Out With the Old, In With the New:
Chapter Seven
A/N: Hello, sorry I updated late. I went on vacation, then I updated my other two stories, then I had writers block for this one, ugh, so many challenges… but I'm back and I'm ready to continue this one!
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"Hello?... Who?... Oh, hello… um… okay." Sakura said briskly before she hung up.
"Looks like Ino doesn't have to find me a date anymore…"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, a bit shocked that she would even consider going to the dance after this and angry that she was going with someone else after he worked so hard to convince himself to go with her.
"Who?" He asked, a little bitter.
"It's…"
"It's Sai." Sakura replied putting away her phone.
"Sai? The art guy?"
Sakura nodded, a little confused that Sasuke was so interested in her date.
Sasuke smirked. "Great, you get to go with a wimp."
Sakura gaped at him. "Sai is not a wimp, what makes you think he's a wimp?"
"The guy would rather paint flowers than play sports." Sasuke explained, like it was the simplest thing in the world.
"So he doesn't like basketball, what does that prove?" Sakura asked, getting angry about Sasuke's shallowness.
Sasuke shrugged. "It proves he's a wimp."
Sakura glared at him. "Well I for one would rather go out with a sweet artist than a stuck up basketball player."
"Your loss."
"God… I can't believe I've met someone with as much ego as you…" Sakura said looking at the Uchiha with the unmistakable look of disgust in her eyes.
Sasuke paid no heed to what she said. Instead he contented himself with standing there patiently in the silence to wait for the teacher to return with the principle so he could explain what happened once more before he could finally leave.
"Hey Sasuke?" Sakura spoke up again.
"Hn." Sasuke replied, a little annoyed that the silence was broken.
"Thanks for saving me back there…"
"Hn."
Silence reigned once again.
"Sasuke?"
"Hn." He was getting more annoyed by the second.
"What were you doing over at this part of the school anyway?"
Sasuke smirked. "Upset that it was me who saved you?"
Sakura looked at him. "You know what I meant."
Sasuke was feeling very uncomfortable under her gaze right now. Her voice held no contempt and was soft and earnest.
"I…" He had no idea what to say, he couldn't say that he was looking for her or she would ask why and he would have to say that he wanted to ask her to the dance but she already had a date. "I felt like taking a walk." Lame. Very lame answer but it'd have to do.
"Oh."
Did she sound a bit disappointed? But Sasuke didn't get the chance to confirm that thought since the teacher conveniently decided to show up along with Shizune. Why the heck was the school nurse here?
"Haruno, Uchiha, are you two okay?" was the first thing that came out of Shizune's mouth.
Both teens nodded before Sakura asked, "Um, shouldn't Principle Tsunade be here?"
Shizune blushed, "She should but she can't be here at the moment."
"Meaning she's busy in her office trying to look for the booze you hid." Sasuke said bluntly.
Shizune scratched the back of her head in embarrassment and said, "Well, you can say that too… Anyway, what happened here?"
Each teen gave their own part of the story before they were both dismissed.
"You think they're going to cancel the dance?" Sakura asked. She wasn't upset about it or anything she just wanted to know.
"No, it's suicide." Sasuke replied as they walked down the hall to the gym which was now filling itself with eager couple and innocent bystanders who just came to have fun. It would be chaos if they canceled the dance now.
Sakura laughed as they came to a hallway crossing. Straight ahead was the gym, to the right was the entrance to the school.
"See you at the dance, Sasuke-kun." Sakura said waving at him before turning right to go meet her date. "Sai said he'd be waiting at the front."
Sasuke just kept moving forward without looking back at her. Why should he care if Sakura went out with a bastard like Sai?
(Gym, 20 minutes into the dance)
"Please? Come on, I made some sacrifices! I wore a freakin' dress for you! I would have gladly come in jeans and a t-shirt!"
"Then you should have, I like you better in jeans and t-shirts. No girl in a dress looks better than you do when you wear those type of clothes."
