NARUTO
Spirits of Fire
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in Naruto
Part2:Ramen in the Hospital
The Konoha Hospital wasstill calm at that hour. The white walls transmitted the quiet moments of the new morning reflecting the sun's rays in a simple way. Not even an insect was heard in the corridors. The nurses walked through the building, some carrying clean towels and clothes, other carrying medicines for the injured in battle or just for the sick ones. Some medical-nins were already working in reaserching for new potions, and the classes would soon begin in the lower levels where they were given to the future medical-nins of Konoha.
Tsunade entered the building complimenting the few nurses and medics who saw her. She climbed the stairs to the fifth floor and headed to the room 256, where a young genin of the leaf had just woke up.
Naruto opened his eyes to the few raylights that penetrated in his room.
"Stupid damn Fox" – he thought
The door opened with few noises. Yet it was enough to drive the boy's attention to it. Tsunade entered the room quietly worried not to wake him up, it was then that she heard him
"OI old-hag. What's up?"
She looked to the bed and found an already fresh woke up Naruto with his regular foxy grin. She smilled surprised by seeing him so well but let it slip quickly returning to her old self.
"Don't push it Naruto. You can be all covered in bandages but that doesn't mean I don't know many ways to kick your ass without you even notice."
A huge sweatdrop filled Naruto's forehead...
Tsunade walked through the room smilling.
"So how are you? How do you feel?"
"I'm okay. I don't feel any pain. Guess Kyuubi's must been doing his work really well ain't he?"
"I guess so. Let me see you"
She aproached him and sitted in the bed by his side. In a soft way she placed her left hand on his chest and her right one on his forehead. Small glows of chakra appeared evolving both her hands. She closed her eyes and felt Naruto's body, staying in that position about ten minutes. The n opening her eyes and collecting her hands together she spoke
"You are okay. We can take the bandages off and you can go home by lunch time"
"Great!"- he almost screamed in joy – "I was almost killing myself in boredom in this room"
Tsunade smilled. That was Naruto after all. You could run him over wuth 1000 chidoris and he would still be standing up in the end. She recovered her firm face again, after all she had some serious things to talk with him.
"Naruto" – she started – "I guess Jiraya already talked to you." – Naruto nodded – "Very well. You will be training with him for the next three years. He told me he would be sending reports of your trips. So I guess you are in good, yet very perverted, hands."
Naruto grinned to her comment about Jiraya. Tsunade continued firmly...
"Yesterday Sakura headed to my office and asked me to train her. I will take her as my pupil as Jiraya is taking you. You gave her strenght with your speech yesterday, she is decided to became stronger and to help you bringing back Sasuke." – She became more sinister in her speech – "That's what I want to talk with you about"
Naruto looked firmly to Tsunade.
"Sasuke became officially a missing-nin. He's a criminal. He became a traitor to all of us. He became a traitor and a danger to the Leaf itself." – She stood up, walking to the window and watching as the streets showed that more people were already in thei're daily jobs – "I want you to know this Naruto. If there is someone that can bring him back it's you. You know how is to live without Love, to live alone being feared and hated everywhere. And yet you dominated your Darkness. You reigned over the pain, the fear, the Hate. Sasuke didn't do it. He embraced Darkness because Darkness was the only thing he had left..."
Naruto waited looking closely to her. He already knew all of that, it was not anything new to him. After a short pause she continued her speech.
"There is a major difference between you and him. Do you know what it is?"
He waved his head negatively.
"He lost everything once, while you... You never had anything to loose. He saw everything he had fade away in blows by someone he held most close to his heart. While you... You fought to have anything in your entire life. You rejected darkness when Darkness embraced you. He... He embraced it even having more then he ever asked in his entire life..." – She looked at him – "I'll count with you to do it... Uzumaki Naruto future Sixth Hokage of the Konoha." – she grinned
Naruto looked at her with in amazement. He then understood what she wanted to tell him... She knew he could do it, because he has done it with her. He smiled and quickly jumped to her arms.
"WHAT THE HELL..." – She screamed but when she felt the boy embracing her she couldn't resist and retrieved him his hug
"Tsunade-baachan" - She growled. - "Take good care of Sakura-chan will'ya?"
She smiled hearing this – "Yes Naruto, I will."
He backed off from the hug and looked at her. – "What time is it?"
She answered – "about 10. Why?"
"NANI!" – he screamed – "hey baa-chan can you take my bandages now? The ramen store must be opening now and it would feel good a hot bowl of Ramen"
A huge sweat drop apeared in Tsunade's head.
"Okay. I'll take you bandages off" – she said with a smile on her face
"YEAH!" – Naruto rejoiced
Meanwhile a girl with short black hair entered through the hospital doors. She carried a large bag full of food. She looked around trying to look for a medic or a nurse until she spoted one.
"Excuse me..." – she said softly. - "U...uzu...maki Naru...to's room, please". – she said with her cheeks turning red.
The nurse smiled and answered softly – "Fifth floor, room 256"
"Thank you." – she said turning away and walking to the stairs
Hinata couldn't believe she was doing that. She could only be crazy to visit Naruto in the hospital. Where dis she has here mind? Quickly her cousin's words built in her head "If you love him. If you care for him just go. He proved that he cares for you, even if it is just as a friend. He'll be happy to see you." Her expression became more closed - "Does he care for me? Does he hate me? Do I annoy him?" – she thought it was then she raised her head and observed she was alredy in front of room 256.
