I give you chapter 20! Trumpet fanfare! I now officially own Naruto. In my dreams. Where are the epic battles are in chibi. Kishi-kun owns it in this world but I will own it in another life.
"No! They're supposed to be candy coloured." Ino was getting seriously peeved at Miyuki. She drew multiple sketches of each costume to suit the girls but the stupid pig just wouldn't accept them.
"What do you want me to do?" Miyuki didn't have the energy to fight back. Nearly every waking hour she was with someone; fencing with Suigetsu, costume designing or working on the choreography with Ino and the rest of them, Kiba finding every free chance she had to drag her somewhere to 'have fun because you're so stressed'. Sure it was fun but nowhere near stress relieving. Whenever she did something remotely entertaining, her mind would drown her with everything she should be doing. Stupid self conscience. Miyuki never had this much pressure and stress. Usually she was quite mellow. On top of all that, her partial insomnia returned and along with a cold.
"Hinata will be dressing in lavender and a pale yellow. Sakura will be pink and green. Karin would suit red and white. The red has to be soft not vivid. I will be dressed in pale baby blue and a soft cyan. You will have violet and black. Did you get all that?" Miyuki didn't respond. "MIYUKI?"
Her head shot up, "Sixte, step back, septime, step forward, lunge!" she recited at super speed. Miyuki yawned and saw Sakura laughing at her mix up. "Sorry, Ino, but could you please write it down so I can look at it later or even better why don't we learn the routine first and I make the costumes later?"
Ino really wanted to kill or seriously injure this girl, "No, the costumes now so we know how to dance in them and what not and we can have more time to find the perfect hair and makeup and..."
Ino's voice became endless blabber of excitement to Miyuki, "What if I make them now and something happens that you can't wear it and I have to change the whole thing all over again."
"You're saying I'm going to get fat?"
She yawned, "It is a possibility, along with growing taller getting skinny or just hating the costume. Things *yawn* change." Unfortunately, Ino didn't register what she said after her assumption of her gaining weight. Miyuki looked up and saw the blonde far from happy. Her emotions change way too fast. She sneezed and sniffled, "Sorry, Ino, but I need to go get some tissues." Up she got and tried to leave Kakashi's supposed art lesson aka let class run amuck while he gets to read his favourite porn series.
"You are not going anywhere until I am satisfied!"
"Then I will cough on you." She opened her mouth to spray her friend in 'icky' flu germs but instead turned around to escape from the class room. Her escape would have been better if the doorway wasn't blocked. "Oww, human being."
"Were you expecting an alien?" Sasuke said while rubbing his chest. She really is here to injure me.
She coughed, "I take back my 'human being' comment. Aaahh, a perverted alien." She didn't have that sarcastic scared tone in her voice. It was more monotone...
"Your lack of enthusiasm worries me. Are you all right?"
The small girl coughed again, "Yeah. It's only a cold. I just need to go get some tissues," she sniffled. "Don't look at me like that. I'm fine."
Sasuke couldn't trust her judgement, "Last time you thought you were fine, you ended up having your appendix removed."
Miyuki smirked and nodded, "Heh, still got the battle scar."
The Uchiha bent down and touched her forehead, "I'm taking you to the nurse's office. You have a fever," he told her and held her wrist in a death grip.
"But we have class." Miyuki tried to pull her wrist out. No hope in that. She had no intention of going to the nurse. They were creepier than hospitals.
"I think our teacher is too occupied to care." Curse Jiriaya's porn novels! Curse you to the bottomest pit of Book Hell where you will suffer endless torment of having each individual page waterlogged, stained, burnt, torn and the most dreaded of them all; dog-eared. For the rest of eternity.
Ino and Sakura watched their friend get dragged way by the school heart throb. Well, more of Ino's friend than Sakura. That girl annoyed her. She found it unfair that she had spent most of her middle school and high school life being so kind to the Uchiha and Miyuki can waltz in after nearly six years of being missing and make Sasuke smile warmly, laugh without being sadistic or sarcastic and care about her whether she wanted him to or not. That's supposed to be me. He's mine. I was there for him when he lost everything and he cares more for Miyuki then he ever did for me!
