Chapter 10: A Trip to Wal-Mart
AU: i just wanted to let everyone know that the reason I asked what you all thought of Tobirama and Shisui as Lover Material, last chapter was because I realized that I have never once seen an author actually ASK their readers what they thought about the characters. I want to be a reader that lets my readers have a say and get involved. I want to get to know my readers, read THEIR stories and REVIEW, HELP THEM GROW. I truly do love my reader's stories. In fact I reviewed several stories and chapters today. I am very proud of my readers, my FRIEND'S work.
Thank you so much for your support! I have not yet decided on Lori's pairing just yet.
Now, in this chapter we will see more of what goes on as it is now Monday at 12:00, the ninja skipped school! AND the only reason she is alive is because of Hashirama's Medical Ninjutsu and Juliet going to the Hospital to get O Type blood bags to give to Lori! That was done while she was asleep!
Enjoy!
Chapter 10
Lori stepped out of the shower, knowing Tobirama and Shisui were in the living room nearby the bathroom. As she got dressed in a blue jeans with light blue converse sneakers, with white laces. Along with a short sleeved grey shirt with a purple design, her blue jacket was torn and tattered from the coyotes so she opted for a green one she kept in her suitcase that she had brought with her. Her blue eyes the color of sapphire. This was mostly from the poor lighting of the bathroom.
They needed to change their lights.
Lori dried her hair and styled it in deep waves.
She didn't bother putting any makeup on, she had wounds on her face, mainly near her right eye that the coyote had taken out a few days prior. Thankfully, Hashirama was the best medic and was able to repair it and implant it in her eye socket using only basic medical tools that Jeri's mother had, as she was an ER Nurse. She dis however wear her necklace: a small pink lotus flower pendant (I meant to say Lotus instead of Waterlily last chapter) with a yellow center, a silver crescent moon in the center of that and a white pearl on both sides of the black leather rope, on either side of the pendant. She hid the pendant underneath her shirt.
she didn't however style her hair into deep waves and let her bangs hand over her right eye, ensuring no one would see her wounds.
Waking out of the bathroom she saw Tobirama, Butsuma, Tajima, Madara and Izuna looking as stern as ever but their eyes glimpsed over her makeup and attire, eyes silently approving yet sad.
Shisui stopped talking with Itachi to look at Lori and his face twisted into one of sorrow. He was too slow to save the blonde and ow she was having to cover her wounds. If he had been there's sooner none of this would have happened... "Lori, I.. I'm so sorry this happened to you!" Lori sighed before replying. "If you're going to give me pity, save it. I'm fine, I've honestly handled worse."
Juliet knew that Lori shouldn't have to talk about the events that had occurred so recently because of stress, so she brought up a different and much more enjoyable topic. "So, Lori, I noticed your customs and traditions in Germany are much different than ours here in America… What's it and the food like too?" Juliet inquired making Lori seem at ease.
"It is custom to say good day to someone you meet, goodbye when you are leaving even if they do not hear you or notice you, and there are several more traditions and customs such as being punctual and managing time wisely. As well as being formal and respectful. It's basically perfectionism. But enough about that, our food consists of brough worst, they are like sausage, fresh bread, liquor, and vegetables such as cabbage and potatoes." Lori answered a sly smirk upon her lips.
Juliet looked horrified. "Liquor?!" Lori nodded. "Beer, wine, other alcoholic drinks."
Jeri looked at Lori like she had grown a second head. "How? Why?"
"At 14 - minors are allowed to consume and possess fermented alcoholic beverages, such as beer and wine, as long as they are in the company by a Custodial Person. A parent or guardian. It's quite normal for kids about 14 to be drinking." Lori responded seeing nothing wrong with the situation.
"Have you drank before?" Shisui asked curiously. Lori nodded.
"Several times, however I was always in the company of adults. I was supervised so it was not a problem. I only drank maybe a glass or two of wine, sometimes a glass of beer instead. But I never drank more than three times a week, so if I chose I would drink a glass of wine on Monday, another on Tuesday and maybe one on Saturday." Shisui's jaw dropped.
"Have you ever gotten drunk?" Kagami asked. Lori nodded. "A few times, I fall asleep though instead of well… Doing things I shouldn't." Lori chuckled to herself.
