AJ: HI!!! Here is chapter three for all of you who were waiting for it!
It's a long chapter, took me forever to type and I did it while I was
trying to role-play so meh. Thank you all for answering my question, great,
great help ^.^ and thanks very much for the reviews, glad you like!
Kabuto: you're just lazy
AJ: shut up, and your do the disclaimer today
Kabuto: why?
AJ: my birthday present to you! I know it's a little late but oh well (Kabuto's birthday is on February 29)
Kabuto: *sarcastic * why thank you
AJ: you're welcome ^.^
Kabuto: anyways, AJ doesn't own any Naruto things, no matter how much she wishes she does, she doesn't.
AJ: I fixed some errors I found in chapter 1 and I know there is one here but I could find it... so ya sorry bout that!
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Naruto slept most of the morning, taking full advantage of his day off. Around noon his doorbell rang, waking him from his slumber.
He bolted up straight and clumsily ran to the door, tripping over his closes and eventually colliding with the door when he reached it. He fumbled with the doorknob and flung it open.
"Oh hey Iruka-sensei," Naruto muttered sleepily, looking blankly at his former teacher.
"Hello Naruto," Iruka said brightly, "Happy Birthday."
"Uh... Thanks," Naruto said, rubbing one eye with his hand.
"I was wondering if you wanted to go get some ramen for lunch, as part of your present," Iruka asked, although he already knew the answer.
"Yeah, yeah!" Naruto cheered loudly, all tiredness forgotten, "just a second I have to get dressed!"
He darted back to his room while Iruka waited and laughed when he heard random shouted and bangs from the boy's bedroom. Naruto emerged from his room a few minutes later, wearing his bright orange jacket and pants.
"Okay Iruka-sensei! I'm ready!" the genin said running to the door and closed it behind him. Then he grabbed chuunin's wrist and dragged him to Ichiraku's.
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Sakura and Sasuke sat waiting at their usual meeting spot, anticipating the arrival of their teacher. He was five hours late, which was late even for him. They also thought it was odd that their blonde comrade had yet to show up.
But they just sat there and waited, having no idea the people they were waiting for weren't coming and training was cancelled.
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" Can I have another bowl? PLEEEEASE Iruka-sensei!"
"You're going to get sick if you eat much more... but if you insist," Iruka sighed and laughed.
"Yay!" Naruto waved his arms frantically and flagged down some one who worked there and ordered a new bowl.
Once the ramen was placed in front of the fox like boy it was only a matter of minutes before the bowl was empty.
"Can I have another bowl?" he asked hopefully.
"You've had ten bowls already, are you sure you still want more?" Iruka chuckled.
"Of course! I'm still hungry," the blonde boy replied.
His former teacher laughed again, "Well maybe we can get some more food later, there is something I want to show you."
"Oh... okay," Naruto replied.
Iruka got the bill and paid for the eleven bowls of ramen the two of them had eaten. Then the two left the restaurant.
"So how has training been lately?" Iruka asked as they walked.
"Good, I think I'm getting stronger than Sasuke," Naruto responded happily.
Iruka grinned. They talked and walked, quite a bit, through some trees until they came to a clearing. In the clearing there was a stone memorial, raised slightly. Naruto knew he had seen it before, but now it was covered with flowers.
"There it is," Iruka said as they approached the stone slab, "a memorial for the heroes of the village."
"Yeah, yeah! Kakashi-sensei showed us this on our first day of training, with the bells," Naruto said, squatting to read the names, "but why are there flowers?"
"Well you know what today is don't you?" the dolphin said sitting on the ground, also looking at the names.
"Kyubi, he attacked the village the day I was born, so... today thirteen years ago right?" the blonde boy said.
"Yes... people bring flowers for their loved ones... I brought these two this morning," Iruka said, pointing to two white flowers that sat on top of the memorial.
Naruto suddenly felt a little sick. "Iruka-sensei... how many people did Kyubi kill?"
"Over one hundred, I think about a hundred and forty. The names go from here to here," Iruka said, pointing to one name, and then another, between the two was a great number of names.
That made the fox demon's container feel worse. He starred blankly at the flowers, an uncharacteristic frown spreading across his face.
"You shouldn't feel guilty Naruto... You didn't do anything... and I didn't bring you here to make you feel bad, I just wanted to see this..."
"I know Iruka-sensei, you're the last person who would want me to feel bad," Naruto said.
His eyes didn't look away from the flowers, in particular a bunch of them that were piled up against the one side of the memorial and a few of them that were on the top.
"Those are my flowers!" He shouted with out warning, causing Iruka to jump.
