COMPLETELY REWRITTEN: 1/30/14
TADA! Chapter 7, i'm actually really proud of this chapter, I liked writing it and I really hoep you enjoy reading it, well see you at the end! :3
Declaimer: I do not own Naruto or SHINee (I know…life sucks -_-)
Future me: Hello there.
"Morning! Hey! Good morning girls!"
all fives girls turned around and stopped on the school's front porch steps, while other students pass by to get in the school and out of the cold.
Naruto rushed up to them, smiling.
"Thanks again for yesterday girls! I don't know what I would have done without you!"
The guys looked at each other in confusion.
He could have easily thought of something had he given it thought.
"No problem! It looks like you guys needed our help anyway," Ino winked.
The girls laughed together as Naruto smiled shyly while the guys narrowed their eyes at them.
Naruto shrugged and looked to Hinata instead.
"Hey Hinata! You want me to walk you to class?" he asked sweetly.
She blushed and turned away, "T-that's alright Naruto, you don't have to do that,"
"It's no trouble at all!" he beamed. Before she could respond he took her hand and rushed inside.
The boys looked at each other in confusion again.
Normally in the past any girl he dated would have had to ask him to do something along those lines. He and Hinata weren't even dating.
"Guess that's our cue to get inside too," Sakura said. They began walking inside the building to get out of the winter cold.
"Tenten, wait..." Neji said abruptly, stopping her by taking her hand while everyone else walked to class, talking.
"Yeah...?" she asked slowly, not turning around to look at him.
"I want to talk to you about the party," he said as he let go of her hand.
"Yeah it was fun! I had a good time, thanks." she said tonelessly.
"You know what I mean," he said coldly.
She turned around and faced him, giving him a weak expression.
"Neji, I don't really wanna talk about it. If you want we can just forget it ever happened. That's what you want, isn't it...?" she asked.
"That's not what I was going to sa—"
"Morning baby," Ami cooed as she stepped up and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Excuse you," she said harshly towards Tenten. "Did you need something?"
"Or were the two of you actually talk—"
"No. It's cool, I was just leaving," she smiled bitterly. With nothing more, she turned and walked.
~*A.H*~
"It's been one date Ino-pig! Leave it alone!" Tenten heard the sound of Sakura's voice as she stepped into the classroom.
"I'm just saying, you two have been talking an awful lot Hina, does this mean you're going out?"
Hinata burned as red as a tomato and looked down, "I-I don't know what you're talking about!" she said quietly as Tenten sat with them.
"Then why are you stuttering again?" Megami tilted her head to the side.
"I-I was n-not!" she protested. The girls giggled.
"What are you guys talking about?" Naruto asked excitingly as he sat in front of them.
"hey Uzumaki, are you and Hinata gonna keep going out?" Tenten asked.
"T-Tenten!"
Naruto smiled, "That's up to Hinata," he looked over to her with hopeful eyes.
"I-It's only been one date..." she said quietly.
"Then that means I have to take you on another one!"
Her eyes widened, "You d-don't have to!" she said nervously waving her hands.
"No really! I want too! how about Fridays away game?" he asked, bouncing. "Or would you rather have dinner in Paris? Go on a boat ride in Italy? Maybe go shopping in Lond—"
"The football game is perfectly fine, thank you." she said smiling up at him.
He clapped his hands together, "great!" he said then stood up, "we can talk about it later!" he called, waving.
"I'll take that shopping spree!" Ino called, the girls laughed in turn.
"No wonder those five bitches are so clingy and crazy about them..." Sakura rolled her eyes.
~*A.H*~
"Alright guys! We've got two days until the game so if we really put some effort in today, we can relax a little bit tomorrow!" she yelled.
The boys nodded and got up and headed to practice. Megami was the only one not in uniform. She sat in her fit dark orange jeans, yellow t-shirt and yellow and orange hat with her white coat on.
She sat down on the bench and watched them practice. Noticing, Sasuke walked up to her, partially in uniform.
"Why aren't you dressed? We have practice," he said coldly.
"I can't, Ino told me we have to go Christmas shopping today, and you know I can't argue with her when it comes to shopping," she shrugged.
He smirked, "you do know tomorrow I'm going to work you extra hard then, right?" he asked.
Suddenly they heard a car horn from the left. She stood up and twisted around and saw Ino's car and the rest of the girls inside. Ino honked again and waved for her to hurry up.
She smiled and picked up her bag, "I figured that…anyway, that's my ride. Catch you later Uchiha," she said, waving as she walked off.
~*A.H*~
"I want it! Gimmie gimmie gimmie!" Megami bounced, her face against the glass as she stared at a long line of sparkling teddy bears.
"Megami, for the last time you have enough stuffed animals. Look for something else." Sakura rolled her eyes.
Megami pouted as she lifted herself up. The girls stood in Konoha's super mall, having been walking around for an hour, Christmas shopping.
Megami walked around with Sakura, while Tenten and Hinata walked around, and Ino went off on her own.
"What are we supposed to get the guys? Don't they basically have everything?" Sakura asked as they continued walking through the fully decorated mall while Christmas music and lights flashed.
