Ch. 15 The Two Sole Ninja
A familiar face crept up to Gazu's bedside and watched as he slept in his bed. "Wake up Gazu!" they shouted and Gazu jumped out of his bed and hit the floor. Rain laughed at him and pointed at him. "You should have seen your face, it was priceless!"
"What did you do that for Rain?" he shouted angrily at her. "No reason really. I just happen to wake up early this morning and was bored. I didn't feel like waiting for you to wake up, you always sleep in so I decided I would come wake you up." Rain replied.
Gazu angrily got up, grabbed his pillow and cover off the floor and got back in bed where he buried his head under his pillow. He then felt a finger poking him on the shoulder. "Can you fix me breakfast Gazu?" Rain asked innocently. "Why? I'm tired" he grunted. "Please?" she said in a more innocent tone. "No." he replied. "Please?" she insisted. "No, let me sleep." he replied. "Please!" she shouted. "Ugh, fine." Gazu grunted. "Yay! Free breakfast once again!" Rain shouted happily.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." He said sleepily as the two of them headed down to his kitchen so Gazu could make breakfast. Rain sat down at the table and watched Gazu as he cooked. Soon he came out of the kitchen with a large trey of food and they both ate.
"Hey Gazu?" Rain asked. "Yeah?" he replied sleepily. "Can we just take the day off from training and babysitting Dan? Just for today? We can just hang out today and have some fun for once. Things have been up tight since Don died and even though things have cooled down about his death, things had gotten heated up from Dan. So how about it?"
Gazu looked up at her. There was something strange about Rain. Recently he had been happy to see that she wasn't treating him with disrespect, and he had been on his guard the whole time. Now he looked at her and saw someone who was content and somewhat happy. He wasn't sure why she had calmed down since the day they first met, but how could he refuse his best friend.
"Sure. That sounds quite nice. I think we should just take a day to relax. Also don't forget a very important thing Rain." Gazu said. "What is that?" Rain asked curiously. "It's Don's birthday next week. We are going to get Temari and make a trip to Kona to celebrate."
"Oh, right, that's true. It's Don's birthday. We get to party in Konaha like there is no tomorrow, that's going to be awesome!" Rain said. "Heh, yea." Gazu replied. "You know, it's been lonely, just us two." Rain said. "What do you mean?" Gazu asked. "Well, Don was the heart and soul of this squad after all. Without him, we wouldn't be where we are now. He handpicked us. You, from your flunking seat at the academy and me, off the street. Without Don, it's a bit quiet, don't you think?"
"You make a good point. It does seem to be very dark and dreary without him here. I can remember the first time I met him…" he started. "Didn't you two end up getting in a fight that day or something?" Rain interrupted. "Yeah, he shadow possessed me and next thing I knew my head was in the wall. I came to the academy the next day with everyone staring at me like they saw a ghost." He chuckled.
"Somehow, after that day I lost my aggression towards him. It's a common attitude to hate outsiders, and after all Don was an outsider after all." Gazu started. "Yeah, he was a special case. In more ways than one. Becoming one of us in such a short time and handpicking his own squad and giving honor to this village all in the same year." Rain added.
They got up and began to walk around the city. "Hey I have an idea Gazu." Rain said happily. "What is that?" he replied. "Let's have a god old fashioned sparring match. We haven't done that since we trained with Don." Gazu looked at her with delight, "That sounds like fun."
They eventually made it their team's usual training spot and the two of them stood off. "You ready?" Rain asked excitedly. "You bet." Gazu replied. The two of them went at each other and threw everything they had at each other. Eventually the sun set and it became dark. They both fell to ground from exhaustion laughing.
"That was great Gazu, you really have improved yourself."Rain said. "You aren't so bad yourself; it was just like old times." Gazu replied. Just then a loud rumbling disrupted their conversation. "What the hell was that?" Gazu said sitting up. Rain looked at her stomach. "Heh, looks like I'm hungry." She said blushing from embarrassment.
"I'll treat you to dinner, how's that sound." Gazu said. "Really?" Rain said. "Yeah. Let's go." He replied and the two of them went to a restaurant and enjoyed the rest of their evening goofing off and joking around. And the dark figure watched as the two teammates enjoyed their evening.