What Roses Really Smell Like

(I'M UUUUPPPPPDDDDDAAAATTTTIIINNNNGG!)

(We heart you Masashi Kishimoto)

(I promise to make this chapter a bit longer for you sasuhinafreak!)

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Caroline! Caroline!
All the guys would say she's mighty fine
But mighty fine only got you somewhere half the time
And the other half either got you cursed out, or coming up short

- Song - Roses - by Outkast

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It was after school. Shikamaru, Shino, and Lee where at their normal hangout, Lee's attic (which had been highly renovated, since Lee's grandmother came over to his house to visit alot). Shikamaru was stretched on the couch, just relaxing. Lee was sitting on the couch across from Shikamaru, and reading a book. And then there's Shino, who was sitting on the coffee table, hands in his pockets as always.

"Why do we always have to hang out in your Grammy's room? It smells like old people in here...", Shikamaru complained.

"Why, you wanna hang out in your uncle's basement, which smells like dead rats?", Lee said, putting his book down, and raising one of his humungous eyebrows.

Shino kept silent. Shikamaru ignored Lee's question, and tried not to look at his eyebrows.

"Hey, where's Kiba and Naruto?", Shikamaru asked..

"Naruto went to ask Ino out to the end of the year dance, and Naruto accompanied him...", Shino replied.

"Aw, NO. Not again.", Shikamaru slapped his forehead with his hand.

Lee shook his head, and sighed. "Just watch, he'll be bursting in here with tears again..."

The attic door burst open.

"SHE SAID NO!",Naruto screamed, eyes filled with tears. Naruto went on crying.

Kiba came from behind him, and patted his back. "It's alright man...its alright..."

Shino groaned. This was regular. He got up from his seat, and walked over to the sobbing blonde boy. Shino then slapped him.

Kiba, Shikamaru, and Lee stared at Shino with open jaws, and wide-eyed.

Narutowas a bit surprised. But he stopped crying, and then rubbed his cheek. "Thanks, Shino. I really needed it."

Shino nodded in reply, and returned to his seat on the coffee table. Kiba shrugged and sat down on the floor next to Shino.

"You should stop trying to go after that girl, Naruto...", Shikamaru said.

Naruto sighed and sat down next to Lee. "...I know."

"Maybe is Sasuke was still here, he'd help you ot with your lady problems...", Lee reminded them all of their former friend.

"Too bad.", Kiba snarled. "He left us for some preppys, and people who are so rich they have money sticking outta their ass!"

Lee and Naruto chuckled.

"And about Ino...", Kiba added. "Naruto, I don't know why you go after that bitch."

Naruto looked up at Kiba.

"She's a frikin' whore. Yeah, I can see why you like her. The angelic, school girl look. But, man, you gotta let GO! Seriously! She's been brushing you off ever since the first day you asked her out! Sheesh...that girls been hurting you too many a times..."

Everyone let out a big SIGH.

Then a lightbulb appeared above Shino's head! (otherwise known as, an idea)

"Revenge..", Shino muttered. They all stared at Shino."REVENGE...", Shino repeated.

"What the hell are you talking about...?", Shikamaru said.

"I mean...", Shino stood up."You could get her back Naruto. For what she did."

Naruto blinked. "But...she's a girl..."

"SO!", Kiba yelled. He also stood up, and looked at Shino."DUDE! THAT'S A GREAT IDEA! WHAT SHOULD WE DO? PISS IN HER LOCKER? START A RUMOR ABOUT HER? Nah, that's more on the girlish side..."

"...I'll take care of it...", Shino grumbled. Kiba's obnoxiousness annoyed him. "...just let me walk all your dogs tommorow..."

--------------------------------------"THAT BITCH!", Temari screamed, while kicking the grass. "START A RUMOR ABOUT ME BEING GAY! FEH! I'LL KILL THAT TENTEN!"A few numerous people and parents in the park gave Temari a weird glance, and covered their children's ears.

"It wasn't Tenten that started the rumor...", Hinata said quietly. She was sitting down, and pulling blades of grass from the ground."THEN WHO THE FUCK DID?", Temari yelled.

Hinata sighed. "It was Sakura. I overheard some girls talking about it."

Temari growled. "I'll kill that bitch...""Why do that, when you could do something better...", Hinata grabbed a handful of grass, and ripped it out of the ground.

"Her hair..."

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The next day, Shino was out with Kiba's dogs. All 9 of 'em. He was hiding in an alley next to the boutique that Ino always liked to go to. In his hand he held 9 leashes. There where 3 chiwawas, 2 dalmations, and th other 4 where all mutts. Jumpy dogs they where too.

Shino heard the ching! of the boutiques door opening. Then he heard Ino's voice, "Ok! Thanx! I'll come back later!" Then she giggled. Shino flinched. How he despised that.

He walked out of his hiding place, and found Ino at the corner of the sidewalk. The dogs started growling at Ino's scent.

He let go of the leashes.

The dogs ran immediatly to Ino, growling and barking. Ino screamed and started to run away. Hah, like she could outrun a dog. 9 of them to be exact. The mutts and dalmations jumped on her, and didn't start ravishing her face, but instead, slobbered all over her face.

"EWWW!", Ino screamed, trying to get the dogs off of her. The chiwawas where raiding her bag of clothes. The dogs then then ran off, leaving Ino a slobbery mess, and without her new designer jeans.

