Chapter Ten: Akatsuki
(Akatsuki means "Dawn" or "Daybreak" Remember That)
Cyndi: Today we have a special guest. (This better be worth the money..)
Zetsu: Hello everyone...
Cyndi: Uhh.. I didn't pay you to come here and say the disclaimer!
Zetsu: I know. Kakuzu paid me twenty dollars to come here instead. How much did you pay him?
Cyndi: Thirty dollars.
Zetsu: Damn... I got ripped off. But that's Kakuzu for you. Anyways, Cyndi does not own Naruto.
Sasori: Well.. Read, Review, and Enjoy. By the way, Zetsu, you'll like this chapter.
Zetsu: Why?
Sasori: There are plants in it.
Zetsu: Must you relate everything I do with plants?
Short Recap
Sasori, Aimi, Kaori, and Mizuki-sensei started walking along the path. Sasori had a lot of thoughts running in his mind. His hands rested in his pocket, holding onto a necklace. He still didn't know when to give it to Kaori.
"When should I give it to her?" Sasori thought. "Damn that Kazekage, now I see Aimi takes after her father. How come he had to make things difficult?"
Back----To----The----Present
"Ok, Sasori, you're in charge of feeding the livestock." said Mizuki-sensei as they arrived at the barren farm land. She greeted the old woman who owned the farm and quickly went off to work. "Kaori, you can water the plants. Aimi, you can help Kaori, but no matter what, don't scream."
"Mizuki-sensei." said Sasori (A/N He thinks livestock is everything alive). "What is livestock? Everything I see here is old."
"Sasori," started Mizuki-sensei. "By livestock, I don't mean," she lowered her voice into a whisper. "I don't mean the farm owner, I mean the cows and horses."
"And you're telling me that we have cows and horses in the desert?" retorted Sasori.
"You never knew?" asked Mizuki-sensei. "We also have an animal preservation center because we don't want the Sand Village to be all barren-like. Hmm.. We never had any plants except for cactus in here."
"Let's go to work then." stated Aimi matter-of-factually. She picked up a watering can, and poured tiny droplets of water onto the desert flower. "We can also take notes of the many different kinds of plants for future references. For example," started Aimi. "This is a desert paintbrush."
"Hmm.." said Sasori. "Seems very artistic, I bet it would last for a while. It looks like a real paintbrush."
"Sasori," retorted Aimi. "Do you know that it soon go away fleetingly? Paintbrush flowers don't last a long time."
"No, definitely not." argued Sasori. "This will last for a long, long time. That's the way art is supposed to be."
And so, Aimi and Sasori started bickering for an hour about the paintbrush flower. Aimi thought that flowers don't (and will not) last for a long time before it goes away fleetingly. Sasori argued that a desert flower would last for a long time since it had the word "desert" in its name, and therefor had to be adapted to the desert. Aimi retorted that a flower had no business being in the desert unless it wanted to kill itself. Sasori said that it didn't choose were it lives and that Aimi was being a moron. At last, Kaori was infuriated and decided to intervene.
"Hello?!" yelled Kaori. "We're supposed to concentrate on the mission!" She picked up the flower and stepped on it. "Oops."
Mizuki-sensei appeared in front of them. "I'm finished with my part of the mission."
Aimi blinked. "How could you finish in five minutes?"
"Five minutes?" asked Mizuki-sensei. "It's been two hours."
"So.." stated Sasori. "We were arguing for two hours?"
"Of course." replied Mizuki-sensei. "Now it's approximately 8:00 P.M. That means that the sun already set, so we can't watch it." She smiled. "But that means that you can get started on your chores.."
"Aw..." replied the group of three. Sasori walked away silently to the barn.
Kaori and Aimi stepped onto the wooden plank flooring. Aimi shuddered. "Brighten up Kaori, I bet that there isn't going to be that much plants! After all, it's the desert we're talking about."
Wrong. Once they stepped into the greenhouse, thousands of species of plants were scattered on the ground. "So," said Kaori sarcastically, "You just had to jinx the whole mission, right?" Aimi blushed, and made a zippering motion towards her mouth.
"Hey" Kaori turned around. Sasori stood there. "I came to help."
"You're done?!" yelled Kaori. "I can't believe it."
"I have my advantages," started Sasori. He had a light blue glow emitting from his fingertips. "Especially when I make my puppets do the work."
