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"bla" normal talking
´bla´OC thinking
´bla´OC´s inner
Chapter 3: Chips?
It wasn´t until a few weeks later that my parents went out with me into the park again.
It was sunny day with some fluffy white clouds up in the sky.
´Clouds...Who can you find when there are some clouds in the sky ?´
´A Shika...let´s see if we can find some Naras´
I looked around.
"Searching someone?"
"Uhu...Shika!" I spotted the trademark pineapple heads of Shikaku and his son lying on the ground looking up in the sky cloud watching while Yoshino wasn´t there this time.
´Seems like some father son bounding time´ inner laughed lightly at that.
´Not every father has time for they child especially when they are active shinobis´
I pulled at my mother´s hand to hurry up to the two Naras.
"Good day Nara-san"
"Hmmm...Ah Hanaka-san" Skikaku drawled and only opening one eye and Shikamaru mirroring him.
´He need some training on that look hahahaha´
´We know he will master it´ inner smiled.
"Shika!" I shrieked and throw myself at him.
´This "deer caught in headlight" look from him with his big brown eyes is great hahahahah...we..hahah...should try to...hahaha...get that look more often...hahahah´-inner k.o. due suffocating at her laughter-
"She really seems to like your son" Shikaku just chuckled.
"Drag" Shikamaru mumbled.
´I think we should let him go´
´Yeah that poor boy pff-hahahahha´
´I think it will take some time bevor you can clam down´
I rolled from Shikamaru to lay beside him and pointed at a cloud.
"Rabbit"
"Bunny"
´Uhm...what were the differences again?´
My Inner couldn't help me there she was still laughing herself to death in a corner of my mind.
"…"
Shikamaru nodded to himself proud to be right.
I pointed to another cloud.
´Let´s try that one´
"Dr-dragon"
"S-Snake"
´Don´t strangle him, don´t strangle him he is only a brat´
This goes on for a few minutes.
Suddenly Shikaku stands up and we both looked at him.
"Nice to meet you Shikaku" said a man with long blond hair in a ponytail beside him walked a bigger guy with red hair and some paint on his cheeks they both carried their children a little girl with blond hair and blue eyes and a chubby boy with brown hair.
"Inoichi, Chouza" Shikaku greeted them.
"Oh and who are you?" Chouza looked at my parents.
"Saeki and Morio Hanaka and this there is our daughter Yuuki" my mother introduced us and I quickly stand up and tried to bow and nearly lost my balance so I chose to only smile then.
"Inoichi we should introduce us too don´t you think" reminded Chouza.
"Ah! Your right. Name is Inoichi Yamanaka and this here is my daughter Ino."
"And I´m Chouza Akimichi and that is my son Choji"
"Nice to meet you" they all then chorused.
Short silence then laughter
´Maybe not a full house but hey we got a double Ino-Shika-Cho hahahaha´
´Why do I get the feeling I hear too much laughter? Are they all so happy?´
´You have the view point of a child there is much happiness and laughing at the beginning because they won´t show us the other side yet´
The other parent put their children down to led them over to me and Shikamaru, who still laid in the grass looking completely bored.
"Choji, Ino this is Yuuki"
´Ah they already know Shika´
"Cho Ino" I called them and grinned.
Inos eyes got a sparkle.
´Careful there choose someone you as a target for feminism´
"Friends" Ino exclaimed and jumped at me with an amazing speed.
´Too late´
"Trouble" came from Shikamaru on the ground looking back up at the sky.
"Shika?" Choji now sitting beside Shikamaru asked him and held a bag with chips out to him.
´Where did he got them?´
"Chips?"
Shikamaru looked first at his dad who nodded slightly to him while he talked with the other about how they know each other and so on. Shikamaru took one chip and munched like a squirrel at it.
´Look at that. Cute~´
I could only watch shortly because of Ino who plucked a flower and offered it to me.
"Know?"
"Daisy?" I asked and she nodded excited over the fact that I know it.
´Oh girl that is nearly the only flower beside roses you know´
´Shut it´
Then Ino got another yellow one and hold it up
"Ce-lan-dine" Ino said slowly with concentration and then waited for me to say the name.
