Natsumi
(Beautiful summer)
Disclaimer: Naruto © Kishimoto, and Bandai, TV Tokyo etc. Created by Kishimoto-sama either way.
Authors note: AT (alternative timeline) ~ before the Chuunin exam. No real plot? Though the 'fight' is littered with "long-text-on-what-is-this-and-what-is-happenings" (typical for the real manga ne?) LOL XD not really... R&R!
Need to knows:
Konoha – leaf (I think I wrote Leaf village in the first chap? But whatever right ^_~)
Gambatte – Good luck! (can be said to oneself too) Fight well.
Ninpouchu (Ninja Pouchu) – Ninja scroll
Yuuwaku – Seduction
Sasu – stab, sting (many more meanings)
Uchiki – shy
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Warnings: Some minor petting XD implications and a book with heavy sexual content - A.K.A Icha Icha Paradaisu!! O_O;; and of course: Stated Kakashi x Iruka, cause they're in love, four letter word L-O-V-E! ~ *flies away on a lovely cloud*
On with story:
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Leaning over the railing, Hinata looked the town of Konoha over. She had lived here all her life, always wandered about on these streets and yet, less then once had she really thought about the city as whole. And how it mangled together to big mass of houses and people when looked at from above. She understood what the Hokage-sama felt when he stood up here, solitude, but still collectivity. But what did Naruto feel when he was here? Up above the city. She really wanted to understand what was the drive that kept him going, going when she felt she couldn't. The air was damp and so she brushed off her palms against her pants once again.
"Hinata!" She heard her name in the distance, "there you are!" she swiveled around facing Kiba and Akamaru.
"Hello... I'm sorry that I decided to eat alone today, it's just.." at that Kiba smiled.
"It's Okay! I never objected to it"
"Are we going to do what Kurenai had us do now that we are together?" Shino urged and the others nodded. The air was very stuffy; heat was rising from the ground making everything seem like mirages and sweat bathed from their foreheads as the little daily efforts seemed to drain all their energy. Just as they where heading down from the raised area in front of the Hokage-faces, Shino halted Hinata while Kiba was busy running ahead with Akamaru.
"We met Naruto earlier, he was going to the memorial."
"Oh---"
"So if there was something... that you wanted"
"...Thanks!"
"Hey guys!! What about if we start at the workshop west of here."
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Choji stuffed his face with snacks, while Ino paced the grounds. A big, clouded area above their heads moved slowly across the sky, shadowing parts of Shikamaru's garden in the process.
"I was suppose to sunbath, but with the clouds," Ino said over-dramatizing, "I suggest we move to someone else's garden!" That reasoning had Sakura stifling a giggle, / if we move, we will gain sun for a while but then it will cover up that part too. This is no passing cloud, it's a... / Choji raised from his position,
"Yeah! I'm soon outta snack..." he settled, Shikamaru just shrugged looking incredibly whacked. The heat hadn't really reached them so the overcast shadow was not of solitude but making the shoreline-wind seem chilly. Team 10 and Sakura left the house while the clouds seemed to sail towards west. The otherwise blistering clear day gradually clouded. / I guess Sasuke had foreseen this, I wish he had invited me to spar too though... /
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"SEDUCTION NO JUTSU!!" Sasuke screamed on the top of his lung, head bowed while Naruto just flabbergasted, looking exceptionally ridiculous.
For a seconded nothing happened and Naruto held his stomach laughing til it cramped, the shocking second had passed and now Sasuke was the one looking very ridiculous with hands in the horse seal (all the fingers locked over each other except the index finger which were directed towards the heaven) brow creased with a determined look in his face.
"WHAT kinda technique is THAT?" Naruto shouted between spastic guffaws.
"Just you watch... and enjoy the show!" Sasuke shot back, finally looking up revealing the Sharingan rotating in his eyes.
The grounds around Naruto swirled, the previously hot air felt quite cool and a dark cloudlike mist surrounded him making Naruto tremble and his eyes twitch.
"Let me guess...? This is your fantastic new skill?!?!!" Naruto taunted provokingly as his eyes began to tear up and itch. Sasuke grabbed something in his pouch revealing a small container whose contents he threw at Naruto who didn't dodge since he barely saw it, his eyes running.
