Anthology

Anthology

By Laura-chan

Pairing: Sasuke/Sakura, hints of Sai/Sakura, other couples.

Rating: light M

Disclaimer: Of course everything related to Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto-sensei, praise his genius! OOC characters and plot do belong to me.

Warnings: slightly mature contents

I am Italian, English is not my first language, please forgive my mistakes.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

X.

UNDERWEAR THIEF

Sakura stretched her arms and her head lolled tiredly. Her shift at the hospital had almost killed her: she had healed six children who had gotten bitten by a snake while on a school trip, four jounin (her Kakashi-sensei included), three chuunin, an ANBU squad and she had assisted three pregnant women.

Haruno Sakura was completely beat.

She entered her apartment and took off her shoes and white coat, the tatami felt cool under her soles: singing quietly under her breath Sakura went into the bathroom, turning the tap of the bathtub on and undressing. She enjoyed the warm water which soothed her aching muscles, washing her long pink hair and toned body.

When she was clean and relaxed, the girl exited the tub and wrapped a towel around her wet form, using another one to dry her hair.

The pink-haired kunoichi went into her bedroom and opened her underwear drawer: she blinked as she was greeted by an empty space. She raised an eyebrow.

‘I was sure I had cleaned all of my panties...’ she mused ‘Oh well, I must have forgotten to put them back in place.’ She shrugged.

The medic-nin opened the laundry chest in the bathroom: there were dirty shirts, clean socks and shorts, but no underwear.

Sakura frantically searched everywhere in the house.

Everyone in Konohagakure jumped when a loud scream echoed in the air.

§

Haruno Sakura was huffing like a bull by the time she had reached the Hokage’s office: she slammed the door open and was just starting yelling when someone stopped her.

“Sakura! Don’t tell me...you too!?”

The pink-haired kunoichi looked to the side, where Ino, Hinata and Tenten were standing, red-faced.

Tsunade stared at the four girls. “Sakura, you too have been robbed of your underwear?”

The medic gaped “What do you mean ‘too’?”

Tenten sighed, “We can’t find our underwear too.”

Hinata nodded meekly, a shy smile on her face. “Ha-Hanabi-chan was qui-quite angry.”

The Godaime sighed, “I’m assigning a team on the case: six other kunoichi, included Kurenai, Anko and Shizune, had been robbed of their underwear. I believe we have a perverted thief in Konohagakure.” She smiled, somewhat amused.

“Well, I just hope you can catch him soon!” Ino exclaimed, her arms crossed. “It’s too uncomfortable not wear a bra and panties!” the blonde added, looking uneasily at her chest,

which obviously lacked its bindings.

Sakura sighed but in her mind couldn’t help but agree: in the past years her breasts had grown and her 20 years old physique made it very annoying to be without a bra, while her shorts rubbed uncomfortably against her private parts.

Observing the other girls’ faces, the pink-haired medic could see it was the same thing for them.

“Ca-Can’t we j-just buy new...” Hinata blushed, “...un-un-underwear?”

Tsunade shook her blonde head “Now it’s saturday evening and tomorrow it’s sunday, so the shops are closed. You’ll have to wait ‘till monday.” She smiled at them apologetically when the four girls groaned.

Sakura’s eyes glazed over. “Tomorrow I’m not going to show myself out of home.”

“Well, do you think I’m going to wear the dirty panties I’ve used today?” Ino snarled, but the pink-haired kunoichi glared at her.

“Kakashi and Naruto are on my team and they both read Icha Icha Paradise... what do you think they will do once they know that I have no underwear?”

She hated the looks full of pity her friends and her mentor threw at her.

§

“RISE AND SHINE, SAKURA-CHAN!!”

Said kunoichi just groaned: she knew exactly who was the owner of the loud voice which woke her up from her pleasantly dreamless sleep.

“SAKURA-CHAN? ARE YOU HOME?”

“No, I’m not, go away Naruto...” she muttered, buring her face into her pillow.

“SAKURAAAAAAAA-CHAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!”

‘Damn it!’ she cursed in her mind. ‘As much as I care for Naruto, he is too damn loud. And annoying... wait, now I sound like Sasuke-kun!’

Talking about the devil...

“Shut up, dickless... if she is home, she must be ignoring you.”

