Chapter 6:
As me and Naruto walked through the hospital to see Uchiha I saw a few villagers give Naruto a dark look. I made sure to give them a look showing a promise of battle. Maybe it was my look or the knife that I held in my hand, but the men and women stopped looking after me. We got to the door and I held up a hand and Naruto looked at me. I pushed on the door just slightly and saw Sakura, his teammate wrestling tongue with the Uchiha. I held a finger to my lips telling Naruto to be quiet.
"He's kissing her." I mouthed. Naruto nodded and a grin split across his face from ear to ear.
"Prank time?" he mouthed back. I nodded and tossed him as smoke bombs from my pack. He handed me a packet of in and mouthed, "Henge." I got what he wanted me to do. I transformed in Sauske and we through the bombs. I jumped in and knocked out the Uchiha before tossing him to Naruto who carried him out. Then I made a chidori and cleared out the air, pretending to use Sauske's sharigan. Sakura looked confused when all the smoke cleared away. I had to keep from laughing.
"Sauske-kun! What's happening?"
"I don't know Sakura! Someone just ran outside!"
"Well just ignore them, stay, with me." I nodded slowly and turned away pretending to sneeze while coating my tongue in the ink. I'd never tasted something so absolutely disgusting in my life. It tasted like a really foul liver soup, except it was ink. The Sakura and me kissed. I hadn't kissed many girls but I did do it some with Gaara's sister Temari who had liked me a lot and we'd gotten together, before I had to leave. Sakura put her tongue in my mouth, I hesitated and allowed it regrettably. I knew it was needed.
Her tongue met the ink and she pulled out of my mouth and off me quickly.
"Sauske-kun?"
"Ha! Got you Sakura!" I said and released the transformation. "Now Naruto!" Naruto tossed me Sauske and I placed him on the bed. "Hope you liked the taste of ink." I said and leapt out the window performing a jutsu I knew that cleaned out your mouth. I didn't taste good but it was better then the ink. Naruto and I laughed with real mirth as we both head back to our apartment.
"That was truly priceless." I said as I gave him a high five. "I guess she must really like him, to kiss his inky tongue!"
"Yeah..." Naruto expression suddenly saddened.
"Oh, sorry. Did you, you know like her?"
"Well," he said. "I always have a crush on Sakura-chan. I thought if I brought Sauske-teme back she'd like me instead of him still. Guess I was wrong about that. Maybe it's about time I move on." I looked at him. I felt like a huge idiot. I should've thought he'd have a crush, it just didn't occur to me.
"Yeah, that's probably a pretty wise thing to do here Naruto. There's a lot of other nice women who won't leave you just for him." Naruto nodded. "Hey what about that Yamanka girl? I mean she did say she felt bad for you and it'd be great for me to get rid of her."
"Nani? You want me to make Ino give me a pity date?"
"Hey pity dates are only half pity, a kiss is only a quarter pity on those dates." I said with the air of an all-knowing monk.
"Why don't you date her then? I mean it's not like your close to anyone."
"Yeah I am!" I said defensively.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!" I couldn't help but chuckle at how much like little kids we were at that moment. It seemed right somehow. We were ninjas, trained to trap and kill without a second of hesitation or even a second thought. Yet here we finally got a chance to be real brothers.
"Who then? Maybe Hinata?"
"Who's that?"
"Girl with purple hair," explained Naruto. "Heir to the Hyuuga clan. If you say yes your way lying cause she's with Kiba dog-boy."
"Oh yeah I did hear something about that. Nope not her. Ever hear of Gaara of the desert." At this Naruto burst out laughing uncontrollably. He coughed a few times and then managed to spit out his reply, which was so ridiculous I was sent rolling around on the ground.
"YOUR GOING OUT WITH EMOTIONLESS GAARA!? HAHAHAHA!" asked Naruto.
"Not... not him, you baka. His sister, T-Temari." I said trying to breath through all the laughing.
"Oh," he said not laughing anymore. "I'm impressed, she's a though woman, hard to impress. How'd you ever get her?"
"I helped her brother become Kazakage." I said with an impressive air.
"So I beat him in a fight."
"So I help him and you try to kill him, and you wonder why she picked me. Too bad I don't see her anymore now though."
"Why?" Naruto asked. "She comes to a the village a lot with Shikamaru."
"NANI?!" I leapt out the window as Naruto broke out laughing again and scanned the crowd below for the four sandy blonde pigtails. Leaving Naruto laughing his head off again back at the apartment. Forget him for now, I had to find Temari-chan. Finally I spotted her walking around looking lost.
"Curse you Shikamaru, leaving me here stranded. Some guide you are." This was so prefect it was almost funny. I leapt down behind without a sound and spoke to her.
"Perhaps you like a new one then ma'am." Temari turned around slowly before running and tackling me to the ground. She then frowned and slapped me. A man was next to me and looked at me with pity. I understood why a moment later.
"What did you do?"
"I didn't deserve that."
"This baka," Temari said. "Left me to come here."
"But-" She slapped me again.
"What for that time?"
"I didn't deserve that either."
"That," said Temari. "Was for not even leaving me a note saying you were going to go."
"How could I have faced-" She slapped me again.
"Let me guess you didn't deserve that either?"
"No this one I deserve."
"That was for introducing Gaara to ramen. He won't lay off the stuff. Is that just a habit with demon containers or something?" she asked. I laughed. My brother does have quite the reputation for being a ramen addict. Somehow though, Imagining Gaara as a super obsessed ramen man like Naruto was hard. Then she sighed and hugged me. I held her. This was the way it always was with Temari. I screwed up she yelled and slapped me. Then she would want me to hold her like I was now. Though that's part of why I love her, how can you love someone if they aren't themself?