A Simple Get-together

Piqued Interests

Sasuke looked around the room, trying to decide his next victim. He reached up one hand to run it through shaggy dark blue hair, pursing his lips slightly. Large, dark eyes, a family trait almost all Uchiha shared, zoomed in on Akamaru as the dog stretched and yawned loudly before scooting closer to Kiba and putting his large white head onto the dog-loving boy's lap. Kiba just stared at Sasuke, not seeming to notice Akamaru's shift in position.

"Hm," Sasuke hummed to himself, drawing his eyes away to move on. They landed on Choji, who pulled his phone out for a moment to check it, before tossing on the table, as if to rid himself of the distraction. Finally, he turned his eyes to the eldest Sabaku sibling; her large teal eyes stared back at him intensely.

"Temari," Sasuke said smoothly.

The corners of her lips quirked up, smoothly. "Yes, handsome?" Shikamaru scowled.

Sasuke smirked a little, letting out a huff of a laugh. "Truth or dare?" he inquired.

She didn't miss a beat. "Dare." If she did notice Shikamaru pouting in the corner of her eye, she made no outward appearance of it.

Sasuke hummed under his breath, eyes rolling back and forth from one side of his vision to the other, thinking up a good dare. Well, he wasn't sure it was a "good" dare, but it was something he wanted to know. Temari was always a real in-depth thinker, it was one of the things he liked about her, but she tended to hold back her thoughts unless she was mad, then whoever she was talking to would get a real scathing.

"No one can get mad," Sasuke warned, staring into Temari's eyes. "I dare you to tell one person, anyone in the room, something that you either really like about them or something that really annoys you about them."

Kankuro flinched hard. "This is going to hurt."

"Bad," Gaara muttered in agreement. Temari looked over at them, two thin blond eyebrows pull together, insulted, at her two younger brothers.

"How do you know I'm not going to say something nice. If I recall correctly, and am not suddenly experiencing black outs, Sasuke did say something that I might like about someone."

"Yeah," Shikamaru grunted in agreement, his face having returned neutral. "Unfortunately for you, we've all met you and we know how this is going to end."

"Seriously," Shisui said, eyes wide. "Are you going to say anything to Hinata?"

Temari, who was glaring at the shirker, looked over at Shisui, confused. "What? No, why?"

Shisui whipped around to look at Hinata. "Leave, Innocent One!"

Hinata jumped, blinking rapidly, wondering how she suddenly became the topic of this conversation. Her eyes flickered between Shisui and the equally confused Temari. The eldest Sabaku sibling's eyebrows are pulled together, also wondering what this had to do with the girl with the lilac-colored eyes.

"Um... w-what?" Hinata asked, tilting her head slightly. She scrunches up the front of her shirt nervously, then frowned, uncomfortable again having been reminded of her lack of sweatshirt that she is so used to wearing.

"Out!" Shisui yelled, making Hinata jump, remembering that she was still in the middle of being kicked out of the room for some unknown reason by the oldest amongst them. "Such delicate ears can not hear this verbal beat down!"

Kiba choked on his laugh while Temari narrowed her eyes dangerously. Hinata looked around, confused for a moment not understanding why she was the only one that was being kicked out, before Shisui stood up and gave her a look. Hinata jumped to her feet and quickly ran from the room. Shisui stood there for a moment, listening to her footsteps retreating up the stairs. He finally lowered himself back down onto the couch next to Itachi.