"Sharingan!!!" Sasuke lunged towards Naruto a sudden glow from his body; all around them the smell seemed to get physical form in the mist. Bringing his hands up at Naruto he shoved the blond boy hard, but Naruto couldn't budge. Sasuke was gone and the mist thick and dark around the lone ninja. The strong scent paralyzing him with euphoria feelings and made him tremble terribly. Slowly blood trickled down from his nose over his mouth.
"What kinda seduction skill is this??!!" Naruto screamed heatedly. / I ain't gonna let it get to... / The mist got thicker, and damp all over his skin, leaving it tingling. His mind was starting to race, showing images he recognized, but they didn't really fit his recollection.
~ A moan in the distance, or at least he thought it was the distance, but suddenly Sasuke was right beside him, not really looking at him... but an image of himself. They where staring at each other hard. Suddenly the Naruto image leaned over crushing his mouth over Sasuke's. ~
/ NANII kusou?!?! That wasn't how it went... Stupid Sasuke!! Always bending things.. /
~ Another image appeared. Sasuke was jumping in front of Naruto, saving him from needles. / Kusou, why did he save me? / He saw the picture of him transformed into Sexy no Jutsu out of focus. ~
Suddenly it got very hard to stand. Falling to his knees Naruto was certain that someone was soothing his hair, and whispering broken words in his ear, the voice grew calm and it felt like hands was touching his back, sending tingles down his spin. He let out a small purr that he was unable to suppress. If the demonic mirror was a prison of hell, what was this suppose to be? Slowly shutting his eyes, making them look like small slits, he contemplated how he was going to break free from the seeming prison. Bending over and laying his head down on the ground he tried to concentrate on making his legs lift him up, but the mist was now tickling his entire body. / I'm certain of it now, this is an illusion skill!! / He consulted with himself. ~ "Do you like it?" ~ a cocky voice asked. / It's SASUKE!! I'll show you! / But instead of saying just that he heard himself stutter
"Ah.. ha.. hai"
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Interlude :P
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"What is this??"
~"Not one to figure it out for yourself? Well... as always, you end up with a long lecture,"~ Sasuke's voice sighed.
"Argh!! I can take care of myself! URUSAI!" Naruto yelled, to that there was no answer, which really didn't matter since the blond was so inclined on figuring out himself. He cursed Sasuke and his submissive body for going slack, giving in to the caress. / So not only is it an Yuuwaku no jutsu and genjutsu, but an hypnotizing type jutsu...? Errhh!! Stupid Sasuke, does he think I'm that easy!?! / Now Sasuke's voice spoke up once more, sounding snide ~"And I even wanted to fight you...aren't you gonna give me a match yet?"~
"Ugh! Shut up conceit kid! I'm not gonna forgive you that easy!!!" Naruto was finally up, drying off the nose-blood with the sleeve of his yellow overall he stood shakily, the mist was still thick but now he heard Sasuke's voice behind him, swirling around he only saw mist. / As long as I'm stuck in this illusion I can't determine where Sasuke is. Though I sense he is using up chakra fast thus he stopped hiding the location of himself within the illusion, so if I try to hit from where his voice is, I might succeed /
"YOSH'! Gambatte!"
~"you prepared to give me a fight?"~
"So you're not going to come out of your hideout?" Naruto said attempting to make Sasuke talk more, making his spot easier to determine.
~"heh, To be a Shinobi is to be sneaky, I'm not going to come out until I have to"~ was the answer he received.
"Good! Time to end the play!" Dashing into the mist, he lunged a fist at his invisible opponent. Connecting with the cheekbone. The mist cleared instantly, leaving the grass full of dew and slipperish.
"I never though you would manage that good..." Sasuke steadied himself, brushing off his mouth with the back of his hand, taking a step towards Naruto and then kicking at the short blond.
"Is that a praise? Feh, 'course I would!" Naruto spat, catching the leg and spinning Sasuke around with his hands. Sasuke used that to his advantage kicking Naruto hard in the side as he spun around, which made the blond step back from loss of balance and release Sasuke. With some speed Sasuke landed safely on the ground some meters away, eyebrows raised.
"Where did you learn that technique?" Naruto windingly asked as he brushed off some dust. "The seduction I mean..." Sasuke didn't answer, "You TEME!!"
Slamming himself into Sasuke, who didn't even have time to counter, he shot out a fist connecting with Sasuke's jaw, sending him flying. But since Naruto had moved to fast, the wet grass didn't provide enough friction, so he slid over the ground losing all balance and falling backwards to end up crashing into the ground, loosing all his breath.
