Ok so maybe I over reacted a little when I saw him, really I swear it was only a little but still I never thought I'd see him here.
I turned to my friends putting a smile on face, making them relax, they really had been worried how sweet. It's great to have two great friends and...Neji I still don't think he's a friend even if the person he plays is my person's best friend. Yeah I'm treating this like a play or movie for my own amusement but yeah I would be friends with these two girls since I'm still me just with a different name.
'Hey do you like him?'
'Like who?And why are you back?'
'Yay You're Talking To Me Again! parties cough cough Anyways Neji, do you like him? You said he wasn't your friend but could it be more?' I think my face was one of horror because my friends starting panicking, I just continued talk- err thinking to my inner.
'NO I DON'T LIKE HIM!'
'Denial. It's the first stage for love, hee hee'
'NO IT'S NOT! I MEAN WHO WOULD LIKE A JERK LIKE HIM ANYWAY!' I thought yelled.
'Uhh you would and bye, I'll leave you and your denial alone, *grins*' Poof. Wait why does she always go poof?Who cares.
"Kanami, are you sick or something you've been staring with a horrible look on your face for ten minutes." Momoyo sounded truly worried, unlike a certain person.
"I'm fine guys, just saw someone I know."
"From the boys school? Oh please tell!" Mitsuki was now excited, again.
"Uhh I don't know his name, but the kid with blonde hair and green eyes with two friends over there." I said pointing, somehow while I spaced out and thought to my inner my eyes had kept track of the blonde boy.
"YUO'RE KIDDING!" Mitsuki yelled.
"What?" I said, my eyes snapping back to her in a very surprised manner.
"You know the most popular kid at the boys school!" Now I do remember saying how I figured this guy was popular and all but I never thought he was the most popular he didn't seem to have the aura for that. Looks like I was wrong, and believe me I don't like being wrong.
"Apparently I do. He came to the cafe on the first day of school."
"Go talk to him! Maybe he'll remember you!" Momoyo whisper yelled.
"no thank you." Unaware of what was going on we were moving closer to the boy and I hadn't even taken notice.
"Why not?" Mitsuki whined.
"Whats the point he probably has fangirls like this one-" points to Neji "has fanboys."
"so? just go."
"No how many ti-" i was cut off by being pushed towards a certain boy who wasn't paying attention to the group of four girls, Neji had followed us even though he hadn't been talking.
"Sorry" I squeaked, bowing.
"No problem Cutie" I looked back up and realized that he had recognized me.
"My friends decided to push me over here, because I told them I met you on the first day of school at my work" he clicked his tongue and all his friends left taking random fanfirls along with them for a ride of some sort.
"Wanna dance?" He asked.
"Uhhh i don't know how to dance. Bye though nice seeing you again uhhh whats your name?"
"Kei, and nothings wrong with not knowing how to dance." he held out his hand for me.
"uhh sorry." I said before turning and fast walking away. Of course he didn't let me go that easily and grabbed my wrist, I swear there was a growl made but I looked around and saw nothing that could have made it so mentally shrugged.
"see just follow my lead." Kei whispered in my ear as I followed him through the dance. It was slow and actually nice and kind of fun. As soon as the song was over he let go of my waist and grinned.
"Thank you" I said bowing then trying to walk away again. He grabbed my wrist...again.
"What do you say we go on a date Friday? You, me dinner a movie. What do you say Cutie?" I still hadn't told him my name, oopsie.
'Go for it!' Oh great look who's back.
'Didn't you say that I liked Neji? Why would I date this guy if I liked someone else.'
'To prove you do like Neji!'
'I do not!'
'Sorry but you better answer him, you've been staring off into space for a while bye' Poof. She makes me so mad! I'm going to prove I don't like him by going on this date and liking this guy, Kei.
"Sure, it sounds fun. My name is Kanami by the way" I said smiling.
"Great! Where do you live?" I told him the address.
"Ok I'll pick you up around Seven?"
"Sure see you then Kei" I smiled sheepishly as I said his name. He grinned at me, then waved and left.
"Oh MY GOSH!" Mitsuki said from behind me. I turned around and she glomped me making me laugh.
"You're going on a date with Kei! How great is that!" she was really excited again.
"how do you know?...Oh...You were listening you little bugger" I said jokingly hugging her back. Momoyo laughed along with us.
"When is it? We never heard that part." Momoyo said after we had stopped laughing, I swear I get into fits too often and have to calm down alot.
"Friday, at seven." They squealed. Of course typical girl, I'm sure they're surprised I'm not squealing with them for dating the most popular boy at school but that stuff doesn't matter to me, so I'm happy but not overly happy like most girls would be.
