Felines and Foxes
Evenings
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Chapter Four- Evenings…
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Sakura
was smiling at her friends happily. They had gotten the day off and right now
were just talking amongst themselves. Mina was just walking up to the group and
smirk playing on her lips.
“Hey
guys, I have something that you might find interesting.”
The
other cheerleaders all smiled. Mina was known for her wicked mind, blonde hair,
and her ability to twist things.
“Who’s
it about this time Mina-chan?” Ten-ten asked.
The
blonde haired girl smirked “You know that Riley girl?”
They
all nodded “Well I figured something out about her today.”
“What’s
that?” Ino asked leaninto hto her boyfriends embrace.
“Well,
she’s a lesbian.”
There
was a collective gasp. While Mina’s lip curled in satisfaction she continued,
“Seriously, have you ever seen her date a guy? Or even flirt with one?”
They
all shook their heads.
pt'>“Actually,”
Sakura piped up “She’s the only one that’s ever turned down Sasuke-kun, like
I’ve seen some lesbians break up with their girlfriends for him; she must be a
real dike!” The group nodded.
Choji
frowned at the c; hc; he didn’t like how the cheerleadeeemeeemed to gossip
about things like this, but he never said anything. ‘Didn’t the spread a similar rumor about her last year?’ he
thought.
As
Haku approached gro group of gossiping girls he recognihis his name and came to
a halt hoping to hear more. “Yeah and that’s probably why she’s always staring
at Haku all the time.” He heard one girl say.
“But
Haku’s a guy.” Another girl countered.
“Yes
but he looks like a girl, I’m betting that way Riley figured she’d be safe from
rumors, yet still have her screwed up lesbian fantasies.”
Haku
was confused ‘Riley staring at me?’ he
thought. Deciding it was time to stop this conversation he made his presence
know by slightly coughing and the group turned to look at him.
“Oh
hello Haku, I’ll be with you in a minute” Sakura said. She nodded to the group
signaling they would finish this later and they all went separate directions.
Turning back to Haku she smiled “Now about our dance class assignment, lets gat
the other two shall we.”
Haku
nodded.
Neji
snorted at the commotion of it all. The brunette was leaning against the chain
link fence surrounding the basketball courts. “Every year it’s the same thing.”
he said opening his eyes and looking towards the sky.
“Yeah,
they do this and the week after we’re stuck going to school wearing those
stupid uniforms.” his companion mumbled taking a drag from his cigarette. Neji
promptly took it and broke it throwing it to the ground. “I told you to quit
smoking.” He growled as he stomped the cigarette flat.
“Whatever.”
the other boy said pushing his glasses up his nose”
Takero
chuckled it was like this everyday. Shino would try to smoke and Neji would
stop him. Takero himself was used to this routine and took no notice of it. His
unruly black hair fell over his left eye blocking its view from the world.
“So
what arr plr plans for today guys?” he asked from his spot beside Neji.
“First;
wait Lee Lee to arrive. Second; Go somewhere” Neji answered.
“I
am in Awe at your plan.” Takero smirked.
At
that moment Lee walked up smiling broadly, “Hey guys, beautiful day isn’t it?”
he said cheerfully.
“Sure,”
Shino said rolling his eyes, which the others didn’t see because it was hidden
behind his ever present sunglasses.
“So, “Well “Whatever.” Kiba “Hey!” Satoshi Sasuke “Sure, “Well “Oh yeah. I wanna kill him!” Kiba growled “He should know better than to hit you “Exactly, “Sounds “Well It Sasuke Riley Sasuke Naruto “I “Hey “No Riley Sasuke Naruto Naruto “All Naruto Naruto Meanwhile “Satoshi, Satoshi “Next Meanwhile “Oh how so?” Naruto asked staring at her. “Because” Naruto “You “So? “Which is correct” Shikamaru nodded sitting beside the two. “What “Well “What “You “Ok “Me? “I They “Can “Not “Ok…” “I “Who? The brown haired jerk that came with Sasuke and that Shikamaru “Whatever” Naruto mumbled. The “Well
where are we going?” Neji asked getting right down to business as usual.
I was thinking that we could go to the arcade and play DDR!” he cheered “We
haven’t done that in forever, that and since we don’t have gym today we need
someway to keep our bodies in shape before practice.” He smiled.>
Takero muttered and they headed off into the parking lot. Neji unlocked his car
and the three others hopped in, Shino up front, Lee and Takero in back.
found Sasuke and Satoshi sitting on the bleachers where they always sat.
he greeted grinning wolfishly. “What are you two talking about?”
took a swing from his can of cola then crushed it and tossed it into a nearby
trash can perfectly.
turned to him “Kiba, just the man I was looking for. I need you to help me with
something…”
what is it?” Kiba agreed immediately. When it came to Sasuke, Kiba just wanted
to be popular and quickly agreed to things before hearing what they entailed.
remember how yesterday that new blonde kid punched me?”
