Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto… *sigh* believe it… God I hate myself for saying that… Enjoy the chapter, I'm going to go do Kenchi stuff and repent my manliness for spouting off that half-baked, half-assed catchphrase that never even got off the ground.
Chapter 12: Professional/Personal
Naruto woke up with a weight on his chest… again. Upon opening his eyes he scanned the ceiling, 'Okay, holes from the time I kept throwing my knife into the ceiling, that was awesome.' Naruto turned to his side, 'It looks like my room, smells like my room… yep, it's my room.'
Naruto peered down to see a girl with dark blue hair on his chest, deducing it to be Hinata from last night. Naruto sighed and spoke softly, "What is it with girls coming to sleep ON me in the middle of the night… And why the hell can't I tell when they do it? Some attentive professional I am."
Naruto looked around the room before finding a pillow sitting on a chair in his corner. Naruto flew through a few handsigns before a poof signified him switching places with said pillow. Naruto stood out of the chair and scratched his head as he saw Hinata grasp the pillow tightly, "Not a log, but it sure got the job done."
Naruto left to the living room to turn on the TV. As he flipped through the channel and stopped on the morning news a grin broke out on his face as footage of the wreckage from Naruto and Sasuke's escapade the previous night made itself onto the screen. Naruto sat watching the fruits of his labor until a knock came at his door. Naruto yawned and stood to answer it.
Upon opening the door Naruto felt his courage drop to the floor. Hiashi Hyuuga, being accompanied by Neji had been revealed, cold, piercing gaze included, 'Fuck.'
Naruto stood at the door looking sheepish until Hiashi spoke, "It appears that my daughter is here with you Uzumaki." Naruto nodded, not trusting his voice. Hiashi continued, "Might I ask why that is? Might I ask why my daughter is in your dwelling instead of at our home?"
Naruto gulped, 'Damn it! Why are all of my friend's parents so frigggin' perceptive and hawk-eyed when it comes to their daughters?' Naruto cleared his throat, "If I told you that I hit the couch and she took the bed for the night would that stop you from flaying me alive?"
Hiashi's eyes only narrowed, "For your sakes boy that better be the only option that you could end up telling me."
Naruto moved out of the way, "She's in my bedroom down the hall, you can go see if you want, I was out here so I don't know what you'll find." On the inside Naruto was screaming, 'Don't call my bluff, don't call my bluff, don't call my bluff!'
Hiashi looked past Naruto and saw Hinata sleeping in his room. Hiashi looked back at the boy, "Why is she here?"
Naruto stood straight and met his gaze, "Some stuff went down yesterday after we left downtown and we got attacked. Neji ended up taking Hanabi home and I took Hinata here seeing as how it's my job to protect her anyway."
Hiashi nodded in understanding and prompted Naruto to continue, "In addition to securing Hinata I enlisted the services or a partner to neutralize the threat entirely."
Hiashi's face shifted, "Neutralize the threat?"
Naruto grinned, "Have you seen the news this morning sir?" Naruto's eyes darted to the TV in the background and Hiashi saw shots of a building in ruins, Neji who was behind his just smirked.
Hiashi looked down at the teenage blonde, "You did that? To the people that tried to harm my daughter?"
Naruto looked at the look on Neji's face and chuckled, "Yes, yes I did. And Neji helped out too."
Hiashi's eyes widened, "Neji helped you do that?"
Naruto nodded, "He was there, ask him." 'Although he was more of a role player than anything.'
Hiashi schooled his features and coughed to regain his composure, "Well… Good work. It seems hiring you was not such a waste after all Uzumaki."
Naruto fake bowed with a grin, "You get what you pay for sir, and you just so happened to pay for the best."
Hiashi knew Naruto was messing with him somewhat, but if the blonde was lying he could get the details from Neji later. Hiashi turned and gave Naruto one last look, "I expect Hinata home no later than this afternoon."
Naruto snapped off a salute, "Yes Hiashi-sama, I will have her home as soon as she awakens and gets herself together." Hiashi walked away with Neji in tow and left Naruto's field of vision. Naruto shut the door and gestured kicking dirt back at the door, "Fucking uptight prick… 'It seems hiring you was not such a waste after all Uzumaki.' Douchebag."
