Hey guys (yes, i'm still alive)! its been a while since i posted anything, hey? Well here's part two to love contract. Finally decided to continue it and with that i so -unintentionally- addedin an OC. Y'see, i just couldn't seem to find a way to get rid of her... So yeah! Hope you guys like it. I'm not a very funny person in real life so i don't know how this'll turn it. Think: 15. and Think: author rushed this so it might not make sense. Here goes...!
Chapter two: The Schedule
Sasuke looked around the room. He didn't really want to be in here but the Hokage had requested that he seek a certain white-eyed ninja to go see her before he can finish his day. So there he was, standing in the Ninja foyer, feeling absolutely awkward that there wasn't the usual crowd that occupied the place, and being hysterically laughed at by some guy he wasn't particularly familiar with. ("Oh my God, Naruto! Bwahahaha! You're in for it man!") So… what was so funny?
Dismissing it, his eyes searched for Neji, and said: "Neji, Tsunade-sama wants to see you."
"BWHAHHAHAHAH!"
What's… so funny?
Collecting himself, he repeated again, "Neji, Tsunade-sama wants to see you." He didn't care if the object he sought heard him or not. He did what he was told to do and that should be the end of it. Turning, he prepared to leave.
In the corridor, he saw the same girl he'd seen just seconds ago trying to clip the overloading papers together that she so recently dropped. Sasuke contemplated whether or not he should be lending a hand but thought negative of it. I picked up the clip –what more does she want?
He walked down the lengthy corridor, relaxed to know that he was having a two month break off all missions when the laughter from inside intensified. At this point though, he didn't really care.
However, inside the room, a certain blonde could not find his situation at all relaxing. "You're FUCKING kidding, right? You can't DO this to me!" Though knowing his wails and cries of unfairness were futile, he insisted anyway. "Kiba! That's MAD, you know! That's SICK! That's DISGUSTING! That's… that's…" Losing words, Naruto just blurted, "That's SASUKE!"
"Hahahahha!" continued a hysterical Kiba "This'll be so fun!" He knew that this was insane but Kiba just couldn't help enjoy the pain and torture Naruto would have to be in. Maybe he was a sadist after all.
He turned to his other two comrades who seemed equally enjoying the situation. "To think," he said catching his breath, "he came to look for you, Neji " and he lost it again.
Neji by now had lost his cool. "I think it's fate," he said to Naruto
"Fuck fate!" cried an irate Naruto. "I think you all planned it out! You know what, I ain't going through this. I'll live on the streets if I must. No way am I gonna make him like me. Hell! Spending a day with him is fucking torture!"
The laughter in the room came to a sudden halt at this point. "Are you," said a rather calm Shikamaru. "a person who goes back on their words?" Naruto was met with icy glares from all three ninjas. Now, Naruto realised, it wasn't a matter of paying rent or not –it was his ninja integrity on the line. He spent so long building it up, he couldn't afford to lose it now. Especially not to a certain black haired, red eyed prick.
"I thought it was easy, Naruto. Didn't you say you were irresistible, anyway?" Kiba taunted.
"Didn't you say you didn't care what it was?" pushed Neji.
Naruto slid down in his seat for the umpteenth time that afternoon. He was utterly hopeless. Sasuke? Why him? Then, suddenly, his last thought hit him and he finally realized the seriousness of the situation. "OH MY FUCKING LORD!" It was moments like these he wondered how his heart could still stay strong and pumping. "S-SASUKE'S A FUCKING GUY!" If anything, he wanted to faint right that instant.
"Of course, Sasuke's a guy." The four heard the females voice and turned in her direction. Sadly for Naruto, she was the exact type he wanted to come through the door. Long, brown hair; big blue eyes; perfect female's body. What was she trying to do coming in now? Make him kill her? "And mind you're language. You're so loud, the entire village can hear you."
"Shut up," he muttered under his breath. Then –"Fuck! You heard me?"
"Of course I heard you," said the girl. "Who wouldn't?"
Naruto quickly got up in his seat. "So, you mean, you heard? Like, me? Us?" he gestured to his friends. "…This?"
The girl thought for a moment. "Yeah."
"What did you hear?" asked Kiba
"Oh," she shrugged, "someone having to go out with someone. Someone doing this for money. Someone trying to torture this someone. Someone going to do it."
"Exactly!" screamed Naruto and pointed an accusing finger at Kiba. "Someone trying to torture this someone."
"You know I didn't know it was him," defended Kiba.
"Oh, do I?"
"You don't believe a friend?"
"I don't know what to believe."
Exchanges like that went back and forth until the girl interjected. "So…, what next?" Kiba suddenly eyed her suspiciously. "What's it to you?"
"You know, I could always blurt this out," she said with a smile.
"You mean…"
"I wanna join."
"You're sick," spat Naruto.
"Whatever." She walked closer to their table and took a nearby seat. "By the way, I'm Misako, if anyone's interested."
