AN: Hah! I updated fast, didn't I:) never mind… so, um… note!
DISCALIMER: I do not own Naruto, but I wish I do! (smiles) And the character Hyuuga Mishito is not my original. It was presented by loveme731
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Chapter three: Sakura Festival
She ecstatically wore her blue and sakura printed kimono on. It looked really good on her well proportioned body. Hinata helped her daughter with the pink obi she gave her daughter.
When the Kimono and the obi was fully wore, Hinata looked very happy, Chidori could tell. Whenever her mother was happy, she couldn't help but feel happy, too and she referred to that as a 'Daughter Feeling'. Hinata felt like her daughter was going to be married that day as she looked pretty on that Kimono.
"Thanks, mom!" Chidori said.
Hinata smiled softly and started to arrange her hair.
"It's nothing." Hinata said as she skillfully pulled Chidori's hair up and tied a matching blue ribbon.
As soon as they were finished, they walked out of the room. Chidori walked small steps as it was a little bit hard to walk in the kimono. But, Chidori made sure that she doesn't ruin it.
Hinata and Chidori walked to the living room. When they got there, they saw Naruto laughing and grinning while the two boys were looking at him with forced smiles and a sweat drop.
"H-H-Hey!" Chidori called, wanting the two boys to notice her and her Kimono.
Hinata looked at Chidori surprised. She was familiar with that mannerism.
When the three heard her call, they looked at her. The two boys' mouths were opened. They couldn't believe that Chidori also is a feminine. They've never seen her wear a Kimono before.
Chidori blushed as the two stared at her and looked down, regretting what she did and was so embarrassed. When her father saw this, he coughed and stood up.
"Hey, stop staring!" Naruto joked.
"D-Dad!" Chidori yelled.
"I was just kidding! Anyway, be sure to take care of yourselves and I don't want you guys to be home too late, you got that?" Naruto said, making sure that everyone listened.
The two boys nodded as Chidori said nothing.
"Well, we're going now!" Chidori finally said after the embarrassing reminder his father said.
She grabbed Sasuichi and Shino's hand and tried to drag them out of the house and away to Naruto.
When they closed the sliding door, Hinata suddenly remembered something.
"Chii-chan!" Hinata softly but loudly said. "Your Uncle and your cousin are coming here today and I think they'll go to the festival, too!"
Naruto and Hinata waited for a reply for about 5 seconds, but they didn't hear a response.
"I don't think she heard that." Naruto said out of the blue.
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There were lots of people coming out of their houses and Chidori was surprised there were actually that number of people that lived just near their home. The road was really noisy. She could hear girls giggling and boys telling jokes. She could even see men busy with their booths that they're going to bring with them to the festival. That night was the Sakura festival.
When they got to the entrance of the venue, they saw even more people there. But the road is big and not like the road at their place. There were little kids in their little kimonos running around. Just like Chidori when she attented the Sakura festival when she was small.
When they got to the entrance, interesting booths welcomed them which made the three of them want to try everything all at once.
They first tried the traditional fish catching. The price was cheap so they took many paper nets. But, everytime they would have the fish on the ring and they have to bring it up, the net just rips. But in the end, Chidori caught a fish from her 8th try and placed the fish inside the plastic bag with water in it.
Next, they visited the mask booth. There were lots of interesting masks, only the two boys weren't interested.
Then, they went to the fortune telling booth. There was a kid with a shiny blue hair managing the booth.
"Hey!" Chidori called.
"Hello, welcome! Would you like to get a fortune stick?" The boy about their age smiled at them.
"Yes, please!" Chidori cheerfully said.
He went to the table that was behind him and brought the small wooden container along with him.
"Hey, are you the only one taking care of this booth? Don't you think you're too young?" Chidori asked as she picked a stick out of the container.
"I'm just a substitute." The boy replied and gave the container to Shino and Sasuichi so that they could pick one too.
"Here's mine." Chidori presented the stick to the boy.
"Here's ours, too." Sasuichi said, handing out the sticks he and Shino picked out.
The blue-haired boy looked at the stick and examined it. After a short while, he went to the shelf with papers on each block and pulled out different papers from different blocks.
He handed out the papers that matched their sticks.
They read their fortunes silently.
"Hey, my fortune says I'll get to hear monkeys talk today. That's a little bit odd!" Chidori said.
"Mine says I'll be running out of money. I hope it doesn't come true!" Shino said with black shadows on his forehead and becoming pale.