“I must agree with the replacement here. You are annoying, dobe.”

Jade eyes slammed open in shock: Naruto, Sasuke and Sai all together in front of her apartment, without any blooshed? Maybe she was still dreaming...

“Well then, try to do better, Sai-teme and Sasuke-teme!”

“Tell me exactly why are we doing this...”

“Standing before Sakura’s home or bearing with the idiot?”

“Both.”

“Sai-baka! We are here because Kakashi-sensei told us to call Sakura-chan because he had something to say to us.”

“Stupid Kakashi...”

“I agree.”

Silence.

“Since when are you two so friends with each other?”

“Since we have to bear up with you.”

“Maybe Sakura isn’t at home...”

‘Yes, please, PLEASE, go away, I’M NOT GOING OUT WITHOUT A BRA AND PANTIES!!’

“Well, it’s easy to find out...”

A loud crash from her living room made her jump, eyes wide, hands nervously fidgeting with the shirt she wore as a pajama.

“Aw, damn it Naruto! She’s not going to be happy about this...!”

Sakura bit her lower lip, trying to contain the anger she was going to direct at her blond friend; she stood up and her shirt fortunately reached mid-thigh so no one could see she wasn’t wearing any panties under.

The young woman opened her bedroom’s door and gaped at the scene before her: her front door laid with broken hinges on the tatami of her living room, a nervously giggling Naruto scratching the back of his head, an espressionless Sai and an exasperated Sasuke beside him.

“NARUTOOOO!!” she screamed “MY DOOR!!” she gathered her chakra in her fist, ready to send the blond flying to outer space. “You stupid moron!” she yelled, punching Naruto on the cheek, leaving him unconscious.

“This is not happening!” she moaned, falling on her knees on the floor.

Sai and Sasuke looked at her, looking uncomfortable and desiring to be far away. Soon Sakura’s attention turned to them.

“Why didn’t you stop him?” she hissed.

The two males mentally gulped, not showing their nervosism in their outer appearence.

“Sakura.” Sasuke said, apparently bored. “You know how Naruto is...how could we have stopped him?”

The pink-haired woman thought about it for a moment, then sighed. “I guess you’re right. But what am I going to do about my door?” she looked sadly at her broken door.

Sai kneeled down at her lever and caressed her hair. “We will buy a new one after we have heard what Kakashi has to say...okay?”

His female teammate sniffled and the smiled up at him, making his heart miss a beat. “Okay: in the meanwhile I’ll just lean it against the entrance...” she bit her lip, then remember what she was wearing (or not wearing) and giggled nervously.

“Let me dress first.”

Of course the two males hadn’t missed the way she was (un)dressed and had tried not to look too long at her uncovered legs: Sakura wasn’t the most beautiful girl around, but was fairly attractive and her pink locks and green eyes gave her an exotic look that men appreciated very much. So Sasuke and Sai both nodded when she got up and went to her bedroom.

Sakura still had a little problem: what to wear to cover her chest? She resigned herself to just wear black shorts without her panties, but her breasts, althought not huge, were big enough to need some bindings. The medic grimaced as she remembered when once she had used bandages and how uncomfortable it had been.

“Well, there’s no other option...”

She bound her chest with some bandages, but if they were too loose they would fall, and if too tight she couldn’t breathe.

“Go to hell!” she hissed, tossing away the white bandages. “I’ll go bare!”

Her long, red, sleeveless shirt fit perfectly her figure and she hoped it wasn’t too noticeable that she wasn’t wearing any bra.

Sakura sighed when she entered her living room to find Naruto still unconscious and two bored dark-haired men sitting down on her couch; she kneeled down next to her blond friend and revived him with a bit of her green chakra.

“Uh? Sakura-chan?”

“Naruto, you’re going to pay for my new door.” She said to him menacingly.

“Okay.” He squeaked out and she nodded satisfied.

“So, what are you three doing here?” the pink-haired kunoichi asked, crossing her arms to hide her bra-less chest.

“Kakashi wants to talk with us; we have to meet at the bridge.” Sai smiled irritatingly.

Sakura raised an eyebrow.

“Do you know what it is about?”

Her teammates shrugged and she shook her head, smiling.

“Well, let’s go then!”

