Sweet Vengeance

Soft!

Garu opened his eyes lazily. It felt like days staying in the crummy crate with Tobe. Although, it had only been an hour. His gaze shifted to a curled up Tobe. He was snoring and muttering things in his sleep and his mask was folded neatly next to him. He thought of how lucky they were that none of them needed to use the bathroom, that would've been a disaster. But he was preparing for the worst, deep down inside he was afraid, but was determined to not let any of it show. His thoughts were soon wiped out when he felt the crate moving unsteadily. The now awake Tobe immediately got to his feet. "What the-!" before he could finish his sentence, the crate flipped to it's side, knocking the two ninjas over. Thunk!

Tobe groaned. The impact caused his sleek hair to become undone. His hair draped over his face and shoulders. Tobe noticed how the fall wasn't as bad as he thought it would be, the ground underneath him wasn't hard. He heard a pained grunt from underneath him. Tobe paused for a second, and in an instant shoved his hair way from his face. "GAH!" Tobe screamed, seeing as the other ninja was in a dazed state underneath him.

In a panic, Tobe lifted his upper body away from Garu and put his hands to his face. "Are you...Ok?" Tobe felt worried that the fall might have had a greater impact on Garu. "WAIT! What the hell am I saying-Why should I care about some weird uh, pigtailed...ninja, thing....I can't come up with a insult can I." He crossed his arms thinking about it. As Tobe rambled to himself, he didn't notice that Garu was awake. Garu felt like he should be embarrassed by this situation, but he wasn't. His hair is down, exactly like in the dream. Garu thought. Better than in the dream somehow, it's so well kept...I guess that's how one could describe it.

"That fall was hard. I can't even think of an insult for you. I can only imagine what that fall did to you-" Tobe fell silent as he watched Garu's hand reach out  to caress a lock of hair behind Tobe's ear. Garu didn't even notice what he was doing. Tobe didn't really know how to respond, but his face felt warm and so did his heart. "What did you..." Tobe asked quietly, his heart pounding.

Garu's eyes widened, he didn't realize how uncalled for his gesture was. Garu grinned and chuckled nervously and got up. "Soft." Garu stated awkwardly, as if to excuse why he did it, but shrunk back once he realized he just complimented him. Tobe was really flustered now, as he was gawking at a loss for words. "I-! Well! Don't!....Touch it often. You can! But...!GAH!!!" Tobe pulled out ninja stars from his clothes in a fret. He felt threatened.

He quickly threw them at the other ninja. Garu yelped and ran into a wall. This only made the stars staple his clothes to the wall. "And stay there! Next time it will be your face." Tobe declared. "You can do as you please when I say so. Understand?" He yelled. Garu nodded furiously. He really didn't mean to perturb Tobe. "Good." Tobe muttered, tying his hair back in place. Garu couldn't help but feel a bit giddy and marvel at the other ninja. He sighed. wow...
He didn't usually feel this way during battle.