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Chapter 7

Everyone was minding their own business until the door bell rang. Mieko and Emiko ran for the door. Gaara poked his head out the door, ( only half dressed :cough: ) but Emiko pushed him back in told him to get dressed and closed the door in his face. She then went back to the door to see Mieko answering it. A man was at the door holding a package and a note. He handed it to Mieko and was off. Mieko then went to a desk and read the note aloud.

Dear sisters, cousins, whoever is concerned, and my favorite dog Ichigo,

I just wanted to let you all know that I'm fine and well. If you come looking for me…I will hurt you. I'm on vacation. I deserve it. Of course I'm not on vacation with the best person in your eyes, I'm happy. Deal with it. I'm old enough to take care of myself now. Now you must be wondering what's with the mess and the blood, well I made the mess when Itachi grabbed me. I well kicked him, so that's his blood. Not mine, his. So that means I'm okay. The organization thinks that he's on some mission or whatever. He said he wanted to see me again, I feel so special! Anyways, I'll be back in a couple of days, k? There's some stuff that I got, I didn't want to just leave it anywhere. Itachi got it for me! Don't let Tamu-chan get her hands on it. I'm afraid she'll break it. So put it in my room someplace safe, k? Love you all.

Riiko.

"Hey! Why does she think I'll brake it?" Tamu asked.

"Because you will if you touch whatever it is." Akemi said.

By now everyone was around Mieko, who was smiling with relief. Everyone calmed down now that they knew Riiko was okay. Mieko then opened the box. Inside, there was a diamond teardrop necklace, and two crystal hearts.

"Jeez…you think Itachi actually got that for her?" Mimi asked.

"I don't know." Mieko answered.

Mieko got up and went to Riiko's room to put the stuff away. She felt two arms wrap around her to pull her into a hug.

"I told you she'd be okay…" Shino whispered.

Mieko just smiled.

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"I'm baaaaack." A woman around her late fifty's came through the door.

No one was there. She went to the living room to find everyone there.

"There you guys a-. Someone's pregnant."

"I told you." Kitami mouthed to Kankuro. Everyone looked at Kitami.

"What! Why are people staring at me?" She yelled.

:cough:

"Kitami…sweetie, come here." Her mother said.

Kitami rolled her eyes and went over.

"Grandma!" Sakime cried.

"Aww, there's my Sakime-chan."

"Excuse me mom, YOUR Sakime-chan?" Kaki asked.

"You know what I mean. I can miss my first grand-daughter can't I?"

"Uh…mom?" Kitami said.

"Hm? Oh right. You come here." She pointed to Kankuro. "Both of you in Kitmai's room now. I'll be right there."

"I feel like I'm 16 again." Kitami said while walking to her room with Kankuro.

"How does she know it's me?"

"Did you not hear me when I said she knows EVERYTHING?" Kitami said entering her room.

"Are you going to let Kitami keep the baby?" Kaki asked.

"I want to see if they BOTH want to keep the baby…"

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Kitami's PoV

"When you said you felt like you were 16 again…what did that mean?" Kankuro asked me.

"It means I'm going to have the same talk as a I did when I was 16."

"You got pregnant when you were 16!"

"Of course not! It wasn't me who was pregnant. It was Kaki. I have know idea why my mom would think it was me when I was only 16 years old." I told him.

"Let me guess…everyone looked at you when your mom said someone was pregnant 4 years ago."

"Yup."

After a couple more minutes of us chatting, my mom walks in with a somewhat happy attitude.

"You're not keeping the baby." She said.

"WHAT! You can't tell me if I can keep the baby or not! I thought you would be happy." I say.

"Well I am…just no-"

"We're keeping the kid." Kankuro interrupts.

My mom looks at him, smiles, then walks up to us and hugs us. I'm confused.

"What the hell mom…" I say. When she let's go of us, we see her crying.

"I'm so happy for you two."

"Is your mom bipolar or something…?" Kankuro asked me, staring at my mom awkwardly.

"I have no idea. But I guess she is." I tell him.

"Well now, let's go tell everyone else shall we?"

"Uh…" Kankuro and I say.

We all get up, but I'm walking slowly. Like I want my sisters to know that I'm pregnant. Psh. Like they'd care. We walk into the room to find everyone sitting quietly. The only noise in the room is from Yuki, who is napping in Emiko's lap.

"Well!" Mimi asked.

"Well what?" I say.

"Don't play stupid. Your kid isn't just something you can ignore you know."

"I'm not ignoring my child. You're just annoying." I tell her. She sticks her tongue out at me.

"I get to be an auntie!" Kaki cried out from nowhere.

"…You're a mom…isn't that supposed to be better?" I ask.

