Well... I would like everyone to know that after I am done writing this, I am finished...
...with marching band.
You all thought I was going to give up on you , weren't you? I would never do that! But this is my Halloween chapter, so prepare to be laughing so hard you'll have to review!
Dislcaimer: My excuses are too lame to cover up that I don't own Naruto, otherwise the people who are supposed to be dead would still be dead.(cough cough Madara cough cough)
Chapter 21 Of Spooky Costumes and Unfortunate things.
All was calm and sunny in Kohona on a Friday morning before Halloween....
"Sasuke! Stop mopping and get off the roof!" Ravy stood with her hands on her hips and her glare directed up at the stoic boy sitting on the roof of his house to avoid her.
"Hn." Sasuke rolled away from the edge of the rooftop and crossed his arms under his head. He had found five of Ravy's video copies and had spent part of his morning burning them, but the girl wouldn't leave him alone. It was three months into his parole and somehow he had managed to stay sane.
"Sasuke Uchiha get down here now I will go up there and drag you down." Ravy threatened angrily.
"Doubt you could get up here without falling once." the boy shouted back. Sasuke had difficulty landing his jump here as well. It might have been he was rushed by running away from the crazed girl, but he doubted that. He had jumped from a box, to the balcony of someone else's home, then to his balcony and up.
"You wanna bet, you stuck up ass?" the girl shouted up.
"What's the wager?" he leaned over the edge.
"Loser has to wear a collar and do what the winner says until Monday." the girl grinned wickedly. Sasuke weighed the terms. If he won, he could get her to leave him the hell alone. If he lost, it wouldn't be too different from what it was now.
"Deal." he told the girl and she shuffled her feet in the dust for a second before jumping up the bottom of the neighbors balcony, the sleeves of her anbu jacket daggling to her upper arms. She swung her feet back and forth a bit before letting go in a launch towards the Uchiha house balcony, and the swung over, and jumped up to the roof top with ease. Ravy laughed as she landed and Sasuke sighed.
This was going to be a very long Halloween...
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"Where are we going?" Sasuke asked with a bored, and irritated (can't forget irritated) tone.
"Into town. I have stuff to get." the girl fastened the collar around his neck and stepped back to examine her work. Then hooked a leash to the buckle on the collar and started to drag the boy through town, grinning the whole way.
"Hello Ravy, wait... is that a collar?" Sakura and Ino stopped midway down the street to stare at the two.
"Yeah...What about it." the girl asked them as if nothing was wrong.
"Nothing. Just, it's a collar. On an Uchiha." Ino told her. "So are you going to be at the Halloween party at Tsukiko's?" the blonde asked the girl.
"Hell yeah! I helped plan it!" the girl smiled. "I guess I'll be seeing you guys there! See you then!" Ravy proceeded down the street before a large cloud appeared before them and the local perverts stood before them.
"Oh hello Ravy, Sasuke." Kakashi greeted from behind him orange novel.
"Is that a collar?" Jiraya asked the girl. When she just stared at him, he nodded. "Well, if thats how you swing..."
"Ew!" Ravy shouted and gaped at the man in pure horror. Kakashi laughed and closed his book.
"You, know, I'd watch out for the crazy fan girls in Kohona. Most of them still hold feelings for Sasuke." he warned her. Almost as if not so cleverly planned by an author, glinting eyes peered out from the shadows on the alleys around the group.
"Sasuke...." there was accumulated hiss.
"Oh dear god no." Sasuke mumbled in mild horror and hid behind Ravy as she watched the two experienced shinobi walk off.
"Huh. Cowards." The girl mumbled and was greeted by the crowd of thousands of fangirls that had been lurking in the shadows. "Hello ladies, how may I help you?" the kunoichi noticed the looked that all the girls were sending to the Uchiha behind her and the fact that some of them were even forming from the mouth.
"You have... Sasuke.... on a leash...." one of them hiss/giggled.
"Uh, yeah, he lost a bet, earlier this morning." the girl replied.
"Give... him... HERE!" the fangirls lunged and Ravy shrieked. Pulling Sasuke's leash roughly they ran quickly to the closest sanctuary: a costume store.
"Why didn't you tell me that you have a mob of crazy bitches!" Ravy shouted at the Uchiha.
"It slipped my mind. Thought they wouldn't care about a social reject and traitor like me!" he told her. A cough interrupted the two of them.
A woman who was dressed up in multiple layers of skirts and a loose fitting tops with a corset. Stood next to them in the store. Her dark hair was curly and held back by a scarf that matched her skirts, her skin was a dark olive and two of them could see the multiple earrings in each ear.
"Move." the woman pushed them aside and opened the door. "You crazy ladies. Leave! If He liked you, he would have said so!" when they seemingly refused to move the woman growled. "I will bring out the chainsaw!" the girls scrambled off until the only thing left was the dust from their shoes. Ravy laughed and stepped over to her.
"Thank you so very much Ma'am." she told the shopkeeper with a smile.
