The world of dreams chap. 3

A/N: Desiree found out that I tried skipping a few days from writing and nearly killed me.

This is how I and Desiree's conversation went.

*After class.*

Desiree: Hey Yuuki! What's up?

Yuuki: Just lazing around, nothing much to do.

Desiree: What about the story? Have you made the next chapter yet? *Hint hint*

Yuuki: Oh yeah. The story, I'm supposed to write it soon-

Desiree: Soon?! SOON?! WRITE THE GODAMN STORY NOW! *Shoves me towards my laptop.* AND DON'T LET ME CATCH YOU OFF IT!

And that's pretty much the whole thing. Not that I don't like this story, I do like it, it's just that feeling you have when you finish an exam after three long days, tired and lazy. That's what I felt but Desiree didn't want to hear excuses, so I had to sit myself in front of a computer and type the story. And now, I'm sitting here with Desiree pacing outside my room angrily. So to satisfy her, I present to you the next chapter! (P.S. I love time skips! Sorry!)

Declaimer: Me? Own Naruto? I think you must be drunk.

Sakurai's PO.V.

It's been two years since the battle, and honestly, things were starting to look up. The whole village had been re-built and we were preparing to celebrate the event. I was looking forward to it but being the head of a clan had its downfalls. How much paper work can you give one person? I think it's the elders' way of payback for that day, the devils. Anyways, I had found a kind elder who came to me a few days after the meeting and was willing to teach me how to become a head, properly. Her name was Chifuyo; she was in her late 50's and was loyal to my late father. I had seen her twice when he was younger but she was always helping my father.

I groaned and put my head against the table top. "I really hate paper work." I grumbled under my breath, making Chifuyo laugh softly. I turned to my face the woman with a put on my lips, "It's not funny Chifuyo-chan. They're very hard to complete." I gestured the small pile of papers that I was done with. Chifuyo smile "Then I suggest you do it quickly," She then gestured the huge piles of papers stacked neatly on top of each other, "You have a ton of work." I banged my head against the table. This is going to take forever! If only I could-

"Not a chance, young lord." Chifuyo said without looking up from her paper. I blinked and opened my mouth to ask her how she knew when she looked up and smirked. "You and your father think the same way." She said before shooing me to do my work. Reluctantly, I did so.

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After several hours of being cooped up in that tiny room with piles and piles of paper work, I had finished it. I took a deep breath as I walked down the dirt lane, bowing to the older people and moving out of the way from children older than me. "Ah, it's good to go out once in a while." I said softly. I sat down at a ramen stall – I think its call 'Ichiraku' – and ordered one regular. A group of ninjas passed the stall and I overheard bits and pieces of their conversation.

"-heard that two kids were found next to the Hokage!" Ah, so they knew.

"Yeah, I've heard. One was a Haruno the other," I could hear the ninja's shudder. His next words made my blood freeze as his voice dropped to a whisper, "I think was the monster."

"You think so too?! I heard that the other-…"

When the two ninjas had passed the stall was when I noticed that I had broken the chopsticks from my grip. Brushing the broken sticks away, I pondered on their words. The kid, I had her with me before I passed out. I wish I remembered her name but I couldn't for some reason. The nurse had said that I had passed out from chakra depletion so maybe it messed with my head?

Before anymore though came to my mind, a steaming bowl of ramen was put on the table. I looked up and nodded to the old man before breaking the chopsticks apart and digging in. "Well," I thought "I could always search later. Now I'm hungry."

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There was one thing that I dreaded to do, even more than doing paperwork.

It's shopping.

I hate shopping, especially when it's shopping for clothes. If I go with a woman, it would take forever and if I go with a guy, they would care what I was wearing. I wanted to wear my old yukata from when I was younger but Chifuyo said "As the head of the clan, you are supposed to be formal, young lord. Now go buy your new yukata, I'll be waiting here." After shoving a wad of money in my hands, she pushed me out of the building and locked the door. As helpful as she is with the paperwork, I sometimes couldn't help but dislike this.

