Mae's eyes lit up. Neji, the HYUGA Neji, kiss her, Mae, the Neji obsessed otaku. It was beyond any form of daydream her mind had dared to conjure up. It felt like a dream to her, a really real dream, as it was reality that she was standing next to Neji.
"What?!" Neji said, looking from Crash to Mae to Tenten and back to Crash. He couldn't quite grasp what had happened in the last two seconds. That strange girl's friend, Crash, asking him to kiss said strange girl, the same strange girl whom had tackled him randomly and screamed at him. The same girl who he knew nothing about only her name, Mae.
"But" Mae said "I don't think him just kissing me is enough.."
"What else do you want?!" Neji said, getting up quickly and slamming his hands on the table. "Me to sleep with you or something?!"
"Neji!" Mae said "Mind out of the gutter. I'm not asking for anything more then a kiss from you. I'm actually going to ask for someone to train me."
"Who?" Gai-sensei asked "Toad Sage and Kakashi are already hard people to get to train you guys. Speaking of which.." He turned to Shadow "I assume you know of… Toad Sage's..umm… preference for woman…"
"I can handle it" Shadow said, not really paying attention to the scene in front of her but rather her hot cocoa topped with several large marshmallows. Shadow wasn't called a hot cocoa fanatic for nothing.
"We know about Pervy Sage." Mae said, yawning slightly and thinking to herself. "You can say he's sort of a celebrity where we come from. Anyway, back to business," Mae leaned back in her chair "I want Tsunade, the great medical ninja, to train me. "
Gai-sensei looked at Mae, no disbelief on his face betraying him.
Neji merely twitched. It was hard to believe that these girls just appeared out of thin air, that they were a part of no village, especially since the crazy one, Mae, had caught Tenten's kunai as easy if Mae were just plucking a flower. It was even harder to believe that they demanded so much and gave little in return. It was too much for his logical brain to handle the fact that these girls were so unremarkable, borderline psychotic.
"Seeing as that seems to be settled…" Mae said, smiling a she turned to Neji "Can I get…?"
"Team Gai" Gai-sensei said "HUDDLE OF YOUTH!!"
"What..?" Shadow began to ask but for all she got for an answer was Gai's trademark thumbs-up, teeth shine and all.
Team Gai was only huddled for a minute before all turning, at the same time mind you, at the three girls.
"We have decided" Gai said "To grant all of your requests."
Mae and Shadow high-fived each other. Crash just stood there and crossed her arms, as if expecting Gai to blow up into a million pieces or something.
"So Neji-kun has to kiss me, Gai-san?" Mae said, her eyes getting what Shadow called 'The Fangirl Sprakle'.
"Umm.." Neji said "Conditionally.."
"Conditionally?" Mae said "You mean I have to sleep you with now instead of the other way around?"
"Shut up about the sex already!" Neji said, exasperated "You three are the most perverted girls I've ever met!"
"Us? Perverts?" Shadow said "Guys' mind are only on one thing…"
"You three, quiet down" Gai said "You should not waste the breathes of your youth on such petty matters! Now, what Neji wants is for you to date him for at least a month so he gets to know you better and then he'll kiss you"
Mae couldn't believe her ears. Neji, the HYUUGA NEJI, date her? For real? Like boyfriend/girlfriend? And to put in fandom terms, NejiMae? It was beyond even her wildest fantasy, her deepest dreams. It literally crushed all the crushes she had had before (Because real guys aren't as amazing as anime guys).
"Oh my flippin' god! Mae!" Shadow said "You get to date your claim!!"
"Wait.. what?" Neji said but was ignored.
"I need to date Kiba now!" Shadow said, running off to find Kiba and force him to be her boyfriend.
Everyone looked at Crash, expecting her to burst up in a sea of boyfriendness, but alas, Crash just shrugged and said:
"Real men wear purple and are half-snake."
They all continued to stare at Crash as she slouched in her chair.
