Finally back! I decided that due to reviews and PMs people were liking the comic relief and ultimate aww-ness of the Naruto and Luna fluff, so i decided to bring a little back.
Enjoy, and PLEASE, for the love of sugar, REVIEW! It would make my sucky first week of school a ton better if you could just review.
I promise, it won't kill you.
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...That is all...
It was really quite...peaceful. Weird, it being peaceful in Rei's house. But it was.
Luna was curled up in her blanket on the couch, arm tucked under the pillow, the side of her face facing the sliding-glass doors looking out towards the garden, curtains currently drawn against the dreary rain.
Nothing but the sound of Naruto's snoring and the occasional bangs Yoshi was making to try and...as she so poetically put it..."scare you into that Naruto guy's arms".
So far, it was not working.
"...Hey, Luna," Naruto suddenly said, sliding right in front of her face, wide awake.
She jumped backwards so bad she almost flipped the whole couch over, and glared at him as he started laughing like an idiot.
Luna slowly slid back into her original position and intensified her glare. "...YES, Naruto? I thought you were asleep!"
"Nope, I've been awake this whole time."
"Then why did I hear snoring?"
He sweatdropped. "Just because you hear snoring, DOESN'T mean it's automatically me. Jeez, I thought you would be able to tell whose voice was whose by listening to the wall vibration, or something equally impressive. Y'know, being an Agent and all."
Her temple throbbed. "Moving on. What?"
"I can't sleep."
"I can. Please let me get right back to doing that."
"No no no NO. If I'm not able to go to sleep, YOU'RE not able to go to sleep."
Luna sweatdropped. "That...is totally illogical."
"YOUR MOM is totally illogical!"
"What makes you say that? We don't know her well enough to make such an inference, Naruto."
He sighed and rolled his eyes. "It's a joke, Luna. Y'know, joke? Those funny phrases that make people laugh?"
"Oh, you mean that skill you happen to be horribly lacking?" She replied sweetly. He glared at her, temple throbbing, before yanking the covers off her, making her spiral out of them and faceplant onto the floor.
He had hopped up just in time and was now crouched on the couch, laughing his ass off. "The face-down look's good for ya, you should do it more often!"
"Naruto, DON'T make me-" She cut herself off as he continued in his thoughtful tone, the one that usually ended up with him saying something stupid, or funny, or stupidly funny.
"...You KNOW...Actually, that IS a good look for you...Less talking, more of a view of your legs...and your ass, too...You really SHOULD recreate this whole scene more often!"
WHACK!
"OW! Dammit, Loon, that was a COMPLIMENT!"
"You staring at my body is NOT complimentary, NOR is it pleasing. It's quite creepy."
He grinned, throwing the pillow back at her. "Lu-naaaa, you're going all formal again. THAT means you're SO enjoying my comments about your rocking bod."
"No I am not!"
"Yes you are, you pretty little liar!"
"NARUTO, WATCH IT! I AM NOT A LIAR, NOR AM I LITTLE!"
"What're you gonna do about it, start a pillow fight?"
WHACK! DOOOOONG!
"Dammit, let's stick with the pillow!" He said with a groan as he set the random gong on the ground out of his way, rubbing his head tenderly.
She smirked triumphantly, and Naruto simply grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her up into a standing position. "C'mon, I can't sleep, let's go do something."
"Just because YOU can't sleep doesn't mean you have to make ME suffer too," she muttered. But she stayed standing anyways, sighing heavily. "Lemme at least stretch first!" She whined as he pulled her to some unknown destination.
Naruto rolled his eyes and let go of her. "Jeez, you're so demanding."
"Yes, yes I am," she said in her Stretching Voice as she linked her fingers together and stretched towards the ceiling.
Luna gave Naruto a weird look as she popped her knuckles. "..What's with that extremely perverted look on your face?"
He just shook his head quickly. "You DO know that when you stretch like that, you're not JUST stretching your arms, right?"
BAM!
"Ow! WHY DOES YOUR FIST HURT SO MUCH?"
"BECAUSE I MEAN IT TO!"
"SHUT UP!" Kei and Miku bellowed from upstairs, and they both covered their mouths quickly with their hands until the snoring kicked back up again.
"Ky-y-yy snooo-ooreees!" Naruto teased in a sing-song voice as he led them to Rei's front door.
"Sooo do-ooes Miiii-kuuuu, which girls aren't supposed to do-oo," she replied like the mature young adult she was.
He threw one of Miku's jackets at her head, which she caught with ease, much to his disappointment. "C'mon, Luna, hurry up!"
"Where're we going?" She asked, her voice sounding kind of jerky since he was dragging her out the door.
"OUT." SLAM.
