Naruto was just groggily waking up thanks to the sunlight coming from the window that was next to his bedside. After tossing and turning several times and trying to go back to sleep while shifting positions to stop the sunlight hitting his eyes, he finally gave up and decided to get ready for the day. He went to his scroll that held his toiletries and a scroll that contained a change of clothes for him. As he walked to the bathroom he spotted Jiraiya sprawled on the couch. The pervert was so drunk last night that he didn't even make it 5 feet pass the door before he passed out. It was then up to Naruto to haul the surprisingly heavy man on the coach before he too decided follow his example and went to bed. If there was one thing he learned last night was that even though Jiraiya qwas one of the Legendary Sannin, even he was weak against alcohol. He decided that would be the last time that he would let the pervert order sake as a drink when they were at a restaurant considering how he knew that he man would be grumpy later on. With a final look to the man that was probably going have and even worse headache than the time Tsunade spiked his drink with that drug that disrupted his chakra, he proceeded to take a shower and deal with him later.
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10 Minutes later
We find the same man holding his head as he felt a major pain in the skull. After a moment of getting accustom to the pain he noticed he was on a couch, which led him to be panicking till he noticed he was in the room he and Naruto shared. As he tried to remember the events of yesterday the only thing he recalled was that he and Naruto decided to go to the restaurant in the hotel to get food, but everything after that was just a blank. He then remembered of one of the reasons he came here was to meet up with the Kumo nin and looking for him while Naruto was at the hot springs. He ended up deciding to ditch Naruto and look for the ninja but couldn't find him and by the time Naruto came back they went to the restaurant were it all went blank. He heard the door the door of the bathroom open and saw Naruto wearing something different than his usual outfit. He was dressed in a black muscle shirt and khaki cargo shorts and his black ninja sandals with his headband still on his forehead. He then looked at himself and noticed that his clothes were wrinkled and had the smell of booze on it. He decided that maybe a shower would do some good and headed toward it once Naruto stepped out of the bathroom.
Naruto looked back at Jiraiya who just walked past him without a word which he found odd till he remembered that the old hermit was probably still experiencing his hangover. With a slight chuckle he decided to sit on the couch and look over his outfit. He didn't know why, but today he felt like changing things up today and when he looked at all the articles of clothing he had, he came up with this outfit which he kind of actually liked. Ever since he first came on the trip with Jiraiya he wondered why he only wore the same outfit that was mostly orange. When he thought about it he noticed that the only reason was for people to notice him, just like how his pranks, it was just ways for him to be noticed and not ignored. Don't get him wrong, he loved the color but when he thought about it, having an orange jumpsuit was kind of overboard. He was actually thinking of following his idols outfit when he got back home. Since ever since he was small he always wanted to be like the Yondaime, and besides he thought the outfit looked pretty kickassed too. So till he got back to the village he decided to wear outfits that would be similar to the one he now adorned.
While he was sitting on the coach his thought wondered over to the girl he met yesterday, Yugito Nii. When they headed off to the springs he felt at ease around her and at first they had a small conversation of insignificant matters which, as time went by they started conversing more like acquaintances. When they reached their destination, he noticed that her eyes had a slightly empty look in them. He knew how people say the eyes are the windows to the soul, but he didn't believe it till he saw hers. He could see the hardships she underwent as a ninja and as a person, but if he looked closely he thought he saw a bit of a innocence that child's possessed. In that small period of time he felt that he had come to know her more than almost anybody, which one would think didn't mean much since he didn't really became too personal with other people or them with him, but he knew what he saw. When they were reached we're the men's and females sides they both thanked each other for their company and they shacked each other's hand, but when her fingers touched his hand, he felt a tingle a slight shock that made him look at her curiously to see if she felt it too. He saw her look at him the same way and shrugged it off and went to their corresponding side. But he couldn't help but wonder if he would ever meet Yugito Nii again...
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When Jiraiya came out of the bathroom he beckoned Naruto over towards him. "Gaki, today we're going to look for a ninja that I need to talk to and give some important files to them pertaining to the Akatsuki you remember them right, that organization that has Itachi and Kisame. Well Tsunade wanted me to inform Kumo since they still have both their tailed beasts, and in hope that in the future we'll have more cooperation."
