“Are you two going to buy anything?”

Both Sasuke and Naruto jumped at the female voice before calming down. They turned around to see a white-haired lady standing behind them. Her sapphire eyes gleamed with amusement. “Guessing from your reactions I assume that answer is no and that you’re hiding. Let me guess, Mary?”

While Sasuke was trying to calm his beating heart, Naruto nodded, then shouted, “Seika! Don’t do that!”

Seika rolled her eyes. “Are you sure you two are jounin rank shinobi?”

“This is coming from someone who is supposed to be as strong as the Hokage,” said Naruto sarcastically.

Seika rolled her eyes again. “Now I know you’re exaggerating.”

“You were suppose to be the next Yukikage,” argued Naruto.

Seika rolled her eyes again. “Right… which is why I’m a simple storekeeper.”

“You’re a shinobi nevertheless!”

Seika shook her head. She wasn’t going to win this argument. Naruto was too stubborn. True, she was a shinobi from the Country of Snow, but still, she was considered an outcast. It was only by Hokage-sama’s grace that she was allowed stay in Konoha and open a weapon shop. Considering her grandfather deemed her as a failure, there wasn’t much harm Seika could do.

“Are you two going to buy something or not?” she asked.

Sasuke shook his head. “Sorry, Seika. We didn’t come in to buy anything. I needed to talk to Naruto about something.”

Poor Sasuke, he didn’t even get a chance to tell Naruto anything again. The very moment he finish that sentence, Kiba popped up. “Yo. Listen, Naruto, I need your help with something. Well actually, Neji needs your help,” Kiba said.

Then, before Sasuke could stop him, before Naruto could protest, Kiba grabbed Naruto and dragged him out the door. Sasuke quickly followed the two out, yelling along the lines of, “Kiba, let go of him. There’s something I gotta tell him!”

Seika shook her head. Boys these days… She was seven years their senior and had known them for a decade. Still she thought they acted like kids, even today when they were all young adults. Of course she still thought the biggest fool was hanging from the ceiling above.

“What are you doing here, Itachi?”

The said missing-nin dropped down from the ceiling. “To buy weapons of course. This is a weapons shop, is it not?”

Seika scowled. “You’re a missing-nin wanted for the murder of your family. I should report you.”

A look of mock hurt appeared on Itachi’s face. “Seika! We’ve known each other since we were- what? Eight? I can’t believe you would do such a thing.”

Seika frowned. “We met when we were eight. The next time I saw you, it was almost ten years later and that was after you became a missing-nin. Why the hell should I trust you and why the hell do you keep coming here?”

“Seika.”

“Are you whining?”

“Seika! C’mon. I’m out of kunais. Don’t sent me to Cloud Country just to buy weapons,” said Itachi. Why did she have to be like this? Why did he sound like a little child? Itachi paused to ponder about that last thought.

“Fine… whatever. On one condition,” said Seika. It wasn’t like she could really say no to him. He still could kill her if he wanted to.

“What?”

Seika grinned. “You help me take pictures!” Itachi just stared. Seika… was strange; yeah that’s the word, strange. Why was he doing this again?

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Sasuke managed to get Naruto away from Neji and Kiba. Geeze, of all the times Neji had to ask Naruto what he should get for Lee, it had to be today. Wait until tomorrow, or the day after that, even ask someone else, but why on earth was everyone interrupting them today!

“It’s been five years since we’ve been going out,” started Sasuke, blushing slightly as he thought about what he and his boyfriend have been through. “And you know how much I love you and everything. But… Naruto?” Sasuke blinked. Where did his boyfriend disappear now?

“Thanks Naruto!” said Sakura.

Naruto waved bye and walked back towards his boyfriend. “Sorry, Sasuke. Sakura needed help carrying in some boxes. What were you saying?”

Sasuke wanted to hit his head against something. Of all the days, why today! Did the gods hate him or something! Not wanting to lose any brain cells and enter a world of pain, Sasuke, instead, sighed.