Each girl had selected a boy to buy a present for. Ino to Shikamaru. Sakura to Gaara. Megami to Sasuke. Tenten to Neji. and Hinata to Naruto.
"Maybe Ino should get Shikamaru a pillow," Megami snickered.
"I'm serious you doofus," Sakura rolled her eyes.
Megami shrugged, "I don't know. What do you get rich kids?"
Sakura smiled to herself as both girls giggled.
"More rich kid stuff."
~*A.H*~
"welcome Ame and Konoha high students to championship game of the football season! Everyone! Please enjoy yourself!" the announcers voice came.
All girls, both Konoha and Ame high, sat in sweaters and small coats, while their uniforms had pantyhose to keep them warm.
"Oh hey! There's Megami!" Ino yelled then stood up as the girls sat with the four members of Omega. "HI MEGA—"
"Sit down Ino-pig!" Sakura yelled pushing her down, "no one's supposed to know she's a girl!" she whispered.
"Oh right, forgot," Ino said sitting up.
They looked down and saw Megami wave to them dumbly, they waved back and gave a thumbs up for good luck.
"let's go Sharks! Let's go!" the Ame cheerleaders danced in their gray and white uniforms.
"Come on Dragons take'em down!" the Konoha cheerleaders chanted in blue and white. Both teams with uniforms that did nothing to shield the winter cold.
"you call that cheerleading?" Ino scoffed, " you know damn well I could do better than that!" she said to Tenten and Sakura while Hinata and Naruto talked. "I can't wait to see what they have for half time," she said, disgusted.
As Ino and Sakura were coming back from getting drinks at the snack bar, they noticed a few members of the Ame high cheer squad whispering and looking back and forth to them.
They turned to them and glared at the familiar girl in front of them.
"Ino…Sakura, it's so nice to see you again," Meki said smugly.
"what do you want Meki?" sakura growled.
"And since when are you a cheerleader?" Ino grimaced.
"well since Nami moved away someone had to take over the role of head cheerleader," she giggled bitterly.
"But it looks like you aren't a cheerleader Yamanaka. Aw, didn't make the cut?" she said pitifully. The two cheerleaders behind her giggled so Sakura glared at them, forcing them to stop.
"For your information Meki. I didn't even try out, it doesn't matter, Konoha high's squad is gonna take you down anyway," Ino growled.
Meki scoffed, "I'm so sure they will. With the looks of that squad that'll be a show. The only good thing about this school is that Omega goes here! Other than that it's chock full of losers." she said, her chin up as they all glanced to Konoha's squad.
"We'll be seeing you," she cooed as she
"There's no way in hell I'm gonna let her get the better of me!" Ino growled, grinding her teeth.
When she saw one of Konoha's cheerleaders walking by she jogged over to her.
"Hey! What are you guys doing for half time?" she demanded to know.
The girl frowned and shrugged, "not much. Just a few lame chants. Karin and Ami were so busy fawning over Omega, they cancelled most of the practices, and the ones we did have they didn't do anything but argue and text on their phones. So, this is all we've got," she said.
Ino scoffed again, " That's awful! Do you think you can distract Karin and Ami for me? It'll help the squad," Ino said firmly.
"If it gets us a better routine, yeah," she said.
Ino nodded, "good, do you have any extra uniforms?"
"hey Karin! Sasuke said he wants to talk to you! He says it's super important! I think he wants to get back together!" the girl whispered dramatically to Karin who was fixing her make-up.
She gasped then smiled wildly, "ah! I knew he would come around!" she squealed, then began rushing to the boys locker room.
She smiled to herself as she took a few steps over to Ami who was texting.
"hey Ami, there's this guy at the front of the school. Says he wants to see you, he says he's from some modeling agency or something." the girl said to ami
"No way!" she squealed, rushing to the front of Ame high.
The girl turned and smiled evilly, then looked to Ino and Sakura who stepped out in Konoha high's uniform, which consisted of a blue and white long sleeved tight shirt that just barely reached their bellybutton, with a blue and white mini skirt and silver pom poms with blue at the end of each tip.
She gave them a thumbs up and Ino smiled.
"Let's take these bitches down."
As Ame high performed, Ino spoke to the rest of the group.
"Alright girls for this half time you're going to follow Sakura and I! Don't worry about not knowing the moves were about to do, you'll catch on! We're going to put Konoha high on the map," she said confidently. The girls nodded excitingly.
She turned to Sakura, "hey, you remember that routine my mom showed me that I used for Hollaback Girl in middle school?" she asked. Sakura smiled and nodded.
"Do you guys know where Sakura and Ino are? They've been gone for a while," Tenten asked, looking at her watch.
"Ino told me to tell you they were taking over half time," Hinata smiled, watching the field with Naruto.
Tenten rolled her eyes, "why am I not surprised..."
Everyone clapped as Ame exited the field after finishing their routine. When the claps died the field lights dimmed, everyone looked around in confusion in the near darkness.
Suddenly the marching band started to play and they heard singing. A light suddenly came on the middle of the field where Ino, in a Konoha cheerleading uniform stood singing. A second later another light came, revealing Sakura who began to sing.
