The next day, despite his pucat condition, Sasuke was refused to be hospitalized and insisted to be

bed rest. In his room, he was being scolded by his father, Fugaku, who was a Major in airforce. He
was just returned from his duty in Misawa Air Base in Aomori Perfecture after hearing his youngest
was missing and thankfully being found alive in the unnamed desert for some questionable reason.
"How many times I told you to mematuhi saran dokter dan tidak berenang dulu selama beberapa
waktu!" bentak ayahnya dengan gusar.

Sasuke sighed, “Father. I’m completely fine. “Bukannya tadi dokter bilang kalau aku sama sekali tidak
menunjukkan tanda-tanda suffer any physical after-effects?” bantahnya lagi.

“Father is right,” chimed his brother, Itachi, now a second lieutenant in the air force, still wearing his
respectable uniform like his father.

“But your cracked hand will get worse if you force to move it!” snapped Fugaku again. “Bagaimana
kalau gara-gara itu kau tak bisa join the army?”

“Siapa bilang aku tertarik untuk join army?” bantah Sasuke dengan acuh tak acuh, melipat kedua
tangannya. “Setelah lulus SMA, aku sudah bertekad untuk kuliah di universitas Tokyo dan menjadi
arsitek. Titik!”

“Sasuke! Kau memang anak keras kepala!” bentak ayahnya kehilangan kesabaran.

“Sudahlah, sayang,” bela Sasuke’s mother, Mikoto, sambil mengelus lembut lengan suaminya, “Tidak
ada salahnya bukan membiarkan anak-anak kita menentukan jalan hidupnya sendiri. Lagipula tidak
semua anak memiliki tujuan hidup yang sama -“

Namun kata-kata Sasuke’s mother instantly cut off by her husband’s anger.

“Listen, Sasuke. Aku melarangmu untuk berlatih berenang lagi! No more swimming competition until
your arm healed! Understood!” bentak Fugaku sambil menunjuk ke arah putra bungsunya.

Itachi melihat ke arah adiknya dengan penuh rasa kasihan, tapi ia tak bisa membelanya di hadapan
ayahnya yang sedang dipenuhi amarah.

“Father, you can’t just decide my future like that!” bantah Sasuke dengan gusar, “Aku tidak akan
abandoned the next national swimming competition or I will be blacklisted!”

“Oh, dear. Your father was right. We’re just concerned about your health. That’s all,” said Mikoto in
gentler tone to make her son understand his father’s point of view, “Your arm still fractured and
forcing it to move it too much will cause you unnecessary damage to your bones.”

“I agree with Mother,” murmured Itachi, nodding weakly.

“Oh, Jesus,” Sasuke rolled his eyes in irritation, “I can’t even do what I want to do! I definitely can’t
stop swimming! It’s my way of life!”

“Your way of life will be to prepare for joining the army!” snapped Fugaku again, even more furious,
“If you masih tidak mau mendengarkanku, aku akan memindahkanmu ke sekolah militer mulai besok
supaya kau berhenti menjadi anak manja!”

“What the fuck?” Sasuke cursed in disbelief, “I can’t go to that severe insititution when teachers beat
your ass for even breathing!”

“Sasuke, you!” His father almost lost patience, “If you aren’t my son, I will definitely punch beat you
up with a hot iron stick!”
“Darling,” Mikoto tried to menenangkan her husband again.

“Sasuke, just shut up and listen to father!” asked Itachi in commanding tone to make his brother
stopped being scolded by his father.

“It seems like this wackadoos not only crack his arm but also crack his own brain!” gerutu Fugaku
with scowl. “Mikoto, prepare for dinner tonight. Colonel Yamanaka will come with his daughter to
visit Sasuke. Make sure we serve them well.”

“Alright, dear,” murmured Mikoto with a faint smile.

“And you, Itachi, make sure you also dress appropriately if you want to get promotion!” commanded
Fugaku as if he talked to his bawahan instead of his own son.

“Alright, Father,” said Itachi while slightly bowing his head respecfully.

“And you, airhead, make sure you behave nicely to their daughter and make a good impression! It
will be very crucial and beneficial to your future!” commanded Fugaku in irritation while pointing his
finger again at Sasuke.

“Father, kau tidak serius ingin menjodohkanku dengan putri mereka kan?” protes Sasuke with a pout,
“For Chrissake. This is not feudal era anymore. You can just pair me up with some random chicks just
to benefit your career!”

“It’s not just random chick, stupid. It’s the daughter of Colonel Inoichi Yamanaka!” exclaimed his
father while clenching his fist in anger.

