Hello once again. Peace to you. Hope you guys have been doing well:-)

Seems like I took a long time to update, neh? I just have one excuse for that.

My flames of youth just did not burn that much brightly to give myself or rather my willpower an extra boost to update the fic:-):-):-)

One more thing fellow new/beginner writers. Don't be in a haste to finish writing your fic at the end of the finishing scene. Take a deep breath and calm yourself AND... Update your fic the next day. Trust me, a good night of sleep will definitely help you adding more spices and sugars in your fic. Speaking from personal experience as I intended to release this chapter yesterday at this time.

Hope you guys are satisfied with my totally believable and a 100% accurate and reasonable excuse which you may or may not use in your real life too! Let's get started then.

Disclaimer: I certainly don't own Naruto. If I did then muhahaha, I would've just sold it to Kishimato-San and take the money from him, What else? Did you seriously think I have the time to draw a manga where the mc's main power is talk-no-jutsu?

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Previously on 'ITILTSBD'(If there is Light, There Shall be Darkness')

Before losing consciousness for the second time on the day, the girl weakly answered...

"Touka. Kirishima Touka."

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Patience. One of the the key factors in life. Although being patient is amazingly hard and boring, one can never deny its necessity and importance. And the last bit of any kind of patience Namikaze Naruto ever had was on the verge of breaking to pieces.

The girl they rescued on the way to the capital of Hi no kuni still did not regain consciousness. And so, they had no other options but to go see a medic as soon as possible into the city. While the other three ninjas had no problem with that, Naruto definitely had a massive problem with that.

The whole point of this trip was to have an appointment with Shihon's most recognized and skilled person in the medical field, Dr. Tenma. While obviously not close at the level of Densetsu no Tsunade, Tenma had enough qualification to supervise and give treatment to both the civilians and ninjas. In the capital, he was the most well-known and effective doctor undoubtedly.

The problem now was that this 'Kirishima Touka' girl was severely injured and might be on the verge of death. So the blonde Namikaze had little options but to take the girl to Dr. Tenma where she could be treated appropriately. Naruto definitely couldn't go to the renowned doctor without a disguise cause even if he was going to murder the person after his treatment, he would definitely not let anybody know that for whatever reasons, he once had to go to another doctor beside a Konoha medic because of a serious illness. In the ninja world an itsy-bitsy amount of mistake or carelessness could get you killed so you have to be prepared for all definite probabilities.

Even if it meant the death of the most skilled doctor of shihon to maintain his secret, Namikaze Naruto was not a man who'd give a fuck about that as long as his desired were fulfilled. He just simply was not a person who'd give a shit even if his selfishness meant innocent people of the town not getting the opportunity to seek the treatment of one of the most valuable assets in the capital anymore in their sickness, injuries and other emergencies.

Ryuuji Pisshead, the only chunin of Naruto's group spoke up,"Namikaze-sama, before checking in to our reserved hotel, which doctor do you want to take this girl to?"

Naruto let loose a deep sigh. "Where else? Take her to Dr. Tenma. I don't think she has any chance of survival unless he treats her. Ryuuji and Satoshi take her there. I'll go to the hotel. I need some rest first. I'll see you guys in two hours in the doctor's chamber. Ryotoki will accompany me to our hotel."

"Hai!"

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It took less than 15 minutes to find the hotel and setting things up. It was one of the most finest hotels of shihon so any details about it is unnecessary. Naruto and his gang already booked 2 rooms for them before the start of the journey. Suffice to say one was for only the blonde himself while the rest shared the other room.

After taking a bath and dressing up, Naruto wasted not a single second in lying down in the comfy bed. He had a big event shortly so he was going to need all the rest he could get. After all, how often do you have to kill the person who took care of you and hide his body with delicacy, right?

From that day in councillor Miaw Miaw Tiaw's house, Naruto discovered that although any kind of food started to taste like complete shit, drinking coffee brought him great pleasure and satisfaction. He couldn't get a fulfilled stomach with just coffee and it made his body a bit dry but it was still a zillion times better than when he had to starve even though food was presented in front of him. So he always had to bring coffee with him in a sealing scroll nowadays.

