Chapter 28
We wake up about 11am and feel too lazy to even get up. We lay in our beds staring at the roof, well, I was staring at the bottom of Kiyoshi's bed, but still, same thing right?
"So.. are we gonna get up at all?" Ren asks, breaking the everlasting silence.
"I dunno." I reply.
"I'm not moving." Kiyoshi says.
"Well then, that answers that." I chuckle. There was a knock on the door. None of us say or do anything. The knock became repetitive and louder. We all groan.
"I'm not getting up." We all groan on unison. Then we all sigh. The knock was becoming more and more irritant by the second.
"FINE I'LL GET UP! YOU'RE BOTH LAZY ASSES!" Kiyoshi shouts then jumps off his bed and opens the door. "Hello?" He says like nothing even happened. I sweatdrop.
"Hello, I was wondering if Ayama-chan was here." The person asks.
"Aya-"
"Why me?" I cry then sit up. Ren chuckles to himself.
"Wanna come in?" Kiyoshi asks, stepping aside.
"Don't mind if I do." The person says. The second I glimpsed at the green clothing that walked through the door I mentally kick the wall. "Ayama-chan! Still in bed at this hour?" Guy asks. I groan and lay back down.
"What of it?" I ask.
"Well you should be out training. We must make the most of our youth!" He says. I don't respond. "Ayama?"
"What?" I groan, sounding pissed off.
"Er.. are you feeling okay? You're not sick are you?" He panics.
"No! I'm just.. having a lazy day." I say. He seems to have a heart attack.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN A LAZY DAY!" He questions. That loud voice really pissed me off.
"I MEAN I'M SPENDING THE DAY IN BED! GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT!" I shout back. He seems to quieten down after that. Did I really just snap at him. Oh well. He'll get over it, surely. Just then I yawned loudly, and that seemed to break any tension, and of course, yawns are contagious, I made all of them yawn afterwards. "So yeah, I'm stayin' in bed until I could be bothered getting up." I say in a tone like nothing even happened.
"... I see." Guy says, scratching his temple.
"You're welcome to join us, we've got a spare bed." I say, lazily pointing to Chitori-sensei's bed.
"I would love to, but no thank you. I must train." He replies.
"Suit yourself." I say.
"Very well. Enjoy your... lazy day." Guy says then leaves. Kiyoshi was tempted to slam the door shut but didn't then he went into the bathroom and got in the shower – I could hear the pipes.
"How long do you reckon he'll be in there for this time?" Ren asks.
"I don't care." I say.
"... Fair enough."
"But he better save some hot water for me." I say. "I'm having a shower next. I don't plan on staying in bed all day."
20 minutes later Kiyoshi decided to come out of the shower. He walks out with a towel around his waist and his hair dripping wet. I walks up to my bed, then shakes his head, making the water fly off in every direction and mostly wetting me. I had no particular reaction.
"I thought you were going for a shower." Ren mentions.
"Yeah, no hurry." I say, putting my hands behind my head. Kiyoshi put his suitcase on the end of my bed then went to drop his towel. By that second I was gone, in the bathroom with the door locked. I heard them laughing form the other side. That's just disgusting, does he want me to see him naked? I shiver at the thought then undress and get into the.. cold shower.
When I got out, I regretted rushing in there. I would've grabbed my clothes and brought them in here, but now I'm going to have to go out there, in these small towels, just to get my sack which my clothes were in. I wrap the towel around me. It covered my breasts alright, even though they weren't really that big... yet. Then the towel stopped midway down my thighs. I've never felt so exposed.
I open the door, and walk out like nothing is wrong. Kiyoshi was only half dressed, walking around in some shorts and nothing else. I crouch down and reach under my bed to find my sack, I wasn't gonna bend over too much because they'd see my butt, damn short towels.
"Well this is interesting." Kiyoshi says, sitting on my bed, looking at me. I get an anime vein once I knew what he was doing. I found my sack, grabbed the strap, pulled it out then swung it in the air, whacking his face. "OW!"
"DON'T BE A FUCKING PERVERT!" I shout then go into the bathroom again and lock the door. He was trying to look down the towel because my breasts were slightly exposed. Baka.
