Naruto
Fury Guilt and Love
Alright people. I think that there may be a little bit of doubt in the purpose of Kuro. Let me start by saying this; I know that he seems VERY uber-powerful and in the cold hard truth... he is, rest assured he is not invincible, although I can see where a few points could leave you sceptical about the ordeal. In fact, the story behind him is going to be down-played so that it is revieled peice by peice. That way I can still focus alot more on the irresistable drama, romance and angst of two blondes and a pink thing.
All that aside, we last left our heroes on the verdge of adversity, with Naruto layed out by the heavanly veiw of Ino's highly exposed body, while the Ominous Kuro himself was finally comencing his rise to power. So tell me; from what you read about that so far, do you think that he can truly be stopped? Is there any force on the planet strong enough to take down this mighty foe?
Prepare yourselves, folks... because we're about to find out!
PS: my ending Author Note will have a mucho impotante statement. Be sure you read it, and son't worry, its nothing horrible or anything like that.
Chapter 36
Konoha...
The skys from the previous drizzle they had, had cleared up minutes ago. The funeral of the Sandaime Hokage had loomed a blanket of silence upon the saddened and still destroyed village. Though each individual was handling it differently, that did not stop them from slowly rebulding their home. Tragedy or not, the people of Konohagakure would not settle for a dececrated village, so they began to rebuild in the hopes of a brighter future. But for right now...
we will guide our attention to a certain young pair at Ichiraku Ramen.
Naruto and Sakura, still dressed in there black clothing, enjoyed a couple of bowls of the largely misunderstood gift to the world. Now that certain things have been established, both officially and silently, this is moment is what Sakura would have absolutely refused if nothing happened between them... a date. Though it was a realitively cheap date (understandably), Sakura did not care. She was happy enough to just be in Naruto's company, especially because of her doing the right thing and setting things straight once and for all. She was happy with him.
Bu what surprised her, Teuchi and Ayame the most was the fact that Naruto had still retained his table manners; blowing on his ramen before steadily taking it into his mouth opposed to the mindless neandratholic gordging of it before. It was truly a pleasant surprise that made dining with him a lot more enjoyable and a lot less embarrasing, Sakura noted. Not that she had ever eatten with him previously, but seeing him eat for the first time tighed her stomach in knocks.
Anyway, after another serving of her chicken and beef flavored ramen, Sakura's mind began to wander. She had a bit of guilt running through her heart at the thought of eating and having a good time with her favorite blonde while everyone else was working their tails off to rebuild their destroyed village. The pink haired Genin ceased her meal for a time and turned her head to Naruto.
"Naruto? Is this alright", she questioned with doubt in her voice.
The blonde swallowed another delectable serving of his ramen before took a careful look at his date.
"Hm? Is what alright, Sakura-chan?", he asked.
"Is it alright for us to be here enjoying ourselves while we let everyone else help to rebuild the village? I feel kinda lazy", she said with a slight blush.
Naruto smiled, "Say what? You didn't really think that we were just gonna sit back and watch them did you? No, this is just a reward for how we did on the mission... and a just punishment for a certain smart-ass", he said before looking down at his stomach.
Kyuubi: Watch it, Brat...
Smiling at Naruto's comment while also raising an eyebrow to that last part, Sakura nodded with affirmation.
"But of course...", Naruto began again, gaining a curious look from Sakura, "We'll also have to start training very soon."
At this, the pink haired Genin's head tilted.
Catching wind of this, Naruto breifly explained, "Yeah, I mean think about it; aside from Sasuke, Kakashi-sensei hasn't really focused on all of us equally", he saud with a bit of anger.
Sakura took another small bite of her ramen before responding, "Hmm... You have a point. I mean, I really don't even remember the last time he taught me anything. In fact, when was the last time we ever trained as a team?", she questioned while growing more and more depressed because of the lack of companionship that she was finally starting to see.
"Thats my point exactly", Naruto began before taking another delectable serving of Ramen, "But the blame isn't Kakashi-sensei's alone to bare. For a while now, Sasuke and I have been getting stronger and stronger, and I have to admit I was being rather selfish at the time. I was so focused on getting stronger that I didn't even consider helping you out. Not that Sasuke and Sensei were any better but... still"
Sakura smiled warmly at Naruto's natural kindess and concern, "Oh Naruto. You worry too much, but you couldn't be more right. In fact, once we're done with our food, lets help out around the village a bit and then later tonight we can train until we-...", she was saying until she cut herself off.
