Do you remember after I defeated Kakuzo and Hidan" said Naruto. Shizune unable to speak just nodded her head how can she not forget his arm has heavily damage not to forget the augment him and her master had.
Flash Back- after the death of Kakuzo and Hidan
Inside the hospital is team Kakashi, Tsunade, and Shizune. With Naruto laying down having his arn anyalise by Tsunade. While everyone looking uneasy especially Shizune seeing the damage of his arm.
"Naruto you may have killed the two akatsuki members but this wind jutsu is dangerous it damages the cells of a person on a cellular level but also severely damage your arm. The Rasenshirkun is consider a kinjutsu if you use this again you might never be able to use it again. So, I'm forbidding you from using this jutsu again" said Tsunade with all seriousness in her voice.
"No" "Excuse me" "I said no I will use if the Rasenshiruken if I have to".
"WHY YOU IDOT AS YOUR HOKAGE I'M ORDERING YOU FROM USING IT!" yelled Tsunade with furious rage. "I said no and don't act like you know how my body works your forgetting I'm an uzumaki also the jinchuriki of kyuubi my arm would just heal" said Naruto glaring at her." Naruto you Baka who dare you disrespect Tsunade-sama you shou-"don't act all high and mighty Haruno if I wanted an opinion from a fangirl I'll just go to Ino now do everyone a favor and shut the fuck up before I break your jaw" said Naruto now getting up and leaving before he could get out he ran into Shizune. "So, Shizune are you going to scold me and how to respect tsunade and I shouldn't use the zrasenshuriken" said passively not really caring if she scold him or not.
"No I think what you did was right. To be honest your arm will heal and you did whatever you had to do. I-I'm just happy you okay" said a blushing Shizune. Naruto had a shock expression surprise she agree with him before leaving he smile at her.
Flash back End
"Hey, isn't your apartment around here?" she asked, he nodded. "Yeah, next street over. Why?" "I want to see it! I've never been to your place, and you've been living in mine for awhile now. It's only fair, right?" Without even giving him a chance to answer, she tightened her grip on his arm and led him towards his apartment building. She practically pulled him up the steps despite not knowing which one was his, and realizing this fact, impatiently looked up at him for directions a fact that amused him to no end. He lifted a finger and pointed towards his apartment.
"That one." No sooner had the words left his mouth did he find himself being pulled towards said room. She tapped her foot in impatience as he struggled to unlock the door, and when he finally got it open, was the first one inside. He turned on the lights and made a huge, sweeping, sarcastic gesture. "And here we are, my humble abode. There's really not much to see." He turned to look at her, but found that she'd disappeared in the two seconds he had taken his eyes off of her.
"Shizune?" "In here!" Lifting an eyebrow, he headed towards the voice; which just happened to be coming from his bedroom. Sensing danger, he cautiously walked into the small room, looking in all directions as he entered. "Shizune? You're in here, right?" The sound of the door slamming and locking behind him confirmed his worry, and he turned around just in time to see the smaller girl launch herself at him. He stumbled backwards a few steps in an attempt to regain his balance, but only ended up falling flat back first onto his bed with Shizune still wrapped around his torso.
They lie in that position for a few seconds, just listening to the sound of each other's breaths and the feel of each other's heartbeat against their chests. Finally, he attempted to get up only to find that he couldn't. "Shit can't move," he said, still struggling underneath her. "Good." "Shizune..." Knowing what he was about to say next, she snuggled herself deeper into his chest and gripped his body tighter against her. "I just want to stay like this for a little while. Can't I?" He let loose a small small but nodded. He honestly couldn't think of any reason why not, and she'd sounded so sincere when she'd said it. It seemed as if she honestly just wanted to spend time with him.
"You really should be more careful. You're pregnant, you know." "I know; with our baby." Although she couldn't see it, he slowly nodded his head again. "It feels weird knowing that we're going to be parents and maried, doesn't it? I mean, your still young and i'm older than (A/N: in my story she's 29). We're supposed to have our whole lives ahead of us, yet we're already going to have a child and marry.
In under half a year, we'll basically be creating something that's a part of both of us. It seems unreal." Shizune chuckled lightly into his chest. "Who knew didn't Naruto you could be so deep." He grunted smugly in response, earning another round of giggles from the kunoichi.
