"I just thought of something." Naruto abruptly speaks up, which earns his companion's attention. "You don't have any clothes here, do you?"
"You think we could stop by my apartment to collect some clothes and few valueables?" Hinata was suddenly posing as she was praying that the blonde was saying "yes".
Naruto leans back against the seat, rubs his chin and utters, "It's rather risky to go back to a location where you used to live."
A forlorn expression materialized on her face until she heard him include, "…but I think if it is clear then you have to be really quick about of it."
"Oh thank you, Naruto-kun!" She was cheerfully exclaiming with a wide smile along with a twinkle in her eyes.
"Hehe, it's not a big deal." He simply downplayed while he rubbed his index finger underneath his nose.
Hinata then piled her two dishes, stood to her feet and suggested, "You can go ahead and get ready while I do the dishes."
The blonde swiftly hops to his feet and adamantly protests, "Oh no, you cooked us breakfast so you should go ahead and get ready."
"Okay…"
'I don't know if this is such a good idea but if it made her smile then it is the least I can do.'
The young man was pushing away from the dining room table, collecting the dirty dishes, ambling over to the sink and placing the bowls inside of the sink.
Naruto plugged the stopper inside of the sink, reached over for the dish detergent and squirted a dab of blue liquid in to the sink.
'Her smile…her laugh…' The male inwardly recalls how the two simple gestures seem to speak volumes for the usually quiet woman.
Naruto was twisting the faucet to the left, watching the water cascade in to the sink as it was creating bubbles and twisting to the right to cut the water.
'I should probably take her shopping instead.'
He tightly clutched the bowl as his mind recalled the incident that happen between two cousin, who probably have not seen each other in years.
'I wonder if Tsunade baa-chan has called about Hinata and her jaw?'
'At the Dollhouse, Hinata's stage name is Ice.'
'How did she get that name when she's such a sweet person?'
'Is there another side to her that only Neji knows about?'
'All this deep thinking is hurting my head.'
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Sakura was unexpectedly colliding in to something firm yet she was remaining on her feet. 'Hm, that's strange.'
"Uhm, excuse me," A voice speaks up, which directs her gaze downward to the platform. She beholds a young male with extremely pale skin and short dark raven hair.
A sketchbook, color pencils, regular pencils and a few erasers spilled out of a black tote that she assumed belonged to him.
"I'm so sorry about that." She was quickly apologizing for her action before politely helping the male out.
Sakura swiftly brushes all the items inside of the bag, hands it off to him and apologizes again, "I'm really sorry about that."
He simply dusted himself off, silently stood to his feet and dryly commented, "It's okay."
"You have beautiful eyes." The young man suddenly complimented her once he graciously accepted his bag from the rosy haired woman.
A small blush materializes across her face until her sights catch the face of a clock, which leads her to exclaim, "Oh my god, I'm going to be late!"
Sakura was facing away from the raven haired male and speedily weaving through the morning crowd at the University's train station.
'I still have some time left even if I have to complete registration.' She mentally estimated the time that she has left.
Sakura was sliding her card through the reader as it was permitting her to pass through the turnstile and snatching it just as soon as it was popping up.
Her eyes finally landed on the campus ground, which prompted her to reach for her student ID to show to the guard.
Sakura solely focuses on the task at hand while the young male at the station wonders to himself, 'I wonder what her name is?'
A buzz from his cellphone captured his attention as he reached inside of his pocket and produced the smartphone.
"Report in at 10:00." He reads with his eyes before he privately assumes, 'They must want me to do some composite sketches.'
"Last call for Southbound train." A feminine voice broadcasted, which surfaced him from his thoughts about the text, on the intercom.
He was leisurely stepping inside of the busy train car and locating a seat for the trip to his workplace.
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"What about the other Dolls? Did you ever place your trust in them?" He solemnly poses to his companion after he lays the menu down on the table.
Karin's focus remained on the menu in front of her since she still did not make a decision on what she is in the mood for.
"I know you don't care for my opinion similar to how I feel about yours…" The male was speaking up before quipping, "You damn right, I don't."
"I think you were starting to place your trust in them, which is a foreign feeling for a junkie that only knows lies and deceit." Suigetsu rendered his opinion about the situation.
"You've always been the scary type by not allowing people in your life. I'm surprised you aren't tired of living a lie."
She tightly clenches the edges of the menu in her grasp right before she roughly slams the plastic item down on the table. "You don't know anything about my life!"
