Naruto: The Jinchuuriki Princess

Ch7: Recognition and Amusement

As the sun was slowly rising to the sky, coloring the blue with a hint of orange with the night fading away, a new day had appeared for Konoha. People were already getting ready for the day, and shinobis, civilians, and children alike were beginning to wake up, or had already woken up. Today was also the day a certain Chiairi will be placed on a team, but.....

The Chiairi heiress was still asleep (of course).

'Aki-hime-chan~ Wake up, my little gaki~' Shiroukami soft, soothing voice whispered gently through Akimi's mind-scape, her voice echoing like a chime in the wind.

Akimi softly groaned, her face scrunching up slightly but then relaxed, her body shifting to the left side of the bed and sighed contentedly. "I don' wanna...." she drawled sleepily, long, dark-purple lashes brushing against her cheeks below her eyes.

A cloud of smoke suddenly appeared near the silverette's bed. When it dissipated, the two figures flanking on each side were Shiroukami and Asudo. The dragon-bijuu snorted quietly, leaning back on the wall behind him with his arms crossed as he closed his eyes. The wolf-bijuu felt a vein throbbing in her head as she leaned down until she was close to her jinchuuriki's face.

"Aki-hime, if you don't wake up right now, I'll have to use force if necessary!" Shiroukami warned the sleeping silverette, eyes narrowed as she tried to wake the sleeping heiress. Note: tried.

Akimi was still asleep, only a soft mumble of incoherent words before sighing and going back to sleep. Shiroukami felt more irk marks appearing in her forehead, while Asudo was slowly becoming amused with the situation but stayed impassive.

"Aki-hime," the angel-wolf started slowly, her voice low and soft. "If you don't wake up..."

Akimi's left eye opened slowly, showing hazy purple orbs that were half-asleep, staring at her bijuu's midnight-blue orbs, until...

"IF YOU DON'T WAKE UP, I'LL BURN ALL OF YOUR DANGO AND GREEN-TEA SUPPLIES!"

Almost instantaneously, like a switch had been flipped, Akimi jumped off of her bed and bolted out of the room with Shiroukami hot on her tail, still pissed at the Chiairi. Asudo remained where he was, slowly opening his half-lidded scarlet eyes filled with amusement.

"COME BACK HERE, AKI-DOBE! DON'T EVEN TRY TO HIDE IT!"

"WHAT?! NO! I WON'T LET YOU TOUCH THEM!"

A sound of something slippery echoed down stairs and the sound of a loud 'thud' followed after.

"ITTAI! DID YOU JUST USE SUITON TO WET THE FLOOR?!"

"Uh- NO I DIDN'T! Wait, no, I did. BUT DON'T USE KATON JUST BECAUSE I USED SUITON!"

"BAKA!"

Asudo sighed, shaking his head at his host and bijuu friend. There were times that he wondered how he had ended up with those two trouble-makers. 'But...' he unfolded his arms, resting on his sides as his lips twitched into a small, fond smile. 'They're the reason I'm here anyway.' He thought, chuckling silently.

•

Akimi walked to where the academy was with small faltered steps. Why was she wobbly, if anyone would ask? Well, the silverette had to run away from the wolf from burning her mask instead of her dango and green-tea supplies. She almost got burned by Shiroukami's katon and almost ran into a doton wall, created by the wolf, again. So she was nearly drained, not to forget she had just woke up only a few minutes before all of that fiasco had happened. After getting eating breakfast (and both females getting scolded by an angry Asudo wearing the same pink-fluffy apron, holding a flat ladle and waving it around menacingly at the two), Shiroukami threw a new stack of clothes for the silverette to wear, not giving time for her to decide.