“She can be the daughter of Zeus and I still won’t care!” bantah Sasuke lagi.

“How about a warm bath, dear,” Mikoto tiba-tiba menginterupsi sambil memegang bahu suaminya
yang tense, mencegah pria itu untuk semakin melampiaskan amarahnya pada anak bungsu mereka.

“Yeah, nice idea. I think I do need that,” geram Fugaku, “or I will die from heart attack due to this
stubborn wrath that happened to be my son.”

Sasuke sighed, “Yeah, just go away,” he murmured in irritation.

“Sasuke,” his brother suddenly snapped in hushed tone.

After both of their parents gone, Itachi then sat beside his brother at the edge of the bed, “Sasuke, I
know that my father’s decision really makes you upset.”

Sasuke instantly averted his gaze with a frown, refused to listen to any of his brother’s opinions that
always repeated his father’s.

“But he just wants the best for you and I believe that,” Itachi continued with softer tone as he slowly
patted his brother’s shoulders.

“Melarangku untuk mengikuti olimpiade renang dan menjebakku ke perjodohan tak diinginkan really
sounds like what best for me,” sneered Sasuke sarcastically.

“My brother, if you really know how we sangat mengkhawatirkanmu saat mendengar berita bahwa
kau tenggelam dan hilang di lautan,” lanjut Itachi with concerned look, “Beruntung kau ditemukan
setelah dua belas jam menghilang di lautan. Asal kamu tahu, hanya 14 persen saja orang yang
beruntung berhasil selamat ketika tenggelam oleh underwater current dan kau salah satunya.”
Sasuke tiba-tiba teringat dengan jin perempuan yang menolongnya di pinggir pantai. Ia lantas
berubah panik ketika mengedarkan pandangan ke sekelilingnya untuk mencari botol ajaib yang
sepertinya merupakan tempat tinggal dari jin itu.

“Ada apa, Sasuke?” tanya Itachi dengan kebingungan, “Are you sure you’re not suffering from
emotional after effect?”

Sasuke bit his lips anxiously when realizing he couldn’t find the bottle. “Not exactly,” he stammeredly
responded while clutching his own hair, “But something. Well, it was-- lt was nothing, really. l-- l sort
of had a hallucination.”

“Did you?” Itachi raised his eyebrows in confusion.

Sasuke nodded hesitantly, “Yes, yes. Suddenly, when l'd been floating around up there, and l suppose
l was dizzy and that, in combination with a lack of oxygen and worry and wishful thinking.”

Itachi surprised to find Sasuke instantly woke up from his bed and opening and closing his nightstand
drawer in panic.

“Well, she seemed very real to me at the time,” exclaimed Sasuke, now opening his own wardrobe
and closing it harhsly when he couldn’t find the bottle, “Of course, l know now that it was just my
subconscious. l knew l was off the beaten track, and that l might never be found, and--”

Itachi grew even more puzzled when seeing his younger brother squatting in front of him to search
something beneath the bed.

“When l saw that bottle on the beach, l-- l hallucinated a genie out of it,” said Sasuke in urgency and
panic as he quickly stood up in disappointment when he couldn’t find anything.

“A genie?” asked Itachi in confusion and disbelief, thinking his brother was just pulling some jokes on
him.

“Yes,” Sasuke nodded quickly as he frantically searched for the bottle in his study desk, “A girl genie.”

“A girl genie?” asked Itachi, more like mocking than concerning, casually folding his arms which in
contrast with Sasuke’s frantic state.

“Yes,” Sasuke nodded quickly before rushing to the bathroom and searching for the thing he had
been missing.

“What was this genie like?” asked Itachi again, adding it with chuckle since he found it hilarious.

“Oh, she was--” Sasuke scratched his head in confusion and pondering for a while, “Just your
average, everyday, run-of-the-mill genie. Of course.”

“Beautiful?” asked Itachi with a laugh.

“Yes,” said Sasuke quickly without realizing that he admitted something secretive.
“Desirable?” asked Itachi again.

Sasuke continued to search in every knook and corner of his room.

“And helpful?” asked Itachi again, ignoring his brother’s misery.

“Yes, yes,” answered Sasuke frantically.

Itachi chuckled in disbelief, “Sasuke, that's the classic fantasy,” he mocked while shaking his head, “A
beautiful girl on a desert island. A girl who would do anything for you. Do you know who that girl
was?”

Sasuke instantly shook his head and stopped searching for a while, “No, brother. l've never seen her
before in my life.”

