Well isn't this weird. It's been a while since I wrote a new fic that is longer then a one-shot. So since I am just awesome I will actually write a few chapters of this fic before posting it just to see how it goes and what the freak it's going to be about and so that if I get blocked mentally on this fic I can still have chapters to post for a little while. Okay! So hope you liked last chapter here we go with this one!
~~Kyo~~
Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto sorry guys ( er...girls) I know you want me to, but I don't. Sadly.
Chapter two:
Sakura woke with Neji's face pressed into her hair with his hand tangled in it as she knew it would be. She had flipped around and was pressed against Itachi's chest. His arm across his hips and hand pressing her closer by way of her lower back. His chin was rested on the top of her head as he slept. He had moved up as Neji moved down so they were all in new positions.
She usually didn't wake first, but she knew she had to do something thus what woke her, though she didn't mind waking first. She thought on the day ahead of her, burning in Itachi and Neji's body heat. Finally she remembered. She stiffened and Itachi woke because of it. Neji as well.
" Whats wrong?" They asked together both with gruff voices husky from sleep. Neji activated his Byakugan looking for trouble. Itachi sighed and looked down at her as she looked up at him.
" How do we end up in such weird positions?" He asked with a small smirk. She laughed softly pressing her face into his bare chest. He squeezed her closer as he kissed the top of her head while Neji tried to work his hand out of her hair.
" Your late." Itachi said looking at the clock across the bed. She cursed.
" I know. Fugaku-san will kill me." Itachi chuckled softly so his chest rumbled as he did. She could feel in under her cheek.
" I'm sure mother won't let him." Itachi said as if that were reassuring.
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" Don't you think it's weird Kakashi?" Sasuke asked his old sensei. Kakashi lowered his prized book and locked eyes with Sasuke.
" Should you really care what Neji and Sakura do behind closed doors? You really wouldn't want to piss either one of them off." Kakashi wisely said. Sasuke knew it but still.
" But..." Sasuke said trying to find something to say and couldn't.
" If Sakura and Neji are okay with it, and the Hokage and Neji's family doesn't care why should we unless you have something your hiding. Like maybe feelings for Sakura or Neji?" Kakashi said with a grin. Sasuke blanched. Who would like Neji? Sakura had no taste in men. The Hyuuga was strong Sasuke would give him that, and props for being second in command of ANBU but still.
" Besides I thought I saw Sakura going to the Uchiha district earlier." Kakashi said and left him there. Sasuke made his way to his house. It wasn't unusual for Sakura to meet with his mother for breakfast but it was usual that he didn't know she was coming over. Usually his mother would be telling the whole village by now. She loved Sakura and was always happy when she came over.
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Mikoto smothered Sakura in a hug that was bear worthy as Sakura entered the house. Itachi tried not to laugh at the look on his fathers face. His father was looking at the clock on the wall then locked eyes with him. Itachi shrugged a little as if saying hey what can you do.
After the hello's were said they went to the dinning room and sat to eat breakfast. Mikoto sat in front of Sakura and Fugaku sat next to his wife in front of his son. Itachi was next to Sakura.
" How is work Sakura-chan? Lady Hokage isn't pushing you is she?" Mikoto asked. Sakura smiled.
" Of course she is, but that's fine. I'm use to it by now, besides she wouldn't push me if it wasn't necessary." Mikoto smiled. Fugaku grunted in some what approval.
" Have you reconsidered joining the Police force Itachi?" Fugaku asked his son. Itachi sighed.
" No. I am where I want to be." He squeezed Sakura's thigh under the table and she glanced at him. This was why Itachi stayed with her all the time, well not the only reason but a lot of it.
" Why not ask Sasuke?" Itachi suggested. Fugaku huffed and looked away in what Mikoto described to Sakura as his pout.
" Anyway lets not discuss such things over a meal. How was your day yesterday Itachi? Sakura-chan?" Mikoto asked with a bright smile. Sakura grinned back and laid her hand on Itachi's. He upturned his hand and squeezed her fingers linking hands with her.
