D: Okay, here's the next chapter.
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D: There isn't much to say. I don't own Naruto… And, sadly, nor do I own Gaara or Hidan or Shikamaru or… Oh, well, you get the point.
Chapter Seven:
Date Night:
Akito's POV:
The Same Day as the Picnic:
"That was on intense picnic," I said.
"That's an understatement," Darcy said.
"I don't know what you two are complaining about," Kye said.
"Of course you don't," I said.
"You won your fight," Darcy continued.
We were all sitting on a very large picnic blanket that managed to hold all twenty one (twenty-two plus Akamaru).
"Hehe, I still don't get how you lost, Darcy," she said.
"Don't rub it in," she said, standing up and stalking over to the cliff to watch the sunset. She sat down and let her feet dangle over the edge. It only took a second before Gaara followed her over.
"She's such a wimp; don't you think so, Kye? Don't be rude, Jade," Kye aid to herself.
"You know, I still haven't gotten used to that," I said.
"Gotten used to what?" Kye asked.
"You talking to yourself," I said.
"I don't talk to myself," Kye said. "Jade is an alter ego of mine, and can't be technically classified as me."
"Yes she can," I said.
"Little Akito here has a point," Jade said for Kye. "Just whose side are you on, anyways? The winning side. Which is? Right now, Akito. Gee, thanks a lot. Anytime."
"Well, if you guys are done arguing with yourselves," Akito said. "We need a plan for the Chunin Exams."
"What do you mean?" Kye asked. "I assume she means for the written part. We need to cheat on it. So how do you propose we do that, Akito? Oh, so now you're taking over my conversations, too?"
"Just drop it, Kye," I said. "Well, honestly, I was hoping you had some ideas. We should wait to discus this with Darcy. As you can see, she's a bit preoccupied at the moment." With that everyone (and not just me and Kye/Jade, all of the ninja too) looked over at the cliff where Darcy and Gaara sat. They were making out. Passionately.
"Lucky," Kye said, turning away and crossing her arms. "I wish Itachi was here to do that with me. Itachi? Are you crazy, bitch? We need Sasuke! Sasuke? Okay, now you're the crazy one. Am not! Are too! Am not! Are –"
"Enough!" I shouted at her. "Seriously, have these arguments else where, everyone will think you're insane.
"Too late for that now," Jade said. "Oh, shut it. It's your fault they think that."
"Oi," I said exasperated, slapping my forehead.
"Ahem," Kakashi said, getting everyone's attention. "Well, it's getting late. We should all head home." It was then that we all noticed the beautiful sunset.
"Yeah, and Gaara needs a good nights sleep for his meeting with Tsunade tomorrow," Temari said. We all looked over at the two. They had stopped kissing and where now standing and facing each other.
"It looks like they're arguing," Temari said standing up. "Come on, Kankuro, we need to stop this."
"Aw, why do I have to help?" He asked.
"Because he's your brother," Temari said, grabbing his arm. "And when girls get angry, you don't want to get in their way."
"Exactly, so I shouldn't have to help," Kankuro concluded.
"No, you need to help you brother before he get's his head ripped off," Temari corrected.
"Fine," Kankuro sighed in defeat.
"Come on, guys, let's go watch," I said.
"Don't you mean help?" Sakura asked.
"No, no, I mean watch," I said and I got up to follow.
"What the hell is your problem, Gaara?" I heard Darcy shout.
"I don't have a problem, you do!" Gaara yelled back at her. "I can't believe you actually think you could beat me in a fight? I could kick your ass! Any time, any place!"
"Oh yeah? How about right here and right now?" Darcy asked.
"No way, I don't want to fight my girlfriend," Gaara said.
"Right, cause you're afraid of me?" Darcy taunted.
"That's not it," Gaara said. Obviously he was trying to calm her down. And obviously, it wasn't working. "I just don't want to fight my girlfriend. A fight could get in the way of our relationship."
"Oh, you mean like this argument we're having right now?" Darcy put her hand s on her hips and waited expectantly for an answer.
"Yes, exactly like this," he said. "So can we stop arguing and make up?"
"How about we stop arguing and brake up," she said. And then she turned and ran away, pushing her way through group. I could have sworn I saw her crying.
