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Chapter 4
The in betweens and all sorts of nonsense!
A delicious smell of cooking pancakes hovered around the little homey apartment of two going-to-be-students of the Konoha Academy of Ninjas. The sun was peeking through the windows, as Kyumi Akira stood behind the source of the seducing smell of pancakes, wearing an apron over her deep blue shirt and long grey pants. Her auburn hair was pinned up in a messy bundle as strands of escaped hair hang freely swaying in the breeze and as she shifted to flip the pancakes 'round.
A yawn sounded at the door and Kyumi Ayame, in a scruffy nightdress, stepped into the tiny kitchen, slumping into a seat as she rubbed her eyes groggily, blinking at the sunlight winking at her. "Hey, Sis… What's for breakfast?" Ayame sniffed hungrily in the air, her lavender hair stuck out at all direction and her eyes suddenly gleamed predatorily as she caught a whiff of pancake smell. "Ohh…! Pancakes! Are they done?" Ayame drooled.
"Go and wash up first! You're not going to get anything to eat until you've washed up. Ayame!" Akira exclaimed as Ayame tried to slip a plate of golden pancakes just fresh out of the frying pan before she had came in away. Ayame gave a sour look at Akira's stern face and dodged a couple of wooden spoons flying at her as she strolled into the bathroom around the corner.
"Already practicing your throwing skills when we've not even started school yet? Haha!" Ayame called out teasingly.
"Shut it! You better don't make a mess in the bathroom!" Akira grumbled back.
"Aww… Pancakes sneaking failed. Oh well…" Ayame muttered as she turned on the tap, splashing the cool water onto her face, not registering Akira's last remark as the water dripped all over the sink and floor.
A couple of minutes later, Ayame came out, mess-free, half of her long lavender hair neatly pulled back with a strip of leather and she had changed out of her night clothes. Clad in a white sleeveless top and pale violet pants, she sat down on the table, her stomach rumbled at the sight of the mountainous plate of pancakes topped with syrup placed in front of her. A slab of butter sat on a plate in the middle of the round table.
She grinned, "Yay! Pancakes time! Wow! Sis, you've sure outdid yourself!" referring to the lot of scrumptious looking pancakes and picked up the fork on the table.
"Hn, that's easy, I knew that a normal serving of pancakes won't be enough for that monster of a stomach of yours. But having to prepare that gigantic breakfast of yours, you're going to clean up the plates afterwards." Akira said nonchalantly, suppressing a smirk at the look on Ayame's face.
"Aww… Do I have to?" Ayame pouted.
"Don't be a lazy pig, Ayame. We'll have to plan out a timetable for us to take turns to do the cleaning or washing in this new home later." Akira stated, and then sighed as Ayame attacked the pancakes with her fork, shoveling it into her mouth hungrily, apparently more interested in eating then what Akira has to say.
"Jeez, wonder how she breathes eating as though she hadn't eaten for days…Whoa…The pancakes actually disappeared whole into her mouth! Wonder if this is considered talent or pure entertainment… " Akira mused and started on her rather small serving of pancakes compared to Ayame's. A few minutes later, as Akira were about to start on her last pancake when Ayame yelled, "More please!" Akira rolled her eyes as she replied, "You've had enough. If you're still hungry, make it yourself. This is not a restaurant, ya know."
"Fine! I don't really feel that hungry anyway." Ayame glared and started washing up the dishes as she doesn't know how to flip pancakes. Akira chuckled with glee as she finished her pancake and left the plate in the sink for Ayame to wash.
After Ayame have done her last wash up, they got their stuff and set off to the academy. Ayame started a conversation "Hey sis, do you think we can make friends with the rookie nine?" Akira looked thoughtful for a moment before replying.
"You know… It's still a couple of years before the rookie nine graduates, wonder how are they all in the academy… I know Naruto flunked three times before graduating, Sasuke is well, a genius and Sakura's smart. And the others? Hey, I'll like to meet Shikamaru, the guy with laziness comparable to yours, ya think all the members of Rookie Nine will be in the same class as us?" Akira commented and Ayame listened absentmindedly while thinking of how will the rookie nine be like before realizing what Akira had meant in her sentence. "Hey! I'm not lazy! I'm just… relaxed! Yeah! I'm just relaxed." She protested indignantly and Akira just smothered her grin and continued walking.
The sisters swapped comments along the way and reached the large building sooner than they think. They walked in along with a swarm of students and into the classroom they've been before. Looking around, Akira was surprised that they reached the academy early as little students were scattered around the classroom. They received quite some looks from the students, being new to them, and some even greeted them. Ayame and Akira smiled back politely and greeted back. Ayame found two empty seats in the last second row from the back near the windows and waved Akira over.
