What Is Love?

Chapter 8

Disclamer:As usual,I don't own Naruto,but I d-

Gaara:-rolls eyes and then glares-Just shut up,Kao,and get this over with.

Kaori:-sniff- O-ok.

Hitomi:Jesus,Gaara.What did you do that for? -thinking- Haha Kao.

Gaara:'Cause I felt like it.-smirks evilly-

Kaori:-smacks Gaara upside the head with a tear in her eye- You asshole!

Chikara:-smirks- And you're a whole ass,you're perfect for each other.

Kaori and Gaara:-glares at Chikara with a killing intent-

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Kaori walked out of her bedroom.She was all ready for the night out.She was wearing a white long-sleeve AFI shirt (Yes there is AFI in Naruto.Why?Because it's my fanfic. :P) and a short-sleeve black hoodie with dark blue jeans and black flats with buckles on the front.Her hair was in a pony tail and her bangs covered one eye.Of coarse,she was wearing her silver choker.Kaori's black cat,Nina,walked out of the bedroom,following along side.

"Took you long enough.",Hitomi commented.She was sitting casually on the couch.

She was wearing a black hoodie with sleeves that ended at her elbows and a plain white T-shirt under it,but you couldn't see it.On the hoodie was a picture of "Gir" and a bunch of his sayings in different colors.She had on black pants and her white,"Gir" covered flats.The hood was over her head and her bangs were in her face slightly.

"Well,I would've been done faster if someone hadn't taken so damn long in the bathroom.",Kaori said sitting down on the couch.

"Wasn't me...must have been the cat.",Hitomi said with a chuckle.

"Gasp.Nina?",Kaori asked,smirking down at the cat on her lap.

"Nya?",Nina meowed,turning her head to one side in confusion.

The two girls laughed a little.

"So,is Chika here yet?",Kaori asked while laughing.

"Yup.",Chikara popped out of the kitchen with a small grin.

Chikara was wearing a turquois top that had a v-neck collar that had laces tieing it up and went down mid-theigh.It had short sleeves.Over that she wore a hoodie the ended at her waist and long sleeves.The top was black and the bottom was white.Her pants went to her knees and were black.She had on Sasuke's shoes (the ones with a lot of straps)and red ribbon with a bell was around her neck.She had on her panda hat (just the ears of the panda) and her long hair was in two braids with her bangs at the side.

"Damn,Chi.",Kaori chuckled.

"Don't be jealous,Kao.",Chikara said,leaning against the frame of the kitchen door.

Hitomi looked at the clock and said,"It's 6:30.What should we do to pass some time?

Chikara smirked,"How about talk about how much Kao is gonna eat?"

"And how much Gaara and Sasuke are gonna have to pay for it.",Kaori finished.

"Sasuke and Gaara?And the knuckle-head?",Chikara asked.

"You're really expecting Naruto to pay?",Hitomi said laughing.

"True.",Chikara said laughing along.

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45 min. later a.k.a.-7:15 pm...

There was a knock at the door.Hitomi and Kaori,who were reading manga,and Chikara,who was drawing,looked back at the door.Nina,who was napping on the couch,didn't like the noise and walked back into Kaori's bedroom.

"Who is it?",Kaori shouted,still reading "Murder Princess" and refusing to put it down.

"The Sandman and the 6th Hokage.",a voice sounding like Naruto's shouted back.

Kaori smiled and walked to the door.She opened it to see Naruto and Gaara.She moved to the side and let them in.

Naruto was wearing a brown short sleeve shirt with a white long sleeve shirt under it.He had on some slightly baggy jeans and gym shoes.His hair was in its normal state of...spikiness.Gaara was wearing a black,baggy t-shirt,tinted jeans,and regular,black gym shoes.A chain hanging from his pocket to the hem of his pants showed that he had his wallet with him.

"So,the Sandman and the Legendary Knuckle-Head are here.Where's the Emo Aveneger?",Kaori asked with sarcasum in her voice.

Naruto and Gaara glared at Kaori and Kaori glared back.

Chikara chuckled,"Sasuke might be a little late."

Hitomi laughed,"I'm not even gonna ask.",still reading "Azumanga Daiou".

"What did you do to him this time,Chikara?",Naruto asked with a sigh.

"You'll see when he gets here.",Chikara anwsered smirking.

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15 min. (and many jokes about Kaori's eating habits) later a.k.a.-7:30 pm

There was another knock at the door.Kaori,Chikara,and Hitomi all went back to reading manga and Naruto and Gaara had decided to annoy the hell out of them.Naruto was leading most of it though.

Kaori walked to the door,already knowing who it was,but decided to bug him anyway.

"Who is it?",Kaori asked grinning.

"You damn well know who it is,Yakushi.",a certain Uchiha anwsered.He sounded embaressed and annoyed.

