A/N: This is basically collection of shorter stories. Something like a filler. I need to think how to move up with my plot and these fillers are good with that. Also, I wanted to give people who haven't got much screen time a chance to show themselves. Anyway, enjoy!
A/N: Reminding. My poll ended with a tie between those against and those for long omakes so my vote counts. I decided to continue these long omakes. I've already pissed off so many people so few more them doesn't really matter. But no, there won't be any omakes in this chapter. Maybe in next one or one later that but trust me, they will return more powerful than ever! See ya!
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HAKU
It was a beautiful beginning of the day in Konoha when the morning light entered through windows and covered Haku's eyes. Slowly, she opened them and sat up. It was early morning and she didn't hear anything but slow snoring from the rooms around her. Quickly, she dressed up, placed her futon into the closet and rushed outside. She had a full day ahead of herself and she needed to do her chores.
First she went to the kitchen and put the kettle over fire. Then she walked outside. There was an ANBU waiting out there, holding the usual package. "Thank you for your work." Haku bowed and quickly took the package.
"See that Hokage-sama… Shizune-san gets that." ANBU said on their usual rude manner.
"I will." Haku closed the door behind her. "Shizune-san." She saw how very grumpy looking Shizune walked into the kitchen. It was always a sight worth seeing when usually so timid looking woman walked into the kitchen in her pyjamas, her hair all messed up and her face and eyelids still sleeping. It was always like this at the mornings. No one had ever seen this of course. No one else would be awake for long time. Haku quickly served tea for her and she mumbled thanks. She also placed the package right in front of her so she wouldn't forget it.
While Shizune was warming up her motors and starting to wake up from her slumber, Haku started the preparations for breakfast with some help from Tonton. The little pig was absolutely adorable while trying to cut the vegetables. When Shizune had finally found her usual yukata and combed her hair, it was time for Arataro to wake up. Which wasn't that good thing.
"Good morning! Shizune! Haku-chan!" He greeted them with his cheerful voice. It was unnatural for a person to be in such a good mood from right of the morning. "What's for breakfast?"
Then while he was eating with Haku and Shizune, Shizuka woke up. "Good morning!" Just like her father, she greeted them and rushed to the table. "Is my lunch ready?"
"Yes." Haku stood up and gave her a bento.
"Thanks, Haku-nee!" She chirped and quickly started eating breakfast. When she and others were talking among themselves, Haku was preparing herself for the dangerous part of the morning. She knocked the door in front of her. "Tsunade-sama. Are you awake?"
Tsunade snored very loudly and slept very in unladylike position, on her back, hands wide, her enormous breasts were only barely covered by her shirt. Haku tried to not to look at them while gently shook her awake. "Tsunade-sama?"
"Wha- huh- who-?" Then she finally cracked her eyes open. "Haku? Good morning. What time is it?"
"It's exactly eight, Tsunade-sama." Haku answered.
"Thank you… but I think… I will…sleep… just a little longer…" She took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
Haku stood up. The next phase was too dangerous to do so close. She walked to a closet and pulled out a staff. "This is so humiliating." She whispered and took the staff into her both hands and started poking Tsunades breasts. "Oh my God." She whispered blushing deeply from embarrassment. "If only Naruto-sama would see this…" She closed her eyes, trying hard not to imagine the pictures of her poking her master's mother's breasts. Shizune told that this was the only safe method to wake Tsunade-sama up without the risk of being snapped in half like that stick.
"Taro-kun… (giggle) stop that…" Tsunade giggled like a little girl. "I'm in no mood for that…"
"I think I'm going to be sick." Haku whispered but kept pocking.
"I… said… STOP!!!" Tsunade crabbed the staff and snapped in half easily. Then she slowly opened her eyes. "Haku… is that you?"
Haku quickly hid the sticks behind her back. "Yes! It's me. Good morning, Tsunade-sama." She smiled brightly. "Everyone else is already in the kitchen."
Tsunade scratched her head sleepily. "I see… well, in any case." She stood up. "Are you okay, Haku? You seem a bit… flushed?"
"I'm fine! All fine! Everything is fine!" Haku nodded frantically. "Oh? Look at the time! Better go and wake up Naruto-sama!" She rushed out of the room leaving confused Tsunade behind.
"That girl is becoming stranger by the day." She muttered to herself. "Could it be that Naruto's craziness is finally getting to her?" She passed those thoughts with a shrug. "It's a miracle she lasted this long though." She added with a mutter.
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Haku kept gulping. This was the hardest (and most embarrassing) part of the morning. She was behind the door of Naruto-samas room. For some reason, the young master would always sleep like a rock. Nothing worked. Nothing. Well… expect one thing.
She cracked the room open and peeked inside. Naruto-sama was sleeping like a cat with a smiling happily. Probably dreaming of his favorite thing in the whole wide world.
"Pork ramen…" Naruto drooled in his sleep. "Chiken… no… pork… yes… I'll have pork." He licked his lips. "More…"
Haku sweat dropped. As perverted as he was, he had pretty weird dreams. At first, she had expected to hear something like… 'oh yeah' or 'baby not so fast'. Yet he dreamed of food. That was so… normal. She shook her head and tried to calm herself down. She took a deep breaht and finally opened the door and stepped in. "Naruto-sama…" She touched his shoulder gently. "You need to wake up now."
A hand launched itself on her breast and cupped it. Narutos smiled turned into perverted grin. "Ehehe… yeah baby…" He muttered in his sleep.
Haku resisted the urge to stab his hand. She took a deep breath and brought her mouth next to his ear. Then she activated a jutsu. A very special jutsu which changed a voice of a person either higher or… lower.
Haku cleared her throat and with her new, deep, manly voice she whispered: "Glad you like, boy."
