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Chapter six: The Necklace and Forgotten Anniversary!
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"Naruto-niisan." Naruto turned his head to see a small dark pink form, dark orange form, and a dark blue form. Konohamaru and company.............the three people that were probably worse facing than the great Hokage herself when it came to honest interrogations for the blonde boy.
How was he going to get through this?
"I have decided to become Hokage for you." Konohamaru gave a toothy grin as Naruto spat out his ramen back into its bowel.
"Nani!?" Naruto knew Konohamaru had to be smiling right then, the little brat always had a way of doing things like that.
"Well since you cannot become Hokage anymore that means I will be it." Konohamaru chuckled as he climbed up into a stool."
Kakashi had told them everything and said that they should act normal around Naruto; they might be surprised at what he can do.
"I will still be Hokage chibi" Naruto bopped Konohamaru on the head before laughing. "Blind or not."
"Um........." Moegi stopped and looked up at Naruto who was laughing with Konohamaru.............it seemed like he was looking right at them............but...
Naruto looked down at the small dark orange and pink forms. "Well.........uh..........do you have any questions for me?" Naruto really didn't want to ask that but he knew that they probably had a question or two.
"How can you see us? Kakashi-sensei said that you probably found some way to see us one way or another but did you?" The dark orange chakra moved closer to Naruto.
"Well your sensei isn't as stupid as he looks now is he?" Naruto grinned wanting to thank Kakashi for obviously explaining some things for him.........but Naruto could bet that the sensei wanted some answers too.
"I think he is lazy." Konohamaru spat out crossing his arms.
"No you are right, he is but he is also a good teacher so listen to him." Naruto grinned, that is exactly what he thought about Kakashi too the first few weeks he had had him as a teacher.
"Well?" Naruto looked down at the upset orange chakra. "Are you going to answer my question or not?"
"Well how about you guys just trust me on that one okay?" Naruto tried to smile, if he knew that Sasuke and Iruka seemed to barely understand what he said then what about three genins?
"What is it like...........to be........." Moegi blushed and looked down, she really wanted to know but she didn't want to be rude.
"Blind? Well um..." Naruto gave them a sad smile, "It was really scary at first I couldn't see anything but darkness and I had to rely on my other senses...........but its not that bad anymore I have trained a lot and I could probably rely on my senses.........." Naruto stopped and smiled down at the dark pink chakra, "but I wouldn't recommend for any of you to want to go through that."
"But you can still be a chunin right? Are you going to take the jonin exams that are coming up?" Konohamaru grinned over to his older brother figure. Naruto was Naruto and that would never change.
"Well um..." Naruto gave a nervous grin, Jiraiya had told him the jonin exams were coming up but he still had to take that one class. "I still have to take that course that says whether or not I can still be a nin so.........I guess I will have to wait until next time."
Naruto wanted to sigh, he really wished that he could just take the jonin exam and prove to everyone that he didn't need no stupid course.
"But that class is supposed to be harder than the chunin exam itself! And you took that twice!" Konohamaru, Udon, and Moegi couldn't believe it. Sure it only took Naruto two turns because the first one ended in a small war (that is what they chose to believe as the reason of Naruto's lack of chunin-ness) but he still had a hard time in the second one.
"What you don't think that I can do it? Why I am hurt guys!" Naruto did a fake pout before grinning. He really wanted to see them again but at least he could see their chakra.
"Don't worry I can do it." Naruto ruffled Konohamaru's hair and got up. "Well if you don't mind I am going to find that ero Sennin now." Naruto waited until he was sure that the little chakras were happy with what they had found out and then he left.
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"Are you sure you want to be here?" Sasuke stopped and turned around to see Neji walking along their posts. They had look out duty today.
"What do you mean?" The Uchiha spat out bitterly he really couldn't make himself like this guy, especially after he is part of the reason for his home to have been ruined.
"Aren't you taking the jonin exams? Why are you still here?" They Hyuga glared over at the raven-haired boy. He hated guard duty but even more so partnered up with Sasuke.
"I don't think that has anything to do with you." Sasuke spat out as he glared over the forest wishing for something to happen.
"Does it have something to do with Naruto?" Neji inquired regretfully as the Uchiha was now glaring at him full force.
"What does he have to do with anything?" Sasuke watched the Hyuga closely.
"Well even though all of the older chunin's taking this exam are gone training why is it that the younger are here just doing missions?" Neji asked trying to change the atmosphere; it wasn't that Sasuke made him uncomfortable it was that he wanted to know.
He had decided not to take the exam yet. He had just taken to course for once injured nins a year ago so he was officially a chunin once again but he didn't feel called to take the exam yet.
