Worries and Visiting Friends

[Kira]

Miki sat on a nearby bench, once again worrying. It seemed that lately, she’d been worrying about too many things to say.

Her thoughts ranged from what her peers thought about her, to her not-so-close future.

Most thoughts consisted of her coming entrance into adulthood. Although adulthood was years away, in her mind, it seemed fearfully close.
Every night she dreaded going to sleep, because she knew that each time she opened her eyes to a new day meant another day closer to becoming an adult.

She would’ve given just about anything in the world for her life to just freeze in this time period, right now. Right now, she had friends she never thought she would ever get. She felt as if her life was perfect right now. She was finally away from her disapproving parents, too!

Unreasonable thoughts for a girl her age filled her mind. Questions such as, will I ever get married? What if I become a 60 year old hermit living with 30 cats? What if I turn into an ugly old prune and no one likes me? What if my friends hate me when I’m older?

The questions were enough to make her shiver and want to crawl into a hole to cry her heart out for all eternity.

Part of her felt paranoid for thinking these idiotic thoughts, but another part of her kept ranting about them.

She always had a quite fragile sate of mind and with bad self-esteem, but combined with these ridiculous worries was enough to break down her sanity slowly. Luckily she had friends to keep her sane.

The thought of her loss of logical thoughts was enough to bring tears into the poor girl’s eyes.

Ren stared worriedly at her purple haired friend, who seemed more and more depressed lately.

Every thought in her mind had revolved around boys and being liked, but by the time she noticed her friend’s saddening behavior, it was too late to attempt to try and fix the problem in a few easy steps.

Truth be told, she’d rather focus on the present than have to worry about anything in the past or future. She had her fair share of bad luck, but at least her parents supported the things she loved, unlike Miki’s parents. Parents who always put Miki down about everything and compared her attempts to make them proud to other people’s successes.

When Ren thought more deeply about it, she wanted to be a support to help make Miki happy, like she wanted to do for everyone else whom she thought seemed sad. The thought of anyone in the world unhappy was enough to make her heart break, but quite frankly, she knew she couldn’t help everyone in such a large universe.

She’d dragged Miki outside, in hopes to revive her friend’s loss of happiness through sunshine and fresh air, although her plan was dramatically failing. The thought made an anime sweatdrop roll down her head, but sadly she didn’t know everything about how to cheer people up. Other than thoughts of the brightly shining sun, she hoped perhaps there was a slim chance that Miki would meet someone who’d be able to raise her happiness meter.

Ren, on the other hand, already had someone special occupying her every thought....or most of her thoughts.

She twirled her hair between her pointer finger and thumb, like she always did when she was nervous, and frowned in a pouty way, trying to think.

Ren was shaken out of her thoughts by the soft voice of Miki. She felt blank-minded for a second and asked, “Huh?” before remembering the innocent question and quickly relying, “Oh! Not much, Miki-chan!”

A thought passed her mind, causing a slightly mischievous grin to grow on her face. “say...Miki-chan...how would you like to meet some people?”

Miki felt a bit surprised by the sudden question, but she nodded slightly. She assumed that these were people Ren knew, and from her friendship with the happy blue-haired girl, she knew the majority of people Ren met were nice.

The slight nod was enough for Ren to spot. Hyperly, she yanked Miki up and started dragging her by the arm towards the crowds of people in Konoha.

[Kuzio]

Cyril stood in that crowd at an apple stand, he couldnt decide between a red one or a green one, "The red one costs less..but the green one fills me up more..Hmm.." he said then noticing a familiar chakra prescense coming up close, and one he didnt know, he glanced back a little and saw Ren with someone else, he didnt know who it was so he attempted to hide his face from both of them and tried to decide again, "Hurry up" a man said behind him and Cyril got the green one and paid for it and walked down the street eating it, "Yum.." he said taking a bite and eating it.

Soon he saw Ren coming up closer and he turned around, "Hey Ren" he said smiling a little and waving with the hand the apple wasn't in.

[Kira]

Ren came to an abrupt stop, kicking up dust as she skidded to a stop on her heels. She heard a familiar voice and saw a familiar face.
As soon as she heard him say, 'Hey Ren.', she felt her heart beat slightly quicker.

Behind her, she felt the figure of Miki crash into her back, but couldn't bring her attention to her friend to say sorry.

