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Sakura squirmed a little as Kohana pulled and twisted her pink hair. "Sakura for the last time, if you don't stop squirming I'm going to make you look like a damn fool, now stop," Kohana ordered with a perturbed look on her pale face. She knew the pinkette was anxious to see the hair style that her she was hiding from her. A couple more twist's, pulls, pins, 'owws!', and 'sorry's' later Kohana gently forced Sakura to look into the floor length mirror that was in her room.
Sakura gasped at her hair; it was pulled up not letting any of the pieces down, "But my fore-,"
"You look fine," Kohana interrupted before spreading her friend's bangs so they hid most of her forehead, "Besides we don't want to hide your eyes, they're your best element."
Sakura gave Kohana a grateful look before they both headed over to the balcony to look down at Konohagakure which was busy with movement as it prepared for the annual Sakura festival. Sakura spoke excitedly about all the different aspects of the festival while Kohana politely listened watching the city move. It took Sakura three full minutes to notice Kohana's lack of voice in the conversation, "Aren't you happy about the festival Kohana?" she asked watching her friend carefully.
Kohana shrugged, "Not really, I mean if I got to spend the entire day goofing off like you and the other's maybe," she sighed as she leaned her elbows on the balcony's railing, "But no I have to spend the entire festival with my grandfather, brother, and the boring council men and their totally obnoxious wives and sons that serious need to learn the meaning of no." She quickly stood up, "But hey we can still have fun now, come on I'll help with your make-up when I'm done Ino's going to be wiggin' out of fake extensions."
The two laughed as they headed back into Kohana's room to finish getting ready for the festival.
Later
Sarutobi noticed the bored looks on his grandchildren's faces easily; he also noticed the little vein in Kohana's forehead beginning to show a sign she was slowly losing her patience. He could only guess that it was the various Lord's sons that kept coming up to her either trying to flirt slyly or they plainly asked her to dance. Konohamaru looked like he was about to die of boredom. He had never allowed them to leave his sight during the festival but he knew how badly Konohamaru wanted to be with his friends and how Kohana longed to be with hers.
It was with a heavy sigh he called them over, "Kohana, Konohamaru come here."
Obediently both siblings stood as they quickly walked over to their grandfather, "What's up Papa-sama?" Kohana asked an eyebrow rose in question.
He looked down at them with a stern face, "It would appear that you two aren't fully with us here, wouldn't you agree?"
Konohamaru looked at his grandfather in confusion but his older sister nodded so he did too. It was awesome to have a smart older sister!
"Sorry Papa-sama," Kohana said with an apologetic face, "I . . . just have a lot of things on my mind . . . like the upcoming Chunin Exams."
"Yeah," Konohamaru said in a big voice following his sister's lead, "Me too!"
He let out an owe when Kohana's fist met his head, "Retard! You're not even a Genin yet!"
Konohamaru frowned at her, "Well you don't have to hit! Little Blossom!"
Kohana growled the vein in her forehead throbbing full force as she advanced to tackle her annoying little brother; it was her grandfather's voice that made her stop.
"That's it, both of you leave," The two looked at him in confusion not getting what he meant by leaving.
"Uh, Papa-sama?" Kohana asked unsurely her hazel green eyes filled with loads of confusion, was this a test?
Sarutobi flashed them a little smirk before saying again in a rather scolding tone, "I don't want to say it three times, now get out of here."
Kohana smiled brightly finally getting what her grandpa meant, "Oh ok Papa-sama, we're going," she grabbed the still confused Konohamaru by the back of his collar and began pulling him out of the room, "Come on twerp."
Konohamaru growled as HIS vein throbbed, "DON'T CALL ME TWERP, LITTLE BLOSSOM!"
Sarutobi silently chuckled as he heard Kohana's fist bounce off of Konohamaru's head, "DON'T CALL ME LITTLE BLOSSOM!"
"WELL DON'T CALL ME TWERP!"
"WELL DON'T CALL ME LITTLE BLOSSOM!"
With Team Seven
Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke all watched with rather expressionless faces as the festival zoomed around them. Something was off with them tonight, like there was missing a piece. They all knew that piece was a mouthy, slightly air headed, strawberry blonde.
"Hey Naruto, where's Kohana?" Kiba asked with a sly grin, "I wanted to ask her to dance . . . and make sure she was with me at midnight."
Sasuke glared daggers at the Inuzuka clan member for even thinking of touching Kohana let alone kissing her . . . but wait why should he care? Sure Kohana was his friend, but he didn't like her like that . . . did he?