What she noticed at that moment was the face of the VERY troubled blonde beside her. It seemed as though his mood had made a full 180 turn, instantly replacing it with a disturbed and highly vexed expression. Whats more is that the grip of his fingers around his chop-sticks became so great that they snapped them in half.
"Naruto?... Whats the mat-"
"Can't you feel it?", he asked suddenly.
Sakura noticed Naruto starting to tremble as his brow furrowed, "Feel what? What are you talking about? Whats wrong?", she asked constantly.
Not even able to respond at this point, the blonde Jinchuuriki's trembling steadily became more feirce as his eyes began to widen in disbelief and notable fear. At this, Sakura lifted her hand to her mouth in worry.
"W... Whats wrong with him... He looks so... so scared", she thought as she stared on at the frightened blonde next to her.
Suddenly, before they knew it, Sasuke of all people (also garbed in his black funeral attire) came into the fray, panting for breath as an indication that he had been rushing.
"S-Sasuke-kun?", Sakura said.
"Both of you... follow me. There's something you might want to see", Sasuke said with a serious demeanor.
Sakura was now confused beyond all fuckable reasons. Just what in the blazing Hell could POSSIBLY be so fantastic that it caused everyone she knew to go totally insane?! She simply couldn't understand it, but what she did note was that Sasuke had nearly the same facial expression that Naruto did, minus that naturally branded facial indifference that he has... punk... Looking directly at his friend, the raven haired Uchiha nodded to Naruto, whom returned this gesture in agreement.
"Okay. Come on Sakura-chan!", the blue eyed Genin exclaimed before dropping the exact amount of money needed to pay for both meals, and jumping off of his stool.
Now ready to go, Sasuke and Naruto wasted no time as they dashed off in a seemingly random direction, leaving a baffled Sakura behind.
"N-Naruto?! Sasuke-kun?! Wait for me!", she yelled before bursting from her own seat and dashing after her comrades.
Once she managed to catch up to them, she maintained her place in between them both, heavily questioning what had brought on this sudden rush.
"Will one of you you tell me whats going on?! Why are you acting so crazy?!", Sakura questioned.
Sasuke turned a curious eye to his teammate, "So she can't even feel it yet..."-"Its better if I just show you. Lets go!", he shouted before kicking his speed into overdrive, taking to the rooftops to travel faster; both of his comrades mimicking the action.
After a few more seconds of traveling, Sakura had just came to the realization that her question was far from even answered, but when she turned to Naruto for even a slightest hint, she was met with a most unusual sight. Dashing upon the rooftops with them was Team 8, all harboring the same troubled expressions (of course you really couldn't tell when it came to Shino). What worried Sakura a little more was the fact that Hinata had her Byakugan activated and Akamaru yelping like crazy with Kiba trying to comfort him.
"Y-You guys? What are you all doing here?", Sakura asked.
Kiba turned to the pink haired kunoichi, "You mean you can't sense that?", he said.
Sakura was now getting a bit frustrated, "Sense what?! What is the flippin' situation here?!", she huffed with frustration.
"Thats exactly what we're trying to find out...", came the familiar voice of Tenten from the other side of Team 7.
Sakura turned her head to that direction and saw Tenten, Neji, Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji all rushing to a seemingly similar destination, though none of them had a clue what they would find if anything. With Team 7 leading the way, the entire Rookie 9 (and team Gai with no Lee) were now rushing together to find the source of their troubled demeanor... well, Sakura was still in the dark... and that alone was pissing her off. Even Ino looked like she was about to puke.
Knowing full damn well that the Hyuuga's in that group could easily see what he saw before he beckoned the rest of his team, Sasuke activated his Sharingan out of pure and unitentional reflex as the feeling that he was experiencing became five times more intense.
"What in the Hell? Has everyone on the planet suddenly gone insane?", Sakura inwardly questioned.
Ironically... it was after that exact thought, that the jade eyed Haruno was suddenly smashed with a horrible, HORRIBLE, gut-wrenching feeling. Within no time at all, Sakura's head started pounding as the very foundation of her body and psyche were shaken heavily. Her body felt as though it were scewered with thousands upon thousands of burning needles, therefore numbing her almost completely. If she hadn't been trained as a Shinobi, she would've tripped and fell on her face because of this.
"Oh...", she whispered through horrible trembles, "Now I can feel it..."
