A/N; I feel kinda bad, I have nuttin' to say... Oh well!
Disclaimer: All credit goes to Masashi Kishimoto and Kate Brian.
Warning: OOC Brothers and Kakashi. Slight Drama; if that's what you would call it?
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.*.*.Sakura's Guide to the Hatake Boys.*.*.
Sakura ducked as Ino continuously threw things at the wall, letting out her hurt and anger on inanimate objects.
`Hell Hath no Fury like a woman scorned...'
`Mmhm."
"Can you believe the nerve of that jerk? I gave him everything!!! And what does he do, throw it away like yesterdays trash!" The blonde shouted, tears replaced with nothing but fury, she threw another chair at the wall, not caring about how she might have to pay for damages. Sakura just watched silently while relaxing in the hot spring. The other guests who were in there before them had up and left when her blonde friend started sobbing uncontrollably then changing her mood so fast from sadness to anger. She was more worse than a mood-swinging pregnant person.
"Ino. . ." Sakura trailed off, choosing her words carefully so as not to set her temper-mental friend off. "Just calm down a little, do you want to talk about it?" she asked, sighing slowly as she watched the girl calm herself and walk over to the water. Ino dangled her feet over the edge as she sat down, placing her feet in the warm water. Suddenly her day didn't seem so great anymore.
Ino sniffed a little but no tears had dropped. She let out a deep breath. "Do you really think it was just a kiss?"
Sakura stared, she didn't know how to answer that. "It depends on what you think it was. Until now did Shikamaru ever lie to you?"
Ino laughed, lying was the last thing Shikamaru ever did. Sure he was lazy and a know-it-all, he was a lot of things actually. But a liar wasn't one of them. Ino took in a deep breath and slowly let it out, still managing to keep the tears that so desperately wanted out to stay in. She shook her head. "No. . . up until now, Shikamaru has never lied to me," she wiped a few tears that managed to escape and spoke again. "B-But i-it's st-ill so hard to get t-the image of him k-k-kissing that tramp out of my head!" Sakura watched as the tears freely came flowing down her friends face.
`She should have known better than to think of him kissing that girl, it's only going to make things harder.'
`Let's just let her cry for now, Hinata text me a few minutes ago and said they would be here soon.'
`Do you think we should tell them what happened before they get here.'
`It's. . . not our business to tell, although I would so love to kick that lazy-bums' butt all the way to Suna!'
`Hey, isn't that where Temari's from?'
`Is it?'
`???... *shrug*.'
"Ino, Anko and the others will be here soon, do you want me to explain to them what happ.... Ino?" Sakura looked around as she noticed her friend was nowhere to be found. She glanced around nervously.
`Oh. Snap! How long has she been gone?!'
`Pfft, like I would know. Do you think she went to go kill Shikamaru.'
`Oh lord, I hope not!'
`Like the Royals say. Outer, we are royally screwed.'
`Ah, crap. . . Does Royalty really say that?'
`Hm, don't know. Now let's go find that hormonal blonde before she goes to jail for manslaughter, although I bet she could get off for a plead of insanity.'
`Uh, not helping.'
"Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!" Shikamaru said over and over again. His elbows leaning on his knees, fingers together head down. This was so not good, he had to think of something, anything to get his girl back. He paused as a thought ran through his head. But went back to his mantra and started bouncing his knee up and down as he realized that one idea was completely stupid, so much for being a genius. He had went to the ladies dressing room to see if Ino would talk to him, but found out the she and Sakura, had went into the ladies bath.
His mom had asked what was wrong, but he didn't want to be screamed at by Tenten and Hinata, for fear of deadly weapons and silent-scary chicks. "Gawd, I'm such an idiot," he dug his palms over his eyes, they were starting to sting for some odd reason... "CRAP!" he shouted throwing a magazine rack at the door. Naruto and Itachi quickly ducked the oncoming steel and stared as their brother wracked his brain for one of his clever ideas.
