EDITED: Jan 28th, 2008

I swear, while putting these editing things on these chapters, I know on one of them I probably put 2007. I'm still living in the 07 x) I don't know, I just have a feeling.

This chapter…had a lot of fromage in it. Cheese lovers are welcome!

Happy readings! (:

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Not so Weak Anymore

Chapter Fifteen

Awkward Situations

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What is the definition of awkward?

- Lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance. causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time"

They arrived at an awkward time? HA, no kidding.

Dealing with that situation was no walk in the park. The girls froze, while Daisuke and Akira were beyond confused.

Thankfully, the boys could not recognize the girls through their disguises.

The same question ran through Sakura's head, 'what's Sasuke-kun doing here!?'

With the guys annoyed at everyone staring at them, they demanded a room. Sakura, scrambling to make that happened almost embarrassed herself.

"Alright, what kind of roooooom do you neeeed?" She said accidentally stretching the vowels on certain words. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her.

"we just need a room for three. Is that no obvious?"

Ouch. First she makes a fool of herself in front of Sasuke by sounding like a cow, and then she gets the cold shoulder from the Uchiha.

Handing the key to Daisuke to bring the boys to their room, Neji argued back they could go up themselves. Snatching the key out of Daisuke's hands, the trio headed up to their room. When out of sight, the four girls collapsed, beyond confused.

Daisuke was still fuming about how rude that was.

Noticing their forehead protectors, Akira looked at Sakura, "They're Konoha nin. Do you know them?"

Sakura looked at the other girls, who had agony on their faces. Turning back to Akira, she nodded.

"I know them quite well."

Turning to Ino, Tenten and Hinata, Sakura had a question, and she wanted an answer, "What is Sasuke-kun doing with Neji and Shikamaru!?"

All three girls shrugged, "Why would we know? We're just as confused as you are."

Sakura gazed at the staircase heading up to the many rooms within the hotel. She was beyond confused,

What's going on here?

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Neji, Sasuke and Shikamaru found they're room and proceeded in. they didn't even admire how beautiful the suite was. They just took they're beds and put their things down. Shikamaru pulled out a scroll. He looked at Neji for approval. Neji nodded. They turned to Sasuke.

"Alright, we'll explain the mission to you." Shika said. Shikamaru began explaining their approach, what they're after and such. Sasuke nodded on the odd occasion.

"And that's it." Shikamaru said flopping on his bed. Something popped in his head though.

"Those girls downstairs looked at us like we were ghosts."

Neji shrugged, "Girls will be girls."

"Always troublesome."

Neji sat up and headed over towards the light switch, "Let's get some sleep. Tomorrow's a busy day."

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"Moonlight high above the trees, such a peaceful night it is…"

Sakura's body swayed to the music being emitted from the radio, as she continued mopping.

"By myself I'm sitting here, the memories are clear, of love I never could reveal…"

She continued mopping and swayed her hips with the music. She twirled around a bit.

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Sasuke was walking around the hotel. They had just finished the first component of the mission which was delivering the scroll. His stomach roared. He wanted tomatoes now. He proceeded towards the eating area.

As he got closer, he heard singing. It sounded so soft and familiar to him. He stopped at the doors and listened for a bit.

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"Silently through all the years, my heart aches 'cause you're not here, Took for granted you'd be there, I never showed I cared, and now you're only in my dreams…"

Sasuke opened the door a creak to see who was singing. He saw the girl with brown hair and green eyes who served them the other day and sounded like a cow asking them questions.

Sasuke's stomach growled loudly. He proceeded inside the eating area. No one else was around but that girl. She hadn't noticed him come in yet.

Looking around, Sasuke noticed there was no one there to serve him, so he went up to girl and tapped her on the shoulder.

Sakura was about to sing the chores when she felt someone tap her shoulder. She turned around and literally jumped at who had just tapped her on the shoulder.

"AHH!"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow.

Sakura was blushing madly. Clueing in, she bowed in apology and in respect, "Can I help you with anything?"

