Chapter 12… Reunion
Back at the school…things weren't going so well for Akira and Andrew.
"May I please know why we are supposed to color this room bright pink…it's hurting my eyes…" Andrew complained, letting the paintbrush drop out of his hand and clatter to the floor. He hunched his back, and whined some more.
"I know, I know! It looks like someone threw up on it…but what can we do…" Akira answered with the same amount of complaining and whining enthusiasm in his voice.
"Not paint it bright pink for starters…" a suggestion came from the black haired boy.
"No…we can't do that…we'll have that goddamn principle breathing down out necks…I hate it how she literally does that!" Akira shuddered at the mere thought. His paint brush had now found a cozy spot in the corner of the room…somehow.
"And we are running out of paint!"
"How the hell did we manage that?" Akira really wanted to know…
"I…umm…ALIENS…ya…wait no…A GALACTIC OVER LORD…ya….he came down and took all the bright pink paint!"
"Andrew…what did you do…" this was really going nowhere and the caravan would arrive any minute now. Akira glanced at his watch. It read two thirty….fine…fine….not any minute…in four hours…BUT THAT WASN'T THE POINT!
"Look…where the hell are we going to get that much paint!?" Akira was agitated…
"Umm…a paint shop…" the confused America citizen said a smart thing…five points for Andrew! YOSH!!!
"Okay…good…how do we sneak past the principle…she's standing in front of the school. "
"Umm…have your mom go get them…?"
"Hey…now that you mentioned it….this is Mom's room we are repainting! Right?"
"Yes, Akira-san…that it is…?" Andrew bowed down, pretending to be a samurai.
"Hey, Akira…who do I look like...?" Andrew did some Kung Fu punches and kicks and ended up on his back flat as a pancake.
"An idiot…now help me…" Akira looked at him with a WTF stare, before roaming the room, feeling the air for any hidden objects.
"Yup…Akira has finally lost it…it's been nice knowing you…"
"Shut up and help me look, dobe. Mom never told us where she was, what she did, when she moved here. Her reflexes match those of a ninja. Mom has powers…literally…she can force herself into someone's head. I can control sand…and for some reason…there are pictures of some far off place in her current stash she hides somewhere. Those of which are of Konoha, Shikamaru, Chouji, other friends, including mom's childhood crush, Sasuke, and apparently our aunt, uncle, and father…" Akira was out of breath, bouncing across the walls, with no luck whatsoever.
"What the fuck?" Andrew stared at him as if he was an alien.
"Yes…now help me look, goddamn it…"
"You have issues…" Andrew sighed, as he reluctantly set his other three bright pink paintbrushes down, and helped him look.-
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"Keep calm…keep calm…keep calm…" Ino whispered as she prepared Gaara's room. She knew the way he liked it…the way he kept his things…She knew everything about him. She arranged the blood red covers, and adjusted the sandy colored pillows. She vacuumed the floor, and placed pictures on the wall. It looked like something Gaara would sleep in…Gaara…the father of her children…her one true love that she hasn't seen in fourteen years. It wouldn't be a surprise if he came and didn't even recognize her. She collapsed on the bed, crying her baby blue eyes into the red covers. After the crying subsided a little she grabbing for a pencil and paper just off the beside table, she began writing a poem. She didn't care if he wouldn't remember…she'll leave this for him anyway:
bloody walls and broken windowsof the room inside my heartare filled with ghastly memoriesof things that came to passbloody walls and broken windowsof the room inside my heartstill mourn for all of thosethings that never seemed to lastthe walls have cried red, red tearssince the day they came to beuntil there was no more bloodleft inside for them to bleedand the windows, through the stormsof bitter words and painful cries,have shattered and now on the floortheir glass pieces, broken,liebloody walls and broken windowsof the room inside my heartare marked in hinting footsteps:someone used to be here oncebloody walls and broken windowsof the rooms inside my heartnow lie abandoned, coldwhoever that someone wasis now long, long gone
(copyright: EmAnUeLLa, Deviant Art…(my sister))
She looked over the poem a few times…it reflected everything…it was true…maybe he feels the same, maybe he'll remember. Her tears stained the paper, smudging some of the ink. It was still readable…and a bit more doom like with the tears there. She decided to leave it like that. Just the poem, lying on the pillow, for no goddamned reason. Fate has twisted and turned on both of 'em. Their lives are now different…She stood up, deciding with a last glance onto the room, that she was, in fact, finished. Wiping away a few tears, she decided to go to her roo---OH GODDAMN IT! AKIRA AND ANDREW WERE REPAITING IT FOR SAKURA! DAMN!
She ran…wait a minute…what was she doing…shaking her head, she teleported to her room, leaving a puff of white smoke behind.
What ever was left behind, now lies in silent wait
Anticipating the moment the master drops the bait
It hides a cold, evil smile
I guess the wait was worth while
Soon the bait is passed on
To the pitiful screams of the memories long gone
But now their time to kill has come
Their journey filled with bloodshed has only just begun.
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Ayame fiddled with the keys to the shed. Smart ass principle, Mrs. Rodehaver had the bright idea to put every single key to every fucking door in the whole school on one key chain. So, naturally, Ayame has been standing in front of the tool shed for about four hours now…
'Damn… stupid… retarded… idiotic…' Ayame thought angrily every time a different key didn't fit.