Narutos eyes shot open. "AAaahh!" He screamed shocked like waking up from a nightmare. "Again that same dream." He whispered. Haku had fled the room already.
During breakfast, everyone finally fully awake, Haku sighed lifelessly when Tsunade and Naruto shared their weird dreams with each other.
"How did you survive?" Haku asked Shizune, they were sitting next to each other. "All these years."
"It was difficult first." Shizune smiled kindly and Tonton sat into her lap. "Then before I noticed, it had become a habit." Tears started running down her cheeks. "Before I noticed I was on my thirties, single, spent my days keeping Tsunade-sama in line, nights in host bars, my best friends a pig and I think people consider me as a lesbian."
"Shizune-san." Haku gulped down compassionated tears. "I… never knew…"
"So this is my teaching to you, my young kuohei(A/N: senpais opposite, junior student or similar)!!" She suddenly became very passionate and looked into her eyes. "If you find a man that likes you, you will not hesitate! You will accept that man even if he really can't satisfy you in bed nor has a habit of using the toilet without closing the door."
Haku gulped down a little vomit. "Shizune-san…" Her voice had changed from compassion into pity.
"What is she rambling about?" Tsunade asked from another side of the table. "Shizune, I have to ask, when was the last time you got yourself a girlfriend?"
"Mom, don't say things like that." Naruto said disapprovingly. "It's not her fault that there isn't any good girls open out there."
"See…" Shizune cried into Hakus shoulder.
"Honeyflower, Naruto! Don't tease her like that!" Arataro scolded them.
"Yeah! Leave Shizu-nee alone!" Shizuka hurried to defend her.
"It's wrong to reject people because who they are or what they like." Arataro continued and crushed both Haku and Shizune at one go. "If Shizune wants to be a lesbian, we must accept her and comfort her loneliness even though there are lots of single men out there."
"What are you saying?" Naruto slammed his fist into the table. "Even if Nee-chan doesn't have anyone now, that doesn't mean she has to start swinging into other direction. Or do you want me to start going out with that Hyuuga guy… Meno… was it?"
"It's Neji, Naruto-sama." Haku corrected him but quickly shook her head. "That's not the point!"
Naruto was silent for a moment. "What were we talking about?"
"About-" Haku started when Shizune placed her hand over her shoulder.
"It's no use." She whispered defeated. "They are like hangover. It will come if you drink sake. And it will also pass. Just let it go."
Haku nodded, accepting the defeat.
After breakfast, Naruto decided that he wanted go to a hospital. "I haven't been there for a while now. My chakra control is starting get a little rusty. Let's go, Haku!" He had left the home with that and she followed.
Like always, they passed through Ichirakus, where Naruto ate his usual snack before continuing. There they would go to a hospital. As usual, the waiting room was full, not sick people but young, stalking girls/women who wanted to see a glimpse of their obsession. It was Hakus job to chase them out of there. Haku couldn't understand the little these people had in their life if they had time to spend sighing after him.
"You just want him for yourself!" Girls yelled as she kicked the last one out of the hospital. "She calls herself his assistant but is not any different from any of us. The only difference is that she is always clinging into him!"
"She's not even that pretty!" Someone added.
"I'm not interested in him!!" Haku screamed frustrated and slammed the hospital door closed.
"So it's true then, she's a lesbian?" Someone asked.
"I knew it! There's no way a girl that manly could be straight!"
On the other side of the door, an elderly nurse was passing through the lobby. "You okay?" She asked from Haku who had crashed on the other side of the door.
"No…" She whispered. "No I am not."
The old nurse touched her shoulder gently. "If you want to talk about it, Haku-chan, my ears will always be open for you."
"R-really?"
"Yes." She moved her hand slightly lower. "If you have anything you want to talk about." She added with more sensual voice.
"Huh?"
"Sometimes it can be very hard to live your life in a society like this. Especially if your preferences differ from the most."
"I… gotta go!" Haku slipped away quickly without looking back so she didn't see the childish grin on the nurse's face. A lone woman like herself had to get her kicks from somewhere. And Haku-chan was always so easy target.
Haku stormed through the corridors and found her way into the room Naruto was seeing patients. He was currently listening breath sounds. "Breath in?" He said with such a serious face that for a second she had thought she had come into the wrong room. It had been so long since she had last seen him looking like that. She quickly corrected her appearance and stepped next to him to offer her services.
That day they worked together. It made her feel better to be able to be with him and do work with him. Especially when she saw how great person her master could be. Most of the people could only see was his womanizing, perverted, sarcastic, cold exterior. Those who bothered to look little deeper, might see this serious, slightly melancholic and happy boy. But Haku was almost certain that there was still something under all that. Something… hurt and kind. Something that was now hidden under those sad, concentrated eyes.
The most of the day went by them working. The bad thing was that Haku had to fend off all the stalkers that tried to pry into the examining room. There was an occasion when she had to exit the room and go to check on a patient. The former Sound girl who had been here for a while already was recovering quite well. She knocked the door and opened it. "Coming in."
"Look who it is? It's the dyke!" Tayuya greeted her in her usual insulting manner. "Here to lick my pussy?"
Haku tried her best not to stab her pressure points with a needle. "How are you today?" She asked with civil voice.
"I'm fan-fucking-tastic. Now, let me go outside already. I have places to be."
Haku took a deep breath. "Do we have to do this every day?"
"Do what?"
"Me, coming in, you insulting me, I ignoring you, you insulting me more, I keep ignoring you and do my check while you keep insulting me until I retort and then I will leave angry. Wouldn't it be just enough if you would try to act politely?"
Tayuya made a thinking pose. "Hm… nah. No. I'm fine the way I am!" She smirked and leaned forward with a smirk. "Did you know that you have a gay-face."
"What?" Haku asked.
