T.T crying aww! you guys are so freakin' awesome! So many good reviews and votes for my poll! I feel the love... and because of that here's an early chapter! I'm spoiling you all... :P ... longer A/N at the bottom...
warning: shonen ai, yaoi, shota
I do not own Naruto manga/series, but if I ever do believe me I'll make it at least shonen ai
betaed by MysteryLady-Tx and XxMysticMariexX
!!WARNING!! If you haven't read up until chapter 367 in the manga then there might be a minor ... or major spoiler... if this is a problem PM and I won't have a problem giving you an edited version of this chapter.
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"Are you ready?" Neji came out of the room very early sporting the white shirt that was spotted with a happy sun.
"Hmm?" Naruto turned on his side and wrapped the light sheet tighter around himself.
"Naruto, you said you'd take me to the Hokage today." Neji pushed Naruto's side until Naruto grinned although still half asleep.
"I'm up. Stop tickling." Naruto rubbed the sleep from his eyes, but took his time to sit up. "I hate mornings." Naruto stood, stretched and yawned then made his way to the bathroom. In less than ten minutes, Naruto was dressed and almost more than half awake.
Neji walked in front of him and reached the front door. They put their shoes on and walked outside. Naruto reached for Neji's hand and didn't say a word when Neji squeezed back.
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"Ohayo 1 Shizune." Naruto smiled politely at Shizune while discreetly pushing Neji down the hall towards Tsunade's office.
"Naruto, how can I help you? You don't have an appointment." Naruto gave one last firm push, while he took Shizune's hand.
"Actually I wanted to speak with you." Naruto's smile was a handsome half tug at his lips, which Shizune bought quite easily.
"Is that so?" Neji heard no more. He'd taken the hint quite clearly and was already halfway down the hall.
"Tsunade-sama 2 ." Neji looked at the ANBU guards at the door, but continued in anyways.
"Yes?" Tsunade kept her face on the scroll that was spread out on her desk and Neji deeply suspected she was sleeping instead of reading.
"Did you find anything new?" Neji walked up to her desk and noticed the ink was running on the scroll. The Hokage was indeed sleeping.
"Huh?" Tsunade lifted her face off of the scroll and noticed Neji was there. "Oh right, right!" She wiped the drool from her cheek, which smeared the ink on her skin. She coughed in her hand then reached for the scrolls that held her newfound information.
"Well, I have found the person who made it. The only thing I know is that it was a joke for a fellow ANBU." Tsunade brought out the once blank scroll and showed Neji a half filled paper.
"What is that?"
"Well, I'm going to assume that the lighter the bow gets the more of the jutsu that appears on the paper. I've seen it gain by inches. I still can't tell much about it since it's half done and it seems the important parts are near the end."
"So about the guy who made this. Where is he?"
"He's on a mission. He will be back in a couple of days." Tsunade rolled the scroll back up and placed it in her desk.
"Is there still nothing I can do?" Neji shifted on his new Nin boots that Naruto insisted on buying his second day with him.
"Continue to stay with Naruto and be civil if you can."
"It might be dangerous." Neji looked at her desk now and not at her eyes.
"Nonsense. You're still a 12-year-old. It is quite more dangerous on your own, after all I can't afford to have you molested, kidnapped or worse." Tsunade reached for a bag behind her desk. "Here I got you these." She tossed the bag to Neji. "Clothes."
"Oh, thank you." A small blush came to his face when he peeked into the bag.
"I see Naruto already got you some, but since I don't know exactly how long the jutsu will last I thought it wouldn't hurt."
"Of course."
"You seem a bit taller." Tsunade noticed the pants he was wearing were a bit short.
"Yes. I don't know why, but I've grown since the incident."
"Well, for now don't worry about those things. Just stay with Naruto. Get to know him and have some fun. Try to take this as a vacation."
"I'll try Tsunade-sama."
In a way, that was a clear dismissal. Tsunade inclined her head and waited for Neji to leave the office.
Tsunade waited a minute before she burst out laughing. In truth she had found out more than she'd let on. It wasn't a dangerous jutsu at all. In fact all he had to do was make the bow red. Eventually it would get to a point where it would materialize and by simply removing it, his chakra would be unsealed. Of course she hadn't yet found out how to make it turn different colors, but her mind had given her some ideas, after all it was Jiraiya's jutsu.
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Naruto was sitting at the exit with a black eye. Neji could have guessed quite easily what had happened.
"Naru-chan."
"Hey, how'd it go Tori? What did she say?"
"Not much. She told me to wait it out." Neji adjusted the heavy bag to his other arm.
"Oh what have you got there?" Naruto took the bag from Tori and started walking in the direction of home.
"Clothes. Tsunade-sama thought it would be useful." Neji continued walking towards Naruto's house without giving much thought to the clothes.
Once at home Naruto couldn't stop himself from asking. "Will you try some of that stuff on for me?" Naruto took a seat on the couch as if expecting his own private runway show.
"I suppose." Neji took off his shoes and reached for the bag Naruto was still holding. Neji headed into the bedroom and shut the door.
Naruto didn't know if Tori was actually going to try things on or if he was just taking a nap. No sooner had he wondered what was going on that Tori came out in clothes from Neji's time as a genin.
