Sup noobs, here's the product of your voting and I hope you enjoy the fights that shall come your way! I am just curious as to why you voted for these match-ups, they're very unique and not what I would've picked first myself. But it's not about me, it's about yous! So sit back and watch the magic happen.
(There's also an omake at the end!)
Disclaimer: Fucking Sasuke. If I owned Naruto, he'd be perfectly chill with having the war end. Maybe settle down in ANBU and be loyal to his Hokage, Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto. But no! I don't own Naruto, so that's not going to happen!
Warning: PERVERSENESS! SO MANY PERVERTED MOMENTS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Alice P.O.V.
Shifting on my feet, I waited impatiently for Anko to reach me. The woman was taking her sweet time in getting the billet box, with the numbers that would decide our match-ups (or, as Neji would say, fates), to me.
I just know she's doing this on purpose! I can see her smirking! Bitch…
Anko gave me a wicked grin as she stopped in front of me, both of us ignoring Naruto's excited cries of getting his number to my right. "Here you are, gaki, take your pick."
I was in the middle of the collected group of genin, so my number was pretty uncertain right now. I could only hope that the results of the billets weren't too fucked up compared to the canon. Although, we were all in different positions, there were different people, and fate fucking hated me anyways; I doubted that anything would be similar to canon.
Dunking my hand into the small, black box, I rummaged around in the small pieces of paper that would (actually) determine my fate. I kept my gaze locked with Anko as I pulled one piece of paper out and held it close.
"Have fun," Anko purred before offering the box to Shikamaru who was on my left.
'Well, here goes nothing…' I slowly unfolded the tiny piece of paper and stared at the number before my eyes.
4.
4? Four was good. It was one of the numbers I liked. Even, a square root, the fastest lane in a swimming pool…yep, four was a good number. A safe number-
Except when you were in a tournament that required fighting someone until either you or they pass out, get injured so badly that you can't continue, or die.
Well, at this point, no number was safe, really.
"Alright!" Ibiki suddenly boomed from his ramrod-straight position in front of us, standing next to Sarutobi and Hayate. "When I call out a number and it's yours, step forward and announce so! Any tardiness or goofing around will not be tolerated. You hear me?!"
Seeing that no one was objecting, Ibiki continued on. "Okay then; number one!"
"That's me, dattebayo!" Naruto shouted from beside me, stepping forward with a grin as he thumbed at himself. "Number one, Uzumaki Naruto!"
"Shut up, gaki, and stand down! Number two!"
Down the line and to my left, Neji stepped forward, cool and calm as usual. "I am number two. Hyūga Neji."
"Number three!"
This time, Kankurō stepped up. "That'll be me; Sabaku no Kankurō."
'Fuck.' Was all I thought as Ibiki called out number four and I stepped forward in answer. "I am number four, Clostar Alice," I said before stepping back. 'Huh, I so didn't mean for that reference there, but it worked, so I'll keep it in mind until I can get alone and laugh about it without anyone looking at me oddly. Such is the life of someone who has a whole world of book and movie knowledge in their head and no one to share it with…'
"Number five?"
No one stepped forward.
Ibiki glared at everyone, waiting for someone to step forward. "Well? Who is number five? C'mon, I don't have all day. Would the idiot who has number five hurry up and step forward?"
"Ah," hummed Kakashi, who had stood behind me for the duration of the choosing of billets, only having moved to pick one up for Sakura. "That'll be Sasuke's. He isn't here, so he wasn't able to choose his billet."
Ibiki grunted in answer, "Uchiha is number five then. Next up, number six!"
"Sabaku no Gaara," came the quiet, rasping reply, Gaara barely treading forward from his position to my far right.
"Number seven!"
There was a pause before Kakashi made a sudden noise of mock surprise from behind me. "Oh, that's the number I have in my hands, how about that? Number seven is Haruno Sakura."
"Answer quicker next time, Hatake, we don't need dawdling here. Number eight!"
"Troublesome…" Shikamaru drawled from my left before stepping forward. "Nara Shikamaru."
"Number nine!"
"That's me." Temari stepped up from where she stood beside Kankurō. "Sabaku no Temari."
"Finally, number ten!"
"Aburame Shino," was the short and calm reply as Shino barely leaned forward before dropping back into line.
"Alright, gakis!" Boomed out Ibiki. "The next part of the Chunin Exams will occur one month from now! The time period is meant for you guys to use wisely – training to get your weak bodies stronger, preparing and such. So when the month is up, you will report to the stadium in the centre of the village to verse your match-up. The match-ups are as followed; match one: Uzumaki Naruto verses Hyūga Neji!
Match two: Sabaku no Kankurō verses Clostar Alice!
Match three: Uchiha Sasuke verses Sabaku no Gaara!
Match four: Haruno Sakura verses Nara Shikamaru!
And match five is: Sabaku no Temari verses Aburame Shino!"
There was a tense moment of silence as everyone looked at their opponents with a sense of challenge in their gaze and stance. I managed to catch Kankurō's gaze over Naruto's head, and we both nodded to each other in acknowledgement of our upcoming battle and each other's strengths.
Kankurō was a worthy opponent with his analytical skills and sound planning – if only he didn't forfeit when we got to the battles.
Well, if he didn't want to fight, I would have to convince him to.
3rd Person P.O.V.
It was with the adrenaline rush of escaping the hospital (and it's horrible staff – do you know how scary a nurse in Konoha hospital is? They will restrain you if you try and get out of bed before your rest period is up. With ropes and chains if needed – chakra restraints if you're one, Hatake Kakashi.) that Sasuke entered the Uchiha compound and headed for home. He needed to grab some stuff before heading out to find Kakashi, who said that he was going to train the young Uchiha for the upcoming exams.
Idly wondering if Alice was home, or out with her other sensei, Sasuke approached his front door and opened it quietly. He kicked off his sandals and began to walk through the house, heading for his bedroom. If Alice was home, she would've yelled out or jumped him by now; her sensing ability meant she knew that he was coming home when he was entering the compound gates.
So Sasuke was very surprised when he walked past the kitchen and heard sounds echoing from behind the half-closed tatami doors.
Body at the ready, in case the person who had invaded his house attacked, Sasuke slid open the door as quietly as he could, the door barely whispering as it slid open the whole way.
The first thing that hit him was the smell; dust and stale air. Well, he had been away for over a week, and judging by the hints of dust that had covered the floor during his walk down the corridor, it hadn't been cleaned since he and Alice had left for the exams. Which was odd, since Alice, for all her hatred of cleaning, couldn't abide dust. She hated it with a passion she normally reserved for eggplants and Brussel sprouts.
