The Review Box
Useful76: That's a nice way of putting it. "He has the potential to be human, but tries his hardest not to be." He's gonna defect, but since he's not as much as an asshole in the story, this will change a some major things. Although I'm not at liberty to say since I'd have to kill you.
ScholarCOTA: I bet the closet your inside doesn't have a light cause you seem like you can't find the way out. Lol just kidding. As for that part in the chappie I was planning it before you even said anything.As for Shipuuden I'm pissed. For hour long episodes they make you wait 2 weeks... If you wait 2 weeks for an hour long episode then why not just a normal episode in one week. It's annoying. Also to keep the manga ahead of the anime they delay the episodes sometimes or do crappy fillers. (Sigh...) So I decided to read the manga... My god it is so far ahead it's not even funny. As for you girlfriend... Don't forget that anniversary gift 3 months from now... They go all psychotic if you forget. As for XBL I'm so busy I hardly get to play now. It's to the point where I end up neglecting this story and my Xbox 360. Life is so hard.
BackYard Oh yeah most likely that is how this story is gonna end, but we have a long road ahead of us if I actually finish this. The NaruSaku has been pushed back for the fact that I have altered the story a little.
jere7728: That was the end of the chapter. I'll have Naruto think of what happened the rest of the night a little bit, but that was the main part for his birthday. I love the plushy too!
CrazyKidDeath: Well I'm just making sure the 'slow' folks got the drift.
Shouri no Hana: Ah yes the infamous Pink Kyuubi no Kitsune Plushy has made it's appearance. As for the teams... Uhh hello!!! You actually try, I just told you to make one up with your own mind. (Yay! I'm lazier. Lol. That's not even a good thing.) As for your English class that sounds nice compared to what we do. We read a book (That isn't so bad.) BUT after we had to watch a movie where all the actors sucked and had EXTREMELY ANNOYING British accents. I was banging my head against the desk as the boys in the movie were talking about a fucking shell on the beach.
Raptor2001: Although that's not to much of a bad idea. I don't want that to happen because Sasuke's gonna defect. I don't want Naruto staying in someone else's house while they are gone, and even then I'd be compelled to have the citizens attack Sasuke's house too. Plus I have some ideas for Naruto's house.
Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain: Yes the operation to remove a 'couple' of logs out of Sasuke's ass has started. Although he is still gonna defect and he'll still pretty much be a prick. As for pocky I thought of how pocky was Itachi's favorite so that scene just popped into my head. Lol, you forget this IS the wave arc I just needed Naruto to pass and to get the Mizuki thing outta the way. As for the bell I didn't want to do that because I couldn't think of anything to change and I didn't want it to be the exact same thing as the manga so I decided to skip it, but in the Wave I will be doing full fight scenes.
Gnosis Master: Thanks for the compliment!
MiseryluvsDeath aka Fidele: I know it's cool. It wouldn't be cool if I wasn't so cool. God... I'm so cool.
Rocker71592: It wasn't that depressing. Plus Naruto got his first B-day present, a hug from Sakura, some ramen, and some friendly emotions from Sasuke.
tennisdesi91: I always thought that fighting scenes weren't my cup of tea, but I guess I was wrong.
Lovely Author's Notes
Wow... Chapter 10! Well thanks for the support everyone. This chapter contains some Halloween-ness, and the mission set-up for wave. I didn't actually intend to add the Halloween, but I did it for a friend. Next Chap - Arc 2: Chapter 4: The Trip to Wave.
Love, Hate, and a Pink Kitsune
Arc 2: Chapter 3: Halloween and Wave
It was a fine day in Konoha and everything was normal except for the decorations of horror all around town. Yes, (In this fanfic) Konoha celebrated a little festival known as Halloween. To Naruto this was his favorite Halloween. He had developed a strong liking toward the festival due to the fact that you can dress up and be someone else. Henceforth, he would be getting no beatings during this festival. He always wore costumes that would hide his blond hair and whiskers. Then it was all a smooth ride from here. Walk up to the door, say the infamous line of the festival which was 'trick or treat', and then get some candy in your bag. Not only that, but at the center of the town there was a big festival with all kinds of shows, shops, and creepy stuff!
