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Chapter 11 -Masquerade Madness!
"How could she? I'm her friend! And she chose him? That grumpy, stuck up fu-"
"That is your own fault, Kiba. You did not ask her. Sasuke asked. You ask and you get. Don't ask, don't get anything."
"Shut up Shino!"
"…You shut up." Shino said in a low voice.
"What did you say to me?"
"You shut up…"
"Boys, boys, boys…don't fight. I have this all under control," Hana said with a devious smile on her face as she combed her hair and tied her masquerade mask. She was wearing a red and black dress, which was strapless. The top had a corset detail and the bottom was knee length and flared out.
Kiba and Shino were dressed in plain tuxedo's, Shino didn't have a mask on as he opted for just wearing his shades while Kiba had a plain black mask.
"What's your plan?" Kiba asked.
"Don't worry lil bro, you'll see…" Hana said, flipping her hair back, "All I'm going to tell you is, Sasuke won't be around Hinata much tonight so you better make your move…"
Hinata had just finish explain to Karin that Sasuke had asked her to the masquerade ball. She hoped Karin wouldn't take the news too badly. She looked at the girl who was wearing a tiny, cherry, tight dress that ended mid-thigh. Hinata's was more conservative, it was an off-white dress with tiny cap sleeves, a low neckline, it was fitted and flowed out from beneath her waist to reach her knees. It was accented with a black ribbon tied into a bow around the waist. She was wearing a lacy black mask.
Karin looked thoughtful instead of angry, "I get it."
"Y-you do?" Hinata asked.
"Yes! Sasuke is taking you to the dance to make me jealous! He is still trying to play hard to get."
Hinata frowned. She doubted that was why Sasuke had asked her. But then again…why did he ask her? It was strange…
But before Hinata could ponder the situation any further, there was an urgent knocking on the door and when Hinata went to answer it, Ino burst in looking stressed out. Her long blonde hair was swept up in an elegant bun with a few strands hanging loose. She was wearing a short gold dress that hugged her curves. She was holding a matching jewelled mask in her hand.
"Oh my word. You look so beautiful Hinata!" Ino gushed.
"So do you!" Hinata said, smiling.
Karin was ignored.
"Hinata, do you know if Kiba has a date for the party?"
"U-um…I thought he was going with you," Hinata said, confused, because Sakura had told her that Kiba liked Ino, and she remembered that they were dating at one point.
"No…well he didn't ask me," Ino said, looking anxious, "Wait, who are you going with, Hinata?"
"S-S-Sasuke-kun," Hinata said, feeling her face heat up.
"You lucky little devil," Ino said, winking at Hinata.
"Actually, he is going with her to make me jealous," Karin interjected. Ino turned and looked at her, raising an eyebrow, "Somehow…I doubt that."
"Oh, I'll have him in my arms by the end of the night, you'll see…" Karin said smugly.
Ino rolled her eyes and gave Hinata the 'that bitch is trippin'' look. But a shadow of doubt about Sasuke was slowly being cast over Hinata's mind.
"So…what should I do?" Ino asked, biting her bottom lip.
"Maybe he was too shy to ask you," Hinata said, giving her friend a warm smile, "Meet up with him at the party…"
Ino looked less tense as the girls made their way to the building where the party was happening.
Itachi stood against the wall, watching the people at the party interact with one another. He witnessed men openly eyeballing women's rear ends, women complimenting other women on how beautiful they looked when they clearly didn't mean it, little kids running around causing havoc and he saw one of the waiters sneeze into a platter of pastries. Itachi made a mental note not to eat anything at this party.
He looked over at the Konoha ninja; the Yamanaka girl was latched on to the Inuzuka's arm. Good, she can keep the dog boy busy and out of the way. Shikamaru and Temari were lazily swaying to the beat of the music, Kakashi was reading that book of his, Neji and Tenten were also dancing, and so were Naruto and Sakura. Choji was sitting and eating, Lee was breakdancing to a slow song while Gai and few other people were around him cheering, Shino was looking very bored, Gaara and Matsuri were sitting down and having a chat, Kankuro was busy hitting on a girl in a deep purple dress and matching mask and Asuma was massaging Kurenai's feet.
