I woke up in my room heartbroken. I was in my room, that meant that the two bishi shinobi were a total whacked out dream. Not that I was complain, it would be better off that way of not having a certain Hyuga remember that he face planted my chest. I could smell what would be soon my breakfast, Yuki must be up, might as well go tell her what happened. I could smooze it up too, make her happy, I thought to myself as I climbed out of bed and fixed the sheets. I rounded the doorway and was in the middle of the hallway before it donned on me that I had to seem happy over a dream for Yuki to believe me. So I put on my best doopey grin and began skipping and dancing down in the hallway to the kitchen.
To make it even more believable I squeed in my best fan girl voice, courtesy of remembering 'Sasuke-kun!' from Sakura and Ino, and closed my eyes. I then ran, jumped and hugged as hard as I could the body in front of the stove. After assaulting the body, I danced my 'extra' happy dance, shaking my booty from side to side, spinning in a circle, and moving my arms up and down above my head.
"Oh my god Yuki, you will never believe the dream I had!" I started babbling away, "Both Shikamaru and Neji were here! And! I didn't make a total fool of myself! Me and Neji talked about all sorts of things and he had me do this weird balancing thing but I wanted to kiss him, and before I could you walked in on us and caused me to fall. Then you and Shikamaru had a bit of a spat, it was soooo cute! Then when we told the boys goodnight, because even if it was a dream I can't be doing anything sneaky now could I? And you and Shikamaru...Well you almost pantsed him...and then you went to bed and I thought I passed out in your room because my bed was occupido with Neji and I really wanted to cuddle but that would be wrong, or because I dreamt he was in my bed and I didn't cuddle him it was wrong..."
I stopped with by back turned and stood there for a moment before spotting a pink haired kunochi in the hallway. Sakura? Am I still dreaming? I thought before it finally clicked. That wasn't Sakrua, that was Yuki. If that was Yuki then who is...? I turned to see a very, very confused Neji. I paled and then all the blood that was in my body rushed to my face. I wanted to die of shame.
"Why do you not have pants?" asked Neji very calmly.
"Pants off dance off!" I blurted out before awkwardly dancing to Yuki, down the hallway, and when I was sure I wasn't spotted began to hurridly walk to my room.
It would have been fine if I hadn't of bumped into Shikamaru who smirked, "So did you get lucky, or is this still the dream I heard you talking about?"
I couldn't let him get one up on me, "Oh I so got lucky last night. Neji is even being kind enough to make me breakfast, see isn't he so nice."
"Really?" said Shikamaru before grabbing me by the shoulders and leading me back to the kitchen.
Struggling would only prove I was lying so I put on a the best fake smile I could do before being hugged by Shikamaru who turned to Yuki and I thought I was hallucinating because I thought I saw him wink. Then Shikamaru passed me to Yuki who hugged me with her arms just above my elbows, and that confused me even more. The only reason she does that is so I don't kill someone for something they did wrong...
"Yuki, you owe me five ryo," said Shikamaru, "She believed it."
I tensed up and was about to pounce and beat the living daylights out of Shikamaru, but before I could I had to get the story straight.
"So what was the bet?" I said as calmly as possible.
"That if you woke up in your bed, which you are heavy, that when you woke up you would believe this was a dream. I bet you would have come straight to me, Shikamaru bet that you would embarrass yourself BEFORE you came to me. He won," said Yuki.
" I. Will. END. You." I said between struggling and trying to make Yuki knock herself out on the wall.
"You both owe me ten," said Neji.
This stopped me, "Why?"
"I told them that you would be upset," he said finishing the cooking.
"You were in on it!" I squeaked.
Half of me was heartbroken and the other half of me was totally excited. This side of Neji I didn't know about, and I liked it. Well this called for payback. Yuki was going down! So I used my transformation technique to turn into her. Confused the poor, unsuspecting victim let me go. I immediately threw off my shirt and tossed it on her face so she couldn't see what I was doing.
"Vengeance!" I said in her body.
Yuki just sat there for a moment when it clicked in her mind what I did, "Kori, three seconds is all you have before I find out what you did."
"Feh," I huffed before transforming into Choji to payback Shikamaru.
"Oh. My. God!" said Shikamaru, "My EYES!"
Yuki took the shirt off her face and screamed, "CHANGE BACK! CHANGE BACK!"
