First Impressions [Invite Only]

[Inuzuka Taiyo]

Taiyo could not recall the last big fight he had with Myou, hell he didn't think he ever had one to start with for that matter. The two of the had been at each other's side since Taiyo was eight years old thanks to his aunt. If it was up to his mother he wouldn't have gotten a dog until he was fifteen or something. In the long run he knew that he owed getting Myou was because of her and he always made sure to do whatever his aunt said to him when told. He would never harm or fight with Myou if he didn't have to.

After giving the kunia to Myou to hold in her mouth, the two of the took off following the scent of the flowers. It was tempting to follow the scent of the blood because it was over powering the scent of the flowers. Even when Taiyo was in the state he knew better than to lose the scent of the flowers over a scent that was more. Kiba has helped him and Myou on this a few months ago and that was hard training right there. Taiyo took in a deep breath when he landed on the tree branch and has Myou appeared in front of Meushi. He was not sure what the girl was planning, but this was how they gathered information, and the best way at the time too.

Myou smirked at Meushi has the kunia with the explosive tag hanged in her mouth has she appeared at Taiyo. She watched her closely not letting her out of her sight. That would mess up Taiyo's whole plan and she didn't want to be the blame of that.

Taiyo moved his hand into his pouch and pulled out anohter kunia and explosive tag at the moment. "Girlie girl, you are going to get it now. Me and Myou are no match for you and your petals." He whispered to himself, usually Myou was there to hear him so he didn't feel odd has if he was talking to himself. He tied the tag around the hole of the kunia and placed his left middle finger in the whole of it. He touched the tag and stored some chakra in it. Two could play who had the bigger bombs here at the moment.

He eached his other hand into and grabbed a few smoke bombs thinking of something right off the back of his head. He smacked himself in the head at the moment of not thinking about this earlier. He smirked slightly tho, he could still pull this off with Myou it was only about timing at the moment. He looked over his shoulder and noticed her holding her hands together. He took a deeper breath and smelt the chakra displacement. "Tag....again...damn it..."

This was by far the first really battle that he had ever been in. He had to admit that she was some points of fighting that he liked. He was also thinking that the two of the could be friends for the most part. She was tough and was not going to just quit because there was two of them, that was something that Taiyo could respect from her in the long run. Tho giving up for him was not going to be an option for him. He was in this until there was a clear winner of this and he knew that Myou was not going to allow him to give up like that either.

He was about to add fire to this little fire. He smirked some has she called out release. He threw his kunia he was holding towards the tree has well. Mid air he released the chakra. 'Release!" With the added smoke he threw down one smoke bomb where he was and threw the other in the last location of Myou and Meushi. "Myou! Now! Dynamic Marking!" He smirked some, he hoped that Meushi wouldn't mind some pee.

Myou transformed in the smoke back to her dog form and started to run in the smoke she took one good leap and spun around peeing on everything. This also helped with the small fire that cause between the explosive tags that just exploded. The one that she had in her mouth was still in her mouth at the moment.

As for Taiyo he jumped up into a high branch, and bent down on the branch. He was hoping that some pee go on Meushi, because they could track her by that scent instead of relaying on the blood and the flower scent that was being masked by the blood. "I hoped that worked Myou, if not well done anyways." He whispered to himself has he took in the smell looking for a moving target of the pee.

][like you did me, your call if Meushi got pee on her. XD Poor Meushi if she did.][

[Yamanaka Meushi]

::Yamanaka Meushi::

With this being her first major fight ever, Meushi didn’t have a benchmark to judge herself by. In her mind she didn’t think she was doing too well, having to be forced up against a corner and having to basically blow herself up to get out of it. Well, not literally of course, but as she released her chakra and set off the petal tags, she felt as if that was she was doing. All the smoke, fire, and debris that filled the air was just to close for her, and instead of giving her the time to run, she got caught up in it. Placing her arm against the tree to brace herself, she started to cough a little as she breathed in some of the dirt and dust.

She couldn’t give up so easily though. By this point she didn’t really care about the ‘Girly Girl’ moniker. No, this was a battle about something more. This entire fight had been on the two Inuzuka’s terms, with her just simply reacting to whatever they did. While those on the sidelines might think she was doing a good job, in her mind she was loosing this fight. There had to be something she could do to turn the tide of this fight, to get them running for the hills. By now the smoke was starting to clear, and if she just had a chance to….

”Dang it, they got explosives too,” she mumbled to herself as she braced herself for the Inuzuka’s own explosives.

There was a lot more smoke than she thought would come from the explosive tag, so she figured that they had thrown smoke bombs into the fray. The entire woods had just become one giant orgy of chaos and smoke, and she knew that she was on the loosing side of the situation. She couldn’t see, heck, she could barely breath with all the smoke. But the Inuzuka’s, they her flowery scent, blood, and sweat they could track her with. They could pinpoint her easily, and the two of them were still in relatively good shape.

She, on the other hand, was getting tired. Her chakra and petals were running low, and she must have looked like a mess by this point as well. All this smoke, blood, dirt and debris just had to be taking a toll on her skin, and she’d have to bathe for an hour to get it all off afterwards. If it weren’t for the fact that she felt her combat skills had been insulted, she would have probably quit long ago. On the bright side, what else could these two do to her? They already ‘blew her up’, smoked her, and cut her up some. It wasn’t as if they could do anything….

When Meushi felt a warm liquid running on her arm, she froze. For a moment she just stood there, letting the smell fill her nose up. Her face scrunched up for a moment as her brain processed what it was she had just been hit with. She didn’t turn her head an inch, not daring to confirm what it was that she had just been hit with, even if she knew exactly what it was. Apparently flowers had not been enough of a smell for the Inuzukas. Instead, they decided to, and she could not even believe this at all, pee on her!

