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"HI" speaking
"Weirdo" thoughts
Maru: Hey everyone, thnx for your reviews and making this story one of your favorites this story.
Naruto: Yeah, Maru loves it, that's why he's able to continue this story! (smiles)
Sasuke: Yeh but he still needs to get his lazy butt to writing. I want to ravish my dobe. (smirks)
Naruto: Teme, don't you dare!
Sasuke: (Grabs Naruto) I think we should practice our parts Naruto. (smiles evilly)
Naruto: (struggling) Maru help me!!!!!
Maru: (grabs camera) Don't worry Naru-chan I'll help! (smiles evilly)
Naruto: Perverts!!!!!!
Maru: Well here you go the next chapter in Swing of Things
Swing of Things
Chapter 2: Meeting the Raven
13 years later…
The story of Flight 5264 was now long forgotten by the world, but somehow sense then, the jungle has drawn a great deal of attention to itself. The jungle had become a tourist attraction, and several paths and camping grounds were created on the less dense parts of the jungle. Along with tourists, the jungle attracted the attention of many artists, who tried to capture the beauty of the forbidding group of trees and vines.
One photographer that the jungle seemed to attract was Uzumaki Naruto, a student of Leaf University, a prestigious secondary school in the Fire Country. He and many other students in the Arts Department had petitioned that the school allow them to go to the jungle as a project. It took almost two month, but the school finally gave them permission to go and funded the trip as well.
Once they were given permission to go, the students set out to for the Suna Jungle. After a hour and a half of driving, they reached the border of the jungle and stopped in front of a large building that served as a Visitor's Center. As the doors of the bus opened, a young and busty blonde woman stepped off the bus first. The blonde woman smiled stepping off the bus and lifted her arm and ran it through her long hair, which had been parted into two long pony tails. She turned to the bus and said, "Alright you brats come on and get off the bus. We need to hurry and find out which camping ground we are staying in." As she finished yelling, the first student off the bus was a bushy browed young man with a bowl haircut. Following the bushy browed young man was a red head with the kanji of love tattooed just above his left eyebrow. The red head also had beautiful teal green eyes, and black eye outliner, with an emotionless expression on his face. He followed the young man known a Rock Lee towards the busty blonde and stood next to him. "Gaara-kun, can't you feel the power of spring youth in the wonderful place?" Lee asked performing his famous/infamous good guy pose. The red head looked at his lover and said with a sigh, "Yes Lee, now calm down. Remember we have are here for a class project not a field trip," the somber Gaara answered. The next person to step off the bus was a brunette with his hair pulled up into a small pony, which reminded his friends of a pineapple, who let out a yawn as he stepped to the other side of busty blonde. Now that the sleepy pineapple head was off the bus, another blonde female stepped off the bus. She wore her blonde locks in pigtails that formed a X if you looked at her hair from the front. After she got a good stretch, she walked over to her lazy boyfriend and took his hand. "You know I think I'm starting to pick up some of your bad habit Shikamaru, you lazy bum," the blonde said as she yawned. Shikamaru looked at the girl and mumbled something sounding like "too troublesome."
The bus was mostly empty when a pink headed girl stepped off the bus and looked around. "Tsunade-sensei, did you see Naruto get off the bus," the pinkette asked as she looked towards the busty blonde. "No Sakura, He's probably still asleep in the back. He worked pretty hard to get this trip funded and to get those old fogies' on the board to approve," Tsunade said as she turned towards the visitor's center. Sakura sighed as she turned around and waited for the other two chaperones, Kakashi and Iruka, to exit the bus so she could go wake Naruto up. As they got off, Sakura walked to the back but didn't see the blonde. At that moment, she saw a tuff of blonde hair stick out from the top of one of the seats. She walked towards it and as Tsunade said, the blonde boy was passed out sleep. Sakura looked at the peaceful face with a soft smile then yelled, "NARUTO WAKE UP!!!" Said blonde nearly jumped out of his pants as he awoke from the scream next to his ear. As his heart beat started to return to normal, he looked at his closest friend and said, "Geez Sakura-chan, did you have to yell in my fucking ear," Naruto said hoping he hadn't lost his hearing. Sakura put her hands on her hip, but after a moment Naruto got up and made his way off the bus grumbling about evil pinkettes.
Now that everyone was off the bus, Tsunade was walking back with a woman with light colored hair that looked almost lavender. She walked up to everyone started to address everyone, "Good afternoon everyone, my names Mitarashi Anko, and I'll be your guide for the next three days. I know that most of you are artists, and photographers, so if you wish to capture my splendid beauty, I most turn you down now," the young woman joked. After her joke, she directed the students towards a large camp area. The area was filled with large cabins and Tsunade quickly stopped her charges before they could claims rooms. "Rock Lee, you will be rooming with Uzumaki Naruto in cabin 1, Subaka Gaara, you're in cabin 2 with Nara Shikamaru, Haruno Sakura, and you're in cabin 3 with Subaka Temari, Hatake Kakashi, as much as this pains me, you'll be in cabin 1, and Umino Iruka will be over cabin 2. I will be cabin 3, and now there will be no changing of rooms, Lee." As she finished, she quickly noted to the student that their bags had already been delivered to their cabins and that dinner would be served in about two hours. Now finished talking, she walked towards her cabin thinking about sake she had snuck into the bag.