"Don't they look adorable together?" Ino's voice shattered Sakura's thoughts. She could care less about the biatchy twit. "It's a shame that she won't go out with him," she sighed.
Now that's some news. "Really?"
Ino looked curiously at the pinkette's sudden interest, "Yeah. Finds every reason under the sun to why it is 'inappropraite and 'just wrong' for her to even think of him that way. Yet they give each other cute nicknames like Kitty Kat and Sascake, it makes you think they've been together for ages. Now she's dating Kiba and he's worrying unnecessarily that Kiba would break her heart."
Sakura loathed hearing Sasuke having feelings for someone other than herself. It's me he should be loving. Not that sleep loving, anti social, gaming addicted, pathetic excuse of a girl. It just wasn't fair!
"Hey, Billboard Brow! Stop hating Miyuki in your head and come help me chose a song for our routine." Sakura looked at Ino weirdly before sitting next to her to get this over and done with.
Sasuke and Miyuki arrived to the infirmary to find no one there. This surprised Miyuki but didn't Sasuke change his normally stoic expression. She opened and closed her mouth for a while lost for words and when she found them, the Uchiha already answered her question. "The nurse is a slacker. She's hardly ever here. Come to think of it, I don't even know her name." That defies the point of it being called the 'nurse's office'. He sat her on the bed and went to one of the cabinets and pulled out some cough syrup and antihistamine tablets. "These won't make the flu go away but will reduce the symptoms," he passed the medication to Miyuki, "since you refuse to go home."
"It's a cold." She hardly took any medicine because she hated the bitter taste of pills and the fake flavours of syrups. "What flavour is that one?" she asked, eyeing the bottle with a look of disgust.
Sasuke laughed and sat on a chair near the bed, "Lemon and honey."
"That sounds nice. Gimme." She poured out two times the dose she should be having and skolled it down with two of the tablets.
"I don't think you should take that much."
"You're not a doctor and if I take a little extra, it will last longer without me having to take anymore." She crossed her legs on the white bed contrasting with her black school skirt, playing with a lose thread. "So, how's life?"
That took Sasuke by surprise, "Okay, I guess."
"Lucky you. It's only been a month and I am drowning in things."
"Maybe you should organise your life."
"Sounds mathematically boring."
"Make a timetable for everyday and allocate time for everything instead of cramming a load in one day."
"That's why your life and world is perfect. Every time I see your room I feel a little bit of shame and a voice that sound like Mum in my mind is nagging me about how my world looks like a pigsty. I like my pigsty." Sasuke smirked, "Wipe that silly smirk of you face Mr. Uchiha or I shall severely punish you."
"You sounded like Tsunade."
"Really? Cool!"
"Can you do anyone else?"
"Hmm... Okay, okay I got one." She crawled off the bed and leaned her elbow on his shoulder. "Hn," she said in a voice very similar to Sasuke's (only more feminine) and giggled like a twit. She sat on the arm of his chair.
"That sounds nothing like me."
"That sounds nothing like me."
"Okay, fine." Now it was Sasuke's turn, "Bassy, you're my favourite plush butler ever. I love you to bits. Yesh, I do and I know you lurve me too. Mwah!" His voice reached an unnaturally high pitch which was slightly traumatising on Miyuki's part. He pulled his giggling petite friend onto his lap.
"Oooh! You still wear the necklace I gave you," she said pointing at his chest.
"Of course, I do. Can't take the risk of forgetting important things, can I?" That reminded him of something, "What would you like for your birthday?"
"My birthday?"
"Yeah. You know, the day you were born and determines how many exact years you've-"
"I know what a birthday is but mine's eons away."
"Actually, it's only a few days away."
"Are you serious?" She looked up at the ceiling. "I don't know what I want. Everything you gave me was always the best. You owned my soul the most."
"I still don't get why you put your soul up as a prize."
