AN: Yo everybody! I was just reading the reviews and I realized that you all have been really nice to my story, so I figured I might as well update!!
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Chapter Three: uh… something tooth related. I mean... The Pulp or The Mission.
(hey! I cant believe I'm actually learning something out of this!)
Sakura sat at the ramen bar and caught Sasuke's gaze as Naruto was trying to force him to eat some ramen.
For some reason, Sasuke agreed, and Sakura's two best friends sat down next to her.
"Oh, Hey Sakura-chan!" said Naruto.
Sakura forced a smile, "Hey Naruto…" she said weakly.
I've got to tell them, It's now or never…
"Two Miso Ramen please!" Naruto shouted to the chef, who grinned and went to fill the order.
Sakura took a deep breath, and if she weren't so nervous, she would have noticed Sasuke watching her curiously.
"Ano…" she began. Naruto turned towards her.
"Sakura-chan? You've been acting weird lately… Kinda secretive…"
"And you know that word?" Sasuke asked, calmly reaching for a pair of chopsticks as Ayame brought them their ramen.
"Hey!" Naruto said angrily.
"Regardless, you wanted to say something, Sakura?" Sasuke asked, still not looking at his teammates.
Sakura watched Sasuke for a while before continuing.
"It's just that… About the missions."
Naruto stiffened and Sasuke's composure was flawless.
"You see, I'm not upset about my Mom or anything… Really, Sasuke-kun I really appreciate you saying what you did and I agree but…"
She ran a hand through her pink tresses, trying to find the right words.
'I can't sleep at night, because …" She looked up and noticed Sasuke's eyes on her.
They weren't demanding, or accusatory, they only reflected a calm patience as he waited for her to go on.
She lost herself in the deep black orbs. Those pools of onyx. The light from the setting sun seemed to cast a myriad of shadows and eye shines in his beautiful eyes…
Wait, the setting sun?!
"Ah!" she squeaked, as she jumped to her feet.
She watched the horizon, where the sun was slowly sinking,
"Eeep!" Sasuke and Naruto stared at her in confusion.
The sun was setting, any second now she would sprout wings, and then what?!
"Ahh… AH!" she shifted restlessly from one foot to the other before running full speed down the street and turning the corner.
Sasuke blinked.
"Hey! She didn't pay for her meal!" shouted the chef angrily.
"Well that was weird and totally random." Said Naruto returning to his ramen.
Sasuke glanced towards his closest friend, "and this doesn't pique your curiosity in the slightest, huh Naruto?" He also returned to his miso ramen, it was still warm and steaming the delicious smells of various spices wafted to his nose and tempted him sorely.
But really, he had no reason to resist. He lifted his chopsticks and brought the delicious ramen to his mouth. Ahhhh…. (I'm kinda hungry right now…)
"Actually," Said Naruto struggling to speak around the ramen in his mouth.
"I am curious, very curious." He drained the soup in his bowl and continued.
"What exactly did you say to her?" He asked turning towards Sasuke with an eager expression on his face.
Sasuke leaned away from his best friend.
How did the situation suddenly turn on him?
Of course, in a situation like this, there's really only one thing you can do.
"It doesn't concern you." Said Sasuke putting some money on the counter and getting up to leave.
"Hey wait!" said Naruto, but it was too late, disregarding Naruto completely Sasuke turned the corner.
Naruto grumbled into his empty bowl… how annoying.
Naruto was actually still hungry…
Wait Sasuke didn't finish his ramen…
Hoping the chef wouldn't notice, Naruto dumped the contents of Sasuke's bowl into his own.
"Hey!" said the chef. Naruto froze.
"Wh- What ojii-san?" asked Naruto struggling to keep his cool.
"How sweet!" said the old man.
'Oh, no." thought Naruto, 'He better not be thinking that me and Sasuke are…'
But no the old man was not thinking that. He was counting the money Sasuke had left.
"What is it?" asked Naruto curiously.
"Oh, he paid for that girl's meal too, what a gentleman!" exclaimed the chef.
"Eh! How cute!" squealed Ayame.