"Ce...Ce..Cela..Celan...Celandine?" Hard word I nearly dislocate my jaw for that.
Ino giggled and so she began her flower guessing game. Let me just say after a while I really wish to be a cloud and away from her...she was nice but persistent so slightly fed up with her I ran up to Shika and Choji.
"Shika!"
´Muhahahha that look again´
´You just came down from your laughing fit´
´But-But...that look is just so great hahahahah´
He shot up awaiting the uninventable but I just hide behind his back.
"Yuuu~" complained an angry Ino who stands before Shikamaru.
"No!" I cried "Shika~ Cho too" I mumbled trying to rope them in too.
Both boys looked at each other, then at the Ino and me
"Uuhmm..." Ino was clearly at a loss.
´What can we play?´
´Let see if they know how to play tag´
´Think they know? Ah and welcome back´
´Thanks and we don´t know without trying´
So I stand up and tapped Choji on his shoulder.
"Catch" I just said and take some slow steps away.
Choji stared at me then at his chips thinking for a moment and laid them away carefully and standing up to tap the frozen Ino on her back.
"Catch"
Ino looked so owlish at us that I giggled slightly.
´Bad move´
She glared and came at me and I squealed and ran away Ino hot on my trail until she stumbled grabbed my arm and took me down with her.
"Catch" she said triumphal standing up and slightly hobbled away so I looked at my next target the lazy ass on the ground.
"Shika!" being his only warning but this time he was up fast enough standing up to run away.
´Don´t underestimated me I trained to walk I will get you´
´Jump now´
I jumped a bit and got it perfectly so that me and him fell down in a mass of limps.
"Ow"
"Catch" I smiled endearing at him got up and ran away all the way he looked at me with big eyes not believing that I tackled him down just to "Catch" him.
´This is really funny´
Ino came to my side and we both stand together a few feet's away from the two boys who looked wary at us and laughed.
Shikamaru put a consulting hand on Choji Shoulder.
"Catch" he said cheeky and ran to the adults while Choji looked really surprised that Shikamaru turned on him.
While Ino laughed at that Choji used his chance again to touch her on her arm.
"Catch" and followed his friend Shika to hide behind the legs of the adults
Ino this time catching up faster tackled me down, maybe for good measure, said her word and also run giggling up to the adults.
´I have a plan let us see if it works´
I ran up to the others and chased them between the legs of the adults, who laughed at us.
"Shika!" Shikamaru froze for a second looking for me but I wasn't even near him. Ino and Choji stopped just to see their friend being tackled down by me again but I didn´t, instead Shikamaru I tackled Choji.
"Uff" He didn´t fall down but did take some steps back with me now hugging him.
´Wow he is strong´
´I can´t hold it in´
I cuddled him.
"Teddy" and now I was happy hanging on Choji.
This time it was Shika and Ino laughing at Choji who even now didn´t get what is happening.
3rd POV
"She sure is a lively one"
"I know Inoich-san, she is full of energy and so eager to learn to speak and running"
"It is not only that"
"What do you mean Shikaku?" Asked Chouza
"She has some talent to even crack the hardest nut and befriend them just look at my laszy ass son, he really is playing along with them and not just sitting in the grass cloud watching"
"She really is a nice girl, I really wish kids won´t growing up and losing their lightness and innocent"
"Yeah sadly we can´t Chouza"
The parents smiled at us kids playing on the hill running laughing and rolling in the grass.
3rd POV End
All this extensive playing tried us really fast out so we all collapsed after a while in the grass beside each other Ino was to my left Choji and Shika to my right I yawned and cuddled up to Choji.
´He really makes a good teddybear´
So we all fell asleep.
I woke up for only a short moment when father picked me up I only saw how the others were also taken by their fathers up and away.
´As a kid we really have much energy but it is also burned out fast´
I laid in my bed later that day staring up at the ceiling.
´What to do now?´
´Maybe standing up first?´
´Ugh´
I crawled out of my bed and managed it somehow downstairs to find my mother sitting in an armchair reading.
"Tou-san?"
"Ah Yuuki-chan your father has been called for a mission"
"Mission?"
"Hai he will be back in one week"
I looked sadly to mother.
