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disclaimer: we don't own a muffin. that includes naruto and the merriam dictionary.
dedication: to winging things, to pulling all nighters. and to wanting to go apeshit on family members that suck major balls.
LET'S DO THIS.
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Wave pools are just like normal pools- as in, they have chlorine and a lot of water.
Except they have giant waves.
Other than that, they're not really any different.
Sakura kept this in mind as she treaded water in the middle of the whole pool, her wet hair slicked back into something that looked like a pink waterfall pooling down her back. The ends of the strands spread around her like a giant anemone. In the chlorinated water, her swim suit looked more pale teal with sky blue polka dots, clashing with her hair.
Closing her eyes, she leaned back so that her upper body & head were floating while everything from her belly button and south of the border sunk a little below the mini-ripples. The air burned the back of her throat slightly, but it was a calming familiar feeling from when, during track season, they did water running.
Perhaps she was giving off a stay-the-hell-away-from-me vibe. After all, no one was approaching her. Not to brag or anything- because mostly they were weird people that made her twitch- but most guys at least came over to give her a smile (the weirdest ones do that thing where they run their fingers through their wet hair as if to prove, "Yeah, bitch. I'm a real blonde. And you know blonds have the most fun."), say hi, and maybe ask for her number.
She was about to give a contented sigh, but then she felt the unmistakable shift of the water around her.
Someone was coming up to her.
Even though there was no splashing, Sakura was pissed that someone was trying to- to- to socialize with her. Did it seem like she was in the mood? After Karin had forced her to skip school- not like Kakashi would have taught anything anyways but that was besides the point- she had been forced to go to the mall with the redhead, her fuckbuddy, and He Who Had His Main House On The Nile (after Sai, she could see the signs. Never be fooled again!).
Spinning around, she started ranting. "Okay, look here, buddy. I don't know who you are or what you want, but I want you to-."
Her words were cut off when the wave pool was activated and a gigantic wave that would give Hurricane Katrina a run for its money caused her to end up completely and utterly flush against the person behind her.
Mouth included.
Sasuke was in the process of rolling his eyes at Sakura...Before she ended up kissing him.
Of course, Sasuke knew it was unintentional - the waves were causing him to move backwards, but his arms wrapped around Sakura's waist anyway. Because if he fell and she fell, they'd both, like, drown or something. Smirking, he moved his lips against hers and he found it amusing how she was hesitant, but kissed him back regardless.
He gruffly grunted against her lips when his back was met with the pole of that stupid mushroom-looking thing. But at least it steadied him... and allowed him to concentrate on what he was doing. Inner Sasuke was having a party and his alter ego was growing angry.
It was minutes later that she pulled away and Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her, "Do you just kiss any random stranger that kisses you?"
"You fricken bastard," she hissed, "Are you calling me a whore?!"
"No," Sasuke said slowly as if he was talking to a mentally challenged person, "I'm insinuating that I could have been a stranger. And yet you kissed me anyway."
Sakura's eyes glowed when they glared. Sasuke found himself unable to look away.
"You kissed me!"
Sasuke shrugged, "You kissed me back."
"I'm not arguing this with you," she hissed through her teeth, "You're practically down for the rainbow!"
Sasuke remained impassive as he stared down at her. His chest was prickled with drops of water, his swim-trunks already wet; his hair was damp and he was not liking the fact that he was here at all. Stupid Suigetsu and his stupid toy.
He sighed and shook his head. "Whatever. Your judgment and your stupid accusation means nothing to me."
Sakura puffed out her cheeks before deciding that poking her tongue out at him would be just desserts.
"You know, you look like you're five when you do that."
Ignoring him, she dove underwater where she couldn't see him and his stupid pretty face.
She let the waves wash over him.
Sasuke rolled his eyes again - she was so childish. What was she, five?
He wasn't going to move from there, though. He decided that the stupid looking-mushroom thing actually looked kind of comfortable; he hoisted himself up until he was sitting above it, legs still inside the water.
Running a hand through his hair, he stared at the stupid mural on the far wall - the one that had that little beeping noise that announced when the waves would come or go. He licked his bottom lip and...tasted the lipgloss she was wearing. Like... Like... Watermelon mint. And...
Sasuke glared.
Sakura resurfaced after being underwater for a minute or so. She wasn't really fond of that feeling you get when you hold your breath- that burning in your nose and your chest like someone is heating you there with hot pokers.
Gasping for air, she felt someone looking at her.
Not looking.
Glaring.
Needless to say, she wasn't really surprised to find the Emo Blackmailer to be the perpetrator.
Giving him a smile that made her think of the sweetness of her lipgloss, she asked him, "Did you know that glaring is really undressing someone with your eyes?"
This promised to be amusing.
Sasuke's glare only hardened as he continued to look at her and her stupid faux-sweet smile.
He knew what she was doing - she was trying to provoke a violent reaction out of him. She was pushing his buttons, wanting him to grow irritated and say things he'd kindabutnotreally regret later. So Sasuke decided he'd steer away from that reaction. And he'd play along with her.
"Yeah," he said with a smirk, "You're down to just your panties right now."
He nudged at said panties and swallowed his chuckle.
Her eyes narrowed.
So you want to play hardball in the big kid's league, Sakura thought, a wicked smile over her delicate features.
"Well, you certainly have a lack of imagination considering that's basically all I'm wearing right now. I've got you down to your underwear too. Now the only question is..."
Her voice was certainly huskier now.
"Boxers or briefs?"
I call your raise and I'll raise you another fifty.