After some silence, Sasuke pushed himself up on his elbows shaking his head.
"I kinda completed it after we came home from the water country mission. Water isn't really my element, but with the Sharingan I could pick up some of the traits. The smell I came up with myself, flower study, using a special smell to seduce you, it's a original."
"Like my Sexy no jutsu skill."
"Don't compare different level skills..."
"Idiot!"
"Dead-last!" Sasuke actually smiled a very small smile at their brainless exchanges; he was getting quite attached to them himself. "Either way, you kinda surprised me with breaking free like that..." / which proves that this skill is just like the others... poor against Itachi. /
"Really??" Naruto cheered, "Since I still don't understand why you didn't get more affected by it..." Sasuke smiled again, looking down into the ground / I wanted the "real" seductions to work better on him, when the scent was spent /. When he glanced up, Naruto was kneeling next to him with the exact same look on his face as when Sasuke had been caught in the demonic ice mirror.
"Oi, oi, wanna check out what I have?" Sasuke sighed, suddenly looking pensive. Clouds seemed to cover the skies above them. "What? I won't bite!!" Naruto joked. Sasuke flushed,
"Well, you never know..." he answered; Naruto for once took the hint and slapped his forehead.
"Shut up already. I know that even you are kinda curious about out Kakashi-sensei's book!" That brought some attention towards him, also from a pair anonymous and unnoticed eyes above in the trees a pace away.
"Whaddaya mean?"
"I HAVE IT DAMN IT!! Naruto practically blew Sasuke away, but he didn't say anything in reply. Naruto grabbed for his pouch (usually containing ninpouchu and bandages) taking out a specifically worn-out book entitled "Icha Icha Paradaisu III"
"You stole it?" Sasuke inquired.
"Not stole it, just borrowed it, Nyeheh.." scratching his neck he held it out for Sasuke to see. Sasuke just stared at it, the cover with a girl being chased by a guy evident, it *was* the right book for sure. Naruto shrugged when Sasuke didn't seem to be the one to open it. / That conceit teme really seems shy about those things, heh /
"Sasu Uchiki!" He snickered getting a death glare from Sasuke. Poking a tongue at him Naruto noted that there was no back description on it, beside a crossed over circle. Slowly opening it a picture revealed itself. / A naked girl?!? / Sasuke's mind screamed the question. But it was just the first page with the title re-printed, Sasuke flushed slightly / well, it could have been one!! /. A photograph fell out from the book, landing in the grass unceremoniously. Both the boys saw this, throwing themselves to catch it. Colliding! In a heap they lay, Sasuke with his face pressed into the grass.
"Get off me dead-last!!!" He bellowed.
Naruto snatched the picture from Sasuke, book forgotten next to them.
"What?? Look Sasuke, and tell me who the person on the picture is!!!"
~ ~ ~
"Ready to go Iruka-sensei?"
"...Yeah, but by the time we reach home... it'll be pouring!" Iruka nodded, "your weather reports never fail ne?" he ended, flinging the bag over his shoulder once more. Kakashi shook his head smiling slightly, his still exposed face delicately shadowed by the straw-hat he wore. The sight made Iruka blush in delight, though he still cursed his complexion and nature for being so translucent. Leaning over Kakashi kissed his cheek,
"Maa, if you feel up to it, I have something I want to show you..." he jumped up into the trees from where they came, expertly avoiding thorns,
"Oh no, this time we take my way back!!" Iruka insisted, poking a tongue at Kakashi.
"Okay." Kakashi shrugged, suddenly appearing behind his companion, "if we take left here we'll reach the place where the other teachers are!" Iruka pointed.
"Yeah we will"
They started for that path, Kakashi lifting up his mask once more and plucking the straw-hat down on Iruka's head, the hair hiding his left eye appropriately.
"Don't you love it when it rains?" Iruka asked sincerely.
"I do actually... it reminds me of when I was much younger and used to hide in the trees when it rained, though I didn't like it then." Iruka's shoulders sloped / yeah, it's true I don't know much about him, and I'm so much less experienced. Sometimes it feels like we are years apart even when he's just one year older... / What Kakashi said next was as if he had read Iruka's mind.
"One day I might confide in you with more of my past... oh and I hope you don't feel inferior, I want us to be equal, at least I see us as such, so don't think to much!" He slung an arm over Iruka's shoulder.
