My Very Best Friend
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Summary: How different would Naruto's life be, if he didn't grow up with loneliness as his companion? If he found one person who didn't treat him as a demon? If he found one person that didn't looked at him with hatred in their eyes? If he found one person who wasn't afraid of him? How much would change if 8-year-old Naruto found one friend? (AU) (But it might follow some of the original plotline)
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I wish I did, but I don't.
Sorry if this chapter took so long to post...I was lacking inspiration, and I was so involved with my story: 'Rurouni Shinobi'.
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Chapter 2: Starting Anew
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Five years have passed since Emi and Naruto met on that busy market street.
Five years have passed since Emi invited Naruto over for dinner.
Five years have passed since Naruto figured out that he's not alone in the world and that people care for him.
Five years have passed since Naruto found the one person that will change his life forever.
A lot can happen in five years...
-Ninja Academy-
"Now you'll be divided into three-man teams, each having a jounin sensei." The chunin schoolteacher, Iruka told the class of newly graduates. "I will now tell you the teams." Upon closer inspection of the brunette's chest, Naruto could still see the bandages...
-Flashback-
-Forest-
"DIE!" The evil, silver-haired chunin, Mizuki, yelled as he prepared to deal the finishing blow to an injured Iruka trying to protect an unconscious Emi.
After learning about the nine-tailed demon fox, Kyuubi, being sealed in her friend, Emi tried attacking Mizuki while Naruto ran. But, because she was still weakened, mentally and physically, by her last mission that claimed the life of her sensei, she was easily beaten into submission until Iruka came.
'Is this the end?' Iruka thought sullenly as a giant shuriken spun closer to them.
Suddenly Naruto appeared out of the nearby foliage and knocked the shuriken away. "If you try to hurt any of my precious people," Naruto growled. "I'LL KILL YOU!"
-Present-
Naruto smiled to himself as he remembered the bloody mess that his shadow clones created.
"-and Uzumaki Naruto." Iruka said.
"Wha'...?" Naruto said dumbly as he heard his name. The class laughed.
"Just don't drag me down, dobe." The raven-haired boy sitting next to him said smugly. Naruto hated everything and anything to do with Uchiha Sasuke. He was clad in a blue t-shirt with the Uchiha symbol of a red and white fan on it and white shorts with matching arm and leg protectors.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Naruto yelled realizing he was on the same team as the Uchiha.
Iruka rubbed his temples feeling a headache coming on.
-1 hour later-
"WHERE ARE THEY?!" Naruto yelled looking out the door once again. "IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT OUR TEAMMATE IS LATE! BUT OUR SENSEI AS WELL?!" Naruto turned around and stormed back into the classroom.
"Shut up, dobe." Sasuke muttered from one of the desks.
Naruto got bonked on the head by a fist. "You're too loud." A familiar soft voice said from behind him. He spun around to see Hana Emi standing in the doorway rubbing her temples.
"YOU'RE OUR TEAMMATE?" Naruto screamed.
Emi flinched at Naruto's loudness before sighing. "Sarutobi- sama said that I should be with people so he put me back on a genin team and is making me stay at Kakashi-sensei's house." Emi smiled softly.
"Shouldn't you be resting in the hospital?" Sasuke questioned.
"Oh, hi Sasuke." Emi walked over to the desk that Sasuke was occupying. "Didn't see you there. How are you doing?"
"You haven't answered my question." Sasuke stated looking Emi over, checking for injuries. He noticed that she had changed since he last saw her. Her strawberry-blonde hair was now in a loose ponytail on top of her head, held there by her hitai-ate, with a few stray pieces framing her face. She traded her kapris in for dark-green skin-tight pants with a black belt and black high-heeled boots. A forest green tank top underneath a black ankle-length coat finished the look. But the biggest difference was that her pale-blue eyes were dimmer and didn't hold that shine of cheerfulness in it that the Uchiha prodigy remembered.
"Oh that!" Emi laughed lightly, shaking her hand dismissively. "Doctors said something about psychological problems and that is wasn't wise for me to be by myself for long. Crazy really. Besides a couple of scratches here and there I've never felt better!" Emi smiled.
