What the New Year Brings
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Naruto › Het - Male/Female
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
60
Views:
2,143
Reviews:
14
Recommended:
1
Currently Reading:
1
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A Year of Firsts
Note: Happy New Year's Eve! THANK YOU for all the wonderful reviews! Glad I made you laugh! You guys make me laugh, too, with your reviews, so thank you!
Anyway, I got curious and did some research on the Japanese New Year through Wikipedia and YouTube. This is what I found out and I wanted to squeeze it in before the New Year gets here so that when it does, we know how our friends in Japan are spending it.
Chapter 10-A Year of Firsts
Kakashi couldn't have picked a better day of the year to have our first date, first kiss, first everything, because New Year's Day, after all, is all about firsts...First sunrise, first laughter, first dream, first love...First love?! Where did that come from?! Kakashi's not my first love! Sasuke is. Was. Is. Fuck...
Getting back on track...
New Year's is the most important celebration of the year so there's plenty to do on our first date.
Brightly colored kites fly high above us in a clear blue sky. A shuttlecock clicks from one beautifully decorated paddle called a "hagoita" to another in a game similar to badminton called "hanetsuki." Little kids squeal as one of their blindfolded friends tries to "Pin the Eyes, Nose, and Mouth on the Face" in a game similar to "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" called "fukuwarai." Even the adults are busy throwing dice on a board game similar to backgammon called "sugoroku."
But what in all this activity catches my eye?...
"Ooo...Mochi!"
Kakashi laughs at me as I leave his sorry ass behind, but I don't care. I'm too busy watching the dance going on between the man swinging his huge wooden mallet and the man who keeps pulling his hands out from under it. Between these two men a large lump of dough lies victim inside a large stone bowl. As the man with the mallet pounds the crap out of it, the other man quickly kneads and turns it over between blows so that the other man can pound the crap out of it again. It's fun to watch both for the rhythm and the skill of the men and also, masochistically enough, for the possible danger it imposes upon the hammerless man. But aside from that, I just love those sticky dumplings!
"I can buy you some if you'd like." Kakashi kindly offers.
"Yes, I'd love some!" I say, feeling no guilt for taking advantage of Kakashi's uncharacteristic generosity. Heck, we are on a date, after all...
Happily sucking the fine, white, powdered sugar off each of my fingers, I catch Kakashi staring intently down at me. His eye is half-hooded, glazed over, and even though he's looking directly at me, there's a faraway look in it. Oh, geez! Is he thinking about me sucking his...
"Oi, I'm still watching you!" Naruto shouts out as he passes us by on the street, his fingers entwined with Hinata's.
"Are you following us?!" I ask incredulously.
Naruto shrinks a little, probably from fear of my clobbering him again.
"N-No, Sakura-chan! It's not like that! It's just that it is New Year's and you can't help but run into the festival. It's everywhere!"
"Fine. But would you please stop threatening my..." Boyfriend? Shit, is that what Kakashi, my ex-sensei, my friend, my teammate, a man 14 years my senior is to me now?
"Just stop with the threats, okay Naruto? I can take care of myself."
"But he reads 'Come, Come-'"
"I can take care of myself, Naruto!" I ground out, trying to gesture with my eyes at all the little kids and sweet little old ladies and their dog in the nearby vicinity.
"...In public!" Naruto finishes anyway. "He's a per-"
"Perfect gentleman and believe me, if he tries anything without my permission-"
I give Kakashi a significant glare. I see his eye widen in fright and even Naruto and Hinata, whom my glare wasn't focused upon, audibly wince.
"Uh, right." Naruto says hoarsely. "Well, good luck to ya!" Naruto claps a hand on Kakashi's shoulder, making a quick exit with his girlfriend.
"You didn't really mean that, right?" Kakashi asks, rubbing the back of his neck in discomfort.
"And why wouldn't I? Just because we're on a date, actually, most especially since we're on a date, I expect you to treat me as nothing less than a lady! I've let you get away with a lot of things so far, but if you do anything that I really don't want you to-"
I give him another glare.
"Geez, Sakura! You could put Yamato's 'scary face' to shame!"
"Well, I did learn a few things from him while you were stuck in the hospital."
"Like what?" Kakashi's voice suddenly grows dark.
"Why Hatake Kakashi, are you jealous?!"
"Like what, Sakura?" Kakashi repeats, continuing to look dead serious at me.
"the scary face?" I say weakly.
"Better be all." Kakashi mumbles before placing his hand possessively around my waist and leading me away.
Well, how's that for a first? Kakashi. Jealous. And you know what they say about jealousy...
I feel Kakashi tighten his grip around my waist even more.
No way...
To be continued...
