Now or Never
Chapter 3: Washroom Breaks
By: The Demonic Ninjas 3
Beta Read by: featherdreams
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!
Dedication to: Anime Insaniac and xSaixlovax4xeva
Author's Notes: I would like to thank all my reviewers! Especially who gave me some ideas to expand my story. I noticed how short my chapters are ha-ha so I appreciate your suggestions. Thank you. Now on with the story! I apologise for not updating sooner.
-The Demonic Ninjas 3
Legend
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'Thinking'
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Recap
Gaara was becoming really pumped by the past three singers and he was on a roll to choose who to sing next. The red-haired shinobi scanned the faces of his friends, whom were all having fun of course, talking gossiping, drinking! Then a brunette caught Gaara's eye. His new victim had been selected. "GREAT SINGING LEE! Tenten… why don't you sing next?"
Tenten's eye twitched a bit as she heard Gaara's statement. She thought for a moment and rambled on for an excuse, "err… WASHROOM BREAK!" yelled the Weapon Mistress as she bolted out the door, nearly slamming into Itachi. But of course, luckily for our evil assassin, he has fast reactions, so he moved out of the way just in the nick of time.
Neji watched as Tenten had ran out the door and began to mumble to himself incoherently, "She made ME sing… now when it's her turn to sing, she calls for a washroom break…should have known…" The prodigy sighed a LONG sigh and looked up at the clock that was allocated onto of the TV screen, "Let's see how long she's going to take."
Great! Now since Tenten bolted out of the room for a washroom break, what should the rest of the gang do? Sit there? I think not … Gaara will get bored and that's not a very good thing…
The panda-eyed man sat on his couch lethargically as he waited impatiently for Tenten to return from her "washroom break". Finally, his patience ran out and he closed his eyes and stated in a very irritated manner "Tenten is taking too long, someone go and fetch her! She's been out for one hour!" In reality, Tenten had only disappeared for 30 seconds. Proves how impatient…and perhaps spoiled Gaara was when he was a child.
The blonde sister tried to calm her fiery-haired brother. "Don't worry, Gaara, she'll come back …" She gave her little brother an innocent smile. 'I hope she does, or we're all dead'
Gaara stared at the currently blank screen and sighed. "Can someone else sing? … I want to… listen to more singing…" His voice was hesitant… unsure if he really wanted to hear more singing or if he was suffering from ADD…either way, he felt that someone should be singing.
Kankuro rolled his eyes in annoyance, but suddenly an evil idea popped into his mind.
"Why not Temari-onee-chan sing?" Kankuro spoke slyly.
Temari jumped out of her seat. "WHAT?! ME! I CAN'T SING!!!"
Kankuro gave his sister a smug smirk. "sure… not like you don't sing in the shower…"
"Hey how would YOU know?!?!" His sister replied irritatedly.
Kankuro laughed as he spoke in a matter-of-fact tone. "You sing so loud that the whole house can here?!?!"
"Personal information was not needed…" Shino replied robotically, however he appeared to have spoken for the rest of the people within the room.
"SHUT UP!" Temari replied as a blush of embarrassment crawled up her cheek.
----Meanwhile----
On the other side of the room, a more serious conversation was going on…
The raven-haired Uchiha descendant tapped his fingers gently on the couch as he pondered on how to word his question. He listened to the small dispute between the Sand Siblings and almost wanted to laugh, however he just managed to keep his composure as stoic as ever. Sasuke took a deep breath and turned towards his pink-haired girlfriend. "… Sakura-chan may I … talk to you privately outside … for a moment"
Although Sasuke was speaking to Sakura, he wasn't exactly making eye contact with her. A very small blush was slightly visible on the Uchiha's pale white skin.
Sakura raised a questioning eyebrow as she noticed Sasuke's unusually shy attitude.
"Sure …"
No sooner had she given Sasuke her response had Ino suddenly grabbed her by the arm. The cherry blossom turned her attention towards her best friend who looked a little TOO excited.
"O-M-G! Sakura we should SO check up on Tenten! Just to make sure she's ok!" Ino had yanked her out of the karaoke room before the cherry blossom could even utter her consent.
Sasuke sat on his lonely couch as he stared at the door which closed with a thud. The Uchiha sighed. 'I just gained enough nerve to ask her and… Damn Ino…'
From the sofa next to Sasuke's, Sasuke could see Sai pull out a book called "How to interact with your girlfriend". Sasuke sighed. He would never understand how Sai and Ino got together as a pairing. Somethings he just never would be able to understand. Sai felt someone staring at him and looked up from his reading.
"Hello, my Red-eyed friend." Sai greeted Sasuke casually.
"Hmph." Sasuke replied. He also could never adapt to Sai's random nicknaming. "I told you to just call me Sasuke."
"Alright, Sasuke-kun" Sai's goofy smile played across hus face as he watched Sasuke turn around in irritation.
Of course, Sasuke never expected to have his brother watching him from under an invisibility jutsu. Itachi began to wonder why his little brother was acting so odd.
