Chapter Twenty-Five; The First Date

Later on that afternoon everyone took the bus down to the ocean to swim. That's when suddenly they ran into AJ again. "Oh, hello AJ. Longtime no see." Sasame said while greeting him with a bright and shining smile.

"Hey Sasame." He began smiling back at her before he stepped aside and allowed another young man stepped forward as Naruto stared blankly at him.

"Moichido, kono otoko no 2-ri ga iru to oshiete moraememasu ka?" he questioned while pointing a finger at him as Sasame nodded at him.

"Hai. Futago." She replied as the two other guys turned their heads and exchanged blank stares with each other before she turned and looked at them. "I was explaining to him that you guys were twins." She told them before she stuck out her hand towards Max. "And that means that you must be Max. AJ told me all about you." She said smiling at him while he smiled back at her and shook his hand.

"Yes and you must be Sasame. Wow, you're even prettier than my brother said you were." He said.

"Yeah, well, you just need to remember to watch your hands." Sasuke told him as he widened his eyes at him with pure and utter disbelief and astonishment.

"You speak English?" he questioned with uncertainty.

"Obviously." Sasuke responded before he turned around and walked away and Naruto started chasing after him.

"Hey wait up Sasuke!" he cried as Sasuke stopped and then turned around to face him. "You promised me that you would teach me how to surf remember?" he inquired.

"Naruto, I don't even know how to surf yet." He pointed out. "You know, not everything can be taught anyway. You have to learn some things in life by trial and error." He told him.

"Yeah I know but what if I fall off and get eaten by a shark or something?" Naruto asked him before he took a deep breath and sighed heavily.

"Naruto, do you honestly think that I would ever let anything happen to you?" he asked him back.

"No. I guess not." Naruto replied as Sasuke grinned and then reached out towards him and poked his forehead.

"Well then relax. You have nothing to worry about. I'll be right behind you I promise." He told him.

"Really? Cross your heart and hope to die stick a needle in your eye?" Naruto questioned him back.

"Yes. Now come on, let's go." He told him while slowly removing his hand as Naruto grinned at him.

"Hn. Alright, but I'm holding you to that promise." Naruto told him as Sasuke chuckled.

"Come on, let's go loser." He said before he turned around and walked away.

"Hey! I thought I already told you to wait up!" Naruto exclaimed before he chased after him.

"Then you should probably keep up you dobe!" Sasuke cried as Naruto scowled and growled underneath his breath.

"I thought I told you that I never wanted you to call me that again!" he hollered angrily before continuing to run after him.

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Sasuke waited outside the bathroom door as Sakura finished fixing her hair and putting on her makeup. That's when suddenly Hiro walked over to him and knelt down pushing his favorite red firetruck and imitating the engine. "Do you know how long that your mother's been in the bathroom?" he asked him before he suddenly stopped and looked up at him.

"No. I can't tell time." He replied and at that moment Sasame hurried out of the bedroom wearing her hair down and a light evening gown with matching eyeshadow, lipstick, and flats that she wore upon her feet.

"Hey what's going on here? Your mother and I are the ones with the date. Why the heck are you all dressed up?" he asked her.

"I'm waiting for AJ to pick me up. He's taking me to the same restaurant." She told him.

"What!?" Sasuke cried before the bathroom door opened and Sakura stepped outside of it. "Were you aware that our daughter had a date tonight?" he asked her.

"Yes." She began with a nod. "She told me all about it." She said.

"Oh really, that's funny because she didn't mention a thing to me about it." He said.

"That's because I knew that you'd freak out about it." She told him. "Honestly Papa, when are you going to stop treating me like a little kid?" she asked him before she walked out the door and then shut it behind her while Sasuke silently watched her.

"Don't worry Daddy, I don't ever want to grow up. I think girls are yucky and I want to stay a little boy forever. Maybe Peter Pan can take me away to Neverland with him." He said as Sasuke heaved a sad little sigh remembering when Sasame had said almost exactly the same thing when she was his age. Why did time always have to go by so fast? Sasuke didn't want to admit it out loud but he felt like he was losing his little girl.

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Sasuke dug into his pocket to grab his box of cigarettes with one hand while he steadied the wheel with his other hand and the windshield wipers on his rental Mustang went back and forth. "Oh Sasuke, I do wish that you would lay back on the smokes. After all, I really do want you to get cancer." Sakura told him but he didn't appear that he heard a word she had said. He stuck the cigaretted inside his mouth and bit down on it with his teeth before he put on the brakes and stopped at a red light.

However, he barely had time to light the tip of it before it turned green again and he stomped on the gas pedal. "Uh,.. are you alright?" she questioned him anxiously.

"I'm fine." He muttered underneath his teeth.

"Really? Because you seem a little bit tense." She told him as he pushed the button that opened his window a crack before he stuck his cigarette out of it and flicked the ashes out of it.

"Do I? Well I'm sorry but I guess that you wouldn't understand how I feel since Sasame doesn't seem to have any problems with sharing her secrets with you." He told her as Sakura breathed a deep and heavy sigh and rested her elbow on top of her lap and her head inside her hand.