"What?" Iruka asked after getting over his momentary shock.
"Those flowers! The big group of them! Hinata and me picked them yesterday for Kakashi-sensei," the genin replied.
"Those ones?" Iruka said, looking at the specific flowers, "Those ones were here early this morning, first ones here actually... there is always a lot of flowers here early in the morning, every year."
"You think Kakashi-sensei brings flowers every year? Does he have family on this thing? He said something about his friends names were on this thing," Naruto said his eyes running over the names.
"Ano... he might, I don't really know. I know he was a student of the forth... that might have something to do with it..." Iruka replied.
"Student of the forth? Cool!" Naruto said smiling.
After a minute or so, during which Naruto read the majority of the over a hundred names out loud, Iruka stood up.
"Are you ready to go?" the dolphin asked.
"Yeah, yeah! Can we get some more ramen? The walk made me hungry!" Naruto said as he jumped to his feet.
"You have a bottomless," Iruka laughed, "It's amazing you stay so thin... Come on, I guess I'll buy you some more."
"Yay!" Naruto yelled in celebration as the two, for the second time that day, headed to the ramen restaurant.
How ever they never actually got there.
A block or so from Ichiraku's the two stopped, after hearing someone call Naruto's name.
Kakashi stood leaning against a building, a box under his arm, his only visible eye was arched up in happiness. "S'its Naruto!" he shouted and waved with his free hand, something seemed a little off with the way he was talking, "I been lookin fur you."
"Hey Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto said waving to his teacher. Iruka's greeting was a nod and a smile.
Kakashi, stilling with a happy expression, pushed himself off the wall. Unfortunately he did so a little to hard and nearly fell forward. Once he got balanced again, he walk foreword, except it was more of a stagger than a walk.
"I have somefink for you fur you," he said, he speech slurred. He held out the box he had been holding, "Happy Birfday!"
Naruto reached out for the gift, now completely aware of the jounin's odd behaviour, and when the smell of sake filled his nose when approach Kakashi, he knew why.
Naruto smirked, looking at Kakashi, who was now swayed slightly on the spot.
The grey haired man raised his hand to his temple and blinked a few times, and then his expression went from happy to confused. "You know... I may have, mighten ta had too much sake," he said, swaying for another moment and then promptly collapsed.
Naruto squatted down next to him and prodded him lightly in the shoulder, "Kakashi-sensei?... he's out... can we go get ramen now?"
Iruka stood with a blank look, "Ano... we can't leave him here Naruto. We should take him home... but I don't know where he live... Do you?"
Naruto shook his head no, then the two tried to brainstorm people whom they could leave Kakashi with and the only person either of them could think of was Gai.
Naruto laughed at this and then explained to Iruka that a week ago, they had been walking with Kakashi and had seen Gai coming in their direction. Kakashi quickly told his student that he had to go and if Gai asked where he was, they were to tell him that they were suppose to tell the other teacher that he was sick with the first illness they could think of. Then Kakashi disappeared. They ended up telling Gai that Kakashi had the Ebola virus, which Naruto had no really idea what it was.
"Well... I guess if we have nowhere else to take him... he can stay at my place until he sobers up," Iruka sighed, not overly excited about having the drunken man in his apartment.
The two pick Kakashi up, one of his arms around each of their shoulders, causing the grey haired man to be rather lopsided, seeing as Iruka was quite a bit taller than Naruto.
Kakashi's head lolled from side to side. He occasionally yelled random things in his state of unconsciousness; they most often seemed to be about muffins. Every now and then he would slip too and fall to the ground, if neither of the other two could catch him in time. In the second time falling, his fingers had latched on to Iruka's shirt and as he fell, the shirt's seems at the shoulder had ripped.
It took them almost a half an hour to get to a place that really wasn't that far, all the way getting mean and funny looks. The mean ones directed to Naruto and the funny ones towards Kakashi.
When they did reach Iruka's apartment building, they were faced with a new challenge, getting Kakashi up to the second floor where Iruka's apartment was.
They walked side ways up the stairs, stumbling on at least every other stair and it was a miracle that the scarecrow or Naruto's present was dropped.
At the top of the stairs Naruto, stopped and stretched, raising his arms in the arm. He blinked a few times, arms up in the air, and then looked behind himself just in time to see his teacher slide from his and Iruka's shoulders.
"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto cried.
Iruka too looked behind him, and it was a very good thing that the two were ninjas; otherwise they would have had to walk up the stairs again. Naruto and Iruka each grabbed one of Kakashi's wrists and dragged him a safe distance from the stairs.