"I understand what you mean, though. Even now I'm not sure if I can do it. If we can do it. We're both orphans, and neither of us have ever had any parents. We don't have any kind of examples to go by unless you count daytime television, and we're still kids ourselves; eighteen and 28 is an extremely young age to have such a huge responsibility. Sometimes I worry if I'll be a good mother." "You will." She lifted her head to look at him, disbelief apparent on her face. "What makes you say that?" "I can just tell. Even though you can't really cook, clean, and don't know how to take care of children well if you consider Tsunade a giant child" Shizune punched him lightly in the side, scowling up at him in disdain, " You, like me, have a lot of love to give. I think the fact that we were both orphans will make us better parents. We know what it's like to be alone, and there's no way either of us will let our son go through that."
She nodded her agreement, smiling softly at his words. Hearing him express his feelings on the matter made her much more confident in her own abilities, and "Wait, what do you mean our son? We're obviously have a girl." "Are you kidding?! There's no way that could happen. We're going to have a brown haired, blue eyed little boy." She glared at him with as much hate as she could muster (which wasn't much at this point in time). "Uh, wrong. We're going to have a blond haired, brown eyed little girl." "What makes you so sure?!" "What makes you so sure!"
"I just know these things! My intuition has never failed me before!" Shizune choked out a laugh, highly amused by his baseless deduction. "Well, the baby is growing inside of me, and I can tell that she is going to have blond hair and brown eyes. My mother's intuition thoroughly trumps yours." Naruto huffed lightly, realizing that he really had no way of beating that. "In any case, I'll be happy no matter how the baby comes out." "Those sound like the words of a loser to me." "Shut it." She laughed again and snuggled herself deeper into her chest, breathing in the scent of him mixed with the smell of the restaurant they'd left over half an hour ago.
For some reason, she felt completely safe in his arms, and she just knew that everything would be okay as long as he was there. She relaxed herself against him and let out a yawn, drifting in and out of consciousness as they lie together. Unable to keep herself awake any longer, she slowly closed her eyes and mumbled one last sentence before going to sleep. "I'm glad you're the father and I'm going to marry you." Surprised, the blond looked down at her, only to find that she was already asleep. Smirking to himself, he reached around for his sheet and draped it over the two of them, wrapping his arms around her as he did so. "Me too Shizu-chan."
Shizune slowly awoke from her slumber, m
outh opening wide in a yawn. For the most part, she felt thoroughly rested.
The comfort she felt while sleeping was unrivaled, and as she creaked her eyes open to see exactly what the warm squishy thing below her was, she instantly understood why. Although it was a bit hard to see in the dimly lit room, she could easily make out the angular face and spiky blond hair of Naruto. A smirk appeared on her face as she watched and felt the steady breathing coming from his mouth, and she pressed herself tighter against him in an attempt to siphon some more warmth from his body.
If she wasn't careful, she could get used to this. She lie her head back down on his chest with a sigh, listening to the powerful thumping of his heart against his ribcage. It was growing harder and harder to believe that they'd been at each other's throats just under a few months ago. A lot had happened since then, and though she hadn't told him yet, she'd recently entered the second trimester of her pregnancy.
She'd actually been meaning to ask him to come with her to one of the appointments but had never been able to find a good time to do it. He was always too busy with training for the ANBU, and when he wasn't doing that, Training he was either sleeping or helping out Hinata.
Now that she thought about it, they really hadn't spent much time together despite living under the same roof. The sound of one of Naruto's floorboards creaking instantly snapped her out of her thoughts, and the hairs on the back of her neck began to stand to up. She glanced up at the blond to see if he'd noticed, but as she'd expected, he was still blissfully unaware of anything around him. Shrugging slightly, she turned her head to stare in the direction she thought she'd heard the sound. It was still too dark in the room to see anything, and the area where the creaking had come from was especially shrouded in shadows. Just as she was about to write the noise off as her own paranoia, she heard the steady thumping of footsteps coming from the dark corner. Feeling the beginnings of fear in the bottom of her stomach, Shizune pushed herself up onto her hands and fully turned her body in the direction of the noise.
