A/N: Yeah, the chapters are short coz no one's reviewing and it's breaking my heart to pieces... if i die, i'll blame it on you...

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto… Even if how much I wanted it… Darn! (Sulks at the corner)…

Romance in the Autumn Air

Chapter III- Bodyguards

Sunlight flooded through the windows indicating morning has arrived. Ami shuffled in her bed, shielding her eyes from the offending lights. She brought her blankets closer to her for comfort when suddenly… "WHATTHEFUCKINHELL!" she shouted, scrambling out of bed, falling in the process then she heard a rather girly giggle and turned around to see Kumi smiling at her cheekily, holding a bucket at one hand.

"Good morning, Princess, how are you this morning?" Kumi asked, her smile unwavering.

Ami gave a deadly glare. "Wet!" she answered, proving her point by clutching a bundle of dripping wet hair and pointing at her soaked clothes. "What in hell possessed you to throw fucking water at me?!" she scowled, entering the bathroom. She heard more giggles.

"Mind your tongue, Princess, using such horrid words?" Kumi said in a clearly fake surprised tone while fixing Ami's now drenched bed then giggled more.

After half an hour, Ami stepped out of the bathroom then got dressed into her royal robes. "So are you going to answer my question as to why the throwing of water at your beloved princess?" Ami asked, crossing her arms on her chest, waiting for a very good explanation but, alas, she didn't get any.

"Your father is expecting you in the garden, he said it's urgent." Kumi informed then more giggling.

This time the giggling was getting on Ami's nerves. "How, may I ask, could you possibly have a nice morning when you ruined mine?" she raised an eyebrow while starting to walk to the direction of the garden, yet again, Kumi didn't give a straight answer.

"The festival last night was beautiful, you should have been there…" Kumi blabbed on and on about the festival though her thoughts seemed to be anywhere but the festival.

'I was there…' Ami thought with a smile and yes, she did agree that the festival was beautiful and it became even more beautiful because Itachi was there. 'If only that idiotic blonde wasn't!' she thought grudgingly. Her thoughts about Itachi were disrupted when they finally arrived at the garden and being the perfect little princess she is, she smiled at everyone present.

Her father suddenly appeared from out of nowhere and in front of her, giving her a heart attack before shouting in his loud voice, "AMI-CHAN!" which was pretty embarrassing since a full grown man was acting like he was four.

But again, since she was the perfect little princess, "Daddy!" she called back with outstretched arms. Ami and her father hugged as if they haven't seen each other in years. Everyone sweat dropped but kept their comments to themselves and so did Ami, for she knew this was her father's way of trying to forget about her mother's death.

"Oh, Ami-chan, I was so worried about you!" her father blurted out suddenly; "I thought they got you, darling!" he started sobbing.

Ami broke the hug, utterly confused. "What do you mean?"

Ami's father became serious. "I've received information that some people in cloaks from a secret organization were in the festival and they were intending to kidnap you!"

'People in cloaks? Secret organization? Shit, that sounds awfully like Itachi and Deidara… but what's with the kidnapping? And who's the idiot who told Dad about them?'

Ami's father clenched his fist; fires of anger were on his eyes. "But I will not let that happen!" he shouted with force then.

"Daddy, the vein on your neck's doing that weird throbbing thing again!" Ami pointed out. 'And you're freaking me out…'

"That's exactly why I've hired bodyguards just for you!"

Stop. Rewind. Bodyguards? "Are you serious? You mean those people who has jobs that invades people's privacy and in this case, MY privacy!?" Ami was not happy, to say the least. "MY PRIVACY!" she shouted for the second time as if they haven't heard her the first time. She was a girl who valued freedom and privacy and having freaking bodyguards will just not do.

"Ami, these people are very capable. They will be your bodyguards for the time being." Her father reassured her, gesturing to four people who were standing behind him whom she just noticed. "They are ninjas from Konoha. This is Hatake, Kakashi." He pointed to the oldest among the four with silver hair and his face half covered with a mask.

Kumi giggled from behind Ami. 'Oh, so that's why she's so happy…'

"Haruno, Sakura." The only girl among the four.

'We have the same hair but mine's better and I'm a lot prettier too…' Ami smirked.

"Uzumaki, Naruto." A guy with whisker marks on his face.

'His hair reminds me of Deidara… I wonder if he's as idiotic as him…' her smirk go wider.

"Uchiha, Sasuke."

Ami's smirk falls off her face. 'What the fuck?! Why is my Itachi's face on that brat?! Uchiha… Sasuke… Uchiha, Sasuke… Oh hell! Itachi's little brother whose life's goal is to kill him! Of all the ninjas why him?!' Ami was mentally crying and mentally beating her father to a bloody pulp for giving her such problems.

"Ami-chan? Dear, are you alright?"

TBC...


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