They took him down the hall to Iruka's door. "Well I guess I should get him inside, thank you for the help carrying him. You can go if you want to," the chuunin said to the blonde boy.
"You mean we're not getting any more ramen?" Naruto said with a pleading look in his blue eyes.
"Sorry, but its probably not a good idea to leave him alone... here," Iruka said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out some money and pressed it into Naruto's hand, "there, you can get more ramen and buy something else for your birthday... or spend it all on ramen like I know you will."
"Alright, Thanks Iruka-sensei," Naruto said smiling brightly and then waved and ran down the hall to the stairs, still holding the present from Kakashi under his arm.
Iruka sighed again and looked at the jounin he was holding on to. He unlocked his apartment and slowly dragged Kakashi inside.
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Two o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock went off. Iruka grunted and reached out his hand and hit the snooze button.
He lifted his head and looked slowly around his living room. He was courteous enough to let Kakashi staying his room, so now the dolphin was lay on his couch.
He got and walked across his living room, sleepily dragging his feet, his hair, out of its usual high ponytail, fell in his face. He went into his room to check on the sleeping scarecrow, to make she he was doing all right and not suffering any side effects of drinking to much alcohol, like dieing for example.
When he got into his room, he noticed the jounin now sprawled on the floor instead of in the bed. Iruka would have picked him up, but in his tired state he could hardly stand up him self.
Iruka yawned and shifted uncomfortably in his vest that he was too tired to take off earlier, he was were all the cloths he had been earlier that day, including his ripped shirt.
The dolphin yawned again and walked over to his bed and fell onto it. "Just a minute," he muttered just before he fell into a deep sleep.
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While the two, and almost everyone else in the village slept peacefully, something sinister was under way.
At the Hokage's home, where the Hokage herself lived and some of the most powerful artefacts of the village were kept.
At that moment Tsunade lay sleeping, while ANBU guards were stationed around the home.
On the top floor were the artefacts were kept, two guards sat, wearily playing cards. They were so tired that they didn't notice the feathers falling around them until it was too late.
The ANBU fell the ground, asleep and a person stepped out of the shadows and laughed quietly to itself. The person grinned wildly at how easily this plan was working.
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AJ: Yay! Hope ya like, the last little part is the first really relevant thing to the plot! And congrats to all who figured out what the flowers were for ^.^
Kabuto: well its not like it was hard
AJ: shut up you! Anyways, not sure how long it'll take for next chapter but I'll have it up A.S.A.P.!! Byez!
Kabuto: you're just lazy
AJ: shut up, and your do the disclaimer today
Kabuto: why?
AJ: my birthday present to you! I know it's a little late but oh well (Kabuto's birthday is on February 29)
Kabuto: *sarcastic * why thank you
AJ: you're welcome ^.^
Kabuto: anyways, AJ doesn't own any Naruto things, no matter how much she wishes she does, she doesn't.
AJ: I fixed some errors I found in chapter 1 and I know there is one here but I could find it... so ya sorry bout that!
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Naruto slept most of the morning, taking full advantage of his day off. Around noon his doorbell rang, waking him from his slumber.
He bolted up straight and clumsily ran to the door, tripping over his closes and eventually colliding with the door when he reached it. He fumbled with the doorknob and flung it open.
"Oh hey Iruka-sensei," Naruto muttered sleepily, looking blankly at his former teacher.
"Hello Naruto," Iruka said brightly, "Happy Birthday."
"Uh... Thanks," Naruto said, rubbing one eye with his hand.
"I was wondering if you wanted to go get some ramen for lunch, as part of your present," Iruka asked, although he already knew the answer.
"Yeah, yeah!" Naruto cheered loudly, all tiredness forgotten, "just a second I have to get dressed!"
He darted back to his room while Iruka waited and laughed when he heard random shouted and bangs from the boy's bedroom. Naruto emerged from his room a few minutes later, wearing his bright orange jacket and pants.
"Okay Iruka-sensei! I'm ready!" the genin said running to the door and closed it behind him. Then he grabbed chuunin's wrist and dragged him to Ichiraku's.
*******
Sakura and Sasuke sat waiting at their usual meeting spot, anticipating the arrival of their teacher. He was five hours late, which was late even for him. They also thought it was odd that their blonde comrade had yet to show up.
But they just sat there and waited, having no idea the people they were waiting for weren't coming and training was cancelled.
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" Can I have another bowl? PLEEEEASE Iruka-sensei!"
"You're going to get sick if you eat much more... but if you insist," Iruka sighed and laughed.
"Yay!" Naruto waved his arms frantically and flagged down some one who worked there and ordered a new bowl.
