Disclaimer: Full Metal Panic is the property of... Well I don't know exactly who, but if I had to guess I'd say Funimation Entertainment. Naruto is the property of Masashi Kishimoto... The basic plot of this fic and almost all dialouge is adopted from Dragoon Galaxy
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It was a typical normal school interval between second and third period at Jindai High, normal as in waiting for a certain Sergeant Sousuke Sagara to cause some kind of disaster or disturbance. In class 2-4 Kaname Chidori and her friends Kyoko Tokiwa and Ren Mikihara were just chatting away while waiting for Sousuke to finish a call to his superiors. The buzz of the schoolyard was a new transfer student was arriving for third period, other than that on one knew if the student was a boy or girl. Finishing his phone call Sousuke put his cell phone away and turned to face the front of the classroom.
"So what did Captain Tessa have to say?" Kaname asked, not really caring what his answer was.
"They've already done a background check on this new student and they say his profile's clean. Although this could be a forgery to make us drop our guard," Sousuke replied, receiving a whack over the head from Kaname's harisen. "Let me guess, I'm thinking too much like a soldier instead of a student again aren't I?"
"You're always thinking like a military nutcase Sousuke!" Kaname shouted, then mutters. "Sometimes I don't know why I bother,"
"So the new student is a boy then?" Kyoko asks cheerfully, pointing her mini camera at Sousuke.
"That's affirmative. However Captain Testarossa didn't give me the student's name, she only said he wasn't a threat. I find it strange that she would withhold information from me," Sousuke responded rubbing his chin thoughtfully as the third period bell rang.
"All right class please take your seats," Miss Eri Kagurazaka instructed stepping into the classroom followed by the new student.
The girls including Kaname were already swooning of this handsome transfer student with messy blond hair, mischievous blue eyes and dressed in the school's spring uniform with the top two buttons undone revealing a black shirt underneath
"Quiet please. Now has you've all heard we have a new transfer student joining our class so I want you all to help him feel welcomed. Now how about an introduction and tell us a bit about yourself?" Miss Kagurazaka asked.
"Hey all! My name is Naruto Uzumaki, it's a pleasure to meet you all," he announced standing casually beside the teacher. "I came here because I go where the action is, and let's just say a little bird told me, I'd find plenty of it here, not to mention there's someone special here I want to protect. My likes include Ramen, martial arts, weaponry, and cute girls who have good, kind hearts. In my spare time I'm either working odd jobs around the community, training, or just plain having fun.
"Protect someone special?" Sousuke thought. "Does that mean Chidori?" Sousuke could not help but fight back a pang of jealousy at that thought. All the students started bombarding Naruto with questions.
"Who's the someone special?" A girl in front asked.
"Training... For what?" Another boy in the third row asked.
"Sorry can't tell you, I've got to keep some things to myself." Naruto answered earning more than a few groans. "Well that's all I have to say. Can I take my seat, Miss Kagurazaka?"
"Of course, please take the empty seat next to Mr. Sagara you can share his text books until yours are issued. Miss Chidori I'd like you to introduce him to the student council during lunch if you would," the teacher replied.
"Yes ma'am," Kaname replied.
"Right now take out your math textbooks and turn to page 85," Miss Kagurazaka instructed.
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(Later, after class.)
"So Naruto, I don't suppose you'd care to tell me more about yourself?" Kaname asked leading the new guy to the student council room.
"If I see fit for you to know anything, I'll gladly tell you more Miss Kaname" he replied keeping his left hand in his left pocket. "But why is Sagara following us?"
"It is my job to protect Chidori from those who'd wish to harm her," Sousuke answered keeping within striking distance of the strange blond.
"President Hayashimizu I have the transfer student here to see you. This is Naruto Uzumaki," Kaname announced opening the door to the student council room.