"Yo, Shik, calm down, throwing inanimate objects isn't gonna help. And also because, YOU ALMOST KILLED ME YA FRUIT-CAKE!!!" Naruto shouted, sure not his best remark, but he was still in shock. Metal and brain do not mix.
Itachi scowled and bonked his brother on the head. "Shut up you moron!" he hissed, yanking the blonde by the arm and pushing him into the seat across from Shikamaru. "Tell him what you just heard," he barked, glaring at his idiotic brother. He shut the door only to have it slammed back open and hit the wall, the three jolted and looked to the doorway to see a very ticked off Sakura, foot in mid-air from where she literally kicked the door.
"HOLY!!!" Naruto exclaimed looking at the huge gaping hole in the wall from where the door had hit, and then down at himself, he blushed a scarlet red and bashfully covered himself as much as he could. The small towel was not doing him any justice. "Well, this is awkward..." he trailed off, he knew talking to Itachi was a bad idea, he should have just kept his mouth shut.
They all flinched as she growled loudly and said. "YOU! You sorry excuse for a man, I 'oughta rip your head off your neck! Do you have any idea of what you've done?" Shikamaru stared shocked as he noticed how close she was to placing her outstretched palms to his neck. He gulped a little, slightly disturbed for being scared of a girl. Of course, this was the girl who threw Naruto across the yard.
"Oh my god, we're so dead -I mean your so dead, dude, your so so dead." Naruto muttered. In a (short) towel and scared out of his mind, he was doing everything in his power to sneak away from all this crazy-ness.
"Let's go Naruto, seems Miss. Haruno would like to speak to our cheating brother alone," Itachi remarked, not wanting to wait another minute and be caught by the girls wrath. Shikamaru'seyes bugged out, they were just gonna leave him in the clutches of his -ex?- girlfriends friend, insane friend might I add. "I did not cheat! No form or way did physically sleep with her, it was just a kiss! Nothing more, nothing less, so back off! It's bad enough my girlfriend hates me." Itachi paused his steps and sighed, sitting back down, he was going to have a long talk with his brother after this. He also wanted Naruto to spill what he had told him earlier about what the male blonde had heard the other day, they were just going to have to wait though.
"Well duh, you moron, is there any reason not to, and what the heck were you doing behind the bleachers anyway?!" she asked, still ready to strangle him if need be.
"There's a door that leads to the roof, he goes there to watch the clouds during lunch and free period," said a voice. "The door is behind the bleachers because nobody ever goes there, but Shikamaru found it by accident freshmen year." all heads turned to Sasuke, who was leaning against the doorway. "By the way, I just saw Ino, Kiba and Gaara they are doing their best to calm her down, she wants to talk to you Sakura." he deadpanned, feeling no remorse whatsoever for his brother.
Sakura blinked and nodded. Walking over to the door to go help her friend, she swiftly snapped her head back and Shikamaru's direction and glared. She opened her mouth to cuss him out, but thought better of it and said something else. "Do you want me to see if she'll talk to you?" she asked, hoping this was a good idea, she didn't want her friend to be hurt anymore than she already was. She knew Ino still loved Shikamaru, but he made a mistake, so he says, and she was gonna help anyway she could. "Well?" she said, getting fed up with his shocked idiotic stare.
He snapped out of his daze and nodded his head quickly, of course he wanted to talk to her, he needed to make things right. She nodded her head and gave a curt goodbye, closing the door with a soft click. She wondered how Gaara and Kiba were holding up with calming Ino down? Not good as she saw the blonde have Kiba and Gaara's necks in death grips, sobbing into their shoulders she kept saying how much she hated Shikamaru.
She watched bemusedly as Gaara'a eyes darted everywhere and anywhere, she could tell that he was completely uncomfortable. She giggled at Kiba's look of terror, his arms were wide open, not giving her blonde friend the okay to hug him, but he was in a really awkward situation and his arms were open 'cause he didn't know what to do with them.
