"Whhaaattt?" Tsunade had to cringe back at the sheer loudness of the voice, one of her brown eyes squinting in reflex, "You can't be serious!" The blonde was yelling at her with an unusually soprano voice, which should've been bordering on lower alto and higher tenor normally. And it certainly did not sound pretty when he was screaming like a girl. "Why would you want me to do that at a time like this? I'm telling you! I don't have time for a genin team! I need to-…"
"-find Sasuke yeah, yeah, blah, blah, so shut your trap," she cut off Naruto's statement rather impatiently, wanting to get over it as soon as possible, "It's been long, brat. The Uchiha brat is completely out of control, and there's nothing you could do to bring him back."
The blonde jounin's mouth opened in protest, but closed it when Tsunade hissed at him warningly. The jounin slumped noticeably. His expression saddened only for a brief moment before it disappeared. Instead, he pouted at her, eyes watering to his typical puppy eyes and his lower lip sticking out a bit. She stuck her tongue out at him childishly in return, knowing that it wouldn't be good to pity him, before returning to the file-in-question again. "So anyways, I entrust this team with you, brat. Better take care of them well."
"Ha, fine," Naruto rolled his eyes, sighing exasperatedly while shoving his hand into his jounin uniform pocket, "I will take care of them well."
"Oi, oi, don't be like that," Tsunade chided, clucking her tongue in annoyance, "This team is rather unusual, or special if you want the optimistic term, you know. Other jounin instructors dodged them as if they were some kind of bomb when we were assigning them. Interesting dynamics, I would say, even though the teachers who taught them before graduation wouldn't agree with me...well, except for Iruka. But he doesn't count because he's like that to all of his students," The Godaime leaned back in her chair, blowing her blonde bangs out of her eyes, "We need somebody to guide them properly before they promote to chuunin. And besides, there is someone you might be interested in."
"Ho?" a slender eyebrow rose at that statement, "And who might that be?"
The blonde woman grinned roughly, sitting up slowly as her serious but slightly amused brown eyes met his blue ones. "Uchiha…Shiro."
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Sound to Leaf: Part I
Subject: Mistakes
Warning: Spoilers, very mild hints of shounen-ai. A lot of grammar errors. Just kindly ignore them…
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Interesting team, Naruto noted from his spot behind the door, his blue eyes studying each of his new students. Well balanced and very obnoxious in general… So much like my old genin team… The instructor's eyes saddened for a moment, before it disappeared into the depth of great fascination and amusement. In fact…a little too much. It's starting to freak me out a bit…
"Ichi, stop annoying Shiro-kun!" a blonde girl with a strange, twisted expression between laziness and accusation half yelled and half drawled it to the pale eyed boy beside her, who was trying to provoke some other boy. If it wasn't for her screeching voice, Naruto wouldn't have even guessed that she was a girl with that short hair and lazy expression… Even the other boy was more feminine than her! "How troublesome! Our new jounin instructor's gonna come and we at least need to be…presentable! He's gonna think we're some kind of snot-nosed brats who doesn't even know how to throw a friggin' kunai!"
Damn straight, Naruto muttered mentally.
"Hai, hai!" the pale eyed boy said exasperatedly, throwing his hands up in submission, "I'm sorry, alright? Sheesh! So much for irritating the genius boy!" That pair of pale eyes shifted colors, moving from clear shade of blue to the trademark white with a slight tint of light purple. Then a burst of green was seen before shifting to light red. Naruto never saw such Byakugan like that before... Some kind of rare type, maybe?
Naruto couldn't see the other boy since the door limited his range of visions, but he was able to catch a glimpse of black hair. "Hn." Naruto twitched slightly. What was up with those cold bastards and their little 'hn' or silence? Great. Another one in his life. 4 cold bastards driving him up the wall. Joy.
Abruptly, Naruto opened the sliding door with just enough power to get the kids' attention. (He preferred flashy entrances, but didn't want to break the door since Iruka-sensei would throw a fit if he did.) Three heads turned to him, 6 eyes widening with surprise, to Naruto's glee. Naruto quickly ran his eyes over them. A girl who slightly looked like a guy with short blonde hair and dark eyes was wearing a lazy look. A boy, a Hyuuga judging by his pale eyes, pretty much looked like a girl with his big eyes and long black hair. The other boy looked too familiar, much to his distaste.
"Yo," he grinned, waving at them. They, exception to that familiar looking boy, waved back at him hesitantly, nervous. "Let's make ourselves comfortable and…hmm…introduce ourselves, hmm?"
"Sensei," the Hyuuga blinked at him curiously, raising his hand up almost too cutely, "Why don't you tell us about yourself first?"
Whoa, déjàvu.
"Well…" Naruto started, scratching his head underneath the hitai-ate, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, I'm sure you all know me from either your parents or…rumors. I like many things in the world, but there are also several things I really do hate passionately," Naruto's clear sky blue eyes darkened with bitterness and extreme hatred before it disappeared, leaving behind a somewhat forced glint of mischievousness, "My dream is none of your concern, and just know that I do have hobbies. That's all you need to know."
"You know sensei," the blonde girl sighed, as if she was explaining something she had to repeat more than 100 times, "Even though you said a lot, we didn't really learn anything about you… How troublesome." The Nara crossed her arms, an expression twisted between annoyance and laziness crossing her face. Except that peculiar half-half facial expression, Naruto swore that that girl was a Shikamaru clone.
Again, Naruto felt another déjàvu washing over him before he pushed it away into the little corner of his mind. Scratching his head meekly, he asked lamely, "Ah… Well… Any other questions?" Even though he respected Kakashi-sensei a lot, even though he almost considered Kakashi-sensei as his father figure since his died along with his birth, he did not want to be a Kakashi-sensei in his student's life.
The long black haired Hyuuga raised his hand. Naruto sighed in exasperation. Is this how Kakashi-sensei felt when he had to deal with his past self? If so, he could now see why Kakashi-sensei always seemed to be bored, blank, or exasperated whenever he had something to say or ask. Or all of the mentioned above, which was the expression Kakashi-sensei wore most of the times, if he called correctly. …not that he was admitting that he was annoying, of course. "Yes, Hyuuga?"
"It's Ichi, Naruto-sensei!" he chirped, rather extremely preppy comparing to other Hyuuga in the household; and from what Naruto knew from his experiences with the Hyuuga people, preppy was not in their genes. Shy, maybe, as proven by Hinata and Hanabi, but preppy? Hyuuga blood contained the dominant genes, so Naruto couldn't see where the heck Ichi could've got his preppy gene between Neji and Hinata. Hinata was nice, shy and bright, but was far away from preppy from what Naruto could tell. And Neji? Don't even start there. Neji was anything but happy little words, like…well…happy. "Do you like anybody?"
