"And one of them, is Uchiha Itachi."
"UCHIHA ITACHI!" Naruto screamed. " Sasuke's crazy brother? You know him?" Naruto asked, finally taking a deep breath and siting back down.
"Yea. Sasuke's crazy brother. Look, I told you this because Itachi is the person who found me..after that...inncident.." Aiku said, biting her thumb-nail. Naruto's expressions turned from confusion to nervousness.
"He's not going to,like, come to Konoha right?" Naruto asked quietly.
"No." Aiku lied bluntly. Ofcourse they were coming, obviously to take Kyuubi. But she didn't want to make Naruto go crazy and start screaming, and Sasuke knowing that his older brother was coming, so that he might have a chakra burnout..Aiku sighed.
"Ehh..Naruto..go home and get some sleep.." Aiku mumbled, pushing him up from his seat.
"Do I have to?" He asked, sticking out his bottom lip.
"Yes."Aiku said sternly.
"But..they're scary people out there.." Naruto let his lower lip tremble, and his eyes get extremly glossy. This completed his Angelic puppy dog look. Aiku sighed and smiled.
"Fine, you can stay. But you're getting the couch."Aiku said, lifting up an eyebrow to make her look dignified.
"YAY! Thanks Susu-chan!" Naruto said, tackling her playfully. Aiku laughed and pushed him off, while brushing herself off also.
"Come on, let's go get dinner." Aiku said grabbing her sweat-shirt and keys.
"Ramen?" Naruto asked while gathering himself up form the wooden floor.
"Yea, sure. Just hurry. I'm not buying!" She said while grabbing her coat, and starting to step out the door.
"Wait up!" Naruto called, running towards the door and slipping out quickly. Naruto caught up with Aiku, and fell into step with her.
"So..this group..is there a reason you brought them up?" Naruto asked quietly, glancing at her from time to time.
"No..I just felt like you had to know or something.." Aiku said rubbing the back of her head with her hand sheepishly, while dodging on-coming villagers.
" I see..so..there really was no reason to be all dramatic and say "And one of them, is Uchiha Itachi"?" Naruto asked, smiling as he saw the familiar stand come into view. Aiku shrugged.
"Yup..I just like being dramatic." Aiku said, grinning widely. As they neared the stand, Aiku couldn't help but have the feeling that glares were being directed towards her and Naruto. She hissed quietly.
"Still treating him like shit, eh?" Aiku said, grimancing inwardly. Naruto grabbed her hand, and pulled her quickly towards the stand.
"Ramen!" Naruto said, grinning and taking a seat at the counter. Aiku sat quietly next to him.
"Hello Naruto-kun! What'll it be today?" A brunette girl said, leaning over the counter and smiling at Naruto.
"Hey Ayame-chan! Eh..I think i'll be having Miso ramen today. What about you Su-chan?" Naruto questioned politely.
"Chicken please." Aiku said bluntly and randomly cracked her knuckles.
"Hey Naruto..so..Sakura is the girl you like?" Aiku said deciding to start up a conversation during the wait.
"Yea..Sakura-chan is..the best. But she's always fawning over Sasuke-teme!" Naruto said, clenching his fist. Aiku rolled her eyes. She knew it wasn't true. The crush with Sakura was really only to make the villagers think he hasn't changed. Personally, they both thought Sakura needed a reality check.
"Here's you're ramen! One Miso, and one chicken!" Ayame said, placing the bowls infront of them and walking to the new customers to take there orders.
"Itadakimasu!" Naruto and Aiku said in unison, and dove into their ramen.
(---)
After ramen, Naruto and Aiku walked down the dark streets to Naruto's apartment quietly.
"Eh..Naruto what's today's date?" Aiku asked out of the blue
"I think it's like..August 7th..why do you ask?" Naruto said glancing at her then looked ahead.
"Just wondering..hey..i'm gonna go back to my apartment, see you at training tomorrow." Aiku said, turning around and jogging back to her apartment without staying to here a response from Naruto. Obviously forgetting Naruto was supposed to stay at her place tonight, Aiku walked into her house and plopped on the bed.
"I need a sleep.." Aiku mumbled to herself while throwing her jacket on the floor and slipping into her PJ's.
"Konoha boys aren't that sexy.." Aiku said out of the blue
"Maybe I should like girls instead for awhile.." Aiku said sleepily,and got up and turned off the light, and jumped on the bed, falling into another dreamless sleep.