Tayuya leaned closer and winked. "I had my first kiss with a girl, did you know?"
"… no… I didn't."
"She was a real cutey… black hair, brown eyes… much like yours…" She leaned closer. "She also had most gentle hands… just like you…" She whispered.
Haku blushed and fled the room leaving Tayuya laughing her ass off in her room. He barged into Narutos examining room where he was looking at an x-ray. "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
"I (pant) want her (pant) out of this (pant pant) hospital today!" Haku tried to calm down.
"I'm not leaving until someone tells me why my hand hurts!" Haruno Sakura barked back angrily. She hadn't been on her best behavior lately. And today her training had gone wrong.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean you." Haku quickly bowed.
"Because you broke your wrist." Naruto answered and looked at the pink haired girl. "You tried some move that you're not yet suitable. Haku, check her in."
"What? Why?" Sakura asked. "I'm fine! My hand just hurts a bit. Just put a cast on and I'm going to be fine."
"Yeah, the arm will be casted but that's not the reason why I am checking you in." Naruto answered. "These x-rays show that you got several similar fractions all over your body and bruises everywhere. If you keep going, your body will give in and you will die."
"But I need to train! I need to… train…" Sakura whimpered.
Naruto sighed and sat next to her. "Haku, help me put a cast on her."
"Right away!" She moved behind the curtain to prepare the equipments. She could hear what they were talking about.
"What's the problem?" Naruto asked.
"Why do you care?" Sakura whispered and wiped her eyes. "Are you hitting on me?"
"You wish." He snorted. "I'm totally out of your league." He answered. "And you're not even my type. Not enough up here, or down there. You have a bad personality and to be honest, you scare me a little. Too much for me to be interested in you. And you're emotionally all messed up. I have enough that in my home already. Don't need it in my flings."
Sakura laughed sadly. "So even you will cast me aside?" She asked bitterly.
"If you say it like that, then yeah." Naruto leaned back Haku could hear him roughing his hair. "But you're not going to catch up with him if you just destroy your body… if that's not your intention also."
Sakura shrugged. "I don't know what's what anymore. Sasuke-kun… deflected. Sai… isn't around anymore… Kakashi-sensei is always on a mission. I… don't really know why I should even stand up in the mornings."
"Because you can." Naruto answered and stood up. "Even when life is kicks you down, only thing you can do is to stand up. Never give up. Always as long as you live, continue living. Find a reason to wake up. And don't let go once you find it." He jumped up from the bed. "You will stay in the hospital until you recover. Then, you can start looking for that reason. How does that sound?"
Haku smiled by herself. This was what she meant! It had been this exact message that had given her reason to live. Why couldn't people see this? People, only wanted Naruto for either his looks or his name. No one even knew how much good he did to people. How much hope he gave to everyone around him. Just like a… a moon. She smiled. Naruto-sama was like a moon. Illuminating in secretly the land, while keeping watch and preventing darkness from invading.
"That was the last of the day!" Naruto stretched his arms and smiled when Sakura had been handed over to the nurses who had led her into her room a cast covering her arm. "I think I'm going to take a little bath."
Haku took a deep breath, knowing the meaning of that sentence, he had earned it. Just this once. She would wrap things up in the hospital and head home.
She exited the hospital, humming happily when she recognized the boy standing in front of the gate.
"Haku-san!" Chouji yelled and waved his hand. "Are you b-busy?" He blushed.
"Chouji…?" She asked conformingly
"Yes!" He nodded happily.
"Chouji-kun." Haku nodded now firmly. "How are you? Do you need something?"
"N-no! I just…was walking around…the village and… passed here…" He continued to mutter something like that. Haku saw that he was reading from a note. That piece of paper was made by Ino to help him. Haku wanted to sigh but held it back. She didn't want to embarrass him. She kind of liked the idea that he had this childish crush on him but she didn't want him to pursue it any further. But she didn't want to hurt him. Or knew how to say no to him without breaking him. "Would you… dike – I mean LIKE to crab a bite of something?"
Haku smiled. "I'm sorry but I'm really busy now…"
Chouji pulled out another note. "If you're… busy… can I help you?"
She gulped and did her best to smile. Why couldn't he realize that she wasn't so great he obviously saw her? She would have to hope that she could brush him off. "Don't worry yourself." She smiled kindly. "It's just something Naruto-sama asked me to do before the day is over."
"You spend too much time with him." Chouji pointed out, trying to cover that he was hurt. "You should get out more."
"I… I will try to arrange something." She smiled and rushed away. "Thanks anyway. Nice talking to you." She waved her hand and disappeared behind the corner.
Chouji sighed defeated. "I really have no hope…"
"You idiot!" Ino jumped out of her hiding spot and hit him to the head. "Of course there's no hope if that's the best you can do!" She punched the air. "I promise that I will make you two a couple even if I have to tie her to a chair!"
While Chouji was clutching his head in pain, Shikamaru, who had been dragged forcibly to witness and help with this sighed mentally. "You have way too much time in your hands, troublesome woman."
"Go to hell." She punched him too. "If only Naruto-sensei hadn't so much troubling fans, I could show my feelings to him. Now I would just disappear in the crowd." She started her rant about how great she was and so ford.
Meanwhile Haku walked inside the house. "I'm home." She exclaimed quietly.
"Welcome back, Haku-chan!" Arataro's voice was heard from the kitchen. "How was your day, sweetheart?" He asked fatherly.
"It was… normal." She answered while entering the kitchen. "Where is everyone else?"
"Princess is coming home after spending time with a friend. Don't worry! I checked that it was a girl." Arataro nodded firmly. "No boy will spend time with my princess." He muttered suddenly releasing sudden killer aura.
"I… didn't ask about that."