" Nothing special I would much rather to hear about your day yesterday mother." Itachi said and Sakura smiled nodding. Mikoto smiled and so she started about her day running into her cousin and then Naruto and Kakashi on her way home from shopping.
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Sasuke tiptoed into his house sneaking to listen to what Sakura was talking about with his parents and was surprised to also see his brother as well next to her. Surprisingly with hands linked under the table. He swallowed his heart at the sight. What was going on? First Neji now his brother? What was Sakura doing? Was she two timing one or the other? Were they a three some?
" Sasuke you might as well just join us." Sakura said looking back at him as she interrupted Mikoto with a polite excuse me. Sasuke cursed her mentally as he was forced to walk in casually as if he hadn't been listening in or anything. He should obviously know better then try to sneak up on two ANBU and his parents.
He sat next to Sakura since if he sat next to his brother he was more then likely to be judged by his father, although he was sure his father would say something or another about also judging him with Sakura. Sakura smiled over at him and he nodded back being kicked by his mother under the table. He winced and forced a smile at Sakura who looked a little amused now.
Sasuke no matter how he looked at it, could clearly see Sakura's hand linked with Itachi's. It was clear as day maybe not to his parents but to him or anyone walking in it was.
" So Sakura-chan who are you going to marry. Sasuke or Itachi?" Sasuke choked on air and alarmed Sakura handed him her drink which he downed in attempt to be able to breath again which it helped. He looked up at his mother as if she were mad.
" I really want you in the family Sakura-chan, and Sasuke are you alright dear?" Sasuke choked a little more before shaking his head.
" What!" He gasped out. Sakura frowned at him. Itachi shook his head. Fugaku made a face.
" Dear." He said. She shook her head.
" No Fugaku. I want Sakura-chan in this family one way or another be it through Itachi, Sasuke, or heaven forbid Shisui." Sakura was the one to choke this time. Itachi patted her back while shaking his head again. What was he going to do with her and his brother. They had the same reactions just to different names.
" Oh come on Sakura-chan don't be shy. I see how you look at my nephew." Sakura flushed as Itachi and Sasuke looked at her at the same time.
" Dear I'm sure that look is one of loathing not admiration." Fugaku said hitting the nail on the head. Sakura looked relieved he said such not wanting to offend by saying she would rather smoother Shisui with a pillow then love.
" Shisui and I speak a lot that is true, but I wouldn't quite pull out a white gown Mikoto-san." Mikoto smiled almost revealed that was true.
" Then Sasuke or Itachi is it?" She grinned at Sakura.
" Mother please." Itachi said. Mikoto frowned.
" Sakura is my teammate, my third." Itachi said. Mikoto pouted as she realized the conversion on the matter was closed for the day.
Sasuke swallowed his lungs this time and looked to Itachi and Sakura. He almost had a heart attack, yet they sat so composed now. Of course Sakura looked panicked when his mother mentioned Shisui his cousin. He had never seen his cousin or Itachi's best friend with Sakura but that meant he wasn't watching her close enough.
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Her shift was brutal so far. She was forced to work an extra shift already and it would last until at least sometime in the morning. She sometimes hated being the top medic.
Speaking of the devil earlier had made him come faster it seemed to her. Shisui was her fifteen patient for the day and hopefully the last. He came in with broken bones and a few wounds from a mission but she wasn't worried he would die.
" Hell-o Saku-chan.." Shisui said with a grin. She shook her head.
" Only you would flirt while bleeding all over my table." She said walking in with his chart in hand. She would mend the bones as best as she could what she couldn't he would have to heal himself in time, and the wounds she could heal completely. He was already naked sitting there. She had told him countless time not to strip completely.
" Of course Saku-chan. I heard you want to marry me." She shook her head.
" No. Mikoto wanted to marry me off so I can come into the family. Your name was mentioned, but reluctantly so." Shisui frowned at her. She smiled. He shook his head.
" You should just give in to me. I'll make you happy Saku-chan." She smiled.
