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The Fox-Boy and the…
By: Reiyayru
Chapter 1: The Foul mouth demon girl
In the dense forest of fire country, four blurs raced along the branches heading in the direction of Kohona, the village hidden in the leaves. As the blurs continued for a few minutes one of them stopped, flipping down onto the ground to reveal a slightly short blond boy wearing a bright orange and blue loose jumpsuit. His ocean blue eyes watched the last three stop to reveal two boys and one girl, the girl wore a Chinese style armless shirt and navy blue pants stopping just above her ankles, she had chocolate brown eyes and two buns in her hair. The first boy wore a simple skin-tight green jumpsuit with orange legwarmers, he had his Kohona headband around his waist and bandages wrapped around his forearm and fingers, his hair and eyebrows were in a 'unique' style and shape, the eyebrows abnormally thick and his hair shaped like a bowl. The last boy wore a Chinese style t-shirt and dark brown shorts, he had bandages wrapped completely around his whole left leg and arm, he had almost pupil-less while eyes and long hair. The last boy jumped down and walked up to the blonde-haired person, addressing him, "Naruto, is there a problem?" Naruto looked at the boy and sighed.
"Actually Neji I'm feeling a little tired, mind if I stop by the next town for a quick rest?" Neji cocked an eyebrow as the other two dropped down beside them.
"You're feeling tired, you the god of stamina." The girl said a little playful tone in her voice.
"Hey now, our last mission was tiring, besides I was training when Tsunade-obaachan asked me to come. Also Ten-Ten I am not a god of stamina, even my almost infinite-like storage depletes every now and then." Naruto said crossing his arms, Ten-Ten giggled at his response and looked at her spandex wearing teammate.
"Hey Lee, need a rest." Lee raised one of his gigantic eyebrows and scratched his chin.
"Actually I'm not feeling up to par as well." He said in a normal, calm voice. When his teammates heard this they all went wide eyed and stared at Lee as if he had grown a second head, "What, is there something on my face." Lee said when he saw his friends staring.
"OK, I think a good long rest is in order." Neji said, 'Cause if Lee's voice is at normal level then he must be tired, and seeing that it was both him and Naruto who did all of the fighting and Naruto was training before then he will defiantly need to catch a few Zs' Were the Hyuuga genius's thoughts as he turned to the closest town's direction. "OK the closest town is Enjaku so well go there and rest for at least three days, seeing as the battle took a lot out of all of us and we should probably regain our strength. Besides it looks like it's going to be dark soon." He looked back to the others who all nodded with relief.
"Yeah that sounds like a good plan." Ten-Ten says as looks towards the lowering sun, "Also Enjaku also happens to be the place I was going anyways to pick up the demon windmill Shuriken I'm having fixed."
"Alright let's go." Neji said as Naruto and Lee both nodded again and took off followed by the other two. After a few minutes of hopping from one branch to another Naruto looked back at his female teammate and asked.
"Ten-Ten, why are you getting a weapon fixed in Enjaku and not Konoha?"
"Oh, it's cheaper because the owner gives me discounts for testing out his new custom made weapons." She answered as they finally saw the town in the distance. When they reached, Naruto took a quick glance at the small mountain about the size of the Hokage Tower without anyone's notice and walked into an inn with Neji, Ten-Ten, and Lee. When they got the rooms, one for Ten-Ten while the boys shared one, they all went their separate ways. Ten-Ten to the weapons shop, Lee to the local training dojo, and Neji to the nearest teahouse, Naruto had told them not to wait up because he wanted to go and spend some time in nature on the mountain saying that he didn't know when he would come back. At first, everyone wasn't too keen on this idea, but then let it drop when Naruto told them that he would only rest and relax in the woods and wouldn't try to push himself with training. When they had left and Naruto couldn't see them he quickly went into a grocery store, taking out his frog shaped wallet he bought a lot of food as well as other supplies. Then taking everything with him he ran out of town and into the mountain immediately going to a small opening half way up the mountain, a little ways off the path and walking in whistling a soft tone. When he entered the 'empty' cave he looked around and whistled again, when he stopped he was answered by a soft flute playing as the area in front of him shimmered and dispelled revealing a small tan 14 year old girl with orange-red hair and light brown eyes, she wore a patched up sound uniform minus the purple bow. Her arms as well as most of her body had been bandaged up with small spots of dark red all over it, in one of her of her wrapped hands the silver flute that played only moments ago rest as her light brown eyes lock with his ocean blue.
"So shit-head, what did you bring me?" She asked as she smirked. Naruto looked at the girl in front of him and smiled.
"Just some food and organic soap as to not contaminate the water around here." He answered taking out said items after kneeling down beside her. "So Tayuya-chan what do ya want ramen or dumplings?" Tayuya scowled,
"Don't call me Chan, and dumplings dumb ass." She answered taking the food after putting her flute away.
