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I hope everyone likes this chapter even though its short.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but I'm watching the Simpsons.
Ch.3: Tricky Truths
A brown haired boy, already in uniform, sat on a stump overlooking the school. An apple hung from his fingers, and he twisted the stem idly as he thought. Kai Henario frowned lightly at the building, watching the humans scurry around like bustling animals. This was his seventh time. Seventeen years in high school, and he had graduated each excruciating time. Irritation squirmed in his stomach in his stomach.
"Nauseating, isn't it?"
Kai glanced over his shoulder at the speaker, who happened to be a fellow brunette. However, his hair was shade lighter than Kai's and pulled into a high ponytail. Everyone in the covenant compared it to the spikes that prickle from a porcupine's back. A bored expression lingered in the second boy's eyes.
"That's one way to describe it ," Kai answered, ", but you must know a thousands others, right Shikamaru? I mean how many times have you been Valedictorian?"
"Two-hundred and twenty-seven" Shikamaru yawned as he pulled at the tie around his neck, " Even though I've only been in this sleepy town for fifty years"
Kai rolled his eyes.
"Please that's just the way, you like it, Shika. NOTHING cool EVER happens here,"
The older boy cocked an eyebrow.
"For some of the humans it does,"
"Yeah, they're (we're) the poor unlucky bastards,"
As soon as the remark flew from Kai's mouth his apple spontaneously combust.
Shikamaru wiped the fruit mush from his face and splattered it on the grass.
"I know you're not into that kinda thing though," there was a hint of guilt in his voice, " Its hard for us to stomach too, You're not alone, Kai,"
" Never have been," The darker haired brunette gritted through clenched teeth while, his nails dug into the earth, bringing up masses of dirt clods.
"…So…" came the lazy vampire's sly tone, " What did you think of some of those lycans."
This caught Kai off guard.
"What?" his look was puzzled.
Shika just shrugged nonchalantly.
"Well its just that I saw you staring at that black haired one. They had that talkative brunette with them, remember?" he explained before ducking to avoid a wad of dirt.
"What? I'm allowed to speak my mind." Shikamaru said with a deep chuckle and received a sharp glare.
"Right … and what about that blonde they had with them?" Kai retorted before giving a sour sneer, " You had that glint in your eye. The one said…"Mmmm she'd be go to play chess with then bed"
This shut his friend though he barred his fangs in an irritated hiss. Kai smirked right before dodging a kick aimed at his skull. He then leaping up, going for Shika's throat. Unfortunately both attacks were halted. The two vampires blinked in surprise to find a young, tough looking girl holding them back.
"You dumbasses" she scowled, knocking them to the ground, " Quit clowning around Itachi wants you at the school in thirty minutes,"
Kai gave Kin a snarled as she thwacked him in the bed and wiped dirt on Shikamaru's shoulder.
"We'll be there in a sec, Kin" the Henro vamp grumbled as she stuttered with a shake of her hips.
" Stupid, arrogant bitch, I should rip out her throat,"
Shikamaru cut his eyes.
"Oh please, you wanted to suck her neck and do more than that our first night joining Orochimaru," Kai made a face.
"I was naïve then"
"You still are…"
"Shut the hell up!"
Neji tapped his foot in aggravation, as he wanted for the rest of the pack to return, they were taking too long.
"Always so impatient, aren't we, Nii- Sama?"
He jumped, turning his to the voice. A young girl, already in uniform, sat on a sturdy branch, an orange in one hand, and her chin the other. Mother-of-pearl eyes stared down at from underneath a mane of silky, black hair tied into a ponytail.
"Mahomi…"
His little sister smiled, leaping off of the branch, floating downward until her feet touched earth.
"I hear that your leader of the lycans. Congratulations, that's a big honor."
Neji didn't say anything, though his lips twitched into small smile either from embarrassment or another inflation of his ego. Unlike the rest of the Hyuuga family, Mahomi was part of the Fae. When she was still human, she'd wander around by herself for hours because she didn't like the way their uncle (Hinata, Hiro, and Hanabi's father treated her. She and Neji had been the products of a scandal involving the Hyuuga clan. It deepened the rift Neji had with his uncle, who looked on him and Mahomi with distain. The temporary leader was pulled from his thoughts when a cool touch brushed a strand of loose hair from his eyes. Neji caught his sister's hand by the wrist, pushing it away from his face.