Sasuke's smirk was still in place and he raised an eyebrow as he jumped down from the mushroom and headed towards stopped once he was an inch or less away from her.
And then he lowered his head down a bit to be in level with hers.
"How about," he murmured his voice deep, low, smooth, "you find out for yourself?"
Sakura didn't do this.
She didn't.
So she treaded water a few meters away from him and turned to look at him through her lashes.
"Welllll." She dragged her answer out. "You're wearing a swimsuit, so it's not like I can find out here."
Swimming farther away, she gave him a coy teasing smile before picking up the pace and heading towards the shallow end...
Towards the men's locker room...
Can you catch me?
You'd think his smirk would drop and his glare would come back into place. Usually, that'd be the thing Sasuke would do. But instead, he went after her.
"Oh really? You're right," he said, still low, but she could still hear him, "But would you do it when we get to a better place, that's the question."
He grinned at her.
Of course I can catch you.
On the inside, Sakura was panicking.
...
Perhaps a little on the outside too.
But there was a little bit of excitement stirring inside her too. She'd never felt this way before. Not even with-.
Yes, no one had ever made her feel this way.
Sasuke was just on her heels as she emerged on the shallow end. Darting for the locker room door, she turned to give him a quick saucy smile that promised his defeat at her hands.
I'm running. Can you catch me now?
That was before she slipped...
Right through the doors to the empty locker room.
Turning around to see a smirking boy at the door, Sakura felt like smacking herself in the face.
Oh god, what have I done now?
Oh, so smooth, he wanted to say, but instead he allowed his smirk to come out to play as he neared her until he was standing right in front of her. Sasuke crouched down and reeled in until the tip of their noses poked at each other, "Huh. So... you were saying?"
He tilted his head to the side, his bangs obscuring his vision a bit. But still. He'd admit she looked very... very.... uh, pretty there (tempting, you idiot, the term is tempting, Suigetsu growled in his head) but it was all about how far she was willing to take this.
Sasuke was not going to back down.
Not anymore.
She wanted to continue to say he was gay?
He's going to show her how straight he really was.
At her lack of reaction, Sasuke's smirk turned into a small grin.
Sakura's mind was kind of drawing a blank.
Let's look at this closely, shall we?
1) Hot wet guy all in her face. Water was dripping over the angular planes of his body, emphasizing high cheekbones and clinging to his lashes. His hair was still spikey in the back
2) She was sprawled over the floor, bracing her upper body on her hands.
3) They're in the men's locker room.
4) Said locker room is empty.
Unfortunately, her mouth wasn't finding it that hard to function.
"So you were going to show me something... Care to remind me?"
Damn mouth.
Ooh, daring girl.
Sasuke's grin remained, though. "Are you sure?"
She raised an eyebrow: backing out already?
So Sasuke stood and dug his thumbs into the inside of his swim-trunks and tugged them down - just barely. You couldn't even notice the difference.
"Ready," he teased.
His eyes were shining, searching her and waiting for any change in her reactions.
There really weren't any - none that he could see at least.
So he tugged his trunks down a bit lower - his red, black, blue and green plaid boxers were coming into view. But Sasuke was tugging down agonizingly slow.
He was smirking by the time the top half of his boxers were in plain sight.
Want to continue to test me?
He was raising the stakes. They both knew it.
She felt it.
Sakura wondered if he could feel it.
Invisible sweat was beading on her forehead as she stared at him as fearless as she could. Any obvious reaction from her would mean he won.
To be honest, Sakura didn't know why she continued to bait him. She was positive he wasn't gay before this whole thing started.
So why was she still trying to annoy him? Why was she asking the question over and over and over again? Was it just to make positively certain that he wouldn't be another Sai? His name still hurt her to think about, but she knew- at least hoped- it would get easier.
Nervous, she licked dry lips before freezing.
Wrong move.
His eyes fell on her even more heavily now.
What to do now...
Raising an eyebrow, he neared her again and crouched down in front of her, head tilted once again.
"Anything else," he asked in a low drawl.
He saw her lick her lips - he didn't take it as bait, whether it was or it wasn't. He didn't take it because he... because... just because.
Sasuke licked his own lips before going back to looking at her with a blank, yet completely teasing, expression. In all honesty, he had no idea why he even went along with this - he didn't even care what she thought of him. But still... she... her constant question just fuckin' irked him to no end.
He continued to stare at her, a smirk crawling onto his lips when she didn't meet his eyes.
Do you give up?
Sakura raised her eyebrow at him in return as she leaned forward and delicately traced nonsensical designs over him. Over his abs, up his chest, Sakura's fingernail lightly trailed up his neck until she was drawing invisible lines over his face.
Tilting her head at him, she gave him as much of a disarming smile as she could.
I see your call and raise you a hundred.
Think you can deal?
Sasuke fought down the shiver that wanted to be unleashed, fought down the urge to lean into her touch, fought the urge to flutter his eyes closed because her touch was soothing. But Sasuke was not going to fall, he was not going to lose.
So he did the next best thing... he kissed her.
I'm dealing, what's your next move?
She fought the blankness that threatened to over take her brain...
You Fail. Return to Go.
So Sakura gave in, tangled her fingers in his hair, and kissed back.
She wasn't supposed to kiss back... Yet she was.
And Sasuke wasn't sure what he was supposed to do. So he ended up doing what he always did when it came to him, her and their lips pressing together - he kissed her; moved his lips against hers, licked her bottom lip just to tease her, nipped here and there.
By the time his fingers were ghosting up and down her exposed curves, he didn't even know he was doing it. By the time he was hovering above her, he didn't even know he was.
