Doughnuts Are The Answer To Everything [P]

There were people who woke up at the crack of dawn. People who slept well pass the morning, awakening in the afternoon. Others who weren’t up until the sun was setting, allowing the moon to takeover its shift. And some who woke up before everything else on the planet stirred from its slumber. Kai was part of the group that woke up before every living thing on the planet did, or at least before those who dwelled within Kumogakure. It was a habit she had developed five years ago, her father liked to start their training sessions early since he was busy during the day and so three o’clock was the perfect time for him. Thanks to him, her internal clock was set to three hundred hours and no matter how late or early she went to bed, she would always wake up at that time. And with one habit came another one.

She was up and out of bed at three-o-five, the child not bothering to slip out of her night clothes since she would have to shower anyways. She headed for the training grounds found on the Hyuga’s compound, one only utilized by the members of the family and maybe their guest, and began her daily exercises. Warm-ups consisted of an obnoxious amount of sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, and various other things meant to stretch out the limbs and get the body ready for what was to come. Hell, she even ran two laps around the compound and thus she didn’t get to practicing the clan’s techniques until four o’clock. She spent an hour doing that before doing a ten minute cool down and returning to her room. ten pass five was when she hopped into the shower and twenty pass five was when she was finally dressed and ready for the day.

Breakfast was the next thing on Kai’s list and for that she would have to venture outside of the compound and towards one of the few pastry shops open at the crack of dawn. So, at four thirty, she was out the door and arrived at the shop ten minutes later. She entered, greeted the man behind the counter by his nickname, Strawberry With Sprinkles, and immediately headed for the display case that kept her precious doughnuts captive on a day to day basis. She wasn’t expecting anyone else to come through that door for no one seemed to come before six thirty rolled, but that was one part of her routine that would be thrown off today.

Kai felt a disturbance in the force the moment the white-haired boy entered the shop, her mind telling her right away that this day would not end as routine. She turned her head away from the display case, looking over her shoulder to see who dared entered the shop during her personal time only for her yellow eyes to land on the one who had entered. He, the boy, was nothing special in the eyes of the ten-year-old, though then again the child was not impressed by anything that wasn’t a doughnut so her impression of the boy didn’t mean much. She watched the boy greet Strawberry With Sprinkles in a friendly manner and assumed, by the nickname the man had that the boy came here often. She also assumed that he probably came after she left the store, rather this be an hour or minutes didn’t matter to her. What did matter to the pint-sized Genin was why the boy thought it would be a good idea to intrude upon her routine.

She frowned as she continued to stare at the boy. There was simply no hiding her displeasure from the boy and the man behind the counter, not even her doughnuts could distract her from this. So, she turned her entire body towards the boy, eyes now still fixed on the back of his head as she folded her arms across her chest. “What ya doing here?”

Kai did not like the answer the white-haired boy gave her, the usually perky child obviously didn’t appreciate the boy’s presence within the shop. She inhaled sharply as she evaluated the situation, the blonde determining rather or not it was worth telling the boy that the shop was, basically, reserved for her and her alone between five thirty and six fifteen. She also considered telling him that he was ruining her morning routine, but Kai would refrain from whining. “You’re mighty early for muffins.” She said as her eyes narrowed, her voice stern. “Too early for muffins.” She cocked her head to the side. “So early that you are intruding on my personal time and throwing my routine off. Go away.”

Yellow eyes narrowed even more, the blonde fully aware that the boy was enticing her to beat his stupid face in with her fist. Usually, one wouldn’t take the bait, choosing to ignore the individual entirely in an attempt to not get into trouble, but Kai wouldn’t be taking that route today. “I apologize in advance, Strawberry With Sprinkles,” Kai said as she got into her stance. In this stance, one foot is in front of the other and facing forward, whilst the back foot was pointed 90 degrees perpendicular. Her legs were one and a half shoulder width apart, her arms held out in front of her with hands balled into fist. It wasn’t a stance associated with the Hyuga clan, but it was a stance associated with taekwondo.

“Wait, Kai! Can we just talk about this?” Strawberry With Sprinkles said, hands raised as he took a step away from the counter. He was prepared to run out of the shop if a fight was to break out within his shop, though he hoped it didn’t come down to that. She contemplated the man’s request for a second before shaking her head, yellow eyes locking on the white-haired boy who dared overstay his welcome. “Sorry, Strawberry With Sprinkles, he won’t leave. I pay for any damage to the shop. You should go though.”

With Kai’s mind set, the man would look to the white-haired boy to defuse the situation before a fight was to break out within his shop.

Kai seemed to consider the older boy’s proposal which gave the man behind the counter false hope that the yellow-eyed Hyuga would refrain from engaging the white-haired boy in combat. Yet, given the child’s personality, he should’ve known that she was simply faking it and taken that exact moment to vacant the premises. The white-haired boy wasn’t about to do him or his shop any favors, much to the disappointment of the man behind the counter. One would’ve thought that one of his customers would at least attempt to be the bigger and just leave, defusing the situation altogether, but neither of them was going to back down. Stubborn mules the both of them and knowing Kai, he should heed her words. So, Strawberry With Sprinkles slowly retreated into the back, exiting the building from the back door and going to search for some other Shinobi that could stop the fight about to occur within his shop.

While Strawberry With Sprinkles was having his moment, Kai made an act of snapping out of her stupor, dropping her stance for a moment as if she had come to her senses. Yet it became obvious this was not the case. “Or, you can leave and come back after six thirty in which case you’ll have the shop to yourself,” she said, getting back into her stance. Kai knew that the boy would not take the offer, he had made that clear. She wasn’t sure what his problem was nor what he was trying to prove by staying in the shop, but she had intentions of making him regret ever intruding upon her personal time. She was a stickler for her morning schedule.