Mic: Today I don't feel so good so let's just go on with the story…
Naruto woke up in an unfamiliar room. It was all really dark, meaning that it was night. He obviously freaked out. He tried to stand up but as soon as he did his knees buckled. He fell. He couldn't remember a thing that happened yesterday.
"ERO-SENNIN! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" Someone barked, Naruto looked back at little Nagashi. Then the door burst open. Everyone was there.
"What happened?" Naruto looked at Itachi, then at Sasuke, at Obito, at Tobi, at Nagashi and finally at Itachi.
"…Where am I?"
"You were staying the night over remember?"
"Oh…yeah…what time is it?"
"2:30 in the morning."
"Oh…what happened?" Sasuke was about to talk when Itachi beat him to it.
"You fell asleep in the living room."
"Really? Sorry ttebayo."
"It's okay, anyway let's get some sleep, Naruto do you feel well enough to go to school later?"
"Yeah, why do you ask?"
"Last night you bumped your head."
"Really? I don't remember…" He touched his head. "But now that you mention it, it does hurt a bit…"
"Well, okay let's get some sleep. Good night Naruto."
"Good night everyone." The door closed and Naruto crawled back into the bed and fell asleep.
Naruto woke up to find a note on the nightstand. It said:
Naruto.
There is a towel in the bathroom to your left if you want to take a shower. Jiraiya passed an hour ago to leave your backpack. There is a spare uniform in the closet. Breakfast is at 6:30. Don't be late.
Sasuke.
Naruto looked at the clock, it read 6:00. He went into the bathroom.
While Naruto walked down the stairs he was trying to make it seem like the uniform wasn't too big. And failing terribly. From the size it was obvious it was Sasuke's. The main problem was the jacket. It covered his hands completely. Every time he tried to roll up the sleeves they would simply unroll themselves. The pants on the other hand hung low on his hips, he was lucky he had a belt with him last night. He also had to roll them up so he didn't step on them. The shirt was also big, but he found a way to make it seem like it was his size. He couldn't use his own uniform because yesterday when he had come with Sasuke he was still wearing it and it got dirty while he cleaned up the kitchen and the living room and cooked. Apparently Uchihas didn't know about aprons.
"Good morning Naruto." He looked up to see a robe wearing Obito.
"I see Sasuke's uniform is too big for someone as short as you." He smirked.
"I'm not short bastard! I'm just vertically challenged!"
"Yeah sure kiddo." He ruffled the blondes hair. An occurrence seemed to make itself present on Obitos mind.
"Hey, shouldn't you be almost as tall as Sasuke even if you are a bit younger?"
"Tsunade-no-bachan says that it's because of the way I was used to be eating tteba." Obito looked a bit saddened by the explanation.
"Come on, we're gonna be late for breakfast." They reached the kitchen to find Itachi drinking coffee, Tobi decorating pancakes and Sasuke eating what looked like his face on a two inches tall pancake tower.
"Naru-chan, Obito-chan! Here! Pancakes!" He handed them each a plate with pancake towers as tall as Sasuke's. One had Obito's face and the other Naruto's face.
"Thank you Tobi."
"Thanks- Hey why do I look like a girl in this?"
"Because you look pretty like a girl, Naru-chan." Every Uchiha smirked, except for Tobi who grinned.
"I'm not pretty!" Tobi seemed to think for a bit.
"You're beautiful!"
"NO!"
"You're cute?"
"No I'm not cute!"
"Then what are you?"
"I'm…I-I don't know, I'm just not pretty!"
"Then why do you look like a girl?"
"I don't look like a girl ttebayo!"
"Yes you do, when you came with Sasu-chan the other day Tobi thought you were a girl." Naruto decided to start eating before he got humiliated further. But the way he ate told you that he was on a pancake murdering rampage. Itachi gave Naruto a glass of juice when he noticed the blonde was starting to touch his head too frequently.
"Drink it."
"Thanks." For some reason he felt better when he drank it, he had felt like he was getting a massive headache.
"Your uniform isn't dry yet, I'll give it to you later."
"Oh, thanks tteba."
"Come on we're going to be late." Naruto swallowed the last bite, put his dishes in the sink said his thanks and followed Sasuke out the door. They both got into his car. When they got to the school Naruto felt really nervous under the attention draw to the fact that Sasuke appeared with Naruto. He said bye to Sasuke and headed toward the school, trying to find Kiba. Neither the raven nor the blonde were aware of jealous, malicious green eyes watching them.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Weeee
"Kiba!" The brunette turned around when someone called him.