"Here, I think we can observe everyone from the back." Ayame sat down and looked around for anyone she recognized. Akira settled down beside her, surveying the classroom and the students, including those who are coming in through the door.
"Oh look!" Ayame gestured at a dark haired girl sitting by herself and glancing slightly towards a certain blonde in bright orange jumpsuit who had just arrived noisily into the classroom. Akira tilted her head, as she couldn't see the girl face. But as Naruto bounded up towards them, white pupils-less eyes locked with hers and the girl blushed, looking away. Ayame poked Akira, sending her a grin. Akira poked her back, and then gave a pointed look at Ayame as an energetic blonde approached.
"Hi! You're the new students, right? We've met some time back, you remember me?" Naruto stopped at Ayame's side and grinned, Ayame nodded at him while Akira merely smiled crookedly.
"Where are you from? Do you know your way around here? So how do you find Konoha? I guessed it's quite lonely without any family here huh, I'm so sorry about your parents, maybe I can take you two for a tour around later?" He blabbered and Ayame giggled at the speed he's talking.
Akira looked amusingly at the enthusiastic Naruto and cut him off, "Calm down, you're going to dehydrate yourself by talking non-stop. Yes, we're new here, obviously, and I think Konoha is great. I think we won't be lonely as long as we still have each other I guess," at this Akira ruffled Ayame's hair, causing her to screech and slap Akira's hand off.
"Don't mess up my hair! And who said that its fun having you for company all the time?" Ayame pushed Akira away jokingly and pulled a pitiful look. "I don't want to be stuck with you for the rest of my life you know! I'll be doomed!" Akira laughed at that and Naruto looked on with envy as they banter with each other for a moment.
"Oh sorry, we went off topic, we'll be glad if you'll show us around the village after school. Maybe you can prevent us from getting lost all over the village then." Ayame smiled broadly at Naruto and Naruto felt a warm tingling inside of him.
"They did not reject me! Yes! Finally someone who will treat me as a normal person and no name calling! They're really nice, maybe we can be friends." Naruto felt really happy for the first time since he came to the academy and his face lighted up even more when Akira invited him to sit with them.
"He looked so innocent, who knew how long he have been by himself all along and still be so happy looking." Akira thought as he sat down on Ayame's other side. Ayame immediately start bombarding Naruto with questions and the two of them quickly warmed up with each other.
Soon, it looked like they're having a lot of fun as Naruto told jokes and made funny faces, making Ayame to laugh till tears leaked out of her eyes.
Akira chuckled at the pair of sunshine and added in her few cents worth of sarcastic comments, but did not join in any further as she was contented to just watch the two laughing.
Then, a female voice called out, "Hey, you two are the newcomers, aren't you? Why are you sitting in Sasuke's seat? I know that he always sit here only, to think that I came here early to book the seat beside him!" Akira blinked and looked at the person who was talking.
"Huh? Oh are you talking to me? I'm sorry but I didn't know it was taken, but I'm perfectly fine sitting here. And no one had come up to me to claim the seat, so I guess the person you're looking for decided to sit somewhere else then." Akira said politely to the blue eyed girl, looking into her eyes. She had straight blond hair which hang above her shoulders and her fringe was clipped up neatly, she looked quite pleasant, however. Akira thought that she looked vaguely familiar but didn't ask for her name.
Ayame and Naruto had stopped talking and looking at the girl, and at Sasuke's name, Naruto gave a snort and said, "Oh yeah, I was also thinking where that stupid Sasuke went and found them two already sitting in his seat. Maybe he's sick of you people chasing him all around the school and went into hiding. Hah!" Naruto gave a superior laugh and the girl narrowed her eyes at him.
"What do you know about Sasuke-kun? How dare you call Sasuke stupid! You're the stupid one!" The blonde huffed shrilly at Naruto, her voice piercing the whole class' ears. Naruto cringed, and Ayame cut in, "Okay… You don't have to shout, and come' on, what's so good bout this Sasuke?"
The girl looked at Ayame incredulously, "Because-!"
"Umm… If it's any help, but I think the person you're looking for is actually over there at the other side…" Akira interrupted a sweatdrop on her head as she pointed across the classroom right at the corner of the last row. A raven haired boy sat, elbows on the table and his hands clasped together, his onyx eyes glared at Akira as she pointed at him, as though grudging, "Why the hell did you do that for?"
