AJ: Yay! My first Naruto fic! Huzzah to Naruto! Anyways to everyone's
favourite part of a fic! THE DISCLAIMER!!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! *Cough *
right, I don't own naruto or nuttin. . . so ya. . . oh! Pairings right I'm
gonna put in some KakaIru, NejiSaku, NaruHina and now to the story! And
WARNING slight spoilers, very slight, just a momentary, vague, mention of
events in 189 and up and righto I use a couple Jap words so just in case
you people don't know here they are with there meanings
Ano- um
Nani- What
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Chapter 1
The atmosphere around the hidden leaf village was always rather depressing around the tenth of October. Most people's minds turned to thoughts of loved ones they had lost on the horrible day the fox demon attacked and was sealed away.
Even the container of the demon wasn't entirely his usual, overly hyper self. Though it was his birthday, he received twice as many mean and evil glares from the people of the village, the ones who saw him only as the fox.
Naruto kicked a rock back and forth, thinking more about how to beat Sasuke on the day's mission then about his birthday, which (since that day was the ninth) was the next day.
Naruto waited with Sasuke and Sakura for their faithfully late teacher. It was now three hours after the arranged meeting time so the students figured (or hoped) Kakashi would show up any minute now.
Sakura was standing next to Sasuke, desperately trying to strike up a conversation with the anti-social raven-haired boy, acting completely oblivious to the blonde haired boy. Naruto started to mutter, annoyed with the lack of attention and gave the rock a hard kick in Sasuke's direction. Unfortunately his aim was off.
"Naruto! You idiot! Watch what your doing!" Sakura yelled as the rock flew past her head.
He about to say something, most likely something stupid, in response when a familiar grey haired jonin walked up to the three young people, with his nose in a equally familiar bright orange book.
"Hey! Hey! Kakashi-sensei! Your late!" Naruto yelled, pointing an accusing finger at his teacher.
Then they all waited for his stupid excuse of the day, and were utterly shocked when it didn't come.
"I know," Kakashi muttered off handily as he closed his book.
"And?" Naruto asked looking at him blankly.
"And what?" Kakashi inquired.
"And you always have some bad excuse for why you're late," Naruto said in response, "so what is it today?"
Kakashi just stood there for a moment starring at the blonde boy and finally just shrugged.
"Anyways, I have your mission for today," Kakashi muttered.
"What are we doing today Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked politely.
"Yeah Yeah! Are we doing something dangerous? Like an assassination or something like that?" The over exuberant boy asked, his blue eyes shinning with anticipation for the day's mission.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, but chose not to insult Naruto at that moment and stared at Kakashi. He too wanted to hear what they were doing.
"You have to go pick flowers," the grey haired man informed them.
There was dead silence, something unusual on the team that had the village's number one troublemaker as a member. The three students stood, looking at their teacher with blank stares.
"Hey hey, you're joking right?" Naruto said hopefully breaking the silence, "I mean we're past the boring missions aren't we?"
"No I'm not joking. You have to go pick flowers," Kakashi replied, "one hundred and thirty seven to be exact. No less than that."
"This is stupid," Sasuke said, "picking flowers? There is no way I'm doing it."
"Well you have to get these flowers, I don't care how you do it, just have one hundred and thirty seven here by night fall," the jonin said and with out another word from his students he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"What a stupid mission," Naruto muttered, looking at the spot where his teacher was standing moments ago.
"Oh shut up Naruto!" Sakura snapped.
"He's right, for once," Sasuke said as he walked away from the other two, "this is stupid and I'm not doing it. I have more important things to do."
"Wait up Sasuke-kun!" Sakura said, darting off after the dark haired boy.
"Hey guys! What about the flowers?" Naruto yelled after his teammates.
"Get them yourself Naruto!" the pink haired girl yelled back at him over her should as she caught up with Sasuke.
"But I don't know anything about flowers!" Naruto muttered, frustrated, kicking another rock.
It flew into the air, and hitting a building that was very close by it bounced back, nearly hitting Naruto in the head.
