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♥ Chapter XXVII: The Morning After♥
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"Ow… my head…" Kurenai muttered as she rubbed the back of her head. "What did I do before I fell asleep, knocked my head on the wall?"
Suddenly, she remembered, and felt her face go blood-red. But Inner Kurenai was laughing her head off.
Ahahahahahahahahaha!
SHUT UP! I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING!
Yes, you did. Perfectly well. AHAHAHAHAHA!
SHUT – UP! I honestly didn't know! And I didn't want to, either!
Reaaally? Inner Kurenai raised an eyebrow. You mean that even on some level, you didn't enjoy the kiss?
Hmm, okay. That was a different question.
AHAHAHAHA!
JUST SHUT UP!
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"Oi, dobe."
"Nanda?" Naruto turned to Sasuke, a wide grin plastered on his face, making Sasuke raise an eyebrow.
"You've been weird all morning, going around like you've seen something particular we haven't. What's up anyway?"
Naruto snickered and said tauntingly with eager, childish triumph: "I. Won't. Tell." Then he burst into laughter.
"He's gone crazy," Sasuke informed the rest of the group as he returned to them seconds later.
"Yeah, he keeps saying he knows something we don't. What would that be, anyway?" Ino questioned. "And whenever we mention Kakashi-sensei or Kurenai-sensei, he –" She stopped abruptly. "You don't think…?"
"No, they wouldn't get together so fast, would they? I mean, sure, they're adults, but god are they reluctant to show their feelings," Tenten remarked. "I mean, back when Kurenai-sensei and Asuma-sensei were in love with each other, it took them almost two years to realize it."
"What?" Sakura's eyes widened. "Kurenai-sensei used to be in love with Asuma-sensei?!"
"Yeah. We haven't told you?" said Temari. "Asuma-sensei and Kurenai-sensei were together for a while, then they broke up. I think that was because they didn't go together, or something… they tried to keep things quiet, but once they were seen by some pupils at the Eiffel Tower, and rumors spread like fire here, you know… so it wasn't long until the entire school knew of their relationship."
"I wonder…," Sakura replied thoughtfully, "If not something really happened between Kurenai-sensei and Kakashi-sensei? Because Naruto is acting really weird."
"Naruto always acts weird," Neji retorted with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, that's true," Tenten laughed, but Hinata stammered:
"Neji-onii-san! That's not nice!"
"Ooh, somebody doesn't like that people talk badly about her boyfriend, huh?" Ino giggled teasingly.
"Ino-chan!" Hinata burst out, her face going tomato-red.
"Hinata, you're not in love with Naruto?" Neji asked suspiciously with a raised eyebrow. Hinata's face just went redder, and she looked as though she was on the verge to faint.
"N-N-Neji-onii-san!"
"What?" Naruto looked interestedly at them. "Who's in love with me?"
Hinata almost lost consciousness.
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"Yo, Kakashi. Ohayou, Kurenai," Asuma said lazily as he leaned back in the chair, blowing out some smoke as he gently took the cigarette out of his mouth.
"Hi," both muttered awkwardly, refusing to meet each other's gazes. Asuma perked up an eyebrow.
"Yo. Both of you seem a bit weird. Has something happened?"
"NO!" the two almost shrieked in chorus. Asuma's eyebrow just arose even more.
"Whoa. Take it easy. Just askin' a question."
Silence fell between the three. Blowing out some more smoke, Asuma rose from his chair at last and grinned at the two of them. "I'm going to check on the students. See ya."
Kurenai watched him walk off, when she heard Kakashi ask:
"So you didn't mean what you said last night, huh?"
Feeling her face go scarlet, Kurenai twirled around to look at him. "What do you mean?"
"Well…," he shrugged. "You said that you didn't go with Asuma. Judging by how you just looked at him, it didn't seem so."
"I don't like Asuma," Kurenai denied, lifting an eyebrow. "Honestly, I don't. And why do you care anyway?"
Kakashi didn't reply. Then he just shrugged: "Just curious."
"Hmm. Really."
Kakashi smirked amusedly. "And why do you care that I care?"
"Just curious," Kurenai responded teasingly. "And why do you care that I care that you care?"
"Just curious," the two said at the same time and burst into laughter.
"Hey, you know what happened last night?" Kurenai said in-between the laughter. "Let's just forget about that, okay? Otherwise it just becomes awkward." Her glance drifted to her wristwatch. " 12 p.m. already?! We've got to go to the Tivoli! I've got to tell the students. See you later, Kakashi!" And she ran away just as Asuma had done.
