As I promised an extra chapter for this week. Wee! After writing this I'm going to go knit! I've recently become obsessed with knitting. It's all thanks to my family studies class. Ahaha Wow, looking back at the last chapter, I just noticed how many mistakes I made and what bad grammar I have. Tsk tsk, I'm gonna edit it after knitting. Or mybe right after I upload this chapter. Yeah, after uploading sounds just about right. Any who, thank you again for reviewing! I think I've said that about a gazillion times now. Woo! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto so blah.
It's Turkey Time!
"Class, Thanksgiving Holiday is this weekend so you will have Monday off." said Kakashi. The entire class cheered as they had been stressing over who knows what because they haven't been doing anything in Kakashi's class.
At the moment, Sakura was staring out the window day dreaming. It had been at least a week since the sleep overhappened. She could remember vividly what had happened between her and Sasuke. More like that was the only thing she could remember.
Flashback
Sakura's eyes slowly fluttered open as the sunlight streamed through the windows. She felt warm and safe for some reason. Though any of you would feel warm and safe in your own bed right? She snuggled into the covers (She's thinking they'reher covers, she doesn't she's sleeping on Sasuke.) and inhaled the scent of her bed, Mmmm...when did my bed smell so good. Again she snuggled deeper into the covers, but this time her "bed" groaned.
Her eyes snapped open. Her "bed" was breathing. Slowly she lifted her head, only to be greeted with the face of Uchiha Sasuke. Why am I sleeping on him... She thought slowly.
Looking down she saw that she herself was sitting on his lap. Her eyes widened. Gah! So that's what smelled so good! Wait what am I talking about! Slowly she tried to get off his lap but with no success, his grip around her was surprisingly strong. It was like a child and it's favourite toy not wanting to lose it. Crap! I'm going to be stuck here until he wakes up! Maybe if I... Sakura looked at him, raised her finger and poked him on the forehead. He grunted. Again she poked him, only this time it was harder, much harder.
His eyes snapped open and it turned into a deadly glare. Emerald (screw it I wanted to write jade but it sounded corny for some reason so blah haha) met onyx. Their faces were a mere millimetre apart. His glare stopped. Sasuke's face was slowly rising red and Sakura's...well hers was already cherry red.
"S-Sakura..."
"Sasuke-kun, can you let go of me now?" said Sakura quietly so only he could hear. Immediately he let go of her realizing how tight he had just held her and just how close as well.
Sakura got off his lap and raised her arms over her head and stretched with her tank top going up a little and exposing some of the skin on her abdomen.
"Sasuke-kun, I'm sorry."
"What for."
"Sleeping on your lap, making you uncomfortable."
He smirked. "I wouldn't say I was uncomfortable."
Her eyes widened a bit and she turned a light shade of pink.
"Sakura-channnn! Sasuke-teme! Are you guys awake?"
"Naruto! You're so loud in the morning!" yelled Sakura.
"Dobe."
"What did you say teme?"
"I said dobe, dobe." Sasuke said coolly while smacking Naruto's head.
"Itai! What the hell was that for!"
"Disturbing the peace."
Sakura sighed. This was going to be some morning.
End of Flashback
"Sakura."
"Sakura."
"Sakura."
Whack
"Ow! What the hell was that for! Ino-pig!" Sakura yelled as her head snapped up glaring at her blond friend.
Ino sighed, "Class ended 10 minutes ago. It's time to go home."
"Oh..."
"She whacked you in the head because you seemed to be so out of it." explained Tenten.
"Eheh I was um daydreaming."
"No shit. You had this weird goofy look on your face."
"P-plus S-Sakura-chan was blushing too."
"I was so not blushing!"
"Yeah, yeah. Come on let's go! It's a long weekend and I want to go home right away." said Ino.
All of them followed Ino outside to the front of the school where the boys were waiting for them.
"What was taking you guys so long?" asked Naruto.
"Sakura was daydreaming and lost track of time." said Tenten.
"Tch, troublesome."
"Come on let's go!" shouted Ino waving her hands widly in the air. She had started to walk first before any of them had and was already at the end of the street. Running, they all sped up to catch up to her.
"So this weekend's Thanksgiving, any plans?" asked Sakura.
