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New Oath, New Love and a New Enemy
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto!
Last time on Red Scar: Uzumaki Redemption,
"It is about time you arrived. You missed the best part of the party."
"NARUTO!?" That was the main response to the user of such Jutsu of a scale or skill which happened to be the least likely candidate but not anymore.
"Like the new look?"
That was what they never expected even for a boy who was seen as 'Konoha's Most Unpredictable Shinobi'. Still, Ino did feel a little red around the cheeks as she viewed Naruto's body in much more detail; she couldn't believe that the little quirt in the jumpsuit will be such a hunk with such refined skin like marble, she couldn't wait to hang out with me anymore than ever.
"Naruto…what happened to you?" Choji was always the outspoken one of the bunch and that was why Naruto managed to form a friendship of sorts since the blond never said the taboo around Choji and even had an appetite like him while remaining in the same age group.
"A lot Choji. A lot has happened to me and yet you will never hear me complain." Naruto started off and everyone couldn't find any retort or response at all for some reason. "I finally made peace with the one person that forced me to live in this hell of a world. I finally feel confident in my skills and gained the one thing you prized over even your own lives. I even got a beautiful blonde girl all over me too." That last comment caused Ino to go over the edge and her entire skin became red with embarrassment while trying to rid her mind of her lustful thoughts triggered by Naruto's 'sexy' words.
"This game is over! Now tell us where Hidan is!" Shikamaru finally lost his patience with all this and yet Naruto just clicked his tongue.
"I knew you were lazy but I thought you will be more patient than this. What has happened to you? It is like you hate me and feel like I am making you suffer more." Naruto said in a serious tone for once and everyone looked at the Nara for the answer. However, "If you think that hating me for being a target will make your mentor proud wherever he is, then you really have fallen Shikamaru Nara."
"ARRGH!" The said boy with the pineapple knot in his hair had charged at Naruto, completely out of character which allowed Naruto to defend himself rather easily with simple quick thrusts to counter those poor excuses for punches and kicks.
"Taijutsu really isn't something for a natural born strategist lie yourself Shika-kun." Naruto said completely clam, in control and not even intimidated. The blond then preformed a finishing move that happened when he grabbed the topside of Shikamaru's right arm and toppled the Nara over the top while grabbing the bottom side of the same arm in order to land Shikamaru on the ground hard.
Apparently, this didn't sit well with another certain blond. "Naruto, that was uncalled for!" Everyone turned to Ino, "We came all this way when we heard you hadn't returned and with the Akatsuki out here, we were going to give you our help!" No one saw this coming; Naruto laughing hard at those words!
"If you have noticed even after a week in which I was supposed to be back, then why go all this way? I have already given up on waiting anymore and now I will never regretted that." Team Ten didn't know what to think of it until, "Who noticed I was missing? Tell me who asked of you to go looking for me?"
Naruto sure wasn't going to like the answer and yet he was going to be relieved as well. All will be revealed once they returned to the Konoha village.
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"This is boring!" That was to be the umpteenth time those three words were said by the gate guards since these days of peace have very few visitors or even intruders so all they could do was just lie around like bumps on a log. "I just wish something will blow up and then things will get interesting again for a change."
"Quit with the complaining, I am bored too but it hurts even more to listen to your complaints." The former's partner scolded and went back to his post facing outward of the village only to see something in the horizon. It was a larger group of Shinobi than last time; with an extra company member that they didn't recognize. "Halt!" He shouted when the company arrived right in front of the gate, "Sorry sir but village protocol. Please let me see your passport or otherwise your ninja license so we can let you in."
"Fair enough." Naruto said in his usual voice which nearly threw the gate guards off as they did recognize that voice from all the times a blond boy will be chased by the much older ninjas for pulling off an excellent prank; the gate guards loved on how Naruto was able to make the village more on edge and cause excitement in this boring place to work. Anyways, that was to the case when Naruto handed over his ninja license, not forged or stolen, the real thing that got him back in the village.
"Bye guys." Naruto said when he started to walk in different direction to Team Ten, he said that he had some unfinished business to take care of; this time, Team Ten knew what he was talking about and just left to report the entire thing to the Hokage who wanted to be the first to hear what had happened under everyone's nose.
And so,
"Team Ten reporting Tsunade-sama." Kakashi said as he entered the Hokage office in the tower. Tsunade looked up from her papers and saw the said team but couldn't help but notice on how Shikamaru had this unhappy expression on his face; most Naras don't have any other expression other than their laid-back and lazy ones.
"Tell me what happened on the village and why isn't Naruto back yet? He is late and he is trending on thin ice this time." Tsunade said that can be considered uncalled for but only Team Ten know that.