"What do you mean it costs ¥3660?! I could get this for half the price!" Naruto yelled. (Currently Yen goes for 122 per US dollar. So that's like 30 bucks.)
"Sorry kid you don't like it go somewhere else." The store clerk replied impatiently looking at the 'brown' haired child in front of him. Naruto tapped his foot furiously. This was totally a rip off and he was even disguised right now!
'Pft! Imagine if I had not henged they would have charged me 4 times as much... I've got it!' Naruto said his goodbyes to the clerk and walked into the alley next to the shop. He whispered the words "Orioke no Jutsu" silently and then walked back into the store. In Naruto's transformation he kept all his clothes on, but kept them very tight to reveal 'certain' curves of the body.
The clerks eyes widened as he saw the 'girl' enter the store. She walked up to the counter and looked upon the many items and clothings. The clerk regained his senses and let out a lecherous laugh before walking towards the girl.
"Is there anything I can help you with young lady?" He asked.
"Hmm... I want that. How much is it?" Naruto asked.
The clerk turned his eyes to the costume that the brown haired kid had been bugging him about a few minutes ago. "Ahh yes... It's quite popular today. The price is ¥3660."
The girl shoved her hands into her pockets and pulled out some money. Her eyes counted how much. "Oh damn, I only have ¥1830. Now what will I do?" She pouted with one of her fingers twirling through her hair with her head tilted to the side.
"Oh, I'm sure I could give half price off to a pretty young lady such as yourself."
"Really?"
"Sure. Let me get it in a bag and you can be on your way."
Naruto gave the man the money and took the costume. 'Too easy' Naruto thought.
Sakura paced back and forth through the isles of the shop.She sighed in frustration. 'I can't find a freaking costume! Ugh... Not only that Ino-pig will probably wear some skimpy outfit and brag about how good she looks.' Sakura sighed once again, but then she noticed something out of the corner of her eye. The pink haired girl walked over to that certain part of the isle and then squealed.
Not only was the costume cute and cuddly, but it was also daring and some might say... sexy? Then again this is only a 12 year old girl (So back off you fucking pedophiles.) She quickly grabbed it, ran up to the counter, payed for it, and ran back to her house.
A certain Uchiha looked down to the table that was in front of him. There was a strange and mysterious bag that seemed to call out to him. It was just some white plastic bag with some words you couldn't make out since it was wrinkled. He gave a cold stare to the bag as if trying to make it fear him.
Finally the Uchiha gave in. He got up and walked towards his bathroom. Along the way he muttered the words 'I can't believe I'm actually doing this.' Of course we all know that the Uchiha would never go outside his residence except for maybe a training session, or some missions with Kakashi. Though that's all wrong. Over time the Uchiha had been feeling some strong connections with his friends. He felt the urge to go out and just hang out with them. Though he would never admit that in public.
It seemed like his barrier to the outside wall was finally coming down yet the hateful vengeance was still there. He went to extreme measures to remind himself what his motivation was, and that was to kill Itachi. He forced himself not to forget. Though this part of his life was for another day. Today he was going with his friends to the Halloween Festival.
Sasuke walked out of his restroom dressed in the black ANBU uniform, complete with mask and sword sheathe. Though there were some tall tale signs that he wasn't actually apart of the ANBU. He couldn't actually believe he was actually doing this, but he had to admit to himself that he did look good in uniform.
Naruto had made another quick stop by another store to buy some paint. The paint was specially picked out to match his skin. Currently Naruto was in his room applying the paint to his whiskers. Every time the cold paint was applied to the whiskers, it sent shivers down his spine. The blond haired boy applied the paint on the last whisker.