"Ah don´t be so sad come here I will read to you"
She stood up to catch one of the picture book from the bookshelf and then sat down on the floor and patting her lap for me to sit down.
While she was reading to me I pointed some words out trying to learn them.
´Maybe we should try to write too?´
´Not yet I can barely read them how should I learn to write when I don´t know what I write?´
´True´
´It will be really boring without father´
´One week and we have only Thursday night ugh´
´Night...we aren´t really tried now because we already took a nap´
I wiggled a lot what alerted my mother.
"You want to do something else Yuuki?"
"Hai"
"What do you want to do?"
´Good question next question please´
´Maybe working on our motoric through trying to catch something?´
"Ball" I pointed to my little blue ball in my box with toys. They have put this box next to the bookshelf on the carpet so I could play easily with them whenever I want mother fetched that one too and gave it to me.
´That really is not easy...I can´t grab it right´
´Try with both hands´
I hold the ball in both my hand and then lift it up and throw it...straight at the floor.
´Uhm you let it fall down´
´Nope I threw it´
´It went straight for the floor that isn´t throwing´
I went to try again when mother handed me the ball again.
´So here hold your arms at a certain angle then grab the ball from both sides and push forward´
I tried again this time it flew a bit in mother´s direction.
"That was good, try again"
I clapped my hands and she smiled and gave me the ball again this time she sat opposites from me and waited for me to throw the ball.
I did that so long until I was tried again and she tucked me back in my bed.
Friday morning
"Hmmm...I really need to do some grocery shopping" my mother mumbled vacantly after our breakfast.
"Yuuki-chan want to do some drawing?"
´She tries to let us die here out of boredom´
I shook my head wildly
"No!"
"You want to come shopping with me?"
I nodded and hurried to the door pulling on my shoes and waited impatiently.
"Ok I will take you with me but you must promise me not to let my hand go you understand?"
"Hai"
I took her and squeezed It tightly.
Near the marked mother stopped.
"Listen It is really important not to let my hand got It is really crowded there and you could easily get lost but when you do let my hand go and can´t find me wait right there I will come back and find you understood?"
"Hai"
She ruffled my hair
"When we are back you can have some cookies"
"HAI"
´Cookies Cookies Cookies~´
´Whoa she didn´t exaggerate it is really crowded...and we are so small´
We first went into some shops to buy some drinks and so one back on the mark place she buys some vegetables and was studying now the stand of an old man with peaches and apples.
"Want to try one, little girl?"
The wife of the old man holds out a red apple.
I took it in both of my hands.
"Thank you" I grinned and then took a bite out of the apple.
´So sweet this apple is really good´
´BAKA!´
´Huh?´
´You used two hand but where should the other one be?´
´Holding onto mother?...AH!´
I quickly turned around but she wasn´t there anymore.
´Uhm...´
I tried to look between the legs of the adult hoping to find a glimpse of my mother but I didn´t saw her.
´In such moment I hate it to be so small´
´Can´t do anything about this we only can stand here and wait for her´
´Think she will register it while concentrating on the shopping?´
´She is you mother sure she will´
´Uhm...she forgot us the other morning when father was in the hospital...it can take some hours´
´Then it will take some time but you could easily get lost in the crowd´
Standing by the stand and eating my apple I waited I think it was nearing lunch time because there were less people now.
´Maybe now we can try to go back home´
´Looks like we have no other choice´
"Yuu-chan?"
Turning to my left there were Choji on the hand of a...
´Wow that is Choji´s mother she is...´
´Well-built?´
´Ah yes well-built!´
Ok Choji was on the hand of a well-built woman with really short black hair and a purple china top.
´He takes like Shika more after his father´
"Oh Choji you know this girl?" She asked and looked at me.
"A poor thing lost your mother in the crowd?"
´I have a little hunch that we should find our mother really fast´
´Your right´
I nodded slowly roaming the market again in hope to see my mother.
"Honey what is it?"
"A darling this girl here lost her mother"
"What girl...Oh aren´t you Yuuki-chan?"
"Hai"
´No luck I can´t find her´
I looked really sad by now knowing I can´t worm myself out of this situation.
"Ah don´t cry what do you think about this. My wife and son will take you with them and I will look for you mother?" Chouza propose.
