Chapter 14 - When we meet again
Teams' One, Two and Three dragged themselves after one Maito Gai, who was bouncing in front of them happily.
Amaya turned to Neji exasperated.
"Don't you ever got annoyed by him?" she whispered, underneath the Jounin's cries of "Youthful sunshine out at five in the morning!"
"I tune myself out," he hissed back, flinching as Gai did a yelp of happiness at the birds flying to the water.
"Gai, do calm down. It's to," Rin stifled a yawn, "early, to be loud,"
"My youthful Rin-chan, you spend to much time round Kakashi-kun! You have to be youthful at all times!" he replied happily, marching along beside her.
Sasuke and Naruto exchanged glances.
"Tsunade-baachan! Are you positive this man will protect us?" Naruto muttered, before being attacked by fists and feet.
"Don't talk down to Gai-sensei!" Lee hollered.
"He's a good jounin, baka!" Tsunade seethed.
"Alright, Sasuke-teme wanted to know, I agree with you!" Naruto whined, covering his golden head.
Sasuke returned the two glares with a cool Sharingan look, and puffed smoke out of his mouth … From the crisp air in the morning.
"Hn," he shrugged, before stopping at the training grounds.
"How can you put up with a unsociable person, Yuriko-san?" Tenkuu asked the Rock jounin.
"How can you put up with a hyperactive boy?" Yuriko laughed back, and the two girls giggled.
"How was your date?"
"Wasn't a date!"
"Was too! I saw you two!" Tohru jumped in, Ayame wandering over as well.
"What did you see us do?" Tenkuu flushed slightly.
"He kissed you on the cheek, baka!" TenTen leapt in, shaking the girl lightly.
"Why are you shaking Tenkuu-chan?"
"Awah!" the remaining four women chorused, while Naruto just looked down, confused and flushing.
"Naruto-baka, leave the ladies alone!" Sasuke snorted. Naruto spun round in fury.
"What did you call me Sasuke-teme?!"
"You heard me, blonde-baka,"
"Oi, yeah! I can take offence to that too!" Deidara snapped indignantly. Sasuke simply looked at him with an arched eyebrow.
"Now now, Naruto-kun, Deidara-san, I'm sure Sasuke-kun wasn't talking to you. But Sasuke-kun should know, it's never youthful to talk like that to a fellow ninja, especially Naruto-kun!" Lee interrupted, placing a hand on the younger ninja's shoulder.
"Lee…. Shut up," Neji growled, quite wanting to see the outcome.
Lee's shoulders tensed, before he flung round a fist aiming at the Byakugan user. Neji ducked surprised, and flipped backwards, almost hitting Naruto, who ran towards Sasuke. Deidara jumped onto his clay bird, and floated just out of reach, laughing at the pitiful attempts to get him, while chaos reigned down below him.
"TenTen-san, what was it like with Akatsuki?" Ayame asked suddenly. The brunette pulled her eyes from Deidara, and glanced at the woman with an arched eyebrow.
"Not bad. Not bad at all. Fun sometimes," she shrugged, before ducking her head at the weapons thrown around.
"I hate you guys so much," Tenkuu moaned, watching Naruto with her head in her hands.
"Why?" the four kunoichis chorused.
"You're all idiots! Naruto-kun didn't consider it a date! You made him know, and… urgh…" she muttered, dropping her forehead onto her knees.
Yuriko exchanged glances with Tohru, as TenTen ruffled Tenkuu's brown hair, and they all laughed again.
"Naruto-kun! Please, be careful!" Shizune pulled at her short hair, as Genma, Gai, Ibiki and Raidou tried to stop the fighting between five men.
"Tsunade-same, can't you… TSUNADE-SAMA?!" Shizune shrieked, whirling to find her boss had left... again.
"She left?" Genma asked in disbelief.
"Jiraiya-sama is gone too!" Raidou exclaimed.
"Shit." Shizune cursed.
Tsunade and Jiraiya clinked the shot glasses together with a joyous laugh.
"Those fighting young men were giving me a headache," Tsunade grinned. Jiraiya shook his head at the slug sannin, as she poured another shot of sake.
"You know… I'll miss this…" she whispered suddenly, the grin dying on her face.
"Miss this? Tsunade-chan, you are not going to die out there!"
"How do you know?! You don't know anything!" Tsunade snapped, her hand moving forward as if to cuff him on the side of the head.
"I won't let you…" Jiraiya stared into her eyes, reaching out and holding her slim hand.
"I won't let anyone touch you, Naruto or Sasuke… And I won't let anyone die."
Shizune, Gai, Genma and Raidou collapsed by the roots of a tree. They weren't going to stop the five young men.
"Let them battle it out. It won't hurt them," Ibiki stated quietly, standing beside the collapsed four, his arms crossed and staring up at Deidara cautiously.
"Yeah. I'm more worried about my youthful training ground!" Gai panted.
"Gai-san, out of breath already?" Genma smirked.