Naruto blinked confusedly. "I like everybody in this village," he said hesitantly, not sure what Ichi meant by that question. Did he mean in general or…wait, was he asking for his love life?
"You know what I mean," Hyuuga, no, Ichi said coyly, side-glancing at the Nara girl sitting next to him, who just gave him an uninterested look in return. Ah.
"That…" Naruto licked his lips, as the pale eyed boy leaned forward in definite interest. Even if the Nara girl refused to show that she was interested, she also leaned forward, her supposedly bored eyes twinkling with the typical fan girl glee underneath. (He knew the fan girl eyes when he saw one. He had to go through it when he was a genin…for the whole entire time he spent with a certain pink haired girl.) "…is none of your business." …person is someone I don't know anymore. Naruto thought mentally after he spoke, but didn't say it out loud.
The girly boy visibly deflated, pouting slightly as he shamelessly gave off that disappointed aura. The supposedly uninterested girl also let out her own disappointment, but didn't do anything obvious. Sighing, Naruto rubbed his temple, trying to not look too annoyed, "Now any other question if you're done poking at my love life?"
A silence.
"Good. Introduce yourself," Naruto said passively, jerking his thumb at the Hyuuga boy, who immediately perked up at the motion. Grinning widely, something Naruto did not see in the Hyuuga family often – a smirk or a shy smile maybe but not a grin – Ichi played around with the Konoha hitai-ate around his neck, just like how Hinata wore it back when she was a genin. For a moment, Naruto saw a blonde boy wearing ridiculously orange clothes fiddling around with the headband overlapping the dark haired boy.
"Well – I'm Hyuuga Ichi," he said proudly, putting an emphasis to his last name, "I like udon a lot, especially when kaa-san, tou-san, or ba-san makes it for me at home. What I hate is the moment when I have to watch them move around in the kitchen cooking while I sit at the table sniffing at the great scent of udon because they don't allow me in kitchen." Ichi wrinkled his nose in distaste, frowning slightly. "My dream is…to make the whole entire Hyuuga clan acknowledge my existence, my potential, instead of just tolerating me because I'm the son of the great Hyuuga Neji." Momentarily, his hands lingered on his eye area, which was constantly shifting color, before he brightened, "I guess my hobby is to tease Hanabi no ba-chan."
The blonde jounin was somewhat surprised at the familiar words repeated by a person other than him, but didn't say anything. "Next. You dark haired boy over there."
Uchiha Shiro. His eyes narrowed with the memories the surname brought, watching as the dark hairs gathered in a mid-high ponytail swayed along with the wind, a pair of equally familiar but unfamiliar dark eyes pin him down with that typical Uchiha glare. A mild one compared to the ones he experienced before, but still there. (Damn, it showed potential too… He'd be the replica of certain people he knew from the same bloodline.)
"My name is Uchiha Shiro," the boy murmured stoically, looking at Naruto above his clasped hands, "I hate plenty of things there are in the world. There is almost nothing I do like, however, so I don't see why it matters if you do know what I like or hate. I don't have a dream, something only fools think of, but I do have an ambition I need to accomplish." If possible, his gaze turned even more sharper, 3 notches up from his previous one. "That is to kill this one man, and destroy this cursed Uchiha bloodline."
There was a tense silence even the sword could not cut. Ichi looked slightly scared, a little freaked out, and Mitsuki didn't betray any emotion, except for her typical lazy look that was crossed over with a mild type of admiration only fan girls possessed.
A familiar face momentarily appeared over the dark haired Uchiha boy was, flashing red eyes with three commas spiraling around the pupil gazing at him above those pale hands, lips cruelly smirking, and eyes only showing emptiness. Pushing the thought away hastily, Naruto looked at the Nara girl expectantly, nodding at her for her to continue.
As if blinking out of daze, she looked out of it for a moment, before she slapped her cheeks and got back on track. "As you'd know, Naruto-sensei, I'm a Nara. Nara Mitsuki," she said lazily, much like her father, "I like to watch clouds in the afternoon and stars in the evening. What I hate the most is trouble, especially when I have to think about it before doing anything," she sighed, slouching lazily, "Also, materialistically, I like Shiro-kun a lot as a fan girl. And, I don't necessarily hate Ichi, but I'd like him a little more if he didn't do anything stupid. He's such a troublesome kid."
Ichi looked troubled, practically hyperventilating as he gasped for breath in shock, his pale eyes shifting colors every once in a while. Sighing with slight exhaustion that came with spending only 30 minutes with these kids, Naruto called the meeting off after telling them about the survival training. That would determine if they officially become genin or not. Then Naruto fashionably poofed out of their sight, complete with the little clouds and the Konoha's trademark leaves.
At that very night, Naruto dreamed after a long absence of one, gasping for breath unconsciously and sweating as warm pair of dark eyes swam in his mind, accompanied by a mild but honest smile that seemed to be too familiar. Even when Naruto woke up, shuddering, the dream haunted his vision, his thoughts, twisted with his past.
"Naruto…"
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It was a good thing that Mitsuki was at least civil with Ichi, or else they'd have failed the test for sure.
Mitsuki pulled off a nice Kagemane no Jutsu after Ichi distracted him with Jyuken that was much weaker than Neji's but still showed potential. (For some strange reason, Ichi didn't activate his byakugan while using Jyuken, but Naruto wasn't bothered about it, since Ichi's aims were correct.) Since it was a clone that was bound, he just made it self-explode and break the jutsu since it was much weaker than Shikamaru's, to their great disappointment. But then again, Naruto wasn't called as the one of the strongest shinobi in Konoha for nothing. Then the Uchiha rushed at him with one of his Katon jutsu, successfully burning off few of his Kagebunshin he cast to confuse the kids. They pulled off a better teamwork than his old team ever did, and it gave him a small hope. Maybe…just maybe…
"I want a C-ranked mission!" Ichi bellowed at Iruka-sensei, who blinked at him with surprise. They were handing in their report for the last mission they had, which was to rescue the noble lady's cat. To tell the truth, Naruto wanted to rip out that Lady's throat at her attitude toward him, for she knew what kind of 'thing' he was, but restrained it. "All the D-ranked missions are stupid! You know that we could do so much better than that, Iruka-sensei!"