"What about-"
"Bad things happen." Emi interrupted. "You just have to move on, you know? Look to the future instead of remembering the unchanging past and live the present to it's fullest."
Sasuke smirked. Things never brought Emi down for long. She was always too busy looking for the good in everything to let a little sadness ruin her day.
Naruto looked between Sasuke and Emi. "YOU KNOW EACH OTHER?" He screeched.
"We've met." Sasuke stated looking out a nearby open window.
Emi laughed. "The Uchiha clan looked after me when I first came here until I could buy my own house."
Sasuke smirked. Emi smiled innocently. Naruto still looked confused.
"WHAT?!"
-1 hour later-
"WHERE IS HE?" Naruto screamed for the sixth time that hour.
"What are you doing, dobe?" Sasuke asked in an I-don't-care- what-you're-doing-just-stop-annoying-me voice.
Naruto just laughed as he put a chalkboard eraser between the doors.
"Five. Four. Three." Emi counted softly to herself. She knew her sensei was, because she overheard them talking to the Hokage the previous night. "Two. One."
The door opened. The chalkboard eraser fell. No one was in the doorway.
A deep voice sighed from the opened window. "I learned long ago of your prankster ways, Naruto." The boy spun around to see a spiky, silver-haired jounin with a mask covering the bottom half of his face and a hitai-ate covering his left eye.
Emi sighed without turning around. "You're early Kakashi- sensei." She pointed out.
"EARLY!?" Naruto screamed at Emi. "YOU CALL BEING 2 HOURS LATE, EARLY!?"
"He's usually 3 hours late." Emi stated.
-Roof-
"So, why don't we introduce ourselves." Kakashi said from his perch on top of a railing, while his students sat on the steps nearby. "Say your likes, dislikes, dreams, hobbies, whatever."
"You start." Emi ordered. "Make it longer than last time."
Kakashi laughed. "Well if you insist...my name is Hatake Kakashi. I have no desire to tell you of my likes and dislikes. My dreams for the future are none of your business, but I have lots of hobbies."
Emi smacked her forehead. "He said more..." She groaned.
"All we learned was his name." Naruto muttered.
"Okay," Emi clapped her hands once. "If that's the game..." She grinned sadistically.
Kakashi sighed. 'I have a bad feeling about this.'
"His name's Hatake Kakashi." Emi stated still grinning. "He likes to read a bright orange and red book. He dislikes being on time. His dreams, I have yet to figure out. His hobbies..." Her grin grew. "Are: to read Make-Out Paradise, to annoy his students, to make up excuses, and...to be a pervert."
Kakashi nearly fell off of the railing in surprise at the female's comment, his mouth TRYING to form coherent words but failing miserably. He was speechless.
Sasuke was smirking giving him an Is-that-so?-look. Naruto looked stunned. Emi just looked proud of herself. Kakashi's mouth hung open.
"I'd close my mouth if I were you," Emi's grin never left her face. "The flies might get in." Kakashi's mouth closed with a snap. "I'll start. My name's Hana Emi, I like taking walks, singing, and reading NON-PERVERTED books. I dislike large towns or villages as well as crowds. My dreams are lost. My hobbies are reading, playing the flute, walking in forests, and annoying Kakashi-sensei."
"My turn! My turn!" Naruto cheered. "My name's Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen and my friends, I dislike the 3 minutes wait for ramen or my friends being sad or hurt. My hobbies are eating ramen, playing pranks, or being around my friends. My dream is to become Hokage, and to surpass all previous Hokages and get everyone's acknowledgement."
"Next."
"My name's Uchiha Sasuke. I have no likes only dislikes." Emi's cough sounded suspiciously like 'fan girls'. "I don't have dreams, just an ambition: to restore my clan and to kill a certain man." Another cough from Emi; this one sounding like 'Itachi'. This earned a glare from Sasuke as Emi whistled innocently.
"That sounds like a nasty cough." Kakashi commented.
"Oh, I'm fine." Emi smiled. "Just a minor cough...probably from a dry throat."
"Whatever you say." Kakashi chuckled knowingly. "Tomorrow we'll be having a test on survival training. It has a 66% chance of failure, so-"
"What happens if you fail?" Naruto questioned.