"Alright I won't add the -Chan Tayuya." Naruto answered as he took dumplings as well. As they, both sat eating quietly enjoying the silence of the semi-dark cave, Tayuya spoke up,
"Hey Baka, why did you save me. Hell why are you helping me, aren't I an enemy?" Naruto looked at her and chuckled as he said.
"Are you gonna keep asking that every time I come here?" She just stared at him waiting for his answer, "Well like I said before, because it's in my nature to help someone in need. I can't stand to see someone suffering needlessly even if they are an enemy." He explained, "Besides whom needs a reason to help someone, I say just do it." Tayuya looked at the blonde-haired person beside her and chuckled as she shook her head causing some of her long bangs to fall in front of her face. Tayuya tried to push them away but it prove fruitless as she wasn't completely strong enough to hold her hands up, Naruto noticed her struggle and decided to help. He reached over and gently pushed her bangs to the side so that they weren't in her eyes.
"Pfft, I could have done that." She said a little irked.
"Sorry, just I know how annoying it is, without this headband my hair is wilder then normal." He said pointing to his headband with the symbol of a leaf etched on it. They both lapsed into silence again thinking about the two months since Naruto had found and rescued her.
"Hey fuck-face, remember when you found me?" Tayuya asked Naruto nodded as he laughed "Yeah that was quite the weird battle."
Flashback
"Dam it, why couldn't I bring that Teme back? Why wasn't I able to stop him from going to that snake?" A furious Naruto said deep in the woods near a huge area of cut trees, Kyuubi's Youkai flaring every few seconds. Naruto had just been recently released from the hospital only a day after the mission and had gone deep into the woods, taking the same path he and his friends, who were still in the hospital, had taken to retrieve the last Uchiha loyal, or now rather second living missing-nin of Konoha. He had heard of the destruction Temari of the sand had done, but when he reached the area, he forgot his anger and gawked at the amount of destroyed trees, "Wow, Shika explanation pales to what it looks like." Said an Impressed Naruto. He had walked around the decapitated trees when he heard a groan near him, taking out a kunai he looked around for the source of the sound, "Who's there, show yourself." He said as he spotted some moving branches. He moved to them and saw a girl crawl out, she wore a ripped and bloody sound outfit and had dirt and twigs on her face and hair.
"I remember how much it hurt, that damn sand bitch, when I see her I'm gonna ring her neck." Tayuya said scowling.
Tayuya was not having a good week, first her favourite flute had broken and she couldn't get it fixed, then Orochimaru had given her and the rest of the sound four an S-ranked mission to retrieve his vessel. Then when they do get him, a bunch of leaf Genin had confronted them, with her losing to a lazy bum and some blond with four pony tails in her hair with her fan, and causing her to nearly be crushed by falling trees, her spare flute being sliced in the process. Now as she had regained consciousness another leaf Genin had come and it was the same stupid looking one with the extremely bright blond hair and hideous choice in fashion. 'Great, I'm going to die.' She thought as she saw Naruto walk towards her, 'Well, I ain't going down without a fight.' With that said she crawled out and struggled trying to stand up as she activated her curse seal. Naruto watched as she stands up and said as he recognised her.
"Hey, you're that foul mouthed girl with those sound five guys." He got his kunai ready as she gritted her teeth and activated her second level cruse seal.
"Heh OK leaf brat, time to die." She charged at Naruto knowing the form was going to drop and kill her soon so she had to end it quickly. Naruto jumped over her when she charged and got angered as he remembered Sasuke's second form, unconsciously he released a small amount of Youkai as Tayuya turned back and charge him again, this time jumping with him and tackling him down. She pinned him down as he struggled to get free, "Ha, caught you now you weak leaf piece of shit." Naruto wiggled and got one arm out using it to push her off, but when he grabbed her shoulder she froze, her eyes wide and her mouth shut cutting off the insult she had been spewing. Naruto looked at her wondering what had happened when he felt something strange where his hand was, he glanced at the hand, his eyes widening at the site. On his hand, red chakra had started gathering,
"Wh-what the hell is going on?" He said a little frightened at the site. After he said that Tayuya scream as her Live 2 curse seal reverted back to Live 1 then receded, the lightning like marks racing beneath the demon vessel's palm. Naruto's expression changed to worry when the small framed girl started screaming then when she fell down seemingly unconscious. "Uh, hey you OK, hello can you hear me." The blonde-haired person said as he moved Tayuya off him. Naruto lay her flat on her back and checks her over, "OK, she's still breathing, though it's shallow. Wow her wounds are serious it's a wonder how she's still alive." He said as his eyes roamed her body.
"Hump, you got an eyeful didn't you shit-head. Well that'll be the last time cause, try that again and I'll kick your ass from here to Lightning country." Tayuya said to a scowling Naruto.
"Hey I am not a pervert, least not a big as my teachers." Naruto retorted.
