I'm sooo sooo sooo sooo sorry that I haven't updated this, I don't know what happened to me, I'm so sorry, I hope you enjoy. I think this chapter is a little longer then usual but still I'm so sooorry. I know how annoying it is when an author doesn't update a story, is so annoying, But I'm so sorry. I'll try to update faster next time.
Love or Destiny
Eight Chapter: Dance Dance
It had been about twenty minutes since they had gotten into a wooden carriage. It was pulled by two perfectly white horses and a driver sat outside to guide the way. The carriage was made of expensive wood which shone proudly its natural color; it looked delicate and graceful with its many intricate designs, decorations, excessively large wooden wheels.
The ride was silent, to the surprise of the majority of the riders. The three girls sat on one side facing the guys seated at the opposite side. There were small curtains in the small windows that prevented people from seeing from the outside or inside. Suddenly the ride came to a stop. Hinata leaned over to one of the windows and pushed the curtain a little so she could see the outside.
"Look!" She invited and every one, with the exception of Yami, leaned over to see.
Outside was an incredibly big mansion, but not one of those mansions they were used to seeing. It was a four story mansion of an ivory color. The main entrance had two huge doors that were wide open. In front of the door was a big and wide set of white stairs. On each side of the stairs, on every two steps was a man in a white uniform holding a long pole with a small metal antique lamp on the end. They were just standing there and looking straight forward. On each side of the stairs, behind the men, was a garden of many flowers and bushes, all lit up from light sources that seemed to be coming from nowhere. The mansion gave an elegant and imposing feeling while you looked at it. Then the carriage moved a little but stopped again. Everyone went back to their seats.
"I've never seen a building like that before." Naruto said looking confused.
"I wouldn't expect you to; it is a western style mansion. Not very common around here, but since the hosts of the party are from the West, they decided to give us a party like their family used to, back in their home lands." Yami explained, bored. "In short: different theme, same boredom."
The carriage moved slightly and stopped again.
"Oh! And I almost forgot, when it's our turn to walk out they will call out our names out loud and we will come out then." Yami said as an afterthought.
"Don't you think that it's a little dangerous for them to know our real identity?" Sasuke asked.
"You know, there's a reason that I only know a handful of the people who are attending. Most of them are special guests, just a fancy name for body guards like you guys. Everybody knows but no one talks about it." Yami explained again bored, the carriage moved again a little and stopped but then the door was open from the outside by the driver.
"Invitation please" A man said, Yami handed him an envelope, he gave it to another man.
"Miss Tikatse Yami, representing the Tikatse family and her companion Mr. Hatake Kakashi." The second man said reading from a paper in the envelope. Both Yami and Kakashi stepped out, and started walking up the stairs.
"And her special guests," The man continued, "Mr. Uzumaki Naruto; Miss. Hyuuga Hinata," They both stepped out and followed Yami and Kakashi closely but not too close.
"Mr. Uchiha Sasuke and Miss Haruno Sakura." The man said as Sasuke and Tenten stepped out. When Tenten heard the man's words she looked at Sasuke, confused; she was pretty sure she wasn't Sakura.
"Since when did I become Sakura?" Tenten whispered sarcastically to Sasuke as they walked up the stairs together like the rest of the people.
"Sakura was the one who was supposed to attend to the mission, not you. Remember that." Sasuke responded in a cold whisper without looking at her. She glared at him for a few seconds before turning her attention to the stairs.
As they entered, a man offered to take their coats and hats. They gave them their coats, which they later almost forgot if not for Naruto complaining of cold before they left.
Tenten was fascinated; she had never seen something like this before. There were people dancing everywhere, with fancy dresses like the one she had. Most of them of different tones of red, orange, yellow and brown, but some of them dressed in other colors. Every man was dressed in a black suit like Sasuke and the others. There were some people just standing and talking, always surrounded by people doing nothing.... Well if what Yami said was right than they must be just like them, ninja.
That thought was quickly out of her head, there was just too much for her to contemplate. There was musicians playing to her right and decorations everywhere, it looked like the leaves of a tree had sneaked in to the party. There was brown and red leaf shaped decorations hanging from the ceiling and in the very middle an enormous chandelier illuminated the whole room. She looked at the walls and she could see some paintings, big paintings of people she didn't know wearing strange uniforms and dresses that resembled the ones the people in the party were wearing.
Not long after they walked in a girl came walking towards Yami. Some people fallowed her.
"Yami, is so good to see you." The girl said wearing an very expensive looking dress.
"Nice to see you to." Yami said, putting on a fake smile, both girls air kiss the other's cheek.
"Is been so long since I last saw you, we need to plan a small tea party to catch up on things." The girl said.
"Yes, call me when you can." Yami said and the girl walked away.
"Who was that?" Naruto asked.
"I have no idea." Yami said.
After a few more greeting like this one, the music stopped playing and a man appeared on the second floor in a small inside balcony that was really where two stairs united, behind him was a double door. The man looked old and had a servant like uniform.
He cleared his thought "May I have your attention... Diner is ready, please take the doors behind me to the dining room, and please sit at the table with your family's name in its center piece." The man said turning around and pushing open the doors.
