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Chapter 11

Tamu's PoV

It's been a day since Mieko went to see Shino. I think she's having a mental breakdown. Even if she tells everyone she's okay, we know she's not. Everybody has been quiet. The house is in total silence. If someone talks, you can hear their echo…scary…I don't want to break the silence, I think I'll like break a window. I'll leave it to Kitami to break it when she comes home and starts yelling at everyone again.

"Tamu-chan. Come here."

I go over to Mieko. All she ever does now is take care of these flowers or is in her room with Momo. Sometimes I just want to barge into her room to make sure she isn't hurting herself. I have to trust her though. I know she's not that kind of person.

It's dark outside. I sit next to Mieko and watch the flower bloom.

"Coooool!" I say.

Mieko laughs slightly, and smiles at me.

"This flower only blooms at night. It's one of my favorites. But my absolute favorite is the carnation."

"Peach ones?"

"Naturally."

"I'm glad you're actually enjoying something instead of moping around the house like some other people I know."

"It's getting late. I'm going to get some sleep. Do me a favor and tell Emiko and Riiko to meet me here tomorrow. I'm going to take them out to some place special since it's our birthday. Okay?"

"No problem!"

We both get up off the ground. Mieko leaves for her room while I go find Emiko and Riiko. I find Riiko on the couch reading a book…for once in her life. I sit next to her. When I do, Emiko and Gaara enter the room. Ah. They are making my life so much easier by coming to me.

"Hey, um meet Mieko in the gardens tomorrow morning. She said she's going to take you guys out since it's your guy's birthday." I tell them.

"Your birthday is tomorrow?" I hear Gaara ask Emiko.

"Yeah…20 years old…Kind of makes me feel old. Wait. I haven't heard you mention your birthday. I'm not older then you am I?"

"No…I actually had my birthday a month or two ago."

"You never told anyone? We could have celebrated…"

"Eh. I didn't really see the point. But, we could celebrate yours instead."

"You guys talk a lot." Riiko said.

The two of them just glared at her and retreated back to their room. I'm not really tired, so I'll just stay with Riiko!

"Since when do you read books?"

"Since Kitami left. It's her diary from when she was younger. Man, it's hilarious." Riiko answered.

"Ohh. I wanna read!" I lean over to find a hand drawn picture of her and my aunt and uncle. He he. She's not a very great artist.

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Kankuro's PoV

It's been a day since Kitami left, and I miss her already. Actually, I missed her right when she walked out the door. She better be okay…I can't really imagine life without her now. It's weird. Not only that, we're having a kid. If something happens to Kitami, the child is also affected. If she or the kid gets hurt I'm going to…um, haven't decided. Maybe I should just go talk to Gaara. I haven't talked to him in a while. As if he heard me, Gaara walks in my room.

"Hey. I was just gonna go over to talk to you. What's up little brother?"

"Don't call me little. Emiko fell asleep, so now I have this thing following me everywhere." I look at this 'thing' that he refers to. It's just Yuki.

"You call Yuki a 'thing'?"

"What else am I supposed to call it?"

"How about you stop referring Yuki as 'it' and 'thing', and start using her name…does Emiko know that you call Yuki a 'thing'?

"…"

"Haha. Didn't think so. So what's up?"

"It's Emiko's birthday tomorrow. She's going with her sisters to celebrate, but I want to do something for her."

"Since when have you become so romanti-"

"I just want to do something for her okay? I mean, she is going to be my wife soon right? Might as well get used to it…"

"Why don't you just get her something, or I don't know, when she comes back, take her someplace."

"We'll see I guess…I'm going to go back now. You've officially bored me to well tiredness."

I smile. He has become happier in my eyes, and I have that future wife of his to thank…

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Emiko's PoV

I wake up to see Gaara come through the door. I sit up groggily.

"Did I wake you?" he asks me.

"Not really…" I rub my eyes and yawn. Yeah, I can have manners too. He sits down next to me.

"What do you want for your birthday?"

I turn to look at him. Did Gaara just ask me what I wanted for my birthday?

"Um…you don't have to get me something. But…hm. Oh! I saw this nice ring downtown. It reminds me of my grandmother on my dad's side. Since she had a ring like the one I saw. She was buried with it though…you could get me the ring if you really want to get me something. But, you really don't have to…" My site is blurry and it's dark. But I can still see Gaara smile through all of the darkness.

I look back in front of me and see Yuki at the foot of the bed. I smile at her. She's been with me all my life. I have always considered her birthday the same as mine. Note to self: get something for Yuki.

I feel something touch my cheek. Then something wraps around my waist. "The ring is yours…" I feel Gaara's warmth around me. I never thought the road to married life felt this great. I smile at Gaara and kiss him.

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Next Morning

Riiko's PoV

The brightness wakes me up in the morning. I feel old. I'm 20…ugh. Oh well. It's my birthday! I've always enjoyed this day with my two older sisters they're only like a couple minutes older then me. Man…. I wake up and go into the conjoining bathroom to get ready. I find a summer dress hanging on my dresser. It's a pastel blue halter. Cute and simple. I get dressed and head out my bedroom door.

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Emiko's PoV

I wake up a little earlier then usual. Gaara is still asleep; his arm is still around my waist, so I carefully remove it. I'm still tired, but drag myself out anyways. On my way to my bathroom, I find a pastel purple halter summer dress. What the heck? When did that get there? Oh well, to tired. I have to get ready to meet my other two younger sisters…jeez, why so early in the morning!

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Mieko's PoV

They better get here, or I'm going to get Tamu for this. I ask her to do one thing for me and she can't even do th-.

"What's with the dresses Mieko?" I turn around to find Emiko and Riiko wearing the dresses I left. I myself am wearing a pastel green halter summer dress. The dresses have teardrop patterns from the waist down going diagonal in their originating colors. I bought them especially for today.

