A/N: . Yay! I update again! For any of you who were wondering what Itachi's reaction to Nariesha yanking him down at the end of the last chapter, or what happened with Kakashi and Ayumi, or exactly what the genin decided to do about their sensei's revelation about the mission…READ ON! Shoujo Queen and I thought this up Sunday…quite disturbing, the things teenagers can come up with when bored…And review. Take as your examples the wonderful people who are Sacred Rainbow Tenshi Yuki and Sweet Plum. THEY ROCK! –nods- So, yeah. STORY TIME! Oh, and, a dear friend of mine has suggested that, if you who like to listen to music as you read, that, for the Nariesha parts, you listen to "I Wanna Be Bad" by Willa Ford. 0.0 Listen to music while reading? Whatever – she made me put it in.
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Chapter 11: The Best Laid PlansNariesha shook the thoughts from her head, and concentrated instead on ignoring the voice that droned on, educating her on something to the effect of this-much-chakra-in-this-certain-attack-will-do-this-amount-of-damage.
And, focusing on manoeuvring her lips to touch those of the shinobi on top of her.
He finally stopped talking, and lifted himself off of her.
She stopped him by tugging at his tunic and yanking him back down.
His eyes went wide with surprise, and she grinned wickedly.
At last, the mouth would be HERS!
She reached up and pulled his head down.
Itachi went into total shock as Nariesha yanked him down towards her.
What the hell? He thought, and, then, there was nothing but her lips, so soft and smooth, and her warm, wet mouth…
Seeing that he didn't resist, she released her grip on his collar, and allowed her slender arms to wind around his neck, bringing them closer together.
Oh, man, she thought, her mind suddenly clear, this is what it's supposed to be like…this is how it's meant to feel!
Grinning evilly into the kiss, she put pressure on his back, intending to deepen the lip lock and claim what was rightfully hers.
She was shocked when Itachi beat her to it.
Deep, deeper than any kiss she'd ever had…Damn, she thought, desperately trying to catch her breath, he's good!
And, then, all reason fled her, and she surrendered herself to his hot, passionate lips.
Very passionate.
She groaned with pleasure, and wrapped her arms tighter around his neck, practically melding their bodies into one.
All of a sudden, she felt the sudden rush of guilt that always came with her lovers. It was stronger than ever before, and she pushed him off of her, sitting up.
"Itachi," she gasped, breathing hard, "What the hell were you doing?"
"Kissing you," was the stoic reply.
"Well, no shit! Why?"
He shrugged, "You started it."
"Well, you certainly weren't following my lead or anything!" she sneered, her armour of sarcasm back on.
He blinked. "I wasn't?"
She rolled her eyes, and prepared to give him a lengthy lecture on the proper way to be seduced by one such as herself, but stopped when her target rose smoothly to his feet.
"HEY! Where do you think you're going? I'm not done yet!"
With a pained look on his face, he rasped, "I'm going to take the coldest shower in the history of the world."
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"So," Naruto began, trying to break the heavy (albeit companionable) silence. "Why are we still here?"
Sakura sighed in exasperation.
Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"We are here," the dark boy replied, "because we have a mission to complete. Kakashi-sensei is still recovering from not only being under the control of Itachi's Mangenkyo Sharingan, but also from that powerful jutsu we threw at him. So, we can't leave, because we need to complete what we came here to do, regardless of whether or not Kakashi-sensei told us about it."
Sakura snorted in derision.
"HAH! Kakashi-sensei used us all as guinea pigs…as a way to get the mission done…he USED us, and didn't even bother to tell us what our MISSION actually was! He can't use his 'I got lost on the path of life' excuse again! I say we leave the dobe here and return to Konoha with the information we've gathered. I mean," she continued, noticing Sasuke's quizzical half-frown, and Naruto's utter confusion, "Sasuke, you know a lot about the legends of this place – weren't your clan and the Higurashi clan very closely intertwined at one point?" When he nodded, she continued, "That, with all the time you've spent scanning this place should give the Hokage enough knowledge about Higurashi House and the surrounding area. I mean, and he can always send more teams out – it IS in Fire country, you know. Naruto, you know a lot about Ayumi – ever since you found out that she was your mother, you've spent a lot of time with her. Plus, now that we know she used to be a Leaf shinobi, they'll have records of her in Konoha, which the Hokage can pursue to his heart's content. Am I right?" Both buys nodded, and she smiled self-assuredly. "If I spend some more time with Itachi," she shuddered, "I can probably find out enough about him to fulfill that part of the mission!"
Sasuke's forehead creased into a thoughtful frown, and he agreed, "Naruto and I know everything the Hokage will want from that part of the mission. And, you do NOT have to spend…no, you WILL not spend any more time with my brother."
"What he said!" Naruto agreed loudly, "Itachi is not gonna get his slimy claws on you again!"
Sasuke nodded vehemently, then realized what he was doing and smacked Naruto upside the head. "Dobe," he began, and Naruto cried out. "But you…" He stopped as Sasuke raised his fist threateningly, and the raven-haired genin continued, impassive once again.
"I don't want Itachi to hurt Sakura any more than you do, Naruto, but that's not what I meant. We know that Itachi's latest objective lies, somehow, with splitting Team 7 up. And, in removing any of their possible allies – particularly any as powerful as a Higurashi. Despite the friendship of our two clans, Uchihas have always feared the superior Kakai Genkai of the Higurashi clan. All we can do is copy a jutsu – any shinobi with the Ikaesu Gaisen can actually repel any attack. My clan was always terrified of our partners for that reason, and Itachi is obviously using this opportunity, and Ayumi's weakness, to destroy the hated clan once and for all. His, motives are most likely more in-depth than that, but we don't need to know them to counter him and the Akatsuki."
