Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.


The Okiya is happy for the week.

Until a gentleman with muddy brown eyes and a dark temperament storms down the roof and yells at the Okiya Mother.

"Your garden," he spits at Grand Lady Manami, "Is infested with bees. Bees! How am I supposed to have my way with your whores—"Sakura bites her lip to stop herself from lunging at him. "If I have animals buzzing around my—my thing!"

The Okiya Mother eyes him for a moment. Her blue (blue eyes like her First Mother) eyes watch the way his chest heaves in anger, frustration and…Sakura smiles…embarrassment.

Akiko-sama gently pinches her cheek and Sakura widens her eyes innocently.

The older woman frowns a little, but gentle gratitude fills her wine-red eyes.

"Sir, I do not know why you are complaining. You have asked for your needs to be fulfilled and we have given you our best." The man rears back, shocked and the Okiya mother seems to crackle with anger. "You are insulting and rude, not to mention, ignorant if you cannot seem to understand that when you…couple…outside, you are bound to encounter some sort of…natural resistance."

The man fumes, even breaking a chair, before the men-from-next-door remove him with sharp eyes and unforgiving hands.

Sakura is given extra chores for the entire month, but it's worth it when the ladies of the Okiya all smuggle her chocolate and kind smiles as they pass by.