Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but if I did, Sasuke would have never have left with Orochimaru and he would be in love with Sakura.
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Sorry for the long wait.
Chapter 10
"Now, what do you want to do, Naruto?" Konohamaru thought aloud as he began to float in a circle around him.
"How about you stay here while I go look for my friends?" Naruto suggested putting on his sweetest smile he could muster.
"I already told you, I can't do that!" the little boy stomped, crossing his hands. Just as Naruto was about to retort he caught sight of something bluish over a grass hedge that was bordering the back yard.
'I know that blue hair anywhere,' Naruto thought as he kept staring at the object that was walking on the other side of the hedge.
"Hey, Konohamaru, why don't we play tag? You can be it, if you want," Naruto tried to persuade the little ghost child as an idea popped into his head.
"Really! Okay, I haven't played that game in more than a hundred years!" Konohamaru said clapping his hands together in excitement.
Naruto felt a wilt of sadness pass through his heart as he watched the small ghost child act like if he were still alive. 'No, I have to get away in order to help this kid and Sasuke and Sakura,'
"Now first untie Konohamru then I'll run and you have to catch me,"
"Yea, yea, I know how to play," the little boy said snapping his fingers so that the vines that were holding Naruto captive would release Naruto so he could stand up.
"Yea, but I play it different, you have to close your eyes and give me a three second count so that I can run; then you can catch me, deal?"
Konohamaru was so excited about playing the game he did not realize that Naruto was tricking him, which benefitted Naruto very much.
Turning around, so that his back was facing Naruto he began to count to three aloud so that Naruto could hear him.
"One,"
"Two,"
"Three!" he yelled looking around the yard for any sign of yellow hair. The grin he held on his face was wiped off when he noticed Naruto sprinting toward the hedge.
"Hey! Come back here," Konohamaru, exclaimed as he floated toward Naruto who had barely just reached the hedge.
Naruto turned his head around to steal a glimpse of the kid when he saw him about five feet away from him.
Frantically, he began to climb up the hedge; reaching the top, he felt a tug at the end of his jeans. Looking down, he saw Konohamaru pulling at his pants leg.
Trying to get his leg out of the ghost kid's grasp, he began to pull away until suddenly, he lost his balance and fell on the other side of the hedge.
'Ugh, something broke my fall.' Naruto thought looking under him to see what it really was. His eyes began to widen when white, pupil-less eyes stared back into his blue cerulean ones.
"Hinata-chan?"
"N-Naruto-kun," Hinata stammered looking flustered, which he mentally thought she looked somewhat cute.
Just when he was about to respond a loud shrill yell was heard from the other side of the hedge.
"Naruto! You cheated!" Konohamaru yelled as the small tree began to rustles with each other.
"Come on, Hinata-chan!" Naruto exclaimed as he grabbed Hinata's hand and began to run down the sidewalk.
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'Creak'
"Did you hear that, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura whispered from her position next to her boyfriend as they had been walking down the hallway.
"Hn, come on, let's go into that room."
Walking over to a bedroom that neither had been into before, they opened the door and quietly stepped inside with Sasuke closing the door behind him.
He walked over toward Sakura where she was staring out through a window and stood next to her.
"Sakura, calm down, Naruto will be fine," Sasuke reassured her.
"Are you sure? What if that ghost kid did something to him!" Sakura exclaimed hysterically.
She hugged him around his waist as tears began to flow down from her eyes. "I want to get out of here, Sasuke-kun," her voice came out muffled as she had her face crushed against his hard chest.
Sasuke gave out a sigh as he put a hand on top of her head and began to stroke her pink locks. "I know Sakura, me too."
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Just when they had reached a small café that was about a mile away from the house Naruto had been in not 10 minutes ago, they came to a rest and sat down on a small table as both teens were breathing hard.
"N-Naruto-kun, what's wrong?" Hinata questioned the blonde.
Taking in a deep breath, Naruto began his story.