There in my black sports bra and neon blue boy shorts with red lettering of the word Cheeky across the rear, was Choji. That was all it took to break them. I smirked and transformed back to my original form.
"And this is why you don't mess with a master!" I high fived myself and took my shirt back from Yuki.
"Thank god for Byakugan," muttered Neji as he turned off the eye of the stove.
I went back into my bedroom and changed into my usual ninja outfit before returning to get some breakfast. Shikamaru and Yuki were quiet, I wasn't sure I horrified them out of their minds, or they were just not up to speaking at that point in time. As I made coffee and stood at the island Neji had already made enough for everyone and was eating.
"Thanks for breakfast," I said as I bit into it, "Its good. So why did Yuki team up with Shikamaru for the prank this morning?"
"I am not sure," said Neji between bites, "Ask them yourself."
"I would but I think I broke their minds," I said happily.
"No you didn't," said Shikamaru, "I was just reminding myself never to mess with you again."
"Ep," muttered Yuki.
"Oh come on it wasn't that bad," I tried to assure her.
"Do that again and look in a mirror," she told me flatly.
I looked at the clock and realized that we had to meet Tazno and our sensei at the park for our mission in an hour. I quickly devoured what was left of my plate and went to Yuki's room and got her gear out for her. When she finished eating I rushed her into the bathroom and tossed everything at her before returning to the living room. I talked with the guys for a while before Yuki was out of the shower and dressed. Thankfully she wasn't running late this morning so I ushered her out of the door before turning to the guys.
"Take your time, we will be back soon," I told them, "We are going to be in the care of sensei so, it shouldn't be too dangerous."
I shut the door and began walking. Both Yuki and I were just off the steps before Shikamaru and Neji were behind us, dressed, and looking like they had just showered. I wasn't questioning the whole why they looked freshly showered, they were awesome ninja with mad skills so getting ready should be a cinch for them. Well after scaring me half to death, the walk was quite awkward with a long silence. So frustrated I decided to terrorize everyone more.
"For every awkward silence a gay baby is born!" I yelled out in seriousness even posing.
Yuki killed the joke by falling on the ground because she was laughing so hard. I just looked at her in frustration and stepped over her.
"Mood killer," I said grimly.
It was shortly after that when we made our way to the training grounds and looked for sensei and Tanzo. A few seconds later Hayama appeared before us.
"Where is Tanzo?" we asked him.
"Hiding, your exercise is to find and subdue him," Hayama explained, "You have two hours, if you fail you will have to clean the park by yourselves. When you capture him you must put him in bounds which is ten feet around where I am going to be."
He set the timer and started it. I looked at Yuki and grinned. She was already in her thoughts to where Tanzo might be, so I decided to play stupid.
"Sensei how big is the grounds?" I asked innocently.
"One square kilometer*," he said.
"Okay," I told him, then I looked at Yuki, "Know where he is yet?"
You search near the Memorial, I am going to check the other way," she said walking off after giving me some directions to follow.
I turned to the guys who had sat down near sensei, "No helping!"
I then followed Yuki's directions perfectly but I could not find Tanzo. So I decided to search a little on my own, and after a while I gave up and headed back to where Yuki told us to meet. When I got there Yuki was already waiting for me. Being very paranoid I decided to ask her a question.
"Hey Yuki," I asked, "What am I to you?"
"My sister," she answered.
She stood there for a moment and looked at me funny after giving her answer. That told me that she wasn't Yuki so I attacked her. I quickly reached into my kunai holder and grabbed one that had and explosive tag on it, breaking the wire that attached them together. I threw the kunai and the impostor dodged it easily. I used this to 'bum rush' her and went to slide into their legs. They jumped up and rolled away, so I scrambled up and dove onto the body, sticking the tag on their back before rolling away. The impostor got up and prepared some kunai to be tossed at me but I was giggling.
"What is so funny?" asked the fake Yuki.
"Tag your it!" I said preforming the hand seal to get the tag to explode.
It worked perfectly and the impostor was knocked forward enough for me to finish it off with a swift kick to the ribs and an elbow to the back of their neck. The fake Yuki turned out to be Tanzo, who was now unconscious. I quickly bound his hands in wire and began dragging his body back to where Hayama and the others were. When I arrived I only had two minutes left to finish so I quickly tossed Tanzo as far as I could, which wasn't really that far, but enough to get him 'in bounds'. I did a happy dance right before a pink blur attacked me.
"What took you so long!" yelled Yuki.
