Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Given The Chance ❯ Challenge: Find Cassie's Fear! ( Chapter 16 )

Chapter #16

Challenge: Find Cassie's Fear!

 

 

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and Co.

 

This is my writing on a day when I have consumed way to much Pepsi and Caffeine than is good for my health so this might be edging a little bit toward humor on some little quirks. I get to write a few jokes other than Cassie-chan's sarcasm yah! I had so much fun writing this its insane…

 

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Gina yawned sitting across the table from her friends as they each munched down a bowl of cereal, all of them were to tired to talk, that happens when people come off a sugar rush. They are completely drained of all energy the hours afterward.

 

Across from Gina sat her two friends Aki and Minako. Aki was thin and wiry with a face filled with freckles and her sand coloured hair pulled up into a messy ponytail. Minako was a tall girl with light brown hair and matching hazel eyes. All three sat silently eating their breakfast with only the clanking of their spoons echoing between them.

 

As the silence continued Cassandra came tiredly down the stairs closely followed by Temari, also completely drained. Cassie just have a wide mouthed yawn and stretched her arms in the air to work out the kinks, “Damn I need a caffeine fix so badly it's almost insane. How about you Temari?”

 

“I'm starving,” was Temari's only response as she took an empty seat at the table and completely ignored all the other people in the room.

 

Gina blinked watching Cassandra grab two more bowls from the cupboard when she noticed a large black spider scuttling its way across the table. Gina let out an ear splitting scream making everyone at the table jump, Aki and Minako sprung from their chairs, and Temari simply felt backward in her chair when Gina's scream jolted her awake. Gina continued screaming even after she had put a whole room between her and the spider, “DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IT I HATE SPIDERS THEY ARE SO CREEPY!”

 

“Oh quit being a woos it's just a little spider,” Temari snapped winding up to smack the little bug flat when Cassandra caught her arm.

 

“You know its bad luck to kill a spider, if you do it will rain,” Cassandra reminded with a sigh. Instead of hitting the spider she held one of her palms out flat and used the other hand to shoo it onto her palm, once she had it sitting quietly on her hand she took it over to the window and let it go, “But you are right, it's a spider, to be so … explosively afraid of just a little one seems a little odd to me. I mean I've seen the normal spider fear but … damn Gina you take the cake.”

 

Temari chuckled, “Rain Cassie-chan? Come on we live in a desert do you know the chances of us getting rain?”

 

“She actually picked up that spider,” Gina gave a disgusted shiver, “Seriously Cass picks up spiders, she runs into burning buildings, and she hangs out with Sabaku No Gaara. Does she fear anything?”

 

Aki pondered for a moment, “Ya now that you mention it I don't recall Cassie-chan ever being scared…”

 

“Well everyone has to be afraid of something,” Minako pointed out.

 

A look of realization dawned on Gina's face followed by a rather large grin, “You know Mina-chan you are right! There has to be something that she is afraid of, and you know what we are going to find out what it is! We'll make a challenge out of it, whoever finds out what she is afraid of first gets treated to the movies, the deadline will be this evening!”

 

“I can hear you,” Cassie yelled into the living room where Gina was plotting from the dining room where Cassandra had been eating her breakfast with Temari, “If you're going to attempt to plot against me behind my back try not to yell or at least leave the house.”

 

~Test #1 - Darkness/Sharp Objects/Blood~

 

Some while later Cassandra had showered and dressed while Temari left to go tend to her shinobi duties promising to come back that night. It was fortunate for Cassandra that since after the party there was quite a bit of cleaning and shopping that needed to be done. She started her task by washing the dishes from the night before not suspecting much of anything, though she was vaguely aware of the three other girls skulking around the house setting up their first test.

 

While she was in the middle of rinsing the soap suds off the dinner plates the lights suddenly went out - all the curtains were drawn so the house was pitch black - leaving her completely blind.

 

Cassandra did not scream or even jump she just cursed under her breath before muttering, “Gina this couldn't have waited until I was finished could it?”

 

The lights flicked back on.