The second thing that caught Sasuke's attention was the fine layer of papers that covered everything in the kitchen. Some were crumpled balls, others were simply overflowing onto the floor from the stacks of blank paper that stood on the kitchen counter and dining room table. Some of the papers had only a few words scribed here or there and then mercilessly dashed out by angry brush strokes. There were pages upon pages of kanji and katakana that had been written across the pieces of paper, repeating themselves over and over, like someone was trying to memorise them.
The main collection of paper was on the dining table, the paper mostly crumpled there, along with a massive stack of paper that swayed and tottered every few seconds, due to the puffs of breath that Alice was breathing out with every one of her mumbled words.
The brunette could barely be seen behind the mild mat that was her hair and the stacks of paper in front of her. The girl was writing down feverously on a piece of paper, from what Sasuke could glimpse as he carefully walked over the paper towards her. The paper she was writing on was already filled with words, well, Sasuke assumed they were words, as they were in a script that he had never seen before. Alice continuously glanced up at several books that were open in front of her, eyes following a few passages, before they darted back down to the paper and she began writing again.
Suddenly, Alice flicked the ink-stained brush she was using up with a loud exclamation, and held the piece of paper up in front of her so she could study the swirling mass of words and sketches. "I think I've got it!"
"Got what?" Sasuke drawled coolly, crossing his arms across his chest as he leant back against the kitchen wall beside Alice, carelessly standing on the papers Alice had worked so hard on.
"AHHHH!" Alice let off a piercing scream and dropped her paper and brush (which splattered ink all over her, not like there wasn't already a whole bunch covering her), twisting in her seat to see who had snuck up on her, and failing by falling out of her chair.
Sasuke held in a snicker and schooled his expression so he could properly reprimand the girl who had messed up his kitchen. "What are you doing, Alice? You've messed up my kitchen."
"I'm sorry," the girl panted out as she struggled to get out of the tangle of her own limbs and stand up. "I've just gotten a bit into this…task I've set myself. I must've lost track of time some." Alice flopped back down on her chair and rubbed her eyes tiredly, "I should probably go to bed, I've been working on this without any breaks and my vision's beginning to swim."
Taking in the mass of paper, Sasuke could definitely say that this wasn't a mess of only a few hours, and Alice's footprints wouldn't have been covered by dust if she had only been working in the kitchen for a few hours. Also, it was ten in the morning, hardly the time to go to bed.
"Alice?"
At the call of her name, Alice glanced up at Sasuke as she picked up her brush and placed it into the inkwell by her elbow. "What is it?" The girl was rather taken aback by the scrutinising look on her housemates face. "What! Do I have ink on my face, or something?"
'Did she have ink on her face?' Sasuke thought with some humour and exasperation as she took in the black blotches that were all over the girls face, her body, and her clothes. But he merely grunted in answer and looked over the girls face some more.
Alice's usually 'tamed' spiky hair that was almost always up in some sort of ponytail was a mess, to say the least. It was bushy, frizzy and falling all over her face in its free form. The messy hair framed a rather pale face; Alice's face had the sort of sunken and pale look that someone got when they didn't go in the sun for a long period of time. The massive black bags under Alice's way too wide eyes confirmed Sasuke's belief that Alice had been simply sitting here, writing, for a lot longer than a few hours (maybe more like a day) and that she had gotten no sleep during that time.
"When was the last time you slept?" Sasuke asked the girl flatly.
"Umm…" Alice scratched her bushy hair thoughtfully as she tried to put the papers on her table in some order. "Last night? The night when the preliminaries finished. You're versing Gaara, by the way."
"I know," Sasuke said shortly. "Alice, it's been four days since the preliminaries. Have you even eaten or moved since you sat down and did…this?"
Alice sat there for a moment, dumbfounded, before exploding into motion. "Crap! Oh double crap!" The girl wailed as she leapt out of her chair and began scrambling for certain papers, all of which had a green tag on top of the page, showcasing their difference and importance. "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck! I'm so far behind schedule now! That's three days lost! Oh, I didn't plan for this! Not at all! I'm going have to move some things up and cut things down…Ero-sennin would have him now…maybe help out there…Gai-san…Tenten?...might help with the frying pan…" The girl continued to mutter to herself as she scrabbled around for her needed papers, slipping on the other papers under her feet, seemingly unaware of Sasuke's presence once more.
The Uchiha closed his eyes momentarily, trying to push down his irritation, before his hand whipped out and cracked Alice solidly on the back of her head as she dashed past in search for another paper.
"Oww…!" Alice managed to hold onto her papers as she placed her hands against the back of her sore head, whirling around to glare at Sasuke. "What the hell was that for!"
"You need to go and eat, sleep and then do whatever the hell it is that you're doing." Sasuke kicked at some of the papers on the ground. "And clean this up while you're at it. What the hell were you doing with all of these papers?"
Alice blinked at him blankly before regaining some of her animation. "Oh! I was practising my katakana and kanji so I can write my seals better. Then I began sketching out ideas for my seals. Then I began writing them up. And then I began making some plans for my match against Kankurō. I guess I might've gotten a bit carried away when I was practising." Alice laughed nervously, eyes darting around to take in the mess of papers and ink splotches that she had accidently created.
"You think?" Sasuke deadpanned. "Anyway, clean this mess up before you go and sleep. I don't want to come home to a mess next time I return."
"Oh yeah," Alice said as she picked up the last of her papers, "you're going for the month with Kakashi-sensei up in the mountains on special one-on-one training, right?"
"So Kakashi told you," Sasuke said as he waded through the puddle of papers to get to one of the cupboards to grab some food to pack since he was going away for a month. "What about you? Why hasn't your sensei seen you missing for four days and grabbed you?"
"I don't have a sensei," Alice replied as she dragged the kitchen bin out from its place in the corner and began stuffing papers into it. "Anko was a proctor in the exams and, as such, she can't teach me since she could 'tell me important info that other people aren't privy to.' Stupid really."
"Well what the hell are you going to do this month?" Asked Sasuke.
"I have my own individual research I need to do," said Alice, "I need to create some seals to counteract Kankurō's puppets, and I want to study up on some more poisons, since he will definitely cover his puppet's weapons in the stuff. I may have a fairly good tolerance now – thanks to Anko's snakes and her shoving highly poisonous stuff down my throat every now and then – but I should also whip up some antidotes; and that will take some time as I'm no master at creating poisons and antidotes yet."
