"So what do we to today Kakashi sensei?" Sakura asked as they all stood together.
The silver haired jounin smiled, "Tsunade doesn't want Nitsu to do anything strenuous since she passed out yesterday, so you all have the day off!" with that, he poofed away.
Nitsu blinked, "I'm not a damn baby! I'm not made of glass and going to break!"
"I don't know, you seem to be covering the baby role right now," Sasuke smirked.
Naruto and Sakura rolled their eyes.
"Can it princess," she glared.
Sasuke glared back, "How many times do I have to tell you, I'm NOT gay!"
She grinned, "Aww, but you pull it off so well!"
Naruto snickered as Sakura sat down and sighed.
The raven stiffened, "I AM NOT GAY!"
Nitsu shook her head, "You should really get over your denial. It's not healthy."
He glared at her, then closed his eyes, counting to ten to calm down, before he killed someone.
"Hey Teme, why are you counting?" Naruto asked as Nitsu had found something else to keep her occupied.
Sasuke sighed as he opened his eyes, only to jump as he stared face to face with a curious looking Nitsu. She was a few inches away from his face as she seemed to be studying him.
"What are you doing?" he asked as Nitsu kept staring.
She shrugged, "Trying to figure you out," she said as she sat back. "Since you're so adamant about not being gay, but you do look the part, I'm just trying to figure out how."
"Look the part?" he glared.
She nodded her head, "Smooth pale skin, overly soft hair and…" she stood up and pulled him up, then motioned with her hands, "even though you're tall, your body's more…willowy than the other guys."
Naruto and Sakura stared in awe as all the points seemed to sink in, then they wondered how Sasuke could be straight when he looked more like a girl.
Sasuke glared at Nitsu, "Willowy'? What the hell are you on Nitsu?" He stopped as he seemed to realize something and smirked at the confused Nitsu, "How would you know Nitsu, unless you were looking at me all the time."
Nitsu scoffed, "Don't flatter yourself, it's not that hard to figure out." She looked around, "So what do we do now?"
Sakura stood up, "We could always go swimming."
Naruto shot up, "Yeah! Let's do that!"
Sasuke blinked as Nitsu crossed her arms infront of her face, "I can't swim. So I'm not going to do something that can get me killed."
"We'll teach you!" Naruto beamed.
Sakura smiled, "Because we know where you live."
She looked over to Sasuke who had his eyes closed with a smirk, "Because we would hunt you down and drag you back."
Naruto wore a pair of orange swim trunks, showing off his toned body. Sakura wore a pink bikini, drooling over the Uchiha. Sasuke wore a pair of dark blue swim trunks that showed off his pale toned frame.
"Nitsu," Sakura sighed, "You can't go swimming if you keep that towel on you."
Said girl raised an eyebrow, "Exactly."
Naruto walked up behind her and quickly yanked the towel away as he grinned.
Sakura glared as she looked from her chest to Nitsu's, who was slightly larger.
Nitsu wore a bikini with black and deep purple shades, her hair was down covering her back and marking.
She glared at Naruto, "Baka! If you know what's good for you, you'll give me my towel back." She glanced back and forth from him and the lake, "I'll give you flying lessons. Naruto? What's wrong?"
The blonde pointed over her shoulder. She turned around and blinked several times, "Uchiha!"
He snapped back to reality and glared, "What?"
"You're blushing," Naruto grinned.
Sasuke sneered, "I don't blush, dobe."
Nitsu snickered, "Well, it's either a heatstroke or you're blushing and since we know you're gay, it has to be Naruto."
The blonde hid behind the towel as Sasuke glared and Nitsu died out laughing, "Otsuka."
A quick 'eep' left her mouth as he picked her up and walked over to the water's edge, "You still say I'm gay?"
She blinked, "Dear Kami! Are you still going on about that?"
He quickly walked on top of the water, concentrating his chakra in his feet.
"Uh…you do remember I can't swim, right?" she panicked slightly.
Naruto came running over on the water, "Don't drop her Teme!"
Sasuke grinned evilly as he looked between the blonde idiot, Nitsu and Sakura who came running to them, "I won't drop her," the others sighed, "if she agrees that I'm not gay."
Nitsu huffed, "But you are!"
"Have a nice swim," he shrugged as he let go, but Nitsu wrapped her arms around his neck to stay up.
She glared and looked up with a pout, "That wasn't nice."
The Uchiha's face tinged slightly as he realized that she was pressed completely against him. He bit his lip as Nitsu looked at him funny as something seemed to click in her head, "Oh dear Kami," she blinked. Looking around, Nitsu hung her head as she still clung to the Uchiha's neck, "I feel like a bitch now."