"You're right, Genma-kun! I SHALL DO FIVE HUNDRED LAPS!" Gai shouted, flicking the good guy pose, before sprinting off.
Everyone blinked and coughed at the dust he left behind… Even Deidara.
Iruka and Anko sat by the tree, opposite the collapsed three and Ibiki, talking quietly.
"That dust just got in my hair…" Iruka sighed, pulling at the hair band.
Anko watched openly. Her Iruka never took his hair out in public… This was a change.
Iruka smirked as Anko's hot gaze never left him. He ran his fingers through the brunette locks, and shook his head.
A sudden grip landed on his wrist, and he blinked in surprise, as Anko hurtled across the training ground, avoiding the shadow clones, and the weapons, Iruka stumbling behind her.
She dove behind a bush, and Iruka landed on top of her. She giggled happily, and reached up to kiss his startled little face…
"You really need to stop staring at me. I'm not going to disappear… At least, not until it's over," Rin smiled sweetly, glancing to Kakashi. He shrugged, then blinked his visible eye.
"You're leaving after this?! Why?!"
"I don't-"
"You know you belong here, Rin-chan, and quite frankly, I missed you… There, I said it. You can't blame yourself for-" Kakashi interrupted.
"And neither can you. I know you do. I can see it," Rin hissed. Kakashi turned his body to face her, as she watched Sasuke with hard brown eyes.
"Rin… I blame myself for letting you leave… I can't lose you again now you're back." and he smiled, his visible eye crinkling.
"… Fine. Kaka-kun." Rin grinned too.
"RiRi-chan,"
"Kaka-kun!"
"RiRi-chan!"
"What are you two doing?!" Genma asked, as Kakashi and Rin exploded into laughter.
"Having fun… It's almost like old times. She called me 'Kaka-kun' which I didn't quite like, so I snapped back with 'RiRi-chan' … It was amusing then, and now!" Kakashi explained, as Rin collapsed on his lap in fits of giggles.
"I'll think we'll leave them by themselves now," Shizune muttered to the gang of jounin around her, as the young men agreed it was a draw fight, and settled down round the circle of chattering women.
The jounin all nodded, and jumped away silently.
"Why do I have a feeling we left two people?" Kakashi asked Genma. Genma looked round at the people with him. Ibiki, Shizune, Raidou, Rin and Kakashi.
"I don't know," he shrugged.
"So, we should get going…" TenTen trailed off, as a chorus of groans erupted around her.
"Sorry, un. My fault!" Deidara winked at the kunoichis, and they all grinned, giggling at TenTen, who smacked him on the shoulder.
"Have fun… If ya know what I mean," Tohru winked at the brunette, as Deidara continued to tug on her wrist. TenTen scowled at her, but moved with Deidara, and the two left.
"Neji-san? Use your Byakugan around this area, if you will," Ayame whispered, almost silently, if Neji wasn't sat next to her. Neji nodded, and scanned the grounds with the spidery veins bulging round his temples.
Suddenly, a blush consumed his cheeks and the bridge of his nose, as he hurriedly turned off the Byakugan.
"Ne, what's wrong with Neji-san? He looks funny!" Naruto asked, peering right into the Hyuuga's face. Neji smacked him round the head, and Naruto sat back down with a whine, shooting a puppy dog look to Tenkuu beside him. She merely gave him a small smile, and glared at the coffee-haired Hyuuga, who was standing up.
"That was not something I wanted to see," Neji sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. Ayame stood up to.
"I was correct in my assumptions that two people were still here then," she stretched upwards.
"You knew, and made me look?!" Neji cried, and Sasuke glanced at him.
"What did you see, Neji-kun?" Lee asked.
"I saw… Urgh, I don't want to poison your innocent minds. Ayame-chan, if I may accompany you back to your new apartment?" Neji asked, waving off the groans of protest.
"Tsunade-sama's orders!" Sasuke hissed to Naruto's confused look.
Ayame simply nodded, and walked. Neji strode beside her, and ignored the loud comment of Yuriko;
"They look cute together!" followed by a chorus of "Aww!"
Ayame and Neji just walked, in comfortable silence, until they reached Ayame's new home for the next month or so.
The black haired woman turned to him, and bowed.
"Thank you, Neji-kun, for your company," before looking up to see him smirking at her. "What?"
"You are so formal with me! I won't bow to thank you," he whispered, stepping closer to the kunoichi.
The Cloud Kunoichi backed up until she felt the wooden fence press to her back. Neji's smirk grew, as he swooped his head down and kissed her cheek.
Blinking, Ayame stared at him, as he waved a hand and strutted off towards the Hyuuga compound, not far from her new apartment.
"Pick you up tomorrow morning," he called.
Yuriko danced round Sasuke, glaring at some girls, young women, and even elderly women who had stopped to drool at the black haired shinobi, while they discussed the different techniques of fire jutsus.
Sasuke grabbed her elbow and made the Rock Jounin walk beside him, since he had to keep whirling round to face her, as she danced round him.