"Naruto, hey man! Where were you yesterday? I went to your house but no one was home and your phone was off."
"Oh, sorry. I spend the night at Sasuke-teme's." Kiba gaped at him.
"What? How? Why didn't you tell me?"
"I fell asleep."
"I don't trust him." Naruto turned around to look at Gaara.
"Who?"
"Uchiha."
"Why not tteba?"
"I know him since I was a kid. He doesn't just talk to anybody like that. He's up to something."
"No he's not ttebayo!"
"That's not your uniform."
"Huh?" He looked at Kiba.
"It's way too big for you."
"Oh, this is the teme's." They both stared at him.
"What? Mine got dirty while I helped him with something tteba."
"Ah huh, Naruto, you do know that wearing Sasuke's uniform will give a strange impression to everyone right?"
"What impression?" Kiba leaned down to whisper something in Naruto's ear, who blushed a shade of red that would put Hinata in shame.
"T-T-That's no-not true!"
"Well…" Naruto punched the brunette.
"KIBA!"
"Okay, okay, just kidding. Geez! Anyway, do you want to go for some ramen after school?"
"Ichiraku?"
"Ichiraku."
"Okay!" The bell rang, Kiba said goodbye and Gaara and Naruto headed towards their first class of the day…History…They entered the room and were surprised to see Kakashi already there.
"Ah, Naruto, you did come today! Good to know!...Are you good enough to come to practice today?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Because of last night."
"When I hit my head?"
"…Why yes."
"Yeah, I'm fine, why?"
"Nothing, anyway go take a seat you two." And as always it was at the back. Ino was already there.
"Hi Ino."
"Hi Naruto, Gaara." The redhead nodded.
"Are you alright?"
"Huh?"
"Kakashi said you hit your head."
"OH, yeah it's okay, just a little bump."
"Okay." They turned to look at Kakashi reading. They sighed and started doing other things.
I Like Cookies!
They were in literature class. Iruka was talking about Shakespeare and everyone was bored to death. Kiba and Naruto were almost asleep when Naruto heard someone calling him. He looked back and saw Ranmaru, the purple haired kid from his dream. His eyes widened.
"Ranmaru…"
"Naruto?" Kiba looked at his blonde haired friend. He was looking at the back of the room, like someone was there.
"Naruto? Buddy?" He shook his shoulder. The blonde looked at him. His eyes were different…they were…sad, something very rare to see in those blue eyes.
"Huh?"
"You alright man?"
"Oh…yeah…" The sadness disappeared to give way to another emotion…melancholy…The blonde looked out the window, ignoring everyone else. Kiba looked worried at his friend.
Practice
"Okay kiddies, how about we spar, Lee and Suigetsu, Juugo and Naruto and Sasuke and me. Then I will spar with Karin." They went into position and Karin sat down. Sakura didn't attend class that day. And they started. In the first spar Lee had the advantage. In the second one Juugo was winning, and in the third spar Kakashi had the advantage. He heard his phone ring. It stopped ringing. Then it rang again.
"Okay, Sasuke, If that thing rings three times, I have to pick up."
It stopped and rang again.
"What do you know, I do have to pick up." Kakashi attended his phone and Sasuke got his bottle to drink some water.
"Kakashi."
"Why, if it isn't Itachi, what can I do for you?"
"Kyuubi came out last night." Kakashi nodded to Sasuke and moved to his office.
"What did he say?"
"Naruto's memories are coming back. What happened last night was a memory. He said that when a memory comes, we have to give him an aspirin. The deeper the memory was buried by Kyuubi, the bigger the pain and aftershock it brings. I already gave him one today, it was dissolved in his juice. He also said that the physical experiment is starting to affect Naruto slowly."
"When?" His voice sounded serious in contrast with his normal happy voice.
" He doesn't know."
"Alright, thank you for telling me." He hung up and sighed. His Sensei's kid really was a handful but he wouldn't have it different. Suddenly he heard someone screaming. He ran out of the office to see Juugo was hurt, with Karin trying to tend to his arm(it was twisted at an awkward angle from the shoulder), Lee in front of them in defend mode and Sasuke was trying to get to Naruto, who looked like a wild animal, ready to attack anyone. Kakashi mouthed 'Distract him'. Sasuke seemed to understand him and got in action. While Naruto was distracted with Sasuke, Kakashi tackled the blonde from behind, sitting on his back and immobilizing both arms. The blonde struggled.