Ah, and there was his little brother, standing stiffly with Hinata by his side. Oh Sasuke, there is much you need to learn if you wish to court this lovely maiden, Itachi thought poetically. Shaking his head disdainfully, Itachi turned around and decided to have a drink when he noticed something odd.
A young woman was emptying a sachet of white powder into a glass of soda. Upon closer inspection, Itachi noticed that it was Shinji's Laxative Powder. He'd know it anywhere because he had to buy a whole carton once when Kisame was constipated.
Itachi's eyes travelled up to the girl; red mask, ivory skin, ruby red lips and luxurious brunette locks, it could only be the girl of his dreams, Hana Inuzuka. He saw her smirk, pick the glass up and head towards his brother. "Evil angel," Itachi said, narrowing his eyes, "I can't let you get away with this."
He noticed that Karin was also sashaying her way across the dancefloor, to get to Sasuke no doubt. "Not on my watch," Itachi said, performing some seals.
"ITACHI YOU BASTARD! TASTE THIS SHIT!" Hidan danced into Itachi's way.
Itachi cringed as the jutsu hit Hidan instead of himself. A dreamy expression came over Hidan's face and then he returned to normal. "So, want some?"
"No." Itachi said, interested to see how this night would play out.
Sasuke felt a weird sensation come over his body and then quickly disappear. He frowned and then glanced at Hinata out of the corner of his eye; she was looking amazing, she was looking…dare he think it…gorgeous. She was smiling as she watched Lee crumping on the dancefloor. Sasuke felt his throat constrict and his palms get sweaty, what was this feeling? He wanted to touch her silky hair, run his fingers through it, he wanted to hold her hand and kiss her rosy lips. He shook his head, time to stop acting like a noob. I'm the most bad-ass guy here. He wanted to tell her something that would blow her away, make her swoon or jump into his arms. I am Sasuke Uchiha, the ladies love me.
"Hinata," Sasuke said, his voice coming out husky.
She turned to him with a slight blush on her face.
Dammit I am good, Sasuke thought, smirking at her.
She smiled back and that was when his mind went blank.
"Um…oh," he started. What was I going to say? Just one smile and I lose my mind? This is troublesome…uh oh, now I sound like Shikamaru.
"So… your dress…it um, fits you well."
"Thank you," Hinata said softly, "You look-"
"Hinata!" Suigetsu suddenly appeared, grasping her hand in his. Sasuke got pushed aside roughly. He was about to give Suigetsu a piece of his mind but he saw two women approaching him from opposite directions. One was Kiba's sister and the other, the bane of his existence, Karin.
"S-S-Suigetsu, was it?"
"You remembered me! But Hinata – your dress!"
"W-What's wrong with it?"
"It looks like someone spilled gorgeous all over it!"
Hinata laughed while Sasuke rolled his eyes and then remembered that he was supposed to be thinking of an escape route. Both women stopped on either side of him, with glazed looks on their faces. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "What?"
"I could have sworn…oh nevermind," Hana said, turning away.
Karin blinked a couple of times at him, frowned, and then left without a word, dragging Suigetsu and Jugo along.
Sasuke was left alone with Hinata again, feeling unsure of what to do. He tried to catch Naruto's eye but the fool was chatting Sakura's ear off. Naruto must have felt Sasuke's deadly glare on him because he looked Sasuke's way and gave him a big grin.
Sasuke cocked his head towards Hinata and hoped that Naruto caught his drift. Naruto nodded and then held out his arm and in a slow motion demonstration for Sasuke, he put it around Sakura's waist. Sasuke watched as Sakura giggled and kissed Naruto on the cheek.
Hmm, it's worth a shot, Sasuke thought, preparing to put his hand around Hinata's waist.
At that moment that he decided to do that, Hinata dropped her serviette and bent slightly to pick it up. To Sasuke's horror, he found that he had placed his hand on her bottom. Sasuke felt his face heat up and quickly removed his hand. Hinata straightened up with her face a fiery shade of red. Naruto was laughing his head off and he gave Sasuke a thumbs up.
Sasuke took a deep breath, "Sorry about that…wasn't my intention."
"It's okay," Hinata whispered.
The DJ began to play a slow, romantic tune and many couples made their way onto the dancefloor. He noticed Hinata looking wistfully at the couples. Sasuke cleared his throat, "Would you like to dance?"
"O-okay," Hinata said, with a small, unsure smile.