Behind him, Mitsuki silently nodded in agreement, and Shiro was just staring straight ahead, eyes unmoving as the girly boy buzzed with distaste, letting it out shamelessly. Naruto noted the scratch marks covering his arms. "I know that you are going easy on me because I'm only a genin like anybody else and the fact that I'm the heir of Hyuuga clan, but I don't care! I'm going to do anything to make them accept me and this is only a part of it!"
Silence flooded over in that place, most of the adults blinking with surprise at Ichi's outburst. Naruto shook his head with amusement, a genuine grin playing on his lips for once in couple years as the Godaime and Iruka burst in laughter. Ichi looked confused and his determination wavered for a moment, but he still kept it.
"That…that brat…" Tsunade gasped for breath, tears pooling at her brown eyes, "He's…he's just like…when you were genin…Naruto…!" She collapsed in another fit of laughter, head burrowed in her arms as her shoulders shook uncontrollably with silent laughter.
Iruka was the first one to calm down, wiping at his eyes as he smiled at Ichi fondly. "I remember this moment like 16 years ago when you were a genin Naruto." At that, Mitsuki and Ichi looked at him with curiosity, but Naruto ignored it, pouting slightly at Iruka. "It was such a long time ago… You were so bright back then…" Iruka looked at him sadly. His eyes were asking him. What happened to you, Naruto? You changed so much…
"Yeah…I was, wasn't I…" he said quietly, a painful grin on his face.
In solemn silence, the godaime and Iruka assigned them a C-ranked mission. His team was silent also, swept by the mood. Of course, they didn't predict the trouble that was brought with the very mission.
The goal was this: Accompany Hina-san to the Amegakure, the Hidden Rain Village.
Hina-san was the head mistress of the village, bearing the task of bringing the sacred item to her village safely, without breaking it, or getting it stolen by their rival, the Rock Village. They ran into many Rock nins in the middle, chuunin, jounin, and a really talented genin that went by the name Kuro. Naruto ended up dealing with all chuunin and jounin, while the children set off to stop that genin from getting his hand on Hina-san.
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Blocking another kunai flying at his side, he yelled at his students hastily, "Go after him!" His students looked at him hesitantly, as he distractedly deflected an attack heading toward his head. He turned to them again after finishing one of the jounin off cleanly by slitting his throat, "Go! Protect Hina-san! Try to get to her first and run away from him as far as you can! And if you do succeed running away, go to the Amegakure! I'll catch up! Hurry!"
His genin team scrambled to their feet as fast as they can and disappeared out of sight, heading toward the way Kuro and Hina-san ran off to.
"Shit!" Naruto cursed as one of the shuriken thrown at him grazed his cheek. A faint metallic scent of his own blood filled his sensitive nose. Annoyed, he scowled at the ame jounin and gingerly wiped at his cheek, wincing a little at the pain. Through the experiences of being hurt in many various ways, Naruto found out that paper cuts always felt much worse than a hole in your stomach. He grimaced at the amount of blood on the back of his hand, even he felt the Kyuubi already applying his chakra to his wound to heal it. The blonde haired jounin leaped with a kunai in his hand, and before the jounin blinked, he was dead, a kunai in his throat.
The Konoha jounin instructor rushed through the forest with the gracefulness of a fox, using his hypersensitive senses to avoid the chuunin and jounin as much as he can. Due to the rain sprinkling at the moment, which caused the air to be extremely humid, it was hard to breathe and go at full speed, since his blonde bangs kept on plastering to his blue eyes. Every once in a while, Naruto paused in his rush to wipe at the bangs blocking his vision, annoyed. This was when he seriously wanted to have the Konoha hitai-ate with him. But too bad he didn't. It was safely tucked in under his pillow at home.
Irritated, Naruto threw a shuriken at another presence sneaking up on him, who became silent after a crack of bones and a thunk of his shuriken embarking itself into the tree bark. The sickening sound of head rolling was heard and Naruto sighed. He never was the one to like taking one's life, mission or not. He murmured a small prayer to the people he killed up till this moment and silently took off, disappearing into the trees.
Getting to his students was his first priority. Poofing to his destination would only draw attention to his students, and even if Naruto was strong, he wasn't sure if he could deal with all those shinobi in one place at the same time. Also, his team would be in a risky situation, since they never killed before and was too inexperienced to deal with such strong ninjas.
Kuro was a very strong genin, at a chuunin level at least, and he just knew that his students didn't stand a chance. Maybe Shiro had a chance against him, proven by his broader knowledge in a shinobi's techniques than other two, but unless he activated Sharingan, which he didn't, he'd have a very hard time. Even if he happened to defeat Kuro without Sharingan, he'd still be in a critical situation.
Naruto anxiously increased his speed, despite the unpleasant feeling of water in his sandal, and the wet, squelching sound every time it came in contact with anything beneath his feet. 'Please be okay…Mitsuki, Ichi, and Shiro…!'
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"You won't make it out of here alive," the rock genin growled at them behind his mask that was covering the top half of his face. They had caught him nearing Hina-san before they interrupted, and Kuro was upset that she had gotten away. He was so close, and the mistress scrambled away with the sacred item after the Konoha genin team yelled at her to get close to Amegakure as near as she can. Their instructor was taking care of all the hindrance she'd encounter, so they didn't worry about jounin team ambushing her.
Ichi looked a little frightened, but that was expected since it was his first time facing off somebody else far better than him, other than Shiro. Mitsuki only threw Kuro an irritated and lazy look, even though she felt sicker than ever, fear and apprehensiveness taking a firm hold of her uncomfortably squirming stomach. Despite the atmosphere screaming 'Danger!' Shiro only snorted, smirking coolly at the genin from other village. Even with his typically long bangs plastering to his face, his icy glare still reached Kuro, making him shiver.
"Che," Shiro only said, a confident smirk on his face, "Like as if you could actually kill us."
