.title: something sounds awful fishy here
.prompt: #29 fishing
.warning: fail. fail. fail.
.summary: "Fish don't have feelings." he retorted, folding his arms over his chest. What a annoying argument he had gotten himself in... "They have more feelings than you!"

.notes: sorry for taking so long. i had writer's block, then exams, then acid reflux, then more exams, then writer's block... and now, my head hurts. i hope you enjoy this fail attempt at... whatever this is. dedicated to xena, because her birthday was ages ago and i didn't know so yeah...

.disclaimer: naruto is owned by masashi kishimto. plot belongs to veroxion.

An excited gasp came from beside him. "Look, Sasuke-kun! Look at all the fish!"

Sasuke made a face, but stared at the fish anyway. Sakura and himself were standing over a small pond, in one of the local parks and in that pond, swimming around in the green, muggy water were some goldfish. Their scales glimmered when the sun hit them just right.

Sakura crouched down beside the pond, her big eyes green with wonder as she stared at them. They swan around, gliding in the water. Sakura reached out her index finger and poked at the water, watching it ripple slowly. The fish, which were once peacefully swimming about suddenly darted away.

Sakura's face crumpled up and Sasuke narrowed his eyes as he prepared for the big fat tears that were sure to roll down her cheeks. Sakura never took rejection easily, after all. She turned around, her face pinched with anger. "Sasuke-kun!" she stomped one of her feet, for added effect. "The fish aren't being nice to me!"

He rolled his eyes and looked the other way, ignoring her. "Why would you want to be friends with a fish, anyway? They're stupid."

Sakura scrunched up her nose. "Don't say that about the fish, Sasuke-kun! You'll hurt they're feelings!"

"Fish don't have feelings." he retorted, folding his arms over his chest. What a annoying argument he had gotten himself in...

"They have more feelings than you!" Sakura screamed back at him, before she took off running. Sasuke felt his eyebrow twitching when he saw Sakura run over to her mum, tugging on the womens skirt, complaining that "Sasuke-kun made the fish feel sad, mummy" while putting on a good sob-fest that would even fool his own father.

Sakura's mother said her goodbyes to his own mother and took Sakura back to the car. He glared at the car that drove off. Stupid Sakura and her stupid feelings for the fish that didn't even have feelings.

Feeling a tap on his shoulder, he whizzed around, only to come face to leg with his own mother. Mikoto tapped her foot. "What have I told you about making little girls cry?"

"Sakura doesn't count as little. She has a huge forehead." Sasuke tried to reason. Mikoto gasped. "Sasuke!"

"Well, she does!" Sasuke protested, pouting as he looked away from his fuming mother. It wasn't his fault that Sakura had a big forehead, now was it?

Mikoto frowned and grabbed Sasuke's ear, ignoring his protests and dragged him to the car. She couldn't believe how rude her little boy was! Did he always say such horrible things to Sakura?

The drive home was silent. Sasuke sulked quietly in the backseat, rubbing his sore ear.

When Mikoto parked the car outside the house, she looked into the rear-view mirror and mustered up the best infamous Uchiha glare she could handle. "You better make it up to her."

Sakura bit the side of her lip as she spread butter over her toast. Finally happy with the amount that she had spread on, she set the blunt knife down and picked up her breakfast, ready to take a bite. Her father was reading the newspaper, while sipping at his morning coffee while her mother set a huge glass of orange juice in front of her, before sitting down herself.

Ready to sink her small teeth into her buttery heaven, Sakura dropped her toast in surprise when there was a knocking on the door. She jumped out of her seat, running towards the door. "I'll get it!" she called back to her parents.

Standing on her tip-toes she that she could reach the handle, Sakura opened the door to reveal no one. The pinkette scowled and was about to slam the door in frustration when she noticed a red bucket, full of water on her doorstep.

Curious, she took a closer look to discover... fish! Her eyes lit up with happiness as she counted them. There were three goldfish in the bucket... and they looked exactly like the ones from the pond at the park.

There was the bright orange goldfish, that was a little chubby and reminded her of Naruto from school. There was the white fish, with speckles of orange on it's underbelly... and then there was the one that was the one that was speckled with black spots. She liked that one best.

She put her hand in the bucket and prodded it softly with a finger. It moved away instantly and continued to swim around in a circle. Giggling, she grabbed the bucket handle and went back inside, water sloshing out of the bucket as she ran to show her parents.

"Look, mummy, daddy! Fishies!"

Sasuke sat by the pond at the park, playing with the small pebbles around him. Sakura hadn't come to the park for about a week now, ever since he told her that the fish were stupid and that they didn't have feelings.

He just hoped that—

"Sasuke-kun!" the Uchiha felt something fly into him and so he lost his balance and both him and his attacker fell into the pond.

Sasuke coughed and wiped the water from his eyes, shivering as the freezing water soaked his clothes. He scowled at the girl who was on his lap. She was smiling at him while water slid down her face and dropped off her chin. "Arigatou, Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke attempted to smile, but it came out looking like he had eaten something bad. Sakura giggled at his expression, using her fingers to move his cheeks upwards, making his lips move in the progress and making his smile look twice as funny.

Sasuke pushed her hands away and tried to stand up. The water only came up to his stomach—he was thankful is wasn't deep. He would have drowned otherwise. Something warm touched his cheek and it was only when Sakura moved away that he realized that she had kissed him.

"I love my fish, Sasuke-kun." she told him. "But, I think I love you more."

.notes: this sounded way better in my head. but seriously, imagine five year old sasuke giving sakura a bucket full of fish. isn't that just the cutest thing ever? oh and serious big thank-you to everyone who reviewed, faved, alerted... i didn't expect to get 40 reviews at this point in the story! thanks so much you guys!