(L is for…)
Loquacious
(very talkative)
MA+16 because I feel like it.
A kind-of-continuation to chapter 10 and quite silly too.
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Sakura and Ino have always been best friends, and rivals in almost everything when it came to Sasuke. Not incidentally, as they grew older, they came together and became true friends then rivals after Sasuke was no longer a shining beacon but rather a disillusioned and maddened traitor.
It is no oddity that they now share secrets of every sort, help each other pick out dresses, critique the other's make up and give each other manicures on late nights when they don't have missions.
One of the secrets they share is Hinata-gossip. She used to be so sweet and she used to adore Naruto just like they had adored Sasuke. Hinata became a kunoichi and maybe because she didn't have anyone else's shoulder to cry on for comfort or she couldn't ask anyone else to sympathize with when she had her first real kunoichi mission, she became…a different Hinata. This Hinata is still polite, gentle to a fault and still quiet but she isn't that caring anymore.
Ino says that Hinata hadn't gotten snobby; she just closed herself off just like every other Hyuuga has ever done when they encounter something wrong with them and don't know how to deal with it. Sakura can believe that much, after all, look at what had happened to Neji in his belief of destiny until Naruto shattered it.
The medic nin pities Hinata because she doesn't have female friends and she isn't in touch with her sensei anymore. Hinata dealt with it like any other Hyuuga.
She doesn't have a boyfriend, or a fiancé and she's one of the few but rather frequent kunoichi to be called on upon for a 'girl's only mission'. Sakura once asked Tsunade why that was and Tsunade replied that some kunoichi could take to it better than others.
So really, during the Fire Festival where she wore a delicate pink and white kimono while eating dango with Kiba, she hadn't expected Hinata to be there with someone. It had been the Kazekage, who gave her a little porcelain girl doll and had afterwards leaned in to murmur something in her ear. Sakura choked on her dango when Hinata seemingly pranced away into a large crowd, as if challenging him to follow and he did.
She knew the Kazekage had shown a little interest but Sakura hadn't realized it had escalated!
Sakura, now wrenching on Kiba's casual jacket hisses to him, "Did you see that?!"
Kiba digs a finger in his ear, "See what?"
She waves a vague hand in the direction Hinata and the Kazekage had gone off in. "That, all of that!"
Kiba blinks slowly and raises a brow.
Sakura snarls at him and takes off after the couple, dragging her protesting boyfriend along for the ride. "What're you doing you crazy broad?!"
"Shut up! Something monumental is going to" – Sakura cuts herself off mid sentence to hear the whoosh of silk, in a secluded area where there aren't games or prizes or food stands. She stiffened and if she heard it, she knows Kiba heard it.
He looks down at her. "Why are we here?"
Sakura looks him in the eye, "Hinata and the Kazekage ran away to make out."
Kiba's eyes widen, "No way."
"Way," Sakura says and jerks her head to the alleyway she's suddenly too embarrassed to go near. "There's proof."
Kiba cocks his head and Sakura thought it was confusion until she saw the dawning mixture of mirth and shock. "They're not making out."
Sakura cocks her head in confusion now. "Huh?" Kiba answers by pushing her quietly towards the crime scene and Sakura goes red-red when she catches sight of them in the dim lighting under the festive lanterns. "OhmygoodGod," she said in one breath, one word.
Kiba, grinning and snickering now, looks over Sakura's shoulder to whistle quietly. "They work fast don't they?"
The couple they're spying on isn't actually copulating yet, but they can only see Hinata's face and upper body for the most part whereas Gaara is busy between her legs. "OhmygoodGod," Sakura says again but apparently she can't look away.
It was strange.
Gaara was one of the most restrained individuals she'd ever met, save for his bloodlust that followed him even after Shukaku was removed, and he was doing-doing that! With Hinata of all people, who by the way, didn't seem to mind she looked like she was being eaten alive.
"OhmygoodGod. We-we, should go because this is weird and oh my God we're voyeurs," Sakura's babbling and Kiba holds a finger to his lips, still staring.
They're getting into it now, and Sakura who's no longer looking can still tell because she hears them – more precisely her. She looks back momentarily to grab Kiba's attention so they can go but is paralyzed for a fraction of a second by light green eyes staring at them from the dark. She sucks in a breath when they don't flinch despite their owner's body being otherwise occupied and she grips Kiba's jacket and drags him from the scene with ninja speed also driven by a natural fear of the Kazekage as well as her self-mortification.