"You know for Kakashi-sensei's project we had to get information on an abandoned house, so I ended up choosing a house that was actually haunted and now there are three ghosts that have Sasuke and Sakura trapped in there, but I managed to escape; but just when I was making a run for it a ghost kid named Konohamaru caught me in some plants, so I had to trick him into playing a game so that he would let me go; then after that I jumped over the hedge and landed on you," Naruto babbled on as Hinata stared at him in complete surprise.
Raising her hand, Naruto became quite.
"N-Naruto-kun, please, can you go slower?" Hinata said to the blonde boy seeing him pant as he tried to catch his breath.
Finally regaining his composure, he gave Hinata a serious look that made her blush at the way he was staring at her.
"Sasuke and Sakura-chan are in trouble, there are beings in that house, and I need to get them out. Can you help me?"
A moment of silence passed through them as Hinata let out the breath she was holding.
"W-what do we have to do Naruto-kun?"
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The silence was getting almost unbearable.
Both teens sat close to each other, the girl had her head resting on her boyfriends shoulder while he had a protective arm around her waist.
Everything was quite. Everything was still. The only sound coming was the even breathing of both teens as they waited in anticipation of what would happen next.
Then all of a sudden…
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
Tonight
Sakura jumped in alarm as her ringtone went off at full blast. Quickly digging her hand into her pocket she pulled out her purple walkman phone, she checked the screen to see that she was getting a phone call from Naruto.
"Hello, Naruto!"
"Sakura-chan, how are you and Sasuke doing?"
"We're fine, but how are you? Were you able to get far from here?" Sakura asked frantically.
"Yea, and I ended up meeting Hinata-chan, well…falling on her," Naruto responded as Sakura could hear him give a nervous laugh on the other side of the phone.
"Ugh, Naruto, so what now, if Sasuke-kun and I have any chance in getting out of here, it's up to you and Hinata-chan to try and get us out," Sakura said.
"I know, Sakura-chan, but we will think of something."
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"Alright, we'll call back soon with the details just hang in there, oh and tell Sasuke-teme to stop being scared," Naruto said through the line while giggling as he imagined Sasuke scared and Sakura protecting him.
"Dobe!" screeched Sasuke in the background as Sakura clicked on her friend.
"Do you think we will be a-able to think of something, Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked watching her crush fumble with his phone.
"Positive, and if not, then we can always go back to Sasuke and Sakura and ask them!"
"But, Naruto-kun, aren't we suppose to g-get Sasuke-san and Sakura-chan out with our o-own plan?" Hinata asked.
"Not to worry, Hinata-chan, I, Naruto Uzamaki, will free my friends from the evil clutches of Udan, no matter how long it takes!" the blond haired boy proclaimed as he stood up on top of the counter table while giving a very similar pose to his gym teacher, Gai.
"Hey you brat! Get off my table!" yelled the owner of the small café.
"Come on Hinata-chan," Naruto exclaimed as both teens ran out the coffee shop and toward where ever salvation they could hide from the furious shop owner.
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"So now our only 'savior' is the idiot who took about his whole childhood trying to learn and spell his own first and last name?" Sasuke said in monotone as he gave his girlfriend a deadpanned stare.
"Aw, come one Sasuke-kun, give him some credit," she responded pinching his cheek playfully.
"Hn."
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"Hinata, so you said your cousin had an ability to cast away ghost, right?" Naruto asked as both walked down the sidewalk.
"Yes he does, he has his own business and his v-very own assistant," Hinata explained, "They have been called the 'Returners' since they have the r-reputation of sending ghosts back to where they came from."
Silence followed as Naruto stared at the giggling Hinata wide eyed. "…Wow…that sounds…great! Where are they now?"
"T-they should be at my house," Hinata started before being hauled by Naruto and sprinting down the sidewalk toward her house.
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Alright, here's chapter 10
Sorry for the long wait, but I have a new plot to go on by so I will being working on chapter 11 soon ^^
Till next time
Chao
Mojo-Jojo