"By the way, if he's the most popular boy, who's the most popular girl?"
"Us" Momoyo and Mitsuki said together.
"You're kidding...you're not kidding?" I said at their expressions.
"We're serious" Momoyo said as Mitsuki nodded along with her.
"I thought they would have been snobby or something...but it's so great that my friends are popular!" I was excited now, and they hugged me. Why is Neji just standing there, not talking not moving just staring at us.
"Isn't it!" Mitsuki squealed.
"Do you need help getting ready for your date Kanami?" Momoyo said grinning. I wasn't so keen on her helping with the smile she gave but I knew I would need help.
"Yeah, do you think you could help me out?"
"OF course" mMitsuki emphasized the 'of' making me smile like the idiot was. We danced around the rest of the time laughing and smiling and waving to people who stared or gave us strange looks.
The next day I woke up at noon but had to go to work early since there was no school, to make up for the time I took off work. So I lazily pulled myself out of bed and into some clothes. When something came to me, we were fifteen and you need to be sixteen to drive.
"Neji, how can you drive?You're only fifteen right." I said walking out of the room, he snorted.
"Actually I'm sixteen, but my uncle wanted me in the same grade as Hinata so he didn't put me in school until the next year when Hinata entered."
"Oh..I see...that makes sense."
"Hn"
Anyway I'll see you later, I have to work and make up time for what I missed, see ya" I ran to the front put on my sneakers, waved then left the apartment cheerily whistling along the way.
Work went really great today, I made up for one day of work by working extra hard in the first few hours before my usual hours and when all my hours for the day were finished I got changed into my casual clothes. I walked out to find Neji, waiting for me as usual.
"Hey" I called out to him. He looked coldly at me before starting to walk. Ok what made him so annoyed? We ended up walking in silence for the rest of the walk home and that was boring so I skipped part of the way like a child.
By the time Friday came Neji wasn't even looking at me let alone speaking, sure he still came after work to walk home with me but it felt awkward in the silence. Normally I love the silence but when I get it 24/7 it's annoying.
"Neji." I poked him, the girls still weren't here.
"Neji" I poked him again, and he ignored me. I kept poking and he kept ignoring until an hour later at five when Mitsuki and Momoyo arrived with whatever they had.
"Hey Kanami, Keya" they called when they got in.
"Hey, so what are you doing?" they grinned.
"We're raiding your closet first" I let them in my room and they tore apart me closet until they found the outfit I had bought with Hinata, Ino and Sakura. I missed them, we talked every day one way or another but the time was getting shorter since I was tired and they had work to do.
"Perfect!" Mitsuki said throwing me the clothes, I grabbed them from the air sighing.
"Put that on. Call us when you're done" Momoyo said as she left the room with Mitsuki closing the door after she was finished talking. I did as told.
"Ok. Come back in now!" I called opening my door. They came running and pushed me back into the room, they both checked out my clothes, not me.
"Great." Momoyo said smiling.
"You look awesome" Mitsuki said with a thumb's up.
"Now what?"
"Hair and.."Momoyo started.
"MAKE-UP!" Mitsuki finished yelling in delight.
"Oh boy make-up." I said sarcatically, making Momoy scowl. She pushed me onto my bed, forcing me to sit then took my hair out of my buns.
"Hey."
"We need to it looks better down, it's so soft and silky." Momoyo was now running her hands through my hair. I smacked her hands and she smiled then started fiddling with it. She left the room for a moment then came back with scissors. I looked at them for a second then shook my head 'whats the worst she can do?'
"Momoyo!" I yelled when I saw my hair thirty minutes later.
"What? it looks great, the bangs make your face look paler and it looks pretty." I sighed in frustration.
"No more cutting." I said to her taking the scissors. My hair was in a high ponytail much like Neji's only I had bangs and my hair only reached mid back while his reached his waist, he needs a haircut really badly not me.
"Ok, ok" she was holding her hands up in defeat. Mitsuki giggled.
"Make-up time" she said going to the bag Momoyo had brought and pulling stuff out, I was wondering what was in it and now I regret it.
Mitsuki pulled almost every type of make-up you could imagine varying in colours, also it all looked brand new unopened.
"We bought you this for any occasion you may have and have to look nice." I gave a horrified look, why would I want to look nice so often? She must have mistook it by her reply.
"Don't worry our families are rich it's really not that expensive for us to buy it." Mitsukki said hurriedly. She then proceeded to come towards me with the stuff, I tried to back away but Momoyo was behind me holding me down.
