Show of brilliance

AN: It's me, ya boi. I passed the final exam (which was defending my thesis paper) which combined with my other grades gave me an S rating on my diploma. I had idea it was even possible, but here we are, so like a humble man that I am, I decided to flex it here publicly.

Praise me more.

I'm trying a different type of narration, so let me know if you notice a difference. Here's the chapter.

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The next day Pakura and Sasori met up with Teruya at his home, where Koizumi revealed to the group what Teruya and his mother 'agreed' upon a new schedule.

"…and that's why Paku-chan you take Teruya with you to play for a long time each day. Do not buy into his excuses about new books." Koizuimi finished her little speech.

'More like she finished digging my grave.'

"I knew it!" Exclaimed Pakura. "Week ago I felt like I saw the same book in your hands twice. Now we can go and check out the entirety of the village."

*groan* 'Looks like my comfortable days are at an end.' Teruya thought, already feeling tired. While mother and Sasori duo were snickering at him.

Noticing Sasori's amusement, Teruya gave him a cold smile that gave him a bad feeling. Before he could stop him, Teruya like a good bro, threw Sasori under the bus.

"Ne, Paku. Sasori got his chakra awakened quite some time ago. We can't leave him out of our group activities. We need to include him~"

"Absolutely, I'm sorry Sasori that I excluded you." Pakura quickly said apologetically. "Don't worry, from now on we're gonna pick you up at 9 AM. Together on adventure!" She exclaimed with her little fist pump.

"N-no, you see-"

"That's a great idea." My mother interjected before he could make an excuse. "Recently your mom was complaining about you being cooped up in home, so she is going to love your outing."

"There's no way out, right?"

"""Nope.""" All three of us spoke in unison with smiles.

Sasori's only reaction was to glare at Teruya, at which he mouthed "2:1", that only resulted in the glare intensifying, much to Teruya's amusement.

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ fuwa~fuwa~desu~~~

"What *HUFF* do you *PUFF* feed her there?"

"Bro, she's *cough* built different."

At the edge of the village one could make out 2 figures laying down and breathing deeply.

"Thank Kami for chakra." Muttered Sasori at which Teruya nodded.

After awakening chakra both of their physical capabilities improved, which allowed both of them to have a chance of keeping up with Pakura's activities.

"Oh no." Teruya exclaimed wide eyed with a realization.

"*sigh* What?"

"You know what day is tomorrow, right?"

"Ye, I didn't forget, it's her birthday, right?"

"Mhm, and what do you think will happen that day?"

"There will be a party, she will get presents and her parents-" Sasori paused with realisation.

"-will awaken her chakra. *groan*" Teruya finished his sentence.

"We can't let that happen." Sasori said with a trepidation in his voice. "She's almost walking on the walls without chakra, and with chakra she will quite literally start walking on them. We won't survive her energy boost."

"We NEED to prevent that somehow."

"Maybe we tell her that chakra is overrated." Sasori said with a doubt at his own statement.

"Now?" Teruya scoffed "For the last few months we have been teasing her about magical chakra, that we already have it and made her tunnel visioned on getting it."

"Okay, then you tell me what we should do, mr. genius."

"Maybe… maybe we make her focus on the fact that she will have to mediate instead of being active. None of us enjoy that waste of time, she should enjoy it even less."

"That… is an idea, but by itself it won't work."

"Well" Teruya said while standing up and dusting himself off. "I guess we are screwed."

"What sort of unwinnable puzzle is this…" Sasori muttered to himself.

"One that we will have to suffer together." Teruya said while grasping Sasori's shoulder with an emphasis on the last word.

"Together, huh?" Sasori grinned. "I wish you all the luck to withstand her energy after we split off and go home. I doubt she will stay in one place later in the evening."

"Help the homie out, stay for a night over." Teruya said with a plea in his voice.

"Nuh-uh, that's your burden to bear 'bro'." Sasori said with a cackle at Teruya's misfortune.

