The
Plan
By Alden Hawke
Chapter
6: Step Two Part Two: Ino's Great Plan!
: Scary Sasuke - Just add Jealousy
~~~
Ino
smiled widely.
Really
widely.
Poor
Sasuke-kun was about to get comeupaance for his ignorance, and would break
more from Sakura.... All in good time...
'Just
wait...' She thought. "You'll regret it...."
~~~
Sasuke
awoke to a splitting headache, and a bruised jaw... Kakashi was brutal...
But he smirked. He given back what he'd recieved double, and Kakashi
would probably be at the mission site even later than usual.
He
got up, and headed for the kitchen, rubbing his eyes and pulling open the
cupboard.
A box of cereal bonked him on the head... Greaaaaaat...
Wait.
A. Second... He'd placed it in a normal postion - someone in his house?
His head swerved around, looking for any telltale clues... Nothing...
He
calmly headed to his refrigerator and continued his daily schedule, frying
eggs and bacon, getting a clean plate, grabbing a prepackaged salad and
roughly dumping it in a small plastic bowl, rustling through it with an undersized
pair of tongs. But today his eyes searched every nook of the room for
and clue or motion, suspicious of anything and everything. Breakfast went
as usual...
Except,
pinned to his door, was a small slip of paper... a reciept* for some restaurant
or something... Nothing caught his eye as he moved to the garbage unitl
the name - Uzumaki Naruto.... He scanned it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hokage
Place
23 Kuso Dr.
532-0376
Date:
(Scribbled, hard to read...)
Server:
1 - Haruka
Table: 11
Time:
8:36
Hokage
Buffet for two - 4,153.80¥
--------------------------------------------
Cash
- 5,000 ¥
Change
due- 846.20¥
Payment
from the account of - Uzumaki Savings Naruto
Thank
you for shopping at Hokage Place!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sasuke
crumpled it up into a little ball. What did he care that Naruto and (someone)
had a dinner together? An expensive dinner, at the most expensive, romantic
table... For all he knew, he'd shared it with Godaime! There was nothing
to suspect that it had been with Sakura...
Nothing
except the fact that the two had shared a lunch barely over a week before/
And
the fact that the dinner fit right into the time-slot of 6:30-9:00 - While
he was (secretly) training with Kakashi. Someone must've leaked to Sakura,
and she got to have a NICE little dinner... No, she wouldn't... There
was no reason to suspect...
Sasuke
calmed himself, got ready to leave, and sped out the door, taking a nice
slow pace.
~~~
Ino
dulled a bit at noon. Was what she doing wrong? For one thing, it would hurt
Sasuke... For another, it put Sakura and Naruto in charge of calming him
down to a slow boil. Three, if he found out... Sasuke would never think of
looking at her again without murderous thoughts...
Ino
shivered. It couldn't hurt him that much, right? Ino could stand a little
trickery, and even this was way out of her usual tricks...
'One
last finale, and I'm done. This stuff is too risky, even for me...'
She
then headed off in search of her walking partner.
~~~
Sasuke's
feet thudded heavily against the ground, like
thunder rippling from
the sky, his eyes closed in thought. He gulped down some water, and quickened
his pace a small bit.
"How
was Sakura at training, Tenten?" he picked up a small part of a conversation.
"She
quit, actually... Funny thing, really..."
Sasuke
spun around faster than the eye could see. "What time was that?"
"Ahhhh,
Sasuke, don't scare me--- Around quarter after 7, I guess... Hey, she
said she was with you! Wouldn't you- Ahhhhh..." Tenten got an understanding,
'Oooohhhh that's bad...' look on her face.
Sasuke
disappeared, a blur on the wind, and Tenten and her friend resumed talking.
"Maybe
he shoulda picked you, Ino... Sasuke and Sakura seem to be pretty rocky
lately..."
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Sasuke
managed to contain himself until the end of the mission. Then he confronted
Sakura.
He
confronted her in the park. It was dark, and she was tired.
She
was thoroughly, confused... until she realised why he was so angry.
"Sakura..."
his voice was shaky, pained and angry. "I know what happened last
night... Cancelled training, this damn reciept!" He threw it in her face.
"I TRUSTED you! I thought... I thought you were DIFFERENT!" he yelled.
"Naruto-kun
and I are FRIENDS, Sasuke!"
"DO
FRIENDS HAVE FANCY DINNERS WHEN THE GIRL'S BOYFRIEND IS AWAY!?"
"IT'S
NOT LIKE THAT... It's not... We were both there, and Naruto said we might
as well..."
"Sakura,
I'm not buying this one... Last time, I foolishly believed you..."
"Listen,
you ASS...I know that I was-... WHAT!? Where were YOU?"
"TRAINING!
But you already know, because you planned for it-"
"BUT,
THEN... Who wrote this!?" Sakura was confused as she tossed him the note.
"I've wanted to ask you, but you've been sulking all DAY! You just plan
a date, and then RUN OFF TRAINING!?"
Sasuke
froze. Time seemed to freeze as his eyes scanned the familiar handwriting
on the unfamiliar piece of paper. 'How.... could it have been me?
My memory isn't the best... wait...'
"What
was Naruto doing there? The dobe shouldn't have been sitting at the exact
table - too much of a coincedence..."
"He
muttered some weird excuse, about Ino and them celebrating progressin sword
training... Ino wouldn't celebrate, she'd just strut around looking high
and mighty! It's fishy!"
"But...
Naruto doesn't have that good of handwriting, couldn't have copied mine...
It couldn't have been him..."
"Something
else bugged me... Naruto was too happy! All he could look forward too
was an evening of Ino's blabbing... He was too happy BEFORE he noticed me...
" Sakura mused.
"But
Naruto couldn't sneak into my house without me waking up! He'd probably slam
the door! He couldn't have done it... unless there's some hiddden skills
he has..." Sasuke snorted.Who could it have been...
"Well,
Sasuke... You know I'd never cheat on you. I'm not Ino, baka..."
He
smiled secretly. "I know, Sakura...chan..." And he pulled in to
place a sweet
kiss on her lips, which she, in return, gave
back...
Somewhere,
Ino sneezed.
*
This reciept was made from an english restaurnat reciept pic from the internet,
and the conversion equalled about 50$ Canadian. If this doesn't work
out, Sorry! I also assumed it'd take them an hour, approx. to eat...'
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