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Chapter 23
Birthday Memories
Written by Traitor of Heaven

It had been about a month since we had arrived in Suna it was the beginning of January and three days away from the 8th of January. I smiled as I woke up before Alicia again we hadn't seen each other that much this past month which only worked more towards my master plan. I got dressed in my regular attire which consisted of a kimono that hung on my shoulders and went down to my upper-thigh in the front and lengthened to my ankles in the back. The dress itself was white and the hem was black there was also a turquoise sash around my waist as well. The top of the kimono that hung on my shoulders was ruffled and there were gold ribbons on the sleeves. My shoes were also white black and turquoise boots, my hair was growing out to be very long and in just 5 months it had grown to my lower back. I smiled as I looked in the mirror and realized I looked very pretty. I quickly left for work and after 8 hours of selling plants to people I headed back to Temari's place. When I got back it was 6 PM and Temari was making dinner silently. I walked up to her and the asked her if all our preparations for the upcoming day were ready. When she said yes I quickly rushed over to the Kazekage's office to go find Gaara, he was quietly filling out paper work.

Man, his job must suck."Gaara?" I asked while walking over to him I bent down and gave him a brief hug, which he tensed to. I still remembered the first time I did it his sand through me into the back wall. But after several days he began to get used to it and decided to take the abuse (according to him) like a man. He grunted and I realized he must be really bored right now.

Perfect.

I knew the moment I mentioned Alli he would become instantly immersed in what I was saying. So I sat down in the chair next to his own, a chair that hadn't been there before I came to Suna but I got it for when I visited Gaara.

"So as you know, a very special day is coming up and I need you to distract Alli I don't care how you do it, just keep her out of the house, kay." I said as I leaned on his desk casually, I had already known the answer, because even if he said no or that he was busy I'd have forced him anyways. It's amazing how a boy can bend to a girls will when the right tactics are used.

"Very well, I will return her at 5 PM."

I smiled a little smugly and whispered in a low voice on what the plan was.

Three days later and my plan was a go, it was 4:30 PM and I had everything perfect. There was a red cake with sea foam green icing and designs on it and in dark blue it said 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICIA-CAKES!" We all had a good laugh at my particular choice of words. I was now wearing a custom made dress for the occasion. It had a V-neck glittery pick beaded top that ended at the bottom of my chest, the straps were thin and pick as well. The rest of the dress went from the purest of white to a medium hot pink. The dress was beautiful and it was made out of silk, it also went to my mid-thigh. I wore shining silver heels with silver beads on them. Mine was beautiful but the one I picked out for Alicia was gorgeous. It was a fuchsia halter dress that went down to her ankles but it had a long slit up to side. The halter part also had extravagant gold beads around the bottom of chest part with dark red rubies in the center of the gold beads. The dress also came with gold high heel shoes that had red rubies traveling up the top.

It was exactly 5 PM when Gaara and Alicia walked through the door and were greeted by a loud "SURPRISE!" This shocked them to say the least. Alicia hadn't even known the date so she was the most surprised by the exclamation. I ran up to her and gave her all the gifts we got her.

I had gotten her a gold bangle and a new pajama outfit. The bottoms were dark red with two gold stripes on the bottoms and the top was sea foam green with the same to dark gold stripes on the bottom of it. It the middle of the shirt it said 'Gaara' on it, but this time I was sneaky, I wrote it in English something they can't read.

I'm such a genius.Heh, I even wrote my own in English I was surprised she hadn't thought of that. Anyways I also got her some black hair dye, who knew they had that stuff here, but I had noticed a few weeks ago that her hair like mine was growing at a really fast rate and so now at least 10 inches of her hair was brown and the other hair was black.

After opening all her presents we ate the cake that she loved. Then we began to get ready for the second part of her birthday, Alli had no idea what was going on and she kept trying to get me to tell her.

"What is it, where are we going?"

"You'll see this is important it's your 16th birthday!" I said while laughing and getting all ready, after we got ready. I lead her and the others out the door and we traveled to the outer limits of the village. I licked my lips in anticipation and then we arrived at the place. It was a large villa that was covered in flowers and plants that I had been working on for awhile. It was up hill so it was the perfect place for the next part of the plan.

We all went our separate ways and mingled with the two hundred random people I invited just to fill the space and at exactly 8:30 PM we had all gathered to the top of the hill were I had large non-sandy rocks placed for the purpose of the this part. I sat a little ways behind her and Gaara who were sitting with each other the entire night.

I smiled as I realized he was going to give her the present I picked out for him to give her. It was kept in a large square box and went he gave it to her she looked at him questionably. And like in those corny movies the moment she opened it the fireworks went off. The lights of red and blue illuminated of her super shocked face, as she gazed at the deep blue diamond necklace that was in the box. I took out a checklist and checked off the note that said 'Gaara gives necklace.'

The I looked back up and seen him helping her put it on, so cute by the way, and I checked off the box labeled 'Moment.' Then I noticed them staring at each other intently and I began to chant in my head.

Kiss

Kiss

Kiss!

KISS

KISS!

KISS GODDAMMIT!

"Hey whatcha doing?" Kankuro said as he popped up next to Gaara and Alicia. I jumped up out of rage and glared at him full throttle.

"YOU BITCH!" I screeched inhumanly.

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Closing Statements

ALICIA: That jerk, he ruined my moment

CAITLYNN: *Off in a corner?* noo...

ALICIA: Caity it's okay.

CAITLYNN: ALL MY PLANNING! RUINED!

ALICIA: Ahem. It was MY Moment HE ruined!

CAITLYNN: IT TOOK A WHOLE MONTH TO SET UP!

Well, Kankuro's gonna get it.