Akira gave an evil grin and shrugged, "I don't know, for fun?" His expression become even more darker and gave an irritated look when the blue eyed girl instantly changed her expression as she squealed, "Sasuke- kun!" She ran over to his side where a group of girls suddenly appeared and surrounded him, each trying to flirt with him. Akira spotted him rolled his eyes slightly before turning away and stared broodingly at the wall, which somehow seemed to be so interesting all of a sudden.
Ayame snorted in disgust at the way the girls were acting, "Man, are they dogs or what?" Akira, Ayame and Naruto sweatdropped as they lost sight of him in the swarm of love struck girls.
"That bastard Sasuke! Why can't anyone see that I'm so much more better than him! He doesn't deserve all those attention!" Naruto complained loudly, jealous of the brooding boy's popularity. At that, the girls on the other side whipped around simultaneously and sent their Glares of Death at Naruto together, each having a vein throbbing dangerous on their heads. If Naruto had a choice to bury himself deep into the Earth, he would have done so at that time. However, this was not an option.
Naruto squeaked and raised both his hands innocently, "Ah Haha?" The girls twitched, and screamed at him altogether, "Naruto you IDIOT! SASUKE'S MUCH MUCH MORE BETTER THAN YOU A THOUSAND TIMES!"
Naruto cowered and shrunk a few size smaller, Ayame and Akira snickered at his plight and gave their condolences in their minds. Luckily for Naruto, the girls did not pursue the matter.
"Dobe…" A murmur escaped out of Sasuke's mouth as he glanced over, and then turned away once again ignoring the mass of girls trying to get his attention. Ayame was looking awed, so Naruto thought that she had also fell for Sasuke's brooding "charm" and this made Naruto felt somewhat depressed.
But then she suddenly spoke out, "Gosh! This is weird! That Sasuke's only nine or ten, I don't know, like us. Yet he already had such fanatics after him? Life must be tough for him…" The corners Akira lips curled up in amusement, as the comment suddenly gave her a vision of Sasuke being chased all around the village with his horde of fan girls behind, everyday. "Hmm, wonder if all the obsessed girls are within our age group or varies huh…" Ayame tapped her chin with her finger, thought.
"He doesn't have a normal life anyway…" Akira muttered, supporting her head with one hand. "I guess…" Naruto stared, surprised and realizing for the first time how "dangerous" life must have felt like for Sasuke, and for the first time, his jealousy of Sasuke lessened a tiny weeny bit and was replaced with a little pity.
Akira added, "No wonder he's said to be a genius. Anyone who could handle that group of fan girls, escaping from them for almost everyday surely had his fair share of so-called training." Grinning wickedly at Naruto, she continued, "Maybe you should gather yourself some fan girls then, save you lots of boring training, don't you think?" Akira winked and laughed as Naruto looked revolted at the idea of it. Ayame giggled and patted him on the back, "You'll never know! Who knows in five years time, you'll have a fan club under your name!"
"No! I don't think so! Ahh! The horrors! It will NEVER EVER HAPPEN!" Naruto blanched at the thought of him in Sasuke's shoes. The two sisters laughed heartily and Naruto gave them a withering glare, while in the background poor Sasuke was having a time of his life.
Suddenly, the classroom door slide opened and the class quiet down as Iruka stepped into the room and shouted for them to silent. The group of "Sasuke fan girls" was disappointed to leave the table where Sasuke was sitting and most of them scrambled for a seat nearest to Sasuke. Squabbles started again as the girls quarrel for seats and Iruka sighed, rubbing his head and grumbling, "Why do I have to suffer this class' nonsense…"
After the girls settled down, (A/N: How Iruka could make them settle down, we would never know…) Iruka started the lesson, teaching them about chakra and how to use it effectively. Ayame and Akira listened attentively initially as time went by… …
"Oh my… When is the lesson's gonna end!" A groan came from under a pair of arms, while scribbling sounds on paper were heard beside her. Akira looked down at the almost knocked out Ayame, "You should really pay attention and try to stay awake if you want to be a ninja. It's only the basics too…" She nudged the slouching Ayame but to no success.
"Don't tell me you actually could stand all this… this… this crap talking!" Ayame whined, her voice muffled. Akira pursed her lips, " This is certainly not any "crap" you're learning back in your real school! Anyway, I don't enjoy this as much as you think, Ayame. It comes with all the practice back in the real school… I was hoping it would be more interesting here though." She grumbled, her hands continuing taking notes.
"Ouch! What-?" A flying duster landed exactly where it was aimed at. Ayame's head. Startled awake from her daydreaming by the pain, Ayame looked around wildly, confused. Akira elbowed Ayame; Iruka was looking at her, not at all happy. "Ayame you should know better then sleep in my class! Now as a punishment you'll have to write an essay on today's lesson, due next lesson. Let's see what you had learnt." Iruka scolded, a bit irritated.
