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"I can't believe we're being bossed around by a two-by-nothing brat." Sasuke seethed out.

"Jeeeeeeze, I never met such a mean kid before." Sakura agreed. "But there has to be a reason for his attitude, right? I mean, kids aren't born assholes!" Sakura replied in spite of the scene the boy made before.

"Whatever. Let's make the ramen."

………………

"How do we make ramen again?" Sakura asked.

"Um…..well, it can't be that difficult…." How tough could making noodles be anyway? Especially for Sasuke; Konoha's number one rookie. He was good at pretty much everything he did after all.

"Have you ever made ramen before?" Sakura raised an eyebrow at him.

"No, but like I said, it's probably easy." He searched for a cookbook that might be laying around somewhere…..anywhere……

"Uh….Sasuke, what are you looking for?"

"A cookbook…..which they don't seem to freakin have." He grumbled along with a string of incoherencies and curses. Sakura giggled to herself at how utterly clueless he was. She scanned the room quickly and almost instantly found the book he was looking for. She quietly tip-toed over to it and picked up the thick dusty book, hiding it behind her back.

"Uh, are you sure about that?" She asked coyly.

"Yes I'm sure about that." He shot back imitating her voice.

"Really? Then what's this?" She held it up in front of his face. She mentally got a kick out of how his glare turned into surprise, then embarrassment, and back to a glare.

"I must have missed that…." He huffed, grabbing it out of her hands and looking through it. 'Let's see….ramen, ramen…..'

'Did you see her back there handling that little smartass?'

'No, I must have missed it because I went temporally blind for the five minutes it happened.' Sasuke mentally replied sarcastically.

'Ya know, I think you need to get bitched out by her for once with your sassy mouth!'

'Keh!'

'But, ya gotta admit it's real hot when she gets all aggressive and witty! Eh, eh?'

'Do you realize how fucking irritating you are? Hm?'

'Irritating? Or simply telling the truth?'

"Sasuke?" Sakura's voice broke through another argument between Sasuke and….himself….(A/N- he's not crazy, is he folks?) " Did you find it yet?"

"What? Uh, no, not yet….." His eyes were glazing over as he looked down a seemingly endless recipe list. God, everything was on the stupid list! Everything but ramen that is. He felt himself nodding off when suddenly he found it in bold letters: "Ramen making for dobes."

'Hey, they know your name dobe!'

'Eerrrrrr……'

"Ok, I found it. Uh…..we need some scallions, pork, and…."

"Hey people in the kitchen!" The boy's voice suddenly rang out, making both teens grit their teeth and look in the dinning room's direction without moving the rest of their bodies.

"What…IS IT….man?" Sasuke managed to growl out.

"We changed our minds. We just want some of that sushi in the take out trays!"

………..

Oh no he did not……

But as fate would have it, he just did.

"Excuse me…..?" Sakura rasped.

"Come on, chop chop! We're starving over here!"

"But I wanted ramen!"

"Shut UP Kyo!"

"Okay. Please tell me that you still don't think that Rosemary's baby over there is NOT exactly like me." Sasuke pleaded/demanded, making Sakura giggle.

"Alright, alright. But you still gotta admit that-"

"Don't finish that pinkie."

"Hey!" She was starting to blush now. 'Have I gone absolutely mad in the past two seconds, or is THE Uchiha Sasuke actually attempting to flirt with me?' She thought to herself, half disbelievingly, and half overjoyed.

Sasuke smirked inwardly to himself at how her face matched the color of her hair and went to the fridge to pull out the sushi trays.

'A little bit flirty now, are we?' His inner self taunted.

'I was not flirting! I was just…..joking around with my teammate…..'

'Call it what you want Zackey Vengance….'

'Who?'

'Never mind. And don't you think you've known her long enough to actually start calling her your friend? And a close friend at that.'

'Whatever.'

'Come on, say it!'

'Say what?'

'That she's your close friend!'

'No.'

'Fine. But expect a great lack of sleep tonight….'

'Okay! She's my friend, my very close friend! Happy?'

'Almost. Now tell her that!'

'What?'

'Tell her what you've just admitted to yourself! You know it would make her day.'

'Hn. Wouldn't you say her day's been the best day of her life already since she got paired up with me?'

'Oooohh, getting a tad cocky, wouldn't you agree?'

'Please, I've known forever that she's had a freakin crush on me since, well, as long as I've known her! And I saw her back at the school. Overjoyed!' He replied proudly.

'Yeah that's nice, but why don't you make her day even nicer! You know you wanna.'