The blonde boy grumbled after dodging the flying rock and stalked off in search of flowers.
*********
"Why do you insist on following me?" Sasuke said angrily glaring at his pink haired stalker.
"Well I thought, since we don't having anything to do, maybe you and I do something...like get lunch..." Sakura said looking sweetly at her crush.
"No," he replied flatly, tones annoyance rising in his voice, "Like I said, I have more important things to do. They don't involve me spending the day with possibly one of the most annoying people around, when she should be training, so she isn't so weak instead of wasting her time!"
Sasuke quickened his pace and this time his female teammate didn't follow. She stood watching him as he disappeared from sight, tears welling in her eyes.
'Why does he hate me?' she thought as she clenched her fists, ignoring Inner Sakura's shouts to follow him, telling her she couldn't give up that easy. Sakura turned her eyes downward as a few tears fell down her checks.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" an over exuberant shout came. Rock Lee ran towards her as fast as he could with his one crutch, the rest of his team trailing slightly behind him.
"Oh, hello Lee-san," Sakura muttered, whipping her eyes and smiling faintly at the hyper boy.
When the other three members of his team caught up, Neji gave Rock Lee a dark look, annoyed with the momentary delay. Then he looked at Sakura with a darker look and said icily, "Shouldn't you be training?"
Sakura looked at older boy and narrowed her eyes a bit; she wasn't in the mood to deal with his attitude at the moment. "Kakashi-sensei didn't have anything us to do today."
"Hmm... Didn't have anything for you to do... I wonder what my eternal rival could be up to..." Gai said thoughtfully.
"If you're not doing anything you can train with us!" Lee exclaimed jovially, "Can she Gai-sensei? Can she?"
"I don't see why not," Gai said grinning, teeth shinning as he patted his miniature look-a-like on the head and continued to walk to their training spot.
"Yay!" Lee exclaimed as he grabbed the pink haired girl's wrist and pulled her along after his team, "this way Sakura-chan."
All this happened so fast, Sakura barley had time to blink, let alone decline his request to go with them. So she simply sighed and decided to go along with it, she had nothing better to do anyways.
*******
"Stupid flowers," the spiky blonde haired, fox boy muttered as he picked a few more flowers and tossed them on a growing pile beside him.
He was actually happy with the state of the mound of plants that sat beside him. It was growing rapidly. He had found a large patch of yellow flowers and it was taking him no time at all to get the one hundred and thirty seven flowers that he needed.
"123...124...125" He counted out loud, tossing the flowers as he went.
There was a sudden snap of a twig from a small clump of trees from behind Naruto and he instinctively tensed up. He turned his head slowly and looked behind himself. There were only trees.
Naruto sighed, he had hoped it was something like a missing-nin, or anything that would make his day just a little more exciting.
"Alright, where was I... Oh man! I lost count!" He cried loudly looking at the giant pile of flora.
Then suddenly there was another snap and this time it was accompanied by a thump. The blonde boy bolted to his feet and ran to see what had made the sound. Hoping it was something of interest.
He found the source of the noise. On the ground next to a tree just a little ways away from where Naruto was picking flowers, sat a dark haired girl.
"Oh hey Hinata," Naruto said with a large smile.
"H-hello Naruto-kun," Hinata replied timidly, rubbing her ankle, "I'm s- sorry if I bothered you."
"Nah, you didn't bug me," Naruto said as he offered a hand to help her up, "So what are you doing here?"
"W-we haven't been training as much... Kiba-kun is still getting us to being able to walk again. So I th-thought I'd w-w-walk..." Hinata replied quietly as she slowly took his hand and with his help stood up.
"Ya, I saw him the other day... he looked kinda wobbly," Naruto said.
It had been about two months since the five ninjas, four genin and a chunin (as well as a dog) had set out to retrieve their comrade from the sound. All five had ended up in the hospital afterwards.
Thanks to the fox demon, its container was out of the hospital in a week, even though he had almost mortal wounds. The others weren't so fortunate.
