Megami:First!
Ukime: Screw your pooch!
Megami: I have cats remember?
Gaara: Your forgetting Kaiya.
Ukime: BWAHAHA!
Megami:Damn...
Neji: Failure on Megami's part.
Megami: Well Ukime can't screw Kaiya cause Toumoku does that.
Ukime: Eww... Naughty Toumoku... That's disgusting... XP
Gaara: But Husky-wolf mixes are pretty. And where Megami did own one of them neither she nor Ukime own Naruto.
Megami: *pouts* I also don't own the husky-wolf anymore...
Ukime: Sadness.
Gaara: She can't be too sad, she owns a necklace of his ashes.
Megami: That I do...
Neji: Alright. Let's stop being depressing and let them read.
Chapter 13- Two Letters
Ino returned to her room, dazed and not confused. Her kiss with Gaara had blown her mind. She could feel her lips were still a little swollen from it. As she entered her room after midnight she wanted to collapse on the bed, but sensed Tenten was still awake as well.
"Watcha doin." She whispered. The other girl turned to Ino and the two faced each other across the mess of their room.
"Thinkin." Tenten whispered back. Ino nodded.
"About Neji?" She asked. Tenten nodded.
"The kiss. I know I liked it, I deepened it of course. But why?" Tenten mused flipping to look at the ceiling. Ino flipped as well.
"Gaara almost kissed me yesterday morning. When I was passed out from power exhaustion, I woke up and he was in the room. He leaned over me and we would've kissed if not for Kakashi walking in. Then a little while ago he kissed me. Over and over again. Then he took me onto the roof to look at the night sky. It was romantic, the most anyone has ever been to me." Ino said wistfully. Tenten sighed.
"Do you think when Neji and I, well if we get together, he'll be that romantic." Tenten asked, a wishful tone in her voice as well. Ino was quiet for a while.
"Maybe." She said. Tenten stayed quiet. Both girls drifted off after a few moments of peace and both were awakened by the musical styling of Ino's phone once again. She saw it was 6:00, regular wake up time, but who calls at six in the morning. She listened to the ring tone for a few seconds, it sounded like Naruto's "I love Rock and Roll" Brittany Spears version. She flipped it open and was met with a fan girl squeal to rival hers, which was pretty amazing.
"Might I ask why you are particualarly happy?" She said. Naruto took a breath before answering.
"Sasuke!" He all but shouted. Ino raised an eyebrow.
"He confessed?" She questioned.
"You knew!" Naruto accused. Ino glared at Tenten as she took the bathroom and then pouted.
"Yes. Of course I did." Ino said. Naruto moved from where he was.
"Oops, I woke up Sasuke." He said. Ino raised her other eyebrow.
"Please tell me you weren't in his bed." She said. Naruto gave a sheepish laugh.
"Um. Then I wont tell you that." He said. Ino face palmed.
"I have to go. Tenten is going to use all my hot water." She said and clicked the phone shut. Predictably as soon as the call was ended she heard Sasuke starting an argument with Naruto on the other side of the wall. So much for a peaceful morning. She collected her clothes and decided to wait in the bathroom for Tenten to finish, so she walked in and sat on the toilet to wait.
Ah, hot water. It was Tenten's best friend. Especially early in the morning. After a bit, she wrapped herself in a towel while still in the shower and hopped out. She scampered into the 'living room' and changed as Ino hopped in the shower. She was changed and gathering her supplies when there was a knock on the door. She got up and opened it. Neji was standing there, Gaara in the background. Tenten noticed something that made her wonder.
"How is it that you're always in front when I answer the door, but Gaara's always in front when Ino answers?" She crossed her arms and leaned on the door frame. Neji and Gaara exchanged a look, shrugged, and turned back.
"Lucky guess, I suppose." Neji responded. Tenten opened the door wider and let the boys in. Ino emerged from the steamy bathroom moments later, the towel wrapped around her head.
"Early, huh?" She asked, toweling her wet hair.
"No, you're late." Gaara said. She whipped him in the face with her blonde hair, making a loud SLAP! Secretly, Tenten believed he liked it. She shivered at the thought and sat on her bed. Neji sat next to her, watching her pack.
"What is your schedule for the day?" He asked nonchalantly. Tenten pulled out her little schedule and looked at it.
"Geometry, bleh. Something called Intro to Metal Bending, hmm. A study hall, eh. And English." Their school time was split into two days; red and purple. Today was a purple day. He nodded. "What about you?"
"Biology, Energy Manipulation, Study Hall, and World Studies." She nodded, looking around the room.
"Ready to go and NOT be kicked out?" Ino asked. Tenten laughed and nodded. Neji got up and the four left the room.