"I'll be with you in just a moment Miss Kaname," Hayashimizu replied, busy signing his name to a standard form. Placing the pen on the desk Hayashimizu looking up to address Tthe blond. "Pleased to meet you, I'm the student body president Atsunobu Hayashimizu. And this is my assistant, Ren Mikihara. She seems to be quite shocked for some reason,"
"You... Oh my goodness. Naruto, It really is you! I can't believe you're out of the hospital so soon. And after that train crash nine months ago," Ren gasped, her hands flying up to her mouth as tears began welling in her eyes.
"Wait a minute, you mean to say you two were on the Shinjuku train crash together?" Kaname exclaimed.
Nodding, Ren wiped her tears away with her handkerchief. "Yes, we were both on the same train. It was during the summer break nine months ago when I was supposed to meet up with some friends from junior high."
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(Flashback.)
Ren was quite stressed out. Earlier that morning she had woken up late and had to skip breakfast if she was going to get to the movies on time, which were a two train ride away and she had to skip dinner the previous night as well, wanting to get an early start on things, and she was starving. She hadn't noticed the relatively cute boy she was sitting next to her until the smell of his fresh hot pork buns made her stomach announce its urgent need for food, causing her to blush scarlet. She thought she was going to die from embarrassment until two pork buns were placed in her hands. Looking back at the boy beside her Ren saw him smiling back while munching on a nearly finished bun.
"Can't let a girl like you go hungry now can I?" he said shoving the last of his bun in his mouth and swallowing. "Just eat up already, I wasn't planning on eating all four of them anyway," He had a huge, bright smile, and inviting blue eyes.
"Thank you so much," Ren accepted, taking a huge bite out of the first bun.
"It's no problem, I live to help people in need. Name's Naruto Uzumaki by the way," he smiled introducing himself.
"Ren Mikihara, it's nice to meet you," she replied after swallowing. "Wow these pork buns are the best I've had in ages,"
"Yeah, I got them from a shop in Saitama. Best food you can get in this part of Japan, their ramen is to die for." Naruto grinned, bursting into laughter when Ren turned to look at him in surprise.
"What's so funny?" she asked liking the sound of his carefree laugh.
"You've got pork sauce on your face," he chuckled through a wide grin. Ren started giggling herself. After a good minute of laughing together, Ren finished off the second bun, wiping her face clean with a napkin given to her by Naruto when they noticed something was wrong.
"That's weird, we just passed the station. But…this isn't the express train," Ren said noticing the train flying past the station.
"Yeah, we're picking up speed as well," Naruto said, smoke rose up from a maintenance hatch in the floor. Naruto clenched his jaw. Something was very wrong here, "Stay here, Ren. I'm going to check on something. I shouldn't be too long." Jumping up from his seat, Naruto raced through the train car, running into, and dodging the many passengers trying to get away from the smoke including the driver.
"Head to the back of the train kid! It's out of the control!" One passenger yelled.
"Shit! Ren! Get to the end of the train!" Naruto yelled to Ren before the sound of steel crashing into concrete rang through his head and everything went black.
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(End Flashback.)
"You mean you were at the front of the train when it crashed in that siding?" Kaname asked, remembering a news report on the crash. Sitting at the table in the middle of the room next to Sousuke.
"That's right. The train smashed into a concrete block going 160kph. That's when I lost consciousness," Naruto replied sitting next to Ren. "I woke up in the hospital with both legs and my right arm broken, a concussion, four cracked ribs with on that was digging into a lung and the break lever had apparently gone through my right shoulder. Not only that, I also had amnesia for about six weeks after the crash. Ren was there when I woke up and spend a lot of her time just coming to see how I was doing. Or just to share her cooking with me."
"I was fortunate to only receive a sprained wrist and a bump on the head because I was near the end of the train. It was a week later that the authorities announced the cause of the crash," Ren added placing a hand on Naruto's arm.
"Yes, apparently someone who once worked at the train management centre hacked into the computer controlling the switch tracks and destroyed the train's brakes in an attempt to get revenge. It is fortunate no one lost his or her life that day. The question on my mind is why you didn't tell us about your visits to see Mr. Uzumaki at the hospital?" Hayashimizu asked receiving a blush from Ren.