Choji had been in a coma for about a month. Neji had been released around the same time as Choji, but even now his wounds had not completely healed. Kiba had both legs and an arm broken in the explosion, his casts had recently come off and as Hinata said, he was getting use to walking again. Shikamaru had been out for about two weeks from blood loss and would have died if not for a last minute blood transfusion. But now they were all doing much better.
All of this had happened because of Sasuke. Those four people had been in critical condition, because they had gone to save Sasuke. And did he thank anyone of them? No, he was bitter towards them, sometimes worst to Naruto then he had been before. He had wanted to go with them... Wanted to go with the bad guys...
Naruto stood, fists clenched, nails digging into his palms. After being such a jerk, Sakura still followed his around. Naruto didn't understand and it made him furious to think about.
"N-naruto-kun?" Hinata said looking at the blonde boy curiously, her soft voice snapping him from his daze.
"Wha? Oh ya," he blinked a couple of times "I'm picking flowers. Kakashi- sensei told us to do it and some how I got stuck doing it by myself."
"Oh... I see," the white-eyed girl said.
"Its weird, but I'm almost done," Naruto said, beaming as he turned back to his pile and walked over to the patch of flowers to finish his job.
Hinata followed him, but rather slowly. She stopped next to the pile and looked closely at them for a moment, then nervously at Naruto.
"Ano...Naruto-kun," she said, in her quiet, little voice, "those aren't flowers."
"Nani?" He said, tilting his head in a confused manner.
"Well... they're weeds," Hinata explained, "not flowers."
Naruto looked as if he was about to cry. "Its not fair," he muttered as he fell backwards into the grass.
~Author's Note~
AJ: Huzzah! And hopefully I'll get Chapter two up soon, I got about over half of it written so should be up soon, but ya please keep reading and thank you in advance to any of you who chose to update ^.^
Kabuto: You're too hyper. . . its annoying
AJ: What? What are you doing here? You're not even in this chapter!
Kabuto: you mean I'm in the story?
AJ *shifty eyes * I didn't say that!
Kabuto: What ever, so when am I gonna be introduced?
AJ: around the end. I mean I didn't say that. . . anyways that's all for now, c ya'll next chapter!
Ano- um
Nani- What
******
Chapter 1
The atmosphere around the hidden leaf village was always rather depressing around the tenth of October. Most people's minds turned to thoughts of loved ones they had lost on the horrible day the fox demon attacked and was sealed away.
Even the container of the demon wasn't entirely his usual, overly hyper self. Though it was his birthday, he received twice as many mean and evil glares from the people of the village, the ones who saw him only as the fox.
Naruto kicked a rock back and forth, thinking more about how to beat Sasuke on the day's mission then about his birthday, which (since that day was the ninth) was the next day.
Naruto waited with Sasuke and Sakura for their faithfully late teacher. It was now three hours after the arranged meeting time so the students figured (or hoped) Kakashi would show up any minute now.
Sakura was standing next to Sasuke, desperately trying to strike up a conversation with the anti-social raven-haired boy, acting completely oblivious to the blonde haired boy. Naruto started to mutter, annoyed with the lack of attention and gave the rock a hard kick in Sasuke's direction. Unfortunately his aim was off.
"Naruto! You idiot! Watch what your doing!" Sakura yelled as the rock flew past her head.
He about to say something, most likely something stupid, in response when a familiar grey haired jonin walked up to the three young people, with his nose in a equally familiar bright orange book.
"Hey! Hey! Kakashi-sensei! Your late!" Naruto yelled, pointing an accusing finger at his teacher.
Then they all waited for his stupid excuse of the day, and were utterly shocked when it didn't come.
"I know," Kakashi muttered off handily as he closed his book.
"And?" Naruto asked looking at him blankly.
"And what?" Kakashi inquired.
"And you always have some bad excuse for why you're late," Naruto said in response, "so what is it today?"
