As I had promised, the new chapter of The Detour! Yay for me and for you. And thanks for the reviews! I still have to deal finals for the end of the semester and that explains the late uploading of this chapter.

Summary: Being stuck in a cruise with his fiancé, Sasuke finds another way to have fun. But he just can't until after some time, he met their tourist guide. Would there be any reason to stop his upcoming wedding? Pairings: SakuSasuIno NejiTen

Disclaimer: As I had said, I own nothing.

The Detour

By: piNkLaLa-o3

Chapter 2: The First Impression

"Sasuke-kun," whispered Ino silently after she sat beside the couch where Sasuke was lying. She heard him groan silently before he finally opened his pair of dark eyes. "You don't have to stay in here," she added. When Tenten and her arrived from their 'wandering thing' around the ship, she found him sleeping, but not in their bed, instead he's by the couch, with just a single pillow on his head. She sat there timidly for a moment and admired on how her fiancé looked like: dark raven hair, delicate face, lean body, fair skin, what else? She ran her hand through his face for sometime before she decided to wake him up.

Sasuke immediately got up and glared her after noticing her hand hanging on his left cheek. He pushed himself away from her and folded his arms before looking at her disgustingly for the second time. "Obviously, you have to stay on the bed," he retorted shortly but Ino just stared at him blankly. "Do you expect that we'll be staying at the same bed?" he asked before he sighed. Well, what does she want? They're not yet even married, how dare this slut ever ask him why he should stay away from her. That's the only time Ino got his point and began nodding.

"So, have a good night," she just said cheerfully as she stood and walked away from the couch. Sasuke continued his death glare towards her and after she entered the bathroom, he finally sighed and settled again into his cot that's clearly not as comfortable as he thought it was. But that'll be much better than sleeping into a nice bed only to find out he is with her. He even felt really awkward when she neared him, not to mention how his body shivered involuntarily when he found her hand wandering somewhere his face. That sucks.

The next morning, he was again waken up by none other than his fiancé, which immediately turned his day into a gloomy one. He almost forgot that he was on a trip, and now he has to face a whole new day, especially to eat his sucking breakfast with her. Ino placed a plate-full of toast bread and butter before she said "Sasuke-kun, we will have our first tour now and it'll be in, I think, somewhere in the Philippines. I also heard that we'd be able to—" But nonetheless, he never let her finished. He never really cared at all.

Ino also told him that a tour guide would be meeting them at 9:00 AM down by the prime restaurant located at the ground floor. Neji and Tenten had arrived there earlier than the two before they waited from a grand table for the guide to arrive. While at the bistro, Sasuke can't help but to get bored of all the plain and dull conversations his fiancé and Tenten had. Uh, he has really nothing against Neji's girlfriend, but he just can't believe the fact that they're hanging out together as if they're really close friends. But he can never do anything about it. He's now stuck, good thing Neji is here.

Speaking of the devil, Neji had been staring him for a while as if he needed something to say to him. Whatever it was, it only made him more confused. Neji had been acting strangely since they arrived here. He looked him back and tried to squeeze something out off him, but he really can't. With that, Sasuke can no longer hold his curiosity because he knew something happened, and that's the reason why Neji's somewhat out of his mood today. He shifted his gaze to Tenten who seemed to be more talkative this time. But wait… There is something wrong here… Finally, it hit him.

"Ohayou," interrupted a pink-haired agency worker before she bowed politely to the four persons sitting meekly in front of her. But instead of hearing cheerful replies from the tourists, all she got were glares and sighs from each one of them. She tried to look at her clients one by one to familiarize on their features, but all she noticed were the same expressions in their faces: boredom and frustration. Whatever happened to first impressions, the girl asked herself. But then, one of them did catch her attention, and it was none other than the dark haired guy who's wearing a cap and a light blue jacket, almost sitting away from the rest of the group. She even felt her face blush as the guy stared at her for a moment after she greeted them. "I'm Haruno Sakura, your tour guide for your trip," she finally managed to say.

Tenten and Ino greeted the guide back after they noticed that the boys will never have any plans to do so. I thought I'm going to have senior citizens again at this time, I never expected that they'll just be teenagers like me. I wonder how they were able to afford this kind of trip, Sakura said to herself. Lately, the costumers that had been applying in their agency were groups of elders, maybe 60 and above of age, that's why she appeared to be shocked when she was able to meet them. But whether her customers are senior citizens or teenagers, a job is a job nonetheless. "Our ship would be at Palawan, Philippines after half an hour from now," she happily informed the four. "Look, I have brochures here and I hope you'll be able to decide which place we're going first." She placed the folded flyers in front of them before taking a seat next to them.

Ino started opening hers and found beaches, resorts, restaurants, party places, hotels, and the like while Tenten just plainly eyed the piece of paper. "Okay, you decide," she said to Ino. It's just that she doesn't feel like having fun at this point of time because they have a small problem. It had nothing to do with Ino and Sasuke, it's between her and Neji. They just encountered a petite mess and now Neji became outrageous about it.

