•Shackles of Time•

Chapter 4: You Call It Weird

"kyaaah! were going to hang out with sasuke-kun!!"

"well, technically, its training" stated choji with chips falling out his mouth.

"troublesome" muttered shikamaru as he faced away from the fangirl, form slouched and hands in his pockets.

"who cares! its still sasuke-kun~" ino skipped around with a dreamy look in her face, you could literally see hearts in her hearts, but then stopped in thought "but forehead and that baka will be there too" she frowned, both were annoying, always blocking her chance with sasuke-kun, intentionally or not. It only made matters worse when she was placed on a different team and forehead got to be with sasuke.

Shikamaru sighed, tired already at the mere thought of a fangirl, a hyperactive idiot and a brooding emo joining with his team filled with another fangirl of that exact brooding emo and is rivals with the other fangirl who the hyperactive idiot is in love with. Yup, this is his troublesome life. Choji was cool, he didn't bother him much but still, everything is just too-

"troublesome"

"oh shut up shikamaru, everything is troublesome in your eyes" scolded ino with an eye roll.

"not cloud watching and sleep"

The platinum haired girl just rolled her eyes once again and decided to ignore the nara in favor of daydreaming about her meeting with sasuke-kun not even a few minutes away.

He held her chin so that she was staring at those deep onyx eyes that captured her heart the day she saw them. He pulled her close, so close she could feel his hot breath touching her skin, his pale features were suddenly so noticable. The way his nose was only centemeters away from hers, the way his soft looking lips were parted ever so slightly, the way his raven locks fell down on his handsome face, his eyes gazing over her in an alluring manner.

"I missed you, ino" her name was said in such a husky voice that she couldn't help but blush, the hand slowly made its way to her cheek, all the girl could do was stare at the angel in front of her.

"m-me too, s-sasuke-kun" she stuttered out, berating herself for not keeping her cool. She almost sounded like hinata there, not that she disliked the girl.

He smirked, it looking heavenly on his sharp features, eyes crinkling up slightly with mirth.

"that was cute, unlike that forehead sakura" he said which made ino even more flustered.

"y-yeah, that forehead" was all she could say in a slight daze by their close proximity which worsened when the raven pulled her even closer, almost ki-

"WHAT DID YOU SAY BILLBOARD BROW!?" ah, damned sakura.

It seems that team seven has arrived while she was dreaming. Wait. That means sasuke is there too.

"sasuke-kun!!" she shouted as she rushed towards the uchiha standing behind his blonde teammate.

The raven sidestepped when she tried to hug him, he could hear naruto snickering in front of him.

"grr, shut up baka!" shouted ino when she noticed the blonde was laughing, hurt that sasuke-kun had rejected her approach and making matters worse, naruto was laughing at her!

"pft, sorry ino, I wasn't laughing at you, I was laughing at sasuke-teme!" he then burst out in a fit of laughter.

"shut it dobe!" sasuke got ticked off. They had talked this morning about fangirls and sasuke stating naruto actually had some when he was older, the blonde got confused since naruto didn't find himself running away from girls every morning. Sasuke stated his luck that his were actually sane, making a comment about him not being as handsome and so is the reason why that doesn't happen to him. Not that sasuke actually liked it. The blonde got mad at this and challenged him, he would have agreed if it were anything else then what the blonde had proposed. That whoever escapes a mob of fangirls wins. He wanted to refuse but naruto pulled the 'hokage voice' on him 'damn him for taking advantage of that in such unimportant situations' was what he though. In the end, they got chased without the use of chakra as part of the 'challenge' as the blonde stated, when they got tired sasuke was the victim since they were his fangirls and didn't give a single shit about naruto. (which they should, sasuke mused)