"GET THE HELL OF OFF ME BASTARD!" Everyone was surprised to hear a voice a bit deeper than the blondes leave his mouth.
"Kyu-Naruto! Calm down! It's practice, calm down!"
"Kakashi?"
"Yes." The blonde stopped moving immediately.
"You won't do anything?"
"No I won't Kakashi, but if you don't get off I will." A death warning.
"Okay just checking." He got off. The blonde looked at everyone, stopping briefly to stare at Sasuke and concentrated on Kakashi.
"I apologize, Naruto's mind panicked because of something." The last went unheard by everyone but Kakashi. He turned back and started walking towards Juugo. Karin stood up.
"It's okay Karin." Karin looked at Kakashi, nodded and stepped aside. Everyone watched as 'Naruto' kneeled beside Juugo.
"I'm sorry for causing this and I'm sorry for the pain to come." Before anyone could even blink, the blonde took a hold of the shoulder and forearm. He made a quick pull and push motion, then instantly let go. Juugo yelled because of the pain. He stood up when Karin kneeled beside the injured boy.
"Move your arm." Juugo looked at him and did as told. He was surprised to see that he could move it normally and without any type of pain.
"I apologize once again. It will not repeat itself." He bowed. Everybody noticed 'Naruto's' strange behavior so unlikely to his normal one. And his eyes were serious and cold, when they were normally happy and determined.
"It's okay…" Kakashi went into his office and came back with a glass of water.
"Here, it's dissolved."
"Thank you." He gulped it all down.
"Okay everyone, practice ends early today, I have to attend a meeting so off you go you maggots." They changed back to his uniforms. 'Naruto' was walking away when someone called him.
"Naruto, you didn't forget about the ramen did you?"
"Of course not…..um….Kiba!" He looked at back at Kakashi who mouthed 'Do it!' and left.
"So….shall we get going?"
"Yeah, hey man, your voice is a bit different."
"I have a sore throat."
"You didn't in the morning."
"Yeah, I don't know why." Kiba looked confused at him, then brushed it off.
"Come on, let's get into the car." Once they did 'Naruto' told Kiba that he was a bit tired and needed to sleep. Kiba said that it was okay and that he would wake the blonde up when they got there. 'Naruto' immediately fell asleep.
The Sparkles Attack! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
"Naruto! Naruto wake up!" The blonde opened his eyes.
"Huh?"
"We're here man, Ichiraku." He was now fully awake. He got out of the car and followed Kiba into the ramen restaurant. While he did, Naruto was realizing that he didn't remember what happened after the middle of his spar with Juugo. He brushed it off when Ayame, the owner's daughter appeared.
"Naruto-kun! We haven't seen you around for a while!"
"Yeah, I've been kinda busy tteba!"
"The usual?" Naruto nodded. "And for you sir?"
"Same as blondie please."
"Alright, so that will be two bowls of miso ramen, right? I'll bring them right away." She smiled and headed to the kitchen.
"Naruto-ni-chan!"Both boys turned around. There was a thirteen year old brunette with a really, really long scarf standing there.
"Konohamaru! Long time no see! How have you been?"
"I can't complain, ne Ni-chan where have you been? I've looked all over for you!"
"I've been kinda busy lately ttebayo, look, this is Kiba" He pointed at the dog-lover.
"Hi Kiddo." He drank from a water bottle he had. Konohamaru seemed to think about something.
"Ne, Ni-chan, are you on a date?" Kiba spit the water and Naruto choked with his own saliva. When he got air into his lungs once more, he quickly denied what the boy said.
"N-NO! We're o-only friends!" Damn! Naruto just won the national blushing contest. Kiba had a light pink blush on his cheeks too.
"I already have a girlfriend!"
"Then you're cheating on her?"
"NO! This is NOT a date!"
"Oh, okay, I have to go, see ya Ni-chan." The evil kid left and Kiba and Naruto got themselves in an extremely awkward silence, until the ramen came.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 47 ramen bowls and a broke Kiba later
"Bye Kiba, sorry about the ramen."
"Yeah, say that to my wallet." He left and Naruto opened the apartment. He was surprised to find Jiraiya there.
"Ero-sennin? What are you doing here ttebayo?"
"What I can't come to my own house ?"
"No, I mean normally you aren't here until after seven."
"I felt like taking a break, my editor owes me that much."
"Okay, I'm gonna go change." He went into his room. When he finished he washed Sasuke's Uniform and put it in the dryer.
