Wishful Thinking
by: Sakuranime
Disclaimer: I wish. xD
Wow. I never thought I would get 14 reviews…(smile) Thankies to ALL reviewers! Getting reviews make me soooooooo HAPPY! I'm glad you guys like this story…though I really have no clue what else to write…THINK, BRAIN THINK!
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"Quotations"
'Thoughts'
(( Flashbacks ))
Chapter 2: You're a WHAT!
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Even in his dream, Sasuke could tell the day would be filled with surprises, ramen, and training. When he woke up, the sun was shining, the birds chirping, the grass was green, the sky was blue…it was a perfect day…for training. The 12-year-old Uchiha did the usual things- wake up, wash his face, brush his teeth, put his clothes on, etc. The usual.
It was a perfect, normal day…until he went downstairs and saw what was on his couch.
"What the hell…?"
A mass of messy, short pink hair covered the face of what Sasuke assumed was a girl. You really couldn't tell what it was under the covers of his deformed couch. He was a mix of fury, confusion, and even more, curious. The dark-haired boy went up to the strange thing and poked her with his finger.
Nothing happened.
He poked again but produced no real reaction. Just a tiny movement of the head and swat with a hand like there was a bothersome fly.
Sasuke poked twice, thrice, four times, five times, and six times.
A yawn and a mumble of, "Cool, a cow…I want a strawberry ice cream…" Hey, at least he was getting somewhere.
He was beginning to get annoyed. Then again, he was always annoyed. Sasuke pushed her unceremoniously off his couch. That got something.
The mess of pink bolted upright immediately. Wide-eyed and fully awake now, she (he could identify it safely as a girl) began screaming, "You'll never take me alive! Never!-…huh?" Sakura blinked owlishly at the boy standing above her.
"What are you still doing here?" Sasuke folded his arms in front of his chest impatiently.
The girl still blinked. "Huh? Who are- OH YEAH!" The sudden volume increase reminded Sasuke of a very loud and obnoxious blonde teammate.
'One who shall not be named…' Sasuke grumbled.
Sakura smacked a fist on an open palm in remembrance. "You're Sasuke, right?" He nodded slowly, wondering if he should confirm at all. "I'm Sakura, remember? I'm supposed to give you three wishes, not leaving you until I do? Remember?"
Sasuke blanched immediately after the name 'Sakura'. It was that crazy girl again! "Who's property do you think you're trespassing on?" He hissed.
"Err…yours?" The girl looked at him innocently. Sasuke resisted the urge to smack his head and say sarcastically, "Great job, you want a biscuit?"
Instead, he said, "Yes…so why are you still here?"
'This again?' Sakura audibly sighed. "I told you, I can't leave you until I fulfill your wishes!"
An eyebrow rose. "What are you talking about?"
"I. Can't. Leave. You." Sakura pronounced each word slowly, making sure the message got through into the Uchiha's mind. "We're bound by magic; I can't leave until you make wishes that you truly want. Meaning: You can't get rid of me just by wishing for a hot dog or whatever." She beamed at his blank stare. "Get it?"
"You…can't leave?" Sasuke asked, his voice hollow. To this the girl bobbed her pink head enthusiastically.
"What the HELL!" Birds flew in a scurry, scared of the raging Uchiha's voice.
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Ah…the serene, clear waters of the stream gurgled softly; a music melodious to his ears. He could stand at the bridge for hours, just staring at the placid stream. And that's exactly what he did. Stare for hours, leaning on the bridge while he and the dobe waited for their sensei. Their lazy, perverted jounin sensei.
Beside Sasuke, the blonde ninja disturbed his peace by sighed loudly and opening his mouth.
"Ne, Sasuke-teme, where do you think Kakashi-sensei is?" Naruto asked impatiently, his arms on the rail of the bridge, staring at the sky.
He grunted in answer. "How am I supposed to know?"