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"There she is...", Hinata whispered to Temari. They where at the mall in the food court, sitting down at one of the tables having milkshakes. Temari tapped the table with her fingers, as she watched as Sakura enter the Mall's Salon.

Hinata slurped up the last of her milkshake. "Let's go..."

Both got up from the table, and started walking to the Salon. They entered the Salon, and saw that Sakura was in one of the chairs, with peices of cucumber on her eyes. (Why do people do that!) The person doing Sakura's hair was some lady that came from Sound City. Her name was Miss.Yon. She had the Sound City accent too.

"Okay, hun, be right back...", Miss. Yon said. Miss. Yon walked off to get some hair spray or something. This was Temari's chance. She walk up to Sakura and picked up some scizzors. Then she put on he accent.

"Sorry fo' the wait, hun...", Temari said, in an accent. "So, what's been happen'ing?"

Sakura laughed. " I started this rumor in school about this girl Temari." Anger and rage shot through Temari's body.

Temari cleared her throat. "'Dat so, hun?"

"Yeah, it was sooo funny. The rumor spread all over the school in like, 5 minutes. Everyone's talking about it. Temari's totally gonna get angry though, but whatever..."

Youbet I'm friggin' angry...,Temari thought. "Ain't that gal the really tough keet who's Fatha is a professional boxah?"

Sakura yawned. "Yeah, I think. Hey, aren't you going to give me a little haircut? Get going!"

Demanding bitch..., Temari thought to herself. She looked over at Hinata who was supposed to be distracting the real Miss. Yon. She was. Hinata was talking to Miss. Yon about the types of shampoo you should use on different types of hair.

Temari sighed, and started to snip away. She loved every second of it. Sakura's perfect pink hair fell to the ground.

SNIP SNIP SNIP

Temari wished she could just rip out this brat's hair, but she had to take the civilized route.

SNIP SNIP SNIP

"Oh, yeah. This dork, Naruto, tried to ask Ino out again today. Augh, that boy's such a pain in the ass! I don't know why he just won't leave us alone! It's soooo annoying...", Sakura said.

"Hun, expect guys to go aftah ya...", Temari replied, trying not to burst out laughing. She was still snipping at Sakura's hair. It was getting much more shorter.

SNIP SNIP SNIP

Temari was done. Sakura's beautiful long pink hair, was now short, and uneven. She put down the scizzors, and comb.

"Be right back hun, just need 'ta go get somethin'..", Temari smirked as she walked off.

Hinata was getting bored to death by Miss. Yon, listening to her talk about the difference between Dove and Suave shampoo. Temari came just in time.

"C'mon Hinata let's go!", Temari smiled. Hinata let out a sigh of relief.

"Sorry Miss. Yon, I have to go!", Hinata said quickly, and walked out with Temari. Miss. Yon smiled, and waved.

As soon as Temari and Hinata where8 feet away from the salon, they heard Sakura scream.

Both of them laughed, and made a run for it. They bumped into alot of people, while running, but they didn't care.

Bursting into the parking lot, they ran around yelling out random things, and laughing like maniacs.

The sweet, sweet taste of revenge.

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Temari's old, acient, Mustang from 1991 halted a a few blocks away from Hinata's house.

"I still don't know why you didn't drop me off in front of my house...", Hinata said, as she opened the car door, and got out.

Temari shrugged. " I don't want to waste all of the gas."

"It's just a few blocks away!", Hinata exclaimed, but then laughed.

Temari laughed too. " Look, I just don't want my dad to get all pissed off again, ok? Ok. See you at school."

Hinata smiled and waved, as Temari's car drove off. Hinata then sighed, and started to walk home. All in all, she had a great day. She smiled and laughed. She ran around laughing like a maniac, and screamed out the most random things at the top of her lungs. (Hm, sounds like something I'd like to do) Yeah, it was great. Hinata was so into thinking about her day, that she didn't notice that she bumped into Sasuke again. No, they didn't land on the ground and accidently kiss, but they did bump shoulders.

"Oh! Sorry I-", Hinata turned around to apoligize, she saw it was Sasuke. She scowled. "Oh, it's just you..."

Sasuke scowled also. "Why do you hate me so much Hinata?"

Anger, hatred, and detest filled Hinata's mind. "WHY do I hate you so much? You want to know why? FINE! I'LL beepING TELL YOU! YOU BACKSTABBED ALL OF YOUR GOOD FRIENDS! AND YOUR GOOD FRIENDS WOULD INCLUDE ME, NARUTO, KIBA, LEE, AND TEMARI! AND NOW YOUR HANGING OUT WITH ALL THESE SLUTS, AND WHORES, WHO DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU! NOW DO YOU KNOW WHY?"

Tears started to fill in Hinata's eyes. All Sasuke could do was stare at her, feeling like...well, feeling like a bastard (cause he is one anyway, hah hah...)! He put his right hand on her cheek, but Hinata brushed it away.

"D-don't frikin t-touch me...", Hinata stuttered. Wow, she hadn't done that in a long time either. Hinata wiped away some tears, and tried not to look at Sasuke.

Next thing she knew, she was against the alley wall, his lips on hers.

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My, my, a bit of lemon? Nah, I won't go too far. But there will be some making out in the next chapter. See ya!

Lovvies from XxReVeNgExX (aka Lesli)