My Hopeless Family

Many thanks to Strawberries and Cream-chan for making me start writing this chapter. Also hugs and kisses to Shining Through, I loove our convos (Sorry I haven't been replying lately, i'm very lazy). And to my other reviewers, Miss Sassy Empress, fanpire329, and Ali871. And lastly, many thanks to Karin Ochibi-chan for letting me use her plot, and for giving me a wonderful review.

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'Yummm.' Thoughts

"Fooood" Talking

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, it belongs to Kishimoto-sama. Also part of this plot belongs to Karin Ochibi-chan-sama (Yes, you deserve a -sama to your name :P)

Out of all the dinners Sakura had been to, this was, by far, the most interesting.

It had all started out relatively calm. It wasn't until five minutes after all the food had been brought out that disaster struck. And the person to start all the chaos was a hyperactive, knuckle-headed blond. No, the person was not Ino (although she did contribute to the mess). It was Naruto.

But then again, everything started with Naruto.

"Where's the ramen?!" Naruto screeched in outrage when he saw there was none on the table.

Sakura winced and rubbed her ear. She had been unfortunate enough to end up sitting next to Naruto and Tobi, two of the loudest people at the table. Ino was on the other side of the table, smashed in between the two hot (yet antisocial) Uchihas, and she was loving every second of it.

Although the dreamy look on her face was nothing compared to her mom's. The woman was practically glowing with excitement. It was slightly creepy in a way. Sakura's left eye twitched uncontrollably as she watched her mother giggle over a pathetic attempt of a joke.

What did the police say to the crook?

We are very police to meet you.

'Haha. Very funny,' Sakura thought, 'Honestly. If he didn't have such good taste in chocolate I would never agree to this.'

Sakura shook her head. She would never be able to understand what her mom was thinking and vice versa. Her mom never understood any of Sakura's obsessions with anime, chocolate, and music. Sure, chocolate was good, especially during that time of month, but was there really any need to have wild fantasies about it? In Sakura's opinion, yes, but in Aiko's opinion that was creepy.

They sure had a lot of fun during those mother-daughter bonding sessions.

Sakura was brought out of her reverie when a pea grazed her shoulder. She stared at the pea on the ground for a couple seconds before looking across the table. Deidara looked sheepish as he apologized, "I meant to throw that at Naruto, un."

"Oh, ok," Sakura nodded.

She stared at the pea for couple more seconds and then proceeded to crush it with her foot, using all the force she could muster, 'HAHA! Take that you stupid pea!'

"What are you doing pretty lady?" Tobi asked, looking at the pile of green mush.

"It's a pea. No one likes peas. They're green and the opposite of chocolate," Sakura said, as if it were common knowledge.

"You're weird un," Deidara looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, yes I am. But at least I have good aim. See?" Sakura took the peas on her plate and, using her spoon as a catapult, launched it over the table. Each of the peas hit Deidara squarely in the face.

He glared at Sakura while he wiped his face with a napkin, "You shouldn't have done that, un."

"Why not?"

"Because then I would do this," Deidara took a handful of mashed potatoes and aimed at Sakura. Sakura 'eep-ed' and hid behind Tobi, causing him to be hit with the potatoes instead.

"TOBI IS A GOOD BOY!" He yelled getting the attention of every person at the table.

Aiko gasped. The rest of the invitees were not so kind. They smirked.

Tobi whimpered, "Good boys don't get hit by mashed potatoes."

"Ah, yes, but do you know what good boys do?" Sakura asked petting Tobi on the head, "They take revenge."

"Oh no... This can't be good," Ino muttered under her breath causing the Uchihas to quickly glance at her, "Sakura, don't.

"And here's how you do it," Sakura ignored Ino's warning and placed a drumstick in Tobi's hand. She maneuvered his arm into the right position to throw it.

"Now, aim and fire!"

Deidara closed his eyes waiting for the impact, but felt nothing. He opened his eyes and found every one staring at the person next to him, who was Kiba. Poor Kiba, had a red imprint of a drumstick on his forehead. He twitched and glared at Tobi. Ino and Sakura laughed as the others stared.

Naruto stood up and threw a handful of rice, "FOOD FIGHT!"

"HELL YEAH!"

Sakura jumped onto the table, followed by Naruto, Tobi and Kiba. The next couple minutes consisted a flurry of random food flying across the two sides of the table. Mashed potatoes, peas, broccoli, and squash flew everywhere. Ino, Deidara, and Aiko sprung under the table in order to protect their hair from the food. Neji, Sasuke, Itachi, and Gaara stared at the four clowns jumping on the table.

Sakura stopped jumping for a minute and glanced over to the end of the table, where the four boys were sitting. She dipped both hands into the stuffing and flung it at the two people closest to her. The whole room became quiet and everyone looked over to Itachi and Gaara. Itachi took a napkin and wiped his face, where Gaara just glared at Sakura. Dark auras radiated off the two of them.

"Uh... Sorry?" Sakura jumped off the table and awkwardly took a couple steps back. Gaara got out of his seat and walked menacingly toward Sakura.

"Ahaha... I didn't mean to. Well, actually I did, but you four looked so lonely over there. I thought you might want to join us, but I wasn't sure how to ask. So I threw the stuffing. I'm sorry, but at least I threw the stuffing and not the chicken, right? The chicken would probably hurt more, unless you got the stuffing in your eyes, then that might burn. But hey! At least you can wash the stuffing off easily. I mean, all you need is a towel and some water. And it should come off really easy. Most food here are really easy-" Sakura babbled.

"Shut. Up."

Sakura looked up to see Gaara's face a couple inches away from hers. His deadly glare was focused on her and his teeth were barred.

"I-I'm sorry! I know you're a sadistic panda and all, but can you please not hurt me. Or do anything bad. Becuase I just wanted you to have fun. Being a loner isn't a good thing. If you're a loner you have no friends-"

Gaara slighlty twitched at what Sakura said, "Out."

"-and no one cares about you, and...Huh?" Sakura stopped talking.

"Get. Out."

"Why?"

"Now!"

Sakura ran up the stairs and into her room. She slammed the door behind her and locked it. She collasped on the bed and took a couple of deep breaths.

'That was close. I thought he was about to kill me.'

Loud noises could be heard from down stairs, it was as if someone was breaking the silverware. Then, suddenly it got really quiet. Footsteps were heard, and the door slammed.

"WHAT THE HELL, UN! I DO NOT LIKE MASHED POTATOES IN MY HAIR!"

Sakura laughed as she walked across the room to pick up a picture frame. She gazed at it longingly before she let out a small smile.

She clutched the picture frame, "This family isn't too bad. There are some really interesting people. I wish you could meet them dad. I miss you.'

MERRY CHRISTMAS/HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I won't be able to update that quickly, finals are next month, and I'm screwed. So yeah.

OMGOMGOMG!! My friend got me a Naruto Episode Guide Book! I love it! It's soo cool. I share the same birthday as Ibiki XD. And I got a KH 2 T-shirt and OHSHC gel pens! SQUEE! I'm in heaven.

-cough- Sorry, my inner fangirl got out. I hope you all liked this chapter. It's been Beta-read by my friend xfoshizzle. Thanks Lori!

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P.S. Does anyone else have an obsession with Solitaire right now?