Sasuke”
which is why we are going to teach him a lesson” Sasuke smirked.
like a plan to me, so what is the plan?”
firstly” Sasuke told Kiba the whole plan and the canine boy grinned. “But don’t
go all out; let’s see what the new kid’s got.”
didn’t take long for Sasuke and the other two, to reach the hill where Naruto,
Riley and Shikamaru were. Kiba’s eyes widened when he saw his best friend in
the enemy’s presence.
smirked. “Look at what we have a here, The cat hanging
aroune gae garbage.”
glared at Sasuke and Satoshi. “Fuck off you two before I kick your asses.”
snarled, it had been a while since he had run into
Riley since he had asked her out last year and she turned him down. “Shut up,
blinked before his face turned into a scowl, Haku wasn’t here and from the
looks of it Riley herself was ready to kill Sasuke. ‘Perfect’ he thought cracking his knuckles and standing “Why don’t
you take your little buddies there and piss the hell off,”
think not, Blondie.” Satoshi grinned “I think you need to be taught a lesson,
Uchiha is the boss around here. Trash like you and your frieshoushould bow to
him.”
don’t go insulting Shikamaru now.” Kiba growled in a dangerous tone
Satoshi’s right he also needs to learn a lesson for hanging out with trash like
him” he said, nodding his head in Naruto’s direction.
was now standing beside Naruto a glare set firmly in place. “This is you’re
last warning Uchiha, Piss off or I’ll kick your ass.”
didn’t look fazed and it wasn’t until Satoshi walked over and picked Shikamaru
up by the front of his shirt did anyone move.
took the few steps it took to take throw a punch aimed directly at Satoshi’s
head but it didn’t connect. Kiba had grabbed his wrist, “Just agree, you’ll get
off with out a beating.”
growled and with quick reflexes he brought his leg up and connected with the
canine boy’s ribs. Kiba let out a growl and stumbled backwards. Satoshi quickly
released Shikamaru, but not before a sharp jab to the ribs, and let him fall to
the ground. Shikamaru let out a groan of pain as he landed. Satoshi landed a
fierce blow in Naruto’s side.
right that’s it you fucker!” he growled and quickly sent a furry of punches
aimed at the offending boy. Satoshi threw his own punches and their fists
struck one another. Both blocking and attacking. The first one to give into
pain would be struck with the other’s punch packed with their full weight. Kiba
recovered and tackled Naruto in the waist knocking him to the ground. Kiba sat
on Naruto’s chest. “The more you fight the more you piss him off.”
was in no mood to listen and with his insane flexibility wrapped his legs
around Kiba’s neck and whipped him of sending him tumbling down the hill. Naruto
stood and Satoshi moved to strike but Shikamaru wrapped his arms around
Satoshi’s right leg. Satoshi kicked Shikamaru in the face with his free foot.
charged at the distracted Satoshi preparing to close line him. However out of
the corner of his eye Satoshi spotted the blonde and ducked down just in time
to avoid a powerful thrust. Naruto spun on the heel of his foot and brought his
free leg up to kick Satoshi in the face. With a last minute block preventing damage
Satoshi fell to the ground because of Sharu.aru. Satoshi stood again and
prepared to fight.
Riley’s insults had finally struck a nerve and Sasuke growled before launching
towards the red headed female. She easily sidestepped his attack and tripped
the boy he landed with a hard thud. Quickly she securely pinned him to the
ground with her combat knife pointed at his jugular. “I had warned you Uchiha,”
she growled before leaning near his ear and whispering “Itachi would be so
disappointed in you…” He struggled but to no success could he throw the female
off him. She chuckled. “Call off your goons before I get mad.”
Kiba, Enough!” Sasuke regretfully ordered.
and the recovered Kiba lowered their fighting stances as Riley stood off of
Sasuke. He stood and wiped the dirt of his pants. “You’ll pay, mark my words
you’ll pay, and next time I won’t go easy on you because you’re a girl. I also won’t
restrict my men either.” he growled before turning and starting down the hill.
In his trying to gain some dignity back he didn’t notice a rock and tripped
over it ending up tumbling down the hill head over heels. Naruto and Riley
broke into hysterical laughter. Satoshi and Kiba sighed. Kiba looked back at
his injured friend still lying on the ground. He followed Satoshi who’d walked
right past Sasuke leaving him to pick himself up.
time, I won’t wear my weights.” Satoshi mumbled to Kiba who had a large frown
on his face. Sasuke was trailing behind, some dirt on his face and a glare
powerful enough to rip through steel.