Enraged and insulted, Kuro did a series of hand seals quickly, too quickly for them to see the order, and yelled, "Konran no Jutsu! (Confusion technique)"
It felt weird, and all of their stomach felt cold, and it was not the influence of the rain, they all knew. Smirking confidently as the table turned on them, Kuro did another series of hand seals. "Kunai no Ame! (Rain of Kunai)" he yelled again, and all of the kunai around that scene rushed at him like metals attracted to magnet, and soared to the sky right above them. Before Shiro yelled at them in warning, the kunai in the sky suddenly dropped, as if the force underground pulled them stronger than the gravity. Unable to dodge, their skin made in contact with the sharp tips. All of them held it in, grunting painfully, determined to not give Kuro the satisfaction of making them cry. This took place in 2 seconds. Shiro frowned and watched the kunai fall and clatter around them after the impact. Kunai didn't normally hurt this much…
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Naruto cursed colorfully as his insufferable blonde bangs plastered to his eyes again, blocking his sight. Not being able to tolerate it anymore, he fumbled for anything he could use to keep it up. Desperate for anything, he used the bandage wrapping on one of his kunai to tie it around his forehead. Naruto then grinned, satisfied with the result when the dripping hair failed to plaster to his eyes. Finishing his touch, the blonde haired jounin whirled around suddenly and plunged his bandage-less kunai into the surprised jounin's chest, who fell on the thick branch of the tree with a sickening gurgle and did not stand up again.
A shuriken flew past him with a shrring, which Naruto dodged, but he yelped with surprise when an exploding tag just blasted him out of the tree he was standing on. He should've known what was coming with that jounin! Muttering couple more violent words under his breath, the blonde stood up, finding himself surrounded by at least 8 jounin. Naruto highly doubted that they were the only one they had at the scene; they knew what he was capable of. He felt more presence behind those nins, and scowled.
"Great…" he grumbled to himself, "Just what I needed right now…"
With that the 8 jounin rushed at him, more shadows appearing on the trees nearby them.
Naruto ducked under them elegantly, skidding to a halt behind them, and moved his hands to a very familiar hand seals of his favorite jutsu. He finished it with a cross shaped motion, and yelled at the top of his lung, "Kagebunshin no Jutsu!" With that, he replicated 8 of his own, and sent his clones out.
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"Mitsuki-chan!" Ichi called out worriedly as the girl staggered a little, panting, scratches covering her usually tomboyish features. The girl was strong, at least stronger than other average girls, but wasn't strong enough to keep up this fight as long as the other two boys did, especially with these injuries. Her body ached with intense usage, and her wounds throbbed with every single passing second, but she didn't complain. She didn't want to be a burden to her teammates, especially to Shiro when she was trying to gain his trust in her.
Ichi was not in a good shape either, his clothes muddy and torn. This was the moment when he desperately wished that Hinata was not his mother so he could be born with a 'normal' and 'functional' byakugan. He regretted immediately after the thought. It wasn't his mother's fault that he ended up like this… But he had to do something, just something, so that he could protect his teammates, even that bastard Shiro. And he didn't know what. Ichi furiously searched through his brain, until their time was up and Kuro attacked them.
Shiro cursed inwardly and winced as Kuro mingled himself within the rains again. That boy was a master at hiding in the rain, with his talented henge no jutsu, repressing his chakra so they couldn't detect him. Mitsuki was always better at detecting things than him, but he knew that due to her injuries and continuation of Kuro's attacks, she couldn't think straight and calmly at this current moment. Ichi was no good, since he never did, couldn't activate his byakugan. If only he could use Sharingan…!
Even if he didn't want to admit it, he didn't want to lose his teammates, who were rapidly becoming a big part of his life. He had to protect them. He just had to! He didn't want to see them die right before his eyes like a person he loved did in the past. He'd never admit it aloud, he never will, but he acknowledged his presence deep inside his mind.
He needed it. He needed the Sharingan. As a sworn avenger, he always vowed that he'd destroy his…father and kill himself to finish off this tragic clan filled with deaths. He thought he'd ever wanted to activate the Sharingan. But he needed to protect his comrades, had to protect them. He needed the Sharingan. HE NEEDED IT!
A strange feeling overwhelmed his body after that thought. He couldn't explain it, but…it was weird. It was like being burned by fire and cooled down by ice at the same time.
He felt calmer, at ease. Everything moved in a slow motion, including the rain. The rain fell drop by drop in slow motion, hitting his nose. His eyes swept the area, passing by Ichi bandaging Mitsuki – he for some reason felt a strange burning urge to wring the girl's neck at that moment – and back to the rain again, which was beginning to rain harder by the minute.
'Concentrate,' he told himself repeatedly, closing his eyes, erasing the image of Ichi wearing a worried expression bandaging Mitsuki that somehow broke his concentration for some reason, 'Concentrate. Calm yourself. He's going to come. Look for any sign. Concentrate, Uchiha. Stay calm. See through this illusion!' Just as he snapped his eyes open, the commas swirling around his crimson pupil, Kuro appeared out of nowhere slowly, made the hand seal, and was opened his mouth, as if ready to yell…
Shiro immediately reacted, his hands forming a series of familiar seals. Before the words came out of Kuro's mouth, Shiro yelled hastily, "Katon! Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" He inhaled deeply, and blew the enormous flame at Kuro. Kuro seemed to be surprised at his sudden attack, before Shiro's fire grazed his arm. His face scrunched up in pain as the fire left a blood red mark running up his arm, leaving a serious burn. The genin grunted, wincing at that burn, and disappeared into the rain again.
Shiro panted rapidly, eyes widened as his brain registered the fact that he had injured Kuro. 'What the hell just happened? I… I actually saw his movement?'
"Shiro?" came the soft voice of the pale eyed Hyuuga. Shiro turned around and face Ichi, who was staring at him as if he grew another head. Mitsuki was staring at him as well with her typical impassive expression, even though her dark eyes were filled with surprise and slight admiration she always carried with her. Shiro frowned at the other boy, not understanding, before the younger boy spoke up again, awed and slightly hesitant.
"Your eyes are red…"
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Naruto cleanly finished off the last jounin of the area and took off again, his face splattered with blood and his usually clean uniform soaked with both rain and blood. They were not his blood, but the blood of the others. Naruto frowned sadly again. He could never imagine how many people in Rock Village just lost their friends or relatives.
While Naruto had the skills to be an Anbu, he just didn't have the feelings an Anbu was supposed to have. Even when he was carrying out assassinations as an Anbu for six years before he became a jounin last year, he never liked taking one's life just like that, just with a flick of kunai across his or her throat, just because of a misunderstanding and ugly feelings only the humans possessed. That's why he decided to quit the Anbu. Not only did he regret taking others' lives, it took too much of his time when he was supposed to be doing something else, something that was more important what he was doing.
Naruto just shook his head, chuckling out loud. What was he thinking, brooding like this? Geez, sometimes he acted too much like…
…
Erasing that last thought, which had come to his mind without even thinking, he focused on the chakra of his students and Kuro, and started heading toward that way as fast as he can. His expression brightened a little when he recognized that familiar but different wave of chakra coming from his certain student.
'About time…!' he thought, grinning a little.
