Hey! This is going to be about Naruto and Hinata (eventually) like later on so bear with me please!
People were glaring at a trio of men hopping from roof to ground and back again. They were glaring particularly hard at an orange and black blur as it ran about with two men, one with black hair and one with silver hair, in hot pursuit. The boy and two men stopped in the middle of the street to catch their breath, at least, two of them needed to.
"Ne, ne, Kakashi-sensei, Yamato-sensei, you're not tired already are you?!" Naruto asked the heavily panting men.
"You've…improved quite a bit, Naruto," Kakashi said as he caught his breath. Said boy just grinned at him.
"Arigatou Sensei. And it's all thanks to, believe it or not, Ero-Sennin." He replied. The boy had just gotten back from his second extended trip (this one only 6 months) with the perverted Sannin. Wanting to see how much the boy had improved, his two other sensei's challenged him to a race.
"How did he manage to get you so fast?" Yamato asked, still trying to catch his breath.
"He bought me weights like bushy brows'. I took 'em off before I came to see you guys, though…" Naruto said.
"I…see." Yamato replied, astounded at how much a difference it could make.
"Have you managed to complete the Fuuton Rasenshuriken?" Kakashi asked suddenly. Naruto's grin widened.
"Yeah! And wait'll you see it! It's so cool! I'll definitely be able to bring back Sasuke-teme with it!" Naruto said energetically. Then Kakashi noticed something.
"Hey, Naruto, where'd you're bag go?" he asked. Naruto looked at him for a moment, then at his back.
"EHHHH?! Oh no! I had my weights in there! I probably threw it off cuz it was slowing me down! KUSO! I have to find it!!" he said, running down the street. He was about to turn a corner when he was suddenly sent flying by a savage punch from a delicate looking pink haired girl.
"NAARRUUTOOOO!!! You've only been back for a few minutes and you've already managed to piss me off!!" Sakura said. Said boy was bleeding profusely but he was already up.
"I'm sorry Sakura-chan! I don't know what I did but I'm really sorry!! Please forgive me! Whatever it is, please forgive me, I didn't mean to!!" he said, bowing repeatedly. Just then, a group of people ran around the corner.
"Forehead girl! You found him!" Ino said as she caught up with her long time friend.
"Ino?!" said a very confused Naruto.
"Ne, don't forget about us, dobe!" a familiar voice said.
"Kiba, Akamaru! Shino, Chouji, Shikamaru, Bushy Brows, Ten-ten, Neji! What are you all doing here?!" Naruto asked with an excited grin.
"Well, we were on our way to the training grounds where we heard we could find you when a backpack suddenly hit Sakura in the face." Shikamaru said in a bored tone. Naruto sweat dropped and looked at Sakura.
"I'm so sorry Sakura-chan! Let me buy you dinner. To make it up to you!" he added quickly, seeing her glare. Then he looked around at the group again.
"Actually, let's all go out to dinner so we can catch up with each other." He added as an after thought.
"Sorry but we have something to see to. We'll catch up with you later Naruto." Kakashi said as Yamato nodded. Naruto said a quick goodbye and glanced around.
Something's missing but I can't see what it is…" Naruto thought to himself.
They were all following Sakura to a new restaurant that just opened just down the street. They made small talk on the way there.
"So Naruto, did you complete your new jutsu?" Chouji asked.
"Yeah! I know, after we all eat and stuff, we can all go to the woods and I'll show it to you guys! It's so cool! And I'll definitely be able to bring Sasuke-teme back with it!" he said. Then he remembered Sakura was there.
"Oh! I-I'm sorry Sakura-chan, I…I forgot…." He stammered out. The pink haired kunoichi just ignored him and acted like she hadn't heard him.
"Look! We're here! Table for 11 please. There will be two more people on the way." Sakura said to the man behind the cashier.
"Ahh, yes, right away, ma'am." He said, grabbing a handful of menus and leading the group to a large table near a window. They all sat down and Naruto took a look around at his friends.