Sighing, I turned towards the village market. 'Maybe they have something I could buy." I thought as Inner nodded in agreement. "Yeah, all they had at the compound were way too big for us." He said cheerfully to me, making me feel suspicious of him. Being in my mind already, Inner snorted at me.

"What are you so happy about? We're just going to town." I told him. Inner frowned at me before sighing.

"Chifuyo-san never told us what to do before and after we buy our yukata, now did she?" Inner told me with a smirk on his face. I blinked several times before realization hit me. Inner was right; she never said anything about what I could do before and/or after buying my yukata.

"I can't believe the voice in my head said something useful to me." I muttered as I skilfully ignored Inner pout and "Hey!" I grinned and passed the gate that goes to the leaf village. After a check with the guards, I walked around the village to go sight-seeing. The village was definitely more cheerful than the Haruno compound, the children were playing games while the adults worked and/or talked to each other. I walked towards the fruit stall and paid for the apple. After checking the market, I let my feet take me to the academy road. My mind was at a few places and it refused to stay at one thought. I felt a migraine about to happen when a body bumped onto mine. Both of us fell down, I grunted and the other let a high-pitched squeak, I guessed that she was a girl.

Dusting the dirt off me, I stood up. My guess that the other person was a girl was correct. "Hey," I called, the girl's head snapped up and looked at me, a light blush covered her cheeks and she took my hand and pulled herself up. The girl was slightly taller than me but she looked anywhere but me, maybe it was my approach. "Thanks! And uh, sorry." She stuttered as she looked away trying to hide her blush "For helping me- AH! I mean, I'm sorry I bumped into you and that-" she continued to ramble and I used that time to get a proper look at her.

She had long black hair that ended at her shoulder and black irises. She was wearing a black and white shirt and a dark blue skirt that reached her knees. Under the skirt there were black-and-grey stripes leggings that stopped mid-calf. She had standard dark blue ninja sandals, and with the kunai holsters on her hip, so I guessed she was an academy student. "- and I should look out for others. I mean-" She said with a blush on her cheeks, snapping me out of my observation but she closed her eyes so she didn't noticed. She sucked in a deep breath and bowed "I AM SO SORRY!" She gave me a 90 degree bow. I flushed at her formality, and pulled her back up so she would be standing straight, "It's alright." I told her softly "It wasn't your fault. I also should have seen where I was going." If the girl wasn't red before, then she was undoubtly red now.

Trying to stir the conversation my way, I held out my hand, "My name is Sakurai, May I know your name?" I asked her politely. She blinked owlishly and shook my hand "My name is-.." She was cut off by a shout not-too-far.

"She's there!" A high pitched voiced screamed at an un-godly pitch.

The girl squeaked and both of us whipped our heads at the source of the voice. A group of girls were running to us but I guessed that the girl at the front was the one that called the onyx hair girl. The said girl, on instinct, hid behind me while I stared at the crowd of girl who were hell-bent on getting the girl behind me. My left hand floated over the spot where my katana was hidden.

The girls skidded to a stop and glared at the onyx haired girl behind me, who shifted and hid behind me further; a black haired girl stepped forwards and made a move to grab the girl behind me. "Come here you little-!" Before her hand could even touch the girl, hand another hand grabbed her forearm. The black-haired girl turned to glare at me before she took in my appearance and blushed while I bit back I groan. Seriously? Why do they do that? Was my blue and white yukata that attractive? Maybe I should change. (A/N: Oh, Sakurai! If only you knew)

The black-hair pulled her arm back and flipped her hair over her shoulder. She sauntered over to me and shot me a (Fake) smile, which I returned with a blank stare but she didn't seem to notice. "Hello there," She purred, She brushed aside a stray hair that covered my face, leaving goose bumps in her wake. "My name is Yokuta Hisoki. What's your name?" The girls behind her squealed at her introduction, but I frowned at her. She looked weird, she had a puffy long sleeved kimono but it ended just before her knees. All of her accessories were also pink; a pink hairband, two pink clips and a VERY pink choker.

