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Petals of Cosmos

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"I said, GET UP YOU LAZY BASTARD!" Grabbing the poor bum below me by the ears, I forced him up with brute strength. I was in no means as strong physically as Temari, or even mentally as Sakura. But that wasn't to say I wasn't strong at all.

"KEH! Yeah, yeah, I'm up, I'm up." He groaned, obviously just stating it to ease my temper. "One yeah is enough!" I roared at him, taking charge as the self-proclaimed leader. I've been around that lazy bum for most of my life. We've known each other for oh, I really don't know how long, but it doesn't matter. When I'm angry, he knows it. As does our other comrade and teammate, the fatty who's stuffing his face full of potato chips.

I've warned him enough times that if he keeps on eating like that, he'll get fatter and no girl would ever love him. But I guess it doesn't matter to him. His heart belongs to his food. And I suppose, that in essence, he is the truth behind the, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach" cliché.

But I know them both by heart. And I'm glad I do, really. Even though it doesn't show through some of the times, even though I certainly don't act like it, and even though I'd 'rather be clinging to Sasuke-kun', it's really just a lie. I really harbored no crush for the Uchiha boy. My conquest for him was really just to get my rival fed up, since that was the reason she broke our friendship over. After a few times of the cold shoulder, I moved on to better things.

"UGH! Why can't you both be more like Sasuke-kun?!" I drooped to the ground putting both hands on my heads, the stress of having two lazy slob team members finally getting to me.

But they were lazy slobs I was lucky and grateful to have.