I wonder about my sanity some days, but others I don't question it I just go with the flow.
Kyo~
Disclaimer: It's 3am and I blame all of you, but I don't own Naruto so eh...not important.
Warning: I still don't have an M.D in my name or title and I'm not Dr. Kyo. So don't take my medical terms or knowledge to heart. I'm just going with the flow. I have no idea. I'm guessing if I get it wrong...pretend I'm right :D
Also a side note for all who are wondering where the F I am... Well my internet was shut off, again, so thus why. I'm borrowing my cousins computer just to get this chapter up, but enjoy it because until our main computers fixed I won't have any more written out let alone have the internet to post anything. Also why I haven't ansered reviews or messages! Sorry I'll get around to it!
Chapter seventeen: Drunk on love. ( Don't be fooled by the title XDD)
Hokage tower:
Tsunade frowned as Jiraiya, who had been following Sakura for her new ' Pink' Icha Icha series, told him that thought Shikamaru was slowly noticing her affection toward Sakura, he wasn't doing anything in return. Shikamaru Nara wasn't making a move, the lazy Nara's, and Saku wasn't taking hints or ignoring them.
He was no doubt still holding back because of his own foolish honor. He was keeping honor to a childhood friend who had betrayed him in the worst possible way by bedding the woman Sakura had perhaps had feelings for, or at least lusted after. Shisui Uchiha.
Tsunade had never liked that shifty woman anyway, but Sakura apparently had. The woman reminded Tsunade too much of Kakashi and even his old teammate Jiraiya the silver haired woman sitting in the window of his office. Tsunade was however worried about his student. He didn't have many woman that he could chose from if he kept applying the rules of his honor and Nobility. If he waited too long, or kept up his kindness he wouldn't ever find a lover. He was always acting like everyone's best friend, and never like a man who needed lovers. He was too kind. It worried Tsunade for that reason. He wondered if he was asking the impossible out of his apprentice.
" Do you think this maybe to difficult a request of him 'Raiya?" Tsunade asked with a frown at his silver haired old teammate. The woman frowned softly.
" You mean to hard for him to find a lover within a month? Or to find lovers at all?" She asked in turn. Tsunade frowned harder.
" More then likely both, but the later. Do you think he is the type to even have a lover outside of missions?" Jiraiya thought about it then shook her head.
" He seems more like one to stay single more out of work then want, but yes. He doesn't seem the type to have a lover." Tsunade nodded to himself. That was always what he thought.
" We know however he's in love with Uchiha Itachi though." Jiraiya pointed out. Tsunade nodded again.
" That's right, of course. But...does he seem the type to go after her? He never has before. Who knows how long he's been in love with her." Jiraiya smirked.
" You can't forget that she's not exactly easy to capture in the first place." Tsunade rose a brow at her wording.
" Do you think he would have ever went after her had we not asked this of him?" Jiraiya frowned.
" I don't know. Probably eventually. Everyone who likes someone, eventually tries. Though the kid's unexpected. I can never see where he's going to go with things. He's unpredictable. I think since he was in love with her he would have tried all he could to have her, and if he couldn't he would stop trying but never stop loving." Jiraiya said with a smirk.
" He stopped his feelings for the younger Uchiha." Jiraiya frowned at that knowledge.
" You see unpredictable. But he was younger then, young love rarely works out in the future." Jiraiya would know, she had never gotten Tsunade, but she still had faith he would come around.
" Do you think he'll continue to chase after Itachi?" Tsunade asked curiously. Jiraiya nodded.
" Oh yeah. Now that it's a mission and he has to have lovers and eventual wives, he's going after her first. She's his first choice after all." Tsunade figured.
" The only other woman he's shown interest to is Shisui Uchiha, and Naruto, and Sasuke in the past." Tsunade added after a moment of thought. Who was there left he would actually go after?
" Kids got a thing for Uchiha's." Tsunade paused she had never thought of that...but yes he did. He liked all three of the current age appropriate Uchiha available. Or had liked Sasuke in the past.
