Hi! This is chapter one and the first story/chapter that i have ever written in 3rd person, which is a lot different from 1st person than u might think! I wanted to try it out so please let me know how to improve! Please review and flame so i can work on it! Thanks for reading! Chapter two should be out soon, like next week or in a few days - Roxie

Beginnings

"I'm not going." Said a blonde boy in a flat, uncaring voice. He arched an eyebrow that disappeared into the fringe of his hair. "Why would I ever want to go with you to a festival? That has to be the stupidest thing anyone has ever suggested."

"Why not?!" exclaimed the white haired man he was talking to. He frowned in annoyance at his student, who was being purposely difficult. "It will be fun! There will be a lot of girls there too"

He said this while smiling suggestively at his twelve year old student. Minato just frowned in clear disapproval at his teachers antics.

He's being ridiculous Minato thought feeling a bit annoyed this is definitely not want I want to be doing tonight. . . I have to train for my chunin exams anyways

"Who has time to go to some stupid festival anyways? Unlike you, I have an exam tomorrow and am busy. Go by yourself, just don't cause any trouble."

"Oh, come on Minato! It will be fun! You need to loosen up" Jiraiya smiled and then winked playfully at his student that was currently glaring at him. "You're only young once"

And I lose a year off of my life every time I talk to you Minato thought bitterly. But already he was starting to warm up to the idea of going. He knew his sensei would probably talk him into it in the end anyways.

Jiraiya smiled as he watched Minato ponder what he was saying. Then with a big grin he slipped an arm around his shoulder and whispered into his ear "You need any pick up lines for tonight? I got a bunch that are 100% fool proof"

Minato's face turn slightly red as he glared at Jiraiya again. Minato frowned and began to walk off towards the direction of the ramen stand while resisting the urge to hit his sensei for being such a creep.

He's like a pedophile or something Minato thought trying not to smile at the thought. Jiraiya noticed his mischievous smile and guessed at what he was thinking. He frowned, before he thought of a good way to get even with the boy.

"Don't forget, the festival starts at eight! I'll see you there!" shouted Jiraiya, drawing attention from all the onlookers and, unfortunately, all of Minato's fan girls, just as he had planned. Minato groaned before he began to slowly retreat from the heard of girls forming around him.

As he ran through the forest back towards the training grounds he promised himself that the next time he saw his teacher he would get him back. He smiled when he realized that that would be tonight, at eight.

Just as soon as the smile was there it disappeared at the thought of the festival. Even though Minato hadn't said yes he hadn't said no either. And he realized that he would probably end up having to go.

The thought of being harassed by all his psycho fan-girls was not a pleasant thought and he would prefer to avoid that at all costs. He also knew that he'd have to go out and by a kimono for the freaking festival and that he'd have to spend the time with Jiraiya while he picked up girls half his age.

Tonight is definitely going to suck he complained in his head with a silent groan. Minato had just arrived at the training grounds and the rest of his team was there already. A girl with shoulder length black hair was tossing a kunai at a tree.

"Yo! Minato!" yelled Takari, a boy with short, dark brown hair, as he ran up to greet his teammate. "You're late! Me and Asami have been waiting for ever!"

"Ha ha, sorry but I was stopped by sensei, and you know how he gets" said the blond while scratching the back of his head. It was a habit of his, he did it whenever he making excuses or lying.

"Yeah, Yeah, whatever!" said Asami while putting her hands on her hips. She was feeling rather annoyed with both of her teammates for wasting so much time. "Let's get practicing, the exam is tomorrow! And all you two seem to want to do is lounge around!"

Both boys started to protest but decided against it. It would be better to get practicing before Asami got anymore pissed off. While they were practicing throwing kunai, Minato's mind began to wander a bit.

"Are you guys going to the festival tonight?" Minato asked suddenly, startling the other two. Asami missed her target in surprised and Takari's kunai missed the tree completely.

"What?" Asked Asami, a little mad that she had missed her mark "Your thinking of going to a festival tonight of all nights?!"

"It's not like I wanted to" the blond said a bit defensively "Jiraiya sensei is making me go"

"Sure. . ." Takari said while trailing of with a smirk. Minato smiled at him and shoved him playfully while telling him to shut up.

"So are you guys going?"

"No way" Asami answered, frowning at Minato "I don't think you should be going either"

"Well its not you decision" Minato said while sticking out his tongue at her. He knew he was being childish but he hated being bossed around, especially by someone his own age. He saw her frown and begin to say something but he cut her off first.

"Takari, what about you? Are you in?" Minato asked then he whispered into Takari's ear, low enough for Asami not to hear, "Sensei said that there would be plenty of girls there. . ."

Takari's face lit up at that. Minato stifled a sigh and tried not to hide his disappointment at his friend easy infatuation with girls. Minato had never found girls that attractive. From what he seen, they usually were obnoxious and obsessive.

And kill joys he thought silently while glancing at Asami. He looked at her with a critical eye. Her name meant "morning beauty" but her personality tended to conflict with her looks. Even though Minato respected her as a kunoichi and knew she was a good person he still didn't find her attractive. To him she was the same as all the other girls.

"I'm in" said Takari breaking Minato's train of thought. Minato tried not to smile because he knew it would provoke Asami but she didn't miss his lips twitching into a smile.

She frowned and shook her head in disapproval. "I guess training today is done" she said with a sigh. They hadn't accomplished anything except for target practice. She was sure Minato, top genin of their class, could become a chunin with ease but she worried about herself and Takari. She doubted they could keep up with Minato's fast pace for mush longer.