Again, he tried. But before Sasuke could say anything Naruto grabbed his hand and said, “Look, Sasuke! Ramen! Let’s eat!” Sasuke really wanted to hit his head against something. Today wasn’t going according to plan. At the rate things were going, Sasuke should just go home, crawl bad into bed, pray that this was nightmare and try again tomorrow. Except, his message was way too important to leave for tomorrow. It had to be today!

So while Naruto slurped on his ramen happily, Sasuke just sat there moping… playing with his food. He'd rather not tell Naruto his message in here, but a restaurant was better than anything else. It seemed no one wanted him to deliver his message to Naruto. One simple question… was that too much to ask?

“Done!” said Naruto cheerfully.

Sasuke opened his mouth before Naruto interrupted him. “Hey, Sasuke? Are you going to finish that ramen,” he asked.

Sasuke nearly fell over. He pushed his bowl towards Naruto. “Go,” he said.

Naruto smiled. “Thank you Sasuke!” Then he happily finished off his boyfriend’s meal.

Seeing Naruto smile made Sasuke feel better. It was always a pleasure to see Naruto happy. When Naruto was happy, Sasuke felt happy. It was that simple. So seeing Naruto smile today, was the current highlight of Sasuke’s day. There was only one thing left for this to become a perfect day and Sasuke would forget all the interruptions that came with it.

Soon enough Naruto was done, and Sasuke seized his chance again… only to miss it as a loud yell was heard outside. This time, Sasuke did fall out of his chair. Why him?

“What’s going on outside?” asked Naruto. He quickly left his seat and walked outside. There, a strange yet slightly familiar scene greeted him. There was Jiraiya and Tsunade, arguing over something. Question was… what were they arguing about? Naruto paused to think about that question. Maybe he was better off not knowing what was going on.

“Here, Naruto! Now as your Hokage, I order you to run,” said Tsunade, dumping a book into Naruto’s hands.

Naruto blinked once, twice, three times. Wha-? Naruto looked at the book. ‘Wait a minute… isn’t this…?’

“Naruto! Quick, give me back the book!” shouted Jiraiya. He made a dive towards Naruto, who was in shock at what he was holding. Sasuke quickly grabbed Naruto before he and Jiraiya crashed into each other.

Tsunade quickly snatched the book back from Naruto’s hands, who was obviously in shock and wouldn’t be running any time soon. Apparently, Naruto knew what the book was. She was surprised that Naruto hadn’t urn… she would have to have a talk with the blond shinobi after. She really didn’t have to worry about Naruto following in Jiraiya’s footsteps. It’s been quite clear that his tastes swung the other way.

Sasuke, meanwhile, managed to snap Naruto out of his daze. “Naruto, what was that book Hokage-sama gave to you?” he asked.

Naruto was looking rather pale. He opened his mouth to answer Sasuke, when, for the first time that day, he was interrupted. “TSUNADE! GIVE ME BACK THAT BOOK! IT CONTAINS ALL MY INFORMATION FOR MY BOOK!” bellowed Jiraiya.

Sasuke sweat dropped. “Never mind. I think I understand now.”

“Then will you two listen to orders and run!” shouted Tsunade, dumping the book into Sasuke’s hands this time.

“But I don’t want it!” yelled Sasuke. Then he avoided being tackled by Jiraiya.

“Fine, fine,” grumbled Tsunade. “You two are no fun.” She grabbed the book back and disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving two shocked shinobi.

“TSUNADE!” roared Jiraiya. He, too, disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other. This day… had been way too strange. At least they were alone again. Quick Sasuke! The perfect time! Tell Naruto your message!

… baka Sasuke… you waited too long…

“Naruto!”

“Eh? Hinata?”

