AN: Hey, it's been a while! I'm pretty busy with some stuff…. But enough with that topic! Please enjoy reading!

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Chapter five: A slice of chocolate cake!

Naruto stood in front of Rai's door without making a noise and breathing silently while looking at the doorknob. He was thinking. Thinking what kind of evil there is out there for him today that he should face just because… just because Kakashi-sensei asked him a favor. And just because he knew how hurt it feels to be forgotten and neglected.

With those thoughts running on his head, he finally decided to take the challenge his teacher gave him. Besides, time is being wasted and if there are stuff they should take care of while they were away, they had to do that now or they won't finish it in time. He gave a deep breath and without notice, knocked on the door.

His hand felt light as he was knocking on the door. He knocked for about two to three times only. And after that, he heard the doorknob clicked and then the door opened.

Stood before Naruto, is a brown-haired girl who looked miserable and has 'fake thick eyebrows' sticking on her eyebrows to imitate someone he knew.

Rai bent down to Naruto's level and placed her pointing finger pointing upwards on her lips, as if telling Naruto to keep it down.

"What?" Rai whispered, but this time, her voice wasn't scary anymore.

"Uh… you wanna go to the park?" Naruto invited.

Rai's right eyebrow rose up and looked at Naruto.

"Um… in case you have forgotten, my dear Naruto… wait… I already cleared it out, right?" Rai said.

"I thought you wanted to be happy on your birthday? Why don't you go to the park with me and eat some ramen?" Naruto said with a grin.

With a grin on his face. But deep inside, he knew and only he knew that it was someone else he wanted to go there to.

"Ramen? But, I ate Ramen for breakfast already!" Rai said, wanting to raise her voice.

"Then we'll eat something else, stupid!" Naruto yelled at her.

Again, she placed her finger on her lips and closed her eyes tight and said "Ssshhh!" She then opened her eyes and whispered again. "Okay…" she said. "I'll come with you, but only if you treat me."

"W-What! Why would I treat you! I'm already doing you a favor and you want me to pay for your happiness!" Naruto said as he stepped back.

"Looks to me like you're only bored. But what the heck, a free Ramen from Naruto-kun would still sound great!" Rai cheerfully said with a grin.

Naruto felt dizzy, and it was only the first five minutes of staying with her?

Kakashi-sensei should pay me after this! He thought.

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Rai was uneasy walking outside where everyone would see her. She always looked behind her and then resumed looking on her way, but then, she couldn't help looking behind her. What if someone suddenly breathes hard behind her and stabs her to death?

Naruto could notice her looking back and he could also feel the tense atmosphere that was with them. By the time Rai did her… approximately 18th time looking behind, it cracked his last nerve.

"Will you stop doing that!" Naruto yelled at her with a vain on his temple and not even caring about the people around them who was looking.

"How could I! You just exposed me to danger, Naruto! And where's my free ice…" Rai didn't want to continue but it came out involuntarily with a low voice. "… ice cream?"

Naruto knew why she felt that way. She was already 25 and she still wanted ice cream and even demanded for it on a 12-year old.

Naruto once again gave a deep breath with a sweat drop on his forehead and searched on his pocket his coin purse which contains his savings.

Rai witnessed Naruto pick out his frog-coin purse and opened it with his fingers. The coin purse looked really weird because it was in a form of a frog, with hands and legs spreading out. Even before, Rai have always thought frogs are disgusting.

When the coin purse was fully open and Naruto whispered to his self, counting the money he earned, Rai smiled at Naruto and jabbed his arm.

Naruto, concentrated on his counting, forgot to react with that and just looked at her, thinking what could he have done this time and how he should rub it to her face that she was acting weird.

"Stop counting, I'll give you an ice cream treat. I know just the right place to go!" Rai said with a wide grin on her face. Before, she would only grin if she knew she did something right and was flattered about it. But this time, what could he have done to make her self grin?

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Naruto and Rai walked together to the old ice cream house that Naruto always saw, only he didn't know it was an ice cream house because for him, it looked like a vegetable house because of its oldness.