“She was your mother,” sneered Itachi with laugh.

“Our mother definitely not sleeping inside the bottle, Brother,” bantah Sasuke with grump.

“Listen, Sasuke. Besides seorang angkatan laut, l'm also a psychiatrist,” interjected Itachi while
standing up, “Now, I suggest you get some rest, a lot of it,” he advised while patting his brother’s
shoulder.

“Well, thank you. l feel a lot better getting this off my chest,” sneered Sasuke sarcastically with a
pout.

“Good, then,” teased Itachi with a smirk, “I need to change my attire and prepare for the dinner
tonight,” he said before walked past his brother and pergi dari kamarnya.

Sasuke langsung duduk dengan lesu di pinggiran ranjang while clutching his head, “He’s right. I must
have been losing my mind.”

Unbenknowst to Sasuke, Mikoto who had just prepared for warm bath for her husband and washed
Sasuke’s snorkelling attire was the one who accidentally found the peculiar bottle. She then walked
casually towards the living room while carrying the bottle.

“I don’t know where Sasuke found this thing,” chimed Mikoto casually while looking intently at the
bottle, “It seems very nice for a vase.”

She quickly opened the penutup bottle dan meletakkannya di atas meja bersama penutupnya di
sebelahnya.

“Aku akan membawa beberapa chrysantemum untuk dipajang. Our important guest will definitely
like it,” she murmured happily while leaving the bottle to grab the flowers from her garden.

Suddenly a pink smoke emerged from the bottle and the pink genie sported a broad smile while
stretching both of her hands after being cramped up in her bottle for too long. Not a very pleasant
experience considering she was already cramped up on that thing for 2000 years.
“Where’s my master?” murmured the genie while mengedarkan pandangannya ke sekeliling dan
mendapati dirinya tiba-tiba saja berada di rumah seseorang dan bukan lagi di pinggir pantai tak
bernama.

“I need to find him,” she decided after pondering her surroundings for a while before quickly turning
into smoke again and headed upstairs.

..

“Hi, Mikoto Aunty,” sapa Naruto yang baru pulang dari sekolah dan masih memakai seragamnya,
berniat mengunjungi Sasuke yang masih sakit.

“Hi,” balas Mikoto yang baru saja memotong beberapa batang chrystantemum from her front
garden.

“Nice flowers, Aunty,” praised Naruto with broad smile, “Sasuke definitely will like it.”

“Oh, no, no,” bantah Mikoto dengan tersenyum lembut, “It’s definitely not for that stubborn kid. It’ll
for the Yamanaka family who will have dinner with us tonight. That family, especially their daughter is
a big fan of flowers. They even have a small flower shop near Shibuya.”

“Oh, Ino,” chimed in Naruto, “She’s one of our classmates actually.”

“Ah, great,” replied Mikoto, “It’ll make it easier to engage them in conversation then since they’ve
already known each other.”

“Y-you don’t mean to pair them up, don’t you?” Naruto stammeredly interjected, “Sorry, Aunty. But
it seems he never show any kind of interest towards girls in our school. Eventhough, I must admit,
he’s quiet popular among them.”

“Yeah, actually it’s more of his father’s ideas,” said Mikoto with sad smile, “He thought it would be a
great idea if Sasuke got friendlier with his friend’s daughter.”

“I hope Sasuke loves this idea, or you know, he will mess it up as usual,” sneered Naruto nervously,
“Uhm, excuse me, C-can I get inside to visit him? Sorry for didn’t bring anything.”

“It’s okay, dear. You can join dinner with us too,” said Mikoto while smiling.

“Oh, no thanks, aunty. B-but I prefer to have dinner at home,” tolak Naruto dengan halus dengan
tersenyum sungkan, “I-I’ll go first if you mind.”

“Of course,” murmured Mikoto.

Naruto quickly got inside Sasuke’s home and quickly headed upstairs when realizing no one was
around.

Sasuke was contemplating while sitting on the edge of his bed. His stare was vacant as he questioned
his own sanity.

Suddenly he jolted in shocked when there’s pink smoke emerging from kolong pintu kamarnya.

He was even more surprised with his heart almost leaped out from his chest when the pink genie
suddenly appeared out of thin air and smiled at him.

“Master, thou alive!” exclaimed the pink genie while giving him uncessary tight hug.
“I almost dead when you appear in front of me,” sneered Sasuke sarcastically while struggling to
breath beneath the hug.

“Why thou throw it away, Master? Didn’t thou need me anymore?” asked the pink genie suddenly
released the hug and judging him with puffing her cheeks and folding her arms.

