The Games We Play

“Play a game with me…”

A sea of blue black hair invaded his vision. A warm breath was against his ears and down his neck. Soft hands touched his chest make his muscles jolt.

Opening his eyes he saw sweet Hinata licking small circles on his bare chest down to his stomach. Her bare shoulders were peeking through her main of thick black hair; her breasts were begging to be let out of black lace bra that concealed them.

“What game?” He asked her his hands on top of her head.

Her lips were below his abs licking and kissing the skin just above the waist line of his pants, he closed his eyes loving the feel of her mouth against a place she had never kissed before. Her teeth went to his zipper and he jumped. He never even thought of Hinata doing something like that.

She let out a giggle her body crawling back on top of him. It wasn’t Hinata’s sweet giggle he always heard. It was low and breathy; it was seductive on a level his sweet innocent girlfriend had yet to understand.

“Don’t be afraid ninja, I can’t hurt you.”

Opening his eyes he saw two matching emeralds look back at him. The sea of blue black turned into honey brown, pale skin turned tanner, Hinata’s wonderful curvy body was slimmer and longer.

Naruto jolted up from bed. What the hell was that? Looking around, he saw his bedroom come into focus. In the morning light he saw his bed room as much as a mess as he left it the night before, clothes and dirty towels on the floor and random weapons laying around the room. He looked around again just to make sure he was alone it what he had just seen was in fact just a dream.

Just a dream! He repeated to himself several times rubbing the sleep out of his eyes and tangling up his already messy blond hair. It was just a dream, a messed up dream. People had those kinds of dreams all the time, they had nightmares and crazy shit happen all the time in their dreams it didn’t mean anything right? It didn’t mean he really wanted it. He didn’t want it. He knew he didn’t want it.

Climbing out of bed he reasoned it was the shock of seeing Misa so suddenly six months after his first encounter that was making him act so strange. It had been new to him, so new and exciting but that was in the past. That was in a time before he was in love with a woman who loved him equally if not more. Misa wasn’t in his life anymore; it was Hinata. It was all Hinata.

Deciding it was best to put it all behind him, he got ready. He didn’t have anything big planned today but maybe he could find something constructive to do in town. Didn’t he have that rain check for a duel with Kiba since before he left on his mission?

He left his apartment breathing in the fresh air filling his lungs until they felt as though they would burst. Fresh air had always done marvelous things to clear his head. It wasn’t late; he still had time to meet Hinata at their breakfast. Breakfast belonged to Hinata; they would meet at her favorite tea house before starting their separate days. Lunch or dinner would be up to Naruto, which would of course be the ramen bar where they would catch up on their day before parting ways again until the next day.

Outside the small tea house, there stood his girl in blue waiting patiently him. She was looking at something a head of her, completely spaced out with her hands clasped in front of her. She looked very beautiful just standing there in the morning light waiting for him.

“Hinata-chan!” He called when he was close enough for his voice to carry. She turned and her spaced out face lit up in to a large smile.

Naruto could not remember ever seeing some one so happy just to see him. It did amazing things to him. Made him feel things he never wanted to go away.

When he reached her they had a brief and sweet hug. She wished him a good morning as she led him inside. They were quickly seated, dating a Hyuuga had its benefits.

Naruto hadn’t even pulled out his chair when he heard his name being said in a very high pitched and some what loud female voice from behind him. Turning he only cringed on the inside when seeing Misako’s face.

“What are you two doing here?” Sakura asked coming up behind her followed closely by Yuna and Sasuke.

“Hinata and I were just getting some breakfast,” Naruto answered completely forgetting his chair doing his best not to stair at the pretty girl in the red sun dress.

“So were we,” Sakura said making conversation. “We’re on our way out; I promised Yuna and Misako I’d show them around town today.”

“It’s too bad you didn’t come earlier, we all could have had breakfast together.” Misako smiled brightly at Hinata, she looked innocent and real but something rubbed Naruto the wrong way about her. Something made his stomach knot, and his heart quicken. Something wasn’t right.

“Perhaps next time Misako-kun.” Hinata said sweetly.

“Oh please, call me Misa, Hinata. Misako is so formal.”

“Come on Misa,” Yuna interrupted coming up behind her sister. “Sakura said she had a schedule for us. It’s rude not to follow it.” Yuna put a hand on her sister’s shoulder steering her out of the restaurant.

Naruto and Hinata waved good bye to the group and resumed to taking their seats. They ordered their usual breakfasts and made polite conversation.

“Did your father get mad you were out so late?” Naruto asked playing with the straw in his water glass.

“No, he’s used to me being home late. I told him I was going out with everyone so he didn’t mind.”

“When do you think,” He paused re-thinking his words. “When do you think we can tell him?”