§

At the bridge, the four of them were patiently waiting for Kakashi to show up (I guess that after being in team with him for so long, they got used to wait).

Sai was sitting down - drawing as usual, Naruto was reading some scrolls, Sasuke was doing nothing and Sakura was just watching her teammates, thoughts on the underwear thief.

‘Who could possibly go around stealing kunoichi’s underwear? I swear, when I’ll put my hands on him, he will wish he was never born!’

Unconsciously, she leaned back on her hands, as she always did, forgetting that she wasn’t wearing a bra: her breasts jutted out as she was lost in thoughts.

Sai and Naruto were too busy to notice, but a bored dark-haired shinobi did. Lazily Sasuke wondered ‘Since when have Sakura’s breasts grown so much?’

Then, realizing what he was thinking, his face got hot as he suddenly found difficult to look away from Sakura’s chest. ‘Damn it, are those her nipples?’ Sasuke was confused by the mixed emotions that ran through him.

Unfortunately for him, Sakura noticed his red face. “Sasuke-kun, are you okay?” she asked concerned.

Onyx eyes widened. “Of course.” He managed to reply in his usual voice, trying not to let his eyes admire her chest.

“Are you sure? You’re all red, maybe you’ve got a fever.” The medic in her prompted her to go near him to check his forehead.

“Mmm...” she said. “You’re not that hot. Are you sure you’re feeling okay?” she asked again.

“Sakura, I said I’m fine!” Sasuke gritted his teeth.

Naruto and Sai watched the intercourse with interest, but the artist was the only one who saw the Uchiha’s eyes sneak a peek at the female’s chest. Sai blinked, ‘So, Sakura not only has great legs, but even nice breasts.’ He smirked.

“Oi, oi, what’s happening?”

“Kakashi-sensei?” Naruto blinked. “You’re only half an hour late.”

The jounin smiled under his mask and didn’t comment that; instead his eye twinkled amused at Sakura. “Ne, ne, Sakura, I see you’re already over what happened yesterday.”

None of the four males missed how the female’s body suddenly got tense, as she turned around to look at her former sensei. “You... know about it!?” she squeaked, embarassed.

‘Oh Kami-sama, help me! Kakashi knows?’ she thought desperately.

“Yes. Tsunade-sama reported to us jounin, so that we can investigate.”

“What happened?” Naruto asked. “Why weren’t we told anything?”

“Because yesterday we were on a mission, dobe.” Sasuke, who was back to his normal self, rolled his eyes.

“Well, you know, yesterday...” Kakashi was interrupted by Sakura’s loud yell.

“NO! No, no, no no no no nonononono!” she was frantically waving her arms up and down. “There’s no need for them to know!” ‘I’m not going to survive the embarassment!’

Now, that only served to spike up the guys’ interest: what could possibly make Sakura so flustered?

“Ne, Sakura-chan, why is your face all red?”

“Kakashi-sensei, don’t you dare tell them!” she threatened, but the other jounin only shrugged.

“Sorry Sakura, Hokage’s orders.” He had the gall to smirk at her. “And it’s damn funny!”

“For you maybe!” she screeched, hugging herself.

“Well guys...” Kakashi began happily “Ino, Hinata, Tenten, Shizune, Kurenai, Anko, our Sakura and other kunoichi, had been victims of an underwear thief: that means...” he concluded happily “...that they’ve been robbed of all their underwear. How cute.”

“Kakashi-sensei... you have got a DEATH WISH!!” Sakura growled, hiding her face into her hands. ‘I’m not going to face the guys ever again!’

The older man laughed. “You must admit, Sakura, that it is amusing.”

“Ne, Sakura-chan...” Naruto appeared before her, but the young woman refused to meet his stare, “...does that mean that you’re not wearing underwear?” and a lascivious grin plastered on his face.

Sakura’s head turned to look at him and saw that her blond friend was drooling at the sight of her unbound breasts under her shirt.

“Naruto...” she began sweetly, but he never looked up. “I’M GONNA KILL YOU FOR THAT!”

The future Rokudaime never knew what hit him, he was already flying in the sky, disappearing from view.

“Who’s next?” Sakura growled darkly.