'God, now I know why I barely talk to people. I'd annoy the shit out of them.'

'Tell her….'

'No.'

'Tell her….'

'No!'

'TELL HER!'

Sasuke growled very audibly, making Sakura whip her head around to face him with concerned eyes.

"SakuraIjustwantyoutoknowthatyouareaveryclosefriendofminethereIsadit!" He mumbled at an amazingly fast pace.

"……What?"

"I-I-I said, that-uh….what'd I say again? Um, um um……" His face was getting very hot and he was starting to sweat. Why was this so hard! He just said it, how could he have forgot it already!

"Yes?" She pressed on. Something told her that he was trying to tell her something very important. In her mind, she fantasized this as the moment he'd compliment her on her noble brow, kiss it, and very shyly ask for her hand in marriage, then whisk her away to his place where he'd have his way with her. Oh, and they'd live happily ever after. After the whole getting laid by Sasuke thing of course.

"I-ugh. Forget it. It's not really that important anyways." He sighed and carried the trays to the dinning room, AND shattering every day dream that just took place in her head. She looked down at her feet disappointed, and sighed wistfully. He stopped abruptly and looked over his shoulder.

"Sakura?" Her head perked up hopefully at the sound of his voice saying her name, and her eyes lit up.

"Yes Sasuke?"

"Uh, could you bring out the drinks and chopsticks?"

"……..Oh. Yeah, of course." She replied, trying not to let the sadness become apparent in her tone. Her eyes had dulled down about thirty watts and she shuffled to the fridge to pull out drinks. 'Yeah right. Of course that would never happen. What was I thinking anyways? That this project would actually bring us closer together or something? I gotta get over it.' She reached for the bottle of soda as she frowned to herself. She then carried the soda bottle and chop sticks into the dinning room.

"Okay, here's your food. Enjoy." Sasuke practically threw a tray at that smart mouth boy, and handed the other trays to the quieter ones.

"Where's my drink?" He demanded.

"Right here….."

'Great. Now I made her upset….' Sasuke gloomily admitted.

'Yeah, and all because you are such a freakin asshole who can't even tell her she's your close friend! You had just better tell her before the night is over buddy!' His inner self threated.

Sasuke was just happy that it couldn't inflict actual PHYSICAL pain. No, just emotional! But putting aside the ranting inner Sasuke, he decided to attempt to make some kind of peace with the kids they were stuck with for two weeks. Kyo didn't seem that bad, well, of course not, he actually liked them. As for the girl, she didn't say much yet, and it was obvious what that boy thought of them. Even though Sasuske wasn't the best at verbal compromises, or making peace without his fists or weapons, if he was planning on having kids to restore his clan, he'd have to learn someday.

"So…." He began standing in front of the eating children. The ones that could eat solid food, Sakura was busy feeding the two babies and making cute noises at them.

"So what? We're eatin' buddy." The boy answered sharply.

Sasuke gritted his teeth for what seemed to be the millionth time that day, but did his best imitation of a smile. It was a sickeningly grotesque, demonically twisted smile, but one nonetheless. "I just want to say…..I think we may have…..started off on the wrong foot…."

'Yeah, the foot that I shoulda shoved up your ass ya punk!' Inner Sasuke yelled, forgetting about his rants for two seconds.

"Well, you've got on foot left, so start convincing me that we should start over."

'Oh, he is so asking for it….' Sakura thought worriedly, knowing Sasuke was at wits end. She looked over her shoulder and at her companion who now had an involuntary twitch in his left eye, and was clearly struggling to hold on to whatever incredibly tiny piece of self control he managed to maintain.

"Right. My name is Uchiha Sasuke. And you are?" He gestured to the girl first, who blushed and giggled softly.

"My name is Sayuki! Um, I'm nine, my sign is Gemini, I like pina coldadas, and getting caught in the rain, I'm not into yoga, and my favorite flowers are lilies!" She answered in one breath. Her cheeks turned even more red and she looked down at her plate.

'Great, another fan girl….' Sasuke inwardly grimaced. "Okay…..Kyo, why don't you tell me more about yourself, preferably not in the form of a dating service questionnaire, or using song lyrics." Sayuki's face color deepened a tenfold if possible and she sunk down in her chair.

'Wow, I've never seen Sasuke so….so…patient…it's really cute!' Sakura mused. It really was very out of character for him to act this way though….but maybe he was just different with kid, like maybe he actually liked kids!