“I think he already assumes.” Hinata answered blushing a bit, Naruto knew she did not want to tell her father of their relationship. He was just recently coming around to Naruto as a human being, it may be asking too much to be the boyfriend of his oldest daughter too.

“But?”

“I-I’m just not ready to tell him.” Her blush deepened and before feeling sorry for her he thought of how cute she looked. “I will tell him, when the time is right. Soon.”

“Okay.” He left it at that. He knew the subject upset Hinata but he didn’t like the sneaking around and the excuses they had to come up with. He was an honest person, sneaking around and lying were not in his nature.

“Doing anything interesting today?” Hinata said changing the subject while they waited for their food.

“I promised Kiba I’d train with him later this afternoon.” Naruto shrugged. “Iruka said something about needing my help when I got back, I’ll probably go see him too. What about you?”

“Tsunade said she needed me to attend a meeting with her since Sakura is working with Yuna and Misako.”

“Sakura’s mentioned those, is it one of those all day meetings?”

Hinata shrugged.

“She didn’t say, I hope its not. Sakura’s talked about having trouble staying awake during those meetings.”

“Are we still on for lunch then?” Naruto asked hopefully.

“I don’t see why not. If it goes through all day I’ll get in touch with you about it.”

Naruto nodded and their food had arrived. He always loved the service here. They ate in silence, each enjoying the warm food in their stomach and the comfort of each other’s company.

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When it came to paper work, it was the last thing Sasuke would ever fine himself wanting to do in the middle of the day. Standing besides Misako who dressed in her red sun dress and tried to start conversation made sorting papers sound very interesting. Sasuke was not asked to join Sakura, Yuna, and Misako on their tour of the town; he was not asked if he wanted to join, nor was he asked to just accompany his girlfriend.

Sasuke was told, very sternly, by the same girl who was smiling and giggling with the brunette girl by her side. He was coerced into taking this damn walk with them, when all he wanted to do was bask in Sakura’s body like he did the morning before. Sakura had other plans and wasted no time in getting them done.

So far since the morning started they had visited the tower, the hospital, the school, and the arena. They had spoken to various people in charge on what it was they were touring at the time. Sasuke noticed that for some reason every place was in dire need of finances for something or another when he could have sworn just a few months ago they had rebuilt a few places here and there.

He was pondering this looking over the new roof of the hospital when Misako bumped his shoulder.

“You look really board.” She said with a cute smile on her face. She reminded Sasuke of a cat for some reason.

“You could say that.” Sasuke answered hearing Sakura give a loud laugh to something Yuna had said.

She had been doing that all morning. Completely kissing up and blowing smoke up that girl’s ass. At first Sasuke told him self he understood the change in character for his head strong, stubborn as a bull girlfriend; it was for the good of the village like she had said. But now, the longer he walked and listened to it all, it was really getting under his skin.

Sakura did not laugh like that. She did not smile like that. Her eyes did not flash like that. She did not go in to long descriptions about the virtue and integrity of Konoha whenever she could. Was she going to be acting this way through out the duration of the girls stay? Sasuke could easily see that becoming a problem if she was.

“What do you ninja’s do when you’re not on missions?” Yuna asked breaking through Sasuke’s thoughts.

“Mainly we train.” Sakura said.

“Train? Aren’t you all in perfect shape as it is?” Misako voiced from the other side of Sasuke.

“Yes, but we have to keep it up until after we retire. Many of us spend all our free days training at least once a day.” Sakura said. “We have team training or individual where you can train on your own.”

“Where do you train? Konoha seems very crowded.” Yuna asked.

“The training grounds,” Sakura said obviously but with a cheep smile. “Would you like to see them?”

“Yes!” Misako said before her sister could reply. Sakura took it as a yes for both of them and began leading the way.

Sasuke drowned out the conversation between the three girls. He heard some things about ninjas, samurai’s, and teachers, but he didn’t care to keep up with the conversation. He began to contemplate simply slipping off and disappearing for the day. Sure Sakura would be pissed off, but its not like she could go look for him right away once she saw he was missing.

He could get a lot done. He could catch up on all that damn paper work he knew was mounting. He could train with Naruto and allow him to look like he was going to beat him before smashing the blond into the ground. He could even go catch a movie if he wanted to.

“Now there’s a nice scene to walk in on.” Misako must have meant to mumble to herself, but she had greatly underestimated a ninja’s hearing power.

Sasuke looked where she was looking and saw Kiba and Naruto in the middle of a training session with both their jackets off. To Sasuke, and Sakura this meant nothing. In their own training sessions Sakura was known to prance around in just her sports bra, it meant nothing it just allowed her to move easily and prevented her from going into dehydration from the heat and sweat.

To a foreigner like Misako though, it may have been some what of a culture shock to see two grown men throwing weapons at each other in just their pants and under shirts.

