Writing on: July 28. 2009
Posting on: July 29. 2009
A/N: I feel like I owe something to my readers.
Like I need to give something back, it has been terribly long.
I mean really, last update in 07? 10.28.07
It will always be like the 28th of everything haha!
Weird, but hopefully I come up with something for you readers to snuff.
I've been listening to Beautiful Day-Kurt Nilsen and
I say yes! Yes, it is a beautiful day, and I'm having a good summer
I hope you all are too. :)
Naruto sighed. Really for a 12 year old boy my whiskers really did change didn't they?
They changed everybody's feelings.
Oh, these things!
They always have to spring in on you when you least expect it!
We all have been very much best friends, but now they look at me differently,
They look at me like they are cautious, alert.
Walking in Iruka's classroom I wore my orange jumpsuit as always, it had been a long summer, right?
Everyone just fades into the background until I see them all again.
Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba…. All talking casually in their seats, Kiba leans over a top desk to
Joke with Shikamaru and Chouji who still eats his fresh just ready to eat chips.
Sasuke, always so broody, I laughed behind my fist…but not in the corner as usual…he was arguing with Neji about something trying to egg him on to fight him, Neji just had a sneer on his face. While saying god knows what to him, to make Sasuke's teeth grit. Neji smirks back.
Lee did a random yosh.here and there.
…They're the same, I smile.
Haven't seen them in ages.
My curiousity got the better of me when I left Kakashi and his guard like duties in Lost Land of Mist while he took me on one of his assigned missions Sandaime had picked out.
I realized a long time ago that Saindaime was someone I should no longer fear. This fear was stimulated from the uncertainty and mistrust I experienced…being an insecure little boy. Adult figures seemed dangerous, tricky, selfish, and undeniably hurtful. I had no parents and could find any substance in an adult that could sustain me and let me hold onto until I weeped, with joy. I found his intentions were great and far above my expectation of him trying to push me off into the curb to rot. He wanted me to flourish and be protected and live my life as normal as an aspiring ninja had it…
Kakashi was assigned specifically to me .I was shortly sent out of school 4 months later after being
assigned as well to go off with so that the mean villagers wouldn't try to beat me and stuff they try to come with that would be fun for them.
But I was also warned of this group, Akatsuki… they want to hurt me and the villagers. And for the villagers even though some hurt me , I got to train, be strong!
So for 6 years I went in and out of Konoha with Kakashi. Sandaime's idea of trying to get me out…
He didn't have to help me, the Sandaime… he didn't have to see me, he could have been hating me, but I see he knows things, he shows compassion, shows knowing, and love for the people. He could've been that type to feel like people are so expendable and everyone life revolves around me and whatever destructive wish he had but because his people are very important to him he counts everybody in. His magic blue orb that sits on his red oak desk his grandfatherly eyes spot you, all he wants is your best interest…he wants to help…
That moment, I felt inspired, I wanted to be that savior that unity to bring everyone together so that you could feel safe and wanted and lived life the way you felt like it.
I thought I was blessed at that point… I finally saw that maybe adults aren't so bad…They're definitely some out there who are, but I think I can now tell… I can now see maybe not this one…He made light shine on me, and now I want to shine light on darkest moment. I want to be the next Hokage!,Dattebayo.
Soon the villagers that were angry at me … they all stopped they found no use anymore and found some peace when they slowly began to talk to me..civilly..They found how nice..I was…and Kakashi…oh, dear.. . To this day I never known why Kakashi does this, but he has taken up that role to make sure he's there every time I open my eyes he's on guard watching… even after the villagers stopped.
On a day he was reading his favorite Icha Icha series (the new one), he never likes to put it those books down, I couldn't help but ask…ask him why he still does this? H lowered his book and smiled gently at me through his mask and ruffled my hair and said "Because your cute and cute ones like you need protecting." There was a moment of silence until I bounded at him with a kunai, yelling in protest "What the hell do you mean cute ones like you!?!!Who the hell is cute around here?!!!"
Kakashi only shook his head and poofed onto a tree to continue reading his precious book, while I looked up at the tree shaking my fist full of kunai throwing it at him. "Get back down from there! Don't try to escape my wrath!" Kakashi did so and was stunned he had poofed again. This time only I was face to face with him ( he bent over smiling with that one eye of his) and in one hand he held his book behind him while cupping my cheek "You'll always be that one chibi I'll be happy to protect." I blushed and then snapped back to reality and started to pummel him with my tiny (but effective) fists while he begged for mercy..Mwuhaha
But time only had made him another adult figure I could trust and lean on …and of course whenever I am in danger; he had always came to my rescue… even before Iruka! And that's quite something. But that's another story.
Again, back to the part where I found a sparkly object and followed without Kakashi's knowing…
I ventured off walking through the village where I had my eye on this suspicious figure wearing long, dark cloak with red clouds… I kept trying to follow it through the crowded streets. But oof
It was soft…and big…Ack, I couldn't believe it, I just hit face first into an innocent's women's chest!
I growled as I tried to escape this trap.