With that, all of the Genin continued their haul to the source of this maddening feeling; all of them mytseriously drawn to it like moths to a flame. Before too long they were all stationed upon the Hokage Monument where they were fronted with a very... unsettling sight. Before the Rookie 9 was a blackened horizon. Though the skys were clear and sunny on their end, the area which they all gandered upon was caked with darkness. The sight alone was bad enough, but the feeling that came along with it was absolutely indescribable.
All of them were trembling. Even Neji couldn't resist the affects of this incomprehencable feeling but that didn't stop him from using his Byakugan to zoom his vison further toward that direction to locate any kind of source. Hinata was also attempting the same action, and with two Hyuuga's on the job, the task would've been easy to complete, right?... Right??
"What do you see Neji?", a visibly shaken Tenten asked.
Since he was concentrating incredibly hard to accomplish what he was trying to do, Neji wasn't able to respond right away. However, after roughly a minute, he stopped at the fruitless attempt.
"I cannot locate the source... It is too far away", he said.
Hearing this, Kiba turned his attention to Hinata, "Nothin', huh? What about you Hinata?", he asked while still trying to sooth yelping Akamura.
After a while more, the young Hyuuga gave up as well, "Nothing. I can't see anything from this distance", she said rather disappointedly.
At this, Shikamaru's eyes narrowed, "Man... not even those two can tell whats causing this? This doesn't make any logical sense. What could possibly cause all of us to sense something like this from such a distance?... (sigh) Nevermind... something tells me that finding out would be the last thing I'd want to do", he thought to himself.
As they stared curiously at the ominous darkness ahead, a sudden burst of wind picked up; strong and unwavering. In fact, it almost knocked several of the Genin on their asses but they all retained their footing as they became even more baffled as to what was causing these peculiar phenomena. Neither of them were entirely too certain as to why they examined what they were seeing, seen as how fruitless it was, but that didn't really mean much, so they remained where they were.
Unbenounced to the rest of them though, Naruto was the one who was effected by this the most. His breathing was starting to become irregular and his body was steadily loosing feeling and strength.
"This... This evil feeling-Its... Its the same as from..."-"GAH!!!", he grunted before falling to one of his knees.
Catching this immediately, Sakura knelt beside her boy, "Naruto? Are you alright?", she asked with her voice full of concern.
Panting for a short while, Naruto seemed to compose himself long enough to bare a smile, "Yeah... Yeah I'm good-GRAHL!", he grunted again as his stomach suddenly felt as though it were on fire.
Sakura's eyes narrowed with doubt and worry, "No you're not! Whats wrong?", she asked again.
This time he knew that there was no hiding behind his pattened mask of easiness; the feeling of encroaching forebode was too great.
"If only I knew, Sakura-chan... ... If only I knew"
(A/N- By the way, all of them are still wearing their funeral clothing)
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Meanwhile...
(Radical Destructive music plays)
The black clouds above were now completely blotting out the brightness within the sky. Not a single beam of sunlight was present any longer as the clouds rotated around to atmospere. The constant roars of thunder echoed throughout the land as the lightening bolts had now become much larger in size and more fightening in power. As one of the bolts of Chaos struck and practically electrufied the enormous mountain, the roars of thunder became more feirce, as did the radical winds that savagley tore through the forest.
Upon the mountain,s summit, Nekoshi and Kitune had to sheild themselves and focus a great deal of their chakra to their lower limbs to keep from being blown away, seen as how they were at the heart of this dreadful storm; peering above them at the brilliant and electifying red oval of pure spiritual energy. Small but numerous lots of debree and rubble was being sucked and converged unto that very spot.
To both of the Shinobi, this was as frightening as it was exilerating... and thats saying a LOT! The Evil energy was so incredibly terrible that it was virtually impossible to appraoch it without sustaining some damage. The fact that they were so close to begin with, was already taking it's tole upon them enough as it was, so approaching it any more than that was completely out of the question.
"Yes... Kuro-sensei's final ascention is at last at hand. Soon he will become the greatest power once again", Nekoshi thought to himself.
Kitsune, though simaltaneously terrified, was smiling excitedly at all of the carnage and felt more and more at home.
"At last, things are beggining to truly fall into place. With Sandaime-sama's death, Sensei can have all of the fun he wishes until the Godaime is officially enstated. And soon... very soon we shall aid him in his quest to make his dark dreams of bloody revenge and blazing conquest... a reality", she thought.