"Don't know, don't care." replied Sasuke.
"I wasn't asking you Sasuke-kun." She huffed.
"Hn."
"Actually, Sakura-chan. We all have no where to go. Usually we all go off somewhere but this year we're just staying here..." Hinata spoke quietly.
"You know what? I have an idea!"
They all looked at Sakura.
"Why don't you guyscome over to my place and we can have dinner there! We can make the food ourselves. Like turkey and everything! "
"Sounds like a good idea!" exclaimed Naruto.
"Well better than nothing." said Tenten.
"Oh great, I'd rather die than eat Ino's cooking." muttered Shikamaru.
"What was that you lazy ass?" glared Ino.
"Nothing, nothing. How troublesome."
"A-are you sure your parents will be okay with this Sakura-chan?"
"Oh yeah. Besides, they won't be here the entire weekend. They're off on a business trip."
The only two people who hadn't had any input to this idea were Neji and Sasuke. The other six looked at them both expectantly. Waiting for an answer.
"What." asked Sasuke.
"Well...do you guys want to have dinner at my house on Thanksgiving?"
Neji looked at her, then at everybody else, then again at Sakura and slowly nodded. Again all of them now looked expectantly at Sasuke.
"Hn."
"Is that a yes?" asked Naruto.
"I'll take it as a yes." Said Sakura grinning.
"Okay, so we'll go shopping for food on Sunday and you guys can all come over at 9 am on Monday!"
Sunday rolls around...
"Sakura-chan what are we buying?" yawned Naruto though it was only 2 in the afternoon. He hated shopping. It was so boring to him, but the only thing that excited him about shopping was going to the ramen aisle. No surprise there.
"Hm, a turkey for sure, ingredients for apple pie, apples, potatoes, sour cream, butter, herbs, spices..." the list just went on and on.
The guys groaned. It's going to be a long day...
"Naruto! Put that down!" scolded Sakura. It was now 4; they had been shopping for food for 2 hours already.
"This is so troublesome."
"I could be doing something better than this." said Sasuke through gritted teeth.
"Neji! Come over here!" came Tenten's voice.
Neji grunted and walked over to her. She was looking at stuffed animals and currently saying how cute every single one of them was. (My food store thing has toys selling there. Odd...)
"Ah, this one's so cute! This one too! Neji what do you think?" she asked him as she held up a cute fluffy stuffed puppy.
"Do you want it?"
"Oh, I couldn't."
"Why?"
"I don't want you wasting money on me!"
"I'm not wasting money on you Tenten. If you want it, I'll buy it for you."
He plucked the cute little toy out of her hands and walked to the register. A few minutes later he walked back and placed it back in her hands.
"Thank Neji." She whispered and looked into his face. He smiled a little and hugged her while kissing the top of her forehead and then her lips.
"Get a room!" shouted Naruto.
They broke apart glaring at Naruto. A few seconds later Tenten was seen being dragged by the Hyuuga.
"Neji! Where are we going?"
"Getting a room." he smirked.
"Wow...they really are getting a room..." said an amazed Naruto. Meanwhile, Ino, Hinata and Sakura were busy picking a turkey.
"No, I think this one's best."
"No this one!"
"No! This one Ino-pig!"
"Forehead-girl, you know that this one's the best. It looks better than yours!" To be honest, the turkeys all looked the same. People around them were slowly backing away from the two angry teens and giving them odd looks like they were insane arguing over a turkey. While the 3 boys were watching them both in amusement.
Hinata was quietly choosing between two turkeys.
This one looks good. It's not that big or too small. But it looks too stringy.
Finally, after deciding which turkey wins, she picked up the winner satisfied.
"Ino-chan, Sakura-chan. I think this one's the best one."
Ino and Sakura looked at her. Both were panting from the arguing. After panting for a long while, they examined the turkey.
"Okay, Hinata-chan's wins."
"But I still think mine was better than yours forehead-girl."
"Oh give it up Ino-pig, mine was better!"
"Both of you shut up." A low voice said. Ino and Sakura looked up finding Sasuke glaring at them.
"Arguing over a turkey, how stupid."
"She started it!" they both yelled pointing at each other.
