Summary: Naruto's fight to be Hokage and the fight for Naruto's heart begins as Sakura finally notices him and a shy girl will call upon her courage to stop her.
A/N: This chapter wa beta by S-wanderer999, thank you for you're help, I'm grateful
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine. It's his creators' property. The only thing mine are my own made up characters.
Well I'll answere a few questions and give my opinion on some thing. Some are similar so I'll anwser just a few.
Zsych: I think Kyubi does have a say in how much chakra he gives him, if he didn't Naruto wouldn't ask him every time, but I believe Naruto has the ability of taking it if he wanted, thats why every time he gets emotianal he draws its power he only need to find out how...
cheryl: I loved you're review..it mad me laugh..you're right about Hinata she does seem a little...but i did't mean to do it...I have to be careful or I'll get tons of hate mail from her fans.
The Gandhara: I think I used the wrong words, I meant endurance as to take hit and stand up again...you know like the saints in saint seiya...does guys took a beating and kept getting up...not estamina as to run a mile and not get tired, because in that case i agree with you and I remember that coment in the anime.
Yodey: On the Lee Shino fight what took Lee down was the poison, even if he did spin around he still would have gone down beacuse of it.
Dragon Man 180: Sorry but i couldn't put the competition in this chapter...you'll se why, but I liked the idea, don't worry there a team know and are bound to have more team meals :)
All:If you guys can't believe Naruto lost....well to bad if you read carefully Ten-Ten didn't beat Naruto, Naruto beat himself.....you just have to read that part again....and beside he cant win them all..have you read the manga...?....and last I have read hundred of reviews complaining they made him too powerfull...i wont i hated that...I'll make this storie more unpredictable so don't be surprise he loses or even dies....just kidding...about the last one.
All: I'm sorry if some of you didn't like Hinata losing either...but give me some slack I do every thing for a reason....just be patient and read and review :)
Well thats all for know here the new chap and dont forget to review i really want to hear you're opinion.
CHAPTER 10: BAD BLOOD
The group walked down the streets of Konoha, everyone enjoying the walk, well almost everyone. In front Naruto was walking his left arm being held by Ten-Ten, to his right Hinata walked blushing because she was so close to Naruto, but still a little annoyed at Ten-Ten for holding his arm.
Behind them Shino walked calmly simply watching their actions, and at the rear a mad Sakura, tried every excuse she could to catch up to Naruto, but Lee just wouldn't allow her to leave him. He never had such a chance to talk with her, and he did all he could so they would stay a little behind so they'll be alone, well more or less. The fact that one of his rivals for Sakura was distracted by Ten-Ten, made it a perfect chance for him to have Sakura to himself.
On their way there, the genins saw a couple of old friends. They were surprised to see them of all people.
"Hey Shikamaru! Ino!" The hyperactive blond boy yelled to get their attention.
The lazy chuunin and the blond girl turned, surprised to see him.
"Hey Naruto, you finally woke up." Shikamaru drawled. "Yep, I'm not like you. I don't like to stay all day in bed." He said back.
"That's great Naruto." Ino said having more interest in the girl on his arm.
"Hey Naruto, can I talk to Ten-Ten for a while?" She said grabbing her and pulling her away to have a nice chat with her.
"What the hell are you doing?" Ino asked Ten-Ten.
"What, I'm just enjoying myself." Ten-Ten said calmly.
"It looked more like that you were enjoying Naruto." She said to her in a mad tone.
"Well....yeah..... why shouldn't I?, he is cute, and has beautiful cerulean eye...there quite rare in Konoha you know....." Ten-Ten said smiling at Ino.
"What?....there not rare I have blue eyes!....."Ino said restraining herself not to scream at her.
"Yeah...but you're eyes are pale...his are deep...very beautiful and you get lost in them" Ten-Ten said to her.
"I told you Sakura and Hinata liked him so you would help me..." Ino replied.
"Really? Oh I never imagined that was the reason you told me, I thought you told me so I would keep an eye on them." Ten-Ten said giving her an innocent smile, this didn't amuse Ino one bit.
Why should I help you, I'm starting to like the blond...and the attention I'm getting from the girls. Ten-Ten thought smiling.
"Don't even think it....you already told me you like some one....remember?" Ino said to Ten-Ten
"So?...I just like him...that doesn't mean I'll end up marrying him or something...any way I only said I liked him...I never said I loved him did I?..." Ten-Ten said in a happy tone.
"Even if I did decide to help you, it wouldn't be fair to Hinata that we both help Sakura get him. She's my friend too, you know?" Ten-Ten said to her.
"She's your friend?" Ino asked, somewhat surprised.
