Covergirl
By: Jarimaru
Disclaimer: You all should know I don't own these characters. End of story.
Summary: Ino and Sakura are going out. The only people who know are Sasuke and Naruto. They are dating as well. But in public, Ino and Naruto are madly in love and Sasuke has finally given into Sakura's pleas.
Authors note: Yea. I hope this one is a bit longer. –Sweat drop-
Plot Copyright Jarimaru, 2005. All rights reserved.
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Chapter Four
Ino groaned, and tried to turn over, only to be stopped by something large sitting on her. She opened a sleepy eye, to see what it was.
"Sa...Sakura? What… What are you…? Where are we?" She groaned, pushing the pink-haired girl off of her, and looked around. Sasuke was asleep; his head on Naruto's shoulder, and Naruto was eating some ramen. Naruto looked up at her and slurped the rest of the noodle before smiling.
"Morning Ino. Sleep well?" He looked over to Sasuke and then back at Ino.
"Mhm. When… did?" She rubbed her eyes, and looked around. "Why're we at Kakashi's place?"
"My place too, and I invited you over. Don't you remember?" Naruto took up another mouthful of ramen.
"No, but I suppose I will later…" She yawned, and looked down at Sakura, and reached down to poke her eye. Sakura twitched, and moved her hand to her face.
"Ino, that's not very nice." Kakashi stood in the doorway, Ichya Ichya Paradise in hand.
"Kakashi-sensei, you've been reading that book since I met you 6 years ago. Aren't you ever going to finish it?" Ino asked.
Kakashi just blinked, and looked down at the orange thing. "Yea, I guess I have… hm. I wonder if that means anything." Naruto just rolled his eyes, and turning to Sasuke, shook him by the shoulders.
"Waaaaakkke uuuuuup." Naruto whined, and Sasuke groaned, opening his eyes.
"Fine…" He pushed the hair out of his eyes and looked around. Ino looked rather sleepy, but awake, and Naruto seemed well adjusted.
"What time is it?" the Uchiha asked.
"Uhm…around 9:45am. Why?" Naruto continued to eat his ramen.
"No reason." Sasuke got up, and brushed his clothing off, for little apparent reason, and walked to the bathroom.
Iruka sat in his room, well, their room, drinking his tea and watching the city wake. It was a strange sight, really. An old sort of dingy town nestled in a forest and some mountains far away. The shop keepers began to turn on their lights, and open their stands. The Ramen Shop, which he visited regularly with Naruto, already had a few customers, mostly young children, grabbing something to eat before heading off to the Academy.
"I miss them." Iruka turned to look at the voice, and saw Kakashi.
"Yea… I do too. But, we've got other things we have to do." A year and a half ago, Kakashi and Iruka had been told they were to stop teaching. At first, Kakashi couldn't have been happier. Finally, he'd be able to relax. But after a month or so, reality had set in. He would miss seeing his students; the former ones, and the ones to come. At that point, he began visiting Obito's grave two or three times a day, and contact with other humans diminished. After one exceptionally long bout of absence, Iruka came to find him, and was surprised to see Kakashi with his back to the grave marker, asleep.
"Kakashi?"
"Kakashi! What are you doing?"
"Waiting."
"Waiting? For what?"
"To join them… to join my comrades."
The words rang in Iruka's mind for a moment, and he looked at Kakashi.
"Do you remember?"
"Remember what?"
"When we started living together?"
"Yea. Right after we… we got dismissed. You took me to your place." Kakashi laughed, "I remember Naruto freaking out when he found me on the couch."
Iruka had taken Kakashi home that night, worried he may get sick, or die…
Iruka had let him sleep on the couch, even though he would have preferred to sleep with him in his own bed. Kakashi had refused.
"I don't want Naruto to think there is anything more than friendship between us."
But, it had been obvious, so painstakingly obvious, to the rest of the Village, that they were more than "comrades". There was just something about the two, when they were together, that told so much more. They thought they hid it well, that it was their little secret, but in reality, the only secret was that they didn't know everyone knew.
But after Kakshi moved in with Iruka, with Naruto as well, because Iruka didn't want the blonde to die from cancer, (ramen), the two jonin thought they had let the secret loose. It didn't matter though, not anymore, if they were thrown out of the village. They both had so little to cling to in Konoha, they had nothing to loose.
But life continued on not taking any notice to them, because nothing had changed.
Sasuke returned from the bathroom five minutes later, hair wet from a shower.
"Aww… why didn't you tell me you were going to shower? I coulda gone with yoooou." Naruto whined, again.
"For that reason exactly." Was all Sasuke told him. "Anyhow, we would have taken too long, and you have class today." Naruto blinked, staring wide-eyed at him.
"I DO!" Sasuke nodded, letting a smirk cross his face.
"FUCK!" Naruto jumped up, running too check the clock. It was 9:55am. He had five minutes. Five minutes to shower, to get dressed, to get down to his class. He ran into the bathroom, and jumped into the shower, not taking notice of his clothing.
"Sasuke?" Ino said.
"Yea?"
"That clock's 30 minutes fast."
"I know."
The cold water drenched Naruto, and his orange pants clung to him, the white shirt sagging from the jet of the water. He scrubbed his hair with the soap, and turned off the water, stripping and leaving his clothing in the tub. Grabbing a towel, he wrapped it around his waist just as he stepped out of the bathroom, and ran into his room, pulling out a large green vest and a dark blue shirt/pants combo. Pulling on his boxers, and then his pants, he glanced out the window. He stopped buttoning his pants. There was a kid. Staring at him.
"OHMIFUCK!" Naruto yelled, "THERES A KID PERVERT!" he ran to his window, pulling a shade over it. Ino yelled from the other room,
"A WHAT?"
"A KID. A PERVERT KID. HE WAS WATCHING ME DRESS!" Naruto continued to dress, not bothering with the bandages he was supposed to have around his ankles. He listened as Ino, and Sakura, (who was apparently awake now) began to laugh.
"WELL IS HE HOT, AT LEAST?" Sakura yelled. Naruto blushed, and walked- well, hopped back out to the living room, pulling a shoe on.
"HE WAS A LITTLE KID! You pervert!"
Sakura and Ino just laughed harder, and Naruto blushed some more.
"It's 10:05, Naruto." Sasuke said casually.
"Aw, Damnit! I'm late!" Naruto pulled on his shoe at last, and, with a quick goodbye kiss stolen from Sasuke, flew out the door.
"Sasuke?"
"Yea?"
"Do you like tormenting Naruto?"
"It's what I live for."
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-Sighs- Okay. I finally got that finished. –Claps hands- Yay!
Well, I was going to do a teaser scene with Naruto, but if you people are smart, you should be able to figure out what he's doing. (Note the outfit maybe?)
Or maybe I just completely screwed that scene up and no one has any Idea what I'm talking about. –Sweat drop- Either way, I had fun.