Riley and Naruto fought to control their laughter. “You know we got off lucky,”
she said after the two calmed down.
drawled another voice, which just happened to be the brunette sitting against
the base of the tree “Sasuke didn’t really fight back, and neither of them used
their abilities.”
blinked in confusion “I don’t understand.”
see, Sasuke isn’t really a bad fighter and he is feared among the students for
good reasons. Sasuke has this special ability where he can copy anyone’s
attacks, which makes him an extremely good fighter.”
Big deal, I bet I have a few tricks up my sleeve that he can’t copy. He
possibly can’t copy everything everyone does.”
that he can’t copy their, I guess you would call it, special abilities. Which
is why we are the outcasts I guess” he shrugged.
do you mean?”
remember how I said there are different groups well there are only 4 outcasts,
Myself, Haku, Gaara, and Shikamaru.” Riley explained “One thing that most of us
minus Shikamaru has in common are we are from someplace else.”
do you mean?” Naruto felt like he was becoming a broken record.
see, Riley, Haku and Gaara come from someplace else other than
traveled the world but was born in
I can see how that would alienate them from the rest of the school so what
about you Shikamaru?”
Well I basically out-casted myself, everyone is just so troublesome so it’s
much easier to be unpopular and alone. I have two close friends and that’s it.”
see, so back to this ability crap, you say that you guys also have a special
ability kind of like Sasuke has?”
nodded.
I see?”
right now.” Riley said leaning back on her arms
Naruto said sounding like a child who was just denied going to the park.
hope Kiba’s all right…” Shikamaru said lying back and watching the fluffy
clouds pass by
other bastard?”
nodded “He’s not a bad guy; he just likes hanging out with Sasuke.”
rest of the day passed by with the three teenagers doing nothing productive,
Haku had come back later during the day smiling happily.
at least someone’s in a good mood” Naruto smiled when Haku sat beside him.
“Yes,
the dance practice went very well but I have some bad news I must say.” He
frowned slightly. Naruto quickly decided that he didn’t like seeing Haku frown.
“What
is it?” he pressed
“Nothing
too bad just...” he looked at Riley “You know the rumor they spread about you
last year when you first came to Konoha high?”
She
nodded.
“Well
it’s started up once again just this time they said that you’re a complete
lesbian.” He blushed as he completed his statement.
Riley
just laughed. “Let me guess Mina the blonde cheerleader started it?”
Haku
nodded.
Riley
smirked “I did wonder what they w com come up with next.” she mused.
“What?
You mean you don’t care that they say such nasty things about you?” Naruto
yelled throwing his hands in the air.
“No,
I’m not trying to impress anyone here, and it’s not like I have a reputation
they can hurt.” She chuckled and reached over to ruffle the blonde’s hair
“You’re cute when you’re angry”
Naruto
blinked before blushing slightly “Umm thanks…” he said sounding bashful
Haku
and Riley both burst into giggles.
“How
troublesome” Shikamaru muttered.
Naruto
smiled poking the lazy boy in the stomach. Outcasts or not Naruto found he
enjoyed hanging out with them and even if it meant he’d have to endure daily
fights he would do it to make sure they were happy.
After
spending the day in the arcade the four boys decided to go to a coffee shop and
relax. Seating themselves in some of the comfy bean bag chairs that littered
the area around the low tables they waited for their drinks to arrive.
“So
now that’s 49 wins to your 51” Lee said to Neji who nodded “Just wait until
next time, I will beat you” he smiled holding a fist into the air. It was the
same thing every time they did something remotely competitive wea it it be
games or sports Lee and Neji always seemed to strive to beat one another. In
the end Neji would win, but only by a hair and Lee would promise to beat him
the next time. Takero and Shino had long gotten used to this behavior and have
yet to see the brown haired boy lose.
“You
know” Takero piped up “The only time I’ve actually seen Neji here lose was to
Shino and that was in a game of cards was it not.”
“Oh yeah!” Lee exclaimed “I forgot about that. Now that you mention it I’ve never
seen Neji win a game against Shino and all he plays is cards.”
The
two black haired boys nodded in agreement.
“So
that means if I want to de my my arch rival I must first become a master of
cards.” Lee’s new plan of defeating the brown haired prodigy seemed to be his
best one yet.
“Just
don’t ask me for help.” Shino said from behind his high collared coat.
Lee
hung his head “Damn it.” He muttered.
Their
drinks came and the boys started to talk about Lee’s current relationship with
the pink haired girl and how far he had gotten.
“I
will not tell you” he said determination thick in his voice. “A gentleman never
tells about his lady and their personal business” he said before striking his
good-guy pose.
The
others laughed and shook their heads.
>
The
rest of the evening went by similar to this.
TBC…..
I’d
like to say really sorry for how long it took me to get this chapter out, I
feel really bad. And yeah sorry once more. Thanks
again to my Beta *huggles* you did a great job with
the fight scene.