"Yeah, I know her since I ended up in Neji's team.....even if we don't get to talk much because of Neji's....family problem. Now that we're on the same team I'm starting to know her better....besides like I said it wouldn't be fair if we both helped Sakura." Ten-Ten said.
"Well yeah but...." "So it's decided, I'll help Hinata....a little bit.... and you'll help Sakura." Ten-Ten said.
"What? you'll help her?, does this mean you'll give up on him?. Ino asked confused.
"Or course not...." Ten-Ten answered. "But you said you'd help Hinata?" Ino asked confuse once again by her words.
"Just because we like the same guy doesn't mean I have to be her rival or be mean to her we can help each other and let him choose instead of forcing him" She said winking at Ino just before turning and going back to the group again, leaving Ino wishing she never told her and knew that last part was for Sakura and herself
"Is that so...you got out yesterday, that's great." Shikamaru said to Naruto's tale of him leaving the hospital.
"Hey, how about you join us for ramen?" Naruto asked him.
"Naruto! He's on a date with Ino, don't bother them." Sakura who somehow dumped Lee on Shino said.
"We're not on a date forehead girl." Ino said smiling at the girl. "We'll go with you guys." She added.
"Great, let's go to get some ramen." Naruto said.
"Can't, there's too many of us to go get ramen at Ichiraku's, sorry." Shikamaru said stating the obvious to all, except to Naruto.
"No!, then what can we do?" Naruto thought not knowing what to do.
"Let's go to that café." Sakura said pointing at one nearby.
"O.K., but they better have ramen." Naruto said while sulking.
With that they all made their way to the café, finding a booth near a window with everyone taking a seat.
Hinata took a seat on the left side sitting by the window, and Naruto sat next to her. Ten-Ten was about to take the seat next to him, but Ino's hand on her shoulder stopped her. Ten-Ten turned to look at her, but Ino was simply smiling at her. When she turned around to take her seat, Sakura had already sat next to Naruto. On the right side Shino sat down, then Lee, and finally Ten-Ten. Shikamaru got a couple of chairs for him and Ino, who sat opposite the window.
Once seated there everyone ordered different things, even Naruto who was forced by Sakura to stop asking for ramen and eat something else, so he disappointedly ordered a club sandwich.
Sakura didn't care much about the others and started with her plan.
"Come on Naruto don't be sad, we'll get ramen later." Sakura said to him, getting a little closer to the blond. He noticed her sweet tone but didn't think much about it, in fact all the guys just blew off her sudden change of tone, but the girls were another story. Hinata was actually mad, she felt anger towards Sakura, and didn't care she felt that emotion toward someone.
Ino and Ten-Ten were amused at Sakura's move. Ino was mentally cheering her on her move, while Ten-Ten was scolding Hinata for not doing anything about it.
"Naruto-kun, y-your f-fight was a-amazing." Hinata said trying to get Naruto's attention.
As he heard her words of praise, he rapidly turned to Hinata.
"Really Hinata-chan you liked my jutsu...wait, but I lost." Naruto said to her.
"Yeah but you did your best." She said covering the fact she forgot he lost.
Hinata was able to get Naruto's attention off of Sakura and to focus on her. Go Hinata. Ten-Ten thought enjoying Hinata's actions while Ino was mentally beating the crap out of Sakura for letting the Hyuga girl get Naruto's attention
"Thanks Hinata, you did great too. I didn't expect you to use one of Neji's moves." He said back to her, now giving her his full attention.
This caused a glare to be shot towards poor Hinata. Sakura was mad at the girl, she suspected Hinata had a thing for Naruto, when she had visited him at the hospital, but now she was sure. She didn't like the feelings this new information caused, and on impulse did something she wasn't expecting.
"Yeah can't you be a bit original, and come up with a move of your own." She said at the girl, looking over Naruto's shoulder and getting closer.
This made Hinata look at the table trying to avoid eye contact with both Naruto and Sakura. Even though she was acting shy, in her mind it was very different.
Why did she say that, why does she care what jutsus I know. ......I have to say something back at her but what....Hinata thought.
Naruto at this moment wished he wasn't between the girls. He wasn't sure why Sakura said that to Hinata, but he blamed it on the fight they had earlier. Man this is bad...good thing Hinata's more sensible and doesn't fan the flames. He thought forcing a smile. "T-that jutsu i-is from t-the main f-family, Neji is t-the one t-that c-copied i-it...from t-the main h-house.." Hinata said making Naruto sweat drop.
Man...this can't be good...Naruto thought. The girls gave each other a small glare. This caused everyone in the booth to become nervous. This is bad. Was everyone's thought.
"Here's your food." A man said to them.
Everyone's attention was now on the waiter.
Thank you Kami-sama Naruto thought thinking the heavens that he calmed the situation.
