Chapter Five- Assumptions
Hinata had returned a few moments later with a couple towels for Naruto. He took them and began to walk off down the hall.
"Where're you going?" I questioned my brother.
Naruto turned back to look at me. "Well these towels won't be much use if I'm in wet clothes. I'll be right back."
With that Naruto continued down the hall. I got a sinking feeling in my stomach, and it was unfortunately proven correct when Naruto walked out a couple minutes later in nothing but his boxers and the towels.
Tenten stuffed her face into a pillow and muttered something about burning her eyes, I think Hinata was about to faint from embarrassment, and I gave Naruto my best "what the hell do you think you're doing" look.
"Naruto, you idiot; what's your problem!?" I yelled.
"But nothing's dry…even my boxers. I'd take them off too—"
"Don't even go there!" I quickly interjected. "Just…just…put some pants on or something!"
"Ah, don't be such a girl, Sakura." Naruto stated.
"Hard not to when I am one, but it's not me I'm worried about. I'm worried about Tenten and Hinata!" I retorted.
A look crossed Naruto's face that made it appear as though he just realized another girl and his girlfriend were in the room, too. He started to wrap the towels tighter.
"S-Sorry girls," Naruto stammered. "Neji…you got any more pants I can borrow?"
"The first pair belonged to uncle…and you just got them soaking wet…I swear, if you mess up one more pair of pants I'll throw you out." Neji growled.
"Hey, don't blame me, blame Teme! He's the one who came up with the dare!" Naruto responded.
Neji shot a small glare to Sasuke, who didn't seem to accept or deny that Naruto being in his boxers was partly his fault, and then Neji stood up to help Naruto again. He muttered things under his breath like "I should hurt you now for ruining the first pair you…" and the two disappeared down the hall.
"I'm really sorry about that, girls." I apologized. "You know how Naruto is."
"I-It's alright." Hinata stammered.
"I guess it's alright by me," Tenten stated, "but I don't think Hinata should see something like that until she's ready to jump in bed with him!"
Hinata flushed red. "T-Tenten…I-I—"
"There's still a guy here, you know." Sasuke announced.
All three of us turned our attention to him. I think all of us kind of forgot about him.
"Don't worry, I bet Sakura's already seen you in your boxers." Tenten giggled.
My face grew extremely hot, and I thought I saw some color light up Sasuke's face, too.
"Tenten," I growled, picked up the nearest pillow, and brought it down on her. Tenten jumped up and started to run; I chased after her.
"Note that she doesn't deny it!" Tenten laughed as I smacked her repeatedly with the pillow.
"It's not like that!!" I shouted.
"It's alright, Sakura, we get it, we get it!"
Thump-thump!
Tenten and I both fell to the ground. "Great balance." I muttered.
"I should say the same to you." Tenten replied from under me.
"Okay, okay, I think that's enough." Sasuke stated; we looked up to see him above us. At that moment Naruto and Neji walked in, and Naruto burst out laughing.
"What happened here? Did Sasuke win in wrestling or are Neji and Teme being cheated on?" Naruto chortled.
Tenten and I looked at each other, nodded our heads, stood up, and approached the blond that laughed profusely.
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From upstairs you could hear bangs and muffled yells. Tenten and I sat in our chairs with triumphant smiles on our faces.
"Did you seriously need to lock him in a closet?" Neji questioned.
"Hey, it's quieter." I stated.
At that moment my phone rang. I checked the caller ID and frowned.
I flipped open the phone. "What is it, Naruto?"
"It's dark in here." He answered from the other side.
"Too bad for you," I replied.
"And it's dusty, too, and I think I—eeepp!" Naruto shrieked.
I had to pull the phone from my ear. "What the hell, Naruto?"
"There's a spider!! And it's really big!! Yah, die, die, die, die!!" Several thumps were heard from the phone, and they could also be heard from upstairs.
I waited for the bangs to subside until I put my ear back to the phone. "Naruto…?"
I heard him as he panted. "It's…alright…pant…it is dead. The world is safe."