While the two was discussing about their fortunes, Sasuichi immediately placed the paper in his pocket.
"Hey, hey, hey! Tell us your fortune, first!" Chidori noticed.
"I don't believe in this stuff." Sasuichi said, looking down, letting his hair cover his face.
"Then, why are you blushing?" Shino teased.
"It's nothing."
"I don't think so!" Shino said as he grabbed Sasuichi and inserted his hand in his pocket.
"H-Hey! What are you doing! I said it's nothing!" Sasuichi exclaimed while pushing Shino away from him.
Shino finally got the paper and read it with his hands fully stretched up so that Sasuichi won't be able to reach it from him.
"Receive a maiden kiss from a maiden's lips!" Shino read out loud as he laughed madly along with Chidori.
Shino and Chidori just couldn't help it. They never heard the guy tell stories about a girl he likes or someone who caught his eyes. Never! And just the thought of him blushing over a girl is unbelievable.
Sasuichi just looked away from them but he was still blushing.
"Who's gonna be the lucky girl?" Chidori teased and can't even breathe normally.
Shino suddenly laughed harder because deep down, he was thinking that the girl Sasuichi was going to kiss is Chidori. He couldn't tell it because Chidori and Sasuichi might act violently on him.
After the long laugh, the three of them went to the shabu shabu restaurant. The place was filled with the 'shabu shabu aroma' which smelled tasty.
After they ate, they went out of the restaurant full and happy and ready to take on the rides.
While they were walking, Shino's eyes wandered everywhere. He saw many people than before. They were all having fun. When his eyes wandered to the dark side, he saw someone, unclear as a shadow, sitting on the ground.
"Hey, look at that." Shino told his friends.
Sasuichi and Chidori looked at the direction Shino pointed out and also saw the person sitting on the ground. The person was looking down and the person's hair was covering the face. From the looks of 'its' hair, the person might've been a girl.
Worried, the three went to the person to check out if the person is alright.
"Excuse me?" Chidori said, but no response.
"Are you alright?" Shino asked.
"Hey, wake up." Sasuichi said.
The person slightly lifted his head up and seemed like he wanted to see who it was talking to him… or her.
Chidori stared at the person, wondering. Wondering if she knew the person.
And finally, it got to her.
"M-Mitoshi!" Chidori exclaimed and she was so surprised.
The person immediately looked up the moment Chidori exclaimed. The person was a girl. Her eyes were also pearl colored as Chidori.
When she saw Chidori, she almost cried. Her face was becoming red because she was trying not to cry but couldn't stop herself.
"Oh, Chidori! I've been looking all over for you! Thank God you're finally here!" Mitoshi said.
"W-What are you doing here? Have you eaten dinner?" Shino asked worriedly.
"N-Not yet and I am STARVING!" She said out loud and looked at Shino with puppy-dog eyes.
Shino had no choice. He treated Mitoshi to the Ramen house nearest to them. Mitoshi felt better as the Ramen sank down to her stomach.
"Thank you for the food!" Mitoshi said, looking at Shino.
"YOU'RE GOING TO PAY THAT, BAKA! I lost my money! The fortune telling paper was such a bad luck!" Shino screamed on top of his lungs.
After Mitoshi ate, Shino paid the bill for what she ate and walked out of the restaurant.
They were walking silently to the exit when they noticed a crowd who was cheering and seemed like having fun. Some are grown up, some are teenagers and some are just kids. And from the looks of it, for everyone to have fun with whatever they were doing, it should be intereseting.
The cousins, Chidori and Mitoshi ran to the crowd and tried to peak on the little spaces the crowd gave.
They saw black pigs running around the wide space. There are also small dividers trapping the cute fat little pigs that were running around with two people running around with them, trying to catch them.
When the tall man who was running around trying to catch the pig finally caught what he was catching, the people cheered as Chidori, Sasuichi, Shino and Mitoshi gasped with amazement.
"Hey, it looks like fun." Chidori murmured silently.
"I think so too!" Mitoshi immediately said as soon as she heard Chidori. "Would you like to try?"
Chidori stared at her cousin blankly, and then looked at her two team mates. From her facial expression, she wanted to consult her friends about the invitation. But the two boys were just staring back at her.
"Chidori! Do you want to try? I want to try!" Mitoshi exclaimed.
"Uh… I'm wearing my newest Kimono. It's kind of expensive, too." Chidori argued with her self in disguise.
"Well, I have some pants and tops here in my bag. I will let you borrow them, would you like to try?" she offered.
