunais or explosive tags and the guys don't have any jutsu." Naruto said out loud.

"Just one minute left! And we're winning!" Naruto screamed.

"Man, I'm doing the whole job here!" Jack said frustrated because neither of his team mates knew how to play much and all the kills they had were thanks to him.

In that same moment, the T.V. turned off.

"WHAT THE FUCK?" Natas and Jack screamed.

"Electricity's off." Ari said.

"NO WAY! WE WERE SO CLOSE, DATTEBAYO!" (No need to say who this was.)

Everyone did pouting faces and remained silent for several seconds.

"So what now?" Ino asked. It was starting to get really hot without the cooler.

"Isn't there something we can do that doesn't need electricity and is refreshing?" Sakura asked this time.

"Take a bath?" Ike answered.

"That's it! Let's go to the beach!" Ari said excitedly. Ike raised a brow and Jack's eyes lighten up. After that, the brunette ran to her room, or more like jumped there. Natas and Jack got out of Ari's apartment to go and pick up their bathing suits. The purple-blue eyed girl emerged from her room with a few pairs of bathing suits.

"I have spare bathing suits for the other girls, we must be about the same size." She said and gave one to Hinata, Sakura and Ino. They looked at them and went to the bathroom to change.

"Hey! What about us?" Naruto asked.

"Oh right. I'll call Jack so he can get some bathing suits for you guys. Now, I'm going to change." With that, she beamed back to her room.

About half an hour later, Jack and Natas came back with bathing suits for the rest of the guys who dressed immediately. By now, they were all ready to go. They reached the beach in less than an hour and found a pretty good spot. Kakashi instantly got out his trusty book and sat on a beach chair they had brought. Ike found a nice shade and laid under it. Natas and Jack were getting ready to start swimming and so were Sakura and Ino. Naruto was following after Sakura and Hinata was blushing furiously looking at him and at Jack. Ari was laying a towel over the sand and sat there, under the shade of a tree and Sasuke was leaning himself on the same tree behind Ari.

The brunette watched everyone as she breathed in the fresh ocean breeze. Kakashi was reading. He didn't had a shirt on but he still had that mask. She had wondered why he had it and how he would look like without it. Probably even more handsome than he does right now. Then she looked at Naruto who was laughing hysterically while splashing Sakura's face, he looked very good himself. His chest was tanned and with his blonde hair and cerulean eyes, he looked like those Hawaiian surfers in the T.V. Sakura was wearing a pink suit Ari lend to her. It was a two piece set that doesn't fit her anymore because it was too small. The cherry blossom was less proportioned than the brunette, so it fit perfectly. Ino was splashing Natas who was trying to grab her. The blonde was wearing a two piece as well, but this one was black and it fit her just fine. Hinata had a blue whole piece bathing suit. Jack had his favorite green and black suit and Natas had his black and red. Ike had a black one like Kakashi and Naruto a blue one.

A young boy was playing with a Frisbee but threw it too far and landed in the ocean. The poor boy started to call out to the Frisbee as tears welded in his eyes.

"No! My Frisbee!" Naruto looked at the boy and then at the Frisbee and he decided to go after it, running at full speed towards the water.

"I got your Frisbee! It's okay!" Naruto screamed back at the boy as he got the Frisbee.

The boy's eyes were wide open as he looked at Naruto.

"Look Mommy! He's Jesus!"The boy screamed out loud.

"Naruto! Go under water, now!" Sakura and Ari screamed together at Naruto, who was standing on the water. He stopped his chakra and dived in.

The mother of the boy looked just as Naruto submerged.

"Yeah, Yeah darling. He got your Frisbee that's why you call him Jesus." The mother said and patted the boy on his head.

Ari then turned her head to the side when she felt someone sitting beside her. It was Sasuke and he looked gorgeous. His bathing suit was black and white with a little bit of red. His hair was even much messier due to the wind and his naked chest just looked so tempting…Ugh! Not again! Lately she found herself looking too much at Sasuke. When he got out of the shower, out of bed, training in her yard. She found herself sighing every time she saw him, her heart beating faster. She smiled at him.

"Hey Sasuke." He smirked back.

"Hey."

"Don't you swim?" She asked him.