Mitsuki started putting on eyeshadow, she said my skin was already flawless so foundation and concealer weren't needed. As if I didn't already figure that out, I never got pimples never had and never will just the way it is. After the eyeshadow she put on eyeliner, then lip gloss I was glad when it was over.
"ok, take a look in your mirror." she pointed to my full view mirror, I stood in front staring, it was the second time in a week that I didn't recognize myself, I was going to have a heart attack from the surprise it gave me if it kept going on like this so often.
"Wow" I said gazing at myself. Black eyeliner, tan eyeshadow which was very lightly put on and pink lip gloss that made my lips shiny. Ohhh shiny.
"Yup, you look really pretty" Momoyo said giggling at my reaction.
"Yup, that boy will be starstruck" Mitsuki said, I gave her a weird look, I mean who says starstruck anyway? Other than 3oh!3 XD.
"So when is he gonna be here?" Momoyo asked.
"Soon, what time is it?"
"6:50" (A/N: I don't think the times I gave her for each thing adds up to this but lets pretend it does.) Momoyo answered after a brief look at her watch.
"Ok, he'll be here in about ten minutes then" I sighed in relief at the thought of relaxing before he came to pick me up.
"Lets go show Keya!" Mitsuki yelled excitedly running out of my room, I heard her yell for Neji multiple times before she came back smiling.
"Come on Kanami!" She grabbed my hand and pulled me through the door, Momoyo giggled slightly in the doorway before following slowly behind me. I mouthed her the words traitor in which she giggled again, I stuck my tongue out just as I left the room.
When I turned around I came face-to-face with...Neji's chest...thank Kami I'm not taller then him or that would be awkward. Ok so it wasn't really face-to-face more like face-to-chest.
'What a lovely chest it is.'
'Not again. Can't you leave me alone, I have a date tonight.'
'I know, that's why I'm here, to give you one more chance to say you like Neji.'
'I don't like him he's a jerk.'
'Do you always have the same excuses? You do like him, well we do like him. We're the same person I can access your thoughts you know, you've let a few things slip, hee hee'
'You're evil aren't you? Besides those were just slips of the tongue in my head... I don't really like him'
'That's what they all say and then they end up with that guy*sigh*'
'...'
'It's true, do you ever read stories?'
'...'
'Well anyway I'll leave you to go on your 'date' then you'll admit who you really like, talk to you later.'
'uhhh ok then' Poof. I mentally shook my head clear of our little conversation.
"You all set Kanami?" Momoyo asked when I came back to the real world.
"You tell me, do I look all set?"
"Uhhh I meant mentally prepared."
"Oh." Everyone laughed at me, ok not everyone but everyone except a certain Hyuuga, Hinata would be laughing if she were here so I'm pretty sure you know who it is.*cough* Neji *cough *, I'm alright.
"Here put these shoes on" Momoyo proceeded to hand me some brown sandals, no heel thank Kami.
"Time?" I asked when the sandals were correctly on my feet.
"6:58"
"He'll be here any mi-" Ding Dong. Wait ding dong? Aren't we in an apartment how can itgo ding dong? Who cares I just need to go.
"Ok there he is." I said laughing.
"Have fun" Momoyo gave me a hug.
"Go get'em girl!"Mitsuki said grinning with a thumbs up, oh yeah the next Naruto.
"OK, Keya-" I looked to Neji "I'll be back by 11:30, if not then...something happened...don't come looking for me call the cops, here are the addresses we're going to. Tell them these." I handed him a piece of paper. He nodded, I nodded, I hugged the girls then left.
"Hey Kei" I said smiling shyly when I opened the door, he grinned at me.
"Hey'a Kanami, you look as beautiful as always" I smiled.
"Shall we go?" he asked holding out his hand.
"Yes" I said taking his hand and letting him lead me to a small restaurant. It was very nice on the outside as well as the in, the dining room had light walls and the tables and chairs were dark, really nice.
"Wow." I said sitting down across from Kei.
"Well it is lovely,"he turned to me " but not as lovely as you." Well aren't you the confident one, I smiled at him. The waitress gave us our menu's, I swear she inked to Kei and that he winked back when I had looked down at my menu, I was looking through my bangs. He's such a flirt. After a few minutes of looking at the menu the waitress came back with our drinks wanting our orders. I had some sort of chicken...I'm not exactly sure I just saw chicken and grabbed it Kei got some pork thing.
"So how old are you?" I asked when the waitress had finally left five minutes later.
"17, I'm guessing you're younger just the looks is all." he said, he's unintentionally or making it look like he is asking how old I am.
"Yeah I am actually, 15 wow a two year difference that seems like a lot."