"Oh cut with the flattery bull! You will dance with me Hyuuga Neji or so help me god I'll…"
"You'll what?" Neji asked, raising an amused eyebrow at his girlfriend. He didn't ask her to wear a dress so that didn't count as a 'sacrifice'. She honestly looked better in jeans and a t-shirt than she did in a dress.
"I'll… I'll… I'll think of something!" TenTen said, glaring at her smug boyfriend. One dance, that's all she asked for, but no, he had to keep up his image! Who the hell cared about their image in high school? It's not like you were going to see everyone again after you graduated!
Neji smirked.
"Wipe that smirk off your face! God, if you couldn't dance then you should have just told me…" TenTen said slyly while shaking her head in mock disappointment.
"Aiming towards my pride is a good strategy but it won't work on me." Neji commented, bored stiff. The others were all somewhere else on the dance floor; he and TenTen had been entrusted to keep the table reserved for their group and he was quite happy to do that than dance.
TenTen 'hmph'd and turned away from the stoic man. She wasn't too fond of dancing herself, but she paid for a ticket (well Neji did but it made her feel better when she said this). She wanted to dance for at least one of the songs but Neji refused to budge.
She looked around for the others to see what they were doing. Sasuke was no where in sight; she guess the guy was off messing with some innocent (yeah right) girl. Naruto and Hinata were dancing, it looked like Hinata was near fainting while Naruto continued to dance off beat. Shikamaru and Ino were by the drink stand; Shikamaru looked relieved to take a break from dancing. Sakura was by her date, Sai, and the two were both chatting contently with each other.
The group had been shocked when Sakura had showed up with Sai at the dance. Ino had immediately dragged Sakura to the bathroom to ask when she had met Sai. Apparently Sakura knew Sai from her third day where she had been paired with Sai in art. After that Ino was happy that her best friend had found a date.
The guys were a different story with Sai. Naruto was okay with him, just a little edgy, but that was no surprise. Sai had always had a problem with members of the basketball team. Nothing too serious but he had a knack of getting under their nerves whenever they were around and his uncaring attitude made it worse.
The one who had a problem with him the most was Sasuke who hated the fact that Sai looked at him with mock in his eyes and always called him nicknames like 'chicken butt' or 'playboy poser' because of his long bangs. (a/n: my bro called him that lol) What ticked him off the most was the fact that Sai looked like him and sometimes called himself Saisuke just to tick him off.
TenTen sighed again knowing that it ticked off Neji, oh well that wasn't her problem. Actually she relished the fact that she was annoying him since he deserved it not dancing with her when she sacrificed so much…
"Um, hello TenTen…"
TenTen looked up and saw a senior boy looking down at her.
"Hello…" TenTen started, 'Damn what was his name again, aww man I can't remember. Oh, awesome I don't have to!' She looked at the boy who had started to speak again.
"Um, would you like to…" The boy stopped, unsure of himself.
"Yes?" TenTen said, gesturing for him to continue, knowing perfectly well what he was going to ask.
"Would you like to dance with me?" The boy spat out, looking at TenTen nervously, waiting for her to decline.
"Don't you know that she already has a boyfr-" Neji began glaring dangerously at the guy.
"Of course! I would love to dance with you!" TenTen said happily waving off Neji as if he wasn't important.
"Um… who's he?" the guy asked as TenTen dragged him off towards the dance floor.
"No one." TenTen chimed as she allowed the guy to wrap his hands around her so they could dance the slow song that came up. Oh, she was evil…
TenTen could practically feel Neji's death glare from burning into her back and couldn't help but wonder if she just gave the guy she was dancing with a death sentence.
After the dance they both went their separate ways, and TenTen considered going back to the table to consol Neji that it meant nothing (and maybe shove it in his face) but then she saw Ino and couldn't help walk towards her.
"The plan worked, I see…" Ino said as TenTen approached her.
