Chapter 5) Leadership
The following day was Saturday, and mostly no one wasted their time and stayed indoors. Naruto opened the door to the outside world, and breathed in the fresh air. Smiling happily, he met up with Hinata, and the two went to picnic somewhere. Even Neji secretly went to go meet TenTen so that they could catch a movie. Ino had left so that she could meet up with her lover, and Sakura was in the bathroom when she heard her cellphone ring.Wrapping a towel around herself, she stepped out of the cold shower, and picked up her phone. It was Sasuke, and with a sigh, she answered it.
"Hello?" Sakura asked.
There was no answer. "Hello?" She asked again, wondering if Karin stole his phone again.
The line went dead, and Sakura shrugged. She hesitantly put down her phone, wanting to call him back, but didn't because she was running out of time. As she was about to drop her towel to change, a cloud of smoke appeared behind her.
"Yo." Sasuke said.
"SASUKE!!" Sakura shouted, startled. Her hold on her green towel tightened, and she started shaking as Sasuke wrapped his arms around her.
"What are you doing here, Sasuke?! How did you get in without the chakra censors going off?!" Sakura asked.
"Sakura, I'm the number one student at my boarding school, do you think I wouldn't know how to get in here?" Sasuke whispered in her ear, as his hand went over hers.
"What do you want?" Sakura stammered, trembling.
Sasuke smirked. "I think you know." He whispered, removing her right hand from the towel.
Sakura shook her head, her whole face a deep red. She wanted to tell him no, but a part of her wanted for him to continue. Still smiling, Sasuke removed her left hand, and the towel dropped. On pure instinct, Sakura slapped him, and ran into the bathroom, blushing. Sasuke stared at the bathroom door, and laughed.
"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, you pervert!" Sakura yelled from inside the bathroom.
"Hmmm, what is this? Pink polka dotted underwear? I wonder who this belongs to…." Sasuke said, holding up Sakura's underwear. Sakura slammed open the door, and punched Sasuke, knocking him out. She took back her clothes, quickly changed, and then knelt down beside him. Gazing upon his handsome face, her alarm clock rang, and she shot up.
"Oh no, I'm late!!" Sakura cried, gathering her belongings. She sighed, and stared down at Sasuke. Smiling evilly, she grabbed a white board marker, and wrote on his forehead. Stepping over him, she ran out the door, and headed for her work.
When Sasuke woke up, he rubbed his cheek, still able to feel the sting the medic had gave him. Looking around for his lover, he then noticed that something was wrong with his face. Looking into a mirror, he saw that Sakura had written on his forehead, and drew horizontal ovals on his cheeks, as blush marks. The note read:
"I have to work today, sorry! Be back at 4:30!"
Sasuke sighed, and washed off the markings. He walked out of the room and out of the school without being noticed. From behind the corner, three girls watched him.
"It's almost time to engage plan 'Caught' into motion! Where is KiKi?!" Karin asked.
"I'm over here!" KiKi called, running over.
"Where were you?!" Karin barked.
"I was up all night correcting your plan, Karin." KiKi answered.
"What?!" Karin asked.
"You see, if we try to flirt with Sasuke all day, he'll just get tired of it and ignore us completely. What we should do is wait until he walks to the hospital, and then flirt with him, and when Sakura sees him smiling with one of us, she'll hate him!" KiKi explained, with a triumphant smile.
"Sounds good, but how are we going to make him smile?" Karin asked.
KiKi's lips curved into a smile with a hint of mischief. "Since you are the leader, Karin, I will apply beautiful make up on you so that he will smile at your beauty!" She exclaimed.
Karin smiled in satisfactory, but Hana pouted. "What do I do? Remember, KiKi, we are all on this together." Hana said suspiciously.
"Don't worry, I have it under control. We will all win Sasuke's heart!" KiKi assured the two.
The three followed Sasuke around the village, and finally followed him to the hospital. KiKi applied make up to Karin's face, or so she thought, and walked towards Sasuke.
Inside the hospital, Sakura grabbed her things and headed to the main office. She told her boss (Tsunade) that she was leaving for the rest of the day, but that the hokage could call her anytime. Tsunade agreed, and they waved their goodbyes with simple smiles. Sakura ran down the stairs, dodging any patients and nurses.
Outside of the hospital, Sasuke checked his watch that read 4:35. Where is she?! He wondered, staring at the double doors in the front. It was there that Karin confronted him, with a seductive smile on her face.
"Hello there, Sasuke-kun." Karin purred. Sasuke rolled his eyes at her, but his eyes stopped when he saw her face. He smiled in satisfactory, and Karin returned the smile by taking his hand in hers.
"I know we had a fight yesterday, but I want to tell you that…" Karin walked her fingers up his shirt, trying to seduce him. When his smile grew, she knew she had won and that he couldn't stop looking at her 'wonderful' face.
And the two heard double doors shut loudly.
Sasuke turned his head towards the sound, and his widened eyes gazed upon a stunned Sakura. Karin looked the other way, searching for KiKi and Hana.
"S-sasuke…?" Sakura stuttered.
"Sakura, I-"
"That's right, you pink haired bitch! Sasuke likes me now, so you might as well fuck off." Karin said, her head still turned away.
Her green eyes started to water, but then her fists tightened. "I won't believe that." She simply said.
Sasuke ran up the steps, and embraced his girlfriend. Sakura hugged him back hesitantly, still confused.
"Sakura, her face." Sasuke whispered in Sakura's ear. Sakura turned her head so that she could see Karin's face, and she bursted out laughing.
"Why are you laughing?!" Karin demanded. Sakura took out a mini mirror, and Karin gasped at her reflection.
"Th-that's not right! That mirror is fake! That is…. That is the make up…." Karin stuttered, and jerked her head to the direction of KiKi and Hana.
"That sly bitch!" Karin roared, referring to KiKi.
On her face, KiKi had written in red lipstick: "I'm jealous of Sakura Haruno because I'm uglier than her!!"
Karin stormed off, yelling and cursing at the empty landscape. Sasuke's eyes watched the red head until she was out of sight, then his black onyx eyes trailed to Sakura.
"Geeze, will they ever stop chasing you?" Sakura sighed.
"Probably." Sasuke simply stated.
Sakura looked at the Uchiha with worried eyes, wondering if he would ever want to go to them. Sasuke noticed her expression, smirked, and picked her up bridal style.
"Let's go get desert." Sasuke insisted, walking down the steps with Sakura in his arms.
"But I haven't ever eaten dinner yet." Sakura said, puzzled by his suggestion.
"Hn. I don't care." Sasuke said with a mischievous grin.
Sakura blushed, and let her raven haired lover carry her to a hotel somewhere in Konoha.
"Why did you write that on Karin's face, KiKi?" Hana asked, the two girls brushing their hair in their dorm room.
"Because Karin is really mean, and you have to be nice if you want Sasuke to love you. It's okay, Hana, you'll surely win Sasuke-kun's heart, because I'm mean for writing that." KiKi assured her best friend.
"Oh…" Hana said hesitantly, and locked their door room, in case Karin broke in and did something to them. Hana thanked KiKi for her help, and went to sleep.
KiKi smiled sweetly, and turned off the light in their room. She laid in her bed, reviewing her true golden plan.
Hana is so dumb. KiKi thought, still smiling. Since they already know about Hana and the cellphone, they wouldn't even bother to care what she did to them. Now that Karin is out of the way, I can only win Sasuke-kun's heart because I didn't do anything to make them notice me!
KiKi drifted to sleep with images of her golden plan playing wonderfully in her mind.
(A/N: Thanks for reading so far. Just one more chapter, I promise! ^^ )