Chapter 13

Naruto turned to look at Tenna, he noticed that she's been crying also. This timeNaruto did put his arms around Tenna and hugged her. "Tenna… why do things like this happen?" he said sadly as tears streamed down his face. "I don't know Naruto…" she said softly. Everyone who was around looked at her surprisingly and their mouths wide open. Kakashi simply came over and put his hand on her shoulder. Naruto was surprised at this too. He couldn't help but to say something to her.

"Tenna…. You're talking?! That's great!... But it would have been cooler if Estuko was here to hear you too." Naruto said gloomily. Tenna nodded with agreement. She stopped hugging Naruto and placed a flower on the table. She wiped the tears from her eyes and turned around again to face him. She shook her head to signify that she doesn't know the answer. After the ceremony, everyone who attended walked away quietly. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura andTenna walked together but were too upset to say something at this moment in time.

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The funeral of Estuko flew by rather quickly. It been about 6 months now and it seems that everyone was back to their usual selves. Although they all do think about Estuko and how much they all miss her. It was vacation time so no one was training with their senseis. Naruto was chilling with Sasuke and Sakura down at the river. Naruto was trying to impress Sakura with a bomb dive, but Sakura couldn't help but look at Sasuke's fit body. Tenna was in town buying her grocery shopping. She was collecting her fruit and veggies until someone came up from behind her.

"Hi Tenna!" A voice called out. Tenna turned around to see Lee. He was smiling sweetly as usual. Tenna smiled also.

"Oh hello Lee, how you doing today?" she asked smiling rather sweetly.

Lee did his pose and spoke, "I'm doing good. I just came by to see if you want to join me and my team mates for dinner today."

Tenna smiled at him and spoke. "Aw thanks for the offer Lee, but I promised Kiba that I would walk Akamaru for him and then I'm gonna go and do training with someone."

Lee's face was gob smacked and then he spoke again. "Training? But its vacation time! You need to relax! Plus I wanna spend some time with you!" Tenna finished her grocery shopping and walked out the store. "I know Lee, but I wanna practice summoning and I have to meet my tutor at the training grounds soon."

Lee couldn't help but smile. Tenna was one of his closest buds and was willing to protect her and respect her no matter what. He nodded, said goodbye, and left. Tenna then went in to the opposite direction to take her groceries home.

The dog walking with Akamaru wasn't going to well either. He was pulling, barking loudly, and acting loopy.

"No, please Akamaru!!! That's a giant Mud hole!!!"

Naruto and the others watched Akamaru pull Tenna in to the mud. Akamaru barked happily and the others who were all watching laughed. Tenna's face went red with embarrassment and she got up. But she couldn't help but smile.

"Yeah yeah totally funny guys…" she yelled at everyone. Akamaru jumped in to

her arms and licked her. She giggled and patted him on the head.

Soon after, she returned him to Kiba. Kiba said thanks and said goodbye. Now she

knew what she quickly had to run home and get washed to she could start her summoning training. She was totally out of breath at this point. She was taken deep breaths and she plopped herself down on the grass of the training grounds. Tenna had a rough idea in her mind who her summoning tutor was gonna be. So in a way she kinda wasn't looking forward to it.

And in a couple of minutes, Tenna soon found out that she guessed right. It was Jiriaya who was gonna teach her summoning. Jiriaya the pervy sage smiled stupidly and held her hand.

"Are you ready to start your summoning training, sweetie?" He asked in a stupid

voice. Tenna giggled and spoke, "Yup I'm ready Jiriaya, but since you are spending your time with me to train me, I want to say thank you somehow". Jiriaya was still holding her hand and smiling stupidly. "Oh Really?" he asked

Tenna nodded, she couldn't believe she was gonna do this but……… Tenna went closer to Jiriaya and kissed him on the forehead. "Thank you. Now where do we begin?" she said.