The blue haired girl ran up to them. It was clear she was out of breath. “Have you seen Kiba anywhere?” she asked. Aside from Sasuke and Naruto, Hinata was probably the one who changed the most. She grew confident in her skills, her stammering disappeared and with the help of her boyfriend, Kiba, she overcame her shyness little by little. Of course, she still jumped every time someone came up behind her and still fidgeted from time to time when she nervous, but she was still Hinata.

“Kiba?” said Naruto. “The last time I saw him, he was being dragged off to help Neji find a gift for Lee.”

“Did you see where they went?”

“Try the market area, five blocks over,” said Sasuke, a little on the impatient side. He really needed to talk to Naruto, but no one was letting him!

Hinata bowed. “Thank you,” she said. Then she quickly ran towards the direction Sasuke pointed her in.

“Naruto,” started Sasuke again. The blond shinobi gave him his full attention. “I wanted to talk about us and “

“HELP!”

Poor Sasuke-kun.

Kakashi suddenly appeared and ducked behind Sasuke, using the said jounin as a shield. Sasuke, on the other hand, twitched. Naruto could only sweat drop as Iruka came stomping around the corner. It was obvious that he was angry.

“What did you do this time, Kakashi-sensei?” asked Naruto. It was almost out of habit that he still called Kakashi sensei. A thousand and one situations ran through Sasuke’s head to why Iruka-sensei would be mad at Kakashi. It could be a number of things. Kakashi-sensei probably did something he wasn’t supposed to do in front of the children. So no surprise.

Sasuke quickly detached himself from Kakashi. “Sorry, Kakashi. You’re on your own for this one.” Kakashi only stared at him. His own former students abandoning him! What was this world coming to!

Naruto gave Kakashi a grin. “Sorry, Kakashi-sensei. But only the heavens know what you did to get Iruka mad, but whatever it was, you probably shouldn’t have done it.”

Then the two of them disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving a helpless Kakashi with a very angry Iruka.

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“Okay. Naruto,” started Sasuke for the umpteenth time. “There’s something I must tell you.”

That was as far as he got.

“SASUKE-KUN! NARUTO!” yelled Ino running towards them. Following behind her was Chouji and Shikamaru.

Sasuke nearly fell over. He was never going to get his message to Naruto.

“So what are you doing here? Don’t you have any missions?” asked Ino, chatting off happily.

“Umm… we’re hiding from Iruka-sensei and no, we don’t have any missions,” answered Naruto. Why did Ino have to come now? He really wanted to hear what Sasuke wanted to say.

“Eh? Did Kakashi do something wrong again?” asked Shikamaru.

“Probably,” mumbled Sasuke. This day was getting worse and worse… All he wanted to do was ask one simple little question to Naruto: a simple yes or no question... Sasuke had the whole question planned out.

“NARUTO!”

Naruto paled as he heard someone called his name. No… not this not now… Please… not now.

Rock Lee ran quickly towards the group at top speed. He didn’t even stop. He just grabbed Naruto and continued running.

“Wha! Lee! What are you doing!” yelled Naruto.

“Quick Naruto! You need to help me!” shouted Lee.

“Kuso!” cursed Sasuke. Lee had some nerve kidnapping his boyfriend right in front of him! Of all the days this could have happened, WHY TODAY!

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Sasuke skidded around the corner. Damnit! Where did Lee go and what was up with everyone kidnapping Naruto!

“Shino! Have you seen Lee or Naruto go by?” asked Sasuke frantically to the bug shinobi.

Behind his black sunglasses, Shino blinked. Yes, he had and he had been wondering why Lee was dragging Naruto, knowing full well that Sasuke would be furious when he found out. Not saying anything, Shino pointed in the direction he saw Lee and Naruto run to. Sasuke nodded and darted off.

As soon as Sasuke was out of sight, Shino reached into his pocket and pulled out a camera. Then, slowly and quietly he began to follow Sasuke. There was no way he going to miss this.

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“Lee! STOP! What on earth are you going to with Naruto!”

