Sandy, Bloody, Cookie Sweet Love

Chapter 15

Mizumii's POV

As me and Gaara walked out of the hospital we noticed it was still daytime out.

"What time is it?" Gaara asked, he had lost track of time.

"Wow, It's almost noon" I answered, looking at the sun's position in the sky.

"Wanna go get some ramen?" Gaara asked, with a slight blush on his face.

"S-sure" I said, with a slight blush on my face as well. We got to Ichiraku Ramen, mine and Naruto's favorite ramen shop.

"Well well Mizumii, it's been awhile since you've blessed us with your presence. And who may I ask is this young man?" The old guy said, he loved me right to death, like his granddaughter, and because of my deep pockets.

"This is my friend Gaara, he's from Sand Village" I said.

"Oh well you better be glad you made it here before the lunch rush." Said the old man's daughter, I thought she was really pretty and told her that almost every time I came here.

"Well it looks like you still haven't changed, you're still the prettiest female in the village" I said, and I meant it too.

"Why thank you Mizumii, but that's not true, I know a certain neko who's the prettiest in the village." She said right back. We started arguing over which one was prettier, her or me, I kept saying she was and she kept saying I was.

"Do they always do this?" Gaara asked, a little confused.

"Yep, every time Mizumii calls her pretty they get in this argument, Mizumii usually wins because Naruto is with her. But I'm interested to see if you even do anything." Gaara stepped in.

"Why don't we just say one's the prettiest and one's the cutest" It wasn't really a bad idea, until we started back where we were, not even bothering with the cutest idea.

"I think I made it worse" Gaara sighed.

"I think so" the old guy said. "Well I already know what she wants because her first bowl has been the same forever since she started coming here. What would you like?"

"I'll have miso with pork please." Gaara said, and the old man started it.

"Gaara, you choose. Who's the prettiest and who's the cutest?" I dragged him in and he knew he wasn't gonna get out of it.

"Well, I don't really have an opinion on her" He said pointing at the old guy's daughter. "and I still don't have a real opinion on you Mizumii" He was trying his best to get out of this.

"Fine then, why don't we just say we're both, that way we both win." The old guy dropped a pan and gasped.

"They ended in a draw!!!! It's a miracle." He was praising God as he worked on the ramen. He gave us our ramen and we started eating.

Gaara was on his second bowl when another bowl was put in front of me. He looked at me and saw like 20 bowls stacked already. Well, when he finished I had eaten like, 100 bowls. I looked at the man and he knew I was ready for my last bowl.

"This is a special one I made, tell me what you think of it Mizumii"

"Huh. you're eating another bowl?" Gaara said.

"Yeah I'm their taste tester. Before I leave they give me one of their new ramen recipes and I tell them what I think of them." I said this as he put a giant bowl between me and Gaara.

"Huh?" I said, he never did this before.

"My daughter thought that their should be a flavor for lover's. You two may only be friends, but this dish has to be eaten by two people" He said sighing after words. I looked at Gaara and we both started digging in. It was the last bite and me and Gaara didn't notice the noodle that connected Gaara's and my chopsticks, but the two ramen cooks did. I was sucking on this one noodle and Gaara was too.

Our lips met.

We opened our eyes and stared at each other, our faces so red it wasn't even describable. I let him have rest of the noodle and looked way. The two ramen cooks laughed at us and I glared at them.

"YOU KNEW DIDN'T YOU!!! WHY YOU LITTLE-" I stopped and calmed down, put the money on the counter said that this was one of their best flavors and left. Gaara was right behind me when I noticed Konohamaru run behind a corner. Then heard Ino's little laugh.

"Shit." I ran around the corner and saw Ino putting a picture in this album.

"Ino. What's that?"I asked, wide-eyed.

"Every pic of you and Gaara." She replied and her smile went even more devilish then it already was. Kiba turned the corner and Ino ran up to him, showing him the pics.

"Konohamaru took all the ones on this page didn't he?" Kiba asked.

"Yup, all the ones of their little lunch date"

"IT WASN'T A LUNCH DATE! Jeezum, can't to friends of the opposite gender eat lunch together and NOT have it be a lunch date?"

"Yeah, but I just needed to say that." Ino responded. She ran off with the album and Kiba was caught by the hospital ninja because he had snuck out of the hospital. Gaara looked at me and I blushed a little more.

"Wanna hang out tonight?" he asked, forgetting Konohamaru was there.

"Yes, I'd love too!" I said, I was so excited. "Wait.... should I dress casual or dressy?" I wanted to make sure I dressed right.

"Casual at first, bring something dressy to change into later though." Was how he replied.

"Ok" Was all I said and i went to go get ready for tonight.