Kakashi looked after her for a long while. "I'd rather not forget," he murmured softly for himself before following the same path as she and Asuma had taken.
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"The Tivoli… here we come!" Sakura cheerfully burst out as they wandered to the well-known entertainment park in Copenhagen. "Sasuke-kun, which ride do you want to try out first?"
"I don't know." He shrugged. "A rollercoaster?"
"Yeah! I want to try one too!" Sakura beamed. "Um… how about…" She looked on the map. "The Demon? It looks totally wild." (A/N: It IS wild. Maybe not for those who're used to wild rollercoasters, but I'm a beginner and I couldn't stand straight after that. But it's awesome anyway.)
"I want to try that, too!" Tenten grinned. "Don't you, Neji?"
"Sure, but that ice cream cone I bought next to the Ferris wheel five minutes ago didn't made me feel particularly fit," he groaned. "How about a slower one for a start?"
"Hmm… okay. The Roller Coaster?" (A/N: If you ever go to Tivoli, this one rocks! At least for starters. Or if you're not feeling very well but still want to ride a rollercoaster. I've been to Tivoli twice, and the second time I went on this one six… or eight? times. The only bad thing about is that the wagons are kind of unsafe. Don't try to lift the metal things that are supposed to keep you DOWN but they go UP instead.)
"That'd be great."
"I want to go to the Ferris Wheel!" Ino whined. "But I'm reaaaally hungry. Shika, don't you want to eat?"
"Yeah. Isn't there a Chinese fast food restaurant at The Demon?" Shikamaru said. (A/N: I don't know about this one. o.O; When we were at the Tivoli, some of us brought lunches and some of didn't, since we wanted to spend more money on rides and games than food.)
"I don't want to ride a rollercoaster yet… I'm so hungry, I want to ride something and then go eat," Naruto moaned. "What do you want to do, Hinata-chan?"
"Well…," Hinata began thoughtfully with slightly blushing cheeks, "I'd like to go ride the Ferris wheel. If it's okay with you, Naruto-kun?" she added worriedly.
"Yeah, that'd be awesome!" Naruto grinned. "The view from the Ferris wheel is great, right?"
"I think so," Hinata smiled back.
"Oh my," Temari said teasingly as she arrived with Gaara and Kankorou. "Already going to the Ferris wheel, eh, Hinata?"
"T-T-Temari-chan!" Hinata said reproachfully, just making her laugh heartily.
"Where're you three going, then?" Sakura asked her.
"Well, it's kind of undecided," Temari sighed. "Gaara wants to ride The Dragon, Kankorou wants to go to eat, and I want to play some games. So we're still compromising. Chouji was with us before, but he went off to buy some chips."
"Oh. Okay. Well, how about meeting here later and go ride a last rollercoaster together before the end of the day… say, 5:30 p.m., since we leave at 6:00?" Tenten suggested.
"Okay!" the rest of the group exclaimed, and parted in different directions.
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"Wow! What a view!" Hinata burst out excitedly as she looked down from the 'basket' in mid-air. "It's so beautiful!"
"Yeah…" Naruto grinned. "Hey, you wanna ride this one again later?"
"Sure!" Hinata beamed at him.
"Smile like that more often," Naruto suddenly commented cheerily. "You know, you always look so shy and everything – it's really cute, but you look much prettier when you smile like that!"
"O-oh! Okay," Hinata smiled warmly, blushing. "Th-thanks, Naruto-kun. You… you look handsome too when you grin, you know," she added shyly.
"Oh." Naruto was suddenly aware that he was going a bit red. "Er… thanks, Hinata."
Hinata giggled. "You're going red!"
"I'm not," he protested, but he just felt his cheeks become hotter at this.
"Oh, yes you are," she teased.
"No, I'm not!" he grinned back.
"Yes you are!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
They both looked at each other, and burst into hearty laughter.
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"That rollercoaster was sooo fun!" Sakura squealed. "C'mon, Sasuke-kun, let's ride it again!"
"Hn." Sasuke looked up at the screaming people in the carts that twirled, went up and down, and rode with their heads facing the ground in a swift ride back towards the 'start'. "The queue is pretty long."
"Yeah, that's true." Sakura squinted up at the top of the staircase that led to The Demon. "Are there some other good rollercoasters around?"