Naruto was suddenly grateful to Tenten. The weapon shinobi just saved his life. Lee, on the other hand, wouldn’t stop jogging in place. “Need. Naruto. Help. Neji. Gift. Now. Later. Talk. Seen. Gai-sensei. Ask. Help,” Lee continued in choppy, fragmented sentences.

Then he started running. Luckily, for Naruto, Tenten didn’t let him. “Hold up, Lee. You just kidnapped Naruto, from what I understand. Tell me you at least told Sasuke what you’re doing.”

“He didn’t!” yelled Naruto, trying to pry himself free from Lee.

“LEE!”

Three heads turned. “Sasuke!” said Naruto happily.

Tenten shook her head and Lee paled greatly. However, the usual reaction that would have normally happened didn’t take place. Normally, Sasuke would have hurt Lee in some way or another or at least threatened the older teen. But for once, Sasuke didn’t say anything. All he did was marched up to Naruto and Lee, separated them and began dragging Naruto away.

“C’mon Naruto. I still have to tell you something,” said Sasuke.

By now the sun was close to setting. The sky was turning a deep crimson red, dark orange, and bright yellow as the sun crept closer and closer. The moon was slowly regaining its shine. Sasuke dragged Naruto out of the village, past the forest and up to a nearby cliff. Hopefully now they would get some peace and quiet, and more importantly NO interruptions.

The sun was at the brink of the horizon when Sasuke looked Naruto straight in the eye, took a deep breath and began, “I’m forgetting everything I planned to say and getting straight to the point. Naruto, will you marry me?”

Naruto’s expression quickly changed from one full of confusion to one with happiness and excitement. He grabbed Sasuke in a hug and gave the black haired shinobi a breathtaking kiss. “Of course, you idiot,” said Naruto.

Mentally Sasuke rolled his eyes. “I’m not an idiot, dobe,” said Sasuke.

Naruto grinned. “It took you the whole day just to tell me that? I say that counts for calling you an idiot.”

Sasuke scowled. “I would have told you earlier if it wasn’t for all those interruptions.”

“Whatever you say, Sasuke, whatever you say.”

Again, Sasuke mentally rolled his eyes and leaned forward for another kiss. As the two continued their make-out session, they never once noticed the thousands of little flashes of light or the click of a camera shutter as half the village of Konoha was spying on them.

One particular pair was in the trees taking pictures. “Why am I doing this again?” asked Itachi.

“Because I asked you to. Now shut up and finish taking pictures,” said Seika.

Itachi rolled his eyes. “Yeah, yeah. I better get an invitation to wedding.”

&-&-&-&-&-&-&-& owari &-&-&-&-&-&-&-&

Hotaru stared in the girl's eyes. "Have you ever wonder what's beyond that cloudy blanket? What is beneath the steel we walk on? What's deep within the ocean beside the pollution and gunk? Have you ever dream of the impossible? Or wish to take flight in the sky? To take a leap, to take a risk. To you dare to dream?"

Laugh, sing, shout, speak!
let the world hear you

Dance, jump, run, walk
Let the world see you

Fall, trip, stumble, lie
Let the world feel you

Breath, cry, and smile
Let the world know you're alive.

Drabble 01:
Characters: Seika and Ita
List: 16 questions
Item: “What the hell are you doing?”

"Ita..."

"Yes?"

"What the hell are you doing?"

Smile.

"Well Seika. I'm making you breakfast!"

Twitch.

"And how does that explain why my kitchen is a danger zone?"

"Well... ummm there's an explaination for that!"

"ITA!!!"

Drabble 02
Characters: Seika and Ita
List: 16 Questions
Item: “Who are you?”

When she woke up that morning, Seika knew something bad was gonna happen. Nearly everyday she had this feeling but today it was really bad. Something strange was going to happen. And it probably had something to do with Ita...

