Temari stood in the main room of the hotel suite that she was sharing with her brother's, her hair was in its usual four ponytails, and she wore a simple pair of blue jeans and a purple shirt, she had a smile plastered to her face and kept stealing sideways glances at the clock.
"What's got you so giddy?" asked Kankuro from his position fiddling with a puppet.
"Well I have a date" said Temari with a smile and a blush.
"Who with?" came the monotone voice of Gaara.
"That's really none of your business" said Temari almost glaring at her younger brother. She had good reason she really didn't want Gaara or Kankuro trying to scare off Naruto even though she was fairly sure the blond, purple, black and red head wouldn't be scared she didn't wish to tempt fate. So deep in her thoughts that she missed the knock at the door so Gaara answered it and it was Naruto who was sporting a pair of black jeans and with a white shirt and a black and white jumper to top it off.
"Naruto what's up?" questioned Gaara.
"Well Gaara I'm here to pick up Temari is she around?" asked Naruto not able to see past Gaara.
"Oh Naru-kun it's you let's go" said Temari jumping out of her seat and dashing past her brother and trying to drag Naruto away.
"Uzumaki before you leave can I have a word?" questioned the youngest of the sand siblings. Naruto nodded and Temari grimaced she was hoping to avoid this. Gaara pulled Naruto aside for a moment and made sure to speak low enough that only Naruto could hear him.
"You hurt my sister and friend or not I will murder you" declared Gaara. Naruto nodded at the threat not in the slightest intimidated by it but still. Naruto then returned to Temari's side.
"Have a good night you two" said Kankuro as Naruto walked away with his sister.
Naruto and Temari left the Hotel and walked through the main streets of the village. Temari despite Naruto's best efforts noticed the glares that the male blond was receiving.
"Naru-kun?" questioned Temari.
"Leave it Mari-chan they're glaring at me not you and I won't let them lay a finger on you" declared Naruto squeezing her hand reassuringly. Temari looked at Naruto sceptically, annoyed and somewhat sad, she wasn't pleased with this village's treatment of her friend.
The two teens walked towards the Hokage Mountain.
"So where are we going Naru-kun?" questioned Temari.
"Ah Ah Ah that would be telling, and that would ruin the surprize" said Naruto with a smug smile. Temari smiled and rolled her eyes at his antics. The two teens made it to the bottom of the Hokage mountain where Naruto lead his date over to and up the long set of stairs going from the bottom all the way up to the top of the mountain.
Once the duo made it to the top of the mountain they found a Naruto clone just putting the finishing touches on a picnic, there was a blanket placed just on the edge of the grassy field behind the Hokage's great stone faces, so the two could still see out over the village and also it was just far enough forwards that there was no trees above them so they could see the sky.
On each corner of the blanket was a candle giving the entire area a romantic vibe and in the middle was a basket which contained the food which Naruto himself had spent several hours preparing. Both Temari and Naruto took their place on the blanket looking out over the village.
"Wow the view from up here is amazing" whispered Temari in awe of the view the time of day didn't hurt either it was just before sunset giving the sky and the village a backdrop of lovely pink, orange and yellow hues, the sky painted a picture of pure beauty one that both teens felt shouldn't exist over such a disrespectful village.
Naruto opened the picnic basket that just so happened to be between them and pulled out a thermos and handed it to Temari.
"For you my Sabaku no tenshi (Desert Angel)" said Naruto.
"What is it?" asked Temari.
"Kenchin soup made just for you Mari-chan" said Naruto with a smile
"Kenchin soup my favourite you remembered" said Temari with a joyful smile and a tear coming to her eye at the thoughtfulness of Naruto not only remembering her favourite food but making it especially for her.
"Of course I remembered Mari-Chan" said Naruto with a smile, Temari blushed and smiled. Naruto gave his date a bowl for her soup, before getting out his own food a bowl of pork ramen.
The two ate their respective meals in silence just enjoying each other's company, Temari was really enjoying the Kenchin Soup Naruto had made her. The duo both finished their food just as the sun had finally dipped below the horizon and the stars had just begun to shine bright in the sky above them.
"That was really good Naru-kun since when could you cook?" asked Temari.
"Oh I just picked up the skill from spending most of my childhood alone you know instant ramen gets boring after about a month" said Naruto looking down somewhat sadly.
"Oh Naruto I'm so sorry I didn-" said Temari interrupted by Naruto.
"Gotcha, I was just kidding I learnt how to cook from a friend she taught me a lot cooking being one of the things and I've gotten quite good at it" said Naruto with a grin. Temari punched the multi-colour haired boy in the shoulder lightly.
"Only you could joke about spending your childhood alone" said Temari with a small smile. The two lay down and looked up at the stars.
"What is it with us and spending time together under the stars?" questioned Temari looking at Naruto.
"Because we both love star gazing" said Naruto turning to face his date with a smile. Temari nodded before looking back to the skies above.