~*~*~*~
Well, that's officially my last fanfic for 2007! Don't know if you guys saw my updated end note in the previous chapter, but if not, here it is again..."Hope your New Year brings you good health, happiness, and lots of smexiness!" Well, I can't guarantee you guys the good health part, but I'll try my very best to accomplish at least the last two in the new year. See you in 2008! Happy New Year everyone!
Anyway, I got curious and did some research on the Japanese New Year through Wikipedia and YouTube. This is what I found out and I wanted to squeeze it in before the New Year gets here so that when it does, we know how our friends in Japan are spending it.
Kakashi couldn't have picked a better day of the year to have our first date, first kiss, first everything, because New Year's Day, after all, is all about firsts...First sunrise, first laughter, first dream, first love...First love?! Where did that come from?! Kakashi's not my first love! Sasuke is. Was. Is. Fuck...
Getting back on track...
New Year's is the most important celebration of the year so there's plenty to do on our first date.
Brightly colored kites fly high above us in a clear blue sky. A shuttlecock clicks from one beautifully decorated paddle called a "hagoita" to another in a game similar to badminton called "hanetsuki." Little kids squeal as one of their blindfolded friends tries to "Pin the Eyes, Nose, and Mouth on the Face" in a game similar to "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" called "fukuwarai." Even the adults are busy throwing dice on a board game similar to backgammon called "sugoroku."
But what in all this activity catches my eye?...
"Ooo...Mochi!"
Kakashi laughs at me as I leave his sorry ass behind, but I don't care. I'm too busy watching the dance going on between the man swinging his huge wooden mallet and the man who keeps pulling his hands out from under it. Between these two men a large lump of dough lies victim inside a large stone bowl. As the man with the mallet pounds the crap out of it, the other man quickly kneads and turns it over between blows so that the other man can pound the crap out of it again. It's fun to watch both for the rhythm and the skill of the men and also, masochistically enough, for the possible danger it imposes upon the hammerless man. But aside from that, I just love those sticky dumplings!
"I can buy you some if you'd like." Kakashi kindly offers.
"Yes, I'd love some!" I say, feeling no guilt for taking advantage of Kakashi's uncharacteristic generosity. Heck, we are on a date, after all...
Happily sucking the fine, white, powdered sugar off each of my fingers, I catch Kakashi staring intently down at me. His eye is half-hooded, glazed over, and even though he's looking directly at me, there's a faraway look in it. Oh, geez! Is he thinking about me sucking his...
"Oi, I'm still watching you!" Naruto shouts out as he passes us by on the street, his fingers entwined with Hinata's.
"Are you following us?!" I ask incredulously.
Naruto shrinks a little, probably from fear of my clobbering him again.
"N-No, Sakura-chan! It's not like that! It's just that it is New Year's and you can't help but run into the festival. It's everywhere!"
"Fine. But would you please stop threatening my..." Boyfriend? Shit, is that what Kakashi, my ex-sensei, my friend, my teammate, a man 14 years my senior is to me now?
"Just stop with the threats, okay Naruto? I can take care of myself."
"But he reads 'Come, Come-'"
"I can take care of myself, Naruto!" I ground out, trying to gesture with my eyes at all the little kids and sweet little old ladies and their dog in the nearby vicinity.
"...In public!" Naruto finishes anyway. "He's a per-"
"Perfect gentleman and believe me, if he tries anything without my permission-"
I give Kakashi a significant glare. I see his eye widen in fright and even Naruto and Hinata, whom my glare wasn't focused upon, audibly wince.
"Uh, right." Naruto says hoarsely. "Well, good luck to ya!" Naruto claps a hand on Kakashi's shoulder, making a quick exit with his girlfriend.
"You didn't really mean that, right?" Kakashi asks, rubbing the back of his neck in discomfort.
"And why wouldn't I? Just because we're on a date, actually, most especially since we're on a date, I expect you to treat me as nothing less than a lady! I've let you get away with a lot of things so far, but if you do anything that I really don't want you to-"
I give him another glare.
"Geez, Sakura! You could put Yamato's 'scary face' to shame!"
"Well, I did learn a few things from him while you were stuck in the hospital."
"Like what?" Kakashi's voice suddenly grows dark.
"Why Hatake Kakashi, are you jealous?!"
"Like what, Sakura?" Kakashi repeats, continuing to look dead serious at me.
"the scary face?" I say weakly.
"Better be all." Kakashi mumbles before placing his hand possessively around my waist and leading me away.
Well, how's that for a first? Kakashi. Jealous. And you know what they say about jealousy...
I feel Kakashi tighten his grip around my waist even more.
No way...
~*~*~*~
Well, that's officially my last fanfic for 2007! Don't know if you guys saw my updated end note in the previous chapter, but if not, here it is again..."Hope your New Year brings you good health, happiness, and lots of smexiness!" Well, I can't guarantee you guys the good health part, but I'll try my very best to accomplish at least the last two in the new year. See you in 2008! Happy New Year everyone!