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Act III, Scene I: "The course of true love never did run smooth: But either it was different in blood-"
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For some time now, Lee had already noticed that there was a drastic change in Tenten's daily routine. It wasn't as though he was following her every step from the shadows before the abruptness occured. No, stalking was never his intention, all he did was watch her house, call her phone, sneak glances into her calendar on her cell phone so that he knew when she was going out and what time she wouldn't be home.
But at one point not long ago, he saw that all outings-with who he assumed were the girls-were no longer being planned. Instead of days marked within her calendar noting the various days and times she would be gallavanting out, Tenten began using the planner setting of her mobile in order to organize her day. And each day there was always a certain time frame that she labeled "work".
Upon learning the newfound information, Lee began to grow curious as to where his Tenten was working at and for what purpose. It wasn't as though she had ever been in fiscal problems of any sort, or at least not that he was aware of. It was that thought alone that caused him to go into a small mental frenzy over how horrible it was of him to not even be aware of such a thing.
The conclusion he came to was to, instead of ask Tenten upfront, follow her to her place of work and then there confront her about why she was working. The fact that he would also know where her job was located was a plus for him, he would be able to support her from afar, depending on her trade.
It was on Sunday afternoon that he staked outside of her homestead and waited patiently for the time that she would leave for her workplace. It was late afternoon before Tenten made her appearance at her doorway. She bounded from the front lawn onto the sidewalk and went her usual way. The entire way, Lee shadowed her every step, always from a good distance in order to keep his presence hidden.
Where she led him, surprised him like nothing ever had before.
'This place,' he thought. 'I know what kind of places these are, but this cannot be possibly be..'
"Tenten!" he called out.
The brunette spun around quickly, surpirsed that someone who recognized her was around.
"Lee?" When realizing who it was that had called out her name, she stepped forward closer to the boy just to make sure that her eyes weren't playing tricks with her. Yes, her mind confirmed, it was Lee alright.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"What am I doing here?" he retorted. "I think the better questions would be: What are you doing here, Tenten?"
She huffed and placed her hands upon her hips.
"Answer me, Lee," she said. "What are you doing here?"
"I followed you."
"What?!" she exclaimed. "From where?!"
"I stayed outside of your home," he answered. "Waiting for you and followed you here. Now, tell me what it is you are doing here."
"Why should I tell you that? That's none of your business. And anyway, what the hell are you doing following me to work?"
"This is where you work?"
Tenten silently cursed herself in being careless with her words. "Don't tell anyone," she said.
"Tenten.. why are you doing this?"
She shrugged. "Why not? It's not like I'm exaclty a virgin anymore."
Lee took a step back and gasped in horror. "You mean to say.. Tenten who?"
The girl smiled cryptically and had a faraway look in her eyes. "It was Kiba," she muttered. "All because of Kiba."
She snapped out of her dreamstate and looked Lee dead in the eye. "I have work," she said. "I'll see you at school."
She left him standing there alone. Lee's mind tired to comprehend the meaning of her words. Whether or not he understood what she meant exactly wasn't of great importance to him. All that mattered right now was that he would seek vengeance out on Kiba for besmirching Tenten's honor.
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"Shikamaru."
His eye automatically twitched slightly. With a small groan his lids fluttered open and was immediately fronted with a pair of blue eyes.
Shikamaru blinked. "Any particular reason you're so close to me?"
Naruto moved back from hovering over the other boy and settled in a cross-legged position next to him. Shikamaru lifted himself up and sat with his legs layed out in front of him. He rubbed the remaining sleep from his eyes and then focused on the boy next to him.
"So I guess there was no reason?" he asked.
Naruto shrugged. "No, not really."
They sat there for quite awhile before Shikamaru spoke up again.
"So, was there any reason why you came up here?" he questioned the blonde.
All of a sudden, Naruto blurted out, "I think I'm in like with someone!"
Shikamaru raised his eyebrow at the sudden outbrust. "What?"
Naruto took a deep breath and then told him everything that he had been thinking for the past week or so. Starting from when he had confronted Tenten outside of the book shop and found out about Hinata to the sudden revelations he had been having only yesterday.
"So, you want to be in a relationship with her?" Shikamaru asked.
"Well so far, I'm thinking I do, but now I'm afraid that I'm gonna pull a J.D.," he told him.
"What?"
