Unpredicted Romance

Summary: AU. Love is unforeseen. She was asked by Sasuke to pretend as if she is his girlfriend so Sakura, his arranged fiancée, would leave him alone. However, everything unexpected has happened.

Chapter 6: Inside Jokes

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"Sasuke!" she called loudly as she pointed her bags that were lying on the floor. "Why did you bring my stuff here in your room?"

"Because you'll stay in my room," he stated coolly. "This is better."

"Better my ass!" she shot back. "You're not thinking of molesting me again, are you?"

"Dream on," he gave her a smirk. "As I said you were the one initiated everything happened last night."

"But I ain't gonna do it ever again," she looked at him with frown. "Definitely not."

"Yeah?" he asked with suggesting look. "Are you sure, Ino? Cause I was pretty sure that you had fun last night."

"Excuse me?" Her jaw dropped. Did she enjoy it? She couldn't remember. "You're such a bastard, Sasuke."

"Heh."

"But seriously though, why do you want me to stay for the night?"

"I don't want you to share a room with Sabaku Temari," he looked at her eyes seriously. "And get upset and get drunk again."

"Why?" questioned Ino and then threw him a playful look. "Didn't you like that? I might crash to your room again and do something…"

"No," he answered bluntly. "I can take you on without getting you drunk."

"You're such freaking asshole!" Ino exclaimed, her ego was hurt. "Are you saying that I'm easy?"

"No," he said quietly. "Not all."

"I never thought you're like that," she admitted with small smile. "I thought you were just always calm, cold and distant… I know you for so long but I never knew that you're nice, sweet, reliable and perverted… is this the true you?"

"Who knows?"

"But I like this attitude better, well except the perverted part of course."

"I am not perverted."

Ino rolled her eyes. "Give it up, Sasuke. You are! You're just a typical man after all… hormonal."

"I am not going to argue with you, Ino."

"So," Ino looked at him with happy face. "You admit to yourself that you are perverted?"

"No."

"Men pride… I hate it."

Sasuke just stayed quiet. Ino looked at the clock; it was 2 in the afternoon. The time surely passed by so fast. Ino walked over to the bed and sat.

"Sasuke, before I forget," Ino smiled sheepishly at Sasuke. "You are going to sleep on the futon since you want me to sleepover."

"I am going to sleep with you in the bed, Ino," he said. "Whether you like it or not, it's not like there's a difference. I just slept with you last night."

And actually did something, Sasuke added in his thoughts.

"Fine," Ino sighed in defeat. "But promise me that you're not gonna rape me."

"You got a deal."

"Sasuke," she called him again. "I want to swim on the beach."

"Go then."

"But I can't."

"Hm?"

"Sasuke, I can't coz I can't wear two-piece."

"…Why is that?"

"I can't," she gave him an annoying look. "Cause thanks to you I got hickeys all over my body… they're showing if I wear two-piece."

"Then swim tonight so no one can see you."

"I am scared," Ino looked dramatically on the floor. "I am a girl after all, ya'know."

"Fine," he sighed, beaten. "I'm gonna go with you."

"Really?" Ino inserted a grin. "But there's another problem."

"Huh?" he asked, irritated. "What now?"

"I can't walk properly," Ino complained, giving Sasuke a sneering look. "I assume you know why, Sasuke."

He remained quiet again. Of course, he did know why. He could tell that she had not done it before. She was a virgin 'til last night, it was her first time and it surely did hurt a lot.

"Just stay in bed and the pain will go away," he stated as if he was an expert. "You need rest."

"Say," Ino looked at him with interest. "How do you know all about these? Do you always screw girls?"

Sasuke gawked at her as if she was the most ridiculous person on earth. What did she think of him? A man-slut? And Sasuke had no slightest intention of giving her his private and personal information.

"That's not for you to know, Ino."

"Well," Ino inserted a malicious smile. "You don't go to clubhouse where nasty harlots dance around naked, do you?"

"I'm not a lowlife," he rolled his eyes. What kind of questions were she asking to him? Of course, he was better than that. He was Uchiha Sasuke, an almost perfect dream guy. He didn't need to go to strip club just to get a girl… he could get whoever he wanted. "Do you honestly think that I am that kind of person?"

"Not really," Ino admitted. "But I never realized that you are sexually active."

"What the hell are you saying, Ino?"

Sexually active. Those two words were fairly offensive to some and luckily, Sasuke was one of the people who found those words cruel. When he heard Ino was saying those words, he thought as if Ino was calling him a sex maniac.