" You'll drive me mad." He smiled mischievously.
" That too."
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Day after day was remotely the same for the three ANBU partners. They lived, they did paper work, sometimes they returned home late, but over all they slept in the same bed together with Itachi and Neji on the outside and Sakura in the center between them. They never found it weird. They usually slept close on missions, they bathed together on missions, they undressed in front of each other, they sometimes used the bathroom in front of each other. They saw no difference in just living each day as if it were a mission as it was.
Sasuke however was going mad trying to figure out what was going on. He didn't know who to ask about this who to go to so finally he went to the one person he knew would understand.
" So do what do you think?" Tsunade looked at Sasuke in surprise. She hadn't know what had been going on between the three. Her amber eyes cooled.
" Knowing Sakura, Neji, and Itachi personally. This is not something sexual." Tsunade cleared Sasuke's mind and he relaxed but not for long.
" Then why are they so close, so touchy? It's weird." Sasuke admitted. Tsunade rolled her eyes.
" Uchiha Sasuke go watch some of the old teams like team Gai, team eight, and so forth you'll realize this behavior of the three is not odd nor is their closeness." With that cryptic message Sasuke left to tract down and stalk the other teams that had disbanded and moved on in life. He went first to find the lazy Genius Shikamaru who was fourth in command of ANBU and his team including Sasuke's ex fan girl Ino and the other teammate Chouji.
He found them all at a restaurant. Chouji sat in front of both Ino and Shikamaru, Chouji inhaled food and Shikamaru lazly ate while Ino picked at her food no doubt because of a 'diet '.
Sasuke watched them chat off and on and Ino would casually touch Shikamaru as she laughed and Shikamaru would smile. Chouji would pause to make a comment and Ino would laugh while she through a punch his way. Sasuke frowned and had enough of this team and went to see another to understand more.
He found the blue haired Hyuuga who had a crush on Naruto and her two team mates the dog boy Kiba and the bug boy Shino. They were training together even though they had all went their own ways as Ninja. They had a bond like he and his old team had, they still trained together when they could. Sakura had dinner with them and invited them over.
Shino's hands were in his pockets like Kiba's were and Hinata was in the middle, but all three of them brushed shoulders and didn't seem to mind. Kiba smiled ear from ear as Hinata blushed at no doubt a crude joke he made while Shino shook his head with a faint smile. Intimacy between the teams between teammate he could see it now. A certain level of where you were comfortable with them. People you spent years with.
He moved on again to the next team which was team Gai. Though Neji was like Sakura in not seeing his team much any more he made an effort and thus when Sasuke found team Gai there Neji was chatting away with Tenten and Lee. Neji made a face at something Lee said about Youth and then Lee challenged him and Tenten laughed at them both. Gai gave them a thumbs up at their youth and patted Tenten on the shoulder. Sasuke frowned. He'd seen enough it was time to leave.
He understood slightly. With your teammates old or current you had a level of comfort with them, but to share a shower, to share a bed? He didn't think so. To touch he got, but to do something like hold hands or cuddle in bed? That was much too much like lovers to him. He never did any of those things with Sakura and or Naruto never would with Naruto god help him if Naruto wanted to.
He had slept beside them for years on missions but they never lived together or shared a room or bed when they had the option not to. It made him uncomfortable to think of sleeping in a bed with Sakura snug against him it actually made him blush and shift his walk.
The level of intimacy between Neji, Sakura, and his Ani was much too high for just normal team behavior. No one would believe that or understand or see it like he did. He walked to the old training grounds to find his old team minus Sakura training today. Well Sai and Naruto were Kakashi was against a tree reading, but also gazing up at them to tract their fight.
He watched the fight with little interest. He realized with a start they were lacking what the other teams had. He frowned was it because they lacked their female team member? In all the teams he spied on they were all touching indirectly or not the female member. With Neji and Itachi they both never touched each other, but always Sakura. He frowned. Was the female member the key then? But even before Sakura left the team they never really all touched her. Actually he himself went out of his way not to. Naruto liked to touch her but she didn't always like him touching her. Sai never touched anyone out of combat. Kakashi touched her like Gai had Tenten but that was it.