Plus Gai had told him to wait.
His injuries were bad enough after the Sasuke rescue mission he had to wait a few years before he was allowed to take the course.
This year he knew Lee was going to take the course. This year there was a new teacher. This year was going to be the worse year for anyone to take that course.
"Maybe we are too stupid to see that the ones that have taken this exam before are still training or then again maybe we don't need it." Sasuke smirked as he looked over to the pale-eyed boy.
"Which one are you?" Neji smirked back causing Sasuke to glare back.
"Why do you care?" Sasuke closed his eyes as he leaned against the post. Even if he was on guard duty it was a known fact that nothing ever happened at the East gate.
Neji sighed as he began to walk to the other side of the large wall. He didn't get paid enough to hold a conversation with the Uchiha.
Sasuke looked down to see some one walking alongside the gate. The person had long shaggy white hair and seemed to be hiding from someone else.
"Is that who I think it is?" Neji was now standing by Sasuke as they watched the older man hide behind some trees.
"Jiraiya-sama! What are you............" Sasuke was quickly cut off as he and Neji watched Jiraiya get sliced into a few hundred pieces.
"Hn." Neji sighed as he returned to his corner and Sasuke watched Naruto appear.
Naruto sighed as a bunch of shredded pieces of log hit the forest floor. He had a long Katana in one hand and a short blade in the other. Both of them decorated in the strange patterns that were worn on Naruto's robes from the night before.
He had another katana and short blade strapped to his back like how a normal Anbu would wear his.
"Kid watch it next time, your going into over kill." Jiraiya yelled at the blonde boy from a tree branch above the blind shinobi.
"Then sign the stupid form that Baa-san says I need you to sign so that I can take that stupid course!" Naruto growled as he flared out his chakra to search the area around him for his temporary sensei.
"Are you sure you want to take it? You could always wait a.........." Jiraiya quickly ducked as a sword was thrown past his head barely shaving a few hairs.
"Sign it Mr. Pervert!" Naruto appeared beside the elder nin with a paper in his hand.
"You sure are moody! Are you sure you want this? I heard who the teacher was and I don't think that..." Jiraiya stopped and grinned as he looked over Naruto, he knew the boy was ready but he also knew the teacher...............
If Naruto took this class he was going to have a hard time passing. And it would have nothing to do with his skills...........but with the Kyubi. His teacher still hated the Kyubi and Naruto and most of the people that knew him, knew that.
"Well?" Naruto fixed his glasses that had found themselves on the tip of his nose, he slowly pushed them back watching the dark green chakra in front of him stay still.
"Fine but I will tell you that he is strict." Jiraiya grabbed the paper and put it in his pocket. "Oh and your friend is still watching us." The old nin quickly vanished allowing Naruto to go say hi to Sasuke.
Sasuke watched as Naruto jumped off of the tree branch and began to make his way to the wall.
He had seen the whole thing and still couldn't believe it. Naruto fought well and he was quicker than the Uchiha would have suspected. Sasuke shook his head; maybe he should be more like Kakashi and have more faith in the blonde.
Even with his new handicap Naruto was probably a better fighter than he was before. Sasuke smirked as he watched the blonde vanish and then appear beside him.
"Sorry it took me a while to figure out who you were with." Naruto grinned at the smirking Uchiha as Neji looked at him surprised. Naruto had just teleported onto a wall over 100 ft. high.
"Ohayo Neji." Naruto faced the Hyuga taking the long-haired boy to be surprised again but then Neji remembered how Naruto was at the party and earlier that day. He didn't act blind or even seem blind.
"It is anything but the morning." Neji frowned as he decided to walk across the wall to another post.
"What is his problem?" Naruto looked over at the red powerful chakra beside him after the angry white chakra left.
"I don't know." Sasuke watched the blonde sit down on the ground tiredly. "What are you doing all the way out here?"
"Well I thought you saw........." Naruto grinned, "I was chasing that ero Sennin to get him to sign the paperwork for that course or whatever. It starts right after the jonin exams but I think we have a meeting next week."
Sasuke leaned against the railing on the post as he looked down at the blonde boy. Naruto's hands still had the bandages on them from this morning. Suddenly Sasuke remembered what he had found on the tree.
"Hey Naruto." Sasuke began to dig through his pockets as he searched for the item that Neji had made him put away earlier. Apparently it annoyed him when the Uchiha wasn't paying attention to the trees that did nothing.
"Hn?" Naruto watched as the red chakra seemed to squirm around, it almost made him want to laugh at the thought of the Uchiha Sasuke squirming, but he knew he wasn't.