"Way to go, Gaara," Kankuro said sarcastically. "You sure have a way with the ladies."
"Shut it, Kankuro," Gaara said. I could tell he was upset, but apparently he was too much of a man to let out any tears. Temari could see this, too.
"Come on, Gaara, let's get you home," she said, wrapping an arm around her little brother. "You have an important meeting with the Hokage tomorrow." Everyone started to clear up and clean up the picnic except for me, Kye, and Naruto.
"Hey, Akito!" Naruto called me over. I hurried over to him excitedly.
"Yeah?" I asked expectantly with a bright smile on my face.
"Well, I was wondering, I mean, I know we just spent the whole day together and all, but, um, would you like to, you know, um –" He was stuttering so I interrupted him.
"I would love to go on a date with you," I told him and he perked up immediately. "Ichirakus?"
"Yeah, come on," he took my arm, but before we could go anywhere, Kye was in front of us.
"Don't you think you should be comforting Darcy?" She asked angrily, hands on her hips.
"Nah, you can do that, Kye," I said. "I have a date with Naruto."
"You're not being a very good friend," she said.
"Maybe you should go comfort her," Naruto said. "She was dating him for, like, a year. This has got to be hard. We can reschedule our date."
"No!" I cried out. "I mean, I'll comfort her later, okay? Oh, please let me go out, Kye?"
"Fine, but bring her back some chocolates or something," Kye ordered before marching off back home.
"Okay, let's go," Naruto said, pulling me with him. "My treat."
"Oh, it better be," I said.
We hurried down to the glittering street of Konoha.
"Wow, it's gorgeous!" I exclaimed in pure wonder. "It never looked like this in the show!"
"Well, that's because it's the real deal," Naruto said, wrapping his arm around my shoulder.
We hurried to Ichirakus to eat our ramen.
"How you doing, Naruto?" The chef asked.
"Great, I got a date, too!" Naruto bragged.
"Oh, who's the lucky lady?" He asked, noticing me for the first time. "I haven't seen you around here before.
"My name is Akito," I said. "I'm, uh, new around here."
"Well, it's good to have you," he said. "What would you two like?"
"How does miso ramen sound?" He asked me, and I nodded excitedly. Anything with him sounded good. Oh, don't get the wrong idea by that. You all know what I mean. Just being with him is good enough. Soon we got our ramen and we dug in. Two (or three in Naruto's case) bowls later, Naruto paid the bill and we got up to leave.
"I'll walk you home," he said, taking my arm again.
"Aw, but it's not that late yet," I complained.
"Well, what do you want to do?" He asked.
"Well, I should go buy some chocolates fro Darcy," I said, pondering what there was to do in the Leaf Village. "But besides that… What is there to do in the Leaf Village?"
"Hmm, let me think about that while we get chocolate for Darcy," Naruto said, leading me to a general store.
I ran into the store to look for chocolate so quickly, that I didn't notice that I had lost Naruto somewhere in the store.
"Huh, where's Naruto?" I asked, and then I shrugged my shoulders. I found a box of those chocolates that had a variety of different chocolate (chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate with orange filling, all the good stuff.) I hurried up to the cash register to pay for them. I wasn't going to ask Naruto to do that since they were a gift for Darcy from me, not from him. Once I paid, I went outside, thinking that's where he would be.
"Huh, he's not out here," I said, looking around in confusion.
"Yes, I am," he said surprising me. "I'm right here." He was behind me. He wrapped his arms around me and I saw a bouquet of flowers in his hands.
"Oh, they're beautiful, Naruto!" I said excitedly, taking them. I turned around in his arms and, with out thinking, kissed him full on the lips. We made out there for a good two minutes before we slowly pulled away. We stared into each others eyes for a few minutes, just smiling at each other.
"Be my girlfriend?" He asked.
"Yes!" I hugged him tightly.
"Okay," he said. "But I think it's time I get you home. You need to comfort your friend."
"Yeah, you're right," I said.