He was lost in the way she kissed him back and fuck was it good. His mind vaguely informed him that, yes, he did win.
There was a sound - like if someone was coming into the men's locker room. Sasuke pulled away from this... heated... kiss and turned to look towards the entrance; underneath him, Sakura was breathing heavily - but that was alright because so was he.
But he didn't even delve into the thought - not that he was going to even if there was a chance - because he quickly stood up, pulling a dazed Sakura along with him. Sasuke looked around the place, deciding to push Sakura behind the walls of the showers.
He placed a finger to his lips, eyes boring into hers and she only nodded. Blinking, Sasuke pulled his swim-shorts back up - just a little.
And then he just stood there, in front of her - more so, blocking her from whoever had entered.
Sakura was not staring.
Really.
She wasn't staring. She wasn't looking as his chest moved up and down with every ragged breath he took after being liplocked for, like, an eternity. She wasn't watching at how his eyes held hers whenever she dared to look away from him.
Okay, so maybe she was staring.
But he was all - wet and he was looking back at her with this intense look that almost made her lose her breath.
However, Sakura tended to be a competitive girl - especially with guys, so she just had to say something else. Or else Sasuke would win and they had never really decided what was the prize for- well, whatever they were currently doing.
"Sooooooo..." she purred quietly as she leaned against him and innocently rubbed her legs smoothly up and down his. "Don't you think this is a bit cozy?"
She ignored how the shower cubicle was at least seven foot by seven foot.
Sasuke's blank expression disappeared and a slow, lazy smirk appeared on his lips as he raised a brow.
The man that had entered was changing just over the wall, but that didn't matter.
Sasuke knew she wasn't ready to give up. He knew it. He was kinda glad she didn't, too. Kinda glad she was continuing even if he found no reason for what they were doing. But whatever.
His smirk was accompanied by a raised brow, "Oh, yeah, very," he murmured.
He leaned forwards a bit, trapping her against his body and the wall, caging her in between his arms. He had to do something, say something, so that he didn't lose. But... what? His smirk widened as he ran his lips down her jaw, down her neck. He nuzzled the joint-spot where her neck and shoulder met and smirked against her skin.
She was glad he couldn't see her face. Otherwise he would have seen an almost-devious look cross her face. Okay, so his warm breath against her wet, cold skin was distracting, but Sakura wasn't called Forehead for nothing. So people were referring to the size of her forehead when she was younger, but now it was more applicable to the brain that forehead hid from view.
Ducking low, she scampered to the other side of the small stall and plopped down on the bench, her feet hidden from whoever else was in the locker room.
Sakura gave the boy a saucy wink that just screamed, whatcha gonna do about that?
The ball was in his court now.
He narrowed his eyes and looked towards the direction the other inhabitant before flashing them back towards her.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow again and turned on the shower, allowing the drops of cold water to run down and wet him. If the other fool knew someone else was there, he might as well make him think he was there for a reason. He stepped out of the shower-thing and ran a hand through his wet hair, pulling his bangs back just so that they'd fall back into place.
Repeating the movement, he walked towards the bench and sat down next to the weird girl that got emotional with public bathrooms, lifting one leg and stretching the other. He turned to look at her, his eyebrow raised once again: what do you want me to do?
He smirked at her and before she could react, he dipped down and kissed her. It was all he could do - he wasn't going to touch her or anything like that. Kissing her is all he was able to do.
Not that either of them were really complaining.
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Karin looked at Suigetsu. "They've been gone for almost an hour, now... y'think he shoved her into a bathroom and had his way with her, yet?"
Suigetsu stared at her, deadpan. "Nah, the Prick doesn't have the balls."
She raised an eyebrow, and then surveyed the whole pool-waterpark area. Karin caught sight of a blob of pink-and-green-and-white, followed why a blob of black-and-white skin-and-black. "Oh? Something tells me you're wrong - 'coz I see Sakura, and if I'm not mistaken, that's a hickey on her neck."
Suigetsu's head shot up, and Karin watched a dangerous, evil grin spread across his lips.
Huh, he was really actually attractive, when he smiled...
"Ha," he chuckled, his grin still in place, "Well that sonuvabitch really had it in him."
As he watched his friend along with the pinky, he couldn't help but... zero his eyes on that hickey on the girl's neck. And fuckin' god, since when was someone like Sasuke Uchiha good at this?! He was Sasuke, he had never had a relationship, let alone kissing someone... Right?
Of course!
'Coz if he had some flings or one-night-stands... he woulda told them about it, right?
Yeah!
But nonetheless did Suigetsu chuckle.
"Ha, the table's turned, you fuckin' Prick."
She could feel someone- or sometwos- looking at her. Or on a certain part of her body.
Her neck.
Did the Emo Prick Who Is Surprisingly Good At Acting Like A Heterosexual Male do something?
"Uchiha, is there something on my face... or neck?"
Sakura narrowed her eyes at him.
Sasuke turned to look at her with a bored expression and then turned to her neck.
And then he was smirking.
"No."
But even so, he lazily lifted a hand and made sure some of her hair covered her neck.
And then he continued smirking a lazy smirk.
Oh dear freaking god. Sakura had a hickey. Sakura had a hickey. SAKURA HARUNO HAD A HICKEY!!!
Karin was having a mental freak-flail-out. She watched the way Sasu-face moved Sakura's hair to hide said hickey, and she smiled. Oh, this had 'blackmail' written all over it - 'blackmail', and 'I am going to tease you forever'.
