Chapter 2 - The Rumor
Sakura was walking to the hospital, when Ino stopped her.
"Hey, Sakura, have you heard! Guess who Minami's dating!" Ino asked.
"No clue." Sakura said, literally stopping to smell the roses at the Yamanaka's Flower Shop.
"God! You're slow! You have no clue Minami's dating Naruto!"
Sakura froze at that last Sentence. Naruto wasn't crushingon someone else, he was kissing someone else!
"And yesterday, He had an argument with her on the academy roof top. I could hear it while I was walking next to the academy! Minami was rushing out in tears. I'm not sure if they broke up, even though it was their first date. It's likely."
"Poor guy…" Sakura said, as she waved good-bye to Ino.
Then, TenTen walked up to her. "You'll never guess.."
"To late…" Sakura interrupted, as the doors closed behind her.
Naruto was in bed, still trying to sleep. He couldn't sleep since yesterday. He looked out the window. How clouds can bring out the truth. Truth sometimes can't be bad, but sometimes it's devastating. He decided to just get up and go to the academy to teach some Genin how to use a double-handed kunai, just because he had nothing else to do.
"Damn, I can't find a poison that takes a day to start it's effect!", Minami growled. "Wait, maybe I can combine Poison S with Poison F!"
Minami was at home, trying to find a special poison, something she could inject, and it would only give pain 1 day later, immediately killing, so she wouldn't be much of a suspect. The life of a mass murder is hard, but life as a girl friend is even harder, especially when there a lot of people you want to kill.
Sakura Haruno. A person Minami hated. She was a date magnet 2 years ago, the year Minami moved to the village. Boys were all over her, until a scandal planned by Sakura to get the boys back.
Sakura had become her friend. She said she was going to do a marvelous hairdo, but instead, she dyed her black hair red, and cut it short. She also threw in spots of blue, green and brown. Minami stayed indoors all day. She dyed her hair all red and let it grow. Well, that's what she told her friends… She didn't like to talk about it. After what Sakura did, boys didn't talk to her, she didn't know why, until yesterday.
Well, she figured out the poison…
But…
Minami wondered. Wondered if she should get Naruto back, or kill Sakura. She needed to test out Poison SF. Nah, killing her would be to harsh, maybe Making her weak and sick for about a year. Yeah! Then she would get Naruto back.
She polished up a few poisonous senbon, and sharpened her dagger. She brushed her hair, and poured poison over it. She was the mass murderer of the leaf. She was…
Death.
Naruto was walking home from a day at the academy. Phew, kids are tough. No way he ever wants that many!
As he walked home, he noticed that village gate was slightly ajar. As he went to close it, the gate accidentally slammed on his hand. He had suffered worse injuries before, so all Naruto did was clench his teeth, and run home.
When he got to his apartment, he had to close the door with his foot. His hand had swelled up a large amount. He just got a rag and packed it with ice, and laid it on his hand. It seemed to get a bit cooled off, but not enough. He packed more ice, and just decided to lay down, and watch TV.
After an hour sitting watching soap operas that he hated (Only watching to make fun of the actors accents and hair…) the door bell rang. His hand had swelled down a bit, just enough to move the thumb with no pain.
Naruto got up and opened the door, only to see Minami..
"What do you want…" he pouted, his arm in a cross position.
Minami immediately spotted the rather large hand. "You should get that to a doctor." She said examining it.
"What for, it's only a little swell, it doesn't hurt at all, see!' Naruto said, moving his thumb around.
"Then close the door."
Naruto froze for a second. "Okay, it's swelled, but I'm not going to the doctor."
"Just follow me…" Minami said, walking out the door.
"Hey! Wait up! Where are you going?" Naruto followed
At the hospital, Naruto and Minami were waiting in an empty room for the nurse to come in. They were surprised when they found out the nurse was Sakura.
"Naruto what happened!" Sakura gasped, hand over her mouth.
"Just a swell, no problem. She made me come here." Naruto replied, eyes pointing to Minami.
"Is there anything you can do for him that can get his hand into… normal size." Minami begged, hugging Naruto,
'There's no way to stay angry at this woman.' Naruto admitted. He hugged back.
Sakura started to fume. "Well, I'll check on your hand." Sakura cringed. She grabbed Naruto's hand and started squeezing it where it hurt the most.
"THE PAIN!"
"AHHH!"
"WHY?"
Minami swatted Sakura's hand.
"Why are you…" Minami started. She smirked, then whispered in Sakura's ear, "Are you, jealous?"
Sakura blushed to her Japanese name, cherry blossom. "No!"
"No what?" Naruto stated, rubbing his throbbing hand.
"Nothing." Minami smiled, finding something against Sakura! She likes Naruto.
"Just pack it with dry ice, then put it in a barrel of freezing water. I recommend you take cold baths." Sakura said, cooling down her blushed face, and shooing the patients off.
Minami was back at her home. Now that she knew Sakura loved Naruto, she had the information she needed. She would spread a rumor, but play it so Naruto doesn't hear. It was just the start of Minami's plan. It was, revenge…