Thanks for the Reviews you guys; I loved them! When you guys right something down (even when it is negative) it inspires me to write. I don't plan on abandoning this story. I have most of the plot line thought out in my head. It would be a shame to you and to me, if I were to quit on it. I'm going to keep up with it and slow roast it until it comes out looking like pure gold.
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Naruto exited the Hokage's office. He was late for something. It could be easily told by the look he had garnered on his face. He teleported to his home in a flash of orange.
Once he was inside he heard ruffling somewhere he couldn't pinpoint, making his back stiffen and his body go rigid with fear.
'Don't worry Naruto. It's just-'
"Naruto-san!" Out popped a small dirty child, latching onto his body.
It was Yoshi. Naruto sighed in relief. He had a right to be nervous with people inside of his house.
"Hey Yoshi-chan. Kaa-san problems again?" Naruto asked.
Yoshi nodded. Naruto plied the younger boy off of his person, wiping away the muck on his orange jacket.
"Geez Yoshi-chan, whens the last time you've taken a bath?" Naruto asked.
He looked at Yoshi expecting a response, but got nothing. Just a small boy, looking at his feet.
"Here, I'll draw you a bath. Hows that sound?" Naruto asked.
Yoshi looked up at him. He had a little sparkle in his eyes that made Naruto's heartstrings tug. It probably meant a lot to him that someone would do that for him.
"Will there be bubbles?" Yoshi asked.
Naruto nodded, making Yoshi explode with excitement and run toward his bathroom. Naruto smiled at the boy's bubbliness.
He followed the small boy into the bathroom and started the tub. It shook for a second and nothing came out after a couple of seconds waiting.
Naruto looked at the make shift hose coming out, replacing his faucet. It was a black tube he had found in a dumpster.
He placed his finger inside of it and sent a wave of chakra throughout his plumbing to see what the problem was. His tube was clogged. Easy fix.
He shot a small amount of wind chakra out of the tip of his finger and sliced up whatever was obstructing it. A big clump of mud fell out of it and glopped into his other outstretched hand that was waited to be filled.
He threw it away as he heard the water rush into the tub. He took out some soap from atop his sink and pulled out a kunai. He dropped the weapon on the floor as it puffed into a shadow clone. Naruto handed the clone the soap and left the room.
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Sasuke swallowed the lump in his throat. He was at the Yamanaka flower shop, preparing to get some flowers. He hated this place, more than anything. It was so; girly.
He swallowed a lump inside of his throat and walked in. He needed flowers for a special someone.
He entered the shop and was greeted with the ringing of a bell. A girl with blonde hair tied in a ponytail came to greet him.
"Welcome to the Yamanaka flower shop, how may I-" She looked at him.
"Sasuke-san. I've never seen you around here before." She said, a little surprised to see him.
"Well I usually have plants at home, but I forgot to get someone to water them, so they died." He said.
"Oh well… What do you want them for?" She asked, a little curious as to why he would want plants.
"It's for a girl." He said, looking away slightly.
Ino didn't really like Sasuke anymore, but he was pretty damn mysterious when he wanted to be.
"Who's the lucky girl?"
"Just a girl."
"You got a crush Sasuke-chan?" Ino asked cheesily.
"Whatever you want to call it." Sasuke said walking into the isles, looking for his mysterious plant.
Ino sat at the checkout counter, waiting for Sasuke to find whatever he was looking for. She wondered who the lucky girl was.
She must have been something to get Sasuke Uchiha's attention.
He came back with a beautiful blossoming flower. Its colors faded in between white and pink.
"Here, I'll take this one." He said simply.
"Are you sure? It's a lotus blossom. It's not the choice for love interests." Ino said.
"It's not a love interest." He said simply.
He placed the Lotus Blossom onto the counter and Ino scanned the price.
"That will be Five hundred Ryo." She said simply.
He pulled out a roll of Ryo and placed them onto the counter and left. Sasuke Uchiha was a very mysterious guy with mysterious reasons.
