The shy one (Pucca fanfic)

Chicken Spots

Sorry for the long wait. School's been a pain, but winter break has helped recover. Now enjoy this slightly longer chapter.

Garu was enjoying some peace and quiet (away from Pucca) by the edge of a cliff, relaxing at the sight of the ocean when Tobe decided to pay him a visit. It seems to be a routine between the two of them. They at least spar once a day (if not, thrice a day). The wind blowing and ocean water rising up to them from being splashed against the shore just made the scene more dramatic than it should be. Their faces grew more serious, string contest more tense. A second later, the two of them charge at each other, exchanging kicks and punches. They parted, but soon leaped into the air. Tobe got into a 'Crane Stunts' (or is it 'Crance stance'?), positioning his hands into claws in front of him while lifing one leg up as if he's going to send a kick. Garu didn't give Tobe enough time to perform his attack as he sent a kick to Tobe, making him face-plant the ground. Garu landed not too far from him, uninjured.

"*purrs* Tiger Stunts/stance," Tobe says, getting into the stance. But Garu simply kicked him again, sending Tobe to the edge, almost falling over to the raging waters below. Behind Garu, Tobe's men witness their masters beating and decided to avenge him. They all leaped into the air, and they're coming down, they formed a pyramid and called it, 'Lemming Stance.'

I'm pretty sure they meant to bulldoze Garu to the ground, but.....I think they missed? Garu didn't do anything to dodge and stood there as Tobe's men charged forward, missing Garu completely and jumped into the water. Tobe walked over to the edge, looking over it to see that his men have yet to rise out.

"You...you! Big Dummy!" Tobe insults Garu (with a high pitched voice) and runs away as quickly as he could. Someone's honor has been shamed. Garu looked at the direction his enemy went and simply walked away.

What they both didn't know was that they have an audience. No, I'm not talking about you (lovely) readers, I'm talking about the stalkers behind the bamboo not too far away from the 'fight'.

'Tobe failed to defeat Garu again!" Chief, a girl in a red-purple ninja outfit that has a little white X mark in the middle and her black hair in a ponytail, whines at her crushes defeat.

A jester with orange hair and possibly painted white face randomly brought out an umbrella and whacked Chief on the head with it while he said, "You think you could do better? Aik! (he says 'Aik' whenever he twitches) Go on, lets see it! *Chief slowly backs away* What's the matter? Chicken? Aik!"

"That's it! Chicken!" Shaman, a dude with grey skin and a chain thing on his back, says with realization. At least he's trying to help that poor-ninja-skilled Tobe instead of arguing.

~*~mini time skip~*~

I guess we're at the Vagabond Ninja Clan hideout (small clan, consisting Chief, Clown and Shaman. Image above is what it looks like). Shaman is in the middle of the area, doing a spell casting chicken dance (?) as me chants, "Pokidi! Pokidi! Pok Pok Pok! Pokidi! Pokidi! Pok Pok Pok! HO!" At the end of his hilarious chanting, the green glowing bubbly pot filled with mysterious ingredients started to light up. what came out is what appears to be a pinkish cloud in the shape of a chicken. It even made the 'pok-cak!' sound. The cloud disappear, and from the pot came a snake-like trail of spots.

"Go!" Shaman orders, making the spots leave the poit and head over to find its victim: Garu.

In the forest, Garu's walking all alone. The spots spotted him and picked up the pace, intending to catch and infect Garu. Garu seemed to sense something since he got his serious ninja face on. He turns towards a small puddle, noticing a grasshopper. The grasshopper leaps from the leaf it was on to Garu. Garu's face turned into an adorable smile at the grasshopper. Just as the spots were going to reach Garu, he bends down to pick up the grasshopper, unintentionally dodging the spots from getting him.