Naruto flopped back on the couch and kept flipping through channels, "Fucking Saturday morning slump… Even the cartoons suck. What happened to all of the kick-ass Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid… *sigh* Good times."
Naruto heard footsteps coming from the hall as Hinata walked in rubbing her eyes, "Good morning Uzumaki-kun."
Naruto looked back at her and smiled, "Good morning princess. Sleep well?" Hinata yawned and nodded, "Yes thank you for letting me stay Uzumaki-kun."
Naruto frowned at the proper way she used his surname, "Princess what did I say about calling me Uzumaki? You know me well enough to say my name, you slept in my house, in my bed… with me for Kami's sake."
Hinata hurriedly bowed, "Yes, gomen Naruto-kun."
Naruto waved it off, "Nevermind… You can go ahead and take a shower so I can take you home. Your dad came and told me to have you back there soon."
Hinata went red-faced, "O-Otousama was h-here?"
Naruto nodded, "Yeah, but I bullshitted him into thinking I slept on the couch so it's all good." Naruto stood and cracked some joints, "Alright then, now that that is all settled I am going to go get my paycheck! You go shower and wash up while I go and collect that sweet, sweet wampum. All the stuff is easy to find so have at it."
Hinata went to get shower things while Naruto grabbed his keys and went to the door.
XxX
Naruto arrived at Sasuke's house swiftly following collecting his pay and knocked on the front door. After a short wait the door was opened by a beautiful woman with dark hair and dark eyes who greeted Naruto with a pleasant smile, "Hello Naruto-kun how are you today."
Naruto couldn't help but to break out into a grin, 'I always did like Sasuke's mother, such a nice lady for being so rich.' Naruto spoke up, "Deputy- I mean Sasuke did me solid the other day and I mean to reimburse him."
Mikoto moved to let Naruto inside, "He's in the backyard with Itachi right now, come on in."
Naruto jogged inside to the back, "Thank you Mikoto-kaasan, I'm in a rush, I've got business to attend to back at my place."
Naruto made his way through the sizeable dwelling area of the Uchiha family and reached the backyard just in time to see Sasuke flying awkwardly in his direction landing at his feet. Naruto grinned as Sasuke groaned from the ground, "Deputy, just the man I came to see… Still having trouble with Itachi I see."
Sasuke huffed as he picked himself up off of the ground into a sitting position, "Bite me idiot. What do you need?"
Naruto pulled out a roll of bills and dropped it at Sasuke's feet. Sasuke opened it and flipped through the bills, eyes widening as he finished, "Wow… You're giving me all of this?"
Naruto nodded, "You helped out a bunch last night, that and Itachi is beating the piss out of you… probably because he knows you jacked his shit yesterday."
Itachi called out in a monotone voice, "Ah Naruto-kun it's good to see you again. Would you like to spar for a moment seeing as how Sasuke is resting?"
Naruto laughed nervously as he backed off slightly, "Ah no can do Itachi. I've got to go home now, I left someone there."
Itachi nodded, "I see, well then, another time. Sasuke, get back over here, since you like my gadgets so much I feel that I must teach you how to rely on one's own self."
Sasuke groaned as he pocketed the cash and stood back up, dusting himself off, "Well that's my cue… Hey, who is over your house?" Naruto looked up at the sun, "Hinata. She wanted to stay over last night after our sideway shenanigans and I let her. I left like thirty or forty minutes ago while she got ready."
Sasuke lifted an eyebrow, "Is that a good idea? To just leave her alone like that?" Naruto waved it off, "Meh nobody but Hiashi knows she's over there, it's cool."
Sasuke shook his head, "That's what I'm afraid of Naruto… That no one knows she's over there."
Naruto looked confused, "What? You're babbling now."
"Sasuke!" The two boys turned their attention to Itachi as he spoke firmly, "I'm not done with my lesson yet otouto, please… let us continue."
Naruto and Sasuke sweat-dropped as Sasuke trudged back to Itachi. Naruto's eye-twitched as sounds of the ass-whupping commenced, "Wow… I'm really feeling that brotherly love right now. Damn Itachi, uncalled for."
Naruto cringed and left the brothers to their tortu- err training.