(A/N: That part really didn't mean anything, a bit of a filler. )
(---)
Hitting the alarm clock, Aiku trudged out of bed and walked to the kitchen, grabbed a yogurt, and walked to her room infront of her closet to pick out an outfit.
"A sweat-shirt and shorts will be good for today I guess.." Aiku said, her words still slurred early in the morning. Glancing at the clock, it read 3:45am. Aiku rolled her eyes and grabbed the clothes out of her closet and slipped them on slowly.
Aiku looked in the mirror. Her hair was down to her waist, and it was just keeping her back. Aiku grabbed a kunai and quickly cut it off shoulder length, not even bothering to clean atleast ten inches of black and gold hair off the floor. Tying her hitai-ate bandana style, Aiku grabbed a spoon for her yogurt and started walking to the bridge.
Finally on the bridge, Aiku sat down cross-legged and opened her yogurt, and starting eating it lazily.After finishing, she threw it into a nearby garbage can. (How did she do that while sitting down?)
Leaning on the wall of the bridge, closed her eyes. A few minutes after, she felt a small chakra flicker in a tree nearby. Opening the eye closest to the tree,Aiku tiredly inspected it. Catching a hint of orange, Aiku shook her head.
"Naruto, what are you doing up so early?" She called to the tree.
"What are you doing up so early?" He called back and stuck his head out of a mass of leaves and branches. Aiku laughed.
"Actually, I have no idea." Aiku said, getting up and walked to the trunk of the tree.
"Mind if I join you?" She asked.
"Sure, but Sasuke and Sakura are going to be here in about an hour.." Naruto said looking down at her.
"No worries." Aiku said while crouching and pushed some chakra to her legs and feet, and pushed her self upwards doing a front flip and landing next to Naruto on a sturdy branch.
"Why didn't you just walk up?" Naruto asked.
"Eh..to much time.." Aiku said, squatting next to Naruto.
"What were you doing up here anyway?" Aiku asked Naruto tiredly. Really, she should've slept in today.
"Just thinking.."He answered, cracking his knuckles.
"Oh.." Aiku mumbled, and stared into space. Silence took over quickly. After about 10 minutes of silence, Aiku decided to randomly bring up a subject.
"You like Sakura?" She asked, staring at a blue jay in some branches lower down.
"H-Hai.." Naruto answered nervously.
"What do you like about her? I mean..I bet her hair isn't even natural.." Aiku said. In the morning, she wasn't really thinking. It was as if she was drunk off lack of sleep or something.
"She's just...beautiful...her eye's are like emeralds..and her hair is the color of cotton candy.." Naruto said with sparkle's in his eyes.
"And..she hates you. So how are you going to get her?" Aiku asked, looking at Naruto lazily.
"No idea.." Naruto said rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
"OH MY GOD!" Aiku said, arms wailing.
"What,what?" Naruto asked urgently.
"You didn't notice my hair-cut, you JERK!" Aiku said angrily and pushed him off the branch, and watched him hit the ground. Sticking her tongue out at him, she stuck her nose in the air and crossed her arms.
"Hmph." She said.
(---)
Sakura and Sasuke were standing on the bridge as usual, when an orange idiot decided to fall out of a tree.
"Naruto?" Sakura asked, tilting her head.
Naruto just lay there, twitching silently. Sakura shrugged and walked over to poke him.
"Naruto, are you ok?" Sakura said, poking him in the cheek.
"Guess not.." Sakura said getting up from her position and walked over to Sasuke.
Sakura felt something behind her, and quickly sent a kunai towards the tree.
"Boo." Aiku said, hanging up side-down behind her on the tree-branch.
"Aiku-san! Don't scare me like that!" Sakura said grabbing her heart as if she was scared to death.
"Yea yea.." Aiku said.
"Loser. Get up, before I straddle you and rape you infront of you're team. Aiku said to Naruto's still twitching body. Quickly, he popped up as if nothing happened.
"Good." Aiku said, leaning on the bridge railing.
Poof.
And there was Kakashi.
"Yo!" He said lazily.
His team gave him a lazy glare, so he decided to tell them what the plan was.
"Today, we're going to sparr again. So Sakura against Aiku first, Naruto and Sasuke practice controlling you're chakra. And Naruto, don't push yourself this time." Kakashi said condecendingly towards him as the two jogged to another spot on the training grounds.
"Alright, only tai-jutsu right now girls. Begin." Kakashi said, taking out his newest copy of Icha Icha Paradise. Aiku rolled her eyes and got into her fighting stance. Sakura did too.
