Of Ice Skating and Online Chats.
Chapter Five.
Of Trails, Competition and Food Fights
When the duo got to the apartment that they would be staying at for the month that they were in the land of the snow they unpacked and found a note on the fridge that said :
Here is some money for food. Trails are Monday at noon! DO NOT BE LATE!!
"Whats it say Suki?" Sasuke said coming up behind Sakura.
"Reading." She said. "What time is it?"
"Um, it's eleven thirty, why?" Sasuke said.
"Nani?? Trails are in a half hour!" Sakura yelled. "Quick go get the stuff and lets go!! Also hand me a mirror I need to change my hair!!" Sakura's hair was now pink again because when they had walked through the door she removed her genjutsu.
"What the hell for?" Sasuke asked.
"I need to see what I'm doing! Unless you want me to look like a neon pink fluff ball!!" Sakura yelled.
"You already do. Well, beside the neon pink part." Sasuke said.
"I heard that!"
"So?"
"So if you don't get me that mirror in the next thirty seconds I'm going to drop kick your pretty 'lil ass to Suna!!" Sakura yelled.
"Yeah, yeah, Hime-sama." Sasuke said handing her the mirror.
"I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that Uchiha." Sakura said in a venomous tone.
"Hn."
When they got to the rink there was a group of couples mainly blonds looking at themselves in the mirror. And guys standing next to them looking just as vain. One was flirting with some other dude.
"How come I feel like we're out of place?" Sakura asked.
"Because more than half of these people were probably pampered as a child. And we are shinobi trained to kill." Sasuke said.
"Whatever." Sakura said shrugging.
"Well, well, well what do we have here?" A girl asked as she came up to the duo. She looked as if she hadn't had a descent meal in months. She had bleach blond hair with brown streaks and dull blue eyes.
"My name is Ana and my partner is Gaki." Said Ana. "I have won these competition for three years in a row and don't plan on losing to you losers so unless you want to get hurt beat it."
"Is that I threat Ana-san?" Sakura asked innocently.
"No. Marley a suggestion" (yes I spelled it right its Marley a suggestion u'll find out why in a sec.) Ana said.
"I believe the proper term is 'merely a suggestion' Miss Ana." Sasuke said for the first time turning to them causing them to swoon.
"Hmph!" She said.
"Will a Miss Suki and a Mister Cloud come up please." Came a voice.
"Hai!" Sakura said.
"Due to special circumstances you will not have to skate today." He said. "But you will make it into the competition."
"Okie dokie!" Sakura said.
"Why don't they?" Demanded Ana.
"Because they have come all the way from Konoha and must be tired from their travels they will have their own private trails."
"But you said that they would get in anyway?" Ana said.
"I said no such thing. Right Cloud-san, Suki-san?" The announcer said.
"Right." They said in unison.
"I'm hungry." Sakura said as they left the building. "Wanna go get something to eat? Sushi sounds good don't you think?" Sakura asked as they past a sushi shop.
"Hn. Whatever." Sasuke said.
"I'm asking your opinion you baka, you gotta answer me better than that!" Sakura said.
"Hn, I don't care." Sasuke said.
"Whatever." Sakura said as they walked into the Sushi place.
"Welcome! How may I help you?" Said the host.
"We'd like a table for two." Sakura said holding up two fingers and giving a warm smile.
"Right this way Miss..." The host said trailing off as she did not know Sakura's name.
"Suki. And this is my friend Cloud." Sakura said.
"Ah! What a lovely name!" She said. "Your server's name is Ayame and will be here shortly."
"Okie! Arigato!" Sakura said as she walked off.
"Ummm, I think I will get shrimp tempora. What about you Cloud-kun?" Sakura asked in a sing song voice.
"Hn, I'll have the same thing." Sasuke said.
"Geez!!" Sakura said. "Do you have to start evey sentence with 'Hn'"
"Ah."
Bam!
"What the hell was that for?" Demanded Sasuke as she had just hit him in the head with the menu.
"For you lack of a vocabulary!" Sakura said. "You know what? I'm going to give you as many dictionary's as I can posibly find!"
"You do that." Sasuke said as their waiter Ayame came up to them.
"Hello! My name is Ayame and I will be your server today!" Ayame said. "Are you ready to order?"
"Two Shrimp Temporas please!" Sakura said holding up two fingers.
"Okay. And what would you like to drink?" She asked
"A Pepsi please." Sakura said.
"Same." Sasuke said.
"Okay!" Ayame said, overly enthusiastic. "I will be right back with your orders."
"Okay." Sakura said.
"H-" Sasuke started but was cut off by Sakura hitting him on the head. "What the hell I wasn't even gonna say 'Hn'!"
"Oh, well then carry on." Sakura said.
"Never mind." Sasuke said. He was in fact going to say 'hn'.
"I thought so." Sakura said,. She knew that Sasuke was going to say 'hn'. She had known him since they were genin and knew some of his habits for she had once been one of his rabid fan girls that she despised today.
After lunch at the apartment.
