Here is the second chappie, thank you onee (ethereal heiress) for your advice. XD, I hope I can be as good of a writer as you are. HUGZ!
I do not own Naruto and his characters but all original are mine.
Jiraiya and Sai are waiting for the young kunoichi at the gate. They are deciding what the best route back to Konoha is. When Talim appears out of nowhere and says, "Hey Ojii-san, when are we leaving and how long will it take us to be there?"
Jiraiya is startle by her stealth ability but replies, "We'll leave as soon as you're ready and the journey back will take around four days."
"Why would we need to walk back when I can take you to the gates now?" She says calmly.
"What are you talking about, Talim?" Asks Jiraiya confused. Talim looks proudly at him and says, "Just watch me, ojii-san. Gather close to me." Talim closes her eyes and extends her chakra signature, until she locks into one similar to hers at Konoha. Jiraiya and Sai only felt the pull of the chakra and when they open their eyes they were at Konoha's front gate.
Talim begins to fall feeling tired but Jiraiya catches the young kunoichi and asks, "Daijoubu, Talim-chan?"
"Hai, just a little tired." She stands up and Sai puts an arm around her waist to prevent her from falling. They walk toward the Hokage's Office, where a messenger has already announced their arrival.
"Hokage-sama, they are here." Says Shizune happily. Tsunade smiles and nods instructing her to let them in.
"Konichiwa Talim Lee. Welcome to Konoha. There is someone here that can't wait to meet you. Come in Rock Lee." Says Tsunade
The door opens and Talim turns to look. At the door, she saw a tall teenager, with black hair, big black round eyes; he is well built and very tall. His eyes are full of tears as he walks inside toward her.
"Imouto-chan…" He says in a whisper. Talim's heart tightens and she says softly, "You know me?"
"Hai, Lim-chan" He says with a smile. All of a sudden, Talim finds herself tackled into a hug. At first she doesn't know what to do but soon she is hugging her brother back. "Aniki!"
Tsunade and Jiraiya smile at the youngsters and as they look at each other a silent communication goes between them.
"Rock Lee, why don't you take your sister and show her around; and introduce her to everyone?" Says Tsunade softly. Rock Lee lets go of her sister and nods. He then takes Talim's hand and pulls her out of the office.
As soon as the siblings leave the room, Tsunade looks at Jiraiya and says, "Ok, report."
Jiraiya smiles and tells Tsunade all that Daisuke reported and gave her the scroll that Hoshikage sent to her.
Meanwhile, Rock Lee is showing Talim the Village. At the distance, he sees Naruto and Hinata walking by.
"Naruto-sama! Hinata-sama!" Rock Lee shouts pulling his sister and heading their way. Hinata rolls her eyes clearly annoyed, just when she is able to have some quality and alone time with her Naruto-kun, someone had to interrupt. As the two siblings approached them, Naruto flashes his trademark smile.
Talim's eyes widen, that guy is breathtaking handsome, but the girl next to him… she can tell that her smile wasn't honest.
"Bushy brows, what up!" He says smiling; Talim could tell that this guy was a good friend of her brother.
"I want to introduce my sister, Talim Lee. Imouto-chan, this is Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Hinata." He says pushing her forward gently. Naruto smiles at the beauty in front of him.
"Konichiwa, Uzumaki-san, Hyuuga-san." She bows respectfully and smiles sweetly at Naruto, making Hinata very jealous.
"The pleasure is mine, beautiful. You have a very cute sister, Lee." He says winking at Talim. Rock Lee smiles and before Hinata could say anything he says, "Arigato, Naruto-sama, we'll see you later. I want to introduce her to everyone. Good bye."
"See you guys later." Naruto says smiling; he turns to Hinata as he hears her saying, "Goodbye and good riddance."
"Aw! Come on, Hina-chan, why would you say something so mean like that?" He says surprised. Hinata blushes and swears silently at being caught.
