Yeah, no action this chappie. Just delicious funny fluffy moments and deep shit... Also, no-one has guessed my age yet. So, you'll have two chapters to guess. And use only ONE number guys. Someone might have actually but they used several ages so that doesn't count. I would like to thank XxOtakuxGirlxX for her adorable suggestion. I'll be sure to use your idea. I loved it! Also I'm doubting if I should put Minato in the Harem... That would be incest. But I think they're pretty cute together. Anyway, let me know 'Kay guys. Now, on with the story.
Chapter 6 : Moving from rundown apartment to...
Naruto was nervous about moving. Her status as princess no longer allowed her to live in the apartment she grew up in. Even if people wrote mean things on her door and even though it wasn't very big, she still loved it. It was the place nobody could reach her or hurt her. It protected her like a mother would. It was something like that to her. A warm place that kept her comfy and warm in the cold and barren winters, a place that gave her the safety she so desperately needed.
A place she didn't want to leave...
Hinata, Kakashi and strangely Sasuke had volunteered to help her moving. Sasuke asking her if he could help was the strangest thing she ever heard. She couldn't complain though. He did mean it well, maybe...
She didn't have much to take with her since she owned very little. Still, the nine boxes she had already packed were incredibly heavy and she didn't want to move alone.
She hated that word... Alone... She had been it many tim1es and there was absolutely no one to take her away from it.
"What am I supposed to do with this Naru-chan?" Asked Hinata. In her hand she held a small book. "Put it in one of the boxes. I still need it." Hinata looked in wonder at the worn little book. It's cover was made of dark leather and had a golden hawk on it. It was kept shut by a seal that was hidden in it's crimson eye.
"Naru, what is this book exactly? It looks too old to belong to you."
"Hm? It's a family heirloom. I haven't opened it yet though. I wasn't allowed to by Jiji until I took up my righteous name."
"I...See... What do you think is in it?"
"Does it matter right now?" Responded Sasuke, he found it annoying that the Hyuuga kept pushing on the subject. He himself knew it was hard to talk about things like heirlooms, it made him think more about the fact that there was nobody left. It made him realize that there was no one else like him beside the one who murdered his loved ones. And it made his blood boil. He would be damned if that girl made his team-mate hurt more than she already did only because her white eyed ass was curious.
"Let's all calm down for now and focus on the task at hand. We're almost done." Naruto tried to calm down her helping hands. Fighting wouldn't change anything. And it would be too troublesome to deal with two pissed off early teens at the moment.
Naruto walked to her room made the sign to the rest to follow her. Her room was completely empty. Her bed was thrown away since it was too worn to be used again, as was her closet with the orange jumpsuits included. The only thing still there was the little closet on the wall. Barely big enough to put fifteen pairs of shoes in. "This is the only thing I still need to do." She opened the closet and her three helpers gasped. In the closet were around fifty pots filled with ash, decorated beautifully with ribbons and pearls. In front of every bottle lied a picture with a name written in beautiful writing. Every person the pictures looked like they were sleeping. None had their eyes open.
"Naruto." Kakashi began. "Who are these people?"
Naruto looked her godfather right in the eye before sighing. "They were assassins send to kill me."
Kakashi's eyes widened before closing in regret. Sasuke just stared at Naruto, shock obvious on his face. Hinata gasped and clasped her hand on her mouth before getting furious. "Why? Why, would you show them such respect?!" Screamed Hinata in rage.
"Because they too, were humans with mothers, fathers, wives and husbands. Even children. And because none of them know what happened to their beloved ones, I honor their deaths in their stead. Because I know those families still hope their beloved one come home. Dirty but safe saying 'I failed my job this time.' With an apologetic smile on their face."
She picked up a little pot and handed it to Kakashi. "Could you find a box to put these in? I want to scatter their ashes on top of the Hokage monument."
Kakashi said nothing and only nodded. 'Honestly, this girl is too kind for her own good...' He walked to the living room and retrieved a fairly large carton box. He then proceeded to put the little pot in it and took it to Naruto. "Here."
Naruto smiled and put all the little pots in it with the help of Sasuke and Hinata. Kakashi was resting a bit sine he had to carry most of the boxes later.