As Miki raced through Konoha, being dragged by Ren, she suddenly felt a halt from Ren. Her reflexes weren't fast enough to stop her from crashing into the blue-haired girl's back.

In the blink of an eye, Miki crashed into Ren's back and found herself lying on the floor, coughing up the flying dust.
She pulled herself up into a sitting form and rubbed her sore back, scowling is dissatisfaction.

It was at times like theses that she wished Ren were less boy-crazy.

Ren smiled and replied, with a smile, "Hi Cyril!"
It was when she felt a sudden vibration near her feet from the impact of Miki's body against the ground, that she whirled around alarmed.

She was oblivious to Miki's scowl, but quickly pulled Miki up, mumbling 'sorry', repeatedly.

When Miki felt herself being pulled up and heard the many sorries muttered by Ren, she sighed, exasperated and softly said, "It's okay..."

Ren smiled, glad that Miki wasn't hurt. She turned her attention back to Cyril and remembered that Cyril and Miki never met.

'I wonder where my manners went...', she thought sheepishly to herself.

"Um...Miki, this is my friend, Cyril!", she introduced, waving a hand in Cyril's direction. "Cyril, this is my friend, Miki!" She smiled at Miki.

"N-nice to meet you", Miki shyly muttered. as usual, she was shy around strangers....mostly male strangers.

She took one step behind Ren, as if hiding behind her.

Ren sighed at Miki's habit to hide behind a friend whenever she met someone new.

Hoping the two would become friends, she looked over at Cyril and asked, "So, how are you doing?"

[Kuzio]

Cyril was confused at the girl behind Rens behavior but ignored it, "Uh..Nice to meet you Miki.." he said to her looking at her, "Been doing..well..good?" he said a little unsure, his tone said it to, Havent been doing much he thought but didnt say it aloud, he took a bite of his apple and looked at Ren, "How about you?" he asked after swallowing the bite, he looked at Miki, "And you?" he asked her waiting for both of their responses.

"Always be polite when you meet people, if you ever do" a womans voice said, "I will mom" Cyril said sighing, his dad got up, "Dont talk to your mother like that!" he said to Cyril in a drunk tone, Cyril just sighed. this flashback was disturbing for him.

[Kira]

Miki blinked a few times, totally unaware of the question. When it seemed to click in her mind that it was a simple question about how she was feeling, she shrugged slightly, unable to look Cyril in the eyes.

Ren thought for a a second and decided she was doing pretty well today. She replied a bit thoughtfully, "Sorta bored...but, my day went by pretty well!"

As always, she was the more social of the two, although they were both as equally oblivious.

When she noticed Cyril sigh, in a way that seemed sad, she led out and audible, dramatic gasp, before scolding him.

"Cyril! Don't you know that each time you sigh, you lose a bit of happiness? Sighing bad!", she pouted childishly.

Miki raised an eyebrow at the dramatic gasp. As soon as she heard Ren's adult-like scolding, she sweat dropped in a cartoon-like way and though to herself, "Note to self. Never sigh in the presence of Ren."

As if Ren read Miki's thoughts. She pointed a finger over her shoulder towards Miki, and declared, "You can't sigh either, Miki!"

Miki blinked, a bit surprised. She wondered if she said it aloud, but was quite positive she didn't. Plus, if she did say it aloud, Ren would've pointed out, 'Baka Miki! You thought aloud!'

She rolled her eyes and replied, "Yeah yeah...whatever Ren."

Ren crossed her arms and scoffed slightly.

Of course, all the while, she thought of how Cyril must've felt being stuck with two childish girls here.

[Kuzio]

Cyril smiled a little and rubbed the back of his head, "So thats why im always down" he said still smiling, he didnt hear Miki say anything but Ren must have when she turned and around and yelled at her, Cyril thought this was a bit funny but didnt laugh about it, "So..what brings you two here to this lovely place?" he asked sarcastically taking a bite of his apple.

"Pass it Cyril!" a childs voice rang out as the sounds of a ball hitting hand struck, "Nice one!" he said and the boy threw it back at Cyril and he caught it, "Right to the chest!" he said smiling and throwing it back, the kid caught it but then disappeared, Cyril looked curious in this flashback Who was that..? Cyril thought.