But it would have to wait. Karin grabbed Suigetsu's hand, and tugged him into the pool. Over her shoulder, she called "MARCO!"
Seriously, Suigetsu and Marco Polo and hickeys on best friends' necks and water parks?
Could life get any better?
Suigetsu blinked and looked around.
Marco? Who the hell was Marco?
Wait... no.
Oh fuck no.
Not that stupid annoying game. Suigetsu hated this game because... Well, fuck, what the hell was fun about yelling like a complete idiot? Seriously.
But nonetheless did he allow her to pull him to and fro.
Sasuke was in the process of deciding whether he wanted a bottle of water or not....
...That was before someone grabbed his hand and pulled him forward.
"POLO," Sakura yelled.
Sasuke decided he should have stayed in the locker room.
Karin held a finger to her lips, and pulled Suigetsu behind a group of people, and ducked down into the water. She tugged him down with her, and with a frantic, whispered "hold your breath!" dunked him below the surface as Sakura -dragging Sasu-face, ha- came barreling around.
And Karin knew Sakura - she would be scanning everywhere, except right beneath her own feet.
It was always funny.
Karin jerked her head underwater at Suigetsu, and indicated that they ought to swim out deeper. She broke the surface, yelled "MARCO!", again, and slid back underwater.
Heeee, Marco Polo was still the best game ever.
Suigetsu hated this.
Don't get him wrong, he liked swimming. He just hated playing this stupid game. He broke the surface and gasped for some air, running a hand through his hair to get it out of his eyes. he glared at the girl that surfaced next to him... Just to push him back down.
Suigetsu inwardly cursed everything to hell.
Sasuke watched as Sakura searched rather frantically for her redheaded friend.
He already saw where the other two went. He just found it quite troublesome to let her know. So he just stood next to her - trying to get his wrist out of her grip - and just watched Sakura's calculating green eyes with little to no interest. Really.
"POLO," she yelled out.
Sasuke cringed at the attention those yells were bringing towards them.
Suigetsu was being annoying, Karin grumbled to herself. He was just not participating, and being totally boring.
She was going to have to fix that.
Karin swam close enough to him that their bodies were almost touching - everything was blurry, but Karin knew where he was, the way fish knows how to swim; it was hidden in the currents, the way people moved. So she got as close as she physically could, -her lungs were screaming for air, but that could wait- and kissed the tip of his nose.
And then she was off, lost in already-beginning waves.
"MARCO!"
Karin was being annoying, Suigetsu growled to himself. She made it a point to continue playing this stupid game that was not fuckin' fun.
He wanted to ditch her.
....That was before she kissed the tip of his nose. After that, he followed her (swam after her) like a lovesick puppy. Not that Suigetsu'd ever admit that to himself... His thoughts were lost right after the already-beginning waves attacked him.
Dammit all.
Oh great, Sasuke thought, the fuckin' waves were starting again.
He hated the stupid waves, hated them with a passion. He growled as Sakura still made it a point to hold on to his wrist, swim-walking around and searching for Karin. If Sasuke was any other person, he'd be pouting right about now, or visibly sulking. But he was Sasuke so he continued on with his blank face.
"Do you mind letting me go now?"
"Shhhh."
Sasuke scoffed and looked to the side. They were under the water, using the stupid waves to their advantage and this girl still had no clue. Wasn't she, like, supposed to be smart or something--
"POLO."
Sasuke glared.
Sakura continued to scan the pool area. Stupid Karin, starting this game - Sakura had never been good at Marco Polo (it made no sense - she was normally very observant), and Karin knew that. She huffed, and shot a glance at Sasuke.
He was glaring around like a heffalump. Stupid pretty boy.
"I don't like Marco Polo," she muttered before a mischievious grin lit up her face. Crooking her finger at Sasuke, she leaned over and whispered conspiratorially in his ear. "When Karin comes by, we'll tag her first. And then we'll run- or swim, I suppose- away before she gets it and tags us back." She let her breath whisper down his neck a little longer than what was probably necessary before dragging herself away to search for Karin
Shaking her head to clear it, Sakura scrunched her nose, and caught a flash of bright red; it looked to be exactly the same colour as Karin hair. She screeched "HA!" and dragged him deeper into the water, after the flash of Karin's hair.
"C'mon!" she told He-Who-Was-Still-Glaring-About, with a playful sort-of grin. "Just have some fun, okay? You're letting them win!"
Sasuke shifted his glare towards the girl who got emotional with public bathrooms.
He sighed and declared this the worst day ever. He hated this all, really he did. The only thing that was remotely alright was... He smirked and turned to look at Sakura's neck. Oh. Yeahhh.
But still.
Marco Polo.
This game was so fuckin' annoying. All you did was scream at each other - maybe there's a guy named Marco here and he's, like, almost paranoid because he keeps hearing his name being shout out.... Or maybe Marcos avoid pools because of that. Sasuke furrowed his brow as he gave this a nice thought...
...And then he shook his head and decided he was losing it.
Sighing, he muttered, "Over there, where the waves are strongest."
Karin eeped - Sakura was charging straight towards her. She laughed a little crazily, and swam to a slight more shallow area - just a little deeper then waist-deep. She popped her head above the water, hollered "MARCO!" in Sakura's general direction, and took off again.
Huh, what other games were there that she could use to push Sakura into touching Sasuke?
She froze. A dangerous, evil smirk crossed her lips. Oh. Oh. OH.
Suigetsu was right behind her, and she swung around into his chest.
"Pick me up," she whispered into his ear.
"What?" he hissed back.
