Chapter Four: Siblings' Surprise
~Kimiko POV~
"What… did your sister do to him?" I giggled at my partner's indignant tone as I sat on the closest table and crossed one knee over the other casually.
"I'm not sure, quite frankly. She was being a lot less… badassery just the…. Don't you dare tell me that isn't a word, Uchiha Sasuke! …just then, even though she was complaining about him the whole ride here. She led me to believe she couldn't stand his very existence, and yet she is now oh so comfortable in his arms."
"Don't remind me," he grumbled, though he did smirk slightly when I interrupted myself to prevent him from interrupting me. He sat in the chair directly in front of me at the same table.
"Maybe this could be good for them." I leaned forward and looked into his inquisitive eyes thoughtfully, propping my arm up by the elbow on my knee and leaning my chin on my palm. "They're opening up to each other. This could be good for us."
"She's changing him." Stubborn fool.
"Only in private, you ninny." I nudged him with my big toe (I had taken my sandals off a while ago), and he narrowed his eyes at me at the word 'ninny'. "Everyone is entitled to their private life."
"Can we focus please? I can't believe I allowed you to talk me into spying on them."
"There is no letting to it. I'll have you know, I can be very persuasive when I want to be." He grunted and stood to stand behind me. "Fine, let's practice our part of it. We can record the audio another day."
I leaned back to hold my upper body up with a hand behind me. I ran a hand through my hair slowly and crossed one knee over the other once again. Sighing, I closed my eyes and 'relaxed', resting my free hand on my knee. A few moments later, I felt a hand touch a strand of my hair. I titled my head back and slowly, lazily opened my eyes to look up into Sasuke's suppressed-hungry ones.
"Yes?"
"What's a pretty young girl like you doing out here all alone? Don't you know predators are always out?"
"I'm not worried. I'm enjoying the day, and besides, I have my friends to keep me safe." I motioned around me as if I were surrounded by other girls. His hand gripped my hair slightly harder, and I raised an eyebrow at him.
"Really now? Will your friends protect you from me?"
"Why wouldn't they? And please release me: this is not proper behavior."
"Do you really think I care about whether or not what I am doing is proper behavior?" He tightened his grip; I shrieked softly as he yanked my head back. "You shouldn't tr…."
"What. The hell. Are you doing. To my sister?" I heard someone growl behind us. Sasuke let me go and backed away instantly. Itachi was standing next to a very pissed off Yoruichi, who was glaring at the younger Uchiha. I jumped off the table to stand in front of my sister.
"Oneechan, this isn't what it looks like!"
"Oh really? Because it looked like he was pulling your hair like you are a rag doll." Well, technically like a gazelle his cheetah instincts are telling him to eat….
"It's a demonstration for our Biology project. We're comparing a cheetah hunting a gazelle to a creep hunting a high school pretty girl." I touched her arm. "Yoruichi-neechan, it was all an act. He would never hurt me."
She looked down at me and after a moment, her face relaxed. She patted my head. "Alright, I believe you. Don't scare me like that again."
"You were scared? Your glare promised just as much slow, painful death as Itachi's does," Sasuke muttered. Yoruichi and Itachi smirked at him before she sat on the table.
"How's your project going?" I asked while sitting cross legged behind her, facing her back.
"Mr. Prodigy over there finally got the basics of the salsa after we got the closeness level down. We're starting on the waltz basics tomorrow so that he'll have those down for when we get more complicated, and…. Oh!" She lay back so that her head was in my lap. She looked up at me. "We need your help!"
"Anything."
"Simple yet really cool salsa stunt that we can do at the end of the dance."
"I have a notebook full of different stunts that we can look over when we get home." She nodded and sat back up.
"We're going out for a pre-dinner snack before Kimi and I have to go home. If you two want to join us, let's go." Sasuke and I followed our siblings outside to the cars. "We can take one car and just come back to drop the boys off."
"That sounds good." We piled into Yoruichi's car, and she drove out of the estate.