Everyone started to eat their food in silence, mostly because of fear of starting a conversation between Hinata and Sakura. Even though most of them knew why they started to argue or in Naruto's case felt tension between them and knew better, but there was one that was oblivious to all started a conversation.
"Sakura-san your fighting skills have improved a great amount since I last saw you fight." Lee said to Sakura.
"Thanks Lee-san even though my team was away, I did some physical training and learned a few jutsus, even if I can't be as strong as Naruto or Sasuke-kun. I also trained in strategies and battle techniques so that I can be USEFUL to my team" That last part she said looking at Hinata.
"A-are you s-still t-trying t-to impress Sasuke?" Hinata asked her in a low voice, this made Sakura mad she didn't want him to come up in the conversation.
Way to go Hinata, you go girl. Ten-Ten thought smiling at the way the girl was acting. She never imagined the shy girl would be this way when it came to this boy.
Ah man this isn't good... of all the time she kept this to herself. Why did she choose now to make a move on him? ...man this isn't going to be pretty, I have to do something. Ino thought, a little worried about the way things were going.
Man this is troublesome. I never expected to still be alive when two girls fought for him...this is going to be very troublesome... Shikamaru thought.
"I'm eating. I would really appreciate it if you don't speak of that traitor." Shikamaru said, with a slight tone of anger in his voice.
This caused eyes to stare at him, no one ever expected him to say something like that, especially with anger in his voice. Even though they were surprised, more than one person present in the booth was happy he said those words, with that everyone started to eat in silence again.
"Ah that was good, not as good as ramen but good." Naruto said as he rubbed his stomach now filled with something other than ramen.
A few minutes after Naruto finished his food, the rest finished theirs and started to talk again but this time Hinata and Sakura just listened to the others.
"So there I was kicking and punching him with all my power, but the time for my medicine came...so I had to give him a break. After I took it, everything is a blur except the part was he was about to finish me and Gaara helped me..." Lee said to everyone impressing them with such a weird opponent he had.
"So...his bones were weapons, is that a blood limit...?" Shino asked, interested in a new type of enemy.
"Yes Shino it was, but he died after the fight....but it looked like it wasn't us who killed him. It looked like it was something he already had..." Lee said to them.
"So you got lucky he was sick." Ten-Ten said mocking him.
"Well...yeah...but luck is a skill as well..." Lee said to her.
"YES! Lee say it proudly, luck is with the best shinobis." Gai, who appeared out of nowhere, said.
Gai's sudden appearance made every one sweat drop, and causing some shock, and tears...well only from Lee.
"Gai-sensei! Your finally back from your mission." Lee said to his teacher standing up from his seat. He didn't care he was between Shino and Ten-Ten, somehow he was standing right in front of his sensei.
There the two stood face to face, the background strangely turned into a beach at dusk, this was very creepy to the rest of the genin including Shino. Everyone rubbed their eyes trying to make the image go away, but the worst came when student and teacher were locked in a hug.
Every ones jaw dropped, this was something no one wanted to see, even Sakura, Naruto, and Ten-Ten who had seen it before were shocked at the site. The genins couldn't hide their reactions: Shikamaru was shocked, Ino had a disgusted look, Hinata was embarrassed for them and Shino made the few bugs that were crawling around his body go back under his skin so they wouldn't witness such scene.
"Hey, hey Sakura-chan, that's pretty good stuff." Naruto said to Sakura.
This creeps Sakura out even more. Her eyes went huge, she then turned to Naruto and said.
"You baka dangerous, way to dangerous." She said while lightly hitting him on the shoulder.
After a few minutes, yeah minutes, they broke the hug. Gai looked at Lee, and said to him.
"Lee! I have returned from my mission." Everyone fought hard not to yell insults at him.
"And I have mastered a new Taijutsu technique." He said taking his good guy pose.
"Oh please tell me Gai-sensei about this new technique." Lee said while forming a fist and a fire burned in his eyes.
"No, Lee there are too many of your rivals here. You cannot give away your attacks to your rivals so quickly, they must see them only in combat against you." He said while looking at Naruto.
"We must go to our training grounds Lee." After that they started to walk out of the Café.
"Hey Lee." Naruto yelled.
Lee smiled and turned around. "Don't worry Naruto-kun, I will fight you as soon as I've mastered that new move." Lee said in a proud voice.
Naruto simply looked at the boy. "That's great fuzzy brows, but that's not what I wanted to say to you." Everyone was interested in Naruto's words.
Naruto pointed at Lee and said. "You haven't paid for the food you ordered." This caused everyone to fall anime style.
"Ha that's right Naruto-kun." He said while he took some money out.
"Here Naruto-kun." Man, I almost did it again. He gave him the money and left with his sensei.
