Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Girls Like it When... ❯ Ch 4 - You Can Dance ( Chapter 4 )

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Girls Like it When…

The Ultimate Guide to Becoming More Than Friends

 

Chapter 4: … Girls Like It When You Can Dance …

 

There is not one girl alive that can help but fall for a guy who can dance. Don't know how to dance? Well learn, and learn now! Not everyone is born with the innate ability to dance but there are many ways to learn. Watching others dance and imitating them is the most common way to learn, but for some this may take a long time. A quicker method is to have someone, preferably a friend or someone will not laugh at your unskilled attempts, teach you in private.

Displaying your dance moves and “strutting your stuff” in a public area is the best method as it allows for a multitude of ways to increase your chances of finally landing your girl. Not only will you gain the attention and admiration of the girl of your heart, but also of many other girls who notice you dancing. This attention by others will most likely cause your target to experience a feeling of jealousy and a craving for a return of attention. Allowing the jealousy to build will cause the girl to come to you.

Also, this may be a time to think about if you should only have eyes for `this' girl. With the attention that you are assuredly going to receive from many members of the opposite sex this may be your chance choose someone else. Remember the names and faces of those that seemed most `wanting' in the event that you soon notice that `that' girl isn't the one for you.

WARNING: Prolonged dancing may cause severe sweating which voids any idea in this chapter.

 

“The Konoha Fire Festival!” Sai exclaimed as he closed the book. The Fire Festival is a night of fun and dancing for the whole village. There would be games and food vendors all throughout the village, and the center of the village would be converted into a large dance floor with a great band playing until the early morning hours. Sai smiled as he thought of him and Sakura dancing together all night. He realized that, lately, he wanted to smile when he thought of Sakura, and he didn't have to force it.

His smile faded quickly, however, as he realized the one major problem: he could not dance. The Fire Festival was tomorrow night and he knew that there would be no time to observe and imitate others. There was only one option: ask someone to teach him. “But who?” Sai tried to think of anyone that could help him but no one came to mind.

He had no real friends except for Sakura and Naruto, but neither of them could learn of his plan or his feelings. No one could know of his feelings for Sakura. “But Ino knows already,” his subconscious seemed to speak from his lips. INO! It hit him: not only did Ino already know of his feelings for Sakura, but she had actually helped him deliver the love letter to Sakura's room. He hastily packed the book in his pack and ran towards Ino's Flower Shop.

When he reached the shop he pushed through the shop door and heard the bell that signaled a new arrival. Ino was at the counter with a customer but her head turned slightly to see who had came in. She saw Sai standing at the entrance looking somewhat unsure; she gave him a quick smile and returned her attention to her customer. “Thank you, Arri. I'll see you next week.”

The customer, Arri, took the change from Ino's hand and turned to walk out the door. Sai's eyes met hers and she smiled at him. Sai knew that he recognized this girl from somewhere. K-Spot Fashion: the place where he had bought the expensive dress for Sakura. She must have been one of the many girls that were in the store when he walked in, or maybe when he ran from Ino. “Hi.” While remembering where he recognized the girl from he didn't notice her stop right in front of him. “I'm Arri,” she said as she put her free hand out.

Sai was surprised; he hesitated for a moment. “I'm Sai,” he finally said as he reached out and shook the girl's hand. As he tried to pull his hand away she seemed to try to hold onto it.

“HE'S TAKEN, ARRI!” Ino's loud yell from behind the counter made both Sai and Arri turn their heads. Sai was confused, but Arri only turned her face back to his with a smile on it.

Arri looked at Sai, but her words were directed at Ino, “By you?” Her words were soft and lighthearted, but dripped with malice, “The last time I saw him he was running away from you.” Ino gasped as Arri walked towards the door. She opened it halfway and looked back at Sai, “I hope I see you at the festival, Sai.” With that she was gone.