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Shiro felt a little confused, but he only questioned the feminine boy again passively, his eyebrows arched up, "Come again?"
"Your eyes, they're red," Ichi scooted closer, until his face was like right in front of Shiro's. Shiro, for some reason, felt his face heat up a bit, but decided that it was the heat getting to him after using his fire jutsu. There were warm steams still surrounding them as after effect of him using his fire jutsu in the rain, the air murkier than ever. "Now that I see it closely," the Hyuuga said distractedly, squinting his color shifting eyes at his eyes, "There is some kind of commas around your pupil. That's strange though. Your right eye only has two and the other has three. Neh, neh, isn't that strange, Mitsuki-chan?"
Mitsuki only sighed tiredly in her slumped position, her hand rubbing the bandage covered wounds in hopes of settling the aches down, "Ichi, Shiro-kun has the bloodline limit just like you do, if you never noticed. He's from the Uchiha clan, born between the most powerful Uchiha ever known and a strong Konoha kunoichi. As in for his Sharingan, it varies from people to people. An Uchiha could have 2 in both eyes, both 3, or 2 and 3, just like Shiro-kun's."
Shiro clenched his teeth at that, gritting it. That girl had no right to talk about his clan and family history like that…!
"A-Ah," the Hyuuga heir seemed troubled, for some reason, "I see… Right." His eyes turned a light shade of blue, and didn't change for a while before shifting over to purple.
Shiro frowned at his actions, but didn't say anything. It was not his thing to stick his nose into other people's business. He had his ambition to accomplish, Ichi had his own dream he wanted to accomplish, and by mingling with him it'd deter him from killing that cursed father of his. And yet, he couldn't stop slight disappointment creeping in his heart. Forcing it to go away, Shiro glanced at their female companion. Mitsuki seemed to notice his behavior as well, staring at the feminine boy, the ever present impassive look on her face. She had that calculating, or observant expression, apparently trying to find an answer to Ichi's weird behavior.
Dismissing her thoughts, Mitsuki spoke up, bringing up a different topic and away from Ichi's behavior for now, "Never mind that. We can't just stand still like this when that rock genin could attack us any time. We need to find a way to at least slow him down from getting his hand on Hina-san, hoping that she's at the village by the time we're killed, and buy just enough time for Naruto-sensei to arrive here so he could help us."
Despite the fact that Naruto was the goofiest adult he ever met, Shiro couldn't help but agreeing with her. Even if he was too perky and too childish for his age, their instructor was the strongest person they ever met, except the Hokage. He didn't want to admit aloud that he needed help from that all-too-cheerful jounin, but they seriously did need help.
"I have a plan," Mitsuki continued, peering at them through her blonde eyelashes, "If you cooperate with me just a bit, it'll succeed. At least by then, Naruto-sensei would be here, even though I'm not sure about Hina-san's whereabouts. Will you trust me to pull you guys through this? Can I trust you to not run off on your own and participate in this plan?"
Mitsuki's father was a genius; it was a known fact in Konoha. Her mother wasn't such a bad kunoichi either. She came from a very good clan and was another jounin instructor. A combination of those two couldn't be bad on the battlefield, even though he couldn't guarantee on her personality. (Mitsuki's father was a lazy ass, and her mother had a temper problem, from what people from Konoha said.) It was her that pulled them through the survival practice Naruto-sensei put them through the day after they were assigned to him; they could trust her devising ability again.
Both Shiro and Ichi nodded.
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Naruto bounced off the tree branch with the annoying wet sound of his sandal made, and anxious to reach his students in time. He knew that he could trust Shiro's ability, but at the same time, Shiro was inexperienced with his Sharingan, so there was also a chance that they would all get killed. Maybe he was a bit paranoid; after all, Mitsuki was there. How bad could it be? The girl was a genius, taken after Shikamaru! It can't be bad! Even if he never saw Ichi activate his byakugan, he was born between Neji and Hinata! And Neji was a genius!
'Still,' Naruto thought, deliberately moving so that his movements were unpredictable to his opponents, 'they're only genin. Shiro is inexperienced with his Sharingan. Mitsuki lacks experience to actually form a complete and effective plan. And Ichi…I've never seen him activate byakugan before… He's pretty skillful in jyuken and kaiten, thanks to Hanabi's trainings she gave him ever since he was little, but never activates byakugan for them.'
He halted for a brief moment, and listened and watched for any movements in his surroundings, blue eyes cautiously narrowing and his nose twitching. His back pressed against the rough surface of the damp tree, his lithe form hidden in the shadow and slight mist. A group of jounin passed by him soundlessly few seconds after he had taken the position, who obviously didn't spot him. Naruto held his breath and waited until their presence was gone from his senses.
'That was close,' Naruto mentally told himself, feeling a presence deep within his mind growl low at him in agreement. He simply ignored the presence and tried to sense if there was another presence within his area. Finding none and quite relieved, he leaped over the trees and started heading directly toward where his genin team was.
The cool air running through his hair added with slight sprinkle slightly relieved his stress, but failed to dissipate it completely.
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"Shit!" Ichi cursed loudly, something his aunt would smack him really hard for, desperately trying to dislodge his feet from beneath the earth, "Shit!" He never saw Kuro's attack coming, and now he was paying for it by waiting for his own death as earth, the gracious mother of all things, held him down from saving himself.
Where are Shiro and Mitsuki? He thought to himself with dread, looking around and trying to peer through the thick steams caused by Shiro's immense usage of fire jutsu. Damn bastard, had to be all cool and blast this place with fire. Che, he made things even worse than before. I hope he realizes that and regret it when the heir of Hyuuga clan dies. Ichi thought sulkily, planning to throttle the Uchiha the second he sees him.
He shifted uncomfortably again, wriggling his toes, only to find out that it was clamped down firmly by the wet and heavy soil above his feet. He winced and tried to ignore the wet feeling. Pale eyes tried to see through the mist again worriedly with a tint of panic, among the restless movements of the molecules. He knew that this was not part of the plan Mitsuki devised, but he knew that she had at least 10 more plans just in case something went wrong. So he tried to relax, even though the soil was trying suck out his strength from his foot.
Byakugan would be really helpful right now…! He growled mentally, grumbling to himself and not knowing that there was a shadow appearing behind him. The figure did a quick series of hand seals, and before Ichi felt the presence and turned around, kunai were heading toward him in an incredible speed.
"ICHI!"
