Naruto the 4th Reborn
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Chapter 11: The Break.
The last round of the preliminaries was Sakura against Ino which Ino won by a close one. She had to use her new earth style jutsu 'Earth clone' to beat the pinkette barely. Shikamaru just used a few clone jutsu and a subsitution and trapped his opponent with shadow possesion jutsu and won easily.
"Alright so the winners of the preliminaries are Shino Aburame, Naruto Uzumaki, Gaara Sabaku, Temari Sabaku, Kiba Inuzuka, Kankuro Sabaku, Neji Hyuga, Utakata, Ino Yamanaka and Shikamaru Nara. All of the names I just called please come to where I am and take a piece of paper out of these boxes. Then once you have them please show them to me so I can right your matches on the board." Hayata said holding a wooden box.
All the genin took numbers and showed them to Hayata who just wrote on a board.
"Alright the first brackets first match will be Ino Yamanaka against Utakata and then the second match will be Shikamaru Nara against Neji Hyuga." Ino gulped at the fact she was going to be fighting against Utakata who was way ahead of her and she definitely needed to train with her sensei a lot.
"Second bracket will have 3 matches and the first match will be Naruto Uzumaki against Kiba Inuzuka, second will be Gaara Sabaku against Kankuro Sabaku and the last match will be Temari Sabaku and Shino Aburame." Naruto was sad as he was going to face Kiba first as he wanted to crush Gaara for hurting his friend.
"So the final rounds in a month will have these match ups. You might see its unfair as everyone has seen my abilities or some people didn't show all their abilities. Well many things in life are unfair and what you should do is train to get new skills. You all may leave now and get adequate rest and come back for the final rounds in a month." The proctor said making many walk away.
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Somewhere in the tower.
"Temari-chan!" came a shout from a blond leaf genin who was running at her.
"Hi Naruto-kun." She said at the now panting boy.
"Do you wanna go out? I know its just after the matches but we didn't really have any serious matches so if you wanna go im fine." He said with a grin obviously trying to hide his misery.
"Naruto follow me" she said walking towards her room she used for the waiting period.
He followed her not wanting to upset her as he found himself in her room while she was sitting on the bed patting a spot signaling for him to sit next to her.
She soon grabbed his head and put it to her lap. He quickly removed his head. "Umm, I don't know what your doing bu-" he was cut off as the same pair of hands put him back to her lap.
"Just let all your emotions out. I know how it feels like for one of your close people to get hurt. I do hope you don't hate Gaara as he does have a story like everyone but right now the only comfort I can give you is this and it is the only way I can think of letting you be free" she said.
He flipped his head up to show a grin on his face which slowly changed to a slight grin, to a normal face, to a frowning face and then full out bawling his eyes out on her lap.
All she could do was pat his back and let him let it all out. She knew how it felt like when someone close to you was hurt and you couldn't do anything much like how she was with Gaara. She tried many times to get close to her brother but her father would always make her distance herself from her little brother.
10 minutes passed, they were still in the same position, same situation and Naruto was still crying his eyes out but now fully accepting the comfort her lap was giving. Naruto wanted to stop crying but he had heard about Choji from a doctor and heard he wasn't going to be a ninja anymore and knew it would crush the Akimichi heir as his goal in life was to protect those he loved and become a great Akimichi clan head and show the world his clan was great.
An hour passed, the crying turned into soft sobs and soon he flat out passed out. She hated seeing him like this why she didn't know as when she heard he was hurt in the forest of death she instantly felt a piece of her heart was gone. Now she just felt useless.
She soon lay him down on the bed letting him rest and she just sat next to where he lay unconcious watching his sleeping form like a hawk.
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2 hours passed
Naruto's eyes fluttered open but he didn't know where he was. He started to piece things together until he felt a grunt to his right. He turned his head and saw a mop of blond hair similar to his and when he realised whose hair it was he instantly jumped out of the bed.
The hair was Temari's and he was sleeping in a bed with her. Putting all the pieces together he realised she offer him comfort which he obviously accepted.
'How long have I been unconcious Kurama?' he asked the deity in his belly.
"2 hours and one thing, never let that girl go she is probably the best thing that happened to you"
'She really is the best' he thought to himself
Soon he sat there like she did for him however this time he stayed awake and 30 minutes passed until her eyes fluttered open.
"Nice nap Temari-chan?" he asked making her open her eyes and see that the blond she was taking care of was awake.
"When did you wake up and are you feeling better?" she asked
"Im fine thanks to you and I woke up about 30 minutes ago I think" he said while grabbing her hand fully awaking her and dragging her out of the room.
"Where are we going?" She asked trying to keep up with his pace.
"To that date, duh" he said as if it were obvious.
He soon led her too Ichiraku's and they had a wonderful time together. The father-daughter work combo teased Naruto by telling Temari all sorts of embarassing details of his childhood which simply made her laugh.
They did an eating contest which Naruto easily one with a score of 30-4 which made Temari feel like dying at the end. "That was fun Temari-chan, we should do that next time" the blond said making the other blond gag. Naruto just chuckled at the antics of his blond companion.
Unbeknownst to the blonds, they were being watched by 2 perverts. "Seems like the kid has found his Kushina" a white haired tall man who wore a kimono and mesh armour.
