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- Chapter Two -
The group if six jumped from tree to tree as they headed to Sengon. They were already halfway there, before Naruto started to feel dizzy and lightheaded. "Must of been all of that ramen before a mission ..." He murmured.
He quickly dispelled that thought as he grinned before jumping off again. There's no way he was going to let something stupid like this stop him! Because he was going to be hokage, believe it!
Well, those were his thoughts before the ground suddenly started flying towards his face.
For the third time that day, Naruto had to pry his face from the ground. Looking up, he saw everyone gathered around him, watching curiously.
"Umm... Naruto? Are-Are you okay?" Hinata stuttered, face turning red.
"I'm okay, I don't know about you, though. Your face is awfully red. Do you have a fever?"
Everyone in the group sweat-dropped while Hinata's face got so red it practically glowed.
"U-um, I"m f-fine, Naruto"
Shikamaru raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure you're ok, Naruto? Even for someone as clumsy as you, to just fall face down on the ground like that..."
"Ehh? Nah, I'm ok! I just had a bit too much ramen before coming here!" The blond scratched the back of his head and grinned.
Suddenly, Naruto pointed his finger at Sasuke, who stood a distance behind the others with his hands in his pockets. "SASUKE! What are you doing here? SASUKE! YOU TEME!"
Sasuke just laughed. "You dobe. No matter what, you can't bring me back to the village."
"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!"
Suddenly, five other Naruto's appeared. Pairs of Naruto teamed up to form three rasengons.
"SASUKE! WHY?! Why do you just throw away your bonds like that?! I'm going to bring you back to the village, enen if I have to BREAK EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY!"
Two of the clones dispersed in a cloud of smoke, while Naruto and his two clones flew towards Sasuke, each holding a swirling blue mass of chakra. Each of the rasengons exploded on impact, causing his last two clones to disperse, while flinging the real Naruto backwards.
As the smoke cleared, Naruto saw Sasuke standing in the middle of the crater, without a single scratch.
Sasuke started walking away, calling out 'Dobe' behind him.
Naruto pulled himself to his feet and pulled out a kunai, yelling, "GET BACK HERE, YOU BASTARD !"
He started to charge towards Sasuke with the kunai. But his body wouldn't move. Instead, it turned to look at Shikamaru, who stood confidently in his shadow manipulation stance.
"Shadow manipulation jutsu: complete."
~~~•~~~
Naruto stood tied to a tree, squirming and struggling to escape.
"What are you doing? Untie me! You're letting him escape! SASUKE! YOU BAKA!"
His team sweat dropped as they watched Naruto yell insults at a tree.
"Hinata, did you finish checking for genjutsu?" Shikamaru inquired.
"Y-yes. His chakra systems are completely normal, and I don't see any signs of a g-genjutsu."
Naruto desperately struggled to escape as he continued yelling at the tree. "SASUKE! HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY RAMEN?!"
The soft subject of Sasuke being brought up, as well as her short temper to all things Naruto, caused Sakura to stomp over to Naruto and, using her monstrous strength, punch the top of his head, yelling, "Shut up, you idiot! Sasuke isn't here!"
His team mates started to eat their travel portions as they contemplated their situation.
Sakura glanced at Naruto, who was making strange whimpering sounds as he stood unhappily untied to the tree. "Maybe I went a bit far," she thought. After all, it was fairly obvious that he wasn't acting like this on purpose.
"I think he finally lost it," Kiba remarked. Akamaru yipped in agreement from the top of Kiba's head.
Shino stepped out from the shadows and spoke, causing everyone to look up in surprise. He had been so quiet that they had almost forgotten he was with them. "Perhaps he was poisoned by an enemy?"
Shikamaru, who had been deep in thought, addressed Sakura. "Sakura, I know you have been learning medic-nin from Tsunade. Do you know how to look for poisons?"
Sakura, although knowing only a very limited amount of medical ninjutsu, nodded. She studied Naruto and tried to remember everything Tsunade taught her as she ran some quick tests on the whimpering blond.
"Sasuke stole my ramen..." He said dejectedly.
This caused Sakura to give a small smile. Ever since Sasuke had left, she had been depending more and more on Naruto, who was quickly becoming stronger and stronger. But no matter what, he was still Naruto. She worked quickly on the blond and was shocked at the results.
How is that even possible? He had such a huge amount of toxins in his body it was as if he had directly eaten a huge amount of yppah roots!
That idiot...
Yep. No matter what, he was still Naruto.
~~~•~~~
Sakura's eye twitched as she carried the number one knucklehead ninja on her back. He was delirious, and was constantly muttering something about a legendary ramen for the past ten minutes. For some reason, the task of carrying Naruto had been placed on her. Inner Sakura was furious.
Naruto wiggled inside of the ropes that tied him up. "My legendary ramen! I have to have it! The last bowl in existence!"
Sakura's eye twitched again.
Naruto continued to struggle inside of the ropes. "The ramen..."
Naruto stayed silent for awhile, before-
"WHAT?! Sakura, you're a GUY?! NOOOOOOOO! I always thought that-"
BOOM!