"Ne, Ero-sennin, can I go later to Sasuke's house? I need to give him back his uniform."
" 'Course Kiddo." Naruto sat down next to Jiraiya in the couch.
"…Ne, Ero-sennin tteba?
"Yeah?"
"…What kind of people were my pa-parents?"Jiraiya looked at Naruto.
"…They were, well they were real weird Hehe." Naruto glared at him.
"And they were the most kind and generous people I have ever known." The blonde stared at him. "Your father decided to follow in my steps, he taught History and Literature. He also created the 'Rasengan Dojo', everyone used to call him 'The Yellow Flash Of Konoha' because of his distinctive speed while fighting. Your mother on the other hand decided to study law, becoming a very respected lawyer, and even if she didn't practice any kind of fighting, she had quite a punch, defending herself quite well. She had to, otherwise she wouldn't have survived the first seventeen years of her life, she used to live in a very bad neighborhood."
"It's funny how she and your father came to know each other. Your father had been in a party and somehow got drunk. He destroyed a car and was brought to court. Kushina, that's your mother name, was the lawyer of the owner of the car. Because throughout her childhood she had seen the act your father committed thousands of times, she immediately hated his guts. In the end your father did spend the night in jail then next day I bailed him out and he started to stalk her until she accepted to go out with him."
"It was supposed to be only one date, yet somehow they married each other at the age of twenty two, nine months later having a child, you. You do look a lot like your father, except for the shape of your eyes. They are your mother's. Your personality is a trait from your mother as well, Minato, your father, was a more pacific type of person. I remember your mother used to repeat something like your ttebayo, but I can't remember what it was….Wait here." The man went into his room and came out with a portrait.
"Here, it's a picture of them just right after your birth, you're there too." There was a blonde man, taller than Naruto could ever hope to be. He had blue eyes and was hugging a beautiful red head woman, she had green eyes. They were both smiling. There was a little bundle of orange in her arms. It was a little blonde baby. Naruto stared in awe at the picture
"Is that really me?"
"Yeah, you were a real handful from what I can remember. I used to babysit you sometimes."
"W-What happened t-to them?"
"…Why don't we leave that for later?"
"But-"
"Don't you have a uniform to deliver?"
"I forgot about it ttebayo!" The blonde hurried to the washroom and Jiraiya sighed in relief. 'That was a close one…' A while later Naruto came back with the uniform, it looked clean and neat.
"Come on brat, we gotta get going."
"You're taking me?"
"Yep, afterwards were going to eat something and buy you some clothes, you really need something not orange."
"But I like that color tteba!"
"Yeah, well, I don't. Come on." And so they headed towards Jiraiya's other car, a red Ferrari. It was surprising they were using that one because the man adored his van and used it for everything.
"We're not taking Naku?" Yep, he even named him…well, her.
"Nope."
"Why?"
"…I kinda crashed her."
"YOU CRASHED NAKU? BUT I CLEANED HER JUST YESTERDAY! SHE WAS FREAKING SPARKLING!"
"Hey, I'm not too thrilled either, the usual workshop was closed so I had to take her to a new one, only god knows what they're doing to my baby."
"Then why did you crash her in the first place?" They got into the car and Jiraiya drove to the Uchiha's home, mansion, compound, whatever you want to call it. They delivered the uniform, got Naruto's, confirmed he was taking Tobi for ramen the next day, said bye and headed to the mall. They were currently in the food court.
"So what do you want?" Naruto was about to answer when Jiraiya interrupted him. "No ramen."
"Why not?"
"You eat it every day! Why do that when you always cook other things?"
"Because ramen is wonderful!"
"Wonderful my ass, choose or I choose."
"Okay, okay, um…pizza." They ordered and sat down.
"Ne, do you know someone named Ranmaru?" Jiraiya choked because of the sudden question.
"Uh, never heard of him."
"Oh…okay then…" He continued eating.
"Ne, what was Orochimaru like before? Was he different?" Jiraiya looked at Naruto a bit sadly.
"…He…He was different….He was…..He was serious, yet happy, I mean, he was very different then when he was taking care of you…." Naruto looked at him expectantly. "Look even if he did everything that he did to you, you have to know that he did have a heart and cared for you, he just…he changed…he started drinking and became violent….he…he changed…but still I know he never meant to do anything bad to you." Naruto looked down at the table.
"I know…" Suddenly the blonde perked up.
"Ne, how did you meet ba-chan?"
