Disclaimer: Hmmmm . . . now what would happen if I did say I own Naruto? *Lawyers pounce on her* Noooooo! I didn't mean it! I swear! I don't own!
Note: Thank you everyone who reviewed! I am so happy. *Passes out cookies to everyone.* School is about to start soon and I HATE it. I wish school was a ninja school! It would be way more interesting, even though it would threaten my health. Ninja school 4evar!
Notice: Sorry, this may seem as a lame chapter. People will be a bit out of character. Sorry. As I said before, this IS my first Naruto fic . . . Also, there will be a bit of bathroom humor ahead, so be careful!
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Chapter Six
Don't Eat the Brownies, They're Bad For You
Sakura looked down on her work and smiled. An intricate work of ropes and weights all precisely measured out. Who knew Kurenai was a genius?
Even though she was working with a few ninjas that were destined to become some of the most skilled ninja Konohagakure, she had doubts. Now that it's all laid out, Kurenai-sensei's plan doesn't seem very funny any more. It's more of a trap than a prank. Just in case it doesn't work out, I'll throw in something extra!
Sakura finished the last bit of work that needed to be done. Kurenai, Hinata, and Ino had left long before and left the rest of the work for the day after. They had miscalculated how much time they had to complete the mission and failed for finishing it. Sakura stayed to work on it. She had completed it by herself. She felt very proud of herself just then.
Sakura yawned and stretched. Dark circles had formed under her eyes. She groggily walked home, stumbling around a bit in the darkness. Her mind had nearly shut down due to lack of sleep.
Sakura reached her house and fumbled with the door knob. She managed to open the door and she lazily plopped down on the chair with her legs hanging over the edge and her head propped up against one of the chair's arms. Almost immediately she fell asleep into a warm dreamless slumber.
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He he he he he . . .
Was someone laughing?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Yup, someone was laughing.
Tee hee . . .
And . . . giggling? Ok, what the hell's going on?!
Sakura's eyelashes fluttered as she gazed up at the three hazy shadows above her. She screamed and flailed her arms around, trying to push them away. The back of her hand made solid contact with one of the people and pushed them away. Something crashed in the background and gasps and annoyed groans were heard.
"Itai . . . Sakura! What do you think you're doing?!"
Her vision cleared and she sat up straight. Hinata was standing away from the chair with a shocked look on her face. Kurenai had stepped back and Ino was on the floor sitting next to her mom's desk wincing. A shattered glass lay on ground.
"Huh?" Sakura's mouth hung open. Her mind was still rather fogged and the light of the room burnt into her eyes. [RL: anyone who's mom enjoys flicking the light switch on and screaming bloody murder to wake you up knows what I'm talking about.]
"You pushed me into the desk! That thing has sharp edges you know!" Ino cried, rubbing her back where it had made contact with one of the pointy edges of the counter.
"Well its your fault. Don't wake me up like that, ok?" the pink haired girl yawned and stood up. She extended her hand to Ino and pulled the fair-haired teenager up on her feet. Hinata began picking up the glass shards, being extra careful not to stick herself.
After all was taken care of, the girls sat back down in the living room.
"You finished the prank for the boys all by yourself. I'm proud of you Sakura!" Kurenai said with a smile as she gave Sakura a thumbs-up sign.
"Thanks Kurenai-sensei, but I think our "prank" is more of a trap," Sakura answered with a slight sigh.
"Why?" Ino asked, pouting a bit.
"Because the more I think about it, the result won't be as funny as I hoped it would be!"
Hinata frowned a bowed her head down. "I'm sorry Kurenai-sensei, but I think Sakura might be right."
"What's the matter with you guys?! This will be hilarious! You will be laughing so hard that you'll be turning blue in the face!" Kurenai snapped. She started waving her pointer finger at them as if they were small children and she was their mother.
The younger girls went silent. The room became eerily quiet. So quiet, that if one was to even inhale that it would sound as if a bomb had landed. Not a heartbeat was heard as the trio of chuunin ninjas both wordlessly agreed that Sakura might be right, as they had seen the complete trap.
"Well! If that's how it's going to be then fine. But the trap will go off and the boys will be embarrassed," Kurenai said, narrowing her blood colored eyes.
"But they're boys! They're not going to be embarrassed," Ino said.
Kurenai opened her mouth to say something and then stopped to think. "Yeah, I guess your right, but what are we going to do?"
A light bulb magically appeared above Sakura's head and she stood up with a smile on her face. "I've got it!" she cried and ran into the kitchen.
The others walked into the kitchen and saw Sakura mixing stuff into a bowl. She threw in chocolate brownie mix, eggs, milk, and other assorted items into the bowl. She motioned for Ino to come over to her.
