"Damn it! How the hell did you do that?" I screamed at Naruto. It was two days after Sasuke went to my grandma's and it's been horribly awkward after that. So now, I only visit meaningful people like Kiba, Naruto (sort of), and Ten-Ten. I grew close to her which was totally weird. She became another best friend.
But right now, I was giving Naruto heck for putting his toilet on fire. How the hell can you do something like that? It's just another Naruto thing, I guess.
"I don't know! It just did, okay? How do we put it out?" He rose into a panic. Since they didn't have any jutsu crap, they couldn't just put it out with some water jutsu crap. I groaned and grabbed a vase and emptied the flowers in it. I filled the vase with water in the bathroom sink and splashed it all over the toilet. There, fire gone.
"You're such an idiot sometimes!" I yelled and glared at him. He looked a little sheepish.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! They're just a bit different from the toilets we have back home." He muttered excuses. I groaned again.
"Shut up now!" I growled. "You're on my nerves, what happens when you're on my nerves, Naruto?" I asked menacingly. He was so stupid that he looked like he enjoyed it. Damn you, Naruto.
"Oh, I know! When I'm on your nerves, you'll become a ticking time-bomb and if I step on one more nerve, you'll blow up all your anger at me. Did I get it right, Kyra?" He asked me. He's such a child…but a really annoying one sometimes.
"Yeah, you got it right. C'mon, let's go see the others." I muttered. I knew Naruto acted different around me than Kellie. He acted, well, almost smart around her. Probably trying to impress her or something. I grinned at the thought. Kellie would love that!
"What are you smiling at, Kyra?" He asked.
"I was thinking about how Kellie and you hang out a lot." I told him. He grinned wildly.
"Well, of course me and Kellie-chan hang out a lot. She's pretty cool, practically like Sakura-chan." He beamed. Of course he'd make that comparison.
"Hey!" I heard someone yell behind us. Naruto and I both looked back and saw Kiba trying to catch up to us. "There you are. Kyra! I've been looking for you everywhere!" My heartbeat quickened a bit and my stomach started to squeeze itself.
I wasn't used to these feelings at all. So it took some time to compose myself and answer him. "Really now? Well, I'm here so what do you want?"
"I just wanted to know. Where's that place that your sister keeps on talking about? The…Boucha's? It sounds cool." He said. The Boucha's? My aunt and uncle's house? What did Kendra tell him? And why does he want to go there all of a sudden? Well, whatever. I can please one person a day, and I'll please him.
"It's in the bush. We'll go there sometime, okay?" I told him. He seemed to brighten at that.
"Sure, how about soon though?" He asked. I shrugged and answered with a 'sure, why not'. He smiled and started walking with us. All the others were already in town. The walk wasn't awkward at all, I could relate to these dumb bums better than Sasuke. Darn it, why are you on my mind?
We were almost in town when we saw two girls running super fast. We knew they must be ninjas…and we were right. It was Ino and Temari, apparently looking for me.
"Kyra! We were supposed to go shopping!" Ino whined. My jaw dropped. Shopping? With these girls? NO WAY! I don't have the same taste as them and never will!
"But! But!" I stammered. I don't want to go shopping! I wanted to say it so badly but who knows what these girls could do if they have a temper tantrum here.
"We'll come shopping! That way, we'll dress up Kyra like you guys did to Kellie-chan, right?" Naruto asked. Don't tell him but it was a really stupid question. Boys? Dressing ME up? You might as well tell the most delicate girl to try out football because they were 'hunks' on the team. Considering that delicate and dumb go real well together, that actually might work.
So that suggestion was accepted and the boys ended up shopping for me. I seriously thought that Kiba and Naruto had really bad shopping sense. Turned out, they don't! They had more of a girly style for girls than Ino and Sakura, for crying out loud.
It was freaking freaky, for sure. They wanted me to wear pink frilly stuff, skirts and crap like that. I was tempted to rip everything they threw at me up, but then I would have to pay for it. So I just threw it on the floor and told them to put it back where they found it.
"I don't think she likes pink, Naruto." Kiba muttered. He stopped throwing pink stuff a while ago but they were still girly clothes. Naruto just kept throwing me pink thing after pink thing after pink thing. It was getting just… annoying.
"But, this! It will look great on her!" Naruto gushed. He held up a pink shirt. With sequins attached to it. Uh, no.
"MY GOD! You're such a girl!" I yelled. Then everyone in the store looked at me. Like I was crazy or something. I pretended that I didn't notice them.
