When I woke up, I saw Ikami changing in front of me, along with Akio and Ikaku asleep in a corner.
"Ikami, there are bathrooms. Change in the bathrooms, not in front of me!" I say as I slowly sit up.
"Saburo is in the bathroom. I would die before I change in front of him!" She said, I giggled a bit at her sudden outburst but I stopped when I noticed that she was wearing a new outfit.
She was wearing a red halter-top with a gray tank top under it. She had black capris and black ninja shoes. I have to say, the outfit complimented her fiery red hair…
"Your clothes are on the chair in the corner." Ikami said as she pointed to the chair that Ikaku and Akio were sleeping in. I slowly walked over there and picked them up off the chair. I placed them on the hospital bed and looked at my clothes.
I had a blue hoodie with a white-gray tee shirt underneath. I also had some gray pants with gray ninja shoes. I have to say, Ikami has some taste! The outfit really makes my midnight-blue eyes and white hair stand out!
"Where are our headbands?" Ikami asks Saburo as he walks back in.
"Here" He said as he throws us our headbands.
Mines was gray, Ikami's was red and Saburo's was black. But Saburo actually looked good in his outfit.
Saburo was wearing a black shirt with white stripes on the sleeves and collar and he had on dark gray pants and black ninja shoes, his outfit complimented his black hair and cobalt eyes.
I tied my headband around my neck while Ikami put hers on her arm. Saburo, being the cliché bastard he is, put his headband around his head.
Once everything was done we were released from the hospital. We walked around for a bit and Ikaku had stopped in front of a ramen shop called Ichiraku's. He turned into a human to my dismay but I didn't feel pain, so we walked in and sat down.
"Hey there! What would you like?" Asked a young girl, possibly a year older than me. Although everyone's taller than me since I was born premature…but that aside, I didn't know about the food Konoha had to offer so I just got pork ramen.
"That means, three pork ramen one with extra pork and one without fishcakes?" asked the lady.
"Yup!" Ikami answered in response, after she said that Saburo glared at her for being to 'peppy'. I didn't get what his problem was, he was just mad that his family was killed because of the war that broke out in our village.
Once the ramen arrived, we thanked the kind woman/teenager and started eating. Ikaku and Akio kept pestering me about food so I gave them a piece of my pork. Once they gobbled it down, I saw a blonde boy in an orange jumpsuit run into the shop shouting, 'The usual old man!' as loud as he possibly could. He sat down next to Ikami and she just blushed. I inwardly smirked at my little plan brewing in my head and I did my infamous laugh for whenever I have the intent to kill an opponent or whenever I had a plan that Jashin himself could come up with.
"Kekekeke, Ikami-Chan~ I know your secret~~~!" I say in a singsong voice while she slurps her ramen.
"W-what? Wh-what a-are y-you t-t-talking a-a-a-a-bout?" She managed to choke out between coughs, she knew about my little plan, and it would be fun to torture her about her 'little' crush.
I mean, sure, I've seen cute boys in my village but they all hated me and called me a monster…I didn't worry about them though, I just let them talk and when I get home I pour my eyes out into my brother's shirt.
When we were done eating, the blonde boy was still eating and had a pile of bowls next to him. I stared at how he could do that until Ikaku pawed my leg to get my attention.
"What Ika?" I asked, Ika was my nickname for Ikaku and Aki was my nickname for Akio.
"The ginger over there, with the gourd. He looks tough so don't provoke him. He's a jinchuuriki, so be careful. Also, I wouldn't walk up to him. He looks scary!" Ikaku said with worry and concern laced in his voice.
"I'm gonna try to talk to him, if it doesn't work, then I'm gonna leave it alone. If it does, then I'm gonna ask if he can come get some Matarashi Dango with me!" I say with a dreamy expression.
The boy surely was a cutie, he had brick red hair and sea foam eyes, and his eyes were laced with black so I could tell that he had insomnia. He was wearing a black outfit with a fishnet shirt underneath. He had multiple straps going around him, one was white (and looked pointless to me) and was around his torso, and another was brown that was also around his torso but had a Sunagakure headband and a gourd on it.
As I walked over to him, he turned stared at me. I wanted to tell him to stop staring but when I realized that my hoodie was unzipped and the tank top I wore underneath was a form-fitter I held my words back.
"Hi! I was just wondering, would you like to get some Matarashi Dango sometime? I don't this village that well but I do know where a Dango place is!" I say with a sheepish smile.
"No, I have better things to do than waste my time eating sweets." He said.
His voice was dark and raspy. When I heard it, I felt shivers going down my spine.
"Well, could you at least tell me your name? My name's Aori! But my friend calls me Ao. So, what's your name?" I ask, trying to hold back the sudden urge to blush and faint.
"Sabaku no Gaara. And I'm sure that you have a last name so what is it?" Gaara said, his eyes slightly narrowing at a presence that was Ikaku and Akio hiding in a tree.
"Ukimoro, Aori Ukimoro!" I say, in a peppy voice that I wish I didn't own.
'A demon that loves himself, that's what he thinks it means. Well, I'm in no room to talk, err, think since I don't know what it means either!' I think to myself as he stares at me like I'm some being from outer space.
I stood there for a while until he decided to walk to the tree that Ikaku and Akio were hiding in.
"Shit, we're gonna get caught!" Is what I heard Ikaku say, as Gaara got closer to the tree that they were in.
"B-but i-if w-we stayed b-behind like A-Aori t-told us to, w-we wouldn't be in th-this mess." Akio said. After that, I took it upon myself to explain to Gaara that there weren't any people behind the tree and that the presences he sensed were my wolf summons.
"Gaara! The presences that you sense are my wolf summons, they won't do anything!" I shouted. He turnerd towards me, but he kept on walking to my Aki and Ika.
"Gaara! GAARA! STOP!" I screeched. I didn't want him to hurt Ika or Aki, because if he hurt them, the pain that he caused them would resonate to me.
After I shouted at Gaara, he stopped and turned to look at me. I couldn't read the emotion in his eyes, there were too many. So, I decided to walk over to him. It was a hard decision, I mean, yeah, he was cute…but he had a killer intent in his eyes.
"Gaara? You're not mad are you?" I asked in the voice that I use when Saburo yells at me.
"You. You're not like most humans, something is different about you." He said, once he said that, I stopped walking completely. The only thing I could do so that he wouldn't figure out my secret, was run. So, that's what I did, I ran, I ran and I didn't stop.
When I looked back at him, he was clearly hurt, you couldn't see it on his face, but that was the only emotion visible in his eyes.
