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askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2007-01-23 01:10 am

teamwork -- AU, current time, sequelish to Sakura's First Time.

For [livejournal.com profile] finnigan_geist and [livejournal.com profile] valles_uf -- started for one and finished for the second. Pure wish-fulfillment, and not entirely IC either. This does not actually happen in the Teamwork chronology in any canon way, though it's based on Sakura's "first time" prequel, which is where all the OCs are from, and takes place post-Teamwork 2 and before Teamwork 3.

But this ficlet doesn't count as Teamwork canon, really. It's like... an alternate Teamwork universe or something. XD;



"The town of Higashi, you say?"

Sasuke pauses briefly in mid-step; Sakura looks a little too surprised just for a name. "You know the place?"

She reddens a little, plays with a lock of hair. "Well, yes... That's where my mother's sister and my cousins live."

"You got cousins, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asks, interested. Sasuke frowns. Why would she be embarrassed at having cousins, civilians or not?

He pretends not to listen as she tells Naruto everything about her cousin Yumeko and her two little brothers -- oh, they must be twelve and nine now, and Yumeko this, aunt Ichimu that, and it's a nice little town, very pretty... quaint... calm...

Naruto grimaces when Sakura glares at him. "We're not even there and you're already glaring at me! What did I do now?"

"Nothing yet, but I'm sure you will do something to embarrass me at some point," she retorts; and then when Naruto's shoulders slump, she takes his hand half-apologetically and chuckles. Sasuke walks ahead, catching up with Kakashi.

"What a brisk pace you're setting, Sasuke. It's nice to see that you want to meet Sakura's family so much."

Sasuke glares at his teacher quickly; he really wasn't. He could do without meeting more relatives to impress. But then, her relatives are going to be his in-laws pretty soon... Oh, damn it. Now he's going to ruminate on both this and her suspicious hesitation.

+

Of course, Kakashi generously allows them to leave the inn for a quick visit. (Naruto claims loudly that the sneaky bastard just wants to keep the bathroom and its huge tub to himself; privately, Sasuke is tempted to agree.)

The town isn't all that old, and really not that big, but Sakura insists that they go through the streets, which annoys Sasuke a bit even if he knows that not alarming the civilians by jumping over the roofs is only courteous. He just doesn't like the place. It's all flat ground and tidy streets, too new to have any real character and too bland to provide good cover.

He doesn't know if they arrive to the little house on the outskirts of town too late or too early. He stands with Naruto in the little dirt path as Sakura waves wildly at a group of people in a garden. A redheaded girl hurries to meet her. There are shrill exclamations of joy, and enthusiastic hugs, and about three hundred questions.

Naruto stands at the gates, and smiles, sad and envious and tenderly glad all at once; Sasuke elbows him.

Sakura waves them in and introduces them; "Sasuke-kun, Naruto, this is my cousin, Yumeko. Yume-chan, my teammates. And this is Kimi-chan, and -- Ken, right? Your name's Ken. And ... Jun'ichi -- Junta? Ahh, sorry." Laughter. "I'm sorry, it's been a while!"

Naruto laughs with the group, as Ken and Junta jeer playfully. Sakura pouts at them.

"And, er."

"Sanae."

"Sorry, sorry! Sanae. And Hiroshi."

The couple of strangers left introduce themselves, and then the dishwater blond guy with the ponytail starts teasing Sakura again; Sasuke ignores the badly disguised flirting, since Sakura reacts to it as if the guy were trying to sell her an old car. He keeps watch as Naruto starts to chat with the group, taking note of the interactions.

Sakura and her cousin retreat to the house to see if her aunt is there; Sasuke crosses his arms and tries not to groan when one of the girls smiles at him.

"How do you like our town so far?"

He's tempted to say the truth, but thankfully, he's been raised better than that.

Fifteen minutes later, he's wondering if perhaps he could use a kawarimi to get the hell away from all that bubbly, empty chatter. Or a genjutsu, genjutsu isn't his forte but surely they wouldn't notice anything. Naruto wouldn't, either; he's busy showing off for the boys at the other end of the garden, and they shout and laugh and throw insults at each other with great enthusiasm.

