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Chapter 6
Shino held out an icing covered index finger for the bee that had been flying by, which gladly landed on his finger and began crawling over the yellow colored icing, nosing it cautiously. "Thank you for the cake Kiba," the bug master said stoically, looking at the bee intently through a magnifying glass that had come with his bug kit. "No problem. We are teammates after all, and a friend. Least I could do after you saved my life last mission with your…bugs…and I thought I'd return the…"
A popping was heard. Shino vanished for a moment and reappeared as the grown bug boy that everyone knew and…found creepy. "…Favor," ended Kiba lamely. Shino smirked and stood up. "I'm going home." Kiba stood up as well. "I'm going to go find everyone else."
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Ino was alone in the middle of a field of flowers, the same one she had gone to with Sakura when they were in the Academy and learning about flowers and the like. She hadn't been here in heaven only knew how long, and, since she was a kid again, she was less conspicuous than if a 18 year old Chunnin had come to the field and looked around. She unbound her shoulder length hair from its usual style and lay back on the grass, eyes closed, enjoying the fragrant flowers.
"How troublesome…you stole my position." Ino was shocked from her position to squint up into the eyes of the lazy ninja. "So what Shika? This was my position to, for a lot of years when I came out here with Sakura."
Shikamaru sighed nosily. "Only call me that when we're in our battle formation. I thought we established that." Ino giggled and rolled over onto her belly, giving Shikamaru a gentle shove causing him fall onto the green grass of the meadow. "Just enjoy it Shika-Kun…and I can call you that!" She added a threatening undertone to the last part of her sentence.
Shikamaru propped himself up on his elbows and stared at the clouds. "Troublesome girl," he muttered. Fortunately Ino didn't hear him. Instead, she said, "So Shikamaru, what do you think you're missing?"
Shikamaru gave her a side-glance, before closing his eyes and looking back upwards. "It's too troublesome to tell you."
Ino sat up and looked at him, rolling her eyes. "In other words, you lazy bum, you haven't thought about it and you don't know."
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Sasuke sat in front of a hot oven. It was interesting, actually, how the cookies went from a shapeless mass to a flat, ordered piece of pastry. All it took was a little time and…
Okay, maybe comparing how his life had been to a cookie was a little…weird…but hey...it was true. His life had been out of order for so long, at the beginning. Now, he was in the oven and he just needed a little more time…and..
DING!
Kayko came forward with something that Sasuke had learned was called an oven mitt on her hand and, reaching into the oven, pulled out the completed cookies...
He'd be done.
And he almost, kind of, sort of knew what it was he was missing… other than the whole family atmosphere that Kayko was providing. It was...
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…Sakura walked down, what was affectionately called 'cherry blossom way' because if it's, you guessed it, sakura trees. The cherry blossoms-last of the season- caught in her hair as they fell and she reached up to brush them out. Looking over at a park, she noticed some kids playing. Kids who were her 'age'. One little girl looked up and glanced over, as if having felt Sakura's gaze. "Hey!" she called, waving her hand enthusiastically. "Come play with us!"
Sakura turned slightly pink and, shaking her head, turned away and ran.
She was a Kunoichi-a Chunnin, she possessed super strength, she was the Hokage's apprentice… and she was still scared of people making fun of her forehead.
If just one…just one person would call her forehead pretty instead of ugly…. She would be forever indebted to that person because she had a hunch that that's what she was missing-someone who would build her self-esteem up when she was feeling down on herself. (Ino didn't count; she hadn't tried to build up Sakura until they were 10 and right now, she was about 6)
Just one person…
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The Hyuuga and the weapons mistress (miniature of course…) stood in the department store, looking around. TenTen spotted a giant sign in the back that said 'Toys' and a wide grin split her face.
"Neji! Let's run back and play with the toys!" she took his hand and began to pull him. He stood still as a stone and looked this way and that, avoiding TenTen's gaze. "No TenTen," said the Hyuuga finally, taking his hand out of hers.
"What's wrong Mr. Uptight?" she asked, giving him a shove in the shoulder. "You act like you never ran around the department store when you were a kid."
His silence told her more than he could.
"Oh…are you serious?" she asked, shocked. "When I was this age, I saw every other child-including you-running around the stores and the streets of Konoha, having fun. I ached to join you but my mother and my father were big on Hyuuga pride, and refused to let me. 'You're a Hyuuga..' That's what they always said."
TenTen blushed first at the notion that he had watched her as a kid but then, grew sad as the child –like, milky pale eyes softened in regret. Suddenly an idea grew in her head as she twisted her right index finger in her brown hair. Smiling slyly, she looked around, first to the right, and then to the left before leaning in and saying in a low voice "I don't see your mom and dad here right now …" She reached over and poked him in the arm. "You're it Neji," she giggled before darting off in between the racks of clothes.
Neji looked shocked before his child-like face relaxed into a smile and he darted off after her.
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"Hey Hinata?" "Y…yes Naruto?" "What do you think you're missing?" Hinata turned pink and looked down at the road that they were strolling down. "I..I don't know Naruto…" she said, looking away from the blonde.
She was lying to him. She had a good idea what she was missing. In her minds eye, she saw a horrified wide-eyed little boy with bandages wrapped around his forehead. His horrified expression changed to hatred…the way her cousin had always looked at her until after the Chunnin exams when Neji had finally lay down some of his hatred of the head family.
"I was never allowed to go into that store when I was younger…" Arbitrarily Naruto stopped and pointed his finger at a department store, the same one that Neji and TenTen had gone into earlier. Taking his child like hand and wrapping his fingers around Hinata's, he pulled her. "Come on!" he said, a smile on his face.
Hinata stared down at their entwined hands and turned roughly the color of a tomato as she allowed Naruto to pull her into the cool shade of the department store.
A/N-Hehehe…for this chapter, I thought I'd put some fluff into it and kinda show where everyone was…Review!
To those who…objected to the Yaoi I put in the last chapter, I just phrased it wrongly I think. I've always kinda been over cautious in classing that thing…I think that Iloveinuyasha44 put it best-it's kinda just someone doing something nice for a friend.