TenTen grinned. "Yup, Mission: Get Un-dancing Boyfriend Jealous By Using Unsuspecting Bystander was a success."
"We seriously need to be more creative on names…"Ino said taking a sip of juice that Shikamaru had gotten her before he went to talk with a lonely Neji.
TenTen nodded in agreement before grabbing a glass for herself.
"So? What's the report on Hinata and Sakura?"
"Hinata is trying to get Naruto to go sit down with the rest of the guys without seeming too obvious, not that she has to try, Naruto wouldn't notice if she said it to his face. And Sakura is coming over right now."
"Hey guys!" Sakura greeted happily.
"Hey"
The girls had a tradition to meet up with each other every dance to tell each other how it was going for each of them. They had to do it inconspicuously to the guys or that would ruin the whole point, right?
"Sorry, guys, Naruto didn't want to stop dancing…"
"Hey, Hinata!"
"So how's it been going for you guys?" Ino started, obviously excited to get their parts over with so that she could give her report.
"Naruto-kun is very fun. Although he needs help on his dancing, but I think it's cute that he can't dance." Hinata said, blushing all the while and twiddling her fingers. "He said that I'm very beautiful…"
The other girls smiled knowing that Hinata would never say a bad thing about Naruto or any of them for that matter.
"Sai is…" Sakura wondered exactly what she thought of Sai. He wasn't romantic, or he would have brought her a rose or some type of flowers. He complimented on her dress but that's what every guy did so he wasn't very unique. Then she remembered the present that Sai had given to her when they met. It was a wallet-sized drawing of her in a beautiful kimono. "Sai is very sweet. He wasn't too pushy with me and he gave me a present." She showed them the drawing and they all 'oohd' and 'aahd' at it.
It was TenTen's turn to report how her night had been so far.
"Neji is being a cold jackass as usual!" TenTen reported huffing in her anger while Sakura and Hinata sweat dropped. "He won't dance, no matter what I do! Okay, I admit, I don't like dancing so much either, but he's ridiculous. One lousy dance, that's all I ask for and he won't do it! Bastard!"
"W-who w-w-were y-you d-dancing w-with j-j-just n-now?" Hinata asked, stuttering since TenTen was now emitting 'anger waves'.
TenTen shrugged. "Some random dude. Ino sent him my way in order to make jealous."
"And he did get jealous if you haven't noticed." Ino stated, clinking her cup with TenTen's in their triumph.
The girls laughed as they remembered Neji glaring at TenTen while she was dancing with another guy. Then they all looked at Ino, knowing that she was the one who wanted to tell her news the most. And, as expected, Ino's face lit up when she realized it was her turn to give her report.
"Shikamaru asked me to be his girlfriend!" Ino yelled out.
"Congratulations!" Hinata said immediately.
"Seriously?" TenTen said gaping, who knew Shikamaru actually had it in him to ask a full question?
"What did you say?" Sakura asked.
Ino looked at her with incredulity. "What do you think I said?! Yes, of course!"
TenTen grinned. "Finally! It took forever for you two to make it official!"
"It's better than you Ms. It-took-me-five-years-to-realize-that-the-guy-I-liked-likes-me-back! At least I was occupied by my infatuation for Sasuke-kun to see Shikamaru! You had Neji right in front of you with no road block and you still didn't see it!"
TenTen looked stubbornly at her. "Hey! That's not my fault! I-I'm just a little slow that's all!"
Ino snorted, "Ya got that right…"
"So…" Sakura said slyly. "What are the two of you going to do first as a couple?"
Ino immediately blushed. "S-shut up Sakura!"
"What?" Sakura said innocently. "What are you talking about? I never said anything; implied anything…"
TenTen caught on. "My, my Ino, what a dirty mind you have…"
Hinata was blushing and twiddling her fingers at this point. Ino's face was getting redder and redder from a mix of embarrassment and anger.
