AN: Hey, ho! Sorry it took me long! Please enjoy! -v
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Chapter two: I hate you more!
Chidori ran with all her speed, following Sasuichi to retrieve him. He was running so fast which made her think she may not be able to catch up with her team mate and get him back. But remembering the stories his father told her, she didn't want to give up.
Suddenly, from afar, Chidori saw Sasuichi stop. Eager to catch the chance, she ran to him, involuntarily faster and finally stood closely behind her team mate.
"Sasuichi…!" Chidori said, slightly catching up her breath but retained her normal breathing only a few seconds after.
Sasuichi was only standing before her. He did not say a word nor turned to look at the team mate. He just stood there stiffly and boldly. Before Chidori could step further, Sasuichi slaightly raised his arm so to block Chidori to go further.
"This is my game." Sasuichi said, with thirst for battle in his voice.
"H-Huh?" Chidori blankly uttered.
Her eyes moved to the left view, and she was surprised and let out a quiet gasp as her upper body slightly leaned back. Her body felt light as she felt scared. Sasuichi just told her not to meddle with the anbus and his fight. There were two of the anbus. She's not even sure if they were real anbus.
She felt her self tremble in fear but tried to hide it from the enemy and his team mate.
"B-But, Sasuichi…! They're anb-"
"Do you think Anbus are pride less enough to steal?" Sasuichi told Chidori.
"And even if they ARE real Anbus, with their acts, they shouldn't be considered as Anbus anymore." Sasuichi explained, and the explanation came from his heart.
Analyzing what Sasuichi said, her eyebrows met, thinking if she should let him do the job alone as he requested. And, if they're really Anbus, why would they steal? What's their motivation? If she lets Sasuichi fight, both of them will get into trouble because running after the criminals wasn't an order to them in the first place.
Coming back to her senses, she found Sasuichi in his fighting stance and ready to attack. His right hand was ready inside his Kunai pouch and his left fist was closed and was positioned in front of him as is to warn the opponents.
By a blink of an eye, Sasuichi quickly ran to the opponents and quickly slid out his sharp Kunai and held it on his right hand as he began to attack.
Before he could get to the opponents, about three feet away from them, he jumped so high that he almost reached the end of the tree and threw the Kunai directly to the opponent by the most powerful throw he could exert.
Unfortunately, as the opponent was also quick, the Kunai that Sasuichi threw missed.
Just nanoseconds after the anbu evaded the Kunai, Sasuichi landed back down to his feet. He felt his weight go down to his feet with the force from his landing. Just then, the anbu caught the Kunai he threw and then ran to Sasuichi. He threw his hand holding the Kunai horizontally to hurt Sasuichi but Sasuichi bent back and evaded the Kunai only by an inch.
"Look out!" He heard Chidori shriek from behind him. He turned back to look behind him and was surprised that the Anbu was going to attack him unknowingly.
Before the Anbu could even move his hand to throw Sasuichi a heavy punch, Chidori ran to Sasuichi and blocked the punch using her forearms crossed together.
She felt the pain run through her forearms. It felt really painful and she could even feel it palpitate. Chidori closed her right eye tightly as to endure the pain while she left the left one open to see the precautions. She rested her forearms down because she felt like she couldn't endure it anymore and stepped back a little to let her body land on Sasuichi's back.
Sasuichi looked at his team mate.
"Baka, why did you fight!" Sasuichi said angrily.
"I helped you, you sleepy head! You should be thankful for that." Chidori screamed at Sasuichi, her forearms still hurting.
"I didn't ask for it in the first place!"
"Oh, yeah! Well you should've been dead by now if only I didn't help you!"
"You're so funny." The Anbu that attacked Sasuichi finally spoke, underneath his mask.
The two of them threw sharp looks at the anbu. Both of them hated the fact that a stinky Anbu was laughing at them, especially Chidori who has such a temper. It was such a humiliation for them.
Before Chidori could even look back to her opponent, she saw her opponent's hand attack her. It didn't actually hit her, as she remembered. But, she was sent flying away and landed on the ground.
"Chidori!" Sasuichi called when he saw her.
Sasuichi have always thought that mission comes first before other personal matters. That's why he didn't let his temper get on his way with the mission.
Before running to his injured comrade, the Anbu again tried to attack him without his knowledge. Fortunately, Sasuichi looked behind him and saw the opponent about to hit him.
'Shoot!' He thought.
He immediately pushed the opponent's hand away to the other direction. Before the opponent could even get the chance to hurt him, he quickly took out his Kunai and managed to injure the Anbu on his hand which felt really deep.
His opponent tried to endure the pain of his bleeding wrist but his knees felt weak and he slowly began to fall. When Sasuichi took away his eyes from the anbu in pain, he chanced to see the other opponent run to him.
With Sasuichi's quick thinking, he held the opponent's wrist and tried to push it to other direction as what he attempted to do earlier. Unfortunately, the Kunai reached his upper forearm and gave him a deep cut.
He was fighting with all his strength when suddenly, he felt a strong punch land on his stomach which made him open his mouth and bleed.
His eyes were slowly shutting because of the impact that the punch gave him. But before he closed his eyes, he made sure he looked at the opponent, but he still tried to fight back but he finally collapsed.
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Sasuichi opened his eyes slowly. Eyes half opened, he saw the ceiling and the lantern ontop of him. As if it was automatic to him, he sat up immediately, thinking he was still in a battle and looked for the opponent and let his blanket slide down to his lap.
He looked around to see where he was. He felt the soft bed he sat on when they got to the inn and it got to him. He was in his room. He placed his hand on his head and took a deep breath.
