Guess what? I don't own Naruto SHOCKER I do, however, own Akemi. I also am the current possessor of Kaara, who my friend made up. No she will not end up with Gaara because their names are similar. That was an accident.
Chapter 1
"HEY! Akemi! Get your ass out of bed!"
Akemi sat up, rubbed her eyes, and looked at the clock. It read 5:30 am.
Dammit, she thought to herself, I overslept.
She threw on some outfit or another, ran a comb through her lime green hair, and ran for the kitchen. Kakashi was sitting there, mask off, but head buried in a book, although it looked like his mind was somewhere else.
"Hi dad, bye dad" Akemi said, rushing past. Her dad's head turned and he merely stared after her as she ran into the courtyard, leaped the fence, and ran down the street.
Akemi rapped on Shikamaru's window three times, shivering from the cold. I should've brought a jacket, she thought to herself as she waited for him, then decided to see what she was wearing anyway. She looked down and smiled at her own stupidity. It was a green mini dress and the sleeves. Shikamaru opened his window, and just like he had been expecting her, said, "You're late, Akemi"
"Thirty minutes and thirty five seconds." Akemi said in reply
"Well then I have to forgive you don't I?" Shikamaru smiled and kissed her good morning. He just worked like that, only forgiving lateness if she knew the exact amount of time that she was late. It was a talent of hers, after all.
"Well do I have to start writing my will now, or is later ok?" Shikamaru was referring to the fact that the one day Akemi chose (or not) to be late, they were going to go meet Temari and return her fan. Akemi double checked that it was over her shoulder, and then remembered something.
"Uh…now might be good. Gaara's coming today."
"Aw dammit. I only thought we were going to be half dead before."
"Oh come on, he wouldn't kill you while I was there."
"Oh really?" Shikamaru was turned around, with an expression on his face that most people can't describe.
"Yes really, because he'd know I'd kill him first. Anyway, we'd better get going." Akemi said, pulling Shikamaru along by the hand.
Temari and Gaara
"And I once again repeat, WHY are we here?" Gaara was staring at Temari with this impatient look that would make most normal people giggle.
"She's retuning the fan."
"The WHAT?" Gaara was suddenly alert; sort of alarmed that Temari would just hand out her greatest weapon to strangers.
Then the pair walked in, and Gaara took a deep breath of relief on seeing that Temari's fan was completely unharmed.
"Oh come on Gaara, did you really think that I was going to kill it?" Akemi was staring at Gaara with a smile on her face. Gaara, finally focusing on the real world, returned her smiling look with a stone-cold one of his own. He turned to Temari and made a motion saying that they should get going. Akemi tossed over the fan, and kind of laughed that Gaara had forgotten it in his own thoughts. Gaara sent dagger eyes, and Akemi stuck out her tongue, stating in her own way that she wasn't afraid of him.
"Well, we've got to get back to the sand village, so I'll see you later right?" Temari made a move towards the exit. Akemi nodded, as if to say, no duh Sherlock, and then followed Shikamaru out the exit. Gaara seemed to nod to someone that Akemi couldn't see, and it caught her attention, but she didn't look into his mind like she would have for anyone else. There were some limits to her ego.
"What's with Gaara?" Shikamaru wondered out loud as Akemi walked up behind him. He had obviously gotten out of there as soon as possible.
"Oh, he's just being himself." Akemi thought to herself about how his lack of the ability to sleep must have taken a toll on his mood.
"Well, I have to be getting back, I guess" Shikamaru was in the same tone of wonderment, forgetting to change his voice from the question he asked earlier. He turned around and pulled Akemi into a kiss, stayed there for what felt like eternity but was really only a few minutes, and then turned to go home.
Akemi reached up and grabbed him on the shoulder, then whispered into his ear, "Don't lose yourself, ok? Never forget that I love you."
By the time he had turned around, she was gone, racing down the back alleyways to get to Kaara's house.
Kaara
Kaara awoke to the sound of her alarm screaming. She rolled over and whacked the floor where her alarm used to be until she realized that she had no alarm anymore. It was Naruto at the window.
"Shuddup would'ya?" She yelled outside. For once, he stopped, but flung himself in the formerly closed window.
"ComonComonComonComonComon!!" he spazzed, twitching every few seconds. "You're finding out who you're with today, remember?!"
"Ok, I have two questions for you Naruto." Kaara calmly responded, "One, who gave you sugar? And two, where the hell did they get it?"
As if to answer her questions, Akemi dropped a chocolate bar over the railing and Naruto quickly jumped on it. Akemi used this convenient foot stool to climb over, and then went to the closet and starting throwing clothes at Kaara.
"Why, mmph, are you, mmph, up so, mmph, early?" Kaara attempted to say, while being bombarded by clothes.
"Hey," Akemi said to the mirror in the closet, "I'm up LATE. It's spazzy boy here who's up early. I had to give him the chocolate to get him out of bed and to your window."
So that's where the chocolate came from, Kaara thought to herself. She made her choice from the clothes thrown at her, and put on a black strapless top and her black-and-red striped skirt. She tugged on her combat boots and brushed her black hair, then put on eyeliner.
"Wow." Akemi said, watching the eyeliner go on. "It seems sorta crazy that all I did was put on clothes and brushed my hair and you've taken about a half an hour to get everything on."
"You just shuddup ok?" Kaara replied, finishing the eyeliner. "We have to get going anyway"