As the chorus of Hollaback Girl played all the lights came back on, revealing the entire cheer squad and the band. The girls soon began to dance, and just moments later, the rest of the squad was following along in in sync as the song continued.
The crowd went wild as the girls finished the song with a standing pyramid, Ino proudly on top.
They came down and rushed to the girls locker room as the cheering continued.
"That was awesome!" the girls squealed.
"Thanks guys! You're lifesavers!" a girl said.
The others nodded in agreement.
"It's too bad cheer season is over for football! We could have used you guys in all our other games, we never really worked all Karin and Ami did was obsess over the boys, not that that's a bad thing, but they would brag about it too and never teach us a thing," one girl said.
"You guys are welcome! I was totally happy to help!" Ino said as she and Sakura changed.
"Later, " Sakura said as they walked out.
~*A.H*~
Megami chuckled as she watched the girls rush back to Ame's locker room, cheering with the rest of the team.
"Alright, we're back in guys!" she called.
"1-2-3 DRAGONS!" they chanted, running back into the field from where they stood by the boys locker room.
"—for the last time Karin I didn't ask you to come here so get out!" Sasuke yelled to Karin, pushing her out of the locker room.
She whimpered as tears began falling from her eyes, but rushed away before she could be seen.
"Harsh," Megami whistled.
"Just shut up and come on!" he demanded, grabbing her and pulling her along
"15 seconds left in the game and Ame is taking the lead, Ame: 21, Konoha: 20 !"
"We're gonna lose," Megami said.
"Shut the hell up," Sasuke growled. He stood for a moment and thought to himself as he looked to the team then to Ame's team.
"Princess, do you think you could handle those guys over there?" Sasuke asked, pointing to a few large members of Ame's team.
"Call me princess one more fucking time—"
"I'll take that as a yes," he smirked.
Megami shrugged.
"You're gonna cover me. I'm leaving it to you, got it?"
"Yes ma'am."
he glared at her.
"It's a pain in the ass, isn't it?"
"32, 64-" Sasuke's voice went.
"Get ready to get trampled pretty boy" the larger boy in front of Megami said to her.
She smirked, saying nothing.
"hut hut hut!"
when it was called Megami immediately tackled the boy hard to the ground, then got up gracefully.
"What was that about being trampled pretty boy" she smirked as he struggled to get up.
She turned to her side to see Sasuke with the ball, heading towards the goal line. Close behind him were a few members of Ame high's football team.
Rushing forward, Megami tackled one after another to the ground.
"NOT TODAY!" she yelled, practically spearing another Ame football player to the ground.
"Is it me or did that guy just sound completely like a girl?" one of the boys from Ame asked another boy as they stood on the field and watched. The other nodded in agreement.
"Get the hell off you asshole!" the last member she tackled yelled as they both remained on the ground.
She looked up and watched with a smile as Sasuke reached the goal line flawlessly.
~*A.H*~
Everyone (from Konoha) cheered loudly.
"EVERYONE! YOU'RE CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS! KONOHA HIGH SCHOOL!" the announcer cheered.
The Konoha high football team cheered, chanting Konoha as they picked Sasuke up.
Megami happily jumped up and down as they set an annoyed Sasuke down moments later. He took off his helmet and smirked, she squealed excitingly.
"calm down prin—"
Sasuke couldn't finish his sentence as he was interrupted,
By Megami kissing him.
Most, if not everyone gasped and looked at them in silence.
"Oh shit," Tenten sighed, shaking her head and looking down.
Megami quickly let go and turned to the crowd.
"Oh...oops..."
Quickly, she slipped off her helmet, letting her long red hair flow down.
Everyone gasped (again), then it was silent.
Suddenly, everyone started cheering again, she smiled as they chanted Konoha once more.
"that was Megami?" one of the cheerleaders from Ame gasped.
"and I actually thought he—she was cute!" the groaned.
"We lost to a chick?!" another member of Ame's football team demanded as Konoha continued to celebrate.
~*A.H*~
"So should we go celebrate or what?" Ino said cutely, skipped to the limo while the other nine followed closely behind.
"I think we should get something to eat, I'm starving," Naruto said, holding his stomach.
The lot continued to speak as they entered the limo, discussing where to go.
Megami stopped abruntly when a finger tapped her shoulder.
She turned to look as Sasuke stared at her, smirking.
She groaned, "don't bring it up!"
"You kissed me."
"I said don't bring it up you douche! It was just in the heat of the moment, it never happened." she reassured, trailing into the limo.
"Hn..." he shook his head as he followed in behind her.
~*A.H*~
"—And finally, Merry Christmas Japan! The streets are quiet on this festive day as families are home enjoying each other's company! Speaking of that, I should be getting home to my family. Once again, Merry Christmas Japan, I'm Hoshikai Futata—sighing out." the new reporter said as credits started to roll, as did a slide show of stores in Christmas decorations.
The girls sighed as Sakura shut off the TV. a few days after the championship football game, Christmas rolled around, as well as Christmas break. Though the girls were a little disappointed that they wouldn't be spending Christmas with their family this year, they didn't mind that they would be together with the guys, which to them counted as a family.