The thoughts and fantasies of what the future may hold, roamed about both of their minds as they watched their teachers ascention. The orb of power started to grow in size, thus sending circular waves of energy outward. However, the sight seeing had to be put on hold for one very important reason. What is this reason, you ask?
"(GASP)!!!!!!!! Oh... my... GOD!!!!!!", Nekoshi shouted as his attention was averted to the mysterious seal.
What both shinobi saw right then and there, sent their heartrates through the roofs... The seal was cracking.
Seeing this as well, Kitsune's eyes widened as she immediately became desperate, "YOU HAVE TO STOP IT SENSEI!!!!!!! YOU'LL BREAK THE SEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she shrilled.
Unfortunately, the only response she was given was the haunting sight of the flickering shadow of a winged creature within the giant orb of power.
"Dear Lord... Its happening again!!!!!", Kitsune cried out.
"No... NO! We CAN'T let it! NOT again!!!", Nekoshi yelled before taking hold of his comrade's shoulders, "Kitsune! No matter WHAT it takes, we have to remove the seal and stop the ritual!"
"B-But its too early! Our plans could be ruined!"
"Its worth the risk! If we let that thing run loose again, we may NEVER be able to stop it! REMOVE THE SEAL!!!", Nekoshi commanded.
At this, Kitsune hesitated, but at the same time she also knew that hesitation could bring them both to a grizzly end... just like so many others before them. Biting down on her lower lip, Kitsune steeled her will and dashed off past the massive red orb of demonic power to reach the seal with Nekoshi watching her back. She managed to make it to the seal without sustaining too much damage, but when her hands made contact with the glowing relic, her body was savagely electrocuted.
The female shinobi let out a heart-wreching scream of pure agony as the oceans of horrible demonic life force seeped into her pours, causing her pain that she had only imagined. But she remained strong and adamant as she continued her painful laments.
"KITSUNE!!!"
Nekoshi's shouts fell upon deaf ears as Kitsune continued her effort to remove the seal. However, things weren't going accoding to plan, mainly due to the fact that the seal was still cracking and looked as though it would shatter at any given moment. Seeing this, Nekoshi panicked for the first time in decades before he rushed to his lovers side and shared her agony as he too grabbed hold of the mysterious seal.
Feeling Nekoshi's hands upon her own, Kitsune's eyes shot open and peered upon his.
"PULL!!! PULL, GOD DAMMIT!!!! PULL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", he roared before hoisting his strength to great levels.
Mimicking this action, both shinobi gave one final howl of sheer effort before RIPPING the seal off of its stone mound. As a response to this, the flickering shadow of the winged demon let out a terrible roar of fury, thus fading within the light of the massive orb. Because of the ordeal, Kitsune lost consciousness with the seal in her arms but was caught by her comrade before she hit the ground. Craddling her within his arms, Nekoshi snapped his attention back to the source of all of this Hell as irregularly shaped waves of energy expanded outward and aminated off of the mountain itself.
Within time, a golden bright light slowly illuminated the entire area within a two mile radius as hundreds of tiny sparks began to converdge unto the brilliant orb.
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Back at Konoha...
The Genin remained in their exact same spots as they peered upon the black horizon; each of them with their own individual thoughts. Thoughts of what any of this meant and how it would affect them. Of course, much of these thoughts were based around fear; the fear of not knowing. Uncertain of what who befall the village. All of these thoughts were brought on because of the increasingly evil aura that pleagued the air.
However, neither of them were able to reflect on this any further due to a certain comotion from behind them. These noises sounded like the distressed ramblings of the villagers. The all turned around to see what the noise was about, but when they did, they witnessed something incedibly out of place. Fog... thick and omenously unsettling fog. Though the skys were perfectly sunny and bright, this mysterious fog was encroaching the ground, almost completely suffocating everything that wasn't the sky.
Within a very short time, Konoha and everything around it was shrouded within this thick fog. But because all of the Genin were stationed upon the Monument, they were untouched by the fog but were still very much baffled by it. What amazed them even more was the fact that the fog continued to grow and expand past Konoha, as far as their eyes could see, even. As their vision was trailed back to the front of them, they had saw that the horizon became even blacker than before as a golden flicker of light slowly made itself present.
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(Radical Music continues)
Nekoshi stared on in awe at the climactic light show as Kitsune slowly regained consciousness. Looking down at his lover, Nekoshi smiled to see that no long term harm had befallen her.