When Tsunade was out of sight, Naruto walked over to Gaara and started to ask, "So, no hard feeling about the little joke I played on you at the airport right Gaara?" The normally composed Gaara turned to Naruto with a glare and replied, "Sleep with one eye open tonight Uzumaki." Naruto took a step back and started to worry when Lee called out, "Gaara, please don't harm Naruto-kun, he is your youth friend bloodshed would only ruin our youthful outing." Gaara turned back to Lee and sighed. The red head would do anything for his lover, but sometimes he hated how he always used youthful or spring time of youth in almost every sentence. Naruto took his chance and got out of sight and headed over to his cabin. As he walked into the room, he noticed that cabin had three bedrooms and two bathrooms. He walked into the first bedroom just past the living room. In the room sat a full size been decorated with a royal blue comforter, and baby blue sheets. He walked over to the bed and saw his suitcase was lying next to the bed. Still filing tired from the long trip, Naruto lay in the soft bed and drifted back into a world of soft music and dreams.
As dinner approached, Iruka went into Naruto's cabin and saw the blonde asleep on his bed. He smiled as he walked over and gently shook the sleeping blonde. "Naruto, wake up, Naruto," Iruka gently said. The young man let out a small groan and sat up and looked at his sensei. "Iruka-sensei, it's you how did you get into my house, did Kyuubi let you in," Naruto asked rubbing his eyes. Iruka let out a soft chuckle and told Naruto that they were in the Suna Jungle, and came to get him for dinner. Naruto then got out of bed and followed his sensei out of the homey like cabin.
After dinner, everyone wished each other a good night and went to bed. Forgetting Gaara's warning, Naruto slipped into another world of beautiful dreams and hoped to see a certain flower the next day.
The following morning, everyone woke up early to get a good start into the jungle before it became too hot to travel.
Anko took the students as well as the teachers to a spot she knew that contained enough natural splendors for everyone. As they reached an open portion of the trails, everyone looked in complete and total ah of the many different types of flowers. Most of the student went straight to work on drawing or capturing them area, however a certain blonde didn't see the flower he was looking for. Believing Anko would have the answer he seeks Naruto walked over to her and tapped her on the shoulder. Anko turned around and looked down to see a pair of beautiful ocean blue eyes. "Eto, Anko-san, do you know where the Suna lily blooms, I've heard it blooms only for a few days a year and I wanted to paint it," the blonde said sounding a little nervous.
Anko sighed and answered the blond, "Sorry kid, but that flower only grows in the deeper part of the jungle, and I can't risk your safety just to capture on paper."
Naruto sighed feeling a little disappointed. He only worked so hard to get the trip approved so he could sketch this one flower. AS he went to start another flower he thought was nice, he soon developed a idea on how to get the picture of the allusive lily. Naruto figured that around lunch time everyone would head back, and if he snuck away from them, he could go further into the jungle and find the flower sketch it and be back before anyone noticed he was gone. Naruto didn't have to wait long to put has plan into action as Tsunade told everyone to head back to the camp ground to eat.
Once everyone was heading, Naruto walked towards the wooded area and slipped into deeper parts of the jungle.
After walking, cutting (with the hunters knife he brought), and climbing over various debris, Naruto started to get tired and sat on one of the large roots that came up from the ground. Starting to think this was his dumbest idea ever, Naruto began to feel his stomach ache. He looked around and luckily found a tree with what he knew to be Kapapi fruit (I just made this up, but if it's a real fruit cool name), and plucked two or three of the fruit when he heard the sound of flowing water. Naruto followed the sound and soon saw a large waterfall in front of him that had a river cutting through the jungle. Naruto couldn't help but pull out his sketch pad and start drawing as fast as his fingers would allow, but while he was drawing, he didn't notice the two pair of eyes watching him.
Naruto was half way done with his sketch, when he heard the growl of something he knew wasn't human. The blonde gulped loudly and turned to see a rather small panther walking out of the jungle staring directly at him. Fear over took the blonde quickly as he stumbled backwards and lost his balance. All the while the panther slowly crept up on the blonde and pounce at him. Naruto's eyes grew wide then he shut them and placed his arms in front of him as a shield. After a moment passed, he opened his eyes to see that that panther was now on his far right and someone with long raven locks stud in front of him wearing nothing but a make shift pair pants.
Maru: Okay everyone how did I do? I really hope you all like it. Oh and Kyuubi's gonna be in the story too, but as Naruto's brother. So I was wondering should he be older or young? Go ahead and put your vote in your review and I'll tally them and work my story out from there.
Naruto: Hey what if I don't want a brother?
Sasuke: Not your choice dobe, the readers get to choice. So get over it.
Naruto: No one asked you teme!
Maru: Ok calm down you two. Or the story will go back to what I originally wanted the story to be.
Sasuke: (Turns slowly to Maru with a Chidori ready) What was that?
Maru: (Shaking) I'll do it…I'm not afraid of…(Runs)
Naruto: Let me explain. Maru was going to have me date Sakura at the beginning but changed his mind when he saw one of the lastest issues of my manga. The one were Sakura tells me she loves me. Well, see you all next time please review for Maru's sake.