Getting sick and tired of all the Sasuke-worshipping, Naruto finished Sasuke's ramen and left.
So maybe Naruto wasn't curious, but Sasuke was. So he decided to stop by Sakura's place before heading home.
He then realized that her home was probably as empty as his home. As empty as Naruto's.
He eventually arrived. As soon as he recognized which house was hers, the front door opened.
He raised a graceful brow, and the door slammed as Sakura ran around to the other side of the house.
How suspicious.
He followed close behind her. As soon as he turned the corner…
She was gone. He looked everywhere but there was no Sakura to be found.
Then he felt stupid.
So he went home.
But it stayed on his mind.
Sakura was keeping secrets, and Sasuke was curious.
Sakura had completely missed Sasuke, she had decided to get her work over with ASAP, so that she might get some sleep.
After a grueling 8 hours, she went to sleep at 2 AM.
Bliss…
Until four hours later, Sakura opened one eye to look blearily at her alarm clock that was giving her some interesting instructions.
"BEEP BEEP BEEEEP!" It said.
'I don't need to blow-dry my hair today…' she thought, shutting off her alarm clock.
' and Kakashi-sensei will be late so…just one more hour…'
Kakashi was late, 15 minutes late.
Sasuke and Naruto could not believe it.
"You- YOURE NOT LATE!!" Shouted Naruto his eyes as wide as saucers.
"Actually," said Kakashi, looking at his watch, "I'm fifteen minutes late."
"ONLY!" Shouted Naruto.
"Hey Sasuke! This cant be the real Kakashi!" He continued.
Sasuke raised a brow. "Of course it's him, Dobe. Don't just act on random guesses."
He then folded his arms and closed his eyes in the COOLEST FASHION!
"Anyways," said Kakashi, "Where's Sakura?"
"Ummmmmmm…." Said Naruto intelligently. (MUAHAHA! IM SO MEAN!!)
"Well?" asked Kakashi.
"I don't know." Said Naruto.
"Someone should go check on her." Said Kakashi.
"I WILL!" volunteered Naruto.
"Ok, do you know where she lives?" asked Kakashi.
"Uh…" said Naruto again.
Kakashi sighed, "Sasuke please go and check on Sakura."
"Hn." Said Sasuke walking off.
"EH!" said Naruto, totally offended.
Sasuke ignored him and passed through the trees to the village streets.
The cherry blossoms were in full bloom, and the wind blew a few blossoms off their branches scattering them across the road.
Sasuke took a moment to appreciate their beauty as he headed towards Sakura's home.
'How Ironic.' He thought dryly.
Eventually he found the house with the familiar green door.
He raised a hand to knock, and with his other hand in his pocket, he wondered about her mysterious secret.
Knock, Knock
…
Knock, Knock
….
KNOCK, KNOCK
…
He began to wonder whether or not something was wrong.
He tried the door, it was unlocked.
How foolish.
He stepped inside and closed the door behind him.
Sakura's house was warm, in contrast to the fresh air outside. It also smelled faintly of baking.
Her furniture was comfortable, and the house itself was spotless. The morning light passed through the windows bathing everything in a warm glow.
He would like to live here.
Now, where the hell did that thought come from?
He shook his head and headed towards the stairs, seeing as Sakura was not downstairs.
He passed by various framed pictures of Sakura and her mother, and some pictures of Ino and Naruto.
Sasuke reached the landing, unsure of where to look for her. He headed towards the nearest door, and hoped she wasn't wounded, or worse, dead.
He swallowed once and opened the door. Empty. Judging by the King-size bed in the middle he assumed this must have been her mother's room.
He headed back out when something caught his eye, was that a Wand?
He shook his head, probably just some cherished toy from her childhood.
He closed the door and proceeded down the hallway, the next door he opened proved to be the door to Sakura's room.
His heart rose to his throat one pale arm hung over the side of the bed.
Was she dead?
Dreading each moment, he stepped forward.
No, just sleeping.
Why was she sleeping? Didn't she realize that they had missions?
Not sure how to wake her, Sasuke looked around the room.