Pausing briefly to spit some (noticeably greasy – ew) hair out of her mouth, Alice continued to lie out her plans for the month. "But I'm also going to beg off some training from other people who don't have students, or have too much free time on their hands."
"Like who?" Sasuke asked as he began stacking perishables on the paper covering the kitchen counter.
"I'll ask Gai-san, since Lee is in the hospital, Tenten isn't in the finals, and I know Neji will be training on his own since he uses his clan's jutsus and taijutsu style – something that Gai-san can't help him with. I'm going to ask Gai-san to help me some more with strengthening my taijutsu, and myself in general – I'll probably ask him to set me up with a training regime. I might also ask Tenten for some help with my kenjutsu skills, with my frying pan, that is. She's a genius with any weapon!"
Sasuke frowned at this. It didn't seem right for Alice to call someone a genius. She often said that he was nowhere near a genius – since genius were 'smart enough to be able to learn jutsus on their own and not copy them,' as Alice said – and for her to call some regular, underclass, clanless kunoichi a genius was just an insult to him.
"I bet I'm better," came tumbling out of Sasuke's mouth before he could stop it, and it made Alice turn to him with an odd look on her face. "Did you just…? Never mind. You weren't there for Tenten's match with Temari; she used so many weapons it made my head spin! And she also used this cool seal…! Maybe I should ask Tenten for some help with seals…nah, I'm going to ask Naruto's sensei for help there. He'll have some books and tips to help me out there…"
"Who's Naruto's sensei?" Sasuke demanded.
"Why?" Alice cocked a brow at him as she shoved more paper into the bin, starting to make a dent now in the mass of discarded white. "Jealous? Besides," she said over Sasuke's words, "I wouldn't tell ya. Its Naruto's business, and not yours to go sniffing around in. So back off, Uchiha."
"Fine," Sasuke reluctantly said, curiosity at who was Naruto's sensei burning. "I'm going now, after I change."
"Cool," Alice said as she pushed a few more papers into the brimming bin, "that hospital outfit really doesn't work for you, ya know? The pale grey-blue doesn't go well with your already pale complexion, it washes you out." The girl didn't wait for an answer as she picked up the bin and headed out to chuck it in the recycling bin – that she had set up – that was outside the house.
Supressing the urge to roll his eyes, Sasuke breezed past Alice, arms full of food. "Before you go outside, you might want to put some pants on."
"What?" Startled, Alice placed the bin down so she could hike up the black trenchcoat – the one she had been wearing for four days straight since putting it on in the preliminaries – that she wore over her chest bandages and mesh vest, to show fluorescent orange underwear. "Huh, when did I lose my pants?" The girl dropped down her trenchcoat and went to pick up the bin again, when a thought suddenly occurred to her and she spun around to catch Sasuke before he could finish walking up the stairs to turn the corner to head to his room. "Oi, Sasuke!"
The Uchiha turned to face her, one eyebrow delicately raised. "What?"
"How the fuck did you know I wasn't wearing any pants?" Alice pointed an accusing finger at Sasuke and her voice was heated, but her expression was amused as she spoke.
Sasuke's face tried its best to flush, but the Uchiha fought it down and replied coolly. "You should really make sure you're wearing pants before you bend over like that." And with that, Sasuke turned around and steadily marched up to his bedroom; trying his best to remove the blush that was spilling across his pale cheeks and the image of Alice's short, black trenchcoat rising up as she bent down, revealing an orange clad behind.
A wicked grin crossed Alice's face as she peered up after the Uchiha, not feeling any embarrassment about showing off her half-clad lower-half to someone – least of all her housemate. "Oh you little pervert…"
First sensei: Maito Gai
Oh, Alice was definitely in the right place. She could hear shouting from here, accompanied by loud cracks and crunches of trees snapping and ground being broken up. Yep, the shouts of 'YOUTH!' just cemented her assurance that this was where Maito Gai trained, even without the instructions of a very doubtful Genma – he didn't understand why a young lass would go looking for Gai for any reason, either than to be subjected to an hour or two of YOUTHFUL SHOUTING!
Peeking around a tree that was situated near the inner ring of the training ground, Alice let out a bit of her chakra in a small pulse, meant to let Gai know that someone was near and was letting him know of them purposely as they needed to associate with him.
Almost instantly, the Green Beast was in front of a startled Alice, teeth gleaming as he stood strongly. "What youthful blossom has wandered into the path of the great Green Beast of Konoha?!" His eyes narrowed as he took in the brunette in front of him, recognising the black trenchcoat and mesh shirt with shorts Alice had begun sporting.
"Clostar Alice, Gai-san." Alice bowed to the taijutsu master to show her respect. "We have met once before, I believe."
"You were at the Chunin Exams, were you not?" Gai boomed out, stroking his chin in a thoughtful manner. "You are one of Kakashi's pupils."
"Partially," Alice agreed, "the other moments I belong to Anko-nee."
"Ah yes! The youthful Anko!"
"Hmm…yeah, youthful…that's not something I'd use to describe her. More like surprising and eccentric."
"Those are just words that all fit under the most youthful word of youthful!"
"An odd point of view, but I'll accept it. Now, Gai-san, I do not wish to be rude, but I am on quite a tight time schedule that I am already well behind in, so would you mind saying yes or no to my request right now. It would be beneficial to us both if we cut our losses quickly; you are training and I do not wish to intrude; I am trying my hardest to cram a lot of knowledge and training in before the finals of the Chunin Exam."
Gai lit up in a blinding grin in answer, one hand coming off his waist to turn into an energetic thumbs up. "It will be my pleasure, Alice-kun, to help you out! What is it that you wish to ask of me?"
After mumbling a rather bemused and pleased 'Alice-kun?' the brunette in question replied. "I wish to ask your help in my physical training. Even if it is just suggesting some activities that I should do to give me a boost, that would be most helpful, Gai-san. I simply need training in speed and evasive skill, as well as stamina. Strength isn't necessary and my flexibility is very strong since I learn Hebi-style under Anko-nee's tutelage."
Taking a moment to process Alice's request, Gai nodded as he thought over the possibilities. "I think I have a good arrangement, Alice-kun, to offer you. My cute pupil, Lee, is in the hospital, and that is where he shall stay for many months more." At this, Gai became solemn, his normally bright personality dimming to a mere spark. "I have no students to teach as of now, since Neji is off training on his own and Tenten is helping him out at most times, and the other times she is busy training herself; she became very youthful in her own kenjutsu training after being defeated by Temari of Suna."