"Hm, I wonder what happened." Naruto said, thinking aloud as he looks at his hand. He looks back on the spot of her shoulder where the curse mark had retreated, "OK lets see, from what I recall the marks always go back to the original source, so that means that Kyuubi's chakra must have forcefully suppressed the seal…But if that's true then why in the blue hell didn't work when I touched the Teme." The blond vessel decided to look at the seal since he saw that it was different slightly different then from the one Sasuke had. "From what I could tell it looked like marks of lightning." Naruto moved the tattered t-shirt a little revealing the seal, but instead of the lightning shaped mark he expected to see he saw three tail-like marks resembling a fox's tail. The mark was the usual black but pulsed with a slight red every few seconds. Each tail had an empty space on the tip of each where the colour of a fox's fur would change. "Huh, OK now I'm starting to get worried, none of the marks I saw her with looked anything like this." Said a worried Naruto as he stood up looking around as he thought up a plausible explanation as to what had happened. "OK, we fought, she tackled me and I freed an arm touching where I suppose her curse mark is. It went back and now she's unconscious…Arg what could have caused that." Naruto started pulling out his hair as he heard a soft groan of pain behind him, he looked over at the girl and saw her eyes opening and shutting. "Hm, she's an enemy I should take her to Konoha…But they'll just make her condition worse or kill her right off the bat. OK Naruto are you willing to let a defenceless enemy die by your hands, one that isn't all that much older then you." Naruto whispered to himself, his ninja instincts debating against his nature. "Sigh, fine I'll help her, but then from there I'll take her to Konoha seeing as I will not be able to enter the village with an enemy, even an injured one." With that said he gently picked up the girl and made his way to the closest town, Enjaku.
Tayuya was lying flat on her back her mind in complete turmoil as the blond leaf dumb ass stood in front of her. 'Crap, I keep falling in to and out of consciousness. Just fucking great not only did I lose to a leaf fucking Genin, now he's going to kill me, or take me to his village so they can extract information from me then kill me. Or if he leaves me and Orochimaru finds me, and I know he will because of the curse seal, he'll punish me, experiment on me, then kill me…Sigh fucking great.' Tayuya had slowly turned her head and saw the blond ninja talking to himself, 'I lose to a ninja who talks to himself, god I'm weak.' Tayuya slipped into unconsciousness again just to reawaken briefly to see the blond bending over her. 'Fuck.' When the red head awoke again she found herself lying on something soft, and her body was feeling better then it had before, though still hurt like a bitch as she would say. "Where -cough- where the hell am I, Konoha?" She said aloud not expecting an answer though that is what she got.
"No, you're in Enjaku; I brought you here to get you treated." Tayuya looked surprised to hear a somewhat familiar voice, she turned her head and came face to face with the leaf-nin she had fought. 'What, why would he help me and why does he look so familiar, hm…wait ocean blue eyes, three whisker-like marks on each cheek, a hideous orange outfit, crap it's the boy Orochimaru told me to avoid at all cost, the one with the Kyuubi sealed in him.'
"Hey, why did you help me?" Tayuya asked in a raspy voice, curious as hell as to the blonds' reasoning. He looked at her with a thoughtful expression,
"Simply because it's in my nature to do so." He answered. Tayuya looked at him as if he was crazy.
"But I'm an enemy."
"Yes, and I would have taken you to the leaf if you hadn't whimpered 'Orochimaru-sama please don't kill me.' Which I assume means that the Snake-teme will kill you if he finds you." Tayuya kept staring at Naruto wondering if she should yell at his stupidity or thank Kami for her luck to be found by a compassionate person, but that was short lived when she remembered the curse seal.
"Crap, Orochimaru will still find me regardless; all he has to do is track me using the cruse seal." She put her hand on the seal on her shoulder and found it feeling a little different.
"Actually I don't think that'll be a problem, you see when we fought my 'special' chakra changed your seal, and when you were resting the purple vile aura burned away changing the seal." Tayuya looked at the blond, her expression voicing her unheard question. "Well we were lucky and just so happen to have an archaeologist beside you who told me that the seal on your neck is an mutated form of a rare demonic seal use to store weak youkai used for healing purposes, but that idea was thrown away when people started dying from it. Anyways he said that the seal reverted back to its original state because you came into contact with youkai just recently." Naruto explained Tayuya looked at the blond with an unreadable expression on her face.
"What's your name shit-head?" She asked locking eyes with Naruto, "Cause I only know you as that annoying leaf brat, and the boy who holds the Kyuubi, though I don't really care much about that." Naruto looked surprised when he heard the Kyuubi part and allowed himself a small smile,
"Uzumaki Naruto." He answered just as a doctor burst in.
"Sorry to interrupt but there are some leaf Hunter-nin here, they say they're looking for you I think." The doctor said pointing to Naruto.
