I woke up the next day at 6 o'clock. It was pretty early, but this is the time I was use to. Anyway, I figured I should get ready so I took a shower, put my regular clothes on, and made sure I had my weapons were in the appropriate places, I headed to the training grounds. As I guessed, Sasuke was there early, but surprisingly so was Naruto.

"HEY KURA! I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN AWHILE!" Naruto shouted at me. At slightly winced considering it was too early to be this loud.

"I went shopping, and why the hell are you yelling?" I asked blankly.

"SORR- I mean, sorry."

"That's better. Anyway," I said turning to Sasuke, "What's been up with you?"

He shrugged, "Nothing much, training as usual. I'm hoping today goes smoothly without Saku-"

"SASUKE YOU'RE HERE!"

I sighed as Sakura came running up and tackled Sasuke into a hug. I had to admit, I felt kinda bad for the guy. This is what happens when the stupid academy sets you up with the "balancing system".

FF A FEW HOURS

"WHERE THE HELL IS KAKASHI SENSEI?" Naruto shouted. I do in fact remember he has an impatience problem.

"If Kakashi's been your sensei for awhile, shouldn't you know he's always late?" I mumbled, apparently he still heard me though.

"I know but still. It's sooooo annoying!"
Right after he said that, Kakashi and all his "glory" appeared before us. "Sorry I'm late guys. The meaning of life is a really interesting subject to talk about with Guy."

I rolled my eyes. "Excuses sensei. We know good and well you try to get away from him as much as possible."

He sweat dropped but ignored me. "Anyway, we have a mission today."

Sakura raised an eyebrow, "What is it?"

"DO WE GET TO ESCORT A PRINCESS? OW!"

"I told you Naruto, quieter," I said shaking my head as he rubbed his from the spot I hit him.

"You're a lot meaner than back when we were kids."

"Anyway," Kakashi said annoyed that we interrupted him. "We're decorating for the Sakura festival. Now before any of you start complaining about how it's not a mission, I completely agree with you."

Sakura brightened, "So we don't have to do it?"

"I never said that. You have no choice. Have fun!" With that, he disappeared into a puff of smoke with us glaring at the spot he was formerly at.

"Remind me to write him a death note," Sasuke said.

"I second that one," I replied. Sakura and Naruto just nodded in agreement.

We all went into the village and started decorating random shops and posts. Apparently they had all the rookie nine helping out too, so we all were helping out against our will. I went to help Tenten and Hinata put up ribbons when Tenten had some sort of epiphany, almost falling off the ladder she was on in the process.

"Geez your epiphanies are gonna get you killed one day," I said glaring slightly at her.

"But it's such a good idea! Why don't we perform for the festival?"

Both you and Hinata shared wary glances at the thought. "Um Tenten we haven't practiced enough. Plus Temari is only in the village 3 times a week…" Hinata started.

"We can get her here for another time aka the festival! And we can practice more no problem."

"Maybe you can cus you run off sugar," I replied, making Hinata giggle.

Tenten crossed her arms at us. "What about to impress your guys? Hinata I'm sure Naruto would love to see you play," at that Hinata started blushing. "And Kurayami Sasuke you adore your voice."

"But I've never performed in front of people before."

"Well now's your chance! Come on please?" she said giving us puppy dog eyes to be more convincing. Normally I wouldn't give into that type of thing, but Tenten would probably stalk us down and annoy us until we gave. I sighed, "Fine, I'm in."

"Yay! Since you said yes that means Hinata agrees!"

Hinata and I shook our heads and went to decorate somewhere away from the psycho weapons master.

"We can go kimono shopping after this Hina," you said while putting balloons on one of the poles.

"Sure Ya-ya. I need help picking out something anyway. This will be the first time I actually had a girl to help. I try to stay away from Sakura and Ino. Tenten normally goes by herself."

"You can count me in too."

We both looked down to see Temari smirking at us. "And apparently we're performing too?"

"Tenten made us," I said with a sigh.
She rolled her eyes, "No control that girl."

We finally finished after two hours and quickly shopped for kimonos. We decided not to talk about how they looked because we didn't want anyone overhearing and ruining the surprise. I honestly wanted Sasuke to be surprised for once. You thought about that the whole time you practiced for the festival, which at the last minute you were informed it was in two freaking days.

When you left Tenten's house, you headed for yours. As you came close enough, you noticed there was a figure sitting at the door waiting for you. You tensed up in case it was a stranger, but once you recognized the chakra signature you realized it was Sasuke.

"We have to stop meeting like this," I said putting the key into your door.

He smirked. "Sure, but I wanted to ask you something."

"Okay," I said opening the door and motioning for him to come in. He walked behind me and took off his shoes as I headed for the kitchen to make some tea. I'm pretty sure green tea was still his favorite, so I made to cups. Once it was ready, I handed it to him and sat on the couch that was across from the one he was sitting on.

"So what's up," I asked as I sipped the tea.

"I was wondering if you would be my date to the festival."

That made me raise an eyebrow at him. "You're actually going?"

"Well I know you are so why not me?" he said smirking.

I shrugged. "Sure, and do you like the tea?"

He nodded. "You always made the best tea. Maybe you should've established a shop instead of becoming a ninja."

I laughed at that. That's exactly what my sister told me when I was younger. "I liked fighting more my dear. Gosh you sounded like my sister for a minute."

He actually smiled at that. I guess he never forgot about those times we spent together with my family. "How are they anyway?"

"Oh they're good up in heaven," I said monotone. His smile dropped when I said it like that. "Don't worry about it Sasuke. You didn't know."

He shook his head and put his empty cup in the sink before heading for the door. "It's getting late. I should get a little more training in before I go to bed."

"If you say so Mr. Uchiha."

He smirked before walking out and giving me a wave behind his back. As I watched his disappearing figure, the wind blew around I changed into my night form. A sigh escaped my lips as I dragged my hand through my now waist length hair and looked into the night with my ice blue eyes. I couldn't sense his chakra anymore, so I headed back inside. Talk about a weird day.