"Not in the mood." He turned his head to the sky as the wind blew gently. Ari smiled again and did the same but she didn't noticed he looked at her with the corner of his eyes. He watched as her hair flew with the wind and how she smiled with her eyes closed. Suddenly it was like everything went in slow motion except for his heart which was now beating frantically in his chest. He listened as she giggled to herself, hypnotized by her voice. He was so lost in watching her that he almost didn't notice when she looked at him and when she stretched her hand at him.

"What?" He asked.

"C'mon! Let's take a swim." He blinked and raised a brow.

"I told you I'm not in the mood."

"Oh, please. C'mon. Just get in the water and stay still if you don't want to swim, teme." He sighed and stood up.

"Whatever." He started heading towards the beach and Ari followed him very excited. She had convinced Sasuke to get in the beach, she doubted anyone could have done that before. Maybe Naruto or Sakura but not by someone he just met a week and a half ago. Kakashi side glanced at his Uchiha ex-student head to the water with the beautiful brunette and couldn't help the smirk that got to his lips. Too bad they had to leave tomorrow, he was sure Sasuke needed this place. Or at least needed a certain purple-blue eyed girl with him. Maybe he would even forget about his revenge for a while, like he was doing now.

"No way! Teme is coming in?" Naruto yelled surprised and everyone looked at Sasuke and Ari who were getting to the shore.

"Hn." The Uchiha turned his head slightly and closed his eyes tightly. He's pouting! Cute! Ari thought while smiling. She grabbed his arm and dragged him deeper in the water to where the others were. Naruto grinned and practically jumped at his best friend.

"C'mon teme! Let's see who's a better swimmer.!"

"I'm not gonna waste my time on that."

"You're just scared that I'll win and embarrass you!" Naruto said.

"Not a chance, Dobe." He answered back.

"You're right, Naruto." Ari added. "He's scared that you'd be better than him."

She got closer to Naruto and grabbed his arm.

"Cause I think you're better than him." And then she smirked at Sasuke who took the challenge.

"Why don't you race against me, Ari? If I'm such a loser then maybe you can beat me." Everyone looked at Ari and waited for her answer.

"Asshole…" She murmured and Sasuke smirked in triumph. The Uchiha got closer to her and leaned his head towards her ear until his lips brushed with her earlobe. He whispered slowly with a husky voice.

"The loser does whatever the winner asks…" Ari's lavender eyes widened for a second but then narrowed and looked straight at Sasuke's Onyx orbs.

"Bring it."

Two minutes later, everyone was back at the shore, including Ari and Sasuke. The female was gasping for air while the male smirked back at her. Everyone else was laughing at the pair.

"Sasuke-teme wins!" Naruto screamed out loud and everyone laughed even more as Ari smacked the blonde on the head. It was getting late, the sun already setting on the horizon. The gang started to pack their things and later on they left. Jack and Natas along with Sakura and Ino headed back to their house. Ike, Kakashi and Naruto to Ike's apartment and Ari with Sasuke and Hinata headed to her house. Tomorrow was the Convention where Naruto and the others would try to find out how to get back to Konoha.

At Ari's Place

"G-Goodnight, Ari-chan, Sasuke-kun." The young Hyuga heiress bowed slightly and went to her room to sleep.

"Goodnight, Sasuke." Ari said to Sasuke and started to head to her room but was pulled back by the wrist. She was about to turn but was slammed against the wall, not roughly but abruptly.

"Wha-"

"Shhh… Don't wanna wake Hinata now, do you?" He placed his finger on her lips and leaned closer.

"You do remember our little bet, right?" He asked in a whisper.

"Y-yes…"

"Good." He smirked and pulled her to the direction of Ari's room. She followed, curios of what he wanted. They entered and Sasuke closed the door behind them after releasing Ari's wrist.

"So what are your terms?" Ari asked. Not wanting to wait any longer.

"I already said it. You do whatever I say." He answered smirking as he leant on a wall nearest to Ari's bed.

"And that would be?..." She asked arching a brow.

"You'll have to wait and see… but right now, I just want you to be still."

"Huh? Why?"

"No asking questions." Sasuke straightened from the wall and headed to the bed, never leaving eye contact with Ari. He sat beside her and slowly started to lean in to her face. Ari's heart was beating five times faster as his face got closer and closer. Suddenly, it was like the world went still and Sasuke was the only one moving in slow motion. Her lips parted automatically, from the anticipation and because she was gasping a little for air. Then she felt a warmth on her left cheek and noticed it was due to Sasuke's hand being there.

