Disclaimer: I OWN NARUTO NOT!!
Note: HOLY HOBOS, I FORGOT! This fanfic is set in Shippuden time. Also, this chapter wasn't edited in plot very much, but more was added to it.
Me: Slight fluff, me likey x3
Katie: This chapter has also been edited. Enjoy this version, cuz the previous one sucked.
Emily: HELL YEAH IT DID!
Chapter Seven
"I'll leave you two to rest up, ok?" The nurse left the room, leaving Lee and Kenisha alone in the infirmary. They had both been bandaged up and were sitting in a bed next to the window, looking through it absently. Lee took that opportunity to talk to Kenisha.
"How is your arm?" Kenisha nodded.
"It's fine, thanks for caring. Come to think of it, you've been caring about me a lot lately. Is something wrong?" Lee had turned around and rubbed his head.
"No, nothing is wrong. It is just..." Kenisha leaned in. 'Just... what? What is it?'
"It is just...your clan is lost, your cousins are missing, and you are getting injured by me. I do not want another to be lost. I am sorry."
An awkward silence followed, after which Kenisha sighed. "Lee, I already told you: I'm not mad at you, and between you and me, I don't think I'll be dying in a long time. Sides, I don't really think it's right to pity me over something like that." She gave him a brief hard look. "I'm not weak because of what I've lost. It's my burden, but I carry it with pride. My other cousins would say the same." Lee smiled.
"That is good to here. You're just as honorable as anyone here." Kenisha laughed and Lee looked at her strangely. "What is so funny?" He crossed his arms across his chest, which was bare because his injuries were there. Kenisha found herself staring for a second before coming back to earth.
"Uh, nothing's funny. It's just that no one has really cared for what I had to say like you do. Not even my cousins; well, maybe Hermione did. Usually I'm blocked out because what I say is "full of immaturity and ill-will". I guess you think I'm a pretty interesting person." Kenisha crossed her legs and put her hands on her knee. Lee blushed.
'Come on, Lee! You can do this! Yosh!' "I do. I really do think you are a pretty, interesting person."
The door opened and TenTen rushed in and hugged the both of them. "Great fight, you guys!!" She turned to Kenisha. "We get to live together! And to celebrate that, I'm making dumplings and barbecue! So let's go!" She pulled on Kenisha's bad arm, so Kenisha winced. "Oh, sorry Kenisha. Come on." The two headed for the door, and were about to exit when Kenisha realized something.
"Hey TenTen, I left my headband on the bed; will you wait outside?" TenTen nodded and went out the door, leaving Kenisha and Lee alone again.
Kenisha went to her bed and got her headband from the pillow, then noticed Lee staring out the window. Kenisha poked him. "Hey Lee, I'm going so are you going to be okay here by yourself?" Lee turned to her.
"Y-Yes, I will be alright. Gai-sensei is coming to get me shortly."
"Okay, bye." Kenisha was about to go, but decided to give Lee one last parting gift. "I have a present for you." Kenisha got up and sat next to Lee. He blushed again, and Kenisha laughed, blushing a little as well. "This is my way of saying 'thank you' "
Kenisha closed her eyes and kissed Lee on the cheek, giving him a tight hug. "Thanks for caring..." He slowly hugged her back and smiled.
"You are welcome."
"Kenisha," she heard TenTen call. "I'd better go. Goodbye Lee!" She ran out of the room. When she was gone, Lee touched the spot where she kissed him. 'Whoa...it is warm...Yosh!! Kenisha kissed me!!'
"Your opponent in the initiation match?" Lee looked up and saw his sensei standing before him.
"I said that out loud?" Gai nodded.
"Youth has given you a girl, Lee. Don't let her get away." Lee saluted his sensei.
"Yes, Gai-sensei!!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sense--"
"YOU TWO SPANDEX IDIOTS, HAVE YOUR YAOI MONTAGE SOMEWHERE ELSE," Tsunade yelled, making the two jump.
"IT'S NOT YAOI," Lee yelled back.
"IT'S THE BEAUTIFUL BOND BETWEEN TEACHER AND STUDENT," Gai-sensei added, smiling and bouncing light off of his blinding teeth. Lee did the same and the both ran into the sunset... well, the door, but they saw a sunset.