"Y'know, J.D. wanted to be with Elliot but she was with Sean and he told her that he wanted her so she broke up with Sean but once J.D. had her, he realized he didn't want her. That was pretty messed up, my support for him dropped there. But then it went back up when him and Turk did that ring power thing and he said, 'Form of, ice menorah!'. I laughed so hard, I cried."
Naruto started laughing. He turned to face Shikamaru and found him staring at him with bewilderment expressed none to lightly on his face.
"It.. It was the way his face looked while saying it," he tried to explain. "Dammit, I like Scrubs!"
Shikamaru blinked. "You need to stop watching it."
"But it's funny," Naruto whined. "Isn't there anyone else who thinks it's funny?"
"Doesn't Kiba watch it too?"
"I mean someone who matters."
Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "Whatever.. So what are you going to do about it?"
"I'm not really sure about anything right now," he confessed. "I just wanted to be sure that you would be okay with whatever I decide to do."
"Naruto," Shikamaru began. "I knew from the get go what crushing on you would be like. No matter what would be said between us it's all in good fun and just joking around. The inevitable would occur, you'd find someone and whatever I felt for you will die down until they become all but nonexistant. It might hurt a bit at first, but through logical thinking, I'll just have to accept it because I already knew it was coming."
"Why can't everyone be as agreeable as you?" Naruto grinned.
Shikamaru shrugged. "There wasn't much to it after I rationalized my emotions."
Naruto shook his head slowly. "I swear, Shikamaru, you're the only one I know who could rationalize something like emotions."
Shikamaru shrugged again. "It's not like it's something high on my priority list. There's something else I need to help out with that's more important than my trivial ridden problems."
Naruto cocked his head to the side. "Like what?"
Shikamaru stayed silent at first. Then said, "I'm not sure if I should tell anyone. I mean, a lot of people would say that his parents should know but I'm still kind of choosing my plan of action. From what he's told me and from what he swears up and down, he can quit at any time, so, I guess at first I kind of figured that if he quit cold turkey then nothing messy would happen. I don't know, it's been like a week already or something like that. At first he was kind of freaking out, seeing things and stuff, guess it's just the withdrawl. He's been staying home all this time, his mom just says it's a fever. Guess she chalks all that seeing stuff as a side effect to sickness.
"But... I don't know what I should do." He paused a moment to let out a sigh. "This is really messed up. I should have an answer for everything. Aren't I a genius like everyone has always told me? Shouldn't I be able to help my friend out with something like this?.. I don't know.. I don't know. Maybe I'm just overthinking the whole thing. I could be. Maybe I'm not thinking hard enough, or maybe I should stop thinking and start doing. Maybe..."
Naruto stared at him blankly. "What are you talking about?" he asked.
"Apparently," the other boy started. "Chouji's been.. well.. I don't want to say 'doing drugs' because it doesn't sound serious enough but then again anything that has to do with narcotics would be something serious."
"What the hell?! Are you serious? Why?"
"He wanted to lose weight," Shikamaru answered. "I'm pretty sure it was for a girl. I mean, that's what he was talking about before. It was during that time when Kurenai had us doing those essays on whatever we wanted. One day I went over to his place, one thing was said followed by another and it slipped out that he wanted to lose weight to impress a girl. But he went on with telling me that he was losing it a healthy way... I'm not gonna lie, I kind of suspected that he was doing something funny when we wouldn't eat all together. Originally I had thought that it could have been an eating disorder."
"Isn't that only what girls do?" Naruto thought aloud.
"Eating disorders aren't only for girls," the other told him. "Guys do it too. And sometimes it doesn't only stem from vanity issues. Whatever though, this is getting off topic."
Neither one spoke after that. Naruto took the silence as an opportunity to take in everything Shikaramu had just said to him.
"So," Naruto said, breaking quietness of the room. "He did it to lose weight, to impress a girl.. Damn.. How- How does that even working."
"Well, when you do Speed, there's two different forms," Shikamaru explained. "The first is just an amphetamine, which even though is closely related chemically to methamphetamines, isn't really the same. There is no hallucinations or anything like that, all it does is keep you up. That's all it is, but it does start eating away at your body like all other drugs do. The second form of Speed, is methamphetamine, which is made using the ephedrine and pseudoephedrine method. Meaning over-the-counter meds are taken, placed in solutions and have the ephedrine or pseudoephedrine seperated. Then you add a bunch of cleaning supplies, and bam! You have methamphetamine hydrochloride."
