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Chapter 5: Challenge
Kotoko stirred in her sleep. She fell over her body temporarily going limp. Sai looked over at her, watching her movements silently. He had been rethinking the events from earlier and why Kotoko had seemed so concerned. He still couldn't figure it out. Emotions were like a rubix cube to him. You have to keep working it out from different angels to finally solve it. This was a rubix cube he was stuck on.
Before Sai even realized it his dark eyes met a pair of golden ones. Kotoko stared at him silently, looking puzzled as to why his eyes were on her. "And just what are you looking at?" She questioned. Sai didn't respond he just turned away. Kotoko sat up and crawled over to where Sai was seated.
"You know I've never met someone who made me think so much." The girl smiled. "Why is that?" Sai asked. "Because you're quite unique, I've never meet someone like you." She complimented.
Sai just stared with no emotion. "Eh..that was a compliment by the way." The golden eyed kunoichi reassured. "Hm." Was Sai's response, and he smiled. Giving that same smile he always gives. So fake that he looks like a porcelain doll.
"You don't have to force your smile you know." Kotoko looked at him with slightly narrowed eyes. "What do you mean?" He asked, feigning innocence. "I'm not that dumb."She responded. "Could have fooled anyone." The boy remarked."But, a smile can get you out of a tough situation, even if it's fake." Sai commented, that 'smile' of his widening.
"You know...I actually kind of...feel bad for you." Kotoko said softly, her tone was a bit different, softer and much less obnoxious. "And this emotion is..." Sai said. "sympathy maybe?" Kotoko looked a bit irked, but nodded. It felt so bothersome at times, yet she couldn't help her sympathetic views.
"Sai I don't think it's too late for you to feel emotion." Kotoko's attention was now fully on the shinobi. "You're really missing out on some good things." "So I've heard...but I was made this way, it's quite unlikely to change." He remarked. "I've been laying there doing a lot of thinking. Which isn't usually like me. I thought that you might actually respect things that come along with feelings, such as bonds."
Sai stared at her with caught interest now. "I'd like to learn more about them." He responded. "Well people can change, and given the chance even you can." Kotoko smiled. "You seem to be filled with these high hopes and expectations of me." He said.
"Yep." The black and silver haired ninja chuckled. "But stating what you want is more difficult than achieving it." The dark haired boy stared. "Yeah, but you don't have to do it alone." Kotoko said. Sai had an air of slight curiosity now.
"And who is going to accompany someone who doesn't feel along that task?" He asked. "Heh. Don't act clueless. The person whose in front of you." She responded.
"You?" Sai asked with such disbelief, Kotoko was almost offended. Almost, but not quite. Kotoko grinned and nodded. "Why would you do that?" He questioned. "Well..." Kotoko said, looking at the ground silently.
"You're doing it again." The male shinobi said. "Doing what again?" Kotoko's voice took on a tone of annoyance. "Radiating that strange emotion again." He said. Kotoko started to feel a bit flustered. "Ha." A chuckle was her only response.
"I suppose it's one of those emotions that you're not familiar with." Kotoko said, trying to avoid the topic of what she was specifically feeling. "But anyway. What do you think of me helping you?" She changed the subject.
" I think it's interesting. I don't believe it'll be as simple as you think. But go ahead, try." Sai smiled, still as porcelain as a doll. "My motive is to break that glass of yours. Turn that coldness into warmth inside of there." Kotoko said with determination in her voice.
"The way you make it sound. It's as if you're trying to get me to...love." Sai said, his eye contact never faltering. Kotoko had to keep herself from turning a different color. "Of course...that will come with time. But for now you could just use the word...affection? Care? Something along those lines. I'll try to embed it into you in the simplest way. By letting you experience them from another." The girl smiled, leaning closer to him with a glint in her eyes.
"Haruhara...you like me, don't you?" Sai asked. Kotoko was slightly taken back by the blunt question and couldn't control herself as her cheeks turned slightly red. Acting as if Sai said nothing and only called her by surname the girl laughed. "Call me Kotoko."