Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Another day to try, another day to fail, another day of successes, another day to be something new, Another day I'm alive."

"You still say that every morning?" Storm asked Emerald who was sitting in bed.

"Yeah, what about you," Emerald turned to Storm who was lying on the bed with her hands behind her bed gazing at the popcorn ceiling.

"Today there will be hope for a better tomorrow…..I hope for a better me," Storm closed her blue eyes and her blonde hair covered her face as she sat up. "My only wish is to be better, you know that already." Storm said with a shrug.

"What about your dad getting better?" Emerald looked away, staring at her left hand as it turned into a fist with the covers in it.

Storm's eyes glazed over with a cloud as she started dully at her legs. When she spoke it was not her voice, it was dull and held little to no emotion. "I gave up on that a long time ago."

"I see," Emerald was to use to being the quite voice, the one who said she would try again, the one who held hope, sanity to herself and Storm.

Storm blinked a few times then jumped off the bed smiling "Let's' go to the mall for Breakfast this morning! We can leave a note for your grandfather telling him to sleep in and that he doesn't have to worry about feeding us," she ran and got dressed as Emerald just watched her.

Storms was wearing just a baggy shirt and long sleep pants, but now she is wearing a skin tight black shirt that says "Got smile =) …..I do". White Jeans with a belt that is white with black musical notes on it, base clef symbols (look it up if you don't music), Black running shoes, Nike to be exact, a black choker with a cross stain in blood hanging on it, and a checkered bow to put in her hair (Think of Deidara's hair up with a bow where he ties it instead of ribbons.).

"Let's hurt, I have money to pay for it," Storm pulled on her black gloves with zippers on it.

"Fine let's get this over with," Emerald sighed and went back to her darkness of staying bored and out of everyone's way while being in charge still…..yeah it is complicated.

Emerald is wearing black jeans with chains hanging down the pockets, a red loss T-shirt that says "I'm a real boy…..I mean Girl!" with a fem- Pinocchio hold up the sign that says I Mean Girl! She has Bracelets covering her left arm (the bracelets go from bands to studs to simple stuff,) and fingerless blue gloves.

Storm and Emerald sat in her bathroom doing eyeliner and eye shadow. "You still wear that?" Storm asked pointing to a blue and red woven together bracelet made of string/yarn the end it held together by black duck tape. ('Cause we southerners believe it fixes everything...And it does.)

Storm was smearing on bright red eyeshade and Emerald was putting on red eye liner.

"Yes you made it for me, so even if it is crappy I will keep it." She said lightly moving to put on light blue eyeshade.

"Psh, whatever, un" Storm cover her mouth.

Emerald raised an eyebrow at her "I thought you got that fixed?"

"Me to…..Come one lets finish with the rest of today's rituals before I have to do the saddling deed" Storm jumped and ran out the door, Emerald followed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Snack Time~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Okay, So I have chicken biscuit and you have a Yoplait with chocolate milk," Emerald said giving Storm her Yoplait Light and Chocolate milk.

"Thank you!" Storm devoured her breakfast then stood up and starched, she put her hands on her lower back and pooped her back. Just a little further down the mall was the whole Akatsuki watching, and yes they are very good stalkers, as the two stood up.

"Okay so let's kind of spices things up this year, but still stay on the same rout okay?" The red head asked, he short red hair splashing across her face.

"Yep so, onwards," Storm pointed in the air then turned to leave but as she turned she slammed face first into something hard. She opened her eyes and blinked for she ran into some ones chest. "S-sorry, my bad man, yeah?" she smiled and scratched the back of her head.

"I'm going to send you back to that speech person," Emerald told her friend. It was then that they really look at who they bumped into. It was Zetzu.

Storm looked absolutely terrified "I-I'm so S-sorry. I- I..I didn't mean to bump into ya," Storm was stuttering and tripping over her words.

Emerald rolled her eyes "Stop being so nervous he isn't going to beat you up, he would have done it by now anyways."

"Your very strange. Oh, don't listen to him, we just want to be your friend!" the two girls stared as the bipolar man talked. They blinked then smiled.

"I like the way you speak," Storm told him.

"It would be nice to have another friend," Emerald smiled lightly answering his un spoken question of if it was okay.

"Wait," Storm said while she stop smiling "How do we know if you not using us? That you really want be our friend or want something from us?"

"What could you possibly give us," Zetzu rolled his eyes "It's okay we just want to have a friend that will accept us." He smiled softly

Storm couldn't help herself. She jumped hugged Zetzu causing a Sean in the mall, but she smiled and laughed "I'll accept you with all my heart! It's nice to have another person in my life!"

Zetzu couldn't help but smile himself and he felt bad for going against the Akatsuki by actually talking to them straight up like this, and towards them for being a spy…..still couldn't he pretend to have friends for a little while?

"Can we add him into the plan? This just the kind of "New" we needed right?" Storm asked with pleading eyes.

Emerald sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose "Are you okay with him know?" she asked closing her brown eyes.

"It's okay I'll make him pinky promise not to tell!" Storm let go of Zetzu's neck and held out her pinky and he took.

"I promise" he told her.

"Okay! So here is the plan, we are going to mess around then at 12 o'clock we are going to the cemetery and then back to my place," She paused and looked at Zetzu "We will have to sneak in tho," then went back to explaining "and we will have fun all night long!...you don't have to stay the night but you are welcome to stay Zetzu-san" storm smiled and her blue eyes seemed so bright.

And they did just as they said, only Akatsuki stalked, I mean observed them from afar as they did.

It's now 12, Storm said to herself.

"What's going on at 12?" A light voice asked.

Storm blinked a few times at hearing Zetzu's voice. She then smiled sheepishly and blushed realizing she said out loud. "You want to come to the cemetery with us?" Storm asked him still smiling.

Zetzu became to think over their day. They ate had fun and ate again, they even bought him a white wrist band for his black half and a white wrist band for his white half. From what he observed they don't like to spend money, they don't like doing anything like this actually….so why.

"Sure." His black half wanted to know but do it sneakily so he answered first but that didn't stop the white half from answering.

Sigh I'm endeing it here. Because no one is reading this one I'm going to ditch tell I finish my yoai one..yes so if you want me to finsh then please R..that is all bye