"Are we done yet, Sakura-chan?" whined Naruto.
"Yeah, we're done."
"Jeez, finally." said Shikamaru, obviously bored to death.
Monday rolls around...
Promptly at 9 in the morning the doorbell rang at the Haruno residence. Sakura swung open the door and greeted her friends with a cheery smile plastered on her face.
"Ohayou minna! (Good morning everyone)" she chirped.
"Morning Sakura-chan!" Ino, Hinata, Tenten and Naruto chorused. The rest were grunts of acknowledgement.
"Before we start cooking why don't we have some fun first?"
"Sounds like a great idea!" grinned Ino.
"We came here at 9 in the morning to just play games?" asked a slightly ticked off Sasuke. He had woken up extra early just because Sakura said 9. And what were they suppose to do at 9? Cook a freakin' turkey not play games!
"Well...it is kind of early to start cooking and besides I think some of you are still half asleep anyways, why not cooklater?" When she said "some" she was pointing to Naruto, though not physically everyone knew who she was talking about. He was practically leaning on her wall asleep and drooling.
"Stupid idiot." grunted Sasuke.
"Come on, let's go to my room!" Shikamaru thumped Naruto on the head waking him up and then followed Sakura and the others while Naruto was yelling to the top of his lungs "What the hell was that for!" and then "Wait for me!"
The 7 friends found their surroundings familiar as they had stayed in the house a week before. Once they got to her room they settled themselves in any comfortable space they could find. The couch, her bed and the floor.
"So, what are we going to play?" asked Tenten as she rolled on her back on the bed.
"I don't know." said Sakura.
Sasuke snorted, "You were the one who wanted to play something."
"I didn't say play, I said have fun."
"It's the same thing."
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
Their friends sweat-dropped.
"G-guys please s-stop." Hinata quietly said.
"Fine."
"Whatever."
"How about..." started Naruto.
"Strip poker?" grinned Ino evilly.
Their eyes widened. Strip poker? Was she serious?
"Okay, then it's decided. Strip poker it is!" said Ino.
"I-Ino-chan!" splutter Hinata.
"What?" she asked innocently.
"A-are you serious about playing?" gulped Sakura.
"Why are you guys so nervous?"
"I-it's just that..." stuttered Tenten.
"All right! Strip poker!" shouted Naruto.
"Dobe, why are you so excited."
Naruto grinned wickedly.
"I bet he's thinking of dirty thoughts." muttered Shikamaru.
All of their eyes widened.
"Naruto! You sick bastard!" screeched Sakura as she hit him on the head with the nearest thing to her. Which was at the moment the desk lamp.
"Itai! Sakura-chan, that hurts! Besides I wasn't thinking that!"
"Oh I'm sure." snorted Neji.
"Naruto, that is so sick!" said Tenten with disgust.
"Jeez, let me say something. I was excited because I can whip all your asses in poker."
"Yeah right!"
"I'm sure."
"Whatever."
"How troublesome." (Where did that come from? O.o)
"What you guys chicken?"
"What!"
"No way!"
"Bring it on!"
And thus begins the tale of strip poker! (I do not know anything about poker so don't kill me. I only know about flushes and royal flushes so yeah.)
An hour later...
What Naruto said was true. He was indeed good at poker. He was right now the only person in the room who had only 2 pieces on clothing removed. Those were his socks and t-shirt.
Sasuke and Neji were in their boxers. Shikamaru had his t-shirt and boxers on. Hinata...well she backed out a long time ago. Ino and Sakura were down to their bra and pants. Tenten...she um...well...let's just say that luck was defiantly not on her side today.
"See I told you I'd whip your asses!" laughed Naruto.
"Yeah, yeah."
"Don't rub it in."
Sasuke and Neji glared sporks (Spoon fork! They're so cute.) at him.
Naruto looked at the hand he had right now. When he saw what he had his mouth spread into an evil grin.
"Suckers!" he laughed as he showed him his hand.
All of them groaned.
"Okay, we give up!" said Sakura. Right now she was uncomfortable with just wearing her bra and pants. Several times she caught Sasuke looking at her. But then again she too looked at him. Staring at his muscular chest, toned arms...she drooled.
"This is getting way out of hand!" exclaimed Ino.
