Hello readers! I'm back with a new WoW fanfic! Now some of you will remember that I wrote the WoW fanfic 'Flowers in the Dirt', and this is somewhat of a sequel with characters that were mentioned in the story and now will have their story told at last. Once again, it's a NelfxGnome piece, which FitD was, but this one takes a more funnier tone which hopefully should be up my street. The idea of the story first came about when my fellow WoW and fanfiction friend, BleachKyuubi-Chan , said to me about something about a Night elf going a date with a Gnome. Now at first it may just sound like nothing too special to you and I, but that idea became the seed that was planted in my head to start of this new story...

Now this has been written in the eve of the final chapter of 'Not Alone' and a requested fic I'm doing at the moment which I can tell you will be the next one up on the list, I have my hands quite full to say the least, but I have to take them down one by one. Now I can tell you that compared to FitD, this will be more shorter than that one and that this will be a breeze to write compared of what I have now I'm working on. The trick for finding a story fun to write is one that is one that you find comfortable to write about, in this case, comedy is a strong point of mine, but i can turn my wheel other ones, though I may not find them that fun as such.

But enough of that, let's get on with the story then, shall we? Ok, let's go then, I will apologise that if this chapter is badly written as all first chapters are like.

Part 1

Don't Bother Me

For many of the races in the Alliance, Night elves are stereotypically known to be stuck up for being one of the older races in Alliance. Nothing wrong with that to be honest, they were just proud of their history, though it can be joked that they lack a bit of fun on their side. For one of these Night elves, this one fitted like the rest of the so-called stereotypes of her race.

Kushina Windrider was one such of being stuck up like the rest. She was the typical Night elf anyone would expect anyway, light purple skin, long dark blue hair and her Night elf facial markings, there was nothing about her that stood out from the crowd. All she wanted was to carry on with her tasks as a Druid and nothing else; this of course made her quite unpopular at times with her fellow guild members who wanted to invite her to big guild parties in bars and other places. Now although mention to be nothing special about her, she did have one thing that she didn't wanted to be known by others that would damage her reputation.

It was that close friend of hers, Nedia, though they seemed to be more like sisters to be honest. They almost had an uncanny close appearance about each other with Nedia have the same long blue hair, though abet a lighter blue, and the same markings and skin tone. For anyone who had never seen the younger Hunter, this Night Elf would of seem normal like the rest of her kind, just that they didn't know who her lover was. At first, Kushina had been quite happy to hear that her younger friend had found someone in her life, though it nearly give her a panic attack when she found out whom the lover was.

A Gnome, and not just any Gnome, a Gnome Death Knight called Jirus Frizzcrackle to be correct.

Since Nedia had happily said that, Kushina felt completely appalled by her that she had fallen for someone that wasn't her own race, and not to mention that this Gnome was terrible looking, smelt strongly of rotten meat and Kushina couldn't wrap her head about Nedia's strange lover and why the younger elf loved this Gnome so much. So much so that Kushina had never even bothered to speak to the Gnome, let alone start a friendship with the Gnome. She had now started having a few nightmares of Jirus asking Nedia's hand in marriage, she wished that they wouldn't be happening soon...

This had caused quite a lot of friction between the two Night elves' friendship with both disagreeing with the other, one that did catch the guild's attention at times. And today for Kushina, she's wish she would never come round for this guild event.

"Do I have to do this?" Kushina asked Nedia as they walked into a large building in Ironforge.

"C'mon, Kush," Nedia smiled, "you'll love it!"

Kushina grumbled at the nick-name Nedia would call her all the time, yet that wasn't the point, all Kushina wanted at the moment was wanting to know why Nedia wanted her to come to this guild meet up of all meet ups.

"And what is so special about this one?" Kushina asked grumbling remembering how not only Nedia was asking to come along, but many others from the guild.

"It's our guild leader's retirement party, time to give him a good send off!" Nedia replied.

Kushina nearly kicked herself forgetting about this one of all meet ups. Their current guild leader had now gotten to the point of being way to old for being the leader and many had wondered why he hadn't giving up the role about three years ago, still despite this, the human had been a pretty well like leader in his time with the guild since day one, and now it time for him to go. She would miss him though she would admit. But she still felt a bit grumpy about going out that night.

Even when the two walked in and were giving a warm welcome by everyone else that had gathered, the Druid only uttered a small 'hi' before heading over to a corner of the room away from the rest of the party of guild members chatting away to each other. Nedia sighed in disappointment at her older friend would always do that in the company of others, it wasn't like the elf was anti-social, just not really wanting to keep a low profile among others compared to Nedia being quite a high rank and talkative person. Then she heard another group of people coming in, one that made her smile like an idiot.

Kushina's ears then pecked up a sound from Nedia, more like a girlish squeak from the Hunter. Looking over her shoulder to see what it was, she tensed at the sight of what it was that had come through the door, a Worgan Warrior, a Dwarf Hunter and the one that made fill with anger…Jirus.

Nedia happily picked up the Gnome and gave him a tight hug; it amazed the older Night elf of how happy the Death Knight Gnome looked. After pulling away from the Gnome, Nedia, still holding up Jirus, pulled the Gnome closer to her again into a long kiss on the lips.

