A/n: Hii everyone! I hope you like this chapter! I have been working on it for days! Please do comment as soon as you read! And give your Vote in the Poll! I really am confused on who to pair her up with! Also, quick question: Should I follow the cannon storyline or do the spoiler?
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Naruto fell off the bed as soon as she screamed. But before he could fall on the ground with a THUD! Everything around her stopped, as if someone had clicked the Pause Button. Naruto was stuck floating in the air, just two feet above the ground. She watched outside the window as the Early Morning birds flying in the air paused too. With a frown, she stood up from the bed, and turned around, only to shriek in surprise.
There stood the bane of her existence- the Spirit of Time in front of her, in all his glory. "You called, Mistress?" He asked politely with a bow.
She gaped at his sudden entry. That's it? That's what she had to do? Screech his name like a Banshee and he will appear?
Why didn't he tell her that?!
"Why didn't you tell me I would've to shout your name to summon you?" She asked confused.
He blinked and said "I told you, you can summon me whenever you want."
"You didn't tell me how to summon you." She pointed out as she folded her arms.
"Yes, I did." He said.
"No you didn't!" Trixie argued with him.
"Yes-"
"No." She interrupted him.
"Yes-"
"No."
"Ye-"
"Okay fine!" She snapped at him, and rubbed her temple. This Spirit will truly be the Death of her. She looked up at him and asked "So, what made you visit me now?"
He answered back in his monotonous voice "Because you summoned me."
She face palmed. What a reply... Now, why had she called him again? She did not remember. Just Great!
She sighed and blew off a brown bang obscuring her vision, and- Wait, this is why she had called him. Eyes narrowed at the Time Spirit, and pointed at her hair and asked "What is this?"
"Um, your hair?" He answered dumbly.
She gave him a death glare, making a shiver of fear run down the emotionless Time Spirit. He did not understand what his Mistress was implying. He had had many Masters before, but his present Mistress was something else, really. Regardless, his previous Masters had their own quirks, but Mistress Theodora Riddle took the cake. She may act like a scatter-brained brat, but her glares do wonders.
"It's brown, you doofus!" She snarled at him as she pulled her hair slightly. Bad idea. She winced when her scalp hurt a little. Ow.
Note to self:- pulling own's hair is no fun.
"So?" He asked as he tilted his head in confusion. "Your hair had been brown for first twelve Years of your life.
She seethed in anger as she clenched her fists. She was fighting a losing battle to keep her desire to punch the fool. "Do you have any idea how much time it took for Fred, George and me to create a dye that remains permanent and let the roots grow in the colour we have dyed?!" Her voice sounded controlled, but her anger was quite hinted in her tone. "It took us years to make that dye, and you just let our years of hard work down the drain?!" She took a step forward, and suddenly Time had this sudden urge to run away from his Mistress and never come back. Sadly, if he does that, then Death will never let him live it down, and maybe tell Fate about it? Oh, the Horror! "If you don't know then let me tell you that I hate this brown hair of mine. So, if you'd be kind enough to change it back to blue?" The sadistic gleam in her eyes was quite scary.
Time gulped, though he wasn't eating anything, and said "Sure." With a flick of his wrist, her hair shimmered, and by the time she registered what was happening, Her waist length hair had turned a dark blue colour.
She squealed in joy, making the emotionless Spirit almost roll his eyes at her antic. Really, what had he done wrong to get her as his Master? Damn death, you lucky Bastard. He got the mature Potter boy, and here Time was stuck with this childish Riddle girl.
Why wasn't his immortal life fair?
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She tackled him to a hug, surprising him. None of his previous Masters made any physical contact with him, not even touched him. They had ordered him around like he was a servant. But this woman... she is different. She treats him like an equal, almost like a friend.
Well, she may be quite a pain in neck, but he can deal with it. He already liked his new Master.
The Time Spirit watched in amusement as the twenty one year old woman jumped and danced around the small apartment. He'd admit that his Master was really crazy, but maybe that's why she's loved by all.