"Who are you calling ba-chan you brat?" Naruto turned around to see Tsunade and her assistan, Shizune there. Their pig, Ton Ton was present too.
"Ah, my beautiful Tsunade! What a pleasure to meet you here! Come on sit down you two!" And they sat.
"Ne Shizune-nee-chan, how did you get Ton Ton in here? I thought animals weren't allowed in."
"A little talk is all you need Naruto-kun."
"Yeah, that and a punch brat." Naruto looked at her like 'WTF' when the previous question he had made came into his mind.
"Ne, Tsunade-no-bachan, how did you and Ero-sennin meet?"
"Well, brat, we were about 13 years old, I was walking home from school when this idiot came and started saying those lame corny lines idiotic people use."
"You know you fell for them, Tsunade-hime." Tsunade blushed a tiny bit.
She cleared her throat "Yeah, well anyway I somehow became friends with the baka and he bugged me for years until I accepted to go out on a date with him and here we are now."
"That was years ago right?" Tsunade hit him in the head saying 'Brat!'.
"Ow, you old hag! I just meant that I'm surprised you're not married yet!" Both looked at him in surprise, looked at each other, blushed and looked away. Shizune and Naruto saw this and looked at each other and laughed.
"Yeah well, I don't see you proposing to anyone brat!"
"I'm fifteen years old! I'm too young to get married ttebayo!"
"Yeah, that's what they all say." Damn evil old people!
"Would you ladies like to accompany me and the little yellow flea over here" "HEY!" "To get him some non-orange clothes? I think we could use the opinion of a woman."
"Sure." Both women looked evilly at Naruto. " We do have some ideas." Each one took him by one arm and dragged him away.
"YOU TREATOROUS ERO-SENNIN!" Jiraiya sighed.
"Nothing more scary then a woman shopping." And proceeded to follow them….and eventually lost them so he decided to go to a nearby bar, knowing Tsunade, he wasn't seeing Naruto until late at night.
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This was just crazy! It had been three hours and these women still wouldn't let him go, and it had been hours since he had seen Jiraiya. He had fought, struggled, screamed but at the end Tsunade simply took him by one leg and dragged him around. He now knew how Fiona from Shrek had felt when the ogre carried her to take her with prince whatever-it-was.
"Are we done yet? I wanna sleep."
"Just one more stop. Ah, there it is!" Naruto looked at the shop. It was pink. He looked at the yellow sign. The dress world.
"Why is it pink?"
"Because it's a dress shop."
"A dress sho- oh no, there's no way I'm going in there tteba!"
"Come on, it's for your job!"
"Nope."
"Well even let you pick the color."
"No!"
"Too bad we're not asking brat." The woman grinned, the boy screamed bloody murder, the other woman giggled and the pig 'oinked'. The blonde struggled and yet the women disappeared with him in the shop.
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Naruto entered the school to find everyone extremely silent. And they were watching his every step. He decided to look for Kiba, or someone who would tell him what happened. He found Hinata running towards him.
"Ne, Hinata, where are Gaara and Kiba?"
"G-Gaara-san said tha-that h-he had to go so-somewhere with his fa-father and K-Kiba-kun said t-that he has t-to help out i-in the s-shelter."
"Oh, hey do you know what's wrong with everyone today?" Hinata looked down at the floor. And stuttered nervously.
"Y-You have t-to see y-your locker-r." She took his hand and pulled him hurriedly towards the locker. Naruto was surprised to see Ino, Sai, Chouji and everyone else there. They looked worriedly at Naruto. The blondes eyes widened at the red note glued to the little metal door.
Be careful.
If you don't watch your back, today could be your last day in this school.
It was Sakura's hand writing. Ino quickly took the note off and threw it away.
"Come on Naruto, don't listen to that note." The rest of the day Naruto didn't dare to go anywhere alone, and nobody wanted him to go anywhere alone. That day it was Sai who accompanied the blonde home.
"Naruto, are you okay?"
"Yeah…"
"…Naruto do you have plans for today? Perhaps we could go to somewhere?"
"Sorry Sai, Sasuke, his cousin and I are going to Ichiraku, I think you could come if you like." Sai was about to answer when his phone beeped. He looked at the small message he had received.
"Sorry Naruto, but apparently Danzou wants me to get home."
"Okay tteba." They had already arrived at the apartment's parking lot.
"Well, bye Sai."
"Bye Naruto, take care."