"Ta-da! I am no longer Uzumaki Naruto, but the one and only Fourth Hokage!" He grinned as he checked himself out in the mirror. He had the ninja vest on, but over that was a white coat. The white coat reached to the bottom of his feet, it had flames rise up from the bottom, and had fire in kanji on the back. Naruto thought he looked like he was about to kick some ass and take some names.
Naruto had no idea why he dressed up as the Fourth. Personally Naruto wasn't to fond of the fact that he was chosen as the Kyuubi Container, but under the circumstances he understood. So, he only disliked him a little. When he saw the costume his thoughts were 'Hmm... Why the hell not? I've got the blond spiky hair to go with it.' Now here he stood! The Fourth Hokage has returned in the form of one boy who's name was Uzumaki Naruto.
Naruto's stomach grumbled so he decided to head out and get some food.
For some odd reason, Naruto would recieve some strange stares as he walked down the road to Ichiraku's. The looks were as if they saw something unbelieving or some of them looked like they were scared. Although almost as soon as someone would give him a look, they would snap out of their stupor and continue their tasks.
Naruto shrugged the stares off and continued to his favorite ramen stand. Soon enough the blond haired boy was in front of the stand. He lifted up the flaps that guarded the inside from sight and walked in.
"Hey old man! Get me a bowl of miso would yah?" He called out to the ramen chef who was currently looking into the pot of ramen in the back.
"Sure Naru... Yondaime?!" Teuchi yelled as he looked up from the pot.
"Wow, do I really look like him?" Naruto questioned.
"Yeah you do... Here. Enjoy, it's on the house." Teuchi replied with his eyes wide open. He handed Naruto the bowl of ramen.
"Hey thanks old man!" Naruto started eating, but...
"Tch, should of known I would find you here."
Naruto turned around to see Sasuke donning his ANBU uniform. "Sasuke, your costume almost looks as good as mine!"
"Whatever Hokage-dobe."
"Teme..."
"Now, now boys no fighting." A sweet and light voice interrupted the two.
They turned to see Sakura wearing her usual clothing.
"Ne, ne Sakura-chan where's your costume?"
"Oh, I'll be going home in a little bit to put it on. I just wanted to see if I could find you two before the festival started. I was only expecting to find Naruto here, but you too Sasuke?"
"I just happened to be passing by." Although that was a complete and total lie. Sasuke was currently enjoying the company.
"Okay well I've got to go home and freshen up. How bout' we all meet here in an hour and a half?"
Naruto nodded vigorously while Sasuke replied with a 'Hn." casually.
-Hour & Fifteen minutes later at Ichiraku's-
Even though Naruto had left the ramen stand half an hour ago, here he was once again. Off into the distance he could see Sakura walking up to the stand. Though she seemed to have something on here head. When she came a little closer he realized what she was wearing.
'Sakura is wearing a cat costume! She looks... She looks... looks...' Naruto had a mini mental breakdown. Indeed, Sakura was wearing a cat costume. It was a white furry costume that hugged her body, it had fluffy little paws for the hands and feet, a pink kitten-like nose, with a little headband that had two kitten ears on the top.
As Sakura got closer to the stand she noticed Naruto and waved to him. He didn't seem to say anything, just staring off with his mouth slightly agape. As she got even closer she realized he was staring at her. You could notice a tinge of red on her cheeks.
"Hello Naruto-kun."
Naruto snapped out of stupor and was only able to speak a few words due to the shock still in his system. "Hi Sakura-chan... you look beautiful. I mean cute! No, I mean ugh..."
Sakura's face was now very red. She decided to tease Naruto a bit. She walked up to him and spoke softly into his ear. "You don't look that half bad yourself Yondaime-sama."
Naruto's face was like a tomato as he continued to stutter incomprehensible sentence. Sasuke walked around the corner to see a sweet smiling Sakura and a red faced Naruto.
"The hell happened to Hokage-dobe?"