"Oh come on Itachi! That doesn't even go that way!"
"Well my laptop doesn't go into your bag now does it?"
XxX
Kyuubi was bored, hella-bored. Over the past few months when Kyuubi was bored, she would go mess with Naruto, but seeing as how he hadn't been available for the entire week she hadn't seen him in forever. But on this occasion old habits die hard, as evidence of the fact that Kyuubi had made her way to Naruto's apartment.
As she topped the stairs she pulled out the key Naruto had given her in case he needed her to house-sit for long missions, 'Well, a week counts as a long mission right? And seeing as how he only shows his face in school I doubt he's here during the weekend.'
The door clicked open as Kyuubi stepped inside and shut the door before looking around the apartment. She heard the shower as a smile found its way to her lips, 'He's here I see.'
Kyuubi sat on the couch patiently as she flipped on the TV and began playing with her Kitsune-bi while waiting. As the shower stopped her attention shot to the bathroom door. After a moment the door opened as a girl wrapped in a towel stepped out while drying her face and hair with another towel, "Naruto-kun do you have any girl clothes I wonder, or do I have to wear my things from yesterday home?"
Kyuubi went slack-jawed as the girl finished drying her head and the two made eye-contact.
The two just stared at one another for a long while, blinking randomly, but still staring. Kyuubi's mind was running a mile-a-minute, 'Who is this Why is she in Naruto's shower? Wait, she said clothes from yesterday… she stayed here last night! With him!'
Hinata shifted uncomfortably under the red-haired girl's gaze, "Ano, who are you?"
Kyuubi narrowed her eyes slightly, "I'm Kyuubi Yoko, and you are?"
Hinata wrapped the towel around her head, "I am Hinata Hyuuga, why are you here?"
Kyuubi scoffed, "Why am I here? Why are you here? What are you doing in Naruto's house?"
Hinata sat on a couch in another part of the room, "Naruto let me stay with him last night and he let me take a shower here today." Hinata narrowed her own eyes waiting in response, 'Who is this girl? Why is she so upset about me being in Naruto-kun's house?'
Now Kyuubi had no idea that Naruto had a mission of the escort variety, and that said mission required him to keep watch over Hinata. She also had no clue about the events that had transpired the other day seeing as how she doesn't watch the news due to it being "totally fucking boring," but that probably wouldn't have mattered anyway. She was pissed, very pissed. She hadn't staken her claim on Naruto yet, but she would be damned if someone took her shot away from her. On the flipside, that idiot had been flirting from day one and now he just goes and hooks up with this random girl? Naruto was a dead man as far as she was concerned.
But of course for Naruto, as Murphy's Law would have it, his insufferable devil's luck screwed him over once again.
The attention of both women was diverted as the door clicked open, "Yo princess I'm making omelets, I didn't know what kind of cheese you like so I got Kraft AND Velveeta."
Kyuubi took this time to flick a blue fireball from her hand right at the unlucky blonde mercenary. Hinata's eyes widened as the flames burst around his body. As the body hit the floor Kyuubi called the flames off only to find the charred remains of a log on the ground.
"That was highly unnecessary Kyuubi-chan, if you didn't like my selection of cheeses then you shouldn't take it out on the log."
The girls turned their attention to Naruto's kitchen island where he stood unpacking his groceries, "The log would never hurt you, the log only exists to protect you and keep you safe from harm. Do not harm the log, that my dear is a very ungrateful mindset, the log didn't appreciate that. You should repent when you get a chance."
Kyuubi glared at the boy, "Where the hell have you been you asshole? You disappear for a week and no one sees hide nor hair of you unless you're at school, and even then you skip right at lunch!"
Naruto sighed and looked up, "I've been on the job Kyuubi-chan, I told you I'd have some extended missions. This isn't even that long compared to some others."
Kyuubi growled, "And then when I finally find your ass I catch some random girl in your house. In your shower!" A thought came to her mind, "Did she sleep in your bed?"
Naruto sweat-dropped, "Possibly…"
Kyuubi narrowed her eyes, "With you?"
Now Naruto is not a dumb person, far from it actually. It has been shown that when Naruto actually gives a flying fuck about something he can be quite observant and dare I say even show flashes of genius when the topic is on something he is somewhat schooled on.