"Crap the Hunter-nin'll kill me if they find me." Tayuya said a little panicked, that's when she felt a pair of arms scoop her up and move towards the window.
"Doc, thanks for treating her, but as far as you're concerned only I was in here OK." The doctor looked at he boy and paled slightly, but nodded none the less when he saw the pleading look in Naruto's bright ocean eyes. "Thanks." Naruto said jumping out of the window and running towards the mountain thanking Kami there were only two Hunter-nin and that his stealth was top classed because of his pranks. After weaving though the streets and going up the closest mountain, they entered a cave. Naruto gently set the girl down as she crawled away and puke.
"Hey shit-head warn me next time you're gonna do that!" She yelled sitting in front of him.
"Gomen had to get away." He said rubbing the back of his head.
"Hump, why are you still helping me?"
"Because it's in my nature." From that moment on for two months Tayuya lived in that cave, Naruto buying supplies for her when he was near on missions or her doing it herself when she was strong enough to use Henge no Jutsu. She used the near by river to clean herself and for cleaning her now patched up clothes. Moreover, every time he came by she would always as the same question.
"Why are you still helping me?"
Flashback End
"I still don't get why you're helping me." Tayuya stated as he got up, walking out of the cave. He stopped turning his head and giving her a warm smile.
"Cause I can tell you've lived a hard life, a life shunned by others and the only thing you want is attention, I can relate. That's why I care, and as I said before it's against my nature to not help someone in need." He then proceeded out as Tayuya yelled.
"How the hell would you be able to know that, huh shit-head!" She heard laughter and a
"Good-bye Tayuya-chan, see you soon." as her response.
"Damn blond and his all knowing eyes, can't believe he could tell that, damn him and that hot smile of his." She grumbled as she closed her eyes. Falling asleep, knowing Naruto would re-activate the alert seals in the entrance so that she can cast a genjutsu over herself. Naruto returned to his teammates acting like nothing had happened and the Kage-bunshin he had left at the local ramen stand was actually him. The next day the four Genin left returning to their home.
One month later Tayuya was playing her flute in the quite cave, slightly bored without the brightly coloured leaf-nin around. Her flute had started by playing a quite sad tone, but abruptly changed when she felt the traps activate casting a Genjutsu over herself. She immediately let it drop when she saw Naruto. She was about to call out her usual greeting, but stopped when she saw his expression, "Hey shit-head what's wrong?" She asked, slightly concerned with the only companion she had, had for the past few months.
"Nothing much Tayuya-chan, just a 2 ½ year training trip with Ero-sennin, so I won't be able to visit for a while." Tayuya looked at Naruto with an 'I-don't-really-care' expression, but inside she was in total chaos, her thoughts screaming in her head. 'Tayuya tell him you don't want him to go, or try and convince him to take you with him, at least tell him you've grown fond of him during these three months.' However, her mouth wasn't listening to her brain.
"Ah well that sucks, guess I'll have to go get food myself. Anyways shit-head when ya leaving." Naruto gave a sad smile causing Tayuya to flinch.
"Actually when I leave here I'll be gone…Well actually I better get going, Ero-sennin will only be distracted by the bath houses for only so long. See ya in two years Tayuya-chan." With that said, he turned leaving as Tayuya waved whispering.
"You better come back alive and strong…Naruto-kun." She thought her words had fallen on deaf ears, but outside the smile Naruto was sporting total a completely different story as he said,
"Don't worry Tayuya-chan, I will."
Two and half years, that's how long Tayuya had been feeling alone. Even after moving into the town a year ago she still felt unease without the fox vessel around. Tayuya had grown and developed further making her slightly taller with a curvy figure, her assets had grown more pronounced though not by very much. Gone was her sound uniform being replaced by an armless grey loose fit shirt and a long reddish orange skirt reaching just above her moccasin clad feet. Over the two years Tayuya had kept her ninja training up, just in case she needed to escape, though she doubt anymore leaf hunter-nin would still be searching after all this time. As she walked down the street to her small one story house she sub-consciously held the seal that Naruto had altered, she found out that even after Orochimaru influence had disappeared she still could use the seal like before, though she had a few surprises when she had transformed LV 2. She thought about how Sound-nin and even Orochimaru himself had passed by the town and hadn't given her a glance while she was in Henge. Even if she was far from him Orochimaru should have felt the sickening pulse of the seal, yet he merely passed by her without a second glance, probably passing her off as a weak villager. That day when he walked by her as she was walking to a store, she immediately stiffened recognizing Orochimaru's in disguise she felt her seal pulse and awaited death but he quickly breezed pas her. She had been stunned by the action that she was frozen in spot for 20 minutes. When she snapped out of it she ran home and cried, cried tears of joy as a huge smile threatened to split her face, she thanked Kami repeatedly then thanked the person responsible for this second change, her saviour and close friend Uzumaki Naruto.