“I told you, it’s better for you to just let go of your own,” said Sasuke firmly, “After all, I released you.”

“No. Thou abandoned me. If only I didn’t menggelinding myself near thy gear. I will be still stuck on
that damn beach,” bantah the pink girl with a frown.

“Oh, come on! You are a genie. You will be fine living alone in that beach,” teased Sasuke mockingly.

Sasuke’s gaze suddenly became miserable as he thought of his own future.

“Master, what happened?” asked the genie while gently touched his shoulder.

“If only my shoulder stopped being painful, I definitely could follow the next swimming competition.
I wish it would happen or my swimming career will be stopped,” Sasuke finally admitted with a loud
sigh.

“Oh, poor master darling. Don’t worry. This genie will not disappoint thy,” said the girl with a wide
smile.

She then touched Sasuke’s right shoulder and he magically felt it became ease.

“Oh,” murmured Sasuke when he tried to stretch his right arm, “Definitely feels way better than
before. Thanks genie.”

“Thou suffered from accindent, right? What caused thou to experience such misery?” asked the
genie dramatically.

“Yes, you’re right. I hope you’re just guessing and not literally seeing my mind. I got hit by a car when
helping a grandma crossing the street two months ago,” admitted Sasuke.

“Thou such a nice man,” exclaimed the genie with admiration while instantly hugging Sasuke again
and laying her head on his chest intimately.

Sasuke who felt uncomfortable accidentally pushed her away, “Can you stop flirting at me?” However
he didn’t realize that his cheeks was blushing.

Suddenly someone knocked Sasuke’s door.

“Hey, Sasuke! Can I come in?” asked Naruto’s voice.

“It’s him! You must disappear,” murmured Sasuke in panic while clutching her narrow shoulders.

He became frustrated when the genie just smiled at him as if she was mocking her.

“I wish you disappeared!” murmured Sasuke while closing his eyes. But when he quickly opened it,
the girl only laughed even louder.

“I can’t let him see you or he will think I smuggle you to my room,” sneered Sasuke frantically while
standing up and grabbing the girl’s wrist. He then brought her to his own bathroom and closed the
door.
“Yeah, you can come!” shouted Sasuke with panted breath as he struggled to close the door while
the girl kept knocking and tried to keluar.

Sasuke tidak memiliki pilihan lain selain mengunci kamar mandi dari luar.

“Hey, buddy. I thought you were dead,” teased Naruto with a loud laugh.

Sasuke followed with nervous laugh while stealing glance at the bathroom door.

“I-I just got to pee,” Sasuke stammeredly responded.

“Thank God. You are safe. You don’t know how worried I was when you just disappeared under
water!” exclaimed Naruto while approaching Sasuke, “Everybody thought you already brought to the
deep end! But you are so awfully lucky, dude!”

“Thanks for saying the same sentiments as everyone in my family, Naruto,” sneered Sasuke
sarcastically.

“By the way, I just menyampaikan news kalau coach kita sudah diganti dengan yang baru. Namanya
Kakashi sensei. Katanya dia mantan atlet renang nasional dan pernah menjuarai olimpiade di tahun
2005!” said Naruto while hugging Sasuke’s shoulder as they walked to sit at Sasuke’s bed.

“Great,” said Sasuke indifferently, didn’t really consider the topic insteresting, “I hope I can still be an
athlete.”

“What do you mean, dude?” asked Naruto with concern, “Does your arm still hurt?”

“No,” bantah Sasuke. Then a sudden realization jolted him in shock when he tried moving his right
shoulder, “It weridly doesn’t hurt anymore.”

“Are you sure?” asked Naruto in disbelief, “You literally drowned because pain in your arm, right?”

“Yeah, but someone healed me,” said Sasuke, trying to make his friends believes him.

“Of course, the doctor right,” replied Naruto with a scoff.

“No!” bantah Sasuke while shooking his head.

Suddenly the humming voice of a woman and suara gemericik air dari dalam kamar mandi
mengejutkan kedua laki-laki yang sedang sibuk berdebat itu.

“Who’s taking a bath? Your brother?” asked Naruto in disbelief while pointing at the bathroom, “Is
he finally home?”

“My brother definitely still a dude,” sneered Sasuke sarcastically, “Enough of your nonsense,
Usuratonkachi. No one is here!” he folded his arms casually.

But the humming getting louder, and Naruto couldn’t ignore it anymore.

“It’s a girl!” exclaimed Naruto in shock, “I’m hundreds of percent sure!”

