A/N: ENGLISH IS MY SECOND LANGUAGE, BUT! but, that doesn't mean I'm not good at it...but I must admit that I got grammar mistakes...and I SUCK AT FIGHTING SCENE! MUAHAHA...sorry...THIS IS AN 'OOC' STORY.
IMPORTANT! I've got some few things I have to tell you first!
a) there's a word 'Tch' that I often use in this story, and my friends kept asking me, "What's Tch?" so let me tell you. 'Tch', to me is something like 'cheh', 'che' that you guyz use. It could also be classified as something similar to Sasuke's 'Hn'. So you got it now?
b) There's one thing that I've forgotten to tell you. I should tell you earlier, but I forgot! Really! Actually, Naruto's body went missing right after Iruka mourned for his death. Somehow it went missing! That's very important I know...Anyway I've write about it somewhere in the story in case any of you guyz skipped this Author Notes thing.
c) I'm not gonna repeat and tell you guyz what the charaters wore in details IF their clothes neva change. I'm not gonna waste my time writing about those except if they're new characters or they changed clothes, like Sakura in the last chapter...kay?
AnSwEr FoR ThE ReViEwS:
DJ Rodriguez : I've wrote Kakashi,Tsunade, Shizune, Hinata and Jiraiya's reactions in this chapter. As for the rest, I don't think I'll do it since they're not that important.
OneWithoutEyes : Thanx. This chapter is just the beginning of a new story!
Crest Ray : Well...I do hope you guyz review my story and gimme some ideas...so er...please?
StrawberryGirl : Hey hey! chapter 3 is up!
DanTheGreat It's not a one-shot anymore kayz?
warriorseadra : lol you didn't notice? lol again! hehe...
Ying and Yang twins : You...cried? seriously? Is it that sad?
Kai Hiei Sasuke Bankotsu Ray a... : Your name is just too long I have to shorten it. I dunno yet...depends!
TkMacintosh, Chaos Lord, abhi V., rabidbutterfly : Well ok guyz...Chap 3's here! EnJoY!
ThAnX FoR YoUr ReViEwS!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto... & sorry for the late update!
EnJoY...
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Chapter 3: Two Figures
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--- 10th September (the same day in previous chapter) ---
-- Kakashi's apartment --
Kakashi poured half a liter of milk into his bowl of cereal for breakfast. He ate his breakfast slowly as he watched tv. After a while he shuted down the tv and sighed. 'Everything seems boring now...even my precious books couldn't entertain me that much...'
After he finished his bowl of cereal he took a nice warm bath and changed into his jounin vest. He took a glance at the clock and noticed it's just 7.15 in the morning. 'Weird...I woke up early for nothing...well let's take a visit at the monument should we?' Kakashi told himself with a cheerful attempt. Kakashi walked there slowly as he hummed his favourite song softly.
- At the monument -
Kakashi stared blankly at the stone monument in front of him. He looked at the name 'Obito' and 'Rin'. He gave a sweet genuine smile when he remembered the time they spent together as a genin team. After a while he spotted a name...a name of a boy that was once his student. A boy that he hadn't took care of. A boy that he always abandoned. A boy that wore a mask to hid and locked his painful past away...a boy named...Uzumaki Naruto...
Kakashi remembered a time when he was heading to the monument like he usually do. Only this time he found Naruto knelt on his knees with his eyes hidden behind his blonde bangs. Kakashi decided to hid himself behind one of the trees trying to find the other Naruto that has been hidden behind Naruto's cheerful mask.
-- Flashback --
Cultivate your hunger before you idealize,
Motivate your anger to make them all realize,
Climbing the mountain,
Never coming down,
Break into the contents,
Never falling down...
Kakashi heard Naruto sang the song softly. Kakashi saw a tear was streaming down his face as the rain started to poured down heavily.
My knee is still shaking,
Like I was twelve,
Sneaking out of the classroom,
By the back door,
A man railed at me twice though,
But I didn't care,
Waiting is wasting,
For people like me...
Naruto clenched his hand into a tight fist. Kakashi could swear that he heard Naruto muttered a few words under his breath. "I'm all alone in this world...no one cares about me...no one did...I'm alone...forever...alone..."
Don't try to live so wise, Don't cry 'cause you're so right,
Don't dry with fakes or fears, 'Cause you will hate yourself in the end...
He continued on sang that particular song as Kakashi decided to leave the monument.
(Scene Break)
"Yo!" Kakashi greeted his team as he stood on the bridge's rail.
"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto and Sakura shouted as they pointed they're index finger towards him. Kakashi noticed that Naruto had came back to his normal self, or so he thought. There was a deep sadness in his blue eyes, unnoticed by any of them.