The girls pushed aside the unwrapped packages of presents their parents had sent to them and stood up.
"Fabulous, my mom never seizes to amaze me," Ino cooed as her diamond earrings sparkled.
"Alright alright come on you guys, we'd better get going, the guys are waiting," Sakura said as she looked down to the also shiny pink gold watch her father had sent her.
The girls collected the presents for each other and for the guys as they headed out the door into the winter snow.
~*A.H*~
The loud sounds of the front door bell alerted the members of Omega who sat in their mansion, alone, waiting.
All maids and servants had been sent home for the holiday. Even Itachi had gone to Sapporo with his and Sasuke's parents and his girlfriend.
"It's the girls!" Naruto yelled, jumping up to get the door. The boys followed behind as he rushed to the front entrance.
He flew open the door to see the girls standing, almost shaking in the winter cold, yet they had smiles on their faces.
"Merry Christmas!" they chanted together.
"Merry Christmas!" Naruto said sweetly.
He moved aside to let them in. The girls greeted each member as they kicked off their boots and hung their coats, standing in warm Christmassy attire.
"So what are you guys up too?" Tenten asked as they walked into the familiar large living room where the fire place was burning warm flames, the windows shown the falling snow outside, and the TV blared Christmas specials.
Before the boys could answer, the girls stopped in shock.
"Hey!" Megami yelled, pointing up.
They look up to the giant Christmas tree that nearly touched the already high ceiling.
"you're Christmas tree is naked," she said sadly.
"Seems like the maids never had a chance to decorate it." Gaara said.
"That's disgraceful!" Ino gasped. "How could you even fathom letting someone else decorate your tree! You're supposed to do it together! Like a family!"
The boys glanced at each other while the girls rolled their eyes together.
"You guys are impossible," Sakura sighed.
She walked back into the entrance hall and picked up two bags.
"We thought something like this might happen," Tenten said, crossing her arms.
"So, we came prepared." Hinata giggled.
The boys looked at them in confusion.
"Grab your coats and get the fuck out," Megami ordered.
"Wait, what?" Neji demanded.
"What are you talking about? You're kicking us out of our own mansion?" Shikamaru raised a brow.
"Yup." the girls said in unison.
The girls forcibly pushed them out in the front yard, went back inside, and threw them all their coats then slammed the door back.
"They seriously just kicked us out. What the hell." Neji said, aghast.
"What are they doing in there?" Naruto said over the sudden noise.
The boys slightly jumped at the sudden sound of Christmas music loudly going throughout the house.
"No idea." the four said together.
"How long are we supposed to be out here." Gaara said coldly as they slipped their coats on, though still cold as they stood in below zero weather. The boys shrugged in turn and struggled to keep warm.
Megami opened the door and she and Tenten came out humming jingle bells.
They put large fake wrapped presents outside then went back in. The boys sat down and watched them come in and out with lights, which they threw all over the mansion, wrapping around it, along with a blow up Santa and reindeer.
Every time they opened the door the boys could see Sakura, Ino, and Hinata walking around with decoration after decoration while dancing to cheesy Christmas music.
"Cold?" Tenten asked when she stepped out with more lights.
The boys nodded.
"Good." she smiled wickedly.
~*A.H*~
Finally, after stepping out and putting a wreath on the door, Megami called to the boys.
"You can come in now!"
"It's about fucking time," Neji said bitterly as the guys stood up and quickly began walking.
The moment they stepped in, the boys looked in awe and Naruto gawked at the mansion before them.
The entire place was decorated from top to bottom, the stairs had red and green tinsel on both handles. The chandelier also had tinsel wrapped around it, there were chibi wind up robot santas walking around saying "ho,ho,ho" and "merry Christmas" in a makeshift Santa voice. Along with Christmas hats hanging in a circle, twirling from the ceiling.
There were red ribbons in two rows along the walls, random colored Christmas stockings hung on each ribbon with candy and other goodies in them. On top of the stairs were lavender and chocolate aroma candles that were lit, Christmas lights hung at the top of the ceiling. There was a medium blow up snow globe in the corner along with fake snow and paper snowflakes all over the ground.
There were two long tables on each side of the entrance room with plates of chocolate chip cookies, Christmas cookies shaped like santa, reindeer, elves, presents, and trees. Milk and juice, chips, pop, sugar cookies, white and regular bite size chocolates, marshmallows and ect.
On each table there was a red and green double decker marble cake. There was a bowl with red, green, and white lollipops, also two bowls of hot ramen that had a white note in the front that said:
Reserved for Megami and Naruto SO DON'T FUCKING TOUCH IT! in Megami's sloppy hand writing.
And to top it off, there were three mistletoe's hanging from the ceiling down halfway to the ground.
The large tree from the living room was moved into the entrance room next to the stairs and was fully decorated with colored ornaments, tinsel, candy canes, Christmas balls, beads, with colorful presents under it with a red Christmas skirt.
The only thing missing was the star, which Sakura held in her hands while the girls stared up at their work. Hinata turned off the lights and all the lights inside came on and the hats started twirling in a circle.
"Impressive ladies," Neji said as the boys began walking around.
