My friend and I engaged in talking ONLY in foreign languages. People were like, "What are you talking about?" she was Japanese like me too, so we were blasting random stuff out and it was sooo fun.
Another interesting little story: My friend's older cousin who lives in New York is moving to Memphis (Where I live). She found an art studio downtown and so I was going to help her cousin unpack all her things this week.
Turns out, the art studio had a leak in the roof. Me and my friend (Her name is Garcia) had just discovered it. We ran all over the place with buckets so the leak would cease.
Then we went out for ice cream, so I don't know what happened to Garcia's cousin.
I'm such a mean person. But you know you love me.
Yes, Garcia…I'm talking to you too.
R&R.
My Sweet Little Game Chapter 10
Sasuke marched off, angry that the newspaper made such insolent lies about him. Most of all, he couldn't stand anyone making fun of the sweet and innocent Sakura. He knew that Tenten had to be punished for what she put in the newspapers.
With a flip of fury, he walked straight into the newspaper press, slamming the door behind him and ignoring the security guard.
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Meanwhile…
Sakura walked off to the newspaper press too. She still didn't forgive Sasuke or acting like an ass the other day, but he was still special to her (as a friend) and he didn't deserve any of this bad gossip.
Sakura had said sorry to Neji for ditching their date, but she had to settle this NOW.
She walked into the building of the newspaper press also.
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Meanwhile…
Sasuke looked around until he crossed the corner and stumbled across Tenten's office. Her door was decorated with pink feathers and a heart entitled, "Tenten"
Bleh… Sasuke thought. He hated pink.
Really? Everything that was pink?
He knocked once on Tenten's door but barged in either way.
"Hey!" Sasuke rushed in.
What he saw was…
Something horrific.
Neji…
In fact, the two of them were in the office, sitting close to each other. No physical interaction was occurring, but you could tell they were close with the way they were sitting. Neji was sitting on the desk, with Tenten's face practically at his, while she sat at the desk chair.
"You…" Sasuke said but paused. Anger boiled. Neji betrayed Sakura like this…
"Oh, Sasuke-kun!" Tenten smiled, not surprised at all that Sasuke barged in here.
Neji immediately jumped from his spot, sitting close to Tenten. He acted natural but Sasuke could see clearly that they were hitting on each other.
"We were just discussing the finalizing details of a news article I'm doing." Tenten smiled with a breeze, revealing her white pearly teeth and translucent pink glittery lip gloss.
"…An article?" Sasuke asked, in disbelief. They've gone so far and now they're DENYING it?
"Yea. It's a very SPECIAL article I'm helping Neji publish. He wanted to do this, so…" Tenten said. She gathered the files on her desk and walked towards Sasuke. She planted a kiss on his cheek without leaving a mark and cooed.
"See you later, boyfriend." Tenten chirped and walked out the door to bring the papers to the press area. "I'm gonna go refill my coffee."
This left Neji and Sasuke alone in the same room, silently standing there.
"What are you doing here, Uchiha?" Neji asked.
"I was just wondering the same thing." Sasuke glared fiercely at Neji.
Neji raised an eyebrow not exactly wiping the smirk off his face.
He walked to Tenten's desk and sat down, flipping through the papers gingerly.
"What are you doing to her?" Sasuke asked softly, as if pleading sympathy.
"To who?" Neji asked.
"To the girl who likes you very much." Sasuke said eyes serious.
Neji pretended to give a very surprised smirk. "Why I'm not doing anything to my Sakura."
Sasuke stared at Neji with untrusting eyes.
(Neji had allowed Sakura to leave to go find Tenten here as he took a shortcut. That's why he is here before Sakura.)
Neji's face suddenly grew stone serious. He got up from the desk and walked to Sasuke's position.
"But you might want to take care of Sakura a bit more…" Neji said softly. "She's a bit easy to…manipulate."
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Sakura wove her way in the press area unaware Sasuke was directly on the floor above her. She wandered about; trying to find Tenten after Neji admitted it was Tenten who wrote the gossip piece.
Sakura was pretty angry at the weapon mistress. She knew that Tenten was sort of sketchy and a bit unreliable in the beginning, but completely writing a FAKE article about Sasuke and herself was very unsettling.
Duh…that's what being a gossip columnist is.
However, Sakura couldn't help but feel the littlest pang of jealousy.
Suddenly, she ran right into Tenten, with her coffee mug fresh filled with new coffee. Sakura fell to the floor with a thud and so did Tenten, as she spilled her hot scalding coffee all over her dress suit.
She yelped and glared straight into Sakura's eyes, with a flash of true anger. Sakura cringed with a shiver of fear.
Tenten glared. "Well, like it'd kill you to watch where you were going." She snapped. She scoffed and examined the damage with a scorn. "I can't believe this!" She exclaimed.
Sakura watched with intimidation. "Oh…sorry…" She said. Then she got up and helped Tenten with the coffee on her dress suit. She bent down and picked up the half broken mug. "That was an accident, Tenten…I'm sorry."
Tenten shot Sakura a cold smile. "I'm sure it was."
Sakura felt the sudden urge to push Tenten down and grab out a clump of her precious brown hair. She clenched her fists and urged herself not to. But the perfect little weapon mistress only scoffed, flipped her hair around and examine the broken mug with a groan.
"So, Sakura…" Tenten said icily suddenly, when Sakura was looking at the ground.
Sakura almost jumped out of her pants. She glanced at Tenten with uncertain eyes. "Yes?"
Tenten smiled with a frosty cold smile. "How's your boyfriend?"
Sakura stared. She was talking about Neji obviously. But Sakura couldn't believe she had the nerve to bring Neji up after the lies she made about Sasuke.
