Welcome to another chapter!

I needed a break from stuff and ended up writing this up so I hope you all enjoy!

Hope you enjoy!

Naruto sighed as he stared up at the ceiling of his apartment. Today was a mission day which team 7 got done early and Kakashi-sensei had dismissed them early for some reason. This was how Naruto found himself lying on his listening to the TV drone on in the background. His wind chimes gentle sound drew Naruto's attention to it and the blue sky outside.

A loud knocking broke the lonely mood.

"Who'd be coming around here?" Naruto said sitting up and stretching. He began to amble over to the door as the knocking became louder and faster.

"Yeesh, I'm here- OW!" Naruto said, grabbing his nose. "The hell that's for shrimp?"

Hanabi just stared at Naruto as her hand was still held up in a fist from were she was banging on the door. Hanabi just shrugged and walked into the apartment.

"It's not my fault that you walked into my fist." Hanabi said, slipping off her shoes and finding a spare pair of sandals to wear. She looked past Naruto, who was rubbing his nose, to see the trash that was left all over his bedroom's floor. "Is this your apartment or a pigsty?"

"Well I wasn't expecting any guest today. If you don't like it, just leave." Naruto scowled as he created four clones. Those clones split up and began to gather all the trash and wipe down the apartment.

Hanabi just smirked as she walked into the dining room area. She watched as the clones were wiping down the table and gathering old cups of ramen. Naruto just groaned as Hanabi took a seat at the table and demanded tea from a clone. The clone glared before it stuck his tongue out at Hanabi. Hanabi's eye twitched before she gut-punched the clone causing him to dispel.

"That was rude, firecracker, I do get my clones memories and that includes getting gut punched." Naruto said, rubbing his stomach.

"Your clone was rude to me, so I taught it and you not to be." Hanabi said, sending Naruto a cheeky grin.

"You're a brat, Hanabi-chan." Naruto said, sitting down. A clone came in setting down a kettle and cups for tea. "So why do I have the oh so great honor of hosting the fair firecracker in my humble apartment."

Hanabi's grin instantly morphed into a glare.

"You're an ass, quit calling me that." Hanabi said, taking a sip from her cup. "If you really want to know why you get to bask in my presence, the academy let out early due to Iruka-sensei eating something bad for lunch and there was no substitute available today."

Naruto laughed, "I'd thought Iruka-sensei was more diligent about checking his food since I slipped him laxatives once a week for a month straight. He must be slacking."

"That's a horrible thing to do." Hanabi said, sipping her tea. "But I can't blame you. I wasn't particularly interested in listening to him drone on about ancient history again."

Naruto paused; his eyes narrowed into slits as a wide grin stretched his face.

"No way, Hanabi-chan, you didn't just prank Iruka-sensei just to get out of class today?"

"I can neither confirm nor deny such accusations. I will say that you've been a terrible influence on an impressionable child such as myself." Hanabi said a smug smile peeking out from behind her cup.

"I'm so proud of you, Hanabi-cahn. Keep giving Iruka-sensei hell for me. He would never suspect you!" Naruto laughed loudly as Hanabi let out a giggle too. "We should celebrate your new career as a prankster. What'chu want to do?"

Hanabi tilted her head to the side a bit before shrugging.

"Can we just relax here? I'm not really interested in going out right now."

"Really? You want to stay here?" Naruto asked in a soft voice.

Hanabi opened her mouth to quip back before she caught Naruto's eyes. Her mouth snapped shut at the insecure look of Naruto's eyes.

"Yeah, I just want to relax here." Hanabi said, giving Naruto a small sincere smile.

Naruto smiled before he jumped to his feet.

"Well, we can relax here or lounge in my bedroom. Maybe I can pull out a game we could play," Naruto said, bouncing on his toes.

Hanabi blushed a little before standing up herself.

"Do you mind just lounging in your room? It'd be nice just to lay about."

Naruto gave her a double thumbs up and quickly disappeared to his room. Hanabi could hear the sounds of crashing and cursing causing her to giggle. A clone stepped out of the kitchen and gathered up the kettle and tea onto a tray.

"I'll bring a fresh pot to the boss's room. You just go on ahead and try to keep the boss from breaking things, please."

Hanabi giggled at the clone's request before nodding and making her way over to Naruto's bedroom. As she entered, she could see that the floor was shining from being cleaned recently. There were two large cushions on the ground and a table with a shogi board on top. Naruto was scratching his head trying to set up the pieces. Hanabi frowned seeing as not all the pieces were in the correct spot. Taking a seat, Hanabi quickly reordered the pieces into their proper positions.

"Ah thanks Hanabi-chan, I've never played before. Do you think you could teach me?" Naruto asked.

"You've never played before?" Hanabi asked as she tilted her head to the side and her brows furrowed.

"Never had someone to play with until now! So, what do you say? Could you teach me?" Naruto said, clapping his hand together to beg.

"Quit begging like that, I'd be happy to teach you Naruto-nii. It is my duty as a Hyuga to educate peasants like you," Hanabi said, keeping a smug face before bursting out into giggles.

Naruto laughed as one of his clones walked into the room with the kettle, cups, and a bunch of assorted snacks.

"Ooh pocky, and here I thought you only had ramen," Hanabi said, opening a box.

"Sometimes I want something sweet," Naruto shrugged before looking at the board. "So, do I go first or you?"

"The black side goes first, and since the pieces all look the same, we can pick up, let's say five pawns, and toss them to see who would go first. If there are more promoted pawns face up then I'm black, if not, it's you." Hanabi scooped up five of her pawns and tossed them into the air. The pawns landed one by one scattered across the board. Three of them were the regular pawn while two showed the promoted face.