"Sure as hell!" a familiar voice exclaimed from behind. Sakura and Sasuke turned around to face a somewhat pale Neji and a widely grinning Tenten. "You should go ride The Odin Express. It doesn't look very exciting, but it's surprisingly fast. You should've seen Neji's face."
"Urgh… and I thought it wasn't a wild one…," Neji moaned. "I shouldn't have eaten that ice cream after all…"
Sakura giggled. "Poor Neji. Hey, have you two seen Shikamaru and Ino? Or Temari and her brothers? We saw them before, but I think we've lost them."
"Last I saw Shikamaru and Ino, Ino was dragging him towards the Ferris Wheel," Tenten answered. "But I don't know with Temari and her brothers; they went to play games in the end, but since Temari sucks at playing those kinds of games but is extremely stubborn, I guess they're still stuck there."
"Hn." Sasuke smirked. "She'll probably start to kick the machines after five games."
"And punch the glass after ten," Tenten added.
"And scream at any passersby after fifteen," Sakura giggled.
"And at last, she'll just stomp off, all mad," Neji groaned.
"So, where're you two going, then?" Sakura asked Tenten.
"Uh, I don't know." Tenten eyed Neji. "First, I wanted to go ride The Demon, but it'd be boring alone, and besides, it'd be mean to Neji, but if I forced him to ride with me, he'd probably puke all over the rollercoaster. So I guess we're heading somewhere to rest. Or maybe play some games. Come to think of it…" She glanced at Sasuke with an evil smirk. "… why don't you two come along? We still aren't done with our previous match, Sasuke."
"Hn!" Sasuke grunted, his self-conscious smirk widening. "I'll beat you anyway."
"How dare you!" Tenten hissed, her eyes flaming. "It was 23-22 last time! I am going to beat you!"
"Dream on, bun-haired Chinese!"
"Dream on, Uchiha!"
The two began a death glare contest, as Sakura heaved a sigh. "I managed to hit 30 moles the first round when you only managed to hit ten!" Tenten snapped.
"But then I hit ALL of them while you hit fourteen!" Sasuke snarled back.
"Pfft! You only hit twenty!"
"No I didn't!"
"Yes, you did!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
The two glared at each other even more intensively than before. "Hey, you two," Sakura said sharply, making both turn their heads at the same time. "I think I'm afraid to say that the winner of that tournament will be…"
All three, even Neji, listened tensely.
"…me!" Sakura sneered her evil smirk for the first time ever since she arrived in Paris.
"WHAT!" both Tenten and Sasuke burst out at once.
"No way, Sakura! I am going to win!" Tenten screamed.
"No, I will!" Sasuke growled.
"You're both wrong! I will beat you both!"
And then the death glare contest continued, this time with Sakura in it, too. Neji only watched, dumbfounded, before shaking his head with a sigh, mumbling: "They're hopeless…"
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"The food's delicious here!" Naruto said, grinning, as he and Hinata left a restaurant close to the Ferris Wheel. (A/N: Sorry for not being so precise with WHICH restaurant it is. XP But last I was at the Tivoli, me and my friends brought our own lunch boxes, and spent all our time riding the rollercoasters, playing games, etc instead of eating – if you don't count that huge plastic bottle of Slush Ice, of course, that left me and my 'gang' groaning the way Neji was like afterwards. XD)
"Yeah," Hinata agreed with a smile. "Where should we go now?"
"I don't know. Not a rollercoaster, I guess," Naruto laughed. "I'm so full I'd probably throw up on the people below us."
Hinata giggled. "Same here."
A tense silence fell as the two of them walked down the road from the restaurant. Hinata felt nervousness arise in her chest. Should I ask about what happened after that dinner? Or shouldn't I? Or…
Oh, just ask, goddammit! Inner Hinata interrupted her. I couldn't sleep last night just because I kept wondering.
"Er, Naruto-kun…," she began hesitantly.
"Yeah?" Naruto said, looking at her cheerfully.
"You know, er, that… dinner the day before yesterday?"
"Oh." Naruto's smile faded away. "Uh, right."
"Um… did you mean anything with that… that… that…" Her cheeks turned scarlet. "That –"
"- kiss?" Naruto finished for her.
"Yes," she said in relief.
"Um… well… actually…" Naruto seemed unsure what to answer, and Hinata looked with curiosity at him. "… Yeah, I guess I did mean something with that."
"Oh…" Hinata's cheeks turned red again. "S-s-s-so… do you… do you… em… like me?"
Naruto's eyes looked into hers for a while, before responding: "I… think so. Yeah, I think I like you, Hinata."
