Okay, chapter six! Wahoo! I love this series! I've got the funniest idea for this chapter! I'm serious, it's hilarious! It includes candy, random funny songs, and a group of confused teenagers! X3 I can't wait until you read it! This is one of my most favorite stories to write, because it's supposed to look like someone made it while on crack! (laughs) 'That's a knee-slapper! (slaps knees)' That's a quote from a gay friend of mine in my law class.

(listens to snickers) Hey, don't be mean to gay people! They have feelings, too! 3X Sometimes more than other people! I'm serious; Rashad (or however the hell you spell his name) is a good person, although a bit lazy sometimes and likes to say the 'f' word lots. I don't. 3X

Gay friends! YAY! (throws confetti)

Summary: That girl suddenly popped up into his life. And she piqued his curiosity, too; she held a secret, and he wanted to find out what it was.

Sharingan High

Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. (after school)

"Hey, Sasuke-kun!"

Both the redhead and the Uchiha rolled their eyes before turning around to look at Sakura and Aoki walking towards them, the latter trying to keep Sakura back from tackling the raven-headed genius. She barely succeeded, and Gaara stood in front of Sasuke as further protection (hey, they were rivals, but they were still 'friends') as they got closer. When they were close enough for him to reach out and pat either of them on the head, Aoki finally let go with one last warning glare, which Sakura seemed to take to heart as she chuckled nervously before turning to her crush (currently hiding behind Gaara). She smiled and gave a cheery, "Hey! What's up?"

Knowing Sasuke wouldn't speak to her to encourage her more, Gaara answered, "The sky." He wasn't trying to be funny (hey, it's true), but Aoki laughed anyways, and he sent her a questioning look before turning to look at the Uchiha. Sasuke's eye twitched as he glared at the pink-haired girl smiling widely at him, and Gaara could actually sympathize with him; he knew how it felt to be stalked constantly by annoying females.

"Did someone mention the sky?"

They all turned to see Shikamaru standing nearby, looking up towards the clouds. His eyes trailed one of them lazily, but Gaara could tell he was keeping a close watch on the group. His hair waved slightly in the wind, giving him a serene look as he finally turned to them and walked over to stand between Gaara and Aoki. He looked to his right towards the iridescent head there, whose hair slightly reflected the blue from the sky, and nodded in acknowledgement. "Hey."

"Hi!" She grinned at him and held out her hand. "I'm Aoki!"

"Shikamaru." He ignored her hand, instead putting his hands behind his head and looking at them all indifferently. His idle behavior irked Gaara slightly, but the redhead let it go as Shikamaru asked them, "What are you all up to?"

"Well," Sakura began, but Aoki elbowed her quickly and interrupted, "I was just, uhh, going home to do some stuff! And Sakura-chan was just going to say 'hi' to Sasuke and come with me, right?" Here, she gave a meaningful stare to the pink-headed girl beside her. When Sakura nodded, Aoki smiled and said, "Right! Let's go!" As she dragged her friend behind her, Sakura yelled out to Sasuke, "Bye, Sasuke-kun! See ya later!"

When they left, all of the guys let out a sigh simultaneously. Shikamaru grumbled as he watched them walk off, "Girls are all troublesome…"

"Agreed." Both Gaara and Sasuke said it at the same time, and then the two glared at each other, electricity going between them as Shikamaru sighed again. He asked them, "Can you two ever stop fighting?"

(Simultaneously again) "No." More glaring.

He sighed again. "Troublesome…" He went back to staring at the clouds, trying to find his previous cloud as the two battled silently. It was quiet for a while, the three boys not saying a word, before it was interrupted by a certain blonde loudmouth.

"Hey, guys! Whatchya doin'?"

The way he suddenly popped up in between the three made all of them jump back slightly, but then they all gave a light groan as they glared at Naruto. "What do you want, dobe?" Sasuke smirked as Naruto immediately responded to the insult.

"Hey! I'm not a dobe, dobe!"

"Yes, you are, since you can't think of a better comeback and resort to copying me."

"Shut up, Sasuke!"

"You, dobe."

"Shut up!"

"As entertaining (and troublesome) as it is to watch you two argue," Shikamaru stopped them, "What are you doing here, Naruto?"

The blonde did his trademark grin (the one Aoki likes to copy) and answered, "I wanna invite you guys to the Ichiraku Ramen Bar tonight!"

"Why would we want to go?" Sasuke asked coldly, glaring at him. "You go there every night."

"Yeah, well, tonight's different!" Naruto's grin never left his face. "Tonight's 'Karaoke Night'!" He looked so bright and sunny, it was surprising that the sun didn't give up trying to outshine him and stalk off.

Gaara blinked. "Karaoke? What is that?"

The others looked at him, sweatdrops appearing on all of their faces. "You don't know what 'karaoke' is?" Naruto looked as if Gaara had grown several heads on his feet. "Are you crazy?"

Gaara grew offended. "No, I'm Gaara."

"There's no way you don't know about karaoke!" He continued on as if he hadn't heard Gaara. "You have to come now! I mean, Sakura's gonna be there –"

"Then I'm not," Sasuke immediately spoke up.