" Even if he got over his Nobel ways, do you think he would take Shisui Uchiha as his lover?" Jiraiya frowned hard in thought she pondered.
" The kid is unpredictable...but...maybe. If he loves her...I don't think he would take her despite sleeping with his best friend if he only lusted after her. Besides having two Uchiha might make the clans upset in effect." Which was true but better Shisui then having the Elders get lovers for him.
" Do you think she would stay loyal to him in marriage?" Tsunade wondered. Jiraiya looked surprised then she pondered more. She had to seriously think this morning.
" Her character would say no..but I've seen the way she looks at him. I think she's in love with him. If she had a second chance I highly doubt she would cheat on him." Tsunade nodded taking her word as truth which made Jiraiya happy. It was good to be trusted so much. She wished he would trust her with his heart.
" What a love triangle." Tsunade joked softly. Jiraiya snorted.
" Good material isn't it?" She said with a grin. Tsunade rolled his eyes.
" Who else is there for him that's his type?" Tsunade wondered out loud hoping Jiraiya would think of someone but thinking himself as well.
" His type is older woman, there aren't few older woman in Konoha that is his type. Shisui and Itachi Uchiha, Shino Aburame, Sai, and Neji Hyuuga. If Shisui is out that that leave three." Tsunade nodded glad Jiraiya thought up it so fast, of course they had been over this before.
" Now who would be easily seduced?" Tsunade asked in turn. Jiraiya grinned.
" You mean...say ...in a month?" Tsunade smirked in turn but nodded at how Jiraiya understood him.
" Sai has spent time around the kid and his team in the past, but she a pawn for the Elders, she would probably be who the Elders chose, besides I doubt she would be easy to seduce when she's been in ROOT all this time." Which was true so scratch her.
" The Hyuuga would be equally hard to seduce. You know Hyuuga." Tsunade pointed out. Jiraiya snorted.
" Besides I've seen them interact, she doesn't think he's worthy of being a Shinobi let alone ANBU, she's the reasons they're suspended so much. She would be as difficult as Sasuke Uchiha and with the same personality type. Though he as like that type in the past." Jiraiya pointed out.
" Which leaves Shino Aburame." Tsunade said with a frown. Jiraiya nodded.
" I know the Aburame as soon as they figure out if their bugs will be able to coexist in the children of the pair, would send her to the kid. Whether or not the kid will want her is another thing. He doesn't have a choice much if he wants to chose himself, but he wouldn't have to seduce her at all. If her mother asked her to marry him she would simply ask him the such no seduction at all."
Tsunade shook his head in displeasure. He had nothing against the Aburame clan or Shino, but he wanted his apprentice with someone he loved, or at least chose himself, not someone the clan or elders tossed his way.
" It's times like this I wish the Hyuuga didn't like Naruto. That way Sakura could just chose her." Jiraiya made a barking sort of laughter.
" She would love that. I did notice the kid is...affectionate to her more then most. Of course he's just as...affectionate to Hinata Hyuuga." Jiraiya said with a sly grin. Tsunade rolled his eyes again.
" He's not gay. The Hyuuga is his best friend however, which is how I know Sakura will never go after Naruto regardless. At least with Shikamaru he has a chance to go after, but of course Shisui would then be available as well." Tsunade said with a wave of hand.
" Who's available that isn't his type?" Tsunade asked taking a large drink of Sake...he knew he was lacking something this conversation.
" That Lee girl. Chouji Akimichi, Kiba Inuzuka, and if your going outside the village, say in Suna, Kankuro and Gaara." Tsunade frowned. Like he said...not much of a choice there. Of course Sasuke Uchiha was still available, but he highly doubted Sakura would ever go back to her.
" Not much of a choice." Tsunade said with a long sigh and a long draw of Sake afterward.
" Maybe having the Elders send in Sai would be for the best." Jiraiya commented. Tsunade groaned.
" If he doesn't get a lover and consummate the relationship in a month they will."
" Do you think Sakura would sleep with Itachi so quickly even if he did catch her?" Tsunade pondered. Jiraiya shook her head immediately.
