Chapter 4: Brothers are demons

"So did I pass?"

Sakura smiled as both Itachi and Kisame stared at her in shock. Itachi was the first to recover from his shock to answer her question.

"Stage two will begin tomorrow. Don't forget to bring water." Itachi mumbled as he pushed Kisame away.

"You did good Pinky!" Kisame shouted over his shoulder before turning back to leave.

Sakura felt the adrenaline come back ten times fold after hearing Kisame's statement. Jumping up and down, Sakura tore up the bleachers to cheer with her friends for passing the first stage. Temari and Tenten met her halfway to scream their congratulations.

After gathering their things, the girls made their way to the parking lot outside the football fields. Temari turned to her as a small black car pulled up to the sidewalk in front of them. Temari pried open the passenger door, threw in her backpack, then turned to her latest new friends.

"Do you two need a ride? I can bully Kankuro to give you guys a ride if need be." Temari smirked as a loud hey came from the open door. A head came into view as the driver leaned over the center divider to glare at his sister. The young boy had purple markings around his face and a messy mop of brown hair.

"Or you could always ask nicely?" Kankuro mumbled before disappearing into the car once again.

"I think i'll take you up on that offer. My brothers wouldn't come to get me even if i begged." Tenten giggled as she threw her books and bags into the back seat. Temari chuckled before turning back to Sakura.

"I'll pass. My house is down the street from the school. Thanks anyways." Sakura waved goodbye as she took her small stroll home.

The few minutes it took her to get home were uneventful. As Sakura paused in the driveway of her home, it didn't go unnoticed that the lights were off. Her mother must still be at practice. Sakura sighed pushing her key into lock to let herself in.

Sakura slumped against the door frame, kicked off her shoes, and threw her bag in the direction of the couch. Her bag went flying past it and hit the Tv causing it to turn on. The noise startled Sakura as she rushed to turn it off. Her body protested the extra movement as she shut off the TV and trudged towards the kitchen. Sakura flicked the light on and could faintly smell recent cooking. Sure enough, there was still a steaming plate of pasta with a note.

Grinning, Sakura lost all train of thoughts when she realized that she didn't have to cook for herself. Picking up the fork and note, Sakura walked around the kitchen island to grab a bottled water.

"Came home to cook only. Won't be back till later. Eat, do homework, don't burn house down, and no later than 10. Love, mom" Sakura mumbled as she threw the note away. 'Glad to know she wanted to know about my day.' Sakura sighed as she scarfed down the still steaming pasta.

After a full belly, Sakura pulled out her science notebook and crammed the new vocabulary that the teacher had assigned them to learn. Barely the first day and stupid Mr. Orochimaru gives us homework. Letting out a sigh, Sakura moved on to the rest of her homework in record time.

A quick shower and little snack from the kitchen later, Sakura was under the covers and ready to sleep. That is, until her phone started buzzing like crazy. Grudgingly picking up the phone, Sakura answered in the meanest way she could think of once she saw who it was.

"If i can't get to sleep after this call you're not going to get the math homework when we start having work, Temari." Sakura giggled softly when a small grunt came from the other line.

"As cruel as that sounds, you're not gonna want to go to sleep after we hang up." Temari grumbled back. Sakura shook her head and shifted into a more comfortable position to gossip with her new friend.

"Ok. Tenten and i were thinking we could have a sleep over on Friday. You in or what?" Temari whispered as crash noises started getting louder on her end. From Temari's side of the phone call, Sakura heard what she believed to be a door opening.

"There you are you demon!" A male voice screeched. Sakura could hear Temari screaming and laughing. More curse words and objects being broken could be heard slightly as Temari and the intruder fought. A few minutes passed before everything went dead silent. Sakura held her breath as she pushed the phone closer to her ear to know what happened.

"Temari is tied up now. Good night." A second male voice whispered softly before the phone began beeping, signaling that whoever had talked recently just hung up.

What the hell happened? Sakura stared at her phone in disbelief. Torn between the need to call back to make sure her friend was ok and the need to sleep, Sakura tucked her phone under her pillow, locked her door and pulled her mom's old tennis racket from her closet out. If i'm going down, I'm going down fighting.

After safely knowing that nothing odd was in her room, Sakura finally let herself try to go back to sleep. That is, till her phone rang again. This time it was Tenten's face who popped up for the caller ID.

"Hey Sakura. Has Temari called you to tell you the news yet?" Tenten giggled when Sakura answered.

"About the sleepover, right?" Sakura mumbled questioningly feeling a huge urge to yawn suddenly. Tenten made a noise as if to say yeah.

"I was going to say yeah but i think something happened on Temari's end of the line."

Tenten laughed as Sakura explained what she had heard over the phone. It took her a few minutes to calm down to explain what had happened.

"She has two younger brothers. Kankuro is a Sophmore and Gaara is a freshman like yourself. Don't be surprised to hear half of your conversations end like that. Temari likes to mess with her brothers alot." Tenten managed to say between fits of giggles. Sakura mentally shook her head and was glad, for not the first time, that she was a single child.

She wondered how her life would be if she had a younger sibling that would come in to annoy her while she was on the phone. Thinking of the incident that had happened to Temari, Sakura shivered and went back to her phone call with Tenten.

"So who's house is it going to be at?" Sakura asked as she remebered why exactly her new two friends were calling in the middle of the night.

"We're thinking at my house. My brothers won't bother us as long as we don't try to get them to watch chick flicks with us." Tenten mused. Sakura nodded and quickly finished up getting the information for their sleepover. After a few minutes of gossiping, Sakura finally bid goodnight to her friend.

Hopefully mom will let me go. Sakura thought as she finally went into a slumber.

Morning came quickly. Hitting snooze, Sakura dragged herself out of bed and into the shower. Thirty minutes later, Sakura raced down the stairs to see her mom in the kitchen singing along to a random song on the radio. Peering in to the kitchen, Sakura was able to see her mother flipping pancakes.

It was no surprise where Sakura had gotten her emerald eyes from. However, that was the only thing Sakura had gotten from her mother. Sakura's unique pink hair and height had come from her father's side of the family. Smiling, Sakura skipped into the kitchen and gave her mom a hug before going to sit at the counter.

"You seem to be in a good mood. Is it because your first day went good?" Sakura's mom, Mebuki, asked as she set a plate of chocolate chip pancakes in front of her daughter. Sakura's stomach growled at the sight of food. Nodding to her mother's question, Sakura quickly dug into her breakfast.

"Meet any new friends? Any cute guys in your classes?" Mebuki winked at her daughter's flushed face from the second question.

"Mom!" Sakura whined as she ducked her head in embarrassment. Laughing, Mebuki shook her head at how easily her daughter could be fooled with. So there is a boy. Mebuki chuckled as she went back to the stove.

"I did meet two new friends, though. We were wondering if we could have a sleepover at Tenten's house on friday. If that's ok with you." Sakura chirped as she downed the last of her milk. Mebuki nodded and mentally went over her schedule in her head.

"That's fine. I have a tournament that day so i guess i won't have to worry about you then. So besides the friends, have you joined any sports yet?" Mebuki smiled softly, pushing a blond strand behind her ear. She leaned over the counter to face Sakura. I hope she joined the Tennis team like I did. Mebuki chanted inside knowing her own coach would love to have her daughter join them for practices.

"Yeah. I'm joining the football team." Sakura said proudly as she collected her dishes to place in the sink. Mebuki clapped her hands together and started reaching for Sakura to give her a hug.

"Oh how lovely. The skirts will... Wait. You joined what!?"

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