Yuriko looked down at his arm, and bit her lip, dragging her eyes back up to the obsidian eyes in front of her. Sasuke smirked, as the girl stammered over one sentence.
"Ne, Sasuke-kun, do you live in the Uchiha Compound anymore?"
"No. Unfortunately, I live with the dobe," Sasuke sighed, but inwardly he smiled.
"… You really like Naruto-kun," Yuriko said after a minute. Sasuke turned, to look into the one hazel, and one light blue eye, and smirked at her.
"We can read each other like a book,"
"Always the best start!" the woman agreed with a laugh. Then she glanced up at the small house, with flowers climbing up the wall and framing the lower window, before turning to face Sasuke.
To find him staring at her, and quite close. Yuriko felt the smile die on her lips, and her cheeks burned red.
"W-wh-what are you d-doing?" she stammered, cursing herself in her head. Sasuke pressed a slender finger to her lips, and placed a kiss on her forehead.
"That. You're as dense as Naruto-dobe," he teased, before leaving her with a wave.
"I'll walk by your house tomorrow. We can walk to the meeting place too. Ja," and the Uchiha rounded the corner. Yuriko was sure her cheeks would stay bright red forever, as she wandered to her semi-permanent home.
Lee was telling Tohru all about the 'youthful training exercise', obviously knowing the chuunin had been watching, but still telling his 'youthful experience'.
"I'm sure Gai-san will be proud of you, Lee-kun," the kunoichi replied good-naturedly, as the black-haired boy fretted about his sensei.
"Thank you, Tohru-chan. Oh, how rude of me! You haven't told me a thing about your youthful village!" Lee bowed suddenly, and Tohru giggled, but pulled him upright as people began to stare.
"Well, the countryside around Wind is amazing. It's harsh, it's wild and it's rambling. What more could you want? The outdoors is by far the best," Tohru smiled, thinking of her village.
"Well, Tohru-chan, I would be honoured to show you our forest. It's better at night. The youthful fireflies make their appearance!" Lee punched the air as he said this
"I'd like that. Thanks Lee-kun," her glossy black hair spun, as Lee twirled her in the opposite direction.
"And, of course, I shall accompany you back home after!" Lee added hastily, as the golden-catlike eyes glanced over her shoulder.
"Thank you again. Oh, one more thing…"
"Yes, Tohru-chan?"
"I'm totally the Hokage of Wind," Tohru walked away from the shocked Lee.
"Really?"
"No! I had a sarcastic tone then, silly!" Tohru teased, laughing as Lee whimpered and bounded after her, a goofy grin etched on his face. He snuck a quick kiss to her cheek, then dragged her towards the forest.
Tenkuu walked beside the knuckle-head ninja, as he chattered on about the village, proclaiming all the changes he would make when he was Hokage.
"I hope to be around to see those changes, Naruto-kun," she smiled, her dark purple eyes lifting to his bright blue eyes.
Naruto stared into her eyes, as she stopped, in front of the building she was in. He smiled.
"You will. I promise. And I never break my promises!" he grinned.
Tenkuu nodded, her small smile growing a little, as Naruto tucked a piece of her brown hair behind her ear, and stroked her cheek.
"See you tomorrow? I think we'll be meeting at Ichiraku Ramen. You know where that is, or at least remember, right?" Naruto smiled hopefully. Tenkuu giggled as she remembered last night, and nodded.
"Good. G'Night, Tenkuu-chan," the blonde pressed a small kiss to her cheek, before dashing off quickly. Tenkuu rushed inside her house, with a slight blush covering her cheeks.
Of course, Naruto lived on the other side of the village. But as he sailed over the rooftops, he decided it was worth the hassle.
YOSH! I'm done! XD….
Heeeeey guys? How are you? … Put the pitchforks down… Please? Pwetty Pwease??(Shinee sparkleh eyes or love, hope and wonder)
Do you forgive me for the late update? Thankies if you do, if not, I GROVEL AT YOUR FEET! DX
SO, This chapter is mostly for:
Paper Kunai with Tanaka Yuriko.
MsEvilbabe with Kansei Tenkuu.
XxXWolvesInTheNightXxX with Yuki Tohru.
The Black Rose 1995 with Sonkeii Ayame.
I hope you like your OC ending! :D
I was trying really hard to fit their personalities in, I hope I did okai! :L
In other news, best thing about this, I'm outside and typing this! YEYAH! It's sunneh, so I thought, RIGHT! I shall finish these chapters, and I shall get some sun on me too!
Oh, and I've cut my hair! DXD I think it looks like a young Hinata Hyuuga, my friends think it looks like Alice Cullen (from Twilight) and if I spike up the back, I can mimic SASUKE-CHAN! X3
Sasuke: HEEY! D:
Cheer up grumps, I'll set Shika and Hidan on you XD
Sasuke: D: …. OH.
That's better! Good Sasu-chan (pats his head fondly)
Right, so read and review!
Oh, and since the other chapter isn't allowing people to review (SORREH! My fault!) would you awfully mind telling me what you thought of Chapter 13??
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