Resting his head on the soft pillow he couldn't help but think what a magnificently terrible mess he was about to make. Assassinating Dr. Tenma was one thing but to completely cover his tracks and acting unaware of it would certainly not be an easy task. The damn hokage already tried to make his life hell like shit. So when words will get out that not only after a day of his journey back to Konoha, one of the most renowned doctor in Hi no kuni has gone missing, Sarutobi would definitely think something was fishy and connect it to him at one point. Maybe after a week or a month but the third hokage is gonna definitely call him for another one of those 'friendly tea parties.'

'Calm down man' he thought to himself. 'I'll cross that bridge when it comes to it. For now, my health is the first priority. If that fucking son of a bitch can't cure me, I am so dead.'

Sighing deeply Namikaze Naruto started to formulate the best plan on how to get an appointment with the doctor without alerting his guards and slowly drifted off to sleep. Not before cursing the unexpected and unwanted variable of his group 'Ms. Kirishima Touka' a few times for being an annoyance for making his schedule more complicated of course.

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Two days went by very quickly. Naruto was given only a week for his vacation. So in order to execute his plan and return to Konoha, he only had five days to spare. Quite a long time if you think about it carefully but at the same time, not that long...

Using the Namikaze name it wasn't too difficult to get a special room for the female patient even when almost all the general wards along with the privates were already full. Yeah Baby! Pulling rank on someone is too cool!

Currently Naruto was standing beside the bed of his group's unwanted tag along. Just a few hours ago he received word that the girl regained her consciousness and seemed not that bad as it looked. Quite a quality job by Dr. Tenma he thought. He planned on kicking the girl out of his sight as soon as possible. So he came here personally to judge whether or not would that be really appropriate right at this moment. The two of them were currently alone in the room with Naruto's guards right outside the room. The girl lying on the bed strained quite a bit to look at her supposed rescuer.

"Good morning." Naruto started with a fake smile. "Let me ask the obvious question. How are you doing now Kirishima-San?"

" ... " The girl seemed quite quite down which ticked Naruto off.

"Too tired to talk? It's okay. I can come back another time. Maybe afterno-"

"N-No!" Touka shrieked which sounded full of terror. "U-Um it's alright. Don't worry about it."

"If you say so." Naruto shrugged. This is gonna be the annoying conversion of the week he thought and mentally cursed himself once again for this trouble.

Little did he know that the following conversation with this seemingly average looking girl was going to rock his entire world in a whole different level.

Touka started talking, looking a bit appreciative, "I guess I must give you my thanks and gratitude for saving my life uh- Namikaze-san, was it?"

"Just Naruto will do too. May I call you Touka-San then? And no need to thank me. Anyone would've lend you a hand considering your state at that time."

Was that grief in her eyes for a moment? Naruto couldn't tell clearly as the girl quickly smiled and said,"Yes. You can call me Touka."

Naruto decided he should now get to the point seeing enough time was already wasted. With a little bit of concerning tone he asked, "What happened back there? You were in a terrible condition. If we hadn't find you at that time I frankly don't think you would've survived. Was it a bandit? Or a raid? Were you travelling in a group perhaps?"

Touka finally cracked and covered her face with her hands to hide her tears and started sobbing. Naruto stood there silently and gave her a moment. He now knew she definitely lost someone close to her possibly her family and decided to give her time to cry all the pain out.

A few moments later Touka got a hold on herself. Regaining her stability she meekly said, "Naruto-san, I don't want to talk about it. If it isn't any problem will yo-"

Naruto cut her off. "It's alright. My condolence for your loss. I sincerely apologize for bringing up something painful." With that he bowed his head just a bit.

Touka's eyes widened,"O-Oh no no no, please. There's no need for that. I owe you my life. I guess I'm just a umm-"

Naruto smiled, "Okay let's drop it." In return which the girl nodded back.

Suddenly her tummy growled and her face started to heat up in embarrassment. Naruto chuckled at this and offered,"What should I bring you to eat? You haven't had any real foods for quite some time after all. It's only natural you're hungry. The doctor said that you may eat something light as long as it's nutritious. So, will some sandwiches do? Along with a nice cup of tea?"

Touka replied a bit uncomfortably, "W-well, if it isn't too much trouble can I disturb you for some coffee?"

"Coffee?" Naruto looked puzzled. Uh... Should he really feed her some? Didn't they say, in a dehydrated and weak body coffee can make it more dry or some other crap like that?