The others were quiet as they watched her, when suddenly a shadow appeared over them, "Look out!"
Lee landed near them, still wearing his green spandex outfit.
The sudden commotion startled Nitsu and her grasp slipped. With a quick gasp, she fell under the water's surface.
"Shit!" Naruto yelled.
Sakura looked worried, "She really can't swim can she?"
Naruto shook his head and dove under after her.
Sakura landed a good punch to Lee's head as Sasuke shook his head and dove in after Naruto.
The blonde swam deep but after a bit of searching, his lungs started craving air. He quickly swam by Sasuke, pointing down where he came from and the raven nodded as he went deeper.
A few seconds went by when he was about to give up, when something caught his attention; a blue light. He went closer and found it was Nitsu's marking on her back.
Wrapping his arm around her waist, he went as fast as he could to the surface and made it to the shore where the others stood.
"Is she okay?" Naruto asked worriedly.
Sasuke laid her down and listened carefully, no breathing. Not good.
Tilting her head back slightly, he pinched her nose closed and breathed into her mouth and lungs. He moved to her chest and pushed down quickly.
After the fifth round, everyone began to give up but Sasuke kept going.
He pinched her nose again and breathed into her when she sucked in air greedily. He turned her on her side so she could cough up all the water in her lungs.
Lee began to apologize when Sakura shut him up. Naruto was crying both from fear of losing a friend and joy that Nitsu was okay.
"Twice," said girl wheezed out as Naruto draped her towel over her shoulders.
"Huh?" they blinked.
She breathed in shakily, "Twice you've saved me, Uchiha."
He stared as she stood slowly and walked up to him, "Sorry for the past two days, teasing you and everything." Before their minds could comprehend everything, Nitsu hugged Sasuke and the stoic Uchiha blushed.
The others stared in awe as Nitsu pulled back and began to walk home.
"What just happened?" Sakura blinked.
The others shrugged as Naruto began to follow his friend, "I'll find out."
"Nitsu, what's wrong?" Naruto asked as they laid on her living room floor, resting and normally clothed again.
She looked over to him and sighed, "I don't know. It just feels like someone is trying to kill me with how many times I've almost died within the past few days."
A sudden knock at the door had both looking at eachother and shrugging, Nitsu slowly got up and sighed as she walked to the front door. She opened the door, took half-a-second for her brain to register who was at the door, then slammed it shut and went back in the living room and laid down.
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Who was it?"
"A pineapple, evil fruit by the way, a doll playing painted cat, and a psychotic raccoon," she said with her eyes closed.
Again, the knocking started up and Naruto got up and answered.
"Why did you slam the door in our faces?!" Temari yelled as they came in the room with her.
Nitsu mumbled something about evil fruit not suppose to be able to talk, then looked above her and seen the sand siblings upside-down.
Nitsu wore black pants that were snug at the hips and loose on her legs, bare feet, her red top, black fingerless gloves, and her hair down and splayed slightly around her.
Kankuro looked like his eyes were about to pop out of his head and drown in his own drool.
Nitsu glared at him, "If you don't think about something else, I'm going to dismantle your dolls one by one then use them for firewood."
He blinked then spluttered, "They're puppets! Not dolls!"
"Says the man wearing makeup and cat ears," she smirked evilly.
Temari laughed as Gaara just stood there. The only sign of movement was the corner of his mouth twitching to form a smirk.
Kankuro glared, "Come on, we can go somewhere else."
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Why are you guys here anyway?"
Temari sighed, "Kankuro, we're not going anywhere and we're here to see if we can stay while we're in Konoha."
Nitsu sighed as she gracefully jumped up and stretched, "Go on," she motioned up the stairs. "Same rules. Nothing loud. No peeking in on me," she glared at Kankuro. "No cooking for you," she pointed to Temari as her brothers sighed in relief. "And no killing anyone in my house," she looked at Gaara.
Each one glared but nodded as Nitsu tilted her head, as if to remember something, causing some of her hair to fall in her face, "Oh yeah, I got some new things for your rooms. Go look."
They eyed her carefully as Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi came by.
"What's going on?" Sakura asked.
Naruto smiled, "Gaara, Temari and Kankuro are staying at Nitsu's."
A few minutes went by when a squeal reached their ears.
"Temari found the new fans," Nitsu grinned.
Dread slowly covered them, "Oh my Kami! Nitsu! I'm going to kill you!"
Nitsu chuckled and snickered to Naruto, "I got him some cute dolls."
Naruto shook his head, "That's mean."
