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Chapter FIFTY(haha, I nearly wrote 'fishty'):

Happiness makes up in Height for what it lacks in Length – Robert Frost

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Saturday 4/8/18

I fell asleep on the couch at 6 last night, well, more like evening. I felt washed out, it seems like it takes more effort to keep things bottled up then it does to let them out. Like plugging up a river, and building a town in the dry river bed, knowing that one day it will rain. And it will rain and rain and rain until it overflows and then you'll had to face the fact you've made a huge mistake.

Today Naruto and I are gonna go get coffee in town, we invited Kimimaro but he said no, of course, making up excuses over studying. I think Naruto's gone to ask Sasuke if he wants to come.

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6:41

It was nice to get out. We only went to the nearest town which is a tiny tourist town really, filled with cute coffee shops and craft stores and pointless shops full of stuffed animals and T-shirts. Sasuke came, to my surprise, and we caught the 9:00 train to the village, it was surprising to find something so adorable in Sound. I thought it would just be full of rapists and war-loving politicians.

For winter, it was a perfect day, I mean, we all got away with only wearing four layers, singlet, shirt, cardigan and then a warm thick jacket over the top, with of course my usual blue jeans.

At first, we just got take-out coffee, (Mocha for me, since I haven't had a good one in years) and went to the park.

"You know what I miss?" Naruto said, pouting.

"What Naruto?" I said in a rehearsed bored way.

"The sea."

I'd been expecting something Naruto-ish, like 'recyclable Styrofoam' (which I'm not even sure if there is such a thing) or 'taller trees' but this caught me by surprise. I'd never really thought of Naruto as somebody who's miss the ocean.

"Really?" Sasuke put in, he was stretched out lazily on the grass, and it was sending other girls wild, I glowered and threw grass at him so he sat up and glared at me in what I'd hoped would be an un-hot way. Unfortunately, his scowling to the other girls was even hotter so I sighed and lay back down, leaving Sasuke to be confused over why the hell I threw grass at him.

"What was that for!?" He demanded.
"Your sultry positioning was annoying me."

"What the hell Sora!?"

"Look to your…." I hate a moment to check my left-and-right. "Left."

He sees the girls giggling insanely and sighs, seeing my point. "Oh."

"Yeah."

"I'd never figure you to be the jealous type."

I sit up and mouth angrily. "I am not jealous! Why would I be!? I mean, it's not like we're even together! Plus, you're with him!" I jab my thumb in Naruto's direction, where he'd met a war veteran and probing him with questions, the man didn't seem to mind and launched into stories of his youth and the world and the rest.

Sasuke laughs. "Defeeeeensive."

I pout. "Am not."

"Yep."

"No! I'm not."

"Face it, you find me hot."

"You're so obnoxious. Really, you are, god knows what Naruto sees in you." I said angrily. "If it weren't for the fact you're too perfect for your own good I'd damn well expect him to dump your ass." I told him, glaring.

He feigns hurt. "Really, I think he sees my beautiful personality."

"Hah!"

"What, you don't?"

"What, the one who makes me so pissed off I could give him a black eye?"

"Yeah, that one, see, you see it too."

"That's hardly beautiful."

We continue to argue for another hour, basically until the War veteran person has gotten tired to telling stories to Naruto and wandered off, and then Naruto came back to us, Larry-happy.

"Guys! You missed out on the best stories ever! That guy was amazing!" he does some insane what-he-thinks-karate-would-look-like moves and makes sound effects. "He was great! He knows all this stuff! Seriously, you don't know what you missed?"

"Long winded stories." Sasuke and I said in unison, and then glare at each other.

"Well, I mean, he went into detail, that's all one could expect for such a huge- hey, are you two pissed off at each other?" he'd finally caught on, man this guy could be a detective.

"No shit, Sherlock." I say irritably.

"Why?"

"He's obnoxious!" I yelled out.

"She's bitchy!" he replied at the same time, our words run together and we glare at each other again.

"Whoa.. okay, I know!" he said brightly as ever. "Let's go get coffee!"

This, neither of us can say no too and get up and grumble, subtly trying to trip one-another over, this failed and we both hit the ground, leap up and yell "Clumsy!" and then glower and retreat to either side of Naruto.

After a while we get over being pissed off at one-another and are back to talking, this time in the coffee shop because it's gotten too windy outside. "Reckon it'll snow soon?" Naruto asked.

