Unraveling the Milestones
Genre: Adventure, Romance, and Humor.
Ages: Naruto – 15, Sasuke – 15, Sakura – 15, Kakashi – 29
Couples: For me to know and for you to eventually find out ;)
Summary: 3 years after Sasuke left, the remnants of Team 7 pull together for a mission. The tribulations put them to the test and bring unraveled mysteries and unrealized ways of affection to life. Kakashi's finale with a bud that needs to bloom.
Disclaimer: Ugh, I wish I owned Naruto.
"He speaks"
"He thinks"
"Inner Sakura"
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Day 01 – Back in Konoha: Part Two
The dark haired vixen continued to waggle a seductive finger towards the man behind the wooden bar. Luscious full red lips glistened as she slowly called to him and her highlighted eyes seem to draw him in like a siren in the sea. The man walked over with his massive calloused hands twitching in excitement as she leaned forward giving him a splendid view of her—
"KAKASHI!" Tsunade screamed once more as she drove her fists into the desk angrily. Eyes twitched and frazzled wisps of blonde hair fell from the wavy arch of her bangs and into her heated face. She leaned over her desk and glowered at the oblivious jounin and proceeded to think of how many ways she could burn that horrid Icha Icha Paradise book. The properly attired Hokage continued to grind her knuckles into the splintered wood as the silver man's obsidian eye finally drifted over the edge of the book.
In the mind of Kakashi he first stared bewildered. The blonde spit fire had then raised a finger and gestured for the accused ninja to step forward. Kakashi stared and then glanced back down at the paragraph of introduction to the graphic novel. "continued to waggle a seductive finger…" Kakashi looked up to the Hokage and coughed with an amused grin. She quirked a brow at his sudden look of amusement and lowered her lids in a skeptical gaze.
"Kakashi. Let me see that book…" Tsunade demanded and held out her hand. Shizune gasped from the corner as Tonton promptly leapt out of her awaiting arms.
"Tsunade-sama! Now is hardly the-" Shizune started but Tsunade held up her hand to silence her. Kakashi cackled with amusement as he walked over to the desk lazily and held out the book,
"Ya know I have more books at home you can read too…" Kakashi mentioned in a sing song voice. Tsunade didn't say anything and opened to the introduction paragraph. "The dark haired vixen continued to waggle a secutive finger…" Tsunade froze with a growing sneer. "Why that little…" She thought with vehemence. Her knuckles crackled as she struggled to restrain herself. Finally her gaze carried over to the Copy Ninja and he arched a brow at her and with a sick smirk and her monstrous strength…
Riiiiiiiiip.
Kakashi stared and struggled to cover a strangled whimper. Tsunade ripped the book apart down the spine and the pages littered across the desk top. Kakashi dropped his shoulders in defeat and reached out with shaky hands to rescue the pages from more torture. Tsunade quickly slapped his hands away and with a sickly sweet voice said,
"Now that I have your attention…since you have no interest in hearing about the arrangements for the next Chuunin exam, you are excused." Kakashi looked from her to the fray of pages and back up to Tsunade who was grinning back and was glowing with victory. Kakashi squinted his single eye at her and spout brashly,
"You…are a very mean Hokage." With that he spun on his heel and shoved his now idle hands in his pockets. Before he was out the door Tsunade spoke once more,
"And by the way, expect an exceptionally rigorous mission soon." Kakashi just turned and gave a mock salute with an arched eye to her revenge and poofed out of the office leaving a litter of leaves…innocently leaving leaves…they were really really good leaves. Tsunade growled at the pile of leaves and after briefly rubbing her temples she looked back up to the other Chuunin and Jounin nins who were leaning up against the wall snickering quietly to themselves. She sent a sharp glare their way and they shut up immediately. Asuma just shook his head as he took another puff of his ciggy. "There goes another 14 dollars down the drain. Damn him for making me buy him that."
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Kakashi continued walking through the market place with a defeated puppy aura around him. "Mannnnn." He whined as he kicked yet another innocent rock in the dirt road. He groaned and allowed his head to roll back as he looked up to the sky. So peaceful. Konoha has been this way for awhile. The Akatsuki Organization had been on the down low after Jiraiya came and took Naruto out to train after having passed the Chuunin exam later after he came back from the failed mission to retrieve Sasuke. Even Orochimaru had kept his snaky self hidden and silent. Though the hidden village of the leaf was still walking on eggshells and tightening the trades and bonds with the other villages it was still in a state of mind of 'Silence before the Storm.'