In the pit of her stomach she felt strange, as if some force wanted to come out of it. It was a familiar feeling, one she had dealt with often in the past. She was supposed to have learned how to control this feeling, but they had just peed on her! Just this one, she felt justified in her rage, and she was going to let it all out on these two. So when the smoke and chaos began to clear out, she was just standing there, her hand stuffed firmly into her petal bag. She was glaring at the Inuzukas, or at least where she had last seen one. Her eyebrows were scrunched up into a scowl, and she was breathing rather hard.

”Look, I just wanted to have a nice, friendly battle over a nickname. You know, you throw some punches, I throw some punches, and we all have a nice laugh. I didn’t even mind the fact that we were getting blown up. It was all part of the fun. But you, you just HAD to PEE ON ME, didn’t you?! Out of all the options you had at your disposal, you choose to PEE ON ME! I can’t even comprehend how someone could have come up with such a…disgusting idea. You said I was a flower girl, and trust me, I’m going to give you some flowers.”

As her hand was already deep inside of her flower petal bag, it was easy for Meushi to begin sending chakra all throughout the soon to be weapons of mass destruction. Each one was being filled to the point with bursting with chakra, becoming stiff and durable enough to become shuriken. That was not all she planned on doing with them however. Being peed on was not to be met with simple shuriken. Oh no, it had to be met with shuriken with explosion notes. While she obviously could not attach notes to flower petals, she could charge them up with chakra to get the same effect, if a bit weaker.

Pulling out a handful of them, she began to slip them into her free hand and letting them fly. Within seconds the petals began to fly towards the last location she had seen the Inuzuka, and even the slightest movement she saw she considered to be one of them. Upon contact with the trees, they stuck before blowing up and sending splinters and smoke everywhere. This wasn’t going to stop her, however. These two had to pay for being such indecent and disgusting ninja.

In her moment of rage, however, she failed to keep an eye on the amount of petals and chakra she had. Each anger-filled handful of petals thrown drained her more and more of her resources, until soon enough the bag was empty. She was obviously tired out, panting heavily and looking as if she could barely stand up. Still, she was determined to get these guys one way or another, and so she stuck her shaking hand into the bag, freezing when she found there was none.

That was it, she was done for. She was out of petals, and the absolute draining feeling she had told her she had no chakra to give. It would have been mad for her to continue to fight now as it would put her in serious danger (it didn’t phase her that throwing explosives everywhere was probably more dangerous). There was no choice for her but to simply collapse against the tree, her back scratching against the bark as she slid down onto the ground.

”Okay Taiyo, I think it’s safe to say I’m done. You win, go ahead and call me Girly Girl,” she said in between her deep breathing as she tried to catch her breath.

[Inuzuka Taiyo]

Taiyo watched when all the explosions went off. He just hoped that Myou got out of there in time. There was no need for her to get hurt by all those explosives because some people liked to throw them. When the smoke smell reached his noise from his spot in the tree, it was kinda strong and he had to cover his mouth and noise from it. He coughed slightly, with a little bit of tear in his eyes. "....Smoke bombs with explosive tags are not a good mix..." He coughed a bit more and noticed a branch that was out of the thickness of this mess. He jumped towards it.

His hand reached out to grab the branch only to slip and fall against another one that was hiden by the smoke. He landed stomach first on it. The blow knocked the wind out of him has he gasp for breath, pain shot from his rib cage, this was by far the worse pain that he had experienced in his life time, and all because of a simple mistake on his part. He started to cough again has the smoke from the smoke bomb and explosives started to fill his lungs again.

He went to stand up on the branch, but because of not being able to see, his foot slipped and he tumbled head first onto the ground below. He fell backwards onto his back wincing from the pain in his head now to. This was not his day off all days. The fight was going good in his flavor until all this happened. At this point in time he had no clue what was going on or where Myou was.

Taiyo slowly started to come to his senses and coughed some more, it was then he heard Meushi shouting off about something. He shock his head slightly and winced some has she went on her little rant about Myou pissing on her. He smirked slightly to himself. "Haha, finally got the target for that one Myou...." He was shocked, that had never worked on Kiba or anyone else that he trained with. It always missed, he was both pride of Myou and scared of Meushi at the moment. He knew he would have to say sorry in the long run to her for this little bit. It wasn't fair has she placed it, and in a way he agree. He did make a note not to do that again with her in a battle there was no need for her to being that mad at him for something.

He slowly sat up and placed his right hand around his ribs and rubbed them slightly. They still hurt and he was sure that they was bruised and was going to be sore for a few days. He placed his right finger into his mouth and blew a low pitch whistle for Myou to hear him and come. This would allow him to know where Myou was without giving away his location.

Myou looked up, she smelt the moving target now. She wanted nothing more than to go bite her in this smoke. The only thing that stopped her was the whistle Taiyo did. She sniffed slightly and ran into his direction in the smoke. She ran her head over his hand when she came up to him.

Taiyo smiled and petted Myou's head. Their little victory tho was about to end when he heard something flying towards them. He blinked slightly and quickly grabbed a kunia from his holster. He went to stand up but fell onto his rear end once more. "Damn it...that fall took more out of me than what I thought." He used his left hand and pushed Myou behind him so she couldn't be hurt by whatever it was that soaring at them. Since the smell of urine was strong at the moment he could not smell out the chakra due to the smoke, tho it was slowly clearing away.

As one shuriken petal came flying at his head he knocked it back with his kunia. '....Man...I really ticked her off.....I could offer her some...lunch tho...I am sure my mom wont mind sneaking us some food from the restaurant." Another one came flying and catching him in the left shoulder. He bite down on his lip rather heard. This was starting to be a tough situation for Taiyo seeing how he didn't want Myou to be hurt, because she could not block these attack and they had some kick to them.

It was only with the first one to hit a tree that he realized that she had tied some tags to the petals. He shielded his eyes from the blast has more smoke filled his lungs and he started to cough. He heard Myou whimper behind him. He had to protect her in the long run. He quickly unzipped his jacket and threw it behind him over her. "Stay under there Myou...." As the last petal explosive exploded in the near by tree Taiyo shielded his eyes from the blast and held his breath.