"Healthy competition," she smiled and placed her glasses on him. Sasuke rolled his eyes at her weird ideologies. "You look good with glasses."
"Can you see without them?"
She laughed, "My vision is better than it was before. It only gets little blurry when the distance is too far. I think it was two and a half or three metres." She straightened her specs on his face and fixed up his hair. "I don't get how your hair sticks out so oddly," she thought out loud as she stoked his spikes.
"I actually don't know." He put Miyuki's glasses on top of his hair."It was always like this, wasn't it?"
"Genetics?" Miyuki yawned and rubbed her eyes. She hadn't felt sleepy like this for a long time and having Sasuke's warm body this close and comforting wasn't making it any better.
Sasuke lifted her off of his lap and put her in bed, "You should get some sleep for a while since you overdosed on drowsy medication. I'll come back after lunch."
"Yes. I miss out on PE."
He smirked and turned to the door, "Sweet dreams, Kitty Kat."
Miyuki rolled over and turned to face the door that he was leaving from, "Aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?"
He looked back at her, questioningly, "You serious? We haven't done that since we were seven."
"Last time, please. Before I go all old and wrinkly."
"And when may that be?" he asked as he bent down and kissed her forehead. She hugged his neck in response.
"I dunno. Probably thirty or something."
Sasuke laughed, "Sometimes I wonder if you've ever grown up." But he didn't get an answer from her because she had already fallen fast asleep. He fixed her blanket and closed the door behind him. Sasuke missed the next period of... Something. He couldn't remember. He went to the roof of the school, where he stayed there whenever he couldn't be bothered to go to class. He stretched and lay himself on the concrete. It was nice having his own place, to think about whatever. Hardly anyone came up... Well that's what he thought.
"Hey, baby bro." A very familiar voice called, "Don't you have class?"
Sasuke didn't answer, just shrugged. Itachi decided not to take anything into account, "So what brings you up here?"
"Nothing. Just boredom. What about you?"
"Reliving my high school days." Itachi sat next to his brother, "Being popular. Girls loved me, teachers adored me and guys wished to be me," he sighed, "those were the days."
Sasuke found it hilarious that Itachi was like that. He was top of the class and he did have fan girls. But now his personality is more calm and logical than his outgoing personality of his carefree school life.
"Who're the glasses for?" His brother asked pointing at Sasuke's head. He put his hand on where Itachi pointed at and felt Miyuki's glasses.
"Oh, these." He pulled them down. "There for Miyuki. She must have left them with me."
"Isn't she blind without them?"
"Apparently, no. Her eyesight is improved."
"I used to call her blind bat when she didn't have her glasses and she would always say, "Bats aren't technically blind but chose to use their stronger sense of hearing than their poor sense of sight to gain advantage over prey and predator." It was like she swallowed a textbook." The two of them talked for hours about absolutely pointless things until Itachi had, what he thought was, a stroke of genius. He turned to his brother, "Wanna ditch school?"
Sasuke raised his eyebrow, "Don't you have class later?"
"Nope. I'm done for the day. I'm bored and it doesn't look like you are doing anything, so come on."
Sasuke nodded in agreement and got up with Itachi to leave. "I need to give these back to Miyuki," he said waving the glasses and went to find his small, sick friend in the infirmary. It didn't take long before he ran into her. Like nearly every other meeting.
"Sasuke, there you are! I need my glasses back." She stuck out her hand to get back what she needed but the Uchiha was too busy thinking about what she would like for her birthday. It's been ages since we last saw each other and it doesn't seem like she changed personality wise but she does look different and... I don't know.
Miyuki noticed that Sasuke was not in the real world and tried to find the best way to get his attention. "Oh, Sas-cake! I'm pregnant!"
That did it. "What?"
"Gimme glasses, please."
"Are you-"
"No."
"But you just-"
"No."
"Am I-"
"Yes."
"What if I said, 'Am I hearing right?'"
"Nope. You're deluded, ma Cherie. Now I have ze French class to go to and require le glasses. Au revoir, me's amin." Sasuke shook his head to get what happened out of his mind and went to meet Itachi out front.