Their eyes screamed "help" at her. She wanted to watch a little bit longer, but she decided that they suffered long enough, and walked over to help them. "Hey, Ino, Sasuke said you wanted to talk to me, you can let go of Kiba and Gaara now," she whispered, trying to sooth her friend as much as possible. Today was just supposed to be all about relaxing, now look at it. Nothin' but drama. Ino sniffed and nodded and unintentionally wiped her runny nose on Gaara's favorite shirt. He cringed in disgust and pushed her away by her shoulders. Being as gental as he possibly could, he pushed her towards Sakura.
Kiba snorted as he saw the long trail of Ino's depression run down his brothers shoulder. Said person glared and stalked off to the bathroom, making sure to keep his arm away at a safe distance. Kiba rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly and said he was gonna go check on the others then left.
Ino sniffed loudly. "Sorry I just ditched you like that, I was just upset you know? What am I gonna do? I've been living this fairytale of getting married to the first person I fall in love with," she said, leaning her back against the wall and staring at the ceiling. "I was planning my future around him, I'm so naive." she scoffed and rubbed her hand across her face, finally wiping the last bit of her tears away, hoping that was the last of them.
Sakura sighed, thinking on whether or not to tell her about Shikamaru wanting to talk to her. "Ino," she said slightly. The blonde looked up and raised a brow, questionably. "Hewants to talk to you. Even though it's hard to believe right now. He does love you, I got a little explanation, not the whole story, but he was behind the bleachers because he was going to th-"
"The roof," Ino said, breaking into Sakura's sentence. "You know, that was where he asked me to be his girlfriend. He said I was the first person -other than his brothers- that he allowed up there. Not a lot of people know about that place you know. It just hurts, just thinking about her kissing him, makes me sick to my guts..." she trailed off, gasping as she started crying again.
"Ino... do you want to talk to Shikamaru. You don't have to. He just wants to talk, see where he stands, I guess," she said. She laughed thinking of something. "You know, he's probably racking his brain for ways to talk to you." Ino laughed also, knowing it was true. She smiled grimly. "Do you think I'll be able to get passed this, I mean, I know it's gonna take some time, do you think I'll be able to forgive him?"
"Mmm, that's all up to you. Do you think you'll be able to forgive?"
Ino glared playfully. "Forehead, don't answer questions with another question, I get all confused and what-not." she said smiling a little.
"Kiba said the same thing, but it gets to the point. Forgiving him is all on you. Although, it's pretty obvious you still love that pineapple headed jerk."
Ino nodded thoughtfully, it was true, there was no point in denying it, she did love him, very much so. She was with him for a long time, longer than most high school relationships. "I guess. . . it all depends on what he says, and how sincere he is. I want to get passed this. . . but I'm not ready to talk to him, let me get through the day. It's just too soon."
"There you guys are! We've been looking everywhere for you, c'mon, we get out massages in a few minutes!" Tenten said, stepping into the little hall. As she got closer she was startled to see Ino's eyes all red and puffy. "Ino, are you okay? You look like you've been crying, what happened?" she asked, concern etched all over her face. Hinata had concern for her friend too, she text Sakura and said they would meet them in the baths, but when they got there the whole place was trashed, but there was no sign of the blonde or the pinkette.
Ino smiled reassuringly and waved her hand, as if to blow the question off. "I'm fine, I-I was so into my bath earlier I started crying?" she was asking herself more wondering if that was a good lie or not. It wasn't, but Tenten and Hinata ignored it and grabbed their hands to lead them to the room where they were to get pampered. As they were walking, she sent Gaara a text telling him to tell Shikamaru that Ino said later.
"Hey, Shikamaru, this is for you," Gaara said, throwing his phone to his brother. He didn't know whether what the message said was a good thing or a bad thing. Shikamaru caught the thrown phone and looked at the text anxiously, but frowned as he read what it said. He sighed depressingly and placed the phone beside his thigh. "She really hates me," he said dejectedly.
"It takes two to tango," Naruto muttered. Itachi threw a bottle of lotion at the blonde. "Ow! Hey, what did I do, why am I being hit here, he's the one that macked on someone that was not his girlfriend."