"Chicken!" she whispered back, a dare-devil glint giving her eyes a slightly manic cast. Sakura would never say no to Chicken - Sakura did not enjoy losing at anything. Even something as reckless as Chicken. And, 'sides, Chicken was passably the most amazing game in the world.
"You're fuckin' crazy," he told her flatly.
Karin smirked at him, raised an eyebrow, and murmured, her voice suddenly low and husky, "I'll make it worth your while..."
So now she was trying to seduce him, huh.
Suigetsu stared back at her, face blank and lips pressed into a thin line. He hated being seduced. Because that made him think that women thought he was like any other man, and he so was not. He could handle someone talking dirty to him without having the urge to just screw their brains out - he could also handle seduction without batting an eyelash.
His hands gripped her waist as he lifted her up and Suigetsu found himself realizing that everything was different when it came to Karin.
"You're fuckin' crazy," he repeated as she got comfortable on his shoulders.
Sasuke completely froze when he caught sight of the other two. And he froze not because he saw them... more so because he saw them and their new intentions.
Sasuke was not one to like playing chicken.
He shook his head slowly and took a few step back.
"No," he said before Sakura even had the chance to see Suigetsu and Karin, let alone demand he pick her up. "No."
"What are you--"
Sasuke watched her eyes narrow and her lips purse... He also caught himself staring at said lips and it made him all the angrier. "No."
"Pick me up, Sasuke."
"No."
"Uchiha."
"No."
"Are we just gonna let them win?!"
Sasuke growled. He hated losing... But... He glared as he found himself lifting Sakura up to his shoulders. Suigetsu was going to die for ever bringing him here in the first place. God did he hate the world so much right now.
Sakura shrieked laughter as Sasuke tossed her up on his shoulders like she weighed less than nothing.
This was good. This was very good. They were probably going to get in a load of trouble for this. Sakura knew that the pool supervisors were probably having a fit right about... now.
Honestly, though? Sakura didn't even care how much trouble this was going to get them in - it wasn't like they were the only ones. So Sakura figured this was as good a time as any to beat Karin at her own game.
Sakura tried very hard to ignore Sasuke's hands curling around her thighs.
Karin heard Sakura's shriek of laughter - heard it turn to a squeak of surprise as Sasuke held her in place.
"Let's go knock them into the pool, okay? And you don't ever have to let Sasu-face live it down. And I know I'm insane. It's why you like me," Karin told Suigetsu. He just shook his head, probably in amazement. Karin didn't even really care.
She shot a glance at Sakura and Sasu-face - they weren't far away now.
Well.
This was going to be fun.
Ah, Sakura, she had absolutely no idea what she was getting into...
"Okay, whatever," Suigetsu growled, "Just stop pulling at my hair."
He had the decency to pout as he slowly led them towards Sasuke and Sakura, his eyes telling Sasuke's (once they clashed) dude, this woman is psycho. Suigetsu could have sworn Sasuke's eyes said: this is what you get, bitch. Get us out of here. Oh, how Suigetsu wished he could do just that.
Now that they were face to face, Suigetsu was glaring.
If Sasuke and Sakura dropped them... That meant they would fall to the water, right?
....Oh god.
Sasuke wanted to go home.
He wanted to go home so badly. Maybe kill some zombies, or play some Grand Theft Auto... Anything. Anything was fuckin' better than this. He had a weird girl on his shoulders, Suigetsu had a crazy on on his and god he just wanted to leave.
Seriously.
He shook his head at Suigetsu, his way of saying 'this is all your damn fault'.
Sasuke hated Chicken.
His hands tightened around Sakura's thighs.
It was all Sakura could do to cling tightly to Sasuke. How she managed this was something of a mystery - it wasn't like there were many places a small teenage girl could cling, while playing Chicken. She stared at the villainous sparkle in Karin's eyes.
Well. That couldn't be good.
Sakura clung to Sasuke all the harder. "I will poison you if you drop me."
"Hn."
In retaliation for that horrible, horrible word and the way he was mercilessly teasing her, the next time she grabbed his hair, she tugged.
Hard.
Karin smirked.
She just smirked.
Let the games begin!
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Ten minutes later, both teams were soaking wet -the boys having "accidentally" dumped the girls in, and the girls immediately having sought revenge-, and somewhere close to either laughing until they cried (excusing Sasuke), or passing out from exhaustion and hunger.
Karin looked over at the other three people she had pretty much forced to come along with her. "Want to grab some food, and then get out of here?"
The fervent nods told her everything she wanted to know. So Karin grinned, and said "Let's bounce."
Suigetsu rubbed his exposed stomach and groaned for the nth time.
"Can you stop being picky and let's just stay in a single place," he groaned again, "They all basically sell pizza and chicken strips."
"And fries," Sauske added in a drawl.
Suigetsu nodded and groaned again, he sat down on the yellow-bench thing from the closest restaurant (Something named Rootin' Tootin' BarnHouse. Home of the Best Pizza). Suigetsu wondered when pizza became all rodeo. He blinked and leaned his back against the table.
"I'm staying right here. We're eating here."
Sasuke exhaled and took his seat on the other side of where Suigetsu had sat. He was kinda hungry and those girls were so picky with their foods.
"Dude," Suigetsu said, "maybe we shoulda gone play some fuckin' football at the park."
"You're the one that made me come here." Sasuke leaned his chin on his palm and stared at nothing in particular. "So. Pizza."
"Yup," Suigetsu nodded.
The two turned to the girls with smirks on their lips.