In the end, he just politely mentions a thirst he doesn't feel and makes his way to the house. The kitchen door is out of view behind a little awning; Sasuke decides to wait here. Hopefully Sakura's aunt won't find him right away and he can hide for a little while.

He didn't plan to listen in; he didn't even know he'd hear anything of interest. But it's hard to miss the emotional chatter; harder even not to try to make out the words.

"... My baby cousin, married! I still can't believe it."

... Well. Well. Alright, not getting in right now. He knows he should; it's only proper. But he has no wish to spend the night here. It's already getting late, and they told Kakashi they'd be back at nightfall at the latest.

"Visually, he's a step up from Hiroshi, that's for sure."

Sakura protests; he knows she's probably blushing. "Yume-chan!"

"Maybe even a little staircase," the cousin adds drolly.

Sasuke frowns and steps away from the window. Hiroshi, huh.

He goes and joins Naruto; the blond, ponytailed guy looks down at him from his six-feet-tall frame. Sasuke gives him a long, piercing look; but he remembers that the guy's name isn't Hiroshi, so, whatever.

Naruto gives him a 'okay, what's your problem now' look, but Sasuke shrugs, already looking away. Hm -- this one is Jun-something... That one is Ryo... There. Soft body, messy black hair, brown eyes, slightly worried face as he smiles nervously. Sasuke doesn't smile back.

Instead, he looks him up and down, slowly. And then, when Sakura and her cousin Yumeko come back out, he turns away, dismissing him.

Yumeko is staring at Sasuke, but he doesn't let her ask whatever it is she's visibly thinking about; he speaks first. "Are you coming to the wedding?"

There; a polite, even pleasant inquiry. He can be civil when he wants to. He's going to be civil about this until Hiroshi chokes on it, because this is how little he matters -- mattered.

Sakura watches him with surprise; Naruto isn't really listening, too busy explaining something about the use of kunai versus shuriken to the tall, gangly guy with the glasses.

"Of course I will."

"A wedding?" the blonde girl -- Kimi -- asks politely.

"Ah..." Sakura seems to be frozen on the spot, slowly blushing. Sasuke waits for a cue; perhaps she'll be angry if he says it himself.

"Yeah, Sakura-chan and Sasuke are getting married in five months," Naruto throws, and then goes right back to his discussion.

Sakura's cheeks turn solid red. Kimi squeaks; the other girls gasp; and then come the hundreds of questions. He lets Sakura field them, not that most of them are thrown his way; but he moves to stand at her back, to make sure she isn't swallowed by the group.

He doesn't glance in Hiroshi's direction even once; and Hiroshi doesn't try to ask anything.

+

It's way past midnight and they're almost back at the inn when Sasuke finally asks what he had in mind all night long.

"Why him?"

Sakura has been blushing all day; her capacity to embarrassment has been burned out by the babble with her old friends and then with her aunt's examination over dinner. She doesn't really react. "He was really nice. He made me laugh," she explains with a tired shrug, dragging her feet up the street. "... Wait a second. How did you know?"

Sasuke shrugs and looks away.

"So THAT's why you were acting all -- all -- oh, really!" Sakura looks like she doesn't know if she should feel exasperated or not.

Naruto looks between the two of them, confused. "What are you talking about?"

"Sakura's first boyfriend."

"Sakura's WHAT?" Now Naruto looks ready to turn around and... perhaps stare Hiroshi in the eye in disbelief. Perhaps growl at him. Perhaps just poke and gape.

Sakura isn't taking any chances; she grabs his sleeve and hugs his arm against her chest, glaring tiredly at the blond. "Naruto... Drop it. I've told you two, it was ages ago, he really doesn't matter anymore."

"Yeah, yeah, I know. But which one was it? We're better, right? We're totally better."

Sakura rolls her eyes and sighs, leaning against Naruto's chest. "Yes. Yes, you're better. Totally better. Now stop being assholes and let's go to bed."

Naruto grins slowly, and glances at Sasuke over Sakura's head. Sasuke is tired, but he's not about to back down, even though he knows that Naruto's the ultimate stamina freak.

Sakura's brain catches up a second later, and she yelps. "I didn't mean -- I just meant -- I'm tired!"