After a restful night wondering what Naruto was doing, she awoke to the sounds of the people outside. She got up, showered and put on a fresh pair of clothes after she found herself in front of the mirror fixing up her hair, which was strange because she almost never did this. As Tayuya was moving her now longer reddish orange hair she felt something big was going to happened, but she didn't know what it was all that she could tell was that it would fill her with immense joy. She had a late breakfast and did some quick shopping when she finished. She was now heading to the park her, flute in hand, towards an old huge tree right in the middle where many small kids and some parents were resting under the shade. When the kids saw her they started cheering and the parents gave her warm welcoming smiles, smiles that she had gotten use to just recently. She headed to a big rock under the shade and sat as the small kids gathered around her, she smiled and brought her flute to her mouth, beginning one of her most favoured past times playing her flute for the chibi audience in front of as they quietly 'Awed' and 'wowed' the performance. She had accidentally stumbled on this past time 7 months ago or so when she needed to play her flute in a relaxing place, she sat on the same rock and played noticing a bunch of kids playing around her. She tuned out the kids and played closing her eyes to concentrate. She played three full songs before she opened back her eyes and saw every single child that had been playing was now sitting in front of her amazed and excited by the music, even some of the parents were there enjoying the songs as well. At first, she was a little uncomfortable but soon found it immensely fulfilling when she saw the look in the children's eyes.
As she finished her last song for the kids a gentle wind blew, fluttering her hair as a familiar feeling welded up inside. When she finish the kids clapped and cheered, but one voice cut through all of theirs to her causing her breath to hitch and her heart to skip a beat. "Beautiful as ever, your ability to play the flute hasn't diminished at all after two years, eh Tayuya-chan." Tayuya slowly turned to the voice and saw the person she had longed to gaze upon, she stood up and walked right up to him, some of the kids watching the strange blond haired man who seemed to have hypnotised the young women. They all giggled as their parents shushed them away smiling at the expression and aura of pure happiness radiating from Tayuya as they to left the two teenagers alone. Tayuya stood in front of Naruto noticing that he had grown from an inch shorter then her to a full head taller, he had lost the almost pure orange jumpsuit and replaced it with a mostly black jumpsuit top with orange doing down the sides. She smirks at him as her mind gives her one thousand and one things to say, but her mouth starts working before her brain catches up,
"So shit-head, you've returned." Naruto smiles as he chuckles tilting his head to the side causing locks of his hair to shift giving him a boyish charm to his alluring smile.
"Yeah, I've returned, and I'm stronger then ever." He then closes his eyes and his smile warms up even more, "Just like you asked two years ago before I left." Tayuya wore a shocked expression when she heard this,
"What, you heard Me." she stated as he nodded, 'Heh, and all this time I regretted not saying that to him all this time.' She smiled and said, "Wanna get some ramen." This time Naruto smirked as he said,
"Sure, but I'll pay." He then walked towards the nearest stand as he said in a normal tone, "By the way Tayuya you really are looking more beautiful since the last time I saw you. Heh you must have men dropping on their knees." Naruto laughed a little as he looked back at the following girl blush, "Damn, well shit-head what happened to the -chan suffix from my name?"
"Huh, I thought you disliked that." Tayuya looked at the back of his head knowing that he knew she was blushing again.
"Well seeing as we're sort of close and all I guess I can allow it, so long as you don't over use it." She stated in a huffed tone.
"Ok Tayuya-chan." Was the simple response from her blond companion. When they reached the stand they both ordered, Tayuya still astounded by the amount of ramen Naruto could eat. After they were done and the hefty bill was paid for they walked around the village, enjoying each other's company. "Hey shit head," Tayuya said all of a sudden, "How long are you gonna stay?" She looked beside her at Naruto as he answered,
"Ero-sennin said we could stay for tonight only, and then we're off to Konoha." Tayuya's face showed her disappointment but she quickly schooled her face saying in a whiney tone,
"Well that sucks. Well seeing as you're going to leave tomorrow, I'll show you all the best places in this village to hang out at. Naruto nodded as she took his hand, both blushing though they were unaware of the other doing it. They spent the whole day together going to all of Tayuya's favourite spots, and then when the day ended Naruto took her home and wish her good night, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek before he left leaving the foul mouthed girl dazed for a moment as she entered her apartment. She did her usual routine and got into bed wanting to wake up early enough to see Naruto off. Tayuya lay in her bed thinking about the day the two spent together, making it one of the happiest days Tayuya had ever had in the past three years. She remembered when they were in the park and what he said to her when she asked about Sasuke.
Flashback
Tayuya and Naruto were both sitting under the shade of the giant tree as they watched the kids playing. Tayuya peaked a glance over to the blond wondering how in the hell someone who looked so childish can become so handsome and, dare she say it, dreamy. "Hey shit-head what are ya gonna do about the Uchiha brat?" A simple question just to start a conversation but it had darkened the mood and Tayuya had gotten worried that she had said the wrong thing. "Uh Naruto I'm sor…" She started say trying to apologise for her mistake but he waved her off giving a small, sad smile.