Karin eyes them both warily. Both Suigetsu and Sasu-face were giving them The Look.
(The Look. Read: "you are going to regret ever forcing this on us." Please, Karin was not the type to regret - Karin regretted nothing.)
She stood up, and tilted her head at Sakura. "C'mon, let's get some food. I want fri-i-i-i-ies."
Sakura shrugged and nodded, and allowed Karin to lead her straight towards the counter where they were selling food - generally every unhealthy thing on the planet. Karin smirked, and ordered the large fires that Suigetsu had requested -the only reason she had not told him to fuck off was so that she could steal some-, and a milkshake (Karin was one of those weird people who loved fries dipped in milkshake - she knew the other girls thought she was insane, but it was so good!)
"So," Suigetsu smirked at Sasuke, "I see Sakura's sportin' a hickey."
Sasuke looked up from the table and locked eyes with his friend. He narrowed his eyes and looked away, "You don't say."
"Oh, cut the bullshit, Prick!" Suigetsu's smirk widened into a grin, "You gave her that hickey - she didn't have it before."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
Sasuke snorted and shook his head, a sardonic smirk on his lips. Damn, he wasn't fast enough... Suigetsu saw it and next thing he knew, so did whatsherface. Fuck, this is what happens when you lose control, Sasuke. Seriously. But, fuck if he didn't like-- NO.
Absolutely no thoughts like that.
"Sasuke, eff off it, dude."
"Suigetsu, just shut up."
Suigetsu rolled his eyes, "Dude, it's alright to have hormones. Besides, Sakura's hot."
And if Sasuke glared, it was because some girl was giving him the come hither eyes. Not because of what Suigetsu said.
Seriously.
The girls were waiting for the food. This was possibly the perfect opportunity to interrogate, bother, and embarrass Sakura, all in one.
Ah, life was so wonderful.
"So, daughter of my heart," Karin said, a smirk etching itself onto her lips. "Tell me. Where did you get that lovely bruise on your neck?"
The glare that Sakura sent in Karin's general direction was wonderful. It made Karin's lips quirk up in a Cheshire Cat's smile, and she wondered how long Sakura would be able to stand the needling. It was always the question; how long until Sakura snapped and threatened arsenic (or something equally as icky - Karin didn't really want to die; she was too pretty!).
"I slipped," Sakura said. There was a very sour look on her face.
Karin bit the inside of her cheek to keep from laughing. "Sure, honey. Well, at least I know where his lips were... but where were yours, Ms. Not-So-Innocent?"
Sakura didn't try to avert her eyes, even if she knew that Karin would be able to read every lie in them.
Die of possible embarrassment with your head held high, not whimpering and staring at the ground.
"I have no idea what you're talking about. But you and Suigetsu had plenty of... alone time. What were you two doing?"
She paused, giving the question more thought. To tell the truth, Sakura didn't really want to know (she was pretty sure it was mind-scarring), but if it would get her out of the Interrogation Unit, she would take that route any day.
Soldier, we knew thee well...
See, there was that little vixen that Karin knew that Sakura had inside her. She knew her friend had it; she just needed to let it out once in a while (and not with stupid, lame, exceedingly how-did-you-not-notice-this-he's-flammingly-homosexual boys. Jeez, Sak, sure can pick 'em, can't cha?), and that was exactly why Karin existed.
Of course, making everyone in the vicinity uncomfortable was another of her billions of talents - hel-lo, this was Karin!
So Karin just raised a dark-red eyebrow (goddamn ginger, grumble, grumble), and said "Excuse me? Am I the one with visible bruises?"
Sakura twitched, and looked like she was about to say something. But Karin ignored her, and continued with "He knows what I'd do to him if he left bruises where people could see them, duh. We'd both be pissy-" she paused, and grinned. "-And we'd both probably end up having violent make-up sex."
Sakura just stared.
Karin just stared back, a slightly indecent look in her eye. "Wha-a-a-at?"
Sakura didn't need to know that fact.
At all.
In fact, now she wanted to go drop herself off the high dive and hopefully get that... icky image out of her brain.
And she didn't even like heights.
So she sighed, faced Karin, and said, "He's excellent at kissing. That is all."
She turned to the little tray and picked up a thing of french fries and moved along.
Karin threw back her head and laughed, even as she trailed along after Sakura. Pfft, best way to make Sakura awkward? Apparently, mentioning anything that had to do with anything other then lip-against-lip action set Sakura off.
But Karin already knew that.
So she just smiled, and said "Sure, hon, whatever floats your boat. Oh, and this is so not over - Ino will hear."
Karin watched Sakura pale, and smiled again. It was a little more evil, this time.
Well, there was a lot of time. And Karin had better pasttimes. Like teasing Suigetsu - and almost every other teenaged male in the vicinity.
The two girls headed back towards the boys. When they placed the food down, Karin kept purposely stealing Suigetsu's fries, right in front of his face, and leisurely dipping them into her milkshake. She slowly licked the thick, milky treat of each individual fry. Watched his fists -almost hidden underneath the table- clench.
Mission accomplished.
Uhm. Yum.
Suigetsu narrowed his eyes and stared off at the space behind Sasuke.
This girl was making it a point to tease him and Suigetsu didn't like it. He didn't like it at all. He growled deep and low within his throat, his eyes narrowing down into slits until only specs of ice-purple were viewable. But he didn't care. Nope, he didn't.
He reached for another fry and popped it into his mouth. And he ignored Karin and her stupid teasing-game; Suigetsu hated playing games. He was a straightforward guy - for example, he banged a girl and then never talked to her again. He wasn't going to ease her out on the whole shit. Hell no. It just wasn't him.
