Hey y'all! I am back with yet another installation of "It's Only High School After All"! And I am excited. Yes, I am thoroughly excited. Why, you ask? Because I had a totally AWESOMESAUCE idea for this chapter, that's why! And you all will have to read it to figure out what it is!
Disclaimer: I… don't… own… Naruto….
I walked with Kankuro, Temari, and Naruto out to the parking lot. While I waited for Anko, the brother and sister waited for Gaara, and Naruto waited for Sakura, who he was walking home with.
Gaara eventually showed up, and I noticed his hair was a shade darker than Sasori's. He stared at me when he first arrived, and we stood there somewhat awkwardly until Naruto piped up and saved me, once again.
"Hey, Gaara! This is Kai, the new student! She's really cool!" I blushed a little at his praise and Gaara smiled very faintly at his antics.
"Hi! As he said, I'm Kai. It's nice to meet you."
"Likewise." His voice held a deep timbre to it, and it seemed to suit him perfectly. I noticed something I hadn't in Geometry. He was wearing very thick eyeliner. And unlike Pedo-sensei, it looked awesome on him. I don't think anyone would dare make fun of his guyliner. He looked like he could kick anyone's butt in a fight.
"Uh, this is gonna sound really weird…. but can I hug you?" I asked. I couldn't help it, he looked so cute. In a glaring kitten kind of way. You know, like when you gush about how cute a kitty looks, and it just glares at you like "touch me and I claw your face off, you stupid human"? Yeah, that kind of cute.
He said nothing for a minute, just stared at me with a "wtf?" look on his face. I pouted a little and looked up at him through my eyelashes, giving my best puppy face. He sighed and held out his arms, giving me all the permission I needed.
"Yay!" I hugged him and giggled a little before letting go, not wanting to make him uncomfortable.
"Hey, can I get a hug too?" Kankuro asked, looking a little envious.
"Nope!" I giggled. He gaped before starting to chase me around the sidewalk.
"If you won't give me a hug, I shall have to steal one!" He exclaimed. He continued to chase me around, weaving in and out of the students headed to their cars. Temari and Gaara looked bemused, while Naruto snickered. Sakura joined them while he was chasing me and stared at us just like Gaara and Temari were.
Kankuro finally caught up with me and grabbed me around the waist and swung me around in a circle. "Kankuro, noooo! Stop!" I giggled, "I'm getting dizzy!" He laughed maniacally until Anko came out of the school and looked at us strange. He immediately released me. An awkward silence descended once again.
"Well, looks like its time for us to head out, huh Sakura?" Naruto broke in, once again my savior.
"Yup, let's go!" She grabbed his arm and dragged him away.
"C'mon Kankuro, Gaara and I are ready to leave!" Temari called, and they headed over to a red Mustang GT convertible. Temari hopped in the driver seat and lowered the roof while Gaara got in the passenger side door. Kankuro forwent the door and just hopped over the side into the back.
Anko and I headed over to her car in silence. Once in, she broke the tension with ease.
"So you did make friends. Great! That means I can give you my idea."
"I told you I made friends! Anyways, what's your idea?"
"Well, since your new here, I figured a great way to get closer to the people you met today would be…." She trailed off, attempting to leave me in suspense. It worked.
"Would be to….?" I encouraged. Geez, why couldn't she just tell me?
"…Would be to throw a party! Invite whoever you want! We can have it this Friday. It's Tuesday, so they'll have enough time to get permission, and we'll have plenty of time to plan it. Since it's always warm and sunny here in Konoha, you guys could use the pool!" That's right, Aunt Anko has a pool. It's an above-ground pool that she built a deck around. I think she said she got the pool for like $800 on Craig's List… It's nothing extremely fancy, only four or five feet deep, but it's big. We're not rich, but since she lived alone for so long, she had money to spare on a small luxury.
"Seriously? You're not messing with me right?" I gaped at her wide-eyed.
"Sure, why not? This'll be fun!" She chuckled.