"Not a chance," Naruto replied coldly.
Ignoring him, Misako looked at the confused three. "So what's next? This is some sort of dare, yeah? We're gonna make it interesting or what?"
The three ninjas looked at each other carefully, not completely comprehending the situation. Kiba looked at the girl again and shrugged, not really caring. "Whatever."
"So what exactly is this?" Misako asked again.
"It's a love contract," said Kiba, "between Naruto and Sasuke. It lasts for a month and basically, Naruto needs to make Sasuke like him for us to help him pay his rent."
"Is that all?" dismissed Misako, leaning back in her seat.
"What do you mean, is that all?" demanded an angry Naruto "It's Sasuke, here. There's more to it than 'is that all'." Naruto gave her a mean glare. Did he say 'exactly the type he wanted' before? Scratch that.
"Hmm…," thought Misako, completely ignoring anything the blonde was saying. "You said a month, yeah?"
"Yeah?" prompted Kiba.
"Well why don't we do this?" She reached for her folders and grabbed a blank A3 paper and pen and began scribbling.
"What're you doing?" Kiba asked, puzzled.
"Today's the 29th of March. We have two more days till this month finishes –so we'll start this in April."
"What're you trying to get at?" said Shikamaru sounding bored already. Misako continued scribbling what soon looked like boxes.
"Now, since it's a contract, then its binding, right? And in most contracts there should be: date-and what should happen, true?"
"Not exactly," replied Neji
"Whatever. So thirty days. Hmm… I know!" exclaimed Misako. "There's a circus coming on the 4th April. Naruto can start by asking Sasuke to go!" Looking proud, she began marking the fourth box she drew and noted 'circus'.
"There's a circus?" all boys asked in unison. "How come we don't know?"
"We'll, it's actually my dad opening it and its supposed to be spreading through word of mouth. You guys just probably missed it." She looked at her sheet. "Which means," she spoke more to herself than to the others, "Naruto'll be asking on the first." With that, she wrote, 'ask him out' on the first box.
Seeing this, Neji understood where this was going. "Are you coming up with, like, a schedule?"
Misako looked up and nodded. "When do you want them to hold hands?"
Hearing this, Kiba also got the gist of it. "Oh… I see. ("Who the hell's gonna hold that prick's hand?") What about the tenth? Long enough?"
"Ok." ("Anyone listening to me?")
"Nah," said Shikamaru . "Too fast. Considering them two, I'd think the fifteenth."
"Oh yeah." ("Hellooooo?")
"First hug?"
"Hugs should go before holding hands, yeah?"
"The tenth can be the hug," suggested Neji.
"HELLOOO!" Naruto finally screamed. "I'm not gonna do it."
All four gave him threatening looks. "Y'CAN'T GO BACK ON YOUR WORDS."
After ten or so minutes, the 'schedule' was finally drawn out. "So," announced Misako. "This is it. 1st: official 'ask him out'; 4th: circus; 8th: dinner; 10th: first hug; 15th: holding hands; 20th: date at the beach; 28th: kiss –Shikamaru throwing an extra month's rent (optional); and 30th: confession. But of course, you can do other stuff with him too but those are just what you have to do." She smiled. Kiba smiled. Shikamaru smiled. Hell, even Neji smiled. But Naruto?
"I AIN'T GONNA KISS THAT JERK!"
"It says 'optional'? Cant you read?" said an irritated Misako. She didn't know Naruto that well, but already she knew he was whiny.
"Just do it," cooed Kiba.
"I know, yeah. We're already lenient on you. I mean, hugging and holding hand's nothing," said Shikamaru.
"OH YEAH? WE'LL LET'S SEE YOU DO THAT TO KIBA!"
"'I don't go back on my words. That's my way of a ninja',"quoted Neji. and that seemed to have done it. Naruto immediately shut up.
"So where're we gonna put this?" asked Misako.
"I know where. Here, come with us." The four got off their seats and Shikamaru and Misako were following Kiba whereas Neji...
"We'll I guess I should be seeing the Hokage now. You putting it in that place?"
"Yeah," replied Kiba.
"'Kay then. We'll I'm off. Catch you guys later." And with that, Neji left the room.
"So where you from, Misako? I've never really seen you around before?" Kiba and Misako left the room also, chatting up and getting to know each other. Shikamaru, on the other hand, stayed behind for a while. He saw the sulking Naruto and patted his friend's back out of habit.
"It ain't that bad," he tried.
"Ain't that bad? You go try it, Shika."
In truth, Shikamaru did understand how Naruto was feeling and knew how bad such a predicament was. Making someone like you? Especially your enemy, and not to mention, a guy? That was really some bad shit going. "Well, you know," he tried again, "at least it wasn't Chouji."
He walked out of the foyer but not before hearing a final wail from Naruto. He seriously didn't know what would happen in the next month but he smiled knowing that it was going to be one hell of a show.
("I'm two years your senior. Of course you wouldn't see me 'round.")
TBC?