"I found this after you left the tree earlier." Sasuke pulled out a beautiful golden chain with a charm on the end of it. It looked like a necklace.
"Well what is it?" Naruto lifted his hand up and let his chakra trace the trinket slowly as it was still in Sasuke's hand.
"It's a necklace I think but it has your tattoo on it." Sasuke placed it in Naruto's hand. The charm on the chain was a circle and in the middle was the same design as Naruto's tattoo and on the other side was some kind of writing that Sasuke couldn't recognize.
Naruto could feel his heart skip a beat as he held the necklace.
"It has your tattoo on it! Because that is the symbol that you love so much!"
He quickly pulled it up to his chest and let out a deep breathe. He couldn't lose this necklace. Not after..........
"Naruto are you okay?" Sasuke noticed the change in atmosphere with the blonde as he held the necklace to his heart. He poked the blonde's shoulder bringing him back to reality.
"Hn? Oh sorry! Thank you for giving this back to me!" Naruto gave Sasuke a sad smile before standing up. "Well I bet the old hag will yell at me later if she finds out I am bothering you while you are on duty."
"Hey wai......." Sasuke sighed as Naruto jumped off the wall.
What was that all about? Naruto was happy one moment but the second he gets the necklace back he seems sad. Sasuke silently watched the blonde walk away and back to the village.
What was that necklace for? Who was it from? It had to be from someone important if Naruto reacted like that. Did he meet someone? But he is blind of course he wouldn't......but what does blind have to do with anything?
Sasuke shook his head ending the mental argument. He didn't need to know any of this; it was none of his business............but then why..........
Why did he care so much?
What if Naruto did meet somebody but since he was blind they couldn't be together? Wouldn't that mean that he had ruined Naruto's chance of happiness?
No matter what the blonde said, Sasuke knew that everything was his fault.........
Maybe he was just getting ahead of himself.........maybe he was just thinking too far into it.........
Maybe not.............
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Naruto began to gasp for air as he sat down on a tree branch a few miles from Sasuke's post. He had ran, he needed to run, running helped him think.
He let his chakra cover the necklace in his hand again so that he could see the shape of it.
This necklace.........he almost lost it and wouldn't have realized it until it was too late.
Naruto leaned back until his head hit the tree. Tears slowly falling from his closed eyes.
He could remember them, all of their voices and their laughter. He could remember the sound their feet made when they ran from him or even toward him.
But through all this memory all he could see was darkness.
He wasn't even able to see their colors before they died.
Naruto sighed; he used up too much chakra today. He wasted it unnecessarily and now he could barely move his body.
Naruto slowly felt his chakra coverage of the area around him go away.
"I don't understand why my mom lets you watch the babies."
Naruto could here a little girl huff in front of him. He was still training his senses but now he was watching the villager's children.
"I don't understand why either." Naruto said is a sad tone as he sat in the middle of the nursery making sure he could hear everyone of the children.
"You really are blind aren't you?" Naruto sighed as the girl continued; she had been there all morning.
"Yes I am." Naruto wished he could see her so that he could bop her on the head and tell her to leave him alone.
"Then why do you work but that old guy just walks around town." Naruto could hear the girl sit down beside him.
"He works too, just not in ways I am allowed to tell you." Naruto grinned as he heard the girl moan in frustration.
It was still only darkness.
It was what he woke up to and went to bed to.
He rarely had a dream.
"Hey Naruto its me again! And I brought the kids from my class!" Naruto heard the small girl enter the nursery followed by several other footsteps.
"Whoa is he really blind Yume?" He could here a boy whisper.
"Yes but he is still really cool." Yume whispered back as Naruto heard some of the girls giggled.
"He is really cute." One of them whispered.
"Really? I kind of forgot about that." Naruto snickered as all the kids stopped talking.
"He can hear us!" A boy shouted.
"Of course he can he is blind not deaf you idiot!"
Naruto enjoyed those visits.
"Hey Naruto do you miss the place you are from? Are you ever going to go back?" The smaller girl whispered beside him.
"I miss it a lot actually, it is the coolest place ever. And it has the best ramen! And if you ever come there I will have to introduce you to Iruka-sensei! And Kakashi-sensei and Sakura! And Sasuke............." Naruto stopped and sighed, he really wanted to go back home. But the reason was so he could SEE everyone again. And that would never happen.
Naruto trained on the weekends never really knowing if Jiraiya was going to help that day or not.
"Hey Naruto! I brought Daisuki and Anna!" Naruto stopped as he heard three sets of feet run up to him in the field.