Speaking of the devil, Ita just walked in carry breakfast on the tray. "Morning Seika! I made you breakfast! And don't get out of bed. I took care of all the paperwork and cleaned the shop from top to bottom, send out all the bills, washed the dishes, mopped the floors and book us dinner reservation tonight at the Empress."

Seika stared at her boyfriend. Surely she wasn't hearing the same possible thing could she? Ita would never do the very things she had been trying for years to get him to do right? "Who are you? What have you done with the real Ita?" she asked.

Ita grinned and kissed her on the cheek. "Happy birthday Seika. Love ya."

I'm determined to get back into writing drabbles. >>
Anyways no promises that I'll finish the list *can't seem to finish them unless they're 20 or less* But I'll try. And screw my previous format. Yeah *is lazy*
Let's get started then though. ^^

Drabble 01:
Characters: Black Angel
List: 100 themes: Eagle Court Edition
Item: 01. Eagle

There was a eagle soaring in the sky. Black stared up at it, watching the majestic flight. She envied it a little. Just a little. She wished that she could be up there, flying far far away from her problems.

But this was her reality, and she wasn't an eagle. She would never be one. Black looked away from the bird. There would never be a day where she would be able to fly. After all, she was a fallen angel.

Drabble 02:
Characters: Black Angel
List: 100 Themes: Eagle Court Edition
Item: 02. boring

Life was never boring for Black. Certainty not now, and she couldn't recall it being dull as a child either. (What little she could remember from her childhood at least).

Quite frankly, she didn't understand why people complained life was boring all the time. She would love life to be a bit more boring. It did mean that she wouldn't be the world's best assassin and the organization she just deflected from wouldn't be after her.

She supposed that wasn't normal either. "You know, boredom would be loved right now," she muttered to herself, dodging the rain of bullets. "It does mean I wouldn't be shot at. Though being idle never sat well with me either but I'm sure I would find something to keep my mind occupied."

Black wouldn't mind if her life was a bit boring, but chances are, she'll never get a chance to see that.

Drabble 03:
Characters: N/A
List: 100 themes: Eagle Court Edition
Item: 03. leis

String them around and around
Make a fancy crown
Bright colorful flowers
make great petal showers
Given for no reason
There's no need to think of treason
Beautiful May
filled with Leis

Drabble 04:
Characters: Seika/Ita
List: 100 Themes: Eagle Court Edition
Item: 04. distraction

Seika was ignoring him again. Ita stop to wondered if she purposely did it, or if it was all subconscious due to years for training. Nothing he did seemed to get the white hair girl's attention.

He needed a distraction.

But what? Seika just brushed off any physical contact. In fact some of her reactions to them were quite scary. She just threw various sharp objects at whoever was being annoying. Not even Sai and his temper got through his cousin. Or Saya's cute attempts. And well when Saya's cute attempts fail, then you know for sure that Seika was on a different plane of thinking and wasn't going to be reached any time soon.

Ita began to despair. Surely his confession last night wasn't the cause of this? He was never gonna be able to distract Seika long enough to ask her his question... wait a minute.

An evil idea clicked in Ita's head. He had the brilliant idea. "Seika?" he said. The girl didn't say anything, still wrapped up in her book. Ita leaned over, and kissed her on the lips.

That distracted Seika. "W-what are you doing?!" she shouted. Her pale face turning a bright red color.

Ita grinned. "Well, now that I have your attention. I wanted to know if you're free for dinner tonight." Ita believed he just found the prefect distraction for Seika.

Drabble 05
Characters: Kit-Hoshi and Aya
List: 100 Themes: Eagle Court Edition
Item: 05. parents

Kit reflected one day, that being a parent was not easy. She knew this from the beginning. It didn't help that she didn't have parents when she was a child. That plus her jaded personality didn't make her the best mother in the world.

Hoshi told her she would be fine. Kit wasn't so sure. Hoshi between the two would be the better mother for Hoshi was created to be everything that Kit was not. Of course, Hoshi wouldn't hear for it. After all Kit was the base personality and was emerging back into society quite nicely.