" He would marry her first, after all the Uchiha family kept her pure because she's the future head of the clan. He would marry her before he ever touched her sexually." Tsunade figured as much.
"He wants to seduce Itachi before he ever gets any other lovers." They both knew it.
" He needs to either hurry and capture her or else move on and come back to her later." Jiraiya frowned.
" The kids in love with her. She's the only one he even wants to 'capture'." Tsunade scowled softly.
" He's not even going to look for anyone else until he has her then." Tsunade said with a glare at his wall.
" You thinking what I am?" Jiraiya said with a smirk. Tsunade nodded grimly.
He was already no doubt suffering from the sexual tension. He's been the best at seduction missions, thus he's been sent on the majority, without them he's no doubt feeling the tension build. If they could just push him a little he would maybe attack some lucky woman and then he would be better off. Just how to get him to be pushed over the edge...within a month. They couldn't just wait for it to naturally happen it might take longer then they had with his strong control.
" Tell me 'Raiya, can you drug someone with out being caught?" Tsunade asked looking to his old teammate. Jiraiya's slow grin was obvious.
" Sweetie I can drug you while your watching and not get caught." The Sake that Tsunade at brought to his lips froze and he lowered it with a narrowed look at her grin.
" What type of drug we talking here?" Jiraiya asked as Tsunade lowered his drink back to the tabletop, just in case. Tsunade fished around in his desk for a moment tossing out folders and pushing papers out of the way and creating a mess to the floor, more of one at least, until he finally found what he was looking for inside a tiny vile. It held a greenish liquid.
" You'll have to add it in when he's drunk or else he'll tell by the color alone. I know he likes drinking Sake, which is clear. If he's drunk enough he won't even comprehended until it's too late." Tsunade said tossing the vile to his old teammate, who caught the vile one handed and turned it this way and that examining it with a raised silver brow.
" They're pheromones from the Inuzuka clan. We're testing them, but the Inuzuka have something in their blood that makes animals love them, and in turn the opposite gender as well. If we correctly contained the substance in this...it should up not only the pheromone levels in the test subject but the hormone as well, which should...push him that little bit." Tsunade said with a nod. Jiraiya frowned but nodded in surprise.
" If it works...that's brilliant." She looked impressed.
" Go test it." Tsunade said locking eyes with her. Her lips rose into a devastating grin.
" I like the way you think Tsuna." She said then with a flip of hair alluringly, she swayed out.
Tsunade looked at his entire bottle of Sake briefly before he tossed it for a sealed container. Better safe then sorry with Jiraiya after all. One can never be too sure with her.
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Elsewhere:
If I wasn't so bored I would have laughed to this." Saku said to Hina and Shika. His two best friends. Shika at his side snorted. She took a pull on her cigaret in which Saku glared at her for smoking. Shika ignored his glare. Hina laughed slightly. " Are you surprised Saku that I would ask you to a bar?" Hinata asked. Saku sent his violet haired friend a sour look.
" Your not Neji in Henge are you? Saku joked but looked him up and down to make sure. Shika snorted again.
" Like she would ever be seen with you more then strictly necessary." Shika commented knowing dang well Neji's feelings when Sakura Haruno came into the situation. Besides Shika was also In ANBU she saw first hand how Neji treated Saku. Saku grinned.
" Isn't that too true. So what prey-tell has Hina asking me to a bar of all places?" Saku asked in turn to his best friend. Looking into lavender eyes. He was slightly worried. The only reason anyone went to a bar was to party or to drink away a bad day. Saku knew all to well how many bad days there were in his own life, but Hina? What would cause his shy loveable non- drinking unless necessary, friend to drink? Because he was sure there was any party's planned.
Hina fidgeted and avoided his eyes for a long moment in which Saku knew it was a bad day sort of thing then a party. Something had happened in his best friend 's life that upset him.
