Author's notes: I do now own any characters in the anime and I give credit to my friend Dannielle for creating most of the characters in this story that do not exist in the anime.

The sun shone through my window, burning my open eyes. I guess I couldn't get any sleep last night. I just laid in bed, remembering what I was supposed to do today, but unwilling to move. I needed to see Sora soon or she'd be pissed at me. I grabbed some clean clothes, my chuunin vest, and walked hastily to the bathroom.

I closed the door, thanking god that my mom was at another village for the rest of the year. Hmm, bath or shower which one to pick? I pondered my options, coming to the conclusion of, "A shower sounds nice right now." I took of my dirty clothes and turned the water on to just the right setting.

The heat of the water washed away all the stress I had from the previous night and the decision I made while intoxicated. "Why did I do that? I never even wanted to do anything like that with him." I muttered to myself. The water just rolled down my body as I stood there, remembering the pain of my experience. I wasn't doing that again for a while.

After about twenty minutes of self loathing and misery, I finished cleaning myself up. Getting dressed was a hassle, due to the random spikes of pain that surged through my lower back. Damn it, was this pain ever going to go away? I finally got my underwear and pants on, with a little help from the bathroom counter, and the pain started to subside. "Ugh, this just isn't my day is it?"

I decided to take the opportunity and heal more of my lower back. I just had to focus my chakra. I placed my hand on the small of my back and released a steady flow of healing chakra onto the region. "There, much better."

The rest of my time in the bathroom went by without much happening. Finishing getting dressed wasn't bad when I didn't need to bend down.

The only thing good about this morning was when I got downstairs, I found out that there was that some pancake mix in the cupboard. I hadn't had pancakes in a long time, so I decided to check and make sure I could have them. I looked in the fridge for some syrup and to my surprise, I had some. "Maybe today won't be that bad after all."

While I was cooking my last pancake, I heard a noise from outside. Me being curious, I had to look and see what had happened. A street lamp had fallen and destroyed the porch of one of my neighbors that I surprisingly didn't know. A boy about my age, seventeen, came outside. "Oh great, this had to happen today." The boy tried to pick up the lamp, but to no avail. "Damn it, and today was going really smoothly."

This boy caught my eye as soon as he walked outside. Short brown hair, a chuunin vest, lean but with a decent amount of muscles, all in all, he looked perfect. The next five minutes of my life went by too quickly, "Hey, do you need some help?" My voice was shaky but loud enough to hear.

The boy looked up and smiled, "Yeah, that would be nice."

I giggled, which I hadn't ever done before, "Alright, just give me one minute." I ran inside to turn the stove off and ran over to this random boy's house. "Alright, do we need to lift the street lamp or can we destroy it?"

The boy looked at me, "I guess we can destroy it, but how? I can only use water and earth chakra. I don't have a jutsu that would safely destroy this thing without destroying the rest of my house along with it."

"That's not a problem." I formed some hand signs, "Wind Style: Slicing Air Current jutsu." The wind picked up and cut the street lamp into ten small, easily movable pieces. "There, that should do it."

The boy picked up one of the pieces and smiled, "Thanks, these are much easier to move." He threw the piece in his hand into the garbage in front of his house.

"Again, it's not a problem." His smile made butterflies appear in my stomach. "I just have one question; what's your name? I haven't seen you around here before."

He looked at me, his eyes closed as he continued to smile. "My name is Shishimaru Enkai, Shishi for short." He grabbed my hand, making my heart speed up. "I have a few questions for you though." His face transformed, becoming unreadable, "First; what's your name?"

His sudden change in attitude worried me, "Yasunari Yamamoto, but I prefer to be called Nari."

His smile returned, easing my nerves. "Well then Nari, my second question is: what are you doing later tonight?"

My brain temporarily shut down. Apparently it couldn't handle the fact that he actually asked me that kind of question. "Um, nothing I guess. To be honest, my mom is out of the village until the end of the year and my best friend is in the hospital at the moment."

His smile dropped, "I'm sorry that he or she is in the hospital. What's he or she in for?"

I chuckled mildly, "She's in for minor injuries from a mission. She'll be fine in about two day max."