"I felt charitable," Nitsu shrugged and smiled evilly at the thought of when Kankuro opened his closet.
Gaara came walking down the stairs carrying something in his hand, he had left his gourd in his room, and walked up to Nitsu. He glanced at the others then turned back to the smiling girl, "Thank you for painting my room red."
Nitsu smiled, "I remembered you saying it was your favourite colour, plus I felt bad for giving you a room with off yellow walls."
He cringed then reached into the container.
The others watched quietly as Nitsu blinked, "What'cha got Ga-kun?"
"Ga-kun?!" the four others said in confusion.
Gaara ignored them and popped a small cookie in Nitsu's mouth, with half still hanging out. "Thanks for the cabinet full of cookies, Ni-chan," he gave a look to the others as if telling them to say anything and they would die, then grabbed her chin and softly turned her face to the side and kissed her cheek just beside her mouth and went back up the stairs to his room.
Nitsu looked back to the stunned faces and blinked, "What are you three doing here anyways?"
Kakashi was the first one back to reality, "Tsunade told us to come here. Now I see why."
"This is why Tsunade-sama told us to come here?" Sakura asked as she looked between them and the stairs leading up to the rooms.
Sasuke stared emotionlessly at Nitsu, "When did they start staying here?"
"Not soon after I moved here," she smiled.
Naruto blinked, "How did you get Gaara to talk to you so quickly?" He stopped then gapped, "He just kissed you!"
Nitsu shrugged and was about to answer when someone laughed. Everyone turned to see the Sand siblings walking up to them. "She caught Kankuro staring at her," Temari laughed as said boy shuddered, "then threatened to disembowel him."
Kakashi chuckled as Sakura cringed at the mental image, "That would explain it."
Naruto grinned, "Well, I'll see you guys later. I need to head home."
Sakura and Kakashi nodded too as Nitsu stood up, "Okay. I'll see you out," she then turned to look at her guests and sighed, "Decide what you want to eat. But NO cooking."
Temari glared at Nitsu's back as her and her team walked to the front door. Kakashi stood still as the others watched him quietly. "I guess we don't have training, since Nitsu has to baby-sit we can't train as a whole team," he said then walked off.
Sakura smiled then ran off somewhere, leaving Nitsu with her two male teammates. She looked to the raven and grinned, "What's wrong princess? Is it that time of the month again?"
Sasuke growled as Naruto laughed, "How many times do I have to tell you. I'm NOT gay!"
"I'm not saying you're gay, Sassy-chan," she grinned.
Naruto died out laughing, "I've got to go." He looked at Sasuke about ready to kill Nitsu, "Come on Teme. You can't kill Nitsu." He drug off the fuming Uchiha and waved over his shoulder to Nitsu, who laughed then went back inside to find Kankuro and Gaara looking at the kitchen worried.
"Where's Temari?" her answer was the two pointing at the kitchen.
She ran in the room and gasped, pushing the other girl away from the stove quickly. Water was bubbling over the top of a pot as Temari was about to mix some things together that could probably blow up.
Gaara and Kankuro peeked around the corner as Nitsu turned towards Temari, "I told you, Temari, that you were never to cook in my house again." She seemed to have the promise of death around her as she looked at Temari, then sighed and turned her back to them and began to clean up.
They watched her quietly, when Gaara came walking to her and touched the part of her back that was exposed, "What's this?"
She jumped slightly holding her chest then looked over at him as he raised his nonexistent eyebrow, "Apparently, it's my Kekkei Genkai. It's chakra that's stronger than my normal one and never goes away. But it only works when I really need it." After a few minutes, Nitsu sighed, "Come here Temari. You two go back upstairs. I'll call you when the food's ready."
They nodded and left the blonde alone with Nitsu, "Okay. If I can teach Naruto to cook, I'm pretty sure I can teach you."
Temari looked doubtful as Nitsu explained everything that could and could NOT be mixed together.
Back upstairs, Kankuro and Gaara waited quietly.
"Do you think she killed Temari?" Kankuro asked as they sat on the top of the stairs.
Gaara shrugged, "Either she did or didn't. But I do smell something cooking.
Kankuro paled, "You don't think she'd cook her, do you?"
The red head shrugged again.
"Come on guys!" Nitsu called from downstairs.
The two gave one last look to eachother then carefully walked into the kitchen where the table was set and Nitsu AND Temari were sitting. Grinning. Gaara glanced at Kankuro then back to the girls who smiled then started laughing.
"You thought I cooked her didn't you?" Nitsu asked as the two nodded. She shook her head and grinned, "Alright guys, dig in."