"I'm sorry, Gai-san," Alice said quietly, actually meaning her words. "About Lee, I mean. He is an amazing person, truly inspiring, and I don't say such things lightly. I am sure he will be out training in what he loves soon; maybe not this month, or next month, but soon. His youthfulness will be set ablaze once more and he will bring the springtime of youth to Konoha again. Until then, I believe I will pay him a few visits. It would not hurt either of us. I hope you may ask him for his permission for my entry to his room, I do not wish to intrude."
Gai was quiet once more. His thoughts racing as he tried to pick out any double meanings to her words; but there were none. "Such honest words!" Gai's eyes began to moisten, shining brightly through the layer of tears. "Your words have brought me to tears!" He lunged forwards to pick the girl off the ground in a massive bear hug, sobbing over the laughing girls shoulders. "I will help you, Alice-kun, to ignite your own fires of youth so that you may aspire to be like my beloved pupil, Lee!"
"Really?!" Alice let out a happy squeal before returning the taijutsu master's hug with a large amount of enthusiasm. "Thank you so much, Gai-san! I won't let you, or Lee, down!"
Placing the excited girl down, Gai gave her another thumbs up when he stood back up. "You may call me sensei from now on, Alice-kun!"
"Hai, Gai-sensei!" Chirped Alice happily. "Now, when does the youthful training begin and end?"
"We may start at four in the morning!" Gai nodded sagely. "It is a most youthful hour! And we shall end at…you said you had other obligations, did you not, Alice-kun?"
"Yes, I did, Gai-sensei."
"Well then, we shall end at ten! Six hours of taijutsu shall be enough, won't it?"
Internally blanching at the long hours, Alice outwardly pumped her head up and down in agreement, excited look plastered to her face. "That will be most youthful, Gai-sensei!"
"Ah, Alice-kun, I have a feeling that this training will go very well!"
'I hope so too, Gai sensei…I really do hope.'
First sensei Maito Gai: enlisted!
Second sensei: Tenten
It was the sounds of, not shouting and breaking trees, but of a crisp snapping of wind and a solid thud that indicated something was being thrown at trees or targets. 'Definitely Tenten,' Alice observed before trotting out of the trees to stand behind Tenten.
Curiously, Alice flared her chakra to announce her presence, but Tenten didn't even flinch. 'Not much of a chakra sensor…Well, Gai wouldn't have put much into that aspect of being a shinobi. He's already got Neji on his team, so he wouldn't really need a sensor since he has the Byakugan.'
Knowing from experience that, when you startled a shinobi while they're training, you're likely to get hurt, Alice tugged her frying pan off her back and held it at the ready. She then coughed lightly to get Tenten to turn around.
And turn around Tenten did.
The girl pivoted on her foot at a ridiculous speed and flung the kunai she had in her hands at whoever had interrupted her training by sneaking up on her. It was a reflex, really, and the girl instantly regretted it when she realised it wasn't Neji or her sensei sneaking up on her – not like Gai could be especially quiet at most times.
Alice deflected the first few kunai with flicks and twists of her wrists, dodging whatever ones she didn't bat away. "I'm sorry for startling you, Tenten-san!"
"Ah!" The girl with the buns held her hands up and stammered out her own apology. "Oh geeze! I'm sorry about that. It was a reflex, I swear!"
"It's okay," Alice laughed out as she managed to catch the last kunai and toss it up and down in her left hand. "I probably should've expected that – Kami knows it's happened heaps of times already with Sasuke…"
"You know Sasuke?" Tenten said curiously, before actually taking the time to assess just who she was talking with. "Oh! You're that girl from just before the first part of the exams…!"
"Clostar Alice," Alice supplied helpfully, stepping forwards to shake Tenten's hand after handing back her kunai. "It's a pleasure to meet you. Again."
Tenten laughed at that, sounding slightly nervous and apologetic as she pocketed the kunai and returned the handshake. "What can I do for you, Alice?"
"Well, Tenten-san I don't-"
"Just Tenten. Please."
Alice smiled at the other girl, pleased that she wouldn't have to be polite with honorifics here. "Well, just Tenten, I don't mean to intrude, but I was hoping that you might be able to help me out."
"Oh?" Tenten raised an eyebrow at this. "What can I help you with, Alice?"
"Well," Alice began uncertainly, hefting her frying pan into view, "this here is-"
"A frying pan?" Interrupted Tenten, looking confused. "Why do you have a frying pan?"
"It's my weapon," Alice said, slightly embarrassed. "You see, it's got a coating of chakra-channelling metal on it that allows me to channel me chakra, obviously."
"How did you get chakra metal?" Breathed Tenten, sounding awed and looking upon the frying pan with new light. "I only have a few weapons that completely channel my chakra and they were really expensive!"
"I got this for free, actually," admitted Alice, "the weapons shopman dropped a frying pan into a vat of the liquid metal and it hardened before he could get it out, making it useless as a kitchen appliance. He didn't want it, so I took it off his hands. It's really quite good," Alice rubbed her fingers across the handle of the frying pan, "but, unfortunately, I don't have much experience in wielding it. Or with weapons in general…So, I was hoping that you might be able to instruct me to someone who may be able to help me, or any books or scrolls that could instruct me. I had figured that you would be the best person to ask since you're really experienced with weapons and you seem to know a heck load about them!" Alice looked at Tenten with pleading eyes, "can you help me at all?"
Tenten hummed thoughtfully, reflecting on the pros and cons, as well as her own training schedule and her time spent with Neji. She didn't have much free time…and she wasn't as experienced with blunt force weapons, rather than her usual cutting weapons… "I'll help you out," she said finally. "I have some scrolls that you can look over, and I'm free on Saturdays from one 'til three. You can meet me here then and I'll instruct you."
"Thank you so much!" Alice bowed deeply to the girl. "I won't let you down!"
"We'll see," said Tenten, "but is this only for the exams, or for an extended period of time? I know you got to the finals, so I expect that is the time period you want to work for."
Alice considered it for a moment before nodding. "That would be fine, Tenten. I don't wish to intrude on you too much."
Tenten easily waved her comments off. "If you were wasting my time, I wouldn't have offered to help you!"
"Wise words," Alice agreed easily. The brunette suddenly perked up, "I nearly forgot!" She slung the frying pan back over her shoulder and began rummaging in one of the pouches that hung off her belt. "No…not here. This one?"
