I Do Not Own Naruto
Chapter 25
Ino rolled her eyes in exasperation at Temari's blunt no but was undeterred.
"But you agreed to go," she counted.
"Yes, and I'll do it, but not until after the summit is over, Shikamaru and I have a lot of work to do," the older woman countered. Ino didn't bother to point out that she also had a lot of work to do because of the classified threat she had uncovered. But that information was classified.
"I wasn't saying right now!" she hissed, she wasn't so stupid as to think Temari could do the date right now.
"Why aren't you bothering the weird ink guy or Sakura at the moment?" Temari tried to change the subject then, but Ino was irritated with the description 'weird ink guy'.
"Hm? You mean Sai?" she innocently demanded.
"Yeah."
"He's busy at the moment," she dismissed. Sai was coordinating security for the summit with Ibiki and her. "And Sakura's busy with Sasuke, and the flower shop is no longer mine to run, my cousin is taking over the civilian business end, and my other cousin wants to take care of the shinobi side, and the elders are assigning another one to take care of the medical plants, also, the elders want me to focus on the Clan and my apprenticeship so I haven't had a lot of free time either. This is my first break in weeks!" she announced. And that was true, but Ibiki gave her a few hours every evening to herself to do her errands and whatnot before she'd train, go home, sleep, get up, and train some more.
"But seriously, about the date!" she continued.
"Look, I'm going on the date, just don't expect it to be pretty!" Temari dismissed after a groan.
"No! We're going to do your hair, makeup, clothes and shoes!" she persisted.
"Ino!"
"You and I are about the same size, you can borrow some of my wardrobe," she said as she blew over her new friend. "And this is important!" she snapped before Temari could say otherwise.
"Fine! You can set the entire thing up, just don't make me look like a Cloud kunoichi or I'll kick your ass," Temari surrendered and Ino did an internal happy dance.
"Yay! This is going to be great! You're not going to regret it!" she assured, and Temari sighed as she grabbed her shoulders.
"Ino! It's one date, got it?" Temari said slowly and seriously.
"Yeah, I got it," she dismissed. But if things went how she was hoping there was a chance that they would continue seeing one another and Shikamaru would not be all over her decision to be in Intelligence with Temari distracting him.
"Akamaru! Wait up!" she heard, Ino looked around for the beast just as something slammed into her hips sending her toppling onto the boardwalk on her ass as she looked at the dog and groaned. She liked Akamaru, but she didn't like being creamed by him.
"Ow, what the hell?" she demanded and looked at the dog as she got up, that was twice in a week, it was painful. Still she scratched the animal's ears and he sat down to thump his tail happily.
"Hey Kiba," she greeted when the young man came jogging up, she noted that Temari was trying to slip away then. "Talk to you later Temari!" she called after the older blonde. Her friend waved her off and she smiled as she looked to Kiba then.
"Sorry about that again, he must really like you," Kiba grinned his snaggal-toothed grin and she looked at the dog.
"That's alright, it just takes me by surprise," she admitted and slipped her hand into her coat pocket.
"Actually, I was kind of looking for you," he said nervously.
"Oh? What about?" she asked as she looked him over.
"Uh… well, you see, I kind of promised myself that if I survived the war I'd ask you out," he said and scratched his head nervously. Her eyes widened as she looked at him.
"Yeah, see, I kind of liked you before the war, you always smelled so pretty, and you're very beautiful, and smart, but it's also intimidating so I never got up the courage. I thought that if I had the courage to get through the war then I could have the courage to ask you out," Kiba said.
"Wow, uh…"
"Hey, it's cool, no pressure," he grinned and she thought about what he had said. There was nothing wrong with going on a date, was there?
"I'm pretty busy until after the Kage summit," she admitted.
"Hey, it's cool," he said nonchantly and she smiled at him.
"I could try to go on a date after the summit, I can't really ask for more time off my apprenticeship, but I'm certain Ibiki won't mind letting me have a night off," she said.
"Really that's great!" he said as they started walking together. "And you said you had an apprenticeship with Ibiki, would that be scary Morino Ibiki?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm working in Intelligence now," she said as she skipped a bit trying to get him to notice the beautiful coat she was falling in love with. She could see why her father had never taken his coat off, this was a very nice, beautiful, comfortable coat. Also it had a zillion and one hidden pockets and she found she loved it!
"That's… awesome!" Kiba said as he paled a bit and she smiled. "So after the summit?" he asked.
"Sure, when would you like the date?" she asked.
"How about the Tuesday after?" he said.
"Sure, I'll talk to Ibiki," she smiled as she started walking away from him.
"I'll pick you up at six!" he shouted.
"I'll be ready!" she called back and she left him behind. Her heart was ramming nervously in her ribs once she was far enough away from him and she stared around at the people and bit her lip.
It was just a date.
But it kind of made her giddy.
"The Kage insist upon bringing their own ANBU," Sai said as he sat in a conference room with Yamato and Morino Ibiki.
"Then we should have the ANBU security members have both an escort and a new map of the village, however, our main concerns are here, here and here, they're weak points of entry that anyone can slip in and out because of the ongoing construction," Yamato said.
"Yes, but the intel suggests that they'd come from here," Ibiki countered as he pointed to the Hokage Mountain. Sai sighed.
"I could provide areal security," he pointed out.
"True, but you're not cleared for duty yet," Yamato pointed out.
