Barako: I'm sorry that it took sooooo long just to update this story... I hope this is okay... kinda like a filler chappie...
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Naruto's POV:
"Naruto… WAKE UP!" I jump up out of my sleeping bag, right onto the ground. Okay… who ever shouted into my ear will perish for waking me so early in the morning. I sit up and rub my eyes, finding Suko right in my face. "Man Naruto! Wake up you cat!" Suko yells again.
"Quit shouting you baboon!" Suko then tackles me, and we wrestle till Kimo walk lazily over to us and pulled us apart. I gave him a bruise! Hah!
"You guys… we're gonna miss breakfast…" Kimo then pulls us up, literally outside by our collar, not noticing that he was choking us. When he finally releases us, I started coughing. I look up when I felt someone places their hand on my back and I saw Takara through my tear-cover eyes.
"Naruto… are you--" Takara cover her mouth and then yawn, tears filling her eyes too, making me laugh a bit. "All right?" Takara wipe her tears away, grinning at Naruto. "Come on, let's eat." Takara then pulls my shirt up, pulling me to the table and I plop down in the middle of Sora and her. I looked at her hair and it was messy, but somehow manages to be tied in a ponytail. When I looked around, everyone had messy hair, but when I looked at Sora right next to me, I couldn't help laughing!
His hair was the messiest, sticking out in every direction. He looked like someone that was dunk into water, shook his hair back and forth quickly and dried with a blow hair dryer.
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NORMAL POV:
"S-Sora! You -laugh- look like a weirdo!" Naruto gasps before falling on a giggling Takara, she was holding it in ever since she saw Sora's head come out of the tent, hair first. She thought that Bigfoot visited them last night. But when she saw Kimiko go up to him and pull him out, Takara saw Sora's tired face and snicker.
"NARUTO! That's rude and mean!" Yumi shouted from the other end of the table, pointing her fork at Naruto. Hitsumi then places a plate in front of Naruto, blushing lightly when he thank her, flashing the Uzamaki fox trade smile.
"I don't think of him as a weirdo, this morning I thought he was Bigfoot that came to take some of our food!" Kumo happily said, watching a pout come on Sora's face.
"I thought the same time too!" Takara held her side, laughing her head off with Naruto.
"Guys! Enough laughing! If I remember Takara, you once woke up--" Takara instantly ran to Konoka and cover her mouth, for their friend to only hear some muffle words and a loud 'Hmph' from Konoka.
Konoka cross her arms and sighs at her friend, whose hand was still over her mouth. Only did Naruto notice that Konoka was standing next to the b-b-q pit, trying to cook some brown things over a pan that someone brought over. She had a chopstick in her right hand and was currently using it to swat Takara's hand from her mouth.
"T-Takara! –Swat- Okay! Fine! I won't tell… for now…" Konoka smile in a knowing way, making Takara fidget the entire time she was cooking for the group.
'Naruto, Takara, Suko, Kimo, Yumi, Kimiko, Konoka, Hitsumi… wait… who's missing? Oh yeah! That Tetsu boy and Yuko! Wonder if they are STILL asleep…' Sora was looking around the table until he saw something move in the boys' tents. Sora then heard one of the two boys' curses and heard a loud 'thump' before the other one woke up.
"We gotta hurry! Suko might eat all the food!"
"I resent that!" Suko shouted, throwing his spork when Tetsu's grinning face appears from inside the tent. Tetsu's face disappears and a few minutes later, Yuko bounce outside and rushed over to Takara, like a lonely sad puppy that found his kid master.
"Takara-baby! Morning!" Yuko hugged Takara, much to her dislike. She hated peppy people in the morning, which was mostly Konoka's fault. She was once so hyper in 3 in the morning, that it drove Takara crazy, so she had to shut her in the closet, but she still heard her 'friend' even when she was across the room, under two thick blankets and some earplugs and under a think pillow.
"Morning..." Takara grumble. Yumi had to detach her older brother from Takara before the girl suffocates from the tight grip.
"Yuko! She's gonna die if you keep doing this in the morning!" Yumi manage to pull him off by pulling his ear, dragging him to the other side. This is how the table was like:
Yuko across Tetsu
Yumi across Takara
Suko across Naruto
Hitsumi across Sora
Kimiko will be across Konoka when she is done cooking.
Kimo is across no one, but he likes it that way… more room…
"So… you guys wanna be like adults and talk all day… or play a game?" Konoka asked them as she placed a plate of bacon in the middle of the stone table, then a container with a lot of rice in it. Some packs of soy sauce and ketchup were in the rice container.
"Play a game! DUH!" Suko said plainly, making the boys laugh and Konoka smile a bit while she raises an eye brow. Naruto didn't know what soy sauce was so Takara had to help him, putting it only on one side of his rice.
"Okay… what game?" Kimiko asked, taking a bite of bacon followed by rice. Naruto grabbed a chopstick and carefully tried the bacon, and then the next thing anyone knew was that he was wolfing it all down. Lucky Konoka cooked a lot.
"Hmm… we played every game created by us Japan kids… so lets ask Naruto or Sora!"
"I didn't play games when I was little… I played pranks…"
"We did play hide-and-seek and tag when I was little…"
"Tag? That sounds like the thing in the back of the shirt…" Suko told them with a stuffed mouth, swallowing it and then taking a huge gulp of water.
"I heard of it once… some American kids were talking about it… running around and tagging each other…" Kimo told them in a bored voice.