Once he was sure that was the last one and the smoke from around them cleared he looked up and say Meushi not more than fifteen feet from him. He smiled and stood up slowly, she had proved her worth to him. He would drop the nickname for now. He grabbed his jacket off of Myou and walked over to her. There was blood running down his arm from being hit with the petal, but he didn't care at the moment.

He sat down in front of her. Myou slowly stalked over to Taiyo's side and watched the girl for a moment. She looked up to Taiyo and whimpered slightly again. She walked closer to Meushi and licked her hand slightly.

Taiyo watched Myou and smiled. "Look she warming up to you know." He looked over to the blonde ninja. "Sorry, every time we practiced that move it never seemed to hit its target before, I didn't think it would either today. I was wrong. And I don't know what nickname you are talking about calling you." He smirked slightly and looked up towards the tree branches slightly. "That was a good match, Meushi. How about lunch? I am sure my mother can get us something from the restaurant that she works at."

[Yamanaka Meushi]

::Yamanaka Meushi::

Even within her rage, Meushi was able to notice that the Inuzuka boy had fallen out of a tree at some point (she wasn’t exactly sure when due to all the smoke). She gave a slightly sadistic grin at the thought, thinking that karma had gotten to him before she did. Still, it wasn’t enough to satisfy her, so she continued onwards with her petals. The first few apparently failed to explode, which wasn’t that surprising since in her rage her chakra control wouldn’t be that great. After that, however, it seemed that they worked, and so until that bag went empty she was facing down a cloud of dust and dirt.

Of course, she was rather close to it, and her aim started to falter as the smoke blocked her vision and messed with her eyes and nose. Her eyes even started to burn a little, with a slight amount of tears forming around them. It wasn’t until her bag was out, and she admitted defeat, that she was able to close her eyes off and protect them. She kept them closed off until everything went quiet, except for the sounds of movement. It would be safe to assume that it was Taiyo, probably coming over to gloat over his victory. Meushi didn’t care, however. Even someone who could be as stubborn as him could agree she wasn’t something to mess with, at least when she lost her temper.

What actually occurred, however, threw her off guard a little. There was a warm, wet feeling on her hand, and when she opened her eyes she was able to see what it was. Myou was giving her friendly lick on the hand, rather odd since earlier she wouldn’t even look at her. Wanting to be nice in return, she moved her hand onto the top of the dog and started to scratch behind her ear. Somewhere along the line she had heard that they were supposed to like that.

Taiyo’s speaking finally broke her concentration on the dog, and that was the first time she noticed his arm bleeding. Although she didn’t like the fact she had lost her temper and tried to blow him up, she couldn’t help but feel a little proud she had actually hit him and caused such a wound. Apparently the petals had a lot more punch then she thought. She couldn’t wait to see what would happen when her parents would teach her how to do a similar jutsu with entire flowers.

When he feigned ignorance of the nickname, however, Meushi had to give him a bit of a smile. She gave a small laugh, but then coughed a little afterwards. Apparently she hadn’t quite gotten over the smoke yet, though she knew she’d probably be fine after awhile.

”Lucky for me then that I got to be your first successful target, though I guess since I tried to blow you up afterwards it wasn’t that lucky. I am sorry for that though. I’ve had some, uhm, anger management issues in the past. Just don’t do it again to me please. It really is disgusting.”

She listened quietly when he brought up the idea of going to his mother’s restaurant for lunch. It was tempting to make a joke about a date just to mess with him, but she’d let him off this time. Had to make up for trying to wipe him off the face of the earth somehow, right? Besides, he didn't seem to like it that much when she did a similar joke earlier.

Before she gave him a response, however, she finally realized she had a chance to analyze the damage done to herself from the fight. A quick look over of her clothes showed that they would need serious washing. Smoke and dust made a nice layer of grime all over her, with small tears here and there that were probably caused by flying debris. Even if she couldn’t see it, her hair was probably a mess and hopelessly tangled. It would take hours to get it all combed out. All that didn’t even take into account the scratches they gave her earlier, and the fact her hands were still blood-stained from her plan earlier.

There was absolutely no way she could go out in public like this. She would have to go home first and clean up, even just a little bit. Some new clothes, washing her hands, some basic hair management. It would be a good hour or so before she felt ready to go somewhere like a restaurant. Still, it would be rather rude of her to reject the offer, and after spending so much chakra on explosive petals she was starved and couldn’t wait to eat. So maybe they could just eat somewhere far away from people?

”Personally, I don’t think I look all that great right now, so if you don’t mind could we not go eat at a restaurant. I’d rather just eat somewhere out here, unless you want to wait an hour or two for me to clean myself up, but I assume neither of us wants that.”

[Inuzuka Taiyo]

Taiyo was in some major pain because of his side, his cut arm at the moment was not the start of his problems. He knew that his side was going to be bruised for the most part. He was unsure how exactly how he missed that branch. He wondered what his cousin would have thought when he found out about this, it was not going to be good for him, but really it was his first serious match outside of the academy and he did get the upper hand on the girl in front of him.

He listened carefully towards her words about not doing that again. He nodded slightly, it wouldn't really be good if he pissed her off again like that, and he would most likely be in trouble with their sensei and the other girl has well. He sighed slightly thinking about how the first session was going to go. There was two girls on his team, the only good thing about it was that their sensei happened to be a guy. That was the best thing he heard when they got their team assignment. He won't want to be on a team with nothing but girls.

"I am sorry about there, it wont happened again Meushi." He smiled at her, he was serious with her. There was no reason not to. He reached over and petted Myou's back slightly. "I know that most people likes to give dogs treats and all, but if you ever do have treats for her don't allow her to pig out on them. She can get rather moody when she wants more." He looked back up to her and smiled some more. He could see them being friends in the long run.

When she talked about waiting and then getting lunch, he groaned slightly. He heard his stomach growl slightly and he looked down. That was not going to do for him. He wanted food now and not to wait. Then she suggested that they go get the food and come back out here and eat. That would suit him, that why they could get out of the area and get some fresh air. "That will work for me."