The rest of night, Sakura is suspicious and jumpy that the Kazekage will come after them with his sand and suffocate them for spying on Hinata and he.
He doesn't but that doesn't stop Sakura from locking her windows despite the heat.
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The next day while on her way to meet Tsunade concerning a patient with a new seal that eats the soul and changes it to chakra, Sakura meets Gaara.
Gaara, the Kazekage Gaara, who she and her boyfriend had been spying on while he'd been getting lucky with Hinata. Sakura freezes in the hallway, arms full of papers and turns to a random room but sand drags her back out to meet the Evil That He Is.
The Kazekage stares her down, "You and the Inuzuka are terrible shinobi. I could hear you a mile away. Then you started talking." He leans down, closer to Sakura with something like dark mirth in his eyes but total homicidal seriousness on the rest of his face, "If you'd stayed there any longer Hinata would've seen you."
Sakura understands the rest because really, even if Hinata changed, she is still Hinata. Hinata would blush and vanish quick enough to befuddle Houdini, which would leave Gaara behind high and dry and pissed. She gulps and nods, smiling nervously. "I didn't want to stay I mean it was all Kiba's idea to stay because I kind of sort of saw you a little and what you were doing and I didn't want to stick" – the look on Gaara's face stops her.
"So I won't kill you. Or maim you, what does she like to eat?"
Sakura draws a blank. What? What?! WHAT?! "You…want to take her…out?" she asks, hesitant and surprised.
His eyes narrow, "Is there a problem with that?"
Sakura shuts her mouth on how she thought it had been a one night stand sort of thing, and says, "She likes Chinese and Thai food a lot. She likes sweets a lot too, and spicy things."
Gaara pulls back and nods to himself, muttering several restaurant names under his breath. The sand releases her. "Say hello to Lee for me Haruno."
She blinks and he's gone, small gold sprinkles of sand left in his wake. She blinks once, twice and congratulates Hinata on finding a guy interested in her.
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Sakura covers her head with her pillow to drown out the odd noises from above and Ino's howling laughter. She glares at the blonde pig who's rolling on her bed clutching her stomach.
The pictures of their teammates and other miscellaneous photos hung on the wall of their shared flat shake and shudder consistently.
"I don't believe this," Sakura hisses to Ino, "It's been hours. This is like their first date, I'm assuming, and it's already like this!" she points up.
Ino snorts. "Hinata deserves to get lucky for her own personal gain once in a while I think." Above Sakura's nightstand, the picture of Team 7 quakes dangerously. It looks like it's going to fall from its nail.
"So do I, but I mean really! Why could they go back to his place?!" she snarls.
Gaara and Hinata must have had a good date because Hinata's apartment is right above hers, and the lamps attached to the walls have been flickering in their apartment since they got back from dinner, with the pictures on the wall shaking and leaving Sakura completely mortified.
Ino shrugs and the noise stops, all movement stops, "Told you this was probably their last round."
Sakura growls, "That man is a fuckin' beast, honestly." Ino shushes her and switches the lamps off. "I'm glad they're done. I have to be at the hospital early tomorrow for overtime. I mean great for Hinata but Jesus Christ."
"Good night Bitch Pants McCrabby," Ino comments, sliding in between her sheets.
"Night shit britches." Sakura flops on her back and breathes out, letting her breathing lull and slow.
Something above them slammed, and Sakura's eyes peeled back wide. "Oh my good God no," she moaned piteously, dragging her pillow over her eyes. "Noooooo," she kicks her legs in a mini tantrum, pillow still stuffed to her face.
She can hear the pictures on the wall shake and the gentle clinks of the lamps trembling as well. Why? The Kazekage was doing this because she'd accidentally caught them in the act, she just knows it! This was his way of taking karmic justice into his own hands. Naruto was wrong. Gaara was still an evil son of a bitch who ate babies and punished people like this.
The sound of glass breaking adds to the noise and Sakura knows what caused it. "Oh for fuck's sake," she groans.
Somewhere in the dark, Ino snorts in ill disguised laughter before giggling uncontrollably and singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in the intervals she has breath to do so.
Sakura snarls but hums along with Ino nevertheless.
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And there ya go. Not for minors? XD
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