At TenTen's house
"How long does it really take to get a headband? Enlighten me, Kenisha." TenTen was still interrogating Kenisha about what happened at the arena's infirmary.
"It took long because I had to put it on my injured arm, and it hurt like hell!!" Kenisha crossed her arms, satisfied with her lie. TenTen glared at her.
"That was the worst lie I've ever heard. Now tell me the truth before you have to sleep on the wall." She held a kunai out threateningly. Kenisha sighed.
"I guess I can't get out of telling you. I kissed Lee on the cheek and we hugged as a 'thank you' gift for saving my life. But don't worry, I know my debt isn't paid yet: A life for a life, that's what Hermione told me." TenTen burst into a fit of giggles, and after a few moments she couldn't hold them any longer and laughed out loud.
"Oh. My. God. That is sad! No offense, but you suck at lying, Kenisha!" She wiped away the tears she shed while laughing. Kenisha growled at her.
"None taken, 'cause it's the truth. If I wasn't serious, I would've just come up with a different lie like I did the last several times you've asked." TenTen was gone a split second after Kenisha said her words and was at the phone.
"Come on, come on, pick up...Hi Lee!! Is it true?...Don't say that? You know what I-...Awwww!! That's cute!!...Okay, bye Lee!!" TenTen hung up and gave Kenisha puppy eyes. "THAT WAS SOOOO CUTE!! HE LIKES YOU, AND YOU KISSED HIM--"
"On the cheek," Kenisha pointed out.
"Yeah, whatever-BUT YOU KISSED HIM AND NOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE GOING OUT AND THEN GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS AND SHARE FOOD AND BUY BAB--" TenTen was cut off when Kenisha shoved four dumplings in her mouth.
"Shut up. You jump to too many conclusions, TenTen," Kenisha said coldly. TenTen swallowed and got mad.
"I jump to conclusions? Who's the one who thought Lee did more on the monument than save her life?" She put her hands on her hips and tapped her foot, waiting for an answer.
"I know I did, but that's not the point in what I said. What I meant was how do you know that's going to happen without proof?" TenTen sighed.
"Kenisha, Kenisha, Kenisha..." She shook her head, her buns swishing from side to side.
"Don't triple 'Kenisha' me, TenTen!"
"Well, I have to: it fits the mood. Look at me and Neji: the reasons why we're not married is because One: We're too young, Two: Because he's got to fulfill his duty as branch member of the Hyuuga clan, and Three: Because well... we wouldn't be accepted anyway. Other than that, we're just like you will be: a happy couple that goes on ninja missions and occasionally kills people." She smiled at Kenisha, whose eye twitched.
"Umm...."
"Don't ask."
"Your logic is scary, but I guess you're right. Perhaps I should try it; I've never had a boyfriend before anyway." TenTen slapped her on the back encouragingly.
" 'Atta girl!! Now go get him!!"
"At 9:30 pm?" TenTen smiled sheepishly.
"Okay then, tomorrow. That's when you'll meet my other friends: Hinata, Sakura, and Ino. It may be a really short list, but they're the best friends anyone could ever have, besides the fact that Ino gossips non-stop with Sakura and spread secrets all over the village. But as long as you don't tell them anything and avoid Ino's Body Switch jutsu, you'll be fine. And Hinata-chan is SO ADORABLE!!"
She contained herself and Kenisha wondered what in the world could make her scream like the girl that's locked inside the depths of her tomboy mind. "There's also Temari, but she's not assigned here at the moment, and long-distance calls wrack up the phone bill. So you'll meet her later."
"What're they like, besides what you mentioned?"
She sat down on the floor and TenTen sat next to her, stretching her legs out and moving her feet from right to left. "Well, let's start with Ino and Sakura. They're in a pair because even though they fight like two cats over catnip, they're the best of friends. Sakura has short pink hair, Ino has platinum blonde hair that's just as long as your's or mine, and she wears her's in a ponytail like you. They're bot pretty skinny, but Sakura doesn't have as much of a chest as Ino does. Ino's pretty much the "whore" of the group, because she can't decide on one guy and Sakura is the "broken hearted maiden" because Sasuke left her crying on a bench when he left almost three years ago." She leaned back on her bed and sighed. "But they both get along... well, it's better said that they at least tolerate each other. They're big hot-heads and compete with each other constantly, but they're great anyway." She giggled.
