…Am I good enough Now?...
/Warning/: This chapter contain, WHO KNOWS WHAT? and some other things, The DRAMA will unfold (even if it's slow build though.). All reviews are appreciated.
This is the first part of my series. NEGLECTED CHILD SERIES. So I hope that you enjoy.
The pairing is:
Seme Naruto X Itachi/Shisui /Sasuke/Gaara/Neji.
"Demon talking".
"Demon thinking"
"character talking".
"character thinking".
Chapter 9.
It have been a month after the C turn to A rang mission had finished. In the past month a lot of things had changed. Kushina was to wary of him always watching him for the next move! (Naruto just snort and start making out with Shisui not even paying her any attention.) Kakashi start training Sasuke with the Chidori though not without complaining. (Kakashi took a liking to Naruto and wanted to teach him the Chidori, Naruto had kicked his ass making him teach Sasuke that Jutsu. after all he know an even more powerful ones!) Sakura had finally stopped being that useless and annoying fan girl and start training to be a good Ninja! she enrolled in the hospital to be a Medical-Nin because of her good chakra control. (Naruto had praised her at that making her blush, Naruto had his suspicious about that blush but he hoped that he was wrong.) And lastly Mito. Who had take it upon herself to drive him away so she could be them 'ALPHA', only for her to look like an idiot in the end! (Naruto always enjoy Sasuke's laughs at her fait attempts.)
But what really stoned Naruto making him nearly laugh at the sad attempts or kill because of the boring shit, was Menma! After all that crazy bastard took it upon himself to flirt with Naruto and ask him out on any chance the meet in, Naruto was really hoping that Menma would chock on one of his stupid back-up lines that were to much boring to be talking about only with examples to follow with.
Example no.1.
It was a week after the wave mission, and it seems like Naruto had became the most famous gossipy for the Ninja's and what not in the village. after all he was the one who saved the wave country by himself!, Naruto always turn a blind eye to it after all, NO!, he isn't interested in a lover that wasn't his by choice! damn people don't even know the meaning of the 'NO' word.
Anyway, today he and the Uchiha's decided to go and have a picnic in the park, it was good, the weather was nice and no noisy fan girls or something, HELL! Even Tsunade had joined them introducing Jiraiya to them, who seem to take a liking to Naruto so they start chatting like they were an old friends.
That was until the saw the Namikaze's minus Arashi having their own picnic, well that was Ok really they don't care about that, that was until the Namikaze's decided to come and sit with them and chat like nothing was wrong, AGAIN!
Naruto just sigh and shake his head at that making the Uchiha's stop their attack before it happen, he return to his talk with Itachi and Shisui with Sasuke sitting in his lap listening happily to the three.
"Hi there beautiful!." Menma said to Naruto making the Uchiha's choke on their food and Naruto look at Menma with a shock face.
"Did it hurt when you feel from haven?." He ask with a smirk looking at Naruto, hoping the latter would look at him.
Naruto just scowl at that, did that crazy shit just used the most cheesy back-up line on him right NOW?! Naruto was able to see the glare that the Uchiha's were throwing at that crazy Namikaze.
Naruto just sighed and look at Menma in the eye. "No." he said in a bored voice and an eye roll. "But it hurt like a bitch crawling out of HELL!." He said turning to the smirking Uchiha's and continued talking.
Menma never bother his again the whole picnic.
Example no.2.
The next time it happened. Naruto was out with Shisui on their second date before Shisui and his team leave for a mission. The two of them were having a lovely time, with Naruto whispering things into Shisui ear making the latter blush hard at them. They were sitting in the ramen stand because Shisui had confines him to eat the best ramen in all of Konoha! He still have his suspicious on the 'best' part, but the owner and his daughter were nice so he wasn't complaining.
That was until Menma had saw them and decided to come with his (AGAIN!.) cheesy shit. "Your lips look lonely, would they like to meet mine?." He smirked like he would win this time.
Naruto didn't know if he should laugh at that pathetic display or leave. So decided for the third option 'humiliation' "No. I`m used to being alone. I`m always alone because all my friends are dead." He said with a cheerfully tone not caring about the people who look at them in a strange way.
"…" Menma just look like a fish out of water at that reply, HELL! What was he supposed to say?
Shisui just wince at that then shake his head. "Not even I`m smooth enough to come back from that." he mutter with a shake of his head almost pitting the bastard.
Naruto just turn to talk to Shisui ignoring Menma.
Example no.3.
The third time happened when he was with Mikoto buying grocery, the two of them had decided to make the dinner for the sake of the old times. They were both happy and talking about a new food raspy that Naruto has brought with him, they were talking about Mikoto's bakery and Naruto promised to help her with it.