"So you were a ninja! What was that like?" Naruto could here the little boy in front of him.
"Were and was? Why are you speaking in past tense? I am still a ninja! And I am going to be the best one at that and become Hokage of my village and that will be the day!" Naruto grinned widely as he began to tell them of all the missions he had been on and what the people were like.
"I heard that my dad gave you a tattoo in thanks for watching over the kids while he was gone! Can I see it?" Naruto felt small hands grab on to his still sore arm.
"Oooo it's really pretty!"
"Did you know that the sky is really blue today?"
"Hey did you hear? Daisuki's mom had a baby!"
"I got this for you! I don't know your birthday but you can have it now! It is a necklace! It has your tattoo on it! Because that is the symbol you love so much! Do you like it?"
"Hey what is happening? Where are our parents? Why is the village destroyed?"
"Naruto where is my mom?"
"They said that they were going to adopt me but I don't know if my mom would like that too much. But they seem nice so I think she will just tell me when I get to heaven."
"Are you going to stay with us?"
"NARUTO!!!!"
Naruto quickly sat up as he pulled out two of his swords. He felt a breeze go by making his sweaty body shiver.
"Geez, what time is it?" Naruto sighed as he sat up. His chakra was halfway restored which meant that he had to have slept longer than fours hours.
He honestly hoped it wasn't that late and maybe no one noticed he was gone yet. He stood up and put the necklace around his neck, it was the way it was supposed to be worn.
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"Sasuke have you seen Naruto?" Iruka smiled as the Uchiha walked into his house.
"I saw him a few hours ago why?" Sasuke took his shoes off and then noticed that Iruka had made dinner and it was sitting on the table.
"Well I thought it was weird for him to not be on time for dinner so maybe he is on his way." Iruka began reading his book again before glancing over at Sasuke, "You can eat now if you want, it is ready and I have already eaten."
"I think I will wait to see when Naruto gets in." Sasuke sighed as he walked into the spare room; he was so tired.
After guard duty with Neji he had to deliver some messages from the Hokage to a few of the jonin exam takers that were still in the city. And it took him a while to find both Kiba and Ino who were on separate sides of the villages.
"Train you brats I want you all to look good." Sasuke spat out the Hokage's message as he sat on the bed.
He looked around the room and saw some bags sitting in a corner with a ribbon on it.
"Those are from Lee and Sakura to you and Naruto, its some cloths and some nice outfits for their wedding." Iruka was now at the door with his book.
Sasuke would swear that the man took on some of Kakashi's worse habits if it wasn't for the fact that the chunin sensei was reading educational material and not smock.
"Hn." The raven-haired boy nodded but then saw Iruka pull out a box. "What's that?"
"Earrings." Iruka smiled at the box and then looked over at the confused teenager on the bed. "Oh! They are for Naruto I saw that his ears were pierced earlier so I bought him some earrings!" Iruka laughed nervously; he never really knew why he felt so nervous around Sasuke.
"Ah........and you aren't going to yell at him?" The Uchiha rose an eyebrow at the, what he thought was strict sensei.
"Hm.........I guess I can't yell at him and then give him a present?" Iruka joked before he turned to leave.
"Iruka......." Sasuke stopped the teacher, he knew he was being stupid but he had to ask.
"Hm?" Iruka looked at the boy with a smile.
"Do you blame me for Naruto's being..........blind?" Sasuke sighed after asked it. It wasn't really a question directed at Iruka as much as it was directed at him self. He knew it was his fault and he felt beyond guilty but Naruto didn't blame him............why not?
If anything he would hate himself and probably want him to die.
"Sasuke..........."
"Hey I hope its not too late!" Naruto opened the door causing Iruka to look over at him.
"Hey where have you been? Did you run here? You are sweating and panting like crazy!" Iruka dropped his book and went over to the blonde.
"I fell asleep in the woods and well I didn't know what time it was so I ran here hoping that it wasn't too late." Naruto smiled as he told the story plainly.
"Well............" Iruka sighed as he looked over the blonde, "After dinner you should take a shower because I bet Sasuke doesn't want to have to share a bed with a sweaty mess like you are now."
Sasuke watched as Iruka acted like Naruto wasn't blind, acted like Naruto was never blind and how the blonde smiled and laughed like he used to.
"Well I guess I am going to go grade the projects then, I have to get up earlier also so that I can get all of the projects to the school and hang them in my room. Good night." Sasuke watched as Iruka smiled and walked away.
"So what's for dinner?" Naruto grinned over to the red figure as the light blue figure walked away.
