The Masqurade

She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Her long golden locks piled on her head in massive curls with ringlets framing the face of the only girl to captivate him so. Her eyes were the color of the most exquisite sapphires, lips like cherries, skin like alabaster and appeared as soft as silk. Her dress was the color of freshly ripened peaches, and it suited her perfectly. She was sitting under a willow tree staring at the moon, which cast a pale glow across the bench on which she sat. Her demi-mask glistening menacingly in the cool glow and her silhouette gave her a fragile and almost unapproachable appeal.

If he were closer, he would have seen the slight change of color on her left cheek. It was caused by an entirely overprotective yet undeniably well meaning sand Kunoichi, on the behalf of the ever stoic wind shadow. 'damn it stings like a bitch!' Sometimes she didn't know why she even bothered. It's not like it would change anything it would only make things worse for both her and the only guy to ever affect her this much. His siblings hated her, she was in unfamiliar territory and that wasn't even the worst part of it! She was alone, Maiko was in Konoha, Momoko had finally decided that Shikamaru was on to something when he said missions were 'troublesome'.

The only reason she wasn't liked was because of her adoptive cousin, Shino Aburame. No she wasn't even an Aburame by blood, but by the way the sand siblings treated her you would have though she was his alter ego. It just didn't make any sense, but then gain when has love ever been logical? Yep, she was in love with the idiot, but why the hell did a relationship have to be so damn impossible? "I wonder if this is how Juliet felt." She mumbled to herself out loud to the stars. Just then she heard a deep velvet-smooth voice whisper from the darkest recesses of her mind.

"Why? Are you looking for a Romeo?" The voice spoke with a familiar teasing lilt to it. "If so, I might be up for it, But only if you say 'please'".

As the mystery boy stepped out of the shadows, she barely contained a gasp. 'No! It couldn't be!'