And so the two boys were in that position for two hours later…until the dreaded man finally had the nerve to show his face. In a POOF, he was in front of the irritated genins, mask crinkled in a smile, lazy eyes closed, another god-awful volume of Itcha Itcha Paradise in his hands, and his famous gravity-defying silver hair.
"Yo!" He raised his hands in friendly greeting.
A twitch from both genins.
Kakashi smiled knowingly but asked the question anways: "Why do you both look so gloomy?"
Sasuke held his composure, but Naruto snapped, being the hyper ninja that he was. He pointed accusingly at the lazy sensei. "Kakashi-sensei! You're LATE!"
The silver-haired jounin put a hand to his chin in a thoughtful position. "Ah, I'm sorry, Naruto! I was on my way here about 3 hours ago but there was this really pretty lady who had a lost dog so what did you expect me to do? I had to help her- she's a damsel in distress-"
"LIAR!" Naruto yelled out of the top of his lungs. A nearby bush rustled and out stepped a ball of rosette hair and emerald eyes.
Sasuke nearly choked at the sight of the girl. 'I thought I told her to stay home! What the hell is she doing here? If I'm seen with her people would ask questions!'
"No, no!" Sakura walked out, in her red dress and blue biking shorts. "That scarecrow-guy is right! He did look for a lost dog- I saw the whole thing!" She pointed to said man and nodded her head.
'Scarecrow-guy!' Kakashi sweat dropped at the nickname.
Naruto blinked in surprise. "Y…You mean Kakashi-sensei didn't lie?" She nodded, her pink locks swishing up and down. "Hey, wait a minute- who are you?" He eyed the girl up and down suspiciously. "I don't remember you in any of the other teams…"
A wide smile crossed her features. "I'm Haruno Sakura! Nice to meet you!" She bowed respectfully at both of them. Sasuke looked away from her, hoping she wouldn't notice him.
Kakashi leaned down and patted the short-haired girl's head. "What's a pretty girl like you doing here?" He asked, his mask crinkling up.
Sakura blushed at the comment. "Uhh, I'm not pretty!"
Naruto immediately opened his mouth. "Of course you are. Ano sa, ano sa! Do you mind if I call you Sakura-chan?"
She nodded at the blonde. "Sure!"
The Kyuubi-vessel smacked his forehead. "Oh yeah. I'm Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage of Konohagakure!" Sakura giggled at his wild thinking. Naruto pointed to the tall man. "This is Kakashi-sensei," He greeted her with a smile and a 'Yo!'
The Uchiha was slowly inching away from them to avoid being spotted with the girl, but that was wishful thinking.
Naruto pointed to the leaving Sasuke. "…and that's Sasuke-teme!" He froze, hearing his name and silently prayed for mercy. Unfortunately for him, God was busy.
Sakura's smile widened. "Oh, I already know who that is. He's my master!"
The fox-boy couldn't believe what he was hearing. Sasuke…knows a girl? "Whaaaat? Master!"
Kakashi couldn't believe his ears either. His hands were on both cheeks and he looked utterly appalled. "Master? Sasuke, aren't you a little too young for that?"
Sasuke twitched. Of all the teachers…he just had to get Kakashi as a sensei! "Damn pervert…" He muttered darkly, turning to his teammate and teacher. "I don't even know the girl."
The smile on her face never left. "Why, sure you do! Remember? I spent the night at your house." Inside, Sakura was laughing evilly. The moment was too good. She had to get him back for yesterday.
Naruto looked like he just saw a page of Itcha Itcha Paradise. "S-s…s-s-s-sp-spend…the-the…n-n-n…n-night…?" His eyes were like saucers, his entire face going from normal peach to bright red in less than two seconds flat.
The shocked look was still on Kakashi's face, his eyebrows rising with each word uttered by the pink-haired girl. "Wow. You're moving pretty fast, huh?"
It was Sasuke's turn to look speechless. "Wh-what the…wait...NO! Can't you once get your DAMN MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!" The faint, tiny blush on his cheeks were visible.