I coughed into my hand, noticing that my new friend was trying to slip away. "Ah, nice to meet you Hisoki-san." I said, blocking the sound of squeals from the girls and the smirk on Hisoki-san's face. I grabbed the onyx haired girl's hand and tugged it, making her glance at me and I shot her a small smile, to which she blushed. Hisoki-san, however, saw the smile and pushed us apart, albeit more roughly on the other girl's part, and faced me with a pout on her lips. "Hey!" She whined "You didn't answer me," She pouted and tried drawing circles on my chest but I smacked her hands off my chest. I suddenly felt uncomfortable with the situation I was in.

I tried to leave, but the Hisoki-san's gripe was very tight. She stepped in my personal space and I started to squirm. "I am really sorry, Hisoki-san." I tried saying "but I have to go buy a Yukata with um…" I glanced at the onyx haired girl close to me and weighted the consequences.

Lie to Hisoki-san and make a quick dash to the stores with the girl or stay here and talk to this weirdo.

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Why did I even ask?

"Cause you're an idiot." Inner snorted at me. I ignored him and snatched my hand away from Hisoki-san's hold. "Um… Her!" I pointed at the onyx haired girl, who in turn blushed and pointed at herself. Hisoki-san didn't seem to like the idea though. Stepping forwards, Hisoki-san flashed a (Fake) worried frown at me, "Are you sure? I mean, if she's bulling to follow her then maybe," She made hand gestures to her friends. They moved towards the onyx haired girl, who once again hid behind me, (How did she get there?) "We could help you get rid of this filth."

At that statement, I snapped. No one on earth was filth, no one. I spun around and glared at Hisoki, I snapped at her "Shut up. If anyone is filth, it would be you. Now," I smiled at the group of girls "Dispose of this filth." When the words caught up with me, it was too late. The damage was done.

With that I turned and grabbed the onyx haired girl's hand and ran towards the clothing store, ignoring the calls from the girls.

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We soon reached the clothing store, both of us panted long and hard. We fell into a heap and let our legs rest. We both glanced at each other before cracking up. We sat together on the floor, laughing while holding hands like we were best friends. We soon sobered up, I shot her a cheeky grin, "That was fun, even though I was scared as hell." I confessed to her. She raised an eyebrow at me as she wiped beads of sweat from her forehead. "You think you were scared? I thought I was going to die back there!" She exclaimed. I smiled and stood up, offering my hand to her. She wordlessly took my hand and suddenly there was an awkward silence between the two of us. I was about to call her name but I realized that I didn't even know her name.

"What a great friend, Saks! You don't even know her name." Inner said sarcastically to me. 'Shut up! I can't remember everything!' I hissed at him before looking at the girl once again. "Hey," I called "I don't think I caught your name. What is it?" The girl blushed and opened her mouth to answer, "Minasaki Ume. I'm 13 and you?" She asked me. I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly, and laughed awkwardly, "Wow. I'm 7." There was a pregnant pause before I added sheepishly "Now this is getting awkward."

We both laughed and I asked if she would still like to accompany me to shop for my Yukata, she agreed and soon we were off, trying on Yukata after Yukata. When I finally bought my Yukata, I had to say goodbye to Ume. Before we left, we gave each our good-byes.

"Maybe shopping wasn't so bad after all." I mused to inner. Inner smirked and casually leaned back, "You said it bro," Inner said as he closed his eyes, a peaceful smile settled on his lips. "You said it."

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A/N: DOOOONNNNEEEEE! *Weeps happily* I've finally finished this chapter! I'm sorry that this chapter hadn't showed the party but I'm not quite ready to start it.

Desiree: YOU BETTER START ON THAT CHAPTER NOW!

Me: Alright, alright. Sheesh, pushy much?

Desiree: Why you little-! *Tries to grab my neck.*

*Evades her attack.* Anyways, hope you like this chapter, and don't forget; R'n'R! Peace out, people!

-Yuukiharuka.