Roommates

Chapter 19: Matchmaking Sannin style!

Tenten's PoV

I took a sip of the bottle I was holding, leaning back in the comfortable couch I was sitting on.

I, Sakura, Kakashi and Jiraya were in the cafeteria, which oddly enough looked just like it always did. Seriously, no one would've guessed that just the night before a huge party with teenagers and spiked punch had been arranged here.

Jeez, I never thought it would be possible to clean that effectively...

...Unless...

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OMFG! THEY'VE GOT HOUSE-ELVES! DOBBY!

Now that I think of it... it's not hard to believe that Tsunade is actually a witch. Don'tcha agree?

*Cough* Back to the topic.

"Seriously, Senseis, this is quite unnecessary", Sakura was saying for the about thousandth (try to say that word quickly five times) time after we'd met up with the two men. "I mean, Sasuke's obviously not-"

"Ah!" Jiraya said, holding up a finger. "There!"

Sakura blinked. "Uh... What?"

"Don't call him 'Sasuke'. Call him 'Sasuke-kun', or even 'Sasu-kun'. Men like when their women talk like that to them", the white-haired man said smartly, taking a sip from his surely alcoholic drink.

I grinned. "Maybe, but can you really call Chicky-chan a man?"

Sakura glowered slightly at me (but her lips twitched a little) while Jiraya smirked and Kakashi chuckled... Although, I do think he chuckled at something in his book, not at what I said...

"But, as I was saying", Sakura continued. "Sasuke ob-"

"Sasuke-kun."

Sakura rolled her eyes but continued: "Sasuke-kun obviously has no interest in me. It's futile to try to make him-"

I snorted. "Sakura, he asked me for help to get you. Me. He must've been really desperate if he did that."

"Maybe he liked me in the beginning, but-"

"Sakura, if I say he likes you, he likes you."

"But-"

"Sakura, I'm serious."

"So am I! You should've seen his face last night when I asked him, seriously! He might've liked me in the beginning, but maybe he gave up and now thinks I'm a pathetic little slut, or something!"

"No he doesn't! He's just a coward!"

*gasp* "Sasuke-kun is not a coward!"

I blinked and stared at her for a moment. "...Are you sure you've stopped being a fangirl?" I eventually asked. Sakura just glared at me and turned away, nose in the air and arms crossed over her chest. I rolled my eyes and turned to Jiraya.

"Sensei, it's not that I don't appreciate what you're trying to do", I began, "but – in my case – it really is futile. I mean, Sasuke was just being a coward and running away from Sakura like the brat he is, even though he likes her, but Neji was kissing another girl. That's not the same thing!"

"Neji-kun, Tenten", Jiraya said wisely, again sipping his drink. "And, well, if he was kissing another girl, we'll just have to make him understand how much better than her you are."

I raised an eyebrow. "I don't think so. She was really pretty."

Sakura raised an eyebrow of her own, apparently finished with her sulking. "And you're not?"