"Yes, but this is a Kage summit, I am certain Sakura and Tsunade would see the importance of not having a Kage die during this summit," he countered. Besides, with Tsunade's last bit of healing he had found his hand fully functioning without strain, tears, or pain, which had been an amazing sensation after nearly six months of it being mangled and a constant pain attached to the end of his arm.
"If you think you can be cleared then we'll accept the areal surveillance, nothing large enough to spook them if they come," Ibiki said.
"Of course," he nodded and looked the map over for where he would want his vantage point.
"We'll need to inform Sasuke and Sakura," Yamato said.
"The less people that know about this the better," Ibiki countered.
"Yes, but if there is an attack and Ugly is caught in the cross fire I do not believe that traitor will just sit back and let her be killed, and if he goes on a rampage we do not have the resources to stop him. Besides, Ugly has a good relationship with him, she will be able to calm him if he snaps," Sai said.
Honestly, he didn't want a repeat of the last Uchiha episode that had happened because he knew this village could not take a furious Sasuke on. The last time they had gotten lucky that he had focused on Sakura bleeding rather than the raging civilians. Now, if there was a real threat, he did not doubt that there was no chance for them to rein him in. It would be for the best if Ugly and the traitor were at least aware of the possibility of Uchiha Madara fanatics coming after Uchiha Sasuke to claim him as their leader.
"That is true, even Naruto in his current state can't stop him, and we had enough challenges with Uchiha Obito and Uchiha Madara in the war, and we all know Sasuke just as strong if not stronger than Madara," Yamato pointed out.
"Can they keep it quiet?" Ibiki demanded.
"Ugly can keep a secret, and traitor does not talk to anyone really," Sai replied.
"Fine, we'll inform them, the Uchiha would be their main target if the intel is right," Ibiki grumbled.
"Now, how are we going to coordinate all the security and ANBU here and not let the civilians notice?" Yamato asked.
"Beautiful," Sai answered which had Ibiki and Yamato looking at him. "She can do what she did in the war and connect all the minds of the shinobi in the village as she is told the actual positioning of everyone in the village, she has been practicing."
"Alright, I didn't think she was ready for this just yet, but I'll trust your judgement," Ibiki conceded and Sai nodded then.
"Princess will handle connecting everyone and coordinating everyone, however, I'm thinking we need ANBU in the sewers, just to be safe. Security everywhere, our opponents are shinobi after all, and they won't be like the civilians," Ibiki said.
Sai didn't counter this thought as he pondered the other security problems they were facing. It didn't help that the Kage were bringing their own security and as a former member of Root he was thinking of all the ways around, over, and under the security they were trying to set up.
"Why not leave Root in charge of the security with ANBU teams?" he said seriously.
"And why would we do that?" Ibiki demanded darkly.
"Because they are trained to get around every security measure a nation could put in place," Sai replied. "With their way of thinking the entire village would be covered.
"They don't play well with others in case you have forgotten," Ibiki pointed out.
"No, Sai's right, if we have Root handle leading teams of ANBU then we'll have the whole village covered, they'll think of every which way into this village and how to stop them. We just make the mission specific and they will do it how you want it, but the requirements will have to be very specific or it won't work. Also, this would be a good time for them to stop being Root and start being a part of the village again and accepted members of the ANBU," Yamato admitted.
"Huh, do you think it will work?" Ibiki said as they stared at the map.
"Yes," Sai and Yamato said firmly.
"Alright, we'll try it. However, we're still have a Hyūga outlook surrounding the outposts of the village," Ibiki said firmly.
"Yeah," Sai agreed.
"Good, now the final hinge will be Princess," Ibiki admitted.
"What do you mean?" Sai asked then.
"Her body is most vulnerable when she is using her mind jutsus, Inoichi used to have us lock him in a bunker, but for something like this, she'll need to be situated in a spot where she can send out fluid transmissions, which means a guard is needed for her," Ibiki said.
"I can guard her, I will need a good vantage point to watch over the village, we can set her up with me," Sai admitted. Besides the spot he had picked out was going to be a good transmissions point as well.
"Alright then, now, well just start setting it up," Ibiki decided.
ANNOUNCEMENT!
THERE IS NOW A SIXTH UNTIL THE DAY I... STORY:
UNTIL THE DAY I CONTINUE
I started writing these little oddball spin offs from the main stories; for fun, and because there are so many Naruto characters that I want to touch up on. Now, if you read the other five stories then you know there are no instant couples, I am trying to follow the cannon line with as few deviations as possible, and is immediate post war life.
Now, all of these little spin offs will be following the same guide lines, but on top of that, they will fall chronologically in line with the other Until the Day I… Stories. Mostly so I can keep track of everything, as the writer, which is important to know. Now, also know that I will take character requests for one shots, and I might even come back to the character later in these mini-series, so don't be shy to make requests. If I cannot do your request because of reasons, mostly life, I will tell you but I will be happy to try at another character or a pairing you'd like to see.
Now, I don't mess with canon pairings or semi-canon pairings, but everything else is essentially fair game.
Now for the current list of Until the Day I Continue I have here or intend to put here and their characters:
-Until the Day I Find Serenity: [Neji & Tenten] (UtDIFS)
If you have other requests tell me the character and I'll see what I can do.
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That's all for now folks!
Enjoy Until the Day I Stumble! =)