"Um, he is heavy?" I told her, "Hey what is the answer to everything?"
"Forty-two," she quickly said, "Duh, everyone knows that!"
"Yay!" I said hugging her, "Yuki!"
"Do I want to know?" she said as I hugged her.
Tanzo woke up and was a bit frustrated at the fact he was caught, "I mimicked her perfectly."
"Yeah but the real Yuki would have beat me half to death for not finding you when she told me exactly what to do and I still did my own thing. It isn't healthy to ignore her directions," I laughed.
"I am not that bad," she said getting flustered.
"I know but you are when it comes to me," I said.
"Well that is because you never listen, always think you know everything, and always get into trouble," she said untying Tanzo.
"So?" I giggled.
We ended up still having to clean the park but at least we were able to get Tanzo to help. It was about noon when we were finished. Walking back home we ran into an unexpected person.
"Kakashi!" I squeed.
He still had his nose in his book so Yuki and I tried to tackle him, though he nimbly dodged it and kept walking.
"Hey two cute girls wanted to talk to you and you are ignoring us?" said Yuki.
He lifted his head and looked at us, "You just tried to tackle me."
"Well you didn't respond to my Kakashi earlier," I said, "So Icha Icha?"
"Yes, I am four chapters into it? Do you know the series?" asked Kakashi.
"We know of and who writes it, but we haven't read any," I told him, "So can I see?"
"I don't think this is a book meant for children," he told us.
"What? I know Naruto reads this, isn't he with Jiraiya?" I said trying to convince him to let me read the book.
"Really?" he said sounding unconvinced.
"Alright fine," I huffed, "I bet I can read the first page aloud to everyone."
"Kori," Yuki warned me, "I don't think that is the best way to do things. You never think! What if it is so horrible that it will warp the minds of everyone?"
"What are you talking about," I replied, "You are already warped."
"Baka," she said, "That is not what I meant."
"How about this," Kakashi proposed, "Just look at the page I am reading."
"Okay," I said before looking at the page. I read two paragraphs, "No way is she THAT limber!"
"Nani?" said Kakashi before grabbing the book, "I have read this and I am sure he didn't..."
"Just kidding Kakashi," I said, "I hope the character isn't that cheesy through the book. It isn't bad, but I am sure Jiraiya can do better. Guess I will have to read and find out."
"I don't know whether to call you a sick freak, or just drop the subject," said Yuki.
"Better drop it then," I said, "Anyways Kakashi, I can draw that if you want me to."
I think hearts appeared in his eyes and blushed, but I couldn't tell. His damn mask was in the way.
"Really?" he said, "I wouldn't mind seeing this."
"Hey you can't see the art until it is finished!" I teased, "I can find you later and show you some of my art."
"Perv," muttered Yuki.
"I heard that," I looked at her, "It isn't my fault that I am so awesome."
"No pervert, that isn't awesome. That is just plain wrong," she told me.
"Shut it or I will draw a certain ninja, in a certain way, with another one of their team mates that would scar you for the rest of your life."
Yuki shuddered, "Neve rmind then pervert."
"How much longer are you going to call me that?" I asked her.
"Until I forget, perv," she smiled.
"The main character whispered to his love, 'I will not leave you, I swear it'. She blushed slightly and looked so beautiful under the full moonlight. Looking deep into his eyes, 'You promise?'" I began quoting.
"What was that?" asked Shikamaru.
"What Yuki here is calling me a pervert for," I said, "Hell they were taking a moonlight stroll, he was only thinking about taking her to bed. His imagination isn't so great either."
"Eh?" said Yuki.
"All I am saying is that he was blushing over inviting her to his room, that is how far I got," I shrugged, "I was speaking of the part where she was looking up at him with stars in her eyes. What were you thinking I was talking about? So who is exactly perverted here...Yuki."
"That is a pervy book written by a pervy old guy for pervy people," said Yuki while throwing a cute looking tantrum that screamed 'I will beat you with pillows'.
"Kakashi isn't that pervy," I said trying to defend him, "At least he doesn't want his student's bodies!"
"EW!" said Yuki giggling, "I know right."
A small cough behind us reminded us that Neji and Shikamaru were still present. After saying goodbye to Kakashi we headed to the hospital to get our check up. After that we decided to get lunch before we did anything else. At the restraunt we bumped into Hinata.
"Hinata," I said grabbing her from behind and hugging her, "Long time no see!"