"Don't worry about it Tayuya-chan, just a touchy subject. Anyways for what I'm going to do to the Teme, simple bring him back to Konoha or kill him in the process. Though I'll have to try really hard not to do that." At that last statement Tayuya's curiosity sparked,
"Why, he that important to you or something?" She asked.
"Sigh, well he's like my brother but that won't stop me from killing him. You see there's this girl in Konoha her name is Haruno Sakura, she's a really close friend of mine and I promised her that I'd bring back Sasuke alive." When Tayuya heard the affection, he had put behind saying Sakura's name she couldn't help but get jealous,
"Teh, so is this Sakura girl that important to you." She said with a bit of bitterness. Naruto noticed the tone and couldn't help but smile,
"Ne Tayuya-chan, are you jealous." He said in a playful tone poking her side.
"Pfft, why in the blue fuck would I be jealous over some bitch I don't even know." She crossed her arms as she said this getting bitterer by the second. Naruto couldn't help but laugh as he tickled her saying in a singsong voice,
"Tayuya-chan is jealous, Tayuya-chan is jealous." She tried to resist but she couldn't hold it and burst out laughing, she then started tickling him back in an attempt to stop him. After the tickle war the two teens lay down on the grass next to each other, Tayuya's bitterness had all but evaporated as well as Naruto's slight gloom about his former teammate.
"You know Tayuya-chan Sakura is important to me." Naruto said turning her head to her, Tayuya nodded her jealousy rising again, but what she heard Naruto say next made it drop down to 0,
"But Tayuya-chan you're just if not a little more important to me."
"Thanks Naruto-kun." She said smiling softly. "
Hey, you called me by my name. Ya know it's weird we've only known each other for 3 months at the most and we've already become such close friends." Naruto said looking at the clouds missing the nod and look of longing from the red headed teen next to him,
'And I wish we can become more.' They spent the rest of the afternoon in the park, eventually leaving and heading towards Tayuya's residence.
Flashback End
Tayuya lay in bed reminiscing for a solid hour without falling asleep. She kept turning around trying to get comfortable, but it was no use she couldn't close her eyes and slip into unconsciousness. She got up and got a drink of water to help her. As she drank her water Tayuya was again remembering the day, this time in greater detail as her thoughts ran though her mind. 'Today was great, man I'm going to miss him when he leaves I wish he could stay a bit longer…Hm now that I think about it he might be really busy from now on trying to retrieve Sasuke from Orochimaru, meaning I won't be able to spend more time with him or even tell him how I feel…Maybe I should tell him now, but I can't just do that…But if I don't I may never get a chance again. OK I'm going to tell him…But what will his reaction be, will he reject me because if he does…I…I don't know what I'll do. However, if I don't I may regret it later. OK I'm defiantly going to tell him, rejected or not at least I'll know and can move on, somehow.' With these thoughts flashing through her mind, Tayuya hadn't noticed that her feet had already led her out of her house and into the Inn Naruto was staying at. When she finally did notice she was standing in front of the door he was assigned to. 'OK Tayuya deep breath, now knock.' She did as she thought knocking on the door with a loud thump! She waited a few minutes and was rewarded with the sight of Naruto in just his boxers and loose T-shirt. 'Wow' was the only thought that went through Tayuya's mind as Naruto asked,
"Yawn. Tayuya-chan is something wrong?" Tayuya looked into Naruto's ocean blue eyes, now slightly silted she now noticed as he eyed her curiously, "Uh, Tayuya. Hello shinobi world to Tayuya." He said waving his hand in front of her.
"Oh, ah Naruto, I us just came to, um say that well, since you're leaving tomorrow and I might now get a chance to say this so…Um Naruto-kun I…I…" As she had talked, her resolve had started to crumble causing her words to die in her throat. With her head down she sighed and said in a sadden tone, "I'm sorry I bothered you." She then turned to leave. Tayuya started to walk away when she felt a hand grab her wrist and gently pull her back as a pair of arms wrapped themselves around her,
"I love you too Tayuya-chan." To say Tayuya was stunned would be an understatement.
"You…you do Naruto-kun?" She asked as she pushed her body closer to his,
"Yes, ever since I left I knew I liked you, and the more time I spent away from you the deeper the feeling became until…I found out I loved you." Tayuya couldn't help it and started crying as Naruto picked her up and took her to his room, closing the door behind them as he comforted her.
Several years later in Konoha, a familiar blond haired vessel was sitting in the Hokage's office. He was currently sitting across the Gondaime Hokage Tsunade who he came to love as a sister/mother figure. She had the look of concern as she had watched him enter just a few minutes ago, "So Obaa-chan what's wrong?" Naruto asked deciding to start things off.
