J.A.I.L.
By: Unknownred
A/N: I do NOT own Naruto.
Hi guys!! How was chapter 24 for ya? I hope those who were confused from Ch. 23, get it in Ch. 24. Sorry it made you confused. Gimme feedback! Ch. 25!?
Ch. 25 – Taking Sides
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Sakura read it over twice then again and again until the information sunk into her brain and corrupted her thoughts, "Oh. My. God."
Gaara stood back. Sakura looked up, her face hardened at whatever she was thinking. He knew it wasn't good.
I can just hear it now, she thought, people pitying me (Not TRUE at all), helping me (No HELP necessary), you need help, Sakura; you need help (NO NEED!)!
Gaara stood silently at her side, watching her face changes into different expressions. She finally snapped out from her thoughts, "Gimme a pillow!" she demanded.
Gaara grabbed a pillow from Sakura's earlier incident and threw it over his shoulder.
"Wth?!" Sakura shrieked, "I said gimme not throw it behind you!"
"Sakura…" Gaara muttered gradually, "Have you thought about what's going on around you?"
"What are you talking about?" Sakura glared at him.
"The people around you." He answered.
"Yeah, so what's your point? They think I'm insane and I need help!" Sakura yelled at him.
"That's the point."
"What's the point?"
"You do need help." He says, "I know it sounds crazy to you, but for us, we want to help you."
"And who's we?" Sakura glared daggers at him, "Oh never mind, just gimme the damn pillow!"
Gaara shook his head, "We, meaning your friends."
"I don't have any friends!" Sakura spat.
This time, it was Gaara's turn to scrunch up his brows and looked deep into Sakura's eyes, "Yes. You. Do."
Sakura looked taken aback, but she just sat there, staring back into his eyes.
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Meanwhile, Mimi chan was outside the room with Neji, whispering to each other.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Mimi chan couldn't help but ask.
"HN, lemme think, oh, I don't know." Neji replied, bored.
"It must be something very important."
"Or something very awkward."
"Really? Like what?"
"I don't know Mimi chan."
Mimi chan pouted, "You're a poor sport."
Neji rolled his eyes, "Fat chance. I'm not the type of person eavesdropping into someone else's conversation."
Mimi chan gasped, "Great idea." As she pulled on Neji's arm, he cringed to the corner walls.
"No, it's wrong."
"Stop being such a scaredy cat, I just wanna know what they're talking about."
"Have you heard of 'mouse trap caught the mouse'?"
"Um, isn't that when a mouse sees its cheese on a mouse snapper thingy and races for it, but then it snaps on the mouse, and the mouse dies?" Mimi chan wondered aloud.
Neji sweat dropped, "Not exactly what I had in mind. But you know who the mouse is?"
"Um…no?"
"You." Neji glared at Mimi chan, "And I'm the cheese who gets away, and the trap is them. Do you want that?"
"Ooo Cheese!" Mimi chan squealed, "So, what are you going to put the cheese in? Sub way? Or a hamburger? Oh wait, that's right, what kind of cheese is it?"
Neji sweat dropped again, "Ugh. Forget the cheese!"
"Okies," Mimi chan shrugged, dropping the subject, "So are you up to it?"
"Up for what?"
"Checking them out."
"No."
Mimi chan pouted, "You really are a poor sport."
"Oh shut up; look, if you wanna do it, go ahead and be my guest!" Neji took a step back.
Mimi chan spat out, "Fine! Be a cheese stick! You're no fun to be with anyways!"
Neji narrowed his eyes at her, "Fine, I'll go with you."
"Ya—" Mimi chan started to celebrate but Neji interrupted.
"But you have to promise me you'll never call me 'cheese stick' again!" Neji crossed his arms.
Mimi chan looked at Neji with a smile and thought, oh please, he won't even remember tomorrow, so why bother promising him?
"Fine, I promise." She says.
Neji nodded and they opened the door slowly and listened in.
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Shikamaru was about to tell Mimi chan and Neji that Hinata and Naruto were going home but will be back tomorrow when he overheard Mimi chan calling Neji a "cheese stick". He cackled a laugh and heard Neji promise her not to say it again.
He overcame his composure and walked towards them as they opened the door to listen in.
"Hey, what'd you guys doing?" Shikamaru popped up behind them.
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Neji and Mimi chan gasped aloud, Mimi chan tripping backwards as the door swings open revealing them three.
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"I don't have any friends!" Sakura spat.
This time, it was Gaara's turn to scrunch up his brows and looked deep into Sakura's eyes, "Yes. You. Do."
Sakura looked taken aback, but she just sat there, staring back into his eyes.
The door swung open, and in sweep Mimi chan on the floor, Neji shaking his head and Shikamaru slowing raising his hand and waving at Sakura and Gaara.
"W-what's going?" Sakura asked.
"Wtf Shikamaru?" Neji glared at Shikamaru.
"Sorry." Shikamaru sweat dropped.
"Shikamaru kun!" Mimi chan stood up, brushed herself off and hugged Shikamaru.
"Hi Mimi chan." He says, returning her hug.
"Omg, I thought you were the doc for a sec, haha!" Mimi chan laughed.
"Really now? Well, I just came to tell you that Hinata and Naruto went home and will be returning tomorrow."
"Wth?" Neji snapped, "Not together, are they?"
"Bite your tongue, Neji!" Mimi chan lectured Neji, "It's not good to curse or swear in front of an injured friend."
"Shut up Mimi chan!" Neji snapped, "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be in this situation!"
"Ok, blame it all on me!" Mimi chan placed her hands on her hips, "You're the one who agreed to go along with me!"
"Yeah well that's different." Neji narrowed his eyes at her.
"Neji, stop yelling at her, she didn't do anything serious!" Shikamaru tried calming down his friends.
"Oh so you're taking her side then?" Neji glared at him.
"Well no." Shikamaru started.
"Don't bring him into this! And what, Shikamaru, you're siding with him?" Mimi chan pouted.
"No. I'm actually—" Shikamaru started again.
"Then who are you siding with!?" Mimi chan and Neji asked at the same time, frustrated.
Shikamaru glanced at both of them then turned away, "I don't know and I don't care. I'm going home, so let Sakura and Gaara make the judge of that."
Then he left.
Sakura and Gaara, thought Neji and Mimi chan as they now remembered they were still there with them, and glanced at them, feeling guilty.
Sakura and Gaara stared back at them; Sakura feeling the worst guilty as any of them.
"I'm—" Sakura started then changed her sad words, "I'm still confused, wth just happened?"