Chapter 36: Smarter Than You Think
"You guys cant keep us in the house forever. We have to train for the Chunin Exams." Emiko said, with her arms on her hips, and her medium sized fan strapped to her back, "Besides we had this planned for months now."
"Sorry Em, but we didn't know that Sasuke was after you and your sister then." Shikamaru sighed, looking at his daughter, "You and your sister aren't going anywhere."
"Dad" Suki sighed, "Em and I have made this trip to Suna by ourselves many times for over a year now." Shikamaru opened his mouth to say something, but Suki shook her head, "and don't say its because of Uchiha, because you know just as well as we do that we're smart enough to stay away from him."
Temari walked into the main room, Daichi following behind her, "Alright its settled, Kankuro will meet you and your sister halfway to Suna, then you guys will meet your father and myself when you come back."
Emiko shook her head, "What if what Tamasine and Toshi said wasn't true, I mean they could be just trying to scare you guys…just a teen prank. Besides if Uchiha is after us then shouldn't you guys make sure Daichi is safe, he hasn't even started at the Academy, where Suki and I are already Genin, training to become Chunin." She sighed, "I'm not trying to scare you guys, but if you pay too much attention to us, you'll let your guard down around Daichi, and he'll end up in danger."
"Are you saying your father and I aren't good parents?"
"I would never say that mom, I'm just saying-"
Suki covered Emiko's mouth, "we should really get going soon, don't want to be traveling in the dark." She said, practically dragging her sisters out of the room, and into hers. Once inside Suki's room, she glared at her sister, "What's your problem? Do you want mom to become so troublesome that we cant even bare her? Because that's exactly what you were doing Em."
"That's no what I was trying to do, I was just-" Emiko stopped what she was saying, and looked over at the window, "D-do you hear that?"
"Hear what Em?"
There was a small ticking sound at the window. Both girls looked towards the window, where they heard yet another ticking sound. Being that both girls were curious to see what or who was at their window, they both stood and walked towards the window. Once at the window they looked out it, and saw 3 guys standing outside, waving at them to get their attention.
"What are they doing here? And why are they together?" Emiko asked, looking at her sister now.
Suki shrugged, "Not sure, but why couldn't they just knock on the front door like a normal person? Now mom and dad are gonna think that we're trying to sneak guys in our room." she sighed, "What a drag"
"Well, we cant just leave them there…they already know that we saw them." Emiko pointed out, looking back out the window, looking down at the 3 guys, who were each looking at the twins.
"you sure we cant just ignore them? Dealing with them would be such a-"
Emiko glared at her sister, "Don't even say, 'such a drag' cause that is getting very annoying." She then grabbed her sisters hand, "Now come on Suki, its time to walk Nozomi" she said, dragging her sister out of her room, past her parents, "Don't worry mom dad, we're going to go out and walk Nozomi so he'll be with us the whole time"
The twins pet dog walked over to them, and wagged his tail. The three of them then left the house before either of their parents could say or do anything to stop them.
Emiko and Suki walked to the side of the house, where 3 boys; Toshi Uchiha, Yukio Inuzuka, and Aiko Akimichi, were waiting for them. As the girls walked up to the boys, Nozomi began growling at Toshi, standing in front of the girls, as though he was ready to protect them.
"What do you guys want?" Suki asked, a slight annoyed look on her face, "If dad sees that we're out here, with you guys…he'll become more troublesome than mom-"
"We want to help you two" Aiko said, interrupting the young Nara, "I don't want you to get hurt like last time" He said, looking directly at Suki, a slight pink tint to his chubby cheeks.
"Hello, I was there too.." Emiko sighed, "glad to hear you want to help" She then looked at Toshi, "Why are you with them? I thought you told us everything you could, and where's your brother?" She asked, raising her eyebrow.
Yukio walked beside Toshi, and slapped his hand down on the Uchiha's shoulder, "He's gonna take us to his psycho dad so we can-"
"NO!" Emiko and Suki shouted, causing their dog to bark and growl at the group of teen boys.
"have you lost your minds?" Emiko asked, then took a deep breath to calm herself down, "look, we know you guys are only trying to help, but didn't you learn from the last time we acted on our own?" She asked, then looked at Aiko, "You weren't there so you couldn't know what happened…but" She then glared back at Yukio and Toshi, "But you tow both know what happened, last time you both got injured badly. I don know about you guys, but I don't want to go through that again. All the people I cared for where put in danger."
Suki nodded, her arms crossed, "If you guys know something, then tell mom and dad, so they can tell the Hokage. And she'll get some Jonin to take care of it. We have a Chunin exams to prepare for." She then sighed, and looked up at the sky, "Its not that we don't want to help, its just that we cant do anything, we are only Genin, while Uchiha is at least Jonin or even ANBU level. He would squash us like bugs without breaking a sweat."
"That may be so Suki, but we can out smart him. If we took him out he wouldn't be able to endanger those we care for." Yukio said, although he was talking to Suki, he was looking at Emiko.
She blinked a few times, and looked at the Inuzuka confused, "You do know I'm Emiko…right?" he nodded, "Then why were you looking at me while talking to Suki?" she asked, and he blushed slightly, looking away from her.
"I know a way we can beat my dad, we just need Tam-"
"Why's your dad after us Toshi?" Suki asked, now looking at the Uchiha, "I know you said you didn't know why,. But I have a feeling you weren't telling us everything."
Toshi looked away from the sisters, then waiting a while before looking back at them, "I'll tell you both…but, I cant around them or out in the open like this."
"You want us to let you talk to the people your father is after alone?!" Yukio shouted, then shook his head, "Your-"
"Shut up Yukio." Emiko demanded, "I know you don't trust him, but cant you trust me?" She asked, and Yukio nodded, "Well I trust him, meaning you should give him a chance."
Suki looked at her sister, "Does that mean you want to go with him?"
Emiko nodded, "You don't have to come Suki, I'm pretty sure I can handle him alone if anything happens."
Suki sighed, "as troublesome as this is gonna be, you're my sister and I cant let you go and do something like this alone. Mom and dad would both kill me if anything happened to you."
"Alright Toshi" Emiko said, looking at him, "We'll go with you, so….when and where?"
"now and follow me" Toshi said, walking away from the ground of teens.
Emiko and Suki turned to follow Toshi, when they were grabbed at the wrist. The girls turned to see Aiko holding onto Suki's wrist, while Yukio held onto Emiko's.
"Let go of us!" Emiko demanded.
Yukio shook his head, "I don't want to, I don't want you to go with him, I don't trust the guy."
"Neither do I" Aiko spoke up, looking at Suki, holding her not wanting to let her go, "You're in danger around him."
Suki took a step towards Aiko, and whispered something in his ear. He then let her wrist go and told Yukio to do the same thing. Then both girls ran off to follow Toshi.
-End of chapter, I'm so sorry this one is short, and might not make since, but here it is…hope you like…tell me what you think, and the next chapter will be better I promise…-