A/N: Sorry for taking so long on the update! I've been insanely busy, with exams and stuff. o.o; So, I hope you enjoy! Like always, Read and review!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
"I expect this bet to work in my favor. You are to watch Kakashi, and make sure he makes no contact with Ino. This is enough to pay off my debt to Jiraiya." Tsunade turned to face the jounin she had contacted. She was desperate, and this was the only person who wouldn't look suspicious following Kakashi everywhere.
"If Gai is on the job, you know it will be done well! I will never lose to Kakashi!" A thumbs up was given, and Tsunade could have thought she heard the 'ping' of sunlight hitting his teeth. She sighed. She really was desperate to win this bet. With a flick of her hand, Tsunade dismissed him. She turned to the other person in the room. He was also wearing a green jumpsuit.
"As for you, Lee, I'm expecting you to follow Sasuke Uchiha around. Don't let him out of your sight." Lee nodded, and vanished. Tsunade sat in her chair, and looked out at her village. It was a sad day for her when she needed to use her ninja to keep Kakashi quiet. Sighing yet again, she turned back to look at the paperwork piled on her desk. She opened a drawer, but instead of pulling out a pen, she pulled out a small sign. Placing it in the stack, she grinned, and left her office.
Fourty-five minutes later, Shizune wandered in, checking up on Tsunade's progress on the paper work. Spotting the sign, she went to inspect it.
Gone for a drink. Be back soon. Or not.
-Tsunade
The newest addition to the Icha Icha series was out, and Kakashi was going to be the first to get a copy. He had camped out in the street in front of the bookstore to be able to get his hands on it. He had even had Naruto bring him a bowl of ramen, so he wouldn't starve to death. Much to Naruto's dismay, it was student treat teacher night. But it was finally time for the new release, and Kakashi Hatake was ready to read. He rubbed his hands together, eagerly awaiting it's arrival. His one visible eye lit up as the bookstore man walked forward, opened the door, and then took notice of the white haired ninja.
"Hello, Kakashi! I'm sorry, but the shipment of the Icha Icha Paradise books didn't come. It turns out the author had to catch up on some research, and didn't get it in on time. I'll keep you informed on when it does come, though!" The man smiled, pushed the door to the store open, and turned on a light, leaving the poor ninja all by himself on the street. Or, almost all by himself.
"Day one, 714 hours. My internal rival Kakashi gets disappointed at bookstore. It seems that the bookstore man has defeated him this time. Must get tips once mission is over on how to do so." A green clad ninja wearing a poofy afro and a mustache stood next to a vendor selling apples. He was holding a small recording device, and talking into it. Kakashi walked away from the store, with Gai following. They walked past a distressed Hyuuga, and his friend.
"LEE. I have told you, I am not using my Byakugan to help you find Sasuke. Especially since I don't think he is in there..."
"But Neji! I will never be able to find the youthful Uchiha boy in time if you do not help! And we need to check every building to find him!"
"Lee, I said no." Neji's eye started to twitch as a stress mark appeared on his forehead.
"Why not, Neji?"
"That is a womans bath house."
"Oh. I DO NOT WISH YOU TO DEFILE YOUR YOUTH WITH SUCH THINGS! THE NEXT BUILDING, THEN!" The small flame had returned to Lee's eye as he pointed to the next building. Neji stood silently, not moving, arms crossed. Lee trudged away without him, not noticing his teammate had stayed behind.
A young, pink haired kunoichi walked out of the doors of the next builing. Lee barreled into her, not having noticed her exit. "Oh, hello Lee!" Sakura smiled, and started picking up her groceries. As she did so, she hummed a very pretty tune.
"Sakura-chan! Have you seen Sasuke as of late?" Lee bent down to help her pick the groceries off the ground. By the food she had bought, it seemed as though she would be cooking dinner for two people. 'It must be her parents anniversary!' Lee thought to himself, completely ignoring the obvious answer.
"No, I haven't. But Naruto is right behind you, maybe he could help." Sakura was too happy to really be paying attention. She glided down the street, happily humming. Tonight, she was going to invite Shikamaru over to her house. It would be so romantic. There would be candles, flowers, and small, singing, flying cupids fluttering over their heads as the looked into each others eyes, and he told her that he never wanted to be with anyone else. Just like that fantasy romance novel she had read last night! Sakurra sighed a happy, dreamy sigh, and walked into an opened door.
"Research... I'LL SHOW HIM RESEARCH!" Kakashi stepped through the door in which his student had just walked into. "Hn? What's this?" He looked behind the door, revealing Sakura. She was rubbing her forehead, still humming. She smiled at Kakashi.
"Kakashi-sensi! How nice to see you!"
"1032 hours. Kakashi walked through door, potentially harming student, Sakura Haruno. 1033 hours, student responds.Kakashi seems to have won this round, but Sakura will be back." Gai was now disguised as a hat stand, with a mask on.
Both Kakashi and Sakura were still talking, oblivious to the fact there was a talking hat stand with a mask on behind them.
"I'm very sorry about Jiraiya being a pervert, Kakashi-sensi. I hope your book comes soon!" Sakura cheerfully picked up her battered bag of groceries, and moved on, still humming.
"1035 hours, Sakura leaves, humbly defeated."
Kakashi, still ignore Gai, watched as his student left. "She seems overly happy... This can't be good." He walked down the road, passing Rock Lee and Naruto on his way.
"One of the benefits of helping me is that you get to wear this awesome suit!" Naruto's eyes lit up as Lee pulled out a green spandex suit. "With this, your agility will increase 10! And we'll catch Sasuke in no time!" Naruto was hanging on Lee's every word. His eyes were big and shining, and he took the suit from Lee's hands.