"Your... your right, I'm overanalyzing things!" Strolling slowly along the tree-clad road the reached a patch of beach less remote from the one they had been at. There a bunch of Chuunin's was passing a huge beach ball between each other.
"It's gonna start to rain soon!!"
"Oh yeah? What makes you think that?" one of the younger boys asked.
"If you haven't noticed the big cumulonimbus southeast of here then you better check your science skills!" Iruka scolded jokingly, making Kakashi laugh at Iruka's wiz act*.
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Earlier:
"What's up?" the question was directed to a pale Hinata who had dropped the rope she was suppose to pull. "You sure you won't want to take a pause?"
"well... if you don't mind... if you can continue without me I mean.."
"Sure" Shino shrugged, "if you could go get us some more water, it's getting stuffier with the second!" the two boys resumed trying to pull up the sign at the edge of a small park. She waved backwards as she sprinted towards the small store that had assigned them to prepare for festivity and garage sales.
Stopping outside it she echoed Shino's earlier statement / "he was going to the memorial"... maybe if I went and talked to him, I hear that their team didn't get dispatched today so maybe he's just there training by himself... I truly hope the others don't mind if I take a little more time! / she poked her index fingers together in a thinking motion as she considered it.
"Well, Kiba said that I should take a pause!" she wagered, that final she turned towards the memorial.
"Wonder what's been bugging her the past days ne? I can't shake of the feeling that she's sick or something... her Byakugan never falters usually, but now she's totally unfocussed." Shino scowled at Kiba,
"Let her handle it herself, if she doesn't... then you can start snooping."
"Ugh, we're a team Shino!! We need her to be at her fullest!"
"Sure, but you're not her mother"
"I didn't say that!"
"Well you act like it..."
"I do not!"
"Oh you don't?"
"NO!!! I'm a team leader not a mother!" Kiba snorted, Shino didn't even bother arguing about it.
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"We have to do WHAT?" Ino repeated in a high-pitched voice. Asuma waved in a surrender motion,
"...You explain to her Shikamaru!" that received a sigh from the boy and he was just about to declare how bothersome Ino was,
"I KNOW what you want us to do! But I refuse! It's to warm!"
"A warm day is no excuse for not doing a mission Ino buta-chan" Sakura said knowingly waving a finger at her childhood friend, "and you better work off some..."
"Are you saying that I'm fat?" Ino exclaimed horrified, "I haven't eaten since yester..."
"Fat? What's wrong with being fat?" Choji asked, "it's not fat, it's chubby!!!" like if they had been referring to him. Lighting a cigarette Asuma shoved Choji and Shikamaru forward, motioning for the two girls to follow.
"I don't want to hear more about this, I have fixed you a mission and that's that! As you might have noticed there is a rain coming over Konoha and before that some salesmen, who are arranging a sale, have to get out marquees to make sure that their merchandise doesn't get spoiled, when you are finished you may stay at the market. So have fun kids!" he smiled satisfied with his work when he had seen the group off.
Sakura nodded knowingly,
"I knew that those clouds weren't just stratus"
"Blah blah," Ino mimicked, "BS-ing as always!"
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Sasuke climbed out from beneath Naruto snatching the picture from the blonde.
"Iruka?"
"Yeah?!!"
"So what?"
"nothing I guess..." Naruto pulled up Kakashi's book once more and looked at it, blushing he turned towards Sasuke "eeehh, where do you think to bookmark goes?"
~*silence*~
Sasuke slapped his forehead in aggravation,
"How should I know? It fell out...somewhere around the middle" now the young heir of Uchiha was blushing too, snatching the book from Naruto he opened it again this time in the middle. Naruto peered over his shoulder. It seemed like a simple book and if it had any pictures at all in it, Naruto settled, they were too few to attract his attention.
"Demo, doesn't it have any pictures?" the dark-haired boy turned back a few pages, skimming it for pictures and at last stopped at a page with one. It was two people kissing each other and nothing at all that grand, nothing they hadn't seen before, or well, tried before. The two of them stared at it like it would jump out and devour them. Naruto glanced behind himself to make sure they weren't caught doing this taboo thing; suddenly it seemed really crowded on the vacant meadow. He fingered the photograph of a younger Iruka with some other people, probably his old team / I never thought about Iruka's past besides when he told me about it... Well regardless of Sasuke I wonder why Kakashi-sensei had this in that book, kyah / Shaking his head disgusted at the mental images he got.