"What?" Crash said "Snakes are sexy especially the bigger ones" Crash grinned as Mae was thrown into fits of laughter. Gai and the others looked the other direction and pretending to have not heard that Crash prefers the bigger snakes to the smaller ones (or perhaps they were disappointed at not having large snakes).
"The bigger snakes are more deadly" Crash said "Why have a smaller snake when it is so easy to acquire a larger snake?"
"Ummm.." Neji looked around trying to change the subject. Neji's eyes eventually fell on Mae, and that's when he noticed her eyes. They were the same red and black pattern as Kakashi's one eye. She had Sharingan. Neji just about fell out of his chair. "You- you're an Uchiha?!"
"Why would you think that?" Mae said "I will eventually be one but I'm not one"
"YOU HAVE THE SHARINGAN!" Neji said, pointing to Mae's eyes.
"Wait..I do?" Mae said "I can has the Sharingan?"
".." Neji said "Yeah you do. You didn't know that? It is a bloodline limit so it can only exist within a clan like the Byakugan or the Ice release. The Sharingan can copy techniques or create genjutsu. It can detect various forms of charka, though not to the same extent as the Byaku-"
"NEJI!" Mae said "I has the Sharingan! Sharingan! Sharingan! Shari-"
"Shut up, Mae" Crash said " You now realize that you are like Sasugay in the slightest way"
Mae's eyes widen "NO! I can't be like Sasugay a bit!" Mae said before going and sulking in a very Sasuke-esque way.
Crash shrugged and resumed plotting someone's demise.
"Hey" Tenten said "Your eyes kind of look like targets! Is that normal for weirdoes like you to have that?"
"They're not weird" Neji said defensively "They're just.."
"FLAMING THEIR FIRES OF YOUTH!" Rock Lee, whom had been quiet through this entire conversation, said.
"Oh my Hokage!" Gai said 'It's the Rinnegan, strongest of the eye bloodline limits! The Rinnegan is characterized by a ripple-like pattern around the pupil, with a grayish-purple iris and sclera. In addition to enabling the user to quickly master various jutsu, the user may also use all forms of chakra nature manipulation, it also allows the user to use all of the six paths techniques. Like the Sharingan and the Byakugan, the Rinnegan also allows the user to see chakra, including an otherwise hidden barrier."
"Sweetness" Crash said "I can pwn you all with one look. It's like a Death Note… but for your eyes"
"What did I miss?" Shadow said, entering the café again with Akamaru in her arms. She sat down next to Mae and began to absentmindingly stroke Akamaru.
"DUDE, I can has Sharingan!" Mae said, the tomoes of her eyes swirling.
"Awesome!" Shadow said "And Crash has Rinnegan!"
"Now" Gai said "Let's get to business… Where are you from? Like what village?"
"Land of Lightning" Crash said "Village hidden in the Clouds"
"Land of the Moon" Shadow said "Village hidden under the Moon"
"Land of the Bears" Mae said "Village hidden in the Stars"
"Then how did you all meet up?" Rock Lee said "DID YOU MEET ON A JOURNEY OF YOUTH?"
"It's probably a journey of fate and destiny" Neji said quietly
"It's probably just a normal journey, guys" Tenten said.
"Umm.." Mae said "Our families were killed in a barn fire. We came to Konoha because we wanted to become ninja so we could get revenge on the arsonists."
"Have you enrolled yet?" Gai asked
"No" Shadow said "I'm afraid we've been too 'busy'. I was giving Kiba a bath"
"Well, then let's get you enrolled then" Gai said "Lee, ENROLLMENT OF YOUTH!!!"
Gai and Lee grabbed Shadow and Akamaru and ran into the sunset that had just randomly appeared.
"Let's go!" Tenten said
"You're too friendly for me" Crash said, brushing past her and following the cloud of dust that Lee and Gai left behind. Tenten followed quietly, leaving only Mae and Neji behind.
"Umm.." Neji said "You wanna go now?"
Neji extended his hand to Mae. Mae blushed but took his hand and together, they casually walked into the sunset.