Tenten watched curiously as the girl continued to rummage through her pouches, before turning to the pockets of her trenchcoat. It was in the left one that Alice found whatever she was looking for. "Aha!" Alice pulled out a small bundle of papers, all slips that were barely bigger than her hand. "These are for you, for helping me out!"
Rather bemused now, Tenten accepted the slips of paper offered to her. "What's this for-" The girl's eyes widened as she felt the paper. "These are…!"
"Chakra conducting paper," Alice said smugly, arms crossed over her chest. "Those are explosive tags that I've tweaked at. I noticed that you used store-bought ones, and although they are pretty good, I've found some of them can be faulty. My ones also have a larger blast radius, and a lot more fire and a lot less smoke, for purely offensive and defensive purposes, rather than a smoke screen to get away. You can just buy a smoke bomb if you want a smoke screen." The girl would've continued to babble if she wasn't cut off by a massive squeal that echoed out from Tenten's lips.
"Thank you so much! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You don't know how long I've been trying to attempt to make my own explosive tags have a bigger explosion! I stopped using them and went back to store-bought ones since I was having no success! This is amazing!"
"I can teach you how to make them at some point during our sessions," Alice shyly said, "it's in katakana and kanji, rather than my home script, so I can easily teach you."
Tenten let out another squeal before launching herself at the slightly older girl, wrapping her up in a hug. "Thank you again! I promise to train you to the best of my abilities!"
"And I promise to learn to the best of my abilities," Alice laughed back, returning the hug. "It's an agreement!"
Second sensei Tenten: enlisted!
Third sensei: Jiraiya of the Sannin
"Whatever you want, I'm not interested."
Alice blinked at the rather abrupt dismissal from Jiraiya before he could even look at her. She hadn't flared her chakra this time she approached a prospective sensei, instead, she had simply walked up to the man where he was peering with binoculars through a hedge at – by the sounds of it – a bunch of girls frolicking in the nearby waterfall. Alice could also hear loud exclamations and curses further down the river bend and out of sight from where she was standing; assumedly, it was Naruto.
"I beg your pardon," Alice finally said, "I didn't mean for any offence. I'll take my leave."
At hearing a most definitely feminine voice – and not of Naruto's oiroike no jutsu – Jiraiya turned excitedly, mouth already gaping open at the prospect of drooling over a woman.
He didn't know whether or not to be disappointed or excited at seeing Alice standing in front of him.
The girl had a confident aura around her, something that Jiraiya found nice in a woman, but she (unfortunately) wasn't showing off her assists in that confident stance. The girl was fairly tall with long, tanned legs barely hidden under shorts and a toned body from what he could glimpse through the midriff mesh shirt she was sporting, as well as the black trenchcoat she was wearing over that. It was definitely ill-fated that the girl's rather generous chest was bandaged tightly, lessening the swell of them and the view he could get when the girl bowed deeply to him.
"I'm sorry, again, for intruding on you, Jiraiya-sama. But before I leave, may I greet Naruto? I simply wish to encourage him in his training for the finals. I haven't seen him in a week and I'm sure he hasn't had any Ichiraku ramen during the time period, having probably trained 'til he dropped." The brunette laughed, and Jiraiya was surprised by how well she could time her laughter, not making it seem fake.
"Oh?" The Sannin cocked his brow and leant back on the balls of his feet before standing upright, towering over the girl by a head and a bit. "What's a pretty lady like you doing here? And you know that little gaki of mine, how odd."
"Mightily," the girl agreed with a smile. "I am here…well, do you want the truth, or some hemming and hawing? You are a busy man, Jiraiya-sama, so I believe you might want the truth."
"So you know of me?" Jiraiya continued to scrutinise the girl, noting that, although she had the physique and stance of a shinobi, she had no headband.
"Of course. You are Jiraiya of the Sannin. Great Toad Sage and current holder of the Toad summoning contract. Your ex-teammates are Senju Tsunade, world renowned medic, and Orochimaru, S-class missing-nin, from Konoha itself. And," the girl's face got a shadowed and mischievous look, "the man that attacked Naruto-chan and his team during the second part of the Chunin Exams."
Jiraiya's hackles were instantly raised by the way that she spoke of Orochimaru and how much information she was sprouting off so easily; but he played it off, merely picking his binoculars off the ground. "Aren't you informed, pretty lady."
"You have to be to survive as a shinobi," the girl replied shortly, eyes amused. "My name is Clostar Alice, Jiraiya-sama, it's a pleasure to meet you." The girl – Alice – bowed to Jiraiya again.
"The pleasure is all mine," replied Jiraya smoothly, taking Alice's right hand – which wasn't bandaged, like the other hand, something else that Jiraiya carefully noted – and placing a chaste kiss on the back of it.
"How gentlemanly," Alice drawled, not swooning or feeling repulsed by the elder man's actions. "Quite a well versed man, aren't you, Jiraiya-sama?"
Jiraiya simply grinned back in answer. "And you're quite a shrewd girl, aren't you, Alice-chan? Now, are you going to tell me why you're really here? I know that you're not just here to see Naruto, so what's your other motive?"
"Nothing can get through a spy master, I see," sighed Alice before she dropped cross-legged in front of Jiraiya, the Sannin following not too shortly after. "So you know I'm a spy master as well? Nothing seems to get by you."
"I like to read," shrugged Alice, "but we're not here to talk about my habits."
"Unless you want to," Jiraiya said with a suggestive wiggle of his eyebrows.
The first real look of amusement that Jiraiya had seen so far came across Alice's face, lightening up the – now that he looked at her face closely – abnormally tired face. "I'm afraid I will have to turn you down on your offer, Jiraiya-sama, I definitely wouldn't satisfy your needs there. Still a flowered girl, I am. Zero experience. Well," the girl looked pensive, "until Anko-nee decides to finally teach me some tricks…"
Jiraiya had to sniff back globule of blood at the thought of Anko, super sexy and feisty Anko, romping around in bed as she taught the girl before him. "So you're going into seduction? Isn't that a bit of a rough area for a girl as innocent as you?"
At this, Alice broke into an uproar of laughter, shoulders shaking as she snorted and chuckled. After a moment, she calmed down again. "I never said I was innocent, Jiraiya-sama. That would mean I was clueless about the whole topic of sex."
"I thought you said Anko was going to teach you," Jiraiya asked.
"The physical actions," Alice agreed, "but she's given some books for me to read. Specifically," the girl grinned as she fished around in one of her pouches and drew out a scroll, "this work of art." Alice unsealed a collection of books from the scroll, pawing through various tomes – A Thousand and One Poisons and Where To Find Them. Which End of The Kunai Points Where? – until she found a very familiar orange book.
