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Chapter 20

Note: A nice furisode kimono will make any girl happy

~Laura's POV

"Heck!" I yell in slight pain as I quickly pull my finger away from the sewing machine. Damn thing always pricks my finger; I swear it tries to kill me half the time when it's a black or yellow kimono.

I take a slow breath while walking over to my desk and pull open the 2nd to last drawer. I pick up the little plaster case and take a small one out. I draw a quick four leafed clover on it and stick it onto my still bleeding finger. I hiss a little while shaking my hand. I hate these plasters since it has disinfectant on it.

I take another deep breath and go back to the kimono in making. I have got most of the parts done; now I just need to sew it together now. Once I have sewn the arms on I look it over and see that the stitch isn't a double stich but a single stitch. I sigh and quickly undo the stitching using an unpicker.

Once I throw the used threads into a pile I start on stitching the arms on again, making sure I do it perfectly and make sure I do a double stitch this time. If the sleeves aren't double stitched then there is a good chance they will come off with little force.

I pull slightly at it once I have sewed the arms on, they won't come off so I guess the double stitch worked. The end of the sleeve where the hand comes out has a dark red butterfly pattern as the long part of the sleeve, at the bottom of it has a star pattern in one of the corners of it, on each arm. The inside of the furisode is the same color of the butterflies, dark red. Since the furisode is kinder loose I add a breathable, tighter layer inside the furisode to keep warm and to make sure no one can look up it seeing as its mid-thigh length. I make the Obi white and sew it together, I use some soft white fabric which I brought some from England, seeing as fabric is much cheaper there, and well the shop I order from is super cheap.

As I sew the rest of the furisode together I hear my door open, I listen carefully for a quick second before continuing with my sewing.

"Laura I brought your dinner," I hear Kahlan say as her footsteps make her way towards me. I smile as I stretch out, I only have to sew the inside layer and I'm done.

"Thank you Kahlan," I say while looking over my stitching, pretty good though I have done better before. I glance slightly to my desk as she places the plate down and glances to me, I grin seeing it and start to sew the inside layer in. Konan is gonna love this… well I hope she does.

"That looks good," she says while looking over my shoulder as I finish my sewing.

"Yep~ it's fun once you see your finishing result," I say with a nod and slowly stand up, using the desk as support; "my legs have died and gone to heaven," I say while rubbing both my legs, it gets the cells warm and thus is meant to bring them back to life~ sweet-sweet life! I look over the kimono and get a quick idea; I grin to said idea and walk over to my bed, pick up a long stream of purple fabric and tie it into a big-ish bow. I smile to it and hand sew two other bits of matching fabric to it, I put the box with the obi so it can be taken off and put on while wearing the furisode.

"All done," Kahlan asks while looking the furisode over. I nod and grab her hand gently; we gotta show Konan her new kimono. She smiles a little back as I let go of her wrist and run out the room.

"Race you there!" I yell backwards as Kahlan runs out my bedroom, laughing slightly while running after me. I skip backwards for a second so I can wave but I bash into something, skipping backwards. I look up slowly and see Tobi looking down on me… scary since I can see his sharingan from here.

"Hello Laura-chan," he yells while hugging me backwards. I freeze slightly as he hugs me… being hugged by 'no one' is kinder scary… hopefully I can see his face in the chapter to come. I laugh slightly as he lets go and he is, I think, looking in front of me.

I glance forwards and see Kahlan glaring. I laugh slightly and dig myself out of Tobi's arm as he stands there, still looking to Kahlan.

"Hello~ Earth to Tobi?" I say while waving a hand in front of his mask. He shakes his head then looks to me while tilting his head.

"Where's Earth?" he asks as Deidara appears from exiting the living room.

"It's this planet," I say while also tilting my head, trying to confuse him by titling my head, it normally works with Luke.

"Okay~" Tobi sings slightly while turning round, seeing his sensei then hugs him which starts Deidara off; yelling at Tobi to get off of him. I laugh slightly watching as Kahlan walks beside me, shaking her head and probably forming a headache as we speak.