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Dokun…! (Sound effect for heartbeat)
Naruto paused in his hurry and carefully looked around, tense, and his hand unconsciously, almost instinctively reaching for a kunai in his pouch. His blonde brows creased in thought as his tanned hand brushed against the top of the blue material, his usually blue eyes tinted with red studying the surroundings with caution. His hand deftly undid the zipper and slipped his hand in, the said hand curling around the cool metal just below the sharp blade.
'What was that…?' he thought as his eyes constantly darted side to side as if anything could pop out and attack him. That short wave it diffused in the air, only weak amount gathered together enough for him to detect what it was momentarily. 'Chakra…?' He felt another wave coming and closed his eyes, and let it pass by him, which felt like a warm breeze. He knew that wave pattern, even though it seemed to be more complicated and different from the normal one he knew.
"Byakugan," he whispered aloud, eyes widening with realization. "Did Ichi…?"
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Mitsuki watched, surprised and horrified, as the sharp blades rushed toward the clueless boy. "ICHI!"
The feminine boy swung around, his long black hair in the air, and his pale eyes widened, and Mitsuki almost saw the reflections of the kunai on his clear eyes as it got closer and closer to him…
This was a miscalculation! Mitsuki cursed mentally, beating herself down. I should've played go and shougi with tou-san when I had the chance! Shit, if I just didn't help kaa-san with her flowers at that time! She quickly did a series of familiar hand seals, her right hand curling around and on top of her left. She muttered the jutsu underneath her breath, and her shadow shot out quickly, toward the rock genin who was currently preoccupied with Ichi.
Come on…! She thought desperately, her dark eyes narrowing with intense concentration as her shadow neared her opponent's. Come on…!
Just as a kunai grazed by Ichi's cheek, a figure appeared out of nowhere and pushed the boy out of the way roughly just in time. Ichi hit the ground and slid across the wet soil, grunting painfully. The sound of kunai rushing by with metallic swishes rang in the air and just as Mitsuki's shadow caught the rock nin's, the deed was already done. The figure twitched on the spot, blood dripping onto the soft soils underneath the sandal clad feet.
Shiro coughed out blood just as Ichi sat up shakily, his shoulders shuddering and the blood seeping through his wounds, staining the dark blue material of his clothing crimson. Heavy scent of blood spread out through the air, assaulting their senses. Half lidded crimson eyes slowly faded back to black, and the Uchiha fell backwards, only to be caught unexpectedly by the Hyuuga.
Not caring about the blood seeping through his white jacket, the Hyuuga clutched at the dark blue clothing, fisting the material, "Why did you do that?" he asked shakily, tears quickly pooling at the corners of his color shifting eyes. Shiro, with drowsy and numb amusement, noted that the color was blue, purple lurking around the pupil. "Why the hell did you do that, you bastard?" Ichi yelled this time, tears falling on the bloody but pale face of other's. "Just – Just – Shit…" he wiped at his tears hastily. "I didn't need any help… Why the hell…"
"I don't know," the other boy rasped, his dark eyes glazing over with something that was akin to drowsiness, "I don't know what made me jump in front of you…moron." He coughed again, this time weakly, and the blood ran down his chin slowly. "I always vowed to myself that no matter what, I won't activate Sharingan and destroy this cursed bloodline someday, even if it cost my life…" he murmured absently, glazed eyes staring at nothing in particular even though they were directed toward Ichi, "I broke both of the vows today. Che… I told, forced myself to detach myself from others, so that I won't be deterred from my ambition. Now look at me. The cursed Sharingan is activated because I wanted to protect my teammates, and…" the dark haired boy swallowed, "And I…can't kill that man anymore. My father…"
Ichi's hand fiercely twisted the bloody material, his tears falling down and not noticing it. "You should've…" he said, his body quivering with an emotion he was not used to, "You should've just left me like that… Bastard…" His other hand kept on going back to his eyes, wiping furiously at the wet liquid trickling down his face at a steady speed. "Bastard… Always trying to be the hero at the end…"
The Uchiha let out a breathy, short laugh, before coughing again, his blood splattering on his pale hand he instinctively drew to his mouth. "Moron…" the quiet, fading voice of Uchiha rang in his ear afterwards, even though the said boy was merely whispering it, "Don't you…dare…die…"
The body went limp.
And Ichi's world turned white.
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Mitsuki watched mesmerized as Ichi shakily stood up, white chakra visible as it rolled off his figure uncontrollably. She held the Kagemane no Jutsu, just in case something went wrong, but she was able to feel the chakra quickly draining with the intense usage. She never used this jutsu for this long…
When Ichi straightened up, eyes staring ahead at the Rock genin, Mitsuki gasped with astonishment. 'His eyes…!' she thought, her dark eyes widening, 'It's white…! Just like his father's…!' Yet something was different about them. She couldn't put her finger on it, but…it seemed a little stronger, no far stronger, than Hyuuga-san's…
The heir of the Hyuuga clan fixed his gaze on Kuro, his glare unmoving and chakra quickly flaring up even more than before. The Rock genin flinched audibly, unable to look away from the eye contact. He swallowed nervously, sweat trickling down his face as Hyuuga only stared at him, blank pearly eyes focused on him, only him, with the veins surrounding his eyes popping out. Even the normal Konoha citizens were intimidated by their gaze, so it wasn't surprising that Kuro froze just with one look at Ichi's eyes.
There was a silence. A short silence that seemed to be longer than it was supposed to be.
A wave of warm air swept by the surroundings in front of Ichi and then Kuro slumped in his position, not falling due to Mitsuki's Kagemane no Jutsu.
As the Rock genin was falling, the numerous amount of kunai on the ground, the wounds on Shiro's pale face, and the splattered blood faded away, leaving no trace of their previous existence, like magic, a well displayed mirage. Mitsuki let go of her jutsu, and let the enemy fall, her mouth wide open and her mind not registering what the hell just happened with a blink of an eye.
'Genjutsu,' Mitsuki thought calmly after her moment of surprise, 'He used a strong genjutsu to fool all of us. To make us believe that all the pain and kunai were real… Rather smart, I'd say… Impact on nerves to control what we're feeling… But…' she paused, biting down on her lips, 'Ichi… Just what did he do? Never in my life did I see or hear or read about a byakugan that could break illusion… Maybe applied in a process to break them, but never break it like that independently…' She was wandering off to her thought realm before another movement caught her eyes.
