Well that was just delightful. Not only is someone out to get me but now I had to be babysitter twenty-fours a day. Naruto had called us to his office to discuss the situation, he had decided that it was too dangerous for me to wondering off alone, so he had arrange Kakashi, Neji, Sasuke and himself as my body guards and I would change house every week so it was hard for whoever wanted me to track me. I did not like this idea at all and had to bite the inside of my mouth, until it bleed to stop my yelling and stomping around in fury. I was going to feel like a divorced couple's child being pasted back and forth, so basically I had to stay at one of their houses for one week. I would finish off this week at Naruto and move to Sasuke next week, great, so much for doing my room up. This wasn't going to end until they caught the guy that was after me and that could take years. Oh well, at least it's with people I like, well, most of them. I had a feeling I was going to die when I went Sasuke home, I was pretty sure Sasuke and Sayrui were going to try and make my life a living hell. When Naruto asked me if I was ok with this decision, it took every fibre in my body to make sure I didn't go on a rampage around the room. Instead I agreed, though I think everyone could tell I was lying because I was sure Minato and Neji took a step away from me. I think I also scared Hamako and Jiraiya off a bit at dinner, since they tried to move away from me in the politest way possible, heck I even scared Wakana off and that's not easy to do. Now I was just laying on me bed, waiting for sleep to come. However, sleep refused to come because I was feeling guilty about my behaviour towards everyone. I really need to take some anger management classes. Sighing to myself, I kicked the covers off my bed, grabbing my sketch book and walked over to the desk. I always found drawing was a good way to release my emotions. After a few hours of drawing I had nearly finished my picture when I fell asleep.
The door creaked open and Naruto and Hinata poked their heads through too check on Nariko, they were a bit confused to see her slumped over the desk fast asleep. They exchanged a quick smile with each other before entering the room. Carefully, Naruto picked Nariko up into his arms and carried her over to the bed, placing her carefully on the soft mattress. Hinata crept over and pulled the blankets over Nariko.
"I wonder why she fell asleep at the desk." Hinata heard Naruto whispered, as she tucked the covers tightly around Nariko. She handed Naruto the book she had found on the desk.
"Maybe because she was up drawing in this." She mouthed back. Naruto began flipping through the sketch; he smile grew even bigger, when he saw page after page of magnificent sketches. "She's good isn't she?" Hinata quoted, watching Naruto close the book and handing it back to her.
"She defiantly gets it from her father." Naruto remarked, as Hinata placed the sketch book back onto the table. They both took once last look at Nariko before exiting the room so they could go to bed.
Why do I have this warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach? Better yet how the hell did I get into my bed? This sudden realisation made me bolt up. I looked around to find I was still in the same room I had fallen asleep in but not in the same place. Strange, I was sure I had falling asleep at the desk. Shrugging the strange feeling off my shoulders I grabbed my bag and walked into the bathroom to get changed. I dressed into my usual black three-quarter length trousers, a grey vest and tied my hair into a high ponytail. What time was it anyway? I thought, as I walked back into the room and picked up the clock to check the time, it was just coming up for six o'clock. What is it with me and getting up early these days? I wondered as I threw my bag at the bottom of the bed, so much for unpacking I thought as I stared at the contents of my bag and the room. What am I going to do for another two hours? Maybe I should do some meditation; I have nothing better to do. Sitting back on to the bed, I cross my legs, straightening my back and let my mind wonder. Taking deep slow breaths I started releasing my senses, I was surprised to find the Hokage tower so alive in the morning. There were lots of jonin getting cups of coffee and sitting down to right up reports, people just sitting around talking and there was even a couple making out in the loo's, eeewwww. That was something I didn't need to know. A spark of people's chakras caught my attention in the Hokage office. I focused my senses a little harder to see Naruto was briefing a group of ANBU for a mission. Cool, I wonder what mission they're being sent on, I should really come up with some jutsu to hear through walls. Hey that's not a bad idea. When the ANBU team left I decided to pay Naruto a visit.
"Come in." Naruto yelled after I knocked on the door. I walked into the room, the room seemed different in some way, even though it was exactly the same, maybe it had something to do with the pile of files looking bigger than the other day on Naruto desk. "Nariko!" Naruto spoke in surprised, as he noticed me enter the room. "What are you doing here, especially this early in the morning?"
"No reason." I answered, taking one of the chairs in front of the Hokage table and sitting down. "Just couldn't sleep and thought I'll come and annoy you." I smiled as Naruto let out a small laugh.