"Sweet! Look at all those goodies!" Naruto said, rushing over to the right table.
"How…did you do all this." Sasuke asked.
the girls shrugged as they slipped on Christmas hats.
"Same way we did it for Halloween," Tenten smiled
"Let's open presents now!" Naruto said from the table where his mouth was stuffed with cookies.
Hinata shook her head, "We're not finished yet. You boys stay put, we're going to go work on dinner."
Naruto frowned as the girls giggled. They rushed to one of the kitchens as the boys sat down by the tree, watching them go then listening to the commotion.
"Anyone else getting this weird...wife type feeling." Neji mumbled as they listened to frying and shouting.
The boys said nothing but continued to listen to them, taking an occasional cookie as music continued to play.
~*A.H*~
"Dinner's ready," Hinata smield shyly as she stepped into the entrance room and bowed.
when the boys stepped into the dinner room connected to the kitchen, they gawked again. At the glass table there was a plate of three cheese scalloped potatoes, pumpkin pie, cornbread, sliced pork and ham, cheese cake, baby back ribs, hot rolls, spaghetti, shrimp, fried fish, fruit salad, roast beef, custard, tortillas, rice balls, gourmet sushi, deviled eggs, potato salad, chocolate cake, ten cups of chocolate mousse, mint-chocolate ice cream, lemon tart, apple pie and a big turkey in the middle, along with more hot ramen reserved for Megami and Naruto.
"You girls are really something else." Shikamaru sighed.
"No one—at least no girl—has ever done anything like this for us!" Naruto beamed.
"Well, maybe you've been hanging around the wrong girls," Sakura giggled as the girls took their seats.
For a moment the boys simply stood and watched them.
Finally, Naruto rushed over and took a seat next to Hinata who smiled up at him.
The rest of the boys sat opposite each girl.
"Hey hey don't scarf everything down!" Sakura yelled to Naruto.
"Can someone please pass the rolls?" Hinata asked kindly.
"These ribs are awesome!" Megami beamed.
"how did you make this sushi so fast?" Neji asked.
"So many carbs but I'll cheat tonight," Ino said, holding her cheeks in delight.
"I've never eaten fish like this," Gaara said, chewing the fried fish.
"We made it home-style," Tenten explained.
"Are there anymore deviled eggs?" Sasuke called.
"All this pie is making me tired," Shikamaru sighed.
They all continued to talk and eat, playing with their food and making conversation as if they'd been friends for years and this wasn't their first Christmas together.
~*A.H*~
"Okay did we get everything?" Sakura asked after going through the wrapping paper.
Everyone nodded as they held their presents.
"It wasn't easy finding gifts for you guys, we had to really think of the stuff you didn't already have," Tenten laughed as they sat around the large tree, having opened all their presents after dinner.
"But of course we have Ino so it all turned out pretty well!" Hinata giggled. Ino smiled smugly.
"Come on, let's go watch a movie or something! It's getting cold in here!" Ino shivered in her red tight Christmas sweater as she stood.
The nine nodded, deciding to head to the living room
The girls laughed as the ten of them sat around, on their second cheesy Christmas movie. With the fire as their only light, the ten sat together warm and comfortable as they watched the flat screen.
Tenten sat with Ino with a blanket wrapped around the both of them on one of the large couches. Naruto sat with a blanket wrapped around both him and Hinata, though she had resisted, he convinced her and they simply sat together while she avoided getting close to him.
Sakura, Gaara, and Shikamaru sat on the carpeted floor while Megami, Neji, and Sasuke lay on another couch.
"Hey." Sasuke said suddenly, sitting next to Megami who scarfed down cake.
She looked up at him in confusion.
"Could I talk to you for a second?" he whispered.
She shrugged, "Sure," she said. they both stood up and he motioned for her to follow him upstairs, escaping without anyone else noticing them go upstairs.
"Hey! We never put up the star!" Ino said suddenly.
"Oh yeah!" Sakura said abruptly, "come on!"
~*A.H*~
Megami watched patiently as Sasuke undid the locks of his room door. When all were done he stepped inside.
She walked over and sat down on his bed, bouncing a bit.
"So what did you want to talk about?" she asked.
He nodded and reached into his pocket.
She gasped a bit when he pulled out a silver necklace with the Uchiha crest dangling in the middle in silver.
"For me?"
He nodded slowly.
"Wow…I don't know what to say." she said.
He smirked, "you don't have to say much, Itachi said I should give it to you, like it belongs to you or something."
She smiled as he handed it to her.
She stood up and turned around.
"Do you mind?" she asked. He shook his head and went around her. She took off her sweater then she held her hair up. He put the necklace on and clasped it on her, his hands slid down as her hair dropped.
"Thank you, I really appreciate it." she smiled as she turned around and touched it.
He nodded as he turned around and began heading for the door, but stopped at the buttons on the wall.
"I wanna show you something." he said suddenly.
"Okay..." she said as she watched him press the white button on the wall.
Immediately, the square section in the ceiling opened up and a thin ladder began to slide down in front of her.
She hesitated for a moment, but touched the ladder and slowly walked began walking up. She stuck her head into the small open where she simply saw what looked like an attic. It was dark, when she fully stepped in she felt around for a light.