Sasuke took her hand and led her on to the dancefloor, deciding to mimic how Naruto was dancing with Sakura – but with more distance because Naruto and Sakura were practically making out on the dancefloor.
Sasuke's attention wandered to Asuma who attempting to dance with Kurenai in her pregnant condition.
Sasuke suddenly found himself imagining Hinata pregnant. She noticed that he was staring at her stomach with a weird look on his face and Sasuke mentally chidori'd himself for his errant thoughts.
"Are you hungry?" he asked harshly.
"Turn that shit off and play some real music!" Hidan roared, holding his drink up and stumbling.
"You're an embarrassment to the Akatsuki," Kakuzu commented.
"Oh yeah? Well you're a tight-ass money-whore!" Hidan slurred in Kakuzu's face.
"Ugh," Kakuzu said moving away from him.
Hidan was standing there, headbanging to his own tune when he was approached by a rather hot woman carrying a drink. "Sasuke, drink?"
Huh, did she just call me Itachi's kid brother's name? Nah, must be imagining it!
"Thanks!" Hidan grinned, taking the drink and downing it. He didn't notice the satisfied smirk on Hana's face as she turned and walked away. No sooner had she left, did Karin arrive. She was smiling flirtatiously at Hidan. Fuck yeah! I'm popular with the chicks tonight.
Hidan winked at her. Karin squealed and grabbed his arm.
"Whoo, a feisty one, I like that."
"Oh Sasuke, I knew it! I knew you liked me!"
The heck? She just call me Sasuke too? What the fuck? Oh well, either I'm damn drunk or they are just as fucking wasted. I'll use it to my advantage and get some action, hahahahaha! Hidan thought deviously.
"How could I not like you? You're damn sexy!"
Karin had a lovestruck look in her eyes and Hidan felt proud of himself. Suddenly his stomach clenched and a great pain overwhelmed him. He heard his tummy grumble loudly.
"Dammit!" he clutched his stomach and ran quickly for the men's bathroom.
Unbeknownst to him, Karin followed closely behind and also ducked into the men's bathroom which thankfully, was empty. She sat in the stall next to Hidan's and looked down at the space between the separator of the two stalls. She giggled as she saw his pants as well as his Jashin spankies around his ankles.
"Sasuke…your underwear is so sexy…you're so sexy…oh my God you're sexy and you're hot!" Karin was saying just as Hidan dropped a motherload and grunted and cursed in pain.
"Everything about you is just so amazing, your shit even smells like roses!" Karin continued, oblivious to the noisy farts and plops going on in the stall next to her, "I love you Sasuke! I want to have your babies!"
Hidan finally finished his business and Karin came out of the stall and smiled adoringly at him.
"My babies huh? What say we go to my room and start practising?"
"Oh yes!" Karin said breathlessly.
As soon as they got to the room, Karin pushed him on to the bed and started kissing him roughly.
"Whoohoo! Score! Thank you Jashin-sama!" Hidan yelled as his clothes were practically being torn off him.
"I'm going to ravage you," Karin told him.
"Oh fuck yeah!"
Hidan was down to his spankies, but as Karin was about to reach for them, Hidan grabbed her hands, looked deeply into her eyes and whispered, "Hold on, no one but me touches the J-spanks. I'll take them off myself!"
Just as he was about to remove them, his stomach contracted painfully. "Motherfffffuuuu-!"
He jumped off the bed and made a run for the bathroom, "The J-spanks must not be stained! Don't go anywhere, I'll be back!"
Karin sighed contentedly, giggled, removed her dress and then posed sexily on the bed waiting for him to return.
Itachi was ecstatic that his genjutsu to trick Hana and Karin into believing Sasuke was Hidan and Hidan was Sasuke was a major success. Now Hidan was off somewhere having major diarrhoea, with Karin on his tail, and away from Sasuke and Hinata for the evening.
By the looks of things, his brother seemed to be doing fine so there was no cause for concern…yet.
"You seem so familiar," said a voice, jerking him out of his thoughts.
"So do you," Itachi said to Hana.
"Have we ever met?" she asked.
Itachi was glad his mask covered half his face, otherwise she surely would have known who he was.
"Perhaps. Would you like to dance?"
"I'd love to."
They went off to the dancefloor and she wrapped her arms around his neck while he held her waist.