She took both hands and gently took the sides of my face to place me in a distance where I got a good look at her. It was a young looking, large breasted blonde woman, with deep-set honey brown eyes and an amused smirk gracing her pink thin lips.
We got to talking after I told her my lame excuse of my collision with her…things.
…Her name was Tsunade.
I could tell she was a gambler, and a horrible one at that too by the way she was sitting
Outside a known bar with dancing ladies who like to dress down…if you know what I mean , which Is a place I never been into by the way…. *cough*
Her money all gone, the way she held a disappointed sigh as I followed her to a poker table to her being kicked out for losing and not being able to pay. (10 different times!)
The series of slurs through her drink she said:
"Damn it I lost again!"
"I gotta run!"
"Ok kid they wont find me here hahaha"
"Kid why are you still here? Hahaha"
"Why do you follow me? Your like a lost pet."
"I like you kid hahaha real smooth."
"You know kid you remind me of somebody I knew…"
"Your soooo cute."
"Your really nice to me."
"Your great."
"Bloo bla bleeh bloo blah blah." (She's so drunk I couldn't even understand to translate.)
I made her laugh a couple times I told her something that made her wrap her arms around me and laugh. I told her something that made her teary eyed, but she was smiling that type of smile that says that you have been hurt. But I wasn't sure if that was because of the sake she was drinking, it looked pretty strong.
She called me her new pet and which I guffawed in response. She placed a necklace onto me, a beautiful jewel that she was wearing and that poked me in the eye as I crashed into her.
I was thrashing about wildly after this saying why does everyone think I'm cute and why this and why that until she silence me.
And she said
"Hey kid, what do you want to be?"
I took no time to say "The next greatest Hokage has ever seen ever, the Hokage that people respect and …" so on and so on. You get it.
"Hokage is a big thing kid, you can't just play around, you have to get things done."
I thought she was trying to tell me that I wasn't capable. "I know…but its so hard when everybody thinks your some kind incapable person…who always needs to be rescued or saved by people. I want to be the person saving them…" I replied honestly. The necklace she gave me, glinted.
She shook her head like saying wow your dumb, but she placed a hand on my shoulder and said. "Kid, i believe in you. I don't know why I feel so strongly about this, but I do. Because I already see you becoming the next Hokage. And I don't even have to know you for years, I have this gut feeling, you are going to be very successful…
successful at anything."
My face heated up as I was being complimented…
even coming from a drunk off her ass person
I have the right to feel happy that someone can be so nice…
"Th-thank you…"
"Kid, how would you like it if I hooked you up *hiccup* with somebody that can make you…?"
She nodded in that way that said "Well, you know??" She waited expectantly for my answer.
My eyes widened as if I just tasted a sweet swirly lollipop for the first time, I recognize its sweetness.
"Yes??!!" I eagerly replied.
She grinned at me and then…
That's how I met the perverted Hermit boyfriend of hers.
When I returned to Kakashi he grabbed me by my arms and swung me around he kissed me multiple times on both cheeks (I winced trying to hide) he was in hysterics saying "I missed you!! ~~ I missed you!! Where did you go,chibi?!! Where?! Oh how, could you make me worry?!! Iruka was going crazy over there in Konoha, wanting to know where you were, he wanted to talk to you, he was in shambles when I told you weren't able to talk right now because you had to be missing your were missing?!! Oh my gawwsh your okay!!! Who hurt you?!! Did someone hurt you?!!! "
I can tell you when I got back with Kakashi and after
That whole shenanigans we got into that playful sparring, and I have to tell ya
I was indeed. Great.
"Naruto how'd you learn all this?"
I cheekily grinned.
"You're not telling me are you?"
"You'll figure it out."
He looked at me with suspicion.
"But you know about Iruka calling you, he wanted to see if you would like to back to the Academy."
My eyes glittered at the thought of seeing…you know…everybody…
I met in secret with the old Hermit guy. Trained everyday .Tsunade said she would love to come to Konoha with me and she said Hermit would too. Although I bet she forced him to do come whether or not he liked it.
That obaa-chan and I, we friends.
She is hard not to like :D
I wanted to make sure I was going to be the best for the position, and not only Tsunade think of me being Hokage but everybody. I want no doubt in their heads that yes, I indeed Uzumaki Naruto is ready and skilled and eligible for being the next Hokage!
Does my whiskers…
Make you like that?
Soft plump lips, azure blue eyes filled with joy, Orange.
Sheen and silky hair, baby fat gone. Taller lithe body.
Eyes roam.
Naruto I want you.
Naruto…
Or is it just me?
They act all…off.
They get that smoldering look in their eyes.
Eyes locked onto Naruto as the group heard enchanting laughter by the door.
They all stare at me like I'm a sheep and they're going to hunt me down.
They are rough to look at, evil things marked on my face; this has to be the reason why people look at me so damn differently.
Kakashi's face pops into my head saying, "Your cute, your cute your cute"
"Shut up shut up shut up!!" I reply
I mean the guys and I have always been very much best friends…
Ahh …this is going to be a nice year….
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Hopefully you're not annoyed with italics, because that kept me going for some reason.
I know they changed a lot, but Review and tell me if you like where I am going with this story. Thank chu! ^.~