"Its on the table, I think its ramen." Sasuke looked at the bowls and sure enough it was pork ramen.
"Iruka sure has been acting weird lately." Naruto followed his chakra and nose to the ramen.
"How so?" Sasuke watched the blonde sniff at the bowl and take in the scent.
"Well he told me he was mad at Kakashi for forgetting their anniversary." Naruto said matter of factly with a mouth full of ramen.
"Okay?" Sasuke smirked, now he knew why Iruka was mad, and he knew before Kakashi...........maybe he could use this information for an advantage.
"Well then he has been mad for an entire year? I didn't think Iruka held grudges......." Naruto finished his bowl with a large grin.
"He has only been mad for about a month." Sasuke slowly ate his ramen as he thought about it. He remembered distinctively the first day; no one in the history of Konoha had ever seen the dolphin chunin so angry before.
"But their anniversary is July 13th." Naruto thought about it and then nodded, that was what they told him when he had found out.
"But that's tomorrow." Sasuke looked over at the calendar in the kitchen, but it said July.
"His calendar says July......." Sasuke noticed the thirteenth was circled, "But the 13th doesn't say his anniversary with Kakashi........."
"What? Then what does it say?" Naruto was getting a funny feeling.
"It says 'Kurenai-san's and Asuma-san's anniversary'" Sasuke
"Then that means that Iruka has just somehow got lost in time and mixed up his anniversary with Asuma and Kurenai's...........which means........."
"Kakashi probably does remember and he and Gai are getting punished for no reason at all." Sasuke smirked; this was rich.
Not only had they flawed the closest person to perfection in the village. (Lets face it Iruka is that close) But they also could make him feel really really horrible at the moment.
"Tomorrow is going to be a good day, ne?" Naruto chuckled as he got up.
"Yeah but mainly because I have the day off so I get to watch all of this." Sasuke grabbed the bowls and took them to the sink.
"Oooooo.........I see, the great almighty Uchiha Sasuke will bless me with his presence tomorrow?" Naruto grinned.
"You forgot 'who is so hot he could be a god'." Sasuke smirked as Naruto burst out laughing.
"You are still full of yourself!" The blonde boy laughed as he entered the guest room.
"Still?" Sasuke quirked an eyebrow before he noticed Naruto walk over to the bags in the corner.
"What's this?" The blond picked them up and dropped them on the bed.
"Cloths from Sakura." Sasuke grabbed the bags and poured the cloths out beside Naruto.
"Who are they for?" Naruto lifted up a soft shirt, "Hey what color is this one?"
Sasuke stopped and looked over at Naruto. He watched as the blonde boy smiled over at him waiting for an answer. Waiting to find out what color the shirt was that he could not see.
"Its black." Sasuke picked it up. "And I think that it is for you."
"Huh? What makes you say that?" Naruto grabbed the shirt back.
"Its too small for me." Sasuke began to divide the cloths not noticing how Naruto's grin grew into a smile.
"You are fatter than me." Naruto snickered as he poked the red chakra in its middle earning a growl. "What? It's the truth!" Naruto stated innocently before a pile of cloth hit him in the face.
"If you're not out of chakra and you don't need my help then go take a shower." Sasuke smirked as he watched the blonde pout for a moment before getting up. Something about Naruto had changed since he had seen the blonde that afternoon, Sasuke thought to himself before he noticed the necklace on Naruto's neck beside the one that the fox boy had gotten from the Hokage herself so long ago.
"Naruto.............."
"Hn?" The blonde stopped to face the red chakra that was leaning over the orange bed.
"........." Sasuke watched the blonde for a moment, he knew what he wanted to ask but didn't think he had the right to. "Don't forget a towel." He threw one at the blonde's face; Iruka had left them on their bed earlier.
"Ah..........thanks." Naruto left quietly letting his chakra mold into every nook and cranny inside the apartment. Sasuke was acting weird...............
"I hope he doesn't blame himself." Naruto thought out loud as he waited for his chakra to cover the whole bathroom so that he wouldn't accidentally fall over anything.
He may seem good at the seeing with his own chakra, but he wasn't perfect...............yet.
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At Kurenai's apartment somewhere in Konoha.......
"Hey its Kakashi's and Iruka's anniversary tomorrow..........." Asuma informed his lover as he looked at her calendar hanging on the fridge.
"So?" Kurenai sipped at her freshly made coffee.
"Don't we usually get them something? Like an apple?" Asuma grinned before he noticed Kurenai frown.
"Well they didn't get us anything this year so I don't see why we should get them anything." The female jonin huffed.
"Hn." Asuma nodded in agreement before making himself a cup of coffee.