"Ino, reach into the top cupboard and get the green box for me," she ordered. Ino looked angry at the demand, but did it anyway. Who does Sakura think she is, bossing me around? She can't do that! After all, I'm the one with the normal sized forehead.
Ino stood up on her tiptoes and stretched to reach the lime colored box. Her fingertips brushed the box's side and it fell down and landed on the bridge of her nose. Ino yelped and held her wounded nose. The box lay on its side on the floor.
Hinata rushed over to Ino's side. No! This is the second time this week something has hit me in the face! Ino thought. Kurenai however, decided to give her attention to the object that had smacked into the blond's perfect face.
"What is this? Laxatives?! Sakura, you're putting laxatives in brownies?" Kurenai was shocked and gawked at the box with a look of anxiety.
"Yup!" she smirked. Her grin was stretched from ear to ear. "Isn't it brilliant?" Sakura took the box from Kurenai's hand and dumped the laxatives into the brownie mix.
"The whole . . . box?" she flinched.
Sakura nodded and hummed to herself. She continued to mix and then she dumped it all in a grease-coated pan. The Jounin teacher slowly backed away and gave a half-hearted thumbs up sign, then disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Sakura, you're really using the whole box?" Ino asked Sakura as she watched Sakura put the pan into the oven (or whatever they use to cook meals.)
"I am. I'm going to make Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi eat it all. Kakashi especially since he planned it all," Sakura spun around happily and smiled triumphantly. "It's gonna be great! They'll be crapping in they're pants ALL DAY!"
Ino started to like the idea of Sasuke having a little 'accident' and she patted Sakura on the back. Hinata, who was having neutral feelings about the whole prank, decided that them eating laxative brownies was way more funny than what they had planned.
"So what now? Do you want to do the laugh thing while we wait?" Ino gestured over to the oven where delicious brownie smells were coming from.
"No, not this time. The neighbors said that if they hear us do it one more time they'll hire assassin ninjas to do away with us," Sakura said sadly. She wanted to laugh as she used to do with her friends (hey, it reveals stress!) but she didn't want to die anytime soon, so she restrained the nagging urge.
Ino snorted. "Snobs."
"But we're no match against assassins. Its ok, we don't have to," Hinata said, trying to reassure her friends.
Minutes ticked by and then the timer went off. Sakura pulled on a pair of oven mitts and took the delicious looking but deadly sweets out.
"Wow, those brownies look almost as yummy as my Shikamaru!" The other two girls winced, as they did not find Shikamaru 'yummy.'
"Sasuke is yummier!" Sakura hissed.
"Naruto is kind of yummy too," Hinata blushed.
The girls bickered until the clock in the living room chimed. They all gasped. "OH MY GOD I HAVE TO GET TO CLASS!" Sakura grabbed her tray of laxative loaded chocolaty goodness and rushed out the door followed by Hinata and Ino.
Sakura ran into the forest where the training ground supposedly was. She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw what looked like Kurenai and Kakashi snuggling. She clasped a hand over her mouth to suppress a surprised shriek.
Kurenai whispered something into Kakashi's ear. He blinked and then nodded. The two separated and walked off to their each separate places.
Sakura had to shake off the sight she had just seen. Everything she thought Kurenai was was blown away. But still, she wouldn't let it interfere with her current mission.
-----At Kakashi's training ground
Sakura forced herself to look depressed ((RL: 'cause she's thinking about the prank o'coarse!)) as she stepped onto the forever sacred land known as 'Kakashi's Training Area.' Sasuke, Naruto, and Kakashi weren't anywhere to be seen. Sakura started to get chills running down her spine as she thought of what they could be doing.
Where are they? I bet they're going to try to pull another prank on me! How dare them! Those jerks!
Suddenly loud shrieks rang through her ears like thunder crashing in a valley. Naruto and Sasuke leapt down from the tree and surrounded Sakura in a tight circle. Then they clasped their arms around her neck and started hugging her tightly.
"I'm so sorry Sakura-chan!" Naruto wailed. "We should never have done that to you! We're total idiots!" Naruto said as anime style tears dripped down off his face.
"We're your total idiots!" Sasuke continued where Naruto left off.
Then they screamed into her ears. "PLEASE FORGIVE US FOR WE WHERE STUPID AND WRONG!"
Sakura was becoming light headed. Not because she was being hugged by the boy of her dreams, but because they were cutting off her air supply.
"Can't . . . breathe!" Sakura gasped, choking for air.
