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Shizune x Naruto
By w4sp/Aresu
Disclaimer: You MAY NOT recopy this NOR repost it anywhere, the story belongs entirely to me, as for the characters, those belong to Mr. Kishimoto, Naruto Also belongs to him, not me.
A/N: This, is my first fan fiction EVER, so please be nice, I don't mind criticism but keep it polite, I would like it if you pointed out my grammar mistakes so I could go back and correct them. Now about the pairings...well, Shizunaru... quite unusual, I know, but maybe I'm not really sane as I'm writing that... who knows O.o Anyhow, First chapter, I'm working on the second one, If the story gets good feedback, I might keep posting it on here, if not, well you can always add me to your msn (with my profile email) and ask for it, I'll gladly send it over. Enjoy!..well I hope.
Warning, Uber OOC, read at own risk, can cause dramatic cases of run-around-scream-yell-break-everything-because-angered syndrome. This slightly AU.
Chapter 1
Despite what it looked like, Shizune was nowhere near happy working at the Godaime's office. Of course Tsunade had been as close as a sister to her, but she had never really been anything else than lazy, and with her becoming Hokage, that meant Shizune had to constantly bring in the paper work, wake the elder woman up -which she didn't quite like doing- and try to motivate Tsunade to work. She hated it, she hated the life of a politician, staying enclosed in a building all day and working with tons of paper, sorting them, signing them. Okay, she didn't do the signing herself, so what? She still had to persuade the Hokage in doing it. Besides, Tsunade was not so kind to Shizune, always telling her off and barely listening to the poor girl. Of course, her pride as a kunoichi wouldn't allow the black haired girl to express all of these feelings, yet it didn't keep her from actually feeling them. It had been a while now, and all the time she had spent with her sister – as she liked to call her – even before Naruto had brought them back to Konoha in order for the sannin to be promoted to Hokage status had been composed entirely of herself lecturing Tsunade about not being so careless and actually taking things in her own hands, which obviously served no purpose. Shizune wanted changes, she wanted to be taken care of, to be seen as a precious person to someone, not the other way around.
"Tsunade-sama!" she exclaimed angrily, with Tonton, oinking angrily, in her arms.
"mumble...grr...Paper...mumblemumbleZzZz...grrr" was all the blonde haired woman said.
"Wake up Tsunade-sama! You have work to do!" she yelped in a raging tone, not realizing her mistake.
Tsunade's eyes flew open at the noise and she grabbed Shizune's wrist with her inhuman strength. Shizune squealed in pain as the half-sleepy woman glared at her with a killer intent.
"T-T-Tsuna-nade-s..s-sama! Pl..please... d-d-on't... kyaa!" The defenseless girl flew to the wall across the room, along with her pet-pig.
"Sumimasen kudasai! Godaime-sama!" yelled Shizune as she let a few tears flow along her cheeks.
"What's the matter, Shizune? Eh?" the Hokage said.
"Y...You should...get... to work..h..Hokage-sama!" the teary girl sobbed and quickly formed her arms around her poor curled form in a defensive state, expecting another blow.
Awkward silence. The blow never came. Shizune slowly looked up, in a frightened tone, which was not all that obvious.
"You are right, Shizune, I'm sorry I hurt you." With that the lady turned around and got back to her paper work, leaving a rather stunned girl and her pig to wonder what the hell was happening.
Shizune dully stood up and walked out of the Hokage's office. She walked past the 2 chuunins guarding the wooden door, and then walked all the way out of the building, fighting back the growing tears in her black, reflect-less eyes. As soon as she lay a feet outside the main doors of the building, she burst into tears, crying freely and sobbing uncontrollably. Why...why does she have to beat me up like that?and why has she not hit me... maybe it's...getting better...no.. it's most likely not. I never did anything bad to her, I even lent her my money when she gambled, and she lost it, yet now she takes out her anger on me... She felt her stomach tying in a knot, feelings of anger,sadness, endless sorrow and culpability welling up inside her. She crossed her arms around her chest, reaching her shoulders as she ran headfirst downstairs, crying loudly and getting herself stares from everyone. She didn't mind though, she only ran. As fast as she could, as far as she could. Not planning to stop any time soon. Eventually though, her whole body began aching. Not able to bear the pain, she collapsed to her knees, curling upon herself on the ground, Tonton still in her arms, oinking at her mistress sadly. The girl finally managed to find her composure, well if you could call it that, she simply stopped shaking uncontrollably and just sobbed quietly. Shizune had never wore any make up, so it wasn't a problem when she was crying, she was still as pretty and charming. Her short black hair down to the middle of her neck were covering her face. What have I done to deserve that...I..I'm a good g-girl...I've never done anything to upset anyone, and I've always did my best to help others. Hell, now she felt like dieing, having all eyes directed at her.