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Dark.
It was really dark.
Just like before.........
Naruto could feel his body shiver.........
But he couldn't see anything.........
Not even colors............
Maybe there was no one around.........
The blond boy released some of his own chakra but saw nothing............
It was happening all over again.........
He was alone.........
In the darkness.........
"Someone?" Naruto looked around but he didn't really know if he was looking. He couldn't tell if his eyes were opened or closed.........
"Hello?" It seemed to be getting colder and the blonde couldn't help but begin to panic.
What if he lost his sight of chakra? Would he only see darkness again?
It was so horrible the first time.
Naruto knew there had to be tears in his eyes. He hated the darkness.
So dark.
"Sasuke?" His voice came out raspy and hoarse. Wasn't he just asleep beside the Uchiha?
The darkness was over whelming.
"Please I want to get out." Naruto pleaded.
Going through this once was enough.
"Help." His voice squeaked. He didn't care how pitiful he might have sounded just then. He wanted to see something............anything!
No more darkness.
It was too harsh to bear.
Too dark.
Cold.
Empty.
Alone.
That is all you could feel in this darkness. Knowing that you can never get rid of it. Only having the voices of others to try and keep your mind sane.
But he didn't have that now.
No one was there.
It was horrible.
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Sasuke quickly sat up with a kunai in his arm before it was quickly grabbed out of his hand.
"Kakashi." Sasuke sighed as he recognized the silver-haired man in front of him. "What are you..........."
He quickly stopped when he heard a soft moan and turned his head to see Naruto; the blonde had a painful expression on his face.
"I think he is having a bad dream." Kakashi stated the first obvious fact to his old student.
"Naruto?" Sasuke couldn't help but let worry take over his features as he sat up beside the blonde. "Wake up."
The blonde thrashed his head and that was when Sasuke noticed he was crying.
"Naruto wake up." Sasuke grabbed the blonde's shoulders in hope of taking him out of his nightmare.
Naruto gasped as he roughly pushed Sasuke away from him causing the raven- haired boy to fall of the bed.
The blonde leaned against the bedpost before he noticed two colors. He was awake? The warmth?
"Itai........." Sasuke moaned as he got to his feet to see the panting blonde. "Naruto what's wrong?"
"Sasuke?" Naruto saw the red chakra but he wasn't sure just yet. Maybe this was still part of his dream and Sasuke and Kakashi (he recognized the spiky silver chakra) were going to disappear at any moment.
"Naruto its okay, you were having a bad dream." Kakashi tried to calm the blonde down also taking a note to never be the one to wake Naruto up.
"Just a.............dream........." Naruto sighed letting a smile grace his lips at the thought.
"Are you okay?" Sasuke was still worried even though now his butt was sore (from falling!)
"Yeah........." Naruto began to leak his chakra out and sure enough he could see it. He could still see chakra. "Sorry."
"So what are you doing here?" Sasuke glared over to his teacher, if he hadn't of recognized him he had, had two more kunai ready under his pillow to be thrown.
"I didn't mean to wake you up sorry, I heard noises......." Kakashi blushed as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Why are you here Kakashi?" Sasuke didn't want to know what his sensei was thinking when he had heard the noises.
"I am going to surprise Iruka." Kakashi whispered.
"Oh yeah..........your anniversary." Naruto finally left his spot and got off of the bed.
"How are you going to surprise a ninja? He probably already sensed you like I did." Sasuke glared over at his nervously laughing sensei.
"What's the point of knowing sleep inducing jutsus if you never use them?" Kakashi gave out another nervous laugh before turning to leave the room.
"You did what?!" Both of the teenage boys yelled at the same time in shock.
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Iruka opened his eyes as a strange scent reached his nose. He blinked and then sat up from his desk looking around lazily before noticing something.
"OH CRAP!!!" Iruka jumped up when he noticed that he still had over half of the projects to grade. "How could I fall asleep?"
The chunin sensei quickly glanced at the clock to see that he had over slept too. Cursing silently in his breath he grabbed his jacket and ran out of his office quickly running through his house and out of the door.
And then he turned around and ran back to the kitchen.
On the table was freshly made breakfast surrounded by all of his favorite deserts: chocolate parfait, sugar and chocolate covered strawberries, peanut butter cookies, and a pile of chocolate mints. Surrounding the food was rose petals that fell of the table and seemed to cover the entire apartment.
"Huh?" The Chunin asked intelligently as his mind tried to register if maybe he was still dreaming.
"Good morning.........." Iruka felt two arms wrap around his waist as a voice purred into his ear.