Social situation are not one his more learned strong suits, one could say it was his Achilles heel if anything.
This in reality is not his fault… totally. Now being an orphan, not having any parents or any guardians while growing up stunted him in his development in many ways. An innate inability to read social situations is the most glaring one. While it could be argued that one could learn this from watching cable TV, Naruto hadn't really owned any form of cable TV until Sasuke beat it into him one year prior to our current development after one time he came over to stay for a prolonged period of time, and even then Naruto still does not pay for his own cable, instead choosing to steal it from the elderly man living under him.
When asked why he never chose to purchase cable in the past Naruto simply replied, "Cable is for pussies that can't milk any entertainment out of their everyday lives." And also, "Cable costs 2500 ryo a month. I don't spend that much money on food, clothes or hookers so what the fuck makes you think I'd spend that much on something that I can just steal from several different people around me?"
However I digress from my original point. Now due to his lack of learned social information, anything his friends, I.E. the majority of the mercs he hangs around, told him about things, he usually accepted for the most part while growing up. Especially the credo bestowed upon him by his dear neechan Rin, "Honesty is the best policy."
In reality, Rin told the young and impressionable Naruto this in an effort to get him to cough up the location of Kakashi and Obito's sizeable stashes of Icha Icha. However this one-shot deal ended up affecting him more than she would have hoped.
Now Naruto was still for the most part a pathological liar, and when he turned on the heat he could bullshit his way out of a Supreme Court case hearing, however once again a glaring weakness makes itself known here, he cannot bring himself to lie to a woman close to him face-to-face. This is due to the limited amount of contact he usually had gotten from the fairer sex and how kind they were for the most part around him when they chose to interact with him; Rin, Haku, Shizune, Mikoto, hell even Hinata and Kyuubi, all of them. He simply could not lie to them, it just wasn't in him.
And this, my dear readers is why on this day Naruto most epically fails.
Naruto scratched his head, "If I say what you want me to say then will I live to see the sunset today?"
Kyuubi growled as she channeled a small amount of youki to her eyes to make them slitted and glowing, "It depends on if it's the truth or not Na-ru-to…"
Naruto looked at Hinata who just shrugged. Naruto opened his mouth just as his cell phone began to ring. Naruto almost broke down in grateful tears, 'Thank you Kami! I knew you wouldn't leave me hanging like this, I can always count on you!'
Naruto grinned as he reached for his phone sitting on the counter, "I've got to take that, probably work-related, sorry."
Kyuubi flashed over and swiped the phone before sending the call straight to message, "You'll call them back… maybe."
Naruto narrowed his eyes, "Even if I said no, you would still think I was lying and beat the shit out of me regardless so it really doesn't matter what I say does it?"
Another thing no one ever taught Naruto growing up was that as a man, you could never win an argument with a female… ever… no matter what… even if you were right.
Kyuubi kept an even tone, "Well then don't lie and I might believe you."
Naruto sweat-dropped, 'That was damn redundant.'
Naruto mentally screamed, 'Gah! I might as well just cut my losses and take my licks. I have a feeling the longer I put this off the worse it will be. It's like pulling off a band-aid, only the band-aid is a chick… with retractable claws… and super-strength… and fire… and a shit-load of free time.'
Naruto sighed and looked Kyuubi dead in the eye. As he opened his mouth he turned and sprinted to his bedroom, shutting and locking the door. Hinata and Kyuubi just blinked as they watched the ongoing scene, "Seriously? A de facto grown-ass man just ran to his room and locked the door like he was six years old."
Kyuubi sighed and turned to Hinata, "Okay, can you answer me? Did you or did you not sleep with Naruto?"
Hinata blushed, "Define 'sleeping with him.'"
Kyuubi kept a blank face as she stood and walked down the hallway. Hinata heard a loud smashing noise followed by a girlish scream and thrashing noises.
"Kyuubi-chan nooooo!"
"Sleep with her huh?"
"What? Ahh NOO!"
"Shut up you jerk! You really did!"
"Kami let go! …Define 'sleeping with her.' OH NO STOP!"
"Bastard."
"*whimper* I'm just a boy…. I'm just a boy."