"Icha Icha Paradise?" Jiraiya asked, his mind not on the book, but on the fact that the girl knew fuinjutsu.
"Yep," Alice said, flipping the book idly in her hands, "a very well written piece of work. Not cliché at all in the sex scenes or dialogue. That's something that's rather rare."
Jiraiya grinned at the compliment. "I am a master of the pen!"
"So you are," agreed Alice as she placed the books back on the scroll and sealed them back up.
"You know how to do fuinjutsu," said Jiraiya. It wasn't a question, it was a statement. The girl had at least some knowledge in the art; the evidence was right in front of him!
"Yes," Alice established, "that's why I went looking for you, so that you may help me."
"And how did you know I was here?" Jiraiya asked slightly defensively.
"I am very close with the Hokage, so that might have something to do with it, and since you told him of your whereabouts." Alice held Jiraiya's gaze as she spoke, emerald eyes boring into eyes of a dark shade. "He told me that you were here since I asked him who Naruto's sensei was, and why exactly I could sense such a large and potent chakra signature in Konoha."
"A chakra sensor as well," Jiraiya commented, "you're an odd combination." As Alice nodded in reply, Jiraiya got onto a more obvious topic. "Why are you coming to me for aid in fuinjutsu? I mean, I'm a master in the subject, and there would be no one else better to ask, but you know I'm teaching Naruto, and what help would it be to you? It would be better to go and look over the basics, girly."
"Don't patronise me," snapped out Alice, suddenly rather angry and insulted. "Don't you dare try that crap with me. You've probably dropped a lot of possible students in your time, more so after your pupil, the Yondaime's death; but don't even think of trying to brush me off so rudely. I can't stand people who patronise someone as they brush them off, especially someone they don't know." Alice glowered at the Sannin, eyes sparking. "So if you don't wish to waste any more time on me, let me know now, so I can stop wasting my own time here!"
Jiraiya remained quiet for a moment, solemn at the girl's words and the mention of his greatest pupil's death. Until he was suddenly wracked with laughter. "Ah, kiddo! That's the first time in a while that I've seen a girl with spitfire like you! Rarely do girl's stand up for themselves, rather than their body, around me. It's quite refreshing, to say the least." The shinobi wiped some laughter tears from his eyes and swallowed down the last of his chuckles. "You remind me a lot of Tsunade-hime in this moment. You both have the same determination to get your way and you aren't afraid to stick your neck out to get it."
"You were going so well with that cool and composed façade you had going on there," continued Jiraiya, his posture now completely relaxed. "But you don't have enough experience holding it, do you?"
Alice shrugged in answer, dropping all pretence. "It worked on Orochimaru."
"So you did verse Orochimaru," concluded Jiraiya. "I asked the old man if it was true that Naruto and his other gaki teammates versed Orochimaru, and he replied that they had, and that you had also joined them. But he wasn't exactly sure if you were there, really, he just heard Naruto say it in a passing comment when he reported the story back to him."
"Yeah," Alice said lazily, "I was there at the end of their face off. I had a lovely chat with your old teammate, great bloke, isn't he?"
Jiraiya chuckled again, "not the words I would use to describe him, but alright." The man's expression got more serious again, his gaze boring into Alice's. "So you want to learn fuinjutsu?" At Alice's nod he continued. "Tell me, what are your capabilities so far?"
The brunette sighed before beginning to list off her accomplishments in the subject. "I have now learnt my katakana and a fair amount of kanji needed for the subject; I'm a foreign and this isn't my first language, so don't laugh at me for only just learning how to write. I am skilled with a brush and Anko's had a couple of…sessions in helping me perfect my handwriting – I had to write out ten pages per night about how awesome she is, for a month!"
Jiraiya gestured her to continue, not amazed by the girl's talents as yet – seemed like someone who just picked up a brush and painted some words, calling it fuinjutsu.
"My first attempt in creating a seal ended up with me making a seal that masks almost your entire presence." Alice pulled out a stack of papers from one of her coat pockets, rifling through them until she found one with a circle with a radius on it, meaningless scribble around it– to Jiraiya, at least. "It's in a five metre radius and completely cloaks you by sight, smell and sound," Alice continued. "People can still sense your chakra, unfortunately, so I might have to work on that…"
Taking the seal from Alice, Jiraiya looked over the seal, noting the strange scribbles once more. "What's this writing on it?"
"My home language; English," Alice supplied, already going through other seals in the stack of papers in her hand. "I use it occasionally on seals because there are ditties I can use from that language in writing the clause of the seal, and so people don't know the purpose of the seal."
"Genius," Jiraiya grudgingly said, getting interested in the girl's skills now. "What else you got?"
"I have containment seals," Alice laid out a bunch of seals, this time, in Japanese. "Hokage-oyaji got me a beginner's book on fuinjutsu, so this seal is from that book. Along with my explosive seals." Alice tossed down some seals that looked a lot like regular explosive seals, only, they had some of the English inscribed in various parts of it, replacing certain components.
"These aren't regular explosive seals," accused Jiraiya, picking one of the seals up and looking at the foreign parts closely. "What are the changes for? You've replaced parts of the explosive segments. Why?"
"It's to make the seal more 'explosive' and dangerous," said Alice, "rather than a simple boom and smoke. Now there's barely any smoke and a lot more BOOM!"
Jiraiya laughed quietly at the girl's enthusiasm before standing up with one of the seals clutched in his hands. "I'll have to see it for myself, won't I?" He began to wander over to the river, Alice following closely behind him, only hesitating slightly as when she stepped out onto the water and wobbled.
Applying the seal to one of the numerous rocks out in the middle of the river, Jiraiya began to back up quickly, forcing Alice to drop back onto the shore. "How are these activated?" Jiraiya asked the brunette, eyes scrutinising the barely seen slip of paper. He had to say, without the usual band of red around the outside of the paper, the explosive seal was a lot less noticeable. "And how do you not mix up the seals?"
"The explosive seal you put down is a self-activated one," replied Alice, "but it's keyed only into the chakra of whoever placed it down. In this case; yours. You just need to put your hands in a tora sign and say katsu! And with my seals, I can tell which is which by feeling the chakra I've placed in them. They all flow through the seal differently, depending on the composition of the seal's cortex, and each type requires a different amount of chakra in it."
Nodding at the points that Alice made and informed him about, Jiraiya raised his hands up in a tora sign and yelled out for the seal to explode.