"That sounds like something out of bio chem," said Naruto. "So how did that do his weight losing thing?"
"When taking a methamphetamine, not only do you stay awake for hours on end, you do a lot more physical activity, appetite can range from low to nonexistant, increased respiratory, hypethermia, and basically a high. But of course it also gives someone insomnia, confusion, convulsions, paranoia, anxiety, death."
"He was willingly doing this to himself for a girl?"
"If you think that's bad, I also found LSD and MDMA on him. That's worse than Speed alone."
"M-D-M-A," Naruto sounded out each letter carefully. "That's Ecstacy isn't it?"
Shikamaru nodded solemnly. "That stuff is lethal. True, any substance is. But Ecstasy can kill the first time you take it. As long as the dosage is big enough, or it's a bad mix. Sometimes when people make that, it's not even pure. A bad cut."
"Poor Frisco," the blond quoted.
Shikamaru caught onto the reference. "Poor Frisco indeed." (1)
"So what are you doing to do?" he questioned Shikamaru.
"Right now, to him it's only me that knows. I don't know how he'd react if other people knew. So for now, let's keep this on the down low, I'll play it off as though I haven't told anyone at all."
He turned his head and looked at Naruto dead in the eye.
"If I ever call you," he said, "to come help me out with him, will you?"
"You don't even have to ask me that," Naruto answered. "Of course I will."
Shikamaru turned his head back facing forward.
"Thanks."
"Anything for friends. Hell, you guys are like family. Like we're all brothers and sisters or something."
A small smile broke onto Shikamaru's face. "Doesn't that make Hinata your sister?"
Naruto turned and punched his shoulder lightly. "Shut up. You know what I mean."
Shikamaru rubbed at the newly developed sore spot unenthusiastically.
"Yeah," he said. "I get it."
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It was halfway through lunch and Hinata still had not seen Naruto anywhere. She had begun to think that maybe he had gone back to avoiding her for whatever reason he had before. She dismissed the thought though, not wanting to believe it at all. Instead she went on a search throughout the school. searching the grounds first and moving onto every floor. It then occured to her that maybe he had not yet left the library. She immediately went directly to the location and made her way to the back of the room where she was most certain he stayed during the hour.
She moved past the final shelves to the usual deserted table. To her utter happiness, there he was.
Naruto was facing opposite of her. He had a book faced open on the table, it looked though that he had given up on trying to read and instead opted for listenting to his CD player. Quite loudly at that. She concluded that he had not heard the bell ring and still thought it was fifth period.
She moved right behind him and threw her arms around his neck. Naruto instantly pulled his headphones down and turned his head at the feel of human contact.
"Hinata? What are you doing here?" he asked.
"It's lunch," she told him. "I was looking for you but no one had seen you so I thought maybe you hadn't left the library. I was right."
"No way, it's lunch already? I must have spaced out longer than I thought."
Hinata agreed nonverbally and let go of her hold on him. She reached out and took possession of the book that had been abandoned.
"What were you reading?" she asked him.
"A collection of Dostoyevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzche, Schopenauer, and so and so forth."
"What'd you think?"
"I think I know a whole lot more than any of them did," he laughed. "Honestly, these radical ideals and notions make it seem as though they have no idea what they're talking about. I compare it to a precocious ten year-old who wants attention."
"That bad, huh?"
"And how." He stood up and stretched his arms out. "But I guess they all have their moments.. Sometimes. Not all the time.. Hardly."
"Have you read enough to be that judgmental?" she questioned.
"I'm not being judgmental, I'm critiquing. There's a difference, I'm just not sure what it is," he told her. "And anyway, when you read Dostoyevsky, it's just sadder than watching John Edwards when he tried to win the primary election for the Democratic nomination."
Hinata laughed a little before stopping herself. "Naruto, you shouldn't say that," she said. "He tried his best."
"I'm just glad he pulled out before he lost more money."
Hinata let out a soft "Hm" and closed the book she had begun flipping through and set it back on the table.
"So if you had given up reading, we're you just listening to music?"
"Kind of," he said. "I was thinking more."
"Anything of particular interest?"
"Nothing really," he answered. "This and that. Mostly my love life."
She smiled softly. "You were thinking about Sakura?"