He opened his eyes, but the color of his eyes were hard to distinguish in the shadows. "That's a good thing. I hope she feels better." He smiled warmly, "But back to my question, do you want to do anything later?"

My palms started to sweat and my heart sped up even more. "Th…That sounds nice Shishi. How about some food?"

I started to adore the sight of his teeth, "Food sounds good, and who knows, if your friend gets out today she can come with us, if she can find her own date."

My knees felt weak, he basically confirmed my suspicions about this being a date. "I don't think she'll have any problems finding a date." I laughed in a way people would when they're flirting unintentionally. "So, I'll meet you at Ichiraku's at about seven, alright?"

"Sounds like a plan; I'll see you around Nari." He started picking up the rest of the bits of street lamp and hauled them over to the trash bin.

"See you later Shishi." I walked home in a fog. Did that really just happen to me? Did he really just ask me out on a date? These questions were swirling in my head until I walked in the door. "I need to finish my breakfast. Maybe after I eat something I'll be able to figure this out." I finished cooking my pancakes and sat down to eat. "I still can't believe that just happened."

"What just happened?" I jumped out of my seat and pulled a kunai out, only to realize that it was just Sasuke. "Put that away Nari, it's just me."

I took a deep breath, "Don't scare me like that Sasuke, I don't need a heart attack." I put the kunai away, "So why are you here, shouldn't you be with Sora right now."

"The team is going out on a mission without Sora due to her being incapacitated." He shuttered, "Good luck with her Nari, she's going to be in a bad mood."

I shuttered in response. Sora was an amazing friend, but when she was in a bad mood, watch out. "Great, of all days to get a mission Sasuke, it had to be the day I'm all alone with her."

That cocky smile of his dawned on his face, "Oh well Nari, it's not my problem at the moment." His face became serious again, "So what just happened?"

My brain took a few minutes to register, "Oh, I have a date tonight and if Sora is healed, you and her can join us."

His eyes widened, "You actually have a date? Have you ever even been on one before?"

I glared at him, "No, this is my first one, so you guys being there would really help. Although since you're so shocked, maybe I don't need you there."

He rolled his eyes, "Don't be such a drama queen Nari, if I make it back in time, of course we'll go." Sasuke smiled his cocky smile again and left, "Good luck again today."

"Thanks." I finished my breakfast, now cold, and put my dishes in the sink, "Now I get to go see Sora, I just hope she isn't in as bad a mood as Sasuke made it seem." The worst part was, I knew she would be.

The leaf village hospital was empty, which is a good thing because that meant Sora was being healed constantly today. I walked over to the reception desk, "Hello, are visitors allowed up yet?"

The girl looked up, "Oh, hello Nari-kun. Of course you can go up to see Sora."

I smiled, "Thank you." I walked over to the stairs and went up to the third floor. "The hospital is really eerie when there aren't many people here." I knock on the door, "Sora, are you up?"

"Nari, get your ass in here now!" I walked inside and saw Sora glaring at me. "What the hell took you so long? I've been waiting for almost an hour."

"It's nice to see you too Sora. Want me to heal some more of your wounds so we can try and get you out of here?"

"Yes please." Sora propped herself up on the pillows. Her wounds from our last mission had healed almost completely, but she still had some bruising internally. "How long will this take?"

"This should only take about five minutes." I placed my hands over her stomach, "Just relax." My hands started releasing healing chakra into Sora's body, healing her bruises. After five minutes, her internal bruises were healed. "There, after five days in the hospital, you're completely healed."

"It's about damn time, so what's up with you lately?" Her eyes tried to study my mannerisms, trying to determine if anything interesting happened since I saw her two days ago.

"Nothing much. I have a date later but other than that, nothing."

Sora's eyes widened, "Are you joking? That's awesome Nari! So who's the lucky guy to be Nari's first?" Her eyes gleamed happily.

I shrugged back, "He'll most of my firsts, but he wont be my virginity taker if we have sex, even though that may be a long ways away from right now."

Her eyes widened, but her smile dropped, "What did you say? When did you lose your virginity Nari?"

I cowered back, "The other night…to Arashi." I closed my eyes.

"To Arashi! Are you fucking kidding me? Oh Nari if you had sex with that bastard I'll castrate you!" Fire filled her eyes and I knew she would actually do it.