Ichi fell silently, his eyes shifting to red from its pearly whiteness before closing gently, landing on top of the Uchiha prodigy he held just a moment ago. He was unconscious, judging by the way he didn't react when he fell rather roughly on top of the Uchiha. Folding away her thought for now, Mitsuki cautiously walked over and knelt down by Kuro's body, reaching out a hand to rest it against his throat. Weak, but steady heartbeats thudded against her fingertips, and she withdrew, biting her lips, as she mentally decided on what she'd do with him.
Tak tak tak tak tak tak.
She tensed, her hand automatically reaching for her kunai, before a familiar figure appeared out of the tree diagonal from her. She relaxed when a certain blond haired teacher came into her vision, her hand falling to her side.
He seemed to have come a very long way… His damp face and uniform was splattered with blood, his hair was drooping because of the rain – rather cute, really – and his sandal and pants were muddy. His blonde hair was held up with a strip of bandage, probably to keep it out of his vision. His eyes were clouded with worry as he strode over to her, his lips thinning as he took in the steamy surrounding, the fallen figure of her teammates, and Kuro by her feet.
"Are they okay?" he only asked rather calmly, his usually mischievousness gone and replaced with worry and seriousness, "What happened?"
"It's very long, really," she only sighed, the weariness catching up to her now that it was over, "Rather very troublesome, but I'll tell you on the way. Our first priority is to take those two, find Hina-san, and go to Amegakure as soon as possible."
Her blonde teacher only studied her for a minute with those penetrating blue eyes of his before he nodded curtly, "Right." And then he proceeded to haul the boys onto his back. Before they left though, he grabbed a kunai and threw it at the unconscious shinobi at the back, and Mitsuki felt sick as she heard the loud thunk, the sound of the blade forcefully making its away into the flesh, and a last gasp of her, their, enemy.
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They had found Hina-san hiding nearby, the box held protectively to her chest and her shivering. She was a mess, her hair slipping out of her elegant hairclip, and she almost cried when they found her. Though when she saw the state of two boys, biting her lips as her gladness dissipated, she demanded that they should go back to Amegakure immediately to treat those two.
The trip was short, but bought Mitsuki enough time to explain what happened when they fought with Kuro. Naruto listened to her gravely, unmoving as his eyes clouded with emotions she was able to comprehend. Even though he mostly kept the thoughtful look. She caught that flash of pain when she mentioned about Shiro jumping in front of Ichi. Mitsuki was curious as to why he had that painful look in his eyes, but decided to not push it. Maybe…it reminded him of something that happened before?
OXOXOXOXO
It took them quite a while to recover from their wounds, especially Ichi. Shiro woke up two days after their arrival at Amegakure. But Ichi… When they arrived at Amegakure to check him up, all of them were shocked to find out that any chakra wasn't detected in Ichi's body. The boy was alive though, breathing and functioning normally for some reason. He woke up a day after Shiro, plenty of chakra flowing through his veins and perky as usual. Feeling confused, the blonde left Amegakure with his team.
When they returned home, Naruto immediately visited Sakura at the Hokage building, to ask her about some things he found out during the mission. Since she was the head of the medical nin counsel, he knew that she'd know about anything that was physically unusual in Konohagakure.
"Oh, hey!" Sakura blinked at him surprised when he opened the door and smiled sheepishly at her, "You're back from your mission! How was it? It took you guys a while to come back, but… Oh, just take a seat! I'll go get some tea!" Sakura gestured to the chair in front of her desk before rushing off when Naruto tried to comment. Naruto scratched his head and sat on the green chair in front of her clean white desk. Well, that was Sakura for you, blunt and caring…though most of these traits were rubbed off on her by a certain blonde Hokage.
Sakura came in with two steaming mugs and hurriedly took her seat just a while later, setting lemon tea in front of Naruto and sipping the green tea herself. "So," she began immediately, even bordering on being blunt, "I know that when you decide to visit me during my work hours, you always want to know something, or emergency situation. What's bothering you?"
Naruto was slightly stunned for few moments at her bluntness, which he should be used to now, and meekly reached for his lemon tea. After he calmed down a little with the tea, he began slowly. "Well, as you know, we were on a C-ranked mission, escorting this one noble lady to the Hidden Village of Rain. We ran into some troubles, like chuunin and jounin ambush, which is definitely not fitting as a C-ranked mission. I finished them off easily, but my students weren't as lucky as I was, even though they were only fighting a genin," Naruto paused thoughtfully, sipping on his sour but sweet tea, "One of my students – Shikamaru's daughter, actually – reported the fight and I found out something unusual. Sakura-chan, what do you know about Hyuuga Ichi's byakugan?"
The pink haired girl seemed to falter in her action momentarily, but she continued coolly, drinking her own green tea, "What about it?"
"From what I know so far, from Mitsuki's – Shikamaru's daughter – and my observations," Naruto said hesitantly, "Ichi never activated byakugan before, not even during our trainings, missions, or academy sessions. And what's really peculiar is that his eye color keeps on changing almost restlessly." Naruto continued, "I've noticed that after he passed out from using his byakugan to break through a strong genjutsu, as told by Mitsuki, his chakra was like…gone or something. I couldn't feel it. If I didn't check for his pulse and breathing, then I would've thought that he was dead. I know byakugan's ability through the time I spent with Neji and Hinata, and byakugan never breaks genjutsu. It could be used in a process to figure out a way to break genjutsu, but it never breaks it by itself. So that's why I came to you, since I know that either you or Tsunade no baa-chan would know something about it. Sakura-chan, what's going on?"
Sakura hesitated momentarily, and then thought about it, as if considering an important decision. She stared at the tranquil surface of her steaming tea for a while, until she straightened and leaned forward, lowering her voice until it was just bordering on whisper. "I could tell you about it, but…" she gave him a serious look, "…you'll have to promise me that you won't tell anyone. It's a secret between Hyuuga clan, Tsunade-sama, Shizune-san, and me."
"I promise," he told her solemnly, "And I always keep my words. You know that, Sakura-chan."
Sakura smiled at him lightly, relaxing visibly. Then she pondered for a moment, fingering her left ring finger, which was decorated with a simple golden band. That gesture usually meant that she was nervous. She seemed to always wanting to recall her wedding with Lee by rubbing her ring finger to assure herself, for that was one of the few exhilarating that happened to her over the years.
"Alright," she said, after a long pause, "You already know that Ichi-kun is a son born between Neji-kun and Hinata-chan, right?"
Naruto nodded eagerly, encouraging her to continue.