He heard the sliding door open with a mix of loud footsteps. It was Chidori and Shino. Chidori ran to him first and Shino bothered to close the door behind him.
"Baka, baka, baka, baka!" Chidori yelled as soon as he reached Sasuichi.
Sasuichi looked at Chidori's face, radiantly white but he noticed the small band aids on her face and the bandages on her fully beaten up body.
"Chidori." Sasuichi said with a small escaped laugh.
"I hate you even more!" Chidori yelled. "Because of you and you being asleep, only I was scolded by Konohamaru-sensei! I hate you!"
Sasuichi said nothing but a smile at her. He couldn't even look at her eyes. He thought he disappointed his team mate.
He knew she was badly injured because of him, though his teacher and his friend told her to stop.
"Gomen, gomen!" He said giggling, hiding his thoughts.
"How are you feeling?" Shino asked as he placed his hand to his small pocket stitched on his green pants.
"Uh… you know. Anyway, how did we get here?"
"Konohamaru-sensei ran after you when you went after the 'Anbus'. You were so miserable when Konohamaru-sensei saw you. But Chidori here was fighting alone. Well, she was being defeated… but, hey, she took a shot!" Shino teased.
"Shut up!" Chidori yelled threw a slight jab at Shino.
Suddenly, Shino laughed out loud.
Cihdori and Sasuichi looked at him laugh his self out. Though he looked really stupid, they still wanted to be sure what he was laughing at.
"Shino. What's so funny?" Sasuichi asked, weirded out.
Shino slowly calmed down.
"Hey, you know what, Sasuichi, while you were sleeping…" Shino again snickered but tried to continue anyway. "Y-You… were calling out Chidori's name!"
Chidori's face went red. Her jaw dropped and looked for something to say back.
"W-Was I? No way!" Sasuichi said in disbelief.
"Yes way!" Shino said and laughed again.
"W-What's so bad about that!" Chidori asked, still burning red and avoided to look at neither of them.
"Why are you blushing?" Shino asked back.
"D-Don't blame me! Blame my genes!"
"Okay, okay! Anyway, we'll be at the restaurant if you need us. We shouldn't be disturbing you anyway." Shino said.
Chidori ran to the door first, without even saying goodbye. Shino was still smiling as he followed Chidori outside the door.
"By the way…" Shino said before closing the door behind him. "Konohamaru-sensei told me he was proud of the two of you." And he closed the door.
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Until they finish their lunch, Chidori was still thinking why Sasuichi didn't go to the restaurant to eat with them. He hasn't eaten breakfast or lunch for that day and she was worried about him. There was no valid reason for him anyway to skip lunch. So, she ordered a bento special to give to Sasuichi.
She went to Sasuichi's room and saw Sasuichi sitting from his bed, his clothes changed and just staring blankly at the window. He didn't even hear the door open.
"Hey…" Chidori said, wanting to get Sasuichi back to his senses.
Sasuichi looked at her with a surprised look. He was totally thinking deep and for his age, it was a very mature thing to do.
"Chidori, do you need something?" He said in a friendly way but not smiling.
"Um.." She stared at the floor, playing with her fingers involuntarily while still holding the bento box. "I was wondering why you didn't go out to eat lunch. So, I brought you your lunch." She explained.
Sasuichi stood up from his bed.
"You shouldn't have, Chidori!" He said shyly while smiling and his hand scratching his head as he walked to her.
"Shino was also worried." Chidori said as he handed out the bento to him.
Sasuichi invited Chidori to have lunch with him again or at least a dessert. At first, Chidori didn't want to but Sasuichi was too pushy. They went down to the restaurant again and ate Sasuichi's lunch while Chidori ate her dessert.
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Chidori knocked on the door of their house and waited a while for the door to open for her to get in. The one who opened the door was her mother, Hyuuga Hinata.
"Welcome back, Chii-chan!" Hinata said with a motherly smile on her face.
"Hey, mom." Chidori weakly said and she went in.
Hinata just looked at Chidori take off her shoe worriedly.
"A-Are you okay, Chii-chan?" Hinata finally asked.
"Just tired mom, but I'm fine!" Chidori said with a forced cheerful voice and smile.
Right after Chidori took her hot bath, she went to her room to read a book quietly. Suddenly, someone knocked on her door.
"Yes?" Chidori said loudly, still focusing on the book she was reading.
"Cihdori-chan" A voice which seemed like her mom's called. "Shino and Sasuichi are here. They were asking if you would like to come with them to the festival."
Chidori's attention suddenly switched to the door and stared at it. She could imagine her mom standing outside the room and talking to her. She was thinking of the festival when she was taking a bath. And now, her two friends are asking her out to the festival.
"Y-Yes, mom! Please tell them I'm changing!" Chidori said.
She immediately stood up and ran to her closet frantically scavenged it. She didn't mind her other clothes being messy anymore, instead, she focused on what she was looking for.
When she finally saw the fine blue cloth she was looking for, she pulled it out and looked at the long beautiful kimono with Sakura petals printed down the skirt part of the kimono with a matching pink obi that was neatly folded in her closet. The kimono was so beautiful and it would even look prettier if she wore it on. The kimono was bought by her parents, and this is going to be the first time she was going to wear that.
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AN: Hey! Thanks for reading eight petals! Please do continue reading! The next chapter will be about the festivals. Festivals can be SO romantic, that's why I chose it for the next setting! And, someone requested for Neji and Tenten's daughter. blushes Oh, Neji… nyahahah… Till next time! Thanks so much again!