Image is Everything
Part Three: The Boy as Pure as Snow
Haku sat on his bed, carefully applying another layer of purple nail
polish to his toenails.
"Dammit!" He frowned at the stain he accidentally got onto his pink bed
sheets, and carefully dabbed it off with nail polish remover. After
that, he walked over to his closet to pick out a beautiful kimono to
wear. But the one he wanted to wear had a crease in it.. that would
never do.
Haku carefully ironed out his kimono so that it was free of wrinkles.
After all, he had an image to maintain. Wrinkles were simply out of the
question. After he dressed he finished the outfit with a strand of
pearls that he had borrowed from Sakon and stepped out onto the street,
swaying his hips a little as he walked.
"Hey," some one whispered as he walked by, "didn't that guy die in like
chapter 30 or something?"
"Yeah, it was really tragic... I cried my eyes out..."
Haku ignored the confusing comments and continued down the street.
There were two people coming up the street towards him.... a short boy
with red eyes and a shark-like fellow. There was no doubt about it- it
was Uchiha Itachi and the mist ninja Kisame.
"Woo hoo!" Kisame whistled as they approached Haku. "What a hottie!"
"Little girl," Itachi said, "do you know how to get to-"
Itachi never got to finish the sentence, because Haku was suddenly
very, very mad. Before Itachi or Kisame could do anything Haku was
suddenly glowering over them. The next thing they knew they were
unconscious.
"Why do people always think I'm a girl?!" Haku screamed, frustrated at
the current turn of events. He kicked the unconscious Kisame one more
time in the stomach, checked to make sure his manicure was okay, and
walked off. Stupid bastards... couldn't they tell a boy when they saw
one?
"Wow...," said one of the nameless villagers who had commented earlier
and was obviously aware of the Naruto manga even though he was
currently living in it, "that was terribly out of character for Haku,
wasn't it?"
The other villager just shrugged.