"Come and get me, cotton-candy head."Aiku said, mentally slapping herself at the lam insult.
Sakura charged at her, easily dodging, Aiku grabbed her by her hair and spun around and let go.
Blinking, Aiku watched her slam into a tree.
"Ohh..shit.." Aiku said rubbing the back of her head.
"I didn't mean to throw pinky that hard.." She said, watching a pissed Sakura aiming a fist at her face. Aiku dodged and caught the oncoming fist.
"You'll never win." Aiku whispered into Sakura's ear, letting go of her fist and kicking her in the stomach. Sakura coughed, and landed on her stomach.
"I-it's only a sparr.." She said weakly, and started to get up. Aiku rolled her eyes.
"You're weak. Sparr with me when you're stronger." She said, walking to Naruto and Sasuke. Sakura glanced at Kakashi, who was giggled pervertedly at his book. She rolled her eyes and ran over to the rest of her team.
"Done already?" Kakashi said walking over to the whole team.
"Yea.." Sakura answered, glaring at Aiku.
"Alright then, boys, sparring time." He said, and gave the two boys the signal to go sparr.
"I want you guys to do target practice." Kakashi said, and went straight back to his book. The girls picked up some kunai and aimed them at the target board.
(---)
After training, Kakshi dismissed them with telling the team they had a day off tomorrow.
"Naruto, let's go get some ramen." Aiku said, pulling Naruto to Ichiraku's.
Sakura raised an eyebrow. "Could it be..someone is really interested in Naruto? No..they're just friends.." Sakura thought reassuring herself. I mean, who wants to have a blonde dobe as their boyfriend? Sakura snorted at the thought. Turning around to talk to Sasuke, she smiled. "Hey Sas--" Frowning, Sakura stomped her way back to her house. Turns out, they had all left her on the bridge.
(---)
"Hey Naruto.." Aiku said, putting some noodles in her mouth.
"What?" Naruto said in-between slurps.
" I have to tell you the real reason I came to Konoha.." Aiku mumbled, resting her bowl down on the counter.
"What..there was a reason?" Naruto said, also putting her bowl down on the counter.
"Yes." Aiku said. Well, that was partly true. She really didn't know how she got to Konoha, but she knew she was going to come her sooner or later.
"What is it?" Naruto asked impaitionly.
" I came here to train to be in the ANBU..officially." She said, picking her bowl back up and slurping down some noodles.
"How are you going to train hard enough to get in ANBU if you're only on a genin team?" He asked, obviously dropping his mask.
"I'm not sure yet. But i'll figure it out. " Aiku said as she got up and placed her money on the counter for her two bowls, and started walking towards her apartment.
"Wait up!" Naruto said, placing his money on the counter for his six bowls, and ran up to her.
Aiku slipped her hands in her pockets.
"Hey Naruto, wanna stay at my place? Kinda like a sleep over type thing?" Aiku asked once Naruto had caught up to her.
"Sure I guess. I just need to pick up some stuff at my place." Naruto said smiling.
"Alright, let's go." Aiku said smiling back at him and followed him to his apartment.
Running up the stairs, Naruto quickly took out his keys and unlocked his door, and walked in. Surprisingly, it was clean.
"Ha, I bet you're wondering why it's so clean.." Naruto said while walking into his room while Aiku walked in and leaned on the kitchen counter.
"Yea, pretty much. I thought there would be ramen cups everywhere, and clothes everywhere too." Aiku said raising her voice so he could hear her in the other room.
" Yeah it usually is, but I decided it was time to clean yesterday..I like it clean..but usually I keep it dirty just in-case my team comes over un-expected..so they don't think i'm weird.." He answered while walking out of his room with a black back-pack over his shoulder with an orange swirl on it.
"Ready?" Aiku asked pushing herself of the counter.
"Yup." He answered, turning off the lights in his house and following Aiku out the door.
(---)
Aiku fumbled with her keys. After finding the right key, she stuck it in and turned the lock. Pushing open the door, Aiku walked in and sat on the sofa. Naruto followed, and closed the door behind him.
"Hey Naruto, i'm going to change, so wait here for a sec." Aiku said and walked away from the couch, into her room and closed the door. Naruto shrugged and sat on the couch and stared into space.
"Alright, what do you want to do first?" Aiku asked, stepping out of her room in long black sweats and a white tank, her hair in two pig-tails that were by her neck. Naruto blinked.
"Beats me..you decide." He said, shaking himself out of his hypnotized state.