All of them nodded, except for Naruto.
"Aww man! I was winning!"
"Yeah, we know. But I don't want to be butt naked in front of you guys!" said Tenten glaring.
They all agreed with her. Right now they were getting embarrassed with the lack of clothes each of them were wearing.
"Um, w-why don't we put our clothes on and head downstairs to the kitchen and start cooking?" suggested Hinata.
"Good idea Hinata!"
In a flash they all put back on their clothes and headed down the kitchen.
"I think we should split up into to groups." said Shikamaru.
"Yeah, that way cooking would be easier."
"But when we get to the turkey we can all do it!"
"Okay, so we'll split up. So Sasuke, Tenten and Neji will be with me," started Sakura. "Then Ino, Hinata, Naruto, and Shikamaru."
They nodded and split up into their groups.
"What should we start with?" asked Tenten.
"Um...what about the pie?" said Sakura.
"Sure!"
Sakura instructed them on what they needed and then started to look in the kitchen for the ingredients and materials needed.
"Okay, so we have eggs, baking powder, flour, beater, butter..." listed Sakura. "Okay! Let's get started!"
"Alright!" shouted Tenten as she punched her fist in the air.
With the other group...
"W-why d-don't we make pasta?"
"Great idea Hinata-chan!" Naruto grinned with his trademark grin.
"So we'll need spaghetti, pots, tomato sauce, meat, and a strainer." said Ino.
"Oh dear lord...here we go again." muttered Shikamaru.
"I heard that!"
Shikamaru rolled his eyes.
After gathering the ingredients, they all set to work. Ino filled the pot with water and put it over the stove waiting for the water to boil up so she could put the uncooked spaghetti inside. Hinata opened up the jar with the spaghetti and took a handful and laid them on the counter. Naruto and Shikamaru used a can opener to open the can of tomato sauce, dump it into the smaller pot and set it on the stove.
Once the water started to boil Hinata dumped the handful of spaghetti into the boiling water, took out a wooden spoon and started to stir. Ino at the moment was taking out the ground beef seasoning it a bit (Don't know what my mo does with the beef) and dumped it into the sauce. Now Hinata and Ino were standing side by side stirring the items within their pots. When the spaghetti was cooked she asked Naruto to help her get the pot of the stove. Hinata then asked him to pour the pasta into the strainer, which he did until some of the hot water spilled over his hand.
"ARGGG!"
All of them looked at him and ran towards to scalded boy.
"N-Naruto-kun!" Hinata said worriedly. "A-are you okay?"
"It burns!"
Gently she took his burned hand and looked at it. It was indeed red and it looked viciously painful.
"H-her, put ice over it." She handed him an ice pack. (It magically appeared...)
"Thanks Hinata-chan." He covered his hand with the ice pack Hinata had just given him cooling down the burning sensation.
"Naruto! You should be careful next time!" scolded Sakura. She too was worried about him.
"Hn, clumsy as always." said Sasuke.
"Sasuke, don't be mean!" said Sakura.
"Hn."
Naruto glared at the raven haired boy and then looked at Hinata. She looked so worried about him. He could just tell. Suddenly he pulled her into a hug causing her to blush.
"Don't worry about it Hinata-chan," he said quietly so only she could hear. "I'm going to be fine, you don't need to worry."
She nodded her head and he released her.
"Come on let's get back to cooking." said Ino.
Back with Sakura...
"Okay, so you guys got the dough ready?" she asked Sasuke and Neji. They both nodded.
"So you guys put the rolled out dough into the pan while we chop up the apples." said Tenten. Again they nodded and set out to work.
Sakura and Tenten peeled and chopped the apples in silence. Until...
"Ouch..." hissed Sakura taking in a sharp breath. She accidentally cut her finger on the blade.
"Sakura-chan! Blood!" gasped Tenten. The two working boys stopped and looked over to Sakura who was sucking on her cut finger. Coolly, Sasuke walked over to her with his poker face.
"You know sucking on your finger won't help it much." He pulled her finger out of her mouth, took out a cloth from his pocket, wiped the blood away, took out a band aid, and gently wrapped it around her finger. All in the process Sakura was blushing madly.