"Ahhhh!! Where's Hinata?!" he asked, suddenly realizing what was 'missing'.
"Hinata-sama had some business to attend to and should be arriving here shortly." Neji said.
"Oh, okay….So how have you all been?" he asked them. As they all shared stories of their doing from the past half year they waited on their other friends. Naruto was shocked to learn that Shikamaru and Temari of the Sand were dating. He just smiled slyly at Shikamaru.
"Well, congratulations, Shikamaru. And tell Temari I say so. So when are the kits coming along?" he asked with a sly grin as Shikamaru blushed.
"Well, you haven't changed in the least. And don't ask him, you should ask a woman those questions and I can assure you that it won't be anytime soon. And if you ask again you won't live along enough to see the 'kits'." A feminine voice said behind Naruto. Naruto whirled around to find none other than Temari standing right behind him. He gave her his ever famous grin and she couldn't help but grin back.
"How have you been, Temari? It's been a while." He asked, still smiling.
"I'm doing fine, Naruto. However, as I was saying, you haven't changed, still the same rude, incompetent and dense shinobi you were the last time I saw you. How have you been doing? And how's your, ah, 'friend'? He must be rubbing off on you since you've started referring to children as 'kits'." she said to him. Before he had left six months earlier, he had told all of his friends, even the Sand Siblings, about the Kyuubi so everyone knew to whom Temari was referring. They were shocked at first, but after the initial shock, they were angry with the rest of the villagers.
"Oh, him, well, you know, he's still being a bastard fox. Still not a great conversationalist…" Naruto replied with a grin. They all laughed at this as Temari took a seat next to Shikamaru.
"And how're Gaara and Kankuro?" Naruto asked her after her greetings with the rest of the people seated at the table.
"Oh, they're doing okay, I guess. They heard you were going to be coming today and I have messages from both of them. Gaara says, "Hmph. Glad you're back. Hn." And Kankuro says, "Hey you scrawny bastard. Where'd you go? If you don't come back soon, Gaara's going to kill you. He won't say it out loud but he misses your company and he-"and that's where the message stops because Gaara was walking by at that moment and let's just say that Kankuro's going to be recovering in the hospital for a while." Temari said with a grin. Everyone burst out laughing and somewhere in Suna two boys sneezed.
Not too long afterwards, a girl with long hair walked in. Naruto looked up when he sensed a familiar chakra. The others looked up as well.
"Oh! Hinata! Come over here!!" Naruto said, standing up and waving at the raven haired girl. Her head snapped around so fast you almost expected to hear a 'snap'. Upon seeing the orange clad boy, said girl turned an alarming shade of red.
"Hm? Is Hinata-chan sick or something? Look, she just turned all red, but she seemed fine a minute ago…" the ever thick Naruto said to his dining companions. They all sweat dropped and stared at him.
"What?" he asked the now quiet table. They just continued to stare and a few (primarily the women) muttered 'Baka' and 'Dumbass' under their breath. At that point, the furiously blushing Hinata had reached their table and sat down in the last remaining chair, the one next to Naruto.
"H-hello, everyone. I-it's good to see you back home, N-Naruto-kun." She managed to get out.
"Hey, Hinata-chan! Now that you're here, we can all eat!" Naruto said, excitedly calling a waiter over. The waiter pointedly ignored him and eyed him with disgust.
"Hey, you bastard! Get your ass over here! The hell kind of service is that?!" Kiba, Chouji, and Ino yelled at the poor guy, incensed at his treatment of Naruto.
Yeah, it's good to be home, Naruto thought with a smile.
Arigatou- Thank you
Ero-Sennin- Perverted Hermit
Teme- Bastard
Kuso- Damn it
Baka- Idiot
So, what d'ya think? Please review. If I get enough reviews I'll keep going with the story. And the chapters will also be alot longer