"UGH!" she screamed aghast, throwing the keys to the ground, and then stomping on them. The metal just jingled beneath her weight. It frustrated her even when no damage was brought upon the keys.
"THAT'S IT!!!" She screamed out loud shaking the school grounds. The shed was place a little while off from the main entrance, somewhere in the forest surrounding the grounds. Still she was close enough to hear new comers. Putting the keys into her pockets (but not before dusting them off, making sure no trace of dirt was on EVERY key) she drew her fist back and smashed it against the door. The impact was huge, splinters and big plank pieces flew around her, the thick wood broken. She stumbled backwards, looking at her bloody knuckles then at the broken, shattered, hanging –on- an- edge door.
'WOW!!...I DID THAT?!" smiling at her handy work, she climbed inside the shed.
'You have got to be kidding…' Ayame exhaled a long sigh as she was faced with a pile of sand covering the furniture that was going in this man's –Hatake Kakashi's- room.
'How the hell am I removing this sand..?' she whispered under her breath.
After about half an hour of contemplating, she sighed in defeat, jingling the keys in her hand, off to find someone to help her remove the sand.
(Please be reminded that this if 4 and a half hours after the Akira Andrew Crisis in Sakura/Ino's room.)
She walked out of the forest into the big clearing, to see a whole caravan parked in front of the school.
'They are here…' she sighed, before taking a big breath and racing to her room to get dressed in proper clothes to face the "President" of two countries in their world known as China. She puts on her kimono, and rushes to meet up with her mother and brother.
Kakashi's room still lingers in her mind as it was not finished yet. No furniture, no nothing but paint and carpet. Mrs. Rodahaver would have her head for this.
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4 hours prior, Ino's room… The movie is about 4 hours long…Ino had a few rolls eyes at the understatement… things to attend to…
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Akira sat eyes blank staring at the TV screen that Andrew dragged into the room. It was a movie with memories of their mother's past. Sakura was her best friends until they both fell in love with Sasuke. And then Shikamaru, and the Chunnin exams…the picking…Gaara…the SPA….the Hidden Water Country…the ninja life…assassination missions….Akatsuki…it all rang silently like a fire alarm in his head, as Andrew's mouth hit the floor more than once. The movie finished with an ending song:
YuraYura to…yugandasora e…kimi no moto he tondeyuke…konnani mo…chikakunikanijiterufutatsu no omoi…
Zuto soba ni…itakara…aitasukimaookisugite…namaikina…kimi no sunaonahenjimateregasabishii…mirareinaimachi de…naiterunarasobaniinakutemoegaowatodoketai…
YuraYura toyugandasora e…kimi no moto he tondeyuke…konnani mo…chikakunikanijiteru…futatsu no omoi…
The song sang in the back ground, as Akira silently cried to the lyrics. Andrew was still in utter shock. The door was blasted a few moments later as Ino rushed in.
"I'm…late?" she sighed when she got no response from Akira. He sat there, body trembling, face buried in his hands. She sat down next to him, and hugged him tight, rocking him back and forth.
"I'm sorry baby…I didn't intend on you finding out this way… "
"When did you intend on me finding out…?" he sobbed into his mother's chest…
"I wanted your dad to tell you… but when I heard he was coming because of a completely different reason…that they didn't remember me anymore…that to them I was killed when they found out I was pregnant 14 years ago…I decided to keep it that way…and tell you myself. But they came on short notice and I was simply unable to leave with you two. Please forgive me…" she began crying with him.
"Hun..clean up and come down stairs…you too Andrew…It's time you meet the Konoha 12 and your dad, aunt and uncle. You too Andrew…Hurry up boys.." With that…Ino wiped a few more tears and went to get dressed.
20 minutes later…the carriages have arrived and the whole school was dressed up. Ino in her ninja outfit with her forehead protector (It was tradition from whence she came from…or so she told people.) Ayame wore a kimono, blue and yellow flowers. Akira wore a ninja outfit he bought downtown D.C.
The big doors opened, and in walked a blonde boy…with whiskers and a huge white robe. He had a hat on with the Kanji for Hokage, and a robe which at the back of said Godaime Hokage. Everyone else wore their normal ninja outfits.
"Hahaha…" Naruto's childish voice rang…
"Sakura…look who we just ran into…" Naruto gave his usual smile and gave Ino a foxy hug.
"I missed you…" he whispered…
"And I'm trying to breath…" she gasped.
He let her go, and let Sakura glomp her.
"INO PIG!"
"FOREHEAD GIRL!" the girls laughed before hugging the living daylights out of each other…
One by one….they all said hi to each other.
"I can't believe that you guys didn't think I was killed."
"I don't believe what I don't see…" Shikamaru said… "And we have Naruto as Hokage…"
The twelve laughed.
A woman pushed herself through the crowd, and walked up to Ino placing something in her hand.
"I believe that is yours…" she smiled a teary smile, before moving aside. Ino opened her hand to find her engagement ring. She looked up, blinded by the sunlight the open front doors let in, and in the light she made out the figure of the Kazekage…of….
…Gaara…
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Took me long enough…I know…but here's the update.. please review!! Means so much when I see them in my inbox…at least I know im not wasting my time writing this. One more chapter until the sequel begins… stay tuned for the last chapter of A Little Red Rose… (in which you'll also find out why the story is called this.)
-M-A-D-