"You too tteba!" The blonde hurried up the stairs and into the apartment. He went into his room to take a bath and change. He had just finished his homework when someone knocked on the door. He opened it to find both Sasuke and Tobi standing there.
"Hi Naru-chan!"
"Hi Tobi, Sasuke, come in!" Tobi did, but Sasuke stayed outside.
"Is it okay if I leave Tobi here for a while? Itachi and Obito aren't home and I have to meet with Kakashi so I can't go with you."
"Sure, ttebayo!"
"Okay, Tobi, listen to Naruto okay, don't cause trouble."
"No Sasu-chan! Tobi won't cause trouble!"
"Okay, bye."
"Yeah, bye." And the raven disappeared. Naruto closed the door and looked at Tobi. He was sitting on the couch.
"Okay Tobi, today as I promised, we're going to Ichiraku Ramen! They serve the best ramen in the world ttebayo!"
"Really?"
"Yep! Come on!"
"Okay!" Naruto grabbed a coat, his keys and some money and both got out of the apartment.
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"Here we are Tobi! The greatest ramen serving restaurant in the whole universe ttebayo!" They had just gotten out of the cab. Naruto had already payed. And both entered the warm place. It was really cold outside and it looked like it was going to rain.
"What do you want Tobi?"
"Tobi doesn't know, what does Naru-chan want?"
"Well, I always order miso ramen so how about we start with that?" Tobi nodded.
"Hello Naruto-kun, what would you like today?"
"The usual for both please, Ayame-nee-chan."
"Sure! I'll be right back." And she disappeared.
"Ne Naru-chan, is she your nee-chan?"
"Huh? Oh, No, I call her that because I've known her for a very long time and sometimes she does act like an older sister."
"Oh, she's pretty just like Naru-chan!"
"I already told you I'm not pretty!"
"Naruto-ni-chan!" Both boy turned to look at the brunette.
"Konohamaru! You here again?"
"Yeah, ne, whose your friend?"
"Oh, this is Tobi, Tobi, this is Konohamaru."
"Hi."
"Hi Kono-chan!"
"Kono-chan?"
"Yeah, anyway do you want to eat with us?"
"No thanks, I gotta go, bye!"
"Bye ttebayo!"
"Bye Kono-chan!" Ayame then came back with two big bowls of ramen.
"Here you are!"
"Thanks, Ayame-nee-chan!"
"Thank you Ayame-chan!" Ayame smiled warmly at both of them before leaving to attend another customer. They started eating.
"So? How is it tteba?"
"It's just as you said Naru-chan!"
"Glad to know you liked it!" They continued eating bowl after bowl.
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Naruto and Tobi were walking waiting for a cab. They both had full tummies and smiles on their faces. It was funny but at the time Naruto noticed there weren't any people in the street.
"Hey idiot!" Naruto turned around to find Renji and his gang of thugs walking toward them. His mind started racing. He took Tobi's hand.
"Run!" Tobi did as told. Both boys tried to get out of there as fast as they could, only to end up in an alley with a dead end.
"So nowhere to run now huh?" Naruto looked at them. He was starting to panic. Especially because Tobi was present, meaning they could harm the boy.
"W-What do y-you want? I-I h-haven't done a-anything."
"Actually you did. You dared to get friends." He walked right in front of Naruto.
"Now, what made you think you had the right to get friends?" He punched Naruto in the gut. The blonde fell to his knees.
"Naru-chan!" Tobi tried to get close to Naruto but two of them got a hold of him by his arms.
"Naru-chan?" Tobi looked up at the malevolent grin the brown haired boy had glued to his face.
"Stop hurting Naru-chan!"
"And why would I do that?" He kicked the blonde.
"Give me a good reason why I should stop hurting this idiot." He continued kicking him. Naruto could do nothing but scream at the pain, especially when the rest of the started kicking him as well. Someone pulled him up by his collar, only to punch him again and again. They let him go and Renji put his foot on Naruto's head. He slowly started to put pressure on it, making Naruto scream even more.
"STOP IT!" Naruto weakly looked at Tobi. Renji grinned and ordered two of his friends to take the blonde each by one arms. Someone handed him a metallic bat.
"Look carefully, this is what happens when you don't understand where your place is!" He hit Naruto with the bat. Blood came out of the blonde's mouth.
"LEAVE NARU-CHAN ALONE!" They stopped. Tobi was crying. Renji grinned and gave Naruto one last hit on the head for a good measure. The thugs let the blonde go. Naruto was on the verge of unconsciousness. His vision was blurred and he could barely move. Renji walked towards Tobi.
