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Chapter 5: LET THE LOVE FLOW

Love is like catsup in a glass catsup bottle. You have to spank it on the ass many times in order to make the thick, sweet lovin' flow.

It was a lovely morning in Konoha. The sun was shining. Birds were singing. Children were playing.

Sai slowly opened his eyes to find… 'Eh? This ceiling… and *sniff sniff* wait, this smell… How the hell did I get here?' thought Sai.

His entire shinobi career made him acquainted with a certain environment known as the Konoha Hospital. 'There's no mistaking that white ceiling and the strong antiseptic smell.' thought Sai. Sai tried to get out of bed.

"ITAI!"

The pain coursed throughout his body was so strong that it broke his usual emotionless demeanor.

He looked down. He saw that along with his already broken left arm, his legs were in a cast and his chest was heavily wrapped in bandages. Using his uninjured hand, he touched his head and felt that a significant part of it was bandaged. "Ouch!"

Trying to ignore the piercing pain in various body parts, he closed his eyes and tried to recall how the hell he got himself into this predicament.

It was a week after Sai pulled off the "I-happened-to-be-in-the-neighborhood-and-decided-to-check-up-on-you-as- an-excuse-to-stalk-you" stunt. Sakura has not seen nor heard from that pale skinned artist in a while. With the stress and sheer craziness involving a medical ninja's life and being the Godaime's apprentice, she forgot that episode until that morning, 6 am right on the dot.

Sakura woke up to find Sai in the kitchen, clad in her frilly pink apron, setting up the table for breakfast.

'Woah. De ja vu much'

"Ohayo" greeted Sai with his usual smile as he set down the food.

"What are you doing here?"

"Sit. Eat. Or the food's gonna get cold"

She looked on the table and was mildly impressed by what she saw. Bacon omelette. French toast. Black coffee.

But what intrigued her most was the catsup-written message on the bacon omelette.

"Gomenasai." Sakura read.

Sakura smiled at Sai and said "Apology accepted. Provided that you teach me how to cook these things."

"Hai." Sai said.

This arrangement went on for the next few days. Not only did he teach her how to make omelettes and French toast, everyday he would introduce a new dish for her to try. Poached eggs. Chocolate rice porridge. Grilled cheese sandwiches. Garden Fritatta. Fruit salad.

"Eh?! No way! You don't know how to make onigiri?!" teased Sai

"Urusai!" shouted Sakura.

"You're burning the cheese!" exclaimed Sai

"I know what I'm doing..Shannaro! " said Sakura 'I think' she added.

Before she knew it, she learned to make a lot of recipes, which would make her parents in Heaven proud. Finally her diet had become more varied and healthier.

Though they were comfortable with each other's presence as they work together in Team Kakashi, throughout the course of her "cooking lessons", Sakura started to open up more to Sai. Not before long, Sakura unconsciously looks forward to these "cooking lessons" so that she could vent out her frustrations and other miscellaneous thoughts to Sai. Sai would likewise respond with a "Hn", "Aa", "Aa sou ka" and the like, to show that he was listening.

One morning…

As Sakura prepared the ingredients, she automatically began to rant to Sai.

"Shannaro! For the love of Kami-sama! Tsunade-shissou is working me to the bone! She's making me do all the reports in the hospital. Not to mention that this week alone, I did 20 major surgeries! Not five. Not ten. But twenty! But thank Kami those three, you know, the ones on your ANBU team, are making good progress. *Sigh* Konoha is sure getting a lot of high rank missions these days. Shannaro! We send them out strong and healthy and we get them back beaten to an inch of their goddamn lives! Don't get me wrong. I love being a medical shinobi, but Kami knows I need a break. And Ino-pig keeps going on about how I let myself go physically and how I should clean up so I could have a decent chance to snag a decent guy. I mean, I'm quite aware of how I look, ne?"

"Cute".

"Yeah, I know ri-… What did you say?!" Sakura said as her head whiplashed towards Sai so fast that it nearly broke her neck.

Tip #7: Always tell your beloved how cute they are.

Tip #8: Show that you care

"It's cute how you think I'm listening and think I care about whatever nonsense you're saying. And It worries me that you are such a stupid, ugly bitch."

"TEME! DIE! SHANNARO!"

Knock. Knock.

"Sorry for the intrusion. I'm coming in. Time for your afternoon check-up"

His train of thought was broken by the sudden intrusion.

"Hai. Eh? Ugly?"

True enough, five veins immediately popped into her head and chakra surged into her tightly clenched fists, nearly breaking Sai's medical charts.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY, TEME?!"

"Uhm nothing…i.. uhm…I… " Sai gulped as he racked his brains for something to say, to pacify the raging monster named Haruno Sakura.

Tip #9: Let your beloved know that your feelings run deep

"I miss you"

And just like that, Sakura's jaw and Sai's medical charts hit the floor. Her eyebrows shot up to the ceiling. And for what seemed like an eternity (but in reality was only 3 seconds), she stared at Sai as if he were a ghost.

"I miss you so much when we're apart. Maybe we should be apart more often"

"SAI-TEME!"

"As their tongues clashed for dominance, his hands skillfully caressed her breasts, which earned a surprised and seductive moan from his mysterious lover. His hands then traveled lower to the waistband of her panties. He slowly tugged them down. And behold in front of him in all its wondrous, feminine glory…"

BAM!

"What the hell was that?!" Kakashi exclaimed as he closed his Icha Icha Tactics book and revealed his Sharingan.

The dust cleared, revealing the intruder to be...

"Eh? Sai?"

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