“Oh, uhm... I have to go now!” Kakashi sweatdropped and vanished with a cloud of smoke.

Silence and Sakura’s pants of rage filled the air: the two shinobi behind her knew better than arise her anger once again. Not that their thoughts were so pure...

‘She is hot when she is angry.’ Thought a smirking Sai, looking at her cute ass, knowing that she was wearing nothing under her black form-fitting shorts.

‘So, those really were her nipples...’ Sasuke wondered blankly, not knowing what to do with the information: Sasuke Uchiha was truly a great and talented ninja, who had won over Orochimaru – the snake sannin, but when it came to women and hormones, he really was clueless. ‘I wonder...how would they look? Wait... what am I thinking?’ he shook his head to clear his mind from perverted thoughts: he then noticed that Sai was walking towards their female teammate.

Onyx eyes narrowed; he didn’t like the way the other man was smirking.

“So Sakura, shall we go buy a new door?”

The pink-haired woman glanced at him suspiciously, then smiled openly. “Yes, let’s go.”

“I’m coming with you.” Sasuke was quick to say, not wanting to leave Sakura alone with Sai, but the artist replied.

“I’m sure you are too busy, Sasuke-san. We don’t want to interfere with your training.”

“I agree with Sai, Sasuke-kun.. I know how important training is for you.” Sakura smiled sweetly at him, and his heart beated faster. “After all, the ANBU exam is now near and I know you and Naruto both will take part in it.”

‘Do you really want to stay alone with him?’ Sasuke shouted in his head, but just replied with a “Hn.”

He watched them walk away and then murmured quietly. “That doesn’t mean I’m not going to follow you.”

§

“Why are we back here?” Sakura asked her teammate, puzzled, as they entered her apartment.

Sai turned to her and watched her attentively. “What?” she asked.

He got closer to her and cupped her face in his hands. “Do you know how beautiful you are?” he breathed, smelling her sweet fragrance.

“Sai?” she was confused.

“Sakura.” He began “I’ve felt something for you for a long time.” He stopped and smiled apologetically, “You know I’m not very good with relationships.”

He caressed her cheek and hair, pressing himself against her.

“Sai, what are you telling me?” Sakura’s voice trembled slightly.

“That I’m attracted to you.” Sai said, lowering his head to kiss her on the lips.

Sakura was confused, very: she didn’t expect Sai to feel something for her, she didn’t expect him to kiss her... she had always thought that her first kiss would be with Sasuke, after all she still loved him, even after his betrayal and everything—

Her lips parted slightly with a gasp when Sai pressed his lower body against hers, and she felt that he was aroused. That was something wrong with this picture...

‘He is not Sasuke-kun.’ The medic-nin realized. ‘I can’t... Not when my heart still...’ tears gathered in her eyes.

“No, Sai...stop!” she tried to push him away, but he grasped her wrists. “I can’t do this with you!” she said.

His eyes narrowed. “But if it was the Uchiha, then it would be okay, ne?” he hissed.

Sakura tensed and he knew he was right; his hands twisted her hair, almost hurting her. “Why can’t you see that he isn’t going to love you back? You’re wasting your time!”

“Even if he doesn’t love me back, I can’t help but feel love in my heart.” She whispered. Sai cupped her cheeks roughly and their eyes met. “Why can’t you like me?”

“I just can’t. I can only love you as a good friend.” she smiled sadly. “Do you think I didn’t try to stop loving him?” she suddenly spoke up. “Do you think I didn’t try to go out with someone else?” Sakura laughed dryly. “It was useless! It felt wrong. Because it wasn’t him.” She started crying, “I want only him!”

Sai let her go, not knowing what to do in front of her tears. He smiled sadly. “Then, I’ll leave now.” And with that exited her apartment.

He had just gotten out when a punch caught him unaware, making him spit blood. Sai recovered soon enough and got ready to confront his enemy: he stopped immediately as soon as he saw that in front of him stood Sasuke Uchiha, fists clenched in anger.

Sasuke grabbed the front of Sai’s shirt, their faces very close. “Were you trying to rape her?” the Uchiha growled and Sai smiled.

“Why do you care? After all, she is nothing to you.”

“What do you know about me!?” Sasuke pushed him against the wall. “Who are you to decide if I care or not about her?”

