Do You Hate Me?
Title subject to change, rating PG13 to be on the safe side.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, I do own the plot of this story (for as far as there is one) and the extra characters I may or may not add.
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Chapter 11 – Reflection of Self:
From the moment after she had woken up, Temari was bothered by something. Even though Naruto had just told her about the demon sealed inside him the day before, she couldn't help but wonder why he hadn't told Gaara yet. Surely her brother must have noticed something during the fight between the two of them a few months ago?
As she got dressed and slipped quietly out of her room, she couldn't restrain herself and opened the door to the bedroom next to hers and peeked through the narrow crack at the boy that had somehow captured her heart. She laughed softly as she saw Naruto snoring loudly with his mouth half- open with his limbs thrown carelessly around him at wide angles. The blue blanket that was part of his futon that only covered his right leg and his stomach completed the picture.
In a slightly morbid way, he looked positively cute and Temari shook her head as she closed the door and went downstairs to cook up some breakfast in the kitchen. Any other day she would have gladly barged loudly into his room, screeching for him to wake up, but not today. Today she would employ another method of waking him up, and from what she had seen in the time she had been around him; this was one-hundred percent foolproof. Therefore, she wasn't surprised at all that after she had grabbed a large wok and a batch of ingredients from the cabinets and refrigerator and had started cooking; she heard a loud banging from upstairs mixed with some mild cursing. Only moments later, a blonde blur came crashing down the stairs screaming "RAMEN!!!" all the while and only stopped when Temari whacked him sharply on the head with her much feared spatula.
Naruto looked at her with a slightly hurt expression and pouted. She had rudely interrupted his ramen-induced craze and he didn't like it when anyone did that. It wasn't his fault that ramen was so delicious was it? He folded his arms in front of his chest and sat down on one of the chairs lining the kitchen table. Naruto's face cleared though, after he had sniffed the air a couple of times. There was something new to the smell of ramen today, it smelled better than the instant ramen and the ramen from Ichiraku stand. He turned his head towards Temari who was now humming softly and busily stirred the food in the large black wok.
Starting to get slightly impatient, Naruto jumped up and grabbed two large white bowls from one of the kitchen cabinets and two pairs of chopsticks from one of its drawers. He sat back down, separated his chopsticks and began tapping them on the kitchen table for no other reason than to distract him of his growling stomach. As it gave a particularly loud growl, Temari stopped humming her own personal tune and placed the wok on the table with a loud clang.
She watched him fill up the two bowls swiftly and only when the seemingly starved boy downed his first bowl and immediately filled it up again did Temari voice her concerns.
"Uhm, Naruto-kun..." She started hesitantly.
"Hmmm?" Naruto uttered, face hidden behind the bowl from which he was currently slurping the last dredges of his second helping.
Inwardly grimacing, Temari couldn't help but wonder in amazement how he could eat so much in so little time and yet not throw up. She shrugged it aside and decided that there was no point beating around the bush. "Have you talked to Gaara yet?"
The blonde boy looked at her with a puzzled expression and scratched his left ear. "Of course I've talked to him."
"You have?" Temari sighed in relief and sunk back into her chair. "So he knows too?"
Now Naruto was really confused and cocked his head sideways slightly. "Knows what?"
Relief quickly turned into anger as the girl clutched her chopsticks tightly in one of her fists and was just about to use them and show Naruto that she was called a Sand-devil for a very good reason. Of course, Naruto was completely oblivious to this fact and only continued to look at her in polite confusion.
Temari gritted her teeth and tried to calm herself, her boyfriend would be of no use to anyone dead. "About what you told me last night, that's what..."
"Oh." Naruto said simply and looked down at the wooden table. "No I haven't yet."
The glare that had just moments radiated from her emerald orbs softened to a sympathetic look. "I know it's difficult, Naruto-kun. But..." She paused there momentarily to put a gentle finger under his chin and forced him to look into her eyes. "My brother needs someone who understands... and so do you."
There, she had said it. Mentally though, she questioned herself on when she had become so 'wise' but she liked it regardless. If Naruto would talk to her brother, maybe he could break down Gaara's shell even further and turn him into an actual likeable person. Sure, he had shown lots of improvement and she was grateful, but other people judged only on first appearances and she didn't want her brother to be shunned like he was when they were younger.
Naruto was on a similar train of thought, from the day he had talked to Tsunade, he had been meaning to talk to Gaara but for some reason he never got around to it. Why hadn't he yet? Was he subconsciously putting it off further and further? Didn't it feel like a huge weight had been lifted of his shoulders when he had explained his rather unique situation to both Tsunade and Temari? Surely Gaara would have to be no different. Heck, maybe they could even become the best of friends, well only after the red-haired boy toned down his killing urge and his crazy fetish for blood a bit more. Maybe Naruto could even help him with it...