Kakashi just stood there for a moment starring at the blonde boy and finally just shrugged.
"Anyways, I have your mission for today," Kakashi muttered.
"What are we doing today Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked politely.
"Yeah Yeah! Are we doing something dangerous? Like an assassination or something like that?" The over exuberant boy asked, his blue eyes shinning with anticipation for the day's mission.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, but chose not to insult Naruto at that moment and stared at Kakashi. He too wanted to hear what they were doing.
"You have to go pick flowers," the grey haired man informed them.
There was dead silence, something unusual on the team that had the village's number one troublemaker as a member. The three students stood, looking at their teacher with blank stares.
"Hey hey, you're joking right?" Naruto said hopefully breaking the silence, "I mean we're past the boring missions aren't we?"
"No I'm not joking. You have to go pick flowers," Kakashi replied, "one hundred and thirty seven to be exact. No less than that."
"This is stupid," Sasuke said, "picking flowers? There is no way I'm doing it."
"Well you have to get these flowers, I don't care how you do it, just have one hundred and thirty seven here by night fall," the jonin said and with out another word from his students he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"What a stupid mission," Naruto muttered, looking at the spot where his teacher was standing moments ago.
"Oh shut up Naruto!" Sakura snapped.
"He's right, for once," Sasuke said as he walked away from the other two, "this is stupid and I'm not doing it. I have more important things to do."
"Wait up Sasuke-kun!" Sakura said, darting off after the dark haired boy.
"Hey guys! What about the flowers?" Naruto yelled after his teammates.
"Get them yourself Naruto!" the pink haired girl yelled back at him over her should as she caught up with Sasuke.
"But I don't know anything about flowers!" Naruto muttered, frustrated, kicking another rock.
It flew into the air, and hitting a building that was very close by it bounced back, nearly hitting Naruto in the head.
The blonde boy grumbled after dodging the flying rock and stalked off in search of flowers.
*********
"Why do you insist on following me?" Sasuke said angrily glaring at his pink haired stalker.
"Well I thought, since we don't having anything to do, maybe you and I do something...like get lunch..." Sakura said looking sweetly at her crush.
"No," he replied flatly, tones annoyance rising in his voice, "Like I said, I have more important things to do. They don't involve me spending the day with possibly one of the most annoying people around, when she should be training, so she isn't so weak instead of wasting her time!"
Sasuke quickened his pace and this time his female teammate didn't follow. She stood watching him as he disappeared from sight, tears welling in her eyes.
'Why does he hate me?' she thought as she clenched her fists, ignoring Inner Sakura's shouts to follow him, telling her she couldn't give up that easy. Sakura turned her eyes downward as a few tears fell down her checks.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" an over exuberant shout came. Rock Lee ran towards her as fast as he could with his one crutch, the rest of his team trailing slightly behind him.
"Oh, hello Lee-san," Sakura muttered, whipping her eyes and smiling faintly at the hyper boy.
When the other three members of his team caught up, Neji gave Rock Lee a dark look, annoyed with the momentary delay. Then he looked at Sakura with a darker look and said icily, "Shouldn't you be training?"
Sakura looked at older boy and narrowed her eyes a bit; she wasn't in the mood to deal with his attitude at the moment. "Kakashi-sensei didn't have anything us to do today."
"Hmm... Didn't have anything for you to do... I wonder what my eternal rival could be up to..." Gai said thoughtfully.
"If you're not doing anything you can train with us!" Lee exclaimed jovially, "Can she Gai-sensei? Can she?"
"I don't see why not," Gai said grinning, teeth shinning as he patted his miniature look-a-like on the head and continued to walk to their training spot.
"Yay!" Lee exclaimed as he grabbed the pink haired girl's wrist and pulled her along after his team, "this way Sakura-chan."
All this happened so fast, Sakura barley had time to blink, let alone decline his request to go with them. So she simply sighed and decided to go along with it, she had nothing better to do anyways.
*******
"Stupid flowers," the spiky blonde haired, fox boy muttered as he picked a few more flowers and tossed them on a growing pile beside him.