Once the ramen was placed in front of the fox like boy it was only a matter of minutes before the bowl was empty.
"Can I have another bowl?" he asked hopefully.
"You've had ten bowls already, are you sure you still want more?" Iruka chuckled.
"Of course! I'm still hungry," the blonde boy replied.
His former teacher laughed again, "Well maybe we can get some more food later, there is something I want to show you."
"Oh... okay," Naruto replied.
Iruka got the bill and paid for the eleven bowls of ramen the two of them had eaten. Then the two left the restaurant.
"So how has training been lately?" Iruka asked as they walked.
"Good, I think I'm getting stronger than Sasuke," Naruto responded happily.
Iruka grinned. They talked and walked, quite a bit, through some trees until they came to a clearing. In the clearing there was a stone memorial, raised slightly. Naruto knew he had seen it before, but now it was covered with flowers.
"There it is," Iruka said as they approached the stone slab, "a memorial for the heroes of the village."
"Yeah, yeah! Kakashi-sensei showed us this on our first day of training, with the bells," Naruto said, squatting to read the names, "but why are there flowers?"
"Well you know what today is don't you?" the dolphin said sitting on the ground, also looking at the names.
"Kyubi, he attacked the village the day I was born, so... today thirteen years ago right?" the blonde boy said.
"Yes... people bring flowers for their loved ones... I brought these two this morning," Iruka said, pointing to two white flowers that sat on top of the memorial.
Naruto suddenly felt a little sick. "Iruka-sensei... how many people did Kyubi kill?"
"Over one hundred, I think about a hundred and forty. The names go from here to here," Iruka said, pointing to one name, and then another, between the two was a great number of names.
That made the fox demon's container feel worse. He starred blankly at the flowers, an uncharacteristic frown spreading across his face.
"You shouldn't feel guilty Naruto... You didn't do anything... and I didn't bring you here to make you feel bad, I just wanted to see this..."
"I know Iruka-sensei, you're the last person who would want me to feel bad," Naruto said.
His eyes didn't look away from the flowers, in particular a bunch of them that were piled up against the one side of the memorial and a few of them that were on the top.
"Those are my flowers!" He shouted with out warning, causing Iruka to jump.
"What?" Iruka asked after getting over his momentary shock.
"Those flowers! The big group of them! Hinata and me picked them yesterday for Kakashi-sensei," the genin replied.
"Those ones?" Iruka said, looking at the specific flowers, "Those ones were here early this morning, first ones here actually... there is always a lot of flowers here early in the morning, every year."
"You think Kakashi-sensei brings flowers every year? Does he have family on this thing? He said something about his friends names were on this thing," Naruto said his eyes running over the names.
"Ano... he might, I don't really know. I know he was a student of the forth... that might have something to do with it..." Iruka replied.
"Student of the forth? Cool!" Naruto said smiling.
After a minute or so, during which Naruto read the majority of the over a hundred names out loud, Iruka stood up.
"Are you ready to go?" the dolphin asked.
"Yeah, yeah! Can we get some more ramen? The walk made me hungry!" Naruto said as he jumped to his feet.
"You have a bottomless," Iruka laughed, "It's amazing you stay so thin... Come on, I guess I'll buy you some more."
"Yay!" Naruto yelled in celebration as the two, for the second time that day, headed to the ramen restaurant.
How ever they never actually got there.
A block or so from Ichiraku's the two stopped, after hearing someone call Naruto's name.
Kakashi stood leaning against a building, a box under his arm, his only visible eye was arched up in happiness. "S'its Naruto!" he shouted and waved with his free hand, something seemed a little off with the way he was talking, "I been lookin fur you."
"Hey Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto said waving to his teacher. Iruka's greeting was a nod and a smile.
Kakashi, stilling with a happy expression, pushed himself off the wall. Unfortunately he did so a little to hard and nearly fell forward. Once he got balanced again, he walk foreword, except it was more of a stagger than a walk.
"I have somefink for you fur you," he said, he speech slurred. He held out the box he had been holding, "Happy Birfday!"
Naruto reached out for the gift, now completely aware of the jounin's odd behaviour, and when the smell of sake filled his nose when approach Kakashi, he knew why.
Naruto smirked, looking at Kakashi, who was now swayed slightly on the spot.
The grey haired man raised his hand to his temple and blinked a few times, and then his expression went from happy to confused. "You know... I may have, mighten ta had too much sake," he said, swaying for another moment and then promptly collapsed.
Naruto squatted down next to him and prodded him lightly in the shoulder, "Kakashi-sensei?... he's out... can we go get ramen now?"