"Dangit! She kissed me, I did not kiss back, and it only lasted ten seconds, it took a while for the shock to wear off. It was unexpected! Troublesome, I should have just stayed home." Shikamru murmured.
"It's better she found out now then from somebody else. What if `that' girl were to rub it in her face one day? It would have been a whole lot worse than it is now," Neji said crossing his arms and looking towards his brother.
Shikamaru sighed and nodded placing his face in his hands and trying to think of what to do next. He could talk to his mom, but she'd be upset with him. Of course she'd probably be the only one with good advice. Sakura can barely stand to look at him, and he doubted Hinata and Tenten would want anything to do with him. And his brothers would be no help at all. So, it was just his mom then. "I think I'm gonna go talk to mom," he said.
Sasuke shook his head and stood straight. "You can't, she's with the girls, let me go get her..." he said starting to walk off, but stopped as he heard footsteps behind him. "What do you think your doing Itachi?"
Said person cocked his brow and sighed. "Whenever you go near Sakura, I'm supposed to be there," he stated. Sasuke growled, clenching his teeth and stalking out of the door. Itachi smirked and followed along silently.
"Is Anko asleep?" Hinata asked, turning her head a bit to see that the boys' mom was in fact asleep. She sweat dropped as she saw some drool come out of the older woman's mouth.
"That's good," Sakura said, trying to get comfortable on the massage table, it was kinda hard being on your stomach for so long.
Tenten lifted her head a bit to question Sakura. "Why is Anko's being asleep good?"
"I needed to talk to guys about something," she said, sighing as her masseuse rubbed a spot on her back. "Something that happened between me and Sasuke a few days ago,"
That caught their attention. "What happened? Did he do something mean?" Ino asked, cracking her knuckles.
"The exact opposite, he..... he kissed me," Sakura mumbled, hiding her face in her folded arms from embarrassment. They all had shocked faces, eyes wide and mouths open wide. "You look like gold fishes..." she trailed off, giggling at her surprise filled friends.
"OMG Sakura! Why didn't you tell us this yesterday?!" Ino exclaimed finally coming out of her daze. Sakura sighed and answered awkwardly. "I kinda forgot,"
They blinked a couple times then.... "WHAT? YOU FORGOT?!" They all shouted in unison, thankfully Anko was a heavy sleeper. Sakura just shrugged and nodded.
Hinata rolled her eyes. "Well, how was it, what happened after?" she asked, interested in hearing the stoic-ice-cube Sasuke kissing Sakura, or anyone for that matter.
"Well, he pushed me up against a wall. But our happy moment didn't get to last, his mom and dad caught and forbid us from ever making any type of romantic contact whatsoever, it had to be a sibling relationship only. I mean that might have been easier if they had told me that before I even walked through the door. And they even made Itachi watch us like a hawk. He has to be in the room with Sasuke and I at all times. It's just so weird now, and he blew it off like it was nothing, we haven't had a decent conversation since. I can barely tell what's goin' through his head so it's totally awkward!" she slumped against the table and exhaled deeply. Talking about Sasuke was just giving her headache
Ino thought for a minute, glad that her mind was off her problems, and spoke up. "Has he tried talking to you? Or um, tried to get all touchy-feely again?" she asked. Sakura shook her head and stared at the wall, that's what hurt the most, he hadn't even tried to do anything.
`This is why people shouldn't fall for emotionally inept people, they only get hurt in the end!'
`Please, your the one who keeps telling me to molest Sasuke, what's with the I-told-you-so act?'
`It's not an act, since it's been a few days since the kiss, I have every right to move on to the next available contestant! CHA!'
`And who might that be?'
`The hotty that's rubbing our back, those hands are magic. Pure heaven! ...sigh...mmm, tell him to move to the left a little more.'
`What? No- "Can you move to the left a little.... yeah there, oh, that feels awesome,"
`See, now I'm happy.'
`Whateve'
"Maybe you should talk to Sasuke," Hinata suggested.