"My, my, Sasuke…" Kakashi teased, elbowing the shocked, normally cool and composed ninja like they were old friends. "Going commando already? And on a young, innocent-looking girl you just met!" He giggled annoyingly high-pitched like a girl, irking Sasuke even further. Naruto continued to sputter non-real words, opening and closing his mouth like a fish.
Sakura gasped, playing along with the charade. "I…I couldn't resist, Kakashi-san!" She stole a shy look at the appalled boy and added a blush to make it seem real. "He's…just so…HOT!" She burst out laughing, holding her splitting sides. Kakashi tried to restrain himself from laughing but joined her.
"Sa-Sa-Saku-Sakura-ch-chan…not you too!" Naruto half stuttered, half groaned. He thought she wouldn't like Sasuke; the whole female population did, anyways.
If she wasn't dying of laughter, Sakura would have smacked the blonde boy on the head. Of course, she couldn't. She was rolling on the ground, regardless of her dress getting dirty. The look on Sasuke's face was too funny. His eyes looked huge and round, mouth agape, no words coming out; blushing scarlet so much she thought he would explode. You don't see that expression on the Uchiha Sasuke at all.
Naruto snapped out of his stupor. The moment he laid eyes on Sasuke's expression, he burst out laughing raucously, all the while pointing at him and tears coming out of his eyes. Yup. You do NOT see that expression on him at all!
Sakura gasped for breath after finishing laughing. A hand held her stomach as she tried to calm herself. "Oh my god…the look on your face- priceless!" She continued to laugh some more. "God, I should have brought a camera for blackmail purposes…"
The silver-haired jounin chuckled and patted Sasuke good-naturedly on the back. "It was just a joke, Sasuke."
His face was still burning from embarrassment. Uchiha Sasuke? Embarrassed? That was new. "A…j-joke?" Sasuke managed to choke out. Whoa. Uchiha Sasuke, ice prince extraordinaire, stuttering? The world was definitely coming to an end.
Sakura smiled wickedly at him. "That's for not believing me yesterday at your house."
Naruto's eyes widened, if they could anymore. "You mean…that wasn't a joke!"
She shook her head in amusement. "Nope. I was at his house."
"Why was that, Sakura?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow. He also thought she was kidding.
"You see, Kakashi-san-" She began, but he interrupted, shaking his head in disapproval.
"Kakashi-sensei, please. The other way sounds too old." Said man said with a scratch to his head. Sakura nodded, smiling broadly.
"You see, Kakashi-sensei," Sakura started again. Sasuke was still recovering from the earlier emotional shock that he didn't stop her from blurting their embarrassing, and ridiculous, connection. "I was attacked by this wild boar and Sasuke saved me." Naruto's eyebrows rose at this.
"Sasuke-teme? Saving people? That's weird…" He muttered. Then he shielded his head as if expecting a strike from Sasuke. Nothing came though.
"Anyways, I had to repay him back. So I told him I would grant him three wishes!" Sakura grinned like a child who had just been told a secret. But that immediately turned into a pout. The sudden changes in emotions startled the two. She was one weird creature. "But that jerk didn't believe me when I told him I could grant him wishes. Then I told him I couldn't leave him until I fulfilled my duty but he didn't believe that either. Can you believe the nerve of that?" She scoffed, crossing her arms in front of her.
Sakura expected some kind of reaction from the new-found friends but got none.
Silence.
Then…
"Wahahaaaa! You can grant wishes? That's the strangest thing I've heard!" Naruto laughed out loud again, holding on the bridge railing for support lest he fall into the water.
Sasuke recovered, though traces of a blush were still evident. "That's what I told that stupid Pinky…" He grumbled under his breath.
Sakura huffed, hearing this. "UCHIHA SASUKE I AM NOT A 'PINKY'! And I'm telling you the truth!" He winced. Her voice was so annoying…much like someone else's.
Kakashi coughed, getting the two genins and one girl's attention to him. "So…you're saying you're a genie?" He said lazily, like he didn't believe her either.