"Your eyes, I know them," Hana said.
"Oh?"
"And your voice…that mouth…it's all very familiar to me."
"Hmm," Itachi said, prepared with another genjutsu just in case Hana recognised him, "You're a beautiful girl."
He smirked at the soft blush that appeared on her cheeks.
"Hehe, thank you. From what I can see, you're really handsome."
He stared deeply into her eyes and then something unexpected happened – she leaned up and kissed him tenderly on his lips. This surprised the normally unfazed Uchiha and threw him off balance so that the genjutsu he cast on her, Karin, Hidan and Sasuke was broken.
Hidan returned and he and Karin were continuing their furious make-out session. "Sasuke, you are the man of my – huh?" Karin looked at Hidan in front of her, "Who the hell are you?" She quickly grabbed her dress from the side of the bed and covered herself.
Hidan looked pissed off, "Bitch, you've been kissing me and wanting my ass for the past hour."
"You're not Sasuke! Where's my Sasuke?" Karin screamed, putting her dress back on hurriedly.
"It's been me all along," Hidan said tiredly, the sake effects wearing off.
"How could you!" Karin yelled, "You took advantage of me!"
"You came on to me!"
Karin pointed to the underwear that Hidan luckily still had on, "And those…those aren't Sasuke's undies?"
"Um no, they're custom made for me."
"So the ones I took off the line on the ship-"
"You fucking took those! Give them back you bitch!"
"Ugh, oh believe me I will. Gross!"
"Not gross when you were fucking sticking your tongue down my throat…"
"Gah!" Karin screamed and stormed off.
Sasuke found that he was actually having a great time with Hinata after all his little mishaps. He was actually smiling a little and she seemed to be comfortable in his presence, talking with a minimal amount of stuttering. He could actually have an intelligent conversation with her and that surprised him greatly and if it was even possible – he started to like her even more. Even the dog-boy asking her to dance multiple times and giving him dirty looks couldn't ruin his night now.
"Heeeeey Sasu-kaaaay!" Naruto called, coming over to their table, "Kakashi-sensei let me have sake! Lots of it!" His blue eyes were shining more brightly than usual.
"Great," Sasuke said sarcastically.
"Naruto-kun! Sakura-chan!" Hinata greeted.
"Hinata!" Naruto yelled, he pointed to Sasuke, "Isn't it great that Sasuke isn't gay anymore! He likes y-"
Sakura quickly covered his mouth and laughed uncomfortably, then punched his shoulder. Sasuke nearly choke on his food. Hinata looked confused and she turned to Sasuke.
"I'm not and I never was nor will I ever be…gay."
Hinata giggled softly and Sasuke felt a blush creep up his neck. He felt an overwhelming urge to kiss her. Hinata was now looking at him curiously, as if trying to figure something out and Sasuke found himself leaning in towards her with his heart pounding madly.
At that moment, Karin burst through the doors of the hall, screaming at Hidan who was right behind her. Hinata turned her head towards the commotion and Sasuke's heart, adrenalin and guts plummeted rapidly.
"I only want Sasuke, not you!" Karin yelled.
Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit! Sasuke cursed, wanting to hide under the table.
"I don't want you either! I just want my fucking underwear back!"
There was a sea of sniggers around the hall. Sasuke just wanted to punch the crap out of the silver –haired guy and Karin, well, it was the second time he felt like running a chidori through her heart.
Will Sasuke ever get to kiss the girl?
Will Karin ever give up?
Next chapter: Going in for the kill
Please Review!
Sorry this took so long... I apologise again if it isn't good. I hardly have time for writing fanfics anymore but I will keep updating my stories, though updates may be really slow...
But ! I have compiled this list of fanfics that you HAVE TO read...it would be a crime if you missed out on them...so here is my FanFiction Hotlist!
Fairy Tale ,WHO DID IT? And The Legacy of Itachi Uchiha by Inuyonas
Naruto: Ninja Burger Chronicles and The Shinobi Guide series by Kaori
The Mating Frenzy by MSkyDragons
My Unlucky Numbers by ryomaeijiarehot
It's For A Good Cause, I Swear by Sarah1281
Baby Geniuses by Amaranteotaku and Inuyonas
Crime Pays In Unexpected Ways and Hospital Grade Service by Amaranteotaku
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