"Naruto made me promise to keep our time together a secret until he found a way to transfer to Jindai High when he got out of hospital. But you never did tell me when you were released," Ren complained turning away from his apologetic smile.
"I'm sorry Ren, I wanted to tell you I was released two months ago but I had to go... Take care of some family business." Naruto replied both quickly and somewhat nervously earning a look of suspicion from Sousuke. "Besides you never gave me you phone number or address. The only thing you told me was the name of this school. And I did keep our promise didn't I? Please don't be mad at me, Ren,"
"I'm not mad, Naruto." Ren said with a smile and warm gaze. "I'm just upset that I wasn't there when you were released that's all and I'm glad you still want us to be a couple," Ren choked out a slight sob. The blonde took her into his warm embrace.
"Couple!" Kaname gasped, nearly jumping away from the table.
"So Ren is the someone special you were referring to in class," Sousuke spoke up for the first time in a while.
"Is there something wrong with Ren seeking companionship, Miss Kaname?" Hayashimizu asked pushing his glasses up with his fan.
"Of course not, it's just a little shocking to find out one of my best friends is dating someone," Kaname confessed. "I just don't like his cocky grin that's all."
"Oh, so now I've got a cocky grin have I? I never knew girls at this school were so mean." Naruto whined playfully, sending Ren into a giggle fit, and eliciting a squawk of frustration from Kaname.
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(Shortly Afterwards in the girls bathroom.)
"So Kaname, what do you think of Naruto?" Ren asked as she washed her hands in the girl's toilet.
"Seriously, he's a handsome guy. Not as rugged looking as Sousuke, but a lot more sociable than him." Kaname answered drying her hands. "So what kind of things did you two talk about when he was still in hospital?"
"I told him all about the adventures we've had since Sousuke came to the school, Even when we were kidnapped and tied up by that rival Yakuza gang. After I told him that he said that when he got transferred here he would kidnap me one day, take me to his house and tie me up in his room," she squealed in excitement. "I've never told this to anyone other than Naruto but I often fantasize about being tied up in a boy's room. What I haven't told him yet is how I imagine him kissing me while his hands caress and tickle, and tease my body, and slowly taking off my clothes. We don't go any further than kissing and touching in my dreams though,"
"Wow Ren, I never figured you were into that sort of thing," Kaname blinked. "I think I'd prefer to have Sousuke handcuff me to a pole or something like that and softly kiss my body," pausing she lowered her voice and leaned closer to Ren's ear with a wild grin on her face. "While I'm naked of course,"
Both girls blushed and shared a good heartfelt laugh at revealing their naughty little fantasies to each other, and then headed back to the student council room.
"Hey Ren, can I ask a personal question? Have you and Naruto…kissed yet?" Kaname asked, blushing slightly in embarrassment from asking.
Ren shook her head. "No, we haven't gotten that far yet. If he makes the first move, I'm going to ask him to take it slow." She explained to her blue haired friend. "Despite my…fantasies about him. I'm not ready to get very serious just yet.
"I can't believe he accepted so readily. If I know Sousuke, he'd do the exact same thing, but be all gung-ho about it. Although, I picture that war nut reading a book on how pleasure a woman and he'd be a nervous wreck." She snickered at the mental image of Sousuke sweating bullets and paling with every word entering her mind.
'It's too bad we're not in the same class though. I'll ask President Hayashimizu if I can change classes before fifth period,' Ren decided, a bright smile gracing her face.
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(Later, Student Council Room)
"So you want to transfer to class 2-4 just so you can be with your friend?" Hayashimizu asked raising an eyebrow.
"I think it's because you want to be close to Naruto," Kaname teased making Ren blush.
"I have no problem in granting your request Ren. Fortunately fifth period has no classes for second year students so I'll go speak with the teacher in charge of class rosters and sort this all out," Hayashimizu replied leaving the student council room.