He stood up and looked at his arm that at stopped bleeding now. There was dry blood on it, he knew his mother would freak if she saw this. He grabbed his jacket and placed it back on and zipped it up. He did feel rather comfortable in his jacket than outside of it. He looked down to Myou who seemed to be pouting up at him to pick her up. He rolled his eyes slightly and bent down and picked her up. He winced slightly. "What I do for you..." He said with a laugh has he sat her on his head, not wanting to set her in his jacket because of his ribs.

He started to walk off in the direction of the village. He knew that she would follow him, she wanted food too right? He ran through the menu inside of his head, trying to recall what exactly was on the menu. He should know this because he helped her out sometimes in there when he was not exactly busy with other things.

[Yamanaka Meushi]

::Yamanaka Meushi::

”It better not…” she replied with an angry glare and lowered voice, though she couldn’t keep it long before she broke out into a giggling fit. She had a temper, but once it was gone she couldn’t get away with faking anger. For her, it just made her look silly, and she couldn’t keep a straight face.

”I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I don’t do fake anger very well. But still, don’t do that again. If you have to use that jutsu, just make sure I’m perfectly cleared cause even if I don’t go after you in battle, I’ll find away to get back at you.”

She sat and watched as Taiyo petted Myou, and listened as he told her about the treats. Never having a dog before, Meushi obviously didn’t have any treats on her. So if the dog wanted some, she’d have to wait awhile for it. Though she really didn’t understand what he meant about the moody thing. Not letting her pig out was something Meushi could understand, but would the dog really get that upset over not getting some treats? Inuzuka’s were the dog-trainers supreme, so she’d have to take his word on it.

”Got it. No spoiling your dog with dog treats…unless he’s not around, right Myou?” she replied with a small laugh as she continued to pet the dog. It was just a playful comment, though it was a little serious. A dog like this deserved to get spoiled every once in awhile, and if the boy wasn’t going to do it, she was glad to step in for that role.

She was glad to hear he was fine eating away from the village, which greatly relieved Meushi. No one would have to see her in such a banged up state, except for actually going to the restaurant. A quick dash wasn’t that bad though since most people would just see her as a weird yellow-purple blur as she walked by. Taiyou would have to actually get the food though, because she didn’t dare stand in line like this.

As Taiyo settled Myou into a comfortable state on his head, Meushi picked herself up from the branch and gave one last glance over. Her backside was cleaner than her front since it hadn’t been facing the smoke and explosions. It was more dirt-covered than anything, so she started to wipe herself down to get it off. While it wouldn’t get her completely clean, it would help things out a little bit. Once she was done she looked up and saw that Taiyo had ran off without her. She grumbled a little bit before jumping down and running off after him.

”It’s rather rude to leave a girl behind like that you know.” she yelled out as she caught up to him, ”If you’re going to be on a team with two girls you have got to learn some manners, especially since Hanabi is a Hyuuga. Being part of that clan, she probably has them memorized as thoroughly as the ninja code.”

After giving him a little rant on manners, Meushi slowed down into a gentle walk next to him. She kept her distance a bit, since she knew of the spying eyes around Konoha that were just waiting for the latest gossip. Of course, she was one of these said spies, but there were others out there would freak at her and Taiyo walking close together. Since she was sure neither of them wanted to become the day’s gossip, she was going to do her best to keep her distance and behavior to that of an acquaintance. As she thought about that, however, another thought popped into her head.

”Hey, what kind of food does your mom make anyway? If it’s something like ribs or something equally messy, I’m going to have to pass on it. I might just get a salad or something like that anyway so I guess it’s not that big of a deal…”

[Inuzuka Taiyo]

Taiyo grinned when Meushi went on her little rant about how she had a hard time of faking angry. After her little scene when they first used the move on her, honesty he didn't want to find out what would happened to either of them if they did it again. He made a little note inside of his head to try and stay on Meushi's good side for now on. There was no need to feel the wrath of Tsume who would place her to shame any day, but now that he was working with a hot head like his aunt he would make sure that he keep his nose out of trouble around this flower girl.

"Yea, yea. Don't piss on you because you would seriously hurt us. I hear yea." He would have his mother take a look at his side a bit later tonight when he got home. It was slowly numbing so he didn't feel that sharp pains in his side now. The hit from the flower petal was hurting to but not has much has his side at the moment. Plus he was not really going to show Meushi exactly how much pain he was in. He didn't want her to think that he could not take a few bumps and bruises in a spar.

He growled at her when she said the lines that she would give Myou some treat. He did spoil Myou and the pup knew it. He didn't knee Myou getting sick from a girl that didn't kow how to take care of animals. "I am warning you don't. I don't need her getting sick because she ate to much." He would have to worry about getting told off from his cousin Hana, Kiba and worse of all his aunt and that was something that he was not looking forward to and if that happened he was going to snap at the person that made Myou sick in the first place. It was not right in the long run that he got punished for something someone else did right?

The next thing that he heard from her mouth was the fact about his manners. He sighed slightly and barely paid attention to her. Who did she think she was giving him a lecture about his manners. 'Geez, you can be annoying most of the time with all these rules and such. Take a break and don't be Hanabi. If she wants to scold me because of my manners so be it. Just don't act like her, because you want to be like her. Man why do girls have to be so annoying about manners and such. Its not like you girls show manners to us boys." Why should he show something that he didn't get back in return.

Taiyo shoved his hands into his pocket as the girl finally caught up to him. He was not show what exactly was going on in the girl's head but he thought best to make sure there was some space between them. From what he heard about the Yamanaka they was nothing but gossipers and the last thing he wanted was the girl next to him making up rumors that he liked her some how when all he did was kinda found her annoying with her little rants towards him and Myou.

He blinked when she asked what kind of food was at his mother's restaurant. He smirked when she started to talk about ribs and a salad. He looked over to her slowly his smirk was only growing. "What figure are you trying to maintain? Doesn't look like you have much of one." Oh he knew he was being rather cruel here but that was just how he was in the long run. "Lets see there are ribs, ramen, sushi. and such." He shrugged some. "Mostly any and everything she serves."