It took forever but he had finally found it. It wasn't anything big, but small enough to fit in his pocket. Sasuke didn't want anyone to know what he got for Miyuki or else Naruto would never shut up for the rest of their lives. He wasn't embarrassed by the gift, it was because it was too special for just anyone to see. He came to school a little early so he could give it to her after fencing practice. But Miyuki didn't come. He met Suigetsu in the classroom and when he asked him, he said that Miyuki skipped it today. Sasuke wanted to look for her but class was about to start. He couldn't focus on logarithms or exponentials. His mind kept on drifting to where she might be. He looked out of the window all through the maths lesson, absorbing no information what so ever. Anyone who attempted to speak to him where put off by the 'Piss off.' look on his face. When the bell rang for their first break, Sasuke walked out of class without a glance back to find Miyuki. He looked everywhere she could be but couldn't find her. He knew she wasn't at home but couldn't comprehend why she didn't come to school. Finally, he checked the last place she could be. The roof of the school building. He climbed up the flight of stairs and was met with a gust of crisp cold autumn air. Sasuke walked around for a bit and found Miyuki sitting with her knees drawn up to her chest, her chin resting on her knees as she stared at the view before her. He sat next to her and put his blazer over her shoulder. What is she doing in this wind in only a short sleeve collar shirt? The two sat in silence for a while, just gazing at the little buildings of Konoha which resembled Lego houses. Sasuke was about to wish her a happy birthday when she spoke.
"I'm a horrible person, aren't I?"
This question took Sasuke by surprise. It was out of the blue. Why would she think that? "No, you're not."
"I'm annoying, bossy, pushy and demanding. Don't deny it because you tell me all the time."
What is she on about? "You are all of those but in a fun way. You're not horrible. Why would you think that?"
Miyuki stayed silent for a while, her face still buried in her knees. She looked up at Sasuke and he noticed the tear streaks that ran down her face, "Because I might have done horrible to Kiba for him to have his tongue down another girl's throat." When she said that, she burst in to tears, sobbing softly to herself. Sasuke pulled her close to him to comfort her. He felt her slender fingers hands clutch tightly at his sweater and she buried her face in his chest. "He was the first guy I actually started to really like. He was so kind to me and I thought that we really connected. He helped me reduce my fear of dogs and was just so nice. And this morning, I accidentally took a wrong turn to fencing practice and opened a door to find the bastard with some biatch in his arms, full frontal snogging, like the world was going to end. It was all a lie. I can't believe I gave my first kiss to him. It's like I've been robbed." She said this as fast as she could between sobs and hiccups. Sasuke pulled her onto his arms until she was sitting in his lap and held onto her closer and tighter in what he hoped was a comforting manner, trying to ignore the last thing she said. He felt her hand let go of his chest, but instead, clasp one of his own hands. "Everyone probably hates me as well. I'm like those annoying scabs that every time you peel off, they return stronger than before. All the girls of this bastard school hate me, who knows what the guys think. It was like this to every school I went to. Each time I'd change my personality to just fit in and it never worked. There were a few wonderful people like Gaara's siblings, Temari and Kankuro. Haku was like me, hated by his gender because he looked girly and all the girl were swooning over him. It was sad to leave him but he's graduated this year."
Sasuke just let her say anything and everything before he spoke, "Miyuki. When did you ever care what people think? You used to do whatever you wanted regardless of what others said. So why take it now?"
Her grip on his hand tightened. "Because..," she sniffled. "Because I always wanted to have a lot of friends. Ever since Father died, Mum never had time for me because she had to get back into the medical field to support us and take over Dad's business so I would always be glued to a book. I wanted to be like the girls in manga. Popular, beautiful, intelligent. As I got older, the wish got smaller and smaller until I started high school. First year was hell. There was a certain level of intelligence that was tolerable. Being smart, reading books and wearing glasses, I was the target for their stupid games. All I could say to myself was when I have an awesome business and they are working for me, prepare to die."