"Is this it then, Mistress?" Time asked with a bow.
Trixie paused with her hands up in mid-air, as another thought descended into her mind. "Wait a second, I have a few questions or you." She said as she turned towards the Time Spirit.
"I will try to sate your curiosity as the best as I can." The Time Spirit said, making her almost wish to smack his arm for his emotionless voice.
She shook her head and asked "Um, you see, Uh- I had some flashbacks about Naruto's past when I met him the second time. I still don't understand how did that happen. Was it one of the additional powers that I've gained about which you had been talking about?"
"Yes." Time said with a nod.
"How does it work?" She asked as she tilted her head in curiosity.
"Well, when you stare at person's eyes and wish to know about their past or future, you will be shown it." The said spirit explained.
"That's it?" She exclaimed.
Time nodded, making her shoulders slump in disappointment. Goodness, she had been anticipating some exciting new spells to learn, but this turned out to be too easy. And if she had some more abilities like this one then, won't it be so cool? And also-
Wait, what if she really had more abilities?
"Did I got some more super-awesome powers other than knowing someone's past and future by one glance?" She asked as she folded her arms.
He nodded, making her almost jump with excitement. "Indeed, you have got some powers. Didn't I tell you about them...?" He said.
"You did?" She said, though it ended up like a sentence. The Time Spirit gave her a look, and she looked down sheepishly. "Would you –um-" Will he just stop staring at her so blandly? "-mind giving me a crash course on my new powers? 'Cause I really have a very bad memory and a short attention span." Even shorter than a tea-pot's, which is next to none. But don't tell him that.
The Time Spirit looked as if he wanted to rub his fingers over his temple and say 'I'm getting too old for this.' But miraculously, he resisted his urge to do so. He started telling her in his emotionless voice "Other than seeing someone's past, present and future with one glance, you have some more powers like changing your age anytime to however you wish; jump through someone's past, present, and future; interfere with someone's future –though I warn you it'll have huge consequences-; prevent someone's death or assign someone a premature death –but that should be your last resort, and is allowed only for emergency cases-; control time around a small area for a while, can go through different timelines and realities-"
Her head started spinning as she tried to take in this much information. She clutched her head and said "Okay, Quit it!" He stopped his lecture, and looked at his Mistress blankly, "Your lecture was boring. I don't think I got even the half of it."
The Spirit sighed, as if he wanted to bang his head against the wall. Really, what crime had he done to get such a scatter brained mistress? "Will this be all?" He asked in his monotonous voice.
"Yeah, yeah." She said as she waved him off in a dismissive way.
Time bowed to his Mistress and said "Before I go, I warn you that an inter-space representative was sent by the elders of his clan to meet you."
"Inter- what?" She asked with a blank look on her face.
"Inter-Space Being. This is a term we spirits use for those creatures who can travel through Space and Time between the Alternate Universes without any help from a Spirit." Time replied.
"You mean there are more Spirits like you." Trixie asked with a raised brow.
Time blinked in confusion, as if he thought it was the most stupid question he had ever heard. "Of course." He said.
Trixie's eyes widened. Wow, she had never ever considered the possibility of existence of many Spirits working for maintaining balances between the world. Who knows if she'll get the opportunity to meet another Spirit other than Time? She hoped he/she'd be more fun than Time, because the Time Spirit is the most boring Spirit she had ever had the luck to come across –regardless of the fact that he's the only Spirit she had come across in her life until now- who knows what the future holds.
Oh right, she does.
Ha ha, very funny. *note sarcasm*
Time pulled out his pocket watch from his golden cloak and said as he looked at the ticking hands of the watch "He's going to come soon."
She blinked "who?"
Time looked at her as if she was the dumbest being on earth –er-in this case, Konoha. "Mistress, I just told you about him."Time said as politely as he could.
"Told me what?" She asked as she tilted her head in confusion. And the award for the dumbest person in the World goes to...
Time sighed and said "About the Inter-Space being?"
Realisation dawned on her. "Oh right!" She said, "So, who is it?"
