“STOP IT NARUTO!”

“OWWW! SAKURA-CHAAANNN!!”

“Dobe.”

“Pathetic.”

“THEN GO AWAY!”

“Ugly.”

“AHHHHHH!!!”

Sakura fell to her knees in exhaustion, her chest was heaving in an effort to keep up with her erratic heart beat, her blood was boiling and she was doing her best to not blow up and murder everyone.

Sasuke merely rolled his eyes, Naruto backed up a few paces, his head already sporting a bruise hidden beneath wild blonde hair. Sai merely continued doodling in his sketch book.

“No wonder no one likes you ugly.”

Naruto took another step back his eyes growing large, Sasuke just let out a sigh and ignored him the best he could.

“No one likes dickless wander either; the two of you make a great team.”

Sasuke continued ignoring them; Naruto took another step away from Sakura, backing into the other side of the red bridge they met on trice a week. They all knew Sai was just trying to piss Sakura off, hell even Sakura knew it, but it didn’t mean that she could ignore it.

“No wander Kakashi-san is always late.” Sakura’s fist clenched at her side before she looked up and glared at Sai, “At least he likes us better than he likes you.” She growled, Naruto bumped into Sasuke, Sasuke scowled at him, Sai looked up from his notebook.

“The only reason any one would ever like you is for your body, but you’re far top ugly for that.”

Naruto gapped at him, Sasuke glared at him, that really was crossing the line. Sakura ground her teeth, “I’m just going to pretend you didn’t say that.”

Sai looked back down at the sketch pad in his hand and continued to draw, “Why? It’s true.”

Naruto jumped forward his finger pointing towards Sai, “Oi! Sai, that’s just cruel, you don’t-“

Sakura stood up shutting Naruto up, “Shut it Naruto, I’m a big girl,” She turned a glare on Sai, “You want to bet on that? I bet by the end of the week Kakashi say’s I’m his favorite.”

Naruto gapped at her, Sasuke frowned at her, Sai smiled his fake smile, “If you say so, I bet that he says Sasuke’s his favorite by the end of the week.”

Sasuke straightened, “I want no part of this.”

Naruto grinned, “Cause your chicken-teme! I bet he says I’m his favorite by the end of the week!” Sasuke shook his head and headed off the bridge to get away from the chaotic ramblings of the three weirdoes’ on the bridge.

Sakura crossed her arms, “So what does the winner get?” Naruto grinned, “R-“ Sakura cut him off with a glare, “Not that!” Sai looked up from his sketch book, “Loser has a slave of their choice for a week.”

Cha! Bring it loser! Inner Sakura chimed in excitedly to her outer self thinking of all the evil things she could do to grinned, “Out of us three?” Sakura grinned like Naruto did, “You’re on!” They both shouted.

Sasuke snorted, Sai just smiled and continued drawing, “By this time next week then.”

POOF

“Sorry I’m late- should I be worried?” Kakashi blinked at the innocently smiling Sakura and the grinning Naruto, Sasuke shook his head and walked past him, “Run.” Kakashi looked between the two of them; Sai stood up and put his sketch book down, “What’s the mission?”

Kakashi blinked, the feeling of apprehension passing, “Ah yes the mission,” Kakashi pulled out a scroll and tossed it to Sakura, “Share now children,” seeing Naruto’s annoyed glare, Sakura opened it and held it out in front of her so Naruto and Sai could come to either side of her and look over her shoulder, Sasuke just waited to be told.

“We’re traveling to the hot spring village today to pick up a package for the Hokage,” Naruto blinked, “Wait we? You’re coming? Isn’t that a little, I don’t know, much?” Kakashi shrugged, “Hokage’s orders, anyway, we’re to pick up a package and have it back here by sunset, yatta yatta; we’ll be leaving in ten minutes so pack up and meet me at the front gates.”

With that Kakashi ‘poof’ed away leaving the rest of his team to follow later.

Sakura continued reading the scroll, “A-class, 80 percent chance of confrontation and only on the way back, but mostly from rouge ninjas, no specific village seems to be after the item.” She sighed and rolled up the scroll as Sai and Naruto walked away, “Probably Sake.” Mumbled Sakura before walking towards her apartment, Sasuke leaving after Sakura finished reading the scroll.

