"Kushina..." he tried. He looked annoyed. He has been at this for a long time.

"Wake up!" He finally yelled.

The way she slowly sat up and gave him a certain look sent shivers down his spine.

"Interrupt my sleep and I'll interrupt your breathing."

He backed away from the room, fearing the end of his life, and shook his head as Naruto looked quizzical.

"Let's go man."

"Without her?" He didn't think that was a good idea; she could sleep in. But Naruto wouldn't wait. Totally sucks at patience.

Sasuke took his seat at math class, and released a sigh of relief as he watched her walk in. She wore her hair in a loose braid, which reached her knees, ignoring the stares that were directed her way. She put her hair on a side and sat down.

"I can't believe you! Going to a wedding without me.."

"It wasn't that interesting, Ino, so chill."

"Chill? Chill! I'm 'chill' enough you hippie!"

"..."

"Don't you dare ignore me!"

"I'm not..."

"Then what was that back there eh?!"

"...silence."

"...you're testing my patience,Kushina."

"How about we go shopping?" She tried changing the subject.

"REALLY! YAYYYYYYY!"

The teacher cleared his throat. "Will you please stop yelling Miss Yamanaka?"

She was silenced begrudgingly for the meantime. Kushina could only be grateful for it, seeing as she had promised the blonde a shopping spree. This is not going to end well.
-

They both stood in front of the pin-up board at lunchtime. He scanned the many coloured sheets.

"Guess who's captain of the taijutsu club!" He said with a smug look.

"Guess who doesn't care!"

"Oh look, I'm also co-captain of the football team."

"Oh look who still doesn't care!"

"Hn. You should go for cheerleading." She raised an eyebrow.

"Go Sasuke-kun! You're the best!" He said in a high voice, moving his hands around like a cheerleader.

"Idiot!" Kushina laughed. He decided he wanted to make her laugh all the time.

"Oh, wow..."

"What?"

"I made the fencing team..."

"Isn't that a good thing?"

"I'm the only one."

He looked at the green sheet and saw her name only.

"Did anyone else try out?"

"The room was packed when I arrived that day. No way was I the best."

"Don't be so hard on yourself. At least you got in."

Her eyes lit up. "I'm totally going to be the next Zorro."

Just then, she was grabbed from behind by a tall boy, who she elbowed rather roughly in the gut and flipped him over her shoulder. Sasuke stared at her in awe.

"Seriously Kushina!" The boy groaned.

"Are you mad sneaking up on me like that! Be glad I didn't do anything worse Suigetsu."

"You should join the taijutsu club." Sasuke remarked.

"Fat chance Uchiha!"

"I was actually going to congratulate you for joining. I'm the captain of the fencing club."

"Oh..so why am I the only one who got in?"

"The others didn't have your potential. Plus most of them watched too much Zorro, if you know what I mean."

Oh shit. Her expression came out a bit awkward.

"Please don't tell me you were thinking about that too."

"Don't judge me!"

"Fine! Yeesh! Practices are after school, Tuesdays and Thursdays. If you have anything planned, cancel them immediately. I'm not going to treat you any better from the rest, so be serious about it."

"Yes mother. Should I give you a foot massage too?"

He shot her a smile and waved as he walked away.

"Don't be late tomorrow! We meet up in the same room."

"...Kushina?"

"Hmm?"

"Have you taken taijutsu before?"

"No. I just learned how to flip people twice my size." She rolled her eyes.

"You'd be a good addition to the club."

"I'm sick of it, so no thanks."

"Hn. I'll challenge you someday then."

He decided to walk instead of riding with Naruto. He could only handle him to certain amounts. He looked ahead and saw her turn into a long alleyway. What is she doing alone? He smirked as an idea popped into his head. He quickly caught up to her near the darkest part, and pushed her against the wall. His tongue darted out and slowly brushed her cheek.

"Relax, it's just me." He said as he caught her knee, which was aimed to hit someplace painful.

"Did you just lick me Uchiha! "

He smirked.

"You're now blessed."

"More like cursed.." she rubbed her cheek furiously.