That was until Menma stepped in front of Naruto with his annoyed smirk, but after a while he just huffed and look at Naruto. "Come on Naruto!." He whine like a five years old child and not some 16 years old teen.
Naruto just rolled his eyes at that. "No." he said as he tried to sidestep the crazy kid, only for Menma to stop him.
C`mon Menma, think, think, what would Mom say. he then look at Naruto and smirk again. "But I`m like chocolate pudding!." He said, after all he had heard his mother say that to his father, and it had worked!.
Naruto just grunt, did he actually use that trick? Naruto look at the kid with a glare and growled "Yeah, you look like shit and act like it." He huffed at that. Mikoto on the other hand was trying to hide her laugh at that, it seems like Naruto's hands are full with those Namikaze's.
Menma smiled at that and answer before Naruto words make a sense to him. "Yeah! I mean, no! I`m actually really sweet!." He said with a horror look cross his face looking at Naruto.
"I hate chocolate pudding." Naruto said with a scowl as he sidestep Menma again going in his way with Mikoto.
End of examples.
You really don't need to hear the rest, REALLY! after all every time Naruto and Menma cross a road it would be like this.
But that doesn't matter, what matter is the Chunin exam in three weeks from now. Naruto was really hopeful about it, to be able to let some steam loss.
Today he have an appointment with Tsunade about his health. He have those meeting with her every month since he become a Ninja. He just hope that she won't be drunk this time when he arrive.
N.C.S.
Naruto reached Tsunade's office in the hospital, before he was able to touch the door it opened, Naruto looked down and he saw someone who he didn't see until now. Arashi. Naruto wince at Arashi's look, with the wrinkly clothes and the black bags under his eyes and the dishevel hair. He wondered what had happen to Arashi when he was away.
Arashi looked up to see a raven haired man standing in front of him, he give him a soft "sorry." and moved aside to sit outside of the office in one of the waiting chairs.
Naruto saw Tsunade walking out as she looked at him. "I didn't think you would come this early, brat." She said in a tired voice as she looked at Arashi in concern. Arashi just sit there looking at the wall in deep thoughts.
Naruto saw Tsunade sigh as she usher him to her office, Naruto give Arashi one last look before he follow Tsunade. "What is his problem?." He asked Tsunade, as much as Naruto wanted to forget the past, Arashi was still a part in his future. (after all he was the one who had taught him how to read and write and what not.)
Tsunade just sigh at that and looked at Naruto. "Poor boy! He had been looking for his missing brother for six years now!." At that Naruto looked at her sharply. "And on top of that he had been trying to make his parents to sign a disowning papers for three years, in hope of him being able to leave Konoha and search for his brother." Tsunade rant not realizing that Naruto was looking at her with a shock. "Even when he found a scroll says that his little brother is dead, the boy still search for him." she growled then. "I didn't believe that Minato and Kushina would do that to their half-blooded son! But now, NOW I want to KILL THRM BOTH!."
Naruto hummed as he looked at the closed door. It seems like I wasn't alone as I thought. He smiled behind his scarf, it seems like his older brother is the one who need to be saved.
"We are done." Tsunade told him as she finish checking his chakra she then sit on the chair in her office and look at him. "So.. you will enter the Chunin exam, right?." At that Naruto nod his head making Tsunade hum. "Take care of yourself Naruto."
Naruto smile at that. "I will." He says standing up ready to leave, Tsunade waved him off with a nod and a sigh.
Naruto left the office only to see that Arashi was still in his seat, this time with his head in his hands. Naruto sniff the air (Thanks to his jaguar sense.) he smell a salt in the air and look at Arashi, it seems like Arashi is indeed crying.
Naruto looked at his brother then sigh softly, he then sit beside him on the chair and look at the ceiling. "You know it's no use crying about the past." He said in a bored tone looking at Arashi.
"I am not crying." Arashi muttered softly wiping his tears away. He then straight up and look at the man who talked to him, it was the same man he nearly bumped into, Arashi sigh at that as he took the man appearance, it seems like the man love black and was wearing his scarf like a mask.
"Arashi." He said in a tired voice, offering his hand in a handshake, after all he did promise himself to stop being an arrogant after losing his brother.
"Naruto." He said shaking Arashi hand. Arashi frozen at the name looking at 'Naruto' he did have the same eyes as his brother, could he? Arashi shake his head at that. his brother supposed to be a 12 years old, not some 20s old man! Beside his brother was a half-blood not a Ninja.
Arashi just nodded at that and sigh, Naruto frown at his brother face, he wondered if he was eating or sleeping enough. Looking at him now he would say no, he sigh at that and stand up dragging Arashi with him.
"OI WERE AER YOU TAKING ME?!." Arashi questioned as he tried to pull his hand away from the man, but it seems like the man was made of iron as he didn't even let go.