Izuna was now very worried about Lori, he knew what people were like. "What if the adults maybe… uh…" Lori caught on to what he was trying to say and stopped him.
"Impossible, I took the glass to my room and locked the door. No one would be getting in. I also set my phone up near the ceiling, where no one would look, on record like a security camera in case anything happens. I checked it the next morning and it only showed me asleep in bed each time." Izuna nodded in relief while Hashirama sighed.
"That's pretty smart." Tobirama murmured and Lori nodded.
"When you live in foster care, you learn to be cautious and prepared." This puzzled everyone. Why would she have to be so cautious and prepared? What for with people she could obviously trust?
"What day is it?" Lori questioned Jeri monotonely only for Jeri to respond cheerfully. "It's Monday 12:00!" Lori though about it for a second before it hit her like a bus.
"...We missed school..." Lori mentally groaned but on the outside retained her stoic persona.
"Yep..." Jeri agreed but smiled sadly. She knew that Lori having to cover her wounds on her face was hard for the younger teen. It had to be even if she didn't show it.
"Want to go go to town? We can shop..." Jeri suggested wanting to get Lori's mind off things. Lori just looked at her blankly.
"Are you sure...?" Lori pointed to her eye covered by her bang. Izuna frowned. He saw the girl as a sister so he didn't like seeing her like this. An idea came to his mind. He could use Genjutsu to make it disappear to others. And Lori so that way she wouldn't be so self conscious.
Activating his Sharingan and making a few hand signs he cast the illusion on Lori who paused for a second feeling slightly off. Like when she feels a buzz coming on from the alcohol, but it didn't affect her walking or movements. This puzzled her.
Izuna walked over, his Sharingan disappeared as he stopped in front of her and lifted her bang out of the way of her eye with a slight smile on his full lips. "There. No you won't have to hide your wounds, because now, no one will ever see them." He told her as she felt her face near her right eye only to feel no wounds. She looked quite surprised at that and Jeri turned her around and gasped with her hands covering her mouth.
"Your wounds are gone! Here! Look!" Jeri took out a compact that had a mirror and offered it to Lori who opened it up and looked at her face. She gasped slightly at what looked back at her... Her reflection, not a wound nor scar one. It was like magic.
"...How?" She whispered softly, Izuna smirked that cocky Uchiha smirk but his voice was harmonious.
"Genjutsu. An illusion or trick of the mind."
Lori was internally grateful, she looked to Izuna and nodded in thanks to him, making him smirk even more. Tobirama and Izuna's eyes met quickly turning into a fierce stare off.
I win Tobirama! Izuna thought as their stares turned more heated and into full on glares. Izuna's eyes conveyed what he was thinking towards the Senju.
Tobirama's eyes matched Izuna's. Yeah right you asshole!
Sparks clashed and battled for dominance between the two rivals of war. They hated each other's guts and have been trying to stay away from each other for a week and a day now, all thier built up testosterone and hate coming to the surface.
"Knock it off both of you!" Juliet hollared making them break the glare off. Lori, Hashirama, Itachi, Shisui and Jeri sweat dropped.
"Now, Lori don't worry about not having money to go shopping. I have that taken care of! Here!" Juliet thrust a few bills of green paper towards her. Lori stared at it, her brain having to process what it was as she was not used to American currency. It looked similar to euro, European currency, not euro cents but banknotes. Bills with similar designs on each one but different colors instead of a single color, based on how much each banknote was worth. This paper was green and he only green paper currency in Europe was 100 Euro Banknotes.
Lori's eyes widened before quickly pushing Juliet's hand away gently as she had no reason to be rough.
"Nein gnä' Frau." She said calmly.
Everyone stared at her unsure of what she had just said. "Well what if we started talking Japanese to you?" Shisui asked jokingly. Lori realized her mistake of speaking German and cursed in German before translating for the others. "Nein means no in German, and gnä' Frau, means several things in my language, such as 'female, girl, lady, mistress, ma'am and Mrs'."
Itachi raised an eyebrow. "And which did you mean?"
Lori looked to the Uchiha. "Ma'am."
Juliet smiled. "Aww! Your so polite!" Lori sweat dropped. The Hell she was. Jeri laughed.
"Only when she wants to be! Eh, Lori?" Jeri joked elbowing Lori in the ribs lightly. Lori stayed stoic however, even though she wanted to 'elbow' Jeri back. Hard.