[Yamanaka Meushi]

::Yamanaka Meushi::

Meushi noticed Taiyo grinning after she mentioned her inability to fake being angry. It was probably because of the irony that she couldn’t fake anger, but had such a massive temper. Even she thought it was a rather interesting take on her personality to be so ‘gifted’ in real anger, but a failure at faking it. Maybe it was just the universe’s way of balancing things out.

”Good to hear that. You keep that in mind and I’m sure we’ll get along fine.” she said before giving him a friendly smile, hoping that acting cheerful would get him to lighten up a bit. He always seemed so grumpy, and she couldn’t stand being around grumpy people.

Of course that seemed to have failed because when she joked about spoiling Myou, he growled at her. What kind of guy growls at someone? Then again, the Inuzuka were so close to their dogs they might as well been born dogs, so it wasn’t that surprising. Still, he growled at her over wanting to just spoil Myou some. He didn’t have to take everything about that dog so seriously.

”Alright, I get it. But I’m smart enough to not over feed a dog you know. It’s just like a flower; if you give them too much water they drown and die. You really need to lighten up a bit.” she replied, an almost lecturing-like tone to her voice.

She knew she lectured a lot, but this kid seemed like the kind of person who really need it. Just about everything she said he turned into some kind of big deal and then chastised her for it. About the only thing she thought she had said that probably deserved it was her calling him ‘little’ earlier. But everything else it seemed he just wanted to turn into some mean, evil comment on her part. It was rather annoying.

Of course, it never occurred to her that her constant lecturing of him could get on his nerves, so when he started to rant on about the manners thing she wasn’t too sure what the big deal was. All she had said was he needed to learn to be a bit more considerate around them, like not leaving them behind for example. It wasn’t as if she had expected him to be bowing to them and using honorifics and treading on eggshells around girls. And what was that about girls not showing manners to boys? She thought she had been rather polite, minus the explosions. She even let him have the first move of the fight for crying out loud.

”Hey, I’m not the one who ran off without waiting for the other person to get ready. What you call ‘rules’ I call common decency. And I don’t want to be like Hanabi, thank you very much. I was just trying to point out she might have an even higher standard of conduct than me that she might expect you to follow. It was just some friendly advice. Of course, apparently every word I say to you is an insult or stupid or rude in your mind.”

Now that she was done with her own little rant, she crossed her arms and just walked in silence. At this point she really didn’t want to talk to this stubborn idiot, and would have left right then and there if it wasn’t for the promise of lunch. And even the appeal of free food was starting to wear thin if it meant having to eat it with him around. It would probably be rather unpleasant if this kept up, so she just hoped from this point on that they could just agree to stop talking. It was about the only way she could see the two of them get along.

And then he said it. The one thing that would probably make her more upset than getting peed on by Myou. He had insulted her looks by saying she had no figure. She just kind of stopped moving at that point, and for a moment it looked like she was going to burst out in anger at the comment. Her fist were clenched, and she was giving him a rather dirty look. She took a rather deep breath, letting it all out through the nose in a huff, sort of like how a bull acts before it charges. It happened a second time, except she had her eyes closed this time around. When they opened, they looked calmer, her body loosened up as she gave him a grin.

”For now, I’m going to act like you didn’t just say that. I want to be able to eat this lunch in peace, but be assured that somehow, someway I will get you for that. You won’t know where, and you won’t know when, but I will get my revenge. Now then, let’s go see about that lunch, okay.”

She finished with a smile, perfectly aware that she had just threatened him and then asked him about lunch. In an odd way he had upset her so much that she had just went back to a calm and happy state of mind. But as she followed him towards the restaurant, the wheels in her mind were already working on a revenge plan. Whatever she did, it was going to have to be big, something that would really tick him off and embarrass him to no end.

[Inuzuka Taiyo]

Taiyo had no choice but to listen to her once more, he found himself not caring what she said about her angry and getting pee on. It was not his problem if she was accidentally hit by Myou's skill in a fight and he would make that clear to her next time they spared or was in a battle with someone and Myou peed on her. Stay out of his way for the most part and things would become rather simple in the long run. The Inuzuka had one partner and that was their dog partners. He didn't understand why he was place under the teaching care of Kiba, Hana, or even Tsume and why he exactly had to learn how to learn about team work with other humans. He would much preferred training alone with Myou for the most part.

He dismissed her words not caring to drag all this out anymore about her angry. If she showed it, she showed it. It was really no concern of his in the long. He heard Myou give a bark slightly about something and he looked up and saw some younger kids on the training ground. He smirked up and looked up to Myou and reached up and petted her head. "Not now Myou, we are going to to go and get something to eat from Moma. She might treat you to something good there."

He looked back at her has she ranted on about how a flower was this and that. He didn't understand anything really that came out of her mouth about flowers for the most part. It was not something that he actually look forward to hearing about. It was about time that she shut up about all this stuff it was starting to give him an headache. He brought down his hand and covered his mouth in a yawn has he turned his attention back ahead of him so they didn't get lost on the walk to the restaurant. That would not turn out to be a good thing if that happened and he was sure that the girl behind him would yell and complain more to him and that was not one thing that he needed right now.

"No offense but, I really don't get what you are talking about with the flowers. You might be into all that girlie things like well your whole family. Even your dad is a bit weird for liking flowers to much. Most of the time their smell are to strong and they seriously don't look one bit interesting, so maybe you should over water them maybe that would kill all that nasty scent coming from them." Myou looked down to Taiyo and tapped him on his forehead with her paw slightly and barked some. "Huh even Myou agrees with me on that point." He smirked slightly up at Myou.

He did hold Meushi in some respect but the more and more she ranted about things to him the more he just got annoyed with him about things. He had never really been one to be around girls for long not even for just a play session of the shorts. He had Hana but she was always busy with her animal clinic and dealing the Kiba and Tsume. He had Tsume but she was only given some sort of nasty lesson to him that he wanted to run away from. His mother was always busy working at the restaurant so his time with her was always cut short for something. Now that he would be making money from these missions he could help his mother out some more.