"Kakashi!" Iruka spun around unintentionally hitting the jonin in the face with his ponytail.
"Ok calm down I know you are still mad at me for who knows what reason (Sasuke and Naruto didn't bother on sharing the news) but can we at least have a moment to share for our anniversary?" Kakashi kept his distance just in case the chunin sensei declined.
"Our anniversary was a month ago Kakashi!" Iruka said sternly holding on to the bridge of his nose trying to fight off the migraine that was reminding him he was late for school.
"A month ago........." Kakashi looked at Iruka confused.
"Yeah, June 7th." Iruka calmly added.
"June 7th......" Kakashi repeated as he went over the date in his head knowing that the date was wrong. Then it clicked. "Oh......"
"What?" Iruka huffed; he really needed to get going.
"You think that I forgot our anniversary and that is why you were mad because you thought it was then." Kakashi nodded as he processed the information he just said.
"Our anniversary is that day, Kakashi......." Iruka pointed over at his calendar on the fridge.
"No koibito, today is our anniversary, June 7th is Asuma, and Kurenai's anniversary............remember?" Kakashi tried to say it reassuringly to the chunin sensei that just stared at him blankly.
"Oh.......my......gosh......" Iruka's face flustered up as he quickly hugged the jonin almost knocking them both over. "I am so sorry!"
"For what?" Kakashi joked as he patted the adorable sensei on his back.
"I screwed up didn't I?" Iruka looked up into Kakashi's eye.
"You? Mr. Perfect? No....." Kakashi tried to hold back a laugh building in his throat but it wasn't working very well.
"Kakashi......" Iruka buried his head into the jonin's chest, he felt miserable.
"Well I didn't die and Gai didn't mind all the D class missions." Kakashi laughed as Iruka looked up at him with a small glare but the sides of his lips were twitching.
"Kakashi you're not helping........." Iruka moaned before he remembered something. "Oh crap what about my.........."
"Classes? I told Gai that somehow I would fix things today and he would get better missions if he took them for you." Kakashi laughed.
"What if I was mad about something else?" Iruka pouted even though he was so happy he didn't have to be at the school today.
"Would you still be mad at me after you have seen all of these homemade deserts?" Kakashi stretched the word homemade causing Iruka to blush.
"You made them?" Iruka was stunned but now didn't know if he really wanted to eat them or not.
"Well actually your two house guests did while I waited for the stores to open to get food for breakfast." Kakashi motioned Iruka to go into the living room.
Then chunin quickly obeyed only to see another scene in front of him.
Sasuke was sitting up on the couch covered in flour and other cooking items as he breathed slowly and his now powdery black hair fell to the sides of his face. In his lap was Naruto's head that had a bucket of rose petals dumped on him as he laid spread out across the couch also covered in flour.
"I'd say they had fun, when I got back they were like that and you should have seen the kitchen." Kakashi joked as Naruto began to move.
"Huh?" Naruto tried to move his arms but ended up rolling off of the couch in a loud thud immediately waking up the Uchiha; causing the teenager to jump up and accidentally kick the blonde in the face.
"Itai!" Naruto yelped causing Sasuke to look wide eyed down at the floor.
"Naruto!" The floured boy quickly got on his knees to see what was wrong.
"And the moment was ruined by the waking of the beasts." Kakashi sighed with a joking tone.
"Huh?" Both of the boys looked up tiredly as someone knocked on the door.
"Its not for us so we are going to be in his room as he has a lot to make up for." Kakashi joked as he pulled a blushing Iruka with him down the hall.
"Its Sakura." Naruto mumbled as he rubbed his eye that was so pleasantly kicked.
"Hn." Sasuke got up and opened the door.
"Hey Sasu.........why are you covered in powder?" Sakura looked over the Uchiha's new look.
"Hn. Cooking." Sasuke stated plainly before opening the door wide enough to let the pink-haired shinobi in.
"Ohayo Sakura!" Naruto chirped as she stared at him blankly. He was covered in flour and rose petals?
"What happened here?" Sakura giggled as she pulled the pedals out of Naruto's hair.
"Kakashi and Iruka's anniversary." Sasuke grunted.
"Well........." Sakura smirked at her two old teammates before sighing. "Oh I can't do this!"
"Do what?" Naruto watched as Sakura's chakra seemed to have a nervous presence about it.
"I planned this lunch or brunch better yet with some of the other guys but I don't know how to ask you because........."
"You guys have a lot of questions?" Naruto rose his eyebrows but kept his eyes shut.
