A/N-Thanks to those who reviewed the last chapter, Chapter 5-ForeverForsaken and Kagime and the owl. This shall be the chapter in which I introduce my OC's. At the end of the chapter I'll put the stats about the characters… READ AND REVIEW!
Disclaimer-I don't own Naruto. I technically own my OC's but…I can't really say that because they're based on my friend's personalities…
Note-for nicknames-'Sey' is Seyann and 'Chelle' is Michelle.
Chapter 6
The next day, Mika went back to school. In the span of a single weekend so much had changed. But this much hadn't-her friends and what she did with them. She still walked to class with their friends, and when lunch rolled around she still sat in the staircase of the school with her friends…as she always had.
This constant offered her a little comfort in her rapidly changing life.
As she sat cross-legged with her friends-Michelle Sanchez on one side and Seyann Lenzi on the other side- she took a mement to consider just how much different the Mika that sat in between her friends was from the Mika who sat with her friends on Friday was. On Friday she had merely been a fan of Naruto…now she was a Kunoichi-in-training, the last carrier of a rare bloodline trait, a member of a world that wasn't supposed to exist (at least according to the rest of the world) and apparently being hunted by members of an organization that wasn't supposed to exist. The Akatsuki.
Well…her only consolation was that, on Friday she had been all these things, she just didn't know about it. Yet.
Her friends must've noticed that she had zoned out because she could feel herself being shaken. "Mika…are you ok? You seem distant." Asked Michelle, concerned. Mika waved a hand "I'm fine. I'm just a little distracted. Busy weekend…how was your dance recital Sey?"
She slid a glance at Seyann who started jabbering about her weekend, taking in her unchanged looks. Seyann had just beyond shoulder-length dirty blonde, pin-straight hair with reddish streaks and hazel eyes similar to Mika's but very different as well. Seyann's eyes ranged form greenish to brown instead of green-gold and Seyann's pupils didn't dilate as much as Mika's. It gave her an almost cat-like appearance. Her skin was almost flawless and it tanned beautifully.
Looking to her other side, she took in Michelle's looks, noting the lack of change in her other closest friend's visage as well. Her other friend had a dark complexion that had lightened considerably over the time Mika had known her-the black haired girl had pointed this out to Michelle when the three had been looking at pictures the previous weekend. Another thing Mika had noticed was that Michelle's curly brown hair had darkened to a shade that almost rivaled Mika's except it still highlighted brown every once in a while. Her eyes were black as an onyx stone-something Mika was jealous of.
She stopped scrutinizing her friend's looks and pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her chin against her knees. This…emotional swing made Sey stop talking and both girls look at Mika. "Hey Mika…are you okay?" asked Michelle concerned. This shook Mika out of her second space-out in less than 10 minutes and made her finally realize where she was. "Yeah 'chelle I'm fine…just a little tired." She smiled weakly and turned to Seyann. "Really. I just have a lot on my mind."
"Ok then…Didja see Naruto on Friday?" Asked Michelle. "Yes!" said Seyann excitedly. "He was cool as a cucumber during the flipping Chunnin exams! Of course you saw it Mika…he's your favorite character after all." Said Seyann slyly. This caused Mika to start to giggle and, as she processed what the girls were asking her, she broke out in side-splitting laughter. Seyann and Michelle looked at her as though she had lost her mind completely and utterly. Finally, with a sound somewhere between a snort and a chuckle…we'll call it a snuckle… Mika finally managed to quell her outrageous laughter.
"I'm sorry guys…it's just…" As she got her composure, she said "Yes, yes I saw that show. It…actually he was kind of creepy this episode…I mean that disembodied eye?" she shuddered involuntarily.
"But it was his third eye…and it's his…that should count for something." Mika rolled her eyes. "Creepy is creepy. Even if it is Gaara."
No one noticed the eye that was peering at them from between the plaster of the roof.
Gaara's third eye could only see, it couldn't hear. Therefore, over the years, he had trained himself to lip read. And he could see, only too well, what Mika had been saying about him. This was getting on his nerves. "My. Third. Eye. Is. Not. Creepy." He muttered to himself. This girl was arrogant and he didn't like it.
Mika gave an involuntary shudder and she gasped as she felt the bottle that had replaced the one broken on Saturday break in her pocket with a tremendous amount of force. This same force drove the sand and shards of glass ripping though her pocket and scoring her skin. The sand stung as it mingled with her blood. He was angry, she could tell. Instinctively she looked up-there was no other place that he could be. Her friends looked at her, concerned. "Mika are you sure you're ok?" said Sey concernedly.