"Hmm..OH OH OH..can I paint your nails?" Aiku asked while pouncing on him .
" Depends, what color?" Naruto said sarcastically.
"Well I was thinking and orangey redish color.." Aiku said scratching her chin and looking up as if she were in deep thought.
"I was kidding, baka." Naruto said flicking her forehead. Aiku scrunched her nose.
"Not funny. Pleeeeeeeease? I'll take it right off! I promise..here..if I do you're nails you can give me a make-over.." Aiku said smiling. Naruto sighed. Why did he agree to this?
"Fine." Naruto huffed.
"Yay!" Aiku said, pulling him into a hug.
"Hey Aiku?" Naruto asked after they had finished their hug.
"Yea?" She asked and cocked her head to the side.
"You might want to get off me if you want to..err...do my nails.." Naruto said, wincing at the end.
"Oh! Right, right.." Aiku said blushing and stepped off of him.
"Follow me." Aiku said, pulling him into her room. Aiku lightly pushed him onto her bed, and walked over to her desk.
"Hmm..looks like I don't have the color I want.." She said biting her lip while looking through her drawers. Naruto smiled.
"Well that's to bad..I was starting to look forward to it.." He said sarcastically. Aiku cackled lightly.
"No matter, if you want it that bad..i'll just..make it for you.." She said, doing some unknown seals, and made a nail polish bottle appear. Quickly grabbing it before it fell, Aiku walked over to her bed.
"Beauty time.." Aiku said, her eyes flashing sadistically.
"Oh..shit.." Naruto cursed, before Aiku swiftly knocked him out by hitting a pressure point.
"He doesn't know what he's in for.." Aiku said, shaking her head. Taking Naruto's hand, Aiku started painting his nails with the color "Just Peachy." As soon as Aiku finished doing the second coats on all of Naruto's nails, the phone rang. Aiku picked it up, and rested it on her shoulder.
"Hello?" She asked while blowing on Naruto's nails.
"Hi Aiku!" Said a high-pitch voice from over the phone.
"Sakura?" Aiku asked, immediately dropping Naruto's hand.
"That's right! I called to see if you were busy tonight. Me and all the genin girls decided to have a sleep-over, since we all have the day off tomorrow." Sakura said excidedly
"Oh that's cool." Aiku said while getting up from her bed to look in her make-up kit.
"So, can you come?" Sakura asked impatiently.
"I can't, Naruto is at my house and--"
"Naruto! What's he doing there?" Sakura asked.
"Well you see--"
"Did he do anything to you? Oh my god! Did he try anything perverted!" Sakura asked again, interupting Aiku for the second time.
"No, but I--"
"Don't worry Aiku! Me and the girls will be right over to handle it!" Sakura said, hanging up the phone.
"Great.." Aiku said rolling her eyes, and looked over at Naruto.
"Hey, baka wake up." She said while grabbing the orange eye-shadow.
"Hmm?" Naruto mumbled as he sat up and rubbed his head.
"Close your eyes." Aiku said, and started putting on eye-shadow.
"Okie dokie.." Naruto said and yawned. Aiku quickly finished, and started doing his mascara. Forgetting the girls were coming, she continued on and started doing his lips.
"Hmm..clear is a good lip color for you.." Aiku said and rubbed the clear gloss on his lips with the pad of her finger. Finishing, she placed random clippies in his hair.
"Tada!" Aiku said and smiled.
" AIKU, WHERE'S THAT PERVERT?" Aiku heard Sakura scream while she kicked down the door.
"Oh sh--" Aiku didn't even get to finish her sentence, when Sakura and a bunch of other girls ran into the room, wearing all black,some black hats while others had ski masks, and holding water-guns that looked like loaded machine guns and sniper-rifles.
Naruto just sat there, his eyes wide.
"Girls!" Aiku squeeked while throwing a blanket over Naruto and pushing them out of the room.
" Naruto isn't a pervert! We decided to train here." Aiku said making up a lie on the spot.
" Was that just me, or did Naruto have make-up on?" Ino said, wide-eyed and looked at some of the other girls.
"No..I saw it too.." Ten-ten said to Ino.
"Girls..let me explain.." Aiku said, not wanted them to think Naruto was gay.
" I knocked him out because he wouldn't shut up..so then..I was bored and gave him a make-over..truth is, Naruto doesn't even know he had make-up o--"
"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Well..now he does.." Temari pointed out lazily while the other girls giggled.
"Err..wait here..i'll be right back." Aiku walked into her room and closed the door.