"Um….I'm Kyo, and I wike to pway outside, and go to school wif my fwiends where I do cool ninja stuff! And I wike my toys, but my favowite is my wace cars cuz I wike to cwash them into the walls BOOM!" He smashed his hands together and made more exploding sound effects to Sasuke's amusment. The small child continued to jabber on about this one time at recess with his friend and something to do with monkey bars and how he fell off by accident and broke his arm.

"Wow. You like to talk a lot huh?"

"Yeah, my teacher says I'm a chatter block!"

"That's chatter box." Sakura corrected, wanting to squeal at the child's cuteness. She looked over at the oldest kid who was leaning back in his chair with his arms folded and resting on his stomach with a rather pissed off looked set on his face. "Why don't you tell us your name?" She suggested.

"Whatever….name's Naota, I'm thirteen, I like to break things, and I don't really like other things….."

"Yeah, except your girlfriend Tsuki!" Sayuki teased him and poked his arm hard. He quickly slapped her hand away and glared at her.

"Shut up Sayuki, you don't know anything about it!"

"Oh yeah? Then why did you get grounded for that time mom and dad walked in on you two making out on their bed and you said you were just giving her a tour of the house like she asked for-MMPH!" He covered his hand over her mouth and growled.

"Will you can it loud mouth!"

"What's makin' out mean?" Kyo asked innocently.

"SHUT UP KYO!" They both yelled this time, Sayuki's voice muffled from the hand covering her mouth. She took his hand away to free herself.

"Um, and The baby's names are Kiro and Yuna." She pointed to each one.

"Okay, so, now that we're all acquainted, we can get along better, riiiight?" Sakura pressed.

"……Whatever." Naota sighed. Sayuki jabbed him in the side with her elbow making him yelp.

"Can't you be nice to them? They're trying to get along with us!"
"No! It's stupid that mom and dad didn't tell us that these two would be coming to watch us for two weeks! I mean, what's the big deal? But maybe it's a good thing I didn't know two goons were gonna be here, I woulda left home after mom and dad went away!"

"And gone where Naota? To Tsuki's house?" She asked angrily.

"……" He began to blush half with anger, half with embarrassment. "So what if I had? It's my life, not your's, and nobody invited you, so ya know what, there's the door, see ya!" He replied forcefully getting up and walking to the door, swinging it open.

"Where ya goin' now? I bet your goin' to Tsuki's house!" She yelled after him.

"Mind your own business!" He stormed out and slammed the door. Two seconds later he opened it again, stomped to the table, picked up a large piece of sushi and popped it in his mouth, chewing noisily.

"And we all know by now that you like him!" He yelled with a mouthful of food, and pointed at Sasuke. He then barged out again closing the door even louder than before.

"…….I….do….NOT!" She screamed and ran upstairs. Another door slam could be heard.

"………." Sasuke and Sakura were rendered speechless.

"Uhhh…..they're not always wike that….." Kyo peeped up. "Well, Naota's wike this a wot, but not this bad I think…..sowwy they were wike this……"

"Don't worry Kyo, he'll get used to us, and hopefully he'll like us eventually!" Sakura assured him and herself. 'Cuz if he doesn't, Sasuke won't be the only one kickin' some ass here, CHEA!' Inner Sakura threatened loudly, and clenched her fist tightly.

"When will he come back?" Sasuke asked staring at the door.

"Um…..whenever he wants to I guess….." Kyo replied, not very sure himself. "He goes outside a wot……and he comes home way after I go to bed…."

"Where does he go though?" Sakura asked.

"Pwoabwy wif his girlfwiend wike Sayuki said….or wif his fwiends…."

"Oh." 'That's gonna change for the next two weeks…' Sakura thought. The last thing they needed was for one of the children to be missing on their watch. They were not even supposed to be here tricking little kids into thinking they were babysitters!

Kyo finished up the last few bites and got up and out of his chair. "Can I pway outside too?"

"Only if one of us is watching you!" Sakura said.

"Oh. Then will you watch me outside miss Sakura?" He asked with his big eyes sparkling.

"Of course!" She smiled at him. She looked over at Sasuke. "You'll watch the babies right?"

"No, I'll just leave them here and go out for a Sapporo." For a second, he could have sworn she looked at him like he was serious. "I'm kidding with you!" He quickly added.

"Oh, right! Duh!" She smacked herself in the forehead. "Uh…come on Kyo, let's go outside!" She took the boy's hand and walked out with him.

Holy crap! Sasuke watching to babies by himself? Will he survive, or end up rocking back and fourth in a dark corner? Why am I asking you guys all these corny announcer questions? Who knows! Yeaaahhh….just review and leave me be…bye!