A.N: Hello again, people of the internet. Here is the new chapter, posted in a week as promised. A couple notes about this chapter-I'm basing Obito off of how he acted before he went crazy…hopefully that didn't spoil things for anyone. Also, I've made Naruto and Deidara brothers. 'Cuz I can, artistic licence and all that. Karin is Naruto's cousin, because she's also an Uzumaki, in case you didn't know.
Other important info; Gods with mates from the Day Court (because this chapter is about the Day Court) are- Chouji, God of Food and Ino, Goddess of Autumn (Night Court member); Shikamaru, God of Clouds and Temari, Goddess of Wind; Kankuro, God of Summer and Kiba, God of Land Animals; Lee, God of Spring and TenTen, Goddess of War (Night Court member); and one who may or may not have a mate. You'll see who soon.
Japanese-English translations; when used as a suffix, nii means older brother, or can be used for an older male seen in a brotherly light.
Disclaimer: I only own the plot of this fic, which was inspired by another fic mentioned in the A.N for the prologue. I also don't own 'Riot' or 'Bodies' by Three Days Grace and Drowning Pool respectively.
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Now, we have seen a mere snapshot of the monthly meeting between the two Courts. And from that snapshot, we can gather that these meetings are quite stressful to all who are involved. Tsunade and Jiraiya unwind over several bottles of sake and various other alcohols. The Courts however, have a different method.
Anyone who has a mate can go off somewhere with said mate and do whatever the hell they wanted to do. Romantic dinner, walk through the gardens, movie night, anything goes. Those without a mate tend to just laze around and do nothing in particular…if they're from the Night Court, that is. The Day Court did things differently.
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"CHOUJI, GIVE MY RAMEN BACK!"
Chouji barely had time to acknowledge the angry roar before he was tackled by the blond that had spoken. The two males wrestled on the ground for a minute before one of them pulled back, holding up the bowl of ramen (that had somehow not been spilled in the scuffle) in triumph.
"Come on Naruto!" Chouji whined. "You can spare one bowl! I'm the God of Food, and I've never had ramen before because you kill anyone who touches the damn stuff!"
"That's not true! I share with Obito!" Naruto yelled back.
Chouji threw his hands up in surrender. "For the love of Earth and Sky, you're impossible." He muttered. "Whatever, I need to go meet Ino, see you later."
"Have fun man," Naruto waved and turned, walking through the halls towards the Day Court Great Hall. On the way he ran into Obito.
"Hey Naruto! Why aren't you in the Hall already? You're not usually late," he said.
"Chouji tried to steal the ramen." Obito's eyes went wide.
"WHAT?! Is he insane? I'm the only person you share with, even Deidara and Karin can't get ramen from you!"
"I know, but Chouji is too damn persistent…once food has been introduced." Naruto shook his head and stopped at the huge doors in front of him. "Can you get the door? I don't want to drop my ramen." Obito shrugged and hauled the golden doors open, only to be met but a loud shriek.
"Obito, you're late again! And Naruto too?! You are the God of Day; you can at least be punctual!" Karin probably broke her record for 'how-loud-can-I-be-when-yelling?' right there.
"Sorry cousin, but I had to wrestle Chouji for my ramen," Naruto held out his bowl in emphasis. "And Obito was…"
"I was in the mortal realm, and one of the kids fell over and scraped his knee, and he's only five, so I had to go find one of the older kids, 'cuz they always carry Band-Aids, and on the way there I saw-"
"Enough!" Karin exclaimed. "Honestly Obito, between the kids you play with and the elderly that remember you from when they were kids, you seem to be regularly encountering someone injured or in need of aid." Both boys oped their mouths to comment, but Karin waved them off. "Let's just start already, okay?" She sighed.