The group was off to get food at the cafe. Gaara finally wiped the wet smudge off his face from Ino's hair, she just giggled. He put his arm around her and brought her into his side. She leaned into the touch, loving the feeling. They both sensed teh awkward post kiss mood with Neji and Tenten. It wasn't like before when they liked each other and didn't know what to do, now it was "I know I like you and you like me, where do we go from here?" atmosphere. Like they didn't know whether to date or stay friends. Gaara heard Ino sigh and sensed her thoughts, she was wondering how she became friends with the most awkward people on the planet. They took their usual window seats, Ino and Tenten on the inside today. This morning a different waiter appeared. He had large lines in his face and looked quite somber. Ino raised an eyebrow but kept her thoughts to herself, and Gaara by default. They ordered quickly, knowing they had been a little late. No one wanted to spend much time in the cafe anyway, they could sense tension building between two people in a corner, and not the good kind. Ino was surprisingly quiet, still thinking about what had happened last night, with Sasuke not Gaara. If she thought about what happened with Gaara she would turn bright red and she didn't want that. Not with her awkward friends across the table, Neji would tease her to death if she blushed, she could tell. Breakfast was pretty quiet, with Tenten and Ino both thinking. The boys were slightly afraid of the girls bursting a brain vessel with all the thinking they were doing. After they finished the guys took the girls to Geometry and then went to their own classes. Gaara sat in his class and attempted to pay attention but the thought of Ino being somewhere else in her thoughts, somewhere he wasn't allowed irked him. She could still keep secrets, even with the link.
Neji sat in his biology class, snickering and watching Gaara. Gaara was brooding and slinking down in his seat, considering Matsuri was sitting next to him. She was babbling about unimportant matters and blushing up a storm. Neji could practically see Gaara's evil mind working, picturing Matsuri dead in a manner of ways. On the railroad tracks, in a ditch, a limb hanging out of a shark's jaws. Neji smirked to himself and looked away, listening to a man with blue skin and beady, black eyes. Neji nudged Gaara (HA!) and pointed at the man.
"Isn't that the waiter that got us kicked out the other day?" Gaara studied him and nodded a moment later.
"You were kicked out of the cafe?" Matsuri asked, leaning on her hands and staring dreamily at Gaara.
"Yes, Matsuri. We were kicked out of the cafe." Gaara said, rubbing his temples.
"Why?" She leaned a little closer.
"Matsuri, I swear to God, if you don't get away from me, I will end you." She looked wide eyed and frightened. She quickly gathered her things and stood up.
"Well then, Gaara." Neji said, looking at Matsuri. Matsuri put her stuff down next to him, hiding her face with her hair. Neji could practically see her sweatdrop. He chuckled to himself and looked at Gaara.
"She's going to stalk you now, you know..." Gaara said quietly. Neji rolled his eyes.
"Of course she is. How do you figure?"
"She had the biggest crush on Kankuro until he told her off, then she moved on to me. I was the closest male in the room." Neji rolled his eyes and looked back at the blue man. He was giving Gaara a strange look. Gaara noticed and raised a non-existent eyebrow. The teacher, Kisame, shook his head and wrote something else on the board.
"So, uh..." Matsuri said, her voice small and weak. It reminded Neji of Hinata. Ehh. "How did you guys get kicked out?" She asked.
"Gaara's girlfriend is crazy." Matsuri's face flushed bright red and she mumbled something that sounded like 'You're not his girlfriend?'
"Excuse me?" Neji asked.
"What?" Matsuri turned to him.
"The answer to that is no." Neji said. 'Great, now strangers think I'm a woman.' He sighed, looking at Gaara. Gaara looked horrified.
"What is your problem? You look like a raccoon." Neji said.
"Her face... You're screwed." Neji shook his head.
"How on Earth do you figure?" Gaara nodded towards Matsuri.
"Look at her face." Neji looked and saw the girl smirking, only her mouth visible behind her hair.
"So? She's smirking."
"That's her 'I found a new target' face." Gaara mumbled. Neji sighed at his best friend.
"You're so paranoid." Neji said, glancing at Matsuri. She was writing something in her notebook. Out of curiosity, Neji snuck a peek. He saw two letters. "Dammit..."
"I'm not paranoid, you're just stupid." Gaara said. Neji glared and looked back at Matsuri's notebook.
N.H.
Ukime: Suck that, biznitches! I have yet again started my winning streak.
Neji: And yet again, she is going to lose it.
Megami: I've had to fix the alignment three times tonight!
Ukime: My computer is the spawn of Satan. I'm sorry!
Gaara: It's really fine she just hates it looking off, it's one of her twitches.
Megami:Ukime twitched at lunch today. She was listing things she was to me and randomly her eye twitched.
Ukime: I remember! I was like "Sister, wife, AU Best Friend, *twitch* What the Hell? XD
Neji: Then everyone kept pointing out that your eye twitched and you looked mental.
Megami:No they didn't that's what you do!
Neji: Very true. But they did start pointing out that her eye twitched. I called her a mental patient.
Megami: My eye twitches sometimes.
Gaara:...no it doesn't your entire body twitches, you fricking spaz and I end up getting hit. I also get hit when you sneeze violently.
Ukime: I get slapped in the nipple. That fricken hurts!
Neji: *snicker*
Megami: It's not like I mean tooo!
Ukime: Review, or she'll slap you in the nipple and sneeze violently on you!
Gaara:...ew...