Konnichiwa Minna-Chan! Here's the 3rd chapter of 'Aiko' for your viewing pleasure! I don't know how much fluff will be added, or if it will be all that funny. I debated over this chapter a lot, cause there was a few things I could've put in here to make it sound funny, & it was really hard deciding which one to go with...& Then I got the idea you'll be reading now! Tehehee
WARNING: May contain bouts of stupidity & random attempts at humor!
You've been warned! Review replies are at the bottom! On with the story!
P.S.- When you review, please please tell me what you think about it, & what you don't like & also what you think I could change/ add/ improve on! Thanks! LP
(Last Time:
Sasuke stared at the back of Sakura's head in amazement.
"You mean...We actually have one of those?")
-Aiko-
Ch 3:
Getting Comfortable
Sakura glanced at Sasuke.
"We have a pet shop. Did you seriously not know?" Sasuke sweat-dropped.
"Seriously. I never really worried about Konoha having a pet shop or not.." Aiko chose that moment to wiggle out of Sasuke's arms. She dropped to the ground, tail wagging, & took off like a bullet. Well, as fast her short puppy legs could carry her.
"OI!" Sasuke exclaimed, he & Sakura halting to give chase to the now ducking/ running/ weaving Aiko. Sakura made a lunge for her & missed, rolling on the ground to an upright position & continuing.
Sasuke was trying to be strategic about it, calling her name & mooching her.
"Aiko, c'mere girl. Aiko! Come here!" He made mooching noises at her & beckoned with his hands. Sakura caught on & attempted to help him.
"Come here girl. Come here!" More mooching noises ensued. Aiko sat down watching them, panting with her tongue lolling out of her mouth. She continued to stare at their feeble attempts.
Sakura decided to ease her way up to Aiko & pick her up. Half-way to her, Aiko caught on & darted off in between some trees.
Sasuke groaned softly, running his hand across his face.
"What do we do now? She's like an energizer bunny!" It had to have been that ham from last night, still in her system...
"Chase her till she tires down? Somehow, I think we'd tire out before her." A yapping sound came from where Aiko had disappeared. Rushing to where the sound was emanating from, they found Aiko.
Only, Aiko was chasing ducks.
"BARK!BARK!" -Snap-
"BARK!"-Lunge-
"QUACK!" -Flap-
"BARK!"
Ducks were quacking in alarm & attempting to go back into the pond, except Aiko was blocking off their escape. Feathers were everywhere, it was mass chaos. Sasuke was first to snap out of shock & tried to get Aiko away from the ducks.
"Aiko! Don't bite the duck! Stop! WAIT! DON'T GO IN THE WATER!" Aiko chased after a rogue duck that had managed to get past her- straight into the pond. A very muddy pond. Sakura groaned this time, eyes betraying helplessness.
Aiko, getting bored with the ducks, zoomed right past Sakura, off to find another form of amusement. Sasuke ran after Aiko, grabbing Sakura's hand to drag her along behind.
When they found her, she was in the middle of a giant puddle, splashing around, biting at the bugs that were flying around. Sasuke & Sakura circled around her, devising a way to catch her. They both, foolishly, lunged for Aiko, who zipped away barking at a bumble bee.
The end result? Sakura & Sasuke felt into one another, Sasuke's larger weight causing them to fall with Sakura underneath Sasuke. To add embarrassment to stupidity, gravity had landed Sasuke's face right in Sakura's chest. How cruel was fate. Sakura shoved him off of her, both of their faces red in embarrassment.
"Gomen! Gomen nasi!" Sasuke apologized for their previous predicament, face heating up even more at the thought of it. He pulled Sakura up out of the mud, both of them covered in it.
"Ano...It wasn't your fault, really." She blushed harder, realizing her hand was in his. Sasuke pulled his hand away quickly, turning away from her.
"The puppy...Ano...Yeah...We should go get her.." He mumbled, trying to rid himself of the blush.
"Oh, right!" Sakura snapped back to the task at hand, face still red.