"Alright," Naruto looked around at the gods present. Suigetsu, Kisame, Hidan and his half-brother were all grinning, having watched Karin lecture the latecomers. Next to Deidara were Gaara and Juugo. That meant all Day Court gods without mates were here. "This party has officially started!" Naruto yelled. Instantly, music began blaring out of nowhere (seriously, nowhere. No speakers, no iPods, no nothing) and the huge table in the middle of the room filled itself with the favourite foods of all gods present.
Yes people, the Day Court recuperate with loud music, mountains of food and more alcohol then you'll ever see in one place. There's a reason that Tsunade is their patron.
Suigetsu immediately grabbed a goblet from the table and ordered some high alcohol sake. As the goblet filled itself, he said "Where do you guys get this music from? It's pretty good compared to the old crap we've got." Music in the courts had been seriously out-dated over the centuries, due to a lack of a God of Music.
"Well, we hear some of them over the radio when Obito and I are in the mortal realm," Naruto responded. "Over half of them are recommendations from Killer B, though." Suigetsu stared at him.
"Is that a nickname or something?" Naruto laughed.
"No, his name is actually Killer B. He's an aspiring rapper…he raps and rhymes practically everything he says, but he's cool. A little odd, but cool. We actually got this song from him."
"It's a good one, Three Days Grace, right?"
"Yeah, it's called Riot. B's got great taste, and it matches a lot of ours too."
"Maybe he can replace old snake-face when he kicks it. We need someone who would actually follow music properly."
"Don't think he'd accept, even if his soul matches up. On the off chance he does, we'd have to find a new God/Goddess of Loyalty too."
"Know anyone that'd suit that one too?" Suigetsu posed the question carefully and Naruto rolled his eyes.
"His friends Omoi and Karui. They're pretty…I don't think devoted is the word I'm looking for, but they respect him a lot," Naruto shrugged. "And Suigetsu, you don't have to be so weird about it. I'm over what happened."
"You sure? I mean, it hit you rather hard…"
"Actually checking to see if someone's okay? Who are you and what have you done to my God of Water?" Suigetsu huffed.
"If you're going to be like that then you better not expect it to happen again!" Naruto grinned at him.
"I'm only teasing you. Anyway, your favourite song's playing." As Naruto spoke, Bodies by Drowning Pool started playing and Suigetsu commenced singing along.
"Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the…FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!" Naruto couldn't help but chuckle at the other boy's antics. Suigetsu stuck his tongue out at him and continued to sing along.
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Juugo wasn't quite sure how this happened. Kisame had been roped into a drinking contest with Hidan-which is guaranteed to haunt him; Hidan chugs an average of three goblets a minute- and Deidara. Obito was playing judge, and had helpfully suggested that the other three vacate the area; Deidara has an annoying habit of setting things on fire and/or blowing them up when he's drunk off his ass.
That left him talking to Karin and Gaara. It had started out okay, but as the first song had changed, he'd heard Suigetsu start singing along. One glance up, and Juugo was staring. For at least a minute. He probably would've stared longer, but Naruto noticed his gaze and smirked. Juugo had promptly blushed at being caught and shifted his gaze to the nice hardwood floor.
"Juugo, are you listening?" Karin asked. When the Sun God didn't answer, choosing instead to admire a small stain on the ground, she flicked her gaze around to find what had upset him. By chance, her eyes locked with her cousin, and Naruto grinned before pointing from an out of breath Suigetsu to Juugo.
"Oh, I see," she said. Juugo glanced up nervously. He prayed to Mother Earth that she'd let it drop, but no such luck can save him from a woman that has been given gossip material.
"If you like Suigetsu so much, why don't you just court him?" Remember, the courts were made in the old days, so by courting, Karin meant 'ask the guy out already'.
"Karin, I really don't want to talk about this." Juugo said, shuffling nervously. Of course, that wasn't going to make Karin drop the subject.
"Answer the question and I'll leave you alone." Juugo looked to Gaara for help, but the other red-head was trying to keep Karin from noticing him, seeing as the conversation had switched to romance from…whatever they'd been talking about.
