piki-piki angel: hey! I'm sorry it took me a while before I could type again! It's my Christmas Vacation and I hope I could update as many chapters as I can!
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Chapter five: Jealousy?
Chidori slowly unbuttoned her top and pushed her skirt and her cycling shorts to the ground. Next, she took off her lingerie and threw it on the floor.She walked to the tub and went in. The hot water made her feel warm and the steam ran to her cheeks. She sighed and rested her head to the rim of the tub.
Shino is now aware of my feeling for Sasuichi! I'm such a fool to have fallen for their trick! She said to her self.
Feeling really embarassed because of what happened earlier, she slapped her palm to her forehead and closed her eyes.
Now, I should explain to him and tell him that I meant nothing about the 'I-like-him' part!
Slowly, she opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling where the steam from the hot water ran to.
Tommorow... it has got to be tommorow.
After an hour inside the bathroom, Chidori walked to her room with only a robe covering her thin body. Her bed was already made for her. She assumed it must have been her mom who made her bed. Carelessly, she threw her socks on the floor and then threw her self to the bed. She bounced a few inches twice. By this time of the night, she should be thinking about her studies, her tactics, and her mistakes and failures in her every fight. But this time, she weas lost in her thought. About her 'accidental-confession'. And how was she supposed to challenge Sasuichi again without Shino sarcastically smirking?
"HOLY COW!" She involuntarily screamed hard. The startled black pig jumped from his relaxation on his bed Chidori made exclusively for him yesterday.
Many things crossed her mind, but one thought managed to slip from her head. Her duel with Sasuichi. And back to her thoughts. How was she going to challenge Sasuichi again without a stick-figured boy smirking at them?
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When the sun rose and rays touched Chidori's eyelids, she opened her eyes slowly to the sound of the neighbor's chicken. First thing she did was to turn her head to her right and looked for the alarm clock. It was 7:00 in the morning. It was already morning and she hasn't had a proper sleep. She threwthe soft white pillow from the side of the bed to her face and covered it hard.
"Grr!" She screamed. The pillow absorbed the intensity of her scream.
Hours lates, she found her self outside Shino's family's flower shop, just near the academy. People explored inside the shop and a boy's voice which was familiar to Chidori's ear, would welcome them and say "Good Morning!" in a half-cheerful, half-dead tone of voice. After minutes of examining the shop, Chidori finally went in.
"Hey!" A familiar voice called, not far from the entrance.
Chidori looked to her left to see if it really was 'him'. And it was! With a quiet, fair skinned boy standing next to the boy who called her, staring at Chidori. She felt her heart palpitate and felt nervous. But not nervous enough not to walk to Shino and Sasuichi.
"Hey, Shino. Hey, Sasuichi." Chidori greeted as cheerful as she can, not making any eye-contacts with Sasuichi.
Shino smirked quietly and secretly, but Chidori caught glimpse of him. She suddenly felt embarassed and angry, as well. Angry enough for a vein on her temple to pop out. Chidori raised an eyebrow and gave Shino a 'so-what?' expression. Sasuichi, who was alternately looking at the two of them, was left clueless.
"What?" Shino sarcastically asked Chidori.
"Stop it!" Chidori screamed softly, assuming only the three of them heard, and hoped Sasuichi didn't hear her.
"Hehe...I'm not doing anything!" Shino said with a big grin on his face and raised his hand on the level of his chest to Chidori.
"Of course, you're not!" Chidori said, looking at the ground and exhaled.
"What are you doing here anyway?" Shino asked.
Chidori looked up and stared at Shino's round brown eyes, which Chidori was thinking that he might have got from his father. She examined it for a while and then sighed heavily.
"Well..." she began.
"Well..?" Shino said impatiently.
Sasuichi just looked at them and didn't say a word.
"I was wondering of I could talk to you for a while..." Chidori finally said, and it took a lot of guts for her to say that. She played with her pointing fingers, poking each of the fingers' tips, just like her mother does.
"Sure." Shino replied. He turned to Sasuichi and said: "I'll be right back."
Sasuichi watched as Shino and Chidori walked towards the 'Staff only' room, where, as he knew, was empty except if Shino and Chidori would occupy it. Shino was walking with Chidori with only an inch of distance between them. Sasuichi knew he felt different at that time, but he wasn't sure what it was.
Chidori walked in the door first, then Shino followe and slowly, he closed the door behind him and faced Chidori who was again, looking at the floor.
"Well?" Shino said with his arms crossed.
"Well... about yesterday..." She finally began. "I was worried that you might think otherwise of what I said..." She said, still looking down.
"What did you say yesterday?" Shino asked.