"I did, but it was an accident. He broke up with his girlfriend and came over for some guy time. He asked me to grab the sake and one thing lead to another." I opened one of my eyes, knowing she was still going to kill me.

"So you had drunken sex with a person who needs to fall onto a bed of poison dipped kunai spikes, nice Nari." She pouted in her bed and refused to look at me for over ten minutes. "So, I hope you learned your lesson. I also hope that you tore apart your ass muscles and you couldn't sit for the past two days."

"I couldn't sit for a day. I've been healing myself for the past two days until I could at least walk without a limp."

"Good, I hope it hurt like hell." She stuck out her tongue, "So anyways, did you at least enjoy yourself?" Sora reluctantly looked at me and smiled.

"No, it was painful and he was rough. I don't think I'm going to have sex for a while after that experience." I rubbed my lower back and Sora laughed.

"Well then, I guess you really did learn your lesson."

"Oh shut up Sora, like you're still a virgin yourself. How long ago did you lose yours, a month ago, two months ago? I kind of lost track."

Her gaze hardened, "Do you want to piss me off more Nari? I'm in a decent mood because I can leave this hell hole, but don't make me want to kill you."

"Fine, do you want to leave?"

"Yes, now let's get out of here." She grabbed my arm and pulled me to the front desk. "Nari is releasing me, alright?"

The receptionist shrugged back, "Um, Nari, are you releasing her?" She looked back at Sora, "Sorry, protocol."

"I understand." Sora gave me the death glare, "Well Nari, tell her you're released me."

I sighed, "I, Yasunari Yamamoto, release the patient Sora Akiyama." I rolled my eyes, knowing Sora was smiling extensively.

"Ok then, Sora, you can officially leave the hospital. Have a wonderful day."

"Thank you very much miss." Sora grabbed my arm again and pulled me out of the hospital. "I hope you plan on telling me who this new guy is Nari and when do I meet him?"

"Hopefully tonight, he said that if you got out of the hospital today you could join us, but you need to bring your own date."

"Well then, I guess if Sasuke wants to go, then I'll go." Her smile returned and that made me feel a little more relaxed. "So, what do you want to do until we have to meet everyone for this date? We still have a while, right?"

"Well, the date isn't for a few hours. We could either spar, or we could have a nice long walk and relax at my house."

"How about a quick spar? I need to get back into the swing of things again."

"Sounds good to me, I could use a workout, just try not to go down so easily today." I smiled playfully, remembering that the last time we sparred, I won.

She glared at me, "Oh just because you substituted at exactly the right time and avoided my last attack doesn't mean you get bragging rights."

"We'll see about that." We ran to the training grounds where we always sparred.

"So, how easy should I go?"

Sora took of the bandages on her arm, "I want a full blown spar, no holding back."

"That's just what I was hoping for. By the way, did you ever get your kekkei genkai to activate without the condition?"

She frowned, "No, it still won't work all the time."

"That's a damn shame, because you're going to need it today." I got into my stance, "Ready?"

She glared, "Oh, I'm totally ready." She got into her stance.

"Ready."

"Set."

"Go!" I threw some shuriken at her, each laced with a little bit of wind chakra for extra sharpness.

She dodged them easily, but still got a cut on her face from the wind chakra, "Oh, you're dead now. Fire style: Searing Fire Shower Jutsu." She started producing a mass amount of fire from her mouth and shot it up in the air, only to have it fall down everywhere.

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!" I dodged one barely, but I still ended up getting my shirt burned. "Can't dodge them all. Water style: Water Prison Jutsu." I created a giant water bubble and jumped inside, keeping an air tube and air center so I could breath.

The fire hit the bubble and fizzled away, "Cheater, you can't just jump in a water bubble to dodge my attacks. Wind style: Vacuum Vortex Jutsu."

A giant ball of wind chakra formed around my water prison, but it couldn't quite cut through the bubble. "I guess your wind isn't strong enough to puncture my bubble."

"Fire style: Ring-Of-Fire Jutsu." A giant fiery ring shot out of her mouth and the vortex caught fire, creating an inferno.

"This isn't good." The fire and wind combined started to evaporate my water prison. "Water style: Multi-Water Dragon Whip Jutsu." The outside of the prison formed one hundred water whips with the head of a dragon on the ends of each.

