The shinobi looked a couple years older then her. Maybe around mid 20s. He had spiky blond hair, and blue understanding eyes. He was quit handsome. It was the Yellow flash of Konoha. One of the most feared shinobi in all of the war. He was here for the peace talks along with the three Sannins. Suna had also brought their impressing arsenal of ninja's. They had brought Chiyma and her brother. Her town had never been so packed before in her life. The Hokage's practically brought all their army to the lowest Gennins. Tension was tense everywhere. You could no longer go into the local pub to eat with out getting at least one person staring at you in hatred.
But on the upside money was streaming into everyone's lap. The businesses on the main street could now afford to do a lot more. Yoshino's friend Cho's family now could experiment with different type of food with out fearing that it would lose the restraint money. There was also the hope that they could be able to afford an automatic dishwasher. Cho would love that, she usually had to wash all the dishes at the end of the day by hand.
Mia's family now could afford to get that new tractor they had needed for so long. So even though most of the town hated shinobi, they gladly took their money. "Are you finished?" The flash asked her. Yoshino blushed she was 16 and her hormones had just really kicked in last summer.
"Yes sorry I just needed to get that out of my system" She mumbled. Yoshino knew her face was beat red about now. "I just don't see the reason I need body guards. I'm not in Konoha or Sun I'm home nobody's going to try to kill me here." She shot at the man. He smiled at her; he had a very nice smile.
"You might think that, but you're father insisted that you have a 3 man squad following you just in case." He told her, his eyes shown with a sympathetic understanding. In response to his sympathy she scrunched up her face.
"So even when I'm out with friends, or out at the grocery store there will be 3 shinobi with me. Why don't you just put me under house arrest for god sake?" She yelled. Yoshino hated being followed she found it annoying. And any way's Mia's 17th birth day was coming up. How was she supposed to have fun and do all the sleep over stuff if she new somebody was watching her.
"Well that would be rude." He was faltering under her intense gaze.
"So having me followed instead! Yeah that isn't creepy!" She screamed. "When will I be meeting my stalkers?" She asked coldly folding her arms.
"They are getting here tomorrow afternoon," The blond ninja said. "Oh look at the time I got to go." He rushed looking at his bare wrist. In response Yoshino glared at him, he just gave a nervous giggle and got out of the room as fast as possible.
Well she had until tomorrow to be free. So Yoshino went down to her friends Cho's restraint. It was crowded with all different types of people. Cho's older brother Zack was waiting on a couple of table's Relief flowed through his eyes as he saw her.
"You are alive! That's great cause we need help in the back of the restraint Cho's been cooking all day." Zack told her throwing her an apron. That was all she needed to hear for after that Yoshino rushed to the back of the kitchen. Cho was shredding some cheese franticly.
"We are supposed to have all of Mia's family over today for dinner plus a party of 16!" She breathed stopping to talk to Yoshino. That was 31 people but all of Mia's 12 brothers ate for at least 2. "We need 12 pounds of carrots cut snap!" Yoshino smiled at her. Cho was the quietest girl you would ever meat Polite and very selfless. The only time you would ever see the bossy side of her was in her family's kitchen where she was the head cook.
Cho looked an absolute mess. Her short brown hair was covered in flower and her clothes were all messy covered in different types of food substances. But Cho's eyes were alive, and her smile was to ear to ear as she started mixing something in a bowl. Yoshino had never seen her look so pretty before to be absolutely honest.
Yoshino spent the rest of the day in Cho's family kitchen cutting this and that. Shredding more cheese then the dark haired girl had ever felt possible. At about 6:00 Mia's family arrived. They had all bean exhausted by the day's work and were hungry. Mia stopped behind the back to say high.
Mai was an incredibly pretty girl with blond wavy hair and a smile that would make the most evil man feel happy. She was very mischievous and had an incredibly sense of humor. She was the youngest of 13 and was the only girl. So all her older brothers spoiled her and she loved every minute of it. Mai was the mouth of their little group always being the one to speak up. Yoshino would speak up sometimes but only when she was angry. She was defiantly the brains of the group. Yoshino was the one to come up with the ideas. Cho was the heart; she was the compassionate one that always made sure they never went too far.
Cho and Yoshino decided to eat with Mia's family and it was a great little get together. Yoshino even forgot that she was going to be followed everywhere after today. The party of 16 came, they were all shinobi. Everyone else in the bar had become silent. Even Joe Mai's loudmouth of a brother shut up to size them up. Every one of them except one was a Suna ninja. The exception was her father.
"Dad!" She said as she saw him walk in with the ninja's. He looked startled to see her but his eyes lit up with joy soon after. He walked over to her and hugged her.
"Yoshino what are you doing here?" He chuckled letting her go.
"O just helping Cho out, everything's been so busy" She said.