"U-um," she said startled, "K-kori, Yuki, h-how are you?"
"Fine," we said.
"Oh Nii-sama, is this the important mission Hokage assigned you to?" she said looking at Neji.
"Yes," he said sighing as if defeated.
"Well look at it this way," I beamed, "While you aren't getting some combat experience, you are getting some social! I am sure Tsunade had her reasons."
Neji looked at me, "Of course she did."
I tilted my head to the side and looked at him and blinked before returning to the conversation with Hinata. We ended up getting a table together and had light conversation while eating. After we ate Hinata walked us to the door.
"Nii-sama, father wanted to know when the next time you were free," said Hinata.
"He can be free now if it is important," I interrupted while looking at Neji, "We can be watched by Shikamaru."
"Or she can go with you," suggested Yuki.
I grabbed Yuki and hissed in her ear, "It is important, shut up woman! I am so not interrupting a Hyuga Clan thing. Besides your suggestion is making me look like a weird stalker fan girl."
"No i-it isn't anything l-like that," said Hinata.
I then pulled Hinata in close so I could talk to her, "Look if it is anything like I think it is, then let him go. I know right now he is on a mission, but it won't take but a few hours and I promise not to get into trouble."
"O-okay," said Hinata before turning to Neji, "I-if it is alright with you, we can leave now."
Neji thought about it for a moment before turning to me, "I will not abandon the mission."
"Psht, we aren't THAT important, and if it makes you feel any better we can go to the training grounds right beside the Hyuga Compound. We won't be far and you will have the best of both worlds," I said calmly, "Besides, I am sure this can't wait. It might be super important."
With that option and a lot of convincing, more or less me heading off to the Hyuga Compound dragging Yuki behind me, we were on our way. As we were closer to the complex, Neji tried to tell us repeatedly that it wasn't that important and he could try again later, but I knew it was because he was so nervous. I just tried, and failed, to make random jokes that were too corny. So I then switched to talking to Hinata about med-nin stuff. She told me she was okay at the art but she didn't have the skill of that of Tsunade or Sakura who had just learned Shōsen Jutsu. Then she told me it was harder to do this jutsu because you needed excellent chakra control otherwise you risk putting a patient into a coma. So I knew what I was going to do, work on my chakra control.
When we arrived Hinata asked me what element I was and when I told her she suggested that I create a globe of water with my hands and hold it there for an hour, after I could manage that I should slowly rotate the water in the globe. If I could manage to do that for a few hours that would give me excellent chakra control. When she and Neji left, I decided to sit down under some trees and try out the globe of water trick. Carefully I began to kneed the chakra into some water and exert it through my hands. It was simple enough but when trying to focus it into a bubble I either put too much and it exploded, or not enough and it fell apart. After a few minutes Yuki became bored and decided to play 'Twenty Questions' with Shikamaru.
I happily tried to listen in on their game but the distraction took too much for me to try and control the flow of chakra and listen at the same time. So I had to shut out their conversation. I then shut my eyes and began to try the process for a second time, but I couldn't tell what I was doing and ended up soaking my lap. About six tries and god knows how much time later, I managed to get a small marble sized one to sit on the palm of my hand. I then slowly worked on trying to make it bigger before Yuki's laughter broke my concentration and the water exploded in my hand, splashing my face. Frustrated, I growled at her and she covered her mouth before I tried again.
Yuki's POV
I looked at a half soaked Kori and I couldn't help myself, she looked pathetic. I couldn't blame her for trying something new, she was really good at medicine and chakra control anyway. When Hayama trained her and I in climbing trees with just our feet, she was the first one of us up, Tanzo could do it in one shot but he was more experienced than we were so we didn't count him.
"I am thinking of a person," I told Shikamaru.
"Are they a shinobi?" he asked.
"Yes," I answered.
"Are they a girl or a boy?" he asked again.
"Girl," I answered.
"Ino," he sighed.
"Okay you got it," I told him, "Your turn."
"Okay I am thinking of a place," he started.
"Where you and Asuma play shoji," I told him.
"Correct," he said, "You are thinking of the Hot Springs."
"How did you guess?" I said blushing.
"You relaxed a bit when it came to mind so I figured that you would think of that," he told me.
"Uh-oh," I said tugging on his sleeve, "It is the size of a small ball...Three, two...YES!"