I smile. "Mom used to dress up the same on our birthday's when we were younger. I just wanted to continue tradition!"

Emiko yawns. "What tradition? Let's just go before I decide to go back to bed."

I lead the to of them through town and out into the forest.

"Are we going to be okay?" Riiko asks.

"Don't worry Riiko! We kick ass." Emiko says.

"Not in dresses we don't…"

We walk further, taking turns, and crosses. I finally reach the place. It's gated with a lock. I take out a key and smile. I turn to both of them before I unlock the door.

"I've been working on this for 10 years. This," I say as I unlock the door and open it. "Is what the fantastic result is."

Inside, there are fields covered with hundreds and thousands of every flower possible. A small house is out there in the middle. We walk along the pathway to it. On the way, I see my two sisters marvel at the site. Hills, trees, and flowers are everywhere.

"Do you own this land?" I hear Riiko ask.

I nod. "I've spent half of my life doing this. I made everything here. I'm actually quite proud of myself."

"Mieko, this is amazing! Does anyone else know about it?" Emiko asks.

"Nope, well besides dad. He built the house. Besides him, you two are the first to visit. I never told or talked about this place to anyone."

"Not even Shino?" Riiko asks. Emiko hits her behind the head. I hear her whisper, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

Shino…I haven't seen him in a couple of days. Today would have been our…fifth…sixth…seventh anniversary? I don't remember, but lately I don't remember a lot of things. My sisters are still bickering, so I quietly walk off the path out into my flowerbeds. I sit in my favorite flowers, carnations. It's been my favorite flower since Shino gave one to me on our first anniversary. It was funny. It was the first time I've ever seen him blush.

"STUPID!"

"IDIOT!"

I can still hear my two sisters yelling…they sure fight a lot. I turn back to see them having a glaring contest. Emiko blinks.

"Ha! I win!"

"I let you win."

"Sure…"

I smile and whistle. Momo comes from god knows where. That's what I love about her. She'll always come no matter when or where I am.

"Happy birthday, Mieko!"

I grin. I also love her because she talks. "Thank you Momo-chan."

Momo fly's around me a couple of minutes, and then shrinks to the size of a normal butterfly. I hold out my finger so she can land on it.

"Are you okay? You look a little pale." Momo says.

"I'm fine. I'm just…tired."

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Shino's PoV

I walk along the streets aimlessly. It's what I've been doing since 12:00 midnight. Looking at the sun, I determine that it's about 8:30. I can't figure out why I keep thinking about her, about what happened. After the incident, I told Hinata to leave. I haven't seen her since. I sigh. It's not like I'd want to anyways. We're not together! But then…why do I still feel so guilty? I want to go see Mieko. Although, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't want to see me. It's her birthday, our would be sixth anniversary. I stop in front of an all to familiar flower shop and walk in. There at the counter, I see Ino and Sakura talking.

"Shino! I was wondering when you would come in. Seeing you walk pass by this place a million times, is well kind of…anyways, let me guess, a peach carnation?"

"Make it six today."

"Six? Wow. Usually it's just one for your anniversary, what happened?"

"You didn't hear Ino?" Sakura asks.

"Hear what?"

"Mieko and Shino had a fight…"

I stand there confused. I don't think Mieko told her about that. I didn't tell her about it. So…

"Hinata told me."

Bingo. I'm going to have to talk to her later.

"Shino…what did you do? You two were like perfect! I mean, I can't imagine life without you two together anymore!" Ino said.

"Ino…I just need the flowers, please. I need to make it up to here. …No matter what…"

Ino prepares the carnations for me. I pay, say my good-byes, and leave for the Fukuda house.

Couple minutes later

I knock on the door to be greeted by Akemi.

"Shino? What are you doing here?"

"Give these to Mieko please. I have to go now but, tell her I AM coming back."

She stands there confused. She smiles and says goodbye. I turn to leave, only to be stopped by a voice.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

I turn to see a not to happy Tamu. Kiba is behind her trying to pull her back.

"Tamu…calm down. I'm sure he just wanted to say sorry!" I hear Kiba whisper to her. "Hey man!"

I nod at him.

"Sorry isn't good enough…" Tamu whispers fiercely back.

I look at her. I can tell that she is upset with me. I can only imagine what I've done to Mieko.

"Tamu! Let me talk to him. I'm afraid you're going to kill him."

"Your damn right I'm going to kill him! Let me go."

Kiba scoots in front of Tamu and shuts the door in her face. She yells, and Kiba runs past me.

"Dude, if you want to die, then keep standing there."

I run after him.

"GOD DAMNIT KIBA!" I hear Tamu scream.

He laughs. "I LOVE YOU TOO TAMU!" He keeps running until we both hear a 'thud'.

"Oh crap. Um, I don't want to get hurt, so I'm just going to keep running…" Kiba says. I think he's afraid of her.

"Great way to be a man Kiba! Running away from your girlfriend."

We look to our left to find one of the most annoying people I've ever met. Naruto.

"Shut up…What are you doing here?"

"I'm walking?"

"…" I stand there. When I start to walk away, the two catch up.

"So where are we headed?" Kiba asks.

"Hinata's place." I answer.

"Why?"

"You know Shino…she said that you and Mieko weren't together anymore." Naruto said.

"That's why." I say.

"Oh…"

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Oooooooh. What's going to happen next? I don't know. Or do I?

I listen to songs while I write my chapters…so I've decided that I am going to list the song or songs that I listen to while writing. I have a whole playlist dedicated to writing this story. I get most of my inspiration from songs that I listen to. So today's song is:

Animal I Have Become (Main Version) By: Three Days Grace.

Next update…not sure.

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Chocoboba