"Who's there?" she asked, trying to keep her voice down in case she was just imagining things. Her eyes widened in fear as she saw a black figure begin to materialize from the darkness, and she pushed herself up onto her knees in case she had to fight.
"You and Naruto- kun didn't come home last night, Shizune- chan. I was worried." Her body relaxed a bit as she recognized the soft voice of Hinata.
"Oh, Hinata. How did you get in here?" The girl smiled softly, stepping all the way out of the darkness.
"The front door was unlocked, so I figured you two might be here. More importantly, what are you doing to Naruto- kun?" Shizune froze as she remembered exactly who it was that she was lying on top of. Her face shifting into one of horror, she turned to look at the still smiling Hyuuga.
"N- no! Hinata! This isn't what it looks like! Nothing happened, we just fell asleep this way!
" Hinata shook her head and widened her smile, taking another step forward. "I know that, silly! You're both still fully clothed. Besides, you don't love Naruto- kun, right?" She started to agree with the smaller girl, but found that her voice wouldn't come out (even though he proposed to her she's just now accepting it)
. Just how did she feel about Naruto? She wouldn't deny that she liked him; although he could be annoyingly naive and stupid sometimes, for the most part the blond was possibly the sweetest person she'd ever met.
He was one of the very few people in the world that was truly genuine and dependable, and every time she was around him, she felt safe and secure. She lowered her head and stared down at Naruto's chest, struggling to get her thoughts together. "I...we..." Rather than wait for an answer, Hinata nodded her head in understanding.
"I see. Well, then, I guess it can't be helped." Shizune's head snapped up just in time to see the Hyuuga's Byakugan eyes ablaze with hate, hand outstretched and swirling with murderous blue chakra.
She couldn't move in time. Even if she could, her body was frozen in fear, preventing her from moving even an inch. Clenching her eyes shut, she screamed the first thing that came to mind.
"NARUTO!"
"Shizune!
Wake up! Shizune!" Naruto yelled, eyebrows furrowed in fear and concern. The girl shot up in surprise, eyes wide and chest heaving with exertion. A nightmare. It was only a nightmare. She looked over to her right to see that there was nothing in the room except the darkness, letting loose a sigh of relief as she did so.
"What happened?! Are you alright?! You just started screaming my name all of a sudden!" Her arms collapsed beneath her, sending her sprawling back onto his body. "A...a dream. T- that's it." He slowly brought a hand up to her back, attempting to calm her down by rubbing it. He'd never seen Shizune so upset before, and to be quite honest, it worried him.
"It sounded more like a nightmare to me. Want to tell me about it?" She shook her and sighed, still panting heavily.
"What time is it?" He eyed her for a few more seconds before reaching up and grabbing his alarm clock. "Four in the morning. Why?" She groaned loudly and rolled off of his body, landing on her feet and raising her arms above her head to stretch. She was sure that she looked like shit, but she really wasn't in the mood to be a girl yet.
"We should probably head home. Well, to my home. I told Hinata we'd be back by twelve at the latest, and she might be getting worried about us." What she didn't tell him was that she was afraid of her finding them first. While it'd still look bad for the two of them to show up four hours late, it'd look worse if they were four hours late in his bed. She quickly adjusted her dress and grabbed her purse off of the floor, looping it haphazardly over her shoulder.
Naruto watched her move with concern. Something about her seemed...off. She looked worried frightened, even. Her movements were choppy and sharp as she put herself together, and he swore he saw her hands shake as she slipped her heels on.
"Shizune? Are you sure you're alright?" The teenager flashed him a quick grin and turned to leave the room. "Promise." Sticking the key into the lock, Shizune slowly turned it in a counter clockwise direction. Every movement she made sounded ten times louder in her head despite her best efforts to remain quiet. If she was lucky, Hinata would be asleep. She really, really didn't feel like dealing with her just yet.
"Shizune." The young woman jumped in surprise, snapping her head up to look at the blond next to her. His eyebrows were knitted together with worry as his deep blue eyes stared invasive into her own. Not even a hint of amusement flickered across his face, and she realized for the first time that he was honestly, truly concerned about her.