"You see, I was lost on the road of life when an old woman asked me to searched for her missing bag-"
"LIAR!" Naruto and Sakura shouted again while Sasuke just hn'd at Kakashi.
"Today's mission is to-"
-- End Flashback --
'If only I noticed his sorrow back then, all of this won't happen...it's my fault...' Kakashi thought as he mourned for his lost and dead student that has been abandoned and hated by the villagers all his life.
-- Hokage Tower --
Tsunade was walking up the stairs, looking as lazy as ever. She was muttering something like 'Sake...sake...gimme some sake...'
Tsunade was about to reach her secret little cupboard in her very own Hokage office when Shizune came into the picture.
"Tsunade-sama! That's enough! Can't you get your job done without even touching your so-called-lifesaver, meaning; sake. There's a whole lot more paperwork on your desk that's need to be done by tomorrow!" Shizune lectured the Godaime while Tsunade sat down on her chair, and drifted into her own little world.
"Tsunade-sama! Are you even listening to me?" Shizune yelled angrily towards her 'master'. Tsunade was sighing deeply as she nodded.
"Tsunade-sama? ...Are you okay?" Shizune asked softly as she was concerned with Tsunade's lack of..er...reply or whatever it is. (A/N : 'cause she'll usually says "Yea, yea I know" or something like that, right? But this time she sighed instead!)
"Oi Shizune...did you know what day it is today?" Tsunade ask showing no emotions on her face. Gone was her 'lazy' and angry/serious face. She walked to the window and stared outside throughout the village.
"Today? Hmm..." Shizune had a confused look on her face as she thought something inside her mind.
'Hmm...there's something wrong with Tsunade-sama...Why did she suddenly asked me what's the date today? Normally she won't even care about it. Oh maybe it's not the date she was asking me...maybe it's an event or something? Hmm...today's 10th September...'
"! Wait a minute...today's...Naruto-kun's..." Shizune answered Tsunade hesitantly as she looked down at her own foot.
"Yeah...today's the day he's gone...from Konoha...and this world..." Tsunade said as she started to croaked her voice.
Shizune walked towards the sannin and gave her a big caring hug.
"He've done nothing to those fucking villagers! He even tried helping them when they don't even..." Tsunade began to cry uncontrollably.
Shizune hushed Tsunade softly as a tear flew from her eyes.
"He...he...I miss him, Shizune...I miss his grin, his face, his laugh, his...voice..." Tsunade sobbed even harder breaking the mask she had wore for the past 4 years since Naruto's dead.
Shizune hugged her tightly as she whispered a few words.
"I know Tsunade-sama...I know...I miss him too..."
They both stayed that way for the rest of the day, clinging to each other for comfort.
(A/N: Now, now, don't take it the wrong way! Just remember that Tsunade had only exposed her weak side to Shizune, Jiraiya, and Naruto (and maybe Orochimaru too! Who knows) And since Jiraiya's not there, and Naruto's...well...gone, Shizune's the only one who can comfort her, the same goes to Shizune herself!)
-- Hyuuga Mansion --
"Hinata-sama, please eat something. You haven't touch your food for the past few days! You're gonna die of hunger if you keep going on like this!" Neji knocked Hinata's door a few times then sighed. She's been doing this lately, especially when it's September. She took the news of Naruto's death hard and blamed it on herself for not confessing her feeling towards him earlier and changed his life back then.
"Just let me die then! There's no more purpose for me to live anyway! I've endured every second of pain living when I knew he's gone! I'll be glad to leave this world!" Hinata's depressed voice rang throughout the hall.
"Hinata-sama..."
"Go away! I don't need you! I don't need any of you! I need him!" she shouted angrily to Neji through her locked door.
Neji was lost at words. Never had he seen her like this. He knew that she admired Naruto and everything, but he never thought she'll change from being shy and timid into some depressed and upset girl!
'Now what am I suppose to do? Guess I'll do nothing except for leaving her alone...' Neji sighed again as he left Hinata's room and took another shot of thought about Naruto's death that had seriously affected her.
-- Somewhere in the forest far away from Konoha --
Jiraiya sat on a big log near a fire. He stared blankly at the small fire right in front of him. He's been camping on the same spot for the past few days and surprisingly he never had a thought about cute girls or doing his so-called-research, since his favorite blonde student Uzumaki Naruto was all that he thinks about.
"Tch, that stupid brat. What did he do that for?" Jiraiya said suddenly to no one particular but himself. His white long hair had grew longer since Naruto's death. Well, its not like he intended to cut his white, 'cool'(that's what he calls it) hair.