I shrugged my shoulders.
"Do you have everything?" He asked his wife.
"Yes"
"Then please take her with you home I will look for her mother"
"Don´t come late for lunch"
"Never" He laughed and gave her a short kiss on her cheek a wave and then went away searching for my mother.
"Then come Yuuki-chan" Choji´s mother hold her and with her shopping bag out to me.
I hesitated because mother said I should wait.
´Chouza is looking for her he will find her faster than us and so we must not stand around and can play with Choji´
I then took not her hand but Choji´s and smiled brightly at him.
His mother snickered at us.
"Then come on let´s go home"
´It really is in, this traditional house style, think of it the Hyuga estate does also have that style´
´Must be a clan thing´
Choji´s mother ushered us into the big house.
"Here you can play a bit until I am ready with lunch I will make some extra you look a bit thin I think you will like that"
´Mother should better be found till then...if my hunch is right she will feed us to death´
´I can only hope´
"Yuu" Choji getting my attention shows me to a cupboard with sliding doors opened it and displayed a great collection of Chips bags.
"Woooaah" amazed my mouth hang open and Choji looking pride and began pointing some out and named the different sorts while I still looked a bit baffled.
´Are there really so many sorts?´
"All same?"
"No!" He said angrily.
"Ok" I nodded slowly.
´Lightly food obsessed but...´ I looked in the direction of the kitchen.
´I can see where it comes from´
´Choji need the food because of the special Jutsus of his clan...also chubby stands better on him than thin...just remember how he looked in the war...chubby Choji is better and looks healthier´
"Choji great" I said grinning at him.
Somehow he seems to have lost his speech but slid the door to his treasures wider open to reveal a great package of other sweets.
My eyes became like this two anime sparkle things.
´I´m not leaving´
´Stop drooling´
He pointed to some cookies and wanted to say their names but I was faster.
"Triple chocolate cookies"
He stared then pointed to another package
"Wild Cherry candy´s"
Choji began grinning and changed between the side of the sweets and his chips.
´Seems like he finds it really remarkable that we know these sweets´
´Come one it would be shameful for me a sweet lover not to know them but he is cute when he looks so happy´
"Choji showed you our treasures" His mother winked at me it was hard to look away from this treasure but I manage to looke at her and nodded shortly.
"Lunch is ready come let's eat"
´I should flee and take some sweets with me´
-Inner slapping my hand-
´We don´t steal...but with escaping you are right´
Choji and me sat down on the table and I could see my demise.
´This much who will eat that?´
´We´
´Eeeeeehhhh...are you crazy?´
´...´
´After that walking is out of the question´
All that food really looked not only great but it was delicious
´We should definitive ask her later on to teach us how to cook´
I just finished my first portion when that woman filled my plate again. I looked to Choji who got I third refill.
"Eat you can use it you look too thin and you want to be big and strong right? So, eat" she said while smiling and even Choji looked at me mimicking his mother.
´After this we will resemble a ball´
´Mother...´
´Hey it is not that bad come one you can do it´
After my second refill I gave up while Choji was by his fourth.
´So stuffed ugh´
´Where does he put that?´
´I really don´t know...bottomless stomach?´
"See wasn´t so bad right?" She laughed but quickly change to concert.
"My hubby is not back yet..." She mumbled.
´Right he wanted to be back for lunch...I really hope he find our mother´
"Want some dessert?" She cheered up again.
Choji nodded wildly so she went and got some for us both
´She tries to kill us´
´Wait...I can do that ...I have some extra space for sweets´
´We are full!´
´No! I will eat the dessert´
The dessert was a big piece of apple-pie with a lot of cream.
´You are sure you can eat that´
´There is always place for sweets´
Slowly and carefully I began to eat that delicious piece of pie.
"Thanks for the meal" I huffed out
´No...more...food..´
"Want a second one?"
´Someone must us hate up there´
I shook my head slowly I was too stuffed with delicious food.
"Play" Choji smiled and snatched me up from my place and pulled me with him to somewhere in this damm big.
´He is really strong´
´He ate 4 portions of lunch and 3 pieces of cake someone who can stomach and still be able to move and run must be strong´
We took many turns until he stopped in a dark room.