"What is this!" Naruto said pointing to his face.
"Naruto I told you that--"
"This color soooooooo doesn't go with my complection! Aiku..I thought I knew you better.." Naruto said shaking his head. Aiku opened her mouth to say something, but all that came out was silence as her mouth open and closed.
"I'm gonna go wash this off." Naruto said, walking to the bathroom and closing the door. Aiku shook her head and walked out of her room and infront of the group of girls.
"Well..since there's no pervert, you guys can go home--" Aiku was interupted by a large thunder clap and a hard rain shower.
"Wow..it doesn't look like we can get back to Sakura's in this weather.." Ten-ten said.
"Yea.." Temari added in. Aiku hung her head, cursing the god's.
"Fine, you can sleep in here..but what are you going to sleep in? It's not like you guys brought your stuff.." She asked them thoughtfully.
Everyone pulled out a back-pack.
"We brought all our stuff with us, just incase we were robbed when we were gone." Ino said happily.
Aiku sighed.
"Alright, lemme go check on Naruto.." Aiku mumbled walking to the bathroom and knocking on it.
"Naruto, do you need help?" she asked the door.
"No i'm good." He answered.
"Do you mind if the girls stay over then?"
"All of them!" He asked surprisedly.
"er..yea.." Aiku answered scratching her head.
"But where am I going to sleep?" Naruto asked and poked his freshly washed face outside the door.
"Hm..you can sleep with me, my beds big enough." Aiku reasoned.
"Eh..fine..hey do you know where my PJ top is?" Naruto asked. Aiku looked him over, realizing he didn't have a shirt on, and only had black satin pants.
"No Idea." Aiku said while walked back towards the living room full of girls.
"This is going to be one hell of a night.." She mumbled as she poked her head into the living room.
"You girls all set up and everything?" Aiku asked boredly.
"Yea! Let's start playing some games girls!" Ino said, pumping her fists in the air.
"Eew! Ino! You look like Naruto when you do that!" Sakura said sticking her tongue out.
"Some-one call me?" Naruto asked as he walked into the room, his other pair of PJ pants that were light blue and striped, and was starting to slip on the PJ top. Aiku looked at Ino, and swore there was drool falling from the corner of her mouth, same with Temari and Tenten.
"Gosh Naruto! Put on a shirt, we don't want to see your flab!" Sakura said, shielding her eyes from what she called "flab." Which was really, muscle.
"You'd think that big brain of hers would be able to tell the difference from flab and muscle." Aiku thought, shaking her head.
"Eh..why don't we play Truth or Dare?" Tenten suggested.
"That sounds good." Ino said smiling.
"Aiku, are you playing?" Sakura asked .
"Yea..sure." She said, grabbing Naruto's hand and sitting down next to him.
"Hey...where's Hinata?" Naruto asked quietly as he looked around at all the girls. Ino giggled.
" She had to train..why do you want to know?" Ino said playfully.Naruto blushed lightly.
"Just wondering.." He answered shyly.
"Alright! Sakura, Truth or Dare?" Temari said eagerly.
"Hmm...Truth." Sakura said.
"You're no fun.." Temari pouted and thought of a question.
"Hmm..If you didn't know Sasuke, who would you go out with?" Temari asked.
"Err...probobly..Shikamaru or Neji.." Sakura blushed and shrugged.
"Ino! Truth or Dare?" Sakura said pointing at Ino.
"Dare! I'm not scared." Ino smirked.
"Alright...I dare you to call up Shikamaru and put him on speaker, and ask him out on a date." Sakura smiled evilly. Ino's eyes widened.
"But-"
"No buts." Temari said shaking a finger at her and tossing her cell-phone at her. Ino pouted,flipping open the phone and punching in his number.
"You know his number by heart?" Sakura asked.
"We're on a team! I need to know his number.." Ino mumbled, putting the phone to her ear and listning.
Ring.
Ring.
Ring.
"Hello?" a voice at the end of the line said.
"Hey Shikamaru!" Ino said.
"Ugh...If you're calling me just so I can see your new outfit, the answer is no.." Shikamaru said lazily. Ino blushed.
"No...I wanted to ask you something else though.." she said nervously, glancing at the other girls and seeing them smileing evilly.
"W-would...you l-like to ..go o-out some-t-time?" Ino asked blushing madly.
The other end of the line was silent for a few seconds.
"Sure..Ino." Shikamaru said quietly. Ino's eyes widened, and she blushed again.