"I hope hope hope hope so!" I said. "I loooooove snow."

"Let's see if we can get Sakura to send us our ice-skates and we can find a rink!"

I brighten up at this; I hadn't gone ice-skating for years. "Yes! Yes, yes, yes!"

"Hn…" Sasuke groans. "Whatever, I need to use the bathroom." And he get's up and leaves. Haha, he should have through twice about that. Leaving his coffee unattended like that is dangerous.

And so I got his coffee, drained a good half of it into my cup, and then reached for the salt.

"Sora!" Naruto said once he'd realized what I was doing.

"What?" I say innocently.

"You suck, you should use pepper." He grins and I laugh and nod.

"Wise…" I said, and get the pepper and undo it and pour it into the coffee, add salt and a bit of sugar and stir. Laughing.

"Hey, why are you two angry at each other anyhoo?"

"He thinks I love him."

"He thinks everyone loves him." Naruto said, laughing.

I shrug. "Still." And continue adding various things to his coffee, I end up needing to put some of it back so it smells less like pepper and more like strange coffee.

Of course, he comes out, takes one gulp and rushes outside to try and get it out of his system. Naruto and I laugh until we can't breathe.

It was such a perfect day, and I hated having to go home on the 5:00 train. Having to go back to reality and tests and studying, but I have Kimimaro in that world, since he refuses to come out into the fun world, he stays in the work one. Strange boy.

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Monday 6/8/18

Today Sasuke was over at Naruto's, making coffee (with the fatmans coffee machine, I wasn't the only one stealing his coffee!) I grinned and handed him a jar. "Want pepper with that?"

He glared and took it, and put it on his palm, I looked in confusion, it brought it up to his mouth and blew, quickly, I realized my mistake and inhaled in shock and started sneezing and coughing like hell, swearing with every spare moment I had. Screw him!

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Tuesday 7/8/18

Holidays end of next week, how weird. This whole term, poof! Gone! I feel as if it's all been a dream and I'll wake up in year 10 in my house in Konoha with a million mangy cats to feed. Gah, I wish. I wish I wish I wish I wish! Naruto said he'd come over later to let me quiz him on extension Math (idiot, who would pick that except for Kimimaro the insane genius?)

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3:39

Haha, VA was fun. I teased Sasuke for Shika that he sucked because Shika was getting better marks on Konoha's shitty education system and had a wife and Sasuke was only half way to beating his mangy brother.

Of course, Shika didn't even really say any of that… but I'm sure he meant it. And if I had of said it Sasuke could have totally shot my down in so many ways, but nobody can insult Shika. It's just free time now; thank ze lord, coz I think all I can manage is throwing semi-dry paint at Sasuke.

Anyhoo, Naruto came over as promised (but dragged Sasuke with him) and we played a buzzer game except without buzzers and with various spoons and cutlery. I lost miserably when I had a turn of not being the question-asker and got fed up so I threw a spoon at Naruto. Of course, then the real competition began. I have a feeling Sasuke has a minor concussion.

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Wedders - 8/8/18 (OHMY! LOOK! 3 8'S! wooooooooow!)

Boredboredboredboredborrrredd. End of term kinda sucks. Kimimaro and I went for a walk on campus today, since I have gotten a taste of outdoors and now can't stand being inside for too long, even if outside is below freezing.

This weekend Kimimaro goes away to a crazy Sound Four jig up in somewhere and is all nervous because he has to represent the school and yadda yadda yadda, I said if he was nervous I could fill in for him, you know, put on an insane wig and paint dots on my face and speak all proper-like. He said he'd rather walk onto the stadium naked then let me take over. I said that I can guarantee that most people would rather I take over then that, he hit me, I laughed… and then ran.

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HELLOO ALL! I was on holidays, don't worry, I didn't ditch you. SORRY I HAVENT UPDATED! But I can't say no to holidays. It was lots of fun and a strange man tried to sell us magazines by singing. And the guy who made my Subway roll was really really really REALLY enthusiastic and it was strange…

Oh! And I know how to ROLLERBLADE! I'm proud, though I have a bruise on my knee the worst shade of purple I've ever seen. Infact, I think it's mainly green now.

LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCH! (love youuuuuuuuuuuu) Hope you don't hate me too much! (LOVE you.) loooooovve (Love YOU!) to-love-is-to-lie.

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