"No…L-Leave T-Tobi a-a-a-alone…" Renji looked at him. The teen kneeled beside Naruto. He hoisted his head up by pulling at the blonde locks.
"And what if I don't?" He slapped the blonde.
"I-It's me-e you're…y-you're a-after…..j-just let h-him g-go…" Renji laughed.
"I am afraid I can't do that. What fun would it be?" He slapped him again and let go. He headed towards Tobi again.
"Why are you crying? Huh? What are you a wuss?"
"TOBI IS NOT A WUSS!"
"Oh really? Then what are you? A baby? A faggot? Or are you simply retarded?"
"TOBI IS NOT RETARDED!" Renji struck a nerve. And he knew it, so he decided to use it in his advantage.
"Tell me, Tobi was it? Are you retarded? Huh? Are you? Are you stupid? Huh? Tell me are you?" Tobi cried harder and Renji punched him.
"Look at the retarded! He's crying!" Everyone laughed. Renji punched Tobi in the stomach.
"Leave him alone!" Renji looked at Naruto, the blonde had somehow gotten up. But wait, there was something different about his eyes…they…they were red…and his voice was different too, probably from screaming.
"And what if I don't want to?" He punched the boy again and Naruto glared. He ran forward, and gave a good punch in the gut to the brown haired boy. His thugs let go of Tobi and attacked Naruto, the blonde used Renji as a shield, and kicked one of them while punching the other. Because of the force of the attacks, Renji was unconscious already. The rest of them tried to hit the blonde as well but he quickly disposed of them. The blonde walked towards Tobi, his eyes slowly becoming to normal.
"A-Are y-you o-okay Tobi-i?" The boy nodded.
"Good…" His voice became normal too. Suddenly he fell down.
"NARU-CHAN!" Naruto weakly opened his eyes. He looked around….where was he…? He wasn't in the alley, and Tobi wasn't there so…..what was this place….? He was surrounded by water. He could see the bubbles his movements produced. He could see the surface yet didn't need to move towards it. His mind was completely at peace. He didn't find the need to breath nor the strength to move. He closed his eyes. It had been a while since he had felt so at ease. When he opened his eyes he saw himself floating just above the surface, but it wasn't him, the other boy had his hair slightly shorter and he had no scars. His blonde hair was…darker and his skin was a bit paler. His pupils were red and the white part of the eye was replaced completely by black (1). The figure put both his hand in the line that limited both air and water. Naruto did as well, coming in contact with the other's hand which intertwined their fingers with the blue eyed boy's ones. He looked into the others eyes.
"You belong with me…" Naruto's eyes started closing.
"Why did you leave me?" He could barely keep his eyes open.
"I'm waiting for you…" Even in the darkness Naruto could hear that voice. A voice full of….sorrow…
"Come with me…you belong here…Naruto…"
"I'm waiting here for you…"
"Why won't you come…?" Naruto opened his eyes once more, the other was still there, watching him.
"I'll come for you…" The form's grip on Naruto's hands got stronger, like he didn't want Naruto to go. Naruto closed his eyes.
"I promise…" He opened them again.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX MEAN WHILE IN THE EXCACT MOMENT OF THE 'DREAM' XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Somewhere in a big dark room, someone opened his eyes. He chuckled darkly.
"I'm coming for you…Naruto…How ironic, we're closer than expected, why it will take me only a day to see you…" He chuckled once again
- It's time for a change don't you think? -
Everything was black. Slowly things started to morph in front of him. The alley, Tobi, everything was there. The Uchiha seemed to be screaming at him, yet Naruto didn't hear a single word leave his mouth. He blinked. The sounds were slowly coming to him.
"Naru-chan!" Naruto focused on Tobi.
"W-What?"
"Naru-chan, are you okay?"
"I-I think so…" Everything that happened came back to him. He quickly sat up, screaming at the pain that shot through his body.
"Naru-chan!"
"I-It's o-okay Tobi…" He reached into his pocket and used the speed dial to call the first person in his list. Jiraiya.
"Hello?"
"E-Ero-sennin…"
"Naruto? Are you okay?"
"I-I need y-you to c-c-come pick us u-up. We're i-in an a-alley t-two blocks f-from I-Ichi-Ichiraku…" He hung up before the man could do anymore questions. Naruto slowly fell asleep again. This time his encounter with the blonde not repeating itself.
