This was a reeaaally busy week for me~! . Well, I don't really have anything to say so enjoy this chapter!
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"...I'm bored," Thoughts
"...stupid ningens," Kurama(Kyuubi)
...I'm bored... Flashbacks
The kids were all laughing and playing at the playground. The caretakers of the orphanage had taken all the children out to play, but there was one child who just sat on the swing with his head down. Nobody dared to come near the 5 year old blond; except one.
"Whatchya doing?" The small boy looked up to meet wide deep violet eyes.
"…just sitting."
"Well, that's no fun! C'mon and play ball with me!" The boy grabbed the hand of a startled Naruto and dragged him to where the ball was. "By the way; I'm Aikaho. I'm not sure what my last name is. What's your name?"
"…Naruto… Naruto Uzumaki."
Naruto recalled this memory as his eye widened in horror. He couldn't hear anything the ANBU was saying; he didn't want to. The blond dashed over to the hospital where Aikaho was. "No... they're lying. He-he's fine..." He tried to fool himself with these thoughts as he finally reached his best friend's room.
Silently walking to the bed, Naruto's face was devoid of any emotion. He was oblivious to his surroundings. The boy didn't even notice Sarutobi standing at the foot of the bed. Naruto stood at the side of the bed and his heart dropped when he saw how pale Aikaho was. He felt little relief when violet eyes opened weakly. "…Naruto…"
"Hey, Aika. You look pretty crappy." Naruto's laugh was obviously false.
The blue-haired boy chuckled weakly. "…bastard… "
Naruto's smiled softly. Then, he watched as Aikaho suddenly took on a serious face and called the doctor over. The next statement shocked him to his core.
"I want to donate my eye to Naruto Uzumaki." The room was silent until the doctor spoke up.
"W-wait, I suggest you reconsider thi-"
"Why...? I'm about to die anyway... What do we have to lose?"
The doctor had nothing to say, neither did Sarutobi but Naruto did.
"No. I'm not letting you do this."
Aikaho became distressed at his friend's refusal. "Please Naruto. I want to do this." He was almost begging Naruto but he could see that the blond wouldn't budge from his serious expression.
"...at least think about it."
Naruto was at Dangoya again which was nearly empty today. He barely touched his dango or his tea. The Jinchuuriki was deep in thought about his best friend. On one side, he was happy that Aikaho thought of him as precious enough to donate his eye. On the other side, he was upset at being pitied by his best friend.
Those two kunoichies were here today again, along with 3 male shinobies. A white scarecrow with one eye, a smoker, and another with an… interesting fashion sense.
"…a green spandex, a bowl cut, and... a pair of caterpillars for eyebrows… how fashionable…" Naruto sweatdropped as the man jumped on the table with thumbs up and yelled out something about the fountain of youth… "…what an obnoxious person..." He sighed and finished his food in one gulp. He paid and walked off with bored look on his face. Then, two men, civilians by the look of it, blocked him.
He looked up lazily with his one eye, an icy coldness in it. The two men were slightly unnerved at just how empty it looked despite the obvious annoyance in it. "Move." The men sneered at his command.
"And why should we? You're the one who should be moving."
Naruto didn't say anything, instead he put up a annoying smile and moved to bypass the men. Unfortunately, they wouldn't let him go and followed his movements, blocking him. Again Naruto commanded with a colder voice. "Move."
The two men were still sneering. "What's this? The brat's trying to command us? Who do you think we are to take orders from the likes of you?"
Naruto's response was immediate and blunt. "A bunch of assholes who are mentally damaged with a case of stupidity along with hearing problems."
The two civilians flushed with anger. They stepped up even closer to the blond. "You wanna say that again, demon brat?"
"Nah. I don't want to waste my breath on you two hopeless asses."
The other's response was to hit him, but he was interrupted by Gai's foot flying into his face, making him hit the ground with a loud thud. "What the fuck!" As the man had hit the ground while his friend's eyes widened in panic. They didn't stand a chance against real shinobi; and they knew it.
"It is not youthful to hit a child." Gai stared down at the man with Kakashi, Anko, Asuma, and Kurenei behind him. Naruto watched intently with an uninterested expression as the two men scurried off with their tails between their legs.
"Are you alrigh-"
"Arigoto, Shinobi-san," Naruto cut in with a lazy voice and walked away as if nothing had happened. The group blinked… then sweatdropped when Gai started spouting out nonsense about how hip kids were these days.
Sarutobi stared at the small boy in front of him. Why did he change his mind? "My boy, are you absolutely sure-"
"Yes." He could see nothing would change Naruto's mind.
"…very well. I will schedule the operation immediately." Bowing deeply, Naruto gave his thanks and bid Sarutobi goodbye.
After Naruto left the room, the old man leaned back in his chair and smoked with his pipe, wondering just why his surrogate grandson had changed his mind so suddenly.
"About time for you to give in!" An annoyed voice greeted the jinchuuriki.
