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Chapter 06 : One Week Later...
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"Konnichiwa, Sakura-chan!"
Sakura couldn't help but allow a smile grace her face. Finally, after an entire week, Naruto had began calling her Sakura-chan, and not Haruno-san.
"Konnichiwa, Naruto." She responded. "Konnichiwa, Sasuke." She added as Sasuke walked up behind him.
He grunted a response.
In the past, she would have persisted in badgering him on what was wrong. In the present, she'd usually whack him on the head for being so disrespectful. But she got a good look at the bags under his eyes and restrained herself from doing so, reminding herself to ask him about that later on.
Over the course of the week, Naruto had learned the basic pattern of his life. Wake up, eat, go to the bridge, and complete the ''mission for the day', go 'home', eat, go to sleep, and then resume the cycle.
Apparently, impatience was in Naruto's nature. Already, he had began asking about new missions and when they were going to start it. The look on Kakashi-sensei's face when he asked "When are we going to do something NEW, Kakashi-sensei?" last evening was hilarious. Or rather, the act of his eye widening to incomprehensible lengths was hilarious.
Clearly, he didn't think that the new, more mild mannered Naruto would be as impatient as the old one.
He had managed to get some lame excuse out before promptly excusing himself from the company of his students.
//Maybe Kakashi-sensei will actually have a mission that exhausts chakra today.// Sakura thought.
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"...after that, we'll need to find the Lord of the Fire Country's Wife's cat again."
Sasuke rubbed his temples. He didn't need to see Naruto and Sakura's expressions to know how extremely pissed off they'd have to be. Either the Lord of the Fire Country's wife had too much money to spare by having SHINOBI find her STUPID CAT, or she enjoys giving them pointless tasks.
First they'd have to shop for her, then they'd have to take out her garbage, which wasn't funny because Garbage Pick-Up Days were the worst, and then they'd have to find her stupid cat which ran away EVERY FEW DAYS. Not only that, but it was the THIRD TIME this WEEK.
Why can't the Lord of the Fire Country's Wife just buy a new cat for herself? Preferably one with no legs so it wouldn't have the oppurtunity to run away.
"That cat again?" Naruto complained, "Can we just accidentally kill it and buy her a new one?"
Wow. Now Naruto was a mind reader.
"I would have done that already if I could." Kakashi replied, turning to go. "But none of you heard those words from MY mouth so it doesn't matter anyhow. Let's go."
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"Ow, ow, OW!" She cringed as Naruto nursed the three parellel diagonal slashes across her arm. "It stings!"
"Gomen ne, Sakura-chan." Naruto said apologetically as he handed her the bandages.
Miraculously, he was the only person who came out unscathed along with the damned cat. Oh well. The cat got his punishment for running away when they handed him over to the Lord of the Fire Country's wife. Now Fatty isn't so fat anymore, she squeezed the living daylights out of it. If only she could take a needle and prod the cat a few times in the legs, enough to make it crippled for life. Yes... kill... the cat...
Sakura snapped out of her mental torture and disfiguration of the orange kitty long enough to see Naruto beginning to wrap Sasuke up. Along with that, she also caught sight of Sasuke's odd body language such as the faint blush that spread out from the center of his face, and was currently making it's way toward his ears.
//Can it be?// Sakura wondered. //Sasuke...//
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As some of you may have guessed, Sasuke was indeed having a small bout of insomnia, which led to his poor performance in his mission today. His reason? Ever since Naruto's first night at his house, the night he fell off the bed, Sasuke had been a bit... paranoid about that happening again.
It didn't help that it happened again on the second night, and even though he had managed to get Naruto back into bed without him waking up, and even though it hasn't happened since the second night, he had suffered from sleeplessness. He had tried to berate himself, thinking, //If you don't get any sleep, you'll end up with lines around you eyes, just like Gaara.//
Big mistake. Now he was forced to think about Gaara and that only managed to increase his insomnia.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the Fire Country, a group of 7 were secretly gathered in a small, dark clearing. They were still, silent, and appeared to be waiting for something. Or someone.
Finally, the one presumed to be the leader spoke up. "You two are late."
Out of nowhere, suddenly, two masked ninjas were standing in the unoccupied space.
"Did you succeed?" the 'leader' asked.
"Yes, sir." The two said, pulling off their masks, revealing the faces of Uchiha Itachi, and his partner, Kisame.
"Excellent." said the Leader. "The full effects should be setting in soon. Then, we'll move in."
========== Chapter 06 End ==========
A/N: I'm back, everybody! If you would like to know where i have been for the last... month or so, please email me, i'd love to rant and get this anger off my back. :-D
icy_cloud359@kuririnmail.com
-Yume
Chapter 06 : One Week Later...