"Now, take it." Juliet said sweetly to Lori who only shook her head no. Juliet's smile disappeared and was replaced with a menacing, almost evil look. "Take it. Now." Juliet ordered in an deep almost demonic voice slightly putting fear into the two girls and one of the teenage boys in the room. i.e. Shisui.
Lori hesitated on speaking for a moment until she was sure her voice wouldn't betray her before speaking. "...Yes Ma'am." Taking the money gently from Juliet's hand she could have sworn she saw her hostest's eyes were red before going back to their normal aqua blue.
"Bye mom! Love you!" Jeri yelled out the door as she dragged Lori with her. The ninja had a few choices here. Stay with the somewhat scary lady at home, or get away with the girls. They chose the girls.
Once on highway 64 Jeri started listing off all the stores they could go to such as Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Goody's, JC Penny, Belk, and Ross. The ninja were quite intrigued by the amount of stores that one could go to in an urban area. Hashirama's eyes glowed with childlike excitement making Tobirama and Butsuma slightly embarrassed, Itama happy, and Lori unsure of whether or not he was even a grown up.
While everyone was talking amongst themselves on making a decision, Lori was lost in her won thoughts about what had transpired two days before with the coyotes. She had only left because of Madara's yelling at Hashirama. She wouldn't admit it to others, but she knew deep inside it scared her. Brought back bad memories, that was why she left. To escape before they could resurface again. She had explored uncharted woods alone and because of her stupidity she was nearly killed and is instead, left with wounds that would probably end up being scars later on, that was just her luck. She couldn't believe how in prepared and unaware she was...
"Lori? Hey," Lori looked to the sound of the voice that had snapped her out of her thoughts to see Lori, driving and glancing at her in the rearview mirror. Worry was clear in her green eyes.
"Were you listening?" Jeri asked and Lori averted her gaze to the side earning a grin from the designated driver that Lori was sure would charm any man. "We are going to Wal-Mart first if that's okay with you?" Jeri continued as Lori nodded in response. "Okay then Little L."
Lori took in the nickname. Little L... Little Lori.
"Your lucky you're driving right now." Lori said like she was saying hello. Like it was an everyday thing with her. Jeri only laughed at Lori's response.
Soon they reached a store with Wal-Mart in big white letters with a huge parking lot. The ninja stared in amazement as Lori did as well. No matter where she went she was still shocked that men were able to build such big structures. Everyone got out of the car and headed towards the entrance and, once inside the ninja looked like they were in a completely different world. Oh, wait they were.
Jeri turned to the Ninja. "Stay in groups of two and meet back here in say... Two to four hours." The ninja nodded in response before setting off to their destinations. Jeri turned to Lori. "Come on Lori!" Jeri then took off through the isles not realizing that she had left Lori behind. Lori sighed before feeling slight apprehension of being alone. Strange. She usually liked being alone. Lori started walking around, not really caring where she was going but feeling... Lonely. She was the only one without a partner, or well, her partner ditched her. She couldn't figure it out. She felt lonely but then again, was that what she felt all the time and just never realized it? Impossible.
Tobirama was not going to listen to the young teen and instead separated from his brother and went straight to whatever looked like weaponry. There were knives, ropes, cases for weapons and holsters, as well as strange weapons. They were handheld but had a barrel and there were things below in boxes of several different brands, Tobirama assumed, that would go to the weapons. Unfortunately for him, he didn't know how to read English. He did some but not much. He continued exploring when he could have sworn he saw pale blonde in his peripheral vision. When he looked, however, there was no such color.
Hashirama was lost until he saw what looked to be different kinds of technology which he wanted to further study as he went into the tech department. There were several TV's, things you put in your ears, a device that Lori and Jeri had... "This is amazing!" He started laughing happily like a little child scaring several of the people in the tech department of Wal-Mart.
Madara knew his little brother, Izuna went to the garden to see the flowers and different kinds of plants as he liked the smell of them. He had told his younger sibling that he would be in the department that looked like it was for personal care, as it had a sign of a hairbrush on it. browsing the shelves of various brushes, hair ties and heat tools that he seen in the bathroom several times. What the Hell was it with girls and styling their hair so often? Just wear it natural.