"Sigh. Naruto you're 19, and I'm saying this as someone who cares, but shouldn't you be dating or something boys your age do, I know being a Jounin is busy work but you need companionship." Tsunade said leaning forward on her desk, "I mean at least go looking for someone." She added.
"Sorry Obaa-chan but my heart already belongs to someone, and I'll never give it to another." Naruto said smiling at her.
'Hm, looks like he's still hung up on Sakura. Yet even though they do seem a lot closer, I doubt she would return his feeling. Though on the note of Sakura I'm very proud to know she got over that arrogant Uchiha brat, going so far as to knock him unconscious when he said she was now strong enough to bear his children, heh heh, never had so much fun playing with someone's medication like that.' "Well Naruto even though I'm sure you and Sakura are very close I don't think-" She was saying just to be cut off Naruto who laughed, "What's so funny brat?" Tsunade said in an annoyed tone,
"Sorry Obaa-chan but it seems you're another person who hasn't figured it out, I've been over that silly little crush on Sakura for a while now, and we're nothing more then close friends. My heart belongs to another." Tsunade was quite surprised at this but was intrigued to find out that her surrogate little brother was already in love and with someone, she didn't know. '
Hm, I wonder who it is. Well who ever it is better not hurt him or she'll suffer the wrath of the Hokage.' Tsunade thought her protectiveness kicking in, "OK Naruto who is this mystery girl, I'd like to meet her."
"Well Obaa-chan you don't have to worry about that, you'll meet her soon enough." Tsunade nodded as she wondered who the girl was,
"So Naruto who is she, do I know her?" She asked. Naruto was just about to answer when an ANBU puffed in and bowed saying,
"Hokage-sama it seems one of the former sound four has returned seeking vengeance."
"What who is it?" Tsunade said going into Hokage mode,
"The young girl with red hair and foul mouth, she just went LV 2 and is fighting off our Chuunin squad." A yelled shout of
"What!" alerted them to Naruto's speedy exit as Tsunade ran after him thinking that he would try to get revenge for the Sandaime.
"Naruto wait, calm down." She shouted after him as she ran behind him.
Tayuya was not having a good day, first the Chuunin guarding the gate was the student of that lazy bum she fought with years ago and he just had to have dropped by with the sand bitch behind him to check up on them. Then when she tries to hide, because Naruto had told her to avoid unnecessary fights they spot her and yell, attacking her and calling for back up. Now she had to push into her new LV 2 curse seal, she looked exactly the same as before but her eyes were now silted, and she had claws as well as fangs and three bushy fox-like tails behind her. Currently she was holding the attacks off trying not to hurt anyone and praying that Naruto or someone would come and help, luckily her prayer was answered in the form of her blond lover. "God fucking finally, what took you so long." Naruto, who had landing and stopped the attacks said,
"Sorry Tayuya-chan, I was all the way in the Hokage tower on the other side of the village."
"Humped, I come here to talk to your Hokage as you asked and I get attacked." Tayuya complained as her demon fox seal, as she dubbed it, receded back turning back to normal. The crowd of ninja watched the scene unfold with shock as Tsunade landed next to them,
"What happened?" She asked Shikamaru seeing as he was the closes to her.
"Uh, Hokage-sama this girl who was from sound, one which I had fought on the day of the Uchiha deflection came to the gate where Temari and I recognized her and immediately attack. She then went into curse LV 2 when we called for back up, though she looked different from before. Then Naruto showed up and stop the attack, she also stopped and changed back and now Naruto and she are talking." Tsunade looked over at the two and walked up saying,
"Naruto get away from her, she's dangerous. ANBU take her into custody we should question why she's here." The ANBU surround the girl and were about to grab her when they all went flying courtesy of Naruto. "Naruto what's the meaning of this." Tsunade said stopping her in tracks.
"Sorry Hokage-sama but she's here on my request, so no more aggressive actions against her." Tsunade knew this was a very important matter if Naruto used her official title.
"Very well Naruto, but if I may ask who is she to you." When the rest of the ninja heard this they were also curious, especially Shikamaru and Temari who had their fan and trench knives ready.
"Well Obaa-chan she's my…Well-" But he was cut off by a loud scream of
"Otsu-san!" As a small blond and blue bullet tackled Naruto down revealing a small girl no older then three with reddish blond hair and piercing blue eyes with two whisker like marks on her cheeks. She wore a small blue t-shirt and matching shorts. Everyone stared at the chibi as she started talking at a quick pace, "Hey Otsu-san did you see how fucking fast I was going. Hey Okaa-san you look like hell, what happened." Naruto looked at Tayuya, who smiled sheepishly,
"Well I can't help it if she has good hearing." Naruto shook his head as he stood, holding the little reddish-blond in his arms,
"Marico how many times have I told you about swearing?"