"Na-chan I don't know." His aura disappeared quickly as it had come. "Honeyflower is in her office but promised to come for dinner and Shizune was with her."
"Ooh…" Haku nodded. "Then if you excuse-"
"Will you help me with dinner?" Arataro smiled.
Haku didn't have anything better to do so she agreed by nodding. While they were doing dinner, Arataro kept speaking about almost everything he could think. Then suddenly, he looked at her. "Is everything alright?"
"Wha-?"
"I know that look." Arataro continued to chop down vegetables. Years raising a daughter all by himself had thought him the secrets of art of cooking. "Heart problems?"
"No. Nothing like that." She lied quickly. "Just… little tired. Nothing more."
"You can't fool me. I didn't raise three kids with just the help of my lovely wife."
"You didn't raise any of them, Arataro-sa-"
"Papa!" He corrected her quickly.
Haku struggled but his eyes didn't give in. "Ch-chichi-ue."
He smiled and nodded returning back to the vegetables. "True, I may have not done my best work with you and your younger brother BUT that is going to change." He smiled. "So, tell Papa what's the matter?"
She sighed uncomfortably but thought that maybe a person with more experience with life could give her an advice she hadn't thought of. "Well… there's this boy…"
"Too soon." Arataro said suddenly. "It's too soon for you to date any boys." Then he shook his head. "Sorry, continue." He muttered.
"Anyway…" And Haku told her problem. How Chouji was nice to him and how he shouldn't be and how it was all so uncomfortable.
"So… the problem here is that… you don't want to date him?" Arataro tried to simplify it. They were sitting in the kitchen table, drinking tea and waiting for others to show up.
"It's not like that!" Haku shook her head. "He's really sweet and cute and… he likes to help me and has is nice to everyone. That's probably why he likes me in the first place."
Arataro leaned back. "Even though I don't like the idea that either of you, Shizuka or you would date this soon, I have to say, I'm not surprised. But, you have this crazy idea that you're not, what? Beautiful yourself? Good person? Deserve happiness?"
"But I don't!" Haku yelled with sudden power. "Before I came to Naruto-sama! When I still was Zabuza-samas tool. For him… gladly… I would do anything. And I did… many bad… bad things."
Arataros face changed into frighteningly serious. For a second she thought he would start yelling. "I was a Kumo-nin once." He said shocking her completely. "Something happened I had to leave that life behind. Time passed, and I thought very same things as you. That I didn't deserve happiness or heavens were after me for my sins. I did something really bad things, when I was a shinobi so it sounded logical. I lost myself and was just waiting for Shinigami-sama to come and collect me. Guess what happened?"
"What?"
"One day I went to a bar, saw a babe with an ass that I would be ready to kill for, I went to make my move on her. Using some cheesy pick up line, we hit it on. I really don't remember much about the evening or the night, expect that it was I had some hot s-"
Haku covered her ears instinctually.
"Sorry." He cleared his throat. "Anyway, the next morning, when I woke up, I saw this beautiful angel lying next to me sleeping this cute expression on her face. It was then, that I realized that I too was entitled to some happiness and love in this world. Because I fell in love with that woman and decided that there was no way in hell that I would give her to anyone. Was it another man, woman, goat or Shinigami-sama himself, others could weep because she was mine. I was willing to go heavens for her if she had just asked."
Haku couldn't help but blush when Arataro fell into his memories. To be possible that some person would actually describe another so, beautifully… it was just so romantic.
"I don't remember ever mentioning about swinging into that direction or even talking about 'liking' animals." Tsunade's voice interrupted from the door. "Or am I mistaking something here?"
Arataro didn't answer. He only smiled happily.
"Tsunade-sama, when did you-"
"Long enough to know what this is about." She smiled and sat next to Arataro. "Haku-chan, happiness isn't something other people or even Gods decide who deserves the most. It's something you have to work for and obtain your own." Haku saw how her hand instinctually moved closer to Arataros. "Everyone has something in their pasts they regret." She quickly smiled to the man next to her. "But what matters is what makes you happy now. Because there's no guarantee that you can smile tomorrow."
The front door opened again. "I'm home!" Shizuka exclaimed loudly and run to the kitchen. "Mama! Papa! I had fund at school! Haku-nee! They showed me this really cool thing you can do with chakra! Can I show it to you?"
Haku smiled and nodded. "Of course."
Shizuka looked at her parents. "Me and Gi-chan went to this cake shop and…" She started telling a story.
"I'm back!" Naruto's voice echoed through house as he walked in. "Is dinner ready yet?"
"What's with your cheek, son?" Arataro asked. Haku turned her head. Naruto had a huge bruise in his right cheek.
"I… crashed to a door." He muttered and turned away. Haku sweat dropped guessing the real reason. "Haku, do you have any snacks on you?"
"We eat soon as everyone here!" Tsunade barked at him.
The door was opened once again. "Tsunade-sama! Tsunade-sama! You forgot to sing these!" Shizune rushed in while holding a pile of documents and Tonton on top of it. Then she stumbled on her feet and the papers filled the room. "Ow ow ow!"
"You really should watch yourself." Tsunade answered and looked at Haku. "See? This is what you can get when you give yourself a chance."
Haku nodded but didn't really know what to think. "I… have to think about it."
"Think about what, Haku-nee?" Shizuka asked tilting her head.
"Nothing."
Naruto narrowed his eyes. "Are you dating a girl I don't know about?"
"Naruto-sama!" Haku screamed frustrated.
Haku END
Shizuka
Shizuka woke up early in the morning happy as always. She looked around her room. It was a dream come true. All these years she had wished for her own room. She had once seen an older girl's room. It had been so beautiful mix of pretty colors and fluffy toys. Something she never had and that had made her sad…ish. Now, she had her own room and she could decorate it the way she wanted. First she had gotten herself lot of fluffy bear toys. She loved bears as best. If she ever got herself a pet, it would be a bear.