Sasuke lifted up her face and wiped her tears away, "You do not want to be popular. Everyone follows you around. No space what so ever. You're already smart and extremely beautiful. If Kiba couldn't see that, then he's a douche bag. You already have wonderful friends with you, why want more? Miyuki, you're living in a fantasy that would never happen."
Miyuki looked at him for a while, blankly. Then she said, "You're right. Kiba's the loser and I dump him." She grinned broadly and hugged him. "Thank you, Sas-cake. You are truly the bestest friend anyone can ever have and I am so lucky to have you as mine."
Sasuke smiled, "I'll let you off for breaking Rule 4 because it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Kitty Kat." He told Miyuki to turn around and close her eyes as he pulled out his gift to her. He took a silver locket out of its box and put it around Miyuki's neck. "You could open your eyes now."
Miyuki opened her eyes and saw the locket. It was oval shaped and had the Yin Yang symbol on the front side. For the black dot was an black diamond and the white dot was a white one. On the underside was an inscription; 'I'll always be by your side- Sasuke.' Miyuki turned to him, smiling. Her eyes slowly beginning to fill with tears.
"You're Yin. I'm Yang. Opposites that belong together. Open it," Sasuke whispered in her ear as he rested his chin on her shoulder.
She opened the locket and inside was a photo she recognised to be one on her pin board. It was the family portrait of her baby self, Yumi and Hayate. She felt tears form when she saw her father's smiling face, laugh lines near his piercing violet eyes. Her eyes. Miyuki felt Sasuke's arms wrap themselves around her waist. His warmth was comforting. She held onto his forearms and sat there, too quiet for Sasuke's liking.
"Are you alright?"
It seemed like Miyuki came out of a trance when he said this. "Hm? Yes, yes. I like cake."
"I asked if you were alright."
"I'm that too. It's just..."
"You miss him."
"Every day. I know it's been so long and that I shouldn't hold on but I can't. I remember when he got sick and they had all those tubes around him, they reminded me of snakes, taking him away from me. There were days where I was allowed to stay with him and we would watch movies and play games. He used to tell me the best stories about the adventures of a little princess with the most beautiful eyes. I loved being his princess. It went downhill from there. His health deteriorated but regardless he played with me. It was my fourth birthday when he gave me the ring. "A precious princess deserves the best treasure. The king will be going soon but he will always stay with his family," he told me this. I didn't understand, I thought he was going for a little while and will be back. When they had his funeral a few months later, I kept saying "Daddy would be back. He has to come back. He didn't sign his royal leave yet." But no one said anything. I never saw Mum cry so much and I didn't shed a tear. I met you for the first time and I hated you so much. You were telling me all you knew about funerals and how my father died. I ended up slapping you and running back home." Sasuke and Miyuki briefly glanced at each other, remembering the encounter. She continued. "I would sit in his room and play with all his things. He taught me all about anatomy from his books and would read me manga as bedtime stories. I used to read his manga collection even if I didn't understand them. I waited for him to return every day. Whenever the door bell rang, I would run down and answer it, hoping to see him again only to find disappointment. It wasn't until after I turned five that I knew he wasn't coming back and that's when I cried and closed up to the world, immersed in stories and facts. I still wish he was here."
Sasuke gently squeezed her. "You have me now. I will never leave you." He softly kissed her neck and stood her up. "Let's go."
"Where?"
"You want to stay at school for your birthday?" Miyuki took his hand and followed him back inside the school building.
Miyuki went to the bathroom when she ran into Ino. "There you are! We thought you were sick or something. Happy Birthday." She realised that Miyuki wasn't taking any word in. "Hey, what's up?"
"Nothing."
"Have you been crying?"
"No."
"You're lying and I'll ignore that. Anyway Kiba was looking for you."
"Tell him I'm missing or something."
"Why are you avoiding- Oooh! Cute necklace. Where did you get it?"
Thank God for Ino's butterfly like attention span, "I dunno. Look Ino, I have to go now." She walked off.
"Where?" Ino was following her, "Can I come? And when can we give you your Prezzies? Is it with Kiba? Birthday date!"