"…It's just a one-sided crush Karin. Suigetsu hates me, plus since he's God of Water he can't spend too much time around me." After all, what does water do in the sun?
"Ever heard of tsundere? Love and hate walk a very fine line Juugo; Neji and Gaara are an excellent example." Gaara glared at the girl for dragging him into this.
"I fail to see what the God of Oceans and I have to do with this. I'm not even friends with the man." Gaara snapped.
"You aren't, but Neji's been trying to court you for the last three centuries. Honestly, why do you keep turning the guy down? Nobody else has displayed an interest in you before or since him; Neji is about as good as you're going to get."
"I'd never spoken to him and out of nowhere he began to court me. I am under no obligation to accept any of his gifts or even speak to him." Gaara's tone said that a smart person would end the discussion there, but Karin just had to have the last word.
"So it's more a matter of your pride now? That's pretty dumb." Karin said casually. "You two should actually try to do something with your love lives, who knows what could happen?" This was where Juugo started getting confused.
"What about you then? Who do you like Karin?" What had possessed him to ask that may never be known, but the way she choked on her drink and stuttered over her words made it slightly worth it.
"I-I don't like anyone!"
"The blush on your face says otherwise, Karin." Gaara smirked. "If you won't tell us, perhaps we should call Suigetsu over? I'm sure he'd love to know who you're crushing on." Juugo knew that Gaara was just trying to make Karin tell, and that Suigetsu would only use the information to tease Karin; but damn if it didn't make him jealous that the Water God paid more attention to Karin than him.
"Don't you fucking dare Gaara!" She hissed.
"Then tell us," Gaara said. "Or are you a hypocrite?"
"It's different," Karin insisted. "You're being courted, and even if the kappa doesn't talk to Juugo much, they're still sort of friends. She doesn't even kn-" Juugo had to still be possessed, because any other day he'd have let Karin's slip pass by.
"She? As far as I know there's only one other single girl in both Courts," Juugo paused. "So, does that mean you like Sakura?" Karin's face was as red as her hair, but luckily for her (or not, depending on your view), Deidara chose that moment to blow up the table…and send all the food on it flying across the room.
"Hit the deck!" Naruto yelled as he dove behind a convenient tree (what it was even doing in the room, no one will ever know). Suigetsu turned into water, Gaara shielded himself and Juugo, who was closest to him, and Obito somehow managed to find a glass wall to use as a barrier, sharing it with Kisame…everyone else got covered though.
"DEIDARA! You idiot, now there's onigiri in my hair!" Screeched Karin.
"Seriously man, what the fuck was that for?!" Hidan growled.
"You were chetin'!" Deidara claimed. Drunk of his ass=random anger/accusations at others and destruction of nearest object. How was Hidan not expecting this when he invited Deidara to drink? Come to think of it, Obito probably set up the glass wall for that very reason…Kisame was just a lucky bastard that happened to be close by.
"You're a fucktard; you can't cheat in a motherfucking drinking contest!" Hidan snapped. With a wave of his hand the God of Demons summoned a trio of vampires. "I'll give you a twenty second head start, these boys are thirsty, and I give 'em permission to have as much of your shitty blood as they want."
"Fuck you, un!" Deidara hiccupped as he turned and bolted. Hidan never bluffed sicking demons on people and vampires run at about the same speed as a drunken god…
"So, who wants to make bets?" Suigetsu asked with a grin. "Fifty on Deidara lasting only fifteen minutes."
Kisame bet ten, Karin seventeen, Hidan five (biased son of a bitch) and Obito bet twelve. Naruto scoffed at them all.
"Please, Deidara-nii is capable of at least twenty."
"I think you all know by now that you've lost," Gaara stated. "Three thousand years, and Naruto has never lost a bet." Seriously, the guy's that damn lucky.
"Then today's the day he starts," Kisame only slurred a little…but that's a big thing for him, as he is usually very careful of how much he drinks.