She stood up and dressed quickly. She never cared about her appearance. Her Papa had said that she looked the most beautiful the way she was.
She entered the kitchen. As usual, Papa and Auntie were already there. And also Haku-nee. She made the best bento she had ever tasted. It made her day at the academy worthwhile.
As usually, there was teasing in the breakfast table. Onii-chan was his usual distant self while Mama teased Shizune-obaasan.
"Honeyflower, Naruto! Don't tease her like that!" Papa scolded them.
"Yeah! Leave Shizu-nee alone!" Shizuka hurried to agree with Papa. Shizune-obaasan didn't seem to like when people called her old so Zuka called her Shizu-nee to make her feel better. After all, Zukas godmother was the glue that held this family together.
"It's wrong to reject people of because who they are or what they like." Arataro continued and crushed both Haku and Shizune at one go. "If Shizune wants to be a lesbian, we must accept her and comfort her loneliness even though there are lots of single men out there."
'Lesbian?' Shizuka asked in her mind confused. 'What's a lesbian? I don't know… but Shizune-obaasan obviously is one. Maybe Gi-chan knows…'
After breakfast everyone left the house. Mama had promised to walk her to academy today. She loved the academy. It was fun place where they did all these fun things like picked flowers, kunai throwing and played with chakra. It was really easy for her. She had heard some teachers talking her being the 'rookie of her year', whatever that meant but it sounded so cool. Onii-chan will be so proud of her when he finds out.
"Have a great day, Zuu-chan." Naruto waved his hand while he and Haku-nee started walking towards the hospital. "Don't trust in anything that any boy says to you, okay?"
"Okay! Bye!" She answered with a smile and a wave. When Naruto turned away, she narrowed her eyes. All those girls were here again. Bothering her Onii-chan like that. He had to almost run so he wouldn't be overrun by them. Something should be done.
"Soranomi clan is pressing with the Omiai." Shizune said while they were walking towards the academy. "They are saying that we are deliberately playing time."
"We are, aren't we?" Tsunade waved her hand nonchalantly. "They're not interested in him they are only interested in that." She meant the name of Senju.
"I understand." Shizune sighed. "But the council is backing them up. Maybe… we should tell Naruto about this…"
"No." Tsunade said flatly. "There's nothing good that will come out of this if he finds out about this."
"But what if he finds out from somewhere else?"
"Where? Haku-chan won't tell him. And she's the only person who spends enough time with him to have something close to an actual conversation."
"What's an Omiai and why are you making Onii-chan do it?" Shizuka asked all-so-innocently.
Tsunade and Shizune froze. They had actually forgotten that she was there. Even when Tsunade who was holding her hand. She quickly knelt to her lever and smiled. "It's a secret okay. Naru-chan is a big boy so he needs to have himself a girlfriend. I'm just browsing through best candidates. You get it right?"
"NO!!!" Shizuka screamed with sudden force. "No girl will be good for Onii-chan!"
'I have a son who has a libido, size of this village and a daughter who has a brother complex. Nice.'
"I'm telling him!" She said suddenly.
"What?!"
"If you're so afraid that he will find out, then that must mean that it will be canceled if it happens, right? So I'm telling him!"
Tsunade slapped her face. 'Where the hell does she get her brains from? Even I wasn't this manipulative as a child.' "You can't."
"I can and I will!" She nodded and started taking steps towards the hospital where her precious Onii-chan had disappeared to. "You can't stop me!"
Tsunade thought quickly. "If you tell him, he will run away and disappear forever!" She yelled making Shizuka stop in a middle of a step and looking over her shoulder.
"What?" She asked shocked.
"My little princess…" Tsunade brushed her hair. "Even though I know you look up to your brother and want only what's good for him, don't you?"
Shizuka nodded quietly.
"And do you think it will be good if he leaves the village?" Tsunade asked.
She shook her head.
"Then you can't tell him, okay?"
Shizune looked from the side how Tsunade forced her decision on her daughter.
"I won't." She whispered defeated. "But he won't get a girlfriend right? You said that you're playing time, right?"
"Exactly. I'm playing time." Tsunade smiled. "I will think of something and we will deal with this, okay? In the mean time, you can't tell anyone, okay?"
Shizuka nodded.
"Let's head to the academy, okay?" Tsunade took her hand again and led her away.
There, Tsunade said farewells to her and left with Shizune.
"Zuka-chan!" Moegi greeted her when she saw her best friend. "Good morning!"
"Morning, Gi-chan." Shizuka smiled to her little less enthusiastically than normally.
"What's wrong?"
"You promise to keep a secret?" Shizuka asked quietly.
"Of course! That's what best friends are for!"
And Shizuka told about her situation.
"I don't see what the big deal is?" She finally said after it was her turn again.
"What? But they want to force my Onii-chan to be a boyfriend to some girl! That's not good at all!"
"But he's the Hokages son. That means he's popular. Even Konohamaru would have had a fiancé if his grandfather hadn't died."
"But it so wrong." Shizuke muttered.
"I guess that what the world of adults is all about." Moegi sighed.
"I don't ever want to grow up." Shizuka whispered.
The classes started. And ended. Shizuka didn't really understood half of what the teacher was saying (or bothered to care) and spend most of her time trying to figure what to do. Would she tell Onii-chan or would she keep her promise with her Mama? She sighed sadly. It was so hard to decide what to do.
During lunch she and Moegi sat under a tree. "You really should comb your hair." She advised her friend. "You look like a troll with your hair all like that."
"But my Papa said I look beautiful as I am!"
"He is your father. He is supposed to say that!"
But Shizuka didn't listen to her. "What's a lesbian?"
"What?" Moegi asked.