"You will soon know." He said as he pursued his lips. "Just don't be surprised when you see a bird with feathers like Flames."
"Wait what?" She asked as the identification he just gave reminded her of something from her fourth Year in Hogwarts.
Time made a show of looking at his wrist watch and said "Oh my, look at the time!" He inwardly cringed at his horrible acting. His emotionless personality was better than this fake Joker. His Mistress was really rubbing off him. "I have to go now, Mistress. If you need me anytime, then summon me." He bowed to her and soon with turned his back towards her, his Golden Cloak flowing with the movement.
"Wait-"
Before she could stop him, he disappeared with a Golden light blinding her. When he blinked her eyes next time, he was gone!
THUD!
She jumped as the sound echoed around the room, and then she heard a groan. She turned around, only to see Naruto on the floor, rubbing his poor butt and groaning in pain. She glanced out of the window and saw that the birds who had originally paused had now resumed flying. So, when the Time Spirit came, everything and everyone except her paused, and when he was gone, everything resumed as if they hadn't paused a while ago?
That was so cool! The next time she meets Time, she's so gonna bug him to teach her this cool technique!
"Really Theo nee-chan, you scream too loud!"Naruto's voice snapped her out of her thoughts as he scowled and stood up, only to stand frozen at sight of Theo.
"What is it, Hero?" She asked as she tilted her head, ignoring the fact that she had just given him a nickname.
He pointed his finger at her and screeched "What happened to your hair?"His mouth opened and closed several times like a goldfish, which was quite amusing to watch.
"What?" She asked as she pulled her blue hair up in a messy bun.
"I-It's blue!"He said as he gaped at her.
"I know, Hero. I can see it perfectly well." She said dryly. She turned around to fold the blankets lying haphazardly on the bed.
"B-But it had been Brown a while ago!" He argued back at her.
She paused as she was about to pick up the blanket. Right, Naruto didn't see Time changing her hair colour from that hideous brown to her cooler, amazing, fantastic Blue. Sighing, she turned to him and contemplated her answer, "I knew this cool Jutsu that could turn my hair from Brown to this awesome Blue." She said with a smile on her face, "Didn't you like it?" She asked as she raised her eyebrows a bit, and trembled her lower lip in anticipation. This was her 'making-you-guilty-to-avoid awkward-situation' look, and was her trump card to avoid many unwanted situations like that one time Harry had caught her dying Ron's hair pink, and that other time when Fred caught her kissing George and- Wait, forget she even thought that one.
Naruto gaped at her and said "Are you kidding? It's amazing! It makes you look very Pretty!"
Trixie beamed. "Really?"
Naruto bobbed his head up and down enthusiastically. "Yes! Believe it!"
She laughed and ruffled his blonde hair, to which he beamed. "Oh by the way Hero, what time does your School Starts?" she asked curiously.
"Eight o'clock, why did you ask, nee-chan?" Naruto asked confusedly.
"Because-" She said as she placed her hands over his whiskered cheeks and turned his head sideways such that it faced the battered clock hanging over the Wall, which showed that it was twenty minutes to eight. "-You're school is going to start in twenty minutes."
A scream rang through Konoha, waking up almost all the civilians who were planning to sleep till late-
"Oh Freak! I'M LATE!"
"Are you kidding me?!" She screeched as she narrowed her eyes at cupboards filled with only instant Ramen cups. She had scourged the fridge to look for something to eat, only to find expired milk cartons, rancid tomatoes and dozens of cockroaches.
Someone should really teach this kid about hygiene.
Good thing Naruto wasn't here at the moment and had decided to go to the Academy, or he might have been on the receiving end of Trixie's wrath.
She scowled as she dumped the expired milk cartons into the dustbin, which was brimming full with other rubbish. She rubbed her temple and looked around the apartment. Seriously, how does Naruto even live here? The gas stove looks like a thousand years old, the TV screen shows black and white pictures, the oven was a pathetic excuse of machine, the fridge was a poor run-down thing and it was a miracle that it was working properly. It would take some advanced charms to repair all of them. But first, she needed to make something eatable for Naruto. It's nearing lunchtime and the poor boy had only Ramen for breakfast.