Sora then explains the game to them, afterwards, even Yuko wanted to try.
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"Micky-micky mouse, build your house… how many bricks do you need?" Yumi asked Kimiko, while trying to find out who will be it. It was only Kimiko and Naruto, and Kimiko didn't want to be it so-
"2!"
"1…2… Naruto's it! Naruto's it! Run!" everyone ran away from Naruto who crossed his arms and frown. Why him! He then turned around and covered his eyes, but taking a peek and watched a bit of where people were hiding.
"No peeking!" Kimiko shouted and Naruto growled. 'How'd she know? I'm gonna need help…' Naruto grinned and clap his hands together. 'Shadow clone jutsu!' ten Naruto appears and all of them grinned. "Come out come out were ever you are!"
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"No one can find me here…" Kimiko giggled until she saw two Naruto's walking past her bush and she gasped. "Nani? Two Narutos'? That is so not-EEEEEEEEEK!" something grabbed Kimiko's legs making her scream. She turned around to find Naruto's hands on her ankles, grinning his fox trade smile.
"Got'cha!"
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"Hey Hitsumi… you okay?" Yuko asked Hitsumi who was right next to him, breathing in short, and weak gasps.
"Y-yes Yuko… I-I'm just worried that N-Naruto-kun will find us…" Hitsumi whisper, she then backed up unto only a bit of her jacket was poking out of the bush.
"Just hang tight and I'll save you!" Yuko faced Hitsumi to find her gone. "Hitsumi?"
"EEEEEE!" Yuko abruptly stood up, looking around the area to find Hitsumi handing upside down under a tree trunk, a rope wrapped around her foot firmly. Her face was flushed and she was trying franticly trying to keep her shirt from revealing what was underneath. "Y-Y-Yuko-kun! N-Naruto-kun is here!"
"Wha?" Yuko heard rustling of leaves above him, he looked above himself and saw a orange blur flying right over him.
"GOT'CHA!" Naruto happily shouted, collapsing on top of Yuko, forcefully bringing him down. "Alright! Just Suko and Tetsu to go!"
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"How did Naruto catch you?" Yumi asked Takara who rubbed behind her head, giggling nervously.
"He chased me and I ran on top of a net, and then I was hanging in the air… like he was hunting me or something… you?"
"He dumped honey on me and bees chased me into the river… and he was waiting on the other side… laughing…" Yumi sweat dropped and Takara was starting to laugh.
"That's nothing! He set up weapons and spears and I walked right in the middle of it!" Suko popped right behind Takara, putting one arm around her neck and slightly lean on her.
"How you survive?" Sora asked, when he saw a smirk on Suko's face, it instantly reminded him of his best friend Riku.
"Easy… I'm a black belt and ninja-in-training…" Suko replied, blowing his nail and smirked again.
"Hello?" Tetsu's head popped out of the bushes and looked relieved to find out he wasn't the only one that was out. "Oh hey guys… I swear… I thought I saw two Narutos…"
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"GOT'CHA!" Naruto tackled Kimo, and the poor boy thought he felt at least five of Narutos on his back.
"Tch… Troublesome…" Kimo allowed Naruto to drag him to wherever the boy may lead him.
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"Hey guys! I'm back!" Naruto appeared with Kimo behind him, his clothes dirty from being dragged around by the ninja.
"That's no fair! How'd you find us?" Yuko asked Naruto, helping Hitsumi with her leg sore.
"Secret!" Naruto grinned evilly, letting go of Kimo so he can dust himself off.
"No way! I bet you cheated…" Suko told him, pointing an accusing finger at Naruto, who just looked shocked.
"Guys… it's just a game…" Hitsumi said and half of the group agreed.
"Yeah… just 'cause you hided in a sucky spot and Naruto found you easy, doesn't mean you gotta act like children…" Tetsu grinned and Yumi and Kimiko frowned.
"How he find you?"
"I was moving around, and when he saw me, I ran… but then he tackled me… and I swear I saw two of him…"
"Like you are to talk…"
"Two Narutos? Not possible…" Takara and Konoka looked at Naruto, who was happily grinning. Takara whipser 'thanks' to the gods that her friends didn't see anything and Konoka rolled her eyes.
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"Bye guys… see you around school…" Kimiko happily told the group, Yumi and Kimiko hoped into Kimiko's car, her mother driving her away.
"Whatever! We go cooking at Tetsu's house before school starts!" Suko slapped Tetsu's back and ran, hopping into his car, sticking out his tongue and showing the peace sign, slamming the door afterwards.
"You just wanna mess up the pool again!" Tetsu shouted at the retreating car, seeing Suko roll down the window and stick his tongue and him again.
"Pool?" Naruto asked, he never seen one.
"Nani? Naru-chan doesn't know what a pool is? Hafa! What's the matter with his brain?" Tetsu grinned, Naruto got mad.
"I've never seen one in Konoha!" Naruto shouted, advancing to Tetsu, but never reached him because Sora was holding his jacket's collar.
"Nani? Never mind… I'll tell you later…" Tetsu sighed, hopping into the back of Konoka's truck. Takara happily jumped into the back while Sora and Naruto took their time getting on.
"Party at Takara's house?" Konoka grins at Tetsu who puts his left arm around Konoka's shoulder.
"Yeah! Trash it and leave her to clean up!" Tetsu grinned, blocking a playful slap from Takara.
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Barako: Like I said... something like to fill your time of waiting...