I laugh a little more while stepping round them and heading for the living room. The only people in the living room are Pein, Konan, Sasori, Kakuzu, Itachi and Kisame. Whoa the only people in the room are the sane and smart members… whoa.

"Konan~" I sing while walking over to her, she looks up from the origami book she is reading and to me. I give her the thumps up, "it's done~" I say while grinning, I gotta say it will look great on her! I bet… umm… two cakes on it.

Konan gives me a nod as she marks where she was in her book, she stands up and like that Pein is watching us like a hawk… that's scary.

"What is done," Pein asks while crossing his arms, looking at us both. I can't people watching my every move, it screams 'I'm deciding your death', I smile a little to Pein as Konan turns to him while standing beside me.

"Its, a, sec-ret~" I sing while tapping the side of my nose. I have no idea why people tap their nose while saying that but yeah I just do it because it means something like 'it's a secret' or something.

Pein glares at me a little as Konan steps in front of me, shielding the horrible glare.

"I apologize Leader, but this is a surprise," she says calmly as I tilt my head to the side, I wanna see Pein's look when she said that. His face is blank and is no longer glaring.

I look round the room and Kisame has a 'what the hell' look on his face, it seems like he was watching and listening to our conversation. I look back to the room and also see Deidara with the same look and Tobi… I think he's giving that look… he isn't making any sound so I'm guessing that he's giving that look then.

The other smart / mature members are staring with blank looks on their faces, probably not caring about the conversation we are having right now.

"Fine, fine," Pein says while waving his hand, as if telling us to continue with whatever we were doing. I laugh slightly at Pein's hand then turn round and head out the room, passing a shocked Deidara and I think… shocked Tobi.

"Let's see if it fits okay~?" I sing slightly while waking backwards, I wave to Konan and Kahlan as they follow me; Kahlan smiles a little and waves back as Konan just gives a ghost of a smile while walking.

I open my follow and enter, seeing the kimono hung up beside the desk which is littered with scrap pieces of fabric and thread.

"Presenting~ Konan's furisode~!" I sing while taking the furisode off the hanger and quickly walking over Konan, whose eyes widen, having her mouth open slightly. "Do you like it?" I ask while tilting my head to the side slightly. This furisode is an original so I am pretty proud of it.

Konan nods slowly while slowly taking it from my hands. Since Konan's parents died in the war, she has probably never worn a furisode before, so Yay this is her first furisode ever.

"Its lovely," she says while having a good look at it, looking at it from top to bottom.

I grin softly as Kahlan smiles to us both, "its wonderful, are you sure your making these," Kahlan jokes as I puff my cheeks a little, she's seen me make them.

"Yeah~ you guys saw me making it remember~" I whine slightly as they both try to hide a chuckle… they are failing at that. I grin happily as I jump slightly. "Konan try is on~ you can wear it round the house instead of staying in your cloak all day," I wave my hands about to show 'all day' and she nods slightly before leaving the room, hiding the furisode in her cloak of wonder.

"She'll look good in that kimono," Kahlan says while taking a seat on the spiny chair by my desk. I nod happily while looking round my room and get a random thought.

"Next time we go shopping I'm getting a badge maker," think of it, print off pictures of all types of animals, animes and food and make your own badges!

Kahlan gives me a confused look as if trying to figure out why I said that.

"Instead of buying badges like animal badges or anime badges we just print out a picture and make a badge out of it~" I say happily while waving my arms around, we now NEED a badge maker. Why? I NEED a Pikachu badge to stick on my thunder kimono. It's a black furisode with white and yellow lightning bolts all over it.

"Okay," Kahlan says while nodding her head slightly, "we're get it next time we go shopping," she says which makes me grin, if we don't have enough money in bills I can always use my card, I'll just use the money in my bank to get it.

Where is Konan anyway… doesn't she know how to put on a furisode?

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