"I am taking you to eat something then you are going to rest, you look like the dead." Naruto huffed at that even now his brother was a pain in the ass.
"I don't need that I can take care of myself." He hissed at Naruto but stopped his useless attempts at escaping, and follow the man from behind.
Naruto snort at that and look behind him at Arashi who look like a stick. "Yeah, right. When was the last time you looked at the mirror?... OH wait don't answer that it was NEVER!." He dragged Arashi to the nearest restaurant.
Arashi did nothing to deny that but he did growl at Naruto all the way to the restaurant.
N.C.S.
"Thank you." Arashi said they have finish eating, to be honest Arashi didn't remember the last time h had eat anything other than soldier's bill, he was really tired but he shrug it off, after all he was used to that shit. Arashi wondered sometimes if that is what his brother had felt every time they neglected him, he push that thought aside for another time and focused on the man in front of him.
Naruto just hummed at that and frown, what did happen to Arashi in the years he wasn't there to see him. "Ok let's get to know each other." He said looking at Arashi.
"And how do you suggest doing that." he asked taking a sip of his tea, that Naruto was kind enough to buy for them.
"Oh you know, names, ages, likes, dislike, and dreams." Naruto told him looking at Arashi waiting for him to say something.
"And here I thought I had passed my Genin times." Arashi grumbled making Naruto smirk at that, it seems like his brother did get some of his fire back.
"I would start first seeing as it was me who asked." Naruto says lowering his tea. "Uchiha Naruto. Age 18, I like my family and training, dislike those who treated half-bloods in the wrong way, my dream is to have a peaceful life." He finished.
Arashi nods his head at that. "Namikaze-Uzumaki Arashi, age 19, like training and reading, like you I hate those who treated half-blood wrongly, my dream….. is to find my little brother." He said looking down at his lap.
Naruto looked at Arashi and sigh, it seems like he really did cross some line somewhere.
"It's funny somehow." Arashi whispered making Naruto look at him. "You have his name and eyes, that for a second I thought you were him, but you aren't him." Naruto gaped at that, SHIT, Arashi nearly caught him red handed. " You must hate me though after all I did treat him wrongly, and didn't realize it until it was too late." He says as he wiped a stray tear looking at Naruto.
Naruto gazed at his brother with a strange emotions in his chest, for the first time Naruto really didn't know what to do. "So he is dead." Naruto said. "Fugaku told me that, so it wasn't new to me." He didn't know where he wanted to go with that or maybe it was just to make sure.
"HE. ISN'T. DEAD." Arashi hissed at Naruto glaring at him harder, Naruto looked at his brother and raise an eyebrow at that.
"And how do you know that he isn't six feet under, hum? You know what they say about assuming." Naruto yawn and drank some of his warn tea.
"You don't know him!." Arashi growled. "Naruto wouldn't die until he prove to everyone that he would be a strong Ninja! Even with him being a half-blood." Arashi was trying to control his voice after all they were still in public.
"And how do you know that?" Naruto challenged until the realization cross his face and smirked happily. "You were watching him weren't you." He stated and Arashi look down at that. "Why didn't you tell him?." Naruto honestly wanted to know why, after all he was the one who was neglected.
Arashi sighed. "I have too." He said making Naruto look at him and frown. "He was already hated by Mito and Menma for the little attention he get! Do you know what would happen to him if I give him any kind of attention?." Arashi looked t Naruto blank face hoping for an answer. "He would have been dead! That's why I took every mission I could get so I would be able to buy an apartment for the two of us." Naruto was shock at that it seems like Arashi absent for most of the time was for a reason. "Who would have known that they have waited for me to leave to kick him out of the house." Arashi give a humorless laugh at that then sniff softly looking at his cold tea. "I am sorry." He said. "I start ranting again, I didn't mean it, I just…. I just missed him so much!."
Naruto looked at the crying child in front of him, that is what his brother look for him now, just a child who had lost what he believed in for a long time. Naruto sigh at that and took some soft tissue and wiped Arashi's tears. "I told you not to cry." Naruto said as he look at Arashi pathetic look. "Who knows maybe you will find him someday. But it won't happen if you cry every time he was mention!." Naruto huffed at Arashi.
Arashi looked at Naruto then he smiled softly. "Thank you." And he mean it! It was the first time that someone had told him that, and somehow he feel peacefully on the inside after years of guilty.
Naruto hummed at that. "That is what friends are for, right." Naruto said with a soft smile, it seems like he really wasn't alone after all.
Arashi just grin at that and nodded his head.
So what do you think?
Poor Arashi! He was innocent all along!
Man! The drama is killing me!
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Nazaki-Sama.