"Alright, we're done." announced the blond.
"Finally." Said Hinata with a sigh.
"Haha, already tired. Hina-chan?" She grinned teasingly at Hinata.
"Not everyone has unlimited stamina like you, Naru.". 'I'm kinda jealous...'
"I agree." Naruto stared at Sasuke. "What?"
"Since when do you agree with someone?"
"Can't I?"
"...Uh... Of course you can but..."
"I didn't strike you as someone to agree with people." Sasuke's tone was more of a confirmation than a question. "It's not that I don't agree with people but I just don't agree with stupid people. Since our class was full of idiots I never agreed with anyone."
"Are you calling me stupid?"
Sasuke gave her a ghost of a smile "Of course not. Just that orange..."
"Loud idiot." Naruto finished. Sasuke nodded. "But now, I can honestly say that you're the one who I respect the most. If you would have said me that I would respect you two days ago, I would probably have laughed at you saying that you were insane. But it doesn't sound so strange anymore."
"Sasuke, do you have cancer or something?" Asked Naruto suspicious of Sasuke's behavior. Hinata bopped her on the head. "He's just being nice Naru!"
"Exactly! Since when is Ducky nice?"
"Excuse me, what did you just call me?!"
"...Nothing..."
Hinata shook her head, Naruto could be so childish sometimes. "Be glad she changed your name. You were originally called duck-butt."
"...She called me what...?!"
"And Sakura is called Pepto Bismol or Pink Banshee, whichever you prefer."
"Do you guys have names for everyone?"
"Yep!" Exclaimed Naruto happily.
"I doubt that is something to be proud of..." Whispered Sasuke.
"Hey! Hina-chan has made the most cruel nicknames you know."
Hinata feigned innocence. "What? I don't know what your talking about."
"...You called poor Shino insecticide. That's a cruel nickname..."
"No it's not. It's accurate."
"If you're done, let's just go." Kakashi said. He was not in the mood for this.
"Sir, yes sir!" Screamed Hinata and Naruto in a sing-song voice. And they followed Kakashi out of the door, all with a box in their hands.
Kakashi shook his head. 'Children...'
The group of four walked over street with all eyes on them. "Oh my god! Look it's Uchiha Sasuke and Hyuuga Hinata!" Whispered one girl to her friend. "Isn't that Hatake Kakashi?" Said another elderly man to his wife who nodded. "Who is that girl?" Asked a teenager to her mother while her mother gasped. "Oh my! That's the Uzumaki-Namikaze crest on her cape." The people who heard her, gasped. "Did the Yondaime have a child? But I heard his little girl died alongside him! The Hokage said so, unless..."
"He lied?!"
"No way!"
"Seems like you attract a lot of attention, Naru-chan." whispered Hinata in Naruto's ear but Naruto could care less right now. She was too damn nervous too care. She hadn't seen the Uzumaki-Namikaze compound. But with it's infamous reputation, she knew it's grounds would be big if not enormous. She could handle being alone in a small apartment, but she would be no doubt lonely in such a grand place.
But she had just the solution. "Kakashi, do you live alone?"
"Hm? Yeah, why do you ask?"
"After we dump the boxes in the compound we're going to your apartment and pack some stuff, your going to stay with me tonight." The look she gave him said 'refuse and you'll never get children.' He nodded furiously. Not wanting to lose his masculinity. "S-Sure Naruto."
Kurama who saw the man's fear understood his fear. 'Well done Hatake. You have spared your balls by agreeing to her wishes. A wise choice.' He shivered when he remembered the first time he saw the girl angry. Even the Shinigami would have ran away with his tail between his legs. Uzumaki women were scarier than the seventh pit of hell.
"Where's the compound by the way?"
"It's about – Holy shit!" Naruto quickly clasped her hand over her mouth. 'Bad Naruto bad. No cursing!'
"What? What's wrong Naru?"
"Hina-chan! The sacred grove IS my compound. Look!" She showed Hinata her instructions. "But the grove is ancient! There's no sign of ever being used the last two hundred years." Screamed Hinata.