The two jutsus collided and cancelled each other out, "Damn it Nari, can't you ever just go down easily."

"I may be your bitch Sora, but not when we spar." The smile on my face told her I was having a good time, "So, what next?"

"Ugh. Wind style: Tempest Tornado Jutsu." Sora started spinning rapidly until she formed a giant tornado all around her.

"Don't make me laugh. Bubble style: Bubble Tsunami Jutsu." I made the ok sign with one of my hands and started blowing out bubbles into the center of the tornado.

"What the hell." Sora started to move more in a more singular style, twisting her body so that the entrance to the eye was tilted and always moving. The only thing wrong with her plan was that the tornado already had some bubbles inside of it.

"Bubble Style: Massive Bubble Bomb Jutsu." Every single bubble inside the tornado began to explode, destroying it.

"Ack, damn it." Sora fell to the ground hard, but she got back up quickly. "Hey, no use of kekkei genkais unless we can both use ours."

"No way, that's no fun."

"Fine then." Sora appeared behind me and stabbed me in the back. "I guess I win." She twisted the kunai around to add to the pain. When she pulled the kunai out, thousands of tiny bubbles came out of the hole. "What the hell? Damn it, it was a bubble clone."

"Guess I win." Sora looked up at me in a tree, "Bubble style: Bubble Prison Jutsu." The bubble clone exploded and trapped Sora into a giant bubble prison. "So I guess that make it 2-0."

"Oh shut up Nari." Sora sat down on the floor of the bubble and pouted.

I released the jutsu and she fell onto the ground, "Oh, don't be a sore loser. It's time for you to help me get ready for my date."

Sora jumped up, smiling eagerly, "Ok, I LOVE doing wardrobe for dates." She grabbed my arm and dragged along with her.

"How about this one?" She grabbed a nice black button-up shirt, "It has easy access if you decide to have some fun tonight."

I grabbed the shirt out, "The only reason I'd wear this shirt is because it's a slim fit." I grabbed a pair of khaki pants and started to undress.

"Whoa Nari, could you maybe not do that in front of us." Sasuke grabbed Sora and turned her around.

"Oh shove it Sasuke, it's not like I've never seen a naked male before." Sora turned around and shoved him. "But I'm glad you made it back in time."

"So am I. We haven't had a date in a long time." The two of them began to make out on my bed.

I groaned softly, "Guys, could you at least go do that downstairs if you're just going to do that." Sasuke grabbed Sora and brought her downstairs, "Thank you Sasuke." I finished getting dressed in my semi-dressy clothes, examining myself in the mirror, "Good choice of shirt Sora."

I walked downstairs and saw them still making out on my couch. "Um, guys, could you maybe stop for about five minutes so I won't be late?"

Sasuke stuck up his middle finger, "Shut it Nari, we'll be fine." After about ten minutes of face-sucking, Sasuke finally got up, "Now we can go Nari."

"Well it's about damn time Sasuke."

"Calm down Nari, we'll be fine." Sora grabbed my hand, "Now let's go or you really will be late." She pulled us through the living room and over to Ichiraku's

"There you are Nari, I thought you were going to show me up." Shishi came over and gave me a hug, "Thanks again for helping me this morning."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "What exactly did you help him with Nari? Did you help him fix something downstairs?" Sasuke gave us a wink.

I blushed bright red and slapped him across the face, "Sasuke, that's completely inappropriate! I'm not that easy, unlike some people I know."

"Don't make fun of my man Nari just because he can actually get sex."

"Oh I wasn't making fun of him." I gave her a playful smile.

Shishi laughed loudly, "Calm down everyone, and no Sasuke, it wasn't one of those problems. Although that would have made it a very good morning."

Sora's eyes widened, "Nari, you sure know how to pick 'em."

Shishi blushed, "What, everyone else was making dirty remarks, I figured it was ok."

I came back to reality, "It's fine Shishi, it's just not something I would have expected of you."

"Why not, I actually have a very dirty mind." He gave me a wink, causing me to feel light headed.

"Anyways, we're going next door to the dumpling shop because I'm not in a ramen mood." Sora pulled Sasuke out of the hut, "Bye boys." She winked before running out of sight.