She agreed that Ramen was tasty, but seriously, how can Naruto eat ramen for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner?
Sighing, she searched in the kitchen for something edible, and fortunately found some bread, butter, jam and some packets of frozen food. She quickly made some sandwiches of various types, and then packed two lunch-boxes. After cleaning up the mess, she picked up a shopping bag, and decided to do some grocery shopping, because if she has to live off another day on Ramen, then she will strangle the person who created Ramen –if he was even alive.
She looked around the busy streets of Konoha. Civilians and Shinobi alike were roaming in the streets, doing their day to day job. Little children played around in the streets, almost bumping with one or two people here and there. It was quite a peaceful atmosphere, almost normal, but it felt quite alien to her. Trixie, who had lived her last three years on run from the Death Eaters, and this past month imprisoned in a hospital room, all this normal-ness felt so eerie to her. Even though it was strange for her, it felt good. If this was what peace was like, then she liked peace. It was far better than living with a sense of foreboding that any moment could be your last one.
She ignored the looks some of the people were sending her, knowing that they were just curious about her. She even saw some men giving her lustful looks, which reminded her much of the Diagon alley incident occurring in her fifth Year. She and Harry were in Diagon alley to so some shopping when some boys cornered her and tried to flirt with her. Harry had a fit of rage, and being the overprotective lovely brother he is, he stupified everyone of them. A small smile played on her lips as she remembered wistfully such happy memories. Ah, such lovely days were those.
While she bought groceries for her and Naruto, she realised she didn't have money on her person and had to do a confusing charm over the vendors. If she had access to her Gringotts account, then she could've bought five Shopping Malls for Naruto –If there were any shopping malls in this world, even the idea seems highly unlikely- 'cause she was filthy rich. Half of the money in her account was given by the Potters, and the other half came from unknown sources *cough* Death-Eater funds provided by Voldemort*cough* hence, she was filthy rich! Too bad she can't use her money in this world. Heck, if she finds any Gringotts Branch here –another highly unlikely thought- then she'd transact them out and set up an account for Naruto in a local Bank so that her poor Hero won't have to feed himself Ramen all day. But since she doesn't have any access to her money, which is now either going to rot in her vault, or maybe used by Teddy Lupin and Harry Potter who were her sole heirs, as she had declared in her will, she had no other option but to take food without paying money. She didn't feel guilty for it, because it isn't like she hadn't done it before. Pick-pocketing and Stealing is a Prankster art. Every Prankster should know it. And Trixie was a pro in it. Besides, she has to feed Naruto and herself. Sure, the boy got an allowance, but it was very low, and he usually buys Ramen with it, since it's cheap, and the rest of the money goes to the Landlord for the rent of his apartment. That's why, she had to cheat her way to get groceries to feed herself and Naruto. She can't let both of them starve.
After steal –er- buying groceries, she headed towards the direction she though Konoha's Ninja Academy was. The first two times she got lost, but after that she pulled out her wand from her pocket and chanted "Point Me."
The wand pointed to the left, and soon, with the help of a simple-but-extremely-useful navigation charm she reached the Ninja Academy.
Naruto sat over the swing in front of Academy and looked sadly as the other children played around and had their lunches with their groups, while he sat alone, and away from them. He didn't know why everyone ignored him. No one ever played with him. He had no friends. He did not like loneliness. He wanted to have a friend. He looked at the left, where that Lazy Shikamaru Nara sat with his friend the fat boy Chouji Akimichi, and they both were sharing their lunch. Kiba Inazuka was running around with his white dog Akamaru following him. The weird bug-guy Shino Aburame sat some distance away, eating his lunch peacefully. The strange Hinata Hyuuga who always turns red whenever Naruto was around, sat next to the bug-guy, eating her lunch quietly, glancing every once in a while at Naruto and her cheeks turned red again. Weird. A group of girls including Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno were hiding standing near the fence, and giggling as they stalked Sasuke Uchiha –the emotionless Bastard- who sat at a tree in the farthest corner, glaring at the ground as if it had done something to him.