Sasuke's stomach growled again, causing both of their eyes to widen. Sasuke looked a tad bit embarrassed.

"I need food."

Nodding, Sakura walked over into the kitchen part of the eating area which was for staff only. She then pulled out tomatoes. Sasuke looked at her oddly.

"How did you know I wanted tomatoes?"

Sakura's mentally slapped herself.

"Uhh, you look like a tomatoes kinda guy, so I went and got them! heh… why? Do you not want them? I'll get you something else if you don't want some! I'll–"

Sasuke cut her off by taking the tomatoes from her, and began walking away, "You babble to much. Its annoying."

Sakura fell down anime style. No matter what, she's still annoying to him, and he doesn't realize that she is Sakura.

Once Sasuke left. Sakura resumed mopping, "Some things will never change, ne Sasuke-kun?"

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Tenten was carrying books to the front desk. They were new catalogue books of the suites. She was carrying seven of them on top of each other with one hand, and in the other hand she was carrying documentation Shin had to sign. There were about two-hundred papers. Being ninja and all, it was easy to carry.

But it's easy until you run into a wall, not being to see where your going carrying all those papers.

BOOM!

Papers and books were scattered everywhere. Tenten found herself on the ground, frustrated. She dropped two-hundred papers, and seven catalogues.

How embarrassing.

Picking up papers, footsteps echoed through the hallway, with Hyuuga Neji appearing. Looking up, Tenten felt even more stupid.

"Uh, your going to have to detour th–"

Neji swiftly jumped over Tenten and the mess she had created, to the other side. Tenten should have known Neji always seemed to do the unthinkable.

Glancing back before heading into the next room, Neji noticed a scare on the employee's leg. It looked familiar to him.

"Where did you get that scare on the back of your leg?" he asked. She automatically froze up. she had received that scare from training with Neji. Being a scare, it never went away. She had to think of an excuse fast.

"Oh that! Heh, well I got that from work…I-" she was cut off by someone calling her name.

"Viola!"

It was undoubtedly Sakura's voice. She emerged from around the corner. She nearly bumped into Neji, but swiftly dodged the Hyuuga. Looking down, her eyes widened.

"What happened here?"

Tenten already embarrassed, continued gathering the papers, "I just slipped, that's all. It's alright Rin."

Noticing she finished stacking the books, Neji grabbed the stack and walked over to the front desk, plopping them down. He turned back to Rin and Viola,

"Sorry for the trouble."

And then he was gone. Tenten was frozen in her spot. Sakura slapped herself on the forehead.

"This may be trouble."

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Ino was currently cleaning rooms. She was the maid and all. She learned one thing though–

–She was never going to be a maid in a future job.

Cleaning toilets was THE worst.

She had just finished cleaning room ninety-seven. that had to have been THE worst room she had cleaned so far. She was now moving onto room ninety-eight. she knocked on the door.

No answer.

Shrugging, she then went through her keys, finding the key to open said room. Once unlocked, she proceeded inside.

She walked in the room and put down the cleaning supplies. The blinds were closed so it was pitch black. She walked to the wall and felt for the switch. Once she got it. She flicked the lights on.

"Ahh, the light!"

"AHHH!" Ino screamed as she ducked down from an incoming pillow. The pillow missed her by inches, hitting the wall instead. She then got up with that pillow in hand. She looked at who threw it.

"What are you doing in here?"

Looking at the person sitting up from the bed, it was Shikamaru. Surprised to see her old teammate, Ino managed to keep her cool.

Sorta.

"I'm the maid! I clean every room! What's your problem?! Throwing a pillow at me!" she said raising her fist at him. Shikamaru sighed and laid back down.

"Troublesome woman." Ino flinched.

"TROUBLESOME!? Excuse me?!..."

Shikamaru stared at her, "Ino…"

She froze, "What did you call me?"

"nothing, forget about it." Shikamaru said lying on his side, facing the wall. She grabbed the cleaning supplies and proceeded towards the windows. She pulled out the Windex and started cleaning the windows.

"why did you call me Ino?" she asked

"None of your business."

