For a Special Someone

By NocturneD (WINGZ)

Note: Hi everybody! This is my first story in the Naruto section so please excuse me if I get some things wrong. A little about myself, well I’m not a huge fan of Naruto but I like the series but again to myself I enjoy writing stories and I’ve been writing for about for this site for about six years and yet my writing skills aren’t top notch but hell who’s are these days?

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Story Note: Told through Sasuke’s Point of View, he acts a little out of character too.

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Here I was wandering around this dark cave, though this isn’t any ordinary cave. Apparently some merchant who has a weird sense of taste int fashion set up shop in here, what he was selling were simple weapons like kunais, shurikens, various styles of blades, even firearms for some reason for people who like to fight the cowardly way. Obviously I took my eyes away from the strange weaponry to look on the opposite side of the cable to find antique jewelry. My eyes wander throughout the contents of the table, there were about four beerstein mugs with shining jewels, about ten elegant headdresses, seven amber rings, twenty antique pipes, lots of stuff for a collector to look forward into having.

“Stranga?” The merchant chuckled with an accent, “See anything you like?”

“Hn...” I replied, I wasn’t obviously in the mood to talk to this creepy guy in the trench coat and keeps his face mostly covered as he sat behind his wooden desk counting his riches in gold. The treasures were outstanding I admit, obviously this guy must travel in order to get all of this stuff. I turned and watched the coated merchant put away his gold and started to play around with some strange purple crystals, only thing is that he pulled out only six and a cutting utensil to cut more corners.

I tried not to watch him doing this activity by looking at more of the antiques he got on display obviously most of them are out of my price range to spend on a gift for someone. And that’s why I was here in the first place, to find a present for a special someone that I will not mention just yet. Why am I spending money for this person you ask? Well, she makes me feel better about myself and taught me that revenge isn’t always everything through her words. The more she gave me this opinion of hers the more I really didn’t want to listen at first but there was something about her face that I liked, her eyes were hypnotizing and hair... I admit cute... She really wasn’t annoying either like some people I should mention. Why else should I like her, I’ll explain another time.

I kept looking at the table and found nothing really she probably would like or I didn’t have the money for it. That crazy ass merchant over there is probably trying to rip me off I bet, those pink crystal eggs called Spinels look nice but then I thought... “Eggs”? Next was a ruby crested mirror, I thought about it for a minute but did it really represent something I would actually give to a girl? Next up, a weird statue that looked like a cat that had three diamond eyes, obviously it looked nice but again too expensive plus what would she think if I gave her a cat statue?

I turned to look at what the merchant was doing, he was cutting some parts of the diamond off to shape it into something, I ask, “Do you have anything here that a girl would like as a present, but... more appropriate saying I like her, notice her, and she means something?” The merchant turned his head to look at me with his creepy eyes, he gave out a disturbing laugh.

He turned his whole body around just to face me but then he bent down to pick something up, “I have just the thing for ya stranga!” Then he stood back up and put a small brown box on the table infront of himself, I walked over to the desk to see what he found as he removed the lid, “This was something I made a few months ago, as you see with the crystals I have over here that I was carving become something like this...” What was inside were special flowers cut carefully into the shape from crystals, now I know what he was probably doing there with those utensils a little earlier. By closer inspection they were shaped like roses, there were about three of them in there as he picked one up, “These are special carved crystals in the shape of open rose buds complete with a crystalized stem. Guaranteed to impress the little lady, heh ha!” He let out another chuckle, again I grew more uncomfortable every time he laughed.

“How much for them?” I asked, they were beautiful I admit. Very rare sight too, I held one out to the blue flame he had perched on top of one of his posts and saw how wonderful it glistened and sparkled.

“Since these are my set and completed, I’ll make you a deal of 4500 munny for all three of them.” He snickered a little, they were colorful as the one that I held the rose bud color was ice blue, the other two were blood red and emerald green. For 4500 munny, “But be warned stranga, try not throw around this box because they could break.” I stared at him then back at the crystal roses as I put the one that I held back into the box, what the hell what do I have to lose. I reached into my wallet and pulled out exactly 4500 munny and gave it to the creepy merchant while he slid the lid back into the box. “Come back anytime!”