And here he was, sitting over a swing, all alone and hungry, with no one who cared for him.
"What 'cha doing here all alone, Hero?" A familiar voice said to him, making him startle as he jumped and fell hell first to the ground, his legs tangling in the ropes of the swing messily.
He groaned and opened his bright blue eyes, only to see a woman of twenty one with her blue hair pulled up in a pony tail, and her pretty brown eyes staring at him with curiosity. Her sun kissed skin looked perfect with a sleeveless long red tunic that fitted her perfectly and went up slightly above her knees, and the Black pants, with blue heeled sandals. There were two shopping bags in her one hand, and a side bag dangling from her shoulder. It was Theo nee-chan. But why was she upside down?
"Why are you upside-down, nee chan?" He asked confused.
She sweat-dropped and said "Hero, you're the one who is dangling from the swing, and is upside down. Not me."
Realising what she was saying, he tried to sit up but all efforts were futile since his legs were tangled with the ropes of the swing. He gave Theo nee-chan a sheepish look, who sighed and un-tangled him in a second. He fell on the ground with a THUD! He groaned as he sat up. Theo nee-chan helped him up and then brushed off dirt from his orange jump-suit.
He looked at her with wide eyes. He had watched as Mothers and elder siblings do this gesture when their child fell down, and he had always longed for someone who would do this to him too. It was a simple gesture, but it speaks tones. It tells us that our parents and siblings will always be there for us when he fail our efforts and will always pick us up when we fall. It tells how protective an older sibling is of their younger brother/sister. And Theo nee-chan did it for him. She really sees him as her brother, doesn't she?
Theo felt his eyes on her and looked up at him questioningly. "What?" She asked in confusion.
He shook his head and smiled brightly at her. "Nothing!" He said cheerily. The he wondered something "What are you doing here, by the way?"
She gave him a dubious look, but then shrugged, and said "You forgot your Lunch at home." She pulled out a Lunch-box from her bag, and handed it to him. He first looked up at the Lunch box and then at her. She brought him Lunch? No one ever did that for him.
He was about to bawl his eyes out, but Theo opened the lid of the Lunch box for him, and some mouth watering smells wafted from it. He picked up the thing Theo nee-chan had made. It was two breads and in between were some veggies.
Theo then rubbed her neck sheepishly and said "I know it's not much, but it was the only think I could make from what I found in your apartment."
"What is it?" He asked her curiously.
"This is a native dish of my home." She said some-what uneasily. "I hope it's not bad."
He nodded and took a bite of it, and almost moaned at it's taste. It was yummy! "It's very tasty, nee-chan! Believe it!" He beamed at her.
She smiled brightly at him and ruffled his hair affectionately, making his heart squeeze in joy. She then stood up and said to him sternly "I don't want any scrape of food to remain in this lunch-box, alright? Eat it up. I have to go back home to put up these groceries." She held up her two shopping bags. She turned around, but then paused and looked back at him, "Hero, would you want me to come and get you after your classes are over?"
His breathing caught in his throat, "You will come to get me after School, Nee chan?"
"Only if you want." She smiled genuinely at him. He felt like he was on cloud nine. He couldn't believe she will do that.
"Of course I do!" He said eagerly.
"Then I will come, Hero." She patted his shoulder once, and kissed his forehead, and started walking away.
Naruto looked down at the three remaining sandwiches in the Lunchbox that Theo nee-chan had managed to stuff into it, and beamed. He was very happy. Theo nee-chan not only brought him lunch, but she will come back after School too. A mischievous foxy grin made it's way to his lips. It was an occasion to celebrate.
And what's better way to celebrate this perfect occasion than a prank?