"Come on you old-hag! Hurry up" – Naruto said impatiently
She punched him in the head – "SHUT UP! I'm trying to concentrate here."
He answered with a tear in his eye - "It's just a couple of bandages... Don't tell me your eye sight is getting worse with the age?"
She punched him again in the same spot but now more strongly
"OUCH!" – he screamed
"Now shut up or the next one will send you to the Sand Village"
Hinata stood near the door of room 256. Her heart was beating wildly like a huge drum machine being played insanely by someone. She stood there with her mind shooting questions like a kunais being fired by Tenten.
"What do I do?" – She asked herself.
It was then that she heard it. It was Naruto's voice from the inside... And there was someone with him. – "Sakura." – She thought sadly. No, it was someone else. She concentrated on the voice, it was a woman's voice. It was a woman's voice... maybe a nurse or a medic. She breathed deeply and without making a noise she opened the door, just the enough for her to see the inside of the room.
In the bed were a blonde women and Naruto. She was softly removing the bandages of his body and he was grinning while touching his head with his hand. She stood there for seconds staring at him. He was only with the hospital's pants on. The other half of his body was naked. He never have seen him half naked, she never even imagined him that way. But now that she looked she could see that he had a good body, even just for a young boy's body. He was so beautiful, she thought. The windows were now open to enter the wind and the su, and it was like the light moved across his body fusing with his shape, like they were one being. She felt her cheeks become more warm and red, but she didn't care. She was looking to an angel. She was looking to the boy she loved.
It was then that a voice woke her up.
"Yes!" – Tsunade's voice was heard.
She woke up from her dream just to realise she was spotted. She quickly stood away from the door in panic. She felt her knees crumbling down and her mouth become dry as the door opened and the blonde women stood in front of her.
"Well hello young lady. You must be Hyuuga Hinata, right? I think we never saw each other before. I'm..."
"Hokage-sama!" – Hinata said in an amazed tone of voice
"Well I see you already know who I am. You must be here to see Naruto. Come in. I was just taking the bandages from his body so that he could go home."
"HINATA-CHAN!" – Naruto screamed in amazement – "What are you doing here?"
She looked through Tsunade's figure to see Naruto with his eyes wide open and a large smile in his face. Her cheeks blushed even more.
"Naruto-Kun... I...I brought... you some... some things..." - she said while looking to the ground.
"I will leave you two now." – Tsunade smiled to Hinata and blinked an eye in understanding. – "When Hinata-San leaves I'll be back to finish it... Even better, why don't you finish it Hinata?"
Hinata opened her eyes in shock – "Finish?" – she asked
"Removing Naruto's bandages. I think that if he stands in this hospital for more five minutes he'll just die or boredom" – she answered
"NANI!"- Naruto screamed
"And besides taking some bandages off is not a big deal anyway. I'll be going now. You behave Naruto, or I'll be back to kick you ass."
"You wish old-hag" – he answered with his foxy grin
Tsunade let Hinata enter the room and closed the door softly leaving a shocked and without any kind of reaction Hyuuga in the middle of the room.
The two genins faced each other, without knowing what to say. Both a little embarassed from that situation. Several seconds passed, which seemed like an eternity, until he broke the silence.
"Why don't you sit?" – He pointed his side in the bed
She nodded and walked with her head facing the floor until the bed. She sat by Naruto's left side without taking her eyes from the floor.
The silence reigned in the room for more several minutes until she took the courage to ask:
"How are you Naruto-Kun?"
He looked at her and smiled – "I'm okay already. Tsunade-baachan was taking my bandages off so I could go homethis afternoon."
Hinata looked at him and smiled – "I'm glad you are okay!" – She looked to the bag and remebered – "Oh! I forgot! I brought you something to eat."
She took two bags from the big bag, a small paper one and a plastic one. Naruto's eyes opened in surprise:
"Is that RAMEN?" – he shouted
Hinata smiled – "I thought you would like it"
What followed next left the Hyuuga girl without a drop of blood in the body, because it made it all run to her face. Naruto grabbed her and gave her a huge huge, leaving the Hyuuga without breath. He grabbed the ramen and the sticks and started devouring it. She couldn't believe, Naruto hugged her. Maybe he liked her a little after all. It was then that his voice woke her up
"Hinata-chan, would you help me taking the bandages off?" – He asked.
She snapped back to reality just to feel her cheeks warming up even more:
"ban...bandages?" – she asked shily
"Yes my bandages. Tsunade-baachan said that you could help me. Here just follow what she was doing?"
He grabbed her hand and putted it in his back. Hinata's almost fainted with thsi. She was touching Naruto's back... and it felt great. He's skin was soft and very white, not as pale as her own, but beautiful. she slipped her hand through his back and catched the fainted bandage from the bed and stareted to remove it softly from his body.
"Thanks for the ramen Hinata-chan. It's great." – he said in a happy tone of voice.
She smilled in return while a thought run through her head – "If this is a dream do not wake me up".
End of chapter 2
Please read and review (thanks for the good critics guys I apreciate it. I'm sorry if this chapter isn't in the same quality as the other but it's 2 am in the morning and I'm just too much tired to read it from the beginning and correct it.
Quick notes: this follows the later chapters of the manga, after the decision of Jiraya to train naruto. If I'm not mistaken Hinata was not presented to Tsunade. If she was the hell with it. This is my fic anyways )