I get dressed into some dark grey knee-length shorts and a red t-shirt. Once I decide to join the pervert and his lazy friend, I put the sack back under my bed and glare at Kiyoshi who seemed to have a nosebleed, I raise an eyebrow, ready to hit him again.
"Wait, you nearly broke my nose, that's why it's bleeding! It's not becau-" I cut Kiyoshi off my slapping him.
"Liar." I growl then leave, I don't want to be around him right now.
I figured I'd explore the village a bit, see if I find any interesting places I can go to without having to go everywhere with the boys. They dragged me into many shops the other day, none interested me, not even slightly, all I wanted was to go to a puppetry shop or something.
I look around, there are a lot of different restaurants, flower shops, and many shops for things I've never even seen before.. however, I did not fine one puppetry shop. Not one.
I ended up at a small restaurant where the dango was pretty good.
"Another three orders here!" Shouts a girl on the table across from mine. She's got purple hair and light brown eyes. She looks young. I couldn't help but see how quickly she eats the dango.. she must love them.
"Anko! Just because it's your 10th birthday, doesn't mean you get to make me go bankrupt!" Scowls a man beside her, probably her father. I sigh quietly to myself. If only I had a family.
"But dad!" She complains in a naggy voice.
"No!"
I stand up and leave the shop. I could handle hearing the word father, dad or any of that. It reminds me of that dream I had a long time ago.
I walk around with my head hanging low and my hands in my pockets.
"Hey is your name Ayama by any chance?" I hear. I look up and see a dude with short spiky black hair and a cigar in his mouth, now that disgusted me.
"Um.. yes, why do you ask?"
"Oh, nice to meet ya." He says, holding a hand out. I blink a few times, looking at his hand. "Eh, I'm Sarutobi Asuma, I versed your friend in the Chuunin Exams a few years ago." I squint my eyes at him.
"I've heard that name before.." I say, trying to think.
"Oh, so he did tell you about me. Baki was quite a formidable opponent. Heh, he told me all about you." He says.
"He... what?" I ask, becoming a little shocked. He chuckles.
"Yeah, he said that you are practically the best person he's ever met, and he admires you a lot and... I wasn't.. supposed to say that.." He says, trailing off at the end. I raise an eyebrow.
"Admires?" I ask. "What do you mean by that?"
"Eh, well, that's just what he said, you'll have to ask him about it, I didn't really know what way he meant." He says. I nod slowly.
"I see.." Suddenly this moment just grew awkward.
"Uh, well it was nice meeting you." He says, putting his hand back in his pocket. I nod.
"Yeah.."
"Well, take care." He says then walks around me. I blink a few times before continuing to walk, yet another thing on my mind. I sigh, I need somewhere to relax, somewhere to empty my mind.
Finally, the next day came, we were up early, packing our stuff up.
"You know," I say, zipping my sack up. "you two could at least make your beds before we go."
"Nah, that's the cleaner's job." Ren says, zipping his sack up and throwing it over his shoulder.
"Yeah, he's right." Kiyoshi says in a tone like he's struggling. We both look at him, he was laying on his suitcase, trying to zip it up. Me and Ren sweatdrop. "Could I get a little help?" I roll my eyes.
"Get off." I say, pointing my thumb away from it. He gets off and I tackle it, jump on it, and then sit down on it. "Now try." Both their faces were like O.O "Now would be good."
Kiyoshi shakes his head to come back into reality and tries zipping it up. "Nnnngh, I can't get it."
"Ren, come help." I say, then he comes over and sits on it too. Kiyoshi kept trying.
"Alllllllmost, push down a little harder." Kiyoshi says. Me and Ren lay on it. "Nnnngh, got it." We all take a sigh of relief then get up.
"I still don't understand why you had to bring so much stuff, you didn't even use most of it." I say.
"It's because I don't know how to work those storage scrolls!" He finally admits.
"Ohh, so now you say it." I say. He folds his arms.
"Shut up." He groans. Me and Ren laugh.
"Well, lets get going." I say.
"Yeah, Ayama, you might want to put a jacket or something on before we go." Ren says. I look down at my light grey trackies and black t-shirt.