 

Sticking strait out of the cupboard covered in badly made fake blood was one of the just recently cleaned butcher knifes. It had been strategically place on the corner of the cupboard that was right by her face so it would be the first thing she saw.

 

“I just watched that knife,” she sighed pulling the knife from the cupboard and tossing it so it would land sitting out of the door frame only inches from Minako's face, “stop being annoying.”

 

“Let's see,” Aki looked at her list crossing out a few points, “Darkness no, blood no, and sharp objects definitely not…”

 

“She either has very good aim or very bad aim I am not quite sure,” Gina commented helping Minako into the living room since she looked like she was about to faint.

 

~Test #2 - Bees/Robbers~

 

While the laundry was being washed Cassandra was reading - all the other in-house chores were finished - and making a little bit of progress on her song lyrics.

 

Buzz.

 

“Can't you hear my heart beat so, I can't let you go,” Cassandra whispered her lyrics to herself to test how the words sounded aloud.

 

Buzz.

 

Her eyebrow twitched ever so slightly but she did not look up from her notebook, instead she lifted her arm and gave the annoying bee that had been hovering its way around her head for the last ten minutes a hard flick that sent it bolting across the room and hitting the opposite wall, “…want you in my life.”

 

Meanwhile there was a thunderous crash of someone tumbling down the stairs - or rather dragged down by the dogs - though again she paid no attention, even when she could hear the cries of help coming from an unfamiliar man. She just continued jotting notes before she finally caved and yelled a little piece of advice, “If you keep struggling Kobi will go for the crotch you know.”

 

The unknown male gave a wail of agony making Cassandra let out a small giggle, she wasn't going to be outright cruel, and she was going to help him … eventually.

 

“Now if you want me to call them off you have to tell me which one of Gina's friends you are,” Cassandra stated standing over the pitiful excuse at a scare tactic attempt, a young man wearing a mask over his face with a kunai in his hand.

 

“I-I'm Minako's older brother,” he stuttered for a moment holding his kunai out intending to still make a last stitch attempt at scaring Cassandra.

 

“Now you really don't think I'm that defenseless do you,” Cassandra smiled, it was almost warm and cheery, but it sent a chill down the young man's spine.

 

Ten seconds later she the boy - who was naturally taller and stronger looking than Cassie - by the arm holding it in a painful position behind his back as she forcibly took him to the door and literally kicked him all the way to the curb. The scary part about it was that she was still smiling with satisfaction.

 

“Bees no,” Gina announced to her friends from their hiding place just outside the living room window, “Robbers no.”

 

~Test #3 - Heights/Loud Noises~

 

“Wow,” Cassie looked down from the high rooftop of the still under construction apartment building. She had simply been dragged there by Gina, Aki, and Minako as soon as she had left the house to go grocery shopping. The building was at least seven or eight stories tall so it was a decent height.

 

Gina, Aki, and Minako stood just behind her waiting patiently for a reaction.

 

“You're right from this height you do get a good view of the village. Hey did you guys noticed all of the extra clouds coming in? I wonder if maybe we're going to get some kind of weather,” commented Cassie as she looked out toward the horizon then strait down, “This really is a tall building if we fell from here we could die.”

 

“Well she's not afraid of heights,” Minako sighed crossing that point off the list.

 

“Plan B,” Gina muttered pulling an air horn from her purse, held it out right behind Cassie's head, and press the button.

 

Cassandra nearly jumped off the edge of the building in surprise covering her ears with her hands.

 

“Scare ya?” Aki asked.

 

“What,” Cassie yelled after being deafened by the air horn, “I can't hear what you just said but right now I don't care. I just think its fare to warn you than you have three seconds to run before I throw you all off this goddamn roof.”

 

Gina, Aki, and Minako took Cassandra's advice.

 

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“So she's not afraid of lizards, frogs, needles, cats, fish, leaches, sharks, doctors, poison, crowds, being alone, ridicule, fast speeds, loud noises, or open spaces either,” Aki sighed sitting across the kitchen table from her friends as she read all the options on the list they proved wrong. It was an agonizingly long list.