"Jeez," Ino knew that Sasuke got a little mad after she said the phrase 'sexually active'. "I was just kidding, Sasuke."

Ino lay down in the bed she was sitting on and unexpectedly, Sasuke lay down beside her. They exchanged looks.

"Can't you wait until night?" Ino joked as she winked. "The sun is still up."

"No," Sasuke moved his face closer to hers; they could feel each other's breath lingering to their faces. "I can't."

Ino knew he was just playing around. And she thought playing around with him would some kill time and boredom. Playing inside-jokes weren't that bad.

"Really?" Ino smiled at him seductively, as she bit the bottom of her lips. "Too bad."

Ino moved away from him. Even though Sasuke was not used joking around like this, he was having fun. He was not afraid not to be calmed, collected and distant when he was with Ino. He didn't know if this was his genuine self but all he knew was he was having fun joking around with Ino and he did not feel awkward at all.

"Sasuke?"

"…?"

"How long do hickeys last?"

Sasuke looked at her; she seemed depressed having those hickeys. Was she serious? She didn't actually know how long they would last? Sasuke refused to answer her question because he was scared that Ino wouldn't talk to him if he would tell her that it would last at least 5 days.

"Just rest, Ino."

Ino took the advice and closed her eyes, after some moments she did fall asleep.

Should I tell her what Sabaku Temari told me? He thought, remembering his little talk with Temari. Nevertheless, when he thought about the costs if he told Ino what was their conversation about. Ino has the right to know but I refuse to tell her, a part of me is a little bit petrified.

Ino looked at the clock once again and figured out it was almost 9 in the evening. Holy crap, she was asleep for almost 7 hours straight. To her utter surprise, Sasuke was sleeping beside her. It was the first time Ino saw him sleeping. He probably fell asleep waiting for her to wake up. Ino changed into her bathing suits, which were a purple two-piece (she loved purple), but she wore shorts cause she felt naked just wearing her bikini and she managed to put concealers to those hickeys.

"Should I wake him up?" Ino asked herself in a very low voice. "Of course!"

"Sasuke!" she shook him brutally. "Wake the hell up! It's already late!"

He opened his one eye and saw Ino, awake. He sat but his vision was still blurry. He was just a little kid and Ino thought he was so cute.

"Hey," Ino said. "Hurry up it's already nine!"

Sasuke looked at Ino and he saw what she was wearing; Sasuke was a liar if he would say she didn't look attractive in it, she looked good in it indeed. For a reason or two, no man in the campus would deny how beautiful she was – and how she carried herself and her sex appeal were just plain sexy.

That's why everyone in campus was awfully shocked when Shikamaru broke up with her, no one in the school (especially the guys) thought it was a smart move for Shikamaru to break up with gorgeous and vivacious lady as she always was.

"Hey!" exclaimed Ino. "Don't stare at me! Staring at someone is rude!"

"Yeah, whatever," Sasuke got up from bed and went to the bathroom.

It was kind of cold, she didn't think it would be somewhat cold tonight but she could manage. The beach was tremendous and the waves were justly big. It was dark indeed but she could care less because beside her was Sasuke, who was wearing an ordinary tee shirt and shorts, and she just felt safe when Sasuke was around.

"You know," Ino started as they walked side by side next to the beach. "I did regret what happened last night."

He didn't bother to reply. He understood why, they were not even really dating and they did that. What he didn't understand why was she smiling if she regretted it?

"But that doesn't matter to me anymore," she said honestly. "I got over it."

"I can see that," his face was blank as usual. "You got over it pretty quickly, don't you think?"

"Actually, I can't really see the big deal about it," she focused her orbs at the wet sand they were walking on. "To be honest, I didn't even feel any uneasiness towards you… in fact, I can joke around with you more…"

She was really different from the women that Sasuke had met, he liked the fact that Ino wasn't afraid to express herself to anyone and it amazed him how could she be herself all the time. She was not like his fan-girls who would try to be someone else just to catch his attention.

"I feel the same," he confessed. "I feel a little bit comfortable with you."

"Really?" Ino sounded so amazed. "But seriously though, why don't you pick one of your fan-girls to be your girl…"

Sasuke looked disgusted. "Is that an appalling joke?"

"No," she shook her head. "Not at all, I was serious when I asked you that. But you know, you might like someone out of all your fan-girls. There are many of them after all."

"Not at least a bit interested," was his response. "You are aware how annoying they are, right?"

"But that makes them a girl…" Ino rolled her eyes. "They want your attention… especially Karin and Sakura. They are dead serious about you."