Shisui, Kagami and Itachi were all in a group together. It was nice spending time with family again, they all had to admit that and were happy to be with each other's company again. Kagami looked to the younger Uchiha's. "I wonder how Lori and Jeri are doing?" Shisui nods in agreement. "Yeah, I really hope that Lori's having a good time. After the attack, she needs something to get her mind off things." Itachi just stayed silent as they walked around aimlessly. He wasn't one to talk much, not like the other two.
Lori kept walking aimlessly unaware of where she was headed. This sucked. She sighs out of frustration of having to find a happy go lucky Jeri. Seriously, where could that girl be? She kept walking until she heard a voice call out to her. A guy's voice.
"Lori! Wait up!" Turning her head she saw it was Shisui who had called out to her as he ran towards her with an arm waving in the air with Itachi and Kagami right behind him. Catching his breath once he got to her he stood up with the same kind smile on his face. "I- I mean, we, saw you walking around alone and wanted to see what was up. Where's Jeri? I thought she was supposed to be with you."
Lori felt that weird spark in her chest again. She couldn't help but wonder, if it was it from someone caring about her? She raises an eyebrow but nods towards the three Uchiha. "Jeri ditched me." She said lamely. Shisui and Kagami exchanged unspoken words before looking back to Lori. "Want to join us then?" Lori pondered it for a moment. They didn't know where anything in the store was, she didn't either. There were no pros nor cons to this so why bother?
"No." Lori answered to which Shisui fell to the ground anime style on his back in response. He got up and sighed scratching his head. "Oh well, can't be helped then. We'll just follow you." He says grinning at the girl as she turns to walk in a different direction only to hear footsteps behind her. Repeating this process a few times she rounded on the three Uchiha. "Why the Hell are you three following me?" She asked holding her anger buried deep inside and managing to stay cool.
Kagami looked to his son before answering Lori. "Well, we don't want you to be alone Lori." Lori held in a sigh as she only nodded. "I can take care of myself if that's what you're implying." Itachi chose to monitor the situation and let his friend be the speaker. This was, after all, his idea. Shisui chuckled. "Well it doesn't hurt to have protection now does it? There are very bad people out there." Lori grew a huge red tick mark on her temple. Did he think she was incompetent?! "Du bist so ärgerlich!" She spoke in German only for the young Uchiha to blink rapidly before laughing his ass off.
"What was that? I couldn't hear you." Shisui teased as Lori felt like punching him in his perfect face. Damn Uchiha's. "I said... You're so annoying!" Shisui was honestly shocked by the blonde's words. He had never been called annoying by a girl before, only things like hot, cute, sweet and talented. But here she was, this girl, calling him annoying. Most girls would have fawned over him... He smirked to himself. She was definitely an interesting individual.
"You're the first girl to ever call me that, you have moxie!" Exclaimed Shisui with a smirk still on his face as he brought a hand to rest on the back of his head. It was a pose that would make any girl jealous of such looks and even make some drop to the floor drooling. Lori only glared at the Uchiha until she shook her head and started to walk away with Shisui easily catching up to her by jogging. Once he was by her side he turned to where he was walking backwards so he could talk to her 'face to face'.
"Hey, hold on a minute! What makes you think I'm annoying? I need to know. And what is annoying to you?"
Lori kept walking as she was wanting to get away from the annoying raven in disguise, he talked too much and was too happy go lucky. "Your going to trip if you keep walking like that." Lori says irritably to the raven haired teen much to his chagrin. "I-I am not..." He denied with a blush tinting his cheeks making the blonde before him smirk. To Shisui the smirk looked rather seductive but maybe that was just because he was a teenager and had raging hormones. Soon enough, Shisui tripped over his own feet from walking backwards and reached out for anything closest to him to save his ass. That, unfortunately, was Lori.
Tobirama rounded the corner along with his brother Hashirama after finding him in the tech center of Wal-Mart and were currently walking towards what looked like the food part of the store. They found Itama, Butsuma and Tajima there and Hashirama waved them over happily. "Hey what are you guys doing here?" Hashirama asked. Itama spoke first as he was really excited. "Getting groceries! We were running out..." Hashirama nodded and saw the various plastic bags of fruit, veggies and some meat and sweat dropped. They would need something to carry them in. Looking around he spotted a cart that was being unused and brought it to his father and two little brothers. All three deposited them into the now half full cart of food.