The look of happiness on Naruto's face made up her day. She was about to walk out of the Academy grounds, but her eyes fell on a group of girls standing near a fence and giggling. She felt confused. What was so funny? She looked at the direction they were stealing not-so-subtle glances, and saw a twelve year old boy with pale skin and onyx eyes, and his bangs framing his oval face. He was wearing white shorts and a blue hoodie with a red and white fan over his back. The kid had messy black hair which looked like a topsy-turvy Duck's ass. She stifled her laughter at the boy's weird hair-style. It was much more funny than Draco's gel-slicked hair and Snape's greasy long hair. Some people really have weird quirks.
She kept glancing back and forth between the group of girls and the lonesome boy, who kinda looked like her not-by-blood Harry from a distance, except the fact that he neither wear round glaces, have a lightening bolt shaped scar, nor did he have emerald green eyes that reminded everyone of Lily Evans Potter's eyes. It was obvious that those girls were his fangirls. Ah, young love. She thought wistfully as she was again reminded of the times in Harry's sixth Year when he used to have fangirls that sent him chocolates containing Love Potions.
The boy obviously looked annoyed by the fan-girls, and did his best to ignore them. She felt pity for the boy, and started walking towards him. The lonely boy didn't look like he had many friends. Maybe he will be Naruto's friend if she tried to set them up as friends?
The boy narrowed his eyes when Trixie neared him. She sat down beside him and smiled genuinely, making him give her a suspicious look. Ninjas and their paranoia.
"Hello, my name is Theo, and you are?" She asked politely to him.
The boy downright ignored her. How rude.
"It's impolite to not answer a question when you are asked something." She pointed out nonchalantly.
He gave her a glare and contemplated whether or not to answer her. In the end, he replied to her question "Sasuke."
Her eyes again fell over his weird hairstyle, and she couldn't help but blurt out "You know, your hair looks like a duck's ass."
He gave her a death glare. "You are being rude." He sneered at her.
"Tsk, tsk," She said as if scolding a naughty child, "You yourself aren't exactly being polite, are you? Besides, why try to butter you up when you obviously don't seem like the guy who gets flattered easily."
He just rolled his eyes and looked away. She did have a point.
"By the way, why aren't you eating your Lunch?" she asked curiously.
He said "None of your business."
"Come on," She whined, "I just asked you a simple question, it's not like I have asked you some personal question like why do you style your hair like that, Bird Brain?"
He gave her a death glare. "What did you just call me?" He hissed.
She blinked and said innocently "Bird Brain."
If looks could kill, she'd be dead by now. She rolled her eyes and said "I think it suits you perfectly."
"Hn." He said as he once again ignored her.
She sighed as she pulled out her lunch box from her bag, "Since you don't seem like you had Lunch, I will give you mine." She opened the lid of the lunch box and held it out for Sasuke.
The said boy looked at her warily, and then glared at her lunch box, "Why are you giving it to me?"
"A growing boy like you needs to eat regularly so that you have energy to perform your tasks. A Ninja needs strength to do missions."She said seriously as she urged him to take it from her. Sasuke picked up a sandwich warily, and then stared at the said food item as if it were an alien.
"What is this?" He asked in curiosity.
"It's a sandwich, a native dish of my home land." She said with a shrug.
He still did not eat it, and kept looking back and forth between the sandwich and her. Jeez, this boy takes Paranoia to a new level.
"It's not poisoned or anything, alright!" She said as she tore a piece of sandwich in his hand from a corner and popped it into her mouth and chewed it, and finally gulped it down. "See?" She said as she placed the lunchbox next to Sasuke.
The boy narrowed his eyes as he watched her eat a bit of sandwich. When she was finished, he slowly started eating the sandwich as well. Soon he increased his speed, and by the minute, he finished the whole sandwich. He then picked up the lunch box and started eating the lunch eagerly.
"Oh, someone looks hungry~!" She said in a sing song voice, teasing the boy who just glared at her.
She laughed and looked around only to find Sasuke's bunch of fangirls still giggling and staring at him from a distance, but some of them were also glaring at trixie for obvious reasons.
"Say, Bird Brain-"
"Don't call me that!"
She ignored him and continued "-don't you get annoyed with all those fangirls?"
