I woke up to the sun shining into my window this morning. I looked out the window to see the morning sun rising. I smiled at it lightly as I yawned, I got out of bed and stretched. I opened the window and looked out too feel the morning breeze against my skin, I then looked down too see a green figure walking toward the house. I smiled at the figure, I smiled as I remembered the walk from yesterday. I then remembered something about Lee, and I stopped gazing into the past and jolted up hitting my head on the window.
"OWWW!!!" I yelled as I covered the top of my head and stumble backwards back on to my bed.
I took a deep breath and looked up, I blinked a few times and then jumped back out of bed once again.I ran into the closet and stripped off my pj's and into some normal clothes. I then ran over toward the bathroom and started to brush my teeth and brush my hair. I was done in a matter of seconds, I then ran out of my room down the stairs and to the door. I stumbled in the process of getting to the door, but I made it in one piece and on time when a knock was made onto the door. I immediately opened the door and bowed, "good morning!" I said with a wide smile. Lee was there and he also bowed, "good morning" he replied. I then stood straight up and smiled. "I'm glad that you made it" I said. Lee laughed, "I am glad as well" he agreed.
I gestured him to come on in. He walked in and took off his shoes, I just walked ahead into the living room and I paused and I waited for Lee. "This is the living room." I said as I turned the light on to brighten the place up. It looked dusty on the shelves and it looked as if no one had really went into the room. Lee walked in and looked around, "you don't clean a lot do you Garnet-Chan?" he asked me with a friendly smile. I smiled back I also giggled at his remark,
"I don't really come into this room to be honest with you, the only times I go threw here is too get to the kitchen" I laughed nervously, I'm not sure why, but I did.
"Really? Why don't you go in here often?" he asked.
I shrugged, "is it not obvious... Look at the pictures..." I said as I walked through the living room and into the kitchen.
Lee didn't follow me he must have been distracted by the pictures on the walls. For the time being I started to whip up some breakfast, I wasn't sure what Lee would like to so I just made pancakes, eggs, bacon, and toast. I got out the pancake mix and started to make the pancakes first. I then put them on the pan and started to flip them and put them on a separate plate. Although, it was much harder then I what I was expecting. Non the less the pancakes were complete.
Once I finished the pancakes I looked back at the table to see if Lee was there, he wasn't he must be still looking at the pictures. I sighed as I looked back at the stove and I started to make the bacon. It burnt me a few times as the sparks of grease flew around. I made different variates of bacon, such as the chewy kind with a lot of flavor the chewy kind with hardly no flavor, the crunchy kind with the right taste and then the crunchy kind which just the taste of burnt. I sighed at my fail and my success and again I looked back to see Lee looking at more pictures. Did the pictures interest him that much? Well he was still busy so I again continue. The next two things were going to be easy, making toast and eggs. I cracked the eggs on to the pan and looked at them, she then looked back in the living room, what kind of eggs would Lee like. I then walked out for a second too see Lee looking at an album.
"Lee-San...Would you mind telling my what kind of eggs you would like? " I asked.
Lee looked at me and shut the album and got up, "Here I will help you with the rest of breakfast! I shall cook the eggs." He said as he walked into the kitchen.
I looked at him confused as fist then noticed he started to cook the eggs, I ran over practically and started to wave my arms around,
"No, no Lee! I'll cook them!" I said frantically.
"You have done a lot of the cooking already Garnet-Chan, I will help around... Besides I see you have gotten burnt by making the bacon..." Lee said as he pointed to a small blister on my arm.
I looked at the blister confused, did I really get burnt that badly to get a blister? Before I could answer my own question Lee had already finished the eggs, they were scrambled, my favorite. He had everything set out on the table. He looked at me with a smile and took out a chair for me to sit in. I walked over and took the other chair and sat in it, he looked down disappointed and sat down in the chair that was suppose to be mine.
"Thank you for making the eggs" I said as I grabbed a piece of toast, two pieces of the chewy tasteless bacon, one pancake and a small portion of scrambled eggs.
Lee smiled at me, "Oh no Garnet-Chan Thank you." he said as he took most of the food and started to eat, he first ate the bacon and nodded, "this is good" he said as he took another bite of it. He then grabbed some syrup and poured it over his three pieces of pancakes and started to eat them. As he finished chewing them and swallowing them his eyes lit up and it looked as if flames have been lit in his eyes. "This is the most youthful breakfast I have had! the taste of different varieties of bacon, along with fluffy pancakes with sweet syrup! This is going to make this day quite youthful!" Lee exclaimed as he finished the rest of his meal.
I on the other hand still had to finish my pancakes bacon and toast. Lee started to watch me eat, I didn't mind at all I looked at him and he was smiling. I looked down and continued to eat, Lee was gone and came back in with an album. I stopped eating and looked at him now, he opened up to a page with two young girls in it. I smiled at the picture, Lee pointed to it.
"Which one is you?" he asked.
I pointed to a girl who smiled so innocent and looked like she was having the time of her life. "That's me..." I replied then I pointed to the girl next to me who too looked to be having the time of her life, although she looked much younger and had a child's look to her. "That's my best friend... Hana" I said with a smile.
Tears felt to be forming and I couldn't help but to let one out, I panicked and put my hands over my face and wiped my eyes. Lee looked at me confused, I just laughed, "something was in my eye" I lied.
Lee made a half smile and wiped another forming tear away. "I am sorry for showing this... I didn't realized that you are still sensitive about these memories. " he said.
I shook my head, "it's fine... You don't have to apologize for it... You were just curious" I explained. There was an awkward silence and then I got up and took the plates and put them in the sink, I turned to Lee who looked at me confused.