"FINE! Don't wear pink! We'll find something else, let's go to another store." Naruto muttered. He put the shirt back on the shelf. And practically stormed out of the store. I started laughing.
Honestly, would you ever think that Naruto would actually pick something out for a girl? … Okay, scratch that. There is that Sexy Jutsu that he came up with, so he THINKS he knows what looks good on girls. But it don't look good on me.
"Here's a store with a bunch of black in it. This store's perfect." Naruto said a little too loudly. What was he aiming at…?
"HEY! Are you calling me a black-lover? A GOTH person?" I yelled. I stopped in my tracks and little out an angry groan. Naruto dared me with his eyes. OH NO, HE DIDN'T! "You conceited little devil!"
"Whoa, it's okay." Kiba said to try and calm me down. But he frayed my very last nerve. "I bet he didn't mean that."
Naruto didn't look back as he entered the store. What a jerk! He can be worse than Sasuke, I swear! My knuckles turned white from keeping them in fists for so long.
I sat down on a bench that was close to the store inside of the mall that we were in. Kiba sat beside me. Akamaru wasn't with us, much to Kiba's dismay. He had to keep him outside because the security guard said that the massive dog couldn't come inside. I waited impatiently, Kiba by my side, for Naruto to come out of the store.
When he did come out, he didn't have that demon-ish look in his eyes anymore. Was that the Nine-Tailed Fox that dared me? And not Naruto? Well, I guess I'd never know. Besides, I don't think that the demon inside of the blonde-y kid does that kind of thing.
He looked sorry, actually. He had a bag that looked somewhat full. He bought something that fast? Well, he's good at speed-shopping. It took me quite a few years to master that, though it was mainly leaned towards grocery shopping.
"Kyra, here you go. I screwed up before and wasn't thinking of YOU, per se. I was thinking of girls in general, like Ino and Sakura-chan. But you and Kellie-chan are different, right?" Naruto spoke in a rushed, nervous tone. He handed me the bag.
I looked inside. And saw a pretty grey dress. Its sleeves were in a T-shirt style and it had a layer of black see-through lace. There was a belt just below the bust line, it was silky grey ribbon. The skirt was flowy and seemed to shimmer under the black lace. It was knee-high, or was it knee-low? Whatever the heck it is, it was at the knees.
And I loved it entirely. It was so…so… me! I could probably actually maybe look good in this dress! I was happy!
"I'm sorry that I acted out like that, Naruto. This totally makes up for everything!" I smiled and hugged the dress. Kiba grinned and took the dress from my hands. He looked it over, turning and turning it again, just to see how it looks.
"It's not bad, you did well this time, knucklehead." Kiba approved the dress.
"Ha. Ha. That's so funny, dog-boy." Naruto grumbled. I smiled and grabbed the dress back. I put it back in the bag. "NOW FOR SOME SHOES!"
Oh no! Not this all over again. Especially with shoes.
"No way! I'm going home. I got this dress and I'm happy. Besides, I don't want no scary 5-inch high heels." I told them.
They smiled and let me go. I felt like a big weight was lifted over my shoulders. Thank goodness for no more shopping. But I DID want to go check out the shoes, just by myself. Besides, my opinion matters the most to me.
I went over to the shoe store of the mall. I scanned through the high heels, laughing at the high heels that no one would walk straight in. Then I actually went to go look at ballet flats, which (though they still hurt like a bee-yotch) are more my thing.
I saw a pair of black ballet flats that I fell in love with. They had a silver/black rose on the toes. With silver lining along the edges of the shoes. I was about to make a grab for them, just to see if I would fit them, when someone grabbed them before me. I clenched my fist, gritted my teeth, and looked at the person who grabbed them. My heart stopped and I could feel my teeth crack.
"SASUKE!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. The rest of the store went quiet, but I didn't even think about the other shoppers. My glare was locked on him, and I could feel everything die around him. Why wasn't he? "What the hell are you doing here?"
"I…was…finding…some shoes?" He said it slowly, as if his next words will get him killed. But it was no use. I swear he was going to die anyway.
"Why would YOU need to buy shoes?" I hissed. I was ready to stomp out of the store. When I looked, all the girls around my age shot jealous glares to me. Oh my god, what'd I do? I stuck my tongue out and blew a raspberry.