Ino gasped. "Hinata, a woman does not do such things in this type of situation. Sasuke should grow some-how can I say this decently?-um, crap, oh you know! He should fess up to Sakura, not the other way around. Just like Naruto should break up with Slutty-McSlut-Slut!" Tenten snorted after Ino's declaration, while Hinata spluttered.
"Ino, Naruto doesn't like me like that!" she said, although it pained her to say it.
Ino scoffed and said. "Please, I saw how jealous he was in the van when you were talking to Kiba. He looked ready to kill, even if it was his own brother!" she stated, she was trying to make a point, and Hinata's denial was not helping.
Hinata shook her head. "He does not like me. What's so good about me anyway? I'm nothing like Karin, where she's outgoing. I'm nervous and shy," she said dejectedly.
"No, she's evil, your a sweet angle," Tenten corrected. "He likes you, he just needs a push in the right direction." she said.
"We're not going to get involved alright, this is for Naruto and Hinata to decide. He'll break up with Karin when he knows how he feels. We are not goin' to get in the middle of it!" Sakura exclaimed, making sure Ino and Tenten understood.
"Whatever, I say we put pictures of Hinata everywhere, he'll fall in love with her 'cause he can't get her out of his mind! He'll think it's just his imagination, he's an idiot, he'll fall for it!" Ino stated cackling at her brilliant idea.
"I still don't understand why your following me, I thought those rules aplied when we were alone," Sasuke said, glaring at his older brother.
Itachi rolled his eyes, Sasuke had been complaining about the same thing since they left the others. "Sasuke, stop being annoying and shut up, your giving me a headache. Sasuke scoffed, he wasn't annoying. . . just unusually talkative.
"Look, I know your upset about not being able to make out with Sakura, but please refrain from bugging me about it. It was your fault that you got caught in the first place," Itachi stated, ignoring his younger brothers whines.
"It was her fault!" Sasuke snapped indignantly. Itachi looked at him incredulously. "What? It was, I was seduced I tell you!" he shouted.
"Yeah, and I'm in love with my guitar," Itachi said sarcastically, the image of shy-break-your-neck Sakura, seducing Sasuke was just too funny. "Don't give me that Sasuke, your more likely to seduce her than she to you,"
"Your the one that claims I'm asexual!" Sasuke exclaimed angrily. Sure he was telling a lie, but he had a rep to uphold.
"Touche," Itachi muttered.
"You think we should wake him?" Naruto asked Neji. They were all getting massages, and Gaara had fallen asleep. They've been keeping an eye on him since he started mumbling.
Shikamaru sighed a little and said. "Let him sleep for a few more minutes, this is probably the first good rest he's had in years. He needs it no matter what he says," Kiba nodded and added. "Yeah, besides, maybe he'll be less evil when I start snoring and when akamaru starts barking in his sleep, when we go to sleep tonight. . . my dog can only take so much abuse..." he trailed off, reaching down to pat his pups head. Shikamaru rolled his eyes.
"I wonder what those dreams are about? What could make someone so scared that they would literally not go to sleep," Neji asked, more to himself than anything.
They stared at Gaara for a few minutes before Naruto said something. "He has dreams about us being murdered," all heads turned in the blondes general direction.
Kiba stared wide eyed. "He told you this? I'm his twin and he never told me, why would he tell you?!" he snapped.
Naruto glared. "Because, I don't make fun of him every single second of the day Kiba. He's our brother, not some freak who's afraid of a little nightmare!" He shot back, glaring harder than anyone has ever seen him before.
Neji sighed, of 'course Naruto would know about something of Gaara. He was the only one the redhead would ever come up to, other than their mom or dad of 'course. "No wonder, he stuck to you like glue all those years ago,"
Naruto nodded, understanding what Neji was saying. "We don't hang out as much anymore 'cause we have our own cliques, but..." the blonde trailed off of his sentence noticing hard aqua eyes glaring. "Gaara!" their heads turned to the redhead who had woken up, and heard the majority of the conversation.
