Allo' again! Hey, anyone read Dominos? My other FanFiction? Just to raise your interest level...it's a total Naruto-Sakura. Happy?
Disclaimer: -yawn- Whatever you see that you've seen in real life is, almost surely, not mine. 'Kay?
Oh and that lovely-jubbly Porsche will nawt make an appearance in this one either. I apologize. -salaams at feet-
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Naruto's House, Same Time during Gym Class
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Karin surveyed the room appraisingly. "Nice place." She commented after glancing at the large and unkempt four poster bed. Ignoring the disgusting state of the room she continued fingering Naruto's Hot Wheels car collection and his frog shaped money box. When she thought Sasuke wasn't looking, she pinched two hundred dollar notes and stuffed into the front pocket of her grey sweatshirt.
"It's not my 'place', Karin. Uzumaki and his mom are letting me crash for a few days." Sasuke dumped his coat, glasses and hat on Naruto's floor, making the room seem even messier.
A smell was wafting around the room and Karin looked around for the source. Aha! The ramen bowl was still on the table and it was starting to ferment. She took out a perfume bottle from who-knows-where and started spraying it like holy water.
"Isn't this your 'school' time?" She crinkled her nose in a disgusted way when she said 'school' and made air quotes.
"Maybe. Now shut up and listen." Sasuke was never one to mince words. Being blunt was so much easier than wasting his oxygen on some nobody.
"A-Okay, boss." Karin rolled her eyes and mock-saluted. She sat down on Naruto's bed and crossed her legs; leaving mud marks on the blue comforter. "Please, tell me why you called me all the way from my hotel? I was just about to spray paint some old rich biddy's dog."
"As much fun as that is…" Sasuke said dryly. "…this is much better."
"Oh?" She looked interested for the first time she got here. "Pray tell."
"Remember when you impersonated Ino yesterday?" He paused while Karin interrupted him and ranted on how much, "BEING A BLONDE SUCKED!" and how, "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MAKE-UP I HAD TO CAKE ON?! I LOOKED LIKE A FREAKIN' CLOWN!" and "EVEN HER OUTFIT WAS HORRIBLE! HOW CAN ANYONE EVEN LOOK AT HEELS?!" After she finished blasting his eardrums, Sasuke continued, "This is going to be a bit like that…only much better…"
Karin smirked, took a notebook and pen off Naruto's desk, sat on the bed and finally, listened.
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Datte Bayo High, Room 213, French Class
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"Oww…"
"Everything hurts!"
"Look! My legs look all 'throbby'! How am I going to get to that sale in Prada now?!"
"Everything still hurts!"
"My neck…someone chop it…spare me the pain…"
"I'm all red, yellow and green from that idiot!"
"EVERYTHING HURTS!"
TenTen ignored the moans and whines erupting from various teenagers and continued poking Neji. Stop ignoring me, blind guy…this is important…look this damn way already! Ugh! He wasn't even listening! He just kept drooling at their stupid teacher! She poked him harder, indicating that this was urgent and that if-he-kept-ignoring-her-this-would-get-more-and-more-painful!
He still kept his intense gaze at the teacher and his notebook, looking unbothered.
"Neji!" she hissed.
The next poke was hard to pretend it didn't hurt. Neji winced and stopped his frantic note taking to spare a glance at her. "What?!" He hissed.
"I have to talk to you!" She bit her lip and looked as though she was keeping something from him. Even her eyes looked guarded.
Neji wanted to seriously interrogate her about her blatant nervousness but that would mean answering back and encouraging a conversation with her. Instead, he turned his back to her and continued taking notes.
"Neji!"
The poke he received after his name was whisper-shouted was one of the most painful in his, rather short, life. "Oww…what?!"
TenTen took a deep breath and exhaled in a resigned sort of way. "Meet me at EYCE. 'Kay? Around four-ish?" She turned to face the blackboard when she saw their teacher glaring at them.
Neji shrugged, meaning a 'sure', and returned to his notes. After all, a Hyuuga couldn't be relaxing during class. Unlike Shikamaru, he noticed. He was currently sleeping with his head on the desk and his hands hanging loosely by the side
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Later, Last Recess
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"French sucks." Sai said to no one in particular and took a long sip of his root beer.
"You had it too?" TenTen leaned next to him on the wall, barely touching arms. For some reason, this simple act irritated Neji and he immediately pulled TenTen to stand by him and Hinata
"We had English." Hinata and Kiba said simultaneously. Kiba glanced at Hinata slyly but she kept her gaze fixed at the floor. It was as though someone forced her to memorize the cracks in the ground. Kiba scuffed his shoes and looked 'forlorn-ish'.
"What's your next lesson?" Shino put on a pair of round sunglasses. He looked like a detective in them, TenTen noticed. Weird, though. Always weird.