"Oh shut up you guys! If you don't I'll, I'll-"
"You'll what?" Sakura asked amused. "You have no blackmail against me since I've haven't been here for twelve years."
"I may not have blackmail for you but I certainly have blackmail for someone who can stop you! TenTen, if you two don't stop I'll tell Sakura what happened to you on Halloween last year!"
TenTen immediately stopped laughing. "Sakura. Shut up if you don't want needles up you ass!"
Sakura immediately shut up and beside her Hinata let out an audible sigh glad that the chaos was over without any physical harm taking place. Ino and TenTen were friends but it was well known that they'd start hitting each other to prove their own points when they were arguing.
"Okay, now that all the reports are in, let's get back to the boys' shall we?" Sakura suggested, nodding her head towards their table where all their dates were sitting with some other guys who had joined them earlier on. "Who are those people anyway?"
"Oh, those are mostly just the jocks that hang out with Sasuke. Watch out for them, they love to play with girls like Sasuke and most of the time they're either high, drunk or at least on something." TenTen explained.
Sakura scrunched her nose in disgust.
"Naruto-kun doesn't like them very much…" Hinata put in. "But he says that one or two are nice, but most are pretty mean."
The other girls nodded. "Well, I guess we should be going then…"
The girls walked towards the table when Sakura noticed that two of the jocks were sitting on a bench instead of chairs. They were grinning idiotically and when the girls arrived they started to flirt with them with no shame at all.
Ino rolled her eyes before she sat down next to Shikamaru, Hinata looked nervously at the jocks before she quickly sat down to a smiling Naruto, Sakura ignored the jocks before she sat down next to Sai who smiled at her, TenTen glared at one of the jocks as he tried to grab her ass before she sat down next to a still-grumpy Neji.
"What's wrong with you?" TenTen asked innocently.
Neji glared at her. "You know, don't play innocent."
TenTen laughed. "Geez, you're easily ticked aren't you?"
Neji just looked at her before leaning over to whisper something inaudible into her ear causing her to blush.
"Oi! No making out in this table! It's bad enough we got these people here!" Naruto shouted at Neji, gesturing to the jocks that were obviously drunk and wouldn't remember Naruto insulted them.
"Did someone spike the punch or something?" Ino asked worried; she and TenTen had drunk the punch.
"No," Shikamaru assured her, "they-"
"Hey!"
The group turned around to see…
"Oh no." Hinata said worried.
"They're screwed." Sai said, laughing.
"Shit." Neji said as TenTen looked wide-eyed at the newcomer.
"What do we do?" Ino asked, trying to block the jocks from view.
"Troublesome" Shikamaru said putting his face into his hands.
"Uh-oh." Sakura said moving over to block Sasuke from view (he's drunk too).
"Hey, Grandma!" Naruto shouted cheerfully. (Everyone sweat drops)
"Don't even bother to hide!" Tsunade shouted at them as she looked at them warningly. "How could you guys do this? It's so stupid that you guys could even think that I would never find out!"
"P-please, Tsunade-sama! Don't be so hard on them!" Hinata pleaded, she wasn't too fond of the jocks, but she had to protect them didn't she?
"Yeah! I mean you drink it all the time!" TenTen spoke up; finally getting over the fact that Tsunade was there while most of the guys at the table were underage and drunk.
"Just because I drink it all the time," Tsunade said, "Doesn't mean I drink it all the time! Shizune took it away from me this afternoon, so move over and give me some!"
"Huh?" the group said, looking at Tsunade in disbelief.
"You heard me, so move over!" Tsunade said, climbing into the makeshift circle the group had made and sitting next to two drunk jocks.
"Yeah! Granny loves to party too, give her some, I say." One of the jocks slurred stupidly gesturing for two other to move over so that she could sit. Sakura then realized that the bench she had thought two of the jocks were sitting on was actually an ice chest under brown cloth. The two jocks sat up and handed Tsunade a cold beer bottle. "Here's to… Oreo cookies!"