"Come on," He said, taking my chocolates and putting them in my bag (when did I get that, again? I guess I always had it). He proceeded to take my hand and we ran back to the Nara clan compound. We ran through the glittery streets of Konoha and, once we got on the forest path to the Nara clan compound, the glittery stars of the night sky. When we got close to my house we slowed to a walk.
"It's a beautiful night," Naruto said.
"Yeah," I agreed. "The perfect end to the perfect day." We had reached the front porch.
"I guess I'll see you tomorrow for training," Naruto said. "Wind Release Rasengan."
"Yeah," I said. We were about to kiss when the door flew opened.
"Oh, Akito, dear, you're home," Yoshino said happily.
"Uh, yes, ma'am," I said smiling at her.
"You can go home now, Naruto," she said.
"Of course," Naruto said. "Good night, Akito."
"Night," I said as he walked away and mentally preparing for Yoshino to lose her façade and become her usually crabby self.
"Get in here now, young lady," Yoshino's harsh voice cut through the peace of the night. She grabbed my shoulder and pulled me in roughly.
"Come now, Yoshino," Shikaku Sensei said when we entered the kitchen. "She's a guest, treat her nicely."
"Guests stay for a day or two," Yoshino said. "She's been here for almost two weeks. Besides," she turned her attention to me. "You have friend crying her eyes out upstairs. Go up there now and comfort her."
"I'm sure it's not that bad," I said.
"Shikamaru had to go in there and help her," Yoshino informed me.
"Oh," I said. But she ignored me and continued ranting.
"And what are you doing? You're on a date! A DATE!" She yelled at me. "Get upstairs now!"
"Okay, okay," I said. "I did bring her chocolates." I showed her the box as I hurried out of the room and upstairs. I knocked on Darcy's door and Shikamaru opened the door.
"Oh, thank God!" He said. "Get in there and help her. I don't know how much more I can take. I'm sorry for her and all, but seriously, this is a girl's job."
"Sorry, Shikamaru," I apologized and quickly came in. I hurried over and gave Darcy a huge hug. "Sweetie, I'm so sorry!"
"I-I-it's *sniff* o-o-okay," she said between sobs. "H-how was your d-d-d-date?" At the last word (date) she burst into more tears.
"Oh, it was so –" but I stopped when Kye shot a glare at me. I was going to say 'wonderful', but I changed my mind and said something else. "Miserable. It was just horrible. Here, I got you some chocolate."
"Really?" She asked, look up from her hands (she was sobbing into them). "Thanks *sniff*. You guys are the best."
"I got it!" Kye said. Both Darcy and I looked at her quizzically. "Tomorrow, we'll get a bunch of girls together and go shopping!"
"That sounds like fun," Darcy said. It seemed that she had calmed down.
"But I'm supposed to train with Naruto tomorrow," I complained.
"Then cancel!" Jade ordered me.
"Y-yes, ma'am!" I said. Darcy let out a little giggle.
"Normally I would yell at you for laughing at me," I said. "But not today, I'm just glad to see a smile on your face."
"Thanks, guys," she said, giving both me and Kye a huge group hug. "You're the best. Let's go to bed so that we can go shopping tomorrow."
"Sounds like a plan," Kye said with a smile.
"Definitely," I said. "Oh, and, can I have a chocolate."
"Akito!" Kye shouted, hitting my arm.
"Ow!" I cried out hitting her back.
"Hahahahah," Darcy laughed. "Sure, just don't take the ones with orange filling."
"Aw, those are the best," I complained. I chose a chocolate covered peanut. "Okay, I'm happy. Good night!" I stood up with Kye.
"G'night, hon," Kye said.
"Night, see you two in the morning," Darcy waved to us until we left. Kye and I went to our rooms for a good night's sleep. It had been a long day.
D: Aw, Gaara and I broke up! *Sniff* Why Gaara, why? Actually, to be honest, I laughed when I wrote that part. Is that bad?
K: Aw, I'm sorry, Darc.
A: Me too, but Naruto and I had a wond – er, um, miserable time together.
Naru: You really think that, Akito?
A: *Whisper's in Naru's ear* No, but it'll make Darcy feel better.
Naru: *Whisper's in A's ear* Oh, okay, gotcha.
D: Okay, review! Next chappie will be the girls' shopping trip. YAY!