"Not in the 'I like you as a friend' sense?" Hinata felt as though her heart would explode out of joy, and Inner Hinata was throwing confetti everywhere in her mind.
"No… how about… how about you, then?" He swallowed. "You don't only like me as a friend, do you?"
"N-n-no! Not at all!" Hinata stammered. "I… I really like you, Naruto-kun."
"Good." He smiled at her, before bending down and kissing her.
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"OH – MY – FREAKING – GOD!" Ino breathed in ecstasy as she and Shikamaru watched the scene from behind, hiding in a couple of bushes just as that night two days ago. "They finally did it, Shika! They're… they're a couple!"
"Aa." Shikamaru yawned boringly. Ino looked at him in disbelief.
"You aren't amazed?" she asked. "Don't you think it's great?"
"Sure. I just mean it was kind of predictable this would happen in the end."
"No," Ino insisted stubbornly. "It could've ended a totally different way if they hadn't been brave enough to confess their feelings."
"I guess. But it was a 70 chance they would do it."
"But, still…" Ino's eyes sparkled. "Isn't it awesome, Shika?"
"Yeah." He grinned. "I guess it is."
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"The Demon!"
"The Dragon!"
"NO! NO, I SAY! THE ROLLER COASTER!"
"Are you all crazy? It's the Odin Express we should ride!"
Temari, Kankorou, Neji and Ino were in the midst of a fiery argument of which rollercoaster they should ride. Meanwhile, Sakura, Tenten and Sasuke were arguing about who had won in the end, while Gaara, Chouji and Shikamaru civilly, unlike the others, discussed about which restaurant had seemed the best out of the ones they hadn't visited.
"We should ask Naruto and Hinata," Ino furiously exclaimed. "They'll probably agree with me!"
"There they come! Oi, Naruto! Hinata!" Kankorou shouted.
"Hi," Naruto and Hinata said right on cue as they arrived. Temari looked at them with a smirk.
"Ooh, seems like we've a new couple," she teased as she saw Hinata's hand in Naruto's.
"Well… yeah," Hinata said with a shy smile, a tint of red decorating her cheeks.
"NANI?!" everyone else shouted, except Shikamaru and Ino.
"And anyhow," Naruto coughed, "I think we should ride the Ferris Wheel."
The rest of the gang exchanged meaningful glances, and nodded, walking off towards the aforementioned ride.
Well…, Sakura thought with a smile as she sighed happily. I can't say that this class trip hasn't been fun. I want to go on more trips like that.
She then glanced at the others, who were all very happy, too, and she added sadly in her thoughts: But I wonder if we can do that… I'll miss them all so much.
"Oi." Sakura suddenly found Sasuke's arm around her shoulders. "What're you thinking about?"
"Wha? Er… no, nothing." And most of all Sasuke-kun…
Sasuke inspected her face closely, before smirking: "Don't think too much." And as his lips met hers, she forgot about all her troubles.
I hope this chapter didn't majorly suck. -.- I've been extremely busy lately, even busier than usual, actually - now, at the end of the term, ALL teachers are fighting (okay, not literally) about setting test dates before it's too late (we can have a maximum of two-three tests per week according to some kind of law, I think, or maybe it's just common sense), so now I've more work to do than ever! x.x And whenever I have free time, I feel so tired that my brain mostly lacks ideas e.e; So I watch anime, play games, or talk to my friends instead. Besides, in a week or two, I'll have to go Christmas shopping, so I need to start planning on what to give to my 7-8 friends and my sister and parents unless I want to start stressing the last few days before Christmas Eve like my sister does o.x;
Also, I've a new fic, but I've only received one review! x.x; Can't you guys please read it and tell me what you think? The love triangle's a bit complicated - it's Kiba x Hinata x Naruto x Sakura x Sasuke x Sakura x Sai. XD; But it's just to make it lesser predictable. Anyhow, Sakura's getting married to Naruto in that fic, but she wonders if it's really what she wants...
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MANY THANKS TO...
frienz4ever (No, I haven't been planning that. XD Actually, I've thought of just finishing those bonus chapters and the very last 'real' chapters and just start the sequel, but with Christmas and New Year's coming up, I'm wondering if I shouldn't do a bonus chapter for that, too, seeing how it's perfect bonus chapter material. o.o; And also, your surprise is... whichever scenario will be chosen in the end, you'll be able to choose ONE old couple to be more featured in the chapters than the others:D Private Message me which one you want, just not SasuSaku, because I've other plans for them. :) )
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