One less. Thought Sakura as she waved good-bye to the boy.
"I should be leaving too...." Shikamaru sighed "I have to hand in a report." He said while slowly standing up.
"Aw Shikamaru!, come on stay a while more" Ino complained.
"Can't, I have to." He said back at her with his hands in his pockets.
"Hahahah! You're starting to sound a little responsible Shikamaru." Naruto said laughing at the boy.
"He's right, a year ago you would have said it was too troublesome to even do a report." Sakura said backing up Naruto.
Shikamaru only cracked a small smile and turned to leave, but is stopped by a voice.
"Wait...I'm leaving also." The voice said.
"You too, Shino?" Ino asked in a complaining tone.
He simply nodded at her question, with that the boys take their leave only leaving Naruto with the four girls.
Naruto looked around him, the eyes of four girls were staring at him. This made him feel a little uncomfortable, well he noticed three but Hinata was looking at him from the corner of her eye.
Man this feels weird, I'm not sure why everyone left me here alone with these girls. Naruto sweat dropped as he saw Ino and Ten-Ten smile at him at the same time.
Out side the diner two boys talked about the scene.
"Man, good thing we were able to get out, I felt thing were going to get troublesome." Shikamaru said to Shino, which he simply nods agreeing with the lazy chuunin.
Shikamaru stops, and looks back at the café they just left. He cracks a small smile and turns to Shino.
"Even if we left, there's no reason we can't find out what's happening to him." He said in an almost excited tone. Shino who was able to pick up on the indirect hint, lifted his arm and a few bugs flew out towards the café.
"Done...." Shino said as they continued to walk away from the diner.
Back in the diner, things got interesting.
"Well, now that every guy left we can have a little girl talk" Ino said, Ten-Ten smiled right next to her.
"NANI? What about me? I'm a guy too, you know." Naruto said complaining about what she said.
"Huh? Really I didn't know...." Ino said mocking him, this made him angry. "You can stay if you want to...but you'll have to answer if we ask you something..." She said to him.
Man...what should I say? I've always wondered what they talked about...but what can they ask me a man, what should I say...? Naruto thought
What are you doing Ino...? What are you trying to pull saying that to him...?...Oh!...this can be helpful. Sakura thought then looks at the shy girl...Or troublesome...it might give her a chance.... Ino you baka, you didn't think this through. (Ino-pig you BAKA!)
Oh no...I can't stay here, if they ask me what can I say...? I can't tell them I like Naruto-kun...I want to say it to him, but not like this... oh no I can't....Hinata thought blushing. While thinking of all the possible things they could ask her that are related to Naruto, madly playing with her fingers, while looking at the table.
Hinata's blushing and Sakura looks mad...I think they don't want to have a girl talk with me...what am I saying I can't have girl talk, I'm a guy.... Thou it would be fun to see what they talk about..., no I can't...... Naruto's mind was in conflict, but he made up his mind by weighing the pros and cons.
"No thanks Ino, I can't stay to have a girl talk with you." He said to her.
"Mm...ok Naruto if you're afraid of what we can ask you its okay..." Ino said, baiting Naruto.
"What afraid, I'm not afraid of anything." Naruto said to her.
"Very well you said it. You're going to have a little chat with us." Ino said to him in an evil voice.
Gulp that's scary....Naruto thought.
"So since you wanted to stay, lets ask you first." Ten-Ten said to him.
"NANI?" He said back. "Good idea Ten-Ten. Well let's think...I say one question each...." Ino said. "Yeah." Ten-Ten agreed, backing her up. The other two girls were a little nervous and angry at their friends.
"Not fair...." He said, sighing in defeat.
"Me first, what kinds of girls do you like?" Ino asked him, everyone was interested, but Sakura was sure he was going to described her.
"Mm.....well I like tall girls and short girls ...girls with long hair....with short hair....I like loud girls...and shy girls...." Naruto kept saying one thing and then the opposite of it, every girl sweat dropped, even Hinata felt angry at him for doing that.
"You baka, that could be anybody. Be more specific..." Ino yelled at him.
"What? You said the kind of girl I like and those are it...I like girls in general." He said giving his foxy grin to Ino.
Ino...I know what you're trying to do...but Naruto...he'll answerer too truthfully... Sakura thought angry but amused because of Naruto's answer.
"Well then...I know, tell me the name of a pretty girl you know?" Ten-Ten said hoping to get a familiar name.
Naruto started to think putting out his lower lip...then a smile crept on his face...everyone was interested in his next words.
"I'll tell you Ten-Ten-chan...." He took a pause, getting everyone more excited and interested.
"Ema and Kanako....." Were his words, this caused Sakura's, and Ino's jaws to drop, Ten-Ten was amused and Hinata was disappointed. She could understand if it was Sakura but two girls that came out of nowhere and caught Naruto's eye made her mad.