"Why?" I ask.
"Because it'll get cold." Ren says. I blink a few times.
"What's your point?" I ask. He sighs.
"Nothing, lets go."
"Fuck, you were right Ren, it is cold out here." I say as we walk outside. He rolls his eyes. At 5am in Konoha, it's very cold. I rub my hands up and down my arms to try and warm up a bit. You could see your breaths clearly in this cold.
"You're gonna get sick." Ren says.
"No I wont." I proclaim.
"Yeah, you will, then you wont be able to train." Ren says.
"Eh, then I'll study." I say. They both gasp. "I know! I said the 's' word!" They frown after that.
"Look, there's everyone." Kiyoshi points out.
Four very long days later we reach the village. Never before has that arch up ahead looked quite so lovable. Me and Kiyoshi decide to have a race to see who could get there first. Ren, being the half lazy-ass he is, decided to stay behind with the rest of the ninjas.
If Kiyoshi didn't have such a big bag he would've won. It was pretty close, but of course I won. Though, we didn't stop once we got to the other end of the village, no, we kept running, we wanted to get home.
"I'M HOOOOOOOOME!" I shout, about to burst in through the door of Baki's house. However, my coordination failed me and I tripped on the front step, and headbutted the door. A few seconds later the door opened and I fall face first to the ground.
"AYAMA! YOU'RE BACK!" Baki exclaims. I jump up to my feet.
"YES I AM!" I yell back. We give each other the biggest reunion hug ever. "And I'm gonna go to bed."
"What? But you just got home." He says, letting me go. I droop over to the couch, throw my sack to the ground and plop lazily on the couch. Baki laughs at me.
"You look tired."
"I am indeed." I say and close my eyes.
"So.. you're just going to fall asleep there?" He asks.
"Yeah, might as well." I say. He sits on the arm rest of the couch.
"You gonna tell me about your trip?" He asks. I sit up.
"Oh yeah!" I say, we both laugh. "Well, it started off with a written exam, then we had to go find these scrolls in the forest, and we got lost, but we were one of the first groups to pass along with another squad, then we had sparring matches and I versed this weird guy named Guy, and he wears this weird green spandex suit, and his eyebrows are the biggest you've ever seen, but his teeth are like really white, so he's cool.. I kicked his ass though, and yeah."
"Wow, that was pretty summed up." He says. I nod.
"You need to learn to sum things up better too, you spent hours telling me about your Chuunin Exams." I say. He laughs nervously.
"Yeah, I know."
"Oh yeah, I met that Pasuba guy too." I say.
"What?"
"Pasuba, the guy you versed during your match."
"Oh, Asuma."
"Yeah, that's the one!" I say.
"Pasuba.." He laughs and shakes his head.
"Shut up." I grumble, folding my arms.
The next morning I got up early, yet again, and went down stairs to cook breakfast. Don't worry I have gotten better at my cooking, I took a class at the academy last year learning how to cook, it lasted about 3 weeks, 6 hours everyday, so I'm pretty confident that I wont put the house at risk of burning down like that one time...
I start preparing some pancakes, because I was craving them badly. As soon as I fire the stove up and pour the liquid in, Baki come out rubbing his eyes.
"Are you always this noisy?" he groans. I laugh, he must've gotten used to things being very quiet without having me around.
"Yes I am, you should know that by now, I mean, how long have we lived together?" I laugh. He groans and sits at the table and spreads his arms out across it and rests his forehead against it. "Why? Where you enjoying the quiet while I was gone?" I ask.
"Yes I was actually." He says. I give him an offended expression, but I was actually laughing in my head. He looks at me then sits up straight and waves his arms around defensively.
"I-I didn't mean it like that!" I exclaims, freaking out. I couldn't hold back my laughter, his expression was just priceless. "... You were being sarcastic, weren't you?"
"Hehe, yup." I say then giggle. I could already tell how much he was loving having me back in the house. "Breakfast?"
"Oh, yes please!" He says, seeming to be in a completely different mood then before. He sits up straight, smiling bigger than ever. Yeah, he's glad to have me back.