"There's no light up there, if you're looking for one." Sasuke's voice came from the bottom, waiting for her to step in so he could climb up.
She frowned and looked to the short drapes covering the also short window. When she fully climbed in she pulled them open, coughing at the dest that escaped them. The nighttime light shined inside.
She looked around as Sasuke stepped up, but the only thing she saw was a box in the middle of the emptiness.
She followed him over to the box, where they both sat down across from each other, it in the middle.
"Go ahead, open it." he shrugged.
She glanced him in confusion as she opened the medium, slightly dusty cardboard box.
Sitting inside were a few papers, some photos, and a small blue photo album.
"Hm...?" she mumbled as she dug in and pulled out the photo album. Without asking permisiion she opened it to the first page.
It was a picture of a two or three year old looking Sasuke, holding up a beach ball although he was on grass. Next to him was a little girl that looked about the same age as him, although she had on a sun hat like the one from the photo in his room and a little white dress, they were both smiling.
she turned the page to a picture of three kids sitting down and holding hands. Sasuke looking the same age as the last picture with black shorts and a white shirt on, on the other side of him was Naruto looking the same age with a red t-shirt and white shorts, and in the middle was the girl again, this time she had on a long blue skirt with a white tank top and the same sun hat again.
under the picture it said in sloppy kid hand writing with a red crayon 'My Boys!'
On the next side of the album was another picture where the background was a beach. It was a picture of the little girl in a white one piece swim suit with her usual sun hat, sitting on her knees. Next to her was Sasuke in blue swimming shorts, and Naruto on her other side in orange swim shorts, giving a thumbs up to the camera.
She turned the page, there was only one picture on this one, it was a picture of Naruto and Sasuke in little white tuxes and black ties. The girl in a long red sparkly red dress and white dress hat, and behind them was a younger Itachi in a white tuxedo, he had both his hands on each of Sasuke and Naruto's shoulders, and neither of them looked to happy.
"That was Naruto's uncle Jiraiya's wedding. He married Principal Tsunade that year."
"Who is this girl I keep seeing?" she asked slowly.
"I don't know. Some girl Naruto and I used to play with. My parents say it was a long time ago, and she's not important anymore."
"But sometimes I come up her and try to remember her. Not much luck though...whenever I do my head hurts, and I get frustrated...I can't remember anything up until I was five."
She stared at him sadly as she closed the book and moved the box a bit.
"I'm sorry...I...I kind of feel your pain..."
He scoffed, "how?"
She moved the box aside and leaned in, to his surprise she brought him into a hug. It took a few seconds but he finally hugged her back.
"I don't know how...I just do...I'm sorry..."
After a few moments they released halfway and stared into each others eyes.
"I'm sure she was special to you..." she whispered.
"I know she was..." he said, staring longingly.
They stared at each other for was seemed like eternity, before he finally leaned in. Without resisting she leaned in a bit as well, until their lips met together.
~*A.H*~
"Fun night, huh?"
Gaara looked up from his book and gave a dull expression to the person before him as he read, alone in the living room.
Sakura stood smiling, her hands clasped behind her back as she smiled down to him.
"Mind if I join you?"
"I thought you were helping the girls put the star up." he questioned, noticing that the guys had gone off to watch the fiasco that had become setting the star on top of the ginormous tree.
She shrugged, "they've got it handled. They're making a big deal out of it so I thought I could use some peace and quiet."
"I know what you mean." he said coldly.
She giggled as she helped herself to the spot next to him on the couch by the fire. He moved a bit so they were both comfortable and she was cozy.
"Are you cold?" he asked, glancing up from his book.
"I'm fine, the fires warm." she said softly as she leaned her head into his book.
He nodded as she shifted so she was a bit closer, almost snuggling up against him.
"You wanna know a secret?" she whispered moments later.
He looked at her. Wether she knew or not this was his indication to continue, she did.
"I think this is the best Christmas I've ever had."
"Why's that."
"I'm an only child. So normally it's just me, my dad, and my stepmom."
He chose not to elaborate on the stepmom piece.
"It's usually where we just open up presents then we're ignoring each other for the rest of the day. I never do anything fun like we've done today. and I've never just relaxed by the fire with anyone like this either..."
"Christmas has never been too welcoming in my home either..."
"Well I guess this is a first for the both of us then," she smiled up at him, her eyes glistening.
He looked down at her, only catching her eyes for a moment before she looked back down.
"You're a sweet guy, Gaara."
"You think I'm sweet?"
She giggled, "Maybe I'm the only person who thinks like that. But you've been nice to me since the first day we spoke."
"I tolerate you."
"Call it what you want!"
"You're easy to talk too. Unlike most girls. I actually like you."
She sat up and faced him, though his eyes remained trained on the book below him.
"I don't remember the last time I've ever had a decent conversation with a girl. At least one that didn't involve tongues or a bed."
He said it so casually, she shivered in turn.
He sighed and closed his book slowly as she continued to stare at him while the fire crackled in front of them.
He towered over her her by a good six inches, but sitting down, they almost came face to face.
