Two artists |Araya x Inojin/Shikajin|

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It was early morning. The sun was shining and birds were singing. Everything was fine except Inojin who found himself in uncomfortable and weird situation. When he woke up he was almost lying on Araya whose head was resting on his. He blushed furiously. He didn't even know when exactly he fell asleep. His entire body was hurting because of that embarrassing position. He stand up and decided to wake up the other boy. He was still wearing a mask. Isn't it uncomfortable?

"He didn't take this off" he said to himself. Then he leanded to him. "Wake up, sleepy-head" he yelled and puppeter immediately got up.

"Sorry I didn't even noticed when I fell asleep" Araya claimed while stretching his hands.

"Neither did I. We were lucky we didn't get robed. We should be more careful." Inojin looked away.

"Yeah, you're right" he answered nervously. He remembered the evening. How could he fall asleep? That was too nice. The masked boy liked that but he would never say it out loud, especially in front of him. "W-we should go."

"Yes! I can't wait to take a bath!" he sighted and he heard Araya's laught. "What?" he asked angrily.

"It's nothing. You kinda remind me Yodo. That's all." He threw up his shoulders. "Come on, the sooner we leave the sooner we will arrive." he said while taking his all thing.

Yodo was that pretty girl who lost to Shikadai. In fact she is blonde as well but Inojin wasn't sure if he was anything like she.

"You're right. The exhibition begins in two days. We can't be late." Yamanaka agreed and took his things as well. He finally found his sketchbook but it was too late. He put it in the bag so they could leave. They were heading to the small Village but they weren't sure if they were going in the right direction, so Inojin took the map. "Hey, Araya, look..." he yelled excited almost scaring the other boy who leaned to him to see what does he mean. "The Yugakure is on our way. Do you think we could go there?" Inojin asked making puppy eyes. He wasn't sure if it works on him but he hoped it does. He sometimes did it to his father. And Araya... Well he couldn't deny this cute face.

"If we will be late it will be your fault" he said as he walked away.

"We won't" the blonde assured as he took one of his scroll. He painted giant bird. "I hope you aren't afraid of heights" he said and sat himself on his living drawing.

"What are you doing?" He stopped and turned to the blonde.

"Come on. Don't be like that. You can always hug me, if you are" he teased with his fake smile. "So...?"

"Okay..." he sighted, giving up as he climbed onto a bird. He didn't pay attention to his words. He didn't want to argue. "You're wasting your chakra."

"And you're wasting the air, so shut up" he hissed and rosed into the air.

Araya has never flown before. It was his first time. He was excited and scared a bit yet he didn't show it. It was amazing experiance. Inojin smiled and took the map again just to make sure were they are.

"We will be ealier than we expected. We can go sight-seeing, eat something and then go to the Hot Springs." he said happily and Araya knew that he had nothing to say about it, so he kept silent. "I'll take it as a agreement. We're speeding up. Be careful" he warned and the other boy nodded.

Shortly afterwards they were near the village mentioned earlier. In order not to attract attention, the boys jumped off the giant bird and headed for the gate where they were greeted by guards. These men were very nice and told them a bit about this town. They walked away from them.

"I'm hungry" Inojin complained. "Hey, how are you going to eat with that thing on your face?" he asked but was ignored by the other boy. "Nevermind, I'm going to get something to eat. Are you coming with me?"