“Are you nuts? You maybe just hallucinating,” bantah Sasuke dengan panik saat Naruto tiba-tiba
bangkit berdiri dan berniat untuk menginspeksi kamar mandinya.

“You look tired. I think you need to take a rest,” snapped Sasuke while immediately stood in front of
his bathroom door to prevent his friend from inspecting it.
“Well, yeah, maybe. There’s a lot of homework and schedule latihan yang harus kujalani,” kata
Naruto with a sigh.

“Goodbye,” snapped Sasuke again while pushing Naruto’s body towards the room door.

“Goodbye?” asked Naruto in confusion with his friend’s sudden change in demeanor.

However, before Sasuke succesfully escorted his friend out of his room, suddenly the pink haired girl
opened the bathroom door and stood beside Sasuke only wearing his white shirt that definitely
oversized in her body.

“Good grief!” cursed Naruto in shock while he turned back and found a very beautiful girl stood
beside Sasuke. “Well. Well, look-- Look who's here,” he exclaimed in both shock and amusement as
he unintentionally scanned the girl’s smooth thighs that were exposed to her feminine curve before
his gaze landed on the girl’s pretty smile.

“I’m looking,” quipped the girl with a soft chuckle.

Sasuke felt his heart raced even more, but he could only stand frozen.

“Uh, Naruto this is…,” Sasuke tried to find a perfect name for masking this girl’s identity as a genie or
his friend would think he’s some freak who deliberately summoned her.

“Sakura,” said the girl with a smile after seeing sakura’s flowers art on the calendar desk in Sasuke’s
study desk.

“Yeah. Yeah, Sakura,” Sasuke nodded weakly when realizing the name really suit the girl with pink
hair.

“What a beautiful name…,” said Naruto, unintentionally smiled like a fool when aroused by the girl’s
menarik body, “for a beautiful lady.” He then quickly looked at Sasuke sulkily, “But would you explain
to me, what is that girl doing here?”

“Well, that's the explanation. She's not here,” snapped Sasuke in urgency, tried to shove Naruto’s
body away from his room.

“What?” asked Naruto with confused frown.

“Well, she is here… but, of course, she's not a girl,” said Sasuke nervously, blurted out nonsensical
things out of panic.

“He’s not a man either,” bantah Naruto while pointing at Sakura.

“Goodbye, Naruto,” said Sasuke, kept pushing Naruto away.

“No, no. You don't understand,” snapped Naruto, refusing to being escorted without his will.
“Oh, l'm afraid l do understand,” sulked Sasuke impatiently.

“Sasuke, l may be insane, but-- But that's a girl. lt's a girl!” exclaimed Naruto, kept pointing at Sakura
who looked at both of them confusedly.

“I wish you forget everything,” Sasuke firmly wished.

He quickly closed the door after shoving Naruto away.

Suddenly, outside of Sasuke’s room, Naruto immediately scratched his head, “What am I doing here?
I must feed my dogs.”

“Fuck! Genie, I’ve had enough!” shouted Sasuke frustatingly while picking his water bottle
underneath the bed and ran exited the room downstaris.

“Sasuke, what’s the matter?” asked his father who had just emerged in the living room with his best
room.

“I’m just excited to see Colonel Yamanaka’s daughter,” Sasuke lied while exited the house and
frantically approached the trash can in front of his porch.

However, as he almost threw the bottle to the trash can, he noticed several passerbys was looking
curiously at him and he pretended to wander around while hiding his bottle.

“I’m going to let you go now, Genie. Thanks, thanks very much,” Sasuke murmured to the bottle he
was holding, “Have a nice dream.”

Before he had a chance to throw it away, a luxurious BMW immediately menepi di dekatnya dan
membuatnya langsung menyembunyikan botolnya ketika menyadari bahwa itu adalah mobil yang
ditumpangi oleh Kolonel Yamanaka bersama putrinya.

He then quickly threw the bottle on the nearby trash can while pretending to be nonchalant when
the Colonel and Ino emerged from their car. Ino was already wearing her best pale dress and the
Colonel still sported his seragam militernya.

“Hello, sir,” greeted Sasuke indifferently to mask his nervousness when Colonel Yamanaka and his
daughter approached him.

“Hello, Sasuke,” greeted Ino back with warm smile.

“How you doing, boy?” replied the Colonel with his typical stern and commanding voice.

“Great. Just great,” Sasuke responded nervously while masking it with a fake grin.