"I afraid I have no time for silliness's. I was planning to get all this down before breakfast, before I start my bodyguard duties." He shrugged, as he returned to the file he had been writing. A sudden wave of guilt came over me as I realised I was the one that made Naruto get up this early.
"Maybe I could help you?" I asked suddenly, Naruto looked up with a weird expression on his face. "If I help you, you can be body guarding and finishing off your work at the same time." I explained, watching Naruto carefully as my words were being processed through his head.
"Are you serious?" He questioned. I nodded, if I was going to be a pain in the butt, I might as well be a helpful pain in the butt. Naruto took my offer into consideration.
"Ok then?" Naruto answered, pushing his messy, spiky blonde hair back and picking up the smallest pile of file and placed them at the corner of the desk, were I could easily reach it, then he picked up a slightly bigger pile and handed it to me. "This is a pile of D-ranked missions." He stated pointing at the pile on the table "and that's a file of all the genin teams. I wanted you to read through the mission files and decided which team would be best the mission. Do you think you can do that?" He asked, I shook my head and watched him, as he sat back down and began finishing off his report. I grabbed the pile of folders next to me and began reading them. As I read through I found out D-ranked missions were more like chores people were too lazy to do. It was quite simple to put missions with teams. In causes like someone's lost their cat, I would pick the team that had the most experience finding lost pets or had a good tracker in the team. About half an hour later, I was finishing off the last file, when there was another knock at the door.
"Come in." Naruto shouted, not taking his eyes off the file he was writing. The door creaked open and Minato walked into the room.
"Hey dad, I just came to see..." Minato stopped what he was saying when he notice I was in the room (I must have been quite a sight because I had nicked the other chair and was resting my feet on it, plus I had let my hair down cause it was giving me a headache, so it was draping itself all over the back chair.) his mouth fell open in shock. "Do my eyes deceive me or is Nariko actually awake at six thirty in the morning." He said, his face still in shock. I rolled my eyes at Minato childish behaviour before returning back to the file.
"Nariko has been kind enough to come and help me with my paper work." Naruto stated, now looking up at Minato. "I hope you've come to help us as well Minato." Naruto smiled.
"Of course dad, why else would I be here at six-thirty in the morning?" Minato said sarcastically, Naruto nudged some of the files over to the edge of the desk and indicated to them, letting Minato know he could take those files. I put my feet down so Minato could have a chair to sit on and get on with his work.
"I'm done with my files Naruto." I exclaimed, putting the last file on top of pile. Naruto and Minato before looked at me and then to the pile on the floor.
"Can you past me the top three files." Naruto asked, holding out his hand. I picked three files off the top and handing them to him. He had a quick flip through the files, nodding his head in approval every time he finished looking through them. "Very Good" He congratulated, passing the files back to me, so I could put them back on the pile. "You can help Minato with the C-ranked files now." He turned quickly to Minato "Tells her what she needs to do." He ordered, turning back to his files again. The C-ranked missions were more ninja work but were still very simple missions; I was looking at one of the files of a Chunin team that might fit one of the missions, when I caught Minato staring at me over his file.
"What?" I questioned, bringing the file down from my face.
"Nothing" Minato admitted, placing his file back on his lap and running his fingers through his fall head of hair. "Just wondering why you always were dull colours like black, white and grey. That's all" I rolled my eyes at the silly question, honestly, why would Minato want to know something like that?
"Really because I was wondering why you always wear orange?" I inquired; hearing Naruto release a quiet laugh from his desk but when I looked his face was straight and was focus on his file.
"Ah, tu quoque." Minato answered, a small smile spreading across his handsome face. Shaking my head of silly thoughts and returned back to the file I was working on, it wasn't hard to finish off this pile either, we were finishing off on the last file when Hinata came in to announce breakfast.
"Pancakes everyone." Hinata called before shutting the door again, at that moment everyone's stomach in the room release a mighty grumble. I guess we were all hungry, I thought, as Naruto announced it was time for a break. Yum pancakes, I wondered, as we walked down the hallway, Naruto and Minato were discussing some new training method for Jiraiya. I was too busy thinking of delicious pancakes to really take notice. A sudden jab of pain in my head, made me shriek out in pain and surprised as I clutched my head and stumbled backwards, my head felt so heavy and everything seemed to be spinning, I fell, bracing myself to slam against the floor but something caught me just in time. I could see two blurry figures over me, one of them was carrying we as he shouted something at the other person, that's when my vision went into complete darkness.