Not far from there, Masashi and Kiyoshi are approaching discussing their mission quietly.
"What have you sensed so far?" Asks Masashi seriously. Kiyoshi smirks and replies, "Always the impatient one, itoko. I have sensed different things; demo the curious thing is that we have three strange chakra signatures. One of them being your charge." He says calmly, "I will try to pinpoint the source of the other two. Also the nine tails is here."
"Good, I…" He is interrupted by Rock Lee's appearance.
'Kimora-san! Sagara-san, matte." He pulls his sister along catching up with them. Talim is speechless; never in her life would she have thought that in one village could there be such hunk of men.
"Am I in heaven?" She says almost drooling and Rock Lee rolls his eyes embarrassed. Kiyoshi narrows his eyes suspiciously. This is one of the sources. This would be even easier than he thought.
Masashi, hearing what she said, smiles and says, "If someone is in heaven, then that would be us. Since I really think I am seeing a tenshi. Isn't that right, Kiyoshi?"
"Of course, Itoko." His amber eyes set on Talim's crystal blue eyes. But Talim was no fool and she felt his chakra probing her own. The cheerful kunoichi narrows her eyes and sends a jolt of lightning to Kiyoshi, catching him totally off guard, which made him stumble to the floor.
"Nee-chan, we should go. I am sure that they have other business to do." She says smiling sweetly. Masashi grabs her hand and says, "Not without a proper introduction… Ore wa Kimora Masashi and the clumsy idiot on the floor is my itoko, Sagara Kiyoshi."
"Watashi wa Talim Lee. A pleasure, now if you excuse us." She pulls her hand away from Masashi, and pulls her brother to continue their introductions. As the walk away, Kiyoshi is able to come back to his senses and asks Masashi, "Did you sense that?"
"Noo… what the hell happened to you?" He asks amused. Kiyoshi doesn't appreciate being made fun of.
"She electrified me! That little wench dared to use her powers on me." He says darkly, "The good news is that she is one of the sources."
They both look at where the siblings are heading and Masashi notices his mark in the distance walking with the Uchiha. Rock Lee smiles wider and shouts, "Ruby-sama! Ruby-sama! Matte Onegai."
"What is it Lee?" She says seriously. Sasuke smiles inwardly. It was natural for Ruby trying to intimidate everybody with "THE ATTITUDE"
"Gomen for interrupting your date with Uchiha-san; demo I wanted to introduce the only family I have left." He says innocently. Sasuke smirks amused and expects a complete blow out from his beautiful ANBU captain. Ruby is about to blow a gasket when she realizes that Lee didn't say it as a way to annoy her. So this one time, she would let it pass.
"You aren't interrupting anything; we aren't on a date Lee-kun." Says Ruby elbowing Sasuke at the same time. But Sasuke seemed perplexed, and when she follows his line of vision, Ruby saw why and rolled her eyes.
Sasuke couldn't take his eyes off the pretty girl with Rock Lee. Her red-orange hair framed her face perfectly making her blue eyes more noticeable. Her body could rival the goddess Venus and her legs seem to go on forever.
Rock Lee brought him out of reverie, "Sasuke-kun, Ruby-sama, I would like you to meet my sister Talim Lee." Talim bows respectfully and smiles at them. Ruby measures her with a cold look and nods acknowledging her. Sasuke took a step forward and grabbing her hand gently he kisses it and says, "The pleasure is all mine, beautiful."
Talim blushes a bit making her look completely adorable. Ruby glares at Sasuke and says, "Yeah, well… nice meeting you. Sasuke, come on we don't want to be late."
Sakura is watching from a distance and narrows her eyes, "Damn! Another one that will try to get my Sasuke-kun." She sighs sadly remembering her earlier encounter with Sasuke, "Who am I kidding? He doesn't like me." Her inner self says, "Forget that baka! Remember Kiyoshi-kun….oh! what a man." Sakura rolls her at her inner self.