"Let us go meet this Gai-Sensei you have been talking about" I said with a smile.
Lee smiled and then grabbed me and I was on his back, "Yosh! Let us go See Gai-Sensei!" he exclaimed as jogged out of the house. He locked my door and check it, he then grabbed a hold of me to make sure I was on him. He looked at me and smiled and his teeth were shinny even after he just ate. I couldn't help but to smile but, I hid mine afraid there might have been left over food in my teeth. He couldn't help but chuckle at my gesture and I blushed.
"Alright hold on tight" he said.
"what why?" I asked.
Before I knew it everything was just a blur, was he running, was this his speed. I became scared and I shut my eyes and held on with my life, the wind hitting against my skin stopped, but I didn't open my eyes I was still scared.
"Hey guys!" Lee said in a excited voice.
"Lee you made it!" said an older voice.
"Yes Gai-Sensei I am ready for another youthful day of training!" Lee said,
"Only one problem" said a bitter male voice. A giggle followed after.
"you seem to have something clinging to your back." the voice giggled.
I felt lee turn to check if I was there, as if he had forgotten I was on his back. I felt him smile and nod, "Ah, yes this is Garnet Kraehe, I had met her just yesterday, I had saved her and took her to Lady Hokage, which is why I have been absent..." Lee said as he bowed his head. I then opened my eyes too see three people, I saw what seemed to be an older version of Lee, which scared me a bit. This must be Gai-Sensei Lee had been speaking about. I looked to the side to see a girl with brown hair and a pink shirt. She smiled at me and waved,
"Nice to meet you Kraehe-Chan" she said, but as she did say it she gave me a funny look.
The boy next to her with long brown hair just gave me a glare, "Ah... You are the last of your clan... " He said.
Lee looked at him, "Neji-San, please do not try to fight Garnet-Chan, she had just came out of the infirmary yesterday... Not to mention she is not a fighter. " Lee said holding me tightly. Neji gave Lee the [b]"are you kidding"[/b] look. "Please Lee save it... I already figured out the out come of the battle anyways... It would have been futile from the start." he began.
I looked down and shut my eyes, he was right I would have lost ninja or not even if I tried.
"Neji that is enough!" said Gai.
I looked up too see him glaring at Neji, and Neji glaring at Gai then looked away and crossed his arms, "Aw come on Neji lighten up." the brown haired girl said, she looked back at me and sighed.
"excuse him and his attitude, he is often like that don't get too bummed out... he says it to everyone. " she said.
Lee nodded, "Tenten is right, don't let him get you down" he said trying to cheer me up.
I nodded and sighed, "If you say so..." I said softly, I then hopped down from Lee and Tenten and Gai looked at my height and how short I was, I was to Tenten's shoulder. I sighed as I looked down. Then Tenten started to coo.
"She is so small! in height and in width! She is skinny and short... oh wow!" Tenten giggled, I blushed and looked down.
I heard a hearty laugh and I looked up to see Gai smiling at me, "She is small, how much do you weight?" he asked. I shrugged. "I suppose around 94... 96 lbs." I replied. Gai looked at me stunned and walked over to me. "you mind?" he asked. I shrugged, he then grabbed me and threw me over his shoulder. I grabbed on to him again holding on for dear life, he only laughed. "Your like paper!"he said as he put me down. I looked down and started to turn red.
Lee chuckled at everyone's reaction toward me. "It's okay Garnet-Chan they are not making fun of you, just trying to get acquainted with you " he explained. I sighed, to me being made fun of my size was not one of the better ways of getting acquainted with me.
Gai still laughing then stopped, "So Lee why did you bring her?" he asked.
Lee looked at his sensei and smiled, "She is part of a mission that Lady Hokage assigned for me. I have to protect her. " He said,
Gai nodded and smiled, "I see... Well then, you better protect her very well Lee-Kun! We are counting on you." He said.
I looked at Gai as if he were a nut, technically I was counting on him not anyone else in particular, but I didn't mind too much of it. Gai then looked at me, "So Kreahe-Chan, you are here to watch us train?" Gai asked and gave me the good guy pose along with a smile.
I giggled and nodded, "Yeah I suppose" I said, Gai then smirked and pointed to his pupils and started to tell them what they needed to do.
I watched them and a lot of the training was interesting, and intense at the most. I see that the Neji kid is part of the Hyuga clan, then Tenten has the best aim I could ever see and Lee is very strong and fast. I saw this team was a perfect team of the sort. I started to think about the strategies they could be using when a familiar white raven flew by me. I smiled as I looked up at it. I didn't speak a word though and it landed beside me, it looked at me with it's black eyes filled with mystery. I gave it my usual emotionless face and started to pet it, it continued to look at me and I looked at it our eyes were locked.
I noticed the training was stopped, I could feel the four of them were watching me interact with the raven. All amazed, I simply ignored them,but the white raven didn't and flew away. I put my hand down and watched it fly away, I felt the eyes leave me and then I felt them on me again.
"Garnet-Chan..." Lee mumbled breathlessly.
I looked at him puzzled all four of them amazed,
"Kreahe-Chan... You have a white raven..." Gai said.
"Isn't that? Rare?" Tenten asked.
Neji didn't say a word he was speachless.
I looked at them and shrugged, "Lee I thought you saw the Raven before" I asked him. Lee nodded,
"But I didn't get the close up... How could you interact with such a beautiful creature." he asked me.
I only shrugged, "I don't know" I said.
"Kreahe-Chan... Out of the rest of the clan members I saw walking around with a Raven hovering over them I had never seen a pure white one" Gai admitted.
I only shrugged, "Does that mean anything?"I asked.
"Your pure" Tenten said.
