Hey, this is my first Naruto fanfic. Enjoy reading.
Pairing NaruXTema. I you don't like this pairing, don't read this.
I do not own Naruto or any of its including characters.
Naruto was running. Right. Left. Right. Right. Another left. To his right, a redhaired shinobi, carrying a vase that looked like it was made of sand, appeared.
"Damn. They trapped us." Gaara of the sand, also known as the 5th Kazekage, said.
The blonde looked up. Sure enough, they had run into a dead end. Behind him, he heard the triumphant yells of their chasers. "We're out of options. We have to fight." The blonde said, gathering his chakra.
"Are you nuts? They outnumber us more than ten to one!" Gaara said, but his movements contradicted his words, because he was already getting into his fighting stance.
"I do have another option. But if it isn't timed right, we just might get ourselves killed." Naruto said, considering his options.
"Does it involve fighting?"
"No."
"Let's do it." the sand ninja replied
"Alright!" Naruto shouted, and from his pocket, he took a small white paper, covered in black scribbling, and put it on Gaara's right arm.
"Do you still have that kunai I gave you?" Naruto asked
"Yes, Why?"
" my mark, we charge them."
"And then?"
"And then we pray that this will work!" Naruto said, obivously trying to be casual, but failing miserably.
"And if it doesn't?" the redhead asked, not sure he wanted an answer.
"I'd rather not think about that." came the grim reply from Konoha's number one most surprising ninja.
They charged.
When they were about to collide, Naruto made a few handsigns, and yelled "Hiraishin no jutsu", and both the Kazekage and the soon-to-be Hokage dissappeared in a flash of yellow and red, leaving behind a dissappionted group of fangirls, who had all hoped to....to....to do whatever fangirls do to their targets.
Meanwhile, in the kage tower several kilometres away, a hyperactiveg blond, and a dizzy redhead crash-landed in the kazekage's room.
"That was amazing!" Naruto said, flashing his trademark grin. "No matter how many times I use that jutsu, its speed never ceases to amaze me!"
"Whatever you say. I just feel sick...." and with that, Gaara stumbled out of the room, looking slightly green.
Quickly, naruto followed him, but lost track of him in the maze of hallways in the kage tower, in which the apartments of the sand siblings were located. After a while, he gave up on finding Gaara, and with a frustrated growl, he walked out of the building, towards the local ramen stand. Of course, it wasn't anywhere near the quality of Ichiraku's, but it was the only one in Suna, so there wasn't much choice. He sat down, and as soon as the boss recognised him, He hurried towards Naruto, and asked him what he wanted. The blue eyed shinobi shrugged, and just took the cheapest.
He remembered how he had ended up in Suna in the first place
flashback:
"What did you say?!" Naruto practically screamed
"You heard me. Before your initiation as Hokage, you are going spend 3 months in Suna, where you will act both as an ambassador, and as one of the jounin ranked ninjas that execute missions."
"But why?" Suna has nothing! No good ramen, the weather is to hot, and I only know Gaara and his siblings!" Naruto whined. Even though he liked the idea of visiting Gaara, he wanted to do some S-ranked missions, as a kind of training for becoming hokage.
"It can't be helped! I would send Shikamaru, if not fo the fact that he is out on a mission. That and..." Tsunade's voice faltered
"What's the other reason?" the blonde asked, so curious he forgot to act pissed of.
"You'll see when you get there." this instantly brought Naruto back to his annoyed-like-hell-state
"But why me?! You could send Neji, or Kiba, or even Sakura!" he exclaimed.
"You are currently the strongest person in Konoha, and Suna is a short on manpower. So who better to send than you?"
Sadly, the hyperactive blond couldn't come up with a good suggestion, thus making it so that he was indeed to be send to Suna for 3 months.
End of flashback
When he was done with his Ramen, Naruto decided to go back to the kage tower, and ask for his first mission. So far, his first day in Suna was quite chaotic. He had left Konoha the other day, arriving in the desert around 9 o'clock in the morning, where Gaara had been waiting for him. When they reached the gates of Suna, they had been forced to sneak in, because of the many fangirls, waiting for their Kazekage to return, along with the hero that had saved said Kage, and single-handedly defeated both Pain and Sasuke. Everything went smooth, until one of the fangirls noticed them, and they had spent around 2 hours running from them.
While reflecting on his stay in Suna, Naruto had reached the tower, and made his way towards the room of the Kazekage, only to find a note on the door that said: "Due to an unexpected illness, missions will be handed out in room 227."
'Note to self: Don't use Hiraishin on Gaara anymore' Naruto thought, scratching the back of his head with a guilty expression, because he felt like he knew the source of the illness mentioned in the note. He shrugged, and walked to room 227.
When he had found it, which took him quite some time, he knocked, and waited for an answer.
"Come in." A tired feminine voice said.
The blond eyed shinobi opened the door, and walked in.
"Oh, hey Naruto." said person looked for the source of the voice, and his eyes rested on the kunoichi that was sitting behind the desk on the other side of the room. It took him a while to recognize Temari, Gaara's elder sister. But she didn't look like the girl Naruto had seen in Konoha every few months. Her normally slightly tanned skin was pale enough to see the veins underneath. She had bags under her eyes, and her eyes themselves were red and puffy. Her hair hung lusterless in its four tails. But the worst was the look in her eyes. Sorrow had replaced joy, and the unyielding will had gone, only leaving the look of a very tired person. She looked downright terrible. Naruto hid the shock on his face, and just greeted her.