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"Konnichiwa, Sakura-chan!"
Sakura couldn't help but allow a smile grace her face. Finally, after an entire week, Naruto had began calling her Sakura-chan, and not Haruno-san.
"Konnichiwa, Naruto." She responded. "Konnichiwa, Sasuke." She added as Sasuke walked up behind him.
He grunted a response.
In the past, she would have persisted in badgering him on what was wrong. In the present, she'd usually whack him on the head for being so disrespectful. But she got a good look at the bags under his eyes and restrained herself from doing so, reminding herself to ask him about that later on.
Over the course of the week, Naruto had learned the basic pattern of his life. Wake up, eat, go to the bridge, and complete the ''mission for the day', go 'home', eat, go to sleep, and then resume the cycle.
Apparently, impatience was in Naruto's nature. Already, he had began asking about new missions and when they were going to start it. The look on Kakashi-sensei's face when he asked "When are we going to do something NEW, Kakashi-sensei?" last evening was hilarious. Or rather, the act of his eye widening to incomprehensible lengths was hilarious.
Clearly, he didn't think that the new, more mild mannered Naruto would be as impatient as the old one.
He had managed to get some lame excuse out before promptly excusing himself from the company of his students.
//Maybe Kakashi-sensei will actually have a mission that exhausts chakra today.// Sakura thought.
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"...after that, we'll need to find the Lord of the Fire Country's Wife's cat again."
Sasuke rubbed his temples. He didn't need to see Naruto and Sakura's expressions to know how extremely pissed off they'd have to be. Either the Lord of the Fire Country's wife had too much money to spare by having SHINOBI find her STUPID CAT, or she enjoys giving them pointless tasks.
First they'd have to shop for her, then they'd have to take out her garbage, which wasn't funny because Garbage Pick-Up Days were the worst, and then they'd have to find her stupid cat which ran away EVERY FEW DAYS. Not only that, but it was the THIRD TIME this WEEK.
Why can't the Lord of the Fire Country's Wife just buy a new cat for herself? Preferably one with no legs so it wouldn't have the oppurtunity to run away.
"That cat again?" Naruto complained, "Can we just accidentally kill it and buy her a new one?"
Wow. Now Naruto was a mind reader.
"I would have done that already if I could." Kakashi replied, turning to go. "But none of you heard those words from MY mouth so it doesn't matter anyhow. Let's go."
==============================
"Ow, ow, OW!" She cringed as Naruto nursed the three parellel diagonal slashes across her arm. "It stings!"
"Gomen ne, Sakura-chan." Naruto said apologetically as he handed her the bandages.
Miraculously, he was the only person who came out unscathed along with the damned cat. Oh well. The cat got his punishment for running away when they handed him over to the Lord of the Fire Country's wife. Now Fatty isn't so fat anymore, she squeezed the living daylights out of it. If only she could take a needle and prod the cat a few times in the legs, enough to make it crippled for life. Yes... kill... the cat...
Sakura snapped out of her mental torture and disfiguration of the orange kitty long enough to see Naruto beginning to wrap Sasuke up. Along with that, she also caught sight of Sasuke's odd body language such as the faint blush that spread out from the center of his face, and was currently making it's way toward his ears.
//Can it be?// Sakura wondered. //Sasuke...//
==============================
As some of you may have guessed, Sasuke was indeed having a small bout of insomnia, which led to his poor performance in his mission today. His reason? Ever since Naruto's first night at his house, the night he fell off the bed, Sasuke had been a bit... paranoid about that happening again.
It didn't help that it happened again on the second night, and even though he had managed to get Naruto back into bed without him waking up, and even though it hasn't happened since the second night, he had suffered from sleeplessness. He had tried to berate himself, thinking, //If you don't get any sleep, you'll end up with lines around you eyes, just like Gaara.//
Big mistake. Now he was forced to think about Gaara and that only managed to increase his insomnia.
==============================
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Fire Country, a group of 7 were secretly gathered in a small, dark clearing. They were still, silent, and appeared to be waiting for something. Or someone.
Finally, the one presumed to be the leader spoke up. "You two are late."
Out of nowhere, suddenly, two masked ninjas were standing in the unoccupied space.
"Did you succeed?" the 'leader' asked.
"Yes, sir." The two said, pulling off their masks, revealing the faces of Uchiha Itachi, and his partner, Kisame.
"Excellent." said the Leader. "The full effects should be setting in soon. Then, we'll move in."
========== Chapter 06 End ==========
A/N: I'm back, everybody! If you would like to know where i have been for the last... month or so, please email me, i'd love to rant and get this anger off my back. :-D
icy_cloud359@kuririnmail.com
-Yume