Gaara only glared harder and got up making the woman that was massaging him gasp in surprise. As soon as he got off the table, he was walking out the door making sure to slam it on his way. They winced from the loud bang it had made. Kiba looked at his brothers. "Where do you think he's goin'?" he asked.
Neji shrugged and answered. "Where else would he go? He probably went to go and talk to dad or something," Shikamaru nodded along with that assumption.
Naruto sighed and muttered a few words under his breath. "Since when did things get so complicated around here?" he asked. They all shrugged back as a reply.
"Oh, yeah, right there... a little deeper, ahhh, yeah..." Sasuke and Itachi stared at the door in shock, was that... Ino they just heard moaning? The looked at each other, wondering if it would be a smart idea to go in there. "A l-little harder," their eyes widened as they heard Hinata also. What the heck was goin' on in there?!
All of a sudden a horrible thought popped into Sasuke's head, making chibi-Sasuke flail around like an idiot. Sakura was in there also, and if Hinata and Ino were acting like that, then that must mean the same thing was happening to Sakura! Chibi-Sasuke's panic was in overdrive, flashing lights of `Kill, kill, kill,' were goin' off in his head, and his jealousy was roaring to life.
Itachi noticed the dark cloud looming over Sasuke's head and sighed wondering what crazy thoughts were goin' through his little brothers head now. "Calm down Sasuke, that's just them enjoying the massage.... I think?" he added as an after thought.
Sasuke glared, his brother Was. Not. Helping. "Shut up," he grumbled irritably.
Itachi rolled his eyes. "Do you think we should go in now?" he asked.
Sasuke thought for a moment. "What if moms naked. . ." he trailed off, a noticable shudder took over his body. They both cringed in disgust at the thought. Sasuke backed up a bit and nudged his older brother forward. "You go first Aniki," he said, a fake smile plastered on his face.
Itachi growled and grabbed his brothers shoulder, turning the door knob and pushing his surprised little brother inside without so much as a blink. He smirked, but watched in horror as his little brother bumped into a table and knocked it over and taking the girl that was on it down with him. At the same time Gaara walked up and saw a shocked Itachi staring into a doorway, he peeked his head in, his eyes goin' wide also.
Sakura stared into dark eyes as she was pinned to the ground in nothing but a bikini, by none other than Sasuke himself. One minute she was about to get her feet thoroughly massaged and the next she saw Sasuke bein' pushed into the doorway, ramming into her table and tipping them both over in the process. now she was being squished by Sasuke who in turn was bein' squished by the blasted table. With, his mouth firmly plastered on to hers... what a day.
`Look on the bright side, at least we got to kiss him! TWICE, take that you slutty fan-girls!!! SHANNARO!'
`. . . Please stop talking.' Sakura thought nervously, making sure to block out her inners squeals of happiness and bliss. She waited patiently as he tried to maneuver their heads away from each other, for they were quickly loosing oxygen. She gasped for much needed air as he managed to move his head away.
Sasuke's head was next to Sakura's, his left eye twitched as he thought of ways to brutally decapitate his brother. Of 'course, kissing Sakura -again- wasn't so bad, but he still wanted to kill his brother -and possibly thank him after he's done cutting off the elders hands-. Chibi-Sasuke was urging him to kiss the pinkette again, but his ego was already shattered enough. Looking back to when he rammed into the table, he could remember his form flailing around like a fish out of water.
`We got to kiss S-a-s-u-k-e, we got to kiss S-a-s-u-k-e, we got to kiss S-a-`Shut up already!!!'Sakura shouted mentally at her inner, who kept singing `she got to kiss Sasuke'.
`I need a break,'
A/N; Wow, haha, that was shocking. I hoped you liked it, it just suddenly came to me, *sigh*! Please tell me what you think! Review please! They are the life that feeds my brain and tired hands!
I wonder what will happen next? Hmmm? Oh well, guess you'll find out next chapter. Once again, please review!
Thanks!!!