"Lesbian. Papa said that Shizune-obaasan is one."
"I don't know." Moegi whispered thinking hard. "Hey! Kagura-senpai! What's a lesbian!?"
And so the whole schoolyard had a new trend. Apparently lesbians were people who walked only on carpets and wore yellow and black clothing. And also, only the 'cool kids' could be lesbians.
"Does that mean Shizune-san is a lesbian because she wears that black yukata?" Moegi asked as she and Shizuka walked back to the class. They did not realize that Iruka had heard them. Not everything because he was in shock but he heard enough to make a false assumptions. He heard words 'Shizune-san is a lesbian' and that was enough. He had been planning to ask her out tonight but if she was a lesbian… he needed to talk about this with someone!
After the classes were over, Shizuka and Moegi headed towards the centre.
"Want to go to this new cake shop downtown? I heard there's some really good cakes."
"Do they have takoyaki?" Shizuka asked exited.
"… it's a cake shop." Moegi answered.
"So… there is?"
"No, Zuu-chan, there is no takoyaki." She answered. "But they have many delicious cakes, if you're interested?"
Shizuka shrugged now only mildly excited.
They walked down the street when they came to the cake shop. There was a quite a line of impatient kunoichis and other ladies waiting outside. They took their place at the end of the line. "So, what you think of Toyama-kun?" Moegi asked shyly.
"Who?" Shizuka asked.
"The boy who sits two rows below from us!"
There was a moment of silence. Then Shizuka shook her head. "Don't remember."
"Aah! How can you not know people in your own class!?"
Shizuka shrugged. "I don't know."
"Seriously, how can you be a Hokage if you can't even mind your own surroundings?"
She shrugged again. "I only need to be strongest, right? Then I can be the Hokage."
"You really think you will become the strongest in the village?" Moegi asked.
Shizuka grinned and shook her head. "Nope. I can be only the second strongest in the village. Onii-chan will always be stronger than me!"
"Yeah right, like that pervert could be that strong." Someone huffed behind them.
"What's that Nee-chan? (A/N: In Japanese, 'nee-chan' means older sister but is also used to refer a unknown lady like in this case) You don't believe me?"
"Nope, not one moment." Probably only teenage girl in the village who didn't think too fondly of the Son answered. She was a girl with china-design dress and twin-hair-buns. And ultra-feminist way of thought. Tenten who was lining behind them. "That pervert… first him… then that… idiot… and now this…" She gulped. Her image of her idol had been completely ruined.
"You mean Ero-jiijii?" Shizuka asked.
"No, I mean your 'Onii-chan'." Tenten answered. "That guy is probably even worse than him."
"Onii-chan is not a pervert!" Shizuka screamed with sudden anger in her voice. "Apologize!"
Tenten grinned and lowered her face. "Make me, shrimp."
Shizuka formed a fist of her small fingers and pulled it back. "Apologize!"
"No."
Shizuka screamed her war cry and punched with all her might. Tenten, like most of the people didn't expect much. She maybe daughter of a strongest ninja in the village, but she was also just a little girl in the academy. So when her punch sent Tenten flying few meters in the air, the whole street stood silent. Shizuka had seen for years she saw her mother pounding her father to the ground with chakra enforced fists. Being a genius without even knowing it, Shizuka had learned the theory of that move unconsciously years ago, but after some time in the academy, she had learned how to control it, still unconsciously.
So, she was equally shocked as everyone else of how had that happened.
Tenten was most of shocked while holding her cheek. It was only a bruise that would faint away but it was shocking. "W-who are you again?"
Shizuka quickly recovered from the shock and stepped forward taking the coolest pose she could think off, the 'nice-guy' pose which would make Lee and Gai jealous. "I will be the next Hokage of this village!" She said determinedly which would have been cute without the pose.
"I… hear you." Tenten whispered. If Shizuka, Tsunade-samas daughter was this strong… then that meant women could be great ninjas as well… when she thought about it… Tsunade-samas aura hadn't diminished at all, she was still as intimidating and powerful as always if not even more so. 'Tsunade-sama…' she thought again, 'has it all… a family… a husband who stays home… and is the strongest kunoichi in the village…' She gulped. "I believe that will come true." She smiled to Shizuka who blinked. "You know what, I apologize. I was out of the line just now."
Suddenly Shizuka smiled. "Okay!" She laughed. "I'm sorry too. Papa always says that violence is bad and you should always be nice to everyone."
After that, Shizuka and Moegi walked away, she wanted to know how she had been able to do that while Tenten stayed behind to look at their backs. "You okay, Tenten-chan?" One of her friends asked.
"I can't believe girl of that age could do something like this. She will be one strong kunoichi one day." She nodded firmly.
"I know that look." Her friend said little scared. "You have that look always when you've decided something big. What is it this time?"
"I'm going to get myself a boyfriend."
If her being beaten by an academy student was weird, this was plain scary. "WHAT!?!?!?"
"If it was a guy that made Tsuande-sama strong, I will find myself someone who can do that to me!"
Surprisingly Naruto passed the street just now, talking with Shikamaru.
"Not him!" She looked away.
Meanwhile Shizuka said good byes to Moegi and went home.
She opened the front door and yelled. "I'm home!" Then she noticed that she was waited in the kitchen.
Shizuka END
Tayuya
It had been very long few weeks for the abandoned red haired former Sound ninja, Tayuya. She had been practically tied to the bed, with guards all the time her only connections were Dyke and some nurse or helper passing by. Fuckface hadn't shown his face for a while now. Well, it was true, he had said that he had no interest in her expect as a patient. Now that she was recovering fast, he had cut all the ties into her. Like she didn't exist at all.