"At the nurse's office…my bruises have bruises…I hate gym…Lee's father sucks…" Not caring how random that sounded, Kiba rubbed his legs and collapsed onto the floor. He tipped his head back to fully enjoy the sun's warmth and grinned to himself.
Ino looked down at him for her spot on the window's ledge and kicked his head gently. "Oi, tell me if you see Temari, 'kay? She hasn't shown up since gym."
Kiba nodded with his eyes closed, his smile waning.
Suddenly Sai shouted out, as though keeping this in any longer would kill him, "Where's Lee, Sakura, Shikamaru and Naruto?" He paused after yelling out each name.
Everyone racked their brains to remember who was where.
"I think Lee and his father went to go and kick footballs while balancing glasses on his head…I heard him shouting about that after class." Neji spoke up.
"Shikamaru's getting told off by our French geek, I mean, teacher." TenTen sniggered.
No one had any idea where Naruto and Sakura had gone off to.
"Dunno about Pinky and Blondie, then?" Sai looked round at all of them. "Maybe they're making out somewhere…" He mused much to the amusement and horror of his peers.
"They would look so cute together when they start going out!" TenTen cooed.
"Weird, I suppose would be a better word for them…" Neji shrugged indifferently. "Pink and blonde would clash."
"Cool. We could harass them if they ever went on a date somewhere." Kiba grinned evilly.
"Where's the fun in that? I say we take a video of them and post it on YouTube!" Sai's grin was positively creepy while he and Kiba exchanged a round of high fives. "Awesome idea, dude." Kiba's warm brown eyes twinkled mischievously.
Ino was silent and continued sending texts to her friends. She was not going to encourage the Sakura-Naruto relationship in any way whatsoever anymore. Not after her hurtful and fake accusations!
They all paused to see what was Hinata's view on the Sakura-Naruto relationship.
"NEVER! NEVER IN A MILLION LIFETIMES! ABSOLOUTELY NEVER!" Hinata burst out suddenly. "NARUTO LIKES ME! NOT HER! ME! "
Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at her. Everyone meaning the whole floor.
"Oh my God…" Hinata closed her eyes slowly, swayed for a bit and promptly fainted onto Kiba.
"Yes!"
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Behind Datte Bayo High, Same Time
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Naruto shook his head regretfully and wondered why he had even followed Sakura all the way to the bins area. She wasn't crying anymore, thank God, but she was walking around and around in a circle, making Naruto dizzy.
"Sakura, for the love of ramen, please! Why the heck are you doing that?!"
She stopped and looked at him as though it was the first time she had ever seen him. Sighing heavily, Sakura put her right hand on the red brick wall and used her other to rub her temples. "It's…just...that…Ugh! Ino is so stupid! And weird!"
Of all the things to cry about and run away from! Ino?! So what about her?! He thought Sakura was pregnant or something! Not messed up over Ino!
Taking a deep breath, Naruto exhaled and tried to speak in what he hoped was a normal and soothing voice, "Sakura, you yelled in the gym about a stalker, you cried in class for no apparent reason and you made me follow you to the back of this dump because you think Ino is odd?!" Naruto was at the end of his stick.
Sakura rubbed her head again with her fingers and muttered sullenly, "I didn't yell about the stalker and cried for Ino for no apparent reason…"
Naruto threw up his hands in act of exasperation and glared at her. "Then why, your Highness?! Why did you cry for no reason?!" It wasn't normal for Naruto to be so rude and blunt with her but seriously?! For this she was so upset? Her spontaneous yelling and her dumb blonde friend?!
Sakura took a few steps to him intending to look menacing and tough but just ended glaring up at him. "I yelled stalker because of Sasuke and I cried not 'cause of Ino but…because…because…"
Naruto ignored what she said about Sasuke and, rather aggressively, said, "Because?!"
"Because I like you. A lot. And I don't want you to get hurt." Sakura whispered before tiptoeing and pressing her lips to his.
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After School, Outside Ichiraku's Everything You Can Eat!
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TenTen fiddled with her charm bracelet and looked up at Neji. He was looking down, literally, at her with no expression on his handsome face. His eyes looked half lidded as though he was expecting some sort of danger and his mouth was in a straight line.
"Yes, TenTen?" He said as though he was expecting the worst.
"Neji…I asked you here…'cause…I wanna tell you something…"
He looked surprised, a contrast to his previous expression, and nodded for her to continue.
"I…well, I think…um…" Stop procrastinating, TenTen, stop it! Just imagine he's the ball and you've gotta kick it! What do you do? You use all you've got!
"I like you more than a friend!" TenTen blurted out before she pressed her hand to her mouth. But it was too late, the damage was done. She had just confessed to her best friend for over ten years that she liked him more than a friend.
Neji cocked his head and grinned at her shocked expression. "Took you so long to 'fess up?" And before TenTen could retort back, he reached his arms out and pulled her to him. Using one free hand to hold her face, gently of course, Neji angled his face dangerously close to hers. "I like you more that a friend too…" He whispered before closing what little space between them with his lips.