Instantaneously, the chakra in the seal swelled up and exploded out in a burst of force and flames, shattering the rock it was on and several others surrounding it. The flames sizzled and boiled the water as it fanned out, the flames nearly reaching the two people standing on the bank of the wide river.
"Damn," Alice remarked as the flames nearly brushed her face and the heat washed over her, "it never gets old to see shit get blown up."
"You've got that right, kiddo," Jiraiya agreed, taking in the gap in the river that was slowly filling in with water again. "Not a bad seal you've got there."
"ERO-SENNIN! ERO-SENNIN!"
The loud voice had both Alice and Jiraiya turning to their right expectantly, waiting for the blond boy who had yelled out to get close enough to talk to. Normally.
"Ero-sennin!" Squawked Naruto again. "What the hell have you done now? Blowing stuff up!" The blond seemed to be working himself up into a rant until he noticed that there was someone else with his sensei. "Alice-nee?"
"Big sister?" Jiraiya exclaimed, turning to Alice, "I didn't know about that part!"
"I adopted him recently," Alice said breezily before stepping forward a couple of steps to sweep Naruto into a big hug. "Hey there, Naru-chan! Did ya miss me!"
"What are you doing here?" Naruto said in reply. "Have you come to watch me do awesome ninja training?!"
"Nah," Alice placed the excited boy down so that she could grin down at him, "I was harassing your sensei for some help."
"Why would you want help from someone as old as Ero-sennin?" Naruto asked confusedly, scrunching his face up at the thought of actively pursuing someone as old as Jiraiya – even though he had done so himself.
Alice snickered over Jiraiay's protests, "Oyaji is old, yet he's the most powerful person in this village! Think about it for a moment, sunshine." The girl snickered some more before reaching into one of her pouches to pull out another scroll. "That reminds me; I've got something for you!" The girl knelt down to unseal the scroll on the grass, six bowls of ramen appearing, steaming in their take-away bowls.
"Yatta!" Naruto happily screamed before dropping down in the grass to eat his favourite dish. "You're the best nee-san ever!" He reached forwards to drag the whole set of dishes towards him, but Alice quickly slapped him on the wrists, making him retract his arms with a whine and hurt expression. "What?"
Alice dropped onto her arse before patting the free ground beside her, gesturing for Jiraiya to join her. "Two bowls are for me, and two are for Jiraiya-sama."
Naruto whined and moped, but gave up two of his bowls to Jiraiya, the large man taking them as he sat down to complete the small triangle going on between the three of them. "Thanks kiddo," he said to Alice, tugging open one of the container's lids to reveal beef ramen.
"There's also chicken, regular miso and shrimp," Alice said through a mouthful of chilli beef that was her favourite. "Take your pick."
"Itadakimasu!" Naruto cheered before digging into his own miso, Jiraiya and Alice echoing him shortly after as they dug in ravenously to their late lunches. But three o'clock was a perfectly acceptable time to eat ramen, wasn't it? Any time is good for ramen!
"So…?" Alice eyed Jiraiya in the light of the slowly fading sun, slightly regretting her choice to help Naruto with his summoning and absent chatting with him and the Sannin as she read a book on poison antidotes – she could've been doing a lot more practical stuff than just reading and talking. "Are you going to help me?"
"Maybe," consented Jiraiya, beginning to shoo he girl down the trail that led out of the small forest area they were in and towards the streets of Konoha.
"How will I know if you wish to train me?" Alice asked over her shoulder as the Sannin steered her away from Naruto's training and the topic.
"You'll know," was all Jiraiya said as he gave her a shove. "Now hurry up and head home before it gets dark. I can't have my worries played upon by a young maiden like you walking around in the dark, okay?"
"You gentleman," Alice said with a smirk before waving goodbye to the man and heading off down the trail, hips swishing happily with the days conquests.
"If only she was a bit older…" Jiraiya sighed before heading off to yell at Naruto's fails some more. Although, he could now summon a tadpole with all legs and a more toad-like shape, thanks to Alice's encouragements and pointers in chakra control.
Third sensei Jiraiya of the Sannin: enlisted…?
Alice P.O.V.
Collapsing onto the couch with a huff, I tried to ignore my aching limbs. After only a few days with Gai, I could already feel the difference; my body could move more fluidly through my Hebi-style katas, and I could now make a fairly good dent in trees when I punched and kicked them.
But was it worth it to feel so shitty?
I mean, after every six hour training session, filled with fitness and fighting galore, I had to drag myself back home. Which was a good kilometre away and I had already run a fair few kilometres in Gai's training most mornings – even on my fucking hands on occasions.
But these Kami damned WEIGHTS!
I thought it'd be a good idea to get the weights, it's helped my speed greatly while also strengthening me, but I now know that it was a fucking stupid idea! Every time I moved my arms or legs, they dragged through the air. My katas were now ten times harder since I had ten kilos on each limb trying to pull me off balance.
One of the few pluses I've gotten from the weights (either than the strengthening and whatnot), is that I haven't had to wear those orange leg and arm warmers to keep them in place. And the weights are nowhere near as thick as Lee's own since the weight difference is massive and my ten kilo weights don't need to be a ridiculous size like Lee's own fifty-or-something-else-totally-fucking-ridiculous weights.
Nope, no orange for me. Even if I usually like the colour, that specific shade of orange was something that I wouldn't wear on a regular basis. I would also look like a rip-off of Shippuden Naruto since everything else I wear is black.
The reason I don't have to wear orange anymore (I say anymore since I had to wear it for about a day or two) is because of that delightful old man who gave me my frying pan in his weapons shop.
Two days ago, I went back to the store to buy some more chakra paper to write my seals on, as well as some smoke bombs, since I was running low. Upon seeing me at the counter, wearing my trenchcoat and mesh shirt with shorts to accompany my orange warmers, the old man, Nobu his name is, burst out in laughter.
It wasn't mocking laughter, though, it was sympathising. Nobu was apparently a very popular weapon salesman with the jōnin of Konoha, and Gai was a regular. Nobu actually supplied the crazy jōnin with his warmers. I thought Gai made them himself or something!
Nobu had disappeared into the back of the shop and returned shortly after with a bundle that he placed on top of the supplies I was already buying. He had informed that I still had to pay for the item, but he would give it to me for half price, since I had endured Gai's weights for a while already.
Do you know what they were? Do you know what sweet relief it was? It was beautiful new leg and arm warmers! Sleek, dusky black ones with dark indigo stripes going down either side of them, the stripes barely noticeable in the black when I put them on.