They entered the small and old café. The café was built by old woods but clearly, the structure was good enough to hold it for about another century. Naruto also noticed how many people there actually were, or was it only because the place was small?

"Welcome!" The old man which probably is the owner of the café greeted to them with a really warm smile on his face.

"Oji-san! It's me! I'm back!" Rai's greeting gave Naruto a confused look on his face.

"Huh?" The old man stretched his vision by closing his eyes a little bit and tried to look at the girl with a clearer image. When he finally saw her, his face gave a smile again only this time, his smile was a lot sweeter than the first one. "Little Rai!"

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Naruto and Rai walked out of the café with an ice cream cone on their hands. Rai's ice cream was flavored cookies and cream, her favorite (AN: Actually, that was mine ) and Naruto worked on his Kiwi-flavored ice cream which tasted so good and so right.

"Rai, I thought you were going to treat me!" Naruto suddenly remembered.

"Huh? What do you mean? What do you think is that ice cream you're eating right now?" Rai replied.

"What! You didn't treat me at all! You just went there because you knew the old man and you also knew that he would give us free ice cream!" Naruto said with vengeance.

"But, Naruto, this type and size of their ice cream is the best and most expensive there is! If you're worrying about the calories-" Rai didn't get to finish.

"I'm not worrying about the calories, baka! This was for free! And you didn't even pay a single fee for asking extra toppings!" Naruto said with his eyes rounded and his saliva almost showering.

"Humph… stupid monkey…" Rai whispered to herself but she hoped Naruto heard.

"What did you say!" Naruto asked with his hands closed and his fist ready to punch.

Without even noticing, their walk was heading back to the apartment. Naruto forgot to stall her longer, and he thinks it was only two hours or three that have passed since they went outside.

Are they finished yet! Naruto asked his self.

Rai was walking straight to her room. Naruto walked with her and he knew he couldn't stall her anymore and that she wouldn't go anywhere anymore unless he tells her that they were planning a surprise birthday party for her and that she had to cooperate.

Rai took her key from her pocket and slid it to the keyhole in her doorknob. Naruto was sweating and was nervous about what happened already.

She turned the doorknob open and pushed the door open.

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Naruto was expecting a loud "Happy Birthday, stupid idiot!" from her friends, but there was none.

Rai was walking to the living room to sit down and relax but then, Naruto ran fast and pushed Rai aside because she was on his way and even went first to the living room, but no one was there.

"WHAT THE!" Naruto screamed.

"What? What? Is there a frog!" Rai curiously asked Naruto from his reaction when he saw the living room.

"B-But…! We… I… Huh?" Naruto said, without even finishing a single sentence and didn't know what to say.

Did they trick me? They couldn't! They wouldn't! Rai told me, herself, that it was her birthday today! Could she be alliance with them to trick me! And Kakashi-sensei even used Hinata's name!

Rai threw her self to the chair lazily and relaxed.

"What are you doing there?" Rai asked and was talking about Naruto standing in front of her, in front of the living room with a very pale face and looked like fainting.

"Are you sure it's your birthday today?" Naruto asked.

"Huh? What are you talking about? I treated you out because of that, right?" Rai said.

"B-B-But…!"

Before Naruto could speak again, someone knocked on the door.

Rai stood up from the chair and walked to the door but still thinking why Naruto was acting weird suddenly.

Then, she turned the door open and saw Hinata standing outside her door.

"Ah, Hinata-chan! What are you doing here?" Rai asked the blue-haired girl.

"Um… Are you with N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked.

Rai looked behind her, to the living room and looked at Naruto, now looking at Hinata who was outside the door.

"Why? Is there something wrong?" Rai asked.

"N-Naruto-kun!" Hinata called and almost crumbled the piece of paper she was holding.

Naruto ran to Hinata as fast as he can.

"Hinata-chan! What's happening?" Naruto asked and demanded for an answer all at once.