Shishi waved goodbye, "You have very weird friends Nari, but weird is never boring." He laughed lightly, "So, shall we go inside?"

I started to fiddle with my fingers, "Yeah, let's go in." He pulled me inside, causing me to smile and blush brightly.

"You look good tonight Nari. If this wasn't our first date, I'd think you were trying to seduce me."

I hid my grin, "That wasn't the plan, but alright." My head was spinning; this boy had made dirty remarks about me and thought I was trying to seduce him. "So, what do you plan on eating?"

"I'm in a miso pork ramen mood tonight." He grabbed my hand and spun me around so that I was facing him, "So what're you getting?"

"I'm getting the diet ramen."

Shishi gave me a confused look, "Why are you getting the diet ramen? You look great."

I blushed, "Thanks, but I want to stay this way. Besides, it tastes really good." I nuzzled my head into his neck, and he surprisingly set his head on mine.

"I was just asking." He walked me to the counter, pulling out the stool so I could sit down. "Hello Teuchi."

He turned around, "Hello, Shishi, Nari. Are you here for some food?"

"Yes, and we're here to say hello." I shook his hand.

"Well then, what'll you have?"

"I'll have the miso pork ramen please."

"I'll have the usual Teuchi." I laughed, getting a smile from both of them.

"Alright, one miso pork and one diet ramen." Teuchi went in the back to prepare the noodles.

Shishi turned to me, grinning from ear to ear, "I can't believe you come here enough to where he knows your order."

My blush came back, "My teammate Ayame loves ramen. We come here all the time when we're not on missions."

"Well that makes sense. Are Sora and Sasuke on your team?"

"No, they're on another team with Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Kakashi sensei."

Shishi laughed, "I've heard of Naruto. Is he as big of an idiot as people say?"

I laughed loudly, "He isn't as bad as people say. Just don't ask Sasuke that question, he'll always tell you yes."

"That's weird, but thanks for the warning. I just graduated the academy five months ago. I decided later than normal that I wanted to become a ninja and I became a chuunin just last week. I'm being placed on an existing team of chuunin that is in need of another male member. Team Natsumi was the name."

I froze, "Did you say team Natsumi?"

His eyebrows lowered, "Yeah, why?"

"That's my team. Me, Ayame, Yuki, and Natsumi sensei."

Shishi's eyes widened, "That's awesome, I'm going to be on your team." He got so happy that he gave me a kiss on the cheek, making me blush even brighter red. "Oh my, I'm sorry Nari."

"That's quite alright Shishi, I actually really enjoyed it." My blush was so red that is almost looked violet.

"Are you feeling alright Nari? You look awfully red."

I calmed myself down, "I'm fine, it's just a little hot in here."

Teuchi set our ramen down in front of us, "I hope it's not too hot for you Nari."

I smiled sarcastically, "Thanks Teuchi." I took a pair of chopsticks and ate some noodles. "It's perfect as usual."

"That's good." Teuchi went in back to clean up, leaving us alone.

"So what do you like to do in your spare time Shishi?" I looked him in the eye, a noodle hanging unintentionally from the corner of my mouth.

Shishi looked over and started to laugh, "I like to…" He leaned in and started to eat the noodle hanging from my mouth, eventually ending in a kiss on the lips, "Stay home a lot and baby sit my little sister."

I blinked a few times, calming myself down, "Tha…that's nice of you. How old is she?"

"She's eight and very shy around new people. Once you get to know her, she's hysterical." He started to chuckle, remembering something his sister must have done."

"What's so funny?" I started to laugh following his example. "It's nothing; it's just something my sister said. She said, 'If you ever get a boyfriend, I have to approve of him first.'"

I laughed, "That's cute, she's protective of you."

"Yeah, she's awesome in that sense." He continued to eat his ramen.

We ate, mingling and making small talk.

After dinner, he walked me home, "So how did you like our little date?"

My face turned light red, "I really liked it."

He gave me a kiss on the cheek, "I'm glad you had a good time. Good night Nari; I'll see you tomorrow." He walked over to his house, smiling from ear to ear.

I sat down on my porch, "That was an awesome date." I walked inside; happy that tomorrow was mission day for the team.