"You'll be sent back to the academy." Sasuke and Naruto glared at Kakashi as he spoke.
"Emi isn't even from the graduating class." Naruto argued.
"She's already a genin regardless, so she'll go back onto the reserve list. Anyways don't eat breakfast unless you want to puke." The silver-haired jounin advised.
"Is this the same test?" Emi questioned yawning.
"You remember!?" Kakashi looked shocked.
"Who could forget?" Emi laughed. "After Kohaku accidentally pulled down your pants and revealed to us your boxers with nak- "
"OKAY! Enough info!" Kakashi interrupted a faint blush visible beneath his mask.
"You're turning into a tomato!" Naruto pointed out.
"Shut up! You're dismissed!" Kakashi stuttered as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Do I even want to know?" Sasuke asked uncaringly as the two started walking home.
"Probably not." Emi stated. She knew that Sasuke was curious, but he had a reputation to uphold. "But I'll let you be the judge of that." She whispered something in his ear, before turning and starting to walk towards Kakashi's house, where she was staying.
A group of girls nearby were cracking their knuckles, thinking of ways to kill the strawberry-blonde, as they witnessed the faint blush appear on Sasuke's cheeks after they seen what looked like Emi 'kissing' their raven-haired angel.
If only they knew...
TBC
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SORRY FOR THE LATENESS AND SHORTNESS!
SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING IN A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG TIME! I was bored with the story and I didn't know what should happen next. =P It's an excuse but I hope you accept it. =P I'll have the next chapter up shortly...I hope.
PLEASE REVIEW, I LOVE HEARING YOU COMMENTS AND I WOULD LOVE ANY FEEDBACK THAT YOU MAY HAVE!
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xxSilverWingsxx-Emi is a normal shinobi. This story is an Alternative Universe so SOME things WILL be different. Also Kakashi's team that Emi was on wasn't exactly official. Because that year instead of only three teams passing, four passed, and Kakashi's team was a late entry. (Does that even make sense?) Oh well, sorry for the confusion. ;P
DALCACRIS-Thanks for the optimistic words! I appreciate them!
To all reviewers I thank-you.
PHEOX
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Summary: How different would Naruto's life be, if he didn't grow up with loneliness as his companion? If he found one person who didn't treat him as a demon? If he found one person that didn't looked at him with hatred in their eyes? If he found one person who wasn't afraid of him? How much would change if 8-year-old Naruto found one friend? (AU) (But it might follow some of the original plotline)
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I wish I did, but I don't.
Sorry if this chapter took so long to post...I was lacking inspiration, and I was so involved with my story: 'Rurouni Shinobi'.
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Chapter 2: Starting Anew
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Five years have passed since Emi and Naruto met on that busy market street.
Five years have passed since Emi invited Naruto over for dinner.
Five years have passed since Naruto figured out that he's not alone in the world and that people care for him.
Five years have passed since Naruto found the one person that will change his life forever.
A lot can happen in five years...
-Ninja Academy-
"Now you'll be divided into three-man teams, each having a jounin sensei." The chunin schoolteacher, Iruka told the class of newly graduates. "I will now tell you the teams." Upon closer inspection of the brunette's chest, Naruto could still see the bandages...
-Flashback-
-Forest-
"DIE!" The evil, silver-haired chunin, Mizuki, yelled as he prepared to deal the finishing blow to an injured Iruka trying to protect an unconscious Emi.
After learning about the nine-tailed demon fox, Kyuubi, being sealed in her friend, Emi tried attacking Mizuki while Naruto ran. But, because she was still weakened, mentally and physically, by her last mission that claimed the life of her sensei, she was easily beaten into submission until Iruka came.
'Is this the end?' Iruka thought sullenly as a giant shuriken spun closer to them.
Suddenly Naruto appeared out of the nearby foliage and knocked the shuriken away. "If you try to hurt any of my precious people," Naruto growled. "I'LL KILL YOU!"
-Present-
Naruto smiled to himself as he remembered the bloody mess that his shadow clones created.
"-and Uzumaki Naruto." Iruka said.
"Wha'...?" Naruto said dumbly as he heard his name. The class laughed.