Quickly a large line to get up the stairs and into the dining room formed but it moved quickly. Yami stayed until the line was almost gone to go upstairs and entered the dining room. The table was quickly found, almost in the back. The six of them sat: Naruto then Hinata then Kakashi then Yami then Sasuke and finally Tenten. As Tenten sat down she noticed something, there were no chopsticks. Instead, some spoons, some small tridents looking things and some mini knife looking things with really small teeth in one side. She was confused, what was she supposed to do with this, and if this was dinner where were the chopsticks? How would she eat? She looked towards Yami for answers and noticed that the guys ware as confused as she was.
"What's wrong?" Yami asked.
"What's that?" Naruto asked pointing to one of the mini tridents.
"A fork... You guys don't know what a fork is?" Yami asked shocked.
"I know how to use fork and knife, my father made me take lessons." Hinata said shyly, Yami looked at the rest.
".... Just follow our lead, pick the ones we pick and do what we do, ok?" Yami said and they had no option but to nod.
"Caviar?" A man asked Tenten. She looked up.
"Yes?" She answered now knowing what to do. The man then put some blackish looking stuff on her plate and some small salted cookies in front of her plate. The man asked the rest and every one said yes. Then they looked at Yami.
"..... Just take the smallest spoons and put the caviar in top of the cookie and eat it." Yami said as if was the most obvious thing in the world as she put the so called 'Caviar' in front of one of her salted cookies, grabbed the cookie and eat it. "It's good." They all looked at the back stuff... caviar and did as told.... and in fact it wasn't that bad, kind of tasteless but not bad.
A minute later the plate the 'Caviar' was in, was removed, revealing one of the many clean plates stacked under it, Tenten had the felling this was going to be a long and strange dinner.
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"Sooo…? What now?" Naruto asked sitting, bored at the same table they ate at.
"Waiting for the party to be over." Yami answered playing with a flower from the centerpiece.
"Then why don't we just leave?" Sasuke asked annoyed.
"'Cus it would be very impolite and I can't give my family a bad reputation." Yami answered.
"Then let's go dance or do something." Naruto suggested desperate.
"Do as you please." Yami said with a bored tone once more.
"Oh Yami! Hello there darling!" A young woman said walking closer and waving her hand.
"Oh no… God…" Yami said annoyed.
"What's wrong?" Tenten asked.
"That's….Reína!" Yami said faking exitement when the woman got closer.
"Yami! You look… better!" Reína said after looking Yami from top to bottom.
"I can see you're a blond now… you need a retouch I see." Yami said faking a smile.
"Well… aren't you gonna dance? My fiancé and I are going to have one last dance before leaving because we have so much stuff to do for the wedding. You know how hard is to prepare a wedding these days…. Oh wait! I'm sorry, I forgot yours got canceled, after that incident. Well, either way, hope you get better, you look… sick." Reína said walking away taking the hand of a young man. Tenten and the rest stared in shock.
"What the hell?!" Tenten finally broke the silence.
Suddenly Yami got up, grabbed Kakashi's hand and started to walk away, the rest followed her. Yami walked down stairs towards the dance floor. When the bit was just right, Yami stared to dance a waltz with Kakashi. Tenten then realized with horror that she was after all going to have to put her newly acquired dancing skills to the test, and with Sasuke. What if she sucked after all? How was she supposed to show off in front of Sasuke, if she was going to suck while dancing with him? And then he would realize that she lied and that would be annoying.
Before she could realize it, she was twirling down the dance floor in Sasuke's arms. She looked down towards her feet, only to realize that she couldn't see her own feet thanks to her skirt.
"Outside the box, outside the box…" Tenten repeated in her mind, a little trick Hinata had told her earlier.
"Look up." Sasuke told her but she ignored him. She then felt Sasuke's hand grabbing her chin and pulling it up and making her look at him.
"I told you to look up." He said again annoyed.
"So?"
"You're making me look bad." He answered pulling her towards the right.
"You don't even know these people, who cares?"
"I do."
"Then you shouldn't."
"I will anyways."
"Hey! You stepped on my toe!" Tenten complained going slightly off rythem.
"Glad to." Sasuke said smirking.
"Arrgg… I hate you!" Tenten whispered.
"Finally we agree in something." As they passed a couple of old people overheard the discussion.
"I say… those two are about to kill each other." The old man said.
"Arranged marriage I'd say." The old woman said adjusting her glasses.
"Just like when we were kids."
"Indeed."
* * *
"Finally over!" Tenten said as the carriage door was closed behind her.
"Actually I enjoyed myself." Hinata commented with a slight blush.
"But the food was wierd…" Naruto said in a hurry.
"What was that blue goo in the dessert cake?" Kakashi asked.
"Berries… Blue Berries… A fruit." Yami said as if she was talking to a bunch of four year olds.
"It surprised me that you all didn't eat the dessert, it was so good, plus you had already eaten all of the other stuff." Yami said indifferent.
"What other stuff?" Tenten asked.
"The frog legs, the eyes, snails, fish eggs… you know…" Yami said trying to explain.
Every one stared in shock, a second later every one brought their hand to their mouth. You could almost see a bit of green on their faces, except for Naruto who rushed to the window.
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