Chapter 2 - Koufuku (Happiness)

        Nara woke up the next morning (at least we think that was when she woke up) in a very good mood. She yawned, and then looked around the room for Tobi, but soon realized that he must have left after she fell asleep. Nara then sat up, and went to check her foot, but then noticed the robe that she was now wearing over her normal clothes. She blushed and smiled. “Tobi must have put this on me.” She thought. “How sweet of him!” Nara then reached into her back pocket, grabbed her sewing kit (why she keeps one, no one knows) and started to sew up a rip she had noticed on the bottom edge.


        As she was working, Tobi walked in. He seemed happy to see her up, but then confused about what she was doing. “Um….what are you doing, Nara?” Nara looked up and smiled. “Oh. I-I was just fi-fixing a rip th-that was on the bottom of the r-robe. I h-hope you don’t mind, T-tobi.” Tobi shook his head. “No. Not my robe anymore. It’s Nara’s robe now.” Nara blushed. “R-really? Are y-you sure, Tobi?” Tobi nodded, and he was about to say something when a voice, the same voice of the person that kidnapped Nara, started yelling and screaming.


        “TOBI!!! GET OVER HERE NOW BEFORE I KILL YOU!!” Tobi got up immediately, and waved to Nara as he ran out the door. Nara smiled, and began to hem the robe at the bottom and sleeves, so it would at least somewhat fit her. From outside her room, she could hear the argument between Tobi and the other man growing. Supposedly, Tobi had left something where it shouldn’t have been, and the man, which she figured out was named Kisame, had the bad luck to step on it. Nara laughed when she heard Tobi call himself a ‘good boy’, only to have Kisame hit him with something…..hard.


        Out of nowhere, Nara heard the door open, and then slam shut. She looked up and noticed that there was a teenage girl standing beside her door, who looked maybe 2-3 years older than her. She had jet black hair, except for her bangs and the tips, which were red. Her eyes had a blue-green color to them, and she had a pair of small tiger ears, accompanied by a striped tail poking from the back of her robe. Suddenly, the girl sat down, and starting talking, Nara assumed, to her….or maybe just to herself. Who knew?


        “Damn, that was funny. That idiot Tobi left a kunai on the floor and Kisame-kun stepped on it! I mean, Kisame-kun just hit Tobi with a book! Too funny!” Nara giggled. She was right. It was really funny. The other girl stopped talking and then walked up to her. “So you’re the new girl, right? The names Teneka Mikino. And you are…?” Nara smiled. “N-nara Namida.” Teneka smiled, and then looked down at what Nara was holding.


        “Tobi gave you that robe, right?” Nara nodded, and smiled. “Y-yep.” Teneka laughed a bit. “Do you need any help hemming it? Cuz by the looks of it, you might have made it a bit too short.” Nara looked at Teneka. “Y-you think so?” Teneka nodded, and then took the robe from Nara’s hands and put it on her. Teneka was right. The robe was a bit too short. Teneka helped Nara rip out the seam so she could hem it again, but this time, not 5 inches above where it should be.


         “Wow. Now that it’s done, it looks pretty good on you.” Nara blushed a bit. “Th-thanks……..Hey Teneka?” Teneka looked up from reading a book she had with her. “Yeah? What is it?” Nara slipped the robe off, and sat down next to her. “How long have you been with the Akatsuki?” Teneka smiled. “Is that it? Well, the truth is, I really don’t know. I can’t remember how long it’s been. But truthfully, I don’t care. I found someone here that’s worth my time.” Nara smiled. “ You mean Kisame?” Teneka looked at her, stunned. “How did you know?”


          Grinning, Nara held up one hand, with two fingers up. She pointed to the first one. “One. You call him Kisame-Kun. And two,” She continued, now pointing to the other finger, “Whenever you talk about Kisame, your voice changes its tone. It’s subtle, but it’s there.” Teneka continued to look stunned, but grinned. “Wow. That’s pretty good.” Both girls laughed for a bit, and then remained silent for a bit. “Teneka,” Nara finally asked, after about three minutes of silence, ”What’s your family like?”



 

TO BE CONTINUED……..

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