Still Aya's thoughts disturbed her. Aya didn't like her, Aya didn't like her mother, had no clue about her father (and showed no interest in learning about him). Kit can't help but think that she's failed as a parent. What child hates her parents?

Kit sensitivity to negative emotions did nothing to help. What else could she do? Aya refused to open up to her and Kit could feel herself getting depressed. Being a parent was not an easy task. But Kit was determined to try.

Drabble 06
Characters: Seika
List: 100 Themes: Eagle Court Edition
Item: 06. raspberry mocha latte

Seika enjoyed being the owner of a cafe. Well granted Houkiboshi wasn't just a cafe, but she was quite happy to be working with both aspects of the store.

Of course being in the cafe section meant having to create new flavors and recipes, something Seika enjoyed doing. She hummed to herself as she hung the sign that introduced her newest favor of coffee.

"Raspberry Mocha Latte?" the customer who just walked in, asked.

Seika nodded. "Yup, just finished perfecting it last night. Introducing it today to see how it sits with the customers."

The man grinned. "Sounds interesting. I'll take a cup."

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It was a success. Seika whistled to herself happily as the store's funds had doubled over the past two days. Raspberry Mocha Latte, she thought to herself. She wondered if something like Strawberry would be a hit too. Time to hit the kitchens and find out.

Drabble 07
Characters: Seika
List: 100 Themes: Eagle Court Edition
Item: 07. centerpiece

Seika was annoyed and frustrated. She was ready to tear out her hair, and call the whole thing off. The constant suggestions and endless probing from friends and family were slowly driving her insane. She wouldn't last another day like this.

Glaring at the source of her aggravation, Seika greatly considered not making them at all.

Centerpieces.

They are the root of all evil when planning a party (except for maybe the actual planning or writing invitations). Too many people wanted different things, and too many things were far too expensive. If she had it her way, there wouldn't be any in the first place!

"Trouble with the centerpieces?" Ita jokingly asked as he walked into the room.

Seika glared at him. "I like to see you try make a 100 of them."

Ita chuckled. "No thank you."

Seika grabbed him by the collar. "It wasn't a question. It's our wedding, and I'll be damn if I have to do all these centerpieces by myself, my dearest husband to be. Got it?"

Ita smiled nervously. "Of course dear." Looks like he just got roped into helping make centerpieces.

Drabbly 08
Characters: N/A
List: 100 Themes: Eagle Court Edition
Item: 08. patriotic

Red White and Blue
Soar high in the sky
Brightly colored flag
Fly

For Honor
For Glory
For Pride of the Nation

To be what you want to be
To be something you can be
To do what you think is right

To be a hero
To wear that medal
To follow proudly
To Understand
To Fight

Red White and Blue

Drabble 09
Characters: Black Angel
List: 100 Themes: Eagle Court Edition
List: 09. camera

Black eyed Asho curiously. "Asho... what are you doing?" she asked.

Asho circled around her, like a shark circling its prey. "Nothing," he replied.

"That isn't nothing Asho," Black snapped. He was starting to agitate her. She didn't like what he was doing. It was making her nervous.

"Oh come one Black. It's not that bad."

She reached out and snatched the object crushing it when her bare hands. " I. don't. like. cameras."

(I hope I'm not interrupting you, Seito! xD)
I still am not quite clear on the rules, but I've noticed some people have indeed posted in here, so I'm less nervous of posting. ^^;
Anyway, before I create my own drabble, I've got to clear one thing up before I probably break a rule right in half:

Are we just allowed to limit our drabble to ourselves only, except for comments? I mean, we're obviously allowed to post and post and post (for it's not spamming - technically it could be, but we're allowed to do that sort of thing here, I'm guessing). I guess I'd allow people join in on the drabble for themselves, yet I'd rather develop by myself...
xD I hope I make sense. :-/

Thanks! And sorry if I'm interrupting you. xD
xx Facade