The boys let go of her imminently. Sakura fell over on the ground breathing heavily, trying to get some oxygen back into her air deprived lungs. Naruto and Sasuke looked down at her with mild amusement, for it is not everyday you get to see Sakura rolling around in the dirt gasping for breath.
Sasuke helped the poor girl up and forced himself to smile at her. Sakura looked at him with awe, because it was the first time she had actually ever seen his teeth. ((RL: you never do cause he never smiles!)) Sasuke then let his mouth fall back into an expressionless frown.
"Sakura, are you still mad at us?" he asked, trying his best to sound loving and sincere, but failed miserably.
"No, I'm fine. It's just a little prank, nothing more," Sakura blushed and looked down at her feet.
However, Inner Sakura had something different to say.
Hell no I'm not forgiving you, you heartless bastard!
In that time, Naruto had found the brownies.
"Wow, Sakura! You made brownies! Can I have one? Or you could give me the whole thing . . . "Naruto hugged the little lidded pan,
The girl swiped the tray out of his hand and held it protectively against her chest. "No way, not until Kakashi gets here!"
The boys' jaws dropped open. Sakura was reserving those tasty looking treats for their old perverted teacher?! Did this mean that she was no longer interested in Sasuke but now in Kakashi-sensei? These sort of thoughts raced through the two male ninja's mind. No! How could Sakura fall for a stupid pervert like him?
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Somewhere along the road of life, Kakashi sneezed.
"Strange, I must be getting a cold," he said as he shrugged off an impending feeling of doom that he was getting allot lately.
((RL: If anyone actually gets this joke, I'll be surprised.))
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Sakura looked at the utterly shocked faces of the boys. "What? Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Ah, nothing Sakura-Chan!" Naruto rubbed the back of his head. "But I would like one of your brownies, if that's ok with you. Please?" he asked, giving her his famous fox smile.
"Why not?" Sakura sighed and handed the pan of brownies to Naruto. "Just make sure you give some to Sasuke-kun."
Naruto's mouth watered as he hastily took off the plastic lid. He grabbed a hand full and shoved them into his mouth. He munch down happily on them.
Sasuke looked over Naruto's shoulder. His eyebrows lowered and his face was set in a scowl. "Naruto! Give some to me!" He demanded and scooped up about three brownies.
He took a bite out of one of them. "These are good Sakura," he said.
"These are almost as good as ramen!" Naruto said happily. He had a brown ring of chocolate around his mouth. Crumbs were falling onto his orange outfit.
She frowned. Naruto had already eaten well over 2/3 of the brownies and there was only one brownie left for Kakashi to eat.
Sakura grinned and replied, "Arigato. It's a new recipe and I'm using you guys as my genii-pigs."
The boys started to get cold sweat. They didn't like the way she said "genii-pigs."
Kakashi then walked in. He looked around and his eyes fell on Sakura. He stepped closer to the pink haired female.
"Sorry about yesterday, Sakura. It was funny at the time," he said.
"No its ok, Kakashi-sensei," she answered.
But Inner Sakura was saying something much different.
No way! I hope Kurenai bashes your nose in for everything you've done!
Kakashi suppressed a shiver. The chills?
"You're fine now?" Kakashi smiled. Sakura nodded and he scooped her up in his arms and gave her a giant bear hug on the neck. The girl started to gasp for air once again.
"Really? Sakura-chan you're so nice!" he looked up at the mortified expressions of Naruto and Sasuke.
"Let go of Sakura!" Naruto shouted. Kakashi instantly dropped the girl.
"I'm just playing with you Sakura!" he winked at her.
Sakura managed to stand up. She was dizzy from nearly being choked twice in a row. Then Sakura remembered the surprise she had for Kakashi and took the tray from Naruto before he could eat the last brownie.
"Kakashi-sensei! Will you try one of my brownies please?" She begged. She looked up at her teacher with large pleading eyes. She reminded him of a dog begging for table scraps.
"No." he said flatly.
Sakura gasped silently.
"But why not?" she tried to make herself look as cute as possible this time.
"Because I know what you're up to, and it won't work."
The training ground went silent and Sakura began to feel as if her whole world was crashing down.
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Hi guys! Sorry this took so long to get up. Mom has been driving my but all over the state and school's just started. Plus, I've been grounded from the comp.
To explain the sneezing thing: it's said whenever someone thinks something bad about you you sneeze. However, I get the chills. So, I just threw that in. Sorry about the slow updates. This took forever to write.
Has Kakashi fingered out the plan? Why were Kurenai and Kakashi snuggling? Will Naruto and Sasuke figer out about the brownies before it's too late? Read to find out.
Thankx! I luv you all.