Author : akira-eikichi
E-mail: don't own Naruto or his friends! The story is yaoi or shounen-ai; there will be more than one pairing, but I'll be focusing more on NarutoXKakashi, ItachiXNaruto, and ItachiXSasuke. There's lime and it'll turn out lemon soon (hehe) in the upcoming chapters, so ratings will go up. You have been warned! Anyone who is uncomfortable with man to man relationship-- don't read this fic. Simple.
P/s: Sorry if the first chapter is confusing. I'll state out who is talking starting from this chapter.
The downpour still didn't stop and it had been hours since it started. How gloomy the village seemed to be, only those who were there knew. Outside the hokage's office stood a young girl, floated in the air with tears weld up her eyes. How she hoped for the boy to see her tears and change his mind. As the tear stream down her cheek the young Konoha spirit looked at the two blondes sitting in the red painted room. One, a young boy was sitted on the table, pouting; while the elder woman was busily studying a scroll opposite the young boy.
The young girl bit her lips. She knew about the scroll, she memorised every word of it. The scroll was buried deep in her – and was to be kept until the blonde boy is ready to take it. But she had been careless; Konoha spirit had underestimated the blonde's ability; she didn't know he was able to break the seal.
The young girl wept; perhaps the only thing she knew about the boy is his past, and perhaps she had failed to knew him now, but she could not let this pass; not like this. Perhaps now is the time for her to do more than just witnessing. A glimpse of smile appeared on her glossy face as she remembered a certain gray-heired jounin.
'Perhaps the funny-haired man can help,' thought the girl and chuckled.
Perhaps the grey-haired one could change the boy's mind and create a miracle…
Kakashi settled himself under a tree when the rain came out of the blue. The grey-haired jounin sat on one of the branch dedicatedly reading his only favourite book when a certain bright white light flashed suddenly and blinded him.
The one-eyed sharingan blinked once, twice, trice; it was no avail, everything was out of focus.
Kakashi shook his head from side to side with hope it'd restore his sight. To his surprise it did, but now it seemed to damage his brain as he saw himself floating on mid-air outside Tsunade's office.
"Araa?" the jounin mused as he paced from side to side like a weird crab. No matter where he step, he doesn't seemed to fall. Not that he wanted to, but this is against the gravity law.
Not satisfied by what he saw, the jounin crouched and swiped his hands back and forth under his legs.
" No floor?" he questioned particularly to no one. Kakashi was about to experiment the strange phenomenon again when he heard a soft chuckle.
"Dareda!" the jounin called out as he position himself into a fighting stance. With his right hand steady on the right pouch and his left hand on his head-band, Kakashi was all preapared for a fight when all of a sudden--
"Shh-" a tiny voice silent him. He gazed towards the voice and saw a young girl merely the height of Naruto with green hair and red eyes smilling at him. Sensing that her presence brought no harm to him Kakashi stood and smiled back at her.
The tiny girl--dressed in blue gown--had the most innocent look ever. 'Just like Naruto,' thought the grey-haired jounin and smiled under his mask. The one-eyed sharingan stopped his day dreaming when the young girl pointed towards the window.
Understanding that the young girl wants him to see through it, Kakashi walked forward and floated beside her. Having a great view from window, the young jounin grinned as he witnessed an event that might be the-hot-one for years.
"This might turn out to be interesting" commented the jounin and continued to eavesdrop…
There in the red painted room, Naruto sat on the table with a big pout plastered on his face while the blonde women read the scroll with a deep frown scarred on her forehead.
"Naruto, this can't be..." Tsunade stuttered.
"It's not a prank, if that what you are about to say" the blonde boy said bluntly. Tsunade looked at the boy bewilderedly, as if he had said the most damned thing in the world.
The Hokage tilted her head and gathered her confidence as her mind focused formerly to the scroll again. " How did you know it needed your blood?" asked the blonde women and hid her face behind the scroll; she felt her veins thinning and blood started to drain from her face.
Tsunade was as pale as a candle. She knew that the day would come somewhere in the future, and that she would have to tell him the truth, but she didn't expect him to ran into it. Somewhere deep down inside of her, Tsunade prayed that her ploy would still work--her act of pretend to not knowing anything Naruto said or whatsoever he is about to say.
Innocent as always, the blonde boy didn't sense the slight discomfort in her. Naruto jumped of the table and scratched his chin, trying to remember the event.
"Hmmm…. I don't know ne! So happened when I opened it the blood on my cheek dripped on it and words starts to form, so.."
"So you spread the blood to see it's full content," Tsunade continued as if she knows what he was about to say.
'This can't be happening,' Tsunade thought. 'I must be dreaming-- what is this?' A ninjutsu? A spell trying to make her confuse? Unfortunately for her it was not a dream but the real world with many painful truth.
It confused her; there was no agreement for the truth to be kept in a scroll, if there were... why hasn't she been told? Even on thin ice Tsunade had to admit; a part of her was glad that the scroll wasn't written bluntly. So it was signed under the name Uzumaki and the writer claimed himself as Naruto's father, but it didn't show who the real writer was.