Naruto, Sai and Sasuke waited at the gates exactly ten minutes after Kakashi had told them to be there. They knew Kakashi wouldn’t be there for at least twenty more minutes but that didn’t mean they weren’t going to be on time. Sai was on time because, he was well, Sai, he didn’t mess around with mission orders. Sasuke was a bit the same way but he just didn’t want to hear it from Naruto when the dobe showed up before him.

Naruto had been late once and Kakashi had popped into his house and proceeded to use a thousand years of ‘pain’ on him. Naruto hadn’t been late since.

Exactly eleven minutes had passed since they had last seen Kakashi when a pop sounded in front of them, “Yo.” Naruto gapped, “Your actually here on time?!” Kakashi rubbed the back of his head, “Funny story,” He paused, “Where’s Sakura?”

Naruto glanced around him, “Dunno, she’s usually here before I am…” Sai smiled, “Ugly probably walked by a mirror and passed out from the shock.”

“I heard that you asshole!” Sakura glared daggers at Sai as she walked up to them, scowling at the comment, “And for your information I got called to the Hokage’s office! So it’s not my fault if I’m-“ she blinked and stared at Kakashi, quickly glancing down at her watch, “How the heck late am I?”

Kakashi narrowed his visible eye, “Harh, Harh, very funny.” Sakura blinked at her watch that read she was two minutes late. She frowned at Kakashi then looked over to Naruto, “Did I miss something?”

Naruto shrugged, “Got us to, can we get going now?” Sakura shook her head and looked over to Kakashi who nodded, “It’s a three hour walk to the Onsen town so we can take our time.”

Naruto groaned and Sakura rolled her eyes at him, “Don’t even start Naruto.”

“But Sakura-chan!” He whined; Sakura’s fist came down on his head, “I warned you.”

Naruto pulled himself up and sulked after Sakura, Sasuke shaking his head at him, “How old are you again?” Naruto glared and puffed up his chest, “I’ll have you know I’m 18, and hey! Kakashi is that Ero-sennin’s new book?” A gleam suddenly appearing in Naruto’s eye.

Kakashi didn’t even glance up from the orange book in his hand, “Hm?” Naruto grinned, “All I’m getting at is we’re all old enough to actually read it, how many books do you have with you Kakashi?”

This seemed to catch Kakashi’s attention, “This one and I’m not sharing.” Sasuke shook his head, “Dobe.” Naruto crossed his arms, “Hey, are you ok Sakura-chan? Your face is kinda red, do you have a fever?”

Sakura waved her hand in front of her face trying to shoo Naruto away from poking his face in hers, “D-do we have to talk about this? I mean its bad enough you guys all read it now, can we just not talk about it!?”

Sakura’s voice became a little shaky and she tried to hide her flaming cheeks, Naruto frowned then grinned suddenly, “Oho, Poor Sakura-chan I forgot your still 17 aren’t you? Hehehe, you can’t read them yet can you?”

Sakura’s back seemed to bristle as she spun around on Naruto, “Why the heck would I want to! I’m a medic I see enough already!” Naruto suddenly grinned slyly, “Oh yeah? Like what?”

Sakura face turned red and she spun back around and started walking faster, “You must be a masochist Naruto, because you seem to like being beaten into the ground!” Naruto paused Sai, Sasuke and Kakashi had taken to watching the two argue.

Sakura sighed, “A Masochist is someone who gets off on being in pain or abused.” Naruto grinned, “That must be what Sasuke is ‘cause he grins every time you beat me up.”

Sakura tripped, Kakashi chuckled and Sasuke’s face twisted into a scowl. Naruto turned his grin on Sakura, she was too embarrassed to hit him so he might as well get everything he could out of it, “Bet you don’t even know what masturbation is, eh Sakura-chan?”

Sakura ground her teeth and spun on her heel, “Erotic stimulation of the genital organs commonly resulting in an orgasm, achieved by manual or other bodily contact exclusive of sexual intercourse, by instrumental manipulation, occasionally by sexual fantasies, or by various combinations of such,” Sakura took a deep breath, “In other words Naruto, It’s jacking off, do you need me to explain the difference between a boy and girl, or hell while I’m at maybe I should give you the birds and bee’s talk, because I’m on a roll.”

