As Faith ran past Mikoto she abruptly stopped and whispered to her, "Ino's early, you're up," before continuing to a safer hiding spot.
From inside the kitchen, Faith saw Sasuke storm into the courtyard with Ino still attached and yell, "'ka-san, where is she? I'm gonna kill her!"
To this, Mikoto only smiled a warm little smile and replied, "not right now, you have a lady guest waiting."
Sasuke scowled and started to protest but his mother silenced him with a meaningful "Uchiha Sasuke, I didn't raise you to be rude when called on by ladies." Exasperated but powerless, Sasuke could only turn reluctantly and leave his house with Ino who is still bound to his arm.
After exchanging a victorious smile with Mikoto, Faith returned to her room and set Itachi's present for Sasuke down on her bed. Then the door slammed shut behind her. Faith jumped and swung around to see a, shall we say, less than happy Sasuke. "Look, Sasuke," Faith stammered, "it was just a bit of fun. No blood, no foul, eh?" and chased it with a nervous laugh.
Advancing menacingly, Sasuke began in a soft voice, "sure, no blood, no foul." The kunai he pulled out added the his intimidating gestures, and he added, "but…we can always make a little blood…"
Faith gulped and closed her eyes. Sasuke wouldn't actually hit her, she knew that, but he was quite prodigious in the dark arts of pranks if pushed far enough.
"Faith," his voice toned down from poisoned honey to sweet dew, "if you wanted to, well, be more than friends you should've just said so. It'd be weird with the whole unconfirmable cousin thing, but I can't help it that I like you…" he looked down tentatively at her.
Faith blushed furiously, yet since she was already backed into the wall she had nowhere left to go.
"Anyways, you didn't have to throw girls at me," Sasuke said in a barely audible whisper as he leaned down in an attempt to peck the turnip red Faith on the cheek.
The door slid open and a stern voice commanded, "Sasuke, go back to your room immediately."
She tensed involuntarily, bumping her head into the wall, and Sasuke jumped back, flustered at not noticing the door open, and stalked out of the room as quickly as possible, muttering "mother" as he exited. Faith squeezed her eyes shut with vain hopes that the darkness could swallow her embarrassment. The sound of the door closing surprised her, Faith expected this to be one of those "we're gonna have a good talk" incidents, but nothing happened. In fact, no one ever spoke about it. The birthday dinner went smoothly with Mikoto lightly poking fun at Sasuke's surprise date and Faith stringing along cautiously. Night fell and the three of them retreated to their rooms and still no words about the episode.
AN sorry bout the lack of updates. Also, I haven't gotten a chance to upload the pictures of faith yet, they'll probably be up with the next chapter.
PLEASE review, I need to know people are reading cuz this story is starting to outlive it's original purpose…but I do still have a lot planned for it and I'm willing to continue if I know I have readers. Thanks.