What was that saying about his old team? Were they never a proper team? Had they never acted like one? Was that why he was so offended and or weirded out by how casual his Ani and the Hyuuga touched Sakura? What did that mean though? It wasn't like he could all of a sudden cure their lack of team skills they never had it even when they tried. Three of the members of the team him included fought with each other Sakura was mostly the peace maker and Kakashi too, but it shouldn't be this bad in a team. They were supposed to work in unison together, know what the other member thought with out having to speak, like Itachi and Sakura when he took her hand in comfort.
Sasuke glared at the two other members of the team. It wasn't just his fault they failed as a team. It wasn't his fault only that his father never saw him as anything worthy. It was that Dobe and that emotionless copy. They fought and made him fight along with them. They wouldn't know team work if it bit them on the back side.
So how was he going to fix it? Obviously the other two had to understand they weren't a team as well and then they of course needed the key of a team to work. The female to center around. With out her they were all just guys that were weird and touched one another. With her they could pass as a team. He scoffed. He wondered if this was worth anything, or if it was a waste of time. He had nothing better to do at the moment.
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Sai looked at Sasuke Uchiha with a blank face and blank eyes as Naruto gaped at the Uchiha with eyes wide and emotion leaking out.
" What! I wouldn't believe it if you didn't showed me. I can't believe it." Sasuke shook his head in frustration why was he bothering again?
" Are you saying that we are not a team?" Sai asked. Sasuke sighed.
" In a way yes. Look just follow you'll see what I mean." Sasuke said and thus showed them what being a true team was about. ( Pause...OMG That sounded so freaking wrong to me!)
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Sakura was out to dinner with Neji, Itachi being held up with paper work. They ate in a restaurant popular for it's sweets. They were eating quietly enjoying the silence when suddenly someone slid beside Neji in the booth and someone slid in beside Sakura. They both paused in eating to look at Naruto and Sasuke who had slid in next to them. Naruto with Neji and Sasuke with Sakura. Sai made them scoot over and sat next to Naruto.
" What are you doing?" Neji asked offended as Naruto picked food off his place and ate it. He shoved the plate at him not wanting any more. Sakura looked to her old team curiously.
" What are you guys doing here? Sasuke you hate sweet." He did hate sweets but still. Sasuke knew they had to test out the theory of how teams worked with their female teammate and she was never alone outside of work so they had to put the plan to motion Neji or not.
Sasuke almost hesitancy tossed an arm around her shoulder and leaned over to talk to her. She didn't flinch under his arm which was a good sign. She didn't look nervous just confused as to what he was doing. He spoke quickly over the noise of the place.
" Are you busy tomorrow? We'd like to train and maybe eat or something after words. Naruto complains we never see you any more." He said not wanting to sound creepy. Sakura smiled at him which did funny things to his heart, and so did being so close. He wondered if the plan was going to work with his treacherous body betraying him every time she was close.
" Sure that would be nice, but its off if we get a mission." She agreed and Naruto grinned brightly finishing off Neji's food. They both left leaving Sai behind who looked puzzled.
" Are you alright Sai?" Sakura asked reaching across the table and touching his hand. His entire arm heated. He frowned at her. Why did she touch him? Was this what it was like to be a team?
" I am." he said and stood walking away. Sakura looked to Neji who had a face of anger and relief at them being gone. Sakura smiled at him reassuringly and stood sitting beside him and pushing her plate over so they could share. He smiled at her.
End chapter:
Yep weird as it's turning out I realize that I keep making Sasuke a part of the plot in a major way what the freak is wrong with me for doing that you may ask? Well could be because I don't like Sasuke much at all, though for some reason I hate him less when I write him verses anyone else writing him. I'm a weird person though that was realized years ago thankfully so enjoy the chapter when I actually post this and until then yeah hope this actually gets a plot and becomes interesting.
~~Kyo~~