Lee sees her and proceeds to introduce her sister, after that he caught with Kakashi, Yamato, Iruka and Asuma. They could see his happiness while he introduced Talim to them. After a few hours, Lee had introduced Talim to most of both groups: Popular and Nerdies. As he is about to take her back he sees Natsumi and Neji walking together.
"Hatake-san, Hyuuga-san matte!" Natsumi and Neji stop and turn to look at Lee. He grabs Talim and runs toward them.
"Arigato for stopping, I want to introduce my little sister to you. Hatake-san, Hyuuga-san this is Talim Lee." He says happily. Natsumi extends her hands and says, "It's nice to meet you, Talim-chan. Watashi wa Hatake Natsumi desu and this is my friend Hyuuga Neji." Neji nods politely and Talim smiles sincerely, "Nice to meet you too."
As Talim shakes Natsumi's hand she realized it was Natsumi's chakra that she locked on to teleport. A genuine smile appeared on her face as she understood her father's words about not being alone.
"Come on Talim, we must catch up to Sabaku no-san." He says pulling his sister. Natsumi looks up at Neji and he sighs, "Go on, you know that he doesn't like me around you."
"Oh come on, Neji-kun." She says smiling. Neji couldn't stop himself and caress her face gently. Natsumi blushes and turns to leave, not before saying, "I'll see you tomorrow."
Lee had already introduced Talim to Gaara and Temari. The Sand siblings watch them walk away. It is then that Temari says, "Gaara, when will you tell Nat-chan. It's not fair that she doesn't know."
Natsumi was just coming around the corner, when she heard Temari. She hid in the shadows to listen.
"Iee, I don't know how to tell her that we are leaving in two weeks." He says sadly. Natsumi froze in her spot, silent tears begin to flow down her cheeks, and coming out of the spot she says, "You are... leaving?"
For Gaara, time seemed to stop. He turns around and sees Natsumi crying, making him feel like a total ass.
"You are leaving me…again." She continues. Temari walks away silently; she knew this was something they had to deal with eventually. Around them was Shikamaru, Tenten, Ruby, Kankuro and Hinata; they were watching closely the scene in front of them.
"No, Tenshi. Allow me to explain…" He tries but Natsumi cuts him off, "Iee, why didn't you tell me? Or were you planning on leaving without saying goodbye." Her aura became silver and the sand around her started to pick up.
"Tenshi, it's not that. I am not leaving you by choice, and I would never leave without saying goodbye, you know me…" He tries but he knows she is way too hurt to understand.
"Iee!" She cries and her Iron Sand activates making a dome around her. Kiyoshi is watching from the shadows and he's is impressed by what he is seeing.
Gaara realizes she could hurt herself and steps through her dome, his own sand protecting him. "Matte Tenshi, you will hurt yourself." He tries to touch her but she pushes him away.
"Doushite! Doushite! It hurts so much… here." She says pointing her heart. Gaara tries to grab her hand, "Matte Tenshi, Onegai…"
"No, why do you care! I wasn't important enough for you to tell me that you were leaving…" She says through tears.
"Tenshi, you are important to me…" He says, but she replies before he could finish, "I… I need to be alone." She runs away, Gaara watches her retreating form and finishes, "You are important…more than you realize."
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Natsumi is running without seeing were she was headed. Suddenly, she bumps into a hard wall. Having no strength, she is about to fall when a pair of strong arms hold her.
"Hey Taru" Says Naruto amused, holding her. It is when he hears her sobbing that he realizes that she is crying. "Taru? What's wrong baby?" He asks receiving no answer. Natsumi cries and she doesn't realize Naruto is holding her.
Seeing how brokenly she is crying, Naruto tries again, "Natsumi, what's wrong?"