"No it wasn't Sakura," he muttered. "I was thinking more about you."
Her breath hitched at the back ofher throat due to the shock of hearing such a blunt statement from Naruto, the one that she had always seen in that light. To her, this was a bigger surprise than when Sasuke has approached her.
"Naruto, I-"
He pressed his hadn against her mouth, cutting her off from whatever it was she was about to say.
"Hinata," he said softly, "I need you to listen and I need you listen good. Okay, what I'm about to say, is important and oh-so-very-serious. I think that I have fallen in like with you. Yes, I said in like, because it's already pretty much obvious to me that I just don't like you but as far as using the "L" word, I don't know because now I'm questioning myself whether or not I even understand the definition.
"Right now that isn't really the point. The point is that I'm getting over Sakura already and even though that's true I'm still not really sure where I want to take this. But the truth of the matter is that I do like you. Now, nod your head if you understand what I just said."
She nodded her head numbly, fully understanding the words that were coming out of his mouth but also considering the idea that she was daydreaming again.
Naruto let out a breath of relief and dropped his hand away from her lips. He then took each one of her hands into each one of his own and moved one step closer to her.
"Thanks," he said. "For being so damn understanding.. Hinata, right now, what I kind of want is to kinda just do things alone for awhile, to give myself some time to overthink and make sure that I haven't overlooked anything that I am feeling for you becaue I don't want to hurt you by starting a relationship and the next day I'm gonna wanna callit quits. As far as all goes out right now, I do want to have a more than just friends relationship with you. Anyway though, the point of this second speech is, until I come back with a one hundred percent confident descision, will you wait for me?"
Hinata looked up at him with wide eyes and her mouth slightly agape. She felt her lips part and close again in an attmept to allow sound out to form a comprehensible answer but to no avail.
Naruto realized her lack of speech was stemming from her temporary loss of being able to vocalize anything and said, "Just a nod or a shake would be fine."
Hinata presed her lips together and nodded vigurously.
A broad grin broke out onto Naruto's face. He lowered his face down to her level and placed a chaste kiss on her tightly pressed lips.
"Thank you," he whispered and pulled himself back.
Only a moment later did Hinata act accordingly and fainted promptly into his arms.
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Sasuke exited the library only a few minutes after Naruto had with Hinata in his arms. Instead of leaving promptly when the bell had rung sounding the end of the fifth hour of the school day, he had noticed that the blonde had not left his table in the back. Suspicious, he too had stayed behind, overcome with the feeling that something big was about to happen.
And it had.
He had no idea that Naruto would have said something like that, but it was common knowledge that the blonde was more for tackling things head on instead of thinking them through. Even though he did, Sasuke had no way of knowing that.
Though to anyone, it would seem as that the raven haired boy would have been furious with this sudden proposition of the two of them forming a relationship, but in fact, he was actually quite pleased with this.
'The idiot just made everything a whole lot easier for me,' he thought. 'Now all I have to do is wait for Hinata to approach me, which should be tomorrow at earliest, and I can set up the next stage. This worked out quicker than I thought it would.'
He passed by the nurse's office and took a quick peak inside. Naruto was speaking with the nurse, Hinata was most likely already lying in one of the beds that were hidden behind the curtains. Sasuke quickly moved back and pressed himself against the wall. Naruto came through the doorframe and headed back in the direction of the library, never noticing that Sasuke was right behind him.
Sasuke smirked. 'Makes it all the better for me.'
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Naruto had gathered his things together and headed for the rooftop of the schoo.. He trotted up the stairs faster than usual, there wasn't that much of the lunch hour left and he still hadn't eaten. He pushed himself through the door and was instantly greeted with a noodle to the face.
"I told you it would be him," Kiba laghed. "And I got him with a noodle!"
"And if it wasn't him?" Shikamaru asked.
Kiba shrugged. "But it was. No harm no foul."
"Whatever," Shikamaru sighed. "It wouldn't be my problem."
Naruto wiped away the offending piece of food from his face and sat down with the other boys that were there.
"Did I miss anything?" he asked, opening his bag and retrieving his lunch.
"Yeah, you did," Kiba told him. "Shino spoke!"
"You make it sound like he doesn't at all," said Shikamaru.
"It's rare that he speaks during lunch time. Usually someone else is doing all the talking and he's just a wall flower."
"He would also appreciate it if either of you wouldn't speak about him as though he wasn't here."
