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Chapter 1: Part 1:

It was that time of year, where orange was the main theme of the month and season in the Hidden Leaf Village. All the trees either looked bare or had a few colorful leaves; Red, Orange and Yellow. The days got shorter, and darker; more so when rain was constantly pouring down, making the villagers stay in their houses. Unfortunately, that meant work was slow, and that made people dull at home. Allies of the Shinobi had been established and extended, and that made Naruto feel like World Peace; aka. for-all-villages-to-get-along-with-each-other was getting realized. That is, until a man, around the age 24, had a volleyball in his hands and was wearing black shorts and a black jersey tee. He entered the Hidden Leaf Village.

As he stood in front of the big symbolic doors of the Hidden Leaf Village, he could not believe that it had been 18 years since he first stepped inside. He vaguely remembered the time when he first met Third Hokage...

[Flashback]

That day, the old man dressed in white and red took my hand as we entered the Hidden Leaf Village, and the first words he said to me were: "Shouyou Hinata, this will be your home." I was five back then.

[Flashback ended]

He murmured to himself: "This will be your home." He smiled realizing that that phrase sparked a new memory. Naruto.

"NARUUUTO! I'M BACK!" He bounced his volleyball on the ground and jumped up. The guards who were asleep [which they weren't suppose to] jerked up as Shouyou jumped over them and kept jumping on to little shops and houses until he reached higher buildings.

"What is going on here? Quickly! Report to the Hokage! I think we've got an intruder!" One of the guards declared. The other guard quickly disappeared.

Naruto Uzamaki, who was at the Hokage's desk, reading in some reports felt a cold shiver down his back. He looked out of the window and shook his head. He knew. The guard who disappeared, suddenly appeared behind the doors to Naruto.

"Come in Izumo Kamizuki"

"Hokage-" Naruto stops him.

"I know what you're gonna say. He isn't an intruder."

"Pardon me?"

"I know, because he was a childhood friend." Right when he said that, the volleyball appeared and was about to break the window. But Naruto wasn't startled by that as Izumo Kamizuki was. Shouyou grabbed his ball and appeared before Naruto. He mouthed the words: "FOUND YOU" as he smiled from ear to ear. Naruto smiled back.

"Welcome back Shouyou!"

Part 2:

It was now dinner time and the two giddy boys were at Ichuraku Ramen eating n's bowls of ramen. Shouyou drank his bowl as he finished another.

"Man Shouyou! You never change, still as short as I remembered." Naruto looked at him satisfied with his inference.

"Heyy! Don't mess with my height. You know I'm as mature as you since we are the same age."

"Yeah!" Naruto sighed, disbelieving that he was the same year as Shouyou.

"Well, I wouldn't greet a forgotten friend like what you did at 24. You could've walked into the Village like any normal person." Shouyou's eyes widened.

"Really? Do you think the guards would by that?" Shouyou kept staring at Naruto in amazement with a hit of sarcasm until Naruto breaks. But he didn't. Shouyou continued.

"And besides, it has always been a tradition for me to greet you that way, remember?" Naruto did remember. That kind of greeting entrance only came from a six year old Shouyou Hinata. Whenever a six year old Naruto felt down at the academy or anything, Shouyou would meet up with Naruto and the two would play pranks on others and what not. Naruto remembered that Shouyou's favorite was to jump on high places and somehow get in trouble for disturbing families in their houses. He remembered his six year old self would draw all over the walls of past Hokages. Sometimes, the sensei from the Academy had to physically knock some senses into those two knuckleheads. But they still found joy within each other.

[Flashback]

Once, Iruka-sensei caught Naruto, who was wearing his green goggles on his head, a purple mask over his eyes, dressed up like a turtle and had a long baton, jumping from building to building. Behind him was Shouyou, who wore the same exact outfit but instead of a purple mask over his eyes, it would orange. Iruka-sensei saw them jumping in the night, like shadows. He yelled out:
"NARUTO! SHOUYOU! GET DOWN HERE IMMEDIATELY. OR ELSE..." At first the two heard Iruka-sensei, but ignored him.

"NARRRUUUTO!" Naruto couldn't take it. He looked at Shouyou and asked.

"Shouyou. Iruka-sensei is getting mad at us. What should we do?"

"Don't listen to him. We are the turtles of the night. They cannot catch us today." Shouyou reassured. Very quickly, Iruka-sensei had shadow clones over the night village. It was a wild goose chase. Many other sensei joined in. Finally, close to 4 hours, the two troublemakers had no more stamina. Iruka-sensei found them together and quietly scared them.

"Where are you guys going?" By that time, Naruto and Shouyou just wanted to go home.

"No can do. You have ruined the main festival tonight. You will have to pay for that."

"What? NOOooo!"

"That's what you get for not listening." Iruka-sensei said. Naruto and Shouyou were all deflated and grumpy. But when they looked at each other, they laughed.

[Flashback ended]

"And that's how we always find joy within each other." Naruto muttered under his breath as a familiar female voice greeted.

"Hi, Naruto." The two boys turned around.