"Yes Jiraiya-sama, that girl definitely reminds me of Kushina. Seems like Naruto is a lot like his father at choices for woman" Kakashi said.
"Yes and I wonder if she will have jugs as big as Kushina as well" the man know known as Jiraiya said with a perverse grin.
"Jiraiya-sama" Kakashi said in a more serious tone. "He is definitely talented but I feel he can reach his full potential under you and I wish I could train him but the council wants me to train Sasuke. Im sorry to push Naruto off to you but please train him like you trained sensei." The masked man said bowing at Jiraiya.
"Kakashi no need to bow. I would probably have trained him anyway even if you didn't ask me but thank you for giving me your permision." The sennin(Sage) said.
"I'll approach him in about 3 days until then im going to be doing somethings for my spy network so just tell him to rest cause my training regimen is going to be hard so just give him his rest for now." Jiraiya said disappearing in a swirhl of leaves.
'Might as well do it while that girl is around so she can keep him in check' the jonin thought also using a shunshin.
"So yea one time Sasu-" Naruto was cut off as he saw the form of his jonin sensei entering Ichiraku's
"Yo Naruto, I knew I would find you here." He said with a wave.
"Oh Kakashi-sensei can you train me tommorow please" Naruto said using the puppy dog eyes jutsu.
"Naruto I wont be training you, I have to train Sasuke but I found a even more amazing teacher than me. The teacher I found for you is probably the strongest shinobi under the leaf village." Kakashi said now not wanting to say what he was going to say. "Naruto take a rest for 3 days. Your sensei wont come until then so just take a break from all your intense training."
"No its not fair, Sasuke gets training and I don't get any from you and I have to wait for thi-" he was cut off as he got smacked in the head by a fist from a blond to his left.
"Naruto-kun listen your sensei please." She said in a sweet yet definitely monster voice.
"Ok" he squeaked out.
'Seems this girl has a tight lock on my blond genin' Kakashi tought smirking under his mask at the young love.
"Well I guess that settles it so yea, im not forbidding you from training but just train at least 3 times less." Kakashi said before using a shunshin.
"Well I guess that's that and I wont be training for a while, will you be free tommorow?" he asked hoping he wouldn't be alone tommorow.
"Yea im free tommorow Naruto-kun" she said like she was talking to a child. "Now lets go home" she said before grabbing his hand and walking out of the store.
"Seems our Naruto has grown into a fine man" Teuchi said before chuckling.
"Yes he has, that girl is perfect for him even if she is older than him." Ayame thought remeniscing the first crush she had and still had.
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Somewhere in Konoha
Naruto and Temari were walking hand in hand in a comfortable silence as 'friends'. Many people sent glares to them but Temari already got over it but still didn't know why they did it.
"Temari-chan" Naruto said breaking the silence. "Thank you for what you did earlier."
"What do you mean? All I did was let you use my lap as a pillow." She said calmly.
"I don't know but I just felt like I could let out all my feeling there and then so thank you. I have forgotten about revenge as that was all I thought at that time. I still will have that feeling in me as im human as your brother probably didn't have to do that but like you said everyone has a story." He said completely shocking her as no one had actually accepted Gaara.
"By the way im the same as Gaara" he said in a mysterious tone which made her mind run a mile a second. She had just gotten a clue to find out why Naruto was hated. When she found a logical solution her eyes widened.
"N-naruto a-are you a j-jinchuuriki?" she asked to which she got a simple nod.
"Do you hate me now? If you do its ok I understand." He said in disappointed as he heard silence. Temari wasn't silent because she hated Naruto no she was silent because of what he said making her feel so sad for the boy.
"No I still like you Naruto. I think being a jinchuuriki has only increased my respect of you. You have to deal with all this shit and you don't even care and live your life as happy as you can be." She said squeezing his arm tighter in her grip. She soon started hearing drops that got increasingly more often and she turned her head to gaze her blond friend.
Her friend was crying tears of joy and happiness that someone accepted him for who he was just like Iruka-sensei, the 3rd Hokage and Kakashi-sensei. "Thank you Temari-chan" he said rubbing his tears away. They continued to walk in silence feeling more at ease with themselves. Naruto didn't know why he told her he was a jinchuuriki he just felt like he should at that point.
"Well this is my hotel" Temari said stopping the walk and turning towards her friend. "Thanks for walking me here. I hope you feel better about your friend." She soon pulled him into an embrace and pecked him on the cheek.
"B-bye" he managed to stutter out at the leaving form of Temari. His face was a shade of red that made tomatoes look pale.
'Maybe me and Temari-chan being a couple aint bad, do you think we would work Kurama?' Naruto asked starting to get thoughts about his friend as more than a friend
"Kid I've been telling you since the forest of death she is the best thing that happened to you and you should seize the opportunity"
'Me and Temari-chan as a couple' Naruto soon kept thinking about it and blushed at some of his thoughts. 'Maybe I should try it.'
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Yea so pretty much a relationship developing chapter. Jiraiya will train Naruto but it wont be the summoning jutsu and will be something else. I hope you all enjoy this chapter and I will update the story soon and for now bye.