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Naruto Story
Two friends walked side by side towards a familiar restaurant where many past memories took place. The last time they ate together, there was one other to celebrate the outing … but now there was only three left of the group. One had betrayed their friendship that they had together, and the other three friends went their separate ways, but now the famous, number one knucklehead ninja, had finally returned. Naruto and Sakura were … well "catching up".
"Remember the time when Kakashi tied me up to the post and wouldn't let me eat?" Naruto asked while snickering at the memory.
"Of course I do!" Sakura said laughing. "If it wasn't for Sas-"she broke off.
Naruto stared at her with sympathetic eyes, than ate some ramen, though not enjoying it as much as he would have.
"Uhm … does Jiraiya use the same evil training tactics that Kakashi-sensei used?" Sakura asked changing the subject.
Naruto laughed, "No he's way worse! He tied me to a ten foot poll and wouldn't let me eat for 3 days!"
Sakura laughed but looked down at her feet. Naruto noticed this and put his face to her eye level. Sakura blushed at his motion; he was much older looking now. He lost his baby cheeks and his shoulders were much broader. His hair was a bit longer, hanging over the top of his headband. He also wore different clothes, probably because he out grew the old jumpsuit but this one seemed to suit him better. He was completely different except his eyes, they were the same deep blue filled with happiness and trust, but deep down, was a far away sadness that only she could see. Sakura smiled at him and sighed,
"Do you ever feel like Jiraiya hides things from you?"
"Sometimes, when ever he would talk to strangers, he'd have this look on his face. I always thought it had something to do with either Orochimaru or Akatsuki. Why? What's up with you and Tsunade?"
Sakura looked around suspiciously then looked back at Naruto, she then whispered, "There are 2 strange ninja that have been booking a lot of appointments with her lately. Whenever I bring it up or try to ask her about it she shoves me off or tells me it's not by business. She always tells me important information Naruto, but this time … I don't know what to do?"
The corner of Naruto's mouth twitched to form a smirk, he let out a quiet snort that sounded like a laugh. "I'll tell you what we'll do, next time we see them we fallow them up to the Hokage's tower and see what their up too,"
Sakura looked at him in disbelief, realizing that even though he looked older he definitely didn't act it. "No, that's absurd,"
Naruto leaned away from her, his one eyebrow lifted up, judging her, "You honestly don't want to know?"
"I'm not going to betray my sensei!"
"Like you haven't done that before," Naruto said with a sly grin.
"That was one time,"
Naruto leaned close to her and put his lips to her ear, "What if she's hiding something from us that has to do with Sasuke?" He pulled away from her to see her pondering face. He smiled. "Now I got you,"
"Alright fine, just this once though," Sakura frowned.
"Well then, what do these 2 guys look like?"
"Actually, they're girls,"
"Really? Hmmm. And they look like …" he said while waving his hand in the air, telling Sakura to speed up her speech.
Sakura looked up at the sky while she thought for choice words to describe the 2 girls. When she brought her head down she noticed to figures walking in their direction. She squinted her eyes to focus in on them then gasped.
"What? What do you see?" Naruto got excited.
"It's them, right there," she pointed as 2 girls came into view.
"You sure?"
"OFCOURSE IM SURE YOU IDIOT!" she said while hitting him on the head.
"Quiet down, don't make a scene or they'll notice us!" Naruto hissed at her. Sakura was about to slap him again but she then took in consideration what he was saying and shrugged her shoulders.
"S'pose your right,"
The two girls that Sakura had pointed out finally came into Naruto's view. The girl he saw first was shorter, maybe a little bit shorter then Sakura. Her hair was a pale red colour cropped between her cheekbones and shoulders. She wore tight black capris and a low cut black t-shirt, her body was very slender. She was very pretty, her face had a sternness about it, like she had been threw a heck of a lot. Her eyes were just like Naruto's, instead green, with a sadness that stuck out more to him. He smiled to himself and blushed, Sakura saw this and pouted quietly to herself.
As the first girl walked by, he got a look at the other one. She looked to be about 19, a few years older than he was. She was very tall, about the same height as Kakashi. She had darker skin, compared to people of Konoha. Her hair was long, to about her shoulders and was a tangle of curls, it was as dark as night. She wore a white shirt that was cut off at her stomach with no sleeves on one side, but on the other it acted like a poncho. She wore black capris, with white ninja shoes ... well they weren't white anymore. She was pretty too, but Naruto had his hopes up for the other girl, though this one was intimidating, probably due to the 5"5 sword on her back.
Both girls seemed to be headed towards Hokage's tower, this was their chance to see what they were up to. He looked at Sakura, she nodded in response and they both ran into the shadows to follow the two girls.
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