Yeah right like I’m going to come back to this creep unless I’m looking for a weapon or another gift. I headed back to Kohona village where I know she is waiting but for my luck, today was Valentines Day and girls were going to be throwing presents in my direction and them expecting something to get back in return. So I raced back in hoping to find the girl that really deserved this present but the merchant said I shouldn’t run or jump around too much with these crystal roses.

“SASUKE!” I instantly heard and already felt a vein pop on forehead. I turned my head to see the usual fan girls grouped together, that was even worse! Well there were the usual girls, Sakura and Ino out in front with heart shaped eyes screaming my name over and over again while carrying boxes I know meant for me...

“So of a ...” I wasn’t even ten feet into the gates of Konoha and already the girls were after me, instantly I jumped onto the nearest roof to get a head start so far so good I didn’t hear anything jumble from inside the box under my arm. “Please let me make it...” I thought, I started running again leaping towards the next roof but this time I heard something move inside the box and I instantly freaked. Something must of happened to the roses inside, I just had to stop to check on them. I removed the lid to see the roses were close together but nothing broken, I sighed in relief but then stuffed some rags into the box that I happened to have in my pants hoping this would keep her present safe. I put the lid back on and started running again, louder and louder I heard my name through their high screeching voices as instantly I found Sakura and Ino were on my tail both with boxes raised above their heads. “GO AWAY!” I shouted.

“SASUKE-KUN I LOVE YOU!” Sakura cheered happily, I frowned instantly at this.

“NO I LOVE HIM MORE BILL-BOARD BROW!” Ino challenged Sakura.

“SHUT UP INO PIG I LOVE HIM MORE!” Sakura shot back, quickly the two halted and stared each other down.

After a few hours of being chased by my fan girls I am finally relieved that I lost them. I took one big look around to see that I’m in the training grounds out in the forest, I sighed as I looked down at the wooden box in my hands and decide to take one last check. I removed the lid again to see the rags in between and sheltering the crystal roses, I took one out to see it was the red ruby rose so far nothing seems to be broken, I put the red one back and checked on the emerald green, again it looked okay and nothing damaged as I put it back to look at the ice blue rose. For some reason I liked this one the most as it looked pure when I held it up to the sunlight. It looked so marvelous as the light shined through it.

I put the last one back and closed the box and thought to myself for awhile. “I could just go to her house and see if she’s there.” I muttered to myself, “No, she’s probably out on a mission by now.” For some reason I had a knack for bringing myself down further, but where was she? I could try looking again but that would lead me to being chased again. I picked the box up again and decided to go for a walk, this was a lot more troublesome than it seemed.

I found my way back into town and figured I should at least get some wrapping paper or something but on my way I was side tracked by that dobe Naruto kept trying to make me go to the ramen shack with him, I simply told him I had no time, okay maybe I had to hit him a cross the head a few times to set him straight leaving a bump on his head. I looked at my watch to see it was already 6: 30 pm, that meant I was spending the entire day avoiding fan girls and trying to find her at the same time. It was getting dark already and I felt like giving up and just waiting for her at her house.

But then I remembered I wasn’t exactly welcomed because her family had strict rules on how they do things and they saw me as a parasite or some sort of disease. I didn’t care, I wanted to give her this present and GOD DAMN IT I’M GOING TO GIVE IT TO HER EVEN IF I HAVE TO GO THROUGH HER BEDROOM WINDOW! Then that’s when I got an idea...

End of part 1...

Note: I don’t own the Naruto characters nor the merchant because if anyone got the reference it’s the one from Resident Evil 4. Plus if you noticed the currency for money is called munny from Kingdom Hearts 2, I don’t understand the yen crap so... Yeah, hope some of you liked this... And who’s the present for?