Sakura was a little angry. First she goes out and buys this costume to look good, and then Sasuke didn't even say anything about how she looked. "Oh nothing, he is just being an idiot."
Naruto stopped mumbling like an idiot and pouted with his arms crossed. "Sakura-Chan."
"Well look what we have here, it's a neko version of bill-board brow." There stood Team 10.
Sakura growled while turning around to see Ino dressed in a skimpy outfit and some extra long fangs. "Oh, look it's Ino-gaishou! So you're finally resorting to prostitution Ino-pig?"
"I'm not a prostitute. I'm a vampire, Kitty-baka!" The girls snarled and glared at each other. Shikamaru, who didn't 'feel' like wearing a costume, was talking about troublesome women. Chouji was dressed up also and he was dressed up like...
"Chouji you look like the old man from Ichiraku's!" Yes indeed, Chouji did look like the Teuchi from the ramen stand. He had the same exact hat and everything although he was carrying a bloody butcher's knife which made him look extra evil.
"Yah, I know it's a little weird, but that's all I could get on short notice. I forgot that the festival was so soon." (AN: Yah yah the costume it weird, but it was all I could think of. As for Shikamaru I don't see him as a person to dress up for Halloween.)
"Hey Shikamaru where's your costume?"
"It was too troublesome so I didn't bother."
-Hyuga Head Clan house-
Kiba and Shino were currently waiting outside the house of the head Hyuga Clan house for Hinata. They decided to go together after a training session. Shino didn't dress up for Halloween, but Kiba certainly did. He had a regular look-a-like chunin vest on, but he was covered in fake blood.
"Gah! Where is she?!"
"Patience Kiba."
"I know, I know it's just I want to head out..." Kiba heard the front door slide open and looked in it's direction.
There stood Hinata in a brown puppy costume with one of her eyes painted black. For the first time in history Kiba was actually silent, and his mind was actually thinking. 'Ka... Kawaii...' Kiba continued to stare at Hinata in awe. Hinata noticed his gaze and blushed. Kiba noticed he was staring, so he turned around very quickly and spoke. (I was thinking of KibaHina when I thought of the costume for Hinata. She'd totally wear that for Kiba. As for Kiba's costume well I couldn't really think of anything so a bloody shinobi will have to do.
"Well let's get going shall we!?" Kiba said walking off into another direction. Shino was amused by his teammate's actions though he didn't show it.
"Y-yes let's go, Shino." Hinata stuttered as she ran after her teammate. Shino followed quietly
"You just gotta suck the fun out of everything don't you Ino-Pig!" Sakura shouted.
"Whatever Bill-Board Brow you're just jealous because I'm better looking." Ino shot back.
"Girls, girls calm down here. How bout we all just try to get along?" Naruto asked trying to make peace with everyone.
"Oi Naruto!" Naruto turned to see Kiba walking up to them with Hinata and Shino right behind him. "Looks like all of the rookie 9 is here... Oi Ino, why did you dressed like a prostitute?"
Sakura restrained from laughing out loud as she held her sides. Most of the boys snickered at the comment except for Sasuke and Shino. Hinata blushed a deep red. As for Ino, she made a b-line to Kiba and landed a fist right on the top of his head.
"Kiba you ass!"
After that everyone burst into laughter except Shino. Sasuke gave a soft laugh before returning to the stoic figure that he his.
"Hey guys how bout we all get something to eat, you know just to hang out? I mean we might as well since we're all here." Naruto suggested. All around there were shouts of agreements. They decided on a small restaurant that wasn't to far off. The whole time the rookie 9 was there, there were shouts of excitement and laughter. Soon after they left, which the boys split the bill and paid, they went to the festival. There were musicians, trinket shops, shows, and all kinds of stuff. The rest of the night the rookie 9 enjoyed themselves as they participated in all the festivities. After a while everything calmed down, the group disbanded and went to their homes.
Naruto thought it was the best time of his life.
Sakura thought it was fun to spend time with her friend, surprisingly Ino.