"Yeah, Oreo cookies!" The other drunks cheered while the sober people sweat dropped (a/n: I love Oreo cookies!)
"Principle Tsunade!" a voice scolded.
The group turned around to see a very angry yet distraught looking Shizune.
"Huh? Who's that?" one of the jocks asked, not recognizing Shizune as their nurse in his drunken status.
"Neh, it's just my overprotective babysitter…" Tsunade said childishly. The beer was already getting to her.
"Principle Tsunade! Please! You aren't supposed to be doing this! You're supposed to punish them not join them!"
"Relax, Shizune, besides I can't punish all of them, they're too many and you know what they say, when you can't beat them, join them!" Tsunade said laughing; everyone else that was drunk started to laugh with her.
"Principle Tsunade!" Shizune exclaimed exasperated. This was definitely not in the job description. "Ah, come on Principle Tsunade, let's get you out of here. You kids stay here and don't move." She said sternly towards the drunks knowing from experience that drunk people usually did as they were told if they thought it was a game. "It's a game. The first to leave looses."
The drunks all grinned and a little bit of their jock competitive nature came when they said, "No way am I gonna loose!"
Shizune grabbed Tsunade and dragged her off; not knowing that part of the group was still sober.
"Okay, we gotta leave, like, now." Ino said, quickly getting up. One of the jocks immediately said, "Ha! You loose!"
"I agree. We should go. Even though we're not drunk, we'll still get in trouble if we're caught with these people." Neji said gesturing towards jocks.
Sai nodded. "Do you need a ride Sakura?" He knew that Sakura came with Ino that morning.
Sakura shook her head and politely said, "Sorry, I would but I don't think poor Naruto could handle Sasuke by himself…" She looked over to where Naruto was already struggling to get Sasuke towards Sasuke's jaguar.
"Teme! Why in hell did you drink so much!" Naruto complained as he wrapped one of Sasuke's arms around his shoulder's to support him to the vehicle.
Sakura said goodbye to Sai and went towards Naruto.
"Bye forehead!" Ino shouted towards her before leaving with a yawning Shikamaru who was muttering, "Troublesome woman, have your own car but too lazy to drive it…"
"G-goodbye, Naruto-kun, Sakura-chan, see you at school Monday…" Hinata said, blushing.
"Bye Hinata! I loved tonight, you're real cool, I would hug you but teme here is being a bastard as usual…" Naruto said blaming Sasuke as usual.
"See you at school Hinata, oh, and do me a favor, make sure Neji drops off TenTen first, if you don't who knows what'll happen! You may never see Neji again till about ten o'clock in the morning!" Sakura said, laughing as Hinata blushed and nodded.
"You know, I was going to give you a heartfelt farewell but now that you've said that, I don't think so." TenTen said through gritted teeth before stalking off before saying a proper goodbye. Neji just nodded towards her calmly but Sakura could see that his cheeks were tinted in the lightest shade of pink.
"Sakura-chan come on!" Naruto called over to her. "I just put teme in the car, but since he's drunk I don't know if he'll stay there…"
"Coming Naruto!" Sakura called, before running towards the blonde. When she caught up she asked, "Hey, Naruto, how does Sasuke act when he's drunk?"
"Like he normally does, all quiet-like… You see when he's drunk he only focuses on one thing." Naruto explained. He was with Sasuke most of the time when they went to clubs so he knew how Sasuke acted.
"One thing?" Sakura echoed, climbing into the passenger seat of the jaguar, noticing that Naruto had put Sasuke in the back seat.
"Yeah… how should I say this? Well, let's say that Sasuke's drunk, like he is now, I can talk to him all I want about ramen, to annoy him but he'll never tell me to shut up like he'd usually do. Know why?"
"No."
"It's because when Sasuke's drunk he doesn't think about anything but one thing and he never focuses on anything else."