Aimi sighed. "Lucky you, my father says that only certain people can learn to control puppets. I probably can, but he wouldn't let me get near them."
"Whatever." said Sasori. With a wave of his hand, the puppet opened its mouth and showered everything with water within a two mile radius. The water fell like a mist onto the plants, making it seem like a rain shower hit the desert. "Done."
As they walked back to their host's house, Aimi took the time to complain about Sasori's unnecessary plant-watering method.
"I'm soaked!" shouted Aimi as they reached Kaori's bedroom. "Mizuki-sensei told you to water the plants, not me, you moron."
"Aimi, you really shouldn't talk like that." reasoned Kaori. "It's almost midnight, so I'm going to sleep. See you later." With those words, Kaori shut the door in their faces.
In her room
Inside her room, Kaori had second thoughts. She untied her hair and layed down upon the downy sheets.
"Maybe I shouldn't have closed the door in their faces," thought Kaori.
"You should have, and you did! I mean, they're so annoying when they argue!"
"Yeah, but. How about Sasori?"
"He'll get over it. Just go to sleep already."
Kaori sighed, it was pointless to talk to herself for the rest of the night. She looked up at the pale moonlight gazing upon her face. She closed her eyes. Outside, Aimi and Sasori were still bickering...
Meanwhile
Sasori and Aimi stood there glaring at each other with intensity.
"Moron."
"Bitch."
"What the heck? What a sexist."
"You're not worth my time. Bye."
"Why you idiot!"
"I hate you. Good night."
Sasori slammed the door at Aimi's face. "Oh yeah?" yelled Aimi. "How can you slam the door in my face?"
Suddenly, Sasori opened the door. "Like this." He pointed to the door, and then at Aimi's face. He slammed the door in her face once again. It was then that Aimi let out a barrage of swear words.
Other voices can be heard from the end of the hallway. "Go to sleep already!" The neighbors were complaining about Aimi's high-pitched voice. Again.
Aimi turned crimson and headed for her bedroom.
The Next Morning
"Hey," said Kaori, gently shaking Sasori. "Wake up."
"What?" he yawned, clutching onto his pillow. "It's dawn."
"I know." she replied. "Guess what? The sun is rising."
"So?" he yawned.
"Look at the clouds."
"So what? They're red."
"But don't you think it's the loveliest shade of red?"
"Yeah, it looks like a piece of art.." yawned Sasori. His words drifted off. "Eternal...Forever lasting...Art..."
"You know Sasori-kun," said Kaori. "Someday you're going to look out the window, and you're going to see red clouds. Someday, when you're away somewhere, far away from me, of course."
"I doubt it would ever happen."
"You think so? After all, you and I are different in a lot of ways. I mean, you could grow up to be anything you want," she plopped herself onto his bed. "Even a fashion designer or criminal."
"I'm not going to be a fashion designer. Being a criminal sounds boring. What do you want to be?"
"I don't know.." replied Kaori. "Maybe I could be a jounin and go on missions."
"Yeah, definitely. You're suitable for that." He opened his eyes and looked at the red clouds fading away. "The clouds are fading."
"Don't worry, they'll come back." said Kaori. "After all, art does last forever."
"If only everyone could think that way. You're the only one that seems to." Kaori blushed. His face was getting closer and closer. (A/N and closer and closer). Soon she could feel his breath on her neck.
"Good morning!!" The door burst open and in came Aimi. She saw the scene and smirked.
"Great. Another almost perfect moment ruined by Aimi." thought Kaori, still blushing. Sasori blinked. " What are you doing in here?"
"Well, I came here to say good morning," started Aimi. "But I thought I wasn't interrupting something, was I?"
"Umm.." said Kaori. "Why don't we go for breakfast? Right Sasori?"
"What?" replied Sasori, evidently confused. Kaori elbowed him in ribs. "Oh!" Sasori sprang up. " Yeah, breakfast!"
He ran out the door, quickly followed by Kaori.
"Well, something's going on, and I'm going to find out!" thought Aimi.
Cyndi: I had a lot of fun with this chapter, I hope you did too.
Deidara: And closer and closer and closer.
Sasori: Shut up.
Deidara: Closer and closer and closer...
Sasori: Why can't you just blow yourself up?
Deidara: I'll have to blow someone else up then.
-Deidara blows Kato up.
Cyndi: In your face Kato! That's for throwing me down a well!
Sasuke: Revenge is sweet. Please push the review button.