The blonde Genin smiled at the girl sitting beside him and put his hands on the table. After only uttering a single syllable his answer was brought to a screeching halt however, when he heard someone shouting outside and soon after a large black-clad mass barreled down the stairs to find the source of the commotion.
Temari and Naruto looked at each other with their eyebrows raised as if to ask one another what was going on. Temari counted her blessings though, as she had been able to have this conversation with Naruto before her obnoxious brother, Kankuro, got downstairs and ruined the whole moment. The two were just about to go outside themselves and find out what was wrong until they heard Kankuro yell outside and stomp back inside, slamming the considerably large front doors as he stalked past the open kitchen door and went back up the stairs. This was soon followed by a wail from someone else. They didn't have to wait long until that person crept cautiously inside the house and peeked around the edge of the door revealing a pretty face topped with long and sleek white hair.
"Kumiko-san!" Naruto exclaimed happily.
"Who?" Temari asked as the girl walked shyly in the kitchen clutching a heavy bag.
Kumiko, having been brought up with excellent manners, quickly bowed, causing her hair to spill in front of her eyes as she introduced herself. "My name is Mikadzuki Kumiko, pleased to meet you."
Looking questioningly at Naruto, and even though the girl had introduced herself, Temari was still wondering who she was and why she was here. More importantly, why was she carrying that bag?
Bouncing out of his seat, the blonde boy walked quickly over to the girl standing there still clutching her heavy bag and took it from her. "Is this all? Where's the rest?"
"It's still outside..." Was the reply.
"Where is Kakashi-sensei, why isn't he helping you?"
This question caused an underlying rage to boil to the surface and the girl quickly got past her shy demeanor that appeared when she was in front of strangers. "He brought me here to the front door and just disappeared on me!" Kumiko said heatedly.
"What?!" Naruto yelled, outraged. "What is he doing? Is he going to read that perverted book of his again?!"
The white-haired refugee huffed. "It wouldn't surprise me!"
"Hey what's going on?!" Temari screamed angrily, because if there was one thing she didn't like, it was to be ignored.
Naruto turned around and looked at her innocently. "You didn't know? Kumiko is going to live here."
An uncomfortable silence followed these words as Temari stood there, open- mouthed, trying desperately to utter a response. When Kumiko started to fidget uncomfortably, the Sand-nin let loose a loud verbal barrage. "SAY WHAT?! WHEN WAS THIS DECIDED?!"
Both members of Team Seven clutched their ears and winced. "Uhm... I'm going outside and make sure my bags don't get stolen..." Kumiko said weakly and ran out of the kitchen, leaving a certain blonde boy to face the brunt of a furious Temari.
Naruto backed away slowly, holding his hands in front of him to ward of any attacks that might come his way. "T-Temari-chan, G-Gaara said it was okay! She's my new teammate; she can't live with that perverted sensei, who knows what he'd do to her!"
"You can't be serious! She's a... She's a..." Temari spluttered. 'A what? A girl? A pretty girl...?' She continued in her mind. 'Oh god...'
"She's a what?" Naruto asked, having no idea what his girlfriend was going on about.
The Kunoichi took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "Nothing, never mind. She can stay." Temari said in forced calm. She couldn't be... jealous could she?
Still slightly confused, Naruto moved towards her and grabbed one of her hands with his own. "I'm going to help her carry her stuff inside and I'll talk to Gaara later. It'll be fun having her around, you'll see." He grinned and followed Kumiko outside to help her with her luggage.
Temari however, was not so convinced it was going to be fun. Feeling angry and confused all at once, she grabbed the two bowls from the kitchen table and washed them. Setting the wok in the refrigerator, she wiped her hands on the apron she wore while preparing breakfast. The girl fingered one of her four pigtails, sighed and unconsciously quoted the laziest Shinobi in Konoha. "This is going to be troublesome."
As she woke up in her perfectly tidy bedroom she couldn't quite understand why she felt like her heart was being squeezed so painfully. But unfortunately, the events of the day before soon hit her like a run-away freight train that bored a hole straight through her very being.
She sniffed once and forced herself to stand up. Even the comfortable warmth of her futon didn't offer any solace against this kind of pain. The girl walked up to the human length mirror that was fastened on the door of a heavy oak cabinet in the corner of her room and looked at herself.