"...Out? THAT'S your answer? Out. Very descriptive, Naruto, thanks," she replied as they walked down the driveway, the rain not even phasing them.
"SOMEONE'S in a grumpy mood."
"Of course I am, jerkface, you won't let me sleep!"
"No one's keeping you from sleeping, Lu-naaa, you just wanted to come with me."
"D-Did NOT!"
"Either that or you're a pushover," he said casually, walking ahead so he could smirk all smug-like as she stomped after him growling, "NEITHER, Naruto Uzumaki. I do not enjoy your company at this hour, and I am NOT a pushover."
"Uh-huh."
"I'M NOT!"
"Alright, alright! Jeez, keep it down, before they arrest us for disturbing the peace."
Luna huffed and stuffed her hands in the jacket pockets, easily catching up with him, which made him grin.
"See? You enjoy my company just fine."
BAM!
"DAMMIT, LUNA, WHAT IF A CAR WAS COMING? KNOCKING ME INTO THE STREET LIKE THAT...!"
"SHUT UP, YOU'RE DISTURBING THE PEACE!"
TWENTY-FOUR MINUTES LATER...
"Naruto, I do believe you've gotten us lost. AGAIN."
"ME? You're the one who's supposedly been here before!"
"Only once, and I was there for less than two days. Because SOMEBODY followed me and made my life a whole lot more difficult than it already was. REMEMBER?"
He cringed and laughed nervously. "Aw...C'mon, Luna, you know ya love me!"
"You. Wish."
"When yoooou wish uuupooon a staaar-"
BANG! "SHUT UP, ENOUGH WITH THE SINGING!"
"Luna, WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS, the mailboxes are supposed to stay IN the ground, not ON my head and/or face!"
She shrugged innocently. "I forgot."
"Uh-huh."
"I did!"
"Suuure, whatever you say."
"Naruto, don't use that tone with me!"
"Yes MOTHER."
"Why you little-"
"Whooooooaaaa," he said slowly, eyes widening at something behind her. She was currently walking backwards to look at him, and turned around agitatedly to see what DARED interrupt their argument.
Her eyes promptly widened to the size of saucers as they both gaped in amazement at the sight before them.
They were in the middle of a street, on top of a hill, and laying out in front of them was a massive city of flashing lights and lots of cars whizzing past. It was even more impressive since the rain seemed to only hang around near Rei's house, among the surrounding city, but here it was completely dry and slightly chilly.
Speaking of whizzing, Naruto was the first to realize they WERE standing in the middle of the road, and pulled her by the elbow to the sidewalk right before a car zoomed by where they had been standing.
Luna looked at it all in wonder before slowly shaking herself. "This must be the, uh...the...Shibuya District. It's in Western Tokyo," she explained absentmindedly.
Naruto looked at her strangely. "You alright over there?"
A slow grin spread onto her face. "I've never been able to explore a city on my own before. It's always been for missions, during which I have to be so focused that...I just don't find the time to enjoy the scenery. This is so...odd. I LOVE IT!" She announced as she broke out into a skip.
"Hey, wait up!"
She sighed impatiently and ran back to grab him by his jacket, dragging him along as she frolicked towards the bright lights.
"NA-RU-TOOOO, LET'S GOOOOO!"
"Hey, that rhymes!"
She abruptly stopped, making him lurch forward and roll halfway down the hill spastically. "...You're right, it does! Naruto, you're a genius!"
"IF I'M SUCH A GENIUS, WHY'RE YOU LETTING ME ROLL AND PLUMMET TO MY DEATH?"
FIVE MINUTES LATER...
She peered down at him as he glared up at her happy face. "...I knew you'd stop," she said simply as she pulled him up and pulled him along, weaving in and out of people's way and continually saying "Excuse me" in Japanese.
He sweatdropped. "Just listening to you is making me exhausted."
"Well, too bad, there's no way we're going to bed NOW!"
"I said I was exhausted, not that I wanted to go to bed! Jeez, listen once in a while!"
"No need to get snippy, Naruto." He simply sighed and let her drag him along, watching in annoyance and slight amusement as she kept stopping and changing directions randomly to look at the simplest things.
Things that even HE had seen around here when he went with Miku to go research stuff. ...She ended up doing all the research, while he tried to get something out of a vending machine, only to try a low-powered Rasengan and blow the whole thing to bits.
They were promptly kicked off campus.
Of course, he would never tell LUNA that, because she'd never let him live it down. Stupid Luna.
Finally, after almost losing her in the crowd, he waited until she dragged them over to look at a neon-trimmed restroom sign before shrugging out of her grip. He then gripped her hand, making her glare at him.