Her breathing hitched as he began leaning in, his expression still dull as she remained stone in place.
"Tell me I can kiss you..." he whispered, their lips just barely a centimeter apart as his eyes bore into her.
"...You can kiss me..." she whispered a moment later.
Their eyes fell closed just as their lips touched.
~*A.H*~
After sneaking off from the entrance room where Ino stressed herself to get the star on the top, Tenten stepped into the kitchen where the leftover dinner had been put.
She smiled to herself as grabbed a plate, helping herself to leftover turkey and pumpkin pie.
She stood bent over on the granite kitchen island as she slowly ate, lost in her own thoughts while looking around the kitchen.
"How are you still hungry after all that?"
she rolled her eyes and stood up straight, with her fork in her mouth she turned around and glared at who leaned on the doorless kitchen walk in.
"Oh don't get up, I much prefer the view of your ass." he smirked.
She pulled the fork out her mouth and glared furiously.
"I'll eat whenever and whatever I damn well please you prick. And what did I say about you keeping your eyes to yourself?"
"You've never said anything about it," he chuckled, his hands in his pockets as he stepped into the kitchen.
"Well, now I am. What do you want Neji?" she sighed as she leaned back and poked her food with the fork while he stepped around and stood next to her, his hands leaning on the kitchen island.
He broke off a piece of her pumpkin pie and popped it into his mouth, "nothing."
She frowned, "Hey! Get your own!"
"Aw come on buns, learn to share," he smirked.
"I don't share with condescending assholes," she said, her chin up confidently.
"Oh give me a break, you couldn't spell condescending." he said arrogantly.
Her cheeks flushed as she turned away. "Shut up! And stop calling me names! Call me Tenten."
"What's wrong with calling you buns? Or sweetheart?" he half smiled. "Or honey, or baby, or—"
"Because I'm not your FUCKING girlfriend!" she yelled, slamming her fork back.
He stared at her as she sighed and stood up straight, only to lean back onto the table.
"Please just stop. It's weird. You're going out with Ami, and every time you say things like that it's just..." she stopped, at a loss for words.
She took a deep breath then let it out, turning to face him as he stared at her seriously.
"Why did you kiss me?" she demanded. "You wanted to talk to me about it earlier, so let's talk."
He turned from her, glaring at nothing.
"You don't have a reason I'm guessing?"
"I do have my reasons."
"Then say them damn it!" she said angrily.
Before she could blink, he'd turned back with her cheeks in his hands and his lips on hers.
"Do you guys own a ladder?" Ino whined as she jumped for the tip of the three once again.
Shikamaru shrugged.
"the servants and workers usually handle stuff like that. We don't know where they keep it!" Naruto explained.
Ino groaned as Hinata stood next to her, the star in her hand.
"Well I'm sure you're aware of tool places. Why don't you go look for them?" She questioned.
Naruto shrugged, "I think I know a couple storage rooms near the back of the mansion."
"Well, why are you still standing here?" Ino huffed.
Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "yes ma'am! Hinata! You wanna come with me?" Naruto asked excitingly.
"Sure," she smiled softly as he look her hand, rushing her down one of the many hallways.
Ino crossed her arms and turned to Shikamaru who stood with his hands in his pockets, looking at her boredly.
"Well, aren't you going to go look too?"
"I don't search for things. I have people for that."
She sighed deeply and rolled her eyes, she looked at him as he stared up to the tree dully.
"Fine, then make yourself useful and give me a boost." she smiled wickedly.
He looked back to her with a brow raised in confusion and annoyance.
"Excuse me?"
"I wanna try something lazy boy! So bend down!"
"You must be out of your god damn mind if you think I'm—"
He grunted when she flipped over, bending him down a bit and hopping onto him. he struggled to keep balance as they swayed, while she sat with her legs almost around his neck, her frontal area pressed up against his neck.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!" he demanded as they wobbled.
"Hold still Nara! I think I can get it!" she whimpered as he struggled to reach for the still a little bit a ways tip.
He burned red as her female area pressed against his neck.
"You...need to get off..." he mumbled, not noticing the stray bell in front of him.
"I can get it! Then I will! Just calm d—AH!" her shriek came as he slipped on said bell, toppling them over.
The star flew to the other side of the entrance room as Ino grunted, lifting herself up on the object that cushioned her fall.
"You see what I mean...? You cause nothing but trouble."
She narrowed her as as she sat on Shikamaru missionary style, still bending halfway.
"You're one to talk Mr. I-can't-keep-balance!"
He sighed as he began to sit up. She squeaked while still sitting on him.
He tiredly looked at her while she blinked in surprise, her legs slightly wrapped around his waist as his hands rested on his sides.
She blushed and looked down as he stared down to her.
"Sorry..." she whispered.
"It's fine." he sighed. "But unless you've made yourself comfortable, I would insist on getting up."
"Well..." she mumbled sing-songily, looking back up too him.
"I'm a little comfortable..."
His eyes widened a bit as he looked at her in confusion, her blue eyes looking down to him as she trailed her hand up his chest, he clenched.
She smiled sweetly as she stood up and stepped off of him. He rolled his eyes and stood up, dusting his pants off.
