Just a little something fun and silly.
Why chocolate penguins? I got a box of them from my friend, who bought them from some Girl Scouts. They're minty on the inside :) And they're good! And I always picture a little childish side of Mariko, who can pull it off with her cute face and small figure...
Besides, I promised some silly TobiMari fluff. Or something along the lines of fluff.
Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to me, yadda yadda, because I would've made a pre-Konoha arc, or at least side story. lol. /shot
Chapter 6: Chocolate Penguins
Tobirama would never give her chocolate. Ever. Again. By the time he found her new hiding spot, the tin of penguin-shaped chocolates was nearly empty.
"Mariko, stop eating the chocolate!" he exclaimed, an arm shooting out to grab it from her. His efforts proved to be useless, because Mariko hugged the tin to herself and darted away, squealing like a baby. Tobirama sighed.
Mito and Hashirama had gone on a trip to meet some political figure from…was it the Tea Country? Tobirama and Mariko had the main Senju household to themselves, and after Koharu and the team gave him a box of chocolates (was it Valentine's day already? Wait, it was March…) Mariko had asked for some, and now she wouldn't part with them without a fight to the death.
"Here Mariko, Mariko, here silly girl," Tobirama sang, as if calling a stubborn cat. There was a rustle behind him, and he whipped open the hallway closet. A blue-haired blur shot out of the coat rack and sped down the hall, chocolates clanging and rattling against the tin container. Now the Senju wanted to slam his head against the wall.
Note to self: Chocolates make Mariko go insane.
Tobirama chased her for another half hour—even the great water shinobi was panting and sweating by then—until he pinned her in a corner. Her only options were to run down the hall to their bedroom, or get stuck in the guest wing. She went for the former, taking off at a dead sprint and slamming the door behind her. The silly girl forgot to lock the door, but apparently that wasn't her intent. Tobirama found her sitting on the bed, hugging the chocolate penguins to her chest.
"Mariko…" Tobirama held up his hands, approaching slowly, cautiously, as if she was a skittish animal.
"It's mine." She glared.
"Why are you so obsessed over the chocolate?" he demanded angrily, though still approaching slowly.
"Well…Hurricane doesn't get a lot of chocolate," she answered thoughtfully, "And I've only had it once. Even for Valentine's day, we use other candy to make up for it."
Tobirama considered this. Okay, so she just wanted to have some, but that didn't mean she had to hoard it. He tried explaining to her, but she just pouted. Tobirama noticed that she hadn't eaten any more poor chocolate penguins, but had closed the lid and had set it on the bed. He took the chance to snatch it away, despite her cry of objection.
"Wahhh, Tobirama, give it back!" Mariko lunged for it, but Tobirama easily held it out of her reach. Even standing on the bed, Mariko was too short to grab it back.
"Too much chocolate for you," he told her, poking her in the ribs. She punched him in the chest as retaliation.
"Give it back!" she wailed, jumping on the bed now. Mariko was so much like a child, he wanted to laugh. It sometimes got annoying, her immature behaviors grinding on his nerves (like their cat and mouse game, earlier), but at other times, she was just amusing.
"Nope. I'm eating the rest. Koharu gave me these chocolate penguins, and you just ate them all." Tobirama made to leave, expecting her to leap after him and follow the chocolate, but to his surprise, she just flopped back down on the bed. "Mariko?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't you want the chocolate?" He rattled the contents of the jar.
"I do."
"Come and get it, then," he prompted, pausing at the doorway.
Mariko shook her head, dejected.
"Tobirama got mad, so I guess I'll just hang out here. And digest, or something." Mariko laid back on the bed, staring at the ceiling. Tobirama sighed again. She was so confusing to deal with; mood swings anytime, strange ideas, unreasonable reasoning…
"Hey, I wasn't mad. I just wanted my chocolate back," he answered.
"You never give me any. Koharu gives you lots," Mariko said, voice muffled through a pillow.
"You just have to ask, you know." Tobirama came back to her side. It occurred to him that maybe she just wanted the attention, that he was ignoring her. So he laid down beside her and wrapped his arms around her small frame. "Next time we can behead chocolate penguins together, okay?"
She shifted to look up at him, delighted that he knew what she wanted. Tobirama stroked her hair, still amused at the different sides of this girl he was still discovering. It seemed that her childlike side only appeared when she wanted something, and in this case, it was Tobirama's affections.
He tilted her chin up and planted a soft kiss on her lips, smiling as she blushed.
She tasted like chocolate.
Hope you liked it?
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(To see Mariko, go to my deviantART account! The link's on my page.)
Or...she's just on my page.
Or in the picture...at the top.
(Oh great, now I want to eat chocolate penguins...nomnomnom.)