Naruto

Lucky Star

-

Chapter 12- Plum Pudding

Now, where was Neji you ask, while Sasuke was getting his pride burned into shreads?

Well, he was nowhere near sane for one thing, he was tracking down Tenten with the global position program. How a positioning chip got onto to her, he'd never say, but it sure did come in handy.

As he pushed through the crowds, he heard a familiar voice and cringed.

"NEJI! NEJI!" his other cousin, Hanabi, pulled on his sleeve, "What are you doing here?"

He stared down at her in her Akatsuki t-shirt, pen light, headband, and fan, "…I'm stalking after the girl of my dreams with a tracking device to steal her away from a sociopathic panda to profess my love."

"…" she nodded unfazed, "Ok then, have fun with that."

Once she dissappeared into the crowd, he resumed the hunt.

-

"Well," Itachi smirked, "What's it going to be?"

Sasuke continued his unblinking glare.

"tick tock, yo," Deidara tapped his watch, "You better decide quickly, yo. It's about time to start, yo."

Sasuke remained tensed.

The room was filled with tense silence. No one dared make a sound or a move. They only watched the two siblings silently fight it out.

Suddenly a phone rang, everyone glanced at each trying to find out who it was.

Sakura nervously laughed, "Sorry, that's my phone. Excuse me," she snuck away into the hall, avoiding all eyes.

"What is it," she hissed into the phone, "Neji? Where are you? Sasuke's about to lose his pride to his brot-" she paused, listening, "You what? Just stay there. DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID!"

She listened for a moment and then sighed, "Yes that means do nothing."

Sasuke sagged to his knees slowly. It was for Tenten. It was for Tenten, he mentally chanted to himself.

"Wise choice," the evil spawn called his brother said.

The door slammed open behind him and he could have sworn he heard wood crack, "Don't do a thing." He looked up to see Sakura holding a door with one hinge off, "Neji's about to do something stupid. Come on."

"Neji?" Ino tilted her head confused, "Isn't he-" she turned to the spot where he was supposed to be, "Ok, he's not here. Where is he?"

"With Tenten."

The other three groaned.

"How did he find her?" Ino asked exasperated, "And don't tell me with the power of love or fate and shit."

Shikamar sighed, "That would be the tracking device."

The room went silent again.

"It seems that the other sadistic twisted bastard has a good head on his shoulders," Itachi commented.

"Well, its not going to be on for much longer if the sadistic panda bastard gets to him first," Sakura snapped, "Sasuke, get of the floor and move it!"

Sasuke pride bent, shuffled out of the room muttering curses.

The rest followed out with Sakura adjusting the door so it would fit.

"Ah!" Deidara snapped, "Isn't that the girl?"

-

They snuck in past the guards. Actually, they walked through when they saw someone with the same aura as Itachi (though less sociopathic) and cringed at sight. After battling through girls who though Sasuke was Itachi, (it took some physical force from the double threatening force of Ino and Sakura to drive them away), they somehow found Neji.
"Actually, I planted a chip on him too," Shikamaru admitted.

"I'm not going to ask why," Sakura said, "But thank goodness."

"Hey Sasuke," Ino poked him on the shoulder, "You're not upset that you didn't get to lose your pride for a good cause are you?"

He glared at some girls staring at him, sending them into M ecstasy, "No." It was obvious that he was.

"That's alright," Ino sympathetically said, "You'll prove your man-ness one day. Just not today. It may not be tomorrow or the day after that, but one day you'll prove that you're actually a man. Not just a so proclaimed guy with a rather pretty face and no-"

They jolted when they heard a familiar scream that didn't sound like from joy or fangirlness.

Sasuke was more than glad to end the currrent line of conversation and ran towards the sound in a skipping girly man behavior. (Fine, it a normal kind of run, but it's fun making fun of Sasuke. Don't get me started on his hair.)

So back to the story, they ran, he skipped, and they came across the sight of the sociopathic panda hugging and the twisted bastard hugging. No, not each other. That would have been like seeing Itachi and Sasuke hugging happily.

Ino stared stunned, "Ok, I did not see this coming."

"If you had been watching, it would have been creepier," Shikamaru ruffled his hair, "Gaara actually looked sane for a moment."

Sakura was hyperventalating in the grip of the panda. Tenten, on the other hand, was in the grasp of the twisted bastard and confused, "I didn't know you guys were fans of Akatsuki."

"We're not," they all bluntly said at the same time, receiving some not so pleasant looks from other people.

Neji started patting Tenten from bun to bottom, "Are you alright? He didn't do anything, did he?"

"No," she said confused, "Is there something you guys aren't telling me?"

"Will you go out with me?"

Don't get too excited. You're about to be disapointed.

Sakura stared down at a kneeling Gaara, who had a lovesick hopeful expression on his face. He repeated again, "Will you go out with me?"

--

Our old friends, the Shadows were back.

"I'm impressed," the second shadow said, "You actually came up with some plan."

"I know," the first sighed happily, with headphones on, "I'm impressed with myself too. All I had to do was manipulate lost angsy souls!"

A moment passed.

"So what's your next step?"

"Let them react."

"Never mind," the second shook his head sadly, "I'm not impressed anymore."

"THANK YOU!" the first bowed and clapped for himself, "I am a romance genius."

"..." another long sigh was heard.

---

NinjaPower