KURENAI
Despite the tickle of concern in the back of her mind, Kurenai is leisurely waiting in her favorite tea shop. It was his idea, which made her suspect, if anything, that he wanted her in a good mood. The question of why he wants her in an amiable mood doesn't fill her with a wonderful feeling.
If she listens to her minor feeling of dread, it tells her clearly, 'he's trying to soften the blow,' which, at tis, makes Kurenai hate her psychology training.
She's been working with her genin teamHinata in particularfor a week now and though there hasn't been many setbacks, she hasn't witnessed any progress beyond what one might expect of heirs of great clans. Hinata, herself, barely speaks and when she does it's always clipped and hyper-formal.
Even with the beautiful girl staying in her ho, it's hard to get her to open up about much of anything.
The gruff, broad-shouldered Asuma arrives then, expressing minimal remorse in his usual non-cavalier manner. "Sorry I'm late."
The way his large fra casually settles for comfort rather than proper posture makes her smile as she comnts, "so long as I don't see you reading a little orange book next ti, I think I can forgive you."
He chuckles at the ludicrous insinuation before he orders the finest tea in the shop, sothing of a warning sign in her eyes, but she only smiles. He then tells her, "I just ca from Hokage Tower. Princess Tomoko will be visiting the village."
Kurenai listens intently but her mind is moving a mile a minute.
Being the son of the Hokage, who's also closely acquainted with the nation's Daimyo, the Lord of Fire country naturally entertained the notion of joining their families to strengthen their power; the Hokage's son with one of his daughters, princesses of Fire country.
It's the reason Asuma never truly connected with her, or at least that's what he told her. He wanted to spare her the unavoidable heartache should the whimsical Daimyo ever decide to follow through with his ideas of union-through-marriage.
Kurenai told herself it made sense, and he inford her early on when they first started dating. It hadn't stopped him from being with other won but Kurenai was the only one that earned the heart of the truth from him.
Though Asuma ended it before they had beco too serious, Kurenai always held out hope that the gruff Sarutobi heir would finally be free to lead his own romantic life. So it hurt her every ti she heard about one of his notable escapades or saw him with a loveless beauty of the night.
Never being one for a purely physical relationship with a man, Kurenai herself had tried to date others, shinobi and civilian alike. Unlike her dear friend Anko, Kurenai found it hard to connect emotionally as well as intellectually with anyone she may be seeing.
She just couldn't help thinking about Asumacouldn't help comparing whoever she was with to the smoking Jnin. Couldn't help thinking, 'what was he doing? What would he think? Would it hurt him to see or hear about with another man as much as it does her when she sees or hears about his relations?'
With her looks, Kurenai cos across many interested n. That was never the problem. She tried to focus on their positives and if the sex was good, the relationship would last longer.
But after so ti, she would always find faults with them, then fixate on that like a blaring red warning sign signaling the doom to co before ending it. It was almost like she was ending things with others so as to not hurt them in the sa manner Asuma does in his relations.
When she realized that, Kurenai had to stop. Consequently, the last ti she had sex was a solid year ago, the exact ti she decided to simply put forth all her abundant energy into being promoted to Jnin.
More often than not, marriages among the elite were generally based on alliances for monetary gain or political maneuvering to avoid war. Marriage for love is a distant concern, if at all addressed. Happiness was not a reason to get married.
And now a beautiful princess of Fire country is coming to the village, in all likelihood to et her future husband, the sa man that's already claid Kurenai's heart. At Asuma's comnt, Kurenai said nothing, raising her fragrant and scintillating tea to her lips for a sip.
"I'll be honest," Asuma continues. "By the end of her visit, I'll know more or less what my future looks like. Kurenai, I know this isn't fair, but I hope you'll be apart of my life no matter what way this thing lands. You know I'll do my duty if I have to, but if it doesn't have to co to that...
I think I feel that would make happy," he tells her with his gruff smirk.
She almost returned a smile, but if this didn't pan out the way they both want, that would lead to a hope that would hurt worse than any other ti before. "Why don't we just enjoy our tea and catch up," she says, preferring to wait and see instead of diving into what ifs.
"We've been so busy, it's been a spell since I've seen you. How's your team? Please tell you're not smoking around them."
"If you saw what I was dealing with, you'd light one up too," he returns with a small asure of exasperation. "Not a single one is motivated to train. Shikamaru only cares about napping and sky gazing. It's like he skipped adolescence, adulthood, and went straight into elderly.
Ino only cares about her figure and the Uchiha bratbossy as hell too. Choji's a sweet kidmade us all celebration dango to celebrate forming the teambut even his own clan might think he eats too much and he lets Ino walk all over him."
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