The two just lay there on top of the Hokage monument gazing up at the stars for what felt like hours but unfortunately all good things must come to an end.
"It's getting late I should probably get back before my idiot brothers do something stupid" said Temari sitting up.
"Alright I'll walk you back" said Naruto jumping to his feet before offering his hand to Temari and gently pulling her to her feet to. The two then began the walk back to Temari's hotel, Naruto summoning a shadow clone to clean up the picnic.
The walk back to the hotel was silent neither needing words to express how they felt.
However outside the Hotel when it came time to part ways neither wished to do so.
"Well I-I had fun tonight Naruto-kun" said Temari blushing not looking at him.
"That's good Mari-chan" said Naruto smiling rubbing the back of his neck also not looking at her.
"We should do this again sometime" said Temari.
"Ye-" said Naruto interrupted when his lips were covered by Temari's.
"Goodnight Naru-kun" said Temari after parting with Naruto, before she turned and ran inside quickly.
"Yeah night Mari-chan" said Naruto to the space Temari used to occupy. The male blond the quickly made his way to his own home.
#Next Morning#
Naruto was doing some light exercise in the compound's training grounds, he had decided that if Jiraiya was going to train Kin outside the compound he might as well use it himself, he wasn't alone however Karin was with him, saying that if he was going to train he should have a medic nearby just in case something happened.
Naruto stood in the middle of the training ground having just finished his warm ups.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu" called Naruto making the jutsu's hand sign summoning hundreds of clones that all looked like him minus the gourd that contained his sand. All of the clones armed themselves with various combinations of his weapons ranging from three swords, to his two scythes and even one sword one scythe. Naruto drew his two scythes from his back, pulled off his gourd and threw it aside before he got into his stance.
Karin watched in fascination as Naruto prepared to battle his own clones.
Naruto's stance was low almost like a tiger. All of his clones were in their own stances. As if on command all of the clones charged at their creator, Naruto using all of his skill in acrobatics, and all of his flexibility to avoid all of the simultaneous attacks on his person as his sand was not helping. The clones despite Naruto's best efforts were still landing cuts and slashes on Naruto's person, but the original was popping twice as many as were landing hits.
Within minutes the Naruto population had dwindled down to about twenty clones. Naruto stood opposite his twenty clones panting with not one of his limbs not scathed by a cut. The remaining clones still had their weapons drawn and in a blink the clones once again converged on Naruto.
The first clone came in swinging a sword at Naruto, who blocked the blade with his scythe and went to kick the clone in a place the sun don't shine, but had to drop his leg back to avoid the downward slash of a sword and scythe wielding clone's scythe. Naruto then thrust his sword at the second clone popping it, Naruto then had to duck under another scythe slash, just after the scythe had passed over Naruto's head he had flip back to avoid a low sword slice and then a jab at his mid-section mid-air the original Naruto landed in a one handed hand stand and did a split kick popping two of his clones leaving seventeen to deal with. Five of the clones charged at Naruto their weapons coming down on Naruto who brought the handle of his scythe up to block the multiple weapons, Naruto was about to counter attack when he heard yelling.
"Fire Style Fireball Jutsu" called one of his clones breathing out a fireball five foot in diameter.
"Wind style Great Breakthrough" called another clone pushing his hands forwards sending out a large wall of wind.
"Lightning Style Electromagnetic Murder" called a final clone throwing his hands forward lightning flowed like rivers out of his hands.
The three jutsu combined mid-flight making the fireball triple in size, and the fifteen foot fireball was orbited by fifty bolts of lightning. The real Naruto's eyes widened and he threw his scythe to the side Frisbee style slicing through seven distracted clones. Naruto then began to spin expelling chakra creating a small shell of chakra around him, Naruto then dropped to the ground and spun like a break-dancer, the triad clone attack flew at the spinning blond. Once the attack hit it exploded in a huge flame with a few lightning strikes added in for good measure.
"NARUTO-KUN" screamed Karin just about to run in and stop the fight when she noticed the fire started to spin like a tornado the eye of the storm housing Naruto.
"Wind Style Raging Cyclone" called Naruto as the fire then formed a perfect tornado with the lightning still orbiting it the tube then expanded engulfing all of the remaining clones making them all disperse and once Naruto was sure all of his clones were gone he dropped to the ground.
Once Karin was sure the fighting was over she ran over to Naruto and saw that despite his impressive defence and counter technique he had been severely burned but not life threatening, the redhead then began to heal Naruto who had lost consciousness the second he dropped to the ground.
"Damn Naruto-kun that was impressive" muttered Karin.
"Thanks Karin-chan" borderline whispered Naruto barely holding on to his consciousness.
"Bite me Naru-kun it'll help you head faster" said Karin moving the material out of the way to give the blond access to her neck which he gently bit into. However the pressure of the bite was there for only a second before Naruto lost his battle with the call of unconsciousness.