"– and so is Hinata and Kiba and Lee and Itachi –"

"I'll be there," Sasuke said suddenly.

"– and Neji and Tenten and Ino and Aoki and –"

"Shut up." Gaara's words were so sudden that Naruto did just that. His mouth closed quickly with an audible 'click!', and he blinked in confusion as he stared at Gaara. The redhead glared at him and said, "I'm going. But I'm not going to eat any 'ramen'. There's probably some addictive drug in there that got you hooked on it like cocaine." As he turned and walked away, leaving the three standing and staring at him with puzzled looks on their faces, he added, "And if I don't like 'karaoke', I'm coming to kill you."

Wednesday, 6 p.m.

Gaara growled as he sat on a stool. "Where is this 'karaoke' you spoke of, Naruto?" The blonde sat beside him, already slurping down a bowl of ramen.

Naruto looked up and grinned. "It'll be soon!"

Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

"When is it coming, Naruto?"

"Soon!"

Wednesday, 7 p.m.

"Naruto…"

"Hold on, Gaara! It's coming!"

Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

"Nar –"

"Wait! Here they are!" Naruto leapt from his seat, letting several empty ramen bowls fall to the floor as he ran over to the microphone just set onto the stage. Gaara watched as he cleared his throat, before he tapped the microphone once and muttered, "Hello? Testing, one-two-three…" After making sure it worked, he grinned his goofy grin and said a little loudly, "Heya, guys! This is Ichiraku's 'Karaoke Night'! Are you all enjoying yourselves?"

Several coughs and grumbles throughout the audience.

"Great!" He looked around the room for a while, before his eyes found someone that made his eyes light up. "Hey, Sakura, how about you come up and sing?"

"Me?" The pink-haired teenager looked a bit red in the face as she shook her head. "No, thank you!"

Aoki poked her shoulder and said, "Aww, come on! I bet you sound great!" She grinned evilly. "What, scared?"

Gaara frowned. 'She looks like me when she smiles like that…does she copy everyone she meets?'

"No!"

"Then do it!"

"No way! How about you do it?"

"Err…" Now that the tables were turned on her, she didn't look so confident. "I'd rather not…"

"See? Not so tough now, huh?" Sakura gave a small 'hmph' of indignation before yelling at Naruto, "Find someone else, you dolt!"

"Alright! Geez…" Naruto looked around some more, looking less energetic than he had been, before he suddenly bellowed, "Hey, Ino, what about you?!"

Everyone turned to look at the girl-blonde fuming in a stool beside Shikamaru and Chouji, and she looked up at Naruto with a harsh glare and screamed, "Stop yelling, you moron!"

"But you're yelling –"

"Shut up!"

"Fine, baka…" Although the 'comment' was whispered, he evidently forgot he was at the microphone, because Ino's response was to chuck a shoe at his head, which was barely dodged with a yelp. As Naruto scampered offstage, Ino got up to the microphone stand and cleared her throat. She seemed to be thinking about something, as if wondering what she should sing. She glanced over at the pink-head sitting beside Aoki, however, and a wicked grin found its way on her face. "This song is dedicated to my dear friend, Sakura-chan!"

Sakura's eyebrows arched up in surprise, and then came together to ponder as Ino put something into the CD player. A keyboard started the song, and then the 'cherry blossom' gasped and muttered, "Oh, no, she didn't!"

"Okay, I'm a cheerleader now – U – G – L – Y – you ain't got no alibi – you UGLY (eh, eh!), you UGLY!"

"INO!!!"

Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

Another half hour went by with several others getting up to the microphone to sing, until only Gaara, Aoki, Sasuke, Itachi, Shikamaru, Shino, and Chouji hadn't gone up. And they never would. They promised not to.

That is, until…

"Poor 'Sasuke-kun'," Itachi's mocking voice rang in everyone's ears, and at the nickname everyone heard someone clenching the stool so tightly it crunched slightly, "he won't go up because he's too frightened his big brother will laugh at him. Pity…"

Sasuke glared at his brother and hissed, "No, I just don't want to make you feel ashamed because your little brother is better than you!"

Itachi returned the glare with a smirk as well. "Oh, no, dear brother. I know that you cannot amount to the great legacy I have put down." He flipped his hair over his shoulder all show-off-y. "It's just too hard for a pipsqueak like you."

"I accept your challenge!" Sasuke nearly leapt off of his stool and ran to the microphone, shoving Naruto out of the way (he had been singing his 'chopsticks' song) and grabbing the stand tightly. After clearing his throat, he began to sing:

"This shining city built of gold, a far cry from innocence –"

"Avenged Sevenfold!" Aoki surprised everyone by leaping up out of her stool with stars in her eyes and jumping up and down. "Keep singing, keep singing!"

"There's more than meets the eye 'round here – look to the waters of the deep. A city of evil…"

By the time he got to the chorus, Aoki was swaying side-to-side to the beat and humming the song to herself (refraining from opening her mouth to sing, Gaara noted), and by the time the song was done she had been grinning for so long that she must have been in pain. Gaara wondered how she could be so happy about a song as Sasuke got off of the stage, all smug looking and everything. When he walked back to his seat, Sasuke said to his brother, "So, brother, what did you think?"

