Sai chuckled as Amai stuffed another few chips into her mouth. She looked up, swallowing, at the boy in the tree above her.

"What's so funny?" She demanded, plancing her hands on her hips. The crinkle of the chip bag was the first sound to break the silence.

"How can you eat like that fat kid over there, and still be so... not fat?" The dark-haired teen asked. Amai, distracted, looked dreamily at Choji, the boy whom Sai had mentioned. Her face burned scarlet. She sighed, but suddenly turned sharply to Sai, dropping the chips.

"Don't call him that! He's not fat, just huggable and fluffy! Unlike some people..." she looked over at Ino, who was talking with Choji as nonchalantly as possible, as if he weren't the most adorable person in the whole land of fire. That Ino was all skin and bones, sharp corners and revealing outfits. Amai had once thought that Choji liked that kind of girl- uber thin, anyway- and tried out a diet herself. It didn't work very well. "Isn't he so dreamy, though?" she whispered to no one in particular. " he's so sweet, and hugable, and adorable..." another sigh.

Sai had read somewhere- possibly a poem- that great dissapointment is like heart break. It clenches at your emotions so much that the pain tranfers from mental to physical, a way for the brain to relieve itself from the overload of stress. Sai had never experienced such things himself (except maybe in the case of his brother, though even then his emotions were dulled). And so keeping a calm face was harder than he had assumed it would be when he realized that the girl he admired liked someone else.

He, instead, scowled out of disinterest at Ino and Choji. Neither of them had very appealing body types to him, especially not as appealing as Amai's. Sai was physically- and emotionally- attracted to this wonderful blue-eyed beauty, and many of his reasons, he could list.

Amai had a perfect mixture of a strong, rebellious personaliy, and a polite and shy one, both showing up at their own coresponding times, and both of which he knew when to expect. Also, she had a curvy figure, not stick thin like Ino, who looked as though she starved herself. Her expansive eating was a minor set back, especially when drawing, when all he could usually see to draw was her stuffing her face. But that was fine, for Sai had long ago given up drawing his dark-haired beauty. He could never seem to get the curves right, and would rather stall his drawing skills than marr Amai's beauty.

"... high metabolism." Sai suddenly heard, looking down at Mai from his perch.

"What?"

Amai sighed. "I said that the reason why i'm thinner than I should be is because I have very high metabolism."

"Oh." He would have to look it up later. He didn't know much about medical conditions.