"Uh…yeah. But all of you are aunts, but I'm stuck being the only one who has to be a mom…but NOW, I'm going to be an aunt and Kitami is going to be the one who's a mommy."

"And I get a cousin! Wheeee!" Sakime said.

"I just don't want my kid to turn out like yours. And I have to make sure she stays away from Tamu and Mimi." I tell everyone as a sit on the floor in front of Mamo-chan. She slowly climbs onto my lap trying to get on my shoulders.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Tamu and Mimi ask me.

"Nothing…I just don't want my child to be annoying." I say. I smile and hold onto my stomach.

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"Mom! Emiko hit me!" Mimi yelled running to her mom.

"I did not." Emiko said walking to her room.

"Liar."

"What's going on?" Mieko asked.

"Emiko hit me."

"So? Hit her back."

"You can do that?"

"You mean you haven't done that?"

"Shut up." Mimi said, walking outside.

Mieko then walked over to Emiko's room and knocked on the door. Emiko opened it. "What."

"Can I come in?"

"No."

Mieko pushes Emiko and walks in anyways. She sits down on the bed and waits for Emiko to sit in the chair across from her.

Emiko's PoV

Jeez. Since when did Mieko start pushing people? I sit down and ask what she wants.

"I hear you hit Mimi today." She says.

"No I didn't." I tell her.

"You're 19 Emiko. Grow up. I mean, come on, you're getting married in a few months. Sure you didn't agree to it. But did mom agree to hers? Or how about grandma? And they were younger then you too. The difference between them and you is that they grew up. Plus, I don't believe you." She tells me.

I'm practically falling asleep in my chair because her sappy speech is boring. I feel a sharp pain on my cheek. The girl actually slapped me…

"Okay…I'll grow up. But I'm only like this because you grew up to fast. I need to live a childhood for two people." I say. She just stares at me confused. I sigh.

"Anyways, mom and grandma were like just a year or two younger. That's not a lot. And they had a choice in the matter. I don't. But I'm fine with it now see? I just don't see why it has two be in a couple of months. I can wait a few more years."

"You mean they didn't tell you?"

"Tell me what?" I ask.

"Um…you know how grandma has always wanted to see her favorite granddaughter get married? Well, since she's not going to be here much longer…"

"So I'm getting married because she wants to see me get married? That's the stupidest excuse I've ever heard."

"You didn't let me finish. Well you know that really annoying family that's in the Mist village? Yeah, well um…we're kind of at war with them…and we're losing…"

"Okay, that was the second stupidest reason. Mieko, are you just making all of this up?"

"Ya…" she admits.

"Get out." I point to the door. She just wasted like 5 minutes of my life. Just great. Plus, I know that grandma's favorite grandchild is Kitami. And that annoying family is scared of us. Jeez, Mieko doesn't have a great imagination. I hear another knock at my door. It's Kaki and Kari. Great. They must have something interesting to tell me…not.

"Come on we're going shopping."

"Why do I have to come?" I ask.

"Wedding dress shopping silly."

"Oh…no…"

"Come on, me, Kari, Kitami, Mieko, and Tamu are going. We're going to try some on for fun! Although I've already worn one…I can always wear another one!" Kaki told me.

"Fine…but I don't have to enjoy this." I grumble.

"No one said you did. Now let's go" they both said, pulling me out.

Everyone else was already at the door, ready to go. Kankuro and Gaara then entered the house. Surprised that everyone was crowding around the door. Kitami told Kankuro to come. More like threatened but whatever. Everyone was practically dragging me out. But before I got out the door, I pulled Gaara with me.

"You're coming."

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Gaara's PoV

How in the hell did I get pulled into wedding dress shopping? At least Kankuro's here.

"Okay! Emiko-chan, what color dress do you want? White, pink, gold, silver, or blue?"

"Oh! Um, I don't freaking care."

"Pink it is!"

"No wait I care. Either white or silver."

"Okay then…we'll just see what they have." Kaki said.

"Why are you so happy about this?"

"Are you kidding me? I haven't done this in over 4 years. I had so much fun picking my wedding dress."

"This isn't your wedding though…"

"So? Since you're not enjoying it, I'm enjoying to for you!"

"How long is this going to take…?" I complain.

"Don't complain." I hear Emiko tell me.

"Here we are!" Kaki says.

And oh my god…the place is huge…I'm in for one looong afternoon.

"Are you kidding me…"

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Okay so I am updating today. 5-16-06 like I said I would. It's just that I'm updating at like 10:30 :pp.

Sooo. I'm like starting to writer's block. Not good. But we'll live…I hope.

Anyways, next chapter will be more about the wedding, blah, blah, blah.

Riiko comes back. So on, more characters will be in the next chapter. Sooo ya.

Next update: tomorrow or Thursday. Most likely Thursday.

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Chocoboba