"Mmm... N-Nekoshi... Wha-"
"Shh... Don't speak. It'll all be over soon..."
Kitsune stirred weakly, "Ahh... But what about the seal", she asked worriedly.
"We removed it without a second to spear. Kuro-sensei will be his old self in no time flat", Nekoshi responded.
"Oh... Thank... Goodness...", Kitsune sighed before blacking out and losing consciousness again with the mysterious relic still in her arms.
The orb of red energy was swarmed by a torrent of unsurmountable power as the ritual was nearing it's end. Though it was still a bit too early, Nekoshi was satisfied that they did what they did, so he watched on at the finishing display, while noticing that his surroundings became devoid of all traces of light; the sky and ground alike. At this point, the brilliant orb, which was also the only source of light, was now shrinking in size until it took on what seemed to be a human shape.
(Zooms off of Mountian-Music stops)
With one final jolt of black electicity, a MMMMMMMASSIVE(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) explosion of pure red light bursted out, causing the black clouds to forcefully part in a circular and somewhat majestic fashion. This beautifully and simaltaneously ominous burst of brilliance lit up the skys and ground for miles. No longer was the land ravaged by a Hellish storm. No longer was the stench of Death plaguing Mother Nature's air. Within no time at all, everything was as it was before; the skys were blue and cloudless with not even the slightest trace of anything gone wrong... aside from the nearly desicrated forest surrounding the giant mountain.
Upon the summit, the only remnent of what had took place this day was floating in the air; a human shaped glow of light red energy. Seeing this, Nekoshi ACTUALLY found the audasity to smile.
"Hmm... So the time has come...", he said as he peered upon the hulking figure; the red light slowly fading from existence.
What was revealed in its place, was a being that was cursed to teeder off the edge oblivion for the rest eternity. A being that was banished from this plain of exsistence as punishment for his unforgivable deeds. A being... that was thirsty for blood and revenge. The form that was once taken before the ritual had even began, was now gone; the perfect Henge had been completely shattered by the sheer magnitude of power that ensued.
In it's place was a far more dominant and frightening figure, garbed in pure black slacks with grey, shin-high boots. His burly arms were protected by loose fitting black-sleeves and metal shackles complimenting his wrists. His face was a lote more shaped; a clear indication that he had seen more than his fair share of hardships as it was almost riddled with bulk lines and scratches. His eyes her narrow and EXTREMELY penetrating with the color of his eyes not being white, but blood red. His irises showed no visible color as the only indication of their existence were their very outlines.
He had no irises.
His hair was a dull colored shade of red, being shoulder-length and stylishly untamed. But the most noticable thing on this dominant figure was something that would strike even MORE fear into the hearts of men. A clear indication of what he has gotten into over his time out of his cursed prison...
A long red trench-coat with black clouds woven into it...
(A/N- You read right folks, 'Red coat'-'Black' clouds)
As he slowly descended downward with the wind flailing his coat about, the terrible man breathed deeply to fully collect himself and allow the eddies of pure eveil energy sink into his soul and liberate his entire body. Once his feet touched the ground, causing a small cloud of dust to burst outward, he relaxed his muscles and took one last deep, deep breath to compose himself. After all of this time of hiding and waiting for the right moment...
Kuro's full power had been risen.
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Konoha...
Every common villager in the village had been baffled that day. Mostly due to the fog that was now cleared from the area without a trace. Then of course there was that weird burst of light, but that was put on low prioirty. In fact, the villagers went on with their routine; helping to rebuild the village to its former glory.
The Genin upon the Hokage Monument, however, were far from relaxed. The fact that several of shinobi had accompanied them for the little show didn't help with. All of them were now very unsettled and worried, none more so, than Naruto, who finally found the strength in his legs to stand now that the ordeal was over. This fact, however, did not stop him from feeling a sense of hopless fear deep within his heart. Of course, the only expression on his face was that of agression but anyone who knew him could tell that he was heavily bothered.
And that someone was right next to him, staring at his with loads of worry and concerne.
"Naruto's acting very strangely. I mean, sure there's something wierd happening out there and its scary, but I've never seen him like this before...", Sakura thought.
After a moment more of silence, Naruto's eyes narrowed with suscpision as he felt different but somewhat familiar presence from behind everyone.
"Its about time you showed yourself...", Naruto said to seemingly no one, gaining curious looks from almost everyone around him, "Who are you and why have you been following me?"