"I'LL DO IT!"
"LET US RUN INTO THE SUNSET, O YOUTHFUL NARUTO!" Lee started running off, the fire in his eyes again. Naruto stood behind, scratching his head.
"Aren't we supposed to be going after Sasuke?"
"Oh, yes." Lee turned, and ran back to Naruto. "OFF TO FIND SASUKE!"
"Isn't Neji coming? He looks kind of stupid standing there all alone." Naruto, now dressed in the green spandex himself, and was looking at the smug Hyuuga. Neji still had his eyes closed, and he was smirking.
"Well, he did not want to come with us."
"Oh..." Naruto's eyes lit up with a devilish light as he thought of a hilarious prank to pull. Calling Lee over, he whispered it into his ear.
"But Naruto, do you really think this will work? This is Neji, you know."
"AHA! Like Neji could ever beat a genius like myself." Lee shrugged, and agreed to help. A couple minutes later, Lee was standing in the street by himself. He walked up to Neji, and poked him.
"What, Lee."
"Are you not going to help, Neji?"
"I've already said--..." But before he could finish telling Lee off, Narto came up behind him and knocked him out. Before he went completely unconcious, he made a note to himself. Always leave Byakugan on.
Ten minutes later, Neji woke up. Lee and Naruto, both dressed in green spandex were crowded around him. He looked up at them, a confused look on his face. "Good, you're awake! Now you can help us!" Naruto exclaimed.
"What makes you think I'll help you?" came Neji's response.
"If you don't, you don't get your regular clothes back." Naruto grinned at his own genius plan as Neji looked at what he was wearing.
''NO! GET IT OFF ME!'' Neji jumped up, and pulled at the sleeves. He was wearing a green spandex suit. And he hated it.
"LET US GO, NEJI!" Lee took off running.
"LEE, GIVE ME MY CLOTHES!" Neji started running after him. Naruto, not wanting to be left out, followed suit.
They ran down the streets of Konoha, jumping onto buildings at random times, trying to find their target. For Lee, it was Sasuke. For Neji, it was Lee. And for Naruto, it was to see how this would end up. As the trio landed in the street again, only to pass Kakashi.
"Hello, Kakashi-sensi."
"Oh, hello Naruto." Kakashi waved and walked down the street. Gai was now disguised as a very big, ugly cat.
"325 hours. Rival passes another student as the beautiful green beast of Konoha goes by. LEE!"
"GAI-SENSI!" Came the reply from a distance. Kakashi and Gai walked down the street. This was their third time walking past the bookstore. There was still no sign of the book.
"326 hours. Kakashi defeated again." They both slowly made their way up the street, moving past the Haruno household. Gai sniffed the air, and an aroma of smells entered his nostrils. It smelled delicious. That Sakura girl would make a perfect match for my Lee! I'll forgive the fact that she is Kakashi's student if she cooks like that every meal. But Gai could not stay for long, Kakashi was on the move again.
Inside the house, Sakura busily prepared the food for tonight's meal. She was very excited, and kept reading the recipies wrong. "A dash of pickled chickens feet... But I don't have chickens feet." Confused, she glanced down at the cookbook again. "OH! A dash of pepper on the chicken meat!" A couple of hours later, Sakura was still working hard in the kitchen.
"I hope this tastes alright," She said, as she added in another ingrediant.
Outside of her kitchen window, Ino and Sasuke were formulating a plan. "I'll hit her with my jutsu when they try to kiss. I'll tell him that it was nice, but I've got another man. And that's when you come in and we kiss. Got that?" Ino said to Sasuke in her bossiest voice.
"I do what now?" Sasuke asked, having not really payed attention. He was starved, as Ino had pulled him away from his lunch. He sniffed the air. It smelled so good.
"AGH! You just come in when I say I've got another man. Okay?"
"Alright." Sasuke wanted to walk right into the kitchen and eat everything in sight. His stomacj growled.
"Meet back here at 7 o'clock." Sasuke nodded, and they went their separate ways.
Seven o'clock rolled around fast for Sakura. She had just finished her hair by the time the bell rang. She glanced out her bathroom window, and saw Neji in a spandex suit chasing Lee. "I wonder what they're doing..." Remembering her date, she hurried down the stairs. "Coming!" She came to a halt in front of her door, flattened her hair a bit, and answered it. Standing the the door way was Shikamaru, looking more handsome than ever.
"Hey, Sakura." He said, flashing her one of his white toothed smiles. She invited him in, and he handed her a box of chocolates with caramel filling - Her favorite.
She smiled at him, and gave him a huge hug in response. She lead him to the table were they would be eating dinner. There were candles, of course, that were lit for the centerpiece. They both sat on opposite sides of each other, and Shikamaru sat closest to the window. Outside of the window, in a tree, sat Ino and Sasuke.
"Did you eat, Sasuke?" Ino asked, wanting to make sure her accomplice was ready.
"Yep. It was delicious." He turned his attention to the couple sitting inside. He waited for them to finished their meal.
And waited.
And waited.
And waited. Until they stopped eating, and started talking. It took them a while to start in for the kiss. If it had been Sasuke, he'd have been all over Sakura before they had even started eating.
"Okay, I'm going in." Ino preformed her handseals, mumbled something, and then fell faint. She had placed herself so she would lean up against the tree.
When Ino opened her eyes, she didn't see Shikamaru's black, spiky hair.
She saw Sakura's pink, straight hair. Uh-oh...
And then their lips met.
A/N: WHAT CAN THIS MEAN? Sakura and Ino kissed? Uh-oh is right...