"Sasuke-kun...you can let go of my hand now..."
Sasuke was still holding her hand until she mentioned to him about letting go. He quickly released his hold on her and turned away fighting his blush down.
"You like her don't you Uchiha."
"Shut it Hyuuga."
Neji smirked and then resumed placing the dough in the pan.
"Okay, so we're done making the basic stuff. Now it's time for the turkey!" said Sakura happily.
They all cheered, except for Neji and Sasuke of course.
"The turkey's defrosted right?" asked Ino.
"Yup! It's in the fridge." Sakura opened the fridge and took out the defrosted lump of turkey.
"What are we waiting for! Let's do it!" shouted Naruto.
5 hours later...
It was now 5 in evening (Is it evening? Or afternoon?). They had spent so long in the kitchen and they were all exhausted. All of them flopped down on the couch in the living room and sighed.
"I never thought we'd get it done." said Ino tiredly.
"I know. Who knew cooking a turkey would be such hard work!" exclaimed Tenten.
"I think it'd be faster if somebody hadn't killed the first one." Sakura said narrowing her eyes at a certain blond.
"It wasn't my fault!"
"Oh really?" snorted Neji.
"Why would you set the oven to the highest possible temperature! Sakura said 360!" shouted Ino.
"I thought it'd cook faster?" laughed Naruto nervously.
"How troublesome. Naruto, its obvious why there's a certain temperature." said Shikamaru.
Why don't we take a look on what happened shall we?
Flashback
It had taken them all about 2 hours to finish seasoning, and stuffing the turkey. All of them were proud of their hard work working on the dead little bird.
"Now, we stick it in the oven!" grinned Ino.
"Naruto, can you set the oven to 360 degrees Fahrenheit?" asked Sakura.
"Sure, Sakura-chan!" Naruto happily turned the dial on the oven to 360. But he was just so hungry. After some consideration, for 5 seconds, he turned the oven on to the highest most possible temperature. Hinata then gently opened the oven door and delicately placed the turkey in with much love and care.
Within 45 minutes smoke began to fill the air.
"What's that burning smell..." asked Sakura slowly as she rinsed off her soapy hands. They were all helping her wash the dishes.
"Don't tell me..." Shikamaru started.
"It's..." Tenten said.
"The turkey!" shouted Sakura.
Quickly they all rushed over to the oven. Neji, who got there first, whipped open the oven. Once he opened the oven, smoke started to pour out. All of them began to cough.
"What happened!" shouted Ino.
"Dobe..." said Sasuke with gritted teeth.
"Naruto..." Sakura said with an edge of danger.
All of them glared at him, except for Hinata she was in a corner watching everything. They all lunged and beat the crap out of him. After they finished that, Sakura and Hinata rushed out to buy another turkey.
This time however, Naruto was not to be helping with the turkey. The second turkey was cooked perfectly and beautifully. Thank god Naruto wasn't there to help.
End of Flashback
All of them gathered in the dining room as Sakura and Hinata came out with the dishes. Pasta, roast beef, bread sticks, chicken wings, salad, apple pie, chocolate pudding, mashed potatoes and last but not least, the juicy looking turkey.
Sitting down, they eyed the food with their hungry eyes.
"Okay guys. Dig in!" smiled Sakura.
In a few minutes everyone was eating the delicious food and having the time of their lives.
"This is really good!" said Tenten as she took a bite of pasta.
Shikamaru gasped, "Are you serious! I-Ino made that!"
Ino narrowed her eyes. "What's that suppose to mean."
Shikamaru laughed nervously. Ino had a knife in her hand and looked like she was about to stab him with it.
"Now, now Ino. Don't get too hasty, I was just teasing!"
Ino snorted and continued on her food.
"This is really good you guys!" grinned Naruto as he shoved food into his mouth.
"Naruto-kun, be careful! You might choke!"
"Don't worry about me Hinata-chan! I won't choke!" he flashed her his foxy grin. But sure enough...
"-cough- Argg!"
"Naruto-kun!"
"That idiot will never learn." said Neji as he rolled his eyes.
"Sasuke-kun! How do you like it?" asked Sakura cheerily.
"Hn."
"Aw come on Sasuke, it's gotta be better than 'Hn'!" Tenten shouted.