I watched as the bubble splattered everywhere, and heard Kori muttering curses. I could tell that she could use a break, she was starting to breathe a bit heavier. So getting up I waited until she was in full concentration and snuck up. As she finally made a ball again I was close enough to pounce her. So I jumped at her and faked a roar. She jumped out of her skin, the water globe left her hands, and then busted on top of her head. She looked at me with daggers and then with venom started calling me all sorts of names.
"You pink haired, loud mouthed, hyperactive, head in the clouds, violent, annoying, stupid," she said.
"You are exhausted," I reminded her.
"No I am not!" she tried to convince me.
"Okay stand up," I said backing away.
She stood up perfectly fine but when she tried to step towards me she wobbled slightly. She caught herself easily enough and managed to make it, rather quickly, over to me and punch me in the shoulder before muttering some more words.
"Alright stubborn!" I said becoming irritated at her, "Bring it!"
I aimed a right hook at her jaw but she ducked under it and tried to kick me in the ribs. Blocking I grabbed her ankle and crouched so I could sweep her leg out in from under her. Jumping up, she used her free leg to bat me away by pushing off on my shoulders. Landing she charged and me and jumped up and tried an axe kick but I brought up my arms and cradled the kick and pushed her off. She flipped backward and before she landed I had stepped up and aimed a kick at her side. This knocked her away and she landed a few feet away and skidded to a stop. She rushed me again but I wasn't expecting her to stop just short my my arms and she preformed a back flip again, landing a kick on my jawline. I was knocked up enough to have my feet leave the ground, and she quickly landed and dove through the air tackling me. I curled up my legs under her and pushed her off me before she could punch me again. Then before she left my reach I grabbed her wrist, brought her back to me, and elbowed her in the face. We both landed on the ground, but instead of falling on the ground laying on my back, I rolled back and hopped up on my feet. Kori got up and wiped some of the blood off her chin and looked at me defiantly before she charged again. This time I punched out but she side stepped out of the way and kicked me in the knee. This caused me to bend it and she stepped on it, climbed my body and when she was on my shoulder, she tried kicking me in the face. I threw my body back and bent in the air. When she missed, I used this to jerk her down and kick her back up into the air. When I landed I jumped up above her and kicked her back down to the ground.
"Had enough yet?" I asked her.
"Not even close," she said getting up and facing me.
I clapped my hands together, "Fūton: Reppūshō!"
Kori had familiarized herself with my justu and countered, "Suiton: Suihachi!"
Both collided and didn't do very much other than spray water everywhere. This was getting no where fast, so I had to think of something. An idea popped into my head as I went for my kunai. I tossed them, aiming more at the ground than her and she jumped out of the way. Darting to her I acted like I was going to kick her, and she took the bait. She grabbed my foot to flip around and kick me but I had already preformed the hand seals for the body replacement technique. As she grabbed she found herself kicking a log. She looked behind her just as I aimed a hard hook just under her jaw. As she crashed to the ground, I landed and checked to see if she was breathing. I didn't want to kill her, thankfully I just knocked her out. She would be upset with me when she woke up, but it was better that I knock her out than she pass out and blame herself for not being able to manipulate jutsu well enough.
I hoisted her over my shoulder and moved her beside Shikamaru as he looked at me wierd.
"Is this how you settle arguments?" he asked.
"Not usually, she was just being too hard on herself and would have kept going until she passed out if I had let her," I said taking a seat, "The will be pissed, but she will thank me for it."
"She looked exhausted when she punched you," he said, "How did she keep up?"
I looked at him in the eye an giggled, "Stubborn ass is what she is, but word of warning never underestimate Kori. If she puts her mind to something, it gets done."
"Troublesome," he sighed.
"Yeah but what are you going to do, she is my sister," I said placing my hand on my knee and looked up at the clouds, "I wonder when he will be back."
Shikamaru turned to me and pointed behind my shoulder, "Now would be a good guess."
Neji had come back from his business at the Hyuga house. Before he said anything he saw Kori laying unconscious and just raised an eyebrow. I then had to tell him what happened. Then I explained since I knocked her out, and lied, that I was too tired to carry her. Shikamaru just walked off with his hands in his pockets. After hearing the roit act from Neji, he picked her up and followed us back to the apartment. Evil Gai sensei and pushing stupid stubborn 'Stronger than tomorrow' stuff into the minds of his students. I hate Kori for being such a child; evil, stupid, stubborn, melodramatic, ugh! I thought to myself as a rain cloud began forming over my head. As I walked passed Shikamaru up the stairs he saw the aura I was giving off and started to say something but chose it was best if he didn't. Thank god he didn't, I wasn't in the mood for cheering up, I wasn in the mood to kill little chocolate squares by boiling them in a pot and dipping unsuspecting fruits and other snacks into it as I imagined them screaming in pain. Constructive sadistic streak is what I had at the moment.