"Just let me prove something…" He whispered with a very sexy and husky voice. After that, the distance between them was closed and their lips met. That kiss was completely chaste because it lasted just a second but somehow, Ari knew that wasn't the end and she was very right. Sasuke's body got closer almost instantly and his lips went down on hers with more force this time. Ari closed her eyes and so did Sasuke as the kiss suddenly turned into a desire to taste more of each other. Both their lips parted at the same time and their tongues collided as each tried to enter the others mouth. They started a sensual dance as their mouths moved in synchronization with the movements of their tongues. The kiss wasn't fast, but slow and intense.

It was amazing. Sasuke has never felt like this, not even when he successfully finishes a mission after almost dying or returning home after months of absence. It was like he finally found a place where he belonged, where he could forget about shinobis and vengeance. He just wanted to get lost and never leave these lips that moved with his.

Her heart hasn't stopped beating because God is powerful. Ari has never been to Heaven but this must be very close to it. Now she realized that those kisses shared with Jack were nothing compared to this one kiss. She was certain that this was Sasuke's first REAL kiss and she was more than happy to be the first girl to do it. Maybe he would remember her for that, because everyone remembers their first kiss, no matter how it was.

He pulled back slowly only to look her directly in the eyes. Lavender and Onyx met and were hypnotized in each other. Ari's hands moved slowly to cup his face while his made their way to her waist, pushing her lightly to lay on the bed. She laid down slowly, eyes never leaving his. Sasuke's body followed over hers and when her back was completely against the bed, his face slowly started to lean on hers.

"Sasuke…" She whispered as he trailed kisses down her neck.

"I never thought you would taste so good…" Sasuke whispered when he raised his head slightly to look at her again for a brief moment, then he leaned down to meet her lips once more. She willingly accepted and parted her lips to welcome him. The brunette's hands caressed his ebony hair as his own travelled down her back and traced her waist slowly, only to come back up to the edge just under her breasts, under her shirt. The kiss deepened pretty fast as their bodies heated with passion. Ari wrapped her legs around the Uchiha's waist and a slight moan escaped her lips as he cupped one of her breasts. In that moment, he froze. She looked at Sasuke, silently asking why he did so and he answered with a slow shake of his head. Sasuke sat up slowly, Ari bringing her legs back to hold them between her arms. He looked away for a few seconds and then sighed before looking back at Ari.

"Ari let's… talk." She tilted her head to the side a little and smiled.

"Alright. If that's what you want. But I'll go to the bathroom for a minute. I'm gonna change…" With that, she closed the door as she entered the bathroom, leaving a very incredulous Uchiha on her bed.

Sasuke Uchiha was wordless. He couldn't believe what just happened, specially because he was the one to start it. But also the one to end it. He suddenly became mad with himself. How could he, an Uchiha, given in to his desires so easily? This isn't him at all. He always controlled his emotions, never let them show and now, here he was. Trying to calm down because now his pants were suddenly tight and she would come out soon, it wouldn't be too good to be seen like that. But he was glad he had the power to stop it. Thanks to her moan, he realized it was going too far and he had to stop. Tomorrow they would leave this place and face reality, return to the missions, to training, to fights… to avenge. Yes, he had to avenge his clan and kill his brother. He would never let anything get in the way of accomplishing his goal.

The heir was snapped out of his thoughts when the bathroom door opened to reveal Ari in her nightgown. It was a short dress she used to sleep. It was a light lavender, almost white colored with spaghetti strips on her shoulders. One of those was down, showing the soft skin in that area. The dress reached just above mid thigh, if she leaned down, her underwear would be perfectly visible. Fuck, there we go again. Sasuke snapped himself out of those thoughts and took off his shirt to throw it on the floor. He leant against the bed frame and waited for the brunette to come and join him on the bed.

"So, what do you want to talk about?" Her voice was different somehow, more… seductive. He had to resist the urge to take her that instant.

"You. Everything about you." That's what Sasuke Uchiha said after Ari asked him what he wanted to talk about.

"Me? Why'd you wanna talk about me?" She asked amazed.