"Oh my God!" Naruto shouted. "Shino spoke!"
The three of them laughed while Shino fixed a glare on Naruto.
Naruto coughed and cleared his throat. "So other than that, anything else happen?"
Kiba shook his head. "Nah, nothing ever happens unless your around. Then it's like, what trouble is he going to bring with him now?"
"That's not true," Naruto defended. "So that's happened a few times, not like anything extremely big goes on when I'm around."
Suddenly, at that very moment the door was kicked open and throught the frame came none other than Lee himself with an expression that screamerd out determination plastered onto his face. His rounded eyes focused on the group in front of him, upon recognizing the face he had been lookind for the entire hour, he pointed a finger directly at Kiba.
"You!" he exclaimed. "I have finally found you! After searching this school inside and out I had finally aquired the information needed in order to locate your presence and here you are along with myself. Now, I will make you pay!"
The four boys looked at him with puzzled expressions. Lee's whole appearance had just come out of nowhere.
"Well." Naruto was the first one to speak up. "Maybe I do bring excitement with me everywhere I go."
"Naruto, shut up," said Shikamaru. "Lee what are you talking about."
"It does not involve you Shikamaru," he said. "This is between Kiba and I."
"What did I do?" Kiba asked.
"You, Kiba Inuzuka, seduced my Tenten into falling in love with you and the after you had her in the palm of your hands crushed her spirit. Now she is so devestated she will not even acknowledge the love we once shared."
"Alright, Lee, just stop right there," Kiba said standing up and confronting the other boy. "First of all, I didn't seduce anyone-"
"Enough!" Lee shoted. "I will punish you for this heinous crime!"
In an instant, Lee had tacled Kiba down to the ground and began to uncerimonioulsy land punches anywhere he could on the other. Kiba recovered enough to realize the predicament that he was in and began to fight back in defense. Before things were able to wrosen between the two, Shikamaru, Naruto, and even Shino stod and raced to the two boys wrestling on the floor, trying to get the upper hand of the fight. The three of them tried to stop the small battle that was going on the quickest way possible by pulling them apart.
Each time that they were able to seperate them though, one of them would break free from whomever it was that held them back and land a fist on the other's face, causing the one who was struck to retaliate. It finally ended after Kiba had headbutted Lee, causing them both to stumble back in pain. In that moment, Shino grabbed onto Lee and held him firmly back while Naruto held Kiba back with as much strength as he had. Shikamaru stayed between the two, as a gesture that no more fighting would take place.
"What the hell just happened?!" He cried out, not really asking a question but just for the sake of there not being really anything else to say.
"He tackled me! That's what happened!" yelled Kiba.
"It was a rhetorical question, Kiba!" Shikamaru yelled back at him.
"Let go of me, Shino!" Lee cried out, trying to fee himself from the other boy's grasp. "Kiba! You will pay for what you did to Tenten!"
"Like hell I will!" Kiba shouted at him, also trying to escape Naruto's hold. "What the hell did I do?! I told her when she first came up to me that I didn't like her like that! I didn't do anything!"
"Liar! You broker her! Broke her to the point where now she sells her love to men!"
Kiba stopped struggling. "What did you say?"
"It was only yesterday that I found out for myself, the horrible truth of the damage you gave her poor heart. The place she works, it is where girls turn tricks for money, Kiba. She is selling herself because of you Kiba!"
Kiba's entire body went limp in Naruto's hold. So much that Naruto let go of him some without having to fear that he would go after Lee again. He then shook Naruto of. The blonde complied with his actions and let him go. Kiba looked around at all of them before storming back to where all of their belongings were and picked his own up in one swift movement before wrenching the roof door open and storm down the steps leading back into the school.
Lee was no longer resisting Shino's hold on him. But in any case, Shino stil din't let him go. The group of four boys said nothing, more out of being at a loss of words than anything else.
"Lee." Shikamaru broke the silnce this time. "If Shino let's you go are you going to go after him?"
"I do what I must," he answered.
"I think you did enough."
"That is impossible, I have done nothing to on behalf of Tenten's honor."
"Lee, did Tenten tell you to do this?"
"Well, not exaclty no."
"Then there's nothing for you to do. Leave Kiba alone. You've done enough for today."
Lee made no reply and instead hung his head down. Waiting for his release if it was ever to come.