"Those crazy fangirls are a bad thing for business." the woman told her and walked over to her cashier counter. "Well, are you two going to buy something?" That's when it his Ravy what type of store they were in.
"Oh my god! It's the costume store!" the girl cheered and dragged Sasuke by his collar. "I was looking for this place! We have to get costumes for tomorrow!"
"Help me." the boy mouthed the words to the store keeper who just smiled.
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"No Makashi, over a little bit to the left, higher, a little to the right, down ...."
"Damn it woman! I just went in a circle!" the thief dropped the banner that he was hanging for the priestess. She just smiled up at him.
"It was a square. Just hang the damn thing so it doesn't fall!" she told her worker. Makashi mumbled under his breath and tied the banner securely. Tsukiko smiled and walked off, expecting him to follow. The former thief lord had learned quickly. He needed to do things her way, or he was sleeping on the steps.
"So, tomorrow we'll go into town to get the food that I ordered, and we'll return with Ravy and Sasuke and then we'll get started on the atmosphere." she illustrated with hand motions happily. Tsukiko had been waiting for this Halloween party ever since the start of the month. She walked into the large opened cavern type area that served as the kitchen of the temple. The occupants of the temple cooked everything over an open fire and washed the dishes in a large basin like sink by the only window. They were large counter spaces to prepare dishes on as well, with drawers just in the middle island counter.
Tsukiko walked over to the drawers and pulled them open, taking inventory over what they needed to get to properly serve food, that and the two of them had gotten into a kitchen fight and had broken six wooden spoons and had lodged four knives in the stone wall. "Pizza cutter... pizza cutter...." she looked around the knife drawer carefully and when she didn't find it, she wrote it down on the list. Moving to the other drawer that held large spoons and spatulas, she opened it to looked a bit to find the pizza cutter sitting under the spoons. She gritted her teeth and pulled the object from the drawer.
"Makashi! What have I told you about putting knives in the utility drawer?" she shouted over to the man, slamming it onto the counter. He looked at her boredly until he noticed what it was.
"That's a pizza cutter! That's not a knife!" he argued putting down the bowl he was washing.
"It can still cut people!" the priestess snapped.
"Knives cut people's fingers off. A pizza cutter can't cut someone's fingers off!" He snatched it from the counter.
"Do you want to test that theory?" Tsukiko grabbed it from him and put it in the knife drawer.
"That's ridiculous, running your fingers over it won't cut you." the theif snatched it out of the drawer and placed where it had been originally. After ten minutes of changing where it was, the two gave up and left it on the counter and avoided each other again. When night had passed and it was the next day the two of them still hadn't spoken but they both knew that there was a silent agreement between them. It went something along the lines, of Makashi: I'm not going to argue with you because it causes too many problems. Tsukiko: I refuse to argue because we all know what happened last time.
Or Maybe it was a bet. Winner dresses loser up for Halloween.
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"Damn crazy bitch let go of me!" A male voice shouted from the center of town, close to the ramen shop.
"No, Konohamaru! You owe leader 50 ryo!" Moegi dragged the boy to the ramen stand where both Ino and Kiba were also coughing up the money that they lost.
"Leader, we got him!" the girl happily dragged her teammate to the blonde who just smirked.
"Being stubborn is he? Fine he'll pay up and I won't teach him that move that I promised to teach him." the blonde told Konohamaru and continued to eat his hot ramen soup.
"No! Here! I'll pay! I'll pay!" the boy dropped the money into the blonde's hand.
"Good." the blonde wrote it down and shoved the ryo into a small bag that had gotten to be quite heavy.
"Naruto!" Tsukiko walked into the ramen stand with Makashi behind her carrying numerous bags of groceries and necessities.
"Yes?" the blonde turned to face them.
"Where do you put your pizza cutter? The knife drawer or the utility drawer?" the priestess asked innocently.
"Knife drawer. It cuts things." the boy made a motion of cutting invisible food with a pizza cutter.
"Ha! Told you!" the girl smirked and pointed at the boy who sighed and ducked his head. "Thank you. See you tonight at the party!" the girl left with a grin plastered on her face.
"That was strange." Udon spoke up, which in most cases was unusual.
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The night that beheld Tsukiko's Halloween party was a wonder in itself. It seemed that moon had gotten in on the spectacle and turned a shade of crimson to be jealous of. The temple was alive with party goers and music. At the door stood the priestess in a dark green tunic with a long brown skirt. Her feet were bare and her skin was dusted with dirt and leaves, as if she had frolicked in the woods. Green fake wings were her last accessory.
Next to her stood her forever present worker, but he was dressed in a ridiculous outfit of a woman. Needless to say, the priestess had lived up to her word.
"I can't believe you dressed me up like this." The thief muttered under his breath, the lipstick he had been forced to wear making speech harder than usual.
"Well, next time you'll know better than to put that damn pizza cutter into the utility drawer. " Tsukiko replied with a smile. She greeted team 9 that consisted of a chef, Shikamaru and a blonde haired girl in a blue dress. "Welcome! What, exactly are your costumes?" the priestess looked them over.