"But, I don't know this place. How on earth will I be able to choose from them," Ino bloated out in irritation before she glared at the naïve tour guide. Sakura felt a large lump on her throat as cerulean eyes pierced her direction. "You're the tour guide, and you should know where the best places could be found. We've never been there, so why did you ask us to choose? You should be the one who's recommending us fine situates, not us," she added. The pink haired guide just sat plainly on her seat as her customer started throwing questions about her liability. But that's the way the agency works, Sakura thought.

"No, you're getting it wrong," Sakura replied humbly before she looked at the brochures. "I'm just your tour guide and you're the customer. And because you're the ones who are paying us, the agency always gives you the free will to decide which place we should go." Sakura tried to speak softly and slowly for her customers to understand, especially to the blonde girl who seemed to be grumpy in treating her though deep inside she feels aggravated too. "As I was saying, I could only tour you to places you just want. But since you said that you don't feel like it, does that mean we'll just follow the original alleyway tourists' usually go to?" she asked them, but Ino just groaned annoyingly, which made Sakura feel a bit nauseous. She never had customers/tourists like this before. Maybe touring with the senior citizens is much better that these liberated teenagers.

Tenten just nodded approvingly while Neji just sat silently. "Okay, so you want to go to the usual spots the tourists visit here." Sakura opened her large map, which she spread around the table. Sasuke tried to look at it but found it much better not to appreciate it. There were red lines, blue lines, there were dots, and words and small houses printed on it. "Say, do you want to take a private boat to one of the greatest peak or be with the other tourists?'" she asked. "But I suggest taking the larger boat. The more, the merrier!"

Ino glared her for that for a moment before she removed her hands away from the big map "Do you think we're just ordinary people hanging out with ordinary ones in an ordinary boat?" she asked her as-a-matter-of-factly. She's getting into my nerves now, Ino whispered into herself. It was not really her idea to hire a stupid guide in the first place. She never cared to where they'll go and how far, her main agenda for this trip was to be with her future husband, and not to share it with a tour guide and her brainless behavior. She kept on asking questions with obvious answers. "You know, I'll just make a call to your agency and tell them to change this nonsense tour guide," she exclaimed, which shocked the poor Sakura.

Call the agency? Sakura felt her heart throbbed. "I beg your pardon?" Sakura asked directly into the bitch sitting in front of her. Just what is her problem? From the moment she entered the scene, all that bitch did was to piss her off. And from that moment onwards also, she also tried to hold her patience. She stood slowly and placed her palms on her map and stared at Ino frankly. "Is there any problem about the way our agency works?"

Ino raised her brow pompously as she crossed her legs. "I thought tour guides also act like stewards. But I never thought they could be as silly-tongued as you. If I had known from the start that your agency doesn't offer high quality services, we shouldn't have planned getting someone like you," Ino answered. Just what does that tour guide thought she was, getting away easily from her customers? This is not so good, she thought. And come to think of it, this is their first day of the cruise, and now it was already ruined, thanks to that guide.

"Excuse me, do you have any charge against our agency?" raised Sakura candidly, trying not to lose her temper. Even though how narrow-minded this bitch was, she's still her customer. And mind you, not just an ordinary customer. If she'll gather all her annoyance towards her, then chances would be she'd be kicked out of her agency. That shouldn't happen, Sakura thought as she inhaled deeply. Remember, customers are always right, she said repeatedly, trying to calm herself. She sat back on her seat again and looked at Ino as if nothing had happened at all.

"As far as we are concerned, we don't. But to you, I think we do," she practically screamed at the fair tour guide in front of her. Everyone was shocked, well, of course, minus Sasuke who seemed not to listen to her at all. Tenten tried to calm her down as Sakura backed a little away from the offensive bitch. "Just what is your problem?" Ino added. But to her dismay, the guide didn't answer back. Instead, Sakura just stared her as if waiting for the next thing she'll say. "That's it, I don't want you to be our guide on this trip, or even to the next! I'll tell your agency—"

Ino felt her jaw being locked as Sasuke stood up from where he was seated, looking too annoyed and bored. He glared at his fiancé before he said to her "She's our guide, we can't do anything about it." Neji also stood up, followed by Tenten while Ino and Sakura remained petrified. "Just shut up!" he yelled at his worthless fiancé before he walked out. Finally, he was able to tell what he really wanted to say from the first time they ever met. Why can't she shut her shitty mouth?

"It was so unexpected," Sakura exclaimed before she signed her attendance in their agency's headquarters inside the ship. After what happened early in the morning at Barefoot (the restaurant where she met her clients), she couldn't help but to tell it everything to Hinata, one of her best friends and also a tour guide in this cruise. "He was just there the whole time, staring blankly at nowhere as that damn bitch blabbered her garbage mouth. But you know what, when that bitch was about to say 'I don't want you as our tour guide' and that sort, that guy just plainly said 'shut up!'." Sakura almost laughed her heart out as she imagined the early scenario. "And she fell like this," she added and mimicked the torment face Ino had.