Iruka stood with a blank look, "Ano... we can't leave him here Naruto. We should take him home... but I don't know where he live... Do you?"
Naruto shook his head no, then the two tried to brainstorm people whom they could leave Kakashi with and the only person either of them could think of was Gai.
Naruto laughed at this and then explained to Iruka that a week ago, they had been walking with Kakashi and had seen Gai coming in their direction. Kakashi quickly told his student that he had to go and if Gai asked where he was, they were to tell him that they were suppose to tell the other teacher that he was sick with the first illness they could think of. Then Kakashi disappeared. They ended up telling Gai that Kakashi had the Ebola virus, which Naruto had no really idea what it was.
"Well... I guess if we have nowhere else to take him... he can stay at my place until he sobers up," Iruka sighed, not overly excited about having the drunken man in his apartment.
The two pick Kakashi up, one of his arms around each of their shoulders, causing the grey haired man to be rather lopsided, seeing as Iruka was quite a bit taller than Naruto.
Kakashi's head lolled from side to side. He occasionally yelled random things in his state of unconsciousness; they most often seemed to be about muffins. Every now and then he would slip too and fall to the ground, if neither of the other two could catch him in time. In the second time falling, his fingers had latched on to Iruka's shirt and as he fell, the shirt's seems at the shoulder had ripped.
It took them almost a half an hour to get to a place that really wasn't that far, all the way getting mean and funny looks. The mean ones directed to Naruto and the funny ones towards Kakashi.
When they did reach Iruka's apartment building, they were faced with a new challenge, getting Kakashi up to the second floor where Iruka's apartment was.
They walked side ways up the stairs, stumbling on at least every other stair and it was a miracle that the scarecrow or Naruto's present was dropped.
At the top of the stairs Naruto, stopped and stretched, raising his arms in the arm. He blinked a few times, arms up in the air, and then looked behind himself just in time to see his teacher slide from his and Iruka's shoulders.
"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto cried.
Iruka too looked behind him, and it was a very good thing that the two were ninjas; otherwise they would have had to walk up the stairs again. Naruto and Iruka each grabbed one of Kakashi's wrists and dragged him a safe distance from the stairs.
They took him down the hall to Iruka's door. "Well I guess I should get him inside, thank you for the help carrying him. You can go if you want to," the chuunin said to the blonde boy.
"You mean we're not getting any more ramen?" Naruto said with a pleading look in his blue eyes.
"Sorry, but its probably not a good idea to leave him alone... here," Iruka said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out some money and pressed it into Naruto's hand, "there, you can get more ramen and buy something else for your birthday... or spend it all on ramen like I know you will."
"Alright, Thanks Iruka-sensei," Naruto said smiling brightly and then waved and ran down the hall to the stairs, still holding the present from Kakashi under his arm.
Iruka sighed again and looked at the jounin he was holding on to. He unlocked his apartment and slowly dragged Kakashi inside.
******
Two o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock went off. Iruka grunted and reached out his hand and hit the snooze button.
He lifted his head and looked slowly around his living room. He was courteous enough to let Kakashi staying his room, so now the dolphin was lay on his couch.
He got and walked across his living room, sleepily dragging his feet, his hair, out of its usual high ponytail, fell in his face. He went into his room to check on the sleeping scarecrow, to make she he was doing all right and not suffering any side effects of drinking to much alcohol, like dieing for example.
When he got into his room, he noticed the jounin now sprawled on the floor instead of in the bed. Iruka would have picked him up, but in his tired state he could hardly stand up him self.
Iruka yawned and shifted uncomfortably in his vest that he was too tired to take off earlier, he was were all the cloths he had been earlier that day, including his ripped shirt.
The dolphin yawned again and walked over to his bed and fell onto it. "Just a minute," he muttered just before he fell into a deep sleep.
******
While the two, and almost everyone else in the village slept peacefully, something sinister was under way.
At the Hokage's home, where the Hokage herself lived and some of the most powerful artefacts of the village were kept.
At that moment Tsunade lay sleeping, while ANBU guards were stationed around the home.
On the top floor were the artefacts were kept, two guards sat, wearily playing cards. They were so tired that they didn't notice the feathers falling around them until it was too late.
The ANBU fell the ground, asleep and a person stepped out of the shadows and laughed quietly to itself. The person grinned wildly at how easily this plan was working.
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AJ: Yay! Hope ya like, the last little part is the first really relevant thing to the plot! And congrats to all who figured out what the flowers were for ^.^
Kabuto: well its not like it was hard
AJ: shut up you! Anyways, not sure how long it'll take for next chapter but I'll have it up A.S.A.P.!! Byez!