"Let's do a little game, I ask you the questions and you answer them." He said smirking.

"That's an interrogation, not a game. Why don't we play I ask, you answer and then you ask while I answer. How about it?" Now she asked smirking.

"Hn. Very well. I start. Did you liked it?" He asked smirking again. Did I liked it? What does he mean by th- Oh…

"You mean…?" He nodded. A huge blush crept on Ari's face. Her face became red like a tomato and Sasuke almost smiled. Almost.

"I-I… Well it could've been better I guess…" She answered shyly. Oh God, why did I said that? Now he's gonna think that I-

"Does that mean you'd like to repeat it?" He smirked. The bastard!

"No! And it's my turn!" What do I ask him?

"Go on." He said with his stupid stoic expression.

"Well…" She bit her lip a little, Sasuke's eyes followed the movement and she noticed.

"Would you like to kiss them again?" That made the Uchiha's eyes snap away from her lips and move to her eyes, narrowing afterwards. Then he smirked.

"What if I do, would you let me?" I blushed furiously. Ahhh! He's such a jerk!

"You can't answer a question with another one! That's not an answer!" The bastard had the nerve to start chuckling and suddenly, Ari was pinned to the header of the bed. Not with enough force to get hurt her. His head tilted to the side and he leaned in closer, his breath tickling her ear.

"I do… What are you gonna do about it?..." His voice whispered in a sensual way, making shivers go down her spine. That was something unexpected, Sasuke's not supposed to be that kind of guy that would intimidate a girl. He wouldn't even get very close to one unless it was Sakura.

Ari froze. He just said he would like to do it again. This is so awkward. Now what was she going to answer? Her mind wasn't even able to think straight with his body over hers. She could feel his warmth and his intoxicating smell, it was making her go mad.

"Just get off me, please." She pleaded, her voice a small whisper.

"Why, Ari? You like it, don't you?" After whispering, his lips brushed her cheekbone and this time, she reacted. The brunette pushed the Uchiha away with a force she didn't even knew she had and he was a little startled but retaliated fast. After that, she did something she didn't expected herself. She lunged herself on him, pinning him between the bed and herself.

Ari was now straddling him, her legs at both sides of his hips. She held his hands with hers and leaned her head towards his. Sasuke's eyes widen and for the first in some time, he froze.

"This is what I'll do…" She closed the distance and met his lips with hers while moving her hips against his, rubbing them slowly. Sasuke released himself from her grip and grabbed her neck making her stop immediately. She gasped due to the sudden loss of air.

"S-Sasuke… w-what…?" She said between gasps.

"Don't ever challenge me." And then he released her. Ari reached for her neck.

"Ow…" Sasuke smirked and reached for her hands. She looked at him quizzically and he just nodded his head. She gave him her hand slowly, watching his face for any clues on what he would do but nothing appeared on his stoic expression. He grabbed her hand and rubbed his thumb slowly over it.

"You showed some pretty good strength there." He said. Sasuke could swear he sensed some kind of chakra when she did that so he activated his Sharingan for a second to see if there was any trace of it. There was chakra running through her hand, more than the normal amount a civilian should have. He tried to look for a reason of how was that possible.

"Something wrong?" She asked. He was looking intently at her hand and it was pretty weird. Then he looked back at her and she held her breath. His eyes flashed red and then they were back to their normal onyx.

"It's nothing." She tilted her head and looked at his eyes then her neck hurt again. She was about to rub it again but a hand stopped hers. Then it reached to her neck and touched it slowly, caressing it. Then she felt a cool sensation and looked down to see a faint greenish glow.

"Sakura taught me a little. She's a medic-nin." He said as the cool sensation started to disappear on her neck and his hand retreated.

"How can you cure just like that? It's like magic." He smirked amused.

"It's chakra. It's the energy we shinobi use to fight and there are others like Sakura that use it to heal. Those are medical ninjas."

"Medics? I've always been interested in medicine and healing…It would be great to have that ability like you and Sakura do." She smiled thinking on how cool that would be. Then an idea struck her.

"Can I learn how?" She asked a little shyly. Sasuke didn't answer but rather looked at her, his gaze analyzing. Then he answered.

"Not everyone can learn. It requires great chakra control and to have that control, you first need to learn how to summon your chakra. But even I don't have the same great chakra control medical ninjas have."