No way.
"Hey Naruto where's Kohana?" another boy asked with a sly smirk on his face too, "I wanted to ask her to dance."
No he didn't but, damnit he didn't like this.
"SASUKE-KUN!" Ino squealed running up to him with a big smile on her face, "Do you wanna dance?"
He stared at her coldly before looking away, "No."
Sakura smirked at the crestfallen look on her arch enemies face, 'Serves you right!' the inner Sakura cheered.
Ten-Ten rolled her eyes at the blonde as she and Hinata came up to Sakura, "Hey have you seen Kohana-chan?"
Sakura shook her head, "She told me she had to spend the night with her grandfather, and she seemed really depressed about it."
Naruto huffed, "Hana-chan always has to spend the entire festival with her grandpa. It's not fair!"
Sasuke couldn't help but agree with the knucklehead but of course it was only in his head. He had a feeling that if Kohana were here the whole night would be a little bit more tolerable. Especially being surrounded by people, people that wanted to . . . talk.
"What's not fair?" a familiar and highly missed voice asked with a little giggle, making everyone turn to see Kohana smirking at the like the Cheshire cat at Alice.
"KOHANA-CHAN," Kohana quickly found herself in the middle of a giant hug consisting of Naruto, Sakura, Ten-Ten, Hinata, Rock Lee, and Kiba.
"Uggh . . . I can't . . . breathe," she gasped trying to struggle out of their grasp, "Oxygen! Need oxygen to survive!"
Being the only one who heard her Sasuke grabbed her by her wrist pulling her out of the middle of it to hold her tightly to his chest glaring at them all. Kohana's pale face went a deep scarlet color as she mumbled her thanks before reluctantly pulling away. She had never noticed how good Sasuke smelt.
"So how'd you get away?" Sakura asked noticing the look on Kohana's face, 'Does Kohana like Sasuke-kun?'
"Uh I really don't know," Kohana answered truthfully pulling on her ear a little trying to make it stop burning, one of the many signs of her embarrassment, "Grandpa just told me and Konohamaru to go and we did."
Naruto looked around a little, "Where is the little twerp?" he asked before Kohana slapped the back of his head (Gibbs NCIS, bloody brilliant).
"Only I can call him that," she said glaring at her blonde friend before answering his question, "We ran into Moegi and Udon, so he's running around with them somewhere."
Before anyone could say anything else Kenji suddenly wrapped an arm around her shoulder, "So Hana-chan, wanna dance?"
Once again Kohana's face went a deep red, "Uh, I'll pass but thanks for the offer," she declined wiggling out of his embrace to join her friends.
Sasuke glared at his former classmate along with Naruto who was not to pleased with someone calling Kohana 'Hana-chan', so it's needless to say they both kept an extra eye on Kohana who chose to simply hang out with Ten-Ten, Hinata, and Sakura talking about girl stuff. It was when Naruto was talking to Hinata about something Kohana 'accidentally' tripped making the two fall with Hinata on top of Naruto.
Of course the Hyguua's face went as red as red could before apologizing profusely as she hurriedly stood up getting as far from Naruto as she possibly could making Kohana silently fume, it was going to take a lot more to get those two together. After her failed attempt she sat by Shikamaru joining in on his game of 'make fun of people'. She didn't know why but every once in a while, her eyes would travel to Sasuke who was ignoring the multiple attempts of flirting that numerous girls were attempting at.
Unbeknownst to her, Sasuke was also watching her too, noticing every guy that came up to Kohana to ask to dance or try to woo her in some stupid attempts. He didn't know why he felt so angry every time someone talked to her but he did.
And unknowing to both of them Sakura was watching them watching each other. It broke her heart knowing that Sasuke really liked Kohana and though she wouldn't admit it Kohana liked Sasuke too. It was obvious in the way they talked (or not talked when it came to Sasuke) and joked around. And really Sasuke was actually smiling and interacting with others at least when Kohana was around. It was with a heavy heart that Sakura let go of Sasuke, she loved him so much that really it was only his true happiness that she wanted to see and if anyone could ever make him really happy it was Kohana.
Just as she was about to convince Kohana to ask Sasuke to dance Ino 'tripped' by Sasuke flinging her arms around his neck to catch herself. To keep from falling Sasuke instinctively wrapped his arms around Ino's waist keeping them both from falling.
"Opps," Ino giggled girlishly, "Clumsy me!"