"Why exactly would you want to be in the same class as Naruto? You'll have lunch breaks and non-school hours to hang out," Sousuke said getting another whack from Kaname's harisen. "Ow," he deadpanned.
"You just don't get it Sousuke," Kaname huffed giving him an extra whack. "Care to explain to this lead head, Ren,"
"Like you said, Miss Kaname, I really want to be close to Naruto now that he's back in Japan. He risked his own life to try and save others without any though of a reward. And…he's not that bad looking." Ren blushed breaking into a massive giggle fit.
"Who's not that bad looking?" Naruto asked from the door.
Ren's giggles ceased and the shade of her cheeks doubled to match the color of a tomato. Sousuke watched with deadly interest as Naruto approached her, wrapping an arm around her waist. Ren was so over taken with surprise her brain took longer than normal to formulate a response. Her knees were so week she would have fallen to the floor if Naruto didn't have his arm secured around her waist.
"It was my pleasure Ren. If you're all still hungry I've got a bento full of soy bean buns from home and a book on dating for dummies for Sagara to read," Naruto replied tossing the book Sousuke's way, the former child soldier easily caught it.
"Are you kidding, I'm starving," Kaname answered, patiently waiting for Naruto to place the bento on the table.
"Then please help yourself. If you like I'd be more than happy to show you to my place after school." Naruto announced, placing the bento on the table then smiling down at Ren. "Or I could just kidnap you and take you to my apartment and tie you up for five hours,"
"I don't want to know when I'm about to be kidnapped by my boyfriend. I want it to be a surprise," Ren replied tracing her fingers around his chest. "But I'd love to see your apartment first. What about you Miss Kaname and Mr Sagara?"
"Count me in, these soy bean buns are amazing. What kind of place do you live in?" Kaname asked stuffing another bun in her mouth.
"An apartment in the North side of town. Not a bad place." Naruto smiled just as Kaname started choking on her bun only to be saved by a few well-timed slaps to the back from Sousuke.
"Thank you Sousuke," she said, genuinely grateful to him.
"Would you like to go out for dinner tonight Kaname?" Sousuke asked causing the blue haired girl to freeze like a statue.
'Did Sousuke just ask me out to dinner?' she wondered. "And why would you want to take me to dinner?"
"Because I like you," was his simple reply. "I couldn't find the right way to tell you before now,"
"We'll just give you two some privacy," Naruto whispered tiptoeing out of the room while holding hands with Ren.
"That was a really nice thing you did for Sousuke," Ren said sitting against the fence on the roof in Naruto's arms.
"What can I say? I'm a nice guy," he replied, one hand on her hip while raking his fingers through her soft, purple locks with the other. Ren blushed gently at the contact, but she didn't mind.
"Good thing we've got no classes this period, I'm so comfortable here I don't want to move," she sighed lazily, burying her head further into Naruto's shoulder. "Mmm, you smell nice,"
"Isn't that supposed to be my line?" he joked bringing a few strands of her hair up to his nose. "Your hair smells lovely. What shampoo do you use? Let me guess, lavender and rose oil,"
"You always were able to tell what kind of shampoo I used even in the hospital. How did you get such a good nose?" she asked teasingly playing with the hairs on his neck.
"My mother uses the same fragrance for the house," he answered sending a finger under the hem of her shirt. "But just so you know I do prefer jasmine,"
"You two sure look comfortable," Kaname said teasingly from the open door looking quite flushed, dragging and equally flushed Sousuke.
"And you two look like you just finished a major make out session," Naruto smirked earning a blush from Kaname.
"That's affirmative," Sousuke said receiving a whack from Kaname's harisen.
"Just because you're my boyfriend now doesn't mean you can just go blabbing top secret information about us to everyone who asks!" Kaname shouted whacking him six more times. "However, Ren and Naruto are a special case,"
"Everything you need to know is in the book I gave you Sousuke," Naruto explained, kissing Ren on the forehead.
"Understood," Sousuke replied.