Sakura took shiny-eyed, blushing pose, and cried out, "Oh, SASUKE! You're so smart!"
Said dark-haired shinobi side stepped to avoid her embrace, and turned to his scowling blonde companion.
"Naruto, you aren't quite what the Yellow Flash was, but I sense a power in you…FOR GOD'S SAKE MAKE HER HAVE A CRUSH ON SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME!"
Naruto grinned like an idiot, and Sasuke pantomimed choking, and muttered, "Your ego is suffocating me," as the kitsune offered his grubby arm to Sakura. "Let's head to the kitchen and make some food!"
She took the proffered arm absentmindedly, and said, "Well, I am sorta hungry…"
As Naruto and Sakura entered the next room, Sasuke sank back into the cushions on the big couch, and heaved a sigh that could have been of relief or of dejection.
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Itachi stood in the cedar wood shower, letting the icy water flow over him and calm the hormones racing through his hot blood.
His long dark hair rested, drenched, on his shoulders, and his dark bangs streamed water over his face.
God, she could turn him on so high…
He was only a man after all, he rationalized, any one would break down after so many years of her persistent attentions…
He closed his blood-red eyes, using a meditation technique to return to an impassive, unaffected state.
Damn her, he thought, why can she make me feel like this?
'You know,' his inner voice reminded him snarkily, 'it isn't love. It's pure, unadulterated lust that you feel for her.'
Itachi ruthlessly crushed the voice, and shoved it to the back of his mind, resuming his meditation. He was interrupted once again, this time by a door closing.
He could practically hear the blush on Nariesha's face as she stammered, suddenly innocent, "Oh…I…I…I didn't know that anyone was in here. I just needed to brush my teeth…"
He murmured to her to go ahead, that it didn't bother him, and watched through the door as she picked up a toothbrush. Her whole body moved into view, and he stifled a groan at the sight of her soft curves, and felt his blood begin to flow hot again, despite the cold water.
Nariesha was blushing madly. Sure, she was an accomplished seductress; sure, she wanted Itachi SO badly – always had – but the same thing that had made her blush stopped her from stripping off her clothes and stepping into the water with him.
She mentally smacked herself in an effort to remove the incredibly arousing images of Itachi, his supple, muscular form dripping in water, his eyes burning with the desire she had caught a hint of in his passionate kisses in the garden. She couldn't shake those thoughts from her mind, and, instead, concentrated on ignoring them, and on keeping her hand steady.
She rinsed and spit, then straightened to rinse her toothbrush.
That was when she realized…
She had been using Itachi's.
Damn him, she thought, making me so distracted!
She carefully set the offending oral hygiene implement down on the counter, hoping that he wouldn't notice, and turned her back to the shower to leave.
That turned out to be a bad move, as Itachi took advantage of her blind spot to pull her in with him.
"I'm not waiting any longer for this," he growled, before his lips descended on hers.
This time the kiss belonged to both of them, and the last thought that went through her head before she surrendered to his touch was:
He's SO much hotter wet than I had imagined!
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Kakashi lay back on the pillow, his lazy pose belying the rapid rise and fall of his muscled chest. He looked down at the woman snuggled into his shoulder, and managed a weak smile. Which turned into a groan as he felt her chest heaving against his side, and her fingers tracing random patterns on his abdomen.
"Oh, please, Ayumi…stop turning me on like this! I can't stand it!"
"Damn it all, Hatake," she whispered, "I missed you."
He quirked an eyebrow at her, and replied lazily (although not effortlessly – it took a lot of concentration to take his mind away from exactly how she was making him feel), "You did?"
She smacked him upside his sweat-drenched head, and pushed herself away from his warm embrace.
"And," he murmured into her ear, pulling her back into his muscled arms, "I missed you more."
She still refused to look at him, although a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, so he gently brushed her curls away, buried his face in the curve of her neck, and began to kiss her.
She arched her body into his, and turned in his arms to look him in the eyes.
Green orbs twinkled up at mis-matched grey and red ones, and she deftly inserted her arm around his neck, gently lifting the silver hair plastered to it.
"Hatake…" she whispered in response to his murmured "Dearest…" before his lips met hers and the world exploded into boundless passion.
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That night at supper, the genin ate alone.
Sakura kept glancing at Sasuke, hoping he would remark on her cooking, but the Uchiha remained as silent and impassive as he usually was.
Naruto was quiet as well, though for different reason. He was of the school of thought that eating was meant to be pure and uncorrupted by speech. Therefore, he always ate in silence…well, except for the gulping, burping, slurping, and other –ing onomatopoeia verbs associated with eating.
Inner Sakura raged, 'HELLO! Why isn't Sasuke noticing our cooking? And why won't Naruto stop making those disgusting sounds? And WHY doesn't Sasuke see how hard we worked to please him with this dinner?" She was stopped suddenly as Sasuke murmured, "The meal is excellent. Might I bother you to get me some more?"
Sakura blushed, and quickly took his bowl as Inner Sakura screamed in triumph, and hurled insults at the miles-away rival, Ino.
Silence reigned once again as the boys ate and the girl fidgeted with her napkin.
Naruto then asked, entirely oblivious to the happenings of the past few days, "Ayumi-san, would you please pass the salt?"
His teammates stared at him.
"BAKA!" Sakura yelled at the same time Sasuke muttered, "Dobe."
"You IDIOT! All this time you thought she was here?" She couldn't believe that he would be so STUPID!
"She wasn't?" the kitsune wondered, scratching his hair.
Sakura and Sasuke sweat dropped. What a dobe!
A/N: Okay, connecting chapter. The fireworks happen in the next one, I promise! A preview I'd give, but, see, I never end up living up to those, so…yeah. Hope you like this one, and, as always, many thanks to my wonderful reviewers (all two of you) You guys really make writing this worthwhile!