So yes. He ignored Karin.
"What're we doin' next?"
"Next," Sasuke answered, "you're dropping me off at the uni so I can get my car."
Suigetsu rolled his eyes, "You're such a drama queen when it comes to that tin-metal-shit."
"It's a classic - Kiba'd bitch slap you if he heard you say that."
Again, Suigetsu rolled his eyes. "You and Kiba and all those metal-shits can go jump off a bridge."
He turned his smirk at Sasuke and then froze... He was giving him one of those looks that translated into I got more blackmail on you than you can ever think, don't fuck with me or it'll go worldwide, bitch.
And Suigetsu woulda been offended and scared and intimidated if he didn't have blackmail of his own. Yeah, well wait till I tell the guys that you're actually as much of a manwhore as you make me out to be.
And thus the two commenced in a glaring war.
Karin wrinkled her nose. Okay, hi, he was doing that ignoring thing again. Yes, she was an attention whore, she would not deny it.
But really, she was only an attention whore to people she genuinely-
WAIT. NO. NO. NO.
She did not like him. No.
Denial? Swimming? Nah, what was that about?
Karin pouted to herself, and dipped another fry into her milkshake. After consuming it entirely, she licked her fingers, wiped them off on a napkin, and reached up to undo her hair. She had a feeling that they were probably going to be leaving the waterpark, and soon - Sakura was fidgeting uncomfortably, and Sasu-face and Suigetsu were... glaring at each other.
Huh.
Karin really did have to wonder what that was about. She started to sort her hair out - unknot the knots, untangle the tangles, wring the water out of the rats' nest that it was. It wasn't working very well.
...
Eff.
And so then she just gave up, and stole another one of Suigetsu's fries. Blah.
He sipped at his soda, his eyes never breaking away from the glare he and Sasuke were having.
Okay, the relationship between the Uchiha and him was a love-hate one - they were best friends, yeah, but they were always at each other's throat. It was different than the Kiba-Suigetsu combo and straight up different from the Sasuke-Naruto combo, but it was aggressive nonetheless.
"You utter a word, and I'll tell them," he muttered at him.
Sasuke's glare darkened, "Say something, and you die."
"I'M GONNA GO CHANGE NOW."
The two blinked, breaking the battle for the first time, and turned towards Sakura who had already stomped to Suigetsu and Karin's side, grabbing the latter's arm and dragging her off. Suigetsu raised an eyebrow and watched them go before turning back to Sasuke.
"Okay, fuck it, I have to know," he chuckled, "While your mouth was busy at her neck... what was she doing to you?"
Sasuke's eyes narrowed as he turned to stare at Suigetsu again.
"Shut the fuck up."
"C'mon, dude, tell me! This is what friends do!"
"No."
"C'mon!"
"Is she good?"
"I didn't fuck her."
"But you want to, right?"
Sasuke smacked Suigetsu, standing up and stalking off to the changing room. Suigetsu followed him, a grand smirk on his lips as he continued to pester his friend. "So.. you're not a virgin then? Dude, why didn't you say anything! You're, like... Not a virgin!"
"Suigetsu, shut up."
Sakura dragged a flailing Karin behind her. The Soon-To-Be-Neuro-Surgeon stomped towards the changing room, completely and utterly ignoring her red-headed best friend.
Karin was clearly distressed. "SAKURA, THAT WAS IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT I MUST KNOW TO LIIIIIIVE-"
"Oh, you're making a scene," Sakura muttered, ungrateful, and rolled her eyes at Karin's antics; really, so over-dramatic, for something so utterly simplistic and/or moronic. Boys (even Those-Who-Are-Pretty-Assuredly-Straight-Even-Though-It's-Questionable were really just damn attractive) were just dumb.
The rosette shoved Karin into the changeroom. "C'mon, I'm getting cold."
Karin let out a strangle-choked scream that went something along the lines of "SO WHY DID YOU FORCE ME TO COME WITH YOU?! SDLGKJRDSLGH."
Sakura didn't reply, so Karin figured that she was simply being ignored, and that it was probably just better to go along with Sakura's wishes. If only just this once.
And that was really only because, well, Karin's Mission For The Day had been accomplished. Sakura had gotten past the hardest part after a break-up: The Acceptance. That phase could either last a really, really long time, or barely any time at all.
Karin was glad, for Sakura's sake, that this one had not been too long - it meant that Sakura wasn't mourning the relationship too much, and that she was getting ready to Move On.
And, hey, if it meant she was Moving On to Sasu-face, Karin was totally okay with that.
So she grinned, and went to get changed.
"So dude," Suigetsu said, pulling his flard skinnies up and buckling them just an inch over his hips (meh, they were loose anyway), "who was the chick?"
Sasuke, in the process of pulling down his black v-neck shirt stopped to glare at him. "It's none of your business."
Suigetsu laughed at this, fixing the cuffs of his skinnies he turned to peer at the other male through his silver-white bangs. Honestly, he found it completely surprising that Sasuke was not virgin. They've spent so many days, weeks, months and a couple of years making fun of him being a virgin - and he wasn't. He coulda defended himself, yet he didn't.
But then again, it didn't surprise Suigetsu in the sense that Sasuke kept a lot of things to himself - he wouldn't even tell Naruto most things!
"Dude, I'm not gonna tell," Suigetsu pulled down his black t-shirt and turned to Sasuke. "Like, seriously."
Sasuke studied him for a quick minute before pulling his light-gray skinnies up to ride low on his hips. He sighed a resigned sigh, "Shut up."