“Your brother told us about your hallucination,” asked Colonel concernedly while holding Sasuke’s
shoulder.

“Well, you didn't have to mention that, sir,” kilah Sasuke while they proceeded to walk to the porch,
“lt was nothing really. lt was just the heat of the excitement.”

“lt was nothing at all. l explained it all to him,” bantah pria muda itu lagi ketika Colonel melihatnya
dengan tidak percaya.

“Sometimes these hallucinations return, young man,” nasihat Colonel Yamanaka, slowly patting
Sasuke’s shoulder, “ln all conscience, l can't qualify you for becoming my future son-in-law until we're
certain that you're completely normal.”

“Dad, isn’t it a bit too soon?” protested Ino with a pout, “We’re still sixteen and definitely things
would be awkward if you know you force us with this bullshit.”

“Yeah, she’s right,” Sasuke murmured while nodded.

“Oh, I thought you like Sasuke for a long time, dear,” asked Colonel to her daughter confusedly.
Ino sighed, “Yeah, but can we just be a normal teenager for a while?”

“Speaking of being normal, l am normal. Absolutely normal. And There's no girl in a bottle,”
responded Sasuke indifferently.

“A girl in what?” asked Colonel Yamanaka confusedly.

Suddenly a loud bang from the trash can in which Sasuke previously threw his bottle earlier jolted
him from his mind. He immediately turned back and realized there’s a large trash truck near the
sidewalk of his house and one of the petugas sampah membawa tempat sampah itu.

“Excuse me,” Sasuke instantly ran towards the truck and completely left the colonel and her daughter
bamboozled.

“Hey, stop! Hey, wait a minute, there's a girl in there!” shouted Sasuke frantically while quickly take a
look inside the pembuangan sampah di dalam truk.

“She must have sneaked past us,” sindir petugas sampah dengan sarkastis sambil menggeleng-
gelengkan kepalanya.

Sasuke ignored sindiran petugas sampah dan continued mencari-cari botolnya di tumpukan sampah,
“Genie? Are you all right?” he shouted, “Now, come on, speak to me!”

“What's with this guy, Minoru?” asked petugas sampah terhadap temannya dan continue
mengosongkan tempat sampah yang dipegangnya.

“l told you, there's a girl in there!” shouted Sasuke with anger and worry, pointing at the garbage
truck, “She's in a bottle!”

“Well, no wonder we didn't see her. You're sick!” sneered petugas sampah berkumis dengan kesal
karena pekerjaannya telah diganggu oleh remaja yang sepertinya punya gangguan mental.

“Hey, stop!” protested Sasuke while preventing the garbage truck to shred the trash inside it,
“Please, no! You could kill her!”

Both Ino and her father approached Sasuke with both confusion and disbelief of what they
witnessed.

“I-I-l'll buy the garbage from you!” Sasuke stammeredly urged.

“What?” the two petugas sampah looked at each other in utter confusion.

“l'll buy the whole truckload!” seru Sasuke dengan wajah serius yang semakin membuat kedua
petugas exasperated.

“What do you charge for garbage?” asked petugas sampah bertubuh gemuk, Minoru, kepada
temannya.
“We're in a high-class neighbourhood,” kilah teman Minoru yang berkumis, “l mean, we got a good
grade of garbage.”

“Sasuke, are you serious?” asked Ino in disbelief and mocked him.
“He must be knocked very hard while drowning in the sea,” sneered Colonel Yamanaka sarcastically.

“l'll give you 100 yen,” kata Sasuke sambil mengeluarkan beberapa lembar uang dari dalam saku
celananya. “Here!” serunya dengan frantic sambil memberikan uang itu ke Minoru sebelum kembali
mengusak-ngusak tumpukan sampah di dalam truk.

“Genie!” teriak laki-laki itu dengan desperate, “Genie, speak to me. Please!”

Ino semakin memandangi pria itu dengan cemas dan berpikir ada sesuatu yang salah dengan kondisi
mentalnya.

“Oh, here she is. Here she is,” seru Sasuke dengan lega dan napas tak karuan saat berhasil
menemukan botol air minumnya yang kosong.

“Come along with us, kid,” sneered Colonel Yamanaka while instantly hugging Sasuke’s shoulder and
patting it gently, “We'll buy you all the garbage you want. lt's all right.”

Kedua petugas sampah sontak menertawai Sasuke dengan lantang.

Ino sighed loudly while shaking her head and couldn’t belief what she had just witnessed in this
evening while Sasuke kept clucthing to his bottle for dear life as the three of them walked towards
the Uchiha’s house.