"We'll do the work for you; right, bastard? You won't have to move a finger."

Sakura gapes at Naruto as she realizes that she's going to get tag-teamed. She turns to ask for Sasuke's support with an increasingly desperate look. She isn't going to get it; he fully agrees with Naruto in this. Not that either one of them isn't vastly superior to that lazy, spineless civilian, but they really should drive the point home properly. Several times, preferably.

"But -- and Kakashi-sensei ?!"

Sasuke has to admit, he cares about Kakashi about as much as Naruto does, right now. The mission's over, and their teacher was the one who suggested they take some downtime for personal things tonight, after all. He'll have to reap what he sows. So when Naruto throws Sakura across his shoulder and starts running up the wall to jump to the inn's roof, Sasuke is right there on his heels, eyes narrowed in anticipation of their ultimate revenge over Hiroshi.

[identity profile] artimusdin.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
*snickers* Sakura didn't realize what the far-reaching consequences of that little fling from then would be, did she?

[identity profile] valles-uf.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Jealous!Sasuke and 'Okay, what's your problem now'!Naruto and NoFingers!Sakura and and and Kakashi's still and always really really annoying...

*glomps Asuka and picks her up and spins around a few times*

Thank you! This is WIN!
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coherent review whut?

[identity profile] na-no-nai.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. MY. Goodness.

tag-team *__*

[identity profile] beachlass.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
They should drive the point home. Several times.

Oh, Sasuke.

[identity profile] trishalynn.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Not that you were asking for beta-stuff, but:

"Are you coming to the marriage?"

Should be "coming to the wedding?"

[identity profile] everyheart.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
TYPO... MISTAKE... ER, WHATEVER ALERT. XD

Sasuke walks ahead, catching up on Kakashi. Should be 'catching up with', not on. =3

ANYWHOODLES.

Yes. Love. Asjgasfafi. I was praying for you to write something with Naruto and Sasuke finding out. It's like... tehawesome. XD

...... I DUN KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY. -caps abuse- But it's luuurvely. =O -rereads-

[identity profile] trishalynn.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Why is it not canon? Too many things for Sakura to be doing between Teamwork 2 and Teamwork 3 so that she can't go on missions with them as a team? Or is it because of the seal stuff that she can't leave the village?

[identity profile] rurounitriv.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
*snerk* "Ultimate revenge over Hiroshi" indeed. More like a couple of dogs marking their territory. XD
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[identity profile] stripedpetunia.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
AAAHAHAHAHA

That was so cute. I love it when your Sasuke gets jealous. And the ending. Poor Sakura. XD

[identity profile] ktoth04.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
lol :D
awesomeness

now where is the tag teaming?!?!?!

;)

[identity profile] ktoth04.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
:)

[identity profile] azartti.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'm dead. Yeah, and I lol-ed so loud that my mom asked me if there was something wrong with me xD

"...their ultimate revenge over Hiroshi." xDDDD Poor and lucky Sakura x3

[identity profile] finnigan-geist.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
\:D/


YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!



Ahahahahahahaha, ohhh, joy. I love the little Sakura's First Time story, and now that it's got Team 7 threesome tag-team sex, I TOTALLY ADORE IT. Wonderful.

[identity profile] trishalynn.livejournal.com 2007-01-23 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
The mission's over, and their teacher was the one who suggested they take some downtime for personal things tonight, after all. He'll have to reap what he sows.

*GIGGLE*

[identity profile] kane-shi-megami.livejournal.com 2007-01-24 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh ho ho....wow! :) I wondered how those two would deal with Sakura's other adventures, this was quite hilarious and not what I expected. Those two kill me...

Tag team?

*fangirl squee and falls over*

KSM

[identity profile] neotokyo-huh.livejournal.com 2007-01-25 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
...so the tag teaming part...doko?
XD love ur stuff!!

BTW is this updated on fanfiction.net or mediaminer?

I'm a bit lost at where I am on teamwork *shame on me*

<3

[identity profile] mommyr.livejournal.com 2010-04-24 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Still around, still lurking, still loving Teamwork above all other Naruto fics ever . . .

But this, this brought me out to say how much I adore this n___n