"Hyuuga clan never, never ever allows any kind of relationship between relatives, especially those between a member of main family and other from the branch family, because it's forbidden, like most people's beliefs about 'incest,'" Sakura explained, "We know for a fact that byakugan is a dominant gene, which is at least 25 stronger than normal dominant genes. So since marriage among relatives is not allowed, they marry other 'normal' people. So the gene of a Hyuuga automatically becomes Bb, no matter what. Rarely, Hyuuga clan produces one without byakugan, and that was like…a century ago.
"But this time, put Neji-kun and Hinata-chan together. They both are from Hyuuga clan, one from main family and the other from branch family, and both have dominant gene of a Hyuuga. So what will happen? Normally, 25 possibility is that their offspring would have the gene BB, 50 Bb, and 25 bb, attained from what we know about genetics so far. But then again, byakugan gene is really, really dominant, dominant than any other normal dominant genes, and we all know that. So automatically, their offspring, Ichi-kun, obtained the Hyuuga gene of BB.
"Now, that's not normal for a Hyuuga, because for centuries they only produced Bb, some rare bb on the way, and now they have to deal with BB one, which they don't know much about. Naruto, do you follow me so far?" Sakura asked, and Naruto nodded, organizing the information in his head. Sakura sipped her tea a bit and continued. "Anyway, Ichi-kun now has a new…type of byakugan, though the Hyuuga clan prefers to call it as mutation. Uh…how should I put this to words…? Hmm… I could say that that byakugan got stronger, in theory. We don't know what could happen when it's activated, because Hinata-chan told me that Ichi-kun hasn't activated it yet. From what we know so far, because that particular byakugan could be stronger than the normal ones, it would naturally require a lot of chakra. But even Hyuuga clan, the excellent bloodline, doesn't have that much chakra to handle it when they're born.
"Normally, both Uchiha and Hyuuga clan's bloodline 'eye' ability is made so that it could be activated when chakra flows to their eyes. There are always plenty around that area so that the owner could activate it any time he wants. The thing with Ichi-kun's byakugan is that he doesn't have enough chakra overall to activate it. So rather than draining his chakra out to reserve it for byakugan, it cut off the chakra around the eye area, thus disabling Ichi-kun from activating it. As in for shifting colors, we're guessing it's because of the unstable chakra around that area since chakra always circulate throughout the body to keep the balance.
Sakura took a deep breath and continued, "From what you're telling me from your mission, Naruto, I think that his emotional distress with Shiro-kun's fall triggered his chakra deep within his mind along with his normal one, which were enough to activate his byakugan. After using it though, it might've drained his chakra completely with only undetectable amount left, just enough so that Ichi-kun could survive. Barely. He probably rested for 3 days to build his chakra back up again."
Sakura sighed after her long explanation about Ichi's byakugan, and gulped down her green tea, which was starting to cool down a little. Naruto only looked thoughtful, absorbing that information slowly and organizing them in his mind. He felt a stirring deep in his mind and a growl, but he ignored it completely; he knew that many thoughts intruding his mind all at the same time upset his 'soul companion' as it did to his head. Naruto was clever, but he didn't like thinking too deeply; that was Shikamaru's job.
"What…" Naruto was surprised when his voice came out husky and coughed, "What can I do to enable Ichi from activating his byakugan normally like other Hyuuga? Activating byakugan seems like the only obstacle for him."
Sakura sighed, "I don't know, Naruto. I seriously don't know." She was silent, thinking for a moment, before she brightened slightly and turned to him. "Maybe… Teaching him chakra control might help him," she suggested with a warm smile, "That's the only thing I could think about right now but…I'll tell you if I get more ideas, okay?"
Naruto smiled back at her and stood up from the green chair. He stretched, satisfied afterwards, feeling much better. He agreed when Sakura asked him to come over for dinner at her house and was about to leave, the door knob in his hand, ready to be turned, when she stopped him suddenly. "Naruto."
He looked back, and saw her solemn green eyes meeting his own. She frowned slightly, sadly, and murmured to him. "One of our ANBU came back injured from the Otogakure just yesterday. It was a squad consisting of 4 elite members, and three were annihilated. That anbu said that there was something going on in Otogakure, as if they were planning something big. Naruto…" Sakura's usually stern green eyes wavered, tearing, "I don't like the way it's going. And these days…it's like the history is repeating itself. If you noticed, things that happened when we were genin are happening these days in similar fashion…" there was a pause, and Sakura breathed in deeply, her voice quivering when she spoke the next statement, "Do…Do you think…he is involved in it?"
Naruto froze, his hand unconsciously tightening around the door knob. Several emotions like rage, pain, and wistfulness crossed his face in a jumble, leaving the blonde weary. Naruto sighed, feeling his stomach twist with an emotion he was familiar to. "I don't know, Sakura-chan…" he only said, "I honestly don't know…"
After he closed the door behind him, he heard the pink haired woman start to sob, stifled. Naruto squeezed his eyes shut, feeling them water and unconsciously put gripped his pendant tightly, as if seeking assurance from it. He knew that Sakura changed in many ways after what happened 16 years ago. She grew sterner, more like the Godaime, and stronger than she was back then. For 16 years she tried to not be a burden to him, to Kakashi-sensei and to the people around her, keeping in her feelings and making a mask of her own, except that it was a mask of a stern woman instead of a flirty girl she used to make up long time ago.
Naruto wondered painfully, listening to Sakura cry. How much did I change ever since that incident 16 years ago?
To be continued…
OXOXOXOXO
Author's Notes:
This took a very long time to write. Yes it did…
I was supposed to work on "Jounin to Jounin," but plot bunnies attacked and I just had to write this. Part two will come out later. Definitely after I update "Jounin to Jounin" and another one I have in mind right now… (grins evilly)
This thing was much longer than I usually write… In fact, it was supposed to be a one-shot like everything else in this Tea and Ramen Series, but it got too long and I had to divide it in half…
And I know all those DNA things are crap. But what can I say? I can't remember anything from bio last year...
Errgh. I'm so unoriginal. This story is crappp. It's making me feel depressed...(runs off to sulk)
Eudoxus: Err…yeah, maybe it's not too extreme to be rated M… We all love spying on Sasuke and Naruto. :) Indeed, yaoi is a weird obsession… stares into air After discovering yaoi in FMA, I started noticing all the gay-ness in other series I never thought yaoi was possible. Is it just me?
Letta: Thanks! It was meant to be evil… :) (what?)
Hujin: My friends call me a psycho for liking yaoi… sigh I wish I had a friend who I could rant about yaoi to all day…
QianYun: You're my heroine! glomp I love your all of your fics! They're ingenious! X3 I'm glad that you liked it! I feel so…blessed… Thank you for the comments!