Aoki went to go back to her seat, but someone had already taken it. After blinking for a moment in surprise, she looked around only to find that the closest seat left empty was beside Gaara. He watched in curiosity as she slipped into it as quietly as possible, not meeting his gaze as she hugged the jacket around her more tightly as if she was cold. 'She's still wearing it,' he thought smugly. He had accomplished something, and it made him feel good. He told her to wear it, and so she did. Simple. 'Why can't the world always work like this?'

By this time, Sasuke and Itachi had gotten into another yelling fest, and everyone gave out a big, long groan as Itachi shouted, "Alright, I'll go up and show you how perfect I am!" He then proceeded to stomp over much the same way that Sasuke did, snatching up the microphone, clearing his throat, and beginning:

"City's breaking down on a camel's back – they just have to go, 'cause they don't know whack –"

Again, Aoki leapt up out of the seat to yell, "Gorillaz's 'Feel Good Inc.'! WOOT!" Then, as if just now realizing what she was doing, she quickly ducked down and returned to her seat, looking down at the ground in embarrassment as she twiddled her thumbs. Gaara nearly smirked or snickered at her bashfulness, but he only did it mentally as he watched her pull something out of her pocket to occupy herself with. It was in the shape of a rectangle and in a peculiar silver-ish wrapper…

Inquisitive, Gaara leaned forward so that he was sure she would be able to hear his voice over Itachi's, and he asked, "What's that?" He pointed at her hand to make sure she wouldn't be confused as to what he spoke of.

Aoki blinked owlishly for a moment, staring at his finger, before she finally connected the dots and looked at what was in her hands. After a bit of silence, she sweatdropped and answered, "Chocolate…" She blinked with innocence, as if wondering why he asked.

He blinked back at her. "'Chocolate'?" He had never heard of this before. He had heard of ramen from Naruto, learned of chess from Sasuke (he played a wicked game of chess!), and picked up on dancing from Kiba. But…chocolate? "What is this 'chocolate'?"

"You've never had chocolate before?" Aoki looked at him as if he had grown butterfly-sized wings and was going to fly away without a parachute. "Are you crazy?!"

"No." He was starting to get offended by this. "I'm Gaara."

Aoki didn't seem to hear him, however, as she broke off a piece of the strange rectangular block of brown and held it out to him. He stared at it for a while, scrutinizing it with his emerald gaze, until she sighed in exasperation and told him, "Take it." After a moment more of looking at it, he finally took it and held it to his face to examine it closer. He heard Aoki's exasperated sigh, and he looked at her as she held up a piece of the brown thing and held it to her mouth. "See?" She popped it into her mouth. "Ifs nummy!" (That was with her mouth full: "It's yummy!")

He frowned, but he decided to humor her and put it into his mouth as well. He chewed it for a moment, blinked, chewed some more, and then swallowed. Aoki was looking at him expectantly. She said slowly, "Weeeeeeeelllll…...?"

Gaara's mouth suddenly turned into a demented-looking smirk, and he looked at her and demanded, "Give me more of this 'chocolate'."

Aoki looked a bit worried, but then she just shrugged and gave him more.

"You know, I have a whole bag full of chocolate here. Wanna share?"

8:45 p.m.…

Well, this isn't exactly what Gaara remembered. It was all a blur after the tenth chocolate bar him and Aoki shared, and the next thing he knew he woke up in the park sleeping under a tree. He heard this the next day from Sakura and Sasuke, as did Aoki.

First, they were no where to be found. Turns out, they had both ran out of Ichiraku (with Aoki forgetting to pay for her ramen) and across a busy street (surprisingly getting out intact) to the park. They ran around, scaring poor little kids and distressed mothers and climbing trees, as well as messing around on the playground like jumping off of the swings at the highest point and falling down the slide backwards. They seemed to be enjoying it, ignoring any bruises or cuts they got as they had fun.

Then, they had run across the street (again, coming out unscathed) and grabbed Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura, then ran into the mall to cause chaos and mayhem, to which Sakura and Naruto agreed to immediately. Sasuke just followed them casually, although he did get the police officers to overlook the fact that the rest of the group had just leapt into the fountain to splash each other and steal quarters. He was just that good.

Then, the two left the group confused as they ran through the streets randomly and shouted nonsense at the top of the lungs, before someone called the police and they ran like chickens with their heads cut off until they got away. They then ran back to the park and hid in a tree, waiting for everything to cool off. They only made it down the tree and onto the safe grass before the sugar rush finally faded away, and the sugar 'crash' kicked in. They were out before they could even say, "I'm tired…"

And that's how they found themselves under a tree.

They agreed to NEVER have chocolate again.

At least, not too much…

Wasn't that HILARIOUS?!?! I couldn't help it, it was just so FUN to write!!! I mean, come on; Gaara and Aoki getting hyper? Running around town? Causing MAYHEM, nonetheless? XD HILARIOUS!!!!!!

Well, I REALLY can't stay and chat too long (finished this while working on a homework assignment), so I'll just post and run! (smiles and waves) Bye!