"They have a lot of questions." Sakura sighed, "You don't need to come if you don't want to but its at the Akimichi's restaurant and we got the biggest table so that you wouldn't be crowded and its going to be before lunch so that we should probably be the only people in the restaurant."
"Sakura......" Naruto sighed, he knew he had to answer the questions sometime but did it have to be so soon?
"I know Naruto but please?" Sakura really hated pressuring him, but she knew that everyone really deserved to know.
"mmmmm" Naruto pursed his lips together in thought. What was the saying? Better late than never, information is better shared than kept to yourself? He couldn't remember.
"Fine, but if I leave out of the blue don't get mad." Naruto sighed as he felt the pink chakra flair up in happiness.
"Really?" Sakura grabbed Naruto's hand.
"Yeah yeah, now they are probably waiting right?" Naruto smiled before Sakura stopped.
"Could you two at least change cloths first?" Sakura tried to smile but it was hard with Sasuke glaring at her.
"Ma. Sasuke you are coming too!" Naruto grabbed the red blur and walked into the room. "Please?" The blonde whispered so that Sakura wouldn't here, catching Sasuke by surprise.
"Why are you going if you don't want to?" Sasuke glared over at the blonde, he thought the whole idea was stupid, then again he already had Naruto explain a lot to him.
"I need to tell them sooner or later but please come too!" Naruto cursed as he sounded like he was pleading.
"Why?" Sasuke didn't understand why Naruto wanted him to come; he didn't even understand why the blonde was spending so much time with him to begin with.
"Because........." Naruto turned away as he took off his shirt not realizing that he was blushing, "I can recognize your chakra easier, and that helps......it makes me feel more comfortable."
Sasuke blushed; he didn't think Naruto would say that.
"Fine, but under on condition........"
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Haha I have been listening to only Naruto songs that I have downloaded from my comp for the past week.........its sad to say that I think that I am worse at Japanese than when I started lol
Okay I know that this is a horrible spot to end it but since I added that little Kakashi and Iruka part (I cant help it I love them!) this whole chapter is twenty pages! That's like six or seven pages more than normal! Haha I actually was going to have most of my chapters be this long .......but when they did they were really slow so I changed it. Haha
I hope you enjoyed this chapter and don't hate me too much for ending it there!
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Lightdragon1987: yay! Someone joined my dance! Thank you! I hope you liked this chapter!
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Dream Fox: Haha! Well I bet the interrogation with Konohamaru and the others wasn't as bad as you thought it would be but I hope you liked it anyway! Lol
Mystic-Hoshi: lol (dances again) sry I like to dance lol I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
lol actually you will have to see Buwaha! Lol well in my little viz translation graphic novel of Naruto lol it spells jonin like that and chunin like that but I could be wrong lol hmmmmm show off Naruto's power? Hahahahha! You might enjoy that!
ErikKoekkoek: You have a weird name....not that I could say anything lol. Haha well this fic wont be YOAI but........it might have a hint or bit of shonen-ai......like a kiss........i mean see? That whole Kakashi and Iruka scene? That wasn't too bad was it? Well I hope you wont stop reading after that....haha I have to admit I don't like those stories either......and I hope I can stay on track with this plot hehehe........I am glad that I have kept you interested! And I hope that you will always enjoy this story! You make sense don't worry! I probably don't lol I am really hyper....and still listening to Naruto music haha
p.s. if I fall away from the plot....(which may happen I am a ditz) yell at me! Flame me! Lol do whatever you can to get me back on track! Haha!
Sally: Thank you! I am glad you love it! I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
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The La/=/er: lol! I saw that you reviewed for my other story! ( I replied to your review!) Is your brain working for you again? Lol I hate it when it stops! Like on my last day of school I had a Spanish exam and all I remember that day is WAKING UP! At the school as the last bell rang! And I failed the Spanish exam! Go figure lol I don't even remember taking it! Lol sorry to bother you again with that bit of info lol Oh! Honest comment of the day? I like that title lol well I hope my stories are okay lol and if they do start to move too slow then yell at me lol or flame heehee! And I will do my best to speed things up! Haha! Well I try to make Naruto as realistic as possible and I figured that he would get peeved lol and that everyone would someway or another react like that lol I hope you enjoyed the Kono and gang thing lol tho it wasn't as harsh as most ppl though I bet lol OH! And I read that The 13th hour by ChibiOrochimaru and I have to say that that is an awesome fic! I read it all in one night lol I couldn't stop reading lol I wish she would update lol! Haha well I am off to find that other story you said lol ciao
PS: If i missed anyone i sincerely apologize and you can flame me all you want lol i think i may have cuz ff.net is being a butt and i am trying to update! lol