Hinata stood and walked into the room where she found the door kicked in and on the bed. Naruto was face-first on the ground with Kyuubi trapping his arms at an awkward angle and pulling him back by the neck. Naruto strangled out a cry, "I should have never taught you submission wrestling!" 'It seemed like a good idea at the time, and so many weird positions made it awesome! …Not so much right now.'
Hinata desperately tried to diffuse the situation, "Please Kyuubi-san, Naruto-kun just slept in the same bed as me last night! This is my fault, please just let him go!"
Kyuubi looked up, "Who are you? Why does he know you, I didn't even meet you until today."
Naruto, from his compromising position, choked out his explanation, "I'm *ack* her bodyguard. *cough*"
Hinata saw her loosen up her grip as he carried on, "After he saved me from being sold off yesterday I was too scared to walk home so I asked if I could stay with him. He tried to take the couch but I wouldn't let him so he slept in the same bed as me. We didn't do anything."
Kyuubi looked at the boy turning purple in her grip and dropped him with a thud, "*sigh* You are so stupid Naruto… Why didn't you just say that in the first place?"
Naruto crawled away and answered in a rough voice, "You didn't ask. *cough* My job is on a need to know basis you know that, and you didn't need to know… It's supposed to be safer that way but as I can see that was a load of bullshit… This is why I wanted a cover."
Hinata helped Naruto to his feet. Kyuubi watched with an appraising eye, "What is Naruto to you Hinata?"
Hinata set Naruto on the bed and turned to face Kyuubi, "I don't know. He's the nicest person I've ever met, but that could be a part of his job."
Naruto grinned at her foxily, "Nope, that's all me baby. I'm just a damn pleasant person to be around."
Kyuubi nodded, "Yep, he's like a stray puppy. All scraggly and dirty, but he's so nice and loyal it's cute enough to endear him to you."
Naruto glared, "Yep, loyal enough to let crazy red-heads beat my ass."
Kyuubi chirped positively, "Yep! It's why I keep you around after all."
Naruto palmed his forehead, "What a 180 of a mood swing…"
Naruto stood up and Hinata remembered something, "Naruto-kun do you have any girl clothes that I can borrow or do I have to wear yesterday's clothes home?"
Naruto snorted, "Why would I have girl clothes? I'm a dude! I live alone and I don't have a sister."
Hinata frowned, "Well the way your girlfriend was acting and how she got in I assumed she would have something over here."
Naruto opened his mouth to respond before Kyuubi cut him off, "Oh yeah! I do have some things over here! Come here and you can pick something."
Naruto's eye twitched as the girls went into his closet and found a bag with clothes in it, "Why the hell do I have your clothes in my house Kyuubi-chan."
Kyuubi looked at him sheepishly, "Well I figured, you have all this room and you live alone. I could store some stuff here for a rainy day."
Naruto walked out of the room grumbling, "Taking up space in my house, kicking my door down, being all crazy… hell, I'm not even getting any!"
Kyuubi giggled as Hinata and her went through the bag before Kyuubi spoke up, "So you never answered my question. What is Naruto to you?"
Hinata smiled softly as she pulled up a white blouse, "I wasn't sure at first. But now I think of him as a close friend, he's so kind and he listens to me, he's fun to be around. I enjoy his company. Yes, he is a friend, and nothing more. Besides…" Hinata smirked mischievously, "I would never take the property of another girl."
Kyuubi shot a wide-eyed look at Hinata who kept her smirk on her face, "W-What? Naruto! My p-p-property?"
Hinata nodded, "Yes I believe you've made that abundantly clear today. So now I'll ask you… what is Naruto to you?"
Kyuubi absentmindedly rubbed her arm, "I don't know really… At first he was my friend, my best friend. But I want more than that, and he does too actually, he actually said he could wait for me for as long as I needed. He's an idiot, but he's genuine. He's brash and loud, but he's a good person. I feel as if I know him better than anyone in just only four months. H-He is precious to me."
Kyuubi hugged herself as Hinata began to dress herself in a white blouse and a purple skirt, "When I saw you come from his shower it hurt… it hurt so badly. I thought he had finally gotten sick of waiting on me and chose you. And that's when I knew it. Naruto is the one that I want, if he was important enough that just thinking of you or anyone else in his bed with him besides me made me just flip out like that, then I must be pretty far gone huh?"
