Well here's my first fan fic, and I hope that I do well, review much appreciated (even flames are welcome…. Sort of)
Summary: When a childhood friend of Naruto comes back to Konoha, what secrets does she hide? What was Naruto promise to her? Most importantly, why did she leave? While Naruto and the gang try to find out why she left and why she came back, things are stirring in the shadows while an old enemy of the Uzumaki makes their move.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of it characters but I do own all of the OCs
"Talking"
'thinking'
'voices in Sasuke head/ inner Sakura'
"Bijuu speaking"
In the front of the gates of Konoha stood a girl who by her size couldn't have been more than twelve years old. Standing beside her was an obliviously older and larger male, not far behind them was a caravan where the sounds of many people and animals slept.
"Are you sure you want to leave?" the man said to the girl.
"Hai, there is someone who I left behind here that I need to see again." She replied
"How long are you going to stay?"
"… I'm not leaving again…" The man's shoulders sagged before he replied.
"So this is good bye forever?"
"I'm sorry…"
"Don't be, everyone's going to miss you but I think they would understand. It was fun performing with you and my only wish is for you to stay alive since I know it's impossible to ask you to stay out of trouble." She looked at him questionably and he sighed before continuing, "I've heard rumors that now is not the best time for the Hidden Villages, that there's an organization or something that's been attacking village after village and getting away with it. Be careful, I don't want to hear that you died because you pissed off the wrong person."
"Aww do you really have so little faith in me?" he stared at her until she gave a nervous chuckle, "Yeah… I'll try my best but no promises."
"Well then Sora sayonara." He turned around and went back to the caravan. She watched as he cracked his whip and sent his horses off into a trot. She kept watching them until she lost sight of him.
"Sayonara Carlos." She turned back to the gates and watched as they opened at the same time the sun rose, almost as if welcoming the rising sun. She walked to the ninjas posted by the gate and showed them her traveling papers as well as proof of identification. She watched as the one with a needle in his mouth checked her papers and wondered why the other was wearing bandages when he wasn't hurt.
The one with the needle spoke jolting her out of her musing, "So why are you here in Konoha?"
"I made a promise with someone and I came to fulfill it. Besides I left something very important here and I need to get it back."
"A promise huh? Well everything seems fine here so you may pass." He handed back her papers and waved her through. She took them and walked through the gate and stared at the city that was sprawled out in front of her. She raised her head to stare at the five heads now carved into the mountain side, remembering voices and actions of a boy she had not seen in a very long time.
"It has been a long time right Naruto?"
Naruto had been having a very good dream, a dream about ramen and a certain pink haired konoichi, the only problem was that there was a very loud and annoying noise that was interrupting it, worse yet, it wouldn't stop. Realizing that lying there wasn't going to make it stop, he sat up and glared at his alarm before the time sunk in his half awake mind. Eyes growing comically large he bolted up right from his bed and attempted to run to his bathroom but tripped and fell when his foot caught on his dirty laundry. Cursing loudly Naruto picked himself up and ran around in a blur untill was at his door stuffing dry ramen in his mouth without knowing how he got there. With a loud curse he threw himself of the railing and to the closest roof top. There was no way in hell that he would be latter than Kakashi-sensei.
Sasuke opened one of his coal black eyes and scanned the clearing him and his team usually met. To his right was Sakura who had arrived some ten minutes after he did, and Naruto was nowhere to be seen, which was weird since he normally showed up around the same time as Sakura. He heard some sort of yelling in the distance that was rapidly getting louder, at the same time he noticed that his sensei was strolling down the bridge while his team mate was coming from the north running in an almost comical way.
He watched with some amusement as Naruto tripped and fell with a loud thud right as he had reached him landing face first. He couldn't let such a fine opportunity pass.
"Smooth dobe." He said before smirking.
"Oi shut up teme! I meant to do that!"
"If you meant to do that than either I failed as a teacher or you have some weird sense of humor." Kakashi drawled out.
"Kakashi-sensei you're late!" yelled Naruto.
"Like you're one to say anything Naruto! You where almost as late as Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura yelled back at him.
Sasuke sighed and closed his eyes knowing that Naruto would waste a good deal of time trying to prove that he wasn't late.
'Time you could be spending on getting stronger so you can finally kill that bastard.'
Sasuke frowned and mentally shook his head; he was starting to wonder where that voice was coming from.
Today was not a good day, first he had almost been as late as Kakashi-sensei, then Sasuke-teme had completely trashed him during training, and now Sakura-chan kept going on and on how cool "Sasuke-kun" was. With a sigh, he followed his sensei back into town when he heard someone yell "Does anyone know where Uzumaki Naruto is?"
Sasuke mentally sigh as he tuned out Sakura high pitched squeaks as she continued to "complement" him for beating the dobe. As if any one couldn't beat the dobe.
'Neji couldn't beat him and Gaara couldn't beat him, and you couldn't beat Gaara…"
'Shut up' he told the voice in his head. 'It must have been some kind of fluke or something…'
"Right so being able to summon, and not just summon, but summon a boss animal is just some sort of fluke….."
Before he could tell off the voice in his head he heard a girl yell, "Does anyone know where Uzumaki Naruto is?"
He looked up to see a girl around their age wearing a simple light blue dress that cut off around her knees and a pairs of light blue ballet slippers marking her as a non-shinobi. She had blazing red hair that fell in curls to her mid-back and deep oceanic blue eyes. Before he could answer her Naruto did it for him, but just not in the way he expected him to...
"Umi nee-chan!" with loud cry Naruto jumped into a flying hug which knocked both Naruto and "Umi nee-chan" down and did something that he had never thought Naruto would do. He started to cry, no he was wailing.
Translations:
hai= yes
sayonara= good bye
dobe= dead last (not sure about this one.....)
teme= bastard
chan= honorific usual meant for girls but can be used for anything 'cute'
kun= another honorific ment for boys bet can be used for boy-ish people
sensei- teacher, mentor, or expert in a certain field
nee-chan= older sister
umi= ocean