Ino, who was on her daily jogging, happened to be crossing said black-haired lady's path. She jogged up to the sobbing lady, and kneeled next to her:
"Excuse me there, Are you okay?"
Shizune pushed herself to her feet, every muscle in her body screaming murder. She blocked her face with her hands, beginning to sob louder again and she ran. She ran endlessly, now determined to never stop.
- - -
Naruto walked, carrying a somewhat red, semi-transparent cocoon. If you looked closely, you could make out fox ears in the young boy's hair, and the red glow had the characteristics of chakra. His blond hair was stripped with black meshes, his arms were torn at some parts, and had deep cuts, open wounds and you could even see trough his body at the area where his left lung should have been. Yet, apparently, the red chakra had formed strings, and a transparent lung, which pumped at the rhythm of the boy's breath – quite fast – as he approached the village. His eyes were crimson red and his pupils slitted. He bore fangs and his whisker marks were glowing. In the cocoon you could faintly see the shape of the traitor, Uchiha Sasuke. Naruto had managed to bring him back. As he came into view, spotted by a chuunin in the guard tower, the whole town became agitated. Of course Sakura was the first one at the gates, followed by a somewhat perplexed Ino, then came into view Lee, Shikamaru, the Konohamaru Corps, Tenten, Chouji, Hinata, Neji, Shino and even Kiba. Naruto, as soon as he entered the town, dropped Sasuke. Sakura was next to him before even the ANBU got there. She looked at her prince charming, tears filling up her emerald eyes. The ANBU then took him away, and Sakura turned to Naruto, her eyes quickly switching into anger mode. She walked up to him, looked him from head to toe, then back up, before spitting at his see-trough wound.
"Naruto! You damned moron! YOU FAILED! YOU HURT HIM! YOU STUPID JERK, I DON'T EVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN, I HATE YOU! WHAT DID YOU DO TO SASUKE-KUN? Monster!"
She slapped him.
Naruto did one of his hurt face, shamefully looking to the ground. More beating ensued, his already worn body not able to defend, on the edge of death. Then, Ino stepped in, wanting to add her word as well.
"NARUTO! How could you? Forehead girl's right for once! You hurt our Sasuke-kun, pay with your life now!"
She punched him in the gut. Naruto Screamed in agony, his breath cut, the red chakra dissipated. He fell to his knees, only to get a knee up his chin. He then flew backward a few feet, landing with a painful thud. The two girls kept on bashing on him, and Lee watched in horror as his love for Sakura died straight there. Shikamaru hid his sadness, because he knew how much Naruto meant to him, and he knew he couldn't do anything if he wanted to keep Ino's love. So there was the spiky blond, whom had become so much more than Konoha's number one hyperactive, loud and clumsy ninja. Naruto laid down, closing his eyes peacefully, as he said one last thing.
"Sakura...Ino... is that how...you...two...th--" He coughed up blood, his stomach wound began bleeding at such an horrifying speed that Tenten had to look away, not to be sick.
"...Thank me...?" Naruto coughed once more before he went black.
- - -
He stirred in something he felt was soft, warm and comfortable. Is this heaven? It feels so... ARGHHHH Itai ITAI, IT HURTS! No, this wasn't heaven, this was a sign he was still alive and... well, not-so-well. He tried opening his eyes, which proved to be futile, since he could barely manage to think without aching. Then he heard a soft voice telling him everything was alright, that he was on his way to be better. He felt reassured, but as he recalled what had happened, he had a flash, what had happened to Sasuke, what about the bastard? And mainly where was he? And then, where was he, himself? Naruto guessed it was the hospital and so he asked the girl, with a rather torn voice:
"W...where...a..am I? H..Hospi..tal?"
"Yes", she replied with a loving and caring voice, "You're at the hospital."
He already felt a bit better at hearing that. He slowly managed to open his eyes to a rather blurry vision of a yellow and green blob.
"Naruto, I thank you for bringing Sasuke back, your mission was successfully completed, and because of that, you are thereby promoted to chuunin, as well as given 3 months off duty which are paid by Konoha, as well as the mission reward we had agreed upon."
Naruto managed a foxy grin of his own, as the vision became clearer. Baa-chan can be that sweet? I'm sure I've never heard her talk like that to me. The fox-like boy grinned as he moved his hand into a hug-me way. Tsunade hugged him and smiled as well, after all, she was happy the boy was alright.
"Naruto, You have visit" a woman called from outside the room, letting Shizune into the dark room.
"Hokage-sama, Shizune has come to see you as well."
Tsunade nodded the woman off and turned to Shizune, which had a slight blush and was staring at the wounded boy. She had gotten over her little runaway, and was back a few days after.
"What is it for, Shizune? Where is Tonton?" The older woman asked.
"Oh.. I left her at home, and actually," She blushed crimson, "I've come to... to see how N..Naruto is doing."
"Oh, Fine then, I'll leave the two of you alone" Tsunade said with a smirk as she left the room and went back to her office.