"Nah, if you think when you're older it's not that much of a difference." I thought about that way and realized he was actually right it seemed like so little of a time compare to the rest of our lives two years seems so small.
"Wow, I never thought of that." he grinned at me.
"Yeah, its great isn't it." I knew it wasn't actually a question but I nodded anyway making him laugh at me. We made more small talk about school and stuff until our food came, we ate quickly considering we had to be at the movie theatre in thirty minutes from now for the movie and it was a fifteen minute walk away. I had my food gone in seven minutes flat and laughed at Kei who was finished three minutes after.
"Let's go then" he said throwing money on the table and once again offering me his hand, which I took gratefully.
"We have the time now" I said taking his hand, we were taking our time walking, we weren't holding hands but we were walking close.
"We sure do since you ate so fast." he smiled, how adorable he is when he smiles.
"Sorry but I probably would have ate like that anyway." I said laughing, he laughed with me. We walked the rest of the way in a comfortable silence like when I walk with Neji, it's really nice you should try it I hate those awkward silences they drive me insane.
Luckily when we got to the movie theatre we could just go in and buy our popcorn since Kei had bought the tickets earlier so we wouldn't be late. We went in and got a popcorn to share, a drink each and a pack of m&m's. They taste really good in popcorn.
We went in and grabbed seats right at the very top, the best seats in the theatre especially when you're in the middle of the screen. I always get to the theatre early to make sure I get those seats, some people call me insane I call it planning ahead.
"This is supposed to be a great movie." he whispered after some previews and other people had come in.
"What is it?" When we came in he wouldn't let me see the tickets or the name of the movie.
"You'll see." he said grinning, making me pout.
Ok so he was right, it was a great movie if you're into that whole girly thing about romance he even tried to set a mood and put his arm around my shoulders after yawning. What is up with guys and that move? I've heard about it happening all the time and seen it in other movies where the couple are watching a movie.
"So did you like it?" he asked as we left the theatre for the walk home.
"Yeah it was great." fake smile sake smile fake smile. I grinned, score one for Tenten.
"Ahh good I was hoping you'd like a movie like that and not one of all the explosions and such I wasn't quite sure, so I just picked a random movie and that's how it turned out." he grinned sheepishly. Ok none for Tenten cause if I told the truth then I could see a movie with ka-booms everywhere how suckish that I have to watch those romantic movies now.
"Well I guess you were lucky then" I said laughing. He'll never know that it's all fake those smiles that laugh, I'm so evil I've perfected my fake smiles and laughs.
We had to walk down a small alley to get back before 11:30 or else Neji would freak, he likes to be right on time I've seen it. So being even a minute late and he might've phoned the cops already, that wouldn't turn out well. I was slightly frightened to walk down the alley, there could be gangs or hobos, who would want to go through there?
"Don't be scared Kanami, I'll protect you from anything lurking in the alley" he said putting an arm around my shoulders protectively making me relax.
"Ok, let's go" We slowly made our way through the alley, stepping over garbage, avoiding corners with dog's or cat's or maybe even mice.
About halfway through the alley someone appeared in front of us blocking our path, I frowned but kept moving with Kei. We got closer but the man didn't move, he was tall and full of muscles I hoped he wasn't a gang member.
"Hey boy. You got yourself a pretty one dontcha." he said, making me flinch, we're in trouble now there's no way Kei can take this guy on. He must have known because he turned us around to walk away but there were two bug guys, we turned around again and there were two guys where one had stood before. All of them were tall and full of muscles, well Kei I hope you're stronger then you look.
"Uhh would you mind letting us through?" I said to the guy who spoke to us.
"No can do, the boss needs a pretty one like you right now." he replied, I gulped.
"Well we're in for it now, guess we have to fight'em." I said to Kei. He looked at me fear written all over his face.
"You're on your own." he said, before running to the guys who promptly let him through, not even pausing. What a wimp, what man runs away with his tail between his legs leaving his girl for the dog's. I whimpered as the men came towards me, looks as if Kei isn't all people thought he was, he's no man but still a boy. I"m strong enough to fight some guys a few years older then me, but I don't think I'm strong enough to take on four fully grown men.
They were advancing towards me, taking their time, who would interrupt them in an alley anyway. No one can even see through them to spot me, no one was coming to help me. There was still five minutes before 11:30 so Neji wouldn't be helping, I'd have to try and fight them on my own then, hold them up until Neji comes to look for me I'll live until then...I hope.
A/N: Uh oh poor Tenten. She dated a coward and Neji's still got time before he can even think about going to find her, what's going to happen?