He turned around fully to her and stopped in his tracks, when she talked about standards that Hanabi would have for him. "Look here Meushi. The only standards I have to live up to is that of my own. I don't have to change my whole out look because a few girls want me to live up to the standards that you seem to have for me or Myou. If I change myself for some girls, that what is that showing people who I am? I am not some animal that you can snap and get your way with."

He watched her stop in her own tracks after telling her that she had no figure what so ever. He was expecting a punch in the face for that and he was ready for it. He would try to protect Myou and his face has best has he could for the most part. He blinked when that punch that didn't come and he only got a little rant that pay back was coming. He knew now that he could not let his guard down around this flower girl something he planned on doing.

He turned around and placed his hands in his pocket. He was not sure if she was still going to following him or just dart off because of his words towards her. True he seemed like he was just barking up a storm with everything that had happened but it just seemed to him that everything he did and say was just wrong in some way. He hated that feeling that he was being looked down upon like this and he wanted to change things, but he was not going to roll over and do what she wanted him to do, that was not earning respect that was just bowing down towards other people wants. He slowly kept on walking towards the village thinking slightly to himself.

[Yamanaka Meushi]

::Yamanaka Meushi::

This kid just simply didn’t get it, did he? He just didn’t seem to understand a word of Meushi’s talk, did he? For once she tried to be sympathetic, letting him know she had an understanding about overdoing something and therefore ruining something close to her. What does he do in response? Mock not only her and her flowers, but her entire family! So what if her dad enjoyed flowers and growing them? It didn’t mean he was girly. Heck, many of the flowers he grew were later used for poisons (such as the Wolfsbane she wasn’t allowed to touch). Yeah, she bet Taiyo wouldn’t be calling them girly after getting a drink laced with that stuff. Of course, she wasn’t that violent; she wanted revenge, but she wasn’t going to kill the poor kid.

Meushi out a sigh, and then just lowered her head as if she was just ashamed at Taiyo (which was true). But as she started to talk, one could see she was just starting to get a bit tired of all this. Still, there was a small hint of frustration in their as well. For a moment she had thought about giving him an evil glare, but so far she had done it so often in this conversation she was starting to think it might just cause her to get wrinkles on her brow and forehead. Taiyo was a jerk, and she was mad, but she wasn’t going to risk looking like she was fifty (an exaggeration if there ever was one) just to make her look angrier.

”You know Taiyo, that is exactly what I was talking about with your manners. I just told you that I understood what you meant about overfeeding dogs by comparing them to flowers. I was trying to be sympathetic about it, but you insist in insulting not only me, but my entire family,” Meushi now looked up at him, keeping the tired and frustrated look on her face as she crossed her arms in front of her,”Do you understand that what dogs are to the Inuzukas, flowers are to us Yamanakas? How would you feel if I insulted Myou and said that she should die because she smelled nasty? Which she doesn’t, by the way. I actually think she’s a rather adorable looking dog.”

The stupidity continued as the boy twisted around her words about manners into some kind of rant about how he wasn’t going to change for nobody. As far as Meushi knew, she wasn’t implying such things. Really, she had no clue where he had gotten that from. All she had asked for was that he stopped acting like such a jerk and actually try to act nice. Instead, he starts acting like being polite was akin to surrendering his identity and being her and Hanabi’s pet. Brushing away some of her hair, she placed a hand on her hip and just let the other one fall to her side.

”Now look here, I’m not trying to turn you into some kind of trained pet or anything like that. All I originally meant was at least having the patience to wait for the person you’re having lunch with to get ready. After that, I just suggested you could at least stop being so…so…I’m not even sure what to describe you. Jerk would be a good word I believe. I mean, right off the bat, before you even knew me, your were calling me names and stuff. And just a minute ago you insulted me and my family. And that doesn’t even include the comment about my figure, or as you imply my lack of one,” she gave him a glare to end the sentence.

With her piece finally said and done, Meushi wasn’t sure what to do. On the one hand, there was still a chance to get some lunch, and all this ranting and yelling was making her even hungrier than before. But in order to get that lunch, she had to keep hanging out with this kid. The pure amount of stress she was suffering from talking with him was going to cause some serious aging issues. She’d feel like she was fifty years old before long, and with all the glares, having the wrinkles to match. Brushing her hand through her hair, pushing some of it away so a golden curtain wasn’t blocking her view, she decided to follow him. Even if Taiyo was a punk, there was something about the fact he was being so stubborn that annoyed her. She was usually great at talking with others, but this kid was like the prey that got away. So while she knew later on she was going to get him, for now she was concerned on getting him to at least treat her decently.

[Inuzuka Taiyo]

Taiyo knew that he insulted her family when he said that but frankly this girl was trying to annoy him or at lease try and boss him around. He hated to be boss around when it came to things or when people was the same age as him. It was not fair in the long run of things when they did. He just didn't like to be bossed around when it came to things, sure he listened to his mother and aunt because he respected them even if he didn't show it. Now talking to Meushi he knew he had better start showing it towards at least them now.

He yawned just when she started her little rant again. He placed his finger up to the flap of his left ear and pushed it down onto his ear. At lease now he didn't have to completely hear her little rant about things. He turned around and looked at for a moment tho, there was a small apologic grin on his face after she finished with her rant. He knew that he had crossed the line and he was not above saying sorry for that, it was the right thing to do. Plus she was bond to get him back from insulting her figure before, why make things works for now.

"Sorry, Meushi," Taiyo said and yawned slightly to himself. "I don't know much about flowers, never had a interest in them from the start. Tho I can tell by the way you act that you are going to pound some flower knowledge into my skull one way or another and there will be no way around that. Guess we are getting on the wrong foot here, which is not that good seeing how that we are team mates." At lease he was trying to make things right.