When we made it into the apartment Neji placed her on the couch before making her an ice pack as I began making chocolate covered treats. I got all the supplies I needed and took out some caramel squares, molds, strawberries, and pretzels to make the treats. I used a knife to make the caramel smaller before placing some in the molds and putting up the rest of the caramel. After the pot was ready I put the chocolate in there and started on melting it. About halfway through the strawberries Kori woke up.
"My head," she groaned, "If there wasn't a delicious smell of chocolate and good strawberries, I would kill you Yuki."
"Try to eat them and I kill you," I threatened.
"Did I piss you off that much?" she asked.
"Come over here and find out," I said imagining dumping the whole pot of boiling liquid on her head.
"No thanks I want to keep my eyebrows. You plus angry plus way of harming me in reach, not good for my health," she said as I heard the ice pack hit the ground, "One headache is all I need. No more injuries."
"Clean yourself up and come over here and help," I told her sighing.
Kori POV
I went to get up and go to the bathroom but I found it occupied at the moment, so I went to my room and found some headache medicine and took it. Not too long after I heard the bathroom door open and I saw Neji begin to leave with the first aid kit. I hurried up to him and asked him to hand over the box so I could clean myself up.
"I am not sure you want to know what happened," he said.
"I know what happened, I still feel the pain," I said.
"Well she did beat you up pretty badly and you can't see what you are doing," he said.
"There is a mirror in my room," I said pointing.
The next thing I knew Yuki was yelling at me again, "What ever it is, my sister senses are going off! Come here!"
"Shit," I hissed, "Why! Why is big sister status come with super hearing!"
I drug my feet and walked slowly to the kitchen with my head down. Yuki was already turned and had a hand on her hip pointing at me.
"What did you do?" she asked.
"Nothing!" I said holding my hands up in front of me, "Neji just had the first aid box and I told him I could do it myself but then he told me that I didn't want to know how bad it was...So there."
"Let him do it, besides you could have broken your nose," she said giving me the 'your an idiot for not taking a hot man's help' look.
"But," I tried to argue but was cut short by a deadly glare, "Fine."
I marched over to the couch and sat down while Neji got out the bandages and cloth to patch and clean me up. I was too upset with myself to enjoy the fact Neji was the one doing it so I pouted. I can have my childish moments. After he wiped the blood off my face he began to put the band-aids on where needed. Apparently my eyebrow, left cheek, lip, and bridge of my nose had cuts on them. I was just lucky that Yuki didn't fuck me up as much as she could have. After he was finished I got up and began helping Yuki, who was now filling the molds with chocolate. When we finished, we took turns dipping pretzels until all the chocolate was gone.
After we were finished we made dinner and both Yuki and I showered. When the dessert was finished we passed out some of the chocolates to Neji and Shikamaru and ate some before putting the rest away for later. Thankfully they both liked the snacks and we sat and decided to watch a movie. Thank god for the couch being sorta small, with all four of us on there, it looked liked we were half cuddling. When the movie was over it was time for us to got to sleep. I was the first to get up, followed by Neji, but Yuki decided to stay behind to bid Shikamaru goodnight. Walking down the hallway Neji grabbed my arm and stopped me.
"About this morning," he said, "When you said you were talking about wanting to kiss me."
"Oh god, I thought you would forget that," I said blushing, "Alright, I like you...a lot. With everything that has been happening I thought you would have ran away screaming. So yes, I wanted to kiss you but then you had me do that wierd balance thing and then Yuki interrupted us...and then the face plant..Um, does this make me a weird freak for liking you?"
"No it does not," he said.
"Um," I said looking for the courage to ask, "Why did you want to know?"
"I was curious, and that would explain why you react like you do around me," he said.
"Oh," I said trying not to sound upset, "Well now you know so I am going to bed now."