"Ah, fine. You suck."
"Your face."
"Dude."
"Hn."
The commenced in shoving each other, grabbing the bags filled with wet clothes (Sasuke grabbing his red hoodie which he was too lazy to put on at the moment), they exited the changing room and went to wait for the girls.
Oh, life was beautiful - Karin's hair was warm and dry, finally. She'd spent a good ten minutes standing underneath the hand dryer to get it to be so; the awkward looks from the other females in the change room were priceless, and Sakura had simply pretended that she just didn't know Karin.
Things usually were better when it worked out like that.
Karin walked back to her locker (Sakura was towel-drying her hair - Karin had given up the long, warm shower, for the dry-for-the-rest-of-the-day hair. It was a fair trade), and grabbed one of the many hairbands she owned. After tucking it up into a loose bun, she shot a glance first at the mirror -she was honestly too lazy for make-up, Suigetsu could suck it-, and then at Sak.
"Almost ready to go?"
Sakura raised an eyebrow. "Am I the one checking myself out? I think not."
"I'm going to take that as a 'Oh, yes, Karin, my leige-lord and ruler of all that is the universe'," Karin told her plaintively.
Sakura simply stared at her. "I can't believe you're my best friend, sometimes."
"LOVE ME." Karin smiled widely, and variably threw herself on Sakura. The shorter girl made a choking sound in the back of her throat, but it was still a good-natured grin; being friends with someone for too long does that - you kind of end up losing any sort of reservations you had around that person, in the first place.
And then the two slipped out of the change room, and found two boys waiting for them.
By then, Sasuke and Suigetsu had quit arguing - or, better told, Suigetsu had quit trying to get the 411 on who Sasuke had banged and when. Now, Sasuke leaned against the wall, hoodie back on and hood covering his head, and his hands holding his G1, which he was using to surf the web. Suigetsu, stood a foot or two in front of him, hands dug into his pockets as he bobbed his head to a song he was singing in his head.
"Dude, so am I the only one that thinks Anko's batshit?"
Sasuke looked up from his phone and smirked, "Fuck no. That woman needs some extreme kind of counseling."
Suigetsu laughed, "Dude, Neji says she adopted someone."
"No shit?"
"Yeah. Dude. It's scary - another Anko in the making."
Sasuke's eyes widened for half a second, "Don't even go there."
The conversation stopped just as soon as Sakura and Karin came into view.
Karin smirked at them. As they headed back towards Suigetsu's car, she asked "So, what now?"
The guys shrugged, and Sakura sent her rather noteworthy, dark look.
Well. That couldn't be good. There was a significant "I am going to kill you if you make this last any longer because I want to go home and sleep" vibe coming off of Sakura; Karin figured it was probably best to just give the girl a break.
So she cracked her neck, sent Suigetsu a slow grin, and practically skipped over to his car. She heard Sakura groan behind her, and Karin could only smile.
Suigetsu decided, as he watched Karin skip away, that he was still kinda hungry.
Maybe after he's dropped everyone off, he'd go to a drive-thru.... No.... Luffy's. He'll go to Luffy's and pig out on one of their tasty burgers. Suigetsu's mouth watered just at the thought. But then his eyes caught Karin's skirt flow up as she skipped and his attention was switched from Food to Nice Ass in a millisecond. His pace picked up, his attempt to try and catch up with her.
A growl almost escaped him as he caught two guys appreciating the same thing he had. It only fueled Suigetsu's need to get closer to Karin and once he did, he glared at the two males; back the fuck up, written all over his face.
And it was only for her safety. He was not jealous, what the fuck gave anyone that idea?
Sasuke shook his head just as soon as he arrived to the car, stepping into the back seats along with Sakura.
"You're taking me to get my car back."
"Dude," Suigetsu started the car and looked at Sasuke from the rear-view-mirror, "how much can it hurt to just leave it there for the night? I mean, you don't have any classes tomorrow anyway."
Sasuke growled, "'Getsu, I'm taking it to Kiba's tonight."
"Okay! Okay, jeez. I swear, you two and you obsessions with these metal-shits is crazy."
Sasuke was too busy having a triumphant smirk on his lips to say anything. Besides, once Kiba heard Suigetsu say such things.... It almost made Sasuke laugh.
The Merriam-Webster Definition Of Awkward:
Main Entry: awk·ward
Pronunciation: \ˈawe-kwərd\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English awkeward in the wrong direction, from awke turned the wrong way, from Old Norse ǫfugr; akin to Old High German abuh turned the wrong way
Date: 1530
1 obsolete : perverse
2 archaic : unfavorable, adverse
3 a : lacking dexterity or skill (as in the use of hands) b : showing the result of a lack of expertness
4 a : lacking ease or grace (as of movement or expression) b : lacking the right proportions, size, or harmony of parts : ungainly
5 a : lacking social grace and assurance b : causing embarrassment
6 : not easy to handle or deal with : requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care.
The Sakura Haruno Addition To The Merriam-Webster Entry:
7 : Sitting in a car with two scheming friends while sharing the back seat with a guy who you had heatedly made out with in the boys locker not any more than three hours previously.
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Extra thoughts from us:
les:don't get sad - get glad! also, get imaginations - if there are no emails in a chapter, doesn't mean they've stopped emailing for weeks.
sonya: sara is the queen of typos. it makes me laugh. hopefully you all liked the sasusaku. we love you all.
Saraa: if this doesn't even begin to make sense, it's probs my fault. LOVE&AIR KISSES!