Myou growled slightly whe Meushi started to talk about her. There was no need for Meushi to drag her down into this little fight. She knew to stay out of things when it came down to insulting people. She buried her head into Taiyo's jacket refusing to look at Meushi for now.

Another round of a rant came from Meushi, and Taiyo could not help but to wonder if all girls was exactly like here. He was not sure how Hanabi was going to act to him or Myou but if this was how Meushi acted just because he thought he would lead them to where his mother worked and yelled about his manners and such things was going to go down hill right off the bat. He sighed slightly trying to think exactly what to do to get her off his case about all this. He would allow the jerk comment slide because he would admit that he was being one right about now and there was nothing really he could do about it. He was raised mostly by his aunt who yelled and made a point to insult just about everything around her.

He took a deep breath for a moment and looked down to Myou. "Once again, Sorry Meushi. Being around girls is never something I really had to experience before now. Even my friends in the academy was mostly guys. The only girls beside my mother I know really are my cousin Hana and aunt Tsume. It just never came into play into now." He had said sorry twice now and it was not like him to do that. He sighed slightly and rubbed the back of his head for a moment.

He looked around when they both fell silent. He didn't think that she wanted to get lunch now, but he was not about to withdraw his offer either. If he did that that would only prove exactly what kind of jerk that he was, and that was something that he didn't think his mother would let slip pass. He closed his eyes for a moment before looking back to her with a smile on his face. "Come on Meushi, lets go get lunch now." He was not really giving her a choice either here. He wanted to prove to her that he could be decent once in a while.

[Yamanaka Meushi]

::Yamanaka Meushi::

Meushi noticed that Taiyo was trying to block out her ranting, which lead her to speak just a little bit louder. She wasn’t going to let him back out of it so easily. Though when she was done speaking, she expected him to go right back to insulting her. What he did instead was a rather shocking twist; he apologized! She stopped right in her ranting tracks, and just looked dumbstruck. Her mouth was agape, but no sounds were coming out of it. She even lost her aggressive and standoffish stance, and just looked at him confused and not sure what to do.

”Uhm, yeah, uh, thanks for the apology?” she replied, voice showing her utter cluelessness in how to respond to his sudden change in personality.

Moving onwards to his reaction from her other rants, she found herself in the same exact position. He was apologizing for his actions, and he actually looked like he meant it. This time Meushi’s confusion started to turn into a bit of a playful smile as she realized that Taiyo seemed to have finally begun to understand what she was talking about. Being considerate of others and even apologizing for messing up! This was exactly the kind of behavior she had been hoping that he’d be displaying now. He even wanted to make a fresh start between them. Meushi was absolutely beaming about it, and her next reaction was going to show just how much she actually enjoying this.

Rushing right at him, she threw her arms around in a playful hug. Squeezing him for a moment, she started to talk, and then remembered Myou was still in his jacket. She loosened up some so the dog wouldn’t get crushed, but then went right back to what she was doing. Her head was on his shoulder, so when she began to talk she hoped she would have been loud and clear. There was a light reddening to her face as she realized that this was probably a really embarrassing position right now for the both of them, but in that moment of joy at his epiphany she didn’t consider that. It was too late now though; Taiyo was going to have to suffer being hugged by Meushi for a moment.

”Now you seem to get what I was saying. That’s all I really wanted was an apology and for to, well, behave just like you are right now. I guess I should apologize for being a nag, but I guess it’s just a part of my personality like your stubbornness. So I guess,” she finally let the poor kid go before continuing,”We can get off on a fresh foot…sort of. I forgive you for being a bit more than inconsiderate, and I hope you forgive me for being a nag. However, insulting a girl’s figure, or at least for me anyway, is unforgivable so you should still expect some payback. However, once that’s all done with though I think we can actually start working on a friendship.”

When he brought up lunch again, Meushi gave him a nod. With this new turn of events it should be more pleasant than she had thought it would be. Though if he made another comment about her figure because she decided to get a salad, and things would turn around rather quickly. But he seemed to be learning his lessons, so she doubted that he’d do that.

[Inuzuka Taiyo]

Taiyo was more shock than her to see that he was actually trying to make a new start with the girl. It was not every day that he tried to make friends with someone so bossy and demanding like this girl. He felt like he had enough of that with Tsume. Tho the only thing to do now was to get over it and start being friends with his new team mate. He was stuck with her after all and there was no reason to even try and stay mad at her. That would only cause some problems with the whole team work and all. He sighed when she decided to back off some and give him some breathing room for now about his manners. He did prepare himself for her to go off on him about just doing this earlier, it would seemed like didn't have good timing for things like this and he would have to work on that.

He sighed in relief when she didn't start yelling at him again, instead she said thanks. He rubbed the back of his head slightly, feeling a large amount of pressure lift off his chest for now. He closed his eyes trying to think exactly what he was going to say and do now. There was no need for him to say anything to get this blonde jumping down his throat again. That was the last thing he needed for now, since things seemed to be cooling down between them for now.

What came next after he said sorry once more came to another shock to him. She ran over to him and wrapped her arms around him and Myou. He growled slightly, because it was not like something he was use to. Being hugged by a girl like this, and this close to him. It didn't help matters that he could not move and make sure that Myou was okay in all this. Tho he did hear her start to growl at Meushi. The next thing that he heard was her little small rant about this was she was expecting from him and wanted from it. He could not help but groan slightly, he didn't want to hear all this, because no matter what he was going to be himself and not have her or Hanabi take charge of him no matter what.

Both him and Myou was relieve when she finally realize that Myou was still in his jacket and she let go. The only catch to this was that now she was laying her head on his shoulder. He groan once more and tried to pull away from her. The last thing that he needed was one of his cousins walking by to come and see him in Meushi this close. He didn't want anyone in the village to think that there was something going on between then two of them. "....Meushi...get off....stop acting like suck a girl..." He went to pull his arm around from her and step away from her. He didn't care if she was going to snap at him about this. It was just not right for to come and hug and cling to him like this.