"Why the funny, chokey sounds?" Kenisha had grown accustomed to calling TenTen's giggles "funny chokey sounds" because when she first heard them, she thought a bird was in the middle of chirping before it choked. Thus dubbing her high-pitched giggles as "funny chokey sounds".
TenTen threw a pillow at her. "My giggles are not "funny chokey sounds". At least, Neji and the girls don't think so. And Lee says that "the flower of our team's laughter could've been taken from the angels". Then again... it's Lee. Because they're also the queens of fashion in this village. They give makeovers whenever possible and scream at the top of their lungs at their teammates when they piss them off."
"Huh, sounds like Emily and Katie on a good day."
"Hinata is the absolute opposite though! She's cute, shy, sweet, and best of all, she's Neji's cousin! She's got purple-ish blue hair that used to be short but now it's down to her waist and she's got everyone but me and possibly you beat in the bust area. She's always so embarassed by it though; she's never really been one with a high self esteem. But she's strong too! And she always has some words of wisdom in a situation or two." She smiled.
"They sound pretty awesome. James girlfriend was a little bit like that," Kenisha said, smiling a little.
"See? You're gonna love them!" She laughed.
Kenisha laughed too. "Yeah, I guess I will."
"So Temari, any news?" Katie asked, having finished her book an hour ago. The twins had healed nicely, which made them even more agitated. They wanted out of Suna, but Temari wouldn't give them the green light. So they sat and fumed.
Emily snorted at Katie's comment.
"When isn't there news? Somebody could've died, a village could've been pillaged, Gaara could've gotten laid--" Temari hit her in the head with a stapler. Temari was on her computer and looked at her inbox and in another tab, looking for ninja that looked like Hermione and Kenisha, through Katie and Emily's descriptions.
"That's still my little brother you're talking about, even if he is Kazekage. Yeah, there is some good news, for Konoha anyway. Gaara said that someone just passed an initiation test in Konoha yesterday. It was someone who majored in water jutsu and summoned a large wolf. Here's her profile." She printed it and brought it to them and their eyes widened.
"Height: 4 foot 11. Weight: 111 pounds. Eye Color: Dark Brown. Hair Color: Dark Brown, streaks of Black...." As Katie read through the profile, she didn't dare look at the tiny picture in the corner, nor the name below it. Too much hope could crush them if it wasn't really her. "...Kekkei Genkai: ....Suiton!" Katie broke into a gigantic smile and hugged Emily and Temari.
"HOLY SHIT, KATIE-NEE! Kenisha is in Konoha!" Her eyes were glistening with happy tears. "KENISHA-CHAN IS IN KONOHA! HOLY SHIT!"
"Shit isn't holy, Emily," Temari pointed out.
"Whatever, that's our little cousin, Kenisha!! Look at her, she's already finding her place over there, kicking some ass, while we sit here spitting spit wads at your fan--oops," Emily said. Temari got up and cracked her knuckles. She hit Emily in her just healed arm, to which Emily screamed.
"OWWWWWW!! What the hell?! Great, I felt a crack!"
"Good," Temari replied and returned to answering her email.
"Great, Emily. You got her pissed. Again." Katie said out of the corner of her mouth.
"Don't remind me," Emily said, pouting, holding her arm.
(Katie: Yeah, in this fic they have functioning Yahoo! and crap like that... lol, ninjas with the Internet. The world is screwed now.)
(TenTen and Me: -bend back like evil criminals and smile evilly- MWUHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA!!!! -rub hands together-)
(Neji: -unfazed- Hn.)
(Lee: -twitch- WHAT IN THE NAME OF YOUTH WAS THAT?!)
Emily: What's with you?
Me: I just kissed someone on the cheek and everyone goes crazy. Well, at least TenTen went crazy.
Emily: Lee, I presume?
Me: (gasp) How the hell did you know that? Have you been eavesdropping on my segments of the story?
Emily: (kicks a rock, swaying) Maybee...
Me: Grrrrrrrr...
Katie: Nice way to get someone who can kick your ass pissed, Emily. Again.
Emily: 0-0 -runs from Kenisha's wrath-
Kenisha: GET BACK HERE, DAMMIT! I HAVEN'T DROWNED YOU YET!
TenTen: Shut up, you three!! We have to get to the next chapter!!
Katie: -sits back and watches- She is right, you know.
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