Before anyone even had the chance to comment on how much of a nut-job the guys was, a trained member of the ANBU Black Ops appeared behind him, maintaining a fair distance just to be cautious.
"So... he knew that I was tracking him, eh?", he with slight intrigument.
Feeling a different presence, all of the Rookie nine (and Team Gai) turned to face it and were surprised to see the ANBU staring directly at Naruto (not that you could tell because of the mask, but...).
"You knew, huh? Well I suppose leaving you in the dark at this point would be a waste of my time and your's, so I'm going to have to ask you to come with me", the ANBU said.
at this, Sasuke raised a curious eyebrow, "What the Hell would the ANBU want with Naruto", he asked himself
The blonde Genin, himself, was also asking the same question, but as he did, the gears in his brain began to turn and chern. Considering what had happened to him the first time he had EVER summoned Kyuubi, he entertained the possibility of them finding out about the second time, even if it wasn't his direct doing. But even the thought of that gave him the shivers as he remembered the warning he was given by the Council should he ever conscent to that method ever again.
Another possibility, one that was HIGHLY unlikely, was the nature of what had just transpired only moments ago. If this ANBU was seriously here to talk to him about that then Naruto was going to start frontin' up some o' that ol' Gangsta Shit-I mean, er... start questioning the matter heavily. With no real will to resist in the anticipation of deadly force being exercised, Naruto sighed and took a step.
But before he could take another, two of the most unlikely and highly unexpected people stepped up in front of him with their arms extended to their sides in a protective manner.
"Hold it!"
"Naruto's done nothing wrong!"
Not seeing this coming at all (which is saying a mouth-full), the Tracker ANBU slightly flinched back in surprise, and utterly dumbfounded that a Yamanaka and a Haruno would defend the Kyuubi container.
"Ino?... Sakura-chan?", Naruto said in a questioning voice.
The ANBU frowned from behind his mask, "Both of you, move. You have no right to interfere.", he sternly demanded.
Ino's brow furrowed, "Well, you have no right to take someone who hasn't done anything!", she adamantly defied.
"Whats the big idea, anyway?!", Sakura yelled.
The ANBU sighed, "That is classified and I have no reason to tell you anything. Now move aside... or I'll cut you down for your interference", he warned as her reached for his side-shethed katana.
Despite the sudden sting of fear that struck their hearts, both females remained valiant, "You can't-"
"Its okay, you two", Naruto interveined, gaining surprised and worried looks from Sakura and Ino, "For all we know they might need help with something important. And it looks like this guys in a hurry, so I'll just go..."
"B-But Naruto... Why? We all know that the only reason the ANBU meet people in person is to-"
"I know, Sakura-chan. But don't worry about me. After this is over, I'll come back to you and we can train together like I promised", Naruto said, plastering the reassuring foxy grin that Sakura had grown to loved so much.
Though her mind and heart were still lingering with doubt, Sakura nodded grudgingly at the prospect of letting this slide without a fight. Though she was willing to let Naruto do what he had to do, she was FAR from willing to let him go without a bit of reassurance. Just before his knee jerked forward, Sakura lunged her arms around her selfless Kitsune in a lingering and affectionate embrace; wishing him the best and telling him how much she loved him without saying a word.
Catching that vibe immediately, Naruto breifly returned the embrace before pulling her away; staring into her jade orbs while softly stroking her cheek and further lifting her worries into the stratosphere. Without another word exchanged between the two, they grasped one another's hand as Naruto set off to accompany the ANBU. Their hands slowly parted and because of this they savored each other's touch for as long as they could before seperating completely.
This, of course, got VERY interested glances from everyone (minus Sasuke and Ino and), as they had never seen any kind of affection between those two... in the slightest. For Ino, in particular, she could no longer deny how much it hurt her to see that kind of affection...
at least when it was out of her access.
Alright people, there ya have it. Now as for my important Note, I would like to say that Kuro and his students will be severely down-played from here until a very fateful encounter; an encounter that I think Useful76 would love very much (you'll know when it happens). This means that I can evolve the romance a lot more fluintley and I might FINALLY be able to add those long awaited lemons. Hell with as much praise as I get for my descriptions, I can't wait to see how you guys react to the uber hotness that will ensue in this fantasmic tale. Thats it, folks. And for those of you who have actually fallen in love with Kuro, don't worry, he'll be back in the moment of great convenience to all, I can promise you that!
Peace...
PS: NARUXSAKUXINO FOREVER:D