"Oh… can you… teach me?" She asked, her eyes lighting up. Sasuke raised an eyebrow amused. Do I have the face of a teacher?

"Why would I do that?" He asked a little more serious than he intended it to. Her face fell.

"Yeah… you right. I have no idea of what's like to train like you do or anything about chakra…" They remained silent for a few moments until Sasuke spoke.

"You have to use hand signs to summon you chakra." He said suddenly. Ari looked at him confused.

"At least until you learn to summon it without them." Her face lit up and her eyes shone with excitement.

"Really?" He nodded once.

"But only if you learn fast." He added smirking. She jumped at him and gave him a suffocating hug.

"Ari, can't-breathe." She released him and started giggling.

"Let's start now." Her eyes widened.

"Now? But it's late-" She started to say but was interrupted.

"I think you'll be a fast learner." He didn't do it because he wanted to, he was going to teach her because he wanted to know if she was able to. He really thinks she's already able to summon her chakra without hand signs, she had done when she pushed him off her. The thing is she did it unconsciously, she has no clue that she's already able to do it.

"Alright. Do this." He showed him the hand sign to summon chakra, uniting his two hands together where his index and middle fingers were raised together. She did the same also.

"Now what?" She asked.

"Now you summon the chakra. You have to feel it and just try to grasp the feeling you get." He said quickly.

"Uhhhh….ok. Feel some energy in me and try to hold on to it." Sasuke nodded and she smiled. Then her face turned to one of concentration as she closed her eyes and breathed in deeply. Sasuke narrowed his eyes, activating the Sharingan to look at her chakra system. He has already seen it when she was in the normal state and he knew how to tell the difference. Her chakra right now was almost the same but suddenly it started to flow faster and the amount was rising slowly but steadily. She's already got it.

Then it was suddenly too fast and the amount exploded. His eyes widened as her chakra became actually visible and emanating from her body but then just as fast as she summoned it, it lowered to her normal state again. Ari opened her eyes slowly and looked at him just as he deactivated his Sharingan.

"How was I?" She asked him. He looked at her and analyzed her expression.

"You sensed it at the first try didn't you?" He asked.

"I sensed something and then I tried to grasp it like you said and I did. But then when I sensed I had it, it felt like I let it go. I guess I became excited." She said the last smiling.

"That's exactly what's known as chakra control. You can already summon it but now you need to control it."

"And how do I know how to control it?" She asked tilting her head.

"You have to hold on to the chakra but you can't grasp it too hard or it'll slip from you." She looked to the floor and held her chin analyzing what he had said.

"You just need to practice much and you should be able to control it without problem." He added afterwards.

"And what things can I do when I learn to control it?" She asked what she was wondering from the beginning.

"Lots of things. When you learn to channel the chakra to other parts of your body that is."

"That's possible?" She asked again.

"Yes."

"And what things can I do when I learn that?"

"Climb trees, walk on water, run faster, jump higher and with the great chakra control Sakura has, you could punch strong enough to send someone a good hundreds of feet away, not to mention the healing." He said with a bored tone in his voice. But the girl in front of him was excited.

"Can you do any of that now? Please?" She pleaded him doing a puppy face. He smirked and arched a brow. With that, he stood up and started walking towards the wall. He placed his foot on the wall and looked back at her. Ari's eyes were glowing with anticipation. He smirked and in less than a second, he was upside down on the ceiling. Her eyes widened and she gasped excitedly.

Just as fast as he climbed there, he went down. Ari still couldn't believe what she saw.

"Alright. I've taught you how to summon chakra so it's up to you to learn how to control it." He said as he sat on the bed.

"Thank you, Sasuke. I promise I'll train hard in controlling it." She said happily and he just smirked at her innocence. She thinks it's so easy.

"Let's go back to talking about you."

He smirked and she smiled back. Ari spoke all night about herself and her life, Sasuke listening and asking questions. Later on, she went silent and fell asleep through all the night, with the safety she felt only in Sasuke's arms.

Awwww how pretty lol Anyway, that's it for this chapter and I hope you liked it. There are only two more chapters to go for this story and then on to the sequel, which I still have to think on how I'm going to write it... So it means it wont be up as fast as I uploaded this story. Well, thanks for reading an please leave reviews! See ya!