"You're some piece of work," he mumbled, scratching the back of his head.
"Thank you," she cooed, swaying her hips as they stood together by the tree.
He trailed his tongue down her neck after finally releasing from her lips. She shivered a bit when he began kissing and biting her neck, running his hand down until his hand was slightly up her shirt.
She threw her head back when when he trailed his tongue down neck and on her cleavage as he pulled her shirt up.
Neither knew how long they'd been like this, still up in the attic, their lips locking, the heat between them, staggering.
"Sasuke..." she moaned as he trailed his tongue back up and kissed her once again.
She grunted when her shirt went up further.
"Stop..." she said in between kisses.
He acted as if he did not hear, pulling it until her bra was visible.
"No...Sasuke..." she whispered, barely audible.
Instead though, his hand trailed down further to the button of her jeans, when they were undone, a flicker went through her mind.
"I've been waiting a long time to do this. Now. I can finally get what I—
"I said STOP!" she yelled, pushing him off, to his shock.
Breathing heavily, she held her chest and wrinkled shirt as he noticed her eyes glistening into the moonlight and the fear spread across her face.
She whimpered as a few tears began to fall.
"Me—!"
Quickly, she picked herself up and headed down the ladder.
"Megami! Wait!
Sakura moaned a bit into the kiss as the fire crackled more beside them.
With her legs wrapped around his waist, she slightly grinded against him while his hands lay on her hips and her hands on his chest, pulling at his shirt.
"Ah...Gaara..." she said, biting her lip as she leaned back a bit when bit her neck.
Still kissing her neck, he slipped off his jacket as if the heat was becoming unbearable. She held his cheeks as she turned back and kissed again, while his hands then rested on her neck.
"Gaara...I..." she whispered, slowly letting go as he chastely kissed her lips.
"What's the matter...?" he whispered, leaning in to kiss her again, only for her to lean back.
He opened his eyes and looked at her, watching her bite her lip as her eyes glistened in the fire.
"I...I can't do this..." she murmured.
"What?"
"I'm sorry!" she said quickly, unwrapping her legs and standing up as she backed away.
"What is it?" he said in confusion.
She shook her head furiously, without a word she turned around and fled.
"Sakura?!"
Neji stood in a stand still, his head to the side as the mark of her hand burned his cheek. Though it did not fairly hurt, he could feel the stinging and the hatred behind it.
Tenten still held her hand up as a few tears came down her eyes.
"What kind of a man are you...?" she whispered, disgusted as she eyed him.
"What if I wasn't with Ami...?" he whispered bitterly.
She took a step back.
He trailed his cold eyes to her, then turned his head back to face her.
"What if I wasn't with her. How would you feel about me then?"
she turned away from him, not allowing him to see her face as she turned around, running out of the kitchen.
~*A.H*~
Ino and Shikamaru turned to the hallway mid-conversation as Hinata and Naruto stepped back in.
Hinata giggled as Naruto twirled her again.
Ino smiled a bit as Shikamaru raised a brow.
"We couldn't find a ladder," Hinata giggled as they stepped up to them.
"We actually got a little lost to be honest and decided to head back," Naruto said sheepishly.
Ino groaned, "how do you get lost in your own—?"
"Megami wait! I said wait!"
The four turned to the stairs to find the source of the yelling.
There they saw Megami rushing down the steps as Sasuke rushed to catch up behind her.
"Sakura!" another voice called.
They directed their attention to the first living room, where Sakura stepped out, rubbing her eyes as she fast walked away from him.
Sasuke grabbed her hand as they stood at the bottom steps.
"If I did something wrong just tell me," he said, breathlessly.
"It's not...you..you didn't...I..." she said at a loss for words as she refused to look him.
She pulled her hand out his grip, without looking at him she rushed away.
"What happened. What did I do." Gaara demanded when Sakura stopped.
"I don't know..." she whispered.
"Then why did you run away? Clearly something—"
"Gaara..." she said, turning to her said with a sad smile.
"I just need some time...I can't...I can't..."
She turned away, fleeing.
The four turned as Tenten rushed out of the kitchen this time. Furious with burning tears, she rushed to where the girls had stepped off to the coat closet.
"Girls? What in the world is the matter?" Hinata asked, concerned.
"What happened with you g—"
"We're leaving." Tenten ordered. "It's time to go, grab you're coats, it's late. It's not even Christmas anymore anyway."
Without waiting for them, the girls slipped on their out attire and stepped out of the Omega mansion without looking back.
Ino and Hinata looked at each other while Naruto and Shikamaru looked to Sasuke who began walking back up the steps, his hands in his pockets and Gaara who turned back and stonily stepped back into the living room, along with Neji who stepped out of the kitchen with a dull expression on his face.
"What the hell just happened...?!" Ino demanded.
T-B-C
HEEEY, i was going to continue the story further but decided not to, I felt like a this was a pretty good cliff hanger ending and stuff, when I read this over I felt all sad and stuff boo hoo hoo!...anyWHO next chapter will be up soon, till next time!
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Future me: Hi there, me again. Next edited chapter on it's way. Thank you.