"You don't know the struggles, obstacles and barriers I had to endure for me to even say that I am alive!" Karin was angrily declaring as she was gritting her teeth from ire.
"You really are a stupid woman, you know that right?" He strongly alleged with a shake of his head at her answer.
"You can't even read the air around you. I asked you these questions and told you about Lord Orochimaru because I am concerned about you." The white haired male honestly admitted.
"You're playing a dangerous game with a very experience player, but if you do then I wish you the best on the path to an early death." He was solemnly warning her.
Suigetsu signals for the waiter, who quickly approaches the couple. He places his order before the waiter casts his sights toward Karin, "For you ma'am,"
She studied it for a few more seconds before she disclosed her order and handed the menu over to the waiter.
Karin's eyes were shifting from the waiter to back on Suigetsu, who just so happens to be on his phone.
"Didn't anyone ever teach you manners?" She mentions, which earns her an "eh?" from the male in front of her.
"When you're on a date with a woman, you give her your complete undivided attention."
She waited for a snarky remark instead she received no answer at all but rather a movement, he slid his phone inside of his pocket and scooted closer to her.
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"I take it you're a regular." Kiba knowingly speaks up after Ino finishes with her laughter, which earns him a curious expression once again.
"The waiter already has your order and knows you by name." He added after the waiter asked if he planned to order anything.
Kiba was interlocking his fingers together, placing it underneath his nose, staring at the platinum blonde and slyly mentioning "…but then again I've always been pretty observant, especially when it is you Ino."
"You've been wearing the same Vanilla/Lavender perfume mix ever since you been in high school." He divulged as her pale face was now a brighter red color.
"By the way, it smells even lovelier with age, don't you think?" Kiba was asking her while shifting his right arm so that he can rest his chin against the palm of his right hand.
"I don't like to change up too much. But, I see you're still the confident flirtatious bastard that you are." Ino earnestly admitted once she eventually fought down the blush on her face.
He was bursting out in to a fit of laughter until including, "The good old sarcastic bratty twit you are only gets to call me a flirtatious bastard."
"Could you at least not look at me like that?" She siftly mutters as she briefly averts her sights away from his face.
"I can't do that." Kiba sternly asserted with a serious expression on his face when he spoke to her.
He then honestly conveys his feelings, "Like I said earlier, you're an extremely beautiful woman that I just can't divert my eyes from."
"Clearly your soon to be husband doesn't compliment you at all like you are use to. You're like an innocent docile schoolgirl, who has yet to fully mature in to a woman." He boastfully claimed as his sights never left her face.
His statement seems to hit the hammer on the nail as it strikes a deeper part of her that her fiancée barely attempts to tread.
"You can always tell me what's on your mind since I am your friend." Kiba was coyly implying with a visible smirk on his face.
Ino felt an indescribable sensation from the wild brunette as he seemed to scrutinize her very being when she conversed with him.
"...or the better question should be what you want me to do for you?" He deliberately clarifies before he drops his arm on to the table.
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Tenten patiently waited by the teacher's desk when she finally overheard the sound of children in the hallway.
'That sounds like it could be Tao.' She was predicting as she was casting her sights over toward the clock above the alphabet line.
Mr. Umino's back appears in front of the door as his voice carries throughout the hallway, "Make sure you go to your seat and be quiet."
Tenten perked up at the sight of the children quietly filed inside of the room as she actively searched through the line for her son.
Tao eventually rounds the corner in his classroom still unaware that his mom is in the room as well.
"Today, we will have local law enforcements talk about safety around strangers." Mr. Umino was broadcasting to his students as it was capturing their attention.
Tenten watches as one lone officer enters inside of the room and stands next to Mr. Umino.
The man was slightly older than Mr. Umino with his raven hair styled in a bowl cut. He was clad in a hideous tight green spandex with orange leg warmers and a forest green vest on.
"Good afternoon, you lovely blossoms of youth! Are you ready to learn about how to stay away from strangers?" The older man loudly exclaims as he dramatically strikes a weird pose.
'What in the world?!' Tenten wearily contemplated until she heard applause from the children, who seemed to absolutely adore the man's shenanigans.
"Before I get started, a magician always have to have a trusty assistant, right?" The man poses to the kids, which earns an eager response of a "yes".
"Now he's an extremely shy person so please go easy on him for Guy's sake, okay?" He was suggesting to the children as they were nodding their head in a yes fashion .