He sighed as he looked up into the endless sky.(A/N: its midnight!) 'It's been two years since my last visit to Konoha. I wanted to keep it that way, but something tell me to go back there this time.' He sighed again as he stood up and brushed dirts off his pants.
'Tsunade...I hope she's okay with Naruto's death...It's been 4 years since he died...and left us forever...Tch...why am I getting so emotional all of a sudden? But then, it's still a mystery on how his body's went missing so suddenly...(A/N: OMG i forgot to mention that Naruto's body went mising right after Iruka cried and mourned for his death in chapter 1! hehe...this could be a clue for you guyz! Again, sorry!)' He looked back at the small fire and took out a bottle of sake from his pocket and pulled the cork then drank the whole bottle.
"This -hic- is very -hic- nice... -hic- I guess -hic- I should -hic- get a -hic- nice -hic- sleep -hic- now -hic-." Jiraiya said as he continued on hiccup-ing. He settled down to his sleeping beg after he drank another bottle of fresh water. (A/N: Wow he sure drinks a lot! sake + water hehe...)
'I'm going back to the village I guess...Naruto...hope you can watch over Tsunade...and everyone else...tch...I don't know why but now i started to miss you calling me Ero-Sennin...heh...Night to you...wherever you are...' he thought again before he finally drifted to sleep.
-- Front gate of Konoha --
Two figures approached the Konoha main gate. One of them appears to be a girl with long red hair tied into a cute ponytail. She wore a dark blue pants matched with purple tank top. Her eyes were blue in colour, just like Naruto's blue sky eyes.
"Kenshu, are you sure this is the place?" the girl asked her partner that stood beside her sweetly.
"Yeah...I guess..."
Her partner seems to be a boy, since his voice was much rougher than hers. His face was hidden behind the hood that he wore. The only things that could be seen was his pants and his shoes. The rest of his clothes were hidden behind his cloak. His pants were black in colour while his cloak was dark brown.
"You...guess?" the girl shouted again towards him. He just sighed and looked towards her.
"Yes, Aka. I guessed 'cause I've never been to Konoha before, so I don't know how it looks like, or how big it is." he said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"But you said you-"
"Akaru. When I said I've never been here before, or I don't know how it looks, I mean it, kay?" he cut off her words and replaced it with his own words in a I-said-that-and-I-mean-it tone. She just nodded and kept her mouth shut after that.
The boy, in another word, Kenshu, just hugged her and whispered "That's my girl." He let go of her and gave her a small smile.
Akaru blushed as she looked at him. She blushed even more when she somehow found out he was smiling under that hood of his.
'Oh My God! He's just soo cute! Especially when he's smiling like this!' Akaru, Aka for short, thought as she turned away from him and slipped on the mud.
"Aaargh!" she managed to shout before she fell.
Actually, almost fell. Kenshu managed to caught her around the waist before she fell.
"Be careful," he said as he pulled her up. Her face was burning red with embarrassment. "Ugh...I'm sorry..." she said as she looked down at her feet.
"Don't be. You're always like this." Kenshu said as he chuckled.
"Hey! Don't laugh!" Aka said as she pulled his cloak revealing blue sky eyes and spunky blonde hair that was hidden beneath his hood just now. One could mistaken him for Naruto, however he does not have those whiskers that Naruto had.
"Well it's not the first time. You're too clumsy." Kenshu said again as he laughed harder.
"Oh come on! You're such a meanie!" Aka said as she pretended to sulk.
"Ok ok...I'm sorry...there...I've said the magical word. So could you forgive me?" he said again as he knelt down on a knee.
"Ugh! Fine! Kenshu! How come you always get me to forgive you just like that?" Aka asked as she signaled him to stand up.
He stood up and chuckled again. "That's my secret. You could always calls it my charm," he grinned.
She blushed again as she looked at him. She tried to hid it, but to no avail. So she changed the subject instead.
"Ugh,so...where are we gonna sleep?"
"Sleep?" he asked as he turned his head towards the main gate. "Oh, it's close. Guess we have to camp again. You don't have any objection, do you?"
"Nah...I'm fine with it" she said as she gave him a smile. They both got their sleeping bag ready and made a small fire to lighten up their place.
"Good night Aka" Kenshu said as he watched her sleep.
"Good night..." she mumbled as she drifted off to a deep slumber.
"Guess I'll sleep too..." Kenshu said as he yawned and get himself into his sleeping bag.
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A/N: Dun Dun Dun Dun! Who are they? Who is Aka? Who is Kenshu? Anyway, that's the end of Chapter 3. I hope its good enough for you guyz... review and give me some ideas! So like I always says...
Review...that's ur job...
OH YA! MERRY CHRISTMAS GUYZ!