"This is why I come to these things," Obito said with a grin. "We drink, dance if we want, get to see crazy shit happen and bet on how it'll turn out…I honestly think I'd still show up to these if I had a mate."
"Obito!" Karin gasped "How can you say that?! Spending time with your mate is far more important than coming to these…I don't think parties is the right word…but its close enough. Besides, you have to go somewhere with you mate; it's the rules."
"No it's not; trust me, we checked," Kisame stated. "It's just a tradition, but most of those get broken at some point anyway." Everyone looked at him for a minute, then…
"Who the fuck is 'we' Kisame?" Hidan demanded.
"Can't be any of the mated guys, most of them wouldn't even dream of passing up an evening alone with their mate," Suigetsu decided. "Anyone here check?" Everyone shook their heads except for Kisame, who just seemed to realise that he was in trouble.
"Guys, it's nothing. Just a slip-" He was interrupted by Naruto.
"Kisame, if you're blaming it on the alcohol, then it was definitely not an accident. Since none of us have even thought about checking it before, then that means…" Shock lit up Naruto's features. "Kisame, do you have a mate? From the Night Court?" And so, all hell broke loose.
"What's wrong with having a Night Court mate?" Karin questioned defensively. Obito came to Naruto's rescue there.
"Karin, he was just asking if this mate was from the Night Court, or if he/she is in this room and letting Kisame take all the rap. Naruto has nothing against Night Court mates." He soothed.
"I don't have a mate!" Kisame insisted.
"I think you do," Hidan said. "Who's single in that court?"
"Umm…Sakura, Sasuke, Neji, Shisui, Kakashi, Sasori and Itachi." Juugo listed. "Neji's after Gaara-I'm just saying, don't kill me man-and Saukra is still chasing Sasuke, so that rules them out."
"Please tell me it's not Kakashi," Obito's eyes were wide behind his goggles. "That is just weird…please tell me it's not him."
"I'm barely on speaking terms with Kakashi!" Kisame exclaimed. "But like I said-"
"That leaves your cousins, Obito," Suigetsu mused. "If his excuse for Kakashi is not talking to him, Sasuke's out too; they've only had civil conversation with Itachi acting as mediator."
"So it's either Itachi, Sasori or Shisui." Gaara said.
"For Tsunade's sake, I DON'T HAVE A MATE!" Kisame yelled.
Naruto held his hands up in surrender. "Okay Kisame, we'll give you the benefit of the doubt…for now," he turned to the others. "However, I know that I can't stop you guys from betting on who it is so," his eyes flicked back to Kisame, "if you and the mate you may or may not have really think that mate night is useless, then bring him here next month, alright?" Kisame slumped in defeat.
"Whatever." The others then proceeded to bet on whether it was Itachi, Shisui or Sasori. The end result was 3-3-1 for Sasori, Shisui and Itachi in that order. Hidan, Gaara and Karin bet on Sasori; Obito, Suigetsu and Juugo bet on Shisui and Naruto bet on Itachi. Right after the bets were decided Deidara returned; having survived twenty minutes thirty-four seconds before the vampires caught him. Everyone gave Naruto his money and Deidara also bet on Itachi. So ends another Day Court party…oh, and Tsunade sent them a scroll summoning them to hers and Jiraiya's chambers two days from then.
A.N: Finally finished! *flops on bed* I spent ages trying to get this chapter just right, and Anyway, next chapter's the Night Court's after meeting activities…it will most likely be half as long as this chapter. Seriously, this has to be a record for me; over 2,500 not including Author's Notes…but the Day Court are fun and crazy, whilst the Night Court are…mature and sensible.
And, I got 112 views on the first day I updated alone…then I got two new followers (who are awesome) but nobody reviews…sorry if I sound whiny, but can just one of you review? Please? I'm only asking for one, is that too much to ask? If I get one I'll post the next chapter as seen as I see the review.
Ja ne, minna-san!