"Who are those two?" Sakura asked while standing up, and getting in Naruto's face.
"HA!! That's your question then!!" He said to her "Wait no that's not it, it just came out, no!" "Too bad that's your question." He said making fun of her.
"I met them today in the morning, they were very impressed with the fight I had with Neji. They wanted to treat me to breakfast, but I had the team meeting." He said putting his arms on the back of head looking at the ceiling.
"What do you mean BUT, did you actually think of going to have breakfast with them?!!" Sakura yelled at the boy.
"Of course not Sakura-chan, and besides she asked for the name of a pretty girl. They were pretty but that's all." He said scratching his cheek.
This caused some relief around the table, the plans of all of them were almost destroyed by two unknown girls he met today of all the days.
"It's your turn Hinata." Ten-Ten said to her.
"Um... no I d-don't know w-what...I...c-can't ask a-anything..." She said in a very low voice trying to hold back her blush, but to no avail.
"Come on ask him something, anything you've wondered, come on!" Ten-ten said motivating her.
"Come on Hinata, they already asked, after you it's my turn to ask." This comment made her even more nervous that he'll ask her something, but in fact she did always wonder about something.
"Have y-you had a d-date with a girl?" Hinata asked blushing, quickly looking down. Adding in that last part so he wouldn't say something like "he had a study date or something" similar.
Naruto once again started to think...but quickly said "Nope, none."
This made Hinata smile, one of her fears had been lifted, but that answer made Sakura mad. She wondered why he would say such a lie.
"Naruto, that's a lie we had a date didn't we." She said mad at him that he forgot their date.
This made Hinata's heart feel a pain, she didn't know who to believe. She would just have to listen.
"Oh, you mean after I brought Tsuande-obaachan back?" He asked her "Yeah that one." She said back to him "Come on, even I know that wasn't a date, you only wanted to talk about him...that bastard." He said, his eyes looking down once he said that last part.
After her outburst she fell silent, those words made her realize that Naruto wasn't as dense as she thought. She knew that was the only reason back then, but she thought he would take it as a date.
Everyone fell silent after that, none would have expected that to happen. Such a thing the boy had asked for so many times, and finally he had one but in his eyes it wasn't a date. Sorrow was felt by two girls, Sakura felt rejection, and Ino felt sorry for her friend. The other two felt a small amount of relief but only that, Sakura's reaction of disappointment from his words brought on more worries from Ten-Ten and the shy girl. The sudden silence was brought to an end by the same one that started it.
"Well enough of me, my turn to ask you girls who you like?" Naruto said giving them all, his foxy grin.
Who should I ask, Ten-Ten...nah I'm sure she likes Neji or Lee...or me...HA HA thought jokingly . Ino...Sasuke, that's is obvious. Sakura......Sasuke...I wonder if she still likes him...she didn't get mad when I called him a bastard....I wonder? But Hinata I don't know anything about her.... I wonder what kind of guy a shy girl likes...?.... Maybe a quiet kept to himself guy like Shino...I wonder....?...There he stayed wondering about the last two, each one gave him a reason, he debated for a few minutes which were like hours to the girls.
Yeah right...he's not going to ask me...Ino thought.
Ask me! Ask me! I'll say I like you...that would be fun...Ten-Ten thought.
He is so going to ask me....I on ask me already...I just want to say it already...(I'll kill you if you don't ask me, Hell yeah). Sakura thought.
Oh no don't ask me, no please I can't tell you in front of everyone...I don't want to tell you like this.... Hinata thought playing with her fingers.
Who can I ask?......If I ask Sakura...but if I ask Hinata...I don't know...!...well I can ask Sakura any day I'm sure she'll tell me...but it would be fun to know who Hinata likes...when will I have another chance like this....He thought in an evil tone doing it out of pure curiosity. For the shy girl can answer a question that crosses the mind of many men, what kind of guy a really shy girl likes?
"I choose..." He said getting everyone's attention.
He stood up and pointed at Ino, but then he started to move his arm from left to right in a roulette style manner. This made everyone nervous of who could it be, then suddenly in a sharp pause his arm stopped.
"You Hinata-chan." He said making the girl give a small whine out of surprise. Her fear came true somehow they always come true.
What, her...? Bad luck Sakura...Ino thought, sorry for her friend.
Yeah! This is going to be fun... I wonder if she'll tell him right now...? Ten-Ten thought.
WHAT? Why her, damn you Narutoooo!!, (Why did you call her chan again!!?) Sakura thought, forcing herself to put on a smile. While inner Sakura was punching and kicking Naruto in her mind.
Oh no, what do I do now? Hinata thought feeling the end approaching.