Miyuki turned to face the blonde, "None of your business. No. Later. What part of I am avoiding him didn't you get?"
"And why are you avoiding me?" Ino's mouth dropped and Miyuki around to find Kiba standing behind her.
Think of something quick! "Because." She tried to go past him but he caught her hand.
"What's wrong?" He had that adorable face on that made her melt.
Don't look in his eyes. Don't look in his eyes. Don't look in his- Damn! I looked in his eyes. "Nothing. It's just... I..." I'm not really good at this. "I have to go." But she couldn't. It was easy for her to yank her hand out but he was holding it in such a gentle and caring way.
"Did I do something wrong?"
"Um..." Some miracle happen and save me! It wasn't exactly a miracle but close.
"Kitty Kat, let's go?" Sasuke came up from behind Ino. "What's going on?"
Miyuki found her excuse to leave. Score! "Nothing, nothing. Come on." She pushed Sasuke along but was stopped by Ino. "Miyuki?"
"Please, don't say my name like that." She turned around reluctantly.
"Is something wrong?"- Ino
"Why are you going out with Sasuke?"- Kiba
"You didn't tell Kiba, did you?"-Sasuke
"Tell me what?"-Kiba
"I'm am really confused. What is going on, Yuki-chan?"-Ino
Miyuki thought she was going to explode. She turned to Sasuke, "Can we just go?"
He looked down at her for a while. "Get the hell away from my girlfriend." Kiba pulled Miyuki back by his side.
"Please leave me alone, Kiba." Her voice was barely audible.
Sasuke let out a cruel laugh, "Girlfriend? Hahaha! That's rich."
Kiba let go of Miyuki and walked up to Sasuke, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"You think she's disposable, that she would be there at every call? You think you can go behind her back and mouth rape another girl and expect Miyuki to still be there for you? Get a grip, Inuzuka. She's not your toy. She has feelings and you can't just break them or I will break you."
Miyuki (completely oblivious to the fact that an Uchiha had just said mouth rape) was smiling at his words. He always said that he cared about me but never showed it. But Kiba wasn't taking Sasuke's bout of affection lightly. He lunged forward and punched the smirker in the jaw.
"Go on, then. Break me." It was like he was calling Sasuke to fight him. Sasuke's too smart for this. He won't do it. Sasuke massaged his jaw and grabbed Kiba's throat and pinned him against the wall. I stand corrected.
"You really don't want me to." Sasuke sneered at his victim and from that point on it got worse. Punch after punch. They both looked like they would kill each other. The growing crowd wasn't helping.
"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"
"Yuki-chan! Do something!" Ino shook her arm vigorously.
"Like what?"
"I dunno. Stop them. They're fighting over you."
"No, they're not. They're beating each other to a pulp to prove who has the larger alpha male ego."
"Stop analysing the situation and fix this up!"
Before Miyuki could step in to do anything, Sakura appeared by Sasuke's side and whispered something in his ear. The pinkette took his hand and took him away. The crowd dispersed, as it was evident the fight, to resume their lunch. Miyuki looked at Sasuke's retreating back not doing anything about her clinging onto his arm like some demented bat. Why would he listen to her? Ino prodded Miyuki, painfully, in the ribs.
"Ouch! What?"
"Dump Kiba and go out with Sasuke before trog face pinkie gets her clammy hands all over your man."
"Okay, Sasuke is not my man and I don't know how to solve the problem with Kiba. I mean... I still like him."
Ino rolled her eyes, "You need serious help. Maybe I should write a book about make ups and break ups. I'd make millions." She grabbed Miyuki's elbow and dragged her away to teach her the lessons of love.
Okay. Don't hate me. I did this for a specific reason. In the anime/manga, Kiba and Sasuke never fought each other but don't worry your little faces. I shall solve all in the next chapter. So like, favouritise, review, comment, alert, poke, tag, whatever. Just do it. For me. Minami-chan.
Ps Who likes Sakura or Karin more? I like Karin because of her and Sui's bickering in Team Taka.