The sight itself made Kushina look away in sadness. She couldn't understand why the rest of the assembling guild members didn't seem to react to how strange this couple looked. She then placed her hands on the side of her face looking miserable. She dreaded to see what the children would look like, and she knew she couldn't break them up; it would be dangerous territory for her to anger Nedia, who wasn't all sunshine and rainbows all the time…

"You ok?" Came Nedia's voice, making Kushina look behind at her snapping her out of her train of thought. She noticed that Jirus was standing alongside the worried looking Night elf that he himself had a similar look on his face.

"Is there something I can do?" Asked the Gnome looking at Nedia.

Nedia looked down at her lover with a small smile. "No thank you, this is a little personal thing." And with that, Jirus gave her a small nod and headed off to join the others having a drink.

Once Jirus was out of the way, Nedia looked back at her close friend. "What's the matter?"

Kushina gave an almost un-ladylike snort turning her back on her. "Nothing, just that you made me forget something I was thinking about."

Nedia rubbed her chin in thought about it, and then smiled. "Ahh, but what were you thinking of?"

The Druid tried to come up with something to end the conversation, but failed to say anything. This made Nedia smile even more. "Ahh, I see, you saw me with my boyfriend and now you think you should have one!"

"What!" Kushina spun round to look at her friend, only to see her give an out a little giggle.

Nedia placed her hands on her slim waist smiling. "About time you thought about getting into a relationship! So who'd you have in mind?"

Kushina was annoyed by her friend's words, making her grind her teeth, and her blushing face didn't help much either. "I…I…!"

By now Nedia was laughing with joy at the ever growing annoyed Druid.

"Like you think you can find someone for me tonight." Kushina said crossing her arms on the spot with 'that' look on her face.

This made Nedia stop laughing at Kushina and made her think about it.

"Got you now!" Kushina thought triumphantly thinking that she would outsmart Nedia as she turned round on her chair.

"…I might…" Nedia said with a little grin on her face, shattering all of Kushina's hopes to pieces. "…And he is quite the strong one, kind, loyal and would be perfect for you!" Nedia almost acted like some young kid in a toyshop when she said this. "It'll be a date for you two! I'll be back!" And the young Hunter quickly dashed out of the room to find this person, which for reason, she asked Jirus at first, maybe to ask him if he knew where this person was.

Poor Kushina felt an awful feeling in the pit of her stomach; what ever Nedia had always planned in store for her would always be disastrous and embarrassing. And while sitting there, Kushina preyed to the gods silently begging for mercy on her soul.

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Two hours seem to pass by the time Nedia returned to the meet up location. Kushina had worried greatly how she would be like an idiot in front of some respectable guild members, though she wouldn't have to worry at all to be honest. Everyone else apart from herself was completely drunk, especially that Gnome and his friends having a drinking game who all seemed to be on the verge of passing out, she was the odd one out. Everyone else from the guild had come together to enjoy this night and it did amaze Kushina of how many people there were in this guild. Nedia had returned with that smile on her face even bigger than before. "Kush! I found the one for you!"

Kushina groaned rubbing her face with her hands; she really couldn't believe what Nedia had pulled off in such a sort time. "Where is this person then and who is he?"

"He is in this guild," Nedia replied with a small smile, "and is waiting behind the building."

The older druid knew that she was trapped and that there was nowhere for her to run as Nedia would make sure she would meet up with this unknown person. Out of the drunken atmosphere (and smell of ale!) of the bar, Kushina left and followed Nedia out to see what she had planned for her. She herself was starting to heat up, and the heat that surrounded didn't cause that. A sense of anxiety swirled around in her wondering who this person was. And when they got round the corner, Kushina expected the person to be quite tall, strong and hopefully one that Nedia had one that would match her own personality. As she got closer, she did have a tiny ray of hope of who the person might be. What she saw didn't make her think that Nedia would listen to anything that she wanted at all.

Standing there, wearing from head-to-toe in plate armor, (he was a warrior) was the last type of person that the Druid would have wanted. A Gnome…a Gnome Warrior of all!

"Kushina this is Donvan, Donvan this is Kushina," Nedia introduced them to each other. "…Kush?" Nedia asked her, Kushina's face had turned from her light pink colour to white in about few seconds, and with her shaken like a leaf, Nedia thought she was about to be sick.

"Why a bloody Gnome!" Kushina snapped at her friend, making the slightly confused Gnome Warrior wonder what was the matter. "You picked one of that wasn't one of our own race, Nedia! Just what were you thinking?" Her face now had turned from white to red faster than a Warrior's charge.

Completely furious with it all, Kushina transformed into her blackbird form and flew away from the shocked pair. Silence followed in that alleyway as the pair looked at each other. Although Donvan had his helm on, Nedia could tell that he was pretty heart broken of not getting a date for the night.

"W-What did I do?" The Warrior said sadly.

Nedia sighed and looked up to see Kushina flying further away from them. "You did nothing wrong, it really is my fault I think." All she had tried to do was make her older friend happy, and now, she'd had ruined it. "Oh Kush, please just give this a chance…"

Ouch! Rough start indeed! Well that's all your going to get for the time being as I have some other things to work on, so don't go away, I'll be back. That's yer lot for now!