Enjoy! I'm back, too! (:
But I don't know where I'm back from! :P

Later, Sasuke and I ran in to Gaara and Aiko. We were both walking around the mall, just looking for a place that we would want to go to.

"Keiko!" Aiko exclaimed as Sasuke and Gaara nodded to each other in their guyish ways (or was it ninja ways?)

"Aiko!" I greeted back with the same amount of enthusiasm, "Did you guys get anything?"

"Gaara got some clothes." Aiko shrugged, "But nothing right now."

"Same. Sasuke had a tomato before." I motioned to Sasuke, "And thus the bag of tomatoes." I said as I saw her glance weirdly at the bag.

Aiko and I began walking side by side, the two guys following behind, talking from time to time.

"Gaara wants to go to the beach because of the sand." Aiko sweat dropped, "He saw a poster of it on one of the stores."

"Sasuke and I ran in to Jun." I stated randomly, "I don't think they like each other."

"Well duh, Jun likes you. If he sees you with another guy then of course he's going to be all, 'Shit's going down tonight'." Aiko said.

"But Sasuke and I aren't even-"

"But he's freaking hot!" Aiko said, "Even a guy can respect another guy's beauty."

I stared at her, "That's creepy."

She faked a gasp, "You're the creepy one!"

I laughed, "But I had a pretty good time. Do you know where the other four are?"

"Do you want to leave now?" Aiko asked, surprised a bit.

"Nah, just go as a group. Be cool." I grinned.

She shrugged and took her phone out and called Natsumi and Natsuko.

Gaara and Sasuke stared at her phone curiously, "What's that?"

"It contacts people." I said.

"Like a bird?" Sasuke asked.

I laughed, even though I knew he was being serious, "Yeah, I guess."

He frowned a bit, "Why are you laughing?"

"We just don't use birds anymore." I said casually, "Well, I've never sent a message by bird... Maybe by a tweet, though." I laughed at my lame joke.

Aiko stared at me in horror, "You didn't just make that bad joke."

I shrugged, "You're just jealous cause I'm funny."

Aiko grinned as the two ninjas followed us, confused.

HAPPY-CHAN

Then, later, we were able to meet with the other four.

Naruto and Natsuko had grown surprisingly close in the short amount of time.

They were always talking animatedly to each other.

"So where are we going now?" Natsumi asked suddenly as we finished our chatter.

"Uh... Eat?" I asked.

My friends looked to me and I shrugged, "What? I'm a growing girl!"

"I could go for food..." Sasuke said as if in thought.

"Ramen! Ramen! Ramen! Ra-"

"No, Naruto." I cut him off, "Just no."

He dropped his head in defeat.

"Ooh!" Aiko exclaimed, "Let's go get desserts!"

"Problem!" I exclaimed, "Sasuke doesn't like sweet foods!"

My friends shook their heads at him in disappointment.

"Maybe we should-"

"Hey!" It was a voice that was familiar.

We turned and saw Jun, Daisuke, Kou and Hiro.

Daisuke was grinning as he jogged to us, the others following in a walk.

"Hey!" He said again, "Who're these guys?" He motioned to the ninjas.

"Friends." I said with a grin to him.

He grinned back, "Keiko!"

The other three came over and it was obvious that Jun was glaring at Sasuke.

"Hey ladies." Kou said smoothly as he rested his arm on my shoulder.

I elbowed him in the stomach.

"Keiko. It is with pleasure that we were able to encounter you again." Hiro said to me.

I laughed, "Hey."

"And who're these guys?- minus the jerk over there." Sasuke pointed to Jun as he mentioned a jerk.

Kou laughed, "Wow. He's psychic. Where'd you pick him up from, again?"

Jun frowned, "I'm not the one holding a bag of tomatoes and making myself look weird."

"Yeah?" Sasuke asked, taking a step closer. "Well," He paused before smirking. "Your hair sucks."

I laughed, obviously thinking that it was some sort of stupid act until Jun gasped and brought his hands up to his dirty blonde hair.

"At least I'm not inspired by chicken." Jun said back nodded up to Sasuke's pointed hair.

I blurted out a laugh before going to the two, "Okay, okay. Settle down." I had another laugh.

"Yeah." Aiko trailed off, "That was really weird."

"Could we just - I dunno, sit down?" Natsumi asked all of us.

We agreed to all sit down somewhere. We had to join up three square tables.

And then we sat awakrdly, waiting for someone to bring up conversation.