They both took off in the direction Aiko had went, only to find her with-
"You two lose something?"
"Ka- Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura exclaimed. Kakashi, Sasuke & Sakura's team leader & fellow ninja stood with Aiko, the muddy, tired, panting puppy, in one hand. He appeared to be smiling or smirking one, Sasuke couldn't tell for the mask.
Sakura took Aiko from him, thanking him for catching her.
"I didn't have to catch her. She came to me." Sasuke & Sakura face-vaulted & then tried to compose themselves. Which was hard to do with traces of a blush on your face & when your covered in mud.
"Ano...Thanks anyways Kakashi-sensei." Sakura said again, holding on to Aiko tightly to avoid a repeat.
"No problem.I'll see you two at practice in 3days." Kakashi called, walking away. He had a short C rank mission to attend to, that would keep him for a few days.
"So, what did you say her name was?" Sakura asked Sasuke.
"I named her Aiko.." Sasuke said, taking Aiko from Sakura.
"Looks like we'll both need to clean up before we go to the pet shop. I'll meet you at Sweet Snow. We'll have lunch there or something." Sasuke said walking away, Aiko under one arm, giving a backwards wave to Sakura.
'Does he realize that's an ice cream parlor...That's not healthy..Ehh..' Sakura thought to herself watching Sasuke disappear into a crowd of people.
---------------------------------At The Parlor-------------------------------------
Sasuke, Sakura & Aiko were sitting inside Sweet Snow, an Ice cream parlor located near the center of Konoha Village. Sakura was eyeing Sasuke wearily. After he had to order the dog ice cream & Sakura had stopped him, she caught him attempting to slip Aiko bites of his. Sasuke was too crafty for his own good...
Sakura had chosen to drink a Chocolate Milk shake & Sasuke chose Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream. The aforementioned had tried to get the Kids Ice Cream Cone for his puppy. That sounded funny.. 'His puppy..Tehehe' Sakura resisted the urge to laugh out loud. Anyways, as Sakura went to drink more of her shake, she saw a quick movement from Sasuke & a blur of white head toward Aiko.
"Sasuke! Don't feed her ice cream!" Sakura whipped out a napkin & wiped up the bite of ice cream before the puppy had the chance to eat it.
"Ice cream isn't good for her, don't feed her ice cream!" Sakura reprimanded him again. Sasuke's face went into a brief pout, which was quickly replaced by his usual stoic 'I'm-so-cool' air.
"It's not like a bite could hurt her." He mumbled, digging into his ice cream once more.
"Besides, if she was faster, she could've had it eaten & you never would have noticed." He glared at Aiko, who was strapped into a high-chair that the parlor just happened to have. She panted at him, tail thumping against the seat happily.
"Still,you don't need to feed her-" Sakura was stopped short when a boy wearing a hockey mask & lightweight clothing started screaming & threatening the worker behind the counter.
"Give me all of your ice cream!" The boy had a strange looking gun in his hand & he was sweating profusely.
"Why...do you want the ice cream of all things? Wouldn't you rather have...the money?" The worker behind the counter, dense as ever questioned.
"Where I come from it's very ho & there's barely any water. JUST GIVE ME THE ICE CREAM!Or I'll shoot you with this gun, filled with pepper spray!" The weird ice cream robber threatened.It was clear th he was from sand village, but he wasn't a ninja. Suddenly, he ripped off his mask & started jumping on it, throwing a tantrum.
"GIMME! Gimme gimme gimme! Gimme the ice cream! Or I'll do something crazy! He jumped the counter and slid open the panels of the ice cream starting to rip the buckets out of the counter they were in.
"Oi, busu! Look over here you crazy crack monkey!" Sasuke stood up, calling the crazy ice cream robber names. The guy stopped ripping out the ice cream tubs, glaring at Sasuke.
Quick as a flash, Sasuke grabbed some of his own ice cream, & lobed it at the crazy ice cream obsessed weirdo. It hit him right between eyes splattering over his face.