Naruto knew she'd do that, and before she could even protest, he held up his other hand. "Chill out, chill out. I don't wanna have to chase you down Tokyo, I almost lost ya back there."
She stared at him and the sign for a really long time before sighing and stomping over to a water fountain. "You make it seem like I'm your child, and you're my mother, Naruto."
His temple throbbed, and he simply squeezed her hand rather tightly. "OW!"
"Respect your elders, Luna!"
"YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHEN MY BIRTHDAY IS, YOU JERK!"
"When is it?"
"...I'm not telling you, so NEH," she said before sticking out her tongue.
He peered at her real closely, making the base of her neck turn a little red. She always did that when she was nervous or under pressure.
"...You're a December, I just know it."
"Holy crap, how'd you know that?"
"I read in the back of one of Sakura's mangas that a December woman is usually really feisty, beautiful, and fun."
She nodded, and a slow grin spread across her face. "You think I'm feisty, beautiful, and fun, eh?"
"N-NO, THAT'S WHAT THE BOOK SAID! AND THEN SAKURA SAID 'OOOH, LUNA MUST BE A DECEMBER'!" He shrieked defensively, mocking Sakura's voice in a rather high and girly manner.
Luna just laughed and shook her head, dragging him along some more. "Whatever, let's just keep going!"
They must've gone through all of Western Tokyo, and maybe some of Northern Tokyo, and quite frankly Naruto was exhausted.
So it figured that Luna was as hyper as ever, still running in spastic directions to look at shiny or strange objects.
She even struck up a thirty-minute conversation with some random hobo and a Gothic Lolita. Naruto DID score that Lolita's number, though, so the night wasn't too bad.
Luna was currently walking around singing at the top of her lungs, twirling around every once in a while.
"Jeez, and I thought you were OVER your concussion," Naruto muttered.
She simply twirled around to look at him while walking backwards, halting her admittedly good performance of "Rhinestone Eyes" by the Gorillaz. "Guess where we are?"
"Where."
Luna pouted. "You didn't even guess!"
"Tokyo?"
"DUUHHH. Idiot."
He huffed. "I dunno, just tell me already!"
"FINE! ...Since I'm all-knowing and all. We're in..." She paused and made a drumroll sound for dramatic effect before saying with a symbol noise afterward, "SHINJUKU GYOEN!".
He sweatdropped. "...Alrighty then."
Luna smirked. "I think you should take Miku here or something."
"Why is that?"
"Be-CAUSE, it's the ultimate place to score! I mean, look over there!" She exclaimed, pointing to a couple making out on a secluded bench.
He spazzed out and pulled her away from them, running around the corner. "Lu-NAA, you're not supposed to LOOK at them!"
"Why not?"
"Because you're not!"
"...Well, that's stupid." She paused, then grinned. "You can let go of my hand at any time."
"Yeah right, like I'm gonna let go of your hand."
She smiled innocently. "Jeez, Naruto, you just can't make up your mind, can you? Miku, me, Miku...Your brain MUST be tired from all that exercise."
"I just don't wanna have to deal with you crying like a little kid when you fall and hurt yourself," he muttered, temple throbbing.
She rolled her eyes before jumping down, running to the right, and plopping down on the riverbank.
"Luna, what the hell're you doing?" He asked dully.
She waved him off, not even looking in his direction. "You can go on back, I'm just gonna sit here for a while."
Naruto sweatdropped. "You don't know the way back."
"I know it better than you."
"Doubt it, I've been here before."
"WHEN?"
"With Miku, at the library."
"You READ? Hahahahaha!"
"I didn't read much...but that's besides the point!" He yelled as he stomped over and plopped down beside her.
Luna groaned and blew the bangs out of her right eye. "Did you ever think that when a girl says 'I'll be fine, go on without me' she actually MEANS it?"
"Just shut up! If you wanted to look at the view so damn bad, VIEW IT."
"I WILL."
"GOOD!"
"GOOD!"
"FINE!"
She didn't reply, doing what she said she would and viewing the view. After a few moments, she drew her knees up to her middle, wrapping her arms around her legs.
"Ya know, I've never really seen such a vast body of water in person."
"Ever? In all your missions?"
"Nope. Ever. It really sucks," she said with a half-laugh.
She pretended not to notice as one of his arms, both of which he was propping himself up with, moved closer behind her, almost wrapping around her.
She also pretended she wasn't leaning into it.
"Hey. Loon?"
"Hmm?"
"About the Nine-Tails...You're not mad at me, are you?"
Luna glanced at him before shrugging. "Of course I am. I'm always mad at you. But I forgive you, if that's what you mean."
"There's a difference?"
"Of course there is! A huge one."
"Do explain."