I waited till we were home and out of the car to glomp her. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I squealed.
"Okay, okay, do you have any homework?" She asked, prying me off of her.
"Nope!"
"Then, go do whatever it is you feel you need to do to plan this thing. Then show me your plans, so I can decide how extreme some of them are and which to nix."
I giggled, knowing she was only partly serious. Then I ran upstairs to write the guest list. Those I planned on inviting were: The entire Akatsuki (even the girl I had yet to meet), Naruto, Sakura, Sai, Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, Neji, TenTen, Lee, Kankuro, Gaara, and Temari. And, once I thought about it a little, I decided to invite Sasuke. I really needed to improve my standing with him.
I would bring my IPod down and hook it up to the outdoor speakers Anko had. My IPod was my life. It had all kinds of music on it, from Avenged Sevenfold to Flo Rida to Cotton Eyed Joe to Lady Gaga. So no matter what, I should've been all right with music.
For food, I could ask Aunt Anko to order a few pizzas, then we could go out and buy some sodas and chips and stuff. I would make brownies and cupcakes. And of course, there had to be dango. And pocky. If there's one thing I like as much as dango, it's pocky. We could set up a table outside and leave the food buffet style. I checked the weather forecast on my small TV in my room. Good, it should be nice. The party could go all night, moving inside when it got too late, and if they wanted to go home early, they could. If not, they could crash in the living room or the basement which had been redone into basically a second living room, except that's where we had the video games and the pool table (which she also got from Craig's List, for $250). Like I said, she wasn't rich, but living alone had its perks. I had brought a bunch of things with me from my old house after my dad died. He used to let me host the cast parties for my old school's drama club, so as time went by, I accumulated a lot of things to make parties more fun. I had a bunch of really weird lights, one of which looked like "Barney on acid" as one of my old friends put it. It was purple and green and it moved like a lava lamp, but it hung on the wall. I had a strobe light and a mini disco ball which Anko let me hang from the ceiling of the basement. There was lots of room down there, so we could do just about anything.
Speaking of drama club, I wondered if Konoha High had one. I'd ask Anko sometime.
She called me down for dinner and I took my outline of plans with me to run them by her.
As we sat feasting on soba and miso soup, I showed her the ideas and the guest list.
"All night? I don't know, Kai… I might not be able to stay awake that long. I'm not as young as I used to be." I could see that she was joking. Her eyes twinkled and gave away the fact that she liked the idea.
"You're only 35! And besided, we could make lots of coffee to help you stay awake. C'mon, it'll be fuuuuuuuuun!" I said the last bit in a sing-song voice. She laughed and gave in.
"Are you sure about the guest list? Do you really want to invite the Akatsuki? They're troublemakers."
"Yes, I'm sure I want to invite them. They were all really nice to me today, even Hidan."
She sighed. "Alright, I'll trust your judgment on this. But if any of them cause any issues, they're out, got it?" I nodded vigorously. "This party will be one hundred percent supervised, and there will be no alcohol. I'll help you make the invitations, if you'd like." I paused, my mouth full of soba noodles, then shook my head and swallowed.
"No thank you oba-chan. Invitations seem a little... formal. For something like a birthday or Halloween party. This party's gonna stay really casual and cool. Plus, if anyone needs to ask me anything outside of school, I can just give them our number."
"Alright. Whatever you say, hon." I grinned at the last part. She really wasn't that bad.
And that's a wrap! Now that her first day is done, I am not going to write a chapter for every class or two she has in a day, because that would get boring fast. I will write about the important stuff. The previous chapters were just so you guys could get an idea about her schedule and meet the important people. Once again, review, vote, and check out my profile and give me some feedback on the ideas I have up there for other stories, PLEASE! I'll probably close the poll soon, so hurry up and vote so you can get your say in who she ends up with!
Oh yeah, I'll be going on vacation soon, so might not be able to update for the next few weeks... sorry for any inconvenience.