Hinata smiled and patted the girl on the shoulder, "Well then you just have to tell him then don't you?"
Kyuubi looked up at the girl before Naruto cursed loudly and yelled from the kitchen, "Yo princess! That call was Neji, he's coming to pick you up and he got all pissy because I sent him straight to the answering machine!"
Hinata giggled, "So what did you do?"
Naruto grinned as he saw he coming back fully dresses, "Oh nothing but tear him apart verbally with a tirade laden with innuendo of a graphic nature involving you, me, and every viable flat surface in my house up to, and including the wall, kitchen counter, and the TV set."
Hinata blushed deeply as Naruto laughed, "Well if a description got you going that much then I'll bet actually recalling what I said word for word would get steam coming out of your ears."
Hinata pouted which just made Naruto laugh even harder, "Aww… you're so cute princess! That mad face is absolutely priceless! I just want to hug you!"
As the laughter rang out through the apartment Kyuubi still sat in Naruto's closet as a smile came to her face, 'For better or for worse, I can't think of anyone else I would rather have. Naruto-kun.'
XxX
Naruto sauntered back inside his apartment and kicked the door shut with the back of his foot. He had just taken Hinata down to the car waiting to take her home. In an effort to tease Neji she left Naruto with a parting kiss on the cheek. While it might not seem like much it left Neji a twitching, glaring mess as the car pulled off.
Naruto sat on the couch and turned the TV off. Hearing footsteps behind him he sighed and motioned for Kyuubi to sit next to him, "So are we going to talk about this or what? Because this morning wasn't cool."
Kyuubi blushed and looked away. Naruto rolled his eyes and grabbed her chin, turning it to make her face him, "Look at me. My job may require me to spend a certain amount of time with people, with women. Princess was my client okay? Sometimes I'll have to live with my clients, or they'll have to live with me." Kyuubi nodded.
Naruto smiled, "Good. Now do you want to tell me why it made you so mad? I already know, I just want to hear it from you first."
Kyuubi pulled on her shirt and looked down, "You already know don't you? So why make me tell you?"
Naruto chuckled, "So we can actually make something of it. Or are we just going to be stumbling through the dark with each other bumping into stuff forever? Because that's what happened today, we tripped over a fucking coffee table in the dark."
Kyuubi giggled at the remark, "Okay, so what am I to you Naruto?"
Naruto looked into her eyes and didn't hesitate, "I'm whatever you want me to be. If you want to date me then that would be great, I would love nothing more than to be that way with you. But if you just want me to stay friends with you then I can do that too Kyuubi-chan. Whatever we are, at this point it's up to you, just like I said."
Kyuubi smiled and moved into his lap, "Well that's good Naruto-kun, because after today I really don't feel like being scared the way I was again." Kyuubi bit Naruto on his neck eliciting a yelp from him, "You belong to me now." Kyuubi pulled Naruto into a kiss.
After a moment they separated for air as Naruto smiled down at a flustered Kyuubi, "You know I don't think I'll have any problems with that."
As Naruto moved back in Kyuubi put a finger to his lips, "You do know that if you do lose a few more brain cells and come to the conclusion that cheating on me is a good idea then me killing you would be the least of your worries right?"
Naruto grinned, "I'm not as dumb as everybody thinks I am Kyuubi-chan."
Kyuubi smirked up at him, "Sometimes I'm not sure."
As the two moved back to their kiss a noise broke them from their reverie.
"Sasuke-kun come with us today! It'll be fun!"
"What do you mean us forehead? He's coming with me."
"Troublesome, I can't believe we followed you all the way here."
A click signified the opening of Naruto's door. Sasuke, a very perturbed Sasuke, walked in followed closely by Sakura, Ino, Choji, Shikamaru, and Kiba. As they filed in Shikamaru noticed a black log on the floor, "Why is there a charred log on the floor?"
Naruto's eye twitched, "I've got a better one. Why the fuck are you all in my house?"