"Should we... go back, I mean, hey?" Sasuke was engulfed in the book reading some paragraph after the picture. "Oii! Bakayaro! Do you wanna get caught reading that??!??"
"Get caught? Who said I was getting caught, unless you rat out, which would be stupid considering you stole it!" at that Naruto looked down into the grass. "besides, there aren't that many pictures"
"I never figured you to be such low class pervert to read it..." Naruto whispered. Without looking up Sasuke answered
"What's low class with reading a romance novel? Kakashi-sensei reads it."
"He IS a pervert!" Sasuke paid no attention to the obnoxious blonde's whining as he paged around in the book, he had noticed that the book was simply full of short stories and pictures by various artists, the one he had read had been about a ninja leaving his hometown on a mission, about his agonies and farewells but also a lot about his choices and beliefs, AND a lot of sexual innuendo. / Kinda good, though too much mushy talk with that annoying girlfriend holding him back, can't understand why he liked her... / Naruto realized that the other boy was totally surrounded by the book and thus chose to 'keep watch', seating himself back to back with Sasuke who seemed to murmur what he read out loud.
"She was like the seas and heavens, briefly caught in his grasp but soon to be freed again since she was not his and had never been. They were purely teammates and anything beyond would only set them in a love triangle since their other teammate was easy to make jealous. Sneaking out a..." Naruto zoned out Sasuke's soft voice reading, / unlike Sasuke entirely! Ugh, enough on that... Iruka said we where going to do important guarding since the towns older ninjas went to the beach, but up until now there has been nothing at all. /
"Like the calm before the storm!" Sasuke agreed with him, shocked Naruto gaped in front of himself, / did he just read my thoughts or was that from the book? /
Above them in the trees someone shifted uneasy.
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Oh!!Am I evolving plot? O.ov I don't think so XD though I feel that I'm slowly getting at the SasuNaru (or is it NaruSasu?) that I want to achieve. Though this time it might take a while... or not, who knows *shrugs*
What market is being arranged? Will Sasuke and Naruto join in with them? Will Kakashi-sensei ever notice the lack of his book? What about team #8 and #10? And... yah yah.. all this in the next chapter? We'll see!!
* = lol, if you have read Sunfreak's fanfic "four times a week" you know what I mean, if you haven't: you should!!! ^_^
Author's endnote: (REGARDING THE FIGHT!!!)
SORRY for the totally lack of good writing! _ I wanted to make a good and believable fight, but ugh! I modified it like three times and still I'm not satisfied with it. Too cheesy, languid and OOC! I mean, Sasuke's element is fire (they live in the fire/leaf country with a HOkage) though I tried to patch that up with the coping skill, (from Zabuza I guess, which seems highly unlikable since Sasuke was fighting Haku... and before that his Sharingan wasn't evolved? ...oh well, imagination anyone?).
I stalled to the last moment with finishing the fight since I felt that there was expectation (maybe not from you, but I really wanted to make the seduction skill good! *^^* I can kinda see Sasuke studying flowers! LOL (at the same time Ino and Sakura did ne?)
The idea for how Sasuke was going to seduce Naruto was actually figured out in the car by my sister, she said that bees use their scent to attract females. So at first I was gonna have him use insects, but damn it all that's Shino's skill!!! ^^'' so flowers it was. And the "real" seduction that Sasuke is talking about is the mental images he generated. And the mist was to heighten the experience and was gained on the way to the Wave country (or on the bridge *sweatdrop*).
I finally did something with -Icha Icha Paradaisu-, but well... I had a hard time making myself spoil Kishimoto's special TM's ^^... plus I can't make out if it's a manga or romance novel (though I'm quite positive it's a book since: in the translation by Toriyama world it says book [Naruto2-9-00] and in the interview with Kishimoto he said:
"Q::
When did Kakashi start reading "Come Come Paradise"?
A:: He started on his 18th birthday. The theme of the books is "love"
and he enjoys them but also feels they help with teaching you what is important
to a ninja. But it also seems that they are slightly ... no very perverted
books.") Who knows though? Jiraiya
might have developed a drawing talent ^O^
Sasuke is the successor right? Now that Itachi beeegone! XD ...Sasu Uchiki was a name pun that I came up with (kinda crappy), what Naruto meant was something like: "stabbingly shy!" XP
Thanx to:
Firedraygon97!! For actually reviewing my intermission *^-^* you pushed me into finishing this! Hope it was good!!!
