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Love Holds This Line

One more day.

One more day...

One. More. Day.

I can't stop it Naruto, I am so excited, and no matter how much I try I am constantly reminded! The sky is darkening quickly today; you can feel the static in the air, making love to your skin. A storm is coming, entertainment for the night of when we can finally see each other face to face.

And I feel like singing, like possessing your body and exclaiming to the whole world that I have done my time and I am ready to live life with you!

One more day, and then I'll be able to slid fingers through your hair, and they will be my fingers, and I will be able to know just how soft your hair really is.

I will carry you through the woods on my own two legs -or perhaps four, I haven't decided yet- and I will show you the wonders of which your limited senses have missed. We'll stay and watch the sun rise for a new day and I will teach you as many of my foxy tricks as I can.

I hope you'll understand that I can't teach all of them to you, being that they are coming from the mind of a demon, and you humans really have a sad sense of humor. It seems you and your present teacher is the only ones who can accept a little amusement.

Personally, I thought putting the pound of chicken stock in the public bathhouse was genius, and it wasn't like anyone was hurt by it! Well... except for when the wild pigs rampaged through the wall, but I had not expected that...

Sorry I started rambling off again, which happens when I'm excited.

But I'm also a little nervous, as I previously mentioned there will be pain, and I'm afraid that you might become furious with me when I am free.

Naruto just know that I never want to hurt you, and that if I had the power to do so while obtaining my new body, to rid you of the pain I would jump to it in a heart beat.

But I am afraid this is the price one has to pay to finally see the one they love.

One more day, Naruto.

"One more day, Naruto..."

A small smile graced Naruto's lips before once again digging into his meal. His teacher Iruka didn't find it unusual because he was known to be a bouncing ball of sunshine whenever it came to ramen.

Naruto's new teacher and teammates however knew something was different. Naruto had been constantly freaking out or randomly smiling when there was nothing to crack a grin about. Sasuke was greatly disturbed by this one smile, because it stood out from the rest.

There was excitement, amusement, and just so much of content happiness that it made him feel uneasy. Something like this shouldn't be happening; Naruto smiling like this was setting off alarms throughout his whole inner being.

"Well! I'm going to bed now! I'm tired!" Naruto exclaimed louder than he needed to, and jumped up from his seat running in the direction of his home.

"Ma ma, I don't like feel of this..." Kakashi mumbled.

Naruto walked closer to his apartment complex with an extra bounce in his step, a cheerful tune passed through his lips, and he looked nothing short of cheerful.

"Naruto."

Naruto stopped, turned and scrunched his eyes shut at the sight of his instructor standing before him. With his mask and forehead protector in place he looked nothing but mysterious. He could not see his facial expressions, but his one visible eye showed he was serious.

And his smell is betraying him, there's concern there, as well as fear? Is he afraid of me? Naruto thought.

"Yes, Kakashi-sensei?" He answered cautiously.

"What's wrong?" Kakashi asked, "You seem exceptionally happy today of all days. It's not your birthday, I know that much. You haven't beaten Sasuke in a spar today, I know that too. So what is it? Did Sakura finally accept your date request?" He finished, his eye curved up showing he was smiling.

Naruto smiled back at his teacher, "No. I no longer like Sakura in that way. As to why I'm happy?" He tilted his head up in mock thought, "I would have to honestly say that it's not just my happiness, but another's happiness as well. Something great is going to happen tomorrow, and I can't wait." His eyes widened, "Oh! I almost forgot." He smiled gently again, "Unfortunately I don't know when this good thing will take place, so I won't be at training tomorrow..."

And if my guess is correct, I won't be at training for the rest of the week either... Naruto added to himself silently.

Kakashi gave him a disbelieving look, "You're not going to do anything stupid are you?"

Naruto shook his head furiously, "No, nothing stupid. This will be a good thing... I hope at least."

"You hope?"

Naruto shrugged his shoulders, "Well I don't know if it will be a good thing until after it's done, but I'm going by my instincts, and my instincts tell me 'everything will be alright'."

Kakashi sighed and stuffed his hands in his pockets, "I'll trust you on this Naruto. You're known to make some really stupid mistakes," He ignored Naruto's angered outburst, "but when you look at me with that face how can I not take your word for it? I don't think I've ever seen such a confident look before..."

Naruto watched as his teacher walked away, slouching as if their serious conversation had never happened.

"KAKASHI-SENSEI!" Naruto yelled.

Kakashi angled his head towards the loud blonde.

"YOU MAKE SURE HE DOESN'T COME AFTER ME EITHER!! HE'S BEEN ACTING WEIRD AND YOU KNOW IT!" Naruto finished.

Kakashi smirked at the blonde slamming his apartment door. He lifted his head up towards the shadows of the tree, "You hear that Sasuke? You stay away."

"Like hell I will." Was the muttered reply.

Here I end chapter Five!

Now I understand I need to do a little explaining seeing as how I took quite a while with updating this...

Truth is, I am curently attending my last year of high school (I made it this far?! O.O) and I am completely swamped with homework, assignments (it's only the second day of school!!), and on top of that I have my job! I am having dificulty finding time to get on the computer for my own pleasure, and when I have actually gotten on, my main concern was my e-mail and my homework.

So this is just a warning, that I may be behind in updates, I will try my hardest to update or even put up some one-shots (I started a lot of them all KyubixNaruto) just to let you all know that I am alive and well!

Thank you for reading! And I hope you leave a review!

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