There was the familiar picture of team 7, and there on the wall was a picture of him.
Wait, a picture of him?
He walked towards it, it was a large picture in a silver frame. In the picture, Sasuke had raised his eyebrows in an arrogant gesture. He had a black and silver scarf wrapped around his neck and the background landscape was covered in snow.
It was a closeup of his face, and the person taking the picture was standing at an angle with the sun that caused Sasuke's eyes to appear somehow more, impressive than normal.
He couldn't for the life of him remember taking that picture, or even standing in that background, but it was a good picture nonetheless.
It somehow brought out his handsome features even more than usual.
Looking at the picture, and then at the mirror, he wondered 'Do my eyes really look like that?'
'and my nose?'
He shook his head at his own childishness and looked around. He noticed a picture of Naruto, not as large as Sasuke's of course, but still fairly large.
Naruto was grinning from ear to ear, as usual.
Heh.
With a smirk Sasuke noticed a picture on the dresser of a much younger Sakura, with Ino/Tenten, and Hinata, all dressed in kimono.
Then there was a picture of Sakura's mother also in a silver frame.
'Sakura has a lot of pictures' thought Sasuke completing his self-imposed tour of her room.
He then returned his gaze to the pink-haired kunoichi who was sleeping oblivious to the fact that her beloved Uchiha Sasuke was considering exactly how he should wake her.
He folded his arms.
He coughed.
He then felt stupid.
He said "Sakura."
He said "Sakura"
He said "SAKURA."
He stepped forward.
He gently shook her shoulder.
Her eyes flew open.
Scary...
"Sa-Sasuke-kun?!" She asked in shock, rising to a sitting position.
"You, when, how did you?!" She managed to stutter through her shock
"You left your door unlocked." Sasuke explained simply.
She ran a hand through her hair. "I-" she cut herself off and looked at her alarm clock.
"7:00!!" She shrieked. She jumped up and ran into the bathroom, "I'M LAAATE!!!"
Sasuke raised a brow, "how out of character."
Then again, Sakura had a lot on her mind right then.
Barely 1 minute passed before she ran out of the bathroom again, nearly knocking the door down.
She had managed to change her clothes, brush her hair, brush her teeth, and wash her face in LESS than a minute.
She ran down the hallway and zoomed down the stairs jumping the last 5 steps. Sasuke heard the front door slam. Sasuke blinked, The door reopened and Sakura came back and headed up the stairs.
"Er, Sasuke-kun?" she said "Aren't you coming?"
He shook his head and followed her down the stairs.
LATER
Sasuke dodged a punch and quickly countered with a kick that sent his opponent flying. He took a moment to see how his teammates were doing.
Naruto was keeping up with his bunshins, Kakashi was, of course, doing just fine, and Sakura was actually managing to hold her own.
Sasuke's eyes went wide as he saw her form some seals and shout "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!!" and burn her foes to a crisp.
"When did that happen?" His mind asked, and since he wasn't paying attention an enemy punched Sasuke square in the face which cause blood to pour from his jaw as one of his teeth fell out.
Angry, Sasuke glared at the man before jumping to his feet kicking him into the air and then performing the Lion combo on him.
The steaming heap of what was once a ninja, well... steamed.
With his hands in his pockets Sasuke watched his teammates finish up their battles. Naruto was tired, but for the most part, unscathed. Sakura had a bruise on one cheek and Kakashi was spotless.
Tying up what was left of the ninja Kakashi said "Well done, team. You displayed excellent skills as a team and indiviually. Especially you, Sakura, You've improved a lot."
Sakura grinned. Sasuke wiped the remaining blood from his mouth and walked to his teammates.
"Hey Sasuke, is this yours?" asked Naruto,picking up the tooth that had fallen from Sasuke's jaw.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at him,"What does it matter?" he asked.
"Well, actually" said Kakashi. "Teeth and bones can say a lot about the ninja they belonged to. In enemy hands, it would probably mean that the secrets of the sharingan will be unveiled."
Kakashi took the tooth and looked at it. "Well, its only a baby tooth, so a new one should grow back soon."