Chidori smiled with a naughty look on her face.
"Why not?"
They looked for the registration booth and saw it when they reached the opposite side of the crowd. There was an old man counting money and taking care of the registration booth.
"Uhm… excuse me." Chidori called the man.
The old man took away his sight from the money and locked it on the blue-haired girl. He looked steadily at her pearl eyes.
"Yes, little girl?" The old man said.
"We were wondering if we could try that…. Game?" Chidori asked, failing to say what the game was.
"Sure. Look for a partner and pay me after the game." He instructed.
They all looked at each other. Well, there were Chidori, Sasuichi, Shino and Mitoshi. Now, if they could just decide.
"I know" Shino said. "Let's do the palm game."
"Palm game?" Sasuichi innocently asked.
"Yah. We'll stretch our hands down and it will be stiff horizontally. First, it will be on the opposite side of the palm. On the count of three, we'll throw our hands in the air and you have to decide which side of your hand you will throw back down. Either the palm or the other side." Shino explained.
And so, they formed a circle and stretched their hands down stiffly.
"One" Shino began. "Two" he paused for a while.
"Three!"
After the count of three, everyone threw their hand in the air and landed it back in unison.
Chidori and Sasuichi both got the palm side while Shino and Mitoshi on the opposite side of the palm.
Sausichi looked up from looking at their hands.
"What now?" He asked.
"Well, it basically means you and Chidori are partners and Mitoshi and I will be team mates." Shino explained.
"It sounds fair to me." Mitoshi announced.
And it was settled. They walked to the registration booth and registered the old man.
After Chidori changed her clothes, she walked to her friends who were standing beside the old man.
"Okay. Now you're complete." He said. "The rules. Number one, no using of skills. And number two, no killing of pigs. Got that?" Explained the old man.
They nodded and didn't take away their stare at the old man.
Then, they heard the crowd cheer harder from the other side.
"Well, it's your turn now." The old man said and told them to go straight to the end of the room that he pointed.
It was dark inside the room they walked to. But at the end of it was glowing light. When they got at the end of the tunnel, they were surprised to see the crowd cheering at them, waving their hands and the pigs were running around already.
The host, who was inside the small divider with them, held his mike and spoke.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" He exclaimed. "Tonight, let us welcome Uzumaki Chidori, Uchiha Sasuichi, Nara Shino and Hyuuga Mitoshi!"
The crowd cheered harder and screamed harder after they have been introduced.
Chidori blushed out of embarrassment. All of those people were looking at her, she thought.
"On the count of three, you may start running after the pigs! One! Two!"
They all prepared and were waiting to hear the next number.
"Three!" The host with shining a suit exclaimed.
By the third count, the four of them ran after the two black pigs that were madly running around the wide open space. It was hard to catch them as they were small and wild.
Sasuichi ran to the black pig with a curly tail. He didn't notice he was running around on a circular motion and looked really stupid. Behind him was Chidori who was trying to catch the pig, too.
While they were running, the black pig with a pink snout looked behind them and snickered. This made Sasuichi, who was known to be patient and relaxed, got mad and dash to the pig faster.
"H-Hey! You won't be able to catch it by just running! You need a strategy! Jump when you corner him! Jump when you corner him!" Chidori yelled, assuming that Sasuichi heard what she said.
But he didn't.
Sasuichi kept on running and suddenly, the pig was trapped on the corner, nowhere else to run to.
The pig looked at Sasuichi's burning eyes that was going closer and closer to him, his hands slightly cupped in front of the pig.
"I got ya!" He said silently.
The pig sweated so hard. His arms were stretched to the stiff wall behind him.
As Sasuichi was slowly catching the pig…
Chidori jumped from behind Sasuichi.
"S-Sasui-…!" she tried to warn the boy in front of her.
Sasuichi looked behind him when he heard her call. And he was surprised when he looked up because Chidori was so close… no, too close already.
His mouth opened wide, wanting to scream at her, yell at her. But he missed the chance because Chidori's mouth covered his.
People suddenly went down and all of them looked at the two, still in that position, even their opponent, Mitoshi and Shino, were staring and their jaw dropped.
After the 'shock', everyone howled and teased them which led the both of them to blush really hard and looked like a strawberry.
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AN: Ohohohoho… is it great? What do you think? Please review! Thanks for reading! I appreciate it a lot! -winks- And again, the character Hyuuga Mitoshi was from loveme731! Thanks again, girl!