" M..Mother suggested Kiba-chan as a lover...but if I said yes to the proposal I could see Naruto-chan." they all knew that Hiashi didn't want her son anywhere near Naruto Uzumaki as a lover or future anything, but only allowed it to appease her son, now she wanted back in control. Saku's steps slowed and eventually stopped altogether at those words. Hina looked back and stopped as well as Shika.
" Seriously?" He asked with a deep set frown. Hina walked back to his best friend and put a hand to his shoulder in attempt to tell him it was alright.
" Have you spoke to Kiba?" Shika asked since their companion seemed upset and Hina wasn't talking.
" I'm going to talk to Kiba-chan and her parents tomorrow with mother in the Inuzuka compound." Which meant since Hina had agreed Hiashi was of course jumping into an arranged marriage.
" Are you actually...for yourself considering it?" Saku asked concerned his friend was being pushed into the same situation he himself was already in. He hated his own mission, but he wouldn't let the same thing happen to Hina. If he wasn't happy, then Saku would make sure he was no matter what it took. Hina patted Saku's shoulder once again and then let go, touched at his concern.
" Mother would never allow me only one wide. She's convinced since she had two male children we would have male children as well." Saku was even more displeased. It was the same situation. His face shut down and Hina shook his head as his best friend.
" It's not the same Saku. It's only Kiba-chan not more." Hina said trying to calm his friend before he burst and did something drastic like demand the Hyuuga clan head to leave him alone or something.
Shika tossed her cigaret bud in the silence to the ground and rubbed it out with the toe of her boot. She had her hair grow out so it was more wave then spike but in the same pineapple style. Saku always had liked woman with longer hair, though hated it on himself for obvious reasons.
Shika knew Saku was angry Hina was being forced into a similar situation he himself was being forced into. Saku was always protective of his best friend the Hyuuga. Everyone wondered about Saku's protectiveness. They had a poll going even in the village whether or not Saku is gay for Hina or not.
Hina put hand hand back on his friends shoulder again and slowly Saku started to relax as they communicated through eyes, Shika couldn't understand any of it, but she was curious. They started walking again after.
" Kiba is better then a stranger." Shika commented trying to help ease the situation. Shika pulled out another cigaret to light before they had to go into the non-smoking bar. Before she could even raise it to her lips Saku moved incredibility fast and snatched it out of her lips and crushed it to dust. His eyes were displeased at her, she felt almost reprimanded before she pulled out another purposely. Saku glared but ignored her habits for now, in favor of looking to his best friend.
"Yes, but are you considering it? There are other women. I would hate for you to take Kiba as yours when your old teammates." Shika snorted again interrupting them. Saku and Hina sent her a curious look.
" Just because you've never seen your teammates as lovers, besides Sasuke when you were younger, doesn't mean the rest of us haven't." Shika commented off hand. Saku rose his brows.
" Have you Shika?" Saku asked wondering if she really did favor Ino like he always thought she had. She snorted.
" Yeah I've got the hots for Chouji." She said sarcastically after blowing out a ring of smoke. Saku snorted in turn and shook his head at her.
" She's right...look at Lee-chan she has a crush on Ten and your teammates...love you. Besides Ino-san loves Shika-chan." Saku frowned but figured Hina was right.
" I see your point but I see my teammates as siblings. For me it's incest." Saku said in turn. Hina fought a smile and Shika snorted once more then let out of puff of smoke into the night air. The were at the bar and so she took another long pull before she dropped it and snubbed it out with her shoe again.
" I've never seen Kiba-chan as a lover but I don't find it offensive." Hina admitted. Saku nodded slowly. That was enough for him.
" Tonight drinks are on me." Saku announced hugging Hina one armed as they walked into the bar. Shika rolled her eyes as Saku tossed an arm around her shoulders as well. It felt good to be someone he felt comfortable enough to touch let alone joke around with. She felt warmth from not only his arm around her shoulders as they walked into the bar.
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In the bar:
it was heartwarming to see three close friends from completely different teams together getting fall off your ass drunk. Jiraiya decided this as she mixed the liquid into a glass of Sake at her solo table deep within the bar, out of sight. When she mixed it well, adding the whole vile, not sure how much to put in since Tsunade didn't say either way how much, she then handed the drink to the male barkeep who had come to her table at her crooked finger in his direction.
