Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Sassychan ❯ Chapter 13: Side Effects ( Chapter 13 )

Author's Notes:

Nothing really. I just want to put this section in here. No, wait I'm sorry. I forgot. I created this chapter to establishi existing relationships within the Konoha shinobis and to establish why Sakura would later on be appointed as Sasuke's Ally. Oops...did I just said that? OKay, erase it from your minds now...

Btw, my mediaminer.org reviewers, InuyashaNaruto, cherry vodka, Indreamland4ever, thanks so very much. And, Indreamland4ever, and cherry vodka, I have revised the summary as you have suggested. I hope it's a tiny bit better :)

DISCLAIMER:

You guys might be wondering why I bold every heading except for the disclaimer...ala lang...I don't really want to acknowledge the fact that i am really not the owner of naruto...so there...hehehehhehe...but as always, I do not own Naruto.

Sassychan

by Boyarina

Chapter 13: Side Effects

What's Naruto's problem? Sakura thought irritably. If that blond baka do not shut up, he's gonna drive Sasuke back to the Sound Village. For sure, no one there is as annoying as Naruto is now.

Officially, she's taking back her assessment that she made earlier this week. Naruto hadn't grown up at all; he hasn't moved a single millimeter in the maturity scale she had been constantly measuring him in.

Honestly, if she had the authority to do so, she would have forced him back to the academy so Iruka-sensei would be able to teach him all about the value of maturity all over AGAIN. Or better yet, if she could hypnotize him, she'd order him to create a jutsu that would ensure maturity in the way one speaks, acts and thinks upon execution.

Naruto...

"Let's leave the interrogation to the Godaime, shall we?" Neji quietly suggested from the back.

Finally a voice of reason! Sakura thought sending Neji a grateful glance. She was about to say the words to second Neji's opinion, but the sight that greeted her at the back row of their formation caused her to pause...

...and stare.

Neji is hoisting a protesting Hinata on his back--it really is quite obvious that Hinata was not prepared nor was completely agreeable to what her cousin is doing by the number of small 'eeps' and squeaks the Hyuuga is emitting.

"N-nii-san..." Hinata gasped out as she was summarily (if not successfully on Neji's point of view) slumped against the Hyuuga prodigy's back and shoulders.

"What are you doing?" Sakura asked, frowning, her anger at Naruto momentarily forgotten.

What is wrong with everybody today?

Neji grunted, swiping a hand at Hinata's stray purple lock that somehow found it's way to his mouth when he was hitching her up so he could give her a piggy back ride.

"She's having a lot of hearburns lately, especially when physically strained. Plus, Hiashi-sama still would require us to do some training later." Neji answered, holding a finger up just as Hinata-sama drew enough oxygen so she could contradict his statement.

Neji smiled a little, knowing full well that he had won the battle when Hinata-sama's words spluttered out into indecipherable mumblings.

After glancing at Hinata with a sympathetic look in her eyes, Sakura shook her head, thinking how frustrating it is to have someone as overprotective as Neji looking after you. She knows, for she has Naruto to gain the first hand experience from.

That guy, he sends every male who would so much as try to flirt with her scurrying for cover, saying that the person was exuding so much pheromones that Sakura might just very well sophocate from inhaling massive quantities of it. One thing that makes her plight different from Hinata, though, is that she gets to sock Naruto if he ever ends up chasing away a male that she happens to like.

Up to this day, Sakura regrets telling him all about pheromones and how it affects the opposite sex for she is quite certain that's how he concocted the lie about he being able to detect these minute chemical particles in the air through the help of Kyuubi.

"You know," Shino began, as he pensively brought his hand to stroke his chin, "Neji-san, you have been doing that quite a lot lately."

The Hyuuga boy paled, but his expression did not at all changed. Had he been truly guilty of the transression Shino accused him of, one wouldn't have truly guessed it, not unless Neji would admit it himself.

"T-that's not true," Hinata claimed a little petulantly, destroying whatever intentions Neji might have had in masking the whole truth. As it is, Sakura would have been content in leaving the issue alone when Neji had refused to budge even with Shino's revelation. But the things is, Hinata's words and the way she had been so flustered about it (not to mention the blush on her cheeks), got Sakura all intrigued.

"Is that so?" Sakura asked, a little evil smile tugging at the corners of her lips. She shared a look with Shino who nodded, appearing like a kid telling his homeroom teacher about the bully taking his precious time away from his favorite toy.

"Hn. He constantly fetches Hinata from out training fifteen minutes--sometimes thirty minutes--before it actually ends," Shino muttered. Had he not been wearing sunglasses that completely hid his eyes, everyone would have had a fascinating time seeing his beady eyes shift towards where Neji is.

"Is that why you have been taking off early from our youthful training Neji-kun!" Lee yelled from up front, sounding somewhere between outrage and disbelief. By his tone alone, you could tell that he usually gets ditched in the middle of a sparring session by his (or what he considers is his) true rival one too many times.

Tenten must have seen this coming for she snorted even before Lee finished his declaration (not that it actually stopped Lee from completing what he must say).

"C'mon, Lee-kun, you know Neji never really leaves you not until he is sure your butt is sticking up in the air unguarded!" she retorted in Neji's behalf, giving her green-clad teammate a good-natured (quite painful, really) slap on the back.

"Ack!" Lee yelped, dancing away from Tenten least he receives again one of her friendly (deadly, to be truly honest) pats.