"Let him go, Shino," Shikamaru said.
Shino followed the order given to him and Lee stepped away from him. It was then that the bell rang, signaling that classes were to continue soon. While Lee made his way to the door, the other three shuffled back to their original spot to gather their own items.
Before Lee disappeared entirely into the doorframe, Naruto called out to him.
"Was that true?" he asked. "About Tenten?"
"It most certainly was, Naruto." With that he left.
Naruto looked back at the other two. "You think I brought that with me when I came up here?"
"Naruto," said Shikamaru. "You're not that special. You didn't bring anything."
"I was just asking," he muttered. "Damn."
All three of them hurridly gathered what they owned and descended down the staircase.
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Although Sasuke did not return back to Homeroom at the end of the day, he did not stay after the final bell had rung for the remainder of Track. Instead, he quickly dressed himself out of the required uniform and back into his school uniform. As soon as he was properly attired, he went off in search of Sakura, hoping that she had not yet left the premises. It was important that he seek her out now, he was well aware of the fact that only Ino walked home with her, but he had seen the blonde girl down at the tennis courts, meaning the pinkette would be alone today. Which was more than perfect for him.
He loitered outside of the main gates, waiting patiently and scanning the mass of students making their way home. The only time his attention diverted was when Hinata passed by with Neji tailing beside her. He watched the girl from his position until she was no longer visible. Only then did he snap back to the matter at hand and continue his search for pink hair amongst the crowd.
Time passed one, fewer and fewer students were leaving the lot. Most of the one remaining were loitering around the place, waiting once again for that promised ride home that would most likely never show up and cursing themselves for believing it a second time around. In any case, Sasuke's patience was wearing thin. He was beginning to think that during his distraction she had slipped past him. Most unlikely, seeing as how Sakura was the most persistant of all his admirers, she would have made her acknowledge her somehow. Especially now that she thought he was starting to see her in a new light.
However, as the minutes ticked by, that possibility was becoming more and more proabable.
Letting out a breath of aggravation, he concluded that Sakura must not have seen him on her way out and had already gone home. He was about leave the school yard when in that instant, Tenten made her way passed him, talking away on her cell phone.
"I'm on my way now," he overheard. "I stayed after school for a bit. I was studying in the library with my friend Sakura. She was waiting for our other friend to get out of tennis practice and didn't want to be alone... I know, I'm on my way!"
The brunette strode right by him on her way out of the gates. Sasuke on the other hand, readjusted his bag and made his way back into the building. Upon entering the structure he saw the familiar bob of pink hair making her way down the staircase.
"Sasuke," she said, taken back in surprise that he was standing in front of her rather than being at his practice. "What are you doing here? Not that I don't want you to be here. I mean, if you want to be here that's great, but shouldn't you be down at the Track field?"
"I was," he said. "But I left early in order to offer you a walk home."
He face tinged pink. "I-I had no idea," she stuttered out. "If I did I would have found you immediately, I hope you weren't waiting for very long. I'm so sorry."
"It's not a problem," he said in a reassuring tone. "Maybe some other time."
"No! I mean, no, after all you went to all this trouble and.." She pulled out her cell phone and checked the time. "Besides, Ino won't get out of practice for at least another half hour, I could just run down to the changing rooms and leave a note in her locker telling her I left early."
"If that's what you want."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Sakura raced down the hall towards the changing rooms. "I'll be right back!" she yelled back to him.
Sasuke smirked to himself whilst watching the running figure dissappear out of sight. 'All I have to do is play into her fantasies,' he thought. 'Then once she secured in my grip, I'll be able to play her however I want.'
tbc. . .
(1) Another Brick reference... I really want to watch Brick. I have been ever since the last scene.. Still haven't.
A/N: Sorry that this kinda came out late. This was kind of pushed back on my priority list when stuff started happening this week. Long story short, I no longer have a Beta. That's more or less why you don't see a Beta's Note below. Yup, I have no Beta.. He's not talking to me and I don't know why and it's pissing me off. But really, this is no place to rant about this... Sorry I'm a bit out of it right now. With this shit going on and I just finished watching SLC Punk!.. I can never get through the movie without crying. As soon as it get's to the scene with Brandy's party, I'm gone.. Hell, at Chris' party I'm gone, that's just when I start feeling like crap. Makes me a bit nostalgic I think. Anyway, I'm off then. See ya guys next week.