Realizing that Neji wasn't running away in shock and was probably kissing her, TenTen closed her eyes and relaxed herself into him. She wanted to memorize every little detail of him, wanted to remember every little thing, wanted to feel him; how soft his lips felt, how gently his hands were holding her, how his hair in the front gently tickled her forehead, everything. But some conscience thing in her mind nagged her that this was just a 'pity-kiss', a kiss just to make her feel better, not a kiss because he liked her feel. Neji could never like her. No one could.
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Same Time, Outside Datte Bayo High
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Checking her digital watch, Ino saw that is was almost four and that Kankuro still hadn't shown up yet! He was always here to pick her up and take her shopping and or home! Even Temari hadn't shown up! If this was some twisted story or drama, Ino would probably suspect that they were cheating on her. But, please, Temari and Kankuro were siblings! Ino crinkled her nose at the thought of…what was that word again…oh yes…incest. She shuddered at how weird that was.
After a few more minutes of either stamping her feet and giving random strangers the evil-eye, Ino stomped over to his car. I'm so stupid! Maybe he was there and I forgot to meet him! Ugh! Bending down to make herself eye level with his low car, she peered through the tinted window and what she was positively, absolutely, utterly terrifying.
Her boyfriend in a heated embrace with Mikki and Nikki! His arms were around them and he looked sleepily happy. Almost…dopey. Like Kiba…only tranquilized, Ino thought. Nikki and Mikki were playing with his shirt and giggling ever so often while giving each other knowing looks. They suddenly looked out where Ino was standing and grinned maliciously. Taking their time, going very slowly, Nikki reached over and pulled Kankuro to him. Mikki pulled off his black hat and massaged his shoulders, looking sultry while Nikki kissed him fiercely. Literally. It looked as though she wanted to suck his face out.
Oh my God.
Suddenly, Ino had a rough idea on how Sakura felt when Sasuke cheated on her.
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Same Time, Outside Konoha Public Library
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Shino checked out a book on Bugs and its Origins and sat down on the library's marble steps. He flipped over to the front page and started reading the first page. He got so into the book that when someone flopped beside him, he didn't even look up.
"Hey." Said the stranger.
Not caring who the heck he or she was, Shino continued pouring over the thick volume. "Mm-hmm…"
"Shino! It's me, Ino!"
He looked up at 'Ino' and squinted at her. She looked different today. Her eyes were bluer and her hair was brighter. Even her skin glowed. It was as though she bleached herself or something, he noticed. "Uh…hey, Ino."
Ino giggled, sounding like herself, and leaned on his right arm, "Shino, are Hinata and Naruto dating?"
Odd way to start a conversation…Shino was apprehensive and hesitated to answer, "Why?"
"Just asking, silly!" Ino rolled her bright eyes.
"I dunno." He shrugged. Better not let her know anything about Hinata. Or Naruto for that matter. From what he heard, Ino could crush them all.
Ino 'hmm….'-ed and narrowed her eyes thoughtfully. "Okay then!" she said brightly, matching her appearance. She jumped up from the dusty steps and waved goodbye. "'Bye, Shino!" Running quickly, she opened the car door to a nearby Jaguar and jumped in. The luxurious car sped off and disappeared inside the traffic leaving Shino squinting at the now empty space.
Odd…she doesn't own a car like that…neither does Kankuro…
Shino shrugged, it wasn't his problem, and went back to reading about the mating rituals of gnats.
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Half an Hour Later, Konoha Park
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Eh, stupid Shino and his stupid bugs…stupid library…stupid Lee…oww, my legs…Kiba sat on one of the swings and immediately regretting doing so. He could feel the…whatever it was…seeping through his Levi and soaking it. One glance was all it took to realize that this was not going to come off quickly. Damn…there goes the last one.
"Kiba, buddy, youthful friend!"
Immediately crossing his legs and putting on what he hoped was a happy and calm expression. "Oh hey Lee!"
"Kiba, have you seen my youthful cherry blossom, Sakura? I asked her to see me but…" He wailed dramatically. "…but, Kiba, my youthful friend, she never came!"
Shrugging unhelpfully, Kiba kicked a nearby pebble, sending it flying off to a sticky patch of mud. "No idea buddy, sorry."
"Oh, that is okay, Kiba, perfectly okay! She will come back! Definitely!" He did his 'special' pose and winked. "Anyway, do you want to come and see my father? He is nearby waiting for me in our car. We are going to my house to play football. Care to join?" Lee looked adorably hopeful with his eyes round as saucers and his smile pleading.
Kiba sighed but muttered a, "Sure". Getting up slowly while putting his messenger bag in front of his zipper and using a passing newspaper to cover his derriere. Hopefully Lee and his dad have lots of air at their house…could help with drying this gunk off…
"Hey, Kiba, why do you have a stain on your jeans? They looked, no offence buddy, very disgusting."
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