She smiled a seductive smile at him in turn as he took the drink to the all too trusting pink haired Shinobi, who downed the glass as soon as the barkeep gave it to him, with out tasting or looking into the glass at all.
Jiraiya grinned behind her own glass as she pocketed the empty vile. Step one complete. She settled herself down and watched as she collected research. This kid was her new muse after all.
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An hour later, Bar:
" Why are you torturing yourself?" Itachi asked her older cousin Shisui, as they sat at the bar watching Saku Haruno, and his friend the Hyuuga and Shikamaru Nara, her fifth in command, get drunk at the bar. Itachi rose the Sake glass to her lips and wondered for the millionth time why she even bothered to allow her cousin to drag her places at all anymore, let alone when she wanted to stalk their teammate, friend, and her own third in command.
Her companion at the table, and partner, and cousin, simply watched at her side the pink haired male. Six or more years her junior and she had a rabid fascination with him. Itachi would never understand it.
" part habit, part curiosity. He's still acting stranger then usual. He was really hurt by it." In which she meant her sleeping with his friend since childhood. Her eyes were confused. Itachi sighed softly in turn.
Leave it to Shisui to fall in love with someone and then ruin her own chance by sleeping with the wrong guy. That's sexual promiscuity zero, Chasity a million and one.
" Besides I'm curious about the Nara." Itachi's brows went up a tiny bit.
" What about her?" Shisui scowled at her in turn.
" The Nara clan gave her to Saku. They spend a lot of time together, but he rarely touches her." Shisui said with a frown.
" We've been over this." Shisui said. Itachi rolled her eyes.
" They're friends Shisui." Itachi pointed out. Shisui scoffed.
" True, but she's been glancing his ay all night. She's curious maybe attracted. He's avoiding it. Probably because his rules and Ino Yamanaka."
You would think since they slept together she would just call him Ino. Itachi thought mentally with a shake of head. Everyone seemed curious about Saku Haruno now a days.
Saku was her friend, she was curious sure, but she classified him as a friend and thus not someone to get into his private life. He was the only male friend she had, and more so he didn't fear her reputation and she hadn't scared him away by her personality. Saku respected her, she knew, and maybe...she was at almost sure...he flirted with her sometimes. She couldn't tell however she never had someone flirt with her like that.
She was intrigued as to what he was doing. Was he flirting? Or was she just putting weird things into her mind because she hoped he was interested in her? She frowned down into her Sake glass and narrowed her eyes. Why would she hope that? He must actually be flirting then.
As she watched the Haruno silently she noticed something odd...his body was starting to grow tense. His heartbeat speed and his eyes dilated. She frowned as she watched his nostrils flare and his eyes dart around in obvious puzzlement. Something was very wrong, and her companion noticed it as well. Of course his drinking partners were too drunk to notice his odd behavior.
" Something's wrong." Shisui said out loud as if Itachi hadn't noticed before.
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End chapter:
Lol Probably noticed this chapter is one page too short ne? Well couldn't be helped. I wrote this entire chapter and then some out on paper in a notebook and got around to write it into this story at last, finally got to a point in the fic where I could add this lol, but I realized I could break it into more then one chapter if I cut if off a little short, so I did :D Thus you at least get a few more chapters before I run out of written material! Lol.
You guys might get mad at me, because I think our internet is going to get shut off again soon, I don't know how long, but if so you might not hear from me in a while, let's all hope it doesn't ne? Or at least doesn't last too long ne? Because I know you would all kill me if I took longer then a few weeks to update. You might find where I live and strangle me in my sleep or something. D:
So I'll so what I can! But some things I don't have the power to stop! We shall see! Hope that by the time we get to this chapter posted we never got it shut off or it got back turned on ne? :D
Also I didn't get to edit it so sorry. Live with it.
Anyway! Till then!
Kyo~