He paused from eating his third sandwich and grimaced. She took it as yes. She chuckled and said "Let me help you out of your little problem. These girls won't annoy you, at least not for the next ten minutes or so."
He looked at her curiously as she turned around to stare at the girls, and chanted a wandless "Confundus." The girls blinked their eyes in confusion, and then started asking each other what they had been doing. Trixie said out loudly to them "Girls, I think you were going to head towards your classroom to finish your lunches."
The girls believed her and bowed down and thanked her, and went inside the Academy, to their classes. She turned back to Sasuke, only to find him gaping at her. "How did you do that?"He asked her.
"It's just a Jutsu I have created." She said nonchalantly with a shrug.
His eyes gleamed with determination as he said to her "Teach me."
She laughed and said "Sorry kid, no can do." She then picked up the now empty lunch box and stood up. "I gotta go. I will come back tomorrow and if you like, I'll bring you lunch again." She then ruffled his duck-ass hair, to which he scowled, "See you later, Bird brain!"
"Don't call me that!"
Trixie's stomach growled in hunger. She was hungry, alright. She didn't know what made her to give her Lunch box to Bird Brain. And now she was suffering the consequences of doing a charity. Oh her poor stomach!
She sighed as she looked up and squinted her eyes at the sun. It was an hour past noon, and the heat was unbearable. At least the cooling charm was working on her person to prevent her from sweating. These are small perks of magic.
As she walked through the streets of Konoha's market, she was caught off guard when a cat with reddish brown fur with a red ribbon tied over her ear running around the street, making the passer-by jump away from the cat as the cat snarled angrily. A sense of Déjà-vu fell over her, as she was reminded of another little ginger cat in the wizarding world. She placed down the shopping bags, and scooped up the cat in her arms before it could run away.
"Crookshanks!" She exclaimed gleefully as she hugged the poor cat, startling the poor creature. The cat thrashed around in her arms and tried to escape from it, but soon Trixie held him gently in her arms and rubbed behind his ear, which calmed him down, and he purred.
"Aw Crookshanks, I missed you too!" She gushed as she hugged the cat again, but this time gently.
"Uh Miss, excuse me?"
She turned around to see four familiar people who had sometimes been assigned to look after her at the hospital when she had turned to a five year old. It was Might Guy and his team- Rock Lee, the boy who looked an exact replica of their Sensei with big round eyes, bushy brows and weird bowl hair; the weapon girl Tenten; and the freak with weird eyes Neji Hyuuga; and their Sensei wearing a green spandex –of all the things!- and had the same weird bowl haircut as Rock Lee and round eyes. Seriously, are they father and son or not?
"How youthful! The Power of youth thrives in you, O Beautiful flower of Konoha! Please go out on a date with me!" That was none other than Might Guy. She blinked her eyes as the man knelt down in front of her, with his teeth gleaming extraordinarily –and was that sunset she was seeing behind him?
"Guy Sensei, that was so Youthful!" Lee's eyes had stars in them as he stared at his Sensei in awe. Tenten sweat dropped, seeing her Sensei's antics, while Neji Hyuuga looked impassive, except his eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at Trixie.
"Um, I don't even know you." She pointed out to Guy, neither denying his request nor encouraging it, because she didn't have any clue on what to do. This was unlike any proposal she had ever got in the past.
"Ah! Forgive me for my ignorance, Youthful Flower of Konoha! I am Might Guy- the Green Beast of Konoha, and these youthful children are my Gennins- Rock Lee, Tenten and Neji." Cue the weird teeth gleaming and the sunset scenery behind him. Alright, how the heck did he pull it off?
That was awesome!
"Hello. My name is Theo" She smiled at the three Gennins and at their weird Sensei, who started bawling his eyes out.
"You have a Youthful name! You really are youthful! Please go out on a date with me?!"
She sweat dropped at him. "I'm sorry, but no."
Tenten figured out that she had been embarrassed enough in front of this pretty Lady, so she stepped forward and get straight to business. "Miss Theo, you seem to have the cat we've been looking for in the town. Would you mind handing back Tora?" She asked sweetly, wondering how the hell that demonic cat was calm in the woman's hands.