Sasuke knew it was fun to be around his friends.
Ino thought the same thing as Sakura, and that Naruto wasn't too much of a loser.
Shikamaru ended up changing his phrase from 'troublesome' to 'troublesome... but totally worth it.'
Chouji ate lots of food and had fun.
Kiba found out who his first crush was.
Hinata was happy to spend time with everyone, especially Naruto.
Shino smiled once throughout the whole day.
Naruto groaned in pain as he stretched out. Chasing a cat all over Konoha wasn't what Naruto had in mind when he first became a ninja, but he was coming to terms that it was either this or not being a ninja at all. His arms tightened around the cat as it tried to wiggle it's way out of Naruto's grasp.
"We got him." Naruto sighed as stood with the cat in his arms. The other two members sighed in relief.
"Thank Kami, we are done!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Good job team, now let's head out to the Hokage tower for the next mission of the day." Kakashi stated.
They all groaned.
"Hokage-sama we captured and returned the cat. We're ready for the next mission." Kakashi spoke.
"I see well we have some D-ranked missions here that are babysitting, cutting a lawn...
"No way Old man! Give us something higher than a D-ranked mission." Naruto shouted, while Sakura and Sasuke nodded in agreement.
"I'm sorry Hokage-sama, Naruto tends to..." Kakashi was cut of by the Hokage.
"It's fine Kakashi, I believe I have an escort mission that's a C-rank. It's nothing to big so I'm sure you could handle it... Tazuna-san please come in!"
The door opened and revealed...
Team 8 was returning from another stupid D-rank mission, and they were on their way to the Hokage office. The four walked silently until Kiba decided to break that silence. "Ne Kurenai-sensei, when will we be able to take higher ranked missions? The ones we do are so boring!"
"Yes, I agree. These missions do not help us attain a higher level of skill, and we almost get paid nothing for doing them." Shino stated.
"Yes I know they are boring, and we do get paid nothing for them. Although the this country needs the money, and we can't get higher ranked missions till you all are stronger. That's why we train everyday. Oh, we're here. Alright team let's get our next mission."
Kurenai entered the building with her students in tow. As the walked up they saw a old man waiting there. He seemed to be drunk. He stared at the team for a bit before looking away.
"Tazuna-san please come in!"
Tazuna walked up to the door and went through. Team 8 followed him through the door and stood before the Hokage. The Hokage's smile widened a little before speaking. "Tazuna please meet your team."
"Huh? Which one is it?"
"Both."
"WHAT?!" Kurenai and Kakashi yelled. Kurenai HATED perverts and as far as she knew, Kakashi was one. Kakashi knew how much Kurenai hated perverts which meant bad news for his book.
"Yes both Team 7 and Team 8 will be going. Your mission is to escort and protect Tazuna-san. All of you will be heading to the Wave country."
"Are you sure these guys can handle it. I mean that blond one there looks stupid, and weak, and he is short."
"I'M GONNA KILL YOU! LET ME AT HIM KAKASHI-SENSEI. RAH!"
Some Quick Translations
Kawaii - pretty
Gaishou - Prostitute
Neko - cat
In Loving Memory of
Armando Ochoa (1992-2005)
He was a great friend that will never be forgotten. He used to love dressing up for Halloween and decorating. It was his favorite day of the year. Unfortunately his father was a drunk. This resulted in a crash and the loss of an innocent soul. Rest in peace buddy, you earned it. This is just a remindiner, don't drink and drive!
Lovely Author's Notes
Well there you have it. Arc 2 Chap 3. I don't like how the chapter started off, but whatever. I'm thinking I need to change the genres for now because I put romance/adventure. While the adventure part is right, the romance won't be until 'nother few chapters. I didn't intend on making the Halloween part so big, but that's how it came out. Next mission is the trip to wave and some of the training I guess. Also I'm rewriting the first chapter right now. You don't have to read it. Just thought I'd bring that up.