Sakura still didn't get it and she was clearly showing it since Naruto spoke up again.
"Let's say that Sasuke was thinking about, I don't know, tomatoes all day, when he was still sober even. You with me?"
Sakura nodded.
"Well, you can tell him about all kinds of stuff and he won't say anything but once you say the word 'tomato', then you'll know he's drunk."
"How so?"
"When you mention the one thing that he's been thinking about all day, and he's drunk, then he'll start acting like any common idiot. He'll start saying stuff that he'd never say out loud when he's sober. Okay, we're here."
Sakura looked up and saw that they were parked in front of Sasuke's mansion. She looked up, confused, at Naruto.
"I'll drop you off right now; I just want to get teme in bed as soon as possible. He may act sober most of the time, but any minute now he's gonna start goin' off about his 'one thing'." Naruto explained grinning before getting off to get Sasuke out of the back seat.
Sakura was used to Sasuke being quiet but this was freakish. Sasuke was just looking straight ahead with the same passive expression as usual but she knowing that he was actually drunk made it weird.
"Um… Do Mr. and Mrs. Uchiha know that Sasuke drinks?"
Naruto shook his head no. "Nah, but Fugaku is away on a business trip right now and Mikoto said she would go out with some friends tonight, probably Ino's mom or something, as for Itachi, there is a slim chance that he'll be here but knowing him, I think he'd care less if Sasuke drinks."
Sakura mouthed an 'o' as she helped Naruto heave Sasuke up the steps and through the front door.
"You sure he'll be alright on his own? I mean, in this state he could hurt himself…" Sakura asked, worried.
"Not if we knock him out first." Naruto said, grinning.
"What?!" Sakura asked, she didn't like the way that sounded. What were they going to do, creep up behind him with a bat and hit the back of his head to make him sleep?
"Relax, it's not what you're probably thinking, I have a special pill that'll make Sasuke go to sleep immediately without harming him. You'll see come on, put him on the bed." Naruto said, gesturing Sakura to put Sasuke on his bed. "Wait here and make sure he doesn't do anything stupid. I'll get the pill, be back in a sec."
Sakura watched helplessly as Naruto left through the door into the unknown. This night was turning out to be exactly the opposite of what she thought the dance would be like.
"Well, at least Sai was a cool date…" Sakura muttered.
"Sai?"
Sakura jumped up, confused. Who said that? Then it dawned on her that the voice came from her right; from the bed.
"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked tentatively. She never really did enjoy talking to the sober Sasuke she didn't know about the drunk Sasuke.
"…"
Sakura's eye twitched, even when he was drunk he didn't talk much, then she remembered what he had reacted to earlier on.
"Sai?"
At this Sasuke's eyes seemed to darken with mix emotions of anger, hate, and a bit of sorrow.
"What about him?" Sasuke asked anger clearly in his voice.
Sakura thought quickly. Should she pry and find out why Sai was on Sasuke's mind…
'Oh, please don't let him be gay!' Inner Sakura pleaded.
Or should she just mind her own business? Hmm… she went with option number one.
"Um… what do you think of him?" Sakura asked in an adult-asking-child tone.
Sasuke shrugged. "He's a no-good bastard."
"Why is Sai a no-good bastard?" Sakura asked, her heart pounding faster by the second.
"Because he calls me names, he looks too much like me and…" Sasuke hesitated.
Sakura knew that whatever was supposed to be said after 'and' was never ever supposed to be said out loud if a drunken Sasuke didn't want to say it, but she was curious and Sasuke wouldn't remember any of this so she asked, "And?"
"And… he stole my date." The drunken Sasuke slurred out.
"Huh?" Okay, now she was confused, "What do you mean he stole your date?"
"Sakura," Sasuke said simply, and with no hesitation, "I was going to ask her to go with the dance with me but Sai beat me to it."
Sakura's heart was really pounding now and Inner Sakura was throwing confetti in the background.