They were wonderful! Comfortable, held my weights well, didn't bulge ridiculously and a lovely shade of black that went well with the colours of my outfits!
Speaking of outfits…I should probably change mine for the finals. Sasuke changed his and I want to one-up his gay jumpsuit. Plus, I just really want to make an impression.
Clothes shopping it is!
Not the best, but at least it gets a large amount of bullshit out of the way. Next time, there'll be just the cleaning up of some stuff Alice needs to learn and then the finals will start!
But, in continuation of the perverted theme I've had going through this chapter at times, here's an omake of great importance! (Not really, but it's (hopefully) funny).
Interlude 2: My first kiss went a little like this…
Disclaimer: Usual!
Warning: Questioning sexuality, sanity and some snogging. Huzzah!
3rd Person P.O.V.
It was a regular day of waiting for Kakashi to come and train them that, Team Seven plus Alice, got into an argument.
And when I say Team Seven, I mean Naruto really; Sasuke didn't get into argument, except when he was being insulted, and Sakura was just trying to defuse the whole stupid thing. And by argument, I mean an uncomfortable debate that Alice encouraged greatly. And provided the most substance in, really.
"I wonder why people call it straight?" Alice remarked curiously from her position on the grass under a tree, lazing about in the shadow of the tree as it was rather hot that day. "I mean, the opposite is called homosexuality; what's the connection there?"
Sakura groaned and kneaded her brow as she stared across at Alice from her position to the girls left. "Would you just drop the topic of sexuality already?"
"Don't you understand, Sakura-chan?!" Gasped Alice, "you are basically a teenager now! This is the time to question your sexuality, and have fun doing so!"
"Why would I question my sexuality?" Sighed Sakura – she had a feeling that she would be doing that a lot today. "I know I'm straight, and I'm fine being straight. What's the questioning in that?"
Alice frowned and cupped her chin in thought. "I thought I was straight until a year ago, where I began questioning myself. 'Do I like girls?' I thought. 'Do I like guys and girls? Or just guys? Do I want a three-way? Or a harem-?'"
"Okay," interrupted Sakura, "gross! Stop saying stuff like that!"
Alice shrugged. "It's true though, almost everyone questions their sexuality at one point. I, myself, know that I won't ever be a lesbian, but I could very well turn out to be bi or straight. I see no problem in liking girls, after all."
"What's a lesbiam?" Asked Naruto curiously. "I've heard the word before, but I dunno what it means."
"It's lesbian," Sakura corrected gently to the blond opposite her, "it means that a girl is in love with the girl and wishes to kiss her. Among other things…" The pink-haired girl flushed brightly, imagining the naughty things that girls could do to other girls.
"Someone's a pervert~!" Sang Alice, nudging the blushing Sakura with a knowing grin on her face.
Sakura slapped the girl on the arm. "Shut up!"
"What's bi?" Naruto now asked, after having digested what a lesbian was.
"Someone who likes guys and girls," said Alice, before noticing Naruto's confusion – didn't he like Sakura-chan and other guys? They were friends, right? "In a sexual way, I mean," finished Alice. "Kissing, and making out, and fondling, and-"
"That's quite enough!" Sakura interjected shrilly, face flushing once more. "We don't need that kind of talk anymore!"
The group fell into silence – even though Sasuke was already silent during this whole thing, choosing to not get dragged into the stupid discussion.
"If Alice thinks she's bi," said Naruto slowly, disrupting the silence, "doesn't that mean she wants to kiss girls?"
"Yep!" Alice replied cheerfully. "You betcha!"
"You're a lesbian then!" Naruto exclaimed before bulldozing on before anyone could correct him. "Why would YOU," Naruto pointed at Alice as he got worked up over the subject, "want to kiss GIRLS?!"
Alice looked slightly affronted at this. "Well, who wouldn't want to kiss girls? We're hot!"
Sakura, sighing once more, tried to defuse the situation. "Alice, stop riling up Naruto. I've seen you check out guys, so stop pretending to be lesbian."
Sniffing haughtily, Alice replied. "I never said I'd be lesbian – I like guys way too much to do that – but I'm just suggesting that I could be bi."
Both Sakura and Naruto began to argue with Alice over this point, and it wasn't until Naruto shouted out one question that everything stopped.
"Why would you want to be bi?!"
Alice suddenly grinned and leaned forwards, "so I can do this." She leant over to Naruto and placed a sweet kiss on his forehead, leaving the boy gobsmacked and rubbing the spot of contact, before she leaned to the other side to place a light kiss against Sakura's cheek. "But on the mouth."
After taking a moment to recognise that someone willingly kissed him, Naruto still wasn't convinced. "I'm not sure that you're not a lesbian…prove it, 'tebayo!"
"Prove it?" Echoed Sakura, aghast. "How's she meant to prove not being lesbian?"
"Like this," Alice said simply, "If I only like girls, then I wouldn't do this!" The girl lunged forwards and launched herself at Sasuke, landing on the surprised boy and pinning him to the ground. Not wasting any time, the brunette pressed her lips to Sasuke's, burning his lips with the warmth and passion in them. She tilted her head slightly to press completely against him, lips moving with a mission against his unmoving ones, before she promptly disengaged, and shoved Sasuke down as she stood up.
"If I wasn't lesbian," Alice said to the completely dumbfounded Naruto, "I wouldn't have enjoyed that!"
Delicately moving away from where she was hovering over Sasuke, Alice plopped back down where she was sitting before, a shit-eating grin on her face as she took in the three genin's expressions.
Naruto was completely gobsmacked, his eyes still staring at the part where Alice had stood moments before, and his mouth moving up and down with unspoken words. Sakura was blushing a bright red, her gaze flicking between Sasuke and Alice as she alternately giggled and gawked. Finally, Sasuke lay on the ground, completely out of it. His eyes were staring blankly at the canopy above, body unmoving as replayed the kiss over and over in his head unconsciously. He barely noticed the skip in his heartbeat or the tingle still lingering on his lips, so great was his shock.
And Alice surveyed this all with a triumphant grin on her face. That is, until she realised something of great importance.
"HEY! YOU STOLE MY FIRST KISS, YA DICK!"
Trolololololol! Love it! First kiss scene I've ever written, but I wanted to keep it G and realistic, so no fierce making out or darting tongues. :(
I'm sorry if anyone is uncomfortable with the topic of sexuality, but I'm pretty free with it, as you can tell, so I hope I didn't cause too much embarrassment for anyone!
Hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you guys in a while!
Ciao.
P.S. How good is the word lingering?