"Hey Temari."
"So I take it you are here for a mission? We just received a message from Konoha as to why you're here." The sand kunoichi said
"You got it!" Naruto said
"Alright then. Today, and tomorrow as well, you will fill in for one of our taijutsu teachers. You are expected to be at the academy within half an hour." came his reply, and he was handed a map of Suna on which the academy was marked with a red circle.
"Understood." he merely said, and walked out of the room.
Naruto arrived at the training fields that were located next to the place were he had to be.
He walked into the building, looking for the room of the class he was assigned to. Eventually, he found it, and knocked a couple of times. The door was opened by none other than Kankurou, Gaara's elder brother.
"Naruto? Are you the new Taijutsu teacher?" he asked, clearly surprised
"That's me." Naruto said, and walked into the classroom, followed by the puppet master.
"I gotta warn you though. This is the worst class you can get. Not that they incompatent, they are just terribly annoying." the sand shinobi whispered.
As if on cue, 3 kids escaped through the window. Or at least they tried. They were instantly caught by a pair of shadow clone's Naruto had made, which picked up the boys, and dragged them back to the classroom.
"Listen up!" Naruto shouted. Nothing happened.
'Time to use the trick Kakashi tought me' he thought.
He did several handseals, and said: "Ninja art: sound dispelling barrier!"
there was low rumble, and then it was quiet. Absolutely quiet. The children were still shouting, but no sound came out of their mouths. They panicked when they seemed to have grown deaf.
Making another pair of handseals, Naruto excluded himself and Kankurou from the techinique.
"Don't panic!" Naruto bellowed, and the kids stopped moving.
"Now listen up you brats! I am your new Taijutsu teacher, Naruto Uzumaki, and I expect the lot of you to pay attention!" Surprisingly, they did as he said, and all of them sat down.
One of them raised his hand. Momentarily dispelling the technique from the kid, naruto said: "Yes?"
The boy, who seemed to be around 8 years old, asked: "The Naruto Uzumaki? The one that defeated the leader of Akatsuki and Sasuke Uchiha, and who is also known as "Konoha's orange blurr?" That one?" he asked, awed.
"In the flesh." The blond shinobi replied, flashing his trademark grin.
He let go of his technique, and everyone could talk again.
"Now if you guys could be quiet, I will explain today's lesson." he said.
"How did you do that?" Kankurou muttered beside him.
"Being a well known shinobi has it perks." Naruto replied, whispering
After that, he proceeded with his lesson.
(timeskip of 1,5 hours)
Naruto sat down in one of the chairs in one of the small Cafetaria. Opposite him, Kankurou sat down as well.
"Geez, Naruto, can't you take over my lessons as well? The class wouldn't mind, and it would save me a big-time head-ache?" he brown haired shinobi asked, rubbing his forehead.
"Thanks, but no thanks" the orange clad boy replied.
They ordered their drinks, and talked about the newly founded ninja acedemy in Suna for a bit, untill Naruto remembered something.
"Say, Kankurou?"
"Yeah?"
"What happened to....you know, Temari?" as soon as he spoke the last words, the face of the sand shinobi darkened.
"Don't tell her I told you, alright?"
"I promise"
"That damned lazy ass ditched her. The painful way"
"Shikamaru?" Naruto asked, surprised. The lazy chuunin didn't seem like the type to do something like that.
"Yes. But don't ever say that name when she is around. Apperently, she walked into his room, and he was making out with that slutty teammate of his. According to Sakura, the two had a thing going on for weeks."
Naruto whistled.
No wonder Temari looked so bad. The poor girl must've been crying her eyes out.
Like he was reading Naruto's mind, Kankurou said. "She spent around 2 weeks crying in her bedroom, not opening the door for anyone. And she still cries at night." he looked like he was in physical pain.
"It's also the reason that you are the new ambassador. It took the whole council to convince Gaara that killing a leaf shinobi might disturb the alliance between our villages.
Luckily, your Hokage understands perfectly well that if she would send the bastard to Suna, Gaara, or I for that matter, might no be able to let him live"
"Make sure to remind me that I kick Shikamaru's ass when I get back to Konoha." he replied. Any guy who would do such a thing deserved a beating.
Kankurou grinned. "I will." he promised.
"Haven't you guys tried to...you know, cheer her up?" the blonde asked
"Of course we did. And so did her some of her friends. But it just doesn't work. It's like she can't hear us. Or see us, for that matter. As soon as we start on the subject, she shuts us out."
"Yeah. I get it. I know somewhat how she feels." Naruto replied, thinking about his own rejection by Sakura. It hand't been as, he really didn't know how else to call it; cruel as Temari's but he reasoned the overal feeling would be the same.
"Really? How come?" Kankurou asked, surprised.
So the leaf shinobi told him about how he had brought Sasuke back, and how eventually, he and Sakura had gotten married. Of course, it had hurt like hell, but at the very least, Sakura and he were still friends. Sort of. He didn't see her very often, because lately, she and Sasuke had joined the ANBU, and the two hadn't been home for more than 2 days. Which they had spent doing the kind of activities you don't intrude on...
"I see. That sucks." the sand shinobi replied, putting down his glas.
"Come on, let's get going. Next class will be in several minutes."
"You got it."
The two boys got up, and walked back towards the academy, preparing for teaching another load of brats.
End of chapter one
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