Jiraiya got to the alley twenty minutes later to find a very seriously beaten Naruto, a Tobi with a black eye and several unconscious guys he recognized from Naruto's school.. He quickly hoisted Naruto up (He had walked all the way there, he had lend his car for a while) and quickly headed to the nearest hospital which conveniently was Tsunade's. He looked back every minute to make sure Tobi was following him, which wasn't really necessary, the little Uchiha was holding on to the back of his jacket. When he finally got there he had practically screamed to get aome attention for Naruto, luckily Tsunade was down there with Shizune and quickly got to work on the blonde. Jiraiya and Tobi stayed in the waiting room with a nurse attending the Uchiha's wounds.
- With our dear old grumpy Sasuke-
Sasuke was drinking a coffee, while still waiting for Kakashi to show up. Damn idiot making him go all the way there to wait a whole hour for him. Suddenly his phone rang.
"Uchiha here."
"Sasuke." Jiraiya? How unusual for the man to call him. "Get your ass down to Konoha hospital. Now."
Sasuke stood up. "What happened?"
"I'll explain when you get here." The man hung up. Sasuke headed to the parking lot, his heart and mind both racing. Had something happened to Tobi? And what about Naruto? He quickly discarded all the questions to concentrate fully on getting to the hospital as soon as possible.
- At the hospital. -
Sasuke rushed inside the building looking for Jiraiya Naruto or Tobi, quickly locating the black haired boy and the old pervert. Naruto was nowhere to be seen. He headed towards them.
"Jiraiy, Tobi, what happened?" Both looked at him, that's when Sasuke noticed the boys black eye.
"Tobi! What happened? Who did this to you?" He kneeled in front of the boy.
"Some punks from the school attacked them. I already made them check Tobi, he's fine, just a black eye as you can see and a little bruise in the stomach, it'll heal in no time. Naruto is the one I'm worried about. He did take quite a beating."
"N-Naru-chan got mad because they hit Tobi! And Naru-chan hit them! But then Naru-chan fell asleep!" They saw Tsunade walk towards them, she looked upset.
"I've already checked Naruto, surprisingly he doesn't have any bruises tough he will be in a bit of pain tomorrow but besides that he's fine but we did find a small gash in his head. Was he hit with anything? " Her voice was cold and angry at the bastards who did that to Naruto, yet relived because they hadn't made any major damage to the blonde. Tobi seemed to think for a bit.
"T-They hit Naru-chan with a bat!" They all looked at him before looking at Tsunade again.
"Thought so. His wounds aren't too bad so he can go home, but I do suggest you bring him to me every day for the next week. Just leave him here for at least two days and then you can take him."
"What about school?"
"Hmmm,…let me monitor him and if he's good enough after two days he can attend." Jiraiya nodded.
"Can we see him?" Tsunade nodded. She led them along a hallway and entered a room. Naruto was inside. He had his eyes open but they were unfocused.
"Naruto?" They boy looked at them.
"Are you okay Tobi?" The boy nodded and the blonde looked at the ceiling again.
"Good…" Sasuke and Jiraiya looked at Tsunade.
"What's wrong with him?"
"…We don't know, it's not from the blow, he doesn't have any kind of trauma, we spent the last hour and a half doing psychological tests and he answered like a person of his I.Q would…." They looked at Naruto again. Tobi was by his side. He had fallen asleep. They stayed there for a while until it became dark. Sasuke and Tobi said good bye and left, Jiraiya decided to spent the night there.
(1): This is NOT Kyuubi! It will be revealed afterwards. This person does have a physical body.
Mic: MY LONGEST CHAPPIE YET! HURRAY! Yes I know this is pretty messed up. It's so weird…
ITMB: You're not so bad, but you could use some work on how long the chapter is.
Mic: Well just because every chapter you do is of, like, exactly 30,000 word means that mine has to be too.
ITMB: Yeah you're right, you're not as good as I am.
Mic: Damn idiot with a god complex…
ITMB: You know you love me!
Mic: You wish!
Naruto: You know, that is exactly what I said to Sasuke when He told me what ITMB said…..and look at us now….
Mic: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! *goes to cry in a corner*
ITMB: Told you so!...
Sasuke: Don't cry, I'm sure Naruto and I could plan your wedding.
Mic: I'm only fourteen! I'm not marrying anyone!1
ITMB: You know it's only matter of time!
Mic: Why the hell do I let you appear here?
ITMB: Because you need my opinion.
Mic: Damn idiot and his logic!
ITMB: So anyway review!...please…¬¬