"Everyone can tell that," Sasuke scowled. "And I am dead serious too if I say that they are the most annoying of all."

"You see, I'd dated a bit a lot of guys before I actually fell for someone," Ino inserted a gloomy smile. "The guys I'd dated before were all the same — all of them wanted to impress me but the guy I fell for, he was different… he was too lazy to impress me, he was not the most attractive guy that I dated, he was not even humorous and sweet. Something that felt great just hit me and I just woke up one day and realized that I love him. The bottom line is… try and try until you meet the girl you always want, you'll find her… I guarantee that."

He just nodded. "Do you think he's the guy you always wanted?"

"Perhaps," Ino tried to smile but the grief was visible to her eyes. "Though, it turned out to be that I am not the one he always wanted. It happened to be her… Temari."

Am I gonna tell her the truth? He asked himself on his mind.

"Ino, it's 11," Sasuke said, it had been 2 hours? Wow, that was fast. "We should go back now."

"But I haven't gone swimming yet!" Ino crossed her arms as she knitted her eyebrows. "Not fair!"

"It's cold," he reasoned. "Don't be stubborn; you'll catch a cold if you swim."

"Fine, you've won, I was defeated…" Ino half-heartedly sighed. "Let's go back."

They headed back to their room.

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"Change to your pajamas now," Sasuke ordered, to the fact she was still in her two-piece. "It's getting cold."

"Why Sasuke?" Ino gave her a teasing smile. "Don't you want me to sleep with you almost half-naked?"

"No," he looked at her directly in the eyes. Here they were again, playing around carelessly. "If you're going to sleep with me almost half-naked, don't bother… I prefer completely undress."

"Your sexual hormones… it is radiating again," Ino said but she was always aware that it was just a joke. She took out her sleeping attire, a shirt and sweatpants. "You gotta' keep those hormones low, buddy."

Ino started taking of the top of her two-piece in front of Sasuke. Sasuke's eyes had gone wider, was she really that serious about joking with him that she would actually strip off in front of him?

"I-Ino what do you think you're doing?" he asked trying to be cool and not sound so nervous. "That's not a good joke."

"Weren't you the one who told me that you prefer sleeping with me naked?" Ino seductively winked at him. Ino was seriously torturing him! "Actually, I was not kidding at all."

Sasuke gulped and even if he was trying not to blush, he could not help it that's why there was little shade of pink on his pale cheeks.

"Oh, I was just kidding about me sleeping with you naked," she said as she burst out laughing, then she stopped laughing. "But I wasn't kidding taking off this top in front of you."

"Y-You have to get hold of yourself, Ino," he stated as if he was not feeling so anxious, he turned his back from her so he could not see stripping. He wanted to see of course, but he was more egotistic than that.

"Why bother?" Ino asked, enjoying the fact that Sasuke was being afflicted because of her behavior. "Didn't you tell me not more than 24 hours ago that you have seen everything already? So why are you so afraid to look at me now, huh?"

"Jeez, Sasuke, you are a chicken after all," she mocked as she laughed again. "You can look now, I have finished putting on my clothes like long time ago."

He looked at her. She called him what? A chicken, which hurt his pride. He was a narcissistic kind of person.

"What did you say?" he was looking irritated. "…Do you dare saying that once again, Yamanaka Ino?"

"Sure," she smirked. "You are a chicken, Uchiha Sasuke."

"…Is that so?"

She nodded as her reply. Sasuke moved towards her and then he stopped when his face was two inches from hers. Ino raised her eyebrow, what was he going to do now? He held her chin and his lips crashed down to hers as he kissed her with burning infatuation. After a half a minute or so, he stopped and pulled out. Ino was just so shocked that she didn't know if she kissed back or not but she was sure of one thing… the kiss was great.

"So," Sasuke gave back the mocking smirk she just gave to him a moment ago. "How was that feel?"

She was speechless; she covered her mouth and looked at everything but him. That made him smile even more. Her reaction was priceless.

"What Ino?" he looked at her, looking so amused. "Do you want me to kiss you again?"

No response came from her. She was just avoiding his gaze and her heart was thumping like crazy.

"Did you forget your name, Ino?"

"I-I am g-going to s-sleep," Ino rushed lying down in the bed as she covered herself with the blanket. Why did she feel so awkward about it? Didn't they do much more things than that not even a day ago?

He's a jerk… a jerk that can kiss, Ino thought as she forced herself to sleep knowing that everything would be back to normal again tomorrow.