"Tell me about it I have never been so rushed in my life." Yasuo eyes were shinning at her. He was a pleasant man who always wore a plaid shirt and overalls. A straw farmers hat usually sat on top of his head and some hey usually was stuck out of his mouth. She smiled at her father. It had been so hard for her never getting to see him. Unlike her friends she was an only child. Her mother had died in childbirth giving birth to her, and her father never remarried. So it was just her and him usually.
"We haven't played a game of shoji in forever."
"We should do that shouldn't we?" He asked scratching his head in concentration. "I'm Sorry Yoshino I've been so busy."
"That's all right dad I get it, with all this stuff going on" she sighed. Suddenly Yasuo released he had been ignoring the ninjas.
"Oh hello everyone this is my daughter Yoshino." He told the crowd looking at him. All the Suna ninja's nodded their heads in greetings. The most important looking man there was eyeing her up. It made Yoshino feel nervous.
"I'm going to go back to my friend's dad." She told him hugging him one more time before leaving his sides.
"Have fun Sweat heart" He told her. Sitting down and starting a discussion with a woman that was very beautiful. Yoshino caught her breath that was Chiyma she had herd of the women's beauty. But it didn't do this women justice.
"Is that Chiyma?" Mia whispered in her ear. All Yoshino did was nod in agreement. "Wow she's, stunning"
"I think she's married." Yoshino whispered to Mia, "You should go tell your brothers that before one of them make an ass of him." Mia nodded in agreement and whispered something into her Brother Leon's ear. The he nodded and passed it to the next brother the news went around the table in a whispered urgency. Until of course it reached Joe, who was the loud mouth of the family. He just found out the news and yelled DAMMIT. In response Mia yelled at him.
"Shut up idiot and eat your food!" She scolded her older brother.
"Don't call me an idiot!" Joe fumed. Finally after a couple of rather rude comments Adam stepped in. He was the eldest and the most level headed of any of them.
"Joe, you're an idiot, get over it. And Mia you're a young lady you shouldn't be yelling at people like that" he scolded. Joe scrunched his face in indignation and Mia stuck out her tong at him. Right then Cho came from behind the counter caring a big trays filled with all different types of pie.
"Ok I've got everyone's favorite!" She chirped setting down the huge tray she had in her hands. She started with the eldest and worked down. "For Mr. and Ms. Dunham we have Lovebirds pie. Adam, I've got your harvest pie, Benjamin Lila's fantasy pie, Colton a Horse pie, Daniel his own Daniel delight pie, Earnest drummers pie, Frankincense tuna on the side pie,"
Cho was stopped by a angry yell, "It's frank!" Everyone laughed at his comments and Cho continued.
"George bass pie, Herald your strudel pie, Ian I don't want your baby pie, Joe of course your cow pie, Kelso your guitar pie, last but defiantly not least we have Leon's oh sweet baby pie!" Cho said in satisfaction with herself. She then hurried over to were her two best friends were sitting.
"You haven't eaten today have you Cho!" Mia accused the mouse brown. Cho blushed.
"I've been busy, I didn't have time" Cho mumbeled. In angry exhaustion Mia pulled Cho down to the seat next to her and put a plate of food in front of her.
"Eat!" Mia ordered. She then turned accusingly to Yoshino "You were with her all day and you didn't notice that she hadn't eaten a thing!"
Unlike Cho Yoshino wasn't a pushover. "Well Mia I was working hard helping her prepare for your fat ass family!" She shot back. Mia pursed her lips her eyes in a scowl.
"Please don't fight over this," Breathed Cho. The two stopped fighting immediately.
"Sorry Cho," They said in unison. After a couple of minuets eating Mia said something.
"We should have a sleep over!" She insisted.
"WE can't have it at my house my dad needs his sleep." Yoshino admitted
"Well my parents don't like sleep over much," Cho breathed.
"We all know what happened last time we had one of those things at my house." Mia stated, all of them remembered that last time they had went to Mia's house it had resulted in lots of food thrown around everywhere.
"Well I could ask my parents I guess." Cho admitted. Yoshino and Mia hugged their shy friend.
"We have to one before I have 3 personal stalkers following me around everywhere." Yoshino told the girls. They looked at her quizzically she told them about the body guards coming tomorrow.
"Well that settles it we are going to have a sleep over tonight!" Mia declared. All the girls giggled and separated to ask their parents.
"Daddy?" She asked sheepishly as she stepped towards her father. She put her hands around his neck.
"Yes you can go to Cho's for a sleep over." He sighed before she even asked the question.
Yoshino squealed and hugged her father "Thanks you!" She kissed him on the cheek and hurried off. Cho and Mia were waiting for her at the door.
"I'm going home now Zack you have to close up shop!" Cho said.
"Ok Sis, so see you girlz later!" Zack said. With that the three friends walked out of the store.