She shook her head. "No, I'm not a genie, I'm sort of like one. There really isn't a specific name for me. I guess you could call me a genie, fairy, spirit, or even a deity!" Her eyes sparkled at the last part. "Yup, I'm a goddess!"
Naruto brought the girl back into the present. "Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa WHOA. Back it up. So you're saying…you're a…a…a…" He groped for the appropriate words.
"Genie-fairy-spirit-deity?" Sakura supplied for him, perfectly calm about this. They made it seem like it was some new phenomenon, from the way the three guys were looking at her!
The fox-boy nodded rapidly. "A…genie-fairy-spirit-deity?"
"Yup! Haruno Sakura. I'm a genie-fairy-spirit-deity, at your service!" The childish pink-head bowed dramatically.
Naruto suddenly laughed, smacking Sakura on the back like some drunken partner. "Hahaha! You almost got me there, Sakura-chan! A genie-fairy-spirit-deity…hah, good one!" Sasuke rolled his eyes at his so-called teammate's behavior. He saw nothing comical about that joke.
'I don't believe she's…whatever she's calling herself either…' Sasuke thought, staring at the laughing Naruto.
Sakura looked confused. What was so funny about the truth? "Uhh, Naruto? But I AM a genie-fairy-spirit-deity!" He stopped laughing, much to everyone's relief. His voice was getting annoyingly loud.
"Sakura-chan? It's not funny anymore…" Naruto said nervously to the girl.
Sasuke rolled his eyes skyward. "It was never funny in the first place…dobe." He added as an afterthought.
"Sasuke-teme, stop calling me DEAD-LAST!" Naruto shouted, pointing at the nonchalant raven-haired heartthrob.
"But…I'm telling you, I really am a genie-fairy-spirit-deity." Sakura said firmly, wondering why this was so hard to explain. "What's so funny about the TRUTH?"
Crickets chirped. Odd, it was still the morning. Don't they come out at night?
"You're a WHAT!"
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Author Responds!
cuito: YAY! Thanks for thinking it's cute…(smile) BTW, your stories are AWESOME. (starry eyes)
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pei-chan: Funny? Mission accomplished for me, then. LOL. I was thinking about that scene too…hope you didn't think the scene sucked…(pout)
koca kola: Another funny comment! Thankies! Honestly, I don't know what Sasuke's going to wish for…xD
lexy499: Good start? THANK YOU! Hey…didn't you review my other story (lessons she taught me)? WOW! You're reading this one too! I feel so loved…(happy tears)
left-alone: Thank you! Whoa, Chinese movie? Lol, never would have guessed!
Chibiaddicted: GASP! My story is…original? (tears) But yeah, I knew that…xD I will keep up the good work for the sake of my fans! YAY.
Son of Darkness: LOL, thankies for the comments! Yeah…Sasuke's thought are funny but don't you think he's a tad OOC? I think so…darn! I wanted to try and make him in char. as close as possible…ah wells! At least the readers like it. Here's the next chapter, as requested!
drunkdragon: There's a lot of fics like this one EVERYWHERE! But definitely not written by me! This is the first one of it's kind I'm writing…thankies for reading and reviewing, anyways!
…: I'M NOT PLAGIARIZING! AND YOU EVEN SPELLED IT WRONG SO HAH! I'm SO SORRY, but I didn't know there was another story like this one! If it makes YOU happy, I changed the title. SO HAH! (smile) But thanks anyways for even reading the story even if you didn't like it! BTW, did you read the NOTE chapter?
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: Not EXACTLY alike though…I saw the summary for it because I got a OMFG-YOU-PLAGIARIZED! review…(boohoo) Sakura comes in a CAN in that one! FOR GOD'S SAKE…it's Where millions and trillions of people write fanficts…hey- there's bound to be ONE similar one, right? BTW, read the NOTE chapter if you're mad at me…aw poo. I'm so SORRY!
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