[Kira]

Ren, being moist social, shrugged and replied, "Well, I wanted to find some people for Miki to meet...she's not that social...as you can see."

Miki glared slightly at Ren, before mumbling, "Well, at least I don't flirt like crazy."

Ren automatically glared at Miki. "I don't flirt! I just talk!"

Miki shrugged innocently. Yes, it was true, she did love getting Ren angry sometimes, although it was mostly just teasing. She knew it wasn't true though. Ren didn't flirt like crazy, she simply went out with a lot of people...although that usually included flirting.

Ren almosted sighed, but remembered what she'd said. Instead, she turned her attention back to Cyril and grinned, "So, you wanna hang out with us? We are in need of some new company!"

((OOC: Sorry for not replying in so long, Kuzio! Btw, can you reply to Nero's Training?))

[Kuzio]

Cyril smiled a little nervously and laughed nervously while moving some hair out of his face while staring at them, "Hmm..Sure.." he replied in an emotionless tone now, "I guess i could" he said, "Where are you two headed?" he asked finishing his apple and tossing it into a trash basket and sighed a little, he scratched his head trying to remember the boy from his flashback, it seemed like he had blue or white hair, he waited for a response while wondering who the heck that kid was, and why he had been friends with him in the first place.

[Kira]

Ren stopped and pouted slightly for a second. She had nothing planned, except to force poor Miki to meet random people. "Umm....." she muttered.

Feeling embarrassed, she pouted childishly and replied, "Cyril, you meanie! You made me realize I didn't plan anything!"

Miki giggled at Ren's childish-ness. It was often you got to see Ren be social, but not so often to see her be childish.

Ren, hearing Miki's giggle, turned around and muttered, "I swear...one day, I'm just gonna force you into an arranged marriage..."

Miki, wincing slightly, muttered, "You wouldn't...and go back to your boyfriend!"

Ren immediately blushed at the word, boyfriend. Her mouth almost dropped open, but before she let that happen, she turned to Cyril and asked, sheepishly, "Do you have anything in mind?"

Miki grinned slightly. Now that she thought about it, she was feeling a lot better than earlier. Mentally, she thanked Ren and Cyril.

[Kuzio]

Cyril crossed his arms and sighed a little, "Not really.." he said sighing more, forgetting about what Ren said earlier, he moved his hair out of his eyes and looked up, "Lots of stuff we could do.." he said noticing it was still bright outside, he rubbed his eye from staring at the sun again, "Ngh.." he said seeing spots everywhere, "I might have one person she could meet..but i dont know if you want to" he said laughing a bit, "His name is Nero.." he said, "Dont try to touch him hard in the arm..hes still recovering from an injury" he said.

[Kira]

Ren, cheerful as always, exclaimed, "Sure! Why not?"

Miki, not as cheerful, mumbled, "But guys are sorta scary..." Truthfully, guys only made her nervous. It was the whole reason why she was still hiding behind Ren.

Ren nearly cracked up at Miki's statement. "Miki!" she exclaimed. "If you're afraid of guys, then how will you get married?"

Miki thought for a second, before bluntly replying, "I'll be a hermit then!

Ren made a face for a second, before announcing, "Regardless, Miki and I will go, not matter what Miki says!" She smiled happily.

All the while, Miki wondered if she had a say in anything Ren ever decided.

[Kuzio]

Cyril was getting a little weirded out but started walking, "Alright then, follow me.." he said walking off in his normal slow pace, it took him a minute just to reach the first corner where he turned continuing to walk slowly still thinking about who that kid was in his flashback, he took a bite of his apple and turned another corner.

[Kira]

Ren silently watched as Cyril walked, suspecting that he was distracted about something. He seemed dazed. She silently ushered Miki to follow, but her mind was preoccupied with thoughts of Cyril.

She silently remembered that at their last meeting, Cyril had to deal with some odd news. She sped up her pace a little to catch up to him. He was, after all, quite special to her.

Miki took Ren's sudden distraction to slip away from the seemingly matched couple. Besides, she already felt better than before, and had other friends she could hang out with.

Ren searched Cyril's face for any flicker of emotion that could at least give her a clue about what he was thinking. She was getting exasperated, seeing as barely a flicker of emotion ran across his face. Too preoccupied with her "inspection", she didn't notice her violet-haired best friend ditch them.