"Sorry otou-san." Marico said giving a foxy grin just as a young women ran to them panting heavily,
"I'm -pant- sorry Tayuya-san -pant- I couldn't stop her when -pant- she heard her father was here." She then bowed as she said, "-pant- Hello Naruto-san." Naruto nodded a greeting as all the leaf-nin stared at the child.
"Otou-san they're staring at me, didn't you say staring was bad." When she said that everyone snapped out of it and all the females present except for Tsunade swarmed the blonds squealing out 'Kawai' and 'Oh, she's so cute' of course Marico loved the attention while Naruto felt a little uncomfortable. As this was going on Tsunade walked over to Tayuya and looked the girl straight in the eyes,
"So you're the love Naruto was talking about." Tsunade stated as Tayuya nodded.
"Yep, I'm Naru-kun's lover and the mother of our child, and…" She held out her hand showing off a diamond ring as she proudly stated, "Officially one Uzumaki Tayuya, his wife." Tsunade chuckled as she whispered something along the lines of 'most unpredictable ninja around, most defiantly.' As she was conversing with Tayuya, some of the Konoha 12 had arrived including Sakura, Ino, Neji, Ten-ten, and Hinata. Sakura and Ino were beside their Hokage to find out what had happened, but when Sakua saw who the supposed intruder was; she brightened up and said,
"Tayuya-san nice to see you again, hope Marico is OK." Tayuya nodded as Tsunade looked at her student,
"You knew about this?" Sakura nodded and said,
"I was curious to know where Naruto would sneak off to once a month, and got a little worried when he seemed to be nervous and jumpy, that's when I found a pacing Naruto with a 9 month pregnant Tayuya, I had to help deliver the baby to keep Naruto calm when they yelled for help."
"And you didn't tell me because?" Tsunade asked as Sakura simply answered,
"Wasn't my place." Tsunade nodded as she sighed, turning her attention back on Tayuya,
"Well I guess you want to move here, correct?"
"Yeah, I want Marico to be near her father and I'm going to need help as she gets older seeing as the people who use to help now have kids of their own." Tsunade nodded again and said,
"Come to the tower later we'll get you recorded as a citizen." Tayuya nodded as she looked over at Naruto who was now surround by all the ninja there and was being questioned as Marico played with Hinata.
"Ahem, Tayuya-san how long have you and Naruto been together?" Ino asked in a curious voice,
"About the same time he returned here." She said, "That night when I confessed was awesome, though nothing really happened I got enough information that made our first time the best. Did you know that if you slowly lick his left cheek over the whisker marks he'll pounce you, ready to…" She got a glazed look in her eyes as she mumbled incoherent words, though some where understandable such as 'Big, awesome, stamina-freak, and gentle.' She snapped out of the memory and focused her attention on the three women in front of her. "Marico and I will be moving in with Naru-kun, and if I may ask can you have someone escort Sasume home I'll pay if needed." Tsunade waved it off saying it was fine. "OK, well if you don't mind I'll see you later Hokage-sama, cause right now our little family has some catching up to do." with that said she left managing to get Naruto and Marico away from the crowd as the small girl said,
"Okaa-san can we get some ramen, I'm hungry." She cheered as both her parents agreed, both of them taking each of her hands.
As Tsunade watched the scene, she couldn't help but tear up. Shizune, who was the only one left as everyone went back to duty looked at her mentor confused, Tsunade sensing the confusion answered,
"He never thought he would gain a family, others said it was impossible but yet again he makes the impossible, possible with almost no effort. I'm glad and happy to see him like this and to know I gained a sister/daughter-in-law and niece/granddaughter as well." They both watched as the happy couple and child walked down the streets everyone of the villagers and ninja smiling and waving hello to them, the blond who defeated Orochimaru, defended against Akatsuki, and brought back the younger Uchiha traitor relatively unharmed. There were still those who hated the boy for his demon, but they were now few in numbers being dwarfed by the number that see the boy as who he really is, a hero, a kind and loyal ninja, and the next inline to receive the famed title of 'Konoha's second Yellow Flash.' Lastly but not least, a human who's now radiant smile as he walks with his family makes everyone who sees it smile right back, and others say that the Yondaime Hokage now walks among the living.
A/N: Well here's the first chapter of 'The Fox Boy And The...' Wow it's longer then I expected, though that won't matter much if the story wasn't any good, and I apologise it seems rushed or anything. Well at the moment it's 2:00am so if you find mistakes or anything in need for corrections don't delay and inform me so I an fix it. Well this is NaruXTayu and my first romantic fic ever WOOT. OK well R&R if you like it. Oh and for my other story 'Brother's Bond' I'm having slight writer's block so I have no idea when I'll be able to post the next chapter for it, though I am in the process of typing in a painfully slow way, oh and even though I only have like three reviews right now it's more then enough to inspire me to write, and seeing as they were very positive was a bonus. Anyways like I said R&R Ja ne.