Kakashi lowered his head with a sigh and continued to let his mind wonder and thought back to the now infamous team seven. Sasuke, no one has heard of him since the battle he had with Naruto. Naruto, after finishing the second Chuunin exam with Sakura, Jiraiya came by and whisked the bouncy blonde off into years of training on the back of summoned frog. Sakura, she was still a regular of Kakashi's. She had started to train under the Hokage and was quickly learning the way of the medic nin and was no longer a defenseless cheery blossom. It was only normal that the once frail sakura blossom of Konoha had gained the abnormal and monstrous strength of her sensei. Every Friday Kakashi and Sakura had agreed to hang out for the afternoon so to remain in touch and every time he saw the determined bubble gummed hair ninja he continued to boast proudly to Gai-sensei of his still blooming student. As for Kakashi…well as long as Sakura remained a Chuunin she would be his student part time and he would sit in his trees and read his Icha Icha. Kakashi sighed.
"My Icha Icha Paradise…." He whined and scowled at the mountain side that was slowly but surely starting to show the young face of Tsunade that townsfolk were carving. He scowled and pondered on pulling a Naruto stunt and having his way with finger painting the mountain. The thought alone caused him to grin beneath the mask because drawing a mustache and the word 'fake' with an arrow pointing down was becoming more and more appealing. Suddenly something caught his attention and caused him to whip around sharply with a kunai in hand and he froze…
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"NO! Please Sakura-san! I beg of you! I must remain the young protégé that Gai-sensei has created!" Lee screamed and dug his wrapped fingers into her carpet of her apartment.
"Lee-kun…LET GO!" She growled and continued to pull and tug on his feet. A vein pulsed in her forehead as she huffed looked down at the sixteen year old that proceeded to claw at her carpet. "You. Are. Going. To. Let. Go. Now." She fumed and he looked over his shoulder and waggled his thick eyebrows.
"No." He said in a sort of growl and then he lowered his eyes and looked to the carpet, "Desperate times call for desperate measures." He stated and she arched a brow and suddenly she watched as he opened his mouth and then engulfed a chunk of the carpet and continued to latch on like a snapping turtle.
"Lee-kun! My carpet!" She snapped and leaned over his legs and slapped his head. He only growled at her and she snorted and continued to pummel his skull. He still refused to let go.
Ten minutes later….
Sakura stood back for a moment and watched how the taijutsu user continued to foam on the carpet as he kept it firmly between his teeth. His hands were on either side of head to nurse the small mountains that Sakura raised. She smiled to herself and snatched out another wired kunai from her boot and leaned down and proceeded to wrap it firmly around his legs and with a roar of power from Inner Sakura, she ripped his hands away from his head and bound them behind him. She whimpered as she looked at the two frayed holes in her dark blue carpet.
"You do realize…you ARE going to pay me back for destroying my apartment." She threatened menacingly as her jade eyes took in the destruction. Dirt was on all the countertops. Her couch was still sizzling and hissing. Holes in the walls. Holes in her carpet. She sighed again. "Lee-kun. What happened to that rule of yours? Ya know, if I don't do a thousand punches I will jump rope 1200 times?" She asked sweetly. Can't win by force. Then aim towards the pride. Lee-kun stopped and looked at her and then up to his fuzzy brows then back to Sakura. He released the carpet and the puddle of drool was sloppily drenching the carpet making Sakura want to gag. She smiled and patted him on the shoulder. "Now let's go to the salon! My appointment is in 15 minutes." She stood up and walked out her door and then paused when she didn't hear him follow.
"Ahehe, you need to release me Sakura-san." He said and she smirked and jerked the kunai in her hand the made the bound ninja stand up.
"Safety precaution. Start hoppin." She demanded and pointed out the door with the wired kunai. He lowered his head in defeat and continued to hop out the door with an embarrassed blush flushing his cheeks. She continued to walk down the bustling streets with a joyous smile on her face as she folded her hands behind her head. Her boots kicked up a soft trail of dust behind her when Ino and Chouji showed up. Sakura smile brightly and waved to them from the corner and the said two waited for her to catch up. Since Sasuke had left and Shikamaru was already a Chuunin, Tsunade had the two from team ten and seven join into one. They all took the Chuunin exam later that year and even with a few bumps in the road, the four had managed to get along well enough to pass. Since then they had formed another tight friendship.
The two sweat dropped and Ino arched a brow, "Ne Forehead girl. I know you're harsh but honestly what did Lee do this time?" She snickered and Chouji paused on the consumption of his chips. Sakura chuckled evilly and rested an arm on Chouji's shoulder and eased on one foot. While lazily twirling the kunai she tilted her head at Lee.
"Go ahead Lee-san. Tell them what's up." She chuckled.
"I, Rock Lee, have lost against Sakura in a spatula match and thus lost the bet. I, Rock Lee, must allow Sakura-san to wax my eyebrows and pluck my lashes…." He said in a defeated tone but still tried to hold his head high. Ah but how the tears fell. Ino stared and a chip fell out of Chouji's mouth. Sakura chuckled manically and pushed off of Chouji gently and smirked at Lee.