She sighed again and saw Minato look at her. She quickly smiled to hide her inner turmoil and Minato just shrugged and went back to his conversation with Takari about the festival.

Her eyes narrowed a bit; for someone who didn't want to go, and was being forced against his will, he seemed a bit to into making plans and arrangements.

"So come over to my place at like seven thirty" Minato said brightly. He was in a great mood now. The festival wouldn't be half bad if Takari was there to lighten things up.

"Okay I'll see you then. Asami, wait up! You sure you don't want to come?" Takari called as he went after their only female teammate. Minato rolled his eyes at them and continued home alone.

At 7:38pm Takari showed up in a green kimono along with a reluctant Asami in a bright purple kimono. Her hair was down for once, a fact that Takari had noticed. He thought she looked kinda cute like that. . .

"When is sensei coming?" Asked Asami in a bored tone, apparently this wasn't her first choice of places she wanted to be right now.

"Soon" answered Minato. Seventeen minutes late (at 8:17) Jiraiya showed up looking slightly flushed and breathing hard. He had ran all the way here from a research session and had went home only to throw on a maroon kimono.

"Finally" Minato said exasperated. He wasn't really mad at his sensei but he couldn't resist teasing him a bit.

"Alright, come on" Jiraiya said with a smile as he ruffled Minato's hair. Minato complained but Jiraiya ignored him. In about fifteen minutes they had arrived at the center of the village.

The village was done up with lanterns and ninja from all different villages walked the streets. You could tell them apart from the citizens because the wore some mark from home, like their headbands.

There were so many stands that usually weren't open, selling unusual food, like fried squid. All in all it was an amazing sight.

Minato, Takari, and Asami all left Jiraiya to go off to play some of the festival games. Jiraiya was more than happy to let them go. He had a nice blond date waiting for him back at home anyways.

"Ah, I won!" Asami said with a smile as she claimed a fake ANBU mask as her prize. It was a wolf mask. The three of them had been playing the game were you try to scoop fish with rice paper. Asami could've kept the fish but she dropped it back in to the water anyways. She didn't want to carry it around all night.

"How'd you do that!" Minato exclaimed as his paper broke again. There was a pile forming in between him and Takari from all their failed attempts.

"I don't know" Asami said with fake innocence "Maybe because I have skills?"

"Ha ha nice joke" Takari replied dryly as his paper broke again. "As if this counts as a skill!"

"Whatever" Minato said standing up and crossing his arms. He looked scornfully at the game, in truth he was embarrassed that he couldn't do it, but Asami could. Asami could tell and she tried to hide her giggle. Minato's face turned a little red from embarrassment which only added to her amusement.

"This is a kid's game anyways, let's go before we run out of money" Minato said in a sour tone. They walked around for a little while longer and Asami decided that she was going to go home.

"It's pretty late guys" she said while giving them a pointed look "You should turn in soon."

"Sure, sure" the boys answered knowing that they would be out for the next couple of hours. "See ya later"

"Bye"

Asami walked away feeling annoyed with her two teammates but decided that tonight had been fun. She slipped her mask on over her face, she had always wanted to be part of the ANBU. . .

"So what are we going to do now?" Takari asked, slipping an arm over Minato's shoulder. "You said there would be girls. . ."

"Fine" Minato said with a sigh, he had been hoping that Takari had forgotten about that, it was the last thing he wanted to do here.

He's the same as Jiraiya Minato thought smiling wryly I should of have had those to go off by themselves and just walked around with Asami

"Awesome!" Takari said feeling satisfied "Let's go check out some shops then!"

"Why shops?" Minato asked. He couldn't think of one good reason that there would be more girls in a shop than out here in the crowded streets.

"Because" Takari said while trying to look disappointed with his blond teammate "Girls love to shop of course!"

Minato groaned at his bad, but accurate logic. He muttered a whatever and followed Takari into a shop. His first thoughts had been that Takari had been right.

The store was full of them. But most of them were like twenty and over or eight and younger. There was of course the occasional girl their age but more often than not it turned out to be one of Minato's fangirls.

"Minato!" one of the girls from his village exclaimed. She had long blond hair that was pulled up into a messy bun. Minato shuddered when he saw her. She was the leader of his fangirls.

"Hello" he said cautiously, trying not to make any sudden moves. He backed up towards the entrance.

"You look good in a kimono" she said while taking a step towards him. She couldn't believe how good her luck was! Minato was almost to the door now.

"Thanks" he said quickly.

Here's my chance! She thought. She smiled an alluring smile as she reached out towards him. And then he bolted out the door.

Minato was running through the village so fast that he was nothing but a blur. About half way through his sprint he turned around just to make sure that she hadn't somehow been able to keep up with him.

And then he slammed into someone. Hard. He stumbled backwards and the other person fell to the ground. Shit he thought hastily what if he's hurt?!

"Are you okay?" Minato said while offering out a hand. The girl on the ground looked up at him through a curtain of fire red hair. She was dressed in a kimono the same color. Her hair was pulled back into a bun but her bangs fell messily across her eyes. She met his gaze with beautiful emerald eyes.

"Yeah, Perfect actually"

Roxie: Yah so that was chapter one, lol unlike "Eternal Spring" i'm not going to immeditly make this a love story, first i'm just going to focus on their friendship before it turns into love. This fic is going to be around 5 chapters unless i decided to make it longer so remember to review and flame! (oh and btw etenal spring is my other fanfic just in case u were confused) thanks again -roxie