"Come on Hinata-chan!" Naruto said grabbing her shoulder, causing her to blush and play with her fingers even more than she already was.
Everyone's gaze was set on Hinata, everyone waited for her answer. Ino waited to hear the same as Ten-Ten, Sakura just wanted to hear what she had to say. With a few words from Hinata, she could be sure to see her as a friend or as a rival.
"I-I.....l-like....I can't say...." She said in a very nervous tone, blushing furiously.
"Nah you asked me, now it's your turn come on." Naruto said looking at her.
"....I like...I-I like...l-l-like....y-y-y..." She tried with all her might to say that last word.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAA" Was heard in the diner causing an uproar.
"There's bugs in my food." A woman yelled causing everyone to panic. With those words everyone started to leave disgusted including the genins, each one with their own thoughts.
Aw man this bites....Was thought by both Ino and Ten-Ten.
Man that was so close....Sakura thought.
Thank you....... I'm so grateful....Hinata thought thanking someone.
After that incident they all left the Café disgusted after such a scene, but Naruto was slightly happy, they still hadn't paid there food, so that meant he could kept Lee's money.
Man that place sucks, last time I eat there...that's why I prefer Ramen. Naruto thought angry about the caf's insect problem
There they all stayed outside in silence simply looking at each other, everyone disappointed or grateful for the incident. Ino and Ten-Ten mad at their friends that after so much effort on their parts, took no steps forward. Sakura mad that her plan fell apart, and Hinata was happy that something her heart desires didn't became something so embarrassing.
"Well it was fun girls, but it's getting late bye." Naruto said leaving, this made everyone wonder why so suddenly.
"Well that's was weird..." Ino said, just getting a nod from everyone else.
"Let's go Hinata, your house is on my way home, so lets get going." Said Ten-Ten cheerfully to Hinata, the shy girl simply nods at her statement.
"We should leave too Ino, it's getting late." Sakura said.
"Late, it's barely six." Ino complained.
After looking at the other girls, she simply sighs at her defeat and goes along with them. After this they simply exchanged their good byes, except Hinata and Sakura who gave a little but bitter one to each other but no one really noticed it, and took their leave.
On the streets Naruto walked at a fast pace, talking with his close friend about the reasons he left such a nice environment.
Come on tell me fox, why did I have to leave them. I was having fun back there...Naruto said to his friend.
Someone is watching us....he's been watching us all day....The fox said in an angry tone.
How can you tell? Naruto asked it. I can tell. He said simply back
It's no big deal, maybe just a fan girl. He said jokingly remembering earlier.
Nice joke, but I don't sense intent to kill, or any intentions. Either this human is good at following or is simply spying on us. The fox said amused at how good a human can be.
Wait if there's no intent...then why did you made such a big deal....He said to it wondering.
Because I don't like to be followed and watched, that's why...Kyuubi said back to him.
Naruto stopped walking at a fast pace and started to walk normally, feeling calmer than before.
That's all, I thought it was something more serious...I don't think its such a big deal, if he tries something funny I'll just have to kick his ass...Naruto said to the fox in a confident tone.
Very well but I warned you, that's all I can do...It said, leaving the boy to his own thoughts.
I wonder who could make that dumb fox nervous. He thought amused of the incident. But I wish he wouldn't have told me, I was having fun back there... Sigh oh well next time...He thought to himself.
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In front of Sakura's house, Ino and Sakura said their goodbyes, after which Sakura went inside and fell tired on her couch.
Sighs This day wasn't......what I expected.... sighs .... (What the hell happened?)...everything was going fine until Lee-san invited himself and everyone else. How can I like Naruto and go thru all this? sigh What's wrong with me? ...and what was Hinata's problem.... Bothering me and Naruto while we were talking so nicely....... This made her emerald eyes frown.
Hinata... She likes Naruto...that's just my luck right?...I finally accept I like the dobe and someone else shows up...oh well...I'll just have to beat her...after all who would pick a shy girl over me...She smiles and looks at the ceiling.
Beside I have the advantage, I'm Naruto's teammate...her smile faded...that didn't work with Sasuke-kun thou...Sasuke...I should try to see him....Mm...I don't have time right now... I'll go see him later...right now I need to talk to Naruto.... Tomorrow at our mission I'll talk to him, it's a C-class so I should have plenty of time to talk...and if Lee's bothering me, I'll send him on a patrol or something.... She smiled at her thoughts, stood up and headed for her room.
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Hinata sat alone on her bed, her legs hugged by her arms, and tears in her eyes. Tears she had shed so many times, even though today she tried to fight the best that she could and still it wasn't enough to defeat her opponent, let it be on the battlefield or in life itself. She knew she took a step forward but in her eyes Sakura had made a dash leaving her behind. On the battlefield her new technique couldn't stop her, in the café her words were mere a distraction that in her eyes didn't get her any closer to Naruto, she simply made a fool of herself having a stupid cat fight with Sakura, that last part was as she saw it.