If she was perfectly honest with herself, she looked horrible... dreadful... Puffy pupil-less aquamarine eyes looked at her short navy-blue hair, which was a complete and utter mess. Ugly streaks further marred her pale face; they were silent testimony of the tears that had spilled over her cheeks the day before as she had locked herself away from the rest of the world.
If only the object of her complete devotion could see her now...
He would be glad he hadn't picked her, she was sure of that...
"Naruto-kun..." She whispered softly and reached out to touch the mirror with one of her hands.
She dropped on her knees and bit her lower lip to stop it from trembling. If her father saw her like this, he would probably say that she was a disgrace to the Hyuga Main family, not fit to be the heiress.
Hyuga Hinata... Disgrace to all Hyuga's...
Even her own little sister was better than her...
She couldn't control it anymore and squeezed her eyes shut, damning herself for her own weaknesses as the tears flowed freely. Her fists shook in her lap as she tried to stop herself from being so weak, but she couldn't... She just couldn't...
In her mind she remembered the fight during the Chuunin Exam preliminary match against Hyuga Neji, the man who told her she was nothing and should just give up. Naruto was one of the few that believed in her and shouted encouragements, when everyone else said she would never win.
"Stop deciding things about people! Idiot! Kick that bastard's ass, Hinata!" He had shouted when Neji lectured her about how it was impossible to escape from fate. "Hinata! Stand up for yourself!"
It gave her the strength to fight, to keep fighting even when it became apparent she would never win.
"I won't go back on my words... That is my Ninja way..."
He even came to her before his fight with Neji. She had confessed to him that when he had cheered her on, she felt like she could change a little, that she could even like herself a little bit more.
'Not to be perfect, just to be a proud failure... Even when you fail, to have the strength to get up?' She remembered herself saying something similar to him, why couldn't she follow her own advice?
"I thought you were a plain looking dark weirdo... But... A person like you. I really like!"
Even if he didn't like her the way she liked him, did that mean she just had to sit down and cry? Was it really the end of the world? Well it certainly felt that way now, but she had to get up and keep going. This she had to believe.
In the Sand siblings' household, a girl was being scrutinized severely and she didn't like it one bit. She had just returned downstairs with her new teammate, Uzumaki Naruto and he seemed to be the only one who treated her kindly. She was certain she didn't like the guy named Kankuro as he stared at her and muttered something now and then that she couldn't quite catch but whatever it was, it couldn't be good. 'What's the deal with him and those overgrown dolls of his anyway?' She thought after she had seen him clean some rather humanlike constructs.
The sister, Temari, was still a wild-card. She certainly seemed to hate her the moment she walked into the kitchen this morning and the slightly older girl found out she was going to live with all of them. But now she only looked at her uncertainly. 'Well I'll find out soon enough I guess...'
Now the one person that was worse than anyone else was the youngest of the siblings... Gaara. 'Doesn't he ever blink?!' She thought as she squirmed under his unrelenting cold stare.
Without thinking she moved slightly away from him and bumped into Naruto, and began fiddling with her long hair. "What's up, Kumiko-san?" He chuckled, completely unaware of the building tension in the living room where they were currently residing.
And this was one a bad thing to do, she soon realized as she saw pure malice flash across Temari's green eyes. 'Uh-oh...'
Kumiko was about to drop all pretenses and run away until the other girl spoke to her through gritted teeth. "Kumiko, why don't you and I go upstairs and make sure you get... 'settled in'."
If there was one thing she didn't want, it was to be alone with a fellow Kunoichi who was more than willing to rip her head off. She looked at Naruto and silently pleaded for help, but unfortunately for her he stuck true to his reputation and was, as usual, oblivious to the peril his teammate was currently in.
With a few beads of sweat appearing on her forehead, Kumiko got up hesitantly and followed Temari as she stalked out of the living room and upstairs to her room. She was certain that somewhere someone was playing a mournful death march just for her.
As the two girls disappeared from view, Naruto turned to Gaara. "Hey uh... Gaara? Could I talk to you for a second?" He said and looked at Kankuro who for some reason looked particularly gleeful. "Alone?"
Gaara stared at the blonde boy for a few moments before he averted his gaze towards his brother. "Leave."
The puppet-using Genin glared at his younger sibling for a split second before he realized exactly who he was glaring at. Clearly discontent, he growled and got up to his feet. When he was out of earshot, Gaara refocused his attention on Naruto.
"Talk." The possessed boy said simply.
"Well uhm, I wanted to talk to you before and I don't know why I've waited so long, but..." Naruto started and bent slightly forward to look at the floor from the sofa he was sitting on. "You know how you've got that demon inside of you and everything?"
