AN: Sorry I took such a long time to update. Grade 11 is such hard work you know.
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Chapter 10
Arrival
The whole village was now bustling about, the air started to fill with delicious smells, music was being played, more or less, everyone was busy and since they only had a few hours, they had to hurry.
Suddenly, Kabuto ran up to the hokage, "umm… hokage-sama, how are we going to hide all this to surprise Naruto anyway?"
"Hmm… that is a very good question…" Tsunade thought hard for a moment and inspiration hit her. (An apple falls out of nowhere and hits her head.)
Tsunade snapped her fingers and just like that, all their hard work seemed to have disappeared, but she snapped her fingers again and it all returned. "How's that for a disappearing act?" she grinned widely at the gapping Kabuto.
"… fine with me…" he shrugged and went back to his post.
Somewhere back with Naruto and Jiraiya…
They broke their embrace and stood silently.
"So is that really your final decision?" Jiraiya asked in a whisper.
"Yea… I guess so…" Naruto kept his head down.
"Well it takes about an hour to get back, so let's start heading back," and they were on their way back to Konoha.
Back to Konoha…
There was only about half an hour left before Naruto and Jiraiya would be back, and the village was near completion for the huge party.
"Oh, I hope Naruto enjoys his last day here with us…" Sakura bustled about helping with the clean up.
"He will, or at least, he'd better!" Ino answered abruptly as she passed by.
"…" Said Sasuke as he walked by with a box with a HUGE bow on the top.
"Hey Sasuke, you seem to be on the quiet side these past few days, what's up?" Kiba asked looking slightly worried about the Uchiha.
"Hn…" and with that, Sasuke brushed by him and left with his abnormally large parcel.
"Okay, are you guys all ready?" Tsunade shouted across the village. She received many responses from the villagers with yeses and yups. "Well then, act natural until Naruto comes, and when he does, try leading him to Ichiraku Ramen, although I highly doubt that it is necessary…" Everyone sweat dropped, since that was the first place Naruto will go when he comes back from a mission or from training. With the snap of Tsunade's fingers, the decorations and all the preparations disappeared as if it were never there.
About ten minutes passed and everything seemed to have returned to the normal, busy village that it always was, but still no sign of Naruto or Jiraiya was seen.
"Oh, where are they!" Sakura had suddenly had an outburst since she was the one who had to greet him at the door.
Kakashi poofed himself next to her, "calm down Sakura, he isn't late yet anyway, he's still got about what, five minutes?"
"I know, but I just don't want anything to be ruined…" she felt terribly sad already, and she was waiting for him, and longing to see him for the last time.
Kakashi just smiled at her and decided to leave her be for a while, and poofed back up to the top of one of the buildings, "hey Sakura! I can see them from here, they're almost here!" He informed her from the top of the building.
Sakura's face lit up with happiness, "REALLY? How far away are they? Will they be at the door soon?" And as if her words were their queue, the door opened revealing Jiraiya and Naruto walking in towards her.
"Hey Sakura chan! Haven't seen you for a bit," Naruto grinned at her making her smile.
"Welcome home Naruto!" Sakura smiled cheekily, but Naruto flinched at the word 'home' as this village will no longer be his home by tomorrow. His goofy grin faded and he looked down at his feet, "How am I supposed to tell everyone that I'm going to leave tomorrow…"
"Well Naruto, you must be hungry, how about we get some ramen? My treat!" Sakura said and ran ahead of him.
"Huh? Wait, did Sakura chan just… Nah." Naruto shrugged that thought away and headed towards the ramen stand.
"Hey Sakura chan, are you feeling okay?" Naruto eyed her suspiciously.
"Eh? Why? I'm just offering to buy you food," Sakura said with a sad smile.
"Well, if that's the case, let's eat!" and Naruto started to stuff his mouth with the warm, delicious noodles, when suddenly, he was blinded by someone behind him. Before he could use any of his jutsus, he was tied up at incredible speed and tossed into a potato sack and was carried off.
Oh no, what's going to happen to our Naru chan? Even I don't know until I start writing/typing again… I hope you enjoyed this fairly short chapter.
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