"It fits." Neji brushed the shorts down and adjusted the collar of his shirt before turning around for Naruto to admire.
"Looks like Neji's genin outfit. Very cute, but I don't like it. What else do you have in there?"
"Nothing I'm trying on. Tsunade-sama sure does have a sick sense of humor." Neji left to the other room and returned with the bag in hand. He dumped the contents on the floor. "Have a look."
Naruto picked up a tight blue bathing suit with green circles on the hips. It was stretchy. All the shirts seem to come above the belly button if Neji were to try them on and, in with the occasional small shorts and boyishly small pants, were random skirts.
"Try this on." Naruto lifted a small plaid skirt with a black ribbon bow on the hip.
"No." Neji answered flatly.
"How about this one?" Naruto lifted the bathing shorts again.
"No."
"What if we go swimming? What are you going to wear?" Naruto smirked.
"We aren't going swimming and if we do I'd rather go naked than wear that."
"Works for me." Naruto put the clothes back into the large white bag and returned it to Tori.
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"Ramen?" Neji reluctantly took a seat at the table.
"What do you have against ramen?" Naruto wasted no time in digging in.
"Nothing. I should teach you how to cook." Neji lifted the soft aromatic noodles to his mouth.
"Hmm, okay. We can go grocery shopping later in the week." Naruto spoke no more, but doubled his eating efforts.
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"Naruto." Naruto turned to look at Tori who was walking away.
Naruto stood and followed him into the room. "What is it?"
Neji looked at Naruto's blue eyes and pierced them with his own violet gems.
"Could you sleep in the bed tonight?"
Not a very good idea, but Naruto did miss his bed. "Sure." Naruto smiled and ruffled Neji's hair "I guess I could do that."
They were leaning close again while sitting on the bed. Just like last time Naruto pulled back and took a deep breath as he dropped himself onto his elbows.
Neji winced as he felt pinching on his neck. "Itai." He stood up and looked in the mirror. The bow was glowing and soon it stopped. The bow was bright like it had been that first day.
"What's wrong?" Naruto followed him into the bathroom.
"I don't know. It stopped fading. In fact I think it's back to the normal color." Neji rubbed his now painless neck.
"Does it hurt?" Naruto reached for Neji's neck and started rubbing it gently.
"Not anymore it just felt like a pinch."
"I've been meaning to ask what the seal was for." Naruto led Tori back to the room.
"It is a seal for--" Neji couldn't think fast enough for once.
"Is it like Neji's? I mean I know about the branch family and the seal. Neji had one on his forehead 3 ." Naruto couldn't stop his talking. "Is that what that is? I don't mean to be rude, but I am curious."
"Yes. That's what it is." Neji nervously rubbed at the bow. He didn't want to lie to Naruto. As hard to believe as it was he hadn't lied once to Naruto since he'd moved in (name and age aside).
Seeing the look that crossed Tori's face Naruto suddenly realized how it must feel to have others know about something so private. "I have one too you know."
He didn't know.
"Here look." Naruto removed his shirt and attempted to call up Kyubi's chakra. The ink spread like a black fire lit on his stomach as it took life against his golden skin.
"What is it for?" Neji couldn't stop his hand from reaching out.
"Stop that. It tickles." Naruto giggled and slapped Neji's hand away.
"It is a gift from my father or a curse, depending on which way you look at it."
Neji was silent as he pieced together the information he'd gathered throughout the years.
After minutes of silence Naruto spoke up, "Maybe we should get to bed now." Naruto led Neji to the large soft bed that was waiting for him.
"Sure." Neji removed his shirt and undid his pants before letting them drop and pool around his ankles. He slid under the blankets while Naruto was trying to suppress a nosebleed.
"I wasn't kidding earlier. Let's go swimming tomorrow." Naruto kissed Tori's forehead.
"I'm not wearing those shorts." Neji turned his back to Naruto and smiled secretly to himself.
Naruto laughed at his answer and made his way to the other side of his bed.
Tomorrow would be another day.
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1 There are two ways to greet people in the morning. Most of you know this already. You may say "ohayo gozaimasu" (OG) or simply "ohayo"(O). The reason I decided to use Japanese this time was because OG signifies respect or perhaps for somebody you don't know so well. I wanted to let you, the reader, know that Naruto is familiar with Shizune by using simply O. Perhaps you can think up your own story on this, but you will see their 'relationship' sometimes during this story.
2 I have used this a lot as well as other suffixes. Sama, chan, kun, and san are some suffixes that are used in the Japanese world. Sama is used after a superior's or customer's name, regardless of gender, also used when adressing letters. Chan is used for children male or female, in this story you see it used as a childish term of affection between Naruto and Neji. Kun is used after a boy's given name also can be used after a subordinate's family name once again this is regardless of gender. San is used with anyone if other titles are unavailable. There are many titles that can be used ex. bucho, gakucho, kocho, sensei, shacho, tencho, but we won't go into those here. (most information given here is from Eriko Sato, PhD, Japanese instructor and translator)
3 I you want to ask about the seal and why Neji's regular green seal isn't present you will have to wait for the answer in later chapters. If you MUST know or else you'll die or worse, stop reading :P , PM me and I'll let you know.