"Wait did you say a Kumo nin?" asked Naruto, already having an idea who it was.
"Yeah they should be somewhere in this city"
"Well I met one on the way to the hot springs yesterday..." which was responded with a gob smacked look on Jiraiya's face."You telling me I wasted my whole day yesterday looking for him and he was at the springs?" Jiraiya said with an incredulous look on his face. "Her you mean, the Kumo nin was a she.". His only response to that was him dropping his jaw while mumbling, "Research I could've done...Kumo nin...could've gotten two things done at the same time. After he composed himself he asked, "Can you make some clones to look for her and bring her to the restaurant at the hotel?" "Sure"
'Heh, and here I was wondering if I would ever meet her again', was Naruto's thought before he made his Kage Bunshi.
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30 Minutes and 20 Kage Bunshin later
We see a group of three people at a table in a secluded corner of the restaurant.
At first when Yugito was walking around the many stands in the villages trade center she was looking for Jiraiya but slowly her thoughts went back to the leaf nin Naruto she stumbled upon (quite literally) the day before. At first they had walked in silence but after awhile the silence felt uncomfortable that Naruto finally broke it by trying to make small talk, which she was grateful for. All in all she actually had a good time with him even thought the subjects they spoke of were of no importance like favorite colors, food or art of Jutsu they liked the most. But when they made it to the springs and shook hands she felt that jolt and knew he felt it too but decided to shrug it off, but now she was wondering if it could've meant something. But her thoughts were disrupted when that same person walked up to her. At first she noticed he changed his outfit and thought it looked better on him than the orange jumpsuit he wore yesterday.
He then came towards her and told him to meet him and Jiraiya up at the restaurant in the hotel near the docks. Once he told her, he took a kunai and pricked himself and proofed out. Then it dawned on her that she was actually talking to a Kage Bunshin, which impressed her, considering the amount of chakra one needed to perform the technique. She then headed out to the restaurant with only one thought on her mind. 'You are an interesting person, Naruto Uzumaki, an interesting person indeed.
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Present Time
They were sitting at a table each eating a meal in silence. After what felt like an eternity Jiraiya broke the silence and took a professional tone. 'Ms. Nii, as I'm sure your Raikage told you before the mission, I have some papers that I need you to deliver to him but first I must see the paper that has his seal to make sure you are the person that I must entrust these documents to." At the end of Jiraiya's request she took out a scroll from within her belt and passed it to him. As Jiraiya was reading the paper with the seal of the Raikage to make sure it was a legitimate seal, she decided to keep eating and noticed that Naruto was as well with an occasional glance to Jiraiya or her. But before she could comment on it she was handed a scroll that was the seal and a scroll with what she thought were the documents.
"Well it all looks like it should, and with my part done I'll head up to the room and come up when you're done here, ok Naruto?" which was responded with a nod.
After he left Yugito and Naruto looked at each other and Yugito decided to break the silence with a bit of humor. "So Naruto... isn't it a bit early for us to have a date at a restaurant, I mean we just met yesterday" she said with an innocent look on her face with a look of mischief in her eyes. She was rewarded with a blushing young man opposite of her who started spluttering. "I did-didn't invite you to a date I only told you to meet me her because of my sensei." She put a fake hurt look on her face and said "so you don't think I'm pretty enough for you to invite to a date." She didn't think he could get any redder after she said that because he was blushing 5 different shades of red while he hastily said "No-no you're very pretty Yugito...I-I mean I wouldn't have minded inviting you...I mean" he said while Yugito adorned a look like the cat that caught the canary. "Aww aren't you such a charmer", she cooed with a laugh.
After Naruto finally recomposed himself and just replied "Not cool, not cool at all", with an annoyed look but after awhile even he started to lightly chuckle. After that exchange they ended up talking relatively easier compared to the beginning of the meal. They talked so long that by the time they decided to leave it was already dark out even though when they barely arrived it was just a little past noon, which shocked them both since they didn't think that much time had passed and since they were both leaving tomorrow they decided to shake hands and told each other goodbye even though they now knew that, somehow, their paths would cross again and were both secretly hoping for that day happen as soon as possible.
