A/N: Yay for (extremely late) updates! 8D
When I awoke, the first thing I noticed was the small piece of paper on my pillow. I sat up and picked up the paper, finding these words on it:
Meet me in the living room when you wake up and you'll find a surprise there.
—Sakura
I quirked a brow and got out of the bed, slowly rotating my left shoulder as I was told to do a few times a day with the hopes that it would be back to normal eventually. When I got into the living room, the only thing that was out of place there was the black winter jacket draped over the arm of the chair.
I eyed it for a moment before approaching the jacket and picking it up. Immediately, a gust of some sort of cologne wafted to my nose and I found it vaguely and very faintly familiar. I pressed it to my nose and breathed the scent in, but I couldn't remember where I'd smelled it before.
"Is it familiar?" I heard Haruno's voice and turned to see her standing in the doorway, a ghost of a smile on her face. "It's yours. I stopped by your and Ino's home this morning and picked it up. I also got some of your old cologne, too."
"So this is mine," I murmured, eying the jacket again.
I saw Haruno nod through the corner of my eye and she said, "The cologne is Chanel's Egoist. It was your favourite scent before the... accident."
Why did she keep doing that, hesitating before the word "accident"? It was beginning to piss me off.
"So, a jacket and some cologne are my surprise?" I asked, not willing to reveal the deep, unexplainable sense of déjà vu that came with this scent.
She shook her head, smiling softly as though she could tell what I was really thinking. "No, those are only things to make it easier for you to get to your surprise. It's outside and it's a bit chilly out there what with the snow and all. So, put the jacket on, grab your shoes and let's go!"
XOXO
Snow. I was used to snow. It was frozen water that came in an assortment of shades of white and sometimes even yellow and it fell from the sky. Kids made snowmen out of them and had snowball fights and older people skated on the ice. Yes, snow was something very familiar to me... but this...
"What, pray tell, is this?" I asked, eying that... thing in front of me.
"It's called a skidoo."
"Okay..." I said slowly, "And what does a skidoo do?"
"It skidoos."
"Is skidoo a verb and a noun at the same time?"
"Are you going to correct my grammar or get on the skidoo? Because I have my heart set on skidooing sometime today... or before the snow melts. I can be flexible."
"Well, see, here's the problem," I said with sarcastic diplomacy, "I do not know what a skidoo is let alone how to use it. So, how am I supposed to use it when I don't know how?"
Haruno sighed and dismounted her machine, moving over to mine. She straddled the seat and scooched forward, grinning at me, "Well? Get on behind me and we can go for a ride!"
Okay, I did have to admit that the idea was rather intriguing and that I was finding it rather hard to deny this woman when she was smiling at me with so much hope. So, I got onto the noun-verb skidoo and Haruno turned it on, revved the engine and we were off.
The first thing I noticed was how I should have worn some sort of face protection because that cold air became cooler when it hit your face at 60 kilometres a minute. The next thing I noticed was just how cool it felt to be on the skidoo. It was amazing! Loud, but fast and it was just so... amazing is the only way to describe it! And here is the last thing I noticed:
I should have been holding tighter to Sakura's waist because, suddenly, I felt my rear moving backward on my seat and Haruno looked back at me with alarm in her eyes.
"Hold on tighter!" she shrieked over the roaring engine, but it was too late. I had curled my fingers around each other to keep me from falling off the machine, but the force that way pushing me backward pried my fingers apart and, suddenly, I was flying.
Flying... flying... and falling? No, no, this wasn't right! I was supposed to fly more! Though, I was supposed to be a ninja, so I try to perform the manoeuvre that would make it so I'd land on my feet... and I did land on my feet. Well, foot. A little too hard though.
There came a sort of cracking sound and I was faintly away of the odd poking feeling beneath the skin on my ankle. I fell flat onto my ass as Haruno stopped the skidoo and rushed toward me, a look of complete and utter horror on her face.
"Are you okay, Itachi? Does anything hurt? Here, let me get my first-aid kit."
"No, I'm fine, it's just—AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!" And then the pain set in.
Haruno pursed her lips and quickly began digging through a white metal box with a red cross on the lid, pulling out several items before finally making it to a cell phone.
"Yes, I'll be needing an ambulance. Yeah, my boyfriend sort of broke his ankle."
Boyfriend?!
A/N: o.o Uh-oh...
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