Sakura, in her moment of unbridled fury, had grabbed the ropes tied around Naruto, swung him over her head, and smashed him towards the ground, causing a dust cloud the rise from the impact.
She stood like a towering monster as she looked at Naruto with scary eyes. "NARUTO!"
It took all of the effort from her team mates to hold her back.
~~~•~~~
The group of ninja set up camp in a small clearing in the woods. Naruto was squirming in his ropes, mumbling about ramen and how he was going to be hokage some day, while the others ate their travelling portions.
"Do- Do you think we should untie him? He looks u-uncomfortable..." Hinata said, while glancing at Naruto.
Shikamaru lied on his back as he stared at the sky. "If we untie him, he'll probably end up hurting himself, getting lost, or alerting an enemy."
Kiba elbowed Hinata as he snickered. "Naruto..." He teased.
Hinata could feel herself turning bright red. "Augh! W-what?"
The other ninja just chuckled.
Naruto was grinning like an idiot. "Ohh! RAMENNN!"
Hinata glanced at Naruto again before looking down at her fingers as she touched them together. "H-He's probably hungry... He hasn't eaten anything yet..."
Walking over to Naruto, she looked into his pouch and pulled out one of his food rations.
"He-here, Naruto..." She put a bite sized piece in his mouth, which he began to chew.
Naruto had a strange grin on his face.
"Ya know, I don't know what I would do without you!"
Hinata was taken aback. Was he talking to her? Once again, her face started turning red. He seemed to be looking strait at her, but his eyes weren't focused and it was like he was looking somewhere else. Was he talking to her?
He grinned. "Even when I had no friends, you were there!"
Hinata could only look at Naruto in shock. Was he talking to her? She couldn't tell. To be honest, he looked really loopy. She felt her face grow increasingly red.
"When I see you, I want to eat you up..."
By now, the other four ninja were watching Hinata and Naruto with shocked looks on their faces. Sakura's jaw nearly scraped the floor. Even Shino looked a bit surprised.
Hinata's face was glowing red as she thought,"This is so sudden! Don't faint, don't faint, don't faint!"
With that, Hinata fainted before Naruto was able to finish the sentence.
"Because Ramen-chan, you are so delicious!" Naruto finished as he stared at a HUGE bowl of ramen (or so he thought). Drool dripped out of both sides of his mouth as he chewed something in his mouth.
The other ninja all fell backwards.
Naruto had been talking the whole time to... RAMEN?!
Ah, Naruto. The number one knucklehead ninja.
~~~•~~~
When Naruto woke up, it was pitch black outside. He had a major headache. He tried to get up, but found that he couldn't move. "What happened?" he mumbled.
He tried hard to remember, but all he could remember were giant bowls of legendary ramen, and oddly, Sakura as a guy. He shuddered. That was not something he wanted to remember.
He nearly yelped when he saw snakes wrapped around him, instantly thinking, "Orochimaru!" But taking a second look, he saw that they were just ropes. Phew. That was a relief. His mind must of been playing tricks.
But wait a second! Why was he tied to a tree with ropes?
He groaned again as his head pounded, but then shut his mouth. He didn't want whoever his captors were to hear him waking up. Looking around, he spotted his captors... Who were none other than his own friends!
Well, he knew one thing for sure. He needed to escape these ropes, and fast!
Because he really needed to pee.
~~~•~~~
Naruto continued gnawing the rope with his teeth. That's right... Just a bit more... And done! He grinned, relieved that he was finally free from the tight ropes. His head felt really cloudy, and he would have thought he were in a dream, if not for the very real feeling of his head throbbing.
He swore that he saw ramen floating around as he walked over to some sort of pond to relieve himself.
When he got there, he was surprised to see a beautiful woman standing in the centre of the pond. Her back was towards him, and she was controlling the water around her to make spirals around herself. Water droplets caught the moonlight, making it look like she was sparkling and glistening.
Naruto just watched for a moment before he rubbed his eyes. When he looked back up, she was still there.
'That is so cool!' He thought.
He raised his arm to a friendly wave. "Hey, who are you?! You can control water by just moving your arms?! That looks so cool! My name's Naruto!"
Hinata, who had been training her water affinity, immediately recognized the voice. Immediately her face turned more and more red at a steady rate.
Panicking, she released her hold on the water, letting the water splash back into the pond, and quickly made her escape.
Confused, Naruto scratched the back of his head as he looked in the direction the woman had disappeared to. "Man, I want to learn how to that!"
~~~•~~~
Naruto's head was spinning as he trudged back to camp in the darkness. He contemplated wether or not that woman was real or not. After all, it turned out all those ramen were fake. He had learned that out the hard way.
Suddenly, Naruto roared at the sky. "If this is some sort of genjutsu, you're going to pay!"
Naruto stiffened as he heard something in the distance. It sounded like... Thumping sounds.
Someone roared in the distance. "NARUTO!"
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
As the thumps started to get closer, Naruto started to sweat. He knew that voice anywhere.
It was Sakura. And she sounded mad.
He gulped. There was only one thing to do.
He ran like a terrified girl.
~~~•~~~
So, that's Chapter 2... Chapter 3 will be up in a while...