She sighed, it was boring without Fuckface around. But at least his assistant, Dyke was fun to play with. That girl had some homophobic issues, couldn't take even a slightest flirt as a joke without starting panicking. Which made it so fun. So Tayuya had started to raise the stakes. Slowly, making more obvious moves on her. Like, crabbing her ass, kissing her fingers etcetera. No TV or other company, teasing Dyke was her only amusement. Well, not always.
The door was knocked. "Yo, Red, wazup?" That guy with dog came in with a grin on his face. "I thought that because I'm in the neighborhood, I could drop by and see how you're doing?"
Tayuya bit her lip. There were two things that had been bothering her for awhile now about this dog bastard. One, how could she had become so excited after few orders and two, what would she do if he ever show his face around her ever again. "Asshole, come over here for a second." She waved her hand suggesting coming closer. Kiba blushed and stepped side of the bed happily. "There's something I want to give you." She whispered and leaned forward. Kiba smirked and followed suit. He was going to get himself a girlfriend! That showed to that asshole Son that anyone can be a ladies man if they just want to!
"Closer." Tayuya whispered fidgeting little embarrassed.
"Okay-!" He jumped forward, his lips ready to kiss her when something slashed into his groin. Painfully.
"That was for yelling me last time." Tayuya leaned back while he was clutching to his groin. "And this-" She stepped on his face. "was to teach you never to do it again. And this-" he stepped on him again. "is to make sure you learned your lesson." She kept pounding her sometime until she got bored with it. "Now, what do you say after the lesson? Do I hear 'I'm sorry' and 'thank you'?"
"…ut…ck… u… tch…" Kiba muttered under his breath.
"What was that?"
"Shut the FUCK UP you fucking bitch!" Kiba roared with all his might. "I'm the male here so I make the rules!"
Tayuya couldn't believe it. After all that pounding, this idiot still had some fire in him. And it make her feel really hot.
"Now, say you're sorry you bitch!" Kiba pointed her with his finger. "And I might forgive you!"
She was about to open her mouth and say it when her senses kicked back in. "No way in hell!" She screamed and started kicking and punching again. "I fucking kill you!"
"What the hell is going on here!?" Yuhi Kurenai asked when she entered the room. She had heard her student's voice and couldn't believe something like that actually came out of it, Inuzuka or no. Then she saw something unexpected. A girl was stumping on him or rather on them while Akamaru was fidgeting in the corner in fear.
"Who the fuck are you?" Girl asked.
'Polite, isn't she?' "I'm Yuhi Kurenai."
"Kurenai-sensei…" Kiba whimpered and crawled quickly behind her. "Save me…"
"Kiba…" Kurenai sighed and pinched the bridge over her nose. "You're an idiot. Did you really think I didn't hear what you just yelled?"
Kiba paled and opened his mouth to try to explain but no words came out.
"Normally I would be outraged. One of my students actually called a woman a 'bitch' but because it's you and…" She quickly glanced at Tayuya who was waiting impatiently. "this girl doesn't seem that hurt, I won't punish you." Then she glared at her student. "But you will apologize or I will make you regret the day you were born." She said with a freezing tone. "I'll be outside." She turned around and closed the door behind her.
After she was gone, Tayuya looked at him. "I'm waiting."
Kiba glared back and stood up. "Come Akamaru." He said to the puppy and it jumped on top of his head. "I'm sorry." He said out loud but raised his middle finger to her. 'I'll be back, bicth!' He said only moving his lips.
Tayuya glared at her with outmost hatred she could muster. "I'm going to kill you someday."
And the door was closed behind him. And about a half minute later, Tayuya was bored again. "All day ahead of me." She sighed and sat next to the window looking down. She saw how Dyke just kicked some bitches out of the hospital.
Then she saw something interesting. A girl with no pupils was trying to hide behind a lamppost at the other side of the street. This wasn't the interesting part. What was interesting was that there was a guy behind her with same pupiless eyes glaring holes into her back. "What you know, Konoha Soap is on time once again."
Only entertainment she could get was from this window so she took most of it. She had started follow life around the hospital. So many weirdos in this place. Not like back in Oto, weird like making you want to take two steps back every time you see them but rather… smacking them back of their heads cause they were so pathetic. Like one guy who kept reading porn in the open. Tayuya was certain that he had something going on with one of the female doctors of the hospital. And then there were more of these pupiless people (seriously who were they and how were they able to see what's in front of them) there was this woman who was apparently knocked up by her cousin (freaky~) even though the bastard had two daughters already. Tayuya had heard nurses gossiping. Apparently, the guy was some important clan head and didn't know about the pregnancy yet even though this woman… Hikari or something was going to keep the baby and crack the news any day know. That family was freaky. One of her 'favorite characters' was the girl hiding behind the lamppost and her jealous boyfriends. One of them was that bastard with a dog and the other was apparently somehow related to her due family resemblance. And to make things more interesting, the girl had hots for Fuckface. Ooh… this was all too good to be true.
"I hate my life as it is." She suddenly muttered herself when her old senses kicked in again until she was sucked into the vortex of Soap again. She entertained herself until it was about time for Dyke to appear.
She heard knocking from the door and someone opened it. "Coming in." Dyke said as she stepped in.
"Look who it is? It's the dyke!" Tayuya greeted her in her usual insulting manner. It was fun this way. To see her suffer while trying to keep her calm. "Here to lick my pussy?"
Dyke flinched visibly as she obviously struggled between orders and impulse. "How are you today?" She asked in her usual, annoying, polite manner.
"I'm fan-fucking-tastic. Now, let me go outside already. I have places to be."
Dyke took a deep breath. "Do we have to do this every day?"
"Do what?"
"Me, coming in, you insulting me, I ignoring you, you insulting me more, I keep ignoring you and do my check while you keep insulting me until I retort and then I will leave angry. Wouldn't it be just enough if you would try to act politely?"