He sighed some and looked down to Myou, that was when she finally released him. He made sure to step three or four feet away from her. Tho he didn't step ahead of her because he didn't want her to think that he was not waiting for her again. He shoved his hands into his pocket and muttered something to Myou about the food and Meushi, but it was slurred and muttered that it was hard for even him to realize what he was saying. "Right...a friendship...work on a friendship..." He thought better to just to agree with him on this matter, and tempt to be friends with her.

He started slowly back to the village, making sure not to get ahead of her. He thoughts about wha twas on the menu and what he wanted. He knew that his mother would give him anything if he promised to work off what he, Myou, and Meushi ate later in the week. He didn't mind working there with his mother, seeing how he didn't spend a lot of time with her now anyways. Unlike Meushi, his mother was the only real parent that he had ever known.

[Yamanaka Meushi]

::Yamanaka Meushi::

Apparently Meushi wasn’t the only one shocked at the sudden turn of events. Taiyo didn’t seem to know what to as well, though some flinching on his part seemed to indicate he thought more ranting was going on. She held back, however, because how do you rant about a probably sincere apology? Besides, all this ranting and yelling was tiring her and her vocal chords out. Her throat started feeling a little sore every time she went off, so she had to let it rest up. There was no way she could stand loosing her beautiful voice over some ranting with her teammate. Oh, and they had to get along together and all that teamwork jazz as well. That was also important.

Meushi watched as Taiyo started to think. She has a slight smile of approval on her face as she did so. It made her glad to see that he was at least giving being polite a chance. Or at least he was willing to think about what he was going to say before he said it. Either way, it was an improvement over the constant arguing and yelling that was going on before because neither of them had stopped and thought out their choice of words. She just played with her hair a little while she waited, but stopped when he did talk, and afterwards went straight into that hug.

As the two of them ‘embraced,’ she could hear him growling at her. By this point she was too euphoric to really take it seriously, it was almost a bit adorable as well. The big old tough guy complaining about being hugged by a girl. Ino would surely love to hear about that all right. She ate that sort of thing up like candy (or more accurately in her case salad or something). Then again, did Meushi really want to risk this new gained friendship over a rumor? Well she did still need payback about the figure, and this would serve as a great source of ammo for blackmail should the need arise…

However, thoughts of blackmail were removed from her mind as she heard Myou growling, and she backed off. Apparently it wasn’t good enough for Taiyo, however, who followed through by groaning and pulling away from her. She let him go; she wasn’t going to risk a fight over keeping him trapped in a hug. Besides, it wasn’t like she really wanted to keep holding them. Ino’s gossiping was a two-edged sword; if she had been spotted hugging the Inuzuka she’d never hear the end of it. All the local gossips would be ecstatic to hear that their cousins were emulating the Kiba and Ino couple.

"....Meushi...get off....stop acting like suck a girl..."

There he went again with the ‘acting like such a girl’ thing. The same guy who made such a big deal about him being his own person and not listening to others was doing the exact same thing she had been doing. The irony of it was enough to make her giggle a little, and she placed a finger on his chest as she playfully grinned at him. She wasn’t very angry with him, but she was still rather firm as she spoke.

”Well, you better get use to it Taiyo cause guess what? I’m a girl, and if you want me to back off and let you be yourself, then understand that means I get to act as girlish as I want.”

With that she backed off from him and then watched as he moved away from her. He seemed to really want to avoid her, and after that hug she found it reasonable enough. Still, she wasn’t going to let the poor boy get away that easily, and decided to emphasize the little statement she made by adding a little skip to her step, arms swaying by her side. She thought she heard him say something, but dismissed it. Last thing she need was for him to (rightfully) accuse her of being too nosy. So she simply skipped along near him, hoping that things kept going as well as they were now. Worry and ranting took a toll on her, both mentally, physically, and “beautifully.” For now, she was going to enjoy the current calm between them.

[Inuzuka Taiyo]

Taiyo didn't like being this close to anyone but Myou really. He rubbed the back of his head slightly when she moved back away from him. It was a relief to be away from Meushi. He was not sure what exactly came over her when she hugged him but there was nothing that he could do about it now. What was done was done. He was not about to do anything at the moment to get her that close to him again. He bite his lip when she started to talk about how she was able to be as much of a girl as she wanted. That would be come a massive headache if he was around her all the time for that. "Right, whatever." That was the best answer that he could give her at this point.

He walked back into town and unzipped his jacket and allowed Myou to drop down and walked beside him. His mother did not like her being in the restaurant during business hours, because that had gotten in trouble once or twice by customers. He took out the ball from his pouch that he normally carried. He smiled and tossed it in front him a few feet. He watched Myou take off and grab the ball in her mouth and wag her tail in delight. He leaned down and took it out of her mouth when she ran back towards him.

He looked over to Meushi and smirked slightly. He looked back to the ball and than to Myou as a idea formed into his head. He was not being mean, that was not what he was trying to do. He just wanted to have some fun with Meushi. That was what friends was suppose to do right? He held the ball out to Meushi. "Here, throw the ball for Myou. She loves playing with the ball."

When Myou say that Taiyo had handed the ball over to Meushi she ran over to her and ran around her legs a few times. She wanted the ball thrown so she could bring it back. She wagged her tail and jumped up on her leg and then ran a bit in front of Meushi.

Taiyo smiled and watched Myou for a moment. He never found it hard to please Myou, and now that he was giving the ball to Meushi, he knew that it was only a matter of time before the two of them would be friends. He also knew that he would have to try and get along with her the best he could for the most part. He placed his hands behind his head a looked a head of him thinking exactly what he could order to please him, Myou and Meushi. Meushi had already said that she didn't want any fatty foods and if he ordered some she would most likely start her annoying little rants again like he really cared.

He tilted his head little the side of him to look at her for a moment. "What would you like to drink? There water, tea, and some milk there that I can name off the back of my head. Also there is ramen, sushi, and some salad if you really want the salad that you declare that you would have if there was ribs there." He smiled slightly, trying to make a joke towards her for the most part.