"Umm... If you really want it that badly then I guess lucky for you I currently have some in my possession right now." Naruto said a bit hesitantly still thinking over whether or not he should let her drink it without a professional's opinion. He could just go walk for two minutes and ask the doctor himself but it'll be such a drag. Unsealing the coffee from the seal and after the respective process he poured it on a glass and offered it to her which the black haired girl took too excitedly and almost drank it on the first sip. He had the finest quality coffee in Konoha after all. It was so creamy that one's mouth would melt just from the fragrance of it.

"Easy now. No need to burn your lips or tongue, is there? Although from the looks of it, you seem like a veteran coffee addict to me. Since you drank it black this time without giving me the chance of adding milk or sugar, would you like some now?" Naruto joked while pouring some of that liquid for him. He felt quite relaxed now. The girl in front him won't likely be much trouble after all. He was sure by now that this Touka will want to leave this place and go on her happy merry way as soon as she could. She didn't seem to be a person who likes to stay with some stranger's team from the looks of it. Her attitude, gestures and body language did nothing but prove that for sure.

Touka chuckled, "Eh hee hee. I just love coffee too much. Well, some milk please then." She simply stated.

"That's good cause for the last few days I'm having nothing but coffee for my breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner." Naruto said without thinking much while adding milk to the next serving.

"Umm... You are a ninja, right? That sealing thing you did with the coffee is something that uh... Ninjas do, yes? Aren't you guys supposed to at least be umm...wealthy enough to have something else but coffee for food?" Touka looked confused.

Naruto blinked. Okay, that sounded pretty stupid and he probably brought it upon himself. He didn't want to give away too much details but replied back nonetheless with a shrug,"You seem to have misunderstood me Touka-San. First of all, yeah we can at least eat a good amount of food everyday. I'm just finding coffee too much delicious and enjoyable than any other kind of foods for some day-"

Suddenly Naruto found out Touka to be looking at him intently with a seriousness that wasn't present before and even after being a professional shinobi, he was dumbfounded and noted that he did not feel relaxed anymore from this what was supposed to be an unremarkable girl's glare. Soon the room's atmosphere tensed. Silence came to being.

"Naruto-San, by any chance have you eaten absolutely nothing but caffeine for whenever you started drinking it regularly? And If yes then may I ask whether or not any kind of edible stuffs started to taste like dirt to you?" Touka stopped for a moment and gulped, "One last thing, while entering an extreme state of hunger did you gain a painful headache? Causing you to become driven by your instinct only and as a result, w-well umm something like eatin-"

Namikaze Naruto, son of the yondaime hokage of Konoha, Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina suddenly felt a chilling sensation run down his back. He did not notice when a large amount of sweat gathered on his forehead. He did not notice when his eyes widened in raw shock. He did not notice when his mouth literally opened wide enough to show his tongue. And... He just simply did not notice when in the world he had already taken out a kunai out of his pouch and brought it close to a certain black haired Kirishima Touka's throat.

Touka didn't look like giving a flying fuck on the blonde's sudden aggressive action. She gave a sigh, closed her eyes for a second and opened them.

"How?" Naruto demanded, his voice was slightly quivering and rage starting to leak out. "How did you know so much? Speak up!"

This time Kirishima Touka closed her eyes once again but when she did open them and looked at Naruto, they were not the same as before.

Her iris turned red and the sclera black with red veins across the eye and into the skin around the eyes. Needless to say the eyes no longer represented a human being. But even then it had a strange beauty and emitted such a mysterious aura that could not be described with mere words.

"Because Namikaze Naruto-San," Touka dropped the bomb on the young shinobi, "Seems like you are just like me, a Ghoul!"

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What do you think? Btw from reading the previous chapters of this story along with this one, do you think my writing to be at least on the level of a rookie writer is supposed to be? Or do I suck even more than that?

My exam is starting in the next week. On January 12th it's gonna end. I don't think I'll be able to update the fic within this time. So please pray for my success(There's a total of three subjects which concludes math solely, so I'm freaking the hell out as I used to have a reputation of failing a lot in science and math once upon a time. Ah! Good ol' days;-)

Seriously, please pray for me. Peace to you and your beloved ones. Leave a review if possible. Till next time then.

Mr. Hide aka Hasuinna