A bell rang, echoing through the corridors, signaling the end of school.
"Saved by the bell!" Akira said, relieved. And Ayame cheered up, as Iruka dropped his lecture and told the class to dismiss. The students scrambled happily out of the classroom, Akira and Ayame followed.
Once out of school, Ayame scowled, "What the heck! First day of school and I've got an essay as present! Help me out on this won't you!" She looked at Akira puppy eyed.
Akira rolled her eyes and waved a hand airily at her notes, "Help yourself, I knew this would happened."
"Hey! Wait up!" A familiar voice called from behind. They turned around as Naruto skidded to a halt in front of them. "So… Ayame you've got yourself an essay as a first-day-in-school present huh?" He grinned. "Bleh. Don't talk 'bout it." Ayame glared, "Iruka sensei's biased, you're not paying attention in class too. Why did he catch me instead of you!" She pointed an accusing finger at him. Naruto laughed, "Your luck!" then he added, "You could've avoided his eyes with a few tricks… Wanna know?" His grin got wider.
"Ooh! What kind of tricks huh?" Ayame asked excitedly, even Akira looked interested. "Well… Promise you'll treat me to ramen at Ichiraku, five bowls! And I'll tell you." He crossed his arms smugly. "What! You're greedy!" Ayame exclaimed. Akira shook her head, laughed, "You're hopeless, Naruto!"butNaruto stubbornly said, "Five bowls of ramen! No bargain!"
"Two!" That was Ayame retorting.
"No way! Five!"
"How 'bout three?" Akira chirped.
"Humph! Four! No lesser!" Naruto argued.
"Come'on! Three!" Ayame cried.
"Nah… Four!" Naruto said bluntly.
"Six then!" Akira smoothly added in.
"Hah! Four!" Ayame grinned.
"What! Two it is then!" Naruto stupidly said.
Ayame yelled, "Deal!" Akira smirked and Naruto paled, realizing he was tricked. "HEY! No fair!" Ayame whistled and looped her arm between Naruto's, dragging him. Changing the topic, Akira asked, "Where's the tour you promised to take us around?" Naruto immediately yelled, "Right away! But the first stop: TO ICHIRAKU!"
TO BE CONTINUED...
A/N: So… Chapter 4's finally up! Yay! Oh heheh… ya I know it's been some time since the last chapter… I'm so SORRY!
The exams are on us and to make it worse, Magical.S gotten sick for some days… And poor Kail-S's the one to do most of the writing/typing of this chapter. Kay, not wasting anymore time…
Anyway, think you guys might have noticed some changes in the way we're writing/typing our fic already, so let's get some things clear ayes?
Yup, to some-anime-gal in this fic we started with Naruto and co. when they're 10 years old so Team Seven will only be formed after 2 or 3 years I guessed. And might I add that only Ayame is 10 yrs old like Naruto and so, Akira is NOT 10 yrs old, she's merely been turned into her 10 yr old self to fit in with Ayame. Akira, for your information, is 14; this may explain why sometimes she'll seem a bit bossy or matured as u might see. She'll resume her original age further into the fic, you'll see. Anyone who wants read their whole profile can request for it!
Then, reaching this far, I've looked through our fic once again and felt that… the opening chapter totally sucked! Sry fer the language there, but I'm sure most ppl will agree with me ya? That's sad u see, most ppl will read the 1st chapter n ignore the rest coz it made such bad impression. So I think we may or may not edit it and make it better, also to give more details/information.
And the other negative impact is… ppl! Our fic feeds on REVIEWS! Aww… Come'on guys, we need reviews to continue! X I'm not forcing u guys though, but I hope to aim for higher amt of reviews. So at least 5 reviews per chapter? Can? Can? Can? Please! X3 Readers motivation through reviews is the Elixir of Life to writers, it pushes us to write u see, even though we're so darn lazy.
Alright… So the last issue will be regarding the OCs huh? Good news for ppl who wants to insert their OCs, we're happy to accept them! So long you give us full information needed n extras that u wanna put in, we'll see what we can do, in one way or another… Sry if we took a very long time to have your OC appear in the fic but rest assure that its because we're still planning the whole story and want to make it flow.
Oh! Regarding pairings of Ayame and Akira! U ppl will be the judge! Vote for who U wants them to end up with! Initially, we're choosing it ourselves… but too troublesome! So there u go, UR choice! Pairings of the OCs can be settled by the creator of the OC, so I guess that's it.
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