"Shukaku, yes."
"Yeah..." Naruto trailed off and started to stare at the dark rug with a red and gold mosaic pattern that was laid down in the living room in a clear effort to decorate it tastefully. It clashed horrible with the purple draperies which filtered the afternoon sun that shone brightly as if its sole purpose was to light up the spacious living room where the two boys held their current heavily weighted conversation. "Does the name Kyuubi ring any bells?"
Gaara stayed silent for a moment before he closed his eyes. "I believe my father spoke of it once."
"Really? What did he say?"
Opening his eyes again, Gaara sighed almost inaudibly as he remembered the conversation he had with the late Kazekage a number of years ago. "He said that it was an enormous fox that had nine-tails. In a savage rampage it nearly destroyed this village until it was sealed by one of your Hokage's. My father was sorry he couldn't seal it in me as it was apparently more powerful than the demon trapped in an old kettle which they unleashed to possess me while I was still in my mother's womb. He wanted to create the ultimate weapon."
Naruto's stomach contracted painfully. How could anyone be so cruel to their own child? It was this that made him almost glad he didn't have any parents. Almost... During the fight with Gaara a couple months ago, he had realized that they were almost the same. He realized that he could have become like Gaara was once, a mindless killer who murdered only to prove his own existence. And to have a father like he did, it was no surprise at all he had turned out that way.
How it must have hurt...
The pain of all those years... The belief of you being nothing more than a mere weapon for your own father...
Living a tortured existence, only to be used as a weapon?
'That... That bastard!' Naruto thought, outrage clearly apparent on his face. He had to help; he had to become a friend of this boy who knew the pain of having a demon inside him. No matter the cost, he was going to make sure that Gaara knew there was more to life than just killing. Naruto had always point-blank refused to become a mere tool for the village, he was going to live his own life and make his own decisions, and he would make sure Gaara would understand how to do that too.
"It was me, the Fourth Hokage sealed Kyuubi inside of me..." Naruto blurted out suddenly. To hell with the consequences, he wasn't going to hold this secret from Gaara any longer.
Only the widening of his eyes betrayed the redhead's emotions until he managed to splutter something. "W-what?!"
Naruto was equally surprised, as far as he knew; hardly anything got any emotion out of Gaara. But it was to be expected. "Yeah I've got a demon inside of me too."
After somewhat recomposing himself, Gaara's thoughts immediately went back to when he had fought Naruto, even in his demon form he hadn't been able to beat him. "So that's why you were able to beat me..."
Even the blonde boy could see that Gaara needed some time to digest this newly revealed information and stood up. He started to walk out of the room, before he turned around. "I-I'd like to be your friend. I know it's not much but it's all I can offer if you, if you'll let me."
He didn't get a response as the Sand-nin stared into space, lost in thought. Deciding he would check on Kumiko and make sure she was indeed getting settled in, his mood was ruined when he heard a familiar voice, sarcasm almost dripping from the words.
"Wow, you sure handled that well."
"Shut up you stupid fox!"
Today was definitely not a good day. He had been dragged out of bed by his mother... again. This in itself was needless to say, extremely embarrassing – not to mention troublesome. Only moments later, he had been summoned to the Hokage's office, there he had to endure an hour long of senseless banter with a woman who didn't even bother to cover herself up decently. Then he was sent on a mission which he really didn't want to do, namely to fetch an "important" scroll from a neighbouring village. He was sure it was probably not even that important seeing he didn't have to go to any Shinobi village to get it. He was a Chuunin for crying out loud, what was the use of sending him on such a troublesome mission? All in all, he was definitely ready for bed as he stood in front of his house. Sadly, the day would only get even worse; well he would think it would in a few moments anyway.
"SHIKA-KUUUUUUUUUN!"
Ah... There it was.
He had only just turned his head sideways when he was engulfed in a mass of blonde hair, blue clothing and bandaged limbs.
"Ino?! What the?!" He said, his voice muffled as he tried to disentangle himself from the girl that had literally thrown herself at him. "Get off of me, woman!"
"Shika-kun! I'm glad you're home!" The girl said breathlessly, her face slightly flushed.
"Yeah, I'm home and now I'm going to bed if you don't mind." He said moodily and fished his keys out of one of the many pockets of his flak jacket.
Ino stared at him incredulously. "You're going to sleep? Now? But it's only half past six!"
Shikamaru sighed, he definitely wasn't in the mood for this and was about to explain his reasons to her. That was, until she grabbed him by the arm and dragged him to a grassy hill that overlooked the field where the Nara clan kept their deer. She set him down forcefully and grabbed a small brown bag she had carried with her as she dropped in front of him on her knees.