"What's wrong? Don't say nothing, or I'll keep asking until you tell me." She was touched that he cared; she really was. However, she was also growing increasingly annoyed with the way he seemed to be perceiving her. She wasn't some weak damsel in distress who needed to be saved by a fearless, handsome prince. She didn't need to be coddled and hugged every second of every day to feel happy or whole.
Her problems were her own, just like they always had been and always would be.
"You want to know what's wrong. What's wrong is the fact that you think there's something bothering me. I told you I was fine, so drop it." Okay, so maybe she'd been a little harsh with her words. He really didn't deserve the attitude she gave him, but it was the only way she knew he'd listen. Naruto sighed loudly, tilting his head back and staring up at the sky in what looked to her like annoyance.
"Right. Fine. You know yourself better than I do, so I should just butt out. I got it." She opened her mouth to apologize, but closed it soon after. Why should have to say she was sorry?
She hadn't done anything wrong. If anything, it was his fault for being so goddamn pervasive. Turning back to the door, she pulled her key from the lock and turned the doorknob as carefully as she could. The entire apartment was dark; as was to be expected given the time of day.
Shizune almost felt like sighing in relief. Maybe she really could avoid dealing with Hinata until later that morning. She fully stepped into the apartment and slipped off her heels, kicking them lightly against the wall before walking fully into her home. When she didn't hear Naruto's heavier footsteps behind her, she looked over her shoulder to see him staring at his feet with an unreadable expression. "What's up? Aren't you coming in?" she asked him, lifting an eyebrow in curiosity. Still not looking at her, he took a small breath of air and frowned.
"Actually...I think I'm just going to go back to my place." The jounin fully turned around to face him, her eyes opening a little wider in surprise. "What? Why?!" He shrugged his shoulders, sticking his hands into his pockets as he did so. "I dunno, I just sorta feel like it. I mean, I haven't been there in awhile, and I'm sure you're tired of me being around all the time, so..." Shizune swallowed noisily, wanting more than anything to tell him that he was wrong; to tell him that she liked him being there all the time.
But she wasn't like that. She didn't need anyone around to feel happy or safe. "Oh. Well...I guess that's okay." She idly wondered if he was still upset that she wouldn't tell him what was bothering her. "Are you coming back tonight?" For the first time since they'd started talking, he looked into her eyes with that same unreadable expression. "I don't think so." His words hurt something inside of her. She didn't understand it. Just last night, they'd been discussing how great it would be to raise their child together, and not even six hours later, he suddenly didn't want anything to do with her. White hot anger built up in her system, and she marched up to the front door of her apartment with her mouth tightened into a thin line.
"No? Okay. Don't feel like you have to come back for my sake. Actually, you know what? Don't come back at all!" With that slammed the door in his face and locked it, making sure he heard the click of the latch to tell him that he wasn't welcome anymore. Not that he'd mind, since he'd obviously decided that he was tired of her.
While she should have felt satisfaction from the simple action, the emotion that was prevailing over all the others was the exact opposite. She roughly bit her lip to keep from crying. She didn't care. Why should she? She knew he'd go back on his word eventually. Be there for her and the baby? Always support her? What had she been expecting? She knew how men were. She knew how they said whatever they thought would make the woman happy for the time being. He was just giving a pacifier to a baby.
It was stupid of her to think that Naruto was any different. Tilting her head back to roll the tears back into her eyes, she stalked off towards her bathroom to take a hot shower.
"Shizune- chan?
Naruto-kun? Is that you?" Fuck. In her anger towards the ANBU officer, she'd completely forgotten to keep her voice down to avoid waking Hinata.
A pang of fear washed over her as she looked into the smaller girl's violet eyes. "Shizune-chan? What happened to Naruto- kun?" The ravenette took a deep breath to calm herself, doing her best to appear as normal as possible. It didn't help that the Haruno had come out fucking nowhere. "H- he went home. He won't be hanging around here much anymore." Before she could ask anymore questions, Shizune literally ran into her bathroom, slamming the door behind her. Shortly thereafter, she leaned against the slab of wood and cried. She knew it was pathetic to be crying over the situation, but she couldn't help it. The only thing that comforted her was the fact that no one was around to see her tears.