Sasuke glared at his teacher.
"BABY TOOTH?!" Shouted Naruto raucously "AT TWELVE?! HAHAHAHA!!"
No amount of glaring would get him to shut up.
"SASUKE STILL HAS HAHAHA BABY TEETH!!! HAHAHA!!!!"
"Wow, said Sakura looking at the tooth between Kakashi's fingers "It's so white."
Sasuke fumed.
What the hell was wrong with his teammates?! It was only a tooth, so big deal. Sasuke snatched the tooth from kakashi and put it in his pocket. Naruto was still in an uproar and nothing would stop him untill Sakura hit him on the head and said "Geez Naruto! Its not even that funny!"
Meaning, that she did think it was slightly funny meaning Sasuke hated her and would hate her for the rest of his life. (or untill he marries her,or until we get to the end of this story.)
"From the generous view we just got of Naruto's mouth" said Kakashi "I suspect he has a few baby teeth too."
Naruto instantly covered his mouth with both hands. Kakashi smiled. (EVEN THOUGH NO ONE CAN SEE IT BECAUSE OF HIS MASK AND THERES REALLY NO REASON TO TELL THAT HES SMILING BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS!!)
"It looks like Sakura-chan is the only one with her teeth fully developed." He said putting a hand on her head.
"And what are you, a dentist?" she scowled irritably as she shoved her hands into her pockets and headed home. Everyone else's jaws dropped to the floor.
To us it makes no sense why Sakura is being so irritable, but the truth is that Sakura is sick and tired of TEETH!! She hates them, so she eventually just had to let it out somehow.
Sakura walked down the familiar streets of Konoha, when Ino suddenly ran up to her.
"Sakura!!" she shouted waving her hand in greeting.
Sakura stopped and waited for her friend. As Ino approached Sakura said "Konnishiwa Ino."
"Ahhh..." Ino stopped to catch her breath. "Alright, look at this!" Sakura looked, it was a white purse.
"Oops, sorry wrong side." said Ino turning it around. "Aren't those the cutest fairies ever?!" Asked Ino.
Sakura's face first turned deathly white, then an angry scarlet. She clenched her fists furiously.
"Ino..." She muttered vehemently. "Wha- What?" asked Ino, getting scared.
"I HATE FAIRIES!! I HATE- HATE -HATE FAIRIES!!! DONT EVER TALK TO ME ABOUT FAIRIES AGAIN!!!"
With that Sakura tore Ino's new purse to shreds and ran home.
Ino shivered in fear.
Back to the guys who have yet to pick their jaws up off the floor.
Sasuke's jaw wasn't actually on the floor, no, he was just too cool for that. They had to roll out a red carpet before Sasuke would let HIS precious jaw touch the floor.
(alright, is my humor getting annoying?)
"Hey, " said Naruto. Everyone looked at him. (and by everyone I mean just kakashi and Sasuke.)
"She didn't ask you out." said Naruto in surprise, looking at Sasuke.
"She's tired." said Kakashi. Wait, did Kakashi just make an excuse for Sakura not asking Sasuke out?
"Yeah, or maybe she just has a boyfriend she isn't telling us about?" Naruto said.
Sasuke raised a brow. He then shoved his hands in his pockets. "I'm going home." he stated, as if someone cared.
at Sasuke's house
Sasuke was changing his clothes ready to go to sleep. As he removed each article of clothing, he threw it on his bed and replaced it with his sleeping clothes. (yes, this is called getting dressed.)
So in a white tank top and a black pair of pants, Sasuke picked up his clothes from his bed, straightened them out and threw them over the back of a chair that was just CONVENIENTLY standing there.
Fluffing up his pillow, (omg fruity!) He dropped down into a deeeep sleeep.
But what he didn't know was that, the tooth in the pocket of his shorts had fallen out and was currently lying under his pillow.
Oh, cruel fate...
AN: hope you liked it! I really only updated because you guys left me some really nice reviews, so thank you to :
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I was planning to do that, but I cant give away any spoilers!
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