"Well, that's good for you," replied a cheerful tour guide with pearly white eyes after she pulled her attendance form. "But I don't think that's a very sound first meeting. Still, I pity you for having teenagers as your customers," she sighed. "This would be my seventh time to have the 'old' ones in my custom." She emphasized the 'old' so dearly that it made Sakura chuckled for a little. "Well, good luck to your trip, hope it'll turn out fine. And be sure to get your clients' name, okay?" Hinata added before she waved her hand towards her and meekly left their quarters.

"So you're telling me you broke up with her?" asked Sasuke in bewilderment after Neji told him what happened last night. Neji almost shook his head and tried to calm his stoic friend. After what happened into the restaurant this morning, Neji followed Sasuke while Tenten decided to stay to help Ino's confusion to subside. That's when Sasuke noticed that there really is something wrong going on the two. Normally, those two always stick together, but obviously this time, they did not. So it made him jump into a conclusion that they broke up.

Neji sighed. "No. Of course not," he answered softly. He had explained to Sasuke what happened, but the Uchiha just kept saying 'so you broke up?' again and again. "Just as what I told you, we're just in the stage of uncertainty, you know. Relationships always undergo stages where on and offs are frequent but I'm not saying that we're in that stage. We just encountered a couple of problems last night but they're not as immense as you thought," the Hyuuga assured. Anyway, even though how many times he'd tell this to his friend, he'll never be able to understand. He never knows anything about love for he never fell in love into someone before. He looked at his friend sympathetically at that thought. Poor Uchiha, he knows nothing. "But I think you won't understand, so I'll let you believe that we did break up. Is that fine?" he asked before he sighed inwardly.

Sasuke looked at him for a moment, obviously puzzled on what Neji had said. "I sure don't understand this, but if that's what you say…" But initially speaking, he just wanted to say 'whatever' for he never really cared to whatever happens to his friend's "social" life. Still, friends are friends. That's what his logic tells him. Friends act as if they cared to each other, and that's what he supposed to do, whether he recognized it or not. If Neji said they broke up, just let it be. "So, you're still coming on our first trip or what? Well, I don't think those 'girls' are in the right mood for that. But I think I will… eventually. I'm getting bored," he said while he pulled a white shirt from his closet.

"I don't have any choice, you see," Neji replied. But it still bothers him to leave Tenten alone with that 'insane' type of person. Of course he hates that sloppy fiancé of his friend just like how Sasuke does. And he'll kill Tenten if she'll also end up acting just like that bum. "Well, I think this trip would be just for you and for me," he exclaimed before he opened up the front door. "And for that tour guide of yours," Neji added, smirking. Sasuke felt his eye twitched for a moment before glaring at his direction. "I was just kidding, you know. Never thought you'll fall for that." Neji then went out of the room before giving out a sigh.

"And for that tour guide of yours."

"Yeah, I like that," Neji concluded.

Sasuke remembered that their tour guide said something like 'Barefoot' and '9:30' so he found himself waiting for her there. Neji said he'll be late for he had to assess something about his company. He can't believe Neji's still thinking about business despite the fact that they are on a trip, and Tenten broke up with him, or was it the other way around? Nah. He doesn't care. But then, being alone was after all a good idea. The ship was now on a halt as he admired the nice scenery cascaded in front of him. It's nice that he chose the table beside the open window, and now he can feel the soft breeze and the warm sunlight. He peeped onto his watch and saw that it was already 9:31. She's late! He sure hates tardiness.

"Ohayou!" The usual cheerfulness and warmth of her greeting never faded out, he can tell. He lifted his gaze towards the pink-haired tour guide. She wore faded shorts that fell on her knees with a plain white shirt that says 'Tour Guide' in bright red. She had an unusual large back pack and a nice red cap. Her hair was now tied in a neat pony tail with locks falling on her shoulder. "So! We've arrived at the beautiful island and western province of Palawan! I hope you…" Her voice trailed of as she noticed that her four clients were now cut to one. He eyed her expectantly as if waiting for her to continue the introduction. "Sir, are we expecting the others to come? If they won't be coming then I would have to excuse myself for I have to tell the agency about it." She had said that with high energy without even breathing.

"No big deal, I'll pay for all their expenses as if they were all here," he said as he absent-mindedly scanned the map she had brought to them earlier. Sakura just stared at him as if she hadn't heard what he just said.

"But, sir," she laughed silently. "Paying for four packages…"

"I said I'll pay for them. Aren't we leaving?" he asked impatiently, shifting the navy blue cap he wore so it covers half of his face. He then placed his cell phone on his pocket as he passed right to the petrified tour guide. Paying for four packages? Even my month's salary can't pay for a single tour, Sakura said to herself unbelievably. Who is he?

"Excuse me, sir---," she blabbered incoherently when she caught up to him.

"It's Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke."

A/N: Uh, I don't think Hinata has something to do with Neji here. I just picked a random character and that's it. Hmm. She couldn't be his cousin here for Hinata was just a typical tour guide just like Sakura while Neji was some sort of wealthy being just like Sasuke. Hmm. That makes sense.