Sakura glared daggers at the blonde knowing damn well she would never accidentally trip around Sasuke out of fear of embarrassing herself. Ino sent a smirk at Sakura making the pinkette fume even more. Ino was still very unhappy about the fact that her former best friends had suddenly buddied up and she knew Kohana well enough to see she really liked Sasuke-kun.
Sasuke frowned at the blonde as he quickly removed himself from her grasp, only to notice Kohana had disappeared from her earlier spot. With a deeper frown he headed over to Shikamaru who was absent-mindedly looking up at the stars, "Where's Kohana?" he asked.
Shikamaru looked at him before looking over at his right where Kohana had been, "Huh, didn't notice that," he mused to himself before looking up at he Uchiha, "I got no clue." He answered truthfully.
With a deeper frown Sasuke headed off to find Kohana wherever the hell she was.
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Kohana swung her legs back and forth over the edge of an abandoned building as she lay on her back gazing at the twinkling stars above her head.
She could still hear the festival in all its glory and if she sat up she could see it too. She didn't know why she had to leave her friends. She knew they'd all be worried about her, but she just needed some alone time. She didn't like the sight of Ino being held in Sasuke's arms for some reason. It made her want to puke her guts out.
But it wasn't like she liked Sasuke like that. The two had grown to be close friends after their first mission. They both liked each other's silent company and the silent understanding that they had between them. But she so did not have a crush on him.
SHE
WAS
NOT
A
FANGIRL!
Just thinking of the word 'fangirl' made Kohana's urge to puke even stronger. She still wasn't use to the pack that constantly followed Sasuke around. They were so friggin annoying! She was surprised that he hadn't snapped and went on a mass killing spree years ago.
She knew she would have.
"Wonder what he's doing right now," She thought out loud to no one in particular.
"Who?" A familiar voice asked making her sit up.
Sasuke joined her side with a curious look on his face.
"What?" she asked innocently.
"What you just said?"
"Huh?"
"Wonder what he's doing right now?"
"Who are we talking about?"
Sasuke glared at the amused smirk on her face. Whatever, let Kohana keep her secret.
The two set in silence for a while listening to the sound of the festival hummed under her breath as she played with the sleeve of her kimono.
"Why'd you leave like that?" he suddenly asked, "Everyone was wondering where you went."
"I don't like crowds a whole lot so I just came up here to get away," She was glad it was dark or Sasuke would have had the pleasure of seeing a deep blush spread over her face like a wildfire to a prairie.
Unknown to her Sasuke could actually see her blush. He found it rather amusing just as she thought he would, but he also found it…cute.
"Do you want to dance?"
Kohana gave him a strange look, "Do you have a hearing problem Sasuke?" she asked sarcastically, "I don't like crowds and I'd have to be smack dab in the middle of a crowd to dance."
Sasuke sighed in annoyance, "Shut up and stand up."
Kohana glared at him but reluctantly took his hand as he helped her up. She was a little surprised when he suddenly grabbed her by the waist pulling her against him.
"What the hell do you think your doing Sasuke?" she asked trying to keep the quiver out of her voice. She was positive that at this close of a distance he could feel her blush let alone see it.
"I'm going to dance with you," he said like it was the most natural thing in the world for his arm to be around her waist holding her securely against him. A slow song started so the two simply swayed in each other's arms. Somewhere along the line Kohana had rested her head against Sasuke's shoulder. Even when the song ended and a faster song began the two just kept swaying following a song that only they could hear.
They only pulled away when they noticed the Festival was ending and everyone was going home.
"I'd better get home," She stated not making any attempts to escape Sasuke's grasp, "Papa and Konohamaru will start worrying about me."
Sasuke didn't say anything as he stared into her hazel green eyes, keeping his hold on her just as secure as earlier keeping her from moving away. Not that she was really trying.
Slowly ever so slowly he leaned down getting closer to her face. Kohana could hear her heart beating frantically. Her heart kept pounding until their lips connected in a soft chaste kiss; then it stopped beating period. It soon changed when his tongue snuck out and licked her bottom lip begging for entrance.
Kohana giggled at the feel before she opened her mouth allowing him to explore her mouth. She ran her fingers through his inky black hair as they kissed making Sasuke groan at the sensation.
"KOHANA!" a voice yelled from somewhere in the streets making both pull apart.
'I'm so going to kill Konohamaru when I get my hands on him.' They both thought.
"Come on," Sasuke said pulling her along, "Let's go before they send out a search party."
Kohana smiled as she allowed Sasuke to pull her along. Even in the streets, they kept their hands interlocked ignoring the stares of the people around them.
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