It's not fair why...why?...She had her chance long ago, he always talked to her, she always had his attention...why now?...After I finally decide to tell him, she comes along and tries to take him away...if she thinks I'm going to let her this time.... She's probably right I couldn't beat her today. I lost to her in the fight...I had my chance...but I didn't take it, I needed rescuing...like always.... Her tears started flowing again, not caring other family members could hear her.
Knock Knock Hits on her door were heard and a voice called her name from the other side, concerned for her cries were obvious to everyone.
"Nee-chan, are you ok?" Were the words toward her. Hinata simply picked up a pillow and hugs it, forcing the next words to be as calm as possible.
"Y-yes Hanabi, I-I'm fine." She said trying to sound calm, but to no avail.
"Mm...really...? You don't sound like it, can I come in?" She asked not caring for the answer and already opening the door.
The room was dark, as all the lights were turned off. Her window that faced the front gate, the one which gave them a beautiful view of Konoha and the moon was closed. Once inside she saw Hinata was simply sitting in her bed, hugging a pillow.
"Nee-chan...why are you crying? ...Is it because of Neji-niisan?" She asked caring for her sister. Hinata simply shakes her head, saying no to her question.
"Then why?" She asked.
Hinata didn't know what to do, she wanted someone to talk with about this blond problem she has, but she didn't think her sister was that person. How can someone so young help her, but she wanted help so she asked her in a different way that could still be helpful.
"Hanabi, i-is there s-something you r-really w-want?" She asked her sister. Hanabi was surprised at the kind of question she was asked but still answered her.
Hanabi's white eyes looked at Hinata's, she simply smiled at her sister and answered.
"Yes..." She simply said.
Hinata was confused, she didn't know what Hanabi could want. In all of her life she has been given everything, including things that were Hinata's, but even after that Hinata didn't feel anger towards her sister.
"W-what?" She asked.
"A serious fight with you sister." She said.
Hinata was shocked of all the things she waited for, she never expected that. She had many fights with her sister so she didn't know what she meant.
"B-but w-we have a-already fought." Hinata nervously said.
"Yes, but you have never fought seriously. When Otoo-san trained me, he always told me that I would never be as strong as you. So I trained as hard as I could, I wanted with all of my heart to fight you. When we finally fought for the first time, I wanted it so much that I didn't care if you were my sister, I simply wanted to fight you so badly..." Hanabi said smiling and looking at the ground.
"But....when we fought, you didn't fight seriously. You have never fought seriously, that's why I still want to fight you...that's why every time we fight, I push my feelings to the back of my mind and give it all my all, hoping that you will fight me seriously... and I will keep doing it...until I get what I want. I just want to know if I'm stronger than you, I just simply want to know. I don't care if I lose when we fight, I just want that." She said to her.
After those words the girls stayed silent, only seeing each others form in the dark room. Hanabi simply bowed at her sister and left her to be with her thoughts.
Everyone fights for what they want. Why can't I...why do I always hold back...? I tried to fight with everything today...just like when I fought Hanabi. I can't let them win anymore, I can't let Hanabi win again...I can't let Sakura win, I can't let her...not this time, not anymore. She stands up and walks toward her window.
I can't give up...like before. Even on the darkest day, a beam of sunlight shines through the darkest cloud...After that she opens her window, hoping to see her namesake. She sweat dropped.
I forgot, it's already night...... I guess I'll try, NO! I'll go thru my cloud tomorrow...After that she simply stayed, looking at the moon.
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In a messy apartment, a boy was finishing up a cup of instant Ramen he had prepared.
Slurp "Man that was good, better than the food at that bug place." He said to himself rubbing his stomach.
There the boy stayed, savoring the taste that was left in his mouth after such a feast. While he digested the food, he had a little time to pass. So he did what he usually did at the end of the day, he went and sat on his own couch and started to think of it.
Man this day was great. He thought with a big grin on his face.
Lets see I got free food, fans and fan girls hehe. I got to see Sakura-chan...Lee, Shino, Ten-Ten-chan and even...Hinata-chan. He stated to think about his embarrassing moment he had with the girl.
Man that was embarrassing, I hugged her thinking she was the only one that visited me. What a numb skull I was.... I hugged her...that felt nice.... I hugged Sakura too, well she hugged me...that felt good too...and I rested on Ten-Ten's lap...that was new.... He started to blush, thinking of the three girls.