Naruto sidestepped Sakura, he still hadn’t gotten hit so he was going to keep on pushing it, “Come on Sakura-chan, your still a virgin right?” He wiggled his eyebrows. Sasuke shook his head and Sai rolled his eyes, Kakashi opted to shaking his head, “She’s going to kill you Naruto.”

Sakura was staring at Naruto, she wasn’t scowling, she didn’t even look remotely mad, she just looked at him. Naruto jumped when she turned and started walking again, without answering. Naruto frowned, “Wait a second Sakura-chan, I was just kidding.”

Silence, Sakura just kept walking; Naruto ran in front of her and started walking backwards, “You can hit me if it makes you feel better.” Naruto shut his eyes and stopped walking, but Sakura merely side stepped him and continued walking.

Naruto peaked through his closed eyes as Kakashi, Sai and Sasuke walked past him, “I’m alive?” Sasuke glanced at him, “What’s wrong with her?” Sai shrugged, “You probably hurt Ugly’s feelings.” Kakashi glanced up ahead at her, “Let her alone, I’ll see what’s wrong.”

With that he sped up and started walking with Sakura. Naruto frowned and leaned forward a bit as he walked, “Psst, you don’t think this is just an act to get to Kakashi do you?” Sai frowned; Sasuke shook his head, “Don’t care.”

Kakashi glanced down at Sakura as she purposefully tried to walk faster, her head only came up to his shoulder, she had kept her pink hair short over the years, but longer than when she was 15, it was just above her shoulder blades, held back in the same style as when she was younger, but the front of her hair had changed slightly, it was shorter and her forehead protector held back bangs that she would wear down when she wasn’t training or on a mission.

She wore the same outfit out on missions as she did when she was 15 but she filled it out much better, “Sakura?” she didn’t answer him, “Sakura since when have you let Naruto get the better of you with what he says, hmm?” She didn’t respond, “Sakura, its perfectly fine to be a virgin, in fact,” He was surprised when she whipped her head up at him, the hostility in the emerald green eyes made him take an involuntary step to the side.

“I don’t want to talk about this.” She hissed and turned to face forward, Kakashi frowned, “You’re letting him win.” Sakura glared at him again, this time tears where welling up in her eyes, “Just, please, go away.”

Kakashi furrowed his eyebrows together, “Sakura, you can tell me anything,” why am I saying this, “You know that.” Sakura’s shoulders shook, “I can’t tell you this, so please, just go away.”

Kakashi let out a small sigh, “Alright but when you want to talk…” and with that Hatake Kakashi retreated gracefully back to the others, “I don’t think it’s a good idea to talk to her right now.” Kakashi relayed pulling out his book and faking reading, yes faking reading.

“I told you she wasn’t faking Sai,” Naruto hissed, heedless of Kakashi ease dropping, usually he ignored and drowned them out completely, usually the safest place to talk secrets was directly in front of Kakashi when he was reading.

He never seemed to listen anyway, never seemed to anyway.

Sai rolled his eyes, “She just wants to win.” Sasuke frowned, “She wouldn’t have told Kakashi to go away, she would have gone the sympathy route or something. I think you seriously pissed her off Naruto.”

“I don’t know, she didn’t even hit me.” Sasuke shrugged, “Try again.” Naruto looked horrified, “To get hit?” Sasuke growled at him, “No you dobe, to apologize.”

Naruto grumbled something, “Oh fine, if she’s going to be my slave for a week I better get her happy again.” Sai snorted, “What makes you think you’re winning the bet, dickless wander?”

Sasuke shook his head, “And with this keeping up, Sakura will win, now move it.” Naruto snorted, “She’s not going to win if she keeps on PMSing.” He mumbled speeding up and jogging over to catch up with Sakura.

“Sakura-chan?” He called cautiously, she didn’t respond, he took a deep breath, “look Sakura-chan, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings…” Sakura sighed, “It’s alright Naruto, It’s just,” she glanced over at him and then back in front of her, “Look, I’m not a complete virgin Naruto, I mean I know-“

“YOU WERE RAPED!”