'Maybe Naruto was right about how the village looks down on him so much, they don't care if he was late because he was in trouble.' They all thought in their own mind tone while Ino added her own two cents to herself,
'I sure hope he finds that same person before he goes over the edge because of these inconsiderate and self-righteous bastards. We nearly became those ourselves, the jerks!' The Yamanaka heiress took a moment to look through the window that shown the village in pure view; all the people, houses and shops and even the sun makes one feel like looking all over the whole world from a secluded cliff side.
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Meanwhile, Naruto was looking for someone; someone who was actually worried about him enough to point out what everyone never realized. She knew that since he was a week late for his mission, Naruto was in trouble. He could understand that the village didn't want to let Hinata go to help him because she was worried. All that really escalated when he, at last, found what or better yet who he was looking for; an angel, a goddess just walking around in the streets with her hair blowing the wind like leaves on tree branches.
"Hello Hinata." Naruto wanted to break the silence and alerted the Hyuga into noticing that her crush was standing right next to her and even more handsome than she last saw him. But that wasn't on her mind that that split second when she instead charged into Naruto's embrace.
"Naruto-kun! I thought you were hurt! I was so worried!"
Naruto said nothing in response as he looked down on the girl with moonlight hair. He just remembered what Team Ten told him before arriving back in the village.
Flashback Begins:
"It was Hinata." Ino said plainly and yet Naruto didn't do a thing to respond until he started laughing.
"Nice to hear that but I am in no mood for jokes." Team Ten couldn't believe what they were hearing, "Come on. You know very well that Hinata will never have the courage to ask of such a thing and especially a certain Nara about o become a man and kill the one person who killed his teacher. You made sure that such things will never happen."
"WHAT!? YOU ARE SAYING THAT WE WERE RESPONDABLE FOR HINATA'S SHYNESS!?" Ino let it all out and Naruto just nodded,
"She had a crush on me for what reason?" That off topic but Naruto wasn't going to be reminded of that, "What did I do that caused you all to hate me but also Hinata to have a crush on me? It makes no sense unless you didn't want that to happen. You didn't want to have me become friends with Hinata."
"w-what?" Choji spoke this time around while even Ino couldn't find the words to that.
"Who saved Sakura from bullying but not Hinata?" Naruto asked, "Who left her to do things on her? Who never offered to hang out with here only to reject her? Who never helped her with her school work whatever she asked or not? I even asked her team, they never even did anything to get involved with helping her and it is all because you liked it that way."
"Shut up!" Ino shouted until she shown to be crying about this. Kakashi was still shocked as the rest in order to try and stop Naruto; he had learned that the hard way about the blond, Naruto never gives up until he succeeds at what he wants to do. "Okay! We were jealous of her and you! Okay!?" Naruto didn't say a word, he wanted to see everything. "You two had the better life than us spoiled brats, you were always so cool even when we were little; on how you kept smiling through all that pain you all felt but we were just not that brave. We wanted to be brave too but we also wanted to see how brave were the rest of you too; we had to keep you too apart."
Naruto had to sigh with all that breath he was holding in his mouth about how stupid this was. "That wasn't smart or nice or fair. All this was because you still thought that others were there to be played with?" The Chunin of the team just held their heads down because they had realized a little too late that they were too naïve about what was going one between Naruto and Hinata. "You all just do what you want but please leave Hinata out of it because you all know that she doesn't deserves any of this. I did things on my own for an entire week and I got a lot learned than in my whole life of waiting for others to help me and even with them in check."
Team Ten could see that Naruto's words were based on how convincing were his eyes that the blond needed no one to teach anymore. "I will do things on my own for now and starting with Hinata, because I had to relieve on others to clean up my messes so I will be the one doing the cleaning. You get me?"
That was determination in his voice but if anyone would have taken the time to notice that Shikamaru's eyes had bitterness and resentment; no one did and for that, there will be consequences to happen for sure.
Flashback Ends!
"It is okay Hinata-chan. I am not going anywhere, I will ne3ver leave you all alone again." Naruto whispered to her ear which made her tightened her hold on her crush like he was going to fade away if she let go of him. "You can tell your sensei that her lover has been avenged."
Hinata just nodded and settled down enough to halt her tears; now she just wanted to stay where she was. Naruto didn't complain because he was going to lose the one thing he always wanted, more than friends and more than some cool 'Jutsu'; someone who actually wanted to be with him.
Now the only problem for Naruto will be to explain to Shikamaru why the object of the latter's mission instead went to the former and got finished off before they were ready to leave the village. We can only hope everyone can handle the worst to come.
*Hey everyone! Here is your next chapter! I must say that maybe I have been letting you all wait for such a stupid reason regarding my laptop. I hope to make up one day because I am still alive and I am still an author. Please try to understand that we authors are not wizards or gods because either one has their own problems every single day as well as us.
No fight scenes in this chapter but I did say in the summery that Shikamaru will resent Naruto for killing Hiden before he could. I have seen this in another fanfic that Konoha had hated Naruto so much that Kurenai even blamed the blonde for her lover's death. Have a nice day!*