"It's not healthy to be obsessive about your cousin!" Lee cried in defense of himself. Well, this is, as everyone know by now, is definitely uncalled for, thus is deserving the appropriate reaction.

"Excuse me?" Neji said hotly, "I am not obsessing over Hinata-sama! I'm just concerned about leaving her with these guys she calls her teammates." He stopped here to give Shino a heated glare. "Especially you."

"What's wrong with me?" Shino (now with the nickname 'the accused') asked, his nose wrinkling up.

Neji answered this with a guttural sound at the back of his throat.

"You are a perv, that's what!" he groused, "and I saw Akamaru nuzzling Hinata-sama on her NECK, and that was YESTERDAY!"

Neji purposedly distanced himself away from Shino, showing everyone just how obviously distasteful it is to have the bug master somewhere near his Hinata-sama.

"Niisan, it's not what you think it is," Hinata said quietly. Sighing, she anchored her chin on her cousin's right shoulder and dared to glance sidewards to her teammate.

'I'm sorry' her eyes said.

"What is it then, Hinata-sama?" Neji asked, his irritation now encompassing even the person whom he is supposedly protecting. He couldn't help it since Hinata-sama is too nice even for her own good. More so, her teammates are abusing it!

Hinata sighed again. Though she knew it is quite hopeless by now, what with Neji-niisan on overdrive with his 'I am your appointed Guardian' attitude, she at least would try to defend her teammates.

"Niisan, during the time you found the kikai bug in my shirt was--"

Neji drew his imaginary cork and used it as a lid against the words coming out of Hinata-sama's lips.

"I found the male kikai bug on the crevice on your bossom, Hinata-sama!" he said outraged. How can she be defending these ecchis!

Sakura could no longer take this anymore. Not after what Neji said. She might not be a relative; she might not be a teammate, but she would definitely involve herself in this mess.

She is a woman and she finds it offensive if a male--might it be a relative or a friend--would have the gall to look down her chest.

"Why were you looking at Hinata's 'bossoms'?" Sakura asked slowly, using this voice that could only be best described as a voice that's coming from the depths of a grave, scaring all the cute forest animals that happened to be in their way. She didn't care. What's important is that it brought out her desired effect from the Hyuuga prodigy:

Neji is utterly flabbergasted (and on top of him, acting as an aside consequence to the events that had unfolded, is Hinata, who is fast becoming purple--could be red-violet--in the face)

"I did not do it intentionally," Neji said calmly, quickly recovering his cool and composure. Controlled though his voice might be, the twitching of his left eye spoke volumes on how truly miffed he is by Sakura's words (and of course of the whole situation).

"Man, you are already caught in the trap of your own making. Why not just admit that you were peeking at Hinata-chan's 'bossoms'?" Naruto asked, deciding then that it is the appropriate time to put his two cents in. Besides, with a Sasuke not talking, and a Sakura who is waiting for her anger to boil over at Neji, there's really nothing better that he could do.

Oh, wait, here's the lava from the volcano's mouth coming.

"How in the world did you saw Hinata-chan's 'bossoms'?" Sakura thundered her face half-hidden by the curtains of her bangs and from what one could see of her eyes, it is twice as large as is normal. Had she been in a horror movie, she would have been definitely the monstrous villain.

Neji could have cringed at the sight had be been any normal teenager, but he is not. So instead, what his reaction was: cooly shrugging it off on the outside and MAJORLY cringing on the inside.

Naruto was not kidding when he said Sakura is SCARY when she had that look about her.

Considering that Sakura has her back at the path ahead (while they are leaping trees, mind you) and has her unwavering attention on him (when in fact he should NOT be the receiving end of that 'why-are-you-such-a-hentai-' look) he assumed that she was waiting for an explanation from him.

Exhaling loudly, Neji said, "I accidentally walk in on her dre---"

Hinata slapped a hand over her cousin's mouth which (in her opinion) had gone way--way--out of line A-GAIN. This is the final straw, she had HAD IT!

"Can we please talk about something else?" She asked in that unobstrusive fashion she knew she would never grow out of. With pleading eyes, she silently begged for Sakura to let up and let go.

"But the male population of Konoha are trying to take advantage of your femininity!" Sakura protested, perfectly unwilling to let the issue drop and (if it actually needs to be mentioned still) showing extreme signs of distress and irritation.

"Hey! Don't include Shika, Lee and me in that! We didn't do anything wrong!" griped Naruto who (if you haven't figured it out yet for yourself) intentionally left Sasuke out, hoping (still) to get a rise out of the Uchiha.

His actions produced, yet again, no results. However, Sakura, not missing a beat, did notice this error in his statement.

"Why did you not include Sasuke-kun?" she snapped, turning her blazing eyes to the fox right next to her beloved Uchiha.

Unfazed, Naruto merely shrugged at her before giving her a cheeky grin.

"Coz he's wearing a kimono, that's why!"

Any hopes left that Naruto has to get just even a smidgen of a reply from the Uchiha at this point got clobbered out of him by none other than Sakura.

My dear readers, due to the nature of violence that your minds have (if not GREENISH, to boot) I would no longer go into the details of how Sakura disemboweled Naruto in the fear of compounding to it.

You, however, are free to imagine all you want though. Go on...imagine...

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this chapter is up for revisions...i think...i kinda need it for the story flow so sorry if it sucks ...