He was actually happy with the state of the mound of plants that sat beside him. It was growing rapidly. He had found a large patch of yellow flowers and it was taking him no time at all to get the one hundred and thirty seven flowers that he needed.
"123...124...125" He counted out loud, tossing the flowers as he went.
There was a sudden snap of a twig from a small clump of trees from behind Naruto and he instinctively tensed up. He turned his head slowly and looked behind himself. There were only trees.
Naruto sighed, he had hoped it was something like a missing-nin, or anything that would make his day just a little more exciting.
"Alright, where was I... Oh man! I lost count!" He cried loudly looking at the giant pile of flora.
Then suddenly there was another snap and this time it was accompanied by a thump. The blonde boy bolted to his feet and ran to see what had made the sound. Hoping it was something of interest.
He found the source of the noise. On the ground next to a tree just a little ways away from where Naruto was picking flowers, sat a dark haired girl.
"Oh hey Hinata," Naruto said with a large smile.
"H-hello Naruto-kun," Hinata replied timidly, rubbing her ankle, "I'm s- sorry if I bothered you."
"Nah, you didn't bug me," Naruto said as he offered a hand to help her up, "So what are you doing here?"
"W-we haven't been training as much... Kiba-kun is still getting us to being able to walk again. So I th-thought I'd w-w-walk..." Hinata replied quietly as she slowly took his hand and with his help stood up.
"Ya, I saw him the other day... he looked kinda wobbly," Naruto said.
It had been about two months since the five ninjas, four genin and a chunin (as well as a dog) had set out to retrieve their comrade from the sound. All five had ended up in the hospital afterwards.
Thanks to the fox demon, its container was out of the hospital in a week, even though he had almost mortal wounds. The others weren't so fortunate.
Choji had been in a coma for about a month. Neji had been released around the same time as Choji, but even now his wounds had not completely healed. Kiba had both legs and an arm broken in the explosion, his casts had recently come off and as Hinata said, he was getting use to walking again. Shikamaru had been out for about two weeks from blood loss and would have died if not for a last minute blood transfusion. But now they were all doing much better.
All of this had happened because of Sasuke. Those four people had been in critical condition, because they had gone to save Sasuke. And did he thank anyone of them? No, he was bitter towards them, sometimes worst to Naruto then he had been before. He had wanted to go with them... Wanted to go with the bad guys...
Naruto stood, fists clenched, nails digging into his palms. After being such a jerk, Sakura still followed his around. Naruto didn't understand and it made him furious to think about.
"N-naruto-kun?" Hinata said looking at the blonde boy curiously, her soft voice snapping him from his daze.
"Wha? Oh ya," he blinked a couple of times "I'm picking flowers. Kakashi- sensei told us to do it and some how I got stuck doing it by myself."
"Oh... I see," the white-eyed girl said.
"Its weird, but I'm almost done," Naruto said, beaming as he turned back to his pile and walked over to the patch of flowers to finish his job.
Hinata followed him, but rather slowly. She stopped next to the pile and looked closely at them for a moment, then nervously at Naruto.
"Ano...Naruto-kun," she said, in her quiet, little voice, "those aren't flowers."
"Nani?" He said, tilting his head in a confused manner.
"Well... they're weeds," Hinata explained, "not flowers."
Naruto looked as if he was about to cry. "Its not fair," he muttered as he fell backwards into the grass.
~Author's Note~
AJ: Huzzah! And hopefully I'll get Chapter two up soon, I got about over half of it written so should be up soon, but ya please keep reading and thank you in advance to any of you who chose to update ^.^
Kabuto: You're too hyper. . . its annoying
AJ: What? What are you doing here? You're not even in this chapter!
Kabuto: you mean I'm in the story?
AJ *shifty eyes * I didn't say that!
Kabuto: What ever, so when am I gonna be introduced?
AJ: around the end. I mean I didn't say that. . . anyways that's all for now, c ya'll next chapter!