Shizune stayed there, petrified, in front of Naruto, who looked at her in a strange way, his head tilted on the side.
Silence.
A moment went by before Naruto spoke up:
"Oii Shizune-neesan! How are you?" he said, with a trademark grin.
Ohhh, Shizune, no more, please aahh-aaa--- ! Shizune snapped out of her daydreaming as she heard Naruto's voice.
"O..Oh Na...Naruto! Heh...heheheh, I'm fine... and don't call me sister, I'm not your sister." She laughed sheepishly as she scratched the back of her head.
"If you say so, Shizune-san" He bobbed his head in a nod as he grinned.
Shizune blushed lightly and with all her will, sat on the hospital bed, next to the rather-wounded boy. He looked at her and noticed her blushing. He also noticed how she wore fishnet under her black and white kimono. He was starting to feel rather uncomfortable, that is, until she spoke.
"N..Naruto, I..I hope you get well hmm?" She smiled her cutest smile.
Something about the boy seemed to change at that very moment though, he frowned.
"Shizune, why do you care about me, ne?"
She was dumbstruck, she was speechless, why did she care about him? Ohh Shizune, I love it that way, don't stop please, Shi...zu...ne... She mentally kicked herself.
"Well...Naruto... I love you, erm, I mean, you know, as in, friends, yeah, that's it, I love you as a friend." she said as she seemed to tense up, apparently stressed.
"Oh, but... that's not the only reason, is it, Shizune-chan?"
His voice sounded needing, he sounded as if he was broken, as if he lacked something all this time, all of his life. Of course Shizune knew about the nine tails, but still, she couldn't figure out what he wanted, lacked and needed. To top it all, he looked pleading. Naruto... you are so...sexy. She carefully placed a hand in his hair, ruffling it and patting his head.
"Naruto, you do know that if I don't want you to call me neesan, it means that I might want to someday...well you know.. be more than a... simple sister to you, right?"
Naruto looked at her dumbly, as if he hadn't gotten a single thing out of this and had no idea what she was talking about.
"What do you mean more than a simple sister, ne Shizune?"
A giant sweat drop formed behind her head as she blushed and looked around nervously, trying to disappear suddenly.
"Umm... well, Naruto...kun..." she trailed off as she blushed madly, staring at the wounded boy.
"What is it, Shizune? Tell me please please please!" He grinned foxily as if he had totally no idea at all.
Maybe he really doesn't know. She smiled to herself, picturing how it would be, teaching him everything. Naruto of course had noticed her smiling, and so, his naive little self couldn't keep itself from asking why.
"Ano, Shizune, why are you smiling, ne?"
She stopped dead, looked at him, heeding a strange expression, as stoic as a brick, actually.
"Shizune, are you okay? Gee gee what did I do?" Naruto began panicking and fought hard to try to get up and 'help' the girl, to no avail though.
"Na..Naruto, I'm alright... sorry, I was just thinking" Wrong.
"Oi? Thinking about what?"
She flushed, looking at him like he had said she smelled bad.
"Mind your own business kid!" she yelled in an angry voice which let upon a glimpse of teasing.
Naruto did a pout face "Heh! Always like that! But when I become Hokage--"
"Fine fine", Shizune interrupted him before his speech about his dreams and such, although she liked them, it wasn't what she had come here to hear. "Naruto...I was thinking about you, silly."
He looked at her for a few seconds, then tilted his head to the side, ever grinning. Then his mouth formed a 'O' as he struck his chin as if he was thinking deeply. Then his eyes burst out into stars, his body trying to move in to hug the black haired kunoichi. He ached in pain and resolved to just looking at her, that is, until she hugged him. He rested his head on the pillow as he stared up at the ceiling and told her:
"Shizune! You were thinking about treating me to ramen in order to celebrate my bringing's sasuke back! How kind!"
She fell to the floor, as red as a tomato, but it was from being pissed off.
"NARUTO! Baka!" She roared, making him suddenly fear for his life, and then walked off.
He sighed. The blond boy somehow knew he had done, actually, said something wrong. He could feel he had upset his guest. He drifted down to sleep, rethinking the events and what the jounin girl had told him.
- - -
Shizune grumbled at herself as she walked trough the Konoha streets, scolding herself for leaving him alone because he was just ignorant. She went back to the Hokage's office, for she did have work, after all. The girl began making her way inside the building, when she remembered something. Sakura. Crap! What is she going to do, not allowed to go see Sasuke being 'exorcised' she might try to take revenge on... Her words trailed off as she pictured the pink haired girl beating on Naruto in his hospital bed, unable to do anything. It was horrifying for her, it terrified her and it tormented her, she couldn't leave the foxy boy alone. She had to go back. Now.
She ran, yet again, not stopping untill she reached the hospital doors. Standing there, in front of the door, she waited a few moments to compose herself, then hastily walked in.