A sudden relief came to her when she realised that Naruto knew nothing bout the writer, except that he is Naruto's father. Relief soon change into guilt since she dare not tell the boy the truth. Tsunade recognized the signature; she, the elders and other sennin could tell who the writer was from just a glimpse of the scroll.
"A promise is a promise," muttered the blonde woman to herself. Tsunade heaved a heavy sigh between her lips as she felt the burden falling back to her again.
"Naruto.. he might have been dead already," The blonde women said assuringly as she placed her chin between her hands. Where else in her mind, Tsunade doubted her own words. 'He is dead you idiot' Tsunade scolded herself silently without the young boy noticing.
Ironically the blonde boy smile.
"Every dead man has a tomb…"
"Tomb? What good would a tomb be? What.. don't tell me that you are planning to ressurrect him once you found your so-called fathers grave!" Tsunade burst out as she stood and kicked the chair behind her.
" A grave yard is a place for the dead! Not a place to find a lif-"
"URRUSAI!" shouted the blonde boy, frustrated by her spiteful word. With clenched fists, the blonde boy sneered as he felt anger welding up in him. Tsunade clasped her hand to her mouth as she fell on her knees. Shocked by Naruto's outburst, Tsunade was brought back to reality. All the anger she felt before was gone-- switched to a terrible pang of guilt.
Seeing the old women fell to the floor, Naruto gave her an assuring look.
"Naa, baa-san… dead or alive, I'm still going.." Naruto said with every word filled with resentment.
" Na-ruto, gomen-" she apologized, seeing her own fault.
" I didn't mean-",
" No, really it's ok," Naruto cut in.
" I don't care if his dead or alive, I'm still going.. and that's final," the blonde boy continued as he offered a hand to Tsunade.
Outside in the rain, stood the sagged-hair jounin by the window. With a bewildered look on his face, Kakashi ran his fingers on his scalp as he tried to seep the water from his hair. Question started to form in his mind as a reslut of listening to the two blondes' argument.
Kakashi found himself busily scratching his chin as he tried to make up every word they said. 'Who could this person possibly be?' the red-eyed jounin question himself. Ever since he was eavesdropping the only thing he can come out of this 'he; guy is that, he's a male. 'Well that's an obvious statement,' the grey haired jounin mentally stated.
Seeing that his offer to lift her up was rejected, Naruto looked out the window and smiled. And Kakashi by all means was panicking when the young blonde was smiling at him. "Shit, he saw me" commented the jounin and prepared to hide. Just as he was about to flee a hand grab his sleeves and the green haired girl stood beside him. She smiled and shooked her head from side to side.
" He can't see us," the soft melodicious voice slipped through her thin lips as she tried to assure him not to go. Kakashi nodded trusting her words and continued to view the drama.
" I better get going, I've lingered long enough and the day is getting old." Said the blonde boy as he turns toward the door.
" Matte Naruto (wait Naruto)," Tsunade called out as she sort herself out. Brushing her soft green blazer, Tsunade looked at the boy from head to toe before continuing her word.
" What happened to your dream of becoming a Hokage?" taunt the blonde women. Hearing her question the blonde boy smiled and turned to look at her.
"Don't worry, I'll come back and steal it from you" The blonde boy retorted and shoved his hands into the pocket. Tsunade didn't reply; she didn't know what to say; she can't find anyway to change his mind; hell, she can't even delay him from going.
His mind was fixed and there was not much she can do but watch him go. Naruto was about to walk out of the room when smoke started to form in front of him. A sound of 'poof' came and a sight of ridiculous spiky hair form within the smoke.
" Where do you think you are going, Naruto-chan," came a high-pitched voice beneath the smoke and a brute figure stood in front of him.
" Don't act like you didn't heard it," the boy retorted, knowing that the old man was eavesdropping them.
"Bwahahaha, I'm so flattered you actually realised it. Good progression Naruto, now give me a thumbs up," said the figure before him and smiled.
Naruto gave Jiraiya the you-were-SO-damn-obvious look and ignored him. Pissed by all the delayments he gets, Naruto pouted and stuck his tongue out to the old sennin. " Stop dilly-dallying me, I have to go before.." Naruto stopped as he thought about the person he was about to say his name. All of a sudden cold sweat started to form on his forehead as he began thinking about a certain someone.
Jiraiya look at the boy then to Tsunade then to the window and smirked. "Before YOUR Kakashi find out?" Jiraiya continued as he saw the presence by the window. Naruto's pupils widened as he hears the name slipped out of Jiraiya's mouth. The name he's been trying to avoid from hearing or saying and here the ero-sennin is saying it out loud. Naruto bit his lip; it was hard enough for him to leave the village, now it's getting harder to live one that was precious to him. Naruto snapped his neck as he tried to get all the sentimental thought out of his confused mind.
" No, before team 7 and the rest of the village found out," the young boy corrected Jiraiya. Naruto didn't want to admit, 'no, not in the open', he thought. Even if this two people (Jiraiya&Tsunade) knew, he didn't want to declare it …. 'Not yet'.. thought the blonde boy and sighed.