"He's fine." Sakura answered, trying to remain thoughtful. She clenched her fists. How's running away with Sasuke to a hotel in your little imaginary world, you whore??? She thought bitterly.
"What brings you here?" Tenten asked with sub interest. She examined her nails and stared straight at Sakura, her brown eyes glittering. "I'm surprised you're here."
Sakura stared at Tenten and snapped back to reality. "I-I…wanted…" she stuttered. Now was a crappy time to mention her anger for Tenten's little gossip story.
"Well no worries." Tenten said, with fake kindness. "I'm sure whatever you're gonna say, you can say it in front of everyone back at the office." She said.
Sakura stared. "Wait…who's back at the office?"
Tenten shrugged and her eyes twinkled with mischievousness. "Just you know…Neji."
Sakura's face tensed. She turned red and gawked. NEJI? WHAT'S NEJI DOING THERE? Her eyes glinted as they met Tenten's, whose eyes were lark with a trace of evilness.
"Wanna go meet up with him? You can tell us why you're here when we get there with a warm cup of coffee together." Tenten said, sarcastically, referring to the spilled wet coffee still on her dress suit, while she was wiping it off with tissues. Tenten purposely dodged telling Sakura that Sasuke was in the room too.
Sakura gaped. "W-what is…Neji doing there?" she managed to croak.
Tenten shrugged with melancholy. "Y'know…just talking." She took off her pink jacket and fluffed herself. (NOTE: The coffee only spilled on her jacket, not her dress). "Wanna go up there?"
Sakura swallowed. "Sure."
Tenten smiled with fake laughter and led Sakura to the elevator. They both took the lift upstairs. Sakura's deep hatred for Tenten grew stronger and she tensed with every move Tenten took.
"Here we are." Tenten smiled when she reached her office. "Neji! I'm back!"
"Good. We were wondering why you took so long." Neji replied from inside the room.
"We?" Sakura asked. "Who else is in there, Tenten? All your other ex boyfriends too?" she scorched.
Tenten averted her eyes to Sakura with a menacing look. She quietly opened the door and revealed Neji with Sasuke.
Sakura look taken back. "Sasuke…" she still wasn't over her fight with Sasuke the other day. But somehow, seeing him there was relieving.
Sasuke was equally surprised and jumped back.
"I see we're all here." Neji quoted with entertainment.
Tenten smiled. "You know, since we're all here, let's go to the bar tonight together!"
"But…!" Sasuke and Sakura protested but was cut off by Neji.
"Sounds like fun." He said with sincere generosity.
"But we…" Sakura tried again. Her voice was cut off by the agreement of Tenten and the scorn of Sasuke's voice.
"You know, we'll make it a double date." Tenten smiled. "You and Sakura and Sasuke and I." She told Neji, eyeing Sakura too to make sure the others thought she actually cared about what Sakura's opinion was.
Neji beamed and Sasuke scowled even more.
2 hours later…
Evening had come and the gang was at the bar's front entrance. Sasuke and Sakura sauntered in the back while Neji and Tenten, the ones with more enthusiasm, walked in front, chatting along the way like long lost friends.
Sakura suddenly had regrets. Why was Neji so perfect when he was with her alone, but with other people around, he suddenly turned into a dope?
Her feelings were soon discarded as Tenten beamed in her face and cheered.
"Sakura! Lighten up! You look like you've never even been inside a bar before!" she laughed.
Sakura clenched her teeth. "Well I never did. And I'm sure any other respectable young woman wouldn't have either." Sasuke smiled at her snappy comeback.
"Really?" Tenten asked in genuine surprise. "When Neji and I were dating, we used to go to bars all the time."
Neji nodded and the two of them walked inside.
"That's probably the place where you met all your ex-boyfriends you have today." Sakura whispered, not audible to Neji or Tenten.
Sasuke laughed when he heard what she said. For a minute, Sakura looked at Sasuke and they smiled. Maybe their friendship wasn't forever doomed yet.
Inside, the bar was raging. Everywhere they went, a drunk or a mental minded person was singing along to the bar's gang music. It was noisy, but Tenten loved it.
"Let's dance!" Tenten shouted. "I love this song!" She grabbed Sasuke's hand and dragged him to the dance floor, without much say.
Sakura watched with earnest and sat down at a nearby barstool.
Tonight was gonna be long…
And the hell really started when Tenten dragged Neji, Sasuke and Sakura to the dance floor for a break dance. And that's when…
Tenten saw a flyer on the wall and her eyes grew large.
Sakura watched with curiousity and glanced at what Tenten was staring at.
Her eyes grew wide along with Tenten.
The boys came to where they were standing and saw what they were staring at. They gaped.
"Let's do it." Tenten said after a few pauses of silence after staring at the flyer for so long.
"No…" Sakura said.
"Yes!" Tenten smiled and waved her hands in the air.
On the flyer it read: Wanna join hot new fun? Well this bar is hosting a boy draft tonight for free at the club hotel. Switch BOYFRIENDS for the night! It'll be pure fun and a naughty night of surprises.
"C'mon! Let's do it!" Tenten cheered.
Neji shrugged.
Sasuke and Sakura stared in shock. A HOTEL? ARE THEY EXPECTING US TO DO SOMETHING NAUGHTY? AND ARE TENTEN AND NEJI JUST AGREEING TO THIS?
"Alright. Let's do it." Neji said.
Meaning placing Sasuke and Sakura alone in a hotel room tonight with Neji and Tenten in another.
LET THE SWITCH OF THE BOYFRIENDS BEGIN!
End of chapter.
I thank JENNY for inspiration. She was the one who pulled me out of my mood to bring me to type this chapter. I hope all of you are looking forward to the 4 of them switching boyfriends! (wink wink)
LUV YA, JENNY!