Sai’s eyes got colder. “If you care so much…” he began, “…then maybe you should tell her; or next time, I will try harder to take her from you.” The artist slapped Sasuke’s hands away and started walking away, hands in his pockets.

“Sasuke-kun?” he turned his head to see a certain pink-haired medic-nin watching him curiously. “What are you doing here?”

Her lips were a bit swollen from being kissed so violently, her shirt still showed her breasts and nipples and he really didn’t know what to do: he only knew that Sai had tainted her somehow.

“Did he hurt you?” he asker curtly.

“What?” she looked surprised, then her lashes lowered in realization. “Ah, Sai. No. He didn’t hurt me; it was me who hurt him.”

“Don’t you lie to me!” he exclaimed, grasping her wrists. “He hurt you!”

“Sasuke-kun? What are you saying?” Sakura gasped. “It really was me who hurt him, I…” she stilled and bit her lower lip. “I rejected him.”

The dark-haired shinobi looked at her in amazement. “You… rejected him? Why?”

She let out a cold, bitter laugh. “Why?” Sakura smiled at him coyly, dangerously. “Because I still love you.”

His breath caugh in his throat: suddenly it was hard to talk, even harder to move towards her.

Her words kept repeating into his head.

I still love you.

I still love you.

I still love you.

I STILL LOVE YOU – LOVE YOU – LOVE YOU….

He finally moved.

Sasuke pushed them both back into the apartment, not caring about her broken door which was leaned against the doorway. He cupped her face with his hands, crashing his lips against hers, and she responded to his ferocious kiss. He wanted to be gentle, he wanted to soften his touch, FOR HER, but found he couldn’t.

He violently ripped her shirt, and she let him: the sight of her bare breasts made his blood run faster into his veins and his head felt strangely light. Only when he heard the pink-haired girl moan he realized he was licking and sucking the nipples who had fascinated him so much at the bridge.

“Sas-Sasuke…”

“Sakura.” He said, trying to regain his breath and his sanity. “I don’t think I can’t control myself much more-ah!” the statement ended with a groan when she jumped, wrapping her legs around his waist and letting him hold all of her weight – his hands under her ass. Their lower parts were pressed together intimately.

“Maybe I want you to lose control…” Sakura grinned, licking his earlobe and nibbling on his neck.

Sasuke let out a short laugh, almost startling the girl in his arms. “You’ll regret it when I’ll be done with you.” He smirked evilly.

“I don’t think I’ll regret anything I’m doing with you.”

They started kissing again, Sasuke bringing her into the bedroom, both of them unaware of the eyes watching their movements.

§

“What? It was Jiraiya-sama?” Sakura exclaimed.

It was Monday and everyone was in the Hokage’s office, a furious Tsunade towering over a tied-up Jiraiya; all the kunoichi were not only surprised, but mad like hell at the toad sannin who had dared stealing their underwear!

“Jiraiya-sama, how could you??” Shizune yelled. “That was horrible of you!”

“It’s already bad that you spy us while we’re bathing…but now you should really feel ashamed!” Tenten placed her hands on her hips, ready to take out one of her numerous weapons to hurt the pervert.

But the one person Jiraiya was most afraid of was standing in front of him. “Jiraiya…” Tsunade growled, “How could you ridicule my kunoichi like that?”

“Maa, maa, calm down, Tsunade-hime.” The white-haired man was sweating profusely.

“Bah, you’re asking for a beating.” Tsunade cracked her knuckles.

“I knew you were a genius, Jiraiya-sama!” Kakashi exclaimed, the only one truly amused by the entire situation.

“Shut up, Kakashi-sensei!” Naruto hissed, a bandage around his head showing evidence of Sakura’s punch the day before.

“How stupid.” Sasuke simply said, his hands in his pockets. Sakura, who was standing beside him, threw him a glance and they both blushed, looking away immediately. Sai noticed and lost his smile.

“Give me one reason why I shouldn’t knock you unconscious right now…” the Godaime Hokage said menacingly to her former teammate.

“Because I’m the most handsome man in…”

“Say one more word…!” Tsunade threatened and Jiraiya gulped “I was kidding.” He squeaked.

“I needed ispiration for my book! The Icha Icha series lacked originality, I needed something new…” the sannin lamented, while Kakashi’s eye shone.