"You can be mad at someone and still forgive them. Just because you've moved on mentally, doesn't mean you've moved on emotionally. Wounds take a while to heal up."
"I wounded you?" He asked carefully, as if she had just wounded HIM.
Luna sighed impatiently. "Naruto, I've been wounded so many times, it's just normal for me. Trust me, I forgive you."
"But-..."
"But what?" She asked, completely curious and looking at him full-on now.
He picked at the grass with the hand that wasn't currently inching closer and closer to her waist. Which she ALSO pretended not to notice.
"It shouldn't be normal for you. I don't want it to be."
Luna sighed. "Well, it is. So get used to it. It can't be helped, what's done is done."
There was a silence before he abruptly moved to crouch in front of her, planting his hands on her drawn-up knees sternly.
"Then I'll be sure not to be added to the list of injury-causers from now on. Seeing you cry is probably one of the worst things I've ever seen, just so you know."
She sweatdropped. "...Why? ...Do I look especially ugly or something? I mean...when I cry, which is rarely...my nose tends to turn red, and I get rather sniffly-"
"No no no, that's not it! It's just...not...pleasant. So don't do it ever again," he commanded, that determined look of his on his face.
Luna made a defensive noise. "ALRIGHT, alright! Jeez. You can be so scary sometimes, all demanding like a drill sergeant."
Naruto rolled his eyes, Luna closed hers to stretch and yawn, and when she opened them again he was still there.
He was staring at her like he was trying to figure out some really complicated math problem.
"...I hate it when people look at me like that," she muttered. She got enough of that at the Agency.
Naruto paled and looked away abruptly. "Oh...Sorry, I just kinda spaced out for a minute."
"I can tell. Mind getting your hands off my knees now?"
He smirked mischievously. "But it's obviously bothering you! Why would I quit doing what I do best?"
"Be a pervert?"
"Noooope." He leaned in until his face was mere inches from hers before turning towards her ear an whispering "Driving you absolutely CRAZY and kicking your raging hormones into gear."
Luna glared at him, grabbing him by the shirt collar and keeping him right in front of her. "Naruto Uzumaki, you don't know the MEANING of the word 'raging hormones' until you've seen me flirt. I suggest you quit while you're behind."
"You haven't seen ME flirt."
"Then whaddaya call all this?"
"A warm-up."
"I'll show YOU warming up," she growled.
They had a stare-off for a few minutes, during which Luna slowly let go of him. He didn't move. Well, move AWAY anyway. He was, however, leaning a little closer (if that was possible).
It took Luna a minute to realize she was leaning just as much as him in the first place. The damn Agency flashed into her head, and she realized what she was about to let happen, causing her to abruptly stand up and turn away while sucking in a breath.
Naruto promptly fell forward and landed right on his face. "...It's only a few hours before morning, we should probably start heading back," she said quietly.
He stood up, brushing himself off while muttering a string of swears under his breath. "...Yeah, you're probably right."
As they walked back, Luna got colder and colder, sneezing every thirty seconds. Finally, Naruto let out a frustrated groan and threw his jacket at her.
"HERE! Take the damn thing! You obviously need it more than I do!"
She glared at him, temple throbbing. "Naruto, there is no way in hell I'm wearing this."
"Why not?" He asked defensively.
She huffed as if he were missing something obvious. "Be-CAUSE, the GIRLFRIENDS are supposed to wear their guy's jacket. I am obviously not your girlfriend, and you are CLEARLY not 'my guy'."
"Nice air quotes."
"Thanks!"
"May I remind you that as far as Konoha and the Agency's concerned, you ARE my...though it makes me shudder just saying it...my girlfriend. And you're shivering. So stop being so stubborn and just put it on! Unless...you're too much of a BABY to do it..."
She immediately slipped it on, stuffing her hands in the pockets and stomping to catch up with him.
He smirked. "Well, look at that. You actually LISTENED to me!"
Luna turned her nose up defiantly at him before running ahead. "Only because I know I can wear it better than you EVER could!"
He ran after her before catching up and grinning. "Well, I can't exactly disagree with that."
She turned a little red despite herself, but come on, the way his eyes were roaming up and down on her, she had no CHOICE but to blush at how perverted his mind was!
"Awww, look! Luu-naaaa's bluuuush-ing! Luu-naaaa's bluuuush-ing!"
As if on cue, a sumo wrestler ran by chasing a midget man dressed up as a geisha. "I WANT MY MONEY BACK, TINY DEVIL MAN!" He bellowed.
"NOT ON YOUR DAMN LIFE!" The midget shouted back.
The two angry men continued to run through crowds, speaking quick bursts of harsh Japanese definitely not meant for young audiences. The two teens sweatdropped.
"...Time to go home, Luna."
"I kinda figured."