Out of the corner of his superior eyes, Sasuke say a stray weapon fly past Kiba and continue its flight right between Yuna’s eyes. Yuna however was oblivious to this as she was in conversation with Sakura and her sister.

She turned attention back to the scene before her and her eyes caught sight of the piece of steel heading toward her face. Her eyes widened and Sasuke saw her body grow ridged, she had no idea what to do. Pathetic. He reached out in time catching Naruto’s stray before it met Yuna’s pale face.

“Hey idiot!” Sasuke called getting both men to turn around. “Watch your surroundings.” Sasuke threw it back to Naruto who reflected it with his kunai with a dark look in his eyes. He always hated it when people interrupted his training sessions.

However his normal dark look melted when his eyes saw who Sasuke was with, and something else replaced where the dark look was. Sasuke couldn’t pin point it if you asked him too, it was just different, out of character for the normal hyper active idiotic blond.

“Sorry to interrupt you two,” Sakura spoke up. “They just wanted to see the training grounds.”

Kiba flashed a dangerous smile showing his sharp teeth at Misako and Yuna. Misako smiled back, Yuna was still looking at Sasuke.

“Don’t worry about it,” Kiba said going for his jacket. “We were done anyways and pretty girls are always welcome to interrupt training when ever they please!”

Misako giggled. Sakura let out a groan from under her breath.

“Don’t start Kiba,” She warned.

“Don’t start what Sakura?” Kiba challenged but Sakura being the diplomat she was at the moment, she backed down from it and changed the subject. She began to talk to the others about the training areas Sasuke slipped away to join the men.

“Misako’s pretty hot,” Was the first thing Sasuke heard from Kiba’s mouth. Naruto wasn’t looking in their direction he seemed too interested finding the weapons he had thrown every which way.

“Don’t think about it,” Sasuke said amused. “Attempt to tap that and Sakura will have you’re head.”

“She’d have to catch me first.” Kiba zipped up his jacket still making eyes at Misako.

“I’d put my money on Sakura,” Naruto said joining the conversation.

“Whatever,” Kiba said shaking them off. He said no more on the subject but both men knew the train of thought he was on, and there was no derailing him. Sure enough Kiba left the two men and went in-between the women.

“You girls have lunch yet?” He asked putting his sweaty arm around Misako who surprisingly didn’t shy away.

“Not yet,” the girl answered smiling up at him. She seemed to like the attention she was getting.

“We were just going to.” Sakura said a little more coldly then she may have intended.

“Why don’t we join you?” Kiba said shaking his head to Naruto.

“What’s he talking about?” Naruto asked noticing the head jerk in his direction.

“I think he’s just gotten you into lunch with us.” Sasuke said.

“I already have plans.” Naruto spoke up causing heads to turn and look at him.

“Too bad, how about just me then?” Kiba said and winked at Misako who giggled.

“I think we can make room for you Kiba. Right Sakura?” Misako asked and Sakura nodded keeping her mouth shut tight.

The group of people walked out of the training grounds. Kiba took the lead with Misako, Yuna walked next to Sakura, and Sasuke stayed in the back with Naruto.

“I had no idea Kiba had a death wish.” Naruto said amused at his friends obvious flirting.

“People surprise you.” Sasuke said in a low drawl watching Sakura chatter with Yuna.

When they got to town Naruto was all too happy and surprised to see Hinata in his direction with what looked like food in her arms.

“Hinata-chan!” He called to her and she smiled back. She made her way towards them careful not to drop the food in her arms.

“Naruto, I’m glad I found you. I can’t make it to lunch today, Tsunade has me getting food for the others right now.”

“So then you can join us Naruto!” Kiba said but Naruto ignored him.

“That’s okay Hinata, what about dinner?”

“Maybe, I don’t know. Tsunade said this may be an all day meeting.”

“Oh you got sucked into one of those?” Sakura asked rolling her eyes. “Don’t forget the caffeine.” She added.

“I’ll wait for you then.” Naruto said with a bright smile, he hated it when Hinata felt guilty.

“What are you going to do for lunch then?” Hinata asked her face concerned.

“He’ll come with us!” Kiba said again this time Hinata heard him and she smiled.

“No, its okay. You all already made plans I don’t want to-”

“Don’t be silly Naruto!” Misako called from her spot under Kiba’s arm. “The more the merrier right? Is it okay if he joins us Hinata?”

“S-sure!” Hinata said her face happy. She liked the idea that Naruto wouldn’t be alone for lunch, she knew how much he hated alone.

“There you go Naruto, you even got permission!” Kiba laughed and others joined.

“I’ll see you guys later then. Bye Naruto!” Hinata hurried off leaving Naruto to have lunch with someone he really didn’t want too. Well at least Sasuke was there, and from the looks of it Misako was going to be busy with Kiba.