“I knew it was for something idiotic.” Shikamaru said to Chouji, who just nodded; Ino, who was beside them, just screamed “I’ll kill you!”

“You should thank me!” Jiraiya exclaimed. “I helped creating new couples!”

Silence filled the room: some of the occupants blushed.

“What do you mean?” Tsunade asked brusquely.

“Do you really think your shinobi didn’t take advantage of the situation?”

The blonde Hokage whirled around to look closely at some of Konohagakure’s best shinobi: Kakashi was grinning (or so she thought) under his mask; Naruto was grumbling with a blushing Hinata near him; Shizune and Kurenai, red-faced, were looking at everything but her; Asuma was smirking; Chouji was eating and Shino was staring at her (maybe?); Ino and Shikamaru suddenly looked tense; Sasuke and Sakura were blushing (the Uchiha blushing? She needed a camera!); Kiba was playing with Akamaru; Anko was eating a dango; Tenten and Neji weren’t looking at each other; Sai had his usual blank expression on his face; Genma was smiling proudly, throwing looks at Shizune.

“There’s something you need to tell me?” she asked suspiciously.

Most of the kunoichi blushed harder and stammered a reply, while the males were divided in those who smirked and those who looked embarassed.

“I have all the material you need, Tsunade-hime!” Jiraiya exclaimed, having freed himself from the rope she had tied him with. “My researches were successful! Maybe you will also see the rebirth of the Uchiha clan.” He winked at Sasuke, who suddenly activated the sharingan, while Sakura hid her face in her hands.

“Do you want to die?” the Uchiha growled, covering his embarassment with rage. ‘That damn pervert! How dare he?’

“Ah-hm!” Ino cleared her throat, blush disappearing “Can we at least know where you hid our underwear?”

“Oh, yes, of course!” Jiraiya smiled “I hid them… hm… it wasn’t in Kakashi’s house…” For the first time, Kakashi looked really alarmed, “…not even in the secret place in the Hokage monument…”

After a few minutes of silence, Sakura hissed softly. “Jiraiya-sama… you…forgot?”

“Hehehehe…” the man laughed nervously “I’m not that young anymore, you know…”

A mighty roar was emitted from the enraged kunoichi: Jiraiya gulped and squealed “See ya!” and with that started running, followed by a mob of screaming women.

The males and Tsunade, left behind in the Hokage’s office, sighed and shook their heads.

§

“Ne, thank you Sasuke-kun!” Sakura smiled happily at her new door.

The dark-haired shinobi snorted “Let’s hope it will keep that damn pervert away…” they both blushed.

Actually, their first intercourse hadn’t gone as they had hoped: being the first time for both, they were clumsy, agitated and nervous, Trying to relax, they spent a lot of time memorizing each other’s bodies with fingers, lips and tongues but when it came to THE moment… well, let’s say that Sasuke will never forget the embarassment of asking Sakura where to put his... thing. He had been surprised when she had yelped, but she had explained that for women sometimes the first time is painful. After that, their lovemaking had been too brief, to Sasuke’s huge shame, but he had been able to bring her to climax with his tongue: in the end, he had sworn to her “Next time I’ll do better.” and that had earned him a happy kiss from Sakura.

So, here they were, sitting on the couch, a bit shy and a bit embarassed, not knowing what to do.

“You know…” Sakura began, “Maybe we should really thank Jiraiya-sama.”

“What!?” Sasuke looked at her startled.

“Well, in a way my missing underwear got us where we are now, don’t you think?” she was smiling and the young man found out he really liked to see her smile.

He grabbed her wrist and tugged it until she was in his arms.

“There’s no need to thank that pervert.” Sasuke muttered in her hair. “Let’s just forget about him.” Sakura smiled softly and aswered with an “Okay.”

Anthology X – End


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Author’s Note: 10 pages! Another long one-shot. That was the most Sai/Saku thing I could do, sorry guys… I’m really not into it. I only use Sai to make Sasuke jealous, ahahah! I still believe that Sakura is meant to be with Sasuke (even if I don’t dislike the Itachi/Sakura couple).

Still a HUGE THANK YOU for your reviews! Please don't be shy, keep reviewing :)