Sasuke sat down on a couch across the room before getting flanked by Ino and Sakura, "*sigh* I was going over here to see if you were free so we could do something, but apparently my evasion and escape skills need a lot of work as you can see."
Naruto looked at the now full apartment and at the girl in his lap, who was also looking none too pleased, 'Did I just get cock-blocked by six different people?'
Kyuubi growled, "Who said you could all come into Naruto-kun's house!"
Sakura looked up from Sasuke at the girl, "This is where Sasuke-kun went. Why wouldn't we be here too?"
Naruto palmed his forehead, "He's here because I gave him a fucking key! Because nobody comes here!"
Sasuke nodded, "It's true, I always hide here. I might as well help him pay rent for as much as I hide here."
Ino noticed the intimate positioning of Naruto and Kyuubi, "What are you two doing?"
Naruto and Kyuubi smirked as Naruto pulled her close, "Well we were macking on the couch until the unwelcome interruption. From there, who knows what might have happened."
Kyuubi scoffed, "Oh please, with your track record you probably would have fucked it up before you got me to your bed."
Ino and Sakura went red-faced while Kiba broke out into a grin, "Go Naruto! I knew you had it in you!"
Naruto waved him off as Sasuke gave him an amused look, "How long has this been going on?" Naruto stroked his chin, "Fifteen to twenty minutes I'd say. Kyuubi-chan?" Kyuubi took on a pondering look, "That sounds about right." Kyuubi pulled him in for a quick kiss.
Sasuke chuckled, "Well that's quite a twenty-four hour stretch for you huh Naruto?"
Naruto set Kyuubi on the other side of the couch, much to her disappointment, and stood up, "Okay all of you that don't have keys to my house or weren't invited in, I'm leaving. Now I'm not saying you've got to go home, but you've got to get the fuck up out of here!"
The group stood up and filed out of the apartment as Sasuke, Naruto, Kyuubi began walking down the street, the last two with arms linked. Naruto looked over at Sasuke, "So deputy, what are we getting into today?"
Sasuke rubbed his temple, "You know I had a rough idea of what we were going to do, but our new hanger-ons have thrown that plan out." Behind them Shikamaru, Choji, Kiba, Ino, and Sakura followed closely behind.
Sakura bounded up and tried to latch onto Sasuke's arm, "Sasuke-kun where are we going?"
Sasuke sweat-dropped, "Uh, ask Naruto."
Naruto scoffed, "Don't pass the buck to me deputy. It was your bright idea to go outside today. I could have had a nice pleasant day inside with my new girl, but you just had to lead a shit-load of people inside my house."
Ino walked up to yell at Naruto, "Don't talk about Sasuke-kun like that Naruto!"
Naruto smirked, "Why? Sasuke knows he fucked up today. You are designated 'c-blocker' for the day."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "C-blocker? …Oh! C-blocker! My bad…"
Sakura looked confused, "C-blocker?" Kiba chuckled as he came up and whispered in her ear. Sakura's face became enraged as she cocked her fist back, "Naruto! You pervert!"
A glare and a dark growl from Kyuubi ended that chain of events, "Do not think you can just hit my boyfriend whenever you please. If I think he did or said something stupid then I'll do something about it. Get your own human punching-bag."
Naruto grinned, "Yeah, I've already been broken in by Kyuubi-chan!"
Kyuubi smiled and pinched his cheek, "Yes you have, I'm so glad you know that already!"
Sasuke shook his head as he looked at all of the people with them, "Maybe this whole thing won't be so bad after all…"
"Sasuke-kun do you want to see a movie with me tonight?"
"Forehead, Sasuke-kun would rather go with me. At least I'd make it interesting for him."
Sasuke sighed, "Why did I let them come again?"
And that's game. Exam week is rolling by smoothly for the most part and my last one is tomorrow. After next week I can start kicking my training into high gear and really prepare for future professional fights! I HATE college so much. It is only slightly better than high school because if you fight asshole people then you MIGHT not get in trouble.
Paying bail does suck though… oh well.
Get your read on, get your review on, and I'll get my public respond on next chapter, which shouldn't take too long. Between this and Fullmetal Shinobi, my other story, I feel like a boss so both will be kept up for as long as I can.
Kenchi out, stay in school… unless you don't feel like it.