"I'ma go get on the computer. I'm gonna see if I can talk to Ino, TenTen and Hinata-chan." Sakura said walking into the office.
The apartment had three rooms one room was Sasuke's one was Sakura's and one was the office with a bookshelf and a computer. When she got to the computer there was a note saying that they would not be able to get on the computer for another three days. Sighing Sakura got up and walked into the living room where Sasuke was channel surfing.
"I am not going to be able to get on the computer for another three days. Anything good on?" Sakura asked sitting on the love seat.
"No." Sasuke said.
"Bah!" Sakura said.
"Lemme see that remote!" Sakura said.
"Here." Sasuke said as he threw it to her. After Sakura caught the remote she went to on demand to see if they had any good movies.
"Wanna watch Hellboy? It's the first one." Sakura asked.
"Sure." Sasuke said. The added in a lower voice. "Someone is watching us."
"Okie dokie!" Sakura said as she played the movie and turned it up. "I know. I noticed when I walked into the living room. Do you know where they are? Or how many?"
"No. But there are...Two. Their presence is not familiar so I don't think we know them."
"We can take them." And with that Sakura began to preform the proper hand seals for replacement jutsu. When the replacement was done Sakura disappeared and reappeared behind the people who where watching them concealing her presence from them.
"Who are you and what do you want." Sakura demanded holding a kunia to the smaller ones neck.
"Answer me!" Demanded Sakura once they did not respond to her. "Answer me or your friend dies!"
"They can't they are under a genjutsu." Sasuke said as he walked along the roof to Sakura.
"Figured." Sakura said as she pulled the hood from the smaller ones head. Revealing Ana. "The other one must be Gaki. I say we put em in the ally and leave um there."
"Okay." After taking away their memory of what had happened Sasuke grabbed them both and dropped into the ally. After promptly dropping them onto the dirty floor Sasuke jumped back onto the roof and went back to the apartment and plopping down to watch the movie. When the movie was over Sakura was asleep and Sasuke picked her up bridal style and tucked her into her bed, then walking off to his own room.
The next morning.
"Oi! Cloud get your ass up! We have a brunch meeting for the skating thing!" Sakura said pounding on the door. Though as the door opened to reveal Sasuke, Sakura kept pounding and hit him on the head Hard knocking Sasuke unconscious once again.
"Oopsie!" Sakura said nudging him with her foot. "Cloud?"
"Baka." Said a voice behind her. Sasuke had a feeling this would happen because she was half awake and had done it to Naruto but harder and it had ended with him unconscious for another two hours.
"Ah! Sa-Cloud!" Sakura said whirling around. "Anyway. We gotta go. Well your ready. Now I gotta get ready. We will not be skating today so we don't have to bring our skates." Sakura said as she noticed that Sasuke was already dressed.
"I know." Sasuke said.
"Blee!!" Sakura said sticking her tongue out childishly.
"Real mature." Sasuke said.
"I know! Ain't I great?" Sakura said as she skipped off to her bathroom. She had drank four cups of coffee as hyper as hell.
"How much coffee did you drink?" Sasuke said raising an eyebrow. Not that Sakura could see.
"Um, three? No! I had four... And a half." Sakura called through the door.
"Whatever just hurry up." Sasuke said sighing.
"Yeah yeah. Mister Chicken Hair." Sakura said.
"For one my hair isn't like that anymore because I had to change it for the mission and you used to like my hair don't you remember." Sasuke said.
"Operative word used I don't anymore." Sakura said. Though this was a lie and they both knew it.
"H-. whatever." Sasuke had been going to say hn but didn't want to be hit with something and knowing Sakura and her hyper self it might just have been a stiletto. ( I dun wear heels so I cant spell !! tell me if I got it rong lol)
"Okie dokie pokie!" Sakura said as she bounced out of her room wearing a pair of jeans that were ripped and had a hole in the knee and a black tank top.
"It's cold you know." Sasuke said.
"Yeah. I know. Can I borrow a sweater? Please?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah be right back." Sasuke said as he disappeared into his room. "Here."
"Thankie!!" Sakura said as she slipped it on. It was a baggy black sweat shirt that went to Sakura's mid thigh.
"Whatever lets go." Sasuke said.
"Okie dokie Cloud-kun!" Sakura said as she bounced after him. "You know people actually pay alot for their jeans to be all ripped up like mine."
"Did you?" Sasuke asked.
"Did I what?" Sakura asked.
"Did you pay for them ripped up?" Sasuke asked.
"No. They got all ripped up during training. I was training with Team Gai and they got ripped so me and TenTen put em on a dummy and used em for target practice they turned out pretty cool. " Sakura said looking down at her pants.
"Hmm," Sasuke said. " don't you dare hit me! I said hmm not hn!" Sasuke said as soon as he saw her raise her fist.
"Fine." Sakura said. When they got to the cafeteria that the brunch was going to be at they walked in. Much to their dismay the food was just the cafeteria food that consisted of pudding, fruit and some oat meal.