"What's going on?" The Chuunin started but was shushed by Ino immediately.
She grabbed something out of her bag that was square-shaped and wrapped in a checkered napkin and shoved it in Shikamaru's hands.
He scowled at her for a moment but decided it was too troublesome to ask her what it was and instead removed the napkin, revealing a... "Bento box?"
Ino nodded eagerly and smiled brightly. "I made you some lunch and dropped by your house to give it to you but your mother said you were out doing a mission, so I've been waiting to give it to you later. I suppose the food is all cold now, but that's alright, it should still taste good."
Shikamaru however, was slightly apprehensive. Ino had never made anything for him before, and he sincerely doubted if it would taste good as she said it would. He slowly opened it.
The blonde girl noticed this and urged him to hurry up. "Go on, there's no explosive tag in there you know."
Shikamaru, again, wasn't quite sure of her statement but finally opened it, revealing a large portion of soggy rice, mangled bits of sushi and some weird red-brownish things with strange spots on them, which had apparently sprouted legs. "What the hell are those?" He asked as he prodded them carefully with the supplied chopsticks.
To his surprise, Ino squealed in delight. "They're sausage octopuses, aren't they cute?! I've put faces on them and everything."
Nearly face faulting, the black-haired youth responded with a safe; "Er..." 'So that's what those spots on them are.' He thought as he wedged one of them between the two slim pieces of wood.
With her bright blue orbs, Ino trailed the path of the "sausage octopus" to Shikamaru's mouth. He put it past his lips and chewed quickly with his eyes closed.
In one word... It tasted: 'Ewww...´
Okay, maybe that wasn't a word, but it definitely didn't taste good. Horrible... Awful... Unfit for human consumption... Yes, those words suited the torture his pallet was experiencing perfectly. However, when he opened his dark brown eyes, he met Ino's orbs that were like chips of ice, yet sparkled with warmth, he couldn't bring himself to say this aloud.
"So how was it?"
"It's pretty good..." He muttered and shoved more of the food into his mouth and swallowed it quickly. ´Way too troublesome...´
Squealing again, the blonde clapped her hands in front of her chest. "Thanks, Shika-kun! It was my first attempt at preparing a bento, I'm glad you like it!"
Shikamaru stayed silent, but winced mentally every time he took a bite. When he looked at Ino's face, however, he found that she seemed truly happy that he thought it was pretty good, and that made him feel only worse. Finally finished, he closed the box and handed it back to Ino who stuffed it back in her bag with the crumpled up napkin.
He let out a gargantuan sigh, stretched his arms in the air and dropped himself on his back to look at the sky. Ino placed her brown bag beside her and lied down next to him.
"So you do this often, right?" She said softly.
"Hmm?"
"You just lie back and stare at the clouds?"
"Mhmm..."
They stayed silent, simply lying on their backs like that for a while as the sun dropped towards the horizon, bathing the oddly shaped autumn clouds in a golden light and painting the sky in a majestic purple and orange mix.
"Hey Shika-kun?" Ino finally asked.
"What is it?" Was the grunted reply.
The blonde Kunoichi looked to her side and stared at the black-haired boy. She was certain that what she had prepared had been horrible but Shikamaru ate it all and said it was pretty good. Before she lost her nerve, she dashed her head sideways to plant a quick kiss on his cheek. "Thanks..."
A blush stained Shikamaru's face as he looked at her in shock. He quickly looked up at the sky again though and put his hand on the spot where he had been kissed. "...Yeah..."
Urgh that's it, this is all I have to show you after two weeks. Part of it was laziness and another part was because I had trouble with certain scenes. I'm sure some of you will have noticed this. Maybe I'll revise this chapter again soon but I don't know for sure.
Anyway, many thanks to my beta "refused" who helped me spot some very, VERY stupid errors among other things.
Oh well, next up: Kumiko and Kankuro clash, Sakura and Lee sparring session, Team seven meets up without their sensei to get to know each other a little better and who knows what else.
By the way, I put a sort of progress thing on my profile, that way you can see how far along I am with the next chapter if you're interested :) And the first chapter has been revised, I'll replace the current one later tonight since I've got a buddy of mine coming over and I can't really do my thing on while he's standing clueless now eh?
On to the review response!
refused: We both know I'm still not as bad as you are. I hope you liked this one as well eh? Especially beta-ing it for me. :}
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esanime: Thank you for the kind words. Yep, the deal with Kyuubi will involve some pretty neat stuff.
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