"It's fine." he mumbled.
They all grinned at him and happily ate away.
"Okay guys! It's Turkey time!" sang Sakura.
"Do you have to call it that?" asked Sasuke.
"Of course! It sounds cute!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Okay so who wants what part!"
"Breast! (I hate that part)" shouted Naruto.
"Thigh!" came Tenten.
"Same as Naruto!" yelled Shikamaru.
"I want the other thigh!" hollered Ino.
"Neji what part do you want?" asked Tenten.
"I don't care."
"Sakura! Give Neji any part! He doesn't care!"
"Any part?" asked Sakura evilly.
"Uh, yeah...any part..."
"Okay! Here you go Neji!"
She handed the plate to Neji and he took it.
"What part is that..." said Ino poking it with her fork.
"Wouldn't know." said Shikamaru.
Sasuke snorted.
"Eww, don't tell me that's..."
"Yup! It is!"
"Are you seriously going to eat that?" asked Tenten.
"Why, what's wrong with it." said Neji mono tonally.
"Neji-ni-san, that's the um, turkey's um..."
"Neji are you seriously going to eat the turkey's ass!" shouted Naruto.
Neji's face paled. It was silent for a moment. But it was cut short by roars of laughter. Even Sasuke chuckled.
"You should have seen your face!" gasped Sakura.
"That was priceless!" laughed Shikamaru.
"I wish I had my camera!" giggled Hinata.
"It's not funny." said Neji.
"I'm sorry Neji. Here, I'll give you the dark meat." grinned Sakura still slightly shaking from laughter.
Neji grunted and took his plate back now inspecting it to make sure it wasn't the turkey's butt again.
"I'm so full..." moaned Naruto patting his stomach. They had just finished the apple pie and every body was now stuffed to the brim.
"You're so full is because you ate like a pig, dobe."
"I did not eat like a pig, teme!"
"Tch, right, you had the most turkey and pie than all of us."
"That's not true!"
"Is so!"
"Is not!"
"Is so!"
"Is not!"
"Is s-" Sasuke was cut short when mashed potato was flung at his face.
"What was that for dobe!"
"That wasn't me..."
"Whoever it was is going to pay!" he glared.
Giggling could be heard. He looked around and saw Sakura giggling like a little child.
"You should've seen your face. You look so silly (That sounds corny...) now!"
Splat
Pieces of pasta were now stuck on her hair.
"Uchiha!" she yelled. Taking a handful of turkey trimmings she threw it at Sasuke but he ducked so the food splattered all over Naruto's face.
"Hey!"
"I'm sorry Naruto! I was aiming for Sasuke!"
"Well you've got bad aim."
"Shut it Naruto!" she took some pudding and flung it at him which she missed again because he ducked. The pudding landed on Ino.
"Forehead-girl you are going to pay!"
Taking some food she flung it but Sakura dodged it andit splattered onher otherfriend.
"Ino!" screamed Tenten. It was on her favourite shirt! "Argg!" Taking some salad she closed her eyes and whipped it at her friend but since she couldn't see it hit Shikamaru on the head.
He glared at her took a spoonful of mashed potato and flung it at Neji. Too bad he had poor aim. Soon food was splattered everywhere and everyone had joined in on the food fight.
"That was fun!" panted Tenten.
"I-I've never done t-that in my life!" laughed Hinata.
"We have to do this again some time!" said Ino happily.
"This has been so great!"
"Everything was so fun!"
"Okay guys. Enough fun. We need to clean up!."
They all sat up and looked around. Food was splattered everywhere. Sighing they all got up to clean up. Sometimes having fun had it's consequences and this was one of them but this was a day that none of them would forget.
I had fun writing this chapter. I had everything planned out in my head though some parts weren't added in. I hoped you guys liked it. I actually reached up to 19 pages! Woohoo! Anyway's I want to thank new reviewers for reviewing! Your comments are what drives me on writing these chapters. Arigatou gozaimasu! Anywho, thank god it's a long weekend! Thanksgiving holiday woo! I needed a break and all. Yes, I also tend to have er forgetful memory so please bear with me. And oh yeah, I'm in 2 C2's! Yay! Well until then! Ja!