"…"

As the two in silence laid on the ground, soon both of them heard a familiar voice.

"Ah, that was a fine jog, nice little workout." Pakura said catching a breath.

' 'Little workout she says.' ' Both of the boys thought with a disbelief.

'Wait, workout…' An idea crossed Teruya's mind.

"Alright, let's go back." She said while turning around towards the village.

"Actually, Sasori were planning to visit a library…"

"Were we? I mean, yes, of course, that was our plan." Sasori suddenly 'remembered' with a small elbow nudge to a stomach.

At the word 'library' Pakura in a matter of a second deflated like a balloon. "Booo, boring. I'm gonna go home then, you two go ahead and waste time without me, I will be fine."

"See you later Paku." Teruya said as he waved away Pakura.

"Oi, what was that? We didn't plan to go there now, did we?" Sasori asked after she left.

"I have a brilliant idea on how to fix Pakura's overflowing energy problem, and what to get her as a present, all in one. It's gonna knock socks off your sandals."

"Dude, it was one time after being forced to it by my mother. Will you ever let me live it down?"

"Nope." Teruya grinned.

"Whatever, your great idea is probably buying her some clothes, nr. 2."

"Oh yeah? You will be amazed by my brilliance so hard that you will have to call me older brother for a month."

"Deal, and if you don't you call me sensei, my young apprentice." Sasori said with a mirth in his eyes.

The two went off towards the commercial district, and after few minutes they stood in front of a shop with training gear.

"Really? Training clothes? You can already start calling me sensei, nr. 2."

At that Teruya only chuckled and took him towards a specific shelf, at seeing which Sasori gaped like a fish out of water.

"…why didn't I think of that?"

Seeing redhead's reaction Teruya chuckled and spoke teasingly "It's because I'm an older brother, of course you wouldn't think of that."

Seeing the duo standing Infront of a shelf a store clerk approached them. "Can I help you?"

"Yes, I would like to purchase those and have them packaged in a gift wrapping. Can it be done?"

"That would be of no issue, please head to the front desk, while I package it."

After the clerk left the two, Sasori was standing still, in a shellshocked state.

"Sunagakure to Sasori, are you there?" Teruya said while poking him, which woke him up out of a daze.

"Huh? Yes, I'm okay Teruya."

Teruya only stared at Sasori with a raised eyebrow, and after a full minute of awkward silence has passed Sasori said while gritting his teeth. "Fine! I'm okay…older brother."

"No worries otouto, It's normal for older brother to take care of his younger one." Teruya teased while patting Sasori's head.

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ fuwa~fuwa~desu~~~

The next day Pakura had her birthday. After being turned into a tomato by her own mother that her small princess is turning herself into a young adventurer came the time for presents.

Sasori's present was a 2L sized box of ice cream – which is quite an expansive gift, considering the price of its ingredients. Her parent's barely stopped her from opening it on the spot to "test it", as she put it.

When the time came for her to open my present she quickly got caught surprised, when she almost stumbled picking it up.

"And what's this…?" She asked with an intrigue as she was opening it.

Inside of the package she found a set of training weights in her orange and dark green colour scheme, complimenting her hair.

"This…" She looked at the set with a surprise.

"You've always shown a desire to be a strong kunoichi, so to help that I decided to gift you this set of weights, that you can put on your legs and arms. With this you should be able to achieve your dream faster." Teruya said with a smile.

A purely coincidental fact that she would tire out faster, sparing the two boys from the whole day of suffering was left unsaid.

Hearing his words Pakura's body 'flew' towards Teruya while she was still holding the quite heavy gift (much to his chagrin), hitting him and knocking him over, while sputtering words of thanks. Those words quickly stopped with Teruya's next words,

"Heavy…"

At those words she froze for a few seconds before restarting.

After rebooting she slammed at his stomach with weights still in her hands, effectively knocking wind out of his lungs for the second time.

As he started losing consciousness he faintly heard her exclaim a single sentence.

"Teruya you BAKA!"