"Actually,I'm not that sure who it is.",Kaori,who was trying to keep in a laugh,said,"A name will be in order."

"Dammit,open the door!",Sasuke shouted.

"Name first!And what's with the swearing?!",Kaori shouted back with a grin.

Chikara,Naruto,and Hitomi were all laughing.Gaara had went to just smiling a bit.

"Fine!Uchiha Sasuke!",Sasuke said.He sounded like he was pouting.

"Good.",Kaori was about to open the door.

"No!Not yet!",Chikara stopped her,"Pet name?"

"Chikara?!Why?!Just open the door!",Sasuke shouted.

"Pet name!Or I'll say it,you stay outside and I send Yu-chan out there,too!",Chikara shouted back in persistence.

A loud bang showed that Sasuke just hit his head on the door.

"Gummi-Bear.",Sasuke mumbled back.

"What was that?",Naruto asked laughing.

"Gummi-Bear!",Sasuke shouted in humillity.

A loud meow coming from Kaori's room,that showed that Nina wanted everyone to shut up and let her sleep,caused them to laugh more.

Chikara opened the door.Sasuke walked in to see Naruto,Hitomi,and Kaori laughing at him.Part of it was the joke.The other part was just from what he was wearing.Sasuke was wearing a baggy,black shirt with laces at the collar and the sleeves ended at his elbows.Under that was a shirt with long sleeves.The sleeves had black and white stripes.Over that,he had on a hoodie that ended at his stomach.The top part and the end of the sleeves were gray,but the rest was white.He had on shorts that went to his knees and his black shoes. (the ones with the straps) He had a spiked choker with a cross hanging from it around his neck along with a panda hat as well (has the ears and face of panda).Like Gaara,a chain hanging from his pocket showed that he had his wallet.

"So,this is what you meant,Chikara!",Naruto laughed out.

Sasuke blushed lightly,"Shut up,dope!"

"I'm not the one in a panda hat!",Naruto laughed again.

Chikara got up off the couch and walked over to Sasuke.

"I think he looks adorable.",Chikara said out of the laughter.

"The last surviving Uchiha,the heart-throb of the Rookie 9,has just been labled 'adorable'.Perfect.",Sasuke thought to himself,in his head beating himself up for this.

"A finishing touch.",Chikara said smirking.She took off his hat and messed up his hair.Then she put his hat back on him.

"Perfect.",Chikara said with a smile.She always liked his hair messed up.

"God,kill me.",Sasuke thought to himself again.

This caused Hitomi,Naruto,and Kaori at laugh even harder and Sasuke to blush more.As for Gaara,he smirked harder.

"Hito,I can't breathe!",Kaori laughed.

"Neither can I!",Hitomi followed.

"Are we gonna leave or what?",Sasuke asked in embaressment.He turned around towards the door.

"One second.",Chikara reached in her bag and pulled out four more hats.Two of them were of foxes,one was a cat,and the other was a racoon.She handed the two foxes to Hitomi and Naruto,the racoon hat to Gaara,and the cat hat to Kaori(all of the hats were the faces and the ears).

They all stopped laughing and just stared at the hats.

"Please wear them tonight.",Chikara asked polietly with a smile.

Hitomi tried hers on and smiled.She thought it was cute.

Naruto put his on with hestitation,but left it on never the less.

Kaori put hers on.This kinda thing wasn't her style,but it was a black cat hat and it was growing on her.Sercretly,she loved it.

Gaara just stared at it and then gave Chikara a look that said,"Are you effing crazy?"

Then Chikara shot a glare back at Gaara that said,"Fucking put that shit on before I choke you."

Gaara put it on and left it there.

"See.We all have hats now.",Chikara said grinning.

It was Sasuke's turn to laugh.He meerly chuckled though.

"Well,lets getting going.I want my dumplings,dammit.",Kaori said smirking and walking towards the door.

"We better get going before Kao goes crazy.",Hitomi said smirking following Kaori.

"Like she already isn't.",Gaara joked with a smirk for the first time that night.

Chikara,Sasuke,Hitomi,and Naruto smirked or chuckled a little as they watched Kaori give an evil death glare in Gaara's direction.He just kept smirking and walked towards the door.

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30 min. later a.k.a.-8:00 pm

The six were walking down a street in the shopping district.Many glances,double takes,and giggles were heard and seen because of the hats all of them were wearing.A guy turning around out of a vendor saw them and started laughing.He walked off still hysterical.

"Jeez,I'm not that ugly.",Kaori shouted out to the man laughing.

Chikara and Hitomi giggled.Naruto smiled as he rolled his eyes.Sasuke and Gaara just smirked.The man looked back at the shinobi then turned back walking after realizing that 3 of the people were Gaara,Naruto,and Kaori.He was about 5 meters away.He sped up to speed walking.They could tell he was in a panic and why.