An idea came to him and Naruto smirked. Within seconds smokes started to cover him and with a poof he disappeared. Naruto being Naruto, the not-so-bright-boy, reappeared behind Jiraiya and made a run for it, waving good bye to them.
After taking a step or two, Naruto realised that he's been running on air and a pink sluggish thing was circling his waist.
"AAaaah! Let me go!" the boy taunted and tried to break free from the enormous tongue encircling his waist.
" Bwahahahaha! You didn't think that lame trick would work on me… do you ?" the sennin snickered as he sat on the frog.
" Teme! Ero-sennin! ( Damn you perverted frog). Let me go !" retorted the blonde boy as he struggled to break free.
"Yamette, Naruto ( stop it Naruto)" Tsunade called out as she walked towards him. Pinching his chin, Tsunade told Jiraiya to let go of the blonde boy.
" Ne, Naruto ( look Naruto), it's very dangerous for a kid to go out there alone.. " said the blonde woman and gazed towards the window. She then smiled and let out a heavy sigh when she saw the boy pouting.
"But. I'll make an exception for you, since you are different that any other kid."
She smiled to the blonde boy. Naruto, seeing the soft side of her, smiled back to her and nodded.
" Be careful Naruto." Tsunade said before pulling him into a big hug and kissed his forehead. " I'm gonna miss you, you damn brat," hearing this the blonde boy chuckled and loosened his grip, breaking the hug.
Naruto turned towards the door and waved towards Jiraiya. " I'll be seeing you around brat! " Jiraiya commented and scratched his earlobe.
"Yeah," replied the blonde boy and smiled at the two people who, meant the world in his life. Naruto faced his back towards them and took a step or two, and ran back towards them and hugged both of them as tight as possible.
Surprised by his action Tsunade gasped but hugged him back. " Remember Naruto, this is home," said the women and slap his cheek lightly. " Come back home when you are ready" continue the blonde woman as she held his arms.
"Emm…" acknowledged the blonde boy and wiped the tears streaming down Tsunade's cheek. Naruto hugged her back then Jiraiya again.
" Wish me luck " said the blonde boy and ran out of the room.
' Wait , Naruto' Kakashi mentally shouted as he saw the boy ran out of the building. Confused by everything that happened, Kakashi turned to the green-haired girl , in time to see her sobbing. Tilting his head to the side Kakashi had the most sorrowful look on his face. No doubt he himself felt the sadness within, but something told him to hold it back.
The green-haired girl wiped her tears then hugged Kakashi. Within seconds, Kakashi found himself standing in the Hokage's office.
" You are soaked," commented Tsunade, seeing the water dripping from every part of the jounin.
Blinking his eyes for a while Kakashi was back to reality. How in the world did that happened, he didn't know, but now he knew that he will be in a deep trouble since they knew he heard every bit of the conversation.
" You are very bad in hiding your chakra," Jiraiya insulted with an unsatisfied pout on his face. Wiping the tears on her cheek Tsunade sort everything on her desk as she tried to make herself busy.
Kakashi stood in front of her waiting for his punishment. None came; the two jounin were busy-- trying to be busy. Then Tsunade look up from her desk and frowned.
" Why are you still here Kakashi?" questioned Tsunade and went back to her work. Kakashi was surprised she didn't scold him.
"Doshitte? (why?), " muttered the jounin still not clear with everything. Tsunade stopped whatever she was doing and sighed " What do you mean why!" she hollered and rubbed her aching forehead.
There, at the corner of the room Jiraiya chuckled seeing Kakashi acting like an idiot.
"Your acting like that brat Kakashi… did he influenced you so much to make such a big change in you attitude?"
Questions began conquering the jounin's mind on how can this two people knew about his feelings towards the boy. Kakashi wanted to ponder for the reason but then time stopped him. He better hurry if he want to catch up with Naruto.
" Souka (I see), I better get going," Said the jounin and turn to leave.
" You better hurry, he could be at the gate by now," said Tsunade
"Hai'(yes)."
" Kakashi!" Tsunade called out and the jounin stopped his track.
" Don't force him, let him go if that's what he wants… although it seemed you are our last resort to bring him back," Tsunade commanded and glared at the jounin.
Kakashi look at the green girl who all of a sudden appeared beside him. " Why me? Why not Iruka?" questioned the jounin, not bothering to face Tsunade.
" You should know the answer better than us" Jiraiya chuckled and purposely throw a nut towards Kakashi. Feeling the hard momentum from the nut Kakashi was about to fall on the floor before he failed to balance himself and landed on the ground.
"Ara? Weird things happened a lot today," commented the jounin and brushed off the dust from his pants.
"That saved my energy and time to get here…" said the jounin, looking at the main gat. Naruto is not there yet...
'Thank god'
"I'm not late," he mumbled and scratched his head. Kakashi was about to crouch when all of a sudden he heard small footsteps coming towards.
Quickly, Kakashi hid behind the gate.
"Speak of the devil," mumbled the grey-haired me? when he saw Naruto ran out of the gate.
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