Sai, not understanding completely what had occurred, walked up the counter. Ino's face was livid and her words were rushed and barely distinguishable, “… believe that… running away… I can't… little…” and as if she had barely noticed Sai standing there, her smile reappeared and her words were normal again, “Sai! Are you buying flowers for a special someone?” Her voice became coy, “A special… pink haired someone?”

Sai hadn't even thought of going to a flower shop to buy flowers for Sakura, “No…” he said. Ino's face seemed to contort into thought as to why Sai was here. “Ino… can you…” He seemed to not want to say the words. Of course Ino already knew of his feelings, so he didn't know what this was so hard. He closed his eyes and spoke to the counter in a forced voice, “Inocanyouteachmetodance?” His eyes opened and remained on the counter, but after a moment of silence they slowly moved to Ino's face. He was not surprised in the least to see a large smile covering her whole face.

“OF COURSE!” Ino jumped over the counter. “Let's see what you've got,” she said as she started beating a rhythm with her hands on the counter. Sai simply stood there. The beating stopped, “Really?” was Ino's only response to Sai's complete lack of dance skills. She knew that this was going to be difficult.

For the rest of the day no one had entered the flower shop, which was perfect for Sai because Ino had decided to teach him right there in front of the counter. For the first few hours Ino showed Sai the basics of dancing: where to step and how to move your body and hands. Being a very skilled ninja, Sai caught on very quickly and before long was able dance respectably, or so Ino said, to Ino's makeshift rhythms.

During one of Sai's better dances, the bell on the door rang out and Ino's rhythm stopped suddenly. Sai's body froze in shock as his eyes moved towards the door. The door was closed, but no one was there. The room was still empty. Sai's shock slowly died away. Sakura stood just outside the shop, shocked at what she thought she just saw. She shook her head and walked back to her house thinking she just needed more sleep. There was no way she saw Sai dancing in the flower shop. No way.

Ino decided to lock the door before they continued. She spent the rest of the day showing Sai how to avoid the mistakes that most guy make while dancing, such as getting too close, jerky spontaneous movements, and throwing your hands in the air. By the end of the night Ino had thought that she had produced one of the best male dancers Konoha had ever seen. Before Sai left, Ino had given him some tips for the festival. He left the shop and head home ready for tomorrow night.

With all of his apartment windows covered, Sai practiced dancing well into the day. Below him, vendors were setting up their stations and the dance floor was being prepared. Before long, night began to fall and the streets of the village became alive. Bright lights shown everywhere and many great flavors mixed in the air.

Sai waited a little while, just as Ino had advised. He left his apartment and walked the streets, playing games, eating food, and even trying to converse with an eager and loud Naruto; more of Ino's advice. Finally, Sai made his way to the center of the village and the still mostly empty dance floor. Sai watched as several girls danced around only a few guys. The guys, Sai noticed, seemed to all be making the mistakes that Ino had taught him to avoid. None of the girls looked to keen to get any closer to the guys than they had to.

Sai circled the dance floor once and listened to the rhythm of the band that was playing. He hesitated to get on the dance floor, but Sakura appeared out the corner of his eye and his resolve was set. Sai found a lowly populated section of the dance floor and started to dance. His eyes closed, he moved his body the rhythm and tried to remember everything Ino had taught him. As the song died down Sai could hear murmurs all around him. He opened his eyes and looked around him; almost every eye was on him.

Sai didn't know what to think. He tried his best to not show his embarrassment as he walked off the dance floor and found an empty table. Sai had hoped that Sakura did not see him dancing; he just wanted to go back to his apartment. He looked around and, just as he was getting up to leave, was surrounded by several of his fellow ninja.

Naruto, Lee, and Kiba were all yelling at the same time. “WOW… How did you do that?... Can you teach me how to dance like that?” Sai couldn't tell who was saying what. The three ninja kept yelling random things as the music began again. Sai's feeling of embarrassment died as he realized that his dancing seemed to be good.