"Fucking asshole.",Kaori mumbled in a tone only the six of them could hear.

"Should I kill him now?",Gaara asked in a low whisper.

"Naw.Not now anyway.Kaori can get him with Onigan in his sleep later on.",Chikara said.

"I love the way you think,Chi.",Kaori commented with a smirk.

"Not if I kill him first!",Naruto said with confidence and he was about to run for the guy in front of them.

Hitomi grabbed the back of Naruto's collar,holding him back as she said,"Calm your ass down."

Naruto backed up and pouted.

"Hey,we're here.",Sasuke pointed to the dumpling shop.

They walked into the shop and sat down.Next to them,from what it looked like,was a big brother and his younger sister sitting next to each other.

"Nee-san!I'm still hungry!",the little girl said to her brother.

"Here,have this.",as the brother passed his last dumpling from his plate to hers.

"Yay!",she shouted out as she picked it up with her chopsticks and ate it.

He smiled down at his sister as she smiled up at him.

Kaori looked at this fondly.It reminded her of something.

Flashback

"Nee-san!Nee-san!Which one is this?",a young girl asked running over to a bush with black flowers.

She wearing a loose fitting dress.She had forest green eyes and dark,long hair.It was the 2-year-old Kaori,the only daughter of the Kurokage.

An older teenager of about sixteen followed the small girl.He had dark eyes and short dark brown hair like his sister.He was Chiaki,the eldest son of the Kurokage.

They were in the courtyard of the Kurokage Castle.The castle was used for generations and held the family of each Kurokage.The courtyard was filled with flowers of all kinds and was the brightest thing in the grim area.After all,the Shadow Country is known for having dimly lit skys in the day and a baron place for the most part since the country was mostly mountains.People lived in vallys at the bottem of the mountains themselves.The castle was on the side of a mountain,looking down at the Village Hidden in the Dark below.

Chiaki chuckled and anwsered,"That's a Black Rose."

"A Black Rose?",Kaori repeated,looking up at her brother.

"It only grows here,in the Shadow Country.It was Okaa-san's favorite flower out of the entire garden.",Chiaki said,sitting down on the soft grass under neath them.

Kaori looked away with sad eyes.

"What's wrong,Mei-chan?",Chiaki asked worriedly.

"What did she look like?What did Okaa-san look like,Nee-san?",Kaori asked meekly.

Chiaki made a motion with his hand that signaled for her to sit on his lap and she did.Kaori looked up at her brother with eyes full of wonder of her mother's appearence.

"She had long,dark brown hair and deep green eyes.Her skin practically glowed.She liked to read books and sing.She loved to smile and laugh as well.",Chiaki listed off to his sister with a smile.

Kaori looked up at him intently,imagining her mother in her head.

"She was a lot like you,Kaori-chan.",Chiaki chuckled causing Kaori to giggle.

"Can we have these flowers at my birthday tomorrow?",Kaori asked with a smile.

Chiaki laughed and said,"Yes,we can.It's going to be your third birthday."

"Yay!",Kaori cheered out.

Chiaki laughed more along with his sister.

Flashback End

It was the day before the murder of her brothers and the attempeted murder of herself by her father.Chiaki was her favorite brother out of the six she grew up with.

"Kaori.Kaori.",Kaori heard in her head.The voice sounded like Chiaki's.

"Kaori!",Hitomi shouted.

"Huh?Yea?",Kaori said,coming back to her senses.

"You ready to order?",Chikara asked.

"Umm,yea.",Kaori said.Everyone in the group was looking at her.

Kaori ordered her dumplings,the memory still fresh in her mind.

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Whew!This chapter was hard to type.I had to get the outfit ideas from Hitomi and Chikara (As I said,real people with real names besides Chikara and Hitomi) and then had to figure out the rest of the chapter.It took awhile to put it all together but it's finished now. :3 Now for chapter 9. TT Well,see ya next chapter!Btw,reviews needed. - Thanks to all my fans and their support!It's kinda weird to think I have fans. O.O Oh,and here,a continuation of the Discalmer!

Chikara:It's true.

Temari:She's got a point. -sweatdrop and grins-

Gaara:-glares- Shut up,Temari.

Kaori:-turns around and pouts- Honestly,I could care less about this engagment.I mean Gaara might end up a wife beater for all I know. -sticks tougue out at Gaara-

Gaara:-glares hard at Kaori and cork on gourd pops off-

Kaori:-eyes turn red and Onigan turns on-

-Mortal Combat music comes on and that voice says "Ready,Fight!"-

Hitomi:Jesus,not again. -rolls eyes-

-EmoKunoichiKaori