"Start hopin! We are only a block away!" Sakura cheered and Lee sadly started to hop along the side of the road with a shocked Ino and Chouji standing behind them. Ino leaned towards Chouji and whispered,
"I really think Tsunade is starting to really rub off on forehead girl." Chouji could only nod. Sakura clenched her fists and kept walking but Inner Sakura roared to the point Mufasa would run with his tail in between his legs. "Got something to say INO-PIG! SAY IT TO MY FACE! ROAR!" While Ino walked after Sakura and Lee eagerly, Chouji glanced down at the ground at the chip that had fallen on the ground. He quickly looked left and right and snatched it up off the ground and ate it quickly and smiled. "Ten second rule!" The four continued and finally entered the local barber shop.
"Hell guys! How are you today?" The reception asked the familiar faces. Sakura smirked and snapped the wire and soon Lee was released. Suddenly he faltered and made a mad dash to the door before Chouji and Ino tackled him and drug him back. Hey, they wanted to see too! The receptionist blinked and looked at Sakura.
"Hehe! Well I'm here to get my hair cut but Lee-san…has come here to wax his brows and pluckify those lashes." Sakura stated loudly and boldly. Lee was being held up by the arms in a defeated posture with tears rolling down his face. The store went into a shocked silence. Everyone slowly looked at Lee who only nodded with a depressed face. The wind of the news spread outside and onto the street and immediately, anybody who was anybody that knew Gai-sensei and Lee-san were shoving themselves through the doors to see. Sakura shrugged, she would look after it was all said and done and left it up to Ino and Chouji to hold the struggling man down. Heh, he had to keep his dignity after all!
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Kakashi clutched his kunai tightly as his single eye peered at his worst enemy. It was even worse then Gai with those big eyes, kunai like claws, and conniving little personalities that once they hooked ya, brought you down before ya knew it. He slid his foot back against the dirt and eyed it closely to make sure it didn't make any sudden movements.
"Meow!"
Kakashi shuddered. Cats. He hated cats. They were evil. Even more evil than Tsunade! And that folks, was saying something. It took a step forward and he took a step back.
"Aha. Good kitty nice kitty. Shoo. Shoo!" He said nervously waved his hand that was armed with a kunai. He frowned and slipped the weapon in his holster and snagged a random chop stick on the ground with his gloved hands and chucked it at the cat. He watched in victory as it hissed and scampered back a few paces. Suddenly.
Hiss….
It looked up at Kakashi with the sharpest and evilest of gazes. It attacked. Kakashi had meant to jump out of the way but when I merchant wagon blocked his path, he was left defenseless as it attached to his chest and started to work its way up to his face.
"AIIYYYYEE!" The usual stotic ninja screamed as the little hell on claws started swatting at his face and hands. With a few colorful curses he continued to try and pry the freak of nature off of his face. Then with a surge of courage he flung the kitten off into a barrel full of water. Before the kitten could strike again, he used the blood on his hands and swiped them down a scroll. He watched as the savoir was born, Pakkun.
Pakkun looked side to side and saw no battle or no mission emergency and arched a brow at Kakashi. Before he could speak Kakashi leaned down and gave an all too affection pat on the head to the little creature and said, "Aha Pakkun. My wonderful doggy. Take of this for me ne? Ja!" Then he eagerly disappeared down the street.
Pakkun glowered and then saw the cat flop out of the barrel like a drowned rat and snorted. Pakkun was above chasing cats. Stupid Kakashi and his catphobia. It meowed innocently and tilted its head with innocence.
"See. You're not so bad…." Pakkun said petting the wet creature when it glared suddenly.
Cashing!
Claws were now off for display as the demonic kitten looked at Pakkun as if to make chic kabobs out of him. He sweat dropped and turned tail with the little menace out on his heels.
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Kakashi continued power walking till he sought refuge behind a book stand. The merchant looked at the infamous copy ninja awkwardly when he saw the shushing motion of the ninja. Kakashi slowly peered over the edge and his single eye moved side to side to look for the hell cat. He sighed in relief and leaned back against the shelves when he saw the same Icha Icha Paradise that Tsunade had torn up earlier.
My love! He thought happily and gratefully reached for the book and flipped back to where he was. But, before he could even start the paragraph over…
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Kakashi looked around as the ground trembled. Earthquake? Suddenly Kakashi found himself pinned beneath the books shelves, body twitching as two exhausted forms laid on it in a heap.
"Hey hey Kaka-sensei!" Said an all to familiar voice.
"Ohh! Volume 24! That's one of my favorites!" Said the perverted hermit as he reached down and snagged the book out of Kakashi's twitching fingers. Kakashi sighed and glared at the world. He was never going to be able to finish that book.
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YATTA! I finished the second chap finally! Remember, review and receive. Its my way of the writing ninja. Ja! Sorry bout typos, was in rush too ;
-Simli