As Sai looked back at the dance floor it seemed more crowded, but mostly by women. To his surprise, there were several girls, including Arri, on the rim of the dance floor directly in front of him motioning him to dance with them. “Later!” Sai yelled as he rejected all of them at once. He quickly scanned the crowd and found Sakura dancing on the other side of the dance floor. Their eyes seemed to meet before Sakura quickly turned her head away. Sai smiled as he thought that Sakura had noticed him dancing. It was just as the book said.

Sai got up and went back to the dance floor. As he started to dance he felt someone approaching him. Before he knew it, he was dancing with an excited looking Temari. Every chance he had during the song Sai would sneak a peak in Sakura's direction, and every time he did her eyes would be on him. The song ended and Sai thanked Temari for the dance. As the next song started, Sai headed in Sakura's direction and she seemed to be coming towards him.

Still separated by a few people, both Sai and Sakura started to dance alone. Slowly, the two danced closer and closer to each other until they were dancing together. Sai didn't want the song to end, but eventually it had to and Sai thanked Sakura for the dance. As he turned around he felt Sakura's hand on his shoulder; the universal sign for “don't leave.”

Sai turned around to see a sly look on Sakura's face, “Dance with me again, Sai.” It was a request Sai had no intention of refusing. For the next 5 songs the two danced, getting closer and closer to each others' bodies with each passing song. Every eye, male or female, was on the pair as they danced.

“Wow, I need something to drink.” Sakura was exhausted from the non-stop dancing with Sai. “You wait here for me,” there was something in her voice that made Sai's heart beat faster. Without thinking, Sakura put her hand on Sai's cheek and looked into her eyes. For an instant she wanted to kiss him and Sai could tell; but she hesitated and instead just turned and left the dance floor. Sai was not disappointed, he was happy. This was happiness. He started dancing alone; incredibly thankful for both the book and Ino.

As Sakura walked away she couldn't help but keep thinking of Sai. There was something about him tonight; something about the way they seemed to choose each other. Even though he's been acting a little awkward lately, he's been trying to do good things for her. For her! He's been doing things for her and her only. This thought hit Sakura so fast that she surprised herself, “I like him…” She couldn't understand how it happened so suddenly, but she knew that she liked him.

Sakura stood in line for a glass of juice thinking about if she should tell Sai as a loud voice rang out over the music. “GIVE IT UP, ARRI!” She knew that voice; it was Ino. Sakura turned her head to see Ino arguing loudly with a village girl that was about their age.

Sakura had just received her juice glass from the vendor as the other girl yelled back at Ino, “Look, I don't care if Sai goes shopping with you and spends the whole day at your stupid flower shop! He's gonna be mine!”

Sakura stood dumbfounded. She couldn't hear anything except the village girl's words in her head. “… I don't care it Sai goes shopping with you…” She couldn't understand; why would he be spending time with Ino. “… spends the whole day at your stupid flower shop!” Sakura's face grew red. She had thought that Sai was only doing things for her, but he was doing things with Ino too. She thought that Sai liked her, only her. Was he trying to play the field?

Sakura stomped her way back to the dance floor and Sai, who was still dancing happily. She had planned on yelling obscene words at Sai and pounding him into the ground, but when she reached him she could do neither. She simply stood there, not knowing what to say and feeling like she wanted to cry. But she couldn't cry. Besides, she had only realized she like him just now.

At the look on Sakura's face Sai stopped dancing. “Sakura, what's…” Sakura's juice was all over Sai. The music stopped and again all eyes were on him. Sai was confused and he didn't know what to say as he looked into Sakura's saddened eyes. Sakura looked back at him, but then turned and walked away slowly.

Sai wanted to chase after her, but something told him that that would be a terrible idea. He watched her walk away from him and when she was out of sight he turned around and headed home. Sai didn't realize that the music had never started again or that everyone around him was talking quietly about what had happened. When he finally got home he laid in bed and tried to understand what had gone wrong. There was no way he could know that Sakura lay in bed thinking exactly the same thing.

He had gotten so close. He had been closer to her than ever before and then, and then what? The book had failed him again, but he hadn't seen this one coming. He was approaching the end of the book so there weren't many more chances to get it right. The next one had to be it.