"Good to see you too, Aikaho," Naruto mock saluted and sat on the stool next to the hospital bed. Aikaho scoffed at the sarcastic greeting but was happy that his friend was finally allowing him to donate his eye to him. The clock ticked annoyingly on the wall as Naruto took out a box of pocky and some dango that he ordered earlier for to go.
Finally, Aikaho broke the silence. "What changed your mind?"
Naruto chewed on a piece of dango. "I want to be a shinobi."
"…huh…! You want to be a shinobi!" A dumbfounded look appeared on Aikaho's face.
"Wow, thanks for the support, Aika." Naruto rolled his eyes.
Aikaho flushed for moment, "Well, it's just that you're a lazy ass…"
"What did I tell you about being a potty mouth?" The sickly boy growled as his friend finished the last of the dango and moved onto the pocky. "I may not like putting in effort, but I also find being bothered by annoying idiots more troublesome than becoming a shinobi. If I do become one, a strong one, people are going to be more careful of what they try on me. Plus, it pays."
Aikaho sweatdropped, "So basically, you want to become a shinobi, which can get you killed, because you find people annoying… and you want money."
"Bin~go," Naruto eye smiled and snapped his fingers, "guess you do have something in that head besides blueberries!" Naruto had an interesting theory about his friend's unusual hair color. He believed that Aikaho had a head full of blueberries which had been dyeing his hair since birth, resulting in his blue hair.
Aikaho sighed, not reacting to the blueberry jab since he was used to it, "Well, I guess I can't really argue… So when's the operation?" All he received was a shrug from the blond. "You don't know or something?"
"Something. All the old man told me was that he would schedule it immediately." Right then, 2 nurses came in with a clipboard. One of them glanced at Naruto before turning to Aikaho.
"The doctor wants to get some preparations out of the way before we start so if you would just come with me, Aikaho-kun."
"Ah, alright. See ya, Naruto." He was escorted out by one of the two nurses while the other stayed. Naruto eye smiled and waved goodbye to his friend before the nurse that was still in the room approached him. He kept up his smile, but there was an intimidating aura about it as the nurse came closer.
"Naruto-kun, would you like something to eat?" She had a kind smile on her face.
"No thank you, I already ate plenty of snacks with Aikaho." Her smile faltered for split second but that was enough for Naruto to get even more suspicious.
"But aren't you thirsty? Surely, you have some room for some juice." Both of them kept up their smiles. However, the nurse's smile twitched in surprise when Naruto agreed.
"Well, I suppose that would be nice."
"Okay then, wait here. I'll be back with a tasty cup of grape juice in a jiffy."
"I don't like grape juice."
"How about some apple juice?"
"Nope."
"Cranberry juice?"
"Too sour."
"Pomegranate?"
"My second least favorite."
"Milk?"
"My least favorite. Why do you think I'm so short?"
"...pineapple…?" The nurse sighed, knowing what the answer would be.
"That's good."
"How about mang- wait what?"
"I said that's good. Do you have an ear problem? You should get that checked out," Naruto said in obviously false concern as the nurse grounded her teeth, but kept up her smile nonetheless.
"Well then, I'll just go get it."
"Okay." Naruto's immediately dropped his smile as soon as the nurse left the room.
"I've seen you drink milk and juice many times." Naruto jolted at the sudden voice.
Oh yeah. The furba- Kurama had set up that 'connection.'
"Oh? Was the great Nine-tails spying on me? I don't know if I should be flattered, disgusted, or terrified." A little teasing won't hurt, right? Kyuubi growled from the back of his throat. Other than that, he kept silent to avoid dealing with 'stupid ningens.'
The nurse went to the hospital cafeteria and got a glass of pineapple juice before heading back to the room, but just before she entered, she took out a small vial and poured a drop of its contents into the glass. She entered the room with a smile, which Naruto returned.
"Here you go, one glass of delicious pineapple juice!"
"… ah… I'm sorry… but I don't drink juice."
"…what…?"
Naruto rubbed his head sheepishly, "I've never really liked juice. When you said pineapple, I thought you meant pineapple smoothie. Sorry."
The nurse's eye twitched but she still smiled and ground out in a sweat voice, "No problem. I'll just get a pineapple smoothie for you."
"Thanks!"
She went back to the cafeteria and got 2 pineapple smoothies. She put a drop of the liquid in the vial into the cup with the red straw just as she did before and entered the room.
Naruto gave his thanks as he was passed a smoothie. Suddenly, the glass vase holding the flowers shattered, a bad omen, before either were able to take a sip.
"Oh my! What a mess! What happened?" The nurse paid no attention to Naruto as she hurriedly cleaned up the broken glass before getting back to her smoothie. Both Naruto and the nurse took a sip simultaneously. Then, she started to choke. The straw in her cup was the red one. She stared at the boy as she choked.
"I don't like the color red," was the last thing she heard before she blacked out.
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