When we got to the village, the Chunin that were guarding the gate were eyeing Haku suspiciously. And I could almost feel the ANBU's stares on Haku. But it seemed everyone else was not even noticing it. And I couldn't quite ignore it. "Hey, Commoner, what's on your mind?" Ryota asked.
I just shook my head, since there was nothing really on my mind. "Oh, your not about to go back to being mute, are ya?" he asked I laughed and shook my head again. It felt great to laugh.
When we made it to the Hokage's tower we were immediatly let in, despite the fact the guards were also wary of Haku. As we walked in, the Hokage looked slightly surprised about the fourth person that walked in. "Well,I suppose I should ask you about your C-Rank, but I'm really curious about this boy. Is this Haku?" he asked.
"Yes, this is my brother..." I said softly. He looked a little more surprised about the fact I talked. "Well, today is full of surprises, I guess the story about Haku and your mission overlapped. So go ahead, Kakashi, tell me about what happened."
As Kakashi-sensei told the Hokage what happened, I saw a mix of emotions on the man's face. There was confusion and anger more confusion some surprised in there and just a large sigh at the end of it all. We got paid for an A-Rank and I for one was very happy. I had some much needed to shopping to do. Soon, we were all dismissed, except for Haku and I.
"So you want to join the village and stay with your sister?" The Hokage said. Haku nodded, "Yes, Hokage-sama." he said. The Hokage blew some smoke out of his pipe. "Well, there are certain percautions I have to do, and since you are a Shinobi, I will have to consolt the Council about this." he said. "I understand."
The Hokage called for Inoichi and when he got there, I waved. "Ohaiyo, Blond-Bub-san!" I exclaimed. "Hi there, Aki, I see your talking again." I nodded enthusiastically. "I guess this is the famous Haku. It's nice to meet you." he said. "Hi, I'm Haku, its a pleasure to meet you too." Haku said with a smile. Haku looked over at me, "Things should be sorted out soon, you go ahead and do that shopping you had been talking about. I'll meet you outside this building in a little bit, okay?" he said. I nodded and went out side to the downtown. I had no idea where to go to get good girls clothing that would be good for fighting in. I could just go to one of the ninja stores... Then I had an idea.
"Tenten!" I said as soon as I saw her training with the rest of Team Gai. I gave her hug. "Aki-kun! Your talking!" she said with wide eyes. "What?! Did I hear that the youthful Aki is back!" I heard a certain sensei's voice say. "Hi, Gai-sensei! It's nice to see your doing well!" I said with a smile. I found my self with two sets of arms around me giving me a bone crushing hug. "S-Sensi. L-Lee... I kinda-" I couldn't quite talk. 'Where is Ryota when you need him.' I thought. (Ransacking a nearby garden).
"You two are killing Aki-kun!" she exclaimed. They reluctantly let me go. I saw Neji who was meditating by himself. "Hi, Neji... Are you doing well for your self?" I asked. He opened one eye and scoffed. "I'm doing fine. Now go away." he said. I pouted, 'l guess somethings never change.'
I looked over at Tenten. "Ne, Tenten?" I asked shyly. She threw another shuriken at the dummy and hit the things 'heart'. "Yeah, Aki-kun?" She said. "Um, I was wondering if I could take you away from your training for some... help..." I said shyly. "What do you need help with?" she asked. "Will you help me find clothes? I'm not the best when it comes to picking out clothes..." I whispered in her ear.
"FINDING CLOTHES, YOU SAY!? I CAN HELP WITH THAT! I KNOW WHERE TO GET THE BEST JUMPSUITS AT!" Lee said loudly. My eyes widened, "Oh, no no no... Weren't you wanting to, um, get back at Neji for calling you unyouthful?" I asked nervously. I glanced over at Neji who was glaring at me harshly. I jumped and hid behind Tenten, "Gomen. Gomen. Gomen. Gomen..." I muttered under my breat. As Lee and Gai-sensei went and focused on Neji, Tenten and I ditched them.
"So why do you suddenly need my help?" Tenten asked. "Well... Its kind of a long story... But I'm a female... And I was wanting to make it a little more noticable that I'm a girl. And you were one of the only girls I know that could help..." I said. Tenten looked stunned, but gave me a smile, "Well, your voice is a little girly... But, heck, it will be cool to have a girl as friend! Let's do some shopping."