"I can explain that." Said Hiruzen as he suddenly appeared in a little cloud of smoke.
"Oh my freaking – Jiji! You scared me the hell out of me!"
"Haha, sorry child. I thought you were used to it by now." Hiruzen found it amusing to scare the living daylights out of people and Naruto knew that. 'Oh, you sly little old...'
"Hokage-sama. What do you mean you can explain?" Asked hinata, actually interested in what the old man had to say this time. She usually found his stories and explanations boring.
"Before I talk any further I wanted to ask something. Why are you walking there when you can perfectly use shushin?"
Naruto face-palmed. 'How could I forget?'
The Hokage grinned. "Did you forget?"
"NO, of course not! We, uh. Just wanted to make a walk, that's all."
Hiruzen chuckled. Honestly, Naruto was too amusing sometimes. "Okay, okay. I believe you. As an apology, let me shushin you all to the Sacred grove. I like the name by the way. You've chose well. Naruto beamed at the compliment.
The Sacred Grove AKA Uzumaki-Namikaze compound :
*Poof*
Sasuke, who wasn't used to shushin fell on his ass when they arrived.
"What the hell was that?!"
"That, my dear Ducky. Was a shushin." Laughed Hinata. She remembered the first time she had been in a shushin and she found his reaction a pretty good one for the first time. She fainted her first time.
"A what?"
Naruto answered this one. "Rejoice my duck-butted friend, for I shall give you my wisdom. Shushin or also known as body flicker is used to transport yourself and other people to anther location in a very short amount of time. The range you can travel depends on how much chakra you use. And it can take a lot of chakra. It also requires a good amount of chakra control. So you have to practice a long time before you completely master it."
"Talking about having a big ego..."
"Huh, You say something. .MA?!"
"Uh, no nothing. Please don't kill me!"
Kurama ran to his cave inside Naruto's mind and started whimpering.
"Why do you keep insisting on calling me something with the word 'duck' in it? I don't even understand where you got the idea of calling me something with the word 'duck' in it."
The Hokage, Kakashi, Hinata and Naruto gave him. 'Are you serious?' look. "Oh, C'mon. You just need a diadem with a duck head on it and you have a complete duck on your head." Naruto rubbed his head for good measure.
"My hair does not look like a duck arse!"
"It totally does though."
The Hokage coughed in his hand. "Please young ones. Let's just continue with what we were doing, shall we.
"Jiji, I love you. But that stupid sagely speech just sounds dumb. You're already too wise and badass for it to sound good on you."
Hiruzen grumbled at Naruto's lack of respect for his 'amazing' way of speaking but continued walking until he came to a stop. "Uh, girls. I seem to have forgotten the layout of this place. Do you two perhaps know a way to a gate-like stone... Something..."
Hinata and Naruto face-palmed and turned the Hokage around. They they proceeded to point to the 'gate-like... Something' the Hokage was searching for.
"Uh, yes. I knew that. I was just testing you... Maybe..."
Sasuke wasn't even paying attention at what there was happening as he and Kakashi looked aound in what seemed like... There wasn't even a word for it. The place was beautiful. Not exactly livable but mesmerizing. The bountiful trees, the river that seemed to flow down from what seemed like stairs from long ago. It was an ancient fort. But now they thought about it. It really wasn't livable. How in god's name was this a compound?
"Naruto, come her and wipe some blood on this sign."
Naruto nodded and took a good look at the gate. There was something that looked like a bird which pointed it's beak to a whirlpool. The Hokage pointed to the eye of the bird which was yellow and had some kind of alchemy-like sign on top of it. She bit her finger hard enough to break through the skin and draw blood. She wiped some of the crimson liquid on the eye and the eye shined bright with a magenta hue.
The doors opened and the first one to say something was Sasuke, who was already out of character today.
"Oh my Rikudou on a breadstick."
Okay... Sasuke. Your being weird this chapter
Sasuke : So what, I'm in love. Gimme a break.
You do realize that this is mostly going to be a one sided thing right?
Sasuke : Yeah, but you said that there is a chance I will get a place in the harem as well.
...Do whatever you want. I don't care anymore.