Hinata did not say a word but gave Naruto the piece of paper that she was holding before and while heading to Rai's door. It was a small piece of paper. A small piece of paper that contained words, sentences…

Naruto looked at Hinata's eyes. When Hinata saw Naruto's eyes looking at her, she couldn't help but blush hard. His face was so close to her and with that look in his eyes, he only looked cuter than before.

He then held Rai's wrist and pulled her out of the door.

"Hinata!" Naruto called Hinata who was evaluating what just happened.

"H-Hai!" Hinata said, snapping out of her fantasy.

At first, she didn't get it why Naruto called her and did not say anything. But then, she remembered the paper.

Right after remembering, Hinata immediately ran while Naruto who was pulling Rai, followed her.

"H-Hey! What's going on!" Rai said.

When they reached the roof top's only entrance and only exit, Rai's face blushed.

There were food on the table. Miso, tempura, salad, onigiri… Kakashi, Gai and the others was also there and was staring at her. When she looked at the banner just below the table, she smiled and looked down because it read "Happy Birthday, Rai!"

"Happy birthday, Rai!" Everyone said in chorus.

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Everyone was now busy with their food. The food tasted great and the beverages were also delicious. Rai ate and ate and ate and thanked and thanked and thanked. Rai was sitting on the table alone when suddenly, she noticed a shadow in front of her.

Kakashi was standing in front of her. Of all the times, she thought, of all the times he could see her why when eating! Kakashi looked so cute with the moonlight shining above them. Rai wanted to stare at him forever but if he did, then it would have been obvious. Obvious that she… liked… Ka-ka-shi.

Kakashi sat down beside her. Rai's heart was beating fast; she was so shy being beside the copy ninja.

"Happy Birthday!" Kakashi finally said, wanting to have a separate and special greeting to his friend.

"Thank you again for this!" Rai cheerfully said.

"Don't kid me, you knew about this, didn't you?" Kakashi said.

Rai was just staring back at Kakashi, now acting clueless and was true to herself about the 'I-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about' part.

"H-How did you know?" Rai asked, surprised.

"You were always hoping for a surprise birthday party, weren't you?" Kakashi said and looked down and so did Rai.

"…Gai told me." Kakashi continued. "You guys must really know each other, huh?"

Rai looked up and then looked at Kakashi.

"I-I… Kakashi! Don't misunderstand that! Gai and I are just-"

"Friends?" Kakashi continued for her. "I figured."

Rai didn't know what to say and just played with her food to let her self think clearly what to say. What did Kakashi wanted to tell her? Wait… she wasn't hoping that Kakashi liked her back or anything… was she?

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When the party ended, Gai was the last person to greet Rai. Everyone was so tired of cleaning the roof top and was so tired laughing and working all day. But they knew that what they did was repaid.

Kakashi and Rai were the only ones left. Kakashi opened the door for Rai. Rai acted like it was just a sign of respect, but deep down, just by doing that, Kakashi made her feel like a real woman.

Rai continued to walk down the stairs and didn't wait for Kakashi to walk with her, she didn't want to. Because if he did walk with her now, what next? Forget about that walk?

As soon as Kakashi closed the door, he ran to Rai and walked with her.

"Rai… can I walk with you for a while?" Kakashi asked Rai.

Rai blushed and her blood flowed fast all over her body. To her hands, to her feet and to her face. She was excited, nervous and thrilled. And because of that, she forgot about not letting Kakashi catch up with her, and now walk with him?

She suddenly remembered their last walk out together, alone and also, the moon was shining down on them, too. That last time, she slapped Kakashi hard because of a silly reason.

What am I thinking? She told her self. He's just going to walk with me to freshen up a bit, it's not like he's going to put up the last time again!

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AN: The next chapter will be…. SPOILER: About Rai and Kakashi. I hope the next time makes you blush! I did! Because I imagined I was on her place, kyaaaa! Thanks for reading this fic again! Hope you liked it! And I hope you'll wait for the next chapter!