Disclaimer (I forgot it in the first chapter): I don't own Naruto, or the book "Click Here" where the tootsie roll thing came from.
Katsuaki
By Areku1993
"Mom!"
"Katsuaki!"
Katsuaki hugged her mother, who kissed the top of her head. "I thought you were dead, or gone, or something..."
Mrs. Hyuuga looked up at Kakashi and Naruto. It was the next morning, around seven AM... Sasuke and Sakura were probably grumbling that they were BOTH later. "Thank you for bringing Katsuaki back."
"No problem!" Naruto grinned.
"But we feel that Katsuaki should stay with us," Kakashi added. "For extra security. My students need to train, you know, and we can't exactly to that. So instead of us following Katsuaki, I think that Katsuaki should tag along with us."
Mrs. Hyuuga nodded. "Yes, of course. Kakashi, you are a wise man."
Naruto jabbed his thumb towards himself. "She can bunk with me. I have lots of extra space in my apartment!"
"Naruto, you're a sixteen year old boy." Kakashi and Mrs. Hyuuga exchanged glances. "I don't think your apartment would be the safest place for her."
Naruto turned red. "WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?"
"He means exactly what he says, Naruto." Katsuaki replied.
"Sakura, Sasuke, this is Katsuaki. She'll be with us for a while."
"ANOTHER TEAMMATE?"
Sakura began running back and forth hysterically. Even though it was highly un-Sasuke like, the Uchiha heir found himself joining her.
When Sakura and Sasuke were running in opposite directions, Kakashi reached out with both arms and caught their collars. "Calm down, she's not even a ninja. We just have to guard her because some ninjas were after her byakugen."
"Oh..."
Sakura and Sasuke stopped. Sakura looked and blinked at Katsuaki. "So, what's your name? How old are you? Do you have any special talents besides byakugen?"
"Well... My name is Katsuaki Hyuuga, I'm sixteen years old and..." She tapped her chin. "Talents, talents..." She held up a finger. "OF COURSE! My father gave this to me before he went away." She pulled a small metal cube out of her pocket and set it on the ground, pressing a big red button on it. The four ninjas leapt back when it started to grow and expand. Soon it sort of looked like a small television with a camera-thing on top.
"It's called a Visionary." Katsuaki explained. "My father brought it back from one of his travels for me. It's used to see yourself in another time era, you know, like a hundred years ago or something. Do you want to see yourself in... Hmm, nineteen fourteen? Back in the time of magic and alchemy?"
"That was only eighty one years ago. Magic? Alchemy?" Sasuke scoffed. "The only magic is jutsu."
"Mm. I've seen the early nineteen hundreds before..."
Pressing another button, the screen flashed green, and soon had small images of everybody on it. The screen flashed again, and Katsuaki put in the time. The year nineteen fourteen. The it began to flash, again. Once, then twice, then even a third time.
"It'll flash eighty one times. We will replace people already in that era. I know for sure who Sasuke will be." She flashed a grin. "Or, should I call you Colonel Sasuke Uchiha, Flame Alchemist for Amestris?"
"How do you know who I'll be?" Sasuke asked.
"It says it right here. Under your image. See?" She pointed. "Naruto will be the Fullmetal alchemist Edward Elric. A real child prodigy, hero of the people. Sakura will be First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, the best sharpshooter in the military. Kakashi will be warrant officer Veto Falman, a stiff..." Here Sakura giggled, and Kakashi glared at her. "And I'll be Winry Rockbell, Naruto's mechanic."
"I need a mechanic?"
"Yeah. Several years ago you lost your arm and leg in an accident and they were replaced with metal ones. I'm the girl who makes, attaches and fixes them for you. Sasuke is your boss, Sakura is Sasuke's subordinate, and so is Kakashi. I'm not with the military."
"So basically, Sasuke is the most important one of us all." Naruto asked.
"Yup."
Naruto glared at his rival. "I HATE YOU SO MUCH!"
Suddenly, the screen turned black. Katsuaki banged it with her fist and shrugged. "It died. I'll charge it later. You all probably want to train now. Sorry to hold you up."
"Arf! Arrf!"
A dog leapt into Katsuaki's lap, barking. It was small and white, with black lips that stood out. Naruto could recognize it in a heartbeat.
"Akamaru."
"Aww, you're so cute!" Katsuaki scratched Akamaru's ears. "Just about the cutest little dog I've ever seen! Are you lost? Or are you stray?"
Akamaru just barked. Like most dogs do.
"He's not stray. He's Kiba's dog, Akamaru." Naruto looked around. "That means Kurenei and her team, Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame and your cousin, Hinata Hyuuga, are nearby."
"AKAMARU!"
Akamaru paid no attention to his master's voice. Katsuaki had found a key place behind Akamaru's ear to scratch, and the dog didn't feel like getting up.
Kiba crashed through the trees. He looked in every direction in this order: Left, right, behind him, in front of him, up, and down. But he did not once look diagonal, at Naruto and his team.
"Oh!"
Katsuaki stood up with Akamaru. "He's right here. I'm sorry you were so worried. I love dogs, I can assure you I'd never do anything to hurt them."
Kiba blushed and rubbed the back of his head. "Well, everybody likes dogs, here in Konoha anyway. I'm sure you'd take good care of Akamaru if he was yours. Come on now, Akamaru..."
Akamaru barked at him and continued to nestle in Katsuaki's arms.
"Akamaru..."
"Here." Katsuaki walked over to him and deposited Akamaru in his arms, pointing behind the white dog's ear. "Scratch him right there. He likes it. Oh yeah!"
Reaching into her pocket, she pulled out several full-sized chocolate tootsie pops. "HAVE A LOLLI!"
Everyone just sort of looked at each other...
"To me, friends are like tootsie pops. When you bite one, it's like a fight. If you bite too hard you might eat too much of the tootsie roll inside, which is like a friendship. You don't want to bite the friendship and kill it."
Everyone just sweatdropped... "Hey, Katsuaki... You like philosophy?" Kakashi asked.
"Mm hm!"
And this all happened BEFORE Naruto left with Jiraiya.