"Woo, I get to go first!" Naruto said fist pumping the air. Hanabi just rolled her eyes as she fixed the board. "So, er, how does this piece move?"

Hanabi just gave a small smile as she went on to explain about the movements of each piece. She explained how certain pieces could be promoted and how their movements changed. Naruto nodded as he moved his first piece. The game continued with Hanabi struggling with Naruto's reckless and random moves. Soon there were only a few pieces left on the board.

"Let me give you another lesson, nii-san." Hanabi smirked as she picked up one of the captured pawns and put Naruto into check.

"Wait, wait, wait, hold the fuck up. We can use our captured pieces?" Naruto said pointing at Hanabi, "I hate you and am so very proud of you for pranking me like this."

Hanabi just giggled, "Yeah, you can use any captured piece and drop onto any empty tile. Make sure you drop your piece in the same direction as yours. Also, you can't use a pawn to create a checkmate, just other pieces. You also have to play the piece unpromoted first, you can promote them the next turn."

"I see, so many options have just been opened up." Naruto rubbed his chin as he stared at the board intently.

The game continued for a few more moves until Hanabi cornered Naruto into a checkmate. Hanabi wore a smug smile as she munched on some pocky. Naruto was grinning as he rearranged the pieces back into their starting positions. He picked up some pawns and was about to throw them before stopping to look at Hanabi.

"You still good to play?" Naruto asked.

"If you're not afraid of getting your ass handed to you again then yes I am," Hanabi said with a smug grin.

Naruto just gave her a small smile and whispered, "Thanks Hanabi for coming over."

Hanabi's smug look was replaced with a surprised one as she watched as Naruto threw the pawns. Her smile softened for a brief moment before returning to a full grin seeing that she got the first move.

For the next couple of hours the two continued their shogi game. After playing the game normally a few times and winning them much to Hanabi's consternation, an idea drifted through Naruto's head. The moment came when Naruto was put into check. Raising his hands, Naruto grinned at a confused Hanabi.

"Sexy Jutsu: Reverse Harem."

Hanabi, the poor not so innocent soul, felt all the blood rush to her head before passing out with a loud 'eep' and slight nose bleed. Naruto just laughed loudly as he moved his pieces into checkmate. When Hanabi awoke a few moments later she glared at a whistling Naruto. She looked down at the board.

"You cheater!" Hanabi said, pointing a finger at Naruto.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Naruto said with his foxy grin.

"No idea my ass," Hanabi said slamming the table. "You clearly moved multiple of your pieces to put me into check."

"Your proof?" Naruto said, raising an eyebrow.

Hanabi's angry glare shifted into her patented dreaded Puppy Eye Jutsu. Naruto started to sweat as he stared into Hanabi's sad eyes before he groaned and fell backwards.

"Fine I cheated. You win," Naruto said, covering his eyes with an arm. "That look is too dangerous, Hanabi-chan."

"Don't worry Naruto-nii, I only ever used that on you and Onee-chan." Hanabi said rearranging the pieces again.

"Well don't I feel special," Naruto said with a small smile.

The two continued playing the rest of the afternoon away. Sometimes they get distracted with silly games of who could catch more food with their mouths, Naruto won that. Or with games of who could balance the pocky on their nose longer with no chakra, Hanabi won that. Soon enough the two had forgotten about the shogi game and were just leaning against each other as they watched a TV sitcom. During a commercial break Hanabi's stomach growled. The image of the golden takoyaki caused Hanabi to drool a little.

"Is takoyaki your favorite food?" Naruto asked breaking Hanabi from her stupor.

"I err, I guess it is." Hanabi said softly. "We're not allowed to have it at home cause it's considered a street food. Onee-chan always ordered it for us when we went to a festival and I always remember it being delicious in those moments."

Naruto stared at Hanabi's shy smile before standing up and pulling Hanabi up with him. Hanabi wobbled around as Naruto grabbed his jacket.

"Come on then Hanabi! Time for some takoyaki!" Naruto said fist pumping the air.

Hanabi stared with wide eyes. A grin came out before she fist pumped the air as well. "Let's go!"

As the two were walking down the streets they looked up to see the night sky.

"Hanabi-chan," Naruto said, drawing her attention. "Come by and visit anytime, yeah? Even if I'm not home, just pick the lock until I get you a key or something."

Hanabi's eyes teared up a little before she punched Naruto on the arm. Naruto laughed as he rubbed his arm causing Hanabi to smirk. Her smirk faded away as she looked up at Naruto with a shy smile.

"Thanks Naruto-nii." Hanabi grabbed Naruto's hand and began to drag him to the market. "You owe me at least two orders of takoyaki for teaching you."

"I never agreed to that," Naruto protested but wore a fond smile.

The two slowed to a walking pace as they neared the market. The smell of freshly cooked food stirred the two into a fast walk. Hanabi immediately zeroed on a takoyaki stand. Before Naruto could blink Hanabi was standing at the stand. The stall owner boomed in laughter as he filled out Hanabi's large order. Unlike some of the other villagers nearby this stall owner didn't glare at Naruto as he walked up behind Hanabi to pay for the entire order much to her protest.

They bid the stall owner good night as they walked towards a park. Finding a bench the two began to dig in. Hanabi, with neat and smooth movements, began to go through each box of takoyaki in a matter of seconds. Naruto watched as Hanabi swung her legs in the air and she hummed happily with each bite. Gama-chan was really light but Naruto could only smile knowing that they would be back at that stand quite often. Naruto munched on his single order of takoyaki, smiling to himself as he promised he'd do everything he could to make sure Hanabi can continue to smile carefree.

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