"you know, it's good to tell someone what's on your mind. It helps clear your mind and get a second opinion on things." Ino said trying to get it out of him. He didn't really seem to be in the mood.

"…"

"Was she a friend?"

"…"

"fine don't talk."

"Troublesome woman"

"Oh now you talk."

"…"

"…"

"She was on my team back in Konoha… You remind me of her somehow."

Ino froze. Was she that obvious?

"Why?"

"your temper." Ino mentally slapped herself.

"You said she was on your team. Did something happen to her?"

She died. We don't know how, but we found her and her friends dead."

"Oh, how sad."

"Hn."

"Did you care for her?"

There was a pause for a moment.

Finally, he spoke, "Yes."

Ino nearly dropped the Windex. He really did care for her. Picking up her bucket of cleaning supplies, she headed into the bathroom, "Well, I'm sure she cared a lot for you too."

Once in the bathroom, Ino's eyes bulged out. It didn't even look like it was used! Deciding it didn't need cleaning, Ino left the bathroom, heading towards the door.

"My job is done here. Enjoy your stay!"

Once gone, something about her bugged Shikamaru.

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"Tomorrow, we begin decorating for the festival of the moon. We have a two day period of decorating. I'll give you better instructions in the morning."

The group of ninja all nodded their heads, as they're day had come to an end. A very exhausting day it was…

"Oh Rin, could you take out the garbage?"

Not wanting to but having to, Sakura sat up, taking the bag of garbage out of Shin's hands, and began heading out the back door to the dumpster.

Plugging her nose, Sakura opened the dumpster and threw the bag in it with relative ease.

Finished, Sakura glimpsed up at the night sky, gazing at the stars. It was actually a nice night, and not the usual thunderstorm it had been the past few days. It was silent too. Nice and calm. She closed her eyes and listened to the wind. It reminded her of the day when she was with Akito out on the rooftop. She then started wondering what happened to Akito and Yugi and the boys. They were supposed to return at least in three days. She was actually worrying about them.

'No, they're strong. I'm sure they are alright.'

Sakura was knocked out of her thoughts as she heard footsteps coming from down the street. She looked at the source of the footsteps, and some eighteen year old. He walked up to Sakura.

"Hey there prewwwwteh ladieee, how bout you and meee go back to my ppplace and get comfortable." He said sounding extremely drunk. He hick-uped at least three times during that one sentence.

She stepped back, "Uh no thanks…I'll be going now."

She stepped around him and began walking back into the hotel. Before she could get inside, he grabbed her hand.

"Nah, I think you ssshould come with mehh." Sakura looked at him and ripped her hand away from his.

"No. Get away from me."

As she began moving to the hotel, he again managed to grab her again, putting a hand around her waist and one on her mouth. Her screams were muffled.

"Come ooooon, lets gooo!"

Sakura stepped down on his foot as he attempted to drag her away. He instantly let go of her, wincing in pain.

"Ouchhh! Why'd you do that prewwttehh ladiee!?"

Before Sakura could reply back, he again lunged for her. As she was ready to punch him one in the face, someone beat her to it.

A figure appeared in front of her, with its back to her. She instantly recognized the Uchiha fan.

The drunken man went flying out and down the street. He glimpsed at Sakura and Sasuke quickly, before running off, falling over a trashcan or two.

Sasuke dug his hands into his pockets, beginning to walk away and into the town. Sakura stood there dumfounded for the moment, but came back to reality.

"Thank you for your help!"

"Hn," was all she heard, before he turned the corner down the street. Sakura was confused,

Why'd he just help her?

Maybe the Uchiha became a nicer person?

Inner Sakura laughed out loud.

Shrugging, Sakura headed back inside the hotel, safely.

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CUT DOWN AGAIN!


This was eleven pages, but now… eight O.o

Wow, I wrote the most pointless things ever.

K, it took me all day to do this ONE chapter. Damn, I started at 3 P.M. and its now 1 in the morning O.o Procrastinate much?

Review if you like cheese, cause you got one hell of a slice of it in this chapter.

xD

Shellzonfire!