"Just don't drag me down, dobe." The raven-haired boy sitting next to him said smugly. Naruto hated everything and anything to do with Uchiha Sasuke. He was clad in a blue t-shirt with the Uchiha symbol of a red and white fan on it and white shorts with matching arm and leg protectors.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Naruto yelled realizing he was on the same team as the Uchiha.
Iruka rubbed his temples feeling a headache coming on.
-1 hour later-
"WHERE ARE THEY?!" Naruto yelled looking out the door once again. "IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT OUR TEAMMATE IS LATE! BUT OUR SENSEI AS WELL?!" Naruto turned around and stormed back into the classroom.
"Shut up, dobe." Sasuke muttered from one of the desks.
Naruto got bonked on the head by a fist. "You're too loud." A familiar soft voice said from behind him. He spun around to see Hana Emi standing in the doorway rubbing her temples.
"YOU'RE OUR TEAMMATE?" Naruto screamed.
Emi flinched at Naruto's loudness before sighing. "Sarutobi- sama said that I should be with people so he put me back on a genin team and is making me stay at Kakashi-sensei's house." Emi smiled softly.
"Shouldn't you be resting in the hospital?" Sasuke questioned.
"Oh, hi Sasuke." Emi walked over to the desk that Sasuke was occupying. "Didn't see you there. How are you doing?"
"You haven't answered my question." Sasuke stated looking Emi over, checking for injuries. He noticed that she had changed since he last saw her. Her strawberry-blonde hair was now in a loose ponytail on top of her head, held there by her hitai-ate, with a few stray pieces framing her face. She traded her kapris in for dark-green skin-tight pants with a black belt and black high-heeled boots. A forest green tank top underneath a black ankle-length coat finished the look. But the biggest difference was that her pale-blue eyes were dimmer and didn't hold that shine of cheerfulness in it that the Uchiha prodigy remembered.
"Oh that!" Emi laughed lightly, shaking her hand dismissively. "Doctors said something about psychological problems and that is wasn't wise for me to be by myself for long. Crazy really. Besides a couple of scratches here and there I've never felt better!" Emi smiled.
"What about-"
"Bad things happen." Emi interrupted. "You just have to move on, you know? Look to the future instead of remembering the unchanging past and live the present to it's fullest."
Sasuke smirked. Things never brought Emi down for long. She was always too busy looking for the good in everything to let a little sadness ruin her day.
Naruto looked between Sasuke and Emi. "YOU KNOW EACH OTHER?" He screeched.
"We've met." Sasuke stated looking out a nearby open window.
Emi laughed. "The Uchiha clan looked after me when I first came here until I could buy my own house."
Sasuke smirked. Emi smiled innocently. Naruto still looked confused.
"WHAT?!"
-1 hour later-
"WHERE IS HE?" Naruto screamed for the sixth time that hour.
"What are you doing, dobe?" Sasuke asked in an I-don't-care- what-you're-doing-just-stop-annoying-me voice.
Naruto just laughed as he put a chalkboard eraser between the doors.
"Five. Four. Three." Emi counted softly to herself. She knew her sensei was, because she overheard them talking to the Hokage the previous night. "Two. One."
The door opened. The chalkboard eraser fell. No one was in the doorway.
A deep voice sighed from the opened window. "I learned long ago of your prankster ways, Naruto." The boy spun around to see a spiky, silver-haired jounin with a mask covering the bottom half of his face and a hitai-ate covering his left eye.
Emi sighed without turning around. "You're early Kakashi- sensei." She pointed out.
"EARLY!?" Naruto screamed at Emi. "YOU CALL BEING 2 HOURS LATE, EARLY!?"
"He's usually 3 hours late." Emi stated.
-Roof-
"So, why don't we introduce ourselves." Kakashi said from his perch on top of a railing, while his students sat on the steps nearby. "Say your likes, dislikes, dreams, hobbies, whatever."
"You start." Emi ordered. "Make it longer than last time."
Kakashi laughed. "Well if you insist...my name is Hatake Kakashi. I have no desire to tell you of my likes and dislikes. My dreams for the future are none of your business, but I have lots of hobbies."
Emi smacked her forehead. "He said more..." She groaned.
"All we learned was his name." Naruto muttered.