"Come on in Gai's assistant." The man, who Tenten assumed his name is Gai, pointed toward the door as a man with long brunette hair entered in Mr. Umino's class.
The pale man directly halted right in front of the little ones and faced them with a really stern and scary expression on his face.
He had the most unusual eye color yet they seem awfully familiar to Tenten that is until realization dawns on her.
'His eyes…those eyes…he's the one that hit Hinata at the prescient!' She was angrily recalling the incident when realizing that he was staring up at her in the back of the classroom.
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"Are you done with moving your puppets?" Temari was questioning her brother while sticking her arms through the green khaki jacket.
Kankuro twirled the ring around his index finger, captured it within his hands and answered, "Yeah, the moving truck just left."
"Good, let's go then." She says as she rounds toward the passenger side of the vehicle and patiently waits until he releases the lock.
"Come on Temari, are you still mad at me because I flirted with Tenten?" He was curiously needling.
He then slides in to the driver seat and cracks the car up. Tthe brunette watched his sister slant her body toward him with her eyes narrowed.
She promptly clarifies, "You don't know anything about Tenten and what she has been through."
"You already know I look out for Tao as if he is my own son." The dirty blonde was earnestly stating as she was staring at her brother.
"Besides, to have my brother shamelessly hit on one of my friends when I clearly know that he isn't the right person let alone man enough to handle the total package is a lot to handle." Temari honestly expresses her feelings about the situation.
"You really don't have any faith in me, do you?" Kankuro was challenging as he was shifting the car in to reverse and peering out of the back window.
"I have no faith in you if you do pursue her. You will only suffer a miserable lost." She clarified her stance about her brother possibly dating her friend.
"That's for me to cope with if it does happen but you should totally support me instead of some random guy." He was declaring to her with a rare serious expression on his face.
"Shut up and drive already." Temari snaps at him while she yanks her seatbelt across her figure and clicks it in the slot.
'I can't believe this…the nerve of this idiot.'
'Yet, can I even blame the poor kid? He hasn't had a girlfriend in ages!'
'I guess I could let him at least try…'
'Even still I can't worry about that right now. I have a Shoji tournament that I have to get ready for.'
She was rubbing her palms together at the thought of being able to win the first place cash money prize. 'I'll be able to pay off some of Tenten's bills.'
"Life is really good for now." The dirty blonde merrily mutters to herself with a smile on her face.
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Jiraiya carefully removed a handful of manila folders and carried them inside of his office space. It was at that moment, was he greeted by a rare sight.
"To whom do I own the pleasure of this visit?" He was questioning upon the sight of his Administrator standing behind his desk with her usual Sake cup in her hand.
"Did you not see how Gai dragged that poor bastard out of confinements?" Tsunade drunkenly hollers as she happily bangs her fist against his desk.
"Whoa there princess, I don't need to have to bother HQ for another desk again." The male sternly reminded her after he witnessed her actions.
The blonde merely raised an eyebrow at the man in front of her, who currently toted a handful of folders underneath his arms.
"You know...you could have gotten Shizune to do that." She informs him after she leans back in his chair and points her Sake cup in his direction.
He ignores her comment and instead says, "There's something that is just bothering me about this open case. I plan to run through the evidence again."
The woman was briefly hovering over the rim of the cup as her facial expression was displaying she was deep in thoughts about something. "Multiple suspects, one knows information but there is still no present evidence to convict either one of them."
"Did you call the brat in?" Jirairya gave her the third degree after he placed the folders on the far end of his desk.
"Yep, I just did a few minutes ago. But I doubt he gets here on time though." The Administrator was answering after sipping the cool liquid.
"You plan on having Ibiki continuously questioning the girl? Don't you think that the traumatic experience was more than enough for her already?" The male wondered what her plan of action will be for the girl.
"In this profession, we have seen things that will forever cause us nightmares." Tsunade was sighing once dropping the cup from her lips.
"You just learn to block out your feelings and stick to the duties at hand." She opined before she sipped the liquid again.
"Yet, I can't shake this feeling that this case will bring us one step closer to at least being able to connect a name to a face." The blonde honestly assumes since she could not shake the odd sensation.
"Did you call in the Forensic Sketcher?" Jiraiya was enquiringly asking while settling down in the seat in front of her.
"Yeah…that brat should be on the way." Tsunade disclosed once she finished the rest of her drink.
"Achoo…" A young man with short raven hair unexpectedly sneezes before someone politely mentions, "Bless you,"
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