I tried darting away but silly me forgot that he had my arm, he tried saying something but I was already in mid step and jerked him forward and me back. I twisted around and tried to catch him but I was too tired to stop his fall, only cushion it. We both fell on the floor with him being on top of me and our faces very close together. My mind was flipping out and I was sure that I was blushing because my face felt like it was on fire. Unfortunately my body overpowered my brain at that moment and I leaned up and kissed him. I was there for two seconds before my mind caught up with me and I quickly broke the kiss and freaked out.
"Please don't kill me!" I whispered, since my courage left me.
He looked at me a moment and then closed his eyes exhaling very slowly. I was very sure I had pissed him off for violating his personal space and kissed him without permission. He rose up enough for me to quickly slide out from under him, get up, and begin retreating to Yuki's room. Two steps in I was caught, turned around, and planted so I could look at him. For a second I thought his eyes were boring a hole into my brain but he relaxed and closed his eyes. I could tell he was searching for words, probably trying not to sound to harsh for when he told me he didn't like me back.
"I am not going to kill you," he said before locking eyes with me again, "It took me by surprise that is all. A shinobi doesn't have time to socialize, nor is it a guarantee that they will live a long life. I could be killed at any point in my missions. Also being attached to someone can lead to a distraction when on missions..."
"I see," I said biting my lip to keep my focus, "If that is how you want it then...I tried."
"Let me finish," he said, "Also you are entrusted with protecting those of your village with the skills that you learn. Something worth fighting for, the Will of Fire. I once thought that I had to prove myself to others to gain attention, but after the strongest opponent I have ever faced showed me that I didn't have to. You have come along and saw what I was in a glace, I think I would like to find out what else there is to fight for."
"Wha?" I started to say before I was cut off by him surprising me with a kiss.
I was sure my mind went blank and I froze. After breaking the kiss I was still standing there with a surprised look on my face. He turned me back around and escorted me to Yuki's room. By that time, I had a grin from ear to ear about what had happened, and when the time came for us to say goodnight, I didn't want to. I sighed and told him goodnight before crawling into Yuki's bed and falling asleep, on cloud nine.
The size of the training grounds that I am using is this:
1 square kilometer is about .5 square mile: So about 13939200 square feet. 320 Acres. So it is kinda big, but I am not sure on the exact size of Konoha, which I am assuming is about the size of New York City, which is pretty big. The training grounds is the one right next to Konoha Memorial...
A map of Konoha can be found here: http:/s439. photobucket .com /albums/ qq117 /TalaTati19 /Anime-Manga /Naruto /? action=view¤t = konohasatocopy .jpg &sort= ascending (take out the many spaces)
The two girl's apartment is actually in between the barbecue place (Yakiniku Q) and the ramen place (Ramen Ichiraku), but a bit closer to Yakiniku. Pointing out the "south eastern side" comment made in an earlier chapter, it was referring to which building they were in of the complex. Thought I would clear that up.
Shōsen Jutsu- Mystical Palm Technique- allows the user to speed up the body's natural healing process by sending chakra from their hands into a wound or afflicted body part. It can be used to treat both external and internal injuries. It is vital to match the amount of chakra used to the severity of the affliction or injury. By sending an excess amount of chakra into the patient's body, the user can overload the patient's normal circulation, trapping them in a comatose state.
Fūton: Reppūshō- Wind Release: Violent Wind Palm- A simple technique that when the users hands are clapped together, wind is compressed and transformed into a powerful gale
Suiton: Suihachi- Water Release: Water Wave Palm- The user emits a continuous jet of water from their hand to strike the enemy and disrupt their attack
Alphenwolf: Thanks for the idea, but I preformed 'upgrade jutsu' on it with my mad writer skillz! I am also glad that you liked the Impression Jutsu. As for the living situation, I don't know if you are saying you would run for your life, or being a perv. Either one is acceptable and I am giggling madly because of it.
SilverMusic: You caught me, I am a HUGE Disney fan and nerd. That is one of the only other things I watch other than Anime. Heck I am in my twenties and cry when a sappy part is on in a Disney movie. *Snicker* Her name isn't Karin, it is Kori that has the Impression Jutsu. I have an idea what I want to give Yuki but I haven't figured out everything. Yes, they are evil masterminds, the kissing scene proves it...
River: Sweet, a mushy ending for the chapter, and Whew! The chappies are getting longer by the minute...so to speak. That and I keep popping them out like bunnies do babies...don't ask about the weird analogy, that is how my brain works. So we know what happened with Kori, now is the question...What happened with Yuki? You find out in the next chapter!