"Why were you going to ask Sakura to the dance?"
Again drunken Sasuke hesitated, meaning that sober Sasuke would never have told this to anyone even if his life depended on it. "Because she isn't my fangirl..." Sakura could have sworn she felt her heart fail. "And because she's pretty and sweet, you don't get a lot of girls like that here; most of them are sluts but not her. I like that." The last part seemed like an afterthought but Sakura paid no heed to that. Right now she was in a daze. Uchiha Sasuke thought that she was pretty, sweet, and liked it.
'Oh yeah! We are so in girl!' Inner Sakura cheered.
"Hey, Sakura-chan! Sorry to keep you waiting! Did he say anything?" Naruto asked as he came in with a glass of water that had two pills in it.
Sakura decided to shake her head no, and watched as Naruto made Sasuke drink the water with pills in it. In no time at all Sasuke was knocked out and Naruto dropped off Sakura at her house.
'I can't believe that Sasuke was going to ask me to the dance…' Sakura thought, looking up from her bed at the ceiling.
'Don't forget he thinks we're pretty!' Inner Sakura chimed.
'Yeah, but he was drunk, so I wouldn't count on that being real.' Sakura thought bitterly.
'Neh, whatever, I don't care!' Inner Sakura yelled out happily.
'I knew you wouldn't, but I do…' Sakura replied before drifting off into an uneasy sleep where there were a bunch of chickens that kept saying: 'she's pretty and sweet, you don't get a lot of girls like that here; most of them are sluts but not her. I like that.'
(somewhere in Konoha)
"A gun?! You pointed a gun at them?!"
"Mother, would you please calm down? It's not like Sasuke or Sakura got hurt…" Itachi stated calmly looking at his distraught mother.
"B-but they pointed a gun at my baby! And my future daughter-in-law! Ita-kun! I thought you just told them to scare them, not kill them!" Mikoto said exasperated.
Itachi sighed; his mother could be such a drama queen sometimes.
"Firstly, Sasuke's not a baby, secondly, don't call me Ita-kun, mother." Itachi said.
Mikoto pouted at not being able to call her sons what she should be able to call them.
"But you do have a point, I did tell them just to scare them, not kill them…" Itachi said before turning to the other three figures in the room. "Tell Orochimaru that he should expect a dock in pay."
Zaku, who was one of the hit-men-for-hire nodded, knowing full well that Orochimaru was not going to be pleased. The only reason that Orochimaru even bothered to put his men for rent was because they needed money to finance Orochimaru's businesses, a dock in pay would result in an excruciating painful kick in the ass for Zaku.
"Yes sir, we'll be going now." Zaku said before gesturing for his two companion so leave with him.
"Well," Mikoto spoke up, "At least we know that Sasuke likes Sakura well enough to protect her." Yup, any little thing made this woman happy.
Itachi nodded, "Can I go now, mother, I have some business to attend to."
"Yes, yes, when should I expect you home, then?" Mikoto asked. She was used to the three men in her lives just leaving without explanation that's why she wanted a daughter-in-law like Sakura to talk to.
Itachi shrugged. "Two days."
Mikoto nodded. In two days was Monday, she wondered vaguely what chaos would ensue by then.
A/N: Yeah, this fic is going slow, but the only reason that's happening is because I want Sasuke and Sakura to get close to one another before Gaara comes. Right now it's late September in the fic. School started early September, Sakura came mid-September and the last basketball game will be early December (the one where Gaara comes). That's how I have it planned.
Anyways, people who guess who the three people were where half right, Orochimaru didn't send them Itachi did.
Sasuke's behavior as a drunk can be anything, so don't say that he was OOC because he was drunk! His behavior is based on my uncle's behavior whenever my uncle is drunk. It wasn't originally going to be like this, but then we had a party and my uncle got drunk and inspiration struck!
Okay, now please review! Press the button that says go! Anonymous welcome, flames welcome!