Tayuya made a thinking pose. 'This is way too easy! I mean, I don't even need to say anything and I could break this girl down into pieces.' "Hm… nah. No. I'm fine the way I am!" She smirked and leaned forward with a smirk. 'This is going to be fun.' "Did you know that you have a gay-face."
"What?" Dyke asked shocked pale.
She leaned closer and winked. "I had my first kiss with a girl, did you know?"
"… no… I didn't." Dyke was practically shaking out of fear.
"She was a real cutey… black hair, brown eyes… much like yours…" She leaned closer. "She also had most gentle hands… just like you…" She whispered.
Dyke blushed broke down and fled the room leaving Tayuya laughing her ass off in her room. "That was awesome!" She screamed excited but calmed down quickly enough. "This is sooo boring."
The day came to an end with her still sitting in her bed, glancing out of the window or door, hoping that someone would come and see her. She saw how Dyke and Fuckface exited the hospital. Fuckface went off to another direction when Dyke was cornered by some fat-ass who obviously had a thing for her and tried to ask her out. Dyke avoided the invitation somehow and run off. "Bitch is so damn popular." Tayuya muttered as Fat-ass's team came to cheer him up. The Bimbo and Fat-ass walked into another direction while the Dickhead walked into another direction.
"What's up?" She turned her face.
"Fuckface?" She gasped when she saw Naruto walking inside. "What are you doing here? I thought you were gone already?"
"I forgot something and… I don't know…" He shrugged. "Guess just thought maybe I could come and see you."
There was a moment of silence.
"Okay, hot springs were closed so I'm bored!" He admitted the truth. "But I was serious about wanting to see you so you should feel honored!
"I feel fucking honored, Fuckface." Tayuya gulped but took a hard glare. This was no time to show weakness. "Well, what are you expecting? A fuck for a smile?"
"Actually, it wouldn't be that bad." Naruto shrugged. "Have you done it before?"
Naruto closed his eyes when she spat into his face. Again. "God, I have missed that." He muttered and whipped it away.
"I'm not your toy!" She screamed.
"Yeesh. You come and try to make a girl a favor and she spits in your face. What's wrong with you?"
"Shut up you pervert!"
"I told you! I'm not an ordinary pervert!" Naruto took his pose. "I'm super pervert." He giggled. "So, wanna go?"
Tayuya END
Shikamaru
"This is such a drag." Shikamaru muttered as he walked through halls of the hospital. When he had walked away from Chouji and others just now, he had met with a messenger from Tsunade-sama who had asked if he knew where Naruto was. Chunin had been busy and dumped his workload on him and moved on. So now it was Shikamarus drag to find Naruto.
"Have you seen him?" He asked like a thousand time when he passed another nurse.
"I saw him going down this hallway just five minutes ago." Nurse instructed and pointed down the hall.
"Finally. Thanks."
He was instructed to the 'VIP' room. VIP meaning people who shouldn't bothered without an order.
"Yo! Are you here!? Naru-" He stopped in a middle of a sentence. Naruto and Tayuya were too busy making out to notice him there. "Oh damn! Lock the door at least!"
They suddenly shot their eyes opened and broke up. There was a moment of silence. "YOU PERVERT!!! GET OF ME!!!" Tayuya screamed and threw Naruto of the bed punching into the cheek.
Shikamaru blinked of astonishment and so did Naruto. What did just happen?
"Thank a lot, man!" Naruto muttered as they walked down the street. He had huge bruise on his face. "You just ruined my game there!"
"Well, sorry. It's not like I was thrilled to see you making out with your girlfriend."
"Huh? Girlfriend? That red head? No way. That was completely physical." He nodded. "And besides, I think she already has a boyfriend. That guy with… you know… that thing… loud…"
"You really can't remember guy's names can you?"
"Nope. Not at all." Naruto shook his head. "Anyway, that guy had this… dog… on his head."
"What? Kiba? You serious? I thought he's still hung up on Hinata?"
Naruto shrugged. "I wouldn't know. I just heard from Tayuya that he has been visiting her."
"And you're not bothered by the fact that you're making out with Kibas all-possible-girlfriend?"
"Not at all. When it comes to already taken girls, my policy is 'if you can't satisfy them, you're not allowed to get mad at me for it'." He stated proudly.
"And how's that worked so far?"
Naruto thought for a second. "Not so good. Almost every guy tried to kill me or at least beat me up after they found out. Luckily we were always on the move so they can't keep track on me."
Shikamaru sighed. "That sounds just too troublesome."
"You're weird."
"Like you have anything to say about that." Shikamaru smirked slightly. Then she sighed. "Okay, I have a favor to ask."
"I'm not gay and even if I were, you're totally not my type."
"What?" Shikamaru blinked.
"What?" Naruto asked. "Go on?"
"… right… anyway!" He cleared his throat. "You know the situation with my friend Ch- the big boned guy."
"Big boned guy… big boned guy… ooh! You mean Chow Me!"
"No, Chouji. Anyway, you know that he has a thing to your friend… what is she anyway?"
"Who?"
"That girl, Haku. Your assistant." Shikamaru scratched his head. "I mean, are you two a thing or is she your friend… who lives in your house and follows you around! Aargh! This is so troublesome and I hate it!" He screamed.
"I don't know what you mean but I do know what you were talking about. I mean, that guy has been harassing me asking questions about Haku. So what? You want me to set them up?"
"Would you?"
"No." Naruto said bluntly and walked away. "There's nothing in it for me."
"Then, what you need?"
Naruto smirked. "I heard you were the genius. Why don't you figure it out yourself? And remember, I want something I can't have."
Shikamaru sighed as he saw Narutos back walking into distance. "Chouji better thank me for this." He muttered after figuring out what he meant.
Chapter END
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