What I learned about Tenten was, that she could be a girly girl if she wanted to. And really, it was fun hanging out. But we weren't finding anything modest, appealing, and some what girly. That's when we ran into Sakura and Ino who were argueing.
"Sasuke-kun is mine!"
"Oh really, then I guess that makes Aki-kun, mine!"
"No way, Ino-Pig, they both are mine and they both want me!"
"In your dreams, Forehead!"
I walked over to them with a Tenten who felt a little awkward. Ino and Sakura noticed me.
"Aki-kun! It's been forever since I've seen your adorable face! I heard you went on a C-Rank! Was it fun! Was it?!
"Aki-kun, do you want to go on a date? Ino-Pig said you took her on a date, I thought you could take me on one two!"
I cleared my throat, "Um, excuse me?" I said with my naturally small voice. They didn't seem to hear me. "Um, Ino-san? Sakura-san?" I said. They still couldn't seem to hear me.
"LISTEN UP!" Tenten yelled angrily. The two girls stopped bickering and noticed the girl next to me. "Well, who are you?" Ino asked. "You better not be on a date with Aki-kun!"
"Um, excuse me?" I asked the two girl's heads whipped towards me. "KYAAAAAAA! AKI-KUN JUST TALKED WITH THE CUTEST VOICE EVER!" The two screamed. "Ino-san... Sakura-san..." I said. The two looked at me. "Since I saw you two today, I wanted to tell you two something... I'm a girl..." I said, bracing myself for a loud reaction.
"Your a girl?" Ino said. I nodded. "Seriously?" Sakura asked. I nodded again, "So instead of dating, can we all be friends perhaps?" I said. The two girls were speechless. I didn't think everyone would take as well as Tenten did.
"Tenten, over here, is helping me shop for some female clothes... Perhaps, you two can help. Since you two are both very good dressers, maybe? I understand if you two are busy!" Ino and Sakura looked at eachother.
"I'm not doing anything. And I'll happily hang out with you even if Forehead is there to ruin it."
"Watch it Ino-Pig. You'd be the ruining the fun." They began to glare at each other, and I could see the electric current that their rival glares were making. I quickly got in between them along with Tenten, "Let's go!"
We went to many stores and they had found a cute outfit for me in about 30 minutes. There was a cute shirt that was a dark blue wrap around that had a lighter blue under it. I had a matching blue skirt that I put the two pins on. The same pins that were on my ruined hat. I got a dark brown mesh armor tank top, shorts, to put under the outfit and mesh armor knee protectors. I had my normal Shinobi sandals on, and my forehead protector wrapped around my forehead. I looked cute, and actually like a girl. The girls were very proud of their handy work and I think bonded during the short time of shopping. We all ate dango afterwards and then left them to meet Haku, who smiled as soon as he saw me.
"Akiko-imouto, you look cute." he said with a smile. "Thank you, Onii-san! Are you hungry? We can go and get you something to eat." I said. He nodded.
"I know a place that has some of the best Unadon ever! They have great quality eel!" I exclaimed. Haku chuckled, "I'm surprised you didn't recommend somewhere that had dango or anmitsu since you do like sweets." he said. I gave a grin, "I had some dango earlier with some friends... It was delicious! So, Onii-san, do you want that Unadon?" I asked. "Yes, that sounds good."
We made our way to the restaraunt talking about everything, on the way, while we were eating, and even on the way back to my small 2 bedroom apartment.
And really, I was just happy. I was with my older brother and we were having fun. And really, I felt like that was how siblings should be.
I didn't end up seeing Ryota until late that night who came to the apartment with mud all over him, begging me to wash him and brush him. I sighed and did what the "Great Rabbit God-sama" told me. Since he wouldn't let me sleep until I did so. Not to copy Shikamaru, but what a drag...
I hope this filler chapter was to your liking, next chapter is the start of... CHUNIN EXAMS! I'm so pumped, I'm pumped, I'm so freaking pumped! And as you could see, I totally suck at describing clothes, but Tensai and I have a DeviantArt account that you can check out to see our drawings. Theres a link to our DeviantArt Account on our profile, or you could look up BakaAndTensaiArt, and that's us!
Now it seems, mostly people are for either AkiNaru or AkiSasu, but I had on for AkiGaara. Which to tell you the truth, earlier in the story when I was trying not to think about pairings, that's the pairing I thought of. But, I don't know... *Sigh* I'm so hopeless sometimes.
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