----Back at the other side of the room----
A fuming Temari glared at her siblings as she grabbed the lonely and hated microphone from the cold table and began to pick a song from the list provided. Her eyes caught sight of a song that really described her situation … sort of. The introduction of "Tourniquet" by Evanescence began to play…
Temari's voice was filled with passion as she sang about her regret and…betrayal. Yes, she needed her tourniquet back. Temari was a beautiful singer and for the first time, Shikamaru actually stayed awake to hear the girl sing, and he was quite impressed by her vocal talent.
The blonde Sand ninja gave her puppet master brother a deadly glare which was returned by a smug smirk that drove Temari insane as she continued to sing her gothic song…
-----Meanwhile outside in the hallway----
'I wonder what Sasuke was planning to say…' The pink haired kunoichi wondered as Ino and she finally reached the washroom door.
A loud exclamation was heard from within the washroom. "Chikisho!"
Sakura and Ino burst into the washroom upon hearing Tenten's cursing, believing something was wrong, however, when they actually entered the washroom they were seriously proven wrong. At the other end of the washroom, Tenten was leaning against one of the washroom stall doors yelling and cursing at her PSP.
Sakura's jawdropped to the floor. "Tenten WHAT are you doing here?"
Tenten, without looking up replied in a matter-of-fact manner. "Oh, I'm taking a washroom break DUH!"
"…then why is your PSP here?"
Tenten hit the pause button and looked up at her comrades. "Two words. WASHROOM BREAK! And who said I had to actually be going to the washroom, I am just IN the washroom"
Ino rolled her eyes. "But Neji's been worried about you!"
The weapon Mistress shrugged as she returned to her PSP. "Let him worry…"
'Ouch…cold' Sakura though inside. 'I pity Neji for having such a heartless girlfriend.'
Tenten raised her eyes and noticed that Sakura and Ino were lost in their thoughts. A small smirk played across face as she attempted to escape.
"Oh no, you are so not escaping!" Ino finally snapped back into reality and grabbed Tenten by the arm. Tenten used a Kawarimi no jutsu and was at the front of the washroom door waving victoriously at the blonde kunoichi who was clutching at a wooden log. "Ja Ne!" Tenten opened the door only to be met by a very peeved off Sakura. Tenten made a futile attempt to slip away from the pink haired shinobi, but was suddenly wrapped in chakra strings.
"You're coming with us. Tenten-chan. We don't Neji to get all worried about you know do we?" Ino smiled victoriously as she walked up to her partner in crime.
"Tch. Let Neji worry."
"Now let's get back before anyone else gets worried." Sakura and Ino began to drag the defiant weapon mistress down the hall and towards the karaoke room…
----Back in the Karaoke Room----
"We brought the run-away back" Ino stated proudly with hands on her hips as Sakura released Tenten from her chakra strings with a thud.
"OW! That hurts!" Tenten exclaimed in pain as she glared at her fellow kunoichi.
Sakura sighed "Well someone has to confess what just happened"
"huh? Confess what?" Tenten replied innocently.
"She was playing on her PSP trying to escape from singing" Ino stated in a matter-of-fact tone.
"I wasn't playing no PSP!" Tenten shot back.
Neji sighed and looked at Tenten. "You should know better Tenten-chan. After all you were the number one kunoichi of our year. Two negatives make a positive; therefore you did play on your PSP."
"You are such a nerd!" Tenten replied in disbelief at Neji's odd reply in correcting her grammar.
Neji ignored Tenten's remark and turned his attention towards the empty and blank screen.
Temari eyed Tenten and exclaimed almost suddenly while her eyebrow was twitching in irritation. "YOU just interrupted my singing!"
Tenten blinked in surprise. "I-I'm sorry Temari-chan…"
The blonde sand kunoichi shrugged as she threw the microphone at Tenten. "…oh well I'm done. Tenten it's YOUR turn." Temari's eyes sparkled playfully
Tenten barely managed to catch the microphone when suddenly someone's cell phone went off. The ring tone of "Wing" by Akeboshi resonated in the room.
Sasuke jumped off his sofa and ran out of the karaoke room as he turned it on, cursing all at the same time. "Chikisho!"
It wasn't only Sasuke's cell phone which was ringing, so was Itachi's and the Uchiha brothers just happened to like the same ring tone, and coincidently the ring tones were playing at the same time… so Itachi had slipped outside, following Sasuke out the door.
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Author's Notes:I hope you enjoyed this chapter people! I apologise for the VERY late update. Has it been a year since I updated? Sumimasen! –bows low- Anyways, I hope you people enjoyed it! I won't be discontinuing this fic, but it just might take me a while to update, since this whole fic was in script format and had lyrics in it which is a big "no-no" on So I apologise for the delays. I am currently writing my next chapter for a NejiTen AU fic called "Vampire On A Leash". It would be nice if you could check it out as it has many pairings besides NejiTen. Let's see, it has SasuSakuSai, NaruHinaKiba, ItaKureAnko, and InoShikaTema and some other twists here and there. It's my best fic so far. So I'll see you people all later (I will try to update soon)
Sincerely,
The Demonic Ninjas 3
Note to Song requests: If you wish to request a song, I will glady accept them. I will add the previous suggestions in the next chapter!