"Alright..tomorrow night..Korean BBQ at seven?" She asked, a picture of Chouji holding up chop-sticks at the restaurant made her giggle.
"Sure, see you then."
"Bye." Ino said, clicking the 'end' button on Temari's cell-phone and tossing it back to her.
"What did he say?" Sakura asked excitedly.
"He said yes!" Ino squeeled.
"Alright, ladies, let's get back to the game." Aiku said snickering.
"Fine..Aiku, truth or dare?" said Ino.
" I take..dare." Aiku said smugly.
"Hmm...I dare you to..make-out with...Temari!" Ino said, a bit surprised and wide-eyed. Her surprise soon turned into an evil smirk .
"But--"
"No buts." Ino said mockingly. Aiku sighed, crawling over in-front of Temari.
"You don't mind,do you?" she whispered quietly.
"Hmm..nahh..i've always been curious anyway.." Temari mumbled, smiling deviously. Aiku smiled back, tilting her head and leaning into Temari, meeting her lips softly, and shyly licking Temari's lips asking for entrance to her mouth. Temari obeyed, letting Aiku's tongue slide into her mouth, roaming her wet cavern shyly.
After a few minutes, both of their lungs cried out for air, making them pull apart. Blushing, Aiku wiped the trail of saliva connecting the two. Aiku looked at the other girls who were wide-eyed.
"A-Aiku...w-where's the b-bath-room?" Ino stuttered shyly. Aiku giggled, pointing to the french vanilla colored door a few feet away, and watching Ino walk quickly into it slamming the door.
"Emm..Temari..you're a good kisser.." Aiku said blushing and smiling.
"Right back at you..." Temari said while Aiku sat back next to Naruto.
"Alright...Naruto..Truth or Dare?"
(---)
Aiku shook her head as she grabbed the bags of chips,soda cans,candy wrappers and anything else there was on her floor and throwing it in the trash can.
"Do you need help?" Naruto asked while yawning.
"No, i'm good. Go to bed, i'll be in there in a second." Aiku said doing one last check for anymore garbage. Aiku smiled softly as she looked at all the passed-out girls in her living room.
" It's been a long night.." Aiku mumbled as she walked into her bed room, hopping on the bed.
" Did you have fun?" Aiku asked Naruto while she took out her hair and put it into a pony-tail.
"Yeah..it was crazy.." Naruto mumbled, pulling on his sleeping cap and getting under the covers.
"Yeah..it was.." Aiku sighed, getting under the covers too and turning off the lights.
"Good-night Naruto.." Aiku said, snuggling into her pillow.
"Night." Naruto answered tiredly and closed his eyes, falling into a deep-sleep like his partner.
(---)
" Naruto...i'm leaving."
"What? I don't understand..why?"
"Because..there are just things..that need to be done.."
"But-"
"No. Naruto..did it look like I was happy? Does it look like i'm happy?"
"You always looked happy! I really don't understand..you are always smiling and cheerful.."
" Naruto..let me tell you something..my face wasn't made for smiling. Truthfully, I hate smiling."
"Nobody's face is "made" for smiling! You just..smile!"
"Wrong. Naruto..i'm leaving..you can't stop me."
"No..I wont let you go...not without a fight.."
"Naruto..please I--"
"No!" Naruto said angrily, quickly throwing a kunai straight towards her face.
Aiku's eye's widened as she saw the kunai directly in-between her eyes.
Quickly sitting up in bed, Aiku tried to stop her heavy breathing.
"Are..you ok?" Naruto said tiredly sitting up.
"N-no.." Aiku whispered,covering her mouth with her hand and staring into the distance quietly.
"What's wrong?" Naruto looked at her warily and sat up.
"Nothing..go back to sleep ok? I'll be fine...just..a bad dream.." Aiku mumbled,laying back down.
"Al..right.." Naruto said and fell back asleep.
Aiku shook her head.
"It..it was just a dream...just a dream.." Aiku repeated to herself and laid her head on her pillow.
" Ne...Naru-chan?" she asked quietly.
" Mmnm..what is it?" Naruto cracked one eye open tiredly.
"Thanks for being my friend..." Aiku said smiling softly. Naruto smiled back at her and closed his eyes. Aiku bit her lip and hugged Naruto close, letting her head rest on his chest. Naruto blushed lightly, but didn't mind.
"Thank you.." she whispered as she fell asleep again.
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Hey everyone, sorry it took so long to come out with chapter 4, I was busy with school.
Later
--TCC