Mika waved them off as the third eye glared at her, 'suggesting' she should go outside. She obligingly got to her feet and said "I'm sorry…I'll be right back."
She went outside, around the corner so that she would be out of the range of vision of her friends (so they wouldn't think she was too weird…) and after making sure that no one was around, she proceeded to yell at the top of her lungs "WHAT DO YOU WANT SABAKU?"
Some sand that still remained in her pocket flew out in front of her and, in the blink of an eye, multiplied into a ton of the tan stuff. This shot towards her wrists and effectively pinned her down to the brick behind her.
"Let. Go. Of. Me." She hissed as the sand tightened its grasp and began to cut. This, she was sure, wouldn't count as a life threatening situation because Gaara wouldn't kill her. Just torture her. He appeared before her, in a swirl of sand, a murderous look on his face.
"You were talking about me. Don't." He said angrily. "It was about the show. You were the one who delivered the message to me…that I can't tell anyone, least of all my friends that you guys exist. But I can't suddenly change my opinion on any of you either simply because I've met you. That would cause suspicion." His black-rimmed eyes narrowed and, for a second, Mika thought that she was getting though to him.
At least, he had to have figured out by now that he was her favorite character.
Instead he leaned in until his face was less than an inch away from hers. "If I catch you talking about me with anyone at all… it will not be pretty. And don't think you can keep it a secret from me." Mika scowled. "I can do whatever I want. You will never be able to stop me."
This caught Gaara off guard. No one had ever defied him before-they were too afraid of him. Clearly she wasn't. Because of this, he let her go and she turned to go back into the school rubbing her wrists.Vanishingin a swirl of sand, he went onto the roof,and began to process what she had said.
Firstly she had been so arrogant as to talk about him. But as he reflected on the way she had been talking…it hadn't really been disrespectful; she had merely been voicing her opinion. Grudgingly he allowed her a point.
Secondly, she had refused to be made a victim-being proactive and demanding that he let her go. And she defied him-she wasn't going to be told what to do. Ever. He smirked inwardly, keeping his emotionless façade on. He pitied the man who got landed with Mika as a wife. She'd be a handful.
And then there was this…thing. Changing her opinion about them, now that she's met them? Was she talking about him? If this was the case, what was her opinion of him before and what was it now?
He had so many questions but he was sure that she hated him now and she'd never answer them. This was when he noticed that she hadn't gone back inside but rather sat on the grass in the shade of a small tree. He knew she still had some sand on her so he eavesdropped on her conversation with herself.
Mika had always found talking out loud most relaxing. So this is what she did to unwind after that potentially fatal encounter. "I hope…he doesn't think that I hate him. My feelings that changed weren't about him…it was…Sasuke my feelings changed about."
At the mention of this name, Gaara's emotions ran high. Did that mean…she now…felt something, in that sense, for the Uchiha? This, for some reason, unsettled his emotions. Suddenly he felt…was that guilt?… for the wounds that were on her wrists.
Mika's monologue was interrupted when sand formed a body in front of her and Gaara stepped out. "What do you want?" she asked him in an exhausted voice. Wordlessly he handed her a bottle of salve. "It's made from an herb that is only found in Suna that has remarkable healing qualities." He said no more as he handed her the jar.
Shocked and more than a little confused, she took it from him. No sooner had it left his hand than he vanished in a trademark swirl of sand.
'This small respect I feel for her…could it be the beginning of…'
Mika walked back into the school to see her friends, the salve rubbed on her wrists. It was causing her relief already as she sat down, this time with Michelle in between her and Seyann. "Where did you go?" queried Sey "And what happened to your wrist?" she gasped as she caught sight of it.
Quickly hiding the scratches and cuts behind her back, she said "Oh I fell" before quickly changing the subject to discussing Sasuke and something he had done the previous week.
From his place in the rafters, he narrowed his eyes as he lip-read the words. 'Uchiha' he thought, dangerously.
A/N-Well there you have the sixth chapter. REVIEW! Oh and just so you, my readers, know-it's about the last week of April or so. In the story.
Here's the info on Michelle and Seyann.
Michelle Sanchez
Hair: Brown-Black, curly
Age: 18
Eyes: Black
Likes: Swimming, painting portraits of Anime characters, Martin Mystery, Naruto and sketching
Dislikes: Idiotic guys, Country Music, artists block, being hungry and getting up early.
Birthday: January 9th
Seyann Lenzi
Hair-Dirty blonde with red highlights, pin straight.
Age-17
Eyes-Hazel (sometimes green, sometimes brown.)
Likes- Dance, Naruto, destroying anything and everything pink, the color black, swimming,
Dislikes- Anything pink
Birthday-May 16th