" I had hope we were past this, Brother…" Mahomi sighed, her perfect brow furrowing in brief sadness.
"Old habits die had, Mia" the lycan grunted, lowering their hands to his side.
She smiled again, the sadness dispelled.
"You called me, Mia. I haven't heard that in a while…. not since Mother changed me,"
His grip tightened at the mention of that woman. He HATED her for separating him from Mahomi; shifting her into a world so bittersweet it could drive a human to the brink of insanity. She leaned forward and gently pressed his forehead to his, looking him the eye like when they were kids. He saw an eternal love form him and her cousins there, one that couldn't be broken by the mannerisms of the Fae.
" Let me go, Neji. I will be fine," she whispered, eyes gleaming with sincerity, " let go"
Reluctantly and feeling a deep weight go down his chest, Neji forced his hand open. Mahomi flowed out of his grasp like only a Naid could. A sweet, hypnotizing laugh passed her smile.
"See you in school, Nii-sama!" with the twist of the heel she was gone, but her echoing words lessened the burden on Neji's heart.
"Yoo-hoo! Captain High and Mighty, you wanna get out your smug-ass ship and come back down to earth?" Embi whistled, waving her hands in front of the temporary leader's face. He immediately snapped out of his daze and seized the brunette by her wrist. He brought them down to her side with unnecessary force.
"Enough Embi…"he stated firmly before releasing his grin and sulking away.
"Well you screw you too!" Embi snapped with a growl, flipping him off.
"He's upset about Mahomi" Sazaki quipped as she drifted up beside her sister.
Embi rolled her eyes.
"Well hell that's explains the melancholy vibe I was getting off him. Felt like he swallowed a keg estrogen".
Scowling, Sazaki disciplined the girl by giving her a hard knock on the back of the head.
"Em…"
The younger lycan winced, then shrugged.
"…I had a dream about it once. Ya see what happens was…"
Once the explanation was done, the black haired teen blinked in bemusement.
"No comment…"
" Mi-Mi, you're back!"
A flash of green swept across Mahomi's vision before she was trapped in a monstrous bear-hug by two slender arms coated in spandex.
" I was gone two minutes, Lee" the naid choked out , and the sprite's grip tighten.
"Ten minutes too long my youthful friend!" Lee gushed, practically suffocating the Hyuuga.
"Lee", she may be immortal but she still needs to breathe," a cool voice pointed out, " God…do you EVER use your freaking brain?"
Mahomi glanced up to see a girl sitting on a branch, smoking to relieve her boredom.
"How about instead of being a spectator you help out, Karin" she gasped, trying to pry the sprite off her neck, " He's not in a listening mood,"
"Yeah, I know" Karin smirked, blowing out a puff;" he's spouting that lame youthful shit again". The redhead winked. " Don't worry, Mi's just pretend Lee's a sexy kelpie in human form feeling you up"
"KARIN, that's so inappropriate!" the green clothed immortal voiced as the girl slid from the tree and pulled him off of a red faced Mahomi, "And its not…er crap. They are the facts of life! One that we can learn to appreciate with time"
"Whoop-dee-freakin'-do, " Karin retorted as the naid rubbed her throat, " Lee how many times do I have to tell you that time doesn't hold us as it does humans?"
Mahomi put a hand on her arm in warning as her breathing steadied.
" Go easy on him, remember what you were like when you were first changed."
" A total bitch," Karin gave a huff and sauntered away. Lee stuck his tongue out at her retreating back.
"Lee" Mahomi sighed, " You're suppose to be dressed."
"Oh, I forgot! I was trying to teach the joy of youth, and it completely slipped my mind!" He turned around, dropping his pants and showing off boxers with the phrase, " I LOVE YOUTH", on the butt cheeks. Mahomi's face reddened in horror as she covered her eyes.
"LEE! NOT WHILE I'm STILL HERE!" She shrieked, stumbling backward with a yelp. She crashed painfully through the foliage and braced herself in case she broke something. Suddenly her body just stopped, and she felt something soft brush against her neck. Mahomi opened her eyes curiously, wondering what stopped her fall. A gasp escaped her lips; sand had encased her shoulders and now supported her back.
"Are you alright?" a voice asked.
Yay! I love the cliffhanger part.
Later All