"Well, well, well. Look what we have here. It's the newbees." Ana said as she walked up to them a group of girls trailed behind her.
"Nice jeans. Where'd you get them?" One said trying to be nice but was silenced by a glare Ana sent her.
"No idea, I got them for Christmas once. I didn't get them ripped though. Me and my friend went crazy with some scissors." Sakura said smiling at the girl.
"Hmph! Thought so!" Ana said. "You probably couldn't afford them so you found them in the trash and cut em up to make them look cool."
This comment pissed Sakura off. Grabbing bowl of oat meal from some guy's plate as he walked by she promptly threw it with perfect accuracy hitting Ana's blouse.
"Why you little!" Ana screamed. "This shirt costed more that your house!"
"Oh how I doubt that." Sakura said. She lived in a simple two story house, it was no mansion but it was a beautiful house. Her mother had designed it and her father had built it before he died when Mrs. Haruno was pregnant with Sakura.
"Ugh!" She yelled as she whipped the oat meal off her shirt and threw it at Sakura who ducked out of the way and it sailed over her head getting her partner Gaki.
"Who threw that?" He demanded and she pointed at Sasuke. Gaki threw a bowl of yogurt at Sasuke who, like Sakura ducked out of the way. Thus the yogurt hit Ana ifull in the face making both Sasuke and Sakura laugh as Ana fumed throwing an apple wedge at Gaki who ducked and it hit some girl who was walking behind him.
Thus a full out food fight began. Food was being thrown everywhere. Even the old man who was going to explain the rules joined in. Both Sasuke and Sakura where throwing the food everywhere not caring who they hit as long as they didn't hit each other with the food. By far the duo was the most clean out of everyone as they were dodging the food and eating utensils as it was thrown from every direction.
"You know we should beat it..." Sakura said.
"Lets go." Sasuke said. "We have th rules printed out and I have it in my room we can check it out in a few. For now I want breakfast."
"Okie dokie. I'll cook for you lets go." Sakura said as they snuck out and headed for the grocery store to get pancake mix, syrup, whip cream and bacon and other foods.
When the got home and put away the food Sakura began to cook for the both of them."You know, it's rude to stare." Sakura commented as she flipped a pancake.
"Yes, I do know that." Sasuke said.
"Then why do you keep staring? Keep it up and I won't cook for you ever again." Sakura said still not turning to him.
"Hm, I wasn't staring at you in the first place. I was thinking." Sasuke said though this was a lie.
"Oh?" Sakura asked as she served two plates. After they ate they looked over the rules and decided that they should train for a bit. When they got to a clearing far from the city they began to spar.
"Will you please try not to put me in the hospital?" Sasuke asked as he once again dodged one of Sakura's blows.
"I am." Sakura stated. "I'm not even using chakra."
"Not using chakra?" Demanded Sasuke. "You just hit a tree and it broke in half! "
"Okay, okay, I won't hit as hard, but it's no fun if I don't try and you keep dodging!" Sakura said.
"Of course I am!" Sasuke said ducking as Sakura swung and he swept her feet.
"Well, you could at least block them! Stop running it's no fun!" Sakura said rolling away from his foot as he tried to kick her.
"And have you break my arm? Are you nuts?" Demanded Sasuke.
"I won't break it."
"Will too." Sasuke said swinging at her catching her off guard and she stumbled backwards.
"No I won't I might give you a bruise though." Sakura said, once again swinging at him only to have her blow dodged by Sasuke.
"Bruise my ass." Sasuke said with a snort.
"You no fun!" Sakura huffed.
"How is letting you breaking my arm fun of all things?"
"Well, it's no fun if you don't fight back." Sakura said.
"I win." Sasuke stated as he appeared behind her his hand resting on her shoulder and a kunia in his other hand that was ( A/Nwhen I put kunia spell check saying it is spelled rong this is the suggestions Kunming, Junia, Kania, and Bakunin. What the hell are those? Names?? someone tell me plz I wanna no!! lol) hovering over her neck.
"Not quite!" Sakura exclaimed grabbing his arm throwing him over her head and into a tree. Though, much to Sakura's dismay his disappeared with a puff of smoke.
"Shit. Where'd he go?" Sakura asked.
"Over here."
"No, I'm here."
"No here."
"Here."
"Sakura-chan!"
"Suki-chan!"
"Shit! Genjutsu?" Sakura asked. "Release!" Sakura yelled as she tried to dispell the genjutsu. Only to find that it wasn't a genjutsu. "Naruto must have taught him that." Closing her eyes Sakura sat there for a second. Sasuke was going to have to come to her. He didn't have the stamina or chakra like Naruto did and wasn't going to be able to keep it up for long.
As Sakura had hoped all the Sasukes came at her. Dodging and punching the clones Sakura soon dispelled them all.
"Okay-pant- I give up." Sasuke said panting as he appeared behind a tree.
"Okay. Lets go." Sakura said to tired to gloat. "Tomorrow we should practice what we're gonna do for the competition."
"Hn." Sasuke said. Though Sakura didn't strike him this time.
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