Three pairs of heads shoot up and stared shocked in front of them, Sakura’s eyes widened as she spun around and knocked Naruto in the head, shrieking at him, “NARUTO YOU BAKA I DIDN’T SAY THAT!” Naruto mumbled something through the mouth full of dirt as Sakura grabbed him by his collar and shook him, “This is why I can’t tell you anything!” She hissed.

She dropped him and stalked forward, to embarrassed to turn around, Naruto rubbed the bump on his head, “Jeez, its not like you slept with Genma or something,” Sakura tripped and hit the ground, Naruto’s eyes bulged out, “HOLY SHIT YOU SLEPT WITH GENMA!?”

Sakura’s face flamed red and she spun on her knees, “Naruto will you STOP JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS!” She yelled her cheeks red from embarrassment and anger.

“Stop! Both of you just stop, Naruto you really have to stop.” Came Kakashi’s words as he put away his book and held up shaky hands, “I’m too young to have a heart attack.”

“Sakura-chan you might as well tell us.” Naruto crossed his legs and arms, “Well?” Sakura blushed, “Naruto! I am not telling you about my relationships!” Naruto jumped up, “Aha! There’s more than one!”

Sakura grabbed her head, “No! Jeez, Naruto will you just shut up!?” Naruto started pacing, “Who was it, Holy crap; please tell me it wasn’t fuzzy brows!” Sakura fell backwards her hand shakily reaching for the sky as her soul left her.

“Uhg!” Sakura sat up and pointed an accusing finger at Naruto, “Please Naruto, we all know you’ve slept with Hinata so what-“ Naruto jumped back, “Oh My God! You slept with NEJI!”

Sakura’s eyes widened, “Oh my god no! NO! I didn’t sleep with Neji-“ Naruto gasped and spun on Sasuke, “You teme! You took advantage of Sakura-chan didn’t you?” Sakura’s hand slapped to her head, “Naruto…” she started counting to five.

Sasuke looked as scandalized as Naruto felt, “Don’t make me kill you Dobe.”

“Naruto…”

“Well if you didn’t then-“

“NARUTO!”

The trees around them shook as Sakura finally caught his attention, “Naruto you baka, I never said I WASN’T a virgin, I just said I wasn’t a complete virgin you dobe, I’ve never actually like ‘done’ it but since you wouldn’t stop interrupting me I could never tell you that!”

Naruto blinked and scratched the back of his head, “Wait, how are you not a ‘complete’ virgin?”

Sakura rolled her eyes and grabbed his hand dragging him down to the ground so she could whisper in his ear. Naruto’s eyes widened, “Oh! Wow that makes sense, I didn’t know about that, I just figured, oh yeah, man I never would have thought of that.”

Sakura released Naruto and he stood up, “Get it NOW Naruto.” Naruto nodded and turned to the other three, Sai raised an eye brow, “So?”

“She’s technically a virgin.”

“You can stop talking like I’m not here.”

“Then where does the ‘complete’ thing come in?”

Naruto grinned, “Interesting you asked,” Sakura brought her fist across Naruto’s head, “And did I mention that if you ever repeat any of what I just said to anyone then I will personally turn mass murderer on your ass.”

Naruto sat up rubbing his head as Sakura stalked away again, he grinned, “Did you know that to be a virgin you have to have this barrier thing? Apparently-“ A kunai zoomed past Naruto’s head, “I CAN HEAR YOU!”

“Aha, then you heard how I just said how lovely you look this morning Sakura-chan, are you using a new conditioner?”

Naruto ran off to catch up with Sakura as Sasuke, Sai and Kakashi hung back.

Sai frowned, “I still don’t get girls.”

Sasuke shook his head, “Don’t bother.”

Kakashi nodded his head, “Girls and Naruto are a whole other species that weren’t meant to be understood.”

The three nodded and walked to join the two arguing in front of them.

A/n: Yeah, yeah, this TOTALLY SUCKS ARSE, but hey… I wrote it when I was like Sixteen or something, that was three, almost four years ago.. so. Yeah. Part of fanfiction I never got to chapter two of… :D