Chidori looked up at Sihno only to see if what he said was what he meant.
He looks serious. She told her self.
"What?" Chidori asked.
"Huh? What?" Shino asked back.
"Huh... Wha-?... What were we talking about?" Chidori asked.
Feeling a little bit irritated, Shino raised his eyebrow and exhaled, still not smiling.
"Stop trying to change the topic." Shino on his serious voice, said.
"I'm not! Well, if you forgot about it, then, I might as well forget about it, too!" Chidori cheerfully said with a big grin shining on his face. Finally, she got to smile without a burden.
"Come to think of it... I remember something really interesting yesterday." Shino remembered.
With the big grin still locked on Chidori's face, she didn't say a word. But she felt her cold sweat drop and her heart beating faster than when she ran around the academy, hoping that what he was talking about wasn't 'that'.
Chidori inhaled and was about to say something when Shino butted in.
"You said you like Sasuichi, right?" Shino said, with a cheerful smile.
Chidori's mouth dropped and slapped her left hand on Shino's big mouth to cover it then looked around to see if there was another person except them around. She was relieved to see only the fertilizers, wrappers, rocks, and pots by the shelves.
"Shut up!" Chidori threatened and pushed her left hand a little harder on Shino's big and insensitive mouth.
Unable to breathe, Shino desparately pushed Chidori's hand away from his mouth. Fortunately, he succeeded.
"I can keep a secret if only you would be nice to me, you know." Shino said and placed his hands on his waist.
"Shino, I-... Look. Don't ruin my reputation, and mist importantly, my family name because once my dad finds out that his only daughter likes an Uchiha, he'll kill me for sure!" Chidori explained in an overflowing emotion, hoping that Shino would understand how she feels.
"So, you do like him?" Shino asked, confirming, withe a wider smile.
Chidori's cheeks grew pink and she felt her face burn. Feeling embarassed, she looked at the floor again.
"So, it's a deal then?" Chidori said and tried to change the topic.
"There was no deal! Do you think it's fair on my part?"Shino protested.
"Okay. What's your price?" Chidori said, with a soft, but angry voice.
Shino smiled and looked at his feet and slipped his hands in both sides of his pant's pockets. He was probably thinking of a good offer to get her humiliated, Chidori assumed. Chidori just stared at him, thinking if he was serious about thing deal or not but hoped that he would be.
"Okay..." Shino finally said and looked up at her again... "I want you to..."
Chidori's heart ran faster and she was breathless waiting for his next words.
"...Make lunch for me every weekdays!" He finally announced.
"WHAT? Make LUNCH!" Chidori repeated a little bit loud.
She couldn't believe her ears. The last time she gave food to him was when they were ten, at their cooking class. She can remember well what it was. A riceball. A simple riceball. She gave him her project, then the next thing she knew, Shino, who was innocently hungry when she gave the riceball, was hospitalized for three days.
"A-Are you sure? Because I-" Chidori said, but Shino interrupted.
"You can do better punishments? I know." Shino said.
It was exactly what she was going to say. Chidori was a bit surprised. But that doesn't matter now.
"Why? Have you forgotten when we were ten?" Chidori asked.
"I do! How can I forget that awful experience?" Shino said and changed his face into a funny one. Funny, but calm, Chidori thought.
"Then-"
"No questions asked." Shino, again, interrupted. He turned and faced the door behind him. "Let's go back. He's waiting."
When Shino said that, Chidori suddenly felt something, she didn't know what. But it left her feeling empty.
Sasuichi was sitting by the counter, watching Chidori's black pig who was sitting at the counter, when Shino and Chidori went out of the room. The shop seemed to have been occupied by teenaged girls who were smiling at Sasuichi, blushing and murmuring at each other while staring at him. Shino went towards Sasuichi.
Sasuichi looked up and stared at Shino. Shino was staring back at him, his eyes were strong and with an emotion Sasuichi wasn't able to understand. But he had a clue on what it was and it made him ask his self if there was something going on. After a few seconds, Chidori came up to them.
"Shino turned around and faced Chidori.
"A deal is a deal, okay?" Shino said a little bit loud, grinning.
How could he say that knowing Sasuichi is just behind him! She told her self and imagined how pleasurable it would feel if she could whack him violently on his face, right now.
"Whatever." She replied, not making any eye-contact on both of them and looked at the yellowish flower beside her, instead.
Sasuichi examined Chidori, while she was looking at the flower for a while. If something was going on and Chidori and Shino didn't tell him, maybe it was none of his business. But why was he feeling a little bit weird? Well, whatever it was, he was sure that he didn't like that feeling.
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piki-piki angel: Thanks for reading again! Have a happy holiday!