He tripped over his feet on the way out and knocked the plant onto the floor, making Ino laugh.
"Still and idiot though."
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Naruto walked through the lower class streets of Konoha. He got a lot of greetings and shouts come in his direction. It made him nervous. This kind of kind treatment didn't happen up north.
He was stopped in his path by a very tall man with a large hat and bandana covering his face. He wore brown and muted clothing with large boots and gloves covering his hand.
"Today the day?" The man asked in a very raggedy and choppy voice.
He was an aged man with a used throat. He was about six and a half feet tall and yellow glowing eyes.
"Yes Ekibibu-san. I'm heading over their now." Naruto spoke.
The mysterious looking man gave him a curt nod and left, leaving Naruto to himself.
Naruto watched as the man disappeared. He was a feared man in south Konoha and wasn't to be trifled with.
Naruto turned back around and began to quicken his pace toward his destination.
An average sized medical center began to appear into view. People started to disappear around him as he got closer. It had an eerie feel to it that made his stomach churn.
He soon reached the entrance which had two large wooden doors strapping anything inside; inside.
Naruto knocked on the door twice. He waited a few seconds until he heard the creek of the door. His senses where blinded with white.
"Welcome back Naruto-san"
Naruto's senses quickly returned to him as he was greeted by the sight of a beautiful woman in front of him with brown hair and green eyes. She had a white gown and a matching hat. She carried a clipboard underneath her armpit.
"Hey their Kure-ji-sensei!" Naruto greeted with a nickname that he had deviously thought up himself. She giggled at the name he had now given her.
Her real name was Aijou, which she loved incredibly.
"Are you to see him?" She asked.
Naruto nodded. She led him into the white building and brought him through the eerily white hallways. You could hear the muffled screams and shrills echo through the building.
"Has he said anything yet?" Naruto asked the nurse.
She sighed and looked at the younger boy before her. His hair cascaded over his eyes like they always did when he was sad. He was expecting and answer in which she did not want to give to him.
"Not yet. But I'm sure he will pull through sometime." She said trying to be as optimistic as she possibly could.
They reached a window and Naruto sat in front of it. It was a speaking glass in which he had become familiar with.
"I'll go inform the Doctors that you are here." She told him smiling.
She disappeared for a couple minutes as Naruto began to process his thoughts. Usually when he visited he would have something cheery to say, but all he had was a wacked up story on how he saved some village from an evil tyrant.
Now that he thought about it; it wasn't that bad of a sounding story to begin with.
A boy his age was dragged through the hallways as he gave minimal resistance. He wore a strait jacket and his hair was a complete mess. He had blonde hair and you couldn't see most of his face due to the boy's extreme need for a haircut.
The doctors sat the boy in front of Naruto on the other side of the window. The boy corrected himself in his seat as the doctors stood away. They were armed head to toe in tranquilizers, for what reason Naruto hadn't the slightest clue.
The boy, seemingly only noticing Naruto standing in front of him, shifted his hair out of the way of his face and pressed his face to the glass.
His head thudded against the window as the boy stared at Naruto intently through blue eyes.
He was a spitting image of Naruto, besides the longer hair. He had the exact same of whisker marks and the same intense stare, only one was filled with warmth while the other remained cold and unwanted.
"Hey their Oturan." Naruto said sheepishly.
Oturan's breath smudged the window as he breathed rhythmically and systematically onto it.
"You ready for the story?" Naruto asked.
Oturan's head rubbed against the mirror up and down, leaving a slight sweat mark on it.
"OK than buddy. I was in this great city known as the super city of Nami!" Naruto started.
He began to tell his copy of his adventure through heavy use of exaggeration and hand flailing to get his point across as Oturan stared intently at him.
He looked intrigued at Naruto's story. The reason why he looked it was because he was. Naruto then began to tell him how he met this princess called Bachiko. She was family now.
After the story was finished Naruto sat back down in front of Oturan and smiled at him.
"So what about you Nii-san?" Naruto asked.