Theo gasped. "Crookshanks? No way!" She held the ginger cat away from them and said "I'm not giving you my Crookshanks!"
Tenten looked at her, puzzled. Why was this woman calling Tora, Crookskan- Crookshake- Whatever!
"Um, Miss I think you've been mistaken. We've been assigned to capture this cat. His name is Tora." Tenten said.
Tixie scowled as she hugged Crookshanks closer to her. She didn't want to part up with the cat, who was q part of her past. Seeing that the woman won't give up the bloody cat, Neji said in an emotionless voice "Give the cat back so we can complete our mission, or we'll have to use force."
"Neji! How un-youthful of you! How could you talk like that to such a Beautiful Flower of Konoha!" Might guy said as he scolded his student.
"Don't be so un-youthful, Neji!" Lee said in a loud voice.
Tenten narrowed her eyes at Neji and said "Apologise to her. You have no right to threaten a civilian like that."
Neji just ignored them and looked away.
Tenten sighed and turned to Theo "I apologise on Neji's behalf. Please give us Tora back."
Theo looked down at the ginger cat, torn in indecision. She wanted to keep Crookshanks, but it was obvious that Crookshanks here belonged to someone else. She will have to hand him over to these Gennins, sooner or later.
Sighing, she felt her stomach grumble from hunger, and suddenly an idea crossed over her mind.
She grinned mischievously, making Tenten take a step back warily, while Neji narrowed his eyes in recognition. This grin looks quite similar to the ones that un-named five year old used to have to whom they babysat in the hospital.
"I will give you Crookshanks on one condition," She said with a sadistic smirk on her face, making Tenten narrow her eyes. She turned to their Guy-Sensei and said suggestively "I have a sudden craving to eat ice-cream."
His eyes gleamed with hope. "Is this a date?" He asked eagerly.
"Only if you pay." She smiled charmingly at him, making him jump up and down in joy and scream-
"HOW YOUTHFUL!"
Trixie licked her fourth chocolate ice cream cone, and almost moaned in delight. Her tummy was full now, and she also got to eat ice-cream on a hot day. What a luck! She rubbed behind Crookshanks ears again who sat in her lap, making him purr. She then looked around the table, Tenten sat to her one side, next to her sat Neji. On her other side sat Lee, with Guy sitting between Neji and Lee and talking obnoxiously something about 'the Power of Youth' and some rivalry between him and someone by the name of Kakashi? Well, who cares. Lee was on his tenth cup of Vanilla icecream, but Neji just ate one cup of nuts and cookies ice-cream. Tenten was licking her strawberry ice-cream cone, and still looked shocked.
"I can't believe you agreed to a date with Guy-Sensei!" Tenten whispered in a bewildered tone, as if she couldn't digest the fact that her weird Sensei got a beautiful girl to date. She turned around to Theo and asked "Why did you agree to the date in the first place?"
She shrugged and replied "I wanted to spend some more time with Crookshanks, and besides, I was quite hungry."
Her jaw dropped. "What? That's it?!"
"Yes," She said nonchalantly. "What did you think why I had agreed?"
Tenten looked down in embarrassment and said "I thought you were interested in him, you know...?"
Trixie chuckled and eyed Guy for a couple of seconds and turned to Tenten and said "He's not that bad. I think he's a good man. I may fall for him, but I think he deserves someone special in his life, and I don't think I am that someone special. I just hope he finds her soon." She placed the chocolate ice-cream she had ordered the shopkeeper to pack for home and placed it in her bag. "But till then, I think I'm going to enjoy my ice creams."
Trixie then handed Crookshanks to Lee, who held the demonic cat at arm's length since the cat began snarling and scratching his arms dangerously and wailed how un-youthful the cat was. She then stood up, and walked away, carrying her bags filled with groceries, but not before turning around and winking at Tenten.
Tenten smiled and said- "Guys, I think that woman is going to be my new Role Model."