Since the ninja didn't know this world's currency they would have to find the girls. "Tobi?"
"What is it, brother?"
"Could you find the girls?" Tobirama only nodded to Hashirama's request and didn't even have to use a finger to sense the girl's chakra's. Lori's cold chakra was the first one he sensed. Not too far away. "Lori is the closest one." With a nod all the ninja were on their way, Hashirama pushing the cart fast with Itama on the front laughing wildly.
Once they rounded the corner they saw...
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Lori on top of Shisui! His hand was gripping the fabric of her green jacket and pulling her close. Their face was but just inches apart from one another with blushes evident on their faces.
When Shisui had tripped and fallen, he had latched onto the closest thing to him... Lori. His large, calloused hand gripped the fabric of her jacket pulling her down with him with a yelp. His back hit the cold floor first taking all his body weight. Lori crashed down on top of him but was able to somewhat catch herself. Her dainty pale white hands on either side of his head as his hand still gripped tightly onto her jacket. He could feel her breasts on his chest making him blush even harder. They were soft. Opening his onyx eyes he stared into Lori's surprised sapphire ones. Embarrassment written all over her face and his too but he was able to control it slightly better. Their hearts pounded in their chests threatening to burst as they realized just how far apart their lips were.
Shisui gulped.
They could feel one another's breath on their faces. Lori's breath was minty fresh. Peppermint. His was like cinnamon. Neither were aware of Itachi and Kagami watching the spectacle, Itachi with amusement and slight horror because he feared what might happen if certain people found out and this was a public place, and Kagami with horror and pride.
That's when Tobirama, Hashirama, Butsuma, Tajima and Itama rounded the corner...
They all froze as they looked at the scene before them. Rage started to cloud the two elder's vision upon seeing Lori on top of Shisui. They quickly realized Shisui's hand gripping her jacket tightly making them even more furious. "...Your a dead man Uchiha!" Butsuma yells out with rage evident as he took a huge frozen fish out of the basket and held it like he would a katana. Tajima took out a bag of carrots, ripped it open and had one in his free hand like he would wield a kunai. "I'm going to shove this carrot right up your *Censored* you prick!" (Ass)
Lori and Shisui looked at them with wide and fearful eyes as Tajima activated his sharingan and the tomes began to spin rapidly as the sharingan literally glowed with rage. Shisui could only think one thought... I'm fucked...
Butsuma was beside the two in a flash and with one hand pulled Lori off of Shisui like she was nothing. But then again when did she ever really eat? Pushing Lori behind him where he knew she would be safe he proceeded to beat the shit out of Shisui with the frozen fish. Shisui felt every strike like he was getting hit with an anvil. It HURT LIKE HELL!
Tajima joined in as well and was stabbing Shisui with a carrot as best he could, you know, with a carrot. Shisui's cries sounded throughout the whole of Walmart. Itachi just looked at his 'older brother' with a look that said 'you poor bastard'. Kagami looked horrified.
Tobirama was currently looking over Lori to make sure there were no injuries caused by the pesky Uchiha and especially checked her lips. They didn't look swollen... "Are you okay? Did he kiss you?" Tobirama asked to which Lori responded with a curt nod making Tobirama's eyes widen and before Lori could clarify he joined Tajima and Butsuma by kicking the shit of the young Uchiha. He had hurt one of the girls.
Lori looked horrified for once in her life since meeting the Ninja. "What the Hell? He didn't do anything. He fell and reached out to catch his fall!" If the three ninja heard Lori they ignored her and continued to beat Shisui into oblivion as Jeri came by. "Don't know what the fuck's going on but Police coming our way, let's get out of here!" Hashirama and Itachi had to pry Tajima and Butsuma off of Shisui while Madara, Izuna and Kagami had shown up and had to pry Tobirama off of the young boy.
This had definitely been one Hell of an evening...
This took me four days to make so I hope you guys liked it!
Moxie: force of character, determination, or nerve
Chagrin: distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated or to feel distressed or humiliated
Questions for this chapter:
1: what did Lori mean by having to be cautious and prepared in foster care? Why was she?
2: Moments or scenes you loved? (Give detail please)
3: Who loves Butsuma, Tobirama and Tajima after this? :)
Review please and give your own two cents! Thank you!