"Okay," Emi clapped her hands once. "If that's the game..." She grinned sadistically.
Kakashi sighed. 'I have a bad feeling about this.'
"His name's Hatake Kakashi." Emi stated still grinning. "He likes to read a bright orange and red book. He dislikes being on time. His dreams, I have yet to figure out. His hobbies..." Her grin grew. "Are: to read Make-Out Paradise, to annoy his students, to make up excuses, and...to be a pervert."
Kakashi nearly fell off of the railing in surprise at the female's comment, his mouth TRYING to form coherent words but failing miserably. He was speechless.
Sasuke was smirking giving him an Is-that-so?-look. Naruto looked stunned. Emi just looked proud of herself. Kakashi's mouth hung open.
"I'd close my mouth if I were you," Emi's grin never left her face. "The flies might get in." Kakashi's mouth closed with a snap. "I'll start. My name's Hana Emi, I like taking walks, singing, and reading NON-PERVERTED books. I dislike large towns or villages as well as crowds. My dreams are lost. My hobbies are reading, playing the flute, walking in forests, and annoying Kakashi-sensei."
"My turn! My turn!" Naruto cheered. "My name's Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen and my friends, I dislike the 3 minutes wait for ramen or my friends being sad or hurt. My hobbies are eating ramen, playing pranks, or being around my friends. My dream is to become Hokage, and to surpass all previous Hokages and get everyone's acknowledgement."
"Next."
"My name's Uchiha Sasuke. I have no likes only dislikes." Emi's cough sounded suspiciously like 'fan girls'. "I don't have dreams, just an ambition: to restore my clan and to kill a certain man." Another cough from Emi; this one sounding like 'Itachi'. This earned a glare from Sasuke as Emi whistled innocently.
"That sounds like a nasty cough." Kakashi commented.
"Oh, I'm fine." Emi smiled. "Just a minor cough...probably from a dry throat."
"Whatever you say." Kakashi chuckled knowingly. "Tomorrow we'll be having a test on survival training. It has a 66% chance of failure, so-"
"What happens if you fail?" Naruto questioned.
"You'll be sent back to the academy." Sasuke and Naruto glared at Kakashi as he spoke.
"Emi isn't even from the graduating class." Naruto argued.
"She's already a genin regardless, so she'll go back onto the reserve list. Anyways don't eat breakfast unless you want to puke." The silver-haired jounin advised.
"Is this the same test?" Emi questioned yawning.
"You remember!?" Kakashi looked shocked.
"Who could forget?" Emi laughed. "After Kohaku accidentally pulled down your pants and revealed to us your boxers with nak- "
"OKAY! Enough info!" Kakashi interrupted a faint blush visible beneath his mask.
"You're turning into a tomato!" Naruto pointed out.
"Shut up! You're dismissed!" Kakashi stuttered as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Do I even want to know?" Sasuke asked uncaringly as the two started walking home.
"Probably not." Emi stated. She knew that Sasuke was curious, but he had a reputation to uphold. "But I'll let you be the judge of that." She whispered something in his ear, before turning and starting to walk towards Kakashi's house, where she was staying.
A group of girls nearby were cracking their knuckles, thinking of ways to kill the strawberry-blonde, as they witnessed the faint blush appear on Sasuke's cheeks after they seen what looked like Emi 'kissing' their raven-haired angel.
If only they knew...
TBC
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SORRY FOR THE LATENESS AND SHORTNESS!
SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING IN A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG TIME! I was bored with the story and I didn't know what should happen next. =P It's an excuse but I hope you accept it. =P I'll have the next chapter up shortly...I hope.
PLEASE REVIEW, I LOVE HEARING YOU COMMENTS AND I WOULD LOVE ANY FEEDBACK THAT YOU MAY HAVE!
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xxSilverWingsxx-Emi is a normal shinobi. This story is an Alternative Universe so SOME things WILL be different. Also Kakashi's team that Emi was on wasn't exactly official. Because that year instead of only three teams passing, four passed, and Kakashi's team was a late entry. (Does that even make sense?) Oh well, sorry for the confusion. ;P
DALCACRIS-Thanks for the optimistic words! I appreciate them!
To all reviewers I thank-you.
PHEOX