Stupidity at its Best (A Naruto Story) Ch 2
Thanks to everyone who read the first chapter of "Stupidity at its Best"! It takes me a day or so to write the chapter then another day to correct any errors my amazing beta-reader Kit finds, so I'll be thanking everyone who reads it at the end of the chapter, right before I post it! And especially with how hectic this week is going to be…I'll be lucky if I get one chapter out. Sorry if I'm more or less dead. ^^"
My eye twitches when I meet his gaze. He looks like an eager puppy. Have I mentioned that I don't like dogs? It's not really that I don't like them…it's that they hate me. I'm really more of a cat person.
"Do you know him?" Hiroshi asks frowning a little.
"I don't think so," I say frowning as well. "So um, Tobi, how do you know me?"
"Leader-sama said-" His eyes get huge behind his mask and he stops talking.
"Said what?" We ask at the same time. Tobi shakes his head with huge eyes.
"Tobi'll be a bad boy if Tobi tells!" He says frantically.
"Hey, calm down there kid!" Hiroshi says attaching a heart rate monitor to his finger. "We can't get a good vitals reading if you're freakin' out like that,"
"Tobi is sorry," He says quietly, looking down.
"Its fine," I say reaching out to put my hand on his shoulder. He flinches under my touch but doesn't pull away. "You won't be a bad boy if you tell us, you'll be an even…uh, gooder boy!" He opens his mouth to respond but the ambulance pulls into the hospital. They take him off the van and rush him inside like someone's dying. I sigh and take a seat in the waiting room, flipping through an old gossip magazine.
It's half an hour later when I see Hiroshi walk by.
"Hey! Is he okay?" I ask jogging up to him. He smiles when he sees me.
"He was just asking about you. Tobi's fine, all he suffered was minor injuries, mostly exhaustion. He's in room 131 if you're interested," I grin and out of instinct hug him quickly.
"Thanks so much, Hiroshi-san!" I say running down the hall and skidding into Tobi's room. A nurse looks at me strangely and Tobi waves.
"Pretty girl-chan!" He says and tries to bounce out of bed but the nurse holds him there.
"Not done yet~," She chides. He pouts a little and sits back, letting her finish her tests. She giggles a little as she passes me. "He's a real sweetie,"
"Pretty girl-chan came to see Tobi!" He says, his visible eye sparkling.
"Yeah…I wanted to make sure you were okay before I went home, and my name is Mitsukai Kumori," I say rubbing the back of my neck. He grins and I see a blush forming on top of his mask.
"Tobi wants to hug Kumori-chan! Kumori-chan saved Tobi's life!" I shrug a little as he wraps his arms around me in a bone crushing hug. A small grunt escapes my lips before he lets go.
"It really was nothing," I mumble, not use to this kind of attention. "I really didn't do anything,"
"Tobi is forever in debt to Kumori-chan!" He says now hugging my legs. I look down and blink.
"Why are you hugging my legs?"
"Tobi doesn't really know!" He says brightly. I look down at him and he looks up, almost wiggling with excitement.
"You're a strange little guy aren't you?" I say to myself.
"That's what Sempai always said," He says sounding sad. "Tobi misses sempai already," I then do the second stupidest thing I can possibly do in one day. I ask him a simple question.
"Do you have a place to stay, Tobi? It doesn't seem like you're from around here…you could stay with me if you want, if you don't have any other place," His eyes get huge and sparkly. I knew it was a mistake the second the words flew out of my mouth. I'm mentally kicking myself when he hugs my legs even tighter.
"GACK!" My legs buckle and I fall backwards. Tobi squeals and tries to stand up while still hanging onto my legs. Needless to say, that doesn't work. I'm groaning on the floor (yes that does sound very awkward! But Tobi is such a good boy!) And he's still clinging to my legs.
"Tobi doesn't have a place to stay! Tobi would love to stay with his new best friend Kumori-chan! YAY!"
My eye twitches. Best…friend?
"Yeah!" Tobi says happily and I realize I'd said it out loud. "Kumori-chan is Tobi's new best friend!" My eye twitches at the word and I bite my lip to hold back a sigh. He's wiggling like an eager puppy…again. He wants me to respond.
"Yay," I say with a grimace. He seems to take it as a real smile and glomps me as the nurse from before comes back in.
"Oh~," She giggles. "Am I interrupting?" My face burns red and Tobi bounces up to her before bouncing on the balls of his feet.
"Nope! Tobi was just hugging his new best friend, Kumori-chan!" He says and glomps the nurse. She laughs and hugs him back.
"Kumori must be very lucky," She says winking at me. I turn even deeper red and mumble an excuse under my breath. "I'll leave you two alone,"
"Bye-bye!" Tobi says cheerfully and waves at her. I force a small wave looking robotic.
"We should probably go home," I mutter as Tobi flutters around humming something that sounded oddly like song "Gummy Bear". "I need to feed Byakko,"
"Huh? White tiger?" He asks stopping and bouncing on his heels.
"You'll see why I named her that when you meet her," I mutter under my breath.
~Line~
"Here we are," I say as Tobi and I step into the hallway of my apartment.
"Tobi likes it!" He says, his eyes sparkling.
"It's what I call home," I shrug and open the door. There's a feral yowl and I'm engulfed in a hissing white ball of fuzz. "I missed you too Byakko-baka," I grumble as she attacks my hair. Tobi squeals and pulls the fuzz ball of my head, squishing her gently in a hug.
"Tobi likes Byakko-chan!" He decides as the cat yowls louder.
"You're the only one,"
"What was that?" He asks and looks up at me with huge innocent eyes, making me melt.
"Nothing," I say shaking my head before adding "Are you hungry?"