Author's Note: I LIVE! Well, I've been alive – I just blame school, work, and Neopets for taking me away from fanfiction for awhile. Anyway, here I am with another fun story of Hey Sound!
But here's a small announcement: I'm going to be trying to end Hey Sound! sometime soon. It won't be for a bit, but let's face it: a comedy story can only go so far before the jokes goes stale. I'll probably end it around Story Twenty or so, with the last two stories or so being with Sakura's (funny) retrieval of memories. But that means there are still five more stories until then of her unintended, child-like torture of Kabuto and Sasuke and fun interactions with Daddy Orochimaru. So please enjoy!
Story Fourteen: Bathtime For Sakura
"Sakura, you're filthy."
The child-woman looked up from her coloring book to stare curiously at Sasuke, "What are you talking about, Sasuke-chan?"
"You're covered in dust and dirt," he said bluntly, "You're filthy. Go and take a bath."
Sakura pouted, getting up from the floor and folding her arms over her chest, "Hmph, no! I don't want to take a bath! I'm not filthy, I'm just dusty from trying to find some stuff to do. And taking a bath is something I don't want to do, so there!"
The raven-haired avenger sighed, 'Such a brat.'
"Sakura, your hair is greasy. You need a bath. Orochimaru-sama won't be able to place anything pretty in your hair if it's still dirty," Kabuto remarked, cringing at the state of the rosette's hygiene.
"Hmph, no! I don't want a bath! I'll place ribbons and pins in my own hair then!" Sakura exclaimed as she ran away from him, taking her dark-pink ribbon from his hand in the progress.
Kabuto sighed, 'So much for that idea.'
"Now Sakura, sweetie, you know that staying clean and hygienic is important for being healthy. So will you please take a bath?" Orochimaru coaxed.
"No! I don't want to take a bath!"
"But just imagine how clean and happy you will feel afterward! And then I can decorate your hair with pretty bows and ribbons, and you will look so much more beautiful in your dresses."
"No bath! No no no!"
Orochimaru sighed, 'Such a stubborn child.'
"Hey Sakura, you can always take a bath with me--"
"Sui-chan is a child molester!"
Suigetsu sighed, '...I wasn't meaning for it to sound like that.'
Karin, however, wasn't going to allow a bratty woman go around being dirty no longer. Sure, she understood (for the most part) that Sakura was only acting like a child because of her amnesia, but sheesh, being constantly dirty was taking too far for her taste! What if her dirt made it onto her precious and clean Sasuke-kun!?
So, without warning, she dragged Sakura by the arm into the bathroom and closed and locked the door behind them.
"Karin-chan! I said I didn't want to take a bath!"
"We're not going to take a bath. We're going to be grown-ups and take a shower."
The word shower was a new word to the child-woman. "Shower? That's what grown-ups take before going off to work, right?" she asked curiously, a finger to her lips in a childlike fashion.
Karin nodded as she began to strip out of her clothes, motioning for Sakura to do the same, "Yep. And you want to be as grown-up as Kabuto-chan and Sasuke-chan are, right?"
Sakura nodded and Karin continued, "Well, then we are going to take a shower, and that way you know how it feels like to be a grown-up like they are."
A smile stretched over Sakura's lips as she watched Karin turned on the water, then dragged her into the shower, "Yay for a bath! Oops, I mean shower."
Karin sighed, "Yes, yay. Now hold still while I wash your hair. God, it's filthy."
That night, when Sakura went to bed, clean as can be, the other turned to Karin with questions on how she managed to do it.
"When dealing with a child, think about what a child wants to be the most and use it to your advantage."
The thought bubbles rolled through their heads for a few minutes before realization finally hit. Or so it seemed.
"Oh, so no wonder the idea of her taking a bath with me didn't work."
CLUNK! "Ow! I swear, I'm not trying to do anything to her!"
Ah, the joys of bathtime. Until next time!