 

“Damn this kid is bionic … though the open spaces thing was a bit of a stretch I mean we living in a desert it doesn't get to much more open,” Gina muttered raking her brain for new ideas, “We haven't tried small spaces yet.”

 

Hales laughter could be heard from the kitchen, “I'll save you time and tell you that she is most definitely not afraid of small spaces, she actually prefers small spaces to open spaces.”

 

“Well she hangs out with the demon raccoon so she is definitely not afraid of death, pain, torcher, sand, or loosing her sanity,” Minako pointed out as she slumped in her seat, “Gina-chan this isn't working there has to be another way to figure this out, if we keep guessing we'll be doing this all week.”

 

“I know, I know just give me a minute to think.”

 

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Still out shopping Cassandra was standing by a produce stand trying to figure out what she would be making for supper that night, that and she was half praying that Gina wasn't following her anymore. She had after all just gotten her hearing back to normal and she wanted to keep it that way.

 

`Peace and quiet at last,' she gave a small sigh of relief up until the point where she felt a hand on her shoulder, then she felt more like screaming.

 

Ready to murder Gina she spun around angrily to find herself staring at a curtain red headed Kazekage. She had to slap her hand over her mouth for a moment to stop herself from the yelling she had almost done and took a long breath to come herself down.

 

Gaara cocked a non-existent eyebrow, “Are you … ok?”

 

“I'm fine,” Cassandra assured giving another long sigh and running her hand through her hair in exasperation, “Gina and her friends have been following me around all day because she started a stupid challenge to find out what my fear is. They've been setting bees loose in the house, turning out lights so I trip over things; they even shoved me onto a goddamn cart and rolled it down a hill. And you know what? I think I am finally starting to snap.”

 

“So,” Gaara scratched his head for a moment, “That explains why you have been carrying around a snake in your grocery bag for the last half hour.”

 

“Ya they slipped it in there before I left the house. I'm planning on putting it in Gina's bed tonight,” admitted Cassie, “I might even keep him as a pet.”

 

“OH NO YOU DON'T,” Gina jumped from her hiding spot looking slightly green from just thinking of the possibility of having a snake slipped into her bed.

 

`Cleaver, instead of finding out where Gina was hiding she got her to come out on her own … who'd have thought Cassandra would have the brains for that,' Gaara thought, almost amused at the sight … almost. Either way it had been great entertainment, and he did wonder if Gina would actually find something Cassandra was afraid of. When he thought about it he had never seen Cassandra frightened either, and for the raccoon demon boy that was saying a lot.

 

“One more of these little tests of yours and I swear you will find the biggest and hairiest tarantula on the face of this earth on your pillow in the morning,” threatened Cassandra.

 

“You wouldn't dare.”

 

“Would I?”

 

Gaara wasn't really paying attention to such a petty, trivial, and going a hundred miles to nowhere argument. Instead his eyes and mind wondered to an obviously out of character feature in the desert that day, the thick layer of clouds, `Looks like its going to rain here for once, it hasn't rained here since … its been way to long to remember, and the few times it rains here it pours. It going to be a pain if it causes floods, this village isn't built for it.'

 

Right on cue there was a low rumble that echoed in the distance.

 

`There is no way my luck is that bad, I live in a desert and my luck is actually going to let it storm here,' Cassandra gave a defeated inward cry before covering her quick look of dismay with yet another smile, “Hey you know every window in the house is open at home if I don't get back quick and flood them the rain will get in. It was nice to see you Gaara-kun but I gotta go quickly! Baibai!”

 

The Kazekage watched the small dark haired teen take off down the street wondering what her odd behavior was about, and wondering why on earth windows had been open at their house. In the desert leaving one's windows open was almost as bad as shoveling sand into their living rooms or turning on a sauna. Something was up, but what was it?

 

 

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I'll be updating quicker than usual over the next few weeks because I have a Christmas special I want to post that is in later chapters. There will be lots of fluff and some good fight scenes between now and then so keep reviewing if you wanna see them!

 

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