"A lot of girls would kill for me. Consider yourself fortunate."

"Unfortunate."

"Lucky."

"Unlucky."

"... are you done?"

She ignored my question and started mumbling about bleach.

"I heard you were going shopping." He ruffled the top of her hair. She merely swatted his hand away and huffed.

"Don't make fun of my demise Uchiha, I know where you sleep."

"You have got to stop acting so damn creepy."

"Says the one who licked an innocent girl."

"...innocent?"

"You're a grade A perv dude."

"...innocent..."

"Ugh! Stop repeating the damn word!"

"You're not innocent..."

She was going to pull her hair out. She walked faster and pulled out her phone to ask Ino when the dreaded spree would start, not only for the Uchiha to reach her in a matter of seconds (damn his long legs!), but also snatch her phone.

"Give it back Sasuke!"

"You don't have a password? How can you live like that?"

"Like Naruto would be dumb enough to dig his own grave."

"You saved me as duck butt!"

She started laughing so hard, they had to stop for her to catch her breath.

"Why are you even surprised? God, now my stomach hurts.."

"Hn. Serves you right!"

"Are you done?" She gestured to her phone. He rolled his eyes and passed back her phone. She quickly scanned everything to see if he'd done anything to it.

"Sasuke-kun with a heart emoji? The f?"

"Hehe you said Sasuke-kun.."

"Giggle all you want ya little school girl, because I'm giving your number to Sakura."

"You wouldn't..."

"Oh, but I will." He grabbed her waist and slung her over his shoulder, and continued to walk at a casual pace. She thrashed and kicked but to no avail.

"Hold still back there, it's hard enough carrying you."

"No one asked you to-did you just call me fat!?"

"Not exactly."

"Say what now?!"

"...I'm tired."

"Here's a solution, PUT ME DOWN YOU TURD!"

"But you're cute when you're mad."

"Well guess who's going to be stinking adorable!"

He slid her off his shoulder, only enough for her to land onto his arms. He now carried her bridal style.

"Ahh much better~" he sighed.

"With all that you eat, I'm surprised you're as light as a feather." He tried again, but she was still quiet.

"Kushina...?"

"What?" She looked up at him.

"Why are you so quiet?"

"Does one not plot in silence?" She gave him a scrutinizing look.

"..."

She smiled up at him which caused some heat to rush up to his cheeks.

"You blush a lot."

"Hn." He looked away.

"You remind me of...Hinata..."

He felt his heart clench, not because he was being compared to a shy, stuttering girl, but her longtime best friend. He smirked.

"And your face is going to get stuck like that dude."

We reached our destination and she jumped from out of his arms. The warm feeling was gone.

"What took you so long girl!"

"Seriously Ino, why so early?"

"Cuz silly, we won't be able to finish all the shops in the mall if we don't leave now."

Sasuke entered the house and walked past them. Ino looked confused.

"Our moms are away."

"Omg you live with the Sasuke!"

"The?"

"Cool, smart, athletic and not to mention hot!"

"Now I want to vomit. Thanks a lot pig."

"Oh come on Kushina! Admit it! All girls think alike."

"If you're thinking about wiping him off of the face of the earth, then yes, all girls think alike."

"Whatever just go change! We'll talk about this later."

The front door slammed open as an angry redhead who was practically drowning in bags walked in.

"How was it?" Sasuke asked smirking.

"FUCK YOU UCHIHA SASUKE!"

She threw the bags roughly away from her, sat down on the floor and folded her arms.
Hn. Touchy.

"Hey sis, Sakura-chan wants to come over tomorrow."

"Whatever."

"She said yes!" He yelled through the phone.

"Of course me and teme will be here too!"

Sasuke diverted his attention away from the sulking redhead and to her brother. He mouthed a hell no which was totally ignored by the blonde as he hung up.

"So we're going to have a lot of fun tomorrow dattebayo!"

"Shoot me."

"Both of you are so antisocial!"

"Hn."

"I'm hungry..."

"And I'm living with a bunch of boring people."