Here he stayed, thinking of what he knew of Sakura, Hinata and Ten-Ten
"If you beat Sasuke-kun, I'll be your girlfriend."......"He has very pretty eyes."...... Suddenly those two phrases hit his mind, making the boy sit up straight. "Damn it." He cursed, just before he hit his forehead and laying on his couch.
Baka, baka, baka. He cursed himself, for not remembering earlier.
Man I wanted to ask them about that. Damn it, I had my chance and those stupid bugs ruined it. I wanted to know why Hinata-chan liked my eyes and if Sakura-chan remembers that...and I also wanted to know why Ten-Ten has been so friendly with me.. He simply lay back on his couch, thinking of those memories he recovered thanks to his nine tail friend.
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On the roof facing Naruto's bedroom window, a masked man watched the small boy, simply watching his mind focused on something else.
This is boring I could be hunting missing-nin, but no I had to take this job didn't I.... Man he's getting sloppy.... He thought
"What do you want?" He said to apparently no one.
Out of nowhere a gray hair jounin appeared.
"Me?, I just came to say hello, because you didn't back there." He said calmly to the hunter-nin.
"Hump, felt ignored......Kakashi-kun?" He said back to him.
"A little, I haven't seen you since you left after your objectives." He said to him.
"Is that so..., well it has been a while but I still haven't finished it. How long has it been 6, 7 years, I really don't know any more..." He said in a sad tone.
"That's about right...." He said getting closer to him.
"So, how's the old pervert? I saw him in the meeting but appearances can fool you." He said smiling under the mask.
"He's fine, I just got his new volume of make out violence." Kakashi said in a lazy tone.
"That's great...and my old teammate? Still a book worm?" He asked.
"Nope, in fact he's made a name for himself in the last weeks." Kakashi said.
The Hunter-nin turned around and was face to face with Kakashi.
"Is that so?...Who would have thought...well good for him, he never was able to beat me in a fight...but he already made a name for himself. That's great I'll have to go see him after this mission." He said in a happy voice, reminiscing about his old days and friends.
Kakashi smiles at him. "You already have a name, you're known as the best S-Class hunter-nin in the ANBU." He said to him.
"Best...? I'm good but not the best, if I was the best I would have already brought him in..." He said looking straight at Kakashi.
"Very well then..." Kakashi said smiling under his mask and closing his only visible eye.
There they stayed looking at each other, then the hunter-nin points at Kakashi.
"I've heard a rumor about you...that eye is it?" He said pointing at his covered eye.
"Yep." He simply answered.
"Is it for..." "Yes." Kakashi cut him off.
"So his plan went into motion. He was very smart, I'll give him that. I never was able to outwit him." He said in a happy tone.
"Yes I remember seeing you try a couple of times when I was with my sensei. You three always visited him while he trained us." Kakashi said to him.
"Yeah old friends aren't easily forgotten, even now....what a life, my team has 2 survivors. What about his last teammate, I've hear rumors as well but I don't trust them so much." The hunter-nin asked, wondering about him.
"He's doing fine...there was an incident with him years ago, but he is fine." Kakashi said gladly.
"Well at least there's still one of that team left." Kakashi simply nods "Well...that's the life of a shinobi after all." The hunter-nin said looking at the moon.
"Yo Kakashi, aren't you going to ever take that mask off?" He asked him trying to change the topic.
"Me? I take it off every time I eat, how about you?" Kakashi said back to him.
"Hahahaha, well in that case you haven't eaten since I've known you, mine you ask? I'll remove it when he's dead, that's obvious." He said in a joking tone.
"Yeah right..." Kakashi said back
"Well I have to get going...are you tagging along tomorrow?" He asked the nin.
"Of course, that's my mission after all. Besides with what I have seen today it will be very interesting." He said catching Kakashi's interest.
"Is that so...? Well I'll see you there...well not see you, but you know what I'm saying...bye." As he waved at him, he vanished.
Still the same old baka, well at least that hasn't changed in this place, oh well tomorrow, will be more interesting than today especially after that meeting they had in the café. Oh and I should say hello to the kid, I don't want him to freak out if by any chance he senses me.... He thought overestimating his abilities and underestimating Naruto's.
END CHAPTER 10
Well another chapter done...I hope you guys like it i really had trouble writing this chap, but i hope you guys like it....and the next one is done i send it to beta read so its only a matter of time by the way the next one is one of my personal fav :)
A/N: If any one didn't get the last part dont worry its just a set up for latter so just don't forget it, in that chapter I'll drop all my theory's about the Naruto world.
Dont forget to READ and REVIEW, so REVIEW damn it.
Here's the siting arragements if any one wondered. Brouth to you by S-Wonderer999
Left side Right Side
Window
Hinata --------- Shino
Naruto --------- Lee
Sakura --------- Ten-Ten
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