"Great to hear, you're still not getting out. Have fun with the spider guts." I responded and hung up before he could say anything else.
"You're brother's a nut, you know that?" Tenten stated.
"I know, but he's the nut I have to deal with. Consider yourselves lucky; unless you're Hinata of course."
"O-Oh, I don't mind." Hinata responded.
"And that's why you're perfect for him, Hinata." I stated. "You're probably the only person alive with the patience to deal with him for the rest of your life."
Hinata blushed and looked down at her hands in her lap.
"And hey, consider this," Tenten announced, "at least we know he's faithful. We know he's not gonna be with you one night and some other chick the next while still dating you."
"Well…you're probably right. Not everyone gets a faithful boyfriend." I agreed.
"Well what about me?" Sasuke suddenly interjected.
"Uh…" I stammered. My conversation with Ino went through my head again. "Oh…I'm sure you are."
An awkward silence fell between all of us. At least until Naruto started to scream from upstairs something about the spider from before cloning itself.
"Should you let Naruto out?" Tenten inquired.
"Uh…yeah…maybe I should…." I nodded and stood up.
I reached the closet and opened it to find an extremely relieved Naruto.
"Sakura, finally, I thought I was gonna be bit by the spiders and die!!" Naruto cried.
"Yeah, yeah, don't get too overdramatic, Naruto. I'm pretty sure there are no poisonous spiders in this house." I huffed.
Naruto nodded his head and started down the stairs. He looked back at me, I hadn't moved yet. "Are you coming?"
"In a moment…." I answered.
Naruto gave me an odd look, shrugged his shoulders, and walked down the stairs. I stared down at the ground and thought about what had just happened before Naruto started to scream about spiders. I knew my answer probably arose some suspicion, but it did catch me off guard. I just hoped that no one paid any real attention to it.
"Are you just going to stare at the ground for the rest of the night?"
I jumped in surprise and whipped my head around frantically. My eyes landed on the one who had unknowingly caused my state of worry, Sasuke.
"Frick, Sasuke, you scared the hell out of me!" I stated.
"Sorry…I didn't expect that you were spacing out so bad." Sasuke replied.
"…Why are you up here?" I questioned.
"To talk to you," he answered.
I opened my mouth to question him further, but he suddenly dragged me down the hall and into a room. He closed the door and then pinned me against it.
"I'd say this almost reminds me of the last sleepover if we weren't already together and I hadn't seen this in a horror movie before." I declared without thinking, and then averted my gaze.
Sasuke obviously caught the moment where I looked away and his eyes narrowed. "What is wrong with you?"
"What…you think something's wrong with me. No, nothing's wrong, nothing at all." I clarified.
Sasuke looked as though he held back a smirk. "You really suck at lying to me, you know that?"
"Well I'm sorry if my lying skills are so suck-ish."
Sasuke huffed in an aggravated tone. "Will you just tell me what's bugging you? It's really starting to bother me seeing you like this."
I looked down at the floor and closed my eyes. I debated on whether or not I should question him. My problem was that I didn't know if he'd tell the truth about if he was cheating on me or not, but with how pestered he seemed I doubted he'd be able to lie without me getting a hint.
I swallowed my worry and finally looked Sasuke straight in the eye.
"During that call I got from Ino earlier…I heard something…and I want you to answer me truthfully…."
Sasuke seemed curious as to what the subject could possibly be.
"Are you…cheating on me…with Karin?"
Cruelly that's all for now! I'm just glad I finally got this out! Well…the next chapter is the last one, and HOPEFULLY it'll come out much faster. I actually know what I'll do for the last chapter so I guess it should. (I already got quite a few things played out in my mind.) Alright…hope you people enjoyed this! I'm really sorry this took so long! I had no ideas and I was working on other things so…yeah…but the good news is someone finally voted on my poll and so I'm working on a new one-shot. Hopefully I can get the last chapter and that story out. (Oh, to let you people know, some of the choices on that poll do lead to multi-chapter stories.) Well…that's all for now…more later!!