Oturan sat there with nothing to say as the look of intrigue left his face. It felt a little colder as he breathed.
"Nothin' huh? Well I'll visit you next month Nii-san!" Naruto shouted.
Oturan stood up and the large hospital staff lifted him up and dragged him away. But not before Naruto caught a small glimpse of his face. He was smiling.
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Sasuke stood in front of a grave that read Mikoto Uchiha. She placed the flowers onto the grave and wiped a single tear from his eye.
"Miss you Kaa-san." He said simply.
Sasuke sighed as he regained his serenity and left the grave yard. Their where tombstones everywhere and yet he only visited one. He would always scoff at this.
Why would he go and pay his respect to traitors. It was ironic because the man he looked up to the most was possibly the biggest traitor Konoha had ever had, but he knew different.
He stretched his back and left the beautiful garden of his dead family as he left for however long he felt like.
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Naruto began to walk back toward his home. He was pretty tired for the day so there was little argument as to why he should stay up any longer.
He yawned out loud as people began to turn in for the night. He would have continued home for the night if it weren't for the fact that he was suddenly knocked over onto the floor by a rushing bystander.
His eyes where closed as he tried to cushion his fall. Luckily his bulky orange jacket had done so.
Naruto opened his eyes to see who he was a little hesitant to see. Hinata Hyuga in all of her Hyuganess lay atop him. Her right hand was on his thigh and her hand was on his chest.
"H-H-H-Hinata-Chan?" Naruto stuttered.
She looked at him as he noticed the tear stains on her cheeks. His hand touched her cheek and was surprised by the lack of fist to his face or foot to his balls.
His face inched closer to hers as she couldn't resist. She could feel his breath touch her lips. His breath was soon replaced with his mouth.
She leaned into him, kissing him with force, as if desperately crying for help. He would have wondered what she was doing in South Konoha in the first place, but he was too busy focusing on the girl in front of him.
Their lips broke apart as Naruto lifted his hands to touch where the contact had been initially made.
Hinata grabbed him by his shirt and pressed her face into it as she began to sob. He wrapped his arms around her and gathered up some of Kurama's chakra.
'Kit Hinata's nearby!'
'A little late for that.'
'What do you… Oh!'
Naruto teleported home with the sniffling girl in his arms and landed at home.
He sat on his bed as Hinata used his legs as a makeshift seat. Her face was heavily pressed into his torso as she got his favorite track warm up wet.
He hated it when girls cried. They turned into a big mush of tears, noises and snot. He stroked her back, attempting to calm her.
She muttered incoherent apologies into him and kept wrapped around him like a safety blanket. It was as if she let go, he would disappear forever.
He placed his chin on her head and left it there until she began to calm down. He rocked her, like a child. Back and forward.
He then felt a great amount of pressure enter into his stomach as he was knocked backwards and doubled over. He clutched his stomach and groaned as Hinata got off of his bed. She took a step to him as he got over the punch she had given him.
"I'm sorry Naruto-kun." She whispered into his ear and kissed him one last time on the lips and left him in the dark room on his lonesome.
She was gone and Naruto was now officially beat.
'You can never read those damn Hyuga huh Kit.'
'You're telling me.' Naruto thought back.
He tried to fall asleep but found it incredibly hard to close his eyes. He knew it wasn't healthy to stay awake all night. There was only one way to resolve his situation.
'Ready Kurama?'
'I hate this part.'
Naruto pulled a large bat out from underneath his bed and proceeded to knock himself out with one quick strike to his cranium.
He fell over in unconsciousness and lay in his bed.
Kurama got to work on repairing the damage.
'Why is life so confusing?'
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So how did you guys like chapter Ten? Not my longest chapter but it will clear some of the fog.
Did you guys like Oturan? He was a character in another Naruto story I was thinking of that I wanted to keep. The story idea wasn't very good but Oturan was awesome. You just wait and see what I'm going to do with him.
I also created Ekibibu. He came to me after playing OddWorld: Strangers Wrath. He's going to be pretty awesome too.
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