The girls didn't back down, and I swear I knew some of them. I made a face of disgust but not towards the boy-crazy concubines (one amazing word right there); it was towards the boy they were all going gaga over.
"I hate you, Sasuke Uchiha." I spat out and walked out of the store. I had no idea why I got so mad, but there I was, in the mall, storming out the shoe store with girls sending their best stank eyes towards me. And I was as mad as hell.
I saw Kiba eating a gargantuan cheeseburger in a restaurant. He waved while he was chewing, loudly no doubt, and I waved back. I found myself smiling, and motioned towards the door out of the mall. He nodded and I started towards the door. Through the glass, I could see big Akamaru waiting patiently, even without a leash. I love that big hunk of fur.
I pushed open the doors and squealed, unlike the girl I was. Akamaru sprang up, his long tail wagging dangerously behind him. "Oh, Akamaru. Aren't you the best puppy ever? Yes, you are! Yes, you are!" I cooed. The enormous dog barked in agreement.
He lay down and looked at me expectantly. He knew what the drill was. I jumped on him and saddled him like a horse. I always wanted to do this whenever Kiba did it. I was a little clumsy at first but after a few tries, Akamaru could ninja-dog run with me.
I could see Kiba smiling at me, still inside the mall. He waved good-bye. I hoped he was going to catch up; I never rode Akamaru completely by myself. I nodded and waved back, but my waving stopped when I saw Sasuke with A BAG IN HIS HAND. Did he buy those shoes? I gritted my teeth again and Kiba had a confused face. I tried to smile but Sasuke was still in my view.
Akamaru got my drift, thank God, and bolted off from the mall. He slowed down to a brisk walk by the time the mall was gone from my sight. I sighed. DARN HIM! Curse him to the deepest hell where he deserves to be. But even I caught the lie; I couldn't do that to him. Even though it was evil, insane man Sasuke.
I was too lost in thought to realize Akamaru was slowing down to a restrained walk. Like he was trying his hardest to move but could barely control his body. I looked up.
My blood froze into crimson ice in my veins. My heartbeat stopped, and I couldn't feel my body, not even my breath. It was if… I lost all control, over everything. My mind was a blank, no matter how hard I tried to think.
"Afternoon, miss, do you know this town well?" The man in front of me asked. He… had a scary resemblance to Sasuke, and my heart went from no beating to going thousands of miles a second. My breath came back all at once, and no words came from my throat.
"I assume you were taught not to speak to strangers." He spoke once again. A lump formed in my throat, and I thought I was going to burst into tears. After the longest time and my hardest efforts, I looked down to my hands clinging onto poor, scared Akamaru's fur.
"I-I am very sorry, sir. B-but it's true, I can't speak to strangers." I spoke quietly and quickly.
"What a lovely breed of dog, is it yours?" The man ignored my response. I could feel the dog tense as the man petted his head. He growled so softly I could barely hear it.
"No, it's a friend's. He's from out of town, visiting." I spoke in a scary kind of simple tone. He nodded and finally lifted his hand away from Akamaru.
I stood there, afraid to look up. I couldn't tell if he was still there or not. When I finally got the courage to look up, I couldn't. I was trying with all my might, but I couldn't move a single muscle. I made soft grunts of effort, barely noticeable, and I could feel myself sweating.
I couldn't even make an idiotic comment about me sweating; I was too busy on panicking and trying to move. My breath was coming harder and harder to me, and my focus of my hands was getting dimmer. What's happening to me? Was the only thing going through my mind.
I was becoming like a dummy, and the last thing I saw was a hand with purple nail polish. And a ring with… foreign writing, I couldn't make it out. My mind was a complete empty space; I could barely register what was going on. I felt fur against my hands, and I was leaning against something solid but soft, it felt like it had its own beat of movement.
A slurred voice was reaching my ears, but I couldn't think it through. And it bounced around in my mind, until finally, after what seemed like an eternity of just listening to the slurred noises, I understood it.
"Kyra, don't you die on me! Those damn Uchiha's aren't worth your life! I got to get you to Sakura! Come on, wake up! Just don't die!"
Kiba's yelling drifted through my hollow head. Even though the words weren't exactly comforting and oh-so-happy, I was surprisingly content just listening to them.
But a scary image came with it too. A pissed off Sasuke Uchiha and a smug-looking Itachi Uchiha staring each other face-to-face. I wouldn't exactly mind it so much, since they're like that so many other times, but what scared me was that I never actually saw Sasuke while I met Itachi.