All she could feel were strong arms holding her, making her feel safe. Naruto pulls her closer and holds her gently, breathing in her scent. "Natsumi-chan…"
It's then that she realizes that it's Naruto, she looks up at him and says, "He's leaving me, Naruto… he is leaving." She hides her face on his chest and continues to cry. Naruto says soothing words to calm her down, "It's ok, Taru-chan. It's going to be ok. Don't worry…I'm here for you." After a little while he realized that she fainted out of exhaustion. Picking her up, he heads to the Hatake residence, promising himself that whomever made her cry would pay.
Gaara sighs sadly and turns only to bump into Shikamaru. Shikamaru gives him an apologetic look and Gaara nods understanding the silent message.
From a distance Ruby is watching, a thousand thoughts running through her mind.
Ruby's POV
"OMG! What the hell just happened? I mean she had the most beautiful and handsome guy that I, the most popular girl in school can think of, and she dumped him like that. I just want to slap her for doing that… demo wait…" Suddenly the scene changes before her….
"Gaara-kun, wait I love you and I think…" Says Natsumi pleadingly. Gaara looks at her coldly and replies, "No! No more. I just realize that the woman for me is… Ruby-koi." He says turning his back on Natsumi while she cries, "Matte! Onegai! Don't leave me…" But he doesn't listen and walks toward Ruby.
"Ruby-koi, forgive me for being so stupid and not realize that YOU are the woman I want, the woman I need…the woman I love." He says walking toward her, while Natsumi cries at the background. Ruby smiles at him as Gaara pull her into his arms….
Normal POV
Ruby starts giggling like a school girl enjoying her dream state; meanwhile Hinata isn't having such a good time.
Hinata sees the scene unfold before her and she thinks, "This is not good. If they break up and Naruto-kun hears I will loose him completely.
Hinata's POV
"Natsumi, I would never leave without saying goodbye…" Says Gaara pleadingly.
"Wouldn't you? It doesn't matter any longer, because now I have the motive to say that we are through. I realized that I am in love with Uzumaki Naruto and I want to be with him. Besides, he would never lie to me." She says seriously.
Suddenly a pair of arms hug her from behind, "That's right, Natsumi-chan. I told you Suna looser, she is mine."
Hinata calls Naruto desperately, "Naruto-kun! Matte! I love you."
"Sorry Hinata. I never saw you that way. You are a good friend and all; but I love my Natsumi-chan. Goodbye."
"Iee, Naruto-kun!" She cries…
Normal POV
Hinata is crying silently until she hears someone laughing next to her. She turns and sees Ruby giggling madly.
"Why are you laughing at me?" She says sobbing softly. Ruby looks at her surprised and says, "I am not laughing at you Hinata-chan, why would you say that?"
"Nevermind." She whispers, both girls begin to walk away. Neither noticing the look of stupidity in Kankuro's face; who was also in his own little world.
Kankuro's POV
"No, Gaara. I won't stand for this anymore. I just realized that I could do so much better than you, I mean I could be dating Kankuro." She says coldly. Suddenly she turns toward Kankuro saying, "Kan-kun, I want you… you are so hot and I want you to take me…" CENSORED THOUGHTS
Normal POV
Kankuro has a small perverted blush on his face when Ino brings him out of his thoughts, "Hey love, thinking about me?" Kankuro looks at her and pulls her close to him while answering, "Sure baby, who else could I possible think about?" Kankuro kisses her and she squeals in delight.
Not far from there, Kiyoshi is informing Masashi what he saw.
"I'm telling you, Masashi-kun, she could wield sand but most importantly she used Iron Sand to make her dome. Didn't Akira-sama said that there were no survivors of the group that was injected the DNA of the Kazekage?" Masashi nods thoughtfully, "I am calling this one up. She has a strong spirit; I will take it and break her." Kiyoshi says with a cruel smile.
Masashi nods seriously, finally another development. Maybe they would not have to travel after all.
Naruto has just arrived at the Hatake Residence, laying Natsumi down gently he knocks on the door. After a little while he decides to try and open the door himself and to his surprise the door was unlocked.
To be continued...