"Chef." Chouji replied easily.
"Myself." Shikamaru yawned.
"Alice. From 'Alice in wonderland'." Ino smiled and flipped a blonde strand out of her face.
"Ah, well enjoy the party." They'd enter the room to find Kiba dressed as a werewolf, Kaira as a pirate, Sai also as himself for he was thoroughly confused on the whole Halloween business. But they'd also venture to see Naruto dressed as a ninja; a costume that Sakura had scoffed at and said was redundant (He is a ninja, he doesn't need a costume, she had said)
But the pink haired kunoichi had dressed herself as an Arabian genie is flowery red fabric and sandals.
At the sight of Kaira, Naruto and the girl started to have a duel and figured out that indeed, ninja's are equal with pirates.
"Ha! I knew it!" Kiba threw punch to the air.
Taara was conversing with Gaara in the corner; she was dressed as the angel of death and him as the grim reaper. The Kazekage's siblings were in another portion of the room, Temari as a vampire hunter and Kankuro wearing the mask of the killer from some homicidal movie.
Temari, not finding one person with unoriginality decided that indeed Sai was a vampire and was throwing things at him for the spirit of Halloween.
Talking in the kitchen was team Gai, Neji as a samurai, Tenten in a decorated yukata as a chai tea hostess and Lee bouncing around dressed in fitness shorts and a t-shirt.
"Lee, sit still for once. Try being something you're not for once!" Tenten complained when the boy tried to get a group of people to start doing jumping jacks.
Konohamaru's group stood in one portion of the main hall, the leader dressed in old clothes and dirty from head to toe as a modern day Oliver Twist. Moegi was next to him in the mismatched outfit of Pippy Longstockings. A tin can, oh actually that's a knight in shining armor, was Udon.
"It's pretty hot in this costume." Udon sniffled.
"It's what you get for being unoriginal." Konohamaru scoffed at him.
"Leader…" the boy whined.
The priestess was getting curious of where her partner in crime might be at when two unfamiliar people walked up to the door. The boy was wearing a long purple coat with fur trimming and a matching hat over equally decorated clothes. She was dressed in ripped jeans and a tank top with a coat with loops and chains while her hair was spiked in areas and her makeup was rather overdone.
"Please tell me you did not just dress him up as a pimp." Tsukiko giggled and the boy glared at her.
"Oh yes I did!" Ravy smiled. "Doesn't it look great on him?" she straightened the coat on the unhappy Uchiha. "I, Ravy Sato, dressed him, Sasuke Uchiha, as a pimp." She proudly announced.
"Perfect. Mine's a whore." The priestess smirked ushered her friend inside. She then closed the doors as everyone started to really get into conversations.
"Makashi, start the music!" she announced and the boy-gone-girl walked over to the stereo and started to click buttons. Familiar music played. Old tunes that the lot of them hadn't heard since childhood. Songs like 'Ghostbusters', and 'The Monster Mash', or 'Can't Touch This', a timeless classic. But one song could have the whole room in a happy cheer. Only one person was unsure.
"What the hell is this?" Sasuke stared everyone who happened to know the coordinated dance. Ravy materialized next to him.
"You don't know what 'Thriller' is?" the girl gasped. "That's horrible! I'll teach you!" The girl dragged the boy unhappily to the floor and started to demonstrate the dance for him. "See, at this part you start acting like a dinosaur!" she held her arms bent and started to walk back and forth. The boy started to catch on and almost felt like laughing at himself. Only at death would admit it, but he was having fun. When the song ended a unanimous groan through the room. Everyone was smiling, and it turned out to be fun Halloween.
That was until Jiraiya appeared dressed in completely red and started to contaminate the room. Kakashi was with him and everyone had made a unified vote to avoid them. All except one.
"Kakashi!" Koyuki ran out of the group dressed as Dorothy. The man- turned-scarecrow made a look of complete horror and made a run for it, Jiraiya on his heels. They left Anko who had been too lazy to really dress up and just carried an iron mace and proclaimed herself a torture expert, and that the mace had come from her personal collection.
But after that, the night seemed to be the best.
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" Bahaha! A drag queen!" Kiba laughed as he left the party, the thief snatching the wig from his head. Sasuke stood on the other side of the door with Ravy as they all assisted Tsukiko in bidding the guests farewell. Tsukiko had discarded the wings and stood in the rest of her costume. Ravy's makeup had smeared and was rubbing off. Sasuke had thrown away the hat and coat and stood in a bright purple button up shirt and dress pants. Makashi was in a dress, his makeup surprisingly untouched.
"Next year, I dress you." Makashi growled at the priestess who just smiled and patted him on the back for being a good sport.
Well, I know it's like two weeks in November, but hey, I got it to you guys! Please review? Oh and yes, this chapter can be a shout out to Micheal Jackson. He may have been a pedophile, but he was a legend. Peace out!