Lunch was awkward to say the least. Sakura stayed by Yuna ignoring everyone else. Sasuke sat quietly with Naruto, who wanted to engage in some sort of conversation but the only other person around was all but necking with Yuna’s younger sister.

“Kiba is very friendly Sakura,” Yuna smiled hearing Misako giggle.

“Sorry about that.” Sakura said apologetically.

“No don’t be. Misako doesn’t have many friends because of how much we travel, its nice to see Kiba so friendly with her.”

“I’m Kiba wants to do more then just be friends.” Sasuke smirked and got a glare from Sakura. Well it was a hell of a lot more then the attention she had been giving him all day.

“It looks that way,” Yuna said nodding at her sister who giggled again. “Misa is old enough to take care of such things on her own.”

They were quiet again and Yuna spoke again a few seconds later.

“Last night though, I saw Kiba getting very close to your friend Ino. Are they together? It looked like they were.”

Sakura laughed.

“No, Ino and Kiba are kind of the same though so they get along like that. But both of them can’t keep a relationship for more then a few weeks…” Sakura stopped short and looked at Yuna again who seemed to not understand what Sakura was looking at.

“What?”

“Oh, its just…I didn’t mean…well I know Kiba will respect Misako if he chooses too…you know…I mean he’s not a bad guy, just…you know…”

“Yuna said Misako is old enough to take care of such matters for herself Sakura.” Sasuke said. He was getting fed up with the new Sakura that was gracing their presents.

“I think I need to go,” Naruto said butting in. He knew his team mates enough to know when things were going to get nasty. “Iruka wanted to see me,”

He got up excusing himself and saying good bye to his friends. He waved over at Kiba who again was nuzzling Misako’s shoulder before seeing him and returning the gesture.

“Oh shit, I need to go too.” Sakura said once Naruto had left through the door.

“Why do you need to go?” Sasuke asked.

“Tsunade wanted some errands run this afternoon for the hospital. Shizune is pretty busy with out me so she can’t do it and Tsunade doesn’t trust anyone else to do it.”

“Can’t you do it later?” Sasuke pressed on.

“No Sasuke I can’t do it later.” Sakura’s tone was evident to everyone with in hearing distance. “I’m sure you can manage on your own for a while, I’ll be back as soon as I can.”

“Where do we meet you?” Sasuke asked giving up on the issue. He already lost.

“I’ll meet you at the tower.” Sakura turned her head to Yuna with a sweet smile. “I’m sorry to run off like this, but Tsunade is our Hokage after all.”

“Oh no, I understand Sakura. I’m sure Sasuke here can show us a good time just the same.”

“Great!” Sakura smiled and waved one last good bye before disappearing out the door.

Sasuke had never been social. He only put up with his team at the age of twelve because he had no other choice. Over time they became the few people he could stand to be around when he didn’t have to be. Being in this situation Sasuke drove himself back into this quiet secluded self attempting to shut out the world.

He didn’t have to do much right? Just waste some time here and there and then meet Sakura back at the Hokage tower. Maybe then he could ditch her, he didn’t think he could handle a whole afternoon with this new Sakura like he did in the morning.

“I take it she doesn’t know about us?” Yuna said suddenly.

“There is no reason to tell her.”

“Were you with her then?”

“No.”

They were quiet again. A giggle erupted from behind them, Sasuke rolled his eyes. Kiba better not jeopardize anything for Sakura, because then she was going to take it out on him and not Kiba.

“You know Uchiha-sama,” Yuna’s voice dropped and sounded all too close to his ear. A familiar feeling came from the bottom of his stomach up to his chest when he breathed in her familiar scent making memories flood back to him.

“It’s a shame you are taken, I was really looking forward to repeating our night so long ago.”

“One night was enough.” Sasuke said only to receive a coy laughter from her side of the table.

“You think so? I bet I can prove that wrong Uchiha.”

Sasuke stared at her. Was she really serious? She must have been waiting all day for her perfect moment to say this to him. Some people!

“Sakura will never need to know. It can be our secret, no one has to know.”

Still Sasuke said nothing. He would not acknowledge what she was asking for.

“I’ll give you time to think about it,” Yuna smiled standing up. “In the mean time I think its time we make out way to wait for Sakura at the tower.”

Sasuke remained sitting. No one told him what to do, except for Sakura. But he would never admit that to her as long as he lived. When Yuna saw he did not move she looked even more amused.

“Unless you would like to show us around town Uchiha-sama?”

Not attempting to hide the rolling of his eyes. Yuna called to her sister who by now was near to kissing Kiba before hopping out of his arms and over to her sisters side. Sasuke saw a wink share between them and he smirked.

Together they walked to the tower to wait for the return of their tour guide. A few steps behind him he heard giggles and whispers but chose to ignore him. What two little girls said was never any concern of his.

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TBC-