"Wait"
He switched the light on.
´UGH´
´Is that...´
´More food´
I looked in slight horror and amazement. We were standing in the giant storeroom of the Akamichi main house.
´I see no walls this...this is BIG´
I just stand there with open mouth and Choji standing beside me smiling widely giving me a tour.
´You gotta be kidding me more sweets´
´Amazing´
After an hour we were back in the living room sprawled out on the carpet in deep sleep.
3rd POV
"I´m back"
"A darling did you found her mother?"
"He did" Saeki answered from behind Chouza
"Ah thanks god come they are in the living room sleeping like baby's"
They found Choji munching on some Chips and me still sleeping beside him.
"Yuuki-chan come wake up mother is here"
3rd POV End
It took a little while to open my eyes to look up at the relived face of my mother.
"Mom!" I cried and jumped up at her.
"It is alright I´m here" she rocked me lightly also stroking my head with the other hand.
"I can´t thank you enough for watching over her"
"It is alright she was really well behaved no trouble at all. She is really a sweet little thing she can come over whenever she wants"
"Thank you very much Akamichi-san" my mother bowed her head to Choji´s parents.
"We will go then"
"Ah...Yuu-chan!" Choji runs up to my mother and looked to me with sad eyes and then hold his bag of Chips up to me.
"Chips?"
´Did he just offered us friendship?´
´Choji doesn´t share his chips lightly so yes he did so grasp one but please...only one..´
I looked at my mother.
"Sure, take one"
I grabbed into the bag and pulled out a Chip smiling at Choji.
"Thank you" He only smiled back at me. I watched him over the shoulders of my mother while she carried me away back home until I couldn´t see him anymore.
"You scared me next time I will leave you at home until you are a bit older."
I nodded in agreement.
"It is already late...what do you want to dinner?"
´The Gods must hate us´
I paled.
"No dinner!" Agonize must be heard in my voice quiet clearly.
"Huh?"
"Too much lunch" was the only explanation she got bevor I slumped back against her.
"Then also no Sweets?"
´WHY!?´
I passed out this was too much about food for me I felt like I eat enough for a month.
´We find our-self quiet often back in our bed without remembering getting even home´
´Mhm´
´When should we start our plan best?´
´I must do it before Itachi turn 13 this year he will turn 7 and graduate early, with 10 he will be Chunin and with 11 Jonin...after that he will get into ANBU, I think it was with 12, so with the age of six is we are to late so maybe somewhere between 3 and 5 we should put it in action. Until then I would say we should strength our bound with our new friend´s´
´Means more visits to Choji´s home?´
´Unfortunately´
´They are nice but...that amount of food...my poor stomach´
´You forgot their storage full of sweets but I think I can live off on Mikotos dangos and my mother's cookies´
´You are traumatised´
´Yes´
´Won´t it be bad that they will know you so well´
´How?´
´The more people know you the higher the chance that you will be recognized when someone catch you going near the Nara forest´
´Yeah but maybe it can also help us because they know us they won´t suspect anything they will think that I went looking for dear Shika-kun´
´Hmmmm´
´And to be true...I admired their friendship already in my own world and now living here with them is a bit like a dream come true...I want to be part of this´
´Yeah they are really great´
´I want to be there when the infamous Konoha nines comes together´
´You mean you are going into the ninja academy?´
´Yes I will´
´You know that you aren´t shinobi material´
´We can´t know without trying and I will do my best there´
´How will you convince your parents?´
´I will say the same That I will try at least it won´t hurt to know some basics to protect myself´
´True in this world it won´t be too bad to know some of that stuff´
´Everything will be fine´
´Hmmm...you just want to avoid the civilian school, right? Because it is really similar to the school we went before´
´...´
´I can understand that schools are a real pain in the ass so why not try out something different...eh...we can only hope it is different´
´Don´t spoil that for me´
´Hai hai´
´First of all this plan, we must sleep to digits that over the top lunch I can´t do anything when I lay sick in the bed´
´For what do you wait´
´For you to shut up´
´You know...you can´t stop thinking so you can´t shut me up because I´m part of your mind´
´I hate my mind sometimes´
I rolled a bit around in my bed to find the best position to continue sleeping.
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