"ARG!There's cookie dough in my eyes!" The robber stumbled around behind the counter. Sakura sweat-dropped. This was so weird! She drank more of her milk shake .
"We'll be going now. Uhh, what's your name?..Fred? Frank? Anyways, I'll just call you Bob. Bob, you need to call the authority's & have this man arrested so...Yeah, call & they'll take care of him. Later Bob." Sasuke said un-buckling Aiko's straps on her high-chair & picking her up in his arms. Sakura stood up & followed Sasuke out the doors of the parlor & onto the streets of Konoha once more. As they walked out, the sounds of 'Bob' & the ice cream burglar could be heard.
"Get it OFF!Help MEEEEE!"
"Hey! Don't do that! What are you going to do with the milk shake machine! That's valuable! Get away from the display case!"
"HELP MEEEE! It BURNS! Get it OFF!MY EYES! The ice cream STINGS!"
"That was weird, ne Sasuke?" Sakura questioned the him, walking faster to catch up to him.
"Yeah, it was. Anyways, where's that pet shop you were talking about?"
"...Back the other way.." Sakura told him jerking her thumb over her shoulder in the direction.
"Well then.." he sighed deeply, doing a U-turn.
----------------------------------End Ch.3: TBC----------------------------
Okay!Review Replys:
Shimoyuki: XDD yeah..about the humor thing...I'm not quite sure If I'm good at writing humor..I like think of myself as a funny person. Somehow, I don't think writing about someone with an accent talking about fireworks could be put into this fic. Anyways, I'm glad you liked it, & arigatou for your review! I hope you continue to R & R!
onigiri-kun: YAY! Arigatou for your review! This was the next chapter! Hehe, update granted!
BewareMySpork: Arigatou! I hope this was fluff enough for now. I must add more in later! I'm glad you liked it! Arigatou for your review! Oh,& btw, love your name, I have a theory about a war between gummy bears & windows...Sporks are on the gummy bears side. But the windows have thumbtacks..anyways...--Sweatdrops-
forgotmyself: That's quite alright! Better late than never! I'm glad you liked it & arigatou for you review!
saki-kun: Yay! I'm glad you liked it, Arigatou for your review! I hope you keep R & R-ing!
I want to thank all of the reviewers once more, & I hope they continue to read the fic & I hope it's enjoyable for them! Arigatou minna-chan!
Okay,so chapter 3 is done, now on to chapter four! I know this was a day later than what I wanted, but hey, at least I got it out. I haven't been feeling well, & that's affecting me & part of it is cause my computers on the fritz. I get frustrated with it & then I don't want to bother getting on. I'm probably going to need a shrink for my downloading problem. Between searching for Dir en Grey & X Japan mp3s, I've read online manga about a Visual Kei band. Was really good, but time got away from me. I've got procrastination problems too. One day I decided to eat lunch instead of work on this first, when I could've worked on this for an hour then had lunch. Anyways, enough about my problems, let's talk about some stuff in the fic:
J-Translations:
Gomen: Sorry
Gomen nasi: I'm really/ very/ extremely sorry
Ano: Umm...
Oi, busu: Hey, ugly
Ne: Don't you agree?
Arigatou: Thank you
Oh, & about the ice cream parlor...I named it Sweet Snow for a reason. A very good. I couldn't think of anything else & besides, Hiei calls ice cream that & it sounded like a cute name. Oh, & not the Hiei off of YYH, well it kinda is... My best anime friends calls ice cream that & her nick-name is Hiei, so think of it like that. Okay anyways, now that I've cleared that up. Go R & R! I'll try & get the 4th chapter out sooner! Despite how I feel, I'll try & write